Volume 2: God's Blessing to This Beautiful World Chapter 024 Undercover?
This is not bragging, it is the truth.
Emiya saw it with his own eyes.
After accepting the mission, the three of them rushed all the way to the griffin's lair.
Everyone is familiar with griffins. They are one of the monsters that often appear in fantasy worlds. Although they are not as famous as goblins, they are not rare either.
This thing has the body and claws of a lion, the head and wings of an eagle, and is a very famous fantasy creature.
The griffin that Emiya found looked very beautiful, with feathers and fur that looked like sunshine. Its lion-like back half was covered with yellow-brown fur, and its eagle-like head and forelimbs were all covered with golden eagle feathers.
However, the feathers on its chest are scarlet, and its beak and feet are golden like an eagle, but its claws are black.
The griffin's eyes are like living flames, giving people a huge deterrent effect.
When this griffin stands on all fours, excluding the length of its tail, its body length is about two to three meters, which is the length of an adult griffin. Its pair of wings can be as long as seven or eight meters when spread out.
There is no doubt that this is absolutely a behemoth.
Shirou couldn't help but be amazed when he saw it.
But Livilia and Ais's expressions did not change much, because they had seen too many monsters in the dungeon, including griffins.
Although the griffin they saw was not quite the same as the one before them, the difference was actually not that big.
The two men knew this guy's habits very well.
Ais rushed forward without hesitation. Instead of trying to stop her, Livilia just watched the show.
Because the griffin was heavy, it couldn't turn and circle as nimbly as a bird, so it was played around by Ai Si. Soon Ai Si seized the opportunity and cut off one of its wings.
The griffin, which had lost its wings, let out a wail, fell heavily from the sky, and landed on the ground with a thud.
Then, Ais, who fell from a high altitude, pierced the griffin's head with the sword in her hand.
The griffin's wailing suddenly stopped.
Emiya checked the time. The fight lasted no more than five minutes from the start to the end. A griffin that was powerful enough to wipe out a group of novice adventurers died at the hands of Ais.
As a result, Aisi leveled up two levels and gained more skill points.
After defeating the griffin, Emiya carried the griffin's corpse all the way to the mantis lion's lair.
The manticore is similar to the griffin. If the griffin is a combination of a lion and an eagle, then the manticore is a monster that combines the characteristics of a bat, a lion, and a scorpion.
It is able to compete with the griffin for territory and is not inferior to the griffin in terms of strength.
But this time it was not Ais who took action, but Livilia who did.
After locking onto the manticore, Livilia began to chant a spell.
"O sign of the end, white snow. At the hour of dusk, blow up the wind, shut out the light , freeze the earth, blow the snow, three winters - my name is Alf!"
This is her attack magic, the Extreme Cold Fimbulwinter!
Three streams of blowing snow fell from the sky. Under Livilia's control, the temperature in the atmosphere dropped rapidly, and the air exhaled by Emiya turned into white mist.
The blasting snow that could freeze hearts directly froze the scorpion lion and the surrounding area. The scorpion lion, sensing the danger, didn't even have time to dodge before being hit by the blasting snow, turning into a giant ice sculpture and losing its life.
After killing the manticore, Livilia also gained a lot of experience points, leveled up several times, and gained some skill points. However, she did not use these skill points, but saved them and planned to learn more powerful magic.
For example, explosion magic, or high-speed chanting.
No matter which skill it is, it is a very powerful enhancement for her.
"Your magic is amazing."
Emiya couldn't help but give a thumbs up. He was still some distance away from the magic, but the cold air had already hit him, making Emiya shiver.
So he quickly used his mental power to expel the cold air.
After killing the Griffin and the Manticore, Emiya returned to the Adventurer's Guild with the two women, turned in the mission, and received revenge worth 500,000 Eris.
Emiya did not take a penny of the 500,000 Eris, and gave it all to Livilia and Ais.
Two hundred and fifty thousand per person.
Afterwards, Emiya sold the corpses of the griffin and the manticore to the Adventurer's Guild and received a reward of hundreds of thousands of Eris. Emiya took 50,000 of the rewards as transportation fees.
Neither woman had any objection to this.
In the afternoon, the three of them returned to the villa. As soon as they entered the door, they saw Aqua, Darkness, and Sato Kazuma lying on the sofa, looking exhausted.
