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"Ah! So there's this too!!"

Loki couldn't help but laugh when he saw Fujimaru Ritsuka summon the sea monster.

"We all forgot, Ritsuka can also summon monsters!"

"Ishtar must look even worse now."

Sure enough, when Loki looked at Ishtar, Ishtar was clearly flustered, obviously she hadn't considered this point either.

But the panic was quickly suppressed, and he returned to a calm demeanor. This change puzzled Loki greatly. Just how confident was Ishtar? Even after all this, he still didn't think there would be any problems.

At the game site, after Fujimaru Ritsuka summoned the sea monster, she put away the teaching manual, then raised her hand and pointed forward. The four Titan armored figures behind her immediately began to advance through the mud at the bottom of the lake.

After doing all this, Fujimaru Ritsuka slowly drifted forward, while Ryu and the other two drifted behind her, spread out in a fan shape, ready to finish off the Ishtar Familia.

According to the plan that Fujimaru Ritsuka had previously devised in a meeting within the Familia, the sea monsters were responsible for entangled with the Ishtar Familia's cannon fodder. Once the sea had entangled them, the three of them would then intimidate them and force them to quit the game, since it was easy for someone to die underwater if they weren't careful.

The core principle of war games is to avoid causing too much trouble and resulting in deaths, so threatening to persuade someone to surrender is the most convenient method.

Under the strict supervision of the game, once someone leaves the game, they can never come back; doing so is considered cheating and will result in an immediate loss.

Soon, the two sides began to make contact underwater.

As an aquatic monster, the sea monster's underwater movement ability far surpasses that on land. As soon as the two sides made contact, the Amazonian female warriors of the Ishtar Familia were directly captured by the sea monster.

The sea monster, a soft-bodied creature, pounced on them, binding the female warriors' hands and feet with its tentacles, while the tentacles wrapped tightly around their bodies, gripping their chests. These already scantily clad Amazonian warriors, aroused by the tentacles, immediately began to develop in a more sensual direction.

Even Fujimaru Ritsuka, watching from underwater, couldn't help but internally complain.

As expected, the tentacle monster was ultimately destined to develop in the direction of **.

That's what he was thinking, but he didn't do anything. He just followed the plan and sent Ryu and the other two up to threaten and persuade them to surrender.

The female warriors, with knives held to their necks, surrendered and withdrew one after another.

In a mere encounter, the Ishtar Familia suffered the loss of dozens of members.

This left the gorillas watching from the Tower of Babel speechless with dismay; another member of Orario's clan was about to fall.

However, they only sighed for a moment, and then became excited.

With the Ishtar Familia fallen, they're about to take flight.

Every fallen Familia, unless it belongs to a dark faction, will eventually see its main god leave, but its members will transfer to other Familias. This was the case with the Apollo Familia before, and it will be the same with the Ishtar Familia now!

Adventurers need to eat, and they won't be kicked out along with the main god. Those LV3 and LV2 Amazonian warriors of the Ishtar Familia need a new home, right? As long as the Astrea Familia doesn't recruit randomly, these small and medium-sized Families are the perfect replacements!

Catch it! Catch it hard!

The main deities of those small and medium-sized clans have even started considering recruitment slogans!

Don't be fooled by his role as a "takeover hero"; even someone like him wouldn't have the connections to take over!

Just when the Ishtar Familia was about to be wiped out, the lake in the game area suddenly exploded!

Volume 1: Chapter 144. The Dark Thanatos Familia

In the mirror, a violent explosion suddenly occurred underwater at the competition venue!

The once solid underwater surface was instantly blasted open, creating a white vacuum. The impact of the explosion spread rapidly in all directions with the lake water, instantly affecting the Amazonian female warriors who were fighting. They were directly thrown together in the explosion.

The once clear lake water was stirred up by the explosion, causing a large amount of silt to be stirred up, and the entire underwater area became murky and the image on the mirror turned completely black.

