[Soon, the flames will be released...
The Sword of Fire—My name is Arves!]
"Sword of Victory!" Riveria quickly finished chanting the magic and then pointed her staff at the monster group.
The next moment, several huge flame-throwing spears condensed around her and soon shot toward the monster group, following her guidance. Along with them were streaks of thunder.
It was the thunder magic released by Takumi.
Boom!!!
A violent explosion sounded.
The monsters around the magic impact point were instantly evaporated, and those farther away were blown apart. The strong wind whipped up, like a burst of water exploding in a pond.
Then, thunder and lightning followed.
The monster hit by lightning became the medium for conduction, and the current connected every monster around it.
From a distance, it looked like a layer of electric grid covering the remaining monsters.
The monsters coming up from behind were also electrocuted as they passed by, and then burned by a sea of fire after the explosion.
After a wave of magic bombing, a natural barrier was formed, blocking most of the monster waves.
Only a few monsters made their way around.
At this time, the team's vanguard melee group was already prepared.
No monsters could approach the team. They took the initiative to greet them and fought with the monsters.
Because they were prepared in advance, it was quite easy for everyone to fight.
Although it was not like the floors above, killing like one was slicing vegetables.
But the killing efficiency was still quite impressive; they successfully blocked the impact of the monster wave.
But at this moment, there was movement from behind the enemy.
"Roar!!!"
The huge monster being guarded suddenly let out a scream.
Then I saw that the monster army that was originally blocked by the natural barrier of the magic aftermath began to circle around from the side.
"Does this thing have intelligence?"
"Isn't the point that it is controlling these monsters?"
"Right! You have to find a way to take it out first! Otherwise, there would be no end to these monsters!"
More monster armies came, which immediately put a lot of pressure on the people in the front row.
Even with Takumi, a powerful damage dealer providing AOE damage every time he hits, he couldn't withstand the monster armies coming from all directions. Takumi could only focus on one direction at a time.
Seeing that this was not going to work, Finn made a quick decision.
"Prepare to attack! Takumi and Riveria, use magic to open the way first! The rest follow closely behind! Try to take down that boss in one fell swoop!"
"Yes!"
The team acted quickly.
Takumi also retreated to Riveria's side, protecting her and cooperating with her to release magic.
And Riveria, with his protection, also directly produced the maximum output.
The Elf Queen sang, initiating the chant link!
This chant is very long, and the longer she chants, the more magic power gathers around her.
"Get out of the way!"
Following Riveria's reminder, Takumi and the rest of the team stepped out of the line of fire.
"Wynn Fimbulvetr!"
The huge magic light beam was launched from her wand, heading straight toward the boss, passing through countless monsters along the way and tearing a bloody path through the wave of monsters.
Boom!
The beam of light fell on the giant monster and exploded into a mushroom cloud.
"Ice Age!"
Takumi also took action.
The cold air burst out from his hands, spreading along the torn bloody path to the explosion point, freezing everything, and thick ice walls were erected on both sides.
"It's now! Come with me!" When Finn saw the opportunity, he raised his arms and rushed into the passage to kill the huge monster over there.
Without the harassment of the monster wave, the team quickly arrived in front of the huge monster.
At this time, everyone saw its current situation clearly.
Part of its upper body had been cut off, and a piece seemed to have been bitten off from its right shoulder to its lower abdomen. Green blood was constantly pouring out.
Just when Finn and the others were about to take the opportunity to attack, a frightening scene happened.
The monster opened its mouth and began to sing.
[Fire, come—]
[Roar! Roar! Flame vortex! Red lotus...]
"It actually has magic?!"
"Oops! Stop it!"
This unexpected situation caught everyone in the team off guard.
The people in the front row were ready to go directly to interrupt the chant, while the people in the back row quickly backed away.
Riveria was also chanting defensive magic quickly.
And just at this moment, a small ball of blue flames quickly shot toward the huge monster.
Although the small ball of fire compared to the size of the monster was probably just a small spark, and it didn't even cause any damage.
But!
The moment the monster's chant was hit, it suddenly got stuck!
Everyone looked along the path of the small fireball and found that Takumi was pointing at the monster with a pistol gesture, and there was a small blue flame burning on his fingertips.
Takumi grinned: "Using magic in front of me, do you have my permission?"
This is the magic he just redeemed from the mall, [Will-o'-the-Wisp], which is specially used to interrupt an enemy's spellcasting.
"Well done!"
"Nice support!"
