The battle ended.
After Lynn crushed Udaeus with astonishing speed, Revis's fate was already sealed.
With the help of the still-active Uchide no Kozuchi, he caught up to Revis in a few moves and hacked her into a human stump.
With this, Gros had another prisoner in his hands.
As a reward for being the jailer, he received a magic stone from the mutated Udaeus.
Looking at the massive magic stone nearly five meters in diameter before him, Gros hesitated for a rare moment.
"I heard Fels say you are short on money; this thing should sell for a lot of money on the surface, right?"
"It could sell for a lot, but it's more important to improve your strength," Lynn replied.
Unlike the original story.
Because of Lynn, Bell did not have the experience of a love-hate struggle with the Minotaur.
Influenced by this, Asterius, the strongest of the Xenos in the original story, would no longer be born.
To fill this gap, Lynn planned to manually cultivate a Level 7 Xenos.
The Xenos still had great value.
If nothing else, the fact that they could find hidden spaces in the Dungeon alone made them worth Lynn's investment.
Gros became thoughtful after hearing this: "Do you want us to help explore the Dungeon?"
Lynn nodded: "Although the Dungeon is dangerous for humans, it is also a natural treasure trove with great developmental value."
"Furthermore, compared to adventurers who need to collect deeds, you can get stronger just by eating magic stones, making you easier to cultivate."
Gros: "Cultivate... that sounds like a pet."
Lynn gave a light chuckle: "Isn't being able to get stronger enough? In exchange, I can help you go to the surface to live in the future."
Gros swallowed the magic stone: "Then I'll leave it to you."
Despite staying in the Dungeon, Gros had met many adventurers, and acting with the Loki Familia this time gave him an understanding of the strength of First-Class Adventurers.
After comparison, he reached a conclusion.
Lynn was special.
Even among First Class Adventurers, he was still a powerhouse in a league of his own.
In that case, cooperating with him was the best choice at the moment.
He would satisfy Lynn's requirements and then exchange them for more high-quality magic stones from him to grow stronger.
Level 7, which he once dared not hope for, was no longer a pipe dream but a touchable reality.
"By the way, aren't you going to help?"
Having digested Udaeus's magic stone, Gros, whose aura had advanced further, looked toward the other battlefield.
"If you stepped in, it should end very quickly, right?"
"It could end, but then there would be no deeds."
Unlike Lynn who was always grinding ability points, most adventurers would be stuck by the requirement for a deed.
With Haruhime's support, Aiz and the others had the power to fight the spirit clones.
Although it was still dangerous, this was also a good opportunity to grind for a deed; only this way could they break through and level up.
Standing by and watching for a moment, Lynn withdrew his gaze and came before Revis and Olivas.
Under Gros's 'care,' whenever these two Monsters tried to regenerate their flesh, their limbs would be crushed immediately.
Perhaps due to being repeatedly tortured, Olivas had already succumbed to the burden and lost consciousness; only Revis kept her eyes open.
"I didn't expect to fail in a place like this."
Revis gave up resisting and lay on the ground, staring expressionlessly at Lynn: "Aren't you going to kill us?"
"There are still some things I need to test."
Lynn reached out and pressed his hand on Revis's shoulder.
Because her arms had been repeatedly crushed, her shoulder area was a bloody mess, making it easy to inject blood.
However, at that moment, the magic stone inside Revis's body emitted a glow and began to reject his blood.
"As expected, it's not that simple."
Lynn didn't mind and continued to inject blood.
"What are you doing?"
Revis frowned.
She could feel a warm current constantly merging into her body, and her physical form seemed to be undergoing some slight changes.
In a daze, the voice belonging to the Corrupted Spirit in her mind began to dissipate, leaving only the sounds of battle from afar in her ears.
"This is..."
Revis's eyes suddenly widened as an astonishing guess surfaced in her mind: "Are you remodeling my body?!"
"You could say that. After all, I'm also very curious about what kind of body structure allows you to get stronger just by eating magic stones," Lynn said, not hiding his thoughts at all.
Flesh Manipulation gave him the ability to change himself.
If he could develop it further, he could completely change his own structure to grow stronger through optimization.
Of course, optimization also required some samples for reference. Things like the Labyrinth King were hard to simulate; breathing fire, spitting water, or creating bone spikes were all innate talents.
But Revis was different.
She originally belonged to the human category, and only acquired the ability to swallow magic stones after being remodeled by the Corrupted Spirit.
By following her example, he might also be able to master the skill of getting stronger by swallowing magic stones.
"I see. It uses the magic stone given by the Corrupted Spirit as a core, converting the eaten magic stones into materials for the internal magic stone to constantly grow stronger."
With the continuous injection of blood, Lynn quickly snatched ownership of Revis away from the Corrupted Spirit.
