"That's what we're planning for now. ＋

In the hall of the small two-story building, Xia summed up to everyone:

"As a pioneer, Delia is opening the way for everyone in front; Shizuki, Al, Dora, the three of you lead a group of gunsmiths as fire support, and this time there is a chance that you will encounter monster hordes on the way, and magic cannons and grenades are useful in large-scale battles. ”

"Luo Ye, you are responsible for selecting the right experts in the science and technology department to assess the damage of the airship; Whether we can drive it smoothly in the future depends on you for a long time. ”

"Edith, help me tell Natia Vida who didn't come, and you two will also follow the team when they arrive, because you both have research on legacy technology, and the expert team of the science and technology department also needs your opinion."

"Lorraine, this time you're staying."

Xia finally said to Lorraine:

"The defense of the camp is very important, and even if it is relatively safe here, we can't take all the strong students away; If you are here, I believe everyone will be more assured. Moreover, the ghosts in the airship are almost immune to physics attacks, and if you go, you will only waste your combat power, so you might as well stay here to protect the camp. ”

Because he was afraid that Lorraine would insist on going with him, Xia deliberately used a bit of mean words in his words.

Lorraine was silent for a moment, then replied:

"I see."

Seeing that he had no objections, Xia turned his head to look at everyone:

"This time I'm going to use 60% of all the remaining resources, and until the airship is repaired, it will be our second camp, and it's also the front line of the battle, so it needs a lot of supplies and ammunition support."

Wendy is not currently there, and she is the leader of all the cadets as a matter of course, so she is qualified to decide on the allocation of resources. There was no objection to this.

Speaking of this, Xia's voice suddenly became louder, and his two hands slapped heavily on the table in front of him:

"Ladies and gentlemen, I won't say anything superfluous, this battle is our final battle! Do you understand? ”

……

Coming out of the house, people smelled a strong aroma.

"What is this thing. It smells so good. ”

Natsu's nose wrinkled.

I saw a fire burning not far outside, and a life student walked over with a pot of soup in his hand.

"This is the dark flora found below, it's a rare delicacy here, do you want to taste it?"

Luo Ye said to her.

"Thank you."

Xia, who had just finished presiding over the meeting, was a little tired, and after hearing her words, she became curious about this mushroom soup:

"Dark flora? How to call such a quirky name. ”

"This fungus grows on top of a kind of demon ant burrow and can absorb the dark magic emitted by demon ants, hence the name. But don't worry, after being filtered by the strain, there are no harmful ingredients in it, and there is a peculiar fragrance. Many dark creatures also like to eat it. ”

Luo Ye motioned to the student to give Xia a bowl of mushroom soup.

"By the way, I heard that your ammunition warehouse was stolen? Did you find out what you were missing? ”

Xia suddenly thought of Sally's previous words, and turned to her and asked.

Sally next to her had just opened her mouth when Zero suddenly appeared beside everyone, as if she had smelled the smell.

Her actions were like ghosts, and she was flying in the air, which scared everyone.

"Zero, come over here."

Natsu beckoned to her.

Zero's face was a little pale. Seeing Xia Hou fly to her side, staring at the bowl in her hand.

"Do you want to drink?"

Natsu hugged her over. Asked affectionately.

To her surprise, Zero suddenly reached out without saying a word and hit the bowl to the ground!

"Hey, what's the matter with you guy!"

Seeing this scene, Agnes, who originally showed a hint of envy, changed her face and shouted.

"I don't drink...... This one. ”

Zero looked down at the soup bowl on the ground. Said in a muffled voice.

Is it because you didn't bring her out last time, so you're still angry?

Xia thought she was angry, and gently stroked her hair, wanting to enlighten her well.

"Wow, it smells so good."

Delia, who did not attend the meeting, also appeared next to the pot of soup.

Then she snatched the pot from the student's hand. Raised his head and drank it, and drank more than half of it in a blink of an eye.

"-Wow! It was so delicious. ”

Di Liya put down the pot and said happily with her tail wagging her tail.

"Luo Ye senior, this ......"

The student looked at Luo Ye with some panic.

"It's okay, there's still a lot of this stuff, let's go get some and cook it again."

Luo Ye sent the student away.

"Natsu, I heard you're going to the airship?"

Then the little princess Evelyn ran from near the campfire:

"Why don't you call me? I'm going with you too! ”

"What are you kidding, at your level, to stuff the ghost's teeth?"

Agnes said sarcastically.

"Hey! You're rude! People have been working hard for special training, and they have become very strong, okay! ”

Evelyn shouted at Agnes.

"Got strong?"

