Civilization Guardian Front

"Otherwise, why would I close my eyes immediately after recognizing the two of you..."

With an idea in his heart, Chios stared straight at Aisi's hesitant golden pupils, and said:

"In order to dispel Miss Wallenstein's elegant figure that was deeply imprinted in my eyes at the moment of the fight, I relied on tobacco to calm my mind and tried my best not to look at you. Can you say that you didn't see it?"

Jian Ji couldn't help but startled when she heard the words.

After a while, she lowered her eyes and fell silent.

"..."

The blond girl didn't expect that Chios would bring the focus of the topic to herself, and even gave the answer why she ignored her earlier.

(It turned out that it was not that I had no idea, but because...)

Is it because she thinks she has a beautiful body and doesn't want to have more daydreams?

Thinking of this, the girl's delicate face lacking emotional expression was suddenly stained with a light pink.

Although it was a polite compliment, from the standpoint of a girl who had been spotted, Ai Si really didn't know whether she should thank her or not.

After all, she is a young girl of cardamom age, and blank experience does not support her to look at all this with ease.

Thinking about it carefully, she heard Riveria and other companions describe the frivolous image of the "playboy" in the past, and it is not appropriate to apply it to Chios.

Possesses the talents appreciated by Loki, Finn, Riveria, and Grace, and has a gentle and easy-going disposition. From the response to today's emergencies, he also fully demonstrated the chivalrous demeanor that is in line with well-educated.The most important thing is that when encountering a fatal attack in the competition, even if there is a chance to fight back and kill the girl, he still resolutely gives up, and he can even forgive the opponent's heart afterwards.

There was some suspicious interaction between Chios and Tifa, but that was just what she had observed in the last few minutes, and it would be too biased to draw conclusions based on such weak clues.

Besides, the other party has praised her... body so much, but she hasn't said sweet words to her until now...

As a "playboy", this seems incompetent, right?

"I'm sorry..." The blond girl bowed her head and apologized to Chios after serious reflection:

"I seem to have misunderstood you."

She decided to re-examine Chios's personality, hoping to give a more accurate definition in the future.

"Your test at any time, Miss Wallenstein."

Chios, who had successfully muddled through, nodded in return.

"Ace..."

"Um?"

"Just like you call Tifa, just call me Ace."

Jian Ji glanced at the family members next to the young man, and her tone was a little bit stronger.

(No, teasing Tifa became slack at that time, and accidentally called her by her name...) Suddenly recalling this detail, Chios tapped his forehead with his index finger to remind himself to stay alert.

Fortunately, not everyone is as suspicious as myself...

After clearing his mind in the blink of an eye, he responded with a smile:

"No problem, Ace."

Watching all this quietly, Tifasu put his hand on his forehead and sighed softly.

(You missed the best opportunity to know the essence of this man...)

Thinking about it, in fact, she was not surprised by the result before her eyes.

If Chios was so easy to deal with, how could there be so many girls falling down one after another, falling under his charm one after another.

Of course, Tifa is at most regretful in her heart, and she will never take the initiative to dismantle her partner.

She doesn't want to lose her current position...

"Qios, I remember you just said that you could help..." The young girl snapped back the hand held by the young man, pinched the other's skin with her nails, and slowly let go before the young man frowned.

After finishing her little revenge, Tifa's expression returned to normal.

"Could it be the lack of supporters?"

"Well, that's right..."

Turning back to business, Chios immediately followed what his partner said:

"I have learned the special magic that can assist in storage, and it should be able to solve the troubles of the two traveling to and from the Maze Paradise." As he spoke, an unopened bottle of port wine appeared out of nowhere in his free hand, and half a second later, it was like a bottle of port wine. Disappear like magic.

Having witnessed the young man put away the huge tent without warning, Ai Si did not show any surprise.

Not to mention Tifa, who is also an executor, the reason why he did not show the same ability is purely based on the consideration of not wanting to attract suspicion.

"If you are willing to trust me, you can hand over the extra items to me for temporary storage."

