Chapter 734
is matching you with an equally matched opponent.
Chapter 734 is matching you with an equally matched opponent.
"Ok?"
Inside the food storage room on the 24th floor of the maze, after dealing with the enhanced monsters that had broken in, Revis suddenly turned her head and looked out through the hole that the enhanced monsters had punched through the entrance of the food storage room.
"what happened?"
The white-haired ghost noticed her unusual behavior and instinctively asked her a question.
"I just felt a probing gaze."
"Is it a monster?"
"Not monsters, but adventurers."
"Hey, where is the other person?"
Upon hearing this, the white-haired ghost quickly followed her gaze and looked outside.
"It was just outside on the cliff to the right."
"Why did not I see?"
"The other party must have used some kind of invisibility item. Of course, their presence has disappeared now."
"Ravis answered."
"Oh, then why don't you go and deal with them?"
The white-haired ghost frowned and asked.
"That should just be a small fry scouting the situation here. Why should I deal with it? Isn't your goal to cultivate a sufficient number of man-eating flowers here and then push them out?"
"Wouldn't it be more beneficial to your plan of subversion to lure the powerful adventurers here beforehand, eliminate them here, and wipe out the vital force of adventurers protecting Orario?"
Rives's question left the white-haired ghost speechless, because what she said made perfect sense.
"What, you were so confident about your disruptive plan yesterday, are you afraid of messing it up now?"
The red-haired female monster curled the corners of her mouth slightly, instantly maximizing her sarcasm.
"Ha, I won't mess things up. If any adventurers dare to break into the food storage, I'll definitely keep them here."
The white-haired ghost quickly snorted and tried to make amends, but he still obediently set up some external early warning measures.
There aren't enough man-eating flowers yet. If they encounter a powerful adventurer, like the one who defeated Gluttonous Charles seven years ago, they'll really have to run away with their flower king in advance.
. . . .
"Lulune, are you sure?"
Outside, far from the unknown food storehouse, Asifi asked the dog-woman beside her.
"Lady Asphie, I am absolutely certain that person is the murderer who appeared in Rivera Town!"
Lulune nodded vigorously.
She was deeply impressed by the woman's face revealed when the real skin mask was torn off; she would recognize it even if it turned to ashes.
"This is troublesome, there's someone inside who can fight Fiora."
Asifi frowned.
"Lady Asphie, we're just going to investigate the situation, not to defeat the one who caused the monster rampage. With the help of the invisibility cloak, it shouldn't be difficult to sneak in and investigate, right?"
Lulune was quite confident in the invisibility item made by her captain; didn't she see that none of the many monsters near the food storage had noticed them?
"No, we're not taking that risk. We'll go back and contact the person who commissioned the mission. If they don't provide any follow-up support, we'll abandon the mission..."
However, Asphie shook her head.
"Hey, what if they report us to the guild?"
Lulune's face showed a worried expression.
"Being fined by the guild after exposing someone is better than losing members."
Asphie's intuition was always good; she felt that the red-haired woman in the food storage room had probably already discovered their presence.
Just now, while they were observing outside the food storage area wearing invisibility cloaks, the other party glanced in their direction from afar.
As the head of intelligence, Asif has always trusted her instincts.
. . . . .
"That's how it is. Without additional support, we will abandon this mission. If you want to expose what our clan has been concealing, then go ahead and expose it."
The request was made last night, and the result came out this afternoon. The all-powerful person on the other end of the communication crystal was very firm in his attitude: either send more reinforcements or end the request directly.
“I will send another, stronger adventurer to join you on this investigation mission.”
After thinking for a while, Fels replied to the other end of the communication crystal.
“We will wait here in Rivera for two days, and we will not wait for you if you are late.”
Afis quickly provided an address in Rivera and stated the time they could be on standby.
After ending the communication, the great sage in the black robe began to ponder who he should ask to come and help.
"Ganesha was consumed by grief over the death of her child..."
On the altar, the guild's chief god, Uranus, uttered a sentence.
"My child must have died from JJ's death!"
This is Ganesha's stubborn explanation after learning of his child's death.
"If we go to the Ganesha Familia, they should do everything they can to help us avenge our fallen comrades."
"But we still need them to crack down on the smuggling and gray market activities of Orario recently. If we entrust this matter to them, it may reduce their efforts to combat smuggling and gray market activities."
"Nafiers, do you have any other reinforcements in mind?"
"I don't need to trouble two people with one thing; I already have someone to ask for help."
. . . .
"As for the repair fee, we won't charge for labor; just calculate the cost of materials."
At the Hephaestus Familia's camp, Broly came to repair his two badly worn pieces of equipment. After inspecting them, the one-eyed craftsman said this to the Saiyan boy.
