New Century Warriors

Chapter 16. Filth

My impression of her has really taken a sharp turn for the worse.

The thief's impression of Raiye changed drastically from "a trustworthy and reliable man" to "a scoundrel who is hard to judge".

However, Lei Yexiu's move just now was truly amazing and a big plus.

But...

The thief felt she had wronged Lei Ye as well, because she had secretly stolen Lei Ye's personal belongings and sold them in the alley to a perverted elf who was interested in such things.

Lei Ye had just said a lot about how he felt she must have her own reasons for being a thief, and she turned her head away shyly not because Lei Ye had hit the nail on the head, but because she simply thought stealing from rich people was fun.

Who is the richest person in Hillius?

Boss Lei, huh!

"Oh well, consider it paying off a debt," the thief gritted her teeth and nodded.

"OK!"

Because of the sudden, inexplicable event, the healer looked at his girlfriend—

Elena was in a daze.

The healer lowered her head silently, recalling the explorer team she had joined a few years ago when she first became an explorer. There, she was scolded every day and suffered greatly, even developing a hatred for men. It was Elena who rescued her.

As an introverted person, the healer never had the chance to express his gratitude to Elena.

But more than gratitude, there was something more important the healer didn't have time to explain to Elena.

In other words, she is afraid of men, but not a lesbian.

But Elena's fingers were too fast.

Well, there's no other way but to make do. But in this team, although she's no longer getting scolded, the healer has discovered the reason why she was scolded before. It has nothing to do with her gender; it's simply because she's bad at the game.

So in recent years she has gradually realized that she may not be suited to be an explorer and has been thinking about her own future.

If Elena didn't become an explorer, would she be able to support herself?

I'm afraid not. She keeps putting it off even when I ask her to buy a double-headed dragon toy with ambient lighting; I can't rely on her...

However, the healer didn't know who to rely on. She thought her best ending would be being kept by a rich man, but she was very resistant to men. So the best person she fantasized about was actually the rich and gentle boss Lei Ye.

Just now, when Lei Ye said that there were stars in her eyes, she turned her head away shyly, not because Lei Ye had captured her girlish heart, but because she thought that her affair with a married man while having a girlfriend had been discovered.

Although it sounds a bit eerie, this is Hillius, so it's actually fine. With that thought, the healer gritted his teeth and nodded.

"OK!"

Only Elena's expression slowly changed, eventually returning to its initial disgust.

"How could you be so disgusting? I spit on you!"

Lei Ye thought to himself, "These people have such expressive faces."

Regardless, judging from the attitudes of those two people, Raino understood. Line 2 Raino provided him with an extremely high reputation score, greatly increasing the success rate of turning someone into a mother. However, Raino was not very happy because this time he clearly felt how he was increasing the number of 'mothers'.

He is captivating.

After all that, it turns out he really is a master craftsman who has won over those outstanding young women on Line 1.

If he could encounter them again on Line 2, Raino felt he could win them over more efficiently.

No... it should be said that it was handled easily. The girls already gave Lei Ye the impression that they were a bit mentally unstable, which was already quite remarkable. If Lei Ye, who knew all their background stories, found an opportunity to get close to them and used his smooth-talking skills to talk about their unhappy family backgrounds and childhood traumas, his favorability towards them would probably skyrocket.

But wouldn't that really be considered a scumbag's approach?

Lei Ye patted his head and shook his head. Why bother with so much? We'll deal with it when we meet.

He raised the short stick in his hand, giving his final pep talk.

"Damn coins, grant me power!"

...

Along the way, there were still small groups of goblins lying in ambush, but thanks to Lei Ye's superb hearing, he easily dealt with them all.

They arrived at the depths of the cave almost without any obstacles.

This place is incredibly large; with a little decoration, it would almost be a palace.

Even the magical lamps couldn't fully illuminate the place; in the dim light, the three-headed troll was waiting.

This is a powerful monster with green skin similar to a goblin, but more than ten times larger. It has a decent intelligence stat and can chop down trees and roughly process them into club-like weapons. When necessary, it can move at high speed in its four-limbed form. Newcomers in the wild often die at its hands because they cannot escape its pursuit.

They probably figured that fighting in the narrow tunnel would be disadvantageous for them, so they waited here.

Easy to judge.

Lei Ye raised the buzzing short stick in his hand, becoming increasingly excited. In the past, when he encountered monsters of this level, he would be chased and forced to flee in panic before he could find an opportunity to attack their weaknesses. But this time was different; he no longer needed to resort to tricks.