""OK. ""

The two girls who answered in unison glanced at each other unexpectedly. Tifa smiled softly, and took the lead to withdraw her gaze. She picked up the adventurer's single backpack of the two by the wall and handed it to the young man.

Immediately, the leather bag full of magic stones disappeared from the eyes of the three.

At first glance, it seems that Chios took it away, but in fact it just entered the space of Tifa's coat of arms.

To solve the problem of traveling to and from the 18th floor, the three have good reasons to act together.

In addition to exercising basic ability proficiency, another purpose of Chios's trip to enter the dungeon is to investigate the hidden intentions behind the changes in the maze.

However, Chios is not sure whether the various suspicious signs he observed are just the will of the world to set up doubts, and its real goal may be to lure outsiders into the trap deep in the maze and solve the threat once and for all.

Since he happened to meet Jian Ji, the safest thing to do is to drag Aisi, who is second only to the main character, as a hostage, so that the will of the world will be thrown into a trap.

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After informing Aisi of her intention to investigate the change in the maze, Jian Ji joined Chios' exploration queue without hesitation.

After more than ten days of brewing and fermentation, the acceleration of monster generation has long been a well-known special event among Orari adventurers.

For the vast number of lower-level adventurers whose activities are limited to the upper level, the increase in hunting objects is undoubtedly a good thing, which means that they no longer need to go to the maze early to compete with other players in the same industry to seize the hunting ground, and can greatly improve their work efficiency.And because the floor terrain and monster information are complete, the casualties will not increase significantly.

However, the overall situation of adventurers from the middle level is greatly affected...

The number of upper-level adventurers is far less than that of lower-level adventurers, and the floor area is not comparable to that of the upper floors. The difficulty of taking care of every corner of each floor has increased dramatically.

Just as mortals need space and resources to survive, so do monsters born from inside the maze.

Once the monster density is too high, in order to alleviate the pressure of survival in this area, they will spontaneously migrate to other places.

In addition, the dungeon will continue to produce a large amount of food and weapons in specific rooms, and the habits imprinted on instinct will always prompt monsters to obtain various materials that can help them survive, further increasing the motivation of monsters to move.

Originally, adventurers could get enough rest time after cleaning up the monsters in sight, but now they often have to face the enemy's attack in the wave band.

Especially in the open area where roads intersect, monsters keep pouring in repeatedly, which seems to be a nightmare for advanced adventurers.

The further down you go, the worse it gets...

The speed of monsters bred in the maze has increased dramatically, which can be said to have broken the original balance of power between adventurers and dungeons in one fell swoop.

Thanks to the detailed information compiled by the guild for thousands of years, adventurers can accurately examine the type of monsters that best meet the current training needs, or form a team of a corresponding size according to the floor they are on. The casualty rate in the dungeon is at least ten times lower than it was a thousand years ago. More than double.

It is precisely because they are accustomed to the use of information, and the preparations before the trip are highly targeted, the adventurers' ability to deal with changes is weakened a lot.

Including the powerful Loki family...

After the expedition ended not long ago, the head of the faction, Finn, began to plan the next operation, intending to further increase the scope of exploration of floors below 50 floors.Relying on the information left by the two strongest families of Zeus and Hera in the past, as well as the experience accumulated by the Loki family themselves through several checkpoints, such a goal is quite stable.

The premise is that the dungeon still operates according to the rules understood in the past.

The proliferation of monsters that occurred widely on each floor was obviously not included in the original calculation of the villain leader.

If this trend continues, the Loki family, who re-evaluate the feasibility, may have to postpone the next expedition due to risk concerns, or even have to choose to give up.

The news that the strongest faction's exploration is difficult to make progress will affect the rest of the small and medium-sized families, and eventually spread to the entire city.

Although Aisi doesn't have the careful mind to think about the benefits, it doesn't prevent her from understanding that if the abnormal situation in the dungeon cannot be resolved, it will have serious negative effects on the future of the family and even the adventurers in the city.

Therefore, she has no reason to refuse Chios' invitation...