"Hey, doesn't that mean you've been working for nothing?"
Broly asked in surprise.
"Chun, you don't need to be so polite with me. I made a fortune this time."
He added.
"It's not that I'm being polite, it's just that I'm your wife now. If I were to ask you for money, wouldn't it make us seem too distant?"
"Well, before I became your wife, I charged you the normal rate. If I continue to charge you the normal rate after I become your wife, wouldn't that mean you got to meet me for nothing and let me become your wife for free?"
"Uh……"
"How about this, let's change the payment for the wages to something else."
"Replace it with what?"
"I want that kind of kiss again, how about we change it to that?"
The one-eyed craftsman asked the boy with a smile if the experience of being kissed last time was still fresh in her memory. To say something embarrassing, Chun felt that she might be a bit of a shota-con.
[Broly is so small, if I could hold him in my arms and let him kiss me like a chick pecking at rice, I would feel so comfortable...]
Thinking this, a glint appeared in Chun's eyes, like a ripple of spring water.
Is this what you want?
Hephaestus watched from the side and couldn't help but sigh. His clan leader was indeed inexperienced. He was already a little aroused, and his request was so simple. He just wanted to kiss Broly.
【Sigh, you still have to watch me!】
Thinking about the reason why he was recruited by Tsubaki and became Broly's wife, Hephaestus stepped forward and interrupted his captain's overly simple request: "Tsubaki, you should change your request."
"Eh, Lord Hephaestus?" The one-eyed craftsman looked over in surprise and asked instinctively, "Then, I wonder, what should I ask for instead?"
She wondered if her request was too much, which was why her goddess had intervened.
"Stop kissing, let's just sleep. We're already husband and wife, wouldn't it be strange if we'd never slept together before?"
Hephaestus said this, then turned to the Saiyan boy and asked, "Broly, is our request okay?"
"Um, can I take the lead in deciding how to sleep?"
Upon hearing this, Broly hesitated for a moment before asking a question.
"Hey, are you going to take the initiative, kid?"
Hephaestus paused for a moment, but quickly nodded.
"No problem, Tsubaki doesn't have much experience anyway."
It's better to let the small horse take the initiative than to let the large horse pull the heavy cart.
"And what about you, Lord Hephaestus?"
Broly asked again.
"Hey, do you want me to come too?"
The red-haired goddess opened her eyes wide, and her originally normal face was quickly tinged with a reddish hue.
"Uh, aren't you coming along?"
Broly was somewhat taken aback, realizing that his own Fire of Joy and Sorrow of Mourning Armor would probably be trained together by his two wives in front of him.
When two people are working together, you can't just pay one of them.
"Together, that's fine, but Broly, which side will you sleep with me and Tsubaki?"
Hephaestus was, after all, a goddess, and although the first time involved multiple people, she did not back down.
"How about at the Hearth Hall? After it's expanded, we can build a huge bedroom there so that Lady Hestia and Lily can sleep with us."
Broly, imagining the five of them sleeping together under one covers, replied.
"Oh, Hestia and Lilyluca are coming too?" "Uh, Lord Hephaestus, is that not allowed?"
"Well... it's not impossible, but you've already slept with Hestia?"
"Hey, when Lady Hestia and I were staying here temporarily, didn't we sleep together?"
Broly looked at the Goddess of Forging with some confusion.
"Sleep is not the same as sleeping."
Hephaestus retorted, and Broly suddenly realized what he meant.
"Indeed, but the intimate way I slept with Lady Hestia was more than a week ago, two days before I went to the dungeon to farm gold."
"Huh, did it only start around that time?"
"Ah."
Broly nodded, but didn't explain that he only started to feel it from that day on.
"By the way, if you're going to expand the Hearth Hall, have you reached an agreement with the residents near the clan's residence?"
"Not yet, I don't know much about it."
"Then leave everything to me. But how much are you planning to expand the Hearth Hall?"
"After settling the material costs for repairing the equipment, we can keep 10 million fares for daily expenses, and use the rest for the expansion project."
Broly thought for a moment and then answered.
"You're really generous, spending so much money to expand your family's residence."
Hephaestus remarked with a touch of melancholy.
"Uh……"
Broly was a little hesitant to answer, as he had used this very reason when he went to the dungeon to farm gold before.
"Mainly, I don't really need that much money."
After thinking about it, he said.
"Hey, aren't you upgrading your equipment?"
"The Fire of Joy Sword and the Frostmourne Gauntlets are enough for me now."
"What about the medicine?"
"I don't need to use potions much anymore. I have plenty of energy, and the monsters in the dungeon can't really hurt me."
"So you don't have any major expenses?"
Does spending tens of thousands of fares on meals at the Abundant Mistress's Tavern every day count?
"Uh, besides food, don't you have any other hobbies?"