But this was just the beginning; after that came another violent explosion!

Once, twice! Three times, even four times!

"What happened?!"

On the Tower of Babel, the orangutan, the 15th day of the month, the wine, the angel, the rooster, the pheasant ...

"Hermes! What's going on with this series of explosions?"

The gorilla suddenly questioned Hermes, leaving the god Hermes completely bewildered.

"No, how would I know? I'm just someone who opens the Mirror of Destiny, what does that have to do with me!"

"Ishtar! Did you do something!?"

Astrea then directly questioned Ishtar.

"Was that explosion just now caused by your people?! Such destructive weapons are prohibited in war games!"

"Asteria, don't make baseless accusations."

Ishtar's face also showed anger.

"As you probably saw, before everything turned completely black, the explosion even affected my men!"

"you..."

“Asteria, she’s right.”

Loki grabbed Astrea.

"And don't worry, Ritsuka and the others will be fine."

"You should know that the war game is a limitation on Ritsuka. Once the limitations on Ritsuka are removed, you might not even know how strong his combat power will be."

Astrea, who was initially furious, immediately understood after Loki's words.

Yes, war games are a limitation for Ritsuka. Once the limitation is removed, it won't just be Fujimaru Ritsuka who suffers!

"I understand, thank you, Loki."

After thanking Loki, Astrea sat back down, wanting to see what Ishtar was up to.

The gorillas who were watching the situation closely couldn't calm down—oh wait, no, they couldn't calm down!

Although we don't know exactly what's going on, it's clear that someone is causing trouble, and the war game is spiraling out of control.

But it's good that things are out of control! With the restrictions on war games lifted, their "savior" can finally show his skills!

Sure enough, the image on the mirror began to change.

After the explosion in the mirror stopped, a hemispherical light shield began to appear in the previously murky, pitch-black image.

Defensive barrier!

Chen Gong's city defense barrier costume has once again proven its effectiveness!

A hemispherical barrier was placed upside down on the silt at the bottom of the lake. Inside the barrier, Fujimaru Ritsuka and Ryu stood back to back, warily looking around.

When the explosion began, Fujimaru Ritsuka reacted quickly. He used the impact of the explosion to approach the group of people, pulled them together, and immediately activated the barrier.

The barrier not only blocked the underwater shockwaves, preventing internal injuries, but also blocked the silt kicked up by the explosion.

"It's Ritsuka and the others!"

Loki patted Astrea on the shoulder.

"He certainly didn't disappoint us; this attack was no problem for him at all."

Loki was as pleased as if his own family had survived the explosion unharmed.

"It's good that you're alright."

Astrea relaxed when she saw that the four people were unharmed.

"Next, we need to figure out what exactly is going on."

In the lake, Fujimaru Ritsuka was doing the same thing.

With the defensive barrier maintained by his Mystic Code, he didn't need to pay attention to it constantly. Although the explosion had stopped, the surroundings were still murky, and he couldn't see anything. To prevent being ambushed when he left, he chose to use the Sea Demon to scout the way!

The scriptures of Luoyan City reappeared in his hands, and the little sea demon, his tool, reappeared before leaving the barrier and disappearing into the murky lake.

Although we don't know who prepared the explosion, if they did, they must have been there. They couldn't have just abandoned everything after the explosion.

After completing the summoning, Fujimaru Ritsuka immediately put away the teaching manual. It was underwater, and a short soaking was fine, but if it was soaked for a long time, she didn't know if there would be any problems.

The summoned sea monster quickly seized its target.

Two men wearing diving suits.

The Ishtar Familia consists entirely of Amazonian female warriors, and the men within the family are only there to be exploited, so these two men are definitely not members of the Ishtar Familia.

Fujimaru Ritsuka watched the two struggling frantically after being captured by the sea monster, made an upward gesture to Ryu, then deactivated the defensive barrier and began to rise together.

However, what they didn't expect was that when their heads came out of the water, there were more than a dozen people dressed in black cloaks standing on the shore of the lake.

