——— "Monster Sacrifice".

This is a large-scale annual celebration in Ulari, a mega-event hosted by the Ganesa family.

On the day of the celebration, the Ganesa clan will cooperate with the guild to charter the large arena located in the east of the city for a whole day, open it to the public, and sell tickets for the citizens of Orali to visit.

And the content of the observation is the taming of monsters.

There is a profession called Animal Tamer.

Beast trainers are usually high-level adventurers who have received favors, and have mastered the art of training monsters, and can tame violent dungeon monsters and make them obedient pets.

The main part of the festival is that the host of the festival, the Ganesha, sends a powerful beast tamer to deal with the ferocious monsters brought from the dungeon in front of the general public, and domesticate them one by one.

To put it simply, it is a combination of bullfighting and circus.

This is a festival that is held every year in Olari.

For this festival, the Ganesian clan will send people into the dungeon in advance, capture monsters from the dungeon, and transport them to the ground for taming performances during the festival.

This is also a festival that has caused countless people to controversy.

Because, bringing dangerous monsters to the ground is not something to advocate in itself.

Therefore, at this time of year, many people are inexplicably worried, worried that the guild and the Ganesha clan that maintain peace in the city will put the cart before the horse, and put the danger factor (monster) on the ground for the sake of the celebration, causing accidents, and many people contemptuously say that this is just a superficial policy made to please the citizens.

However, despite many doubts and criticisms, the monster festival was held again and again.

The reason is simple.

The purpose of the event itself is indeed to cushion conflicts between citizens and adventurers.

The so-called adventurers, to put it bluntly, are a group of armed groups that fight and kill all day long.

Due to the blessing of the gods and the relationship of inhuman strength, many adventurers have a tendency to inflate their mentality, believing that they are superior to others, and also have the habit of using force to solve problems once they occur, so that they often have friction with the ordinary citizens of Olaria, causing the citizens to be dissatisfied with the law and order.

The purpose of the Monster Festival is to eliminate the senses of urban residents towards adventurers through this grand festival and to eliminate the senses of urban residents towards adventurers with a clean and tame that does not see blood, so that they can realize that adventurers are not problem characters or violent elements, but heroes who can protect the city and the world and can deal with monsters.

In order to efficiently recover magic stones from dungeons, and to maintain the position of crusading monsters and protecting the adventurers on the ground, the guild had to do this to protect the adventurers.

Due to their close relationship with the Guild, the Ganesian clan has always been the organizer of the festival and cooperated with the guild to hold this festival.

Today, this event, which was held purely for the pleasure of the masses, has become one of the most famous big days in Olaria, and some people even travel thousands of miles from outside the city to watch the show.

Rig realized that today might be the day of the Monster Festival.

The two flags hanging on the top of the main street, one is the flag of the Ganesha clan, and the other is the propaganda symbol of the monster festival.

Coupled with this lively scene, Rieger believes that his return coincides with this day.

It's just that he doesn't feel happy.

“…… You don't have to get busy as soon as you come back, do you? ”

Rig couldn't help but grunt.

No way.

If he remembered correctly, there would be a lot of chaos on the day of the monster festival.

Someone (god) will unleash monsters for their own desires.

Some people (gods) will create chaos for their own evil thoughts.

Moreover, the Loki clan will be drawn into it, and it will be a difficult and bloody confrontation with this existence that is simmering in the dark.

However, this is still unavoidable.

Because, the other party's purpose is the entire Olalie, and the Loki family, as one of the strongest factions in Olalie, can't sit idly by at all.

Many of the Loki clan are also entangled with these beings who are roaming in the dark, especially Ace, who will inevitably be targeted by certain beings (monsters).

"It seems that I can't go back to the family base camp first."

Rig uses magic to release a virtual magic eye that sends it flying into the sky.

"Anyway, let's find Ace first."

…………

At the same time, the blonde, golden-eyed female swordswoman that Rieg was looking for also appeared on the streets of Oralie, and did not stay in the base camp of the Loki family.

This is East Street, as the name suggests, it is a large street located in the eastern part of the city.

Unlike Northwest Street, which is known as Adventurer's Street, and Northeast Street, which exists as an industrial area, East Street is mainly home to facilities managed by guilds that are city administrators, including the amphitheater where monster festivals are held, and all the festivals hosted by the city are basically held in this area, resulting in many hotels, vendors, and shops opening here, which is a bit of a key area for the development of tourism.

Thanks to this, in the day of the monster festival, East Street can be said to be the most lively place, it is not an exaggeration to call this place a sea of people, placed on both sides of the road and in the center of the roadside stalls at any time exuding a fragrant smell, retaining the stomach of pedestrians on the road, so that their attention is focused on the meat grilled by the fire, listening to the sound of overheating the grease, and involuntarily moving towards those vendors.

