"Lefiya!?" Finn looked at the girl who wasn't dodging or moving. In his anxiety, he chased after the falling giant arm. Spear flames burned. He was hesitating whether to use his secret technique. At this speed, he definitely wouldn't make it, but the cost of using that magic...
"I am the bone of my sword!"
"Steel is my body."
"and fire is my blood."
"I have created over a thousand blades."
Just as Finn was preparing to make a desperate move and activate his trump card magic, the sound of a rapid incantation made him freeze.
A strange language transformed into a ray of glowing light, and a bud-like shield slowly unfolded. Lefiya, who was standing there foolishly, was suddenly pulled into the embrace of someone who had appeared out of nowhere.
Within the bright halo of light, the purple shield bloomed with seven petals—
"Rho Aias!!"
This 'Conceptual Armament,' which possesses absolute defensive power against thrown weapons and was the favorite defensive gear of 'Emiya Shirou,' bloomed for the first time in this different world.
The giant arm collided with the shield.
Bang!
Dust filled the air as the giant arm bounced back in the direction it came from, rolling along the ground. Its astonishing weight caused eerie, strange noises to persist within the cavern.
Finn breathed a sigh of relief.
Clearly, facing that shield which looked so fragile, the BOSS's arm had failed to break through it.
As the dust gradually settled, the relatively intact flower-shaped shield dissipated into motes of light. The projectile, which had looked quite imposing, fell heavily to the ground after breaking through two of the petals with its weight.
"Trace On!"
Holding the bewildered girl, Ritsuka, who had just landed after a slight pause in the air following a backward leap, shouted softly.
Illusory blades condensed above her head, then tore through the air, violently shooting towards Goliath, who was being suppressed by the Dwarf Gareth, piercing through its massive body.
The BOSS leaned backward and landed on its butt on the ground.
Patting the back of the still terrified Lefiya in a comforting manner, Ritsuka gently let her go.
[Void · Verdant Horizon that Opens a Thousand Mountains]
A super-giant sword blade, the God-forged armament Mountain-Splitting Sword, was pulled out by Ritsuka with one hand and smashed down fiercely onto Goliath.
Seeing that the situation was bad, Finn and Gareth had run away early on.
Boom—!!
"Ugh, roar, roar, roar, ah..."
The Mountain-Splitting Sword nearly spanned the massive void between the seventeenth and eighteenth floors.
The Dungeon even trembled slightly.
Even though it was just a shell—a counterfeit lacking the actual essence and properties of the real Mountain-Splitting Sword—its terrifying weight and sharpness still pierced through Goliath's body, pinning it to the wall.
Gravel rolled down from the rock wall that had been slashed open.
For a moment, the lone king of the labyrinth, Goliath, seemed to have become a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.
"Done. You guys can decide whether to kill it or carve it up yourselves."
Ritsuka clapped her hands, drawing the attention of Finn and Gareth, who were staring blankly at Goliath's miserable state. The two of them nodded blankly as well.
Where did this 'monster' come from?
Finn felt slightly ashamed looking at Goliath's miserable state. Most importantly, he felt that he might... definitely not be a match for the girl in front of him; the gap might be quite large.
Regardless of the shield the girl used at the beginning, even that super-giant sword at the end was not something he could block.
As a Pallum, he was only about 1.1 meters tall. That sword was at least ten times his height. Even with Goliath's physique, one hit was enough to send it to the afterlife. If it were him, if he didn't run, he might have been smashed into one of the little biscuits he often eats on the spot.
But he had never heard of any Peerage having such an exaggerated Adventurer?!
She looks like a warrior, but her destructive power could rival a mage.
Finn and Gareth gazed longingly, perhaps contemplating life, while Ritsuka didn't linger. She turned and walked towards Lefiya, who was sitting on the ground in a duck-sit position.
As for boys, she wasn't interested; helping a beautiful girl was much more interesting.
Ritsuka immediately reached out, wanting to pull the girl up from the ground, "Are you okay?"
"I'm, I'm fine... Thank you..."
The Elf girl (confirmed) Lefiya reached out with a trembling hand. After being held and pulled up from the ground, she widened her eyes.
Just now, she was hugged by a stranger?
Her inner emotions were similar to what Riveria had felt back then, but Lefiya didn't have Riveria's mature mindset, so her brain began to tremble, and she suddenly had impure thoughts.
But thankfully, the other party was a girl, perhaps because she was kind-hearted and had no bad intentions...
Lefiya hadn't noticed the key point yet, which was Ritsuka's personal strength.
One-shotting Goliath was nothing; this was at most a relatively strong BOSS among Level 4s, and any Level 4 Adventurer with skilled combat experience could potentially solo it. The key point was those weapons and shields that appeared out of thin air.
Magic or a skill?
With such exaggerated size and destructive power, could that giant sword be a wide-area annihilation magic?
Finn couldn't figure it out, and couldn't ask either. Unless they were members of the same Peerage, asking about others' abilities was against the rules.
"I am Finn Deimne of the Loki Familia. On behalf of the Loki Familia, I thank you for saving Lefiya."
When Finn bowed slightly to show his respect, Ritsuka felt that something was wrong.
Oh my God, look at what she just heard: Loki Familia?
She swore to the Virgin Mary that she was absolutely not trying to deal with the Loki Familia on purpose. This was truly terrible, just like the apple pie made by the old man at the library next door.
The Loki Familia, one of the two kings of Orario.
Being targeted by such a massive Peerage of this level was definitely not a good thing. Just one obsessed goddess, Freya, was already quite annoying.
The only two things worth being glad about were: first, Freya didn't know her background yet; and second, no one in the Loki Familia knew her...
Wait, no, Riveria was also from the Loki Familia.
"It's nothing, just a small favor. I have other things to do, so I won't disturb you all from collecting your loot."
Ritsuka, who had just come over to take a look at what was causing such a big commotion, decided to grease her heels and prepare to slip away.
Anyway, she didn't care about Goliath's loot.
Immediately, Ritsuka projected a super low-quality Excalibur and smashed it hard onto the ground, "Bye-bye."
"Wait..."
With a bang.
A blinding light filled the massive void of the seventeenth floor. Finn, who had just raised his hand, was forced to cover his eyes. The void fell silent for a moment.
A moment later, Finn lowered his hand and sighed.
There wasn't even a shadow of Ritsuka to be seen in the void; she ran faster than a rabbit.
"Forget it. I originally wanted to invite and recruit this unknown powerhouse."
"Haha... Maybe the other party looks down on us?"
The cheerful Gareth patted Finn's shoulder, slightly self-deprecating.
If even the Loki Familia wasn't good enough for her, he really didn't know which god's Peerage she belonged to. As for being an ordinary person who hadn't received a 'favor'?
That was impossible. To possess that level of power without needing a 'favor' was only possible for a hero who appears once in a thousand years in legends. It had been a long time since anyone like a hero had appeared since the gods descended to the lower world.
Just then, Lefiya, holding a golden sword, suddenly stepped forward, causing Finn to frown.
"Lefiya, what is this?"
"The girl from just now gave it to me before she left, saying it was called—Excalibur Image, the Eternal Distant Golden Sword."