"Awesome!"
Seeing that the crisis was easily resolved by Takumi, everyone in the team was excited and praised him one after another.
Then they were immediately brought back on track by Finn's shout.
"Don't be in a daze! It's going to slow down! Come on!"
"Oh!!!"
Everyone responded with high spirits and rushed toward the giant monster.
Takumi, on the other hand, stayed firmly in the back row, protecting Riveria while casting spells to interrupt the giant monster. From time to time, he and Riveria used magic firepower to support the team.
As for the monster, without the power of magic, it was just a weird-looking floor master.
In addition, it was already injured, and finally, it could not withstand the combined attack of everyone. Letting out a last wail, it completely lost its life and fell down.
At the same time, the wave of monsters began to retreat.
Except for some monsters with high aggro on the team that were still rushing forward, the other monsters behind them all retreated. Everyone cleaned up the remaining mobs, ending the battle.
However, this was not without cost.
In the battle just now, except for Takumi and Riveria, everyone else was injured to varying degrees.
The most serious was Finn.
This guy activated his berserk skill at a critical moment in the battle.
Although he temporarily improved his strength and escaped disaster, in the subsequent fights, due to the reduction of his sanity, he had to exchange injuries for hits several times and finally ended up with heavy wounds.
Fortunately, not only was there a healer in the team who could use healing magic, but there were also enough healing potions. After treatment, he recovered in a short time.
But a problem also appeared.
There was not enough potion.
It was not that they were not prepared enough, but that during the battle just now, the supporter who was responsible for carrying these supplies was accidentally attacked by a monster.
Although the person was fine, the supplies in the backpack were seriously damaged.
Especially potions and bottles; if you hit them, they will break into pieces.
"I'm sorry, Captain, it's all my fault. If I wasn't careless at the time..."
The supporter lowered his head with a guilty look on his face, blaming himself deeply.
Because he also understood that the deeper the expedition reached, the more precious these supplies would be.
They save lives, but more importantly, they give the team the confidence to explore deeper floors.
And the most important thing about the expedition is this!
Explore deeper floors!
This is not only an honor but also brings huge benefits to the Familia members.
So with this series of mistakes, he lost not only some potions but also the overall glory of the Familia, as well as huge profits.
"Okay, you don't need to blame yourself so much. It's good that everyone is fine. As long as everyone is still there, there will be another expedition."
Finn didn't blame him because this was something that happened from time to time during expeditions.
Moreover, this expedition had met his psychological expectations.
Not only did he suddenly set a floor record, but he also set a new speed record.
The benefits brought by wireless communication were verified, accumulating experience for future expeditions.
Finn was very open-minded, and so were the others, who comforted the supporter.
However, the person involved blamed himself even more and cried silently.
Seeing this, everyone in the Loki Familia was helpless.
But since comfort was useless, they didn't say anything more and let him figure it out slowly.
Then Finn took the team to the 60th floor to take a look.
After discovering that the situation below was similar to that on the 59th floor, they quickly retreated. It took so much effort to fight on the 59th floor alone, and now that there was a lack of material support, it was obviously unwise to fight on the 60th floor.
The team began to return to the original route and returned to the safe area of the 50th floor to rest.
After that, Finn began to arrange for people to return to the surface.
Because there was no need to explore deeper floors, at most they would go down between the 51st to 57th floors to collect the materials dropped by monsters.
Well, these are the funds needed to pay off debts after the previous defeat and the materials requested by the creditors.
In other words, in a practical sense, this expedition had come to an end.
There was little point in staying with the large army, and it would even consume more supplies.
So Finn arranged for a part of the transport team to go up with the loot first.
Takumi also bid farewell to Riveria and told her to pay attention to safety. After giving her an amulet with defensive magic and teleportation magic, he took the four girls including Kanae and started to return with this part of the team.
Because the next action was internal to the Loki Familia, as an outsider, he was not suitable to participate, otherwise, it would be difficult to divide the spoils.
As for Riveria's safety, Takumi was not too worried.
Because the amulet he gave would activate automatically when Riveria encountered danger.
The magic written in it is the strongest defensive magic currently mastered by Takumi, Dimensional Wall.
This is magic with spatial attributes that brings the protected person to another dimension, making her immune to all attacks from the outside world.
Well, it is a bit similar to the effect of Saber's scabbard, Avalon.
At the same time, the amulet also has teleportation magic. If Riveria encounters urgent danger, she will teleport back to the ground.
