DanMachi: Heroic Epic of Emiya the Great Hero

It is worth noting that she always walks barefoot, even in the dungeon.

"We were bringing newcomers around these floors, heard the dragon's roar and came to check it out, thinking we might get lucky, but since you got here first, there's nothing we can do...",Aisha said nonchalantly,"Just came to say hello, why are you looking at me so seriously, do you have a handsome boy in your team?"

"Wow, there really is one.",Aisha noticed Emiya behind Alicia, and habitually winked at him.

"Leave here, Amazon, or I won't be polite.",Alicia said coldly, at the same time, Ryuu had already covered Emiya's eyes, preventing him from looking at the scantily clad Aisha.

"Alright, alright, I'm leaving, I'll leave right away, please don't cast any magic.",Feeling the temperature around her starting to drop, Aisha quickly raised her hands in surrender and left reluctantly.

"Emiya, you must stay away from Amazons in the future, especially those from the Ishtar Familia, understand?",Alicia said seriously.

"Yes, understood.",Emiya tried to keep a straight face under the gaze of the three female elves beside him and answered earnestly.

The Ishtar Familia mainly operates the pleasure district, which can be considered a perfect match with the naturally open Amazon tribe, and this is exactly what the noble elf tribe despises the most.

After driving away Aisha, Alicia used ice magic to seal the mouth of the young dragon to prevent it from making noise.

"There shouldn't be any adventurers coming closer.",Alicia said, then regretfully added,"It's a pity, if it wasn't me who took action, but you who fought it alone, Emiya, you could definitely have gained enough [Great Feat] to level up."

Emiya shook his head,"Alicia, the Young Dragon is not that easy to deal with, and it ran away as soon as it appeared, not giving me a chance to try."

There is also a difference between Lv.2, the young dragon is not a mass-produced monster like the Minotaur, it is a genuine Boss-level existence.

To deal with the young dragon, Emiya's attack power is sufficient, but the strength for a frontal confrontation, the agility to dodge, and the endurance for a prolonged battle are still not enough, it's not that there's no chance in a one-on-one fight, but the risk is also significant.

Especially since he has already consumed a lot of physical strength and magic power, the high-grade elixir he just drank hasn't fully taken effect yet.

It can only be said to be a pity, if he had encountered the young dragon after training his Lv.1 abilities to their full potential, he could have really tried a one-on-one fight, and the great feat for leveling up would definitely have been achieved.

"Our luck is really good, just happened to encounter the young dragon, it feels like it was coming straight for us.",Alicia sighed.

Emiya nodded, he also had this feeling, the young dragon seemed to be heading straight for him, and the [Fake · Hrunting] in his hand also seemed to be guiding the direction of the young dragon.

Could it be that dragon slayers and dragons are attracted to each other?

However, the boy holding the "Dragon Slaying Sword" did not take action himself, but instead, the elf magician beside him trapped the dragon-shaped monster.

Mainly because the young dragon flew over aggressively, then turned and fled without any backbone as soon as Alicia started chanting, otherwise Emiya would have definitely gone up to spar with it.

If it was determined to escape, then Alicia had no choice but to freeze it.

"Emiya, I only froze the young dragon, it's not dead yet, you should kill it.",Alicia said,"Although the effect is not as good as a one-on-one fight, you can still gain some experience points."

Just like in a game, where a high-level teammate weakens the Boss and then a newcomer takes over, this kind of operation can also be performed in the dungeon.

Large familias can use this method to help newcomers grow, the downside is that if you don't really fight with all your might, the experience and great feats gained are quite limited.

Moreover, the experience gained from a last hit is very mediocre, it cannot break through the bottleneck of ability values, and it is not helpful for obtaining magic, skills, or development abilities.

The acquisition of skills and development abilities is closely related to the experience of adventure battles, adventurers who kill more monsters are more likely to obtain [Hunter], craftsmen who forge more may obtain [Smithing], people who are poisoned more often are more likely to obtain [Abnormal Resistance], and so on.

If you rely too much on high-level adventurers to feed you experience and great feats, it will be difficult to obtain skills.

Emiya has experienced enough high-quality battles, so he doesn't have to worry about this problem, for him, having great feats is better than not having them.

"By the way, you can try to kill the Young Dragon with your strongest attack, if you can deplete the [Young Dragon]'s durability in one go, you can also gain a considerable amount of great feats.",Alicia suggested,"This is a leveling method that only magicians with high firepower can use."

Although it's not a one-on-one fight, being able to deal a huge amount of damage in one hit can also be considered an achievement.

No wonder the elf magicians of the Loki Familia can level up so quickly.

"I see, I understand.",Emiya thought about it, to cause as much damage as possible in one hit, the most suitable move is that one...

The move that uses the [Noble Phantasm] as an arrow, unleashing all its power in one go, [Broken Phantasm][1].