"Come on, come on, try this, Ess Meimei!"

Loki, the main god of the Loki clan, ———, also appeared on this east street, holding a large skewer of barbecue meat that he had just bought from the stall, and was smiling and feeding it to the female swordsman beside him.

If you look closely, there is a small gap in the skewer.

There is no doubt that it was the part that was secretly bitten off by some main god.

Loki, the evil god of Norse mythology, a female gender and a lover woman, is preparing to deceive the natural female swordsman into playing a sweet and greasy indirect kissing game with herself because of some evil thoughts that are not enough for outsiders.

It's a pity that the evil thoughts of the Lord God have not been able to bring any effective results today.

“…………”

The blonde and golden-eyed female swordsman walked beside the main god of Jiao'er Langdang, and was fed meat by the other party with a smile on his face, but he didn't even pay attention to her, and was silent by herself.

She walked slowly on the street, and was looked at by the people around her with amazement, fear, curiosity, envy and even jealousy, obviously without any expression on her face, but she still became the most beautiful scenery on this East Street, and was watched by people of many races.

She ignored the main god around her, and also ignored the people around her, and walked straight forward, her transparent golden eyes were some unfocused for some reason.

Obviously, the girl was in a daze, or rather wandering, and did not hear the words of the main god at all.

"Roar! Ace Crush! Don't ignore us! ”

Loki was dissatisfied and protested on the spot.

"It's hard to date us at the festival, isn't it time to have fun playing outdated couple games with us? Ess Meimei will deduct points for this! Deduct points! ”

The unreasonable troubles of the main god made the girl return to some gods somewhat.

“…… No. ”

The girl spoke.

"What?"

Loki leaned in.

"It's not a date." Ace pushed Loki's face away and said expressionlessly, "It was Loki who forcibly pulled me out." ”

"I can't help it! Who made Ace cuties have been in no energy lately! Don't even go to your favorite dungeon? It's an unprecedented first time! Loki not only did not regret it, but took it for granted, and said: "Although we and Riveria feel a lot more relieved that you stay in a place we can see like this, but you are bored at home every day like this, and you don't think about tea and dinner, which makes people feel uneasy in another aspect!" ”

With that, Loki said so.

"I finally got to Lv.6 and became the first person in the clan to catch up with the leader camp, so people don't know how to say you're good."

"Bert, Diona, and Tiogne are stimulated by you, and they have been shouting "It's been exceeded!" "In this way, I have always felt very unwilling, even Refia has been stimulated, and recently she has often run to Riveria's side, it is said that she is learning to sing in parallel, and everyone in the family has become diligent, and everyone has become super positive."

"As a result, you yourself are uncharacteristically bored at home every day, not going anywhere, and you look depressed, everyone is worried about you now?"

Loki, who was talking like this, stopped talking for a moment.

"You're so worried about that kid Rigg? Eschar! ”

The Lord God's pair of squinting eyes opened slightly, as if he had seen through Ace's heart, and cast a meaningful gaze that was not there before.

Suddenly, Ace fell silent again.

"Oh, don't worry about him." Loki patted Ace on the shoulder and said with a big grin: "That kid is already Lv.5, and you are no longer his opponent even before the upgrade, so why should you worry about him?" ”

"Moreover, he just went to run errands, and it is not that he will not come back."

"People have already said that he will come back in a few days or a month at most."

"So, stop thinking about that guy who has no conscience, since it's rare to stay at home and not go to the dungeon, then let's go shopping, go on a date, and relax, okay?"

Hearing this, Ace was silent for a while before looking at Loki.

“…… Will it really be back soon? ”

The girl made a confirmation that I don't know how many times.

"Really!" Loki was jealous and said very dissatisfied: "You know, Esme, the children of the nether world can't lie in front of us (gods), since that kid said that he would come back in a few days and a month, then it must be the case." ”

"This is the truth, not a lie."

"How? Relieved, right? ”

Hearing this, although it was only a little, the girl's expression did relax and was no longer so tense.

"That's right." Loki smiled and said, "Let's go for a walk." ”

Ace didn't object, and obediently followed Loki and walked through the crowd.

They don't know that in the underground of the city, the stupid darkness has finally shown its fangs.

"Tick ......"

In the slight sound of water, some kind of behemoth was dragging its long body, slowly moving towards the ground that exuded life.

There, without a doubt, is their destination.

"Boom ......"

The ground shook imperceptibly.

A catastrophe is coming.