The Paladin on the Infinite Tour

"...Ah, that's right. Lefiya doesn't know Exia-kun's strength yet. Tione has only heard of it, right?"

Tiona smiled after reacting.

"Well, you won't believe what I say. When the time comes, go to the dungeon and see for yourself. Exia-kun's lv.1 and other people's lv.1 are completely different from each other. oh."

31. Falling in love with money

A few hours later.

Underground city, thirty-third floor.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Standing behind Tiona and Tione, looking at the figure of Exia who was constantly killing monsters in front of her from a distance, Lefia finally understood what Tiona said. mean.

The thirty-third floor, according to the guild's definition, is an area that only level 3 adventurers can explore. But in fact, even at level 3, several people need to form a group to advance stably. It would be impossible for a single person to reach this level. Deep floors are tantamount to courting death.

After all, one of the characteristics of dungeons is that the further down you go, the more the number and strength of monsters increase.

According to common sense, it is impossible for lv.1 to do anything here.

but--

"boom!"

Another punch knocked the attacking lizard man away, and then he grabbed its neck with both hands and twisted it 180 degrees. After the black mist dissipated from the lizard man's body, Ai Kesia reached out to catch the fallen magic stone and threw it towards Lefiya.

"Miss Lefiya, please take the magic stone."

"Ah~~~Okay!"

Running two steps quickly to catch the magic stone, Lefia glanced at the magic stone and dropped materials that had already filled less than half of her backpack. After recalling the situation along the way, she looked at Tiona in shock: "Tiona Miss, you didn’t lie to me, did you? Is he really lv.1?”

"Didn't I just say it in front of everyone two days ago?"

"but......"

(With this strength, it’s okay to say it’s level 4, right?)

"Miss Lefiya!"

"you--"

Ixia's voice came from the front again. She caught the magic stone that was thrown over with a look of helplessness. Lefiya sighed: "Although I said supporter, why do I feel like I am just following Ixia?" Where are you picking up things from behind, sir?"

"After all, he is very short of money... However, although I have seen it once, I didn't expect that even here, Exia-kun can handle it alone."

Tiona looked forward, and there were already as many as ten monsters surrounding Exia.

No matter how experienced an adventurer is, he will try his best to avoid facing too many monsters at the same time. Unless there is an obvious level gap, it is easy for something to happen if one against many monsters.

But Exia didn't care about this convention at all, and had a great time fighting alone among the monsters.

"Well, it's like that over there, and it's about the same here."

Tione looked to the other side - I don't know if she was stimulated by Aixia. Ais was now wielding the sword of despair, wandering between monsters one after another, but she didn't pass by one. Next to the monster, the monster will immediately fall down and disappear, leaving only the magic stone on the ground.

"Then the two of them shouldn't be very compatible in this regard, right?"

"It seems a bit weird."

"Not at all!"

Hearing the pair of Amazons' suspicions, Lefiya quickly retorted loudly: "Miss Ais wouldn't get along well with that kind of human being! How did you two figure it out!?"

"Well...what about the current situation?" Tiona said, and then as if she remembered something, she shouted to Exia in front of her: "Ah, by the way - Exia-kun! Stop for a moment and come over here!”

"Eh?"

Exia, who happened to be twisting and tearing off the head of a lizard man, immediately turned around and said, "Is something wrong? Miss Tiona - and Miss Lefia, this is a magic stone."

"I said... I'm not your exclusive supporter!" Lefia glared at Ixia and threw the magic stone in his hand into his backpack angrily.

Tiona, on the other hand, had a gossipy expression on her face: "Ah~~~There's nothing wrong actually. It's just that you haven't answered the question I asked you during lunch?"

"Problem? What problem?"

"It's just a question of who you like."

Tiona smiled like an elderly aunt.

When she asked this question, Lefiya's expression immediately became serious, and her eyes became sharper.

"...Thank you for being able to remember it until now, Miss Tiona."

"Of course! You are a super newcomer to our clan! It would be troublesome if you were seduced by a vixen from nowhere!"

Using various temptations to seduce other members of the Familia to join their own - some Familia will occasionally do this kind of thing. Although the main god is not so boring, it is not necessarily the case for the leader of the Familia.

In fact, there are also family members in Oraline who are engaged in the prostitution industry.

"Tell me~~~ Who is the person you like? There's no one else here, so don't be embarrassed." Tiona poked Alexia in the face with a bad smile.

"Do I have to say it..."

"Yeah! We're all quite curious, right? Lefiya?"

"yes!"

Lefiya answered resoundingly!

Although I don’t understand why these two people are suddenly so concerned about their relationship problems, since they are in this world, Ixia doesn’t have to worry about causing any commotion, let alone causing some trouble that will make her in front of someone. Something you can't hold your head high about.

After a moment of silence, Alexia sighed: "The person I like...if I have to say it, I have it. She is my childhood sweetheart, and her name is——"

"Bianca."

Aisi, who happened to be back, took up the second half of the sentence.

"That's the name...right?"

"Ais, do you know?"

"Well, I saw the photo when I was taking care of him before." Ais nodded, "A man with blond hair like me."

take care of! ?

Hearing what Ais said, Tiona and Tione didn't react at all, but Lefiya's expression evolved again in an instant! Is there even a hint of a mental breakdown?

"Ai, Miss Aisi, take care of...take care of?"

"Huh? Just take care of him." Ais answered matter-of-factly.