The [Fake·Hrunting] in his hand is the most suitable "arrow", he still needs a bow, but an ordinary bow may not have enough power.

Emiya chanted the incantation again.

[Trace on

Determine the basic structure

Replicate the composition material

Imitate the manufacturing technique

Sympathize with the experience of growth

Reproduce the accumulated years

Surpass, complete many processes───

At this moment, complete the sword that gathers fantasy────]

That is the bow held by the heroic spirit standing at the top of many heroic spirits, symbolizing the STRONGEST heroic spirit.

Belonging to the son of the gods in Greek mythology, Heracles, this is the most trusted Noble Phantasm of this great hero, its name is [Nine Lives][2].

Rather than a weapon, it is more like a school. The Noble Phantasm of the hero Heracles,"Nine Lives", is a versatile Noble Phantasm that can change its shape according to the target.

And its original form is the bow and arrow used by Heracles to destroy the immortal nine-headed serpent Hydra.

Heracles, who excels in heart, skill, and body, and can skillfully use all weapons, has the strongest class as Archer.

And that hero, who in mythology overcame many dangers and trials with wisdom and strength, is in a sense the ideal of Shirou Emiya.

The heroic spirit Emiya (Archer) has powerful and abundant means, but his slightly weak ability values have become his biggest shackles.

The abilities of Heracles (Archer), combined with the means of Emiya (Archer), are the ultimate goal set by Emiya, who has received the "Grace of the Gods".

Therefore, he subconsciously chose this weapon for projection — [Fake·Nine Lives II].

A huge heavy longbow fell into Emiya's hands.

Taking a deep breath, Emiya lifted the longbow, because the length of the heavy bow almost exceeded his height, so he could only hold it horizontally.

The magic power restored by the high-grade elixir was squandered again, but his thoughts were exceptionally clear.

'Just need to shoot one arrow with all my strength.'

Holding the hilt of the sword, the form of [Fake·Hrunting] began to change, from the original "sword", transforming into an "arrow".

This is the [Hrunting] that appears more often in Emiya's hands, compared to the original long sword, [Hrunting] with the characteristic of tracking is in a sense more suitable for this form.

The arrow was placed on the longbow, the bowstring was drawn full like a crescent moon.

"Go!",Emiya whispered.

There was no wind howl or sonic boom that tore through the space, only a flash of blood-red light, the arrow silently bit into the body of the young dragon like a fierce dog quietly tracking its prey on the wasteland.

Then, a violent explosion tore the body of the dragon-shaped monster into pieces.

「Skill [??????（Roadless Valhalla）] effect activated.」

「Temporarily obtained skill [Mind's Eye]」

「Temporarily obtained development ability [Hunter] I」

「Temporarily obtained development ability [Archer] G」

「Temporarily obtained development ability [Swordsman] G」

「Temporarily obtained development ability [Boxer] I」

「Temporarily obtained development ability [Lancer] I」

「Temporarily obtained development ability [Knight] I」

「Development abilities [Archer], [Swordsman], [Boxer], [Lancer], [Knight] merged into [Martial Arts]」

「Temporarily obtained development ability [Divinity] H」

「Due to abnormal environmental influence, lost development ability [Divinity] H」

Emiya, who shot this arrow, almost fainted due to the exhaustion of his mental power, at the same time, he seemed to feel the ground under his feet trembling slightly.

A sudden sense of crisis surged in his heart, a cold chill spread from the soles of his feet, all the way up the spine to the top of his head, as if locked by tens of thousands of sharp arrows, Emiya shivered, he felt as if a venomous snake was wrapped around his ankle, as if he could feel the cold and slippery touch.

Before his eyes, a picture of everyone falling from a height flashed.

"Ryuu, Lefiya, Alicia, be careful of the ground!",Emiya immediately shouted, warning Ryuu and Alicia.

As soon as the words fell, the dungeon shook violently, cracks appeared under Lefiya's feet, then quickly spread.

Without giving everyone time to react, the floor under their feet completely collapsed.

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[40th Floor The Malice of the Dungeon (Combined)]

As far as the eye could see, everything was covered in rock, whether it was the walls surrounding them, the ground, or the ceiling, all formed by rock plates, the air floating around was somewhat humid.

The light was much dimmer than the previous maze, the height and area of the room far exceeded before, the air was filled with a oppressive atmosphere completely different from the upper floors.

Emiya was here for the first time, while Ryuu and Alicia were quite familiar with this place, Lefiya had also been here before.

This is the first dead line of the dungeon— the middle floors.

"What happened?",The first to shout was Lefiya, she was held in Alicia's arms in a horizontal position.

At the moment of the earthquake and the floor collapse, Alicia's first thought was Lefiya, and because she immediately went to protect Lefiya, she couldn't avoid the collapse and fell into the suddenly formed vertical hole.

Ryuu, relying on her extremely outstanding agility and reaction ability, grabbed the edge of the broken ground at the moment before the collapse, but seeing Emiya and Alicia fall into the vertical hole, Ryuu also jumped down without hesitation.

