Comprehensive Manga: Hope in Another World

Shun donned a black hood and blended into the crowd. Following the words of the adventurers around him, he understood the current situation:

Last night, an adventurer was suddenly killed in the town, and he was also a well-known Level 4 adventurer. The murder of a strong person in the town in the safe zone naturally caused panic. If the murderer wasn't tracked down, the whole town wouldn't dare to continue driving.

Fortunately, someone saw the deceased and a robed woman entering the hotel together last night. And after investigating the scene, it was found that the woman might have killed someone because of something in the person's body.

Now, the Level 5 members of Loki Familia and Bors, the administrator of the town of Rivera, have gathered everyone, preparing to find the woman who killed last night, ensuring that no fish escaped the net, they began to search for female adventurers.

Shun didn't do anything, and he couldn't search for that female adventurer, so he just looked at the adventurer's body placed in the plaza for burial.

It was a brown body with muscular flesh, with only the lower part of its body clothed. The hands and feet that were spread out carelessly on the ground seemed to tell the man's pain. His head seemed to have been crushed by someone, and the top of his neck looked like an exploded fruit. Pieces of flesh and pink brains floated in the vast sea of blood.

Shun saw the pitiful appearance and the head disappearing from the other party, then looked at the plaza on the eighteenth floor, and suddenly remembered something.

Besides the main story of Danmachi, there seemed to be a side story titled Sword Oratoria, which told the story of the battle between Loki Familia and Dionysus, the mastermind behind the destruction of Orario, and the tale of the Evilus faction.

The beginning of the entire series of events in Dionysus was the surrender of the Fallen Spirit on Floor 18.

'I remember during that incident, there were not only a large number of Level 5 monsters that were difficult to kill with bare hands, but also Level 6 Fallen Spirit clones, and the extreme Level 5 perpetrator, almost Level 6.'

'Coincidentally, my ability points are almost at the maximum. If I kill the Fallen Spirit to complete the achievement and go through this battle, I will most likely be promoted to Level 4.'

He raised his head and observed the crowd, looking for the perpetrator in his memory.

At the same time, Aiz's wandering eyes caught a figure in the crowd.

It was a medium-sized handbag carried by a girl with dog ears. Her wheat-colored skin was as pale as a patient's.

"Aiz-san?"

Aiz stopped moving and stared at the girl, and Lefiya also noticed who she was looking at. The girl stood alone in the noisy crowd and looked very awkward. She stared at the center of Twin Crystal Square, trembling with fear. After backing up a few steps, she took advantage of the chaos and quickly fled the plaza.

"Chase!"

"Okay!"

It was impossible for them to leave a suspicious person like that alone.

Aiz called out to Lefiya, and the two of them increased their pace to chase the girl. The three of them had just left when a man in armor suddenly left the crowd. Because he looked like a man, he didn't attract anyone's attention at all. When Shun saw the back of the armored man walking towards the path there, his pupils suddenly shrank. The armored man took out something that looked like a whistle.

"Tiona, Tione… get ready to fight and clean up the monsters on all sides."

Shun opened his cloak and shouted loudly, transforming into a bolt of lightning and rushing towards the mountain slope not far from there.

Riveria and the others immediately chose to listen to his words and prepare for battle after seeing Shun.

Sure enough, right after Shun disappeared from everyone's sight, a large number of monsters suddenly appeared on the eighteenth floor, known as the safe floor.

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Lulune, who fled in fear, admitted everything: As a member of Hermes Familia, she received someone to deliver goods, but the death of the person who delivered the goods at night made her very scared, and she hid in the crowd for fear of being killed. The current search made her even more panicked. She was afraid she would be killed after delivering the goods.

With Aiz's guarantee, Lulune handed the goods to her.

It was a sphere about the size of two hands. A green sphere. A transparent membrane enveloped the liquid—and a frightening fetus. The large eyes that didn't match the small and round body stared at Aiz and Lefiya. The fetus had long hair that symbolized femininity, and it had a curve from its head to the front of its back. The mysterious larva didn't move, it just stayed still, but there was a faint pulse that was throbbing.

Drop item?

Or a new monster in the Dungeon?

Lefiya was a little confused, and at the same time, Aiz's eyes focused on the sphere.

'This feeling…'

A strange feeling came over her.

As if resonating with the pulsating sphere in her hand, her heart beat faster.

Her eyeballs met the fetus's eyes, and the blood in her body began to roar with a worrying strength.

'What is this?'

She didn't know what kind of sphere was in front of her.

There was a sharp tinnitus deep inside her eardrums. There was a feeling of earthworms crawling under her skin, and waves of nausea surged up her throat.

Aiz felt dizzy, and the next moment, she couldn't hold it anymore and her knees buckled.

"Aiz-san!?"