Agnes suddenly raised her right hand, and black flames erupted from her hand:

"Then let me see how strong you get."

"I ...... I'm not afraid of you......"

Evelyn's voice suddenly became quieter, and she hid behind Natsu.

"Master, her dual professions have been promoted to lv89, and she is about to turn twice, so it doesn't seem to be lying."

Stephanie whispered.

"Evelyn, this operation is dangerous, we need to camp outside for a long time, and we don't have enough food......"

Natsu looked at Evelyn helplessly, trying to stop her from the idea.

"I'm not going to be willful, I really want to help."

Evelyn pressed her face against her clothes and looked up pitifully.

"Your Highness, please let Princess Evelyn follow."

At this time, an unexpected person came to the crowd.

"Mother Elisa?"

After seeing the visitor, Xia frowned.

Mother Alyssa walked up to her and bowed deeply to her:

"Your Highness, please forgive me for being rude to you before. I would like to apologize to you for the record. ”

Then she looked up and said sincerely:

"Ever since you saved Princess Evelyn in the library, she has admired you a lot, and often mentions your sister to be a hero who saves everyone like you, so please give her a chance. She really wanted to do something to make up for the mistakes she had made before. ”

"Alyssa, what are you talking about? I, I didn't ......"

Evelyn looked shy.

"And I wish I could join His Highness's team as well."

Mother Alyssa showed a serious look:

"I'm a full-fledged clergyman, good at healing and assisting, and in President Wendy's absence, you seem to be short of professional magicians, and I can definitely help."

"Let's talk about it."

Natsu has always been wary of Alyssa and does not agree to her request.

Although she seems sincere. But it doesn't mean that he will listen to her and put her in the team.

"Your Highness......"

Mother Alyssa saw that she did not immediately agree, and seemed to be in a hurry, and was about to say something, when Dora ran panting from the side, carrying a dark weapon behind her.

"Captain, this is the U2 sniper I got from my eldest sister, and she said that no one can use this thing anyway. I'll give it to you if you like it. ”

"Wow, thank you so much."

Xia happily took the sniper gun off her back. With the long black knife, he carried it behind his back.

Hmph, now I can say I'm fully armed!

There are also melee weapons, long-range weapons, and a three-piece set that can guide demons, so you have a little bit of a strong demeanor, right?

She thought smugly.

"Your Highness, Princess Evelyn and I will definitely not hold back. Please let me go with you! ”

Mother Alyssa looked a little anxious.

"That's what you want to go?"

Xia asked strangely:

"You know, we're not going to travel, but to fight monsters, and if there's anything missing, it's probably too late to protect you, so you're going too?"

"Of course!"

Mother Alyssa made an awe-inspiring expression and said with a solemn expression:

"The great god Sado sues us. Any self-sacrifice for the sake of others can be redeemed by God, even if it is broken bones, and finally the soul of a person can ascend to heaven and enjoy eternal glory! ”

Seeing her look like a loyal believer, Xia waved his hand with a headache:

"Alright then, you just go with the team...... But first, you have to obey my arrangement, or I'll just leave you outside, understand. ”

"Understood, understood."

Mother Alyssa seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and nodded desperately.

"Senior Luo Ye, this is today's harvest, do you want to use it all?"

Several life students walked over, carrying several large baskets of mushroom-like things in their hands.

"It seems that not all the people who went to collect have returned, and the arcane mage who was responsible for protecting you is gone."

Luo Ye's memory is very good, so she looked left and right and asked them.

"The arcane mage seems to have found something underneath, and he stayed alone, saying he wanted to investigate it properly."

Arcane mage? Who is it.

Xia suddenly thought of Sadonan.

Darrow is currently unable to act, so he can't talk about who to protect, so there should be only one Arcane Mage with enough combat power to Sadonan.

"What do you mean by that?"

Xia couldn't help but ask Luo Ye.

"Remember what I told you about the theory of space transfer?"

A light flashed on the lenses of Luoye:

"The situation of the magician's residence is somewhat similar to that of the school park when it was transferred, and its whole body is in a huge enchantment; Above is the plain of people's daily life, below are overhanging rocks and soil layers, and there are also some cliffs and sunken platforms around, and the dark flora is found in a col in the lower layer. ”

“…… That's right. ”

Natsu's eyes showed the last scene that appeared when he rode the stone plate.

Climbing straight up through the clouds, you can see some green vegetation outside, and there seems to be some places to settle around, including wide platforms and rock crevices.

"Stephanie, does the manual mention this?"

To confirm, she asked in her mind.