It seemed that the three of them had not yet recovered from the effects of their hangover.
This surprised Emiya a little. Darkness and Sato Kazuma were fine, as they were just humans after all, but Aqua was a goddess.
Although she is a little mentally retarded, she is indeed a real goddess.
"Aqua, are you not okay yet?" Emiya asked curiously.
Aqua said, "Of course I'm fine. You think I'm a god, but I'm the goddess of water."
"Then why do you look so weak?"
“I’m just hungry. Why didn’t you prepare breakfast for me when you left this morning?” Aqua was very dissatisfied and her stomach growled as she spoke.
Emiya: ...
He left too early this morning and indeed forgot to prepare breakfast for Aqua and the others.
So Emiya quickly created some lunch and afternoon tea, and Aqua immediately devoured them.
"You two should eat something too." Emiya stuffed two hamburger patties into the hands of Sato Kazuma and Darkness respectively.
Sato Kazuma put down the hamburger, rubbed his temple and said, "No, my head is dizzy and I can't eat anything. It's so disgusting. Next time I won't drink so much."
Darkness nodded.
Although her defense is terrifying, no matter how strong her defense is, she will still have a hangover.
“What did you do today? Why did you three disappear when we woke up?” Aqua asked while eating delicious egg rice.
Emiya told them about the three of them going to conquer the griffin and the manticore.
"Griffin? Hey, hey, hey, isn't that a highly dangerous monster?" Sato Kazuma was shocked. "You actually went to defeat such a powerful monster? You didn't get hurt, did you?"
For novice adventurers like them, this kind of monster is simply invincible.
Emiya said calmly, "Don't worry, the mission went smoothly. Livilia and Aisi have defeated the griffin and the manticore and successfully completed the mission."
"Finished...done?" Sato Kazuma was shocked and his face was full of disbelief.
"I've said before, although Livilia and Ais are novice adventurers, they were already very powerful before becoming adventurers. Defeating a few monsters is nothing to them."
Ais nodded, confirming what Emiya said.
Aqua pulled Emiya aside and asked quietly, "Those two guys are so powerful, why do they want to team up with us?"
It was hard for Emiya to explain, so he just said vaguely: "Maybe we just get along?"
“How is that possible?” Aqua didn’t accept this explanation at all. At this moment, an idea suddenly occurred to her mind and she blurted out, “I understand.”
Emiya was confused, "What do you understand?"
Aqua whispered, “I think they are most likely sent by the Demon King as undercover agents. They want to find out my identity and then kill me. That way, no one can defeat him.”
Emiya: ...
What on earth are you thinking? Your train of thought is so strange.
An undercover agent sent by the Demon King? How is that possible?
"I think you're overthinking it." Emiya said, "No matter how you look at it, Livilia and Ais can't be undercover agents of the Demon King's army. Do you think they look like people who have defected to the Demon King?"
“That’s hard to say.” Aqua was confident in her own judgment.
Emiya shook his head vigorously, "No, no, no, think about it, you have called yourself a goddess several times in front of them. If the two of them were really members of the Demon King's Army, they would have attacked you a long time ago."
“Huh?!!!” Aqua was immediately frightened and quickly hid beside Emiya. “I will be killed. I will definitely be killed by these two guys.”
"Calm down, Aqua!" Emiya hit Aqua on the head with a knife to calm the mentally retarded goddess down.
“It hurts.” Aqua was in so much pain that tears were about to burst out. “What are you doing? Hitting a goddess will bring punishment from God.”
"I'm just asking you to calm down. You're thinking too much. I can assure you that Livilia and Ais are definitely not undercover agents of the Demon King's army. Don't worry."
"real?"
"It's absolutely true." Emiya said firmly.
“I see. Looks like I misunderstood.” Aqua finally felt relieved and resumed her goddess demeanor, proudly puffing out her chest.
"You two actually managed to defeat the griffin and the manticore. Well done."
Livilia didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She had read the plot and knew Aqua's identity. Although she was mentally retarded, she couldn't offend her, so she said thank you.
When Ais saw Livilia say thank you, she also said thank you, and then went to ask Darkness how to add points to the Crusader.
Darkness was not stingy and did her best to guide Ais.
This little episode just passed like that.
But what Shirou didn't expect was that even bigger differences were yet to come.