If anyone who can find out the mutation of the maze, excluding Finn and other family leaders, the first person Jian Ji thinks of is this wandering knight who breaks through the limits of mortals by himself and whose strength is comparable to that of a first-level adventurer.

The girl still remembers the look on Riveria's face when she asked Chios about the abnormality of the dungeon.

...

Leaving the room, the newly born monsters near the Canglan Giant Waterfall Karst Cave Lake were quickly cleaned up by the three of them.

"Assuming that most of the upper-level monsters that increase in a single day can be eliminated by adventurers, even if there are residual individuals, in terms of threat, it is no problem to ignore them..."

Putting the sword back into its sheath, Chios took out the Freya Familia's labyrinth manual, opened the 25th floor map, and explained his deduction to the two girls.

"But what about the middle, lower, and deep layers? I don't think the few high-level adventurers defeat enough monsters to cover such a huge area every day."

"After more than ten days, if the monsters bred in the dungeon appear on the main exploration route, the number should be scary. However, the monsters that appeared in front of us are not as dense as expected, are they?"

"Here comes the problem..." He believes that there is an upper limit to the biomass of each layer of the dungeon, but the number of monsters that adventurers defeat every day is definitely not enough to reach this number.

"Where did those monsters that should appear in theory go?"

The most reasonable explanation...

"I tend to start investigations from these places..." With a pen in his right hand, he circled several places marked as "food depot" and "natural weapon depot" on the page.

The tip of the pen stopped at the edge of the paper, and the young purple eyes narrowed by half.

"What do you think..." Tifa, who was walking shoulder to shoulder with the young man, looked at the map carefully, and quickly discovered the pattern.

"Are many monsters actually hiding in the many rooms off the main road?"

"Um..."

Sweeping his sharp eyes over the labyrinth rooms marked on the booklet, Chios first drew two crossing lines on the food storage in the deepest part of the floor, and picked out the list of suspicions.

"Monsters have to eat just like us. The corpses of Olalie's death adventurers can't satisfy their appetites at all. In addition, they generally don't easily move across floors, so there are far fewer places with high possibilities."

After hearing what Chios said, the blond girl who thought it made sense nodded, and then stepped forward resolutely.

Fighting in the lower floors countless times in the past, Jian Ji has already memorized the relative positions of more than [-]% of the lower floors, and a complete road map automatically appeared in her mind.

She walked ahead of the team, wielding the "Sword of Despair" and actively destroying all enemies that came into view.

The road for people to step on slowly narrowed, and the water flow that can be seen everywhere in the "lower layer" called the "Maze of Water" merged into the river channel that continued to widen towards the labyrinth wall.

About 10 minutes passed...

The land is submerged under the water surface, and a turbulent undercurrent with a depth of two meters lies in front of the adventurer's path.

If you follow the path drawn by the guild leading to the 26th floor, you will have a foothold on land throughout the journey, so you don't have to worry about swimming.

But the goal of the three people this time is not to go directly to the next floor.

Hush...

Looking at the opposite bank of the torrent 500 meters away, Ai Si's face, which has always lacked obvious emotional expression, faintly showed a trace of tension.

The blond girl's unnatural reaction did not escape Chios' observation.

"Tempe...?"

Ais was about to call out the magic chant Wen Yufeng crossing the river when someone grabbed her left arm from behind.

The girl looked back in confusion.

"I think, before the investigation begins..." Chios held Jian Ji's slender arm, with a smile on his face, and gently said words that made the girl terrified:

"Ace, you have to learn to swim first."

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"Sword Princess" Aisi Wallenstein, the 15-year-old Olalie's strongest female swordsman, at the same time...

It's a landlubber.

None of her companions knew about her weakness.

Since she can use magic to run at high speed on the water, no one will wonder what the girl looks like after entering the water.

As for other outsiders, it is even more impossible to know.

After all, Jian Ji had already reached a deeper layer that was more dangerous than the lower layer. Judging by common sense, the waters must not be difficult for her.

Fortunately, there are currently no known floors in the dungeon that can only be reached by diving. Otherwise, the adventure story of Jian Ji may have to draw a rest in this place.