"Yes. Master. ”

Stephanie thought for a moment and replied:

"Underneath this dark colony is a very terrifying demon ant, which is one of the few threats here, so it is recorded in the manual."

Let's hope Sadonan will be fine.

A wave of worry rose in Natsu's heart.

This concern was not only directed at Sadonan, for in the last two days, she had always felt something bad enveloping the camp, like a hint of cold mixed in the warm sun. It's a little heart-wrenching.

"I'm starving, eat, eat!"

Albert had also coveted the pot of soup, but the pot was in Delia's hands, so he had to walk to the fire in the distance, hoping to find something delicious.

"The arrangement you just made in the meeting was reasonable."

Luo Ye didn't leave immediately, and looked at the people who were far away and said to Xia:

"But there is one more thing to note, the pipeline cannot transport so many people at once, and I don't feel very safe on the mountain below, so it's better to leave the weaker team members behind. Let the strong team go down first. ”

"That's a great thing to say."

Mother Alyssa did not go either, and after hearing Roye's words, she interjected:

"Your Highness, please let me act with you tomorrow, and we will take care of those students who are not strong in combat in the rear, so that nothing goes wrong."

Xia looked at her with some surprise, but she didn't expect this once annoying nun to become so understanding now, and couldn't help but glance at her.

"So be it."

She said to Luo Ye:

"I'll leave some of the details to you, and we'll recharge our batteries tonight. Depart early tomorrow morning! ”

……

"Deria, what's wrong with you?"

The next day. Natsu watched the vanguard leave at the entrance to the mage's residence, and noticed that Deria's expression was a little unusual.

"It's nothing, I seem to have eaten something strange yesterday, and I felt a little nauseous in the middle of the night, but I didn't really eat a bad stomach."

Delia said listlessly.

But he quickly picked himself up and stretched out an arm:

"Don't worry. I'll leave that little ghost to me, and I'll kill it!" ”

Xia looked at her smiling eyes and fangs, and was a little moved in his heart, and went over to hug her: "Don't force it, just say it if you have anything." Dealing with ghosts doesn't have to be violent, and I have other options in mind. ”

"Lord Wolf God, come quickly! You're just one of them. ”

By this time, the vanguard had all stood on top of the stone plate, and one of them shouted at this side.

"It's coming, it's coming."

Di Liya rubbed Xia's face, jumped onto the stone plate with an arrow step, and waved her hand to this side:

"I'll see you later, silver-haired, I'll be waiting for you below."

Xia couldn't help but be a little embarrassed: the speed of the pipeline was very fast, and it took less than half an hour to go back and forth, and she actually waved goodbye.

"Prepare for the magic mech! A few of you go down in the second batch. ”

Luo Yehe stood together and shouted to a student piloting a mecha.

Because the mecha is too heavy and very large, a special train was reserved for it.

When the stone pan returned again, the rest of the team also arrived at the entrance.

"Rose, Al, Evelyn...... You go up first, and Agnes and I stay last. ”

Xia said to Luo Ye and the others.

"Aganes-sama, you're there too?"

Mother Alyssa looked at Agnes in surprise.

"What, do you have an opinion?"

Agnes' face sank.

"Don't dare."

Mother Alyssa bowed her head.

"Hehe, of course I'm going to go with Sister Xia."

Agnes flew into Natsu's arms and whispered in her ear.

Xia patted her head and walked to the stone plate, and the student in charge of the operation behind closed the pipe.

Then the stone disk began to spin and descend, and a thick layer of rock and soil appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

"Isn't it slowing down?"

Natsu said with a frown as he looked at the moving rocks and green vegetation in front of him.

"It's about seven-tenths slower than it used to be...... Wait, why did the stone pan stop? ”

Luo Ye walked to the edge of the stone plate and looked out.

I saw a wide flat ground appear below, and some black fungi grew behind the flat ground, densely covering the corners, like a bunch of umbrellas appeared on the ground.

"It's raining?"

Al's body shuddered and looked up strangely.

A few black droplets of water fell down from the top of the pipe, and she opened the scope to find that there was something like a sprinkler at the top of the tunnel, spraying a pitch-black liquid downward.

"Whew-"

A large drop of black liquid landed on the white water stain on the ground, sending out a puff of smoke and a pungent smell in the air.

"There's someone down there!"

Dora pointed her sniper rifle outside and said in a deep voice.

Natsu covered her nose and came to the pipe, looking down.

I saw a man in a black magic robe appear in the clearing at some point, and slowly raised his head to this side.

"Long time no see...... My princess. ”

The black-robed man stretched out his hands and lifted the hood covering his head, revealing a face covered with gray scars and a hoarse voice to her. (To be continued......) R527