"Does practicing swordsmanship or boxing count as a hobby?"
"Yes, but it doesn't cost any money."
Young and wealthy, aside from having a bit of a passion for food and drink, his leisure activities were like a desert.
These are the thoughts that Chun and Hephaestus have about the boy.
"Don't you have any other wishes that you want to fulfill, wishes that might cost you a lot of money?"
Chun asked out of curiosity.
"Um……"
Broly hesitated for a moment, then gave an affirmative answer: "Wishes like that exist."
"What is it?"
Hephaestus also looked at him with some curiosity.
"Is there anything Lord Hephaestus desires?"
Broly didn't answer but asked a question in return.
"I……"
Hephaestus paused, thought for a moment, and then shook his head.
"I don't want anything."
"What about Chun?"
Broly looked at the one-eyed craftsman.
"What I want is a better private forge, of course."
Chun thought for a moment and then answered.
"In that case, Lord Hephaestus, when you expand the Hearth Hall this time, please also build a better private forge."
Broly offered his opinions on the expansion plan.
"Ah, Broly, what's this?"
The one-eyed craftsman stared at him with wide eyes.
"This room was prepared for you. Do you like it?"
"Ugh, I like it, but isn't this a bit inappropriate?"
"Didn't you ask me what I wished to do that required spending money? It's something that makes my wife happy."
Broly answered.
Chun: "..."
"So, what if I said I like expensive jewelry?"
“If obtaining such a thing would make Lord Hephaestus happy, then I will buy it and give it to you.”
"No matter how much money?"
Hephaestus looked over curiously.
"Well, we still have to consider the cost-effectiveness. But if, Lord Hephaestus, you really feel very satisfied and happy after receiving expensive jewelry, then I will still work hard to earn money and buy the jewelry you want to give to you."
Generally speaking, if I can easily earn money, I think it's a very worthwhile deal to buy happiness with a price that doesn't exceed my earning capacity. But if it exceeds my earning capacity, that's another matter.
"Of course, if Lord Hephaestus really desires some expensive jewelry that I can't afford right now, then I'll slowly save up to buy it for you."
After a pause, Broly looked at the Goddess of Forging: "Hmm, Lady Hephaestus, do you have any expensive jewelry you wish to acquire?"
"Oh, no, I was just asking as an example."
Hephaestus quickly waved his hand.
"However, your answer did surprise me somewhat."
What went wrong?
"That's too generous."
"Isn't this bad?"
"It's good that your partner is generous, but I'm a little worried that if you meet a greedy and bad woman in the future, you might end up being used as a money-making tool to fulfill her various worldly desires."
Hephaestus said with some concern.
"The only thing that would make me do hard labor is my wife. If it can make my unknown wife happy, then doing hard labor to earn money is not a big deal."
Broly, however, didn't seem to care. He thought it would be strange to expect someone to be happy for no reason without giving anything in return.
In Broly's view, the expenditure of money is relatively simple and straightforward.
"No way. You might be willing to do hard labor for other bad women, but I'm not."
However, Chun simply picked him up.
"Lord Hephaestus, you'll be protecting Broly with me from the future, making sure he's not deceived or exploited by any bad women he might encounter, right?"
The one-eyed craftsman looked at his own god.
"Uh, that's right."
Hephaestus nodded, then suddenly realized that he and his leader had a certain degree of sovereignty over the boy.
The better forge that was planned to be sent out has already taken effect, and the one-eyed craftswoman is now acting like she's possessive of her food.
She nuzzled her face affectionately against the boy's, but was asking about the maximum budget for the forge he was planning to give her.
Hephaestus felt a headache coming on. So, the wicked woman who wanted to exploit Broly was none other than Tsubaki herself?!
“2 million faris is enough. For a private forge, this budget is enough to fully equip it. Any more would be a complete waste.”
Fortunately, no matter how expensive the construction cost of a private forge is, it can't go on indefinitely to the sky, and Broly still has more than enough money.
The remaining money, based on the cheap land prices in Forgotten Alley, could probably expand the Hearth Hall to six or seven times its original size.
"However, the residences shouldn't need to be expanded that much at the same time, right? The Hestia Familia should only have you and Bell as official members now."
"Well, the housing only needs to accommodate about ten people, with individual rooms. Also, the hot spring pool needs to be expanded a bit. As for the rest, if possible, I hope to build a training ground that is large enough in the yard."
Broly stated his needs one by one.
"no problem."
Hephaestus nodded in agreement.
And just after he left the Hephaestus Familia's encampment, a man in black robes stopped him on his way back to the Familia.
"Commander of the Hestia Familia, it's a pleasure to meet you. I am Fels, and I have a request to make of you."
"Ok?"
(End of this chapter)