"What?! Ais is missing!"
After some questioning, Riveria understood what was going on. She brought Lefiya back to the headquarters' meeting room and notified everyone. Loki's jaw dropped when she heard the news from Riveria, her face full of disbelief. But... but Ais is such a good kid! Why would she suddenly rebel!Don't tell me it's a delayed rebellious phase!
"No! I have to find Ais!"
Loki burst into tears. Her little Ais-tan was her precious treasure; she couldn't be lured away by someone else! She had to be found immediately.
"No! Loki, you can't run around. You'll stay right here at home."
"Mama! But Ais is our treasure!"
"I am not your 'Mama'!"
Riveria, hearing that word again, instantly got a little angry. This Loki was really stirring up trouble. On one hand, she was demanding to find Ais, and on the other, she was setting off the 'Nine Hells' Riveria. Riveria had barely ever been angry in all these years. But ever since the nickname 'Mama' appeared, her anger meter had been shooting straight up, faster than the stock market. This time, even the captain, Finn, didn't dare to speak. In the end, with Riveria's support and orders, one-third of the Familia members were left at the home base, while the rest fanned out across Orario. This included the dungeon; no place was to be overlooked. And Loki? As stated at the beginning, she was to stay at home. She couldn't run around. Isn't the god the center of a Familia? Soon, most of the Familia members had been dispatched to find Ais.
Passersby and other adventurers saw the Loki Familia suddenly deploy so many people at once and thought some major event was happening. But after seeing the Loki Familia's large force gather briefly at the gate, they quickly scattered in all directions. This left the onlookers stunned. How could they follow them? They had split into who-knows-how-many teams. This action by the Loki Familia quickly became known to all the major Familias. Naturally, the Freya Familia was included.
At the top of Babel, Freya sat in a chair in front of the floor-to-ceiling window, gently swirling her wine glass. "Ottar, is there anything to report?"
"Lady Freya, something strange just happened with the Loki Familia today."
Hearing Freya's question, Ottar answered swiftly, though his tone held a trace of confusion.
"Oh~ There must be something fishy going on. Ottar, I command you to find out what."
"Yes! Lady Freya!"
After receiving Freya's command, Ottar slowly departed the top floor of Babel, disappearing from the room.
"Loki... interesting."
Freya took a light sip of wine, her gray pupils seeming to have found something amusing, a smile on her face that could charm both gods and mortals. As the Loki Familia dispatched the majority of its members, some of the other Familias in Orario also sent out adventurers to follow them. After all, everyone wanted to see what Loki was up to, to do something as drastic as a full Familia mobilization. They didn't even do this for a dungeon expedition; for that, they would only send the elites. Lin Feng, who was strolling the streets of Orario, also saw the busy Loki Familia members everywhere. He was also a bit confused. Could some major incident have occurred?
......
However, the main cause of this turmoil... was currently on the third floor of the dungeon, observing Hayasaka Ai's group from a distance. By now, Ais had discovered that the girl who looked pretty but unassuming actually had a magic similar to invisibility. Just as I thought! There isn't a single simple person in this three-woman team. Ais watched their steady progress, feeling both happy and a bit frustrated. If they continued on so smoothly, wouldn't her plan for today be a complete wash? A huge loss! Ais hadn't just been secretly observing on the way. A few goblins and other monsters had spawned near her, but she had finished them off the moment they hit the ground. A swordsman's intuition! This intuition was nothing to scoff at. That girl, Tsuyuri Kanao, with her unusual abilities, must have undergone orthodox and traditional swordsmanship training. Swordsmen trained for years like that all have a kind of intuition. This was also why Ais didn't dare get too close or make too much noise.
"Fwoosh!"
"Papapapapa!"
Hayasaka Ai and Katou Megumi had just finished off a small wave of monsters and were about to rest when, unexpectedly, five more Almiraj spawned from the dungeon walls. This was the first time the two of them had faced five Almiraj at once. Previously, it had been groups of goblins and kobolds mixed with one or two Almiraj. That combination was difficult enough for them, and in order to avoid taking damage, they had been using their arm guards to defend. The stacked-up shock damage to their arms was not insignificant.