Chapter 125 - 122 : Thats Ours! (1/2)

For Guan Gi, the surprise was way less than Saku and Alin, who witnessed everything that happened a second ago.

The battle was too one-sided, if it's called a battle that is, to be more precise, it was a complete annihilation. One second the lizards were charging at them and the next they were engulfed in purple flames and were burned into ashes. The process didn't even take a second, no sound came out of the suffering monsters, they couldn't even react before dying miserably.

”What in the....”

Saku was in total disbelief from the previous display, she even muttered those words unconsciously. The high-school girl Alin hid behind her friend Snow Peaks for fear of being struck by the purple flames which appeared too suddenly.

As for the last one, Guan Gi, his head moved between the place where the lizards perished and Lucy, who was standing in front of the other three.

He wasn't sure but his gut told him that she's the one who did that, unlike his admiration for Delia, fear grew inside of him as just the heat from the flames made him suffocate.

Guan Gi walked next to the black ashes scattered everywhere and saw no signs of lizard corpses, just ashes and nothing else. They didn't drop anything too but that's to be expected since they are too low-leveled and only on the first floor.

Amidst the confusion and astonishment of the three team members, Delia giggled and said

”Hehehe, told you to just stay back and watch. Don't try to be heroic and waste our time, it'll be best to stand behind me and enjoy the show.”

As she said that, Delia winked at Guan Gi. Being the simpleton he was, he totally forgot about what happened just a second ago and happily walked next to her instead of standing behind her, his eyes were glued to her which was pretty uncomfortable.

Lucy ignored all of them and proceeded deeper into the dungeon. Obviously, the rest of them followed after her but not before questioning Delia on what the hell just happened.

”Emm, Delia, could it be Miss Lucy who did... that?”

Although they only met earlier, after chatting for some time, Delia became friends with Saku who was not as shy and reserved as Alin who remained silent.

Delia took out a wine bottle from out of nowhere, a cup floated next to the bottle and with her telekinesis, or so thought the others, she poured the wine in the cup and casually replied to Snow Peaks

”Who else would it be beside her? I'm but a support-type and she's the one who'll take care of everything... ok enough about this boring stuff, how about you tell me from where you bought that robe?”

Delia actions seemed too natural as if she was not in a dangerous dungeon but in her own house. After some thought, Delia decided to enjoy the wine now as she had nothing to do except following Lucy, she doesn't need to heal or attack as all of that would be handled by her boss.

The first floor was rather big, usually, to pass to the second floor, it takes about two hours or one hour if the team is strong. The problem is the huge number of lizards, individually they are weak but if it's a big number then they can pose a threat even to A-class team.

What was supposed to be a two-hour trip was finished in a mere 20 minutes. Not once did they stop walking, every single lizard that charged at them was instantly obliterated by the purple flames. No monster managed to get close to them.

It's like walking into a museum and enjoying the artwork but instead of that, it's a dark cave filled with creepy looking monsters.

The three newbies calmed down after witnessing the process several times but they were still in awe of such powerful ability.

The silent Alin managed to finally muster some courage and talk to Lucy as she admired such a powerful figure, she always looked up to people like the flame Emperor and the Holy Knight so seeing someone so strong, she couldn't keep silent and miss this opportunity.

”Emm, Miss Lucy, why are the flames purple?”

Talking was not her strongest suit, she had many other questions but she was curious on why the flames had that specific color, however, unfortunately for her, Lucy only replied to her with a simple and unsatisfying answer.

”They just are.”

It took Alin a lot of determination to ask that but she asked the wrong question.

Seeing the sad look of Alin and her strong desire to know, Delia, who was enjoying her wine and feeling a bit chatty, started her lecture.

”Flames are separated into three color, orange, blue and purple with orange being the weakest and purple the strongest.”

As she said that, Delia raised her hand and created a blue flame spark. They looked at the produced blue flame as if it was some kind of rare treasure, they never heard of flame ranks. Even the flame Emperor who is known to be the strongest flame user on Earth can only use normal flames.

”Does that mean you can use the second strongest flames despite being a support-class?”

After being able to ask the first question, Alin didn't stop asking Delia until she was satisfied.

As for Lucy, she burned every lizard in their way and even after arriving on the second floor, they continued with the same pace.

Starting from the second floor, there were minor traps but Lucy didn't pay them any heed, she didn't even shift the direction and purposely stepped on some of them but they were all nullified thanks to Delia's permanent Holy Barrier.

A meager trap of such a lowly-dungeon could never shatter her barrier, not even an attack from a peak divine Realm can crack it much less destroy it.

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One hour later, the team finally entered the fourth floor, although Lucy could literally destroy the whole dungeon if she wanted to, she would rather do it slowly with witnesses around.

4th Floor and so on is a place for expert Heroes and not a C-class team. Only A-class Heroes are here, what's good is that the probability of finding some treasure on the fourth floor is extremely high.

When they were clearing the first three floors, nothing dropped which confused the newbies but it's totally natural since Lucy killed them.