"As expected, that little bit of explosives wouldn't be enough to kill you, [Savior]."

The cloaked man at the head of the group looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka as she emerged from the water, smiled, and then recognized something from her.

Without any hesitation, Fujimaru Ritsuka pulled Ryu and the others, who had just come up for air, back underwater.

Boom—

The man threw out the bomb that had just exploded underwater!

Fortunately, Fujimaru Ritsuka dodged quickly and immediately activated her defensive barrier, thus avoiding the impact of the explosion.

But the two people who were captured by the little sea monster were in a terrible situation. The bomb exploded directly in their faces, and the waters where they were located turned red instantly.

Fujimaru Ritsuka glanced at the two shattered corpses, gestured to Ryu, and then handed the defensive barrier's Mystic Code Core to Ryu.

I'll go up alone later to attract attention, and then you guys can come up later.

Be careful!

After exchanging glances, Fujimaru Ritsuka began to rise directly to the surface of the water.

This time, Fujimaru Ritsuka, who was alone, was much faster. He soared directly from underwater, leaping over the men in black standing on the shore and landing behind them. The men in black immediately turned to look at him.

Fujimaru Ritsuka stood up and brushed his wet hair back with his hand, revealing his slicked-back hairstyle. He stood shirtless opposite them.

"Come on, tell me, who are you people!"

"Respected Savior."

The man who had thrown the bomb earlier stepped forward and introduced himself very politely.

“We come from the Thanatos clan.”

"Thanatos?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka was somewhat surprised, then her eyes narrowed.

"The Dark Faction has some nerve, daring to make a move in the war game!"

Faced with Fujimaru Ritsuka's questioning, this member of the Thanatos Familia grinned.

"Yes, after all, this is a rare opportunity to kill you, the 'Savior'!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the ground beneath Fujimaru Ritsuka's feet exploded!

Volume 1: 145. Die upside down, a pseudo-copy of all things!

The Thanatos Familia is a dark faction hidden beneath Orario. Their chief god, Thanatos, the god of death, is obsessed with destroying Orario. As for his purpose, since the end of the Age of Gods has led to a significant decrease in the human mortality rate, he hopes that the human mortality rate will increase so that he can have something to do!

A very abstract deity!

Under Thanatos's leadership, the Thanatos Familia are dedicated to the destruction of Orario, having caused numerous deaths during the previous period of chaos caused by the Dark Factions.

Unfortunately, during the Great Rebellion, the Dark Faction was purged en masse. The Thanatos Familia, seeing that their power was waning, hid in the man-made labyrinth of the dungeon. Unlike naturally formed labyrinths, these were labyrinths built by human hands, and very few people knew about them, each of them concealing their intelligence.

Under these circumstances, they spent several years living a sordid life in the dungeon.

Until two days ago, they were approached by Ishtar.

Ishtar doesn't want everything she has to be ruined by losing to Fujimaru Ritsuka. She doesn't want to lose the Pleasure District, nor does she want to be expelled from Orario. She also wants to defeat Freya in the future and become Orario's only and strongest goddess of beauty.

So she gave up half of her wealth in exchange for the Thanatos Familia disrupting the war game!

After some consideration, Thanatos agreed to Ishtar's deal.

For Thanatos, Fujimaru Ritsuka was also an obstacle to achieving his goals. According to his original plan, they would kill their target, the Loki Familia, after a period of time.

As one of Orario's two kings, the Loki Familia was an obstacle to him. However, the suddenly rising Astrea Familia posed an even greater obstacle than the Loki Familia. The Loki Familia was only good at conquering dungeons and didn't really get involved in anything, but the Astrea Familia was truly capable of getting things done.

After Fujimaru Ritsuka reformed the military police, the entire Orario tended towards order, which was further and further away from the chaos he had hoped for.

Therefore, he must solve the problem of Fujimaru Ritsuka, the "savior" of this other world!