Jumping force test.

He suddenly accelerated, then leaped with all his might, soaring into the sky like a rocket, landing on the shoulder of a troll. This height stunned everyone, including Lei Ye himself. However, he would not miss such a good opportunity to attack. As soon as he landed, he bent down and forcefully shoved the short stick into the troll's eye, injecting magic into the handle.

hum-

The short stick vibrated so hard that Lei Ye's hands went numb, and this vibration turned into a churning in the troll's eyeballs, causing blood to spurt out like a fountain. Lei Ye pulled the short stick out, raised it high, and stomped on its eye to burst it.

Strength test.

The short stick, raised high, fell heavily!

The impact caused the troll, which was howling in pain as it tried to pull Lei Ye down, to let out a miserable howl. Lei Ye heard the sound of bones cracking, and it staggered and staggered. Its two companions tried to lend a hand, but were blocked by a spiraling stream of fire.

The others also began to take action.

Lei Ye jumped down lightly, feeling happy.

"Trolls have three weaknesses: their eyes, their armpits, and their eyes again," he shouted.

This intelligence was obtained from the library and in actual combat.

Magic Test.

Lei Ye unleashed his full magical power, channeling it into the short staff in his hand, then aimed at the troll's eye below and thrust forward with all his might.

"Oh ho ho ho ho—"

The troll collapsed to the ground as if electrocuted, unable to get up again.

Elena's expression was slightly distorted. It was one thing that Lei Ye had easily wiped out the goblins with his team earlier, but after all, they were just a bunch of low-level monsters. They could have dealt with them even without Lei Ye's command, though it might have taken a bit more effort. But the combat power that Lei Ye was showing now was unbelievable.

He charged forward and single-handedly fought three trolls without being at a disadvantage, and the weapon in his hand was nothing more than a magical dragon.

This strength ranks among the top in the entire Explorers' Guild.

Even...she's far more powerful than Maria, the older sister she admires!

Before entering the deeper room, Elena thought it would be a thrilling death battle, but after seeing the fighting power displayed by Raino, Elena realized that their job was to support Raino.

Finally, she realized that Lei Ye alone was enough for this trip. The whole "small boss" thing about collecting combat data was a complete lie; he was just there to show off.

Elena cast a few spells as a token gesture, then pulled the other two back, watching Lei Ye fight more and more enthusiastically on his own.

"Has Boss Lei always been this good at fighting?" the healer couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know," the thief shook his head repeatedly. "In my memory, Boss Lei was even softer and more gentle than his wife, it really doesn't seem like it..."

"I think I understand why he said it had to be kept a secret. It really does need to be kept a secret. Young, rich, reliable, and gentle—if other women knew about such a target, oh right, how many people is allowed to marry under the marriage law of Hillius?" The healer said, then suddenly thought of a question, "Speaking of which, as far as I remember, Boss Lei hasn't married Miss Ye Lei yet..."

A sharp gaze pierced him, and the healer shuddered, only then remembering that he had a girlfriend.

She saw Elena, with an unfriendly expression, reveal a magical ambient light hidden in the inner pocket of her cloak; the two rough cylindrical objects startled her, making her face turn pale.

"You...did you do this on purpose? Why?"

"No," Elena shook her head, pointing to Lei Ye, who was caught up in the excitement, "he did it on purpose."

What kind of nonsense is this?

Elena's feelings were complicated. Boss Lei was too dazzling today, so she could understand why her other two teammates and her girlfriend looked at Lei Ye with such admiration. Even she herself was slightly attracted to Lei Ye. But when she calmed down and thought about it, among the various emotions she felt, there was also a kind of unspeakable fear.

She didn't know how to describe this fear, as if Boss Lei had suddenly stopped being Boss Lei, and had been replaced by something indescribable.

The more Elena thought about it, the more frightened she became. Her scalp tingled and her hair stood on end.

It felt like I was being watched.

wrong...

She turned sharply and saw something slowly crawling in from the entrance.

...

Lei Ye couldn't help but get excited.

The more he practiced, the more pleasant surprises he found. He now truly felt that he had a chance to speedrun the Scorched Earth dungeon.

However, he still needs some "Mommy Coins" to provide the boost, and he just checked his skills and found that the number of Mommy Coins had not increased, which means that the two people who agreed to be his mother were not sincere.

She accepted Lei Ye's mother's application, but in reality, she didn't agree at all. Lei Ye called such people "cross-dressers," and he hated them the most.