Therefore, Riveria was quite safe with this amulet.
Then, Takumi got into the carriage again, asked the four girls to help cover him, and then passed through the dimensional gate and returned to Dimension City.
Takumi also came back every night to check on the city during the expedition.
So there was nothing surprising about the changes in Dimension City.
Well, the changes were mainly that the power grid and tap water were put into use.
Dimension City's electricity is available in daily life, and home appliances such as lights, fans, household refrigerators, and air conditioners have been installed in the rooms. Some new street lights and broadcast speakers have also been installed outside. Large-scale processing plants are also being built at a fast pace, and at the same time, there is an additional large public bathhouse, as well as public toilets and other public facilities.
The latter two are mainly because the health facilities in Dimension City were too overwhelmed.
Originally, because only a few people used them, there were only two in total.
One was built first by Takumi, and the other was in the Familia branch building.
Now there are more than 200 people, and they are all crowded into these two bathrooms, which is completely insufficient.
It's okay to wash up; they are all women, and it's barely enough if they squeeze together.
But they can't all squeeze into the toilet!
This resulted in people always queuing outside the two bathrooms over the past two days.
At the same time, there is another problem: the inconvenience of using water.
This also indirectly causes everyone to spend longer using the bathroom, further reducing efficiency.
Therefore, before Takumi went to participate in the expedition, these two projects were arranged.
The current large bathhouse is spacious enough for a hundred people to use it at the same time.
There is nothing much to say about the toilet. In order to reduce the workload of cleaning, only ten cubicles were built.
But that's not why Takumi came back now.
The main thing is that he just received a system prompt that a new customer has arrived!
That's why Takumi came back quickly even though he was still with the advanced team and asked Kanae and the others to cover for him.
As soon as Takumi came out of the dimensional door, he saw a girl with long black hair and straight red eyes standing opposite, with a red-handled sword hanging on her waist.
"Hm?!"
The girl was looking around vigilantly. When she saw Takumi suddenly appearing from the door behind her, she hurriedly took a few steps back. At the same time, a hand was placed on the handle of her knife.
Takumi didn't pay attention, because the system did not hint that the other party was malicious. He smiled and said: "Hello, welcome to Dimension City. I am the owner here, and my name is Takumi."
Seeing that Takumi was not hostile, the girl slowly let go of the knife, but she did not completely relax her guard and continued to keep her distance.
"Hello, my name is Akame."
That's right, this is the protagonist of the famous Akame ga Kill!
Takumi recognized her the moment he saw her, but he just didn't make it public.
After many receptions, he no longer calls out the other person's name right away because it would be very troublesome to explain later.
"You just said you are the owner here, so are you the one who brought me here?"
At this time, Akame also started to ask familiar questions.
"That's right."
Takumi also explained to her the function of the dimensional gate in a familiar manner.
However, after listening to it, Akame didn't react much.
Maybe she hadn't realized what the dimensions and other worlds in Takumi's mouth were. She probably just thought that Takumi is a person with a teleportation function.
"In other words, as long as I pass through this door, I can go back, right?"
"That's true, but are you going back now?"
"Well, I still have important things to do over there."
Akame nodded and then walked into the dimensional gate.
"..."
Takumi didn't expect that Akame would be so decisive. When he tried to stop her, it was already too late and she disappeared through the door.
Takumi was stunned and scratched his head: "How do you calculate this?" This was the first time he encountered such a situation. After the visitor arrived, she left in a hurry.
Does this count as a reception?
The system quickly gave the answer.
"Ding dong! Congratulations to the host for completing the reception of the visitor Akame and receiving the reward: [Teigu Production Craftsmanship]!"
"There are rewards for all this, and it's actually this..."
Takumi was also shocked. He didn't expect such a hasty reception to be rewarded.
Moreover, the content of the reward also surprised Takumi.
The various magical Imperial Arms in the world of Akame ga Kill are all good equipment.
There are even humanoid weapons like Susanoo.
If modified, it could become a female version, or a robot version with a simplified appearance.
In this way, wouldn't it not only add labor to Dimension City but also provide soldiers for combat?
At that time, his people will control these robots to fight remotely, and they will no longer have to worry about casualties in battle!
After thinking about it, Takumi was very satisfied with the reward and chose to receive it on the spot.
A stream of knowledge poured into Takumi's mind. Takumi checked carefully and immediately frowned.
"Are these materials only available in the world of Akame ga Kill? Can't they be replaced with something else?"