"Oh, it was that time when Exia-kun came back from the dungeon for the first time, right? It was indeed Ais who stayed to take care of Exia-kun, who had been fighting all night, until the evening, right?"

Let Miss Ais take care of you until late at night! ?

Lefiya felt something inside her body suddenly rush to her head, and then she suddenly turned around and glared at Exia!

(How shameless this human being! He just let Miss Ais take care of him, but he still...still...)

After imagining the scene of Ais sitting by the bed and taking care of her until nightfall, Lefia's body couldn't help but tremble - she was so envious! If possible, she would also like to be taken care of by Miss Ais!

Noticing the change in Lefiya's gaze, Exia couldn't help but have a big question mark in her head.

(What’s wrong with this lady? She suddenly stared at me like this...Did I say anything to make her angry?)

"Ah~~~~ Speaking of which, are we almost at the entrance to the 34th floor?"

Sensing the change in the atmosphere, Tione, as the only senior present who was still calm, quickly changed the topic: "I just took a glance and there is still a lot of space in Lefiya's backpack. Do you want to continue? Although it is It will be a little late to go back.”

"I want to go down!"

Exia was the first to raise her hand. As for the reason... Tione could tell by looking at his eyes, which were filled with a very pure desire for money. Perhaps in Exia's eyes, the monsters in the dungeon are not monsters, but moving money bags.

He worked hard to make money.

"me too......"

Ais raised her hand immediately, and upon seeing this, Lefiya quickly followed suit.

Tione smiled bitterly: "It's useless for Tiona and I to object - then let's go down two more floors. If we go further, we will have to spend the night in the underground city. You don't want to be the eighteenth Are you going to kill those black-hearted businessmen on the upper floor?"

"yes!"

32. Hard, hard fist

The money-making trip of Alexia and others in the dungeon lasted for several hours.

Because there are no timing tools in the underground city, the judgment of time can only rely on intuition and experience. Therefore, when the five people remembered the time issue and hurriedly returned to the surface, the sky was almost completely dark.

"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah~~~~ In the end, I still hit my head and forgot the time." Walking on the road back to the family members, Tione looked tired and said in her tone, "Although I know that there is a reason for everything, but you two Can't you just calm down a little and stop getting carried away?"

"Exia, Ace."

When Tione called their names, Exia and Ais were slightly startled.

As a [habitual offender] in a certain sense, Ais quickly nodded naturally: "Well... I will pay attention next time."

"No, no, no, you've never noticed it before, right?"

Tiona couldn't help but complain.

Ais' boss is famous throughout Orario. She often does things that violate the team's orders. She fights a large number of monsters alone. Even though she is lectured after every battle, she never changes her ways.

According to Rivera, it seems to have been like this since childhood.

As for Exia...

"I'm sorry. I'm reflecting on it and I won't do it next time."

As a new adventurer and a new member of the Loki Familia, Exia would naturally not act indifferently like Ais, and behaved quite sincerely - but looking at his appearance, and then looking at Ais, Neither Tione nor Tiona can gain any trust.

(Exia-kun will definitely come up with it again.)

(Although it is for money, he is exactly the same as Ais in this aspect. The key is that Ais will be influenced by him...)

The Amazon sisters sighed helplessly, and then turned their attention to Lefia, who was following the team at the back.

(The situation over there isn’t too promising either.)

(It’s really hard to train new people...)

Originally, the reason why I took Lefia with me on this trip to the dungeon was to cultivate her ability as a defender and supporter. However, due to the excellent performance of Exia and Ais, Lefia could only follow them this time. The two of them were picking up things from behind.

Oh, that’s not right, he was picking up things after Aisi. At least he would take the initiative to throw them back from Aixia’s side.

But this made Lefia feel even more like a prop-picker. Even if this was the duty of a supporter, she felt quite uncomfortable when she thought that as a lv.3, she couldn't even help in the slightest.

And just when several people had different thoughts, the station of the Loki Familia also appeared in front of the road.

After saying hello to the guard and letting herself return to the station, Tione took the backpack from Lefia: "Then let's disperse, Lefia, Exia, this bag of materials and Wallis will Let me take it to the leader."

"Okay, please, Miss Tione."

"Thanks."

"You're welcome. Anyway, she just wants to meet with the leader." Tiona revealed her sister's little plan without mercy, "Then I'll go back too. Good night, Exia-kun, Ace, Lei Feiya."

"Good night."

After waving to the two Amazons who were leaving, Ais also looked at Exia and Lefia: "I'm leaving too, see you tomorrow."

"Ah, please wait for me, Miss Ais!"

Seeing that Ais was about to leave, Lefia quickly chased after her.

Seeing the people leaving one after another, Exia breathed a sigh of relief, raised her head to the sky and stretched her body vigorously: "Hmm~~~~Hmm! Then I'll go back too... I'll do it all in the morning." One afternoon, I fought in the dungeon all day, and I was really tired."

In terms of training intensity, today's training somewhat reminded Alexia of the days when she was specially trained by her own teacher - go back and take a bath in the family bathhouse.

(Before that... let's go back to the room and lie down for a while.)

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“Pfft~~~~~”

As soon as she returned to her room, Alexia threw herself directly on her bed.

The body that was sore from fighting all day was instantly overwhelmed by the soft bed, and the comfortable feeling made Alexia almost fall asleep on the spot.

"Speaking of which, what time is it now?"

He looked up at the bedside table, took out his personal terminal from the drawer, and opened it habitually to check the time.