Okay, let's get a feel for the initial values ​​first.

First, his stamina was as abundant as a bluish wild dog, seemingly inexhaustible. The same was true for his magic; no matter how much he poured into the short stick in his hand, it would quickly replenish itself. Thus, this roaring weapon was like a writhing phantom dragon spewing out torrents of overflowing magic, leaving the three-headed troll utterly helpless.

In addition, Raino originally did not have his own unique weapon, but now the Raino of Line 2 has prepared one for him.

"What should I call you?"

He thought for a moment, then suddenly had a brilliant idea, "Fighting Device... let's call you the Gigabit Fighting Device!"

Just then, he heard screams coming from the entrance.

What he saw at first glance was a strange canine monster. Lei Ye didn't recognize its scientific name; he had never seen such a thing before.

At first glance, it doesn't look like a threatening monster at all; its size is relatively small.

But the fact that Raino had never seen it before was terrifying enough.

The event happened suddenly, leaving little time to think. He stomped on the troll's head, using the momentum to leap down, and launched himself like a cannonball, landing in front of Elena at the last second.

Elena seemed to be stunned, and even though he was pressing her down, she just stared blankly at Lei Ye without saying a word.

Lei Ye was wincing in pain as his arm was being violently torn apart. Turning his head, Lei Ye was met with the wild dog's scarlet eyes.

It was a semi-transparent, slime-like monster, but Raino didn't think it was a slime because he sensed a very special aura at this distance. The last time he sensed such an aura was from those huge tentacles that were twisting and writhing on the ground.

"Disgusting... how could this be here?" Elena slowly came to her senses.

Filthy.

Upon hearing this word, Lei Ye's heart skipped a beat, and some keywords he had previously noted down quickly came to mind.

This stray dog ​​is something of the same nature as the tentacles from that time.

Lei Ye believed that Ye Lei was an ancient god, but the Xillius people of Line 2 gave Ye Lei a new name: filth, because they encountered another being.

It wasn't the giant octopus that Loya didn't recognize, but rather...

"A dog?"

No, no, no, compared to this.

You mean to say...

Are there more than one person like Ye Lei?

"What is the weakness of filth?" Raino roared as he got up.

His effortless demeanor when facing the trolls vanished abruptly, and the psychological trauma Ye Lei had left him was now rising up like acid reflux.

Elena, on the other hand, remained quite calm.

"Thank you, but why are you shouting so loudly? We've been fighting for so long and we'd love to know about your vile weaknesses too."

Lei Ye gritted his teeth; now was not the time for a slow investigation.

"Then tell me everything you know about filth."

"Huh? Isn't this common sense... Okay, okay, first of all, the filthy creature can summon familiars through battle cries, and this one is one of them."

Lei Ye had already figured this out, so he pressed for details.

"Anything else?"

"The lower-level family members aren't very strong, but they can share senses, so we need to leave as soon as possible and report the filth that has occurred here to the guild."

Not very strong?

Raino got up and stared intently at the stray dog, which was also staring intently at him. Unlike Ye Lei's octopus tentacles, this so-called lower-class familiar had the complete appearance of a wild beast. From its face, Raino could see a kind of human-like intelligence, like a teddy bear scrutinizing its prey with a playful gaze.

He paced slowly, confronting the stray dog.

"Boss Lei, we can't fight anymore. Evil has already discovered this place, and the nearby evil will gather here, even attracting the true form of the evil. If that happens, we're doomed! Please stop and leave quickly."

"Is it truly a shared perception? Logically speaking, if I kill it, my main body should also be severely injured."

"No... I fought on the front lines before," Elena recalled, a pained expression on her face. "It's pointless. Killing these familiars only causes some pain. In all these years, no one has been able to hurt her. Let's go, Boss Lei. This is not an enemy we can handle."

Lei Ye's brain quickly recalled the scene of Ye Lei's giant octopus appearing and fighting, but unfortunately he didn't see anyone successfully kill her tentacles. Even if someone managed to kill them, they didn't cause any damage.

However, regarding shared perception...

Lei Ye's brain stopped thinking, and his ghost brain began to exert its power.

He dodged with such speed that the filth had no time to react, and then, Lei Ye swung the Giga Combat Device in his hand and plunged it hard into the filth's back.

It's unclear whether the hit was above or below, but it's definitely inside.

Magic output! Electrical energy surges!

The next second—

The entire cave echoed with foul, earth-shattering roars.

"Oh ho ho ho ho ho!!!"