Vertical hole— a trap connecting to deeper layers, this should have been a special terrain that only appears after the middle floors of the dungeon, something that would never appear in the maze of the upper floors, but it just appeared under everyone's feet so openly.

"We fell into a 'vertical hole'.",Alicia explained to Lefiya in as calm a voice as possible,"This is a rare 'abnormal situation', no doubt, we have suffered the malice of the dungeon."

The dungeon is not just a purely geographical existence, the gods and adventurers of Orario generally have a recognition— the dungeon is alive.

The dungeon is a living existence with consciousness, it harbors a strong hatred towards the gods.

Once a god releases divine power in the maze, it will provoke a fierce resistance from the dungeon, causing serious abnormal situations, such incidents have happened in the past.

Therefore, the guild strictly prohibits gods from entering the dungeon, violators will be severely punished.

And besides gods, the dungeon also hates adventurers who invade its territory, so abnormal situations that seem to deliberately target adventurers and want to put them to death often occur.

Adventurers call this situation "the malice of the dungeon".

In the eyes of Alicia and others, they have now encountered the malice of the dungeon.

And it is the most serious level among them, the degree of malice far exceeds the Monster Party that produces a large number of monsters at an unreasonable speed in a short time and the Enhanced Species monsters with special abilities.

"Ryuu, Emiya, how are you, are you injured?",Alicia put Lefiya down and then called out.

"No.",Emiya said.

"I'm fine.",Ryuu also responded.

Ryuu and Emiya, relying on their excellent physical qualities and control ability, maintained their balance and finally landed safely.

"First, we need to determine where this place is.",Seeing that everyone was fine, Alicia first breathed a sigh of relief, then her voice became serious.

"According to the length of the vertical hole, we fell more than two or three floors, this is at least the 15th floor.",Alicia judged.

Lefiya's body trembled, the last time she entered the middle floors, she didn't leave any good memories.

So far, she has only adapted to the monsters of the upper floors with the help of Emiya and her familia companions, but the terrifying monsters of the middle floors still become Lefiya's nightmare.

Especially, that terrifying Labyrinth Monarch, the giant Goliath.

'Please...',Lefiya prayed in her heart,'Please don't let it be the 17th floor.'

"After we fell, the vertical hole started to close, if my perception is correct, before the ground collapsed, there should have been an earthquake in the dungeon."

Alicia took a deep breath,"If I'm not mistaken, the path to the upper floors must have been blocked by falling rocks, or the entire thing has collapsed."

Her judgment has no evidence, it's just based on her understanding of the malice of the dungeon, as a senior adventurer with many years of exploration experience, Alicia is not encountering the malice of the dungeon for the first time.

"I also agree, the dungeon won't leave us such a simple way out.",Ryuu nodded, her fingers lightly resting on the hilt of the tachi[3], at this time, familiar weapons can bring a sense of security to adventurers.

"If this is the 15th floor, compared to returning to the surface, it would be easier to go to the 18th floor Rivira town.",Alicia said,"Wait for rescue from the ground in the safe floor."

The dungeon has floors where monsters do not spawn, these areas are called safe floors, currently known safe floors are the 18th floor, the 28th floor, the 39th floor, and the 50th floor.

Among them, on the nearest 18th floor, adventurers have established the adventurer town "Rivira", this town is quite prosperous as a relay point for expeditions of various familias.

Once the paths between the floors are cut off, it's not a simple matter to reopen them, not only is strength needed, but also patience, and a lot of time.

Ryuu has a very powerful magic, but she has no confidence in using this magic to open up the blocked floor passages.

It's more likely to result in a larger scale collapse.

"Before setting off, I had already entrusted Miss Hill to inform my familia about Lefiya and I coming to the dungeon, just to prevent such unexpected situations, I didn't expect it to really come in handy.",Alicia continued, her voice serious but not nervous.

[[1] Broken Phantasm: It is possible to sacrifice a Noble Phantasm for an attack that is one rank higher, which is called a Broken Phantasm: The Destroyed Illusion. If a Noble Phantasm is packed with Magical Energy, it can be made to explode after striking its target. It is nearly impossible to repair a destroyed Noble Phantasm, and since they are the trump cards of Heroic Spirits, they are unlikely to take such measures. EMIYA is an exception, as he can reproduce as many copies of Noble Phantasms as his Magical Energy will allow due to Tracing, allowing him to also counterbalance the fact that all of his projections are lowered by one rank ~ According TYPE-MOON wiki.]

[[2] Nine Lives: Nine Lives: Shooting the Hundred Heads is the most trusted of all of Heracles's Noble Phantasms, a combat technique devised at the end of a lengthy battle by Heracles.]

[[3]Tachi: A tachi is a type of sabre-like traditionally made Japanese sword worn by the samurai class of feudal Japan]

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