Chapter 023: Calf Asterius

Who would have thought that in a corner of the dungeon that is not known to outsiders, a group of monsters, and a group of humans, are holding a grand banquet.

The stone table is filled with a variety of delicacies.

The dungeon has its own ecology, in addition to the monsters that turn into magic stones after death, there are also a large number of exotic animals and plants, these monsters will feed on them, and adventurers will also collect them as food or materials.

The food in front of you is the product of these gatherings being cooked in a variety of ways, familiar and unfamiliar to Bell.

The taste was surprisingly good.

After taking a bite of what seemed to be something fried in oil with what seemed to be a meat filling sandwiched with some kind of plant, and savoring the fresh food, Bell vaguely summed up what he had just been told to the lizardman "Lead", the one who had just been sent flying.

"Therefore, you are intelligent monsters in the dungeon, and you do not attack people, and you are called 'heretics'...... The guild also knows about you, and the god of Ouranos has opened a convenient door for you to send Benny here so that she can be reunited with you......"

Lizardman Leader nodded and added:

"Yes, of course it's true. In order to keep us from being exposed to the world, your 'guilds' have gone to great lengths to provide us with weapons and food...... Anyway, they've been assisting us since a long time ago.

We are not food for nothing, and we will be commissioned to investigate the events and disasters that occur in the labyrinth, and to suppress them in secret. In the words of the ground, it is, 'equivalent exchange'!

Although it is said to be a guild, there is only one god named Ouranos who really deals with us. The guild staff don't know anything about us. ”

Eulali's god of creation, the first to descend to earth, suppress the dungeons, and bless the great existence of mankind with the gift of God, heard them raise the name of this great god, Lily and they were all stunned.

"So this Roy...... Kindness...... Forehead ......"

"Roy Undsworth," added the boy who was sitting next to him, also eating a different worldly version of the eggplant box.

That's right, he is Roy, who fell directly into the 20th floor of the dungeon after the transfer of the spirit son.

Because the previous plane was full and didn't even use it for two months, he was not in a hurry to go back, and by the way, he absorbed a large amount of magic power in the temple to replenish the Holy Grail, so he did not return to the Fate world, but directly traveled to the next plane-the world of "Ground Error".

The food in front of him was also made from local ingredients, and Roy had cooked them after teaching them.

"I'm just a traveler who strayed into the dungeon, and this is my traveling companion, Asterios."

Yes, the servant he summoned this time was none other than the master of the labyrinth, a natural demonic beast, Maverick · Berserker Asterius.

The summoning of the Heroic Spirit depends on the Holy Relic and the Servant's wishes, which are not something that Roy can control, because the summoning takes place on the way to the transfer of the Spirit Child, and the Holy Relic is the characteristic of the opposite plane.

In the world of "The Love of Books", the holy relic is the "book", or "the lack of books", and this is used as an opportunity to confront the wavelength of the non-existent concept of the Heroic Spirit nursery rhyme, and summon it.

In this world, the labyrinth of the dungeon has become a holy relic, and the servant most closely related to the labyrinth is the calf Minotaur Asterius.

That's right, it's the Minotaur.

In Greek mythology, between Pacific, the wife of Minos, the king of Crete, and the bull gave birth to a monster with the head of a bull.

Annothed that he didn't know what to do with him, Minos eventually ordered the famous craftsman Daedalus to build a "labyrinth from which there is absolutely no escape", also known as Labyrinth.

Asterius, a monster (hero) given the name of Thunderlight, yet almost no one calls him by that name. Spread throughout the world was his nickname, the Minotaur, which represented the meaning of the bull of King Minos.

Eventually, in mythology, Asterius was defeated and killed by the hero Theseus, who had infiltrated the labyrinth.

After death, he became a heroic spirit, and his wish was extremely simple, but it was also very difficult:

I want to be treated like a human, not a monster.

Just because he was born a monster and was imprisoned in a labyrinth, he became "evil" without a choice.

Monsters need to be defeated, evil deeds need to be punished, so he died at the hands of heroes.

Asterius has no resentment, but loneliness and longing.

In the labyrinth, but yearning for the forest; Born as a monster, but longing for humans.

It was the tiny wish of Asterius, and it just so happened to be the wish of the heretics born in the dungeons of this world, with wisdom that would not tolerate monsters or humans.

They also want to go up to the ground and live with humans.

Even if it's an unrealistic luxury.

It was because of this common desire that Asterius answered the call.

In fact, in this god-filled city of Olarie, Roy would not be surprised to summon any servant related to the gods.

The calf Asterius, who responded to the call, did not fall into the city on the earth, but into the dungeon, and next to the heretics.

A big war ensued.

After all, the sudden appearance of humans in front of heretics is very suspicious.

And Asterius from the fate world, is the most beautiful minotaur among the Minotaurs that can be found in all parallel planes, basically removing the two giant horns to make him human, and he was also mistaken for a human by the heretics for a while.

So a big war is inevitable.

Moreover, Roy's consistent proposition is that a fight to show force is conducive to dialogue, and after briefly confirming the strength of friend and foe, he immediately replaced it with a caster nursery rhyme, and used a treasure to trap all heretics with inherent enchantments, and then hid far away, leaving the field to the calf.

Maverick is the group with the highest strength among the fate servants, A++ muscles, A++ durability, A-level monster skills, and can fight against the strength of the player, and his ability as a servant cannot be questioned because of the one-star card face in the game.

In fact, the hand-to-hand combat ability, the calf is really not weaker than Uncle B.

Soon, the heretics who had nowhere to escape in the barrier were knocked to the ground by the calves, and only a few flying heretics were left to be slapped to the ground by the flying dragons.

Then, under Roy's "amiable" and "sincere" persuasion, all the heretics "gladly" accepted the calf as their new companion, and even as a temporary leader, leading the entire heretic community.

At this time, at the banquet, Lizardman Leader was gushing about the big brawl:

"You don't know, how powerful Brother Asterios was that day, we actually have a companion who is not here now, he is a newcomer who has just become a companion recently, I was the strongest here, and in a blink of an eye, I was surpassed, and as a result, that day, we together were not enough for Asterios to fight alone.

And that newcomer is also called Lei Guang (Asterus) [Note], and the same name as Big Brother Asterios, after losing that day, he went to the depths of the dungeon to practice as a martial artist in anger, and now he is not here, hahaha......"

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Note: Asteros of the third season of the "Cow Girl" is the Japanese translation of Asterios, both of which are the original names of Minotaur in Greek mythology, which means thunder, and are just different translations. It is also translated as Asterius in the anime and as Asteros in the novel. In order to distinguish the two characters, Asterius and Asteros are used to distinguish between the FGO calf and the "cow girl". In addition, "Niu Mei" is a stubborn nickname, he is a male Minotaur monster, because he was jokingly called "I feel like Asterus is like a heroine" in the author's postscript, so he is called "Niu Mei", and he is a serious male.