Chapter 134: Emergency; The Guild Head? He should be wasted and lying somewhere~
After all… that man was no good person, and he had deep ties with those in the Orario's darker side.
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Over here From was absentmindedly thinking all sorts of messy thoughts, while on Loki's side she had already begun explaining information about the [Soma Familia] to Eina.
"Goddess Loki, what you mean is… in the eyes of the members of the [Soma Familia], their main god Soma doesn't exist for them, what they long for is only the divine wine?"
Loki narrowed her divine eyes, lips curling into a teasing smile.
"That's right, that divine wine is incredible… as soon as you take a sip, you immediately become its prisoner, do you know what that means?"
At this moment, Riveria interjected:
"I've heard that recently in the dungeon's 'upper floors' there have been frequent incidents of adventurers preying on one another, even using deliberate 'monster offerings,' moving goods… could it be… "
"Ah, high chance it's infighting within the [Soma Familia]."
"This… " Eina was dumbfounded.
She had worked in the Guild for several years, seen all kinds of familias, but to be this black-hearted, this was the first time she had ever heard of it.
"Alright then, this matter. Our Guild will definitely investigate it carefully, with utmost sincerity."
"Hehe, as long as it helps you, little Eina-chan."
"Well then, I'll take my leave."
"Remember to bring my regards to your mother when you go back."
"Understood, Lady Riveria."
After Eina left, a pair of eyes fell onto the figure before them.
"Ais-tan, here to update your status?"
Ais silently nodded, which counted as an answer to Loki.
"Alrighty, I thought you'd be rushing to me either last night or early this morning, but didn't expect you to drag it out until now… "
As she spoke, Loki glared viciously at Fron, a subtle gut feeling gnawing at her that this brat had put a green hat on her (so she thought).
[T/N: put a green hat on her -> stolen Ais from her.]
"Ahem, I was only accompanying her here… "
"You still dare to say that!!"
Loki suddenly shrieked, almost scaring Fron to death, but luckily Ais stepped in front of him with her expressionless face.
After the two entered the lounge next door,
Riveria looked toward Fron.
"About the [Soma Familia], you should already know, right."
"?"
Fron's expression froze for a moment, opening his mouth as if to say something, but was interrupted.
"I saw it from your expression just now. In any case, this matter has nothing to do with us, understand?"
Relationships between familias are complicated; once you get entangled in such trouble, it's easy to sink into the mire. It could even damage the reputation of the Loki Familia.
Whether it was for their companions, the Three Leaders, or Loki herself, they had to stay clear.
Fron naturally understood this reasoning, and nodded.
"Before, I did have some dealings with that familia's adventurers, but only transactions, nothing more."
"Ais-tan is Lv.6 now!!!" Loki's exclamation instantly echoed throughout the mansion.
Whether it was Finn who had just been about to drift into sleep, or Gareth maintaining his weapon, or even Riveria in front of her, none of them could help but reveal a smile.
As for the fellow younger members, they were deeply stimulated.
"Ais, really reached Lv.6!"
"Damn it, she pulled ahead of us."
"So strong, as expected of Miss Ais!"
Tione, Tiona, and Lefiya each reacted differently.
Meanwhile, Bete, who was brooding in the courtyard tree branches under the rain, just curled his lip.
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While the Loki Familia was celebrating the birth of a new Lv.6 and exclaiming in awe, another place was just as noisy, the headquarters of the Adventurers' Guild.
With a clamor, a large group of adventurers, faces haggard, equipment battered, many even wounded, all rushed out of the rain into the relatively cool and quiet hall.
"Hey! What the hell is with your Guild's intel! I didn't hear anything on the bulletin board about a monster riot on the 24th floor! Damn it, hurry up and think of something, my partner's still trapped in there!"
The furious adventurers stormed up to the reception counter, slamming their fists down with a "bang," shouting angrily and anxiously at the receptionist ladies.
Faced with the terrifying mob of adventurers, Eina and Misha's faces went pale, their minds briefly going blank.
"Um, please don't panic. First explain clearly what happened on the 24th floor, then I can report it to the higher-ups. Shouting at us like this won't solve anything, right?"
To be selected to work at the Guild front desk and qualify as receptionists, these young ladies all had solid backgrounds and skills.
Even in such an urgent situation, they still communicated with the adventurers calmly and clearly.
"So it's like that, a large monster accumulation from unknown causes, turning into a disaster. Please wait a moment, we will handle this case as quickly as possible!"
"Don't feed us lip service! I'm telling you… this isn't something ordinary high-level adventurers can handle, don't just randomly hand out a personal commission and send people to their deaths! Just on my way escaping, I already saw several adventurers killed by monsters, including my own companions."
"You'd better not give us some kind of [Adventurer Request], that'd be way too slow, it's useless, we need the Guild to immediately issue a compulsory mission to a powerful familia and send out a suppression team!!"
"Thank you for the reminder."
The aggressive attitudes of the adventurers made even the normally composed receptionists feel pressured.
After the leader adventurer wrote the information on parchment and handed it over to a Guild employee, they stormed out again, presumably to try rescuing their comrades.
"Phew, to get such a scare first thing in the morning, this job is really unbearable."
"Tsk tsk, how pitiful, Misha. "
The speaker was a young male canine-person wearing rimmed glasses, also dressed in the Guild's uniform, a superior to them.
"Leader?"
"I already know the situation, now quickly give me the intel, I'll report it to the higher-ups. If we're to issue a compulsory mission, only the Guildmaster can decide that."
"But, but I heard the Guildmaster went last night again to the South District's bustling casino [Golden Continent], at this hour he's probably just fallen asleep. "
" … " The leader's face instantly darkened.
The Guild's President, nicknamed [The Guild's Pig], Royman Mardeel, though greedy, living a life of extravagance, squandering wealth, drinking and eating excessively until he was bloated and fat, when it came to work ability, there was nothing to criticize.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have sat upon the highest seat of authority in the Guild for so many years.
As a long-lived elf, Royman had already served the Guild for decades.
In terms of seniority, even the city's two strongest familias, [Freya Familia] and [Loki Familia], could not compare...