Using the medical knowledge, he had recently acquired, he briefly analyzed Revis's condition and fell into deep thought.
This kind of body structure could indeed be worth trying to replicate.
Of course, complete replication was impossible.
A body structure with a magic stone as the core meant that once the magic stone was shattered, one would die.
Instead of using the magic stone as a core, he could try to optimize this structure by treating the magic stone as an external attachment system.
Thinking of this, Lynn already had some concepts in mind.
The key to this system lay in the fusion of magic stones and flesh; with Flesh Manipulation, he had a chance of success.
However, there were still many problems in actual implementation.
"My knowledge reserve is still too small."
Lynn withdrew his palm and let out a sigh.
His current medical knowledge came from Demon Slayer Lynn, who had recently started reading books out of boredom.
After his spirit attribute increased, Demon Slayer Lynn gained the ability of photographic memory, absorbing new knowledge very quickly.
However, the timeline Demon Slayer Lynn was in was too early, and the technology tree was not developed enough.
The One-Punch world did have that kind of black technology.
But recently, One-Punch Lynn was learning the Whirlwind Iron Slash Fist, as well as the combined fist technique of Whirlwind Iron Slash Fist and Flowing Water Crushing Rock Fist.
To study magic stones, he still had to rely on himself.
"Gros, you can let her go now."
"Okay."
Gros lifted his claws and released Revis.
Having regained her freedom, Revis stood in place and did not run.
Although the Corrupted Spirit's control over her was gone, that feeling of being controlled still existed.
Not only that, the feeling of being constrained had intensified; she felt as if she had no secrets at all before Lynn.
"It seems you already understand your situation."
"Yes, so what do you want to do?" Revis asked.
"Nothing much, I just think the farce should end."
Lynn raised his hand and rubbed his face: "With this face, you should be able to understand what I'm talking about."
"...I see, so that's how it is."
Looking at the 'Dix' before her, Revis fell silent for a moment and let out a sigh: "No wonder I felt danger when I ran into him last time. It seems he had already been replaced by you back then. Your goal is to take down that Artificial Labyrinth?"
Lynn changed his appearance back: "Exactly. I need you to go back and be an inside agent for me for a couple of days. Once I've gathered enough combat power, I'll launch an attack, and we'll take down the Remnants of the Dark Faction quickly with an inside-outside coordination."
Revis thought for a moment: "I understand, but I can't guarantee I can do it."
Lynn: "This shouldn't be a difficult task, right?"
Revis nodded: "If it were before, this would be nothing to me, but the problem is..."
Revis raised her hand and touched her chest: "After you remodeled me just now, my connection with the Corrupted Spirit was severed."
"Losing me as an agent, that Monster will shift its focus onto other Monsters and tell them what happened here."
Speaking of this, Revis glanced at Olivas.
Perhaps due to the unbearable burden of having his limbs repeatedly crushed, he had lost consciousness and fallen into a coma not long ago.
If Revis were the Corrupted Spirit, it would be impossible for her to place her focus on Olivas.
And after excluding Olivas, there was only one Monster left that the Corrupted Spirit could choose.
"On the surface, there is another Monster named Filvis."
"The Corrupted Spirit chose me as her messenger because she has always been resisting and rejecting the Corrupted Spirit."
"But in a situation where there's no other choice, the Corrupted Spirit won't care about that anymore."
"If nothing goes wrong, Filvis should already know what happened here and has started to act."
...
"God Dionysus, the above is everything that happened on the 37th floor of the Dungeon."
In a dark basement, Filvis recounted what had just happened in the Dungeon.
Just as Revis had predicted.
After her connection with the Corrupted Spirit was severed, the Corrupted Spirit sought out Filvis, who was still on the surface.
And after learning these things, she immediately woke Dionysus and informed him of the truth.
However, after hearing these words, Dionysus showed a rare expression of doubt.
"Filvis, are you sure you didn't get it wrong?"
"I didn't get it wrong; that's what the Corrupted Spirit said."
"So, you mean to say that Lynn of the Hestia Familia has a true strength not below yours, and he can sever the connection between a Monster and the Corrupted Spirit?"
"Yes, that's what the Corrupted Spirit said."
"..."
Maybe the Corrupted Spirit made a mistake.
Dionysus hesitated; his mind filled with complex emotions.
He could tell Filvis wasn't lying, but the problem was there were too many suspicious points.
The most important point was how Lynn, an adventurer who just reached Level 3, could possess such strength.
"Forget it, now is not the time to think about this."
Dionysus stood up.
Regardless of whether the intel was true or false, he couldn't just sit and wait; he had to act.
As for what to do, he already had an idea.
"Let's go, Revis."
Dionysus pushed open the basement door.
"We're going to the Hestia Familia."
...