The journey of dragon transformation starting from Demon Slayer

Holding the root of the candy, she slowly walked into the small lake, letting the rippling water gradually engulf her fair jade body.

Sitting on a rock in the lake, somehow, she suddenly used her slender fingers to slowly peel off the fruit's coat.

Looking at the pink fruit exposed from the candy, Riveria slowly put it into his mouth.

"Oh, so sweet..."

"What happened? Riveria..."

"It's okay, Ace."

After hearing Ace's doubts and explaining it to the girl, Riveria raised her head and looked at the dome of the floor with the sweet fruit in her mouth.

Looking at the faintly fluorescent top, Riveria's thoughts gradually drifted into the distance.

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At the evening party, in addition to the security personnel on duty, the blacksmiths from the Loki Familia and the Hephaestus Familia were gathering in the open space surrounded by tents.

In the center of the crowd, there was a long rectangular table, with countless delicacies placed on the long table.

The light of the magic stone lamp reflected everyone's reflections and illuminated their smiles.

After arriving in the unknown territory, the "mandatory mission" from the guild was successfully completed.

The next expedition should be to explore the 60th floor.

These are just things for later, you should enjoy them now.

Under the illumination of the magic stone lamp, everyone drank the wine they carried and happily tasted the treasured food.

As the drunkenness gradually came to their hearts, the Amazon sisters, who were relatively shy, took the lead in speaking up, telling other adventurers about their adventures who had never seen the scenery below.

The two sisters became more and more excited as they chatted. Listening to the echoes of others, their bodies shook from time to time, and cheers resounded around the camp.

While everyone was cheering, there was only one person who looked out of place with a smile that did not suit his age.

That person is the leader of the Loki Familia, Finn Dimna.

Little Finn was held in the arms of his Amazon sister Tione, with two round and tender slimes on his head.

After noticing Tazmi's pointed gaze, he waved with an awkward smile, indicating that he was not happy with this blessing.

Tsubaki, who was drunk, simply took off her jacket, revealing her wheat-colored chest wrapped in countless strips of cloth, and happily held up the dropped material "Cannon Dragon's Fangs".

The Hephaestus blacksmiths also joined in the cheers.

Soon, after the banquet, the expedition team officially started its return journey.

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About seven days later, the expeditionary force, which had almost exhausted their weapons and food, returned from the 19th floor with their exhausted bodies and set up camp in the safe area of ​​the 18th floor.

Different from the fiftieth floor, the eighteenth floor has many rich fruit plants, allowing them to replenish supplies here.

If possible, they also wanted to rush back to the ground as soon as possible, but unexpected reasons made them stay here.

Dungeons will not allow adventurers with fruitful results to easily return home. This is no joke.

Not long ago, their expedition force was advancing in the "lower area". Just when they were almost halfway to the surface, an accident happened.

The abnormal phenomenon from the dungeon, "monster surge", appeared behind their team.

It would be fine if there were other monsters, as there is only one person in this expeditionary force who is Level 2, and the rest are all Level 3 or above, which is enough to deal with them.

But what happened to appear was a special monster in Orario known for its strong toxicity. Among the races that can use "toxic abnormal attacks", the "poison monster maggot" is even the most dangerous.

The poison possessed by these monsters can penetrate even the "advanced abnormal resistance" developed by advanced adventurers.

Their attack method is to spray venom from the nozzle, or rely on the poison secreted by the skin to give adventurers negative BUFF. Although the pure combat power can be said to be very weak, the monster groups that appear in groups, like maggots growing on corpses, can be said to make adventurers change their minds.

Not to mention that they also encountered the so-called "surge phenomenon" and walked in a maze with narrow passages and a limited number of people who could walk.

Facing the maze riot that was proliferating in almost the entire area, Tazmi couldn't save the situation no matter how fast she ran alone. (Note: The conditions for using the "Dimensional Square" are places that can be seen, marked places, and places that have impressions in the mind. The maze is crowded with people, and the surrounding scenery will also give people the feeling that I have been there before. It’s an illusion here. So it’s not that it’s not used, it’s just not very easy to use.)

In the crowded passage, they could only try their best to cover the adventurers who were too poisoned to walk and were supported by their companions to leave as soon as possible.

The adventurers who were poisoned by the poison turned purple all over, and even other types of monsters that were contaminated with severe poisons were rolling on the ground in pain.

The ups and downs of screams resounded in the maze. Faced with such a difficult situation, even Fenn had to become angry.

Riveria's magic could only freeze one passage, but the maze stretched in all directions, and more than one path could attack them.

Needless to say, other first-level adventurers and magicians, standing in a crowd and destroying monsters may cause accidental damage to their companions or cause collapse.

It was the end of the expedition, and the exhausted adventurers encountered one of the final tests from the dungeon.

The supplies for the expedition were exhausted, and there were only a few magic swords left, and they were not as powerful as "Crozo's Magic Sword".

In the end, in order not to be locked up on this floor, Finn gave the order and the expeditionary force headed to the "safety floor" on the 18th floor.

Now on this secure floor, as many as a third of the expeditionary force is affected by the toxin and unable to move.

Riveria, on the other hand, was furiously providing simple treatment to critically ill patients in the tent.

"Riveria, how's the situation..."

"Don't be too optimistic, Finn. Even counting me, there are very few people who are proficient in healing and detoxification."

"Not to mention that this is poison from the monster "Poisonous Demon Maggot". Even the detoxification magic is difficult to take effect..."

Feeling that his mental energy was about to be exhausted, Riveria sighed helplessly and closed his eyes regretfully.

Even if she has the development skill "Spiritual Recovery", the water from far away cannot quench the thirst for nearness, and can only keep these team members at such a painful point in time.

The strange thing about the poison of "Poison Monster Maggot" is its nature. An antidote must be made from the dropped materials of the same species to remove the poison and completely cure it.