Aiz knelt down, and the sphere in her hand rolled onto the ground. Lefiya reached out to support her upper body, causing her breathing to become very labored. At this moment, the armored man blew the whistle, and amidst the sudden rebellion of many monsters, he transformed into a black shadow and swung his sword directly at Aiz amidst the sound of the wind.

Almost instinctively, when she heard the sound of the sword piercing the wind, Aiz, who had been trained for more than ten days, instinctively drew her sword and activated Wind Breathing.

"Wind Breathing – Third Form: Lotus Tempest!"

Centered on Aiz, three attacks that carried the power of a strong wind sword intercepted the long sword in an instant.

At the moment the sword and rapier intersected, the power of confrontation between the two suddenly caused a large number of cracks in the stone stairs. The turbulent airwaves surged in all directions, knocking Lefiya and Lulune next to them.

The unprecedented attack and the sudden sharp wind blade instantly cut through the armor and tore it into several pieces, and the face that was originally covered by human skin was also shattered.

Blood-red hair.

A cluster of bright red filaments coming out of the lost helmet was probably the remains of long hair that had been simply cut off with a knife. Then a green eye like a precious gem appeared, with torn and damaged bandages still hanging on half of its face, revealing the woman's true face. Among the beauty with snow-white skin, her slender left eye widened in shock.

She clearly didn't expect Aiz to be able to launch a powerful attack approaching Level 6.

But Aiz, who had been trained to the level of Constant Concentration, didn't hesitate at all. Countless sword lights flew with the blood.

However, in an instant, many wounds appeared all over the woman's body, as if her entire body was covered in blood. At this moment, the red-haired woman who revealed her true appearance gritted her teeth. After withstanding several attacks, she suddenly broke through her body and hit Aiz with a powerful blow.

"Stab it—!"

The astonishing strength knocked Aiz backwards. As she continued to retreat and release that power, a deep chasm was left behind on the ground.

This kind of power was inferior to Aiz, who used it with full strength. Almost reaching Level 6.

Shun, who had just arrived, thought that next time he should equip Aiz and Lefiya with Flying Thunder Gods each, and he couldn't ignore them because of their great strength.

At the same time, he witnessed the exchange between the two sides, squinting his eyes and staring at the red-haired woman.

'I remember this woman is no longer human but has become "odd," with a body as strong as a monster in the Dungeon, and she can continue to swallow magic stones to become stronger.'

'In the circulating rumors, even Finn at Level 6 suffered a broken finger when fighting her.'

'Aiz has mastered swordsmanship and Breathing Techniques. Now this enhanced species that swallows magic stones is the best experience for her to transform into Level 6.'

Shun observed the situation, and Aiz recovered from the negative impact of the sphere, understood the power the other party had just shown, and then activated her strongest magic without hesitation.

"Tempest."

The intertwined magic summoned a stream of air.

At the moment Ariel was activated, it gave the sword and her entire body the power of the wind.

The red-haired woman couldn't help but look surprised when she saw this scene.

"The wind just now… So, you are Aria."

Hearing that name, Aiz opened her golden eyes.

The extremely high heartbeat shook her chest. The shock that made her speechless hit her entire body. My mind was filled with the word "why."

Her throat trembled in shock.

Both sides looked shocked, and for a moment, a strange silence fell between them.

It seemed that Aiz was in a state of shock, and the aura that had originally appeared in a possessed state. This girl who always had nothing even exploded with a rare and anxious tone:

"You… why do you know this name?!"

Aiz completely lost the composure she should have during the battle.

Shun was about to remind her, but Lefiya's cry suddenly sounded from behind.

Suddenly…

The deformed fetus among the spheres that rolled to the ground cried.

Aiz couldn't react to the shrill cry coming from behind.

The red-haired woman, who also heard the sound and looked anxious, didn't have time to act…

The fetus struggled to move inside the sphere, and its tiny hands and head with strange eyeballs pierced through the green film layer.

"AAAAHHHH—"

The fetus seemed to start moving under the influence of Aiz's magic. Its small body somehow concealed so much power, and it jumped like a pebble thrown with a jumping distance several times higher than its own length.

Aiz noticed the sound of wind blowing behind her, and from the corner of her eye, she saw the creepy eyeballs pressing towards her face.

At this moment, it was too late for her to escape, and she was about to witness the disgusting fetus pounce. But Shun had already left when he heard the sound behind him.

A muffled thunder exploded, and Shun, who suddenly turned into a strong wind, brought Aiz into his embrace, at the same time slashing the fetus without hesitation. The fetus suddenly avoided his attack and jumped directly into the air, dripping liquid. It failed to touch Aiz, but it came into contact with the piranha monster buried in the crystal wall and became a parasite on the monster. Then the piranha monster's flesh and blood suddenly writhed as if a monster was about to emerge from the ground. Seeing this scene, the red-haired woman couldn't take her eyes off it, observing the scene carefully, looking very annoyed.

Seeing Aiz's rare expression of loss in his arms, Shun reached out and pinched her butt hard. The pain in that spot suddenly stimulated Aiz, making her stare at Shun with wide eyes, and there was a hint of embarrassment and anger in her clear eyes.

"You're still distracted at this moment! Do you know what would have happened to you if I hadn't taken action!"

Shun was even angrier.

The fetus was clearly a Fallen Spirit. If parasitized by something like that, Aiz's situation would be worse than death.

Aiz, who was reprimanded, realized her mistake and lowered her head while leaving Shun's embrace.

Shun didn't continue to scold her, he reached out and patted her head, seeing the Fallen Spirit gradually evolving to Level 6, and opened his mouth to assign the enemy.

"The red-haired woman has a power very close to Level 6. If you can defeat her, the Level 6 barrier will be broken."

At the same time, Shun looked at the Fallen Spirit and drew his magic sword.

"I'll deal with this monster, Lefiya, help the adventurers."

"Adventurers?"

Lefiya didn't know what was going on, unconsciously following Shun's words and running towards the plaza below.

And with the completion of the Fallen Spirit's birth, the entire Floor 18 exploded into a violent roar.

The mountains shook, buildings throughout the town collapsed instantly, and billowing smoke and dust scattered.

Various sounds could be heard from the plaza not far away.

"Why are the monsters attacking!? The guards are messing around, right?"

The roars of the Floor 18 managers echoed everywhere.

Outside the towering town walls, a group of piranhas roared throughout the town, causing panic in the central town plaza. A group of monsters made their long bodies into snakes and writhed, killing from all sides towards the crystal plaza where the adventurers gathered.

The long and large piranhas ran rampant throughout the town, so many that it was difficult to count them. They didn't need to break through the town walls, they only needed to climb and climb like snakes. Many also climbed alternately on the other side of the cliff, like a swarm of fish jumping over a waterfall. The number was so large that it gave the illusion that half of the town's landscape turned greenish-yellow.

Countless tentacles knocked down tents and shacks with ordinary waves, swimming at high speed in the air. The dazzling colorful petals appeared in the darkness, destroying rocks, crystals, humans, and other objects with all their might.

Loud screams, probably from the guards, could be heard from the direction of a part of the town wall that had collapsed, and the sounds of destruction coming from the tents and shacks that were destroyed also sounded like a flood.

"AHHH—!!"

A piranha smashed a crystal column, sending a shower of sparkling shards everywhere into the plaza. With this as a starting point, other monsters also entered the plaza.

In the blink of an eye, a group of monsters swinging their tentacles triggered a series of wails.

Tiona and the others stopped these monsters in time after being reminded by Shun.

With large double blades in hand, they flew through the crowd and approached the piranhas, cutting off the heads and tentacles of the enemy with slashes of silver light and two sword lights.

"You can't escape from here!"

Unlike the battle in Monsterphilia, Tiona and the others used their weapons to split the enemy in two.

Their attacks dealt effective blows, but in comparison, the adventurers around them were continuously defeated by the group of monsters. They were slapped by countless tentacles, thrown into the air with a bang, or chewed by ugly large jaws. Some of them joined forces to fight and struggled hard to kill the enemy, but the piranhas were much stronger than the adventurers in the town.

Knowing that they were no match for these monsters, the adventurers scattered and fled, despite Tiona's pleas. In a panic, they ran out of the plaza and spread to every corner of the town.

"Tiona, try to use large-scale magic to lure the nearby monsters to one place! Bete, you form a team of five. If you use the human sea tactic, each group can suppress one!"

"Lefiya, come here quickly, we need your magic here!"

At this moment, Rivieria was like a commander. As her orders came, Bors, the leader of the adventurers here, quickly roared and scolded the adventurers in the town.

The fight to the death between the adventurers and the monsters continued.

Aiz and the red-haired woman, surrounded by strong winds and continuously swinging the aura of wind blade swords, continued to jump and fight among the mountain peaks. The two turned into two lights and shadows that moved at high speed, and the sound of swords clashing came and went.

And on the mountain slope, on the large platform, Shun was talking about injecting spiritual energy into the magic sword in his hand, while watching the awakened Fallen Spirit.

"Originally, I was thinking of continuing to fight with the Floor Boss. It seems that after killing you, I can directly level up to Level 4."

Shun was in a good mood.

In this way, Udaeus Level 6, could hold on until he was promoted to Level 5.

When the time came, he would join Loki Familia's expedition team, kill the essence of the Fallen Spirit at Level 7, and be promoted to Level 6.