Shirou Emiya doesn't want to work overtime

He could understand why Hephaestus spoke for Shirou Emiya, after all, everyone knew that Shirou Emiya was learning forging skills from Hephaestus.

Many times they thought that Shirou Emiya had joined Hephaestus's family.

But the result was that Hephaestus personally taught Shirou Emiya the forging skills, and Shirou Emiya did not join the Hephaestus family.

It was precisely because of this that the gods gave up persuading Shirou Emiya to join their family.

Even Hephaestus, who personally came out and became Shirou Emiya's teacher, was rejected by Shirou Emiya, so other gods thought they had even less chance.

But Hermes, he had nothing to do with Shirou Emiya.

"I am neutral, I am just stating a fact--"

Hermes seemed to see the anger in Apollo's eyes and explained aloud.

"I found the boy again after that day, and his answer was completely different from the evidence you provided!"

"Humph! Without witnesses, who knows if you threatened the low-level adventurer!"

"Then how can you prove that you didn't threaten the boy at that time?"

The scene froze in an instant.

Everyone knew that evidence was a thing, and evidence of this level could be fabricated at will. Apollo just needed a reason to deal with Shirou Emiya.

But since a god spoke out for this, evidence was very important.

However, the scene did not cool down for long.

Hermes slightly adjusted his hat and spoke with a smile.

"I can prove that I did not threaten that boy--"

"I think everyone knows what happened last night!"

"It's not just the Apollo family. There are many other families that attacked Shirou Emiya."

"And the only ones who participated in this incident were the Soma family and the Apollo family."

"The Soma family was almost wiped out like the Apollo family. In the end, only three people were not attacked by Shirou Emiya."

"I didn't go alone when I went to investigate the truth."

"In order to maintain my neutral attitude, I invited two gods to go with me."

"Loki--!"

"It's me!"

Loki responded to Hermes.

"And the main god of the Soma family who was almost defeated by Shirou Emiya--Soma!"

Soma, who was sitting in his seat without saying a word, also nodded, indicating that what Hermes said was correct.

One is the main god of the Loki family, the largest and strongest faction in Orario.

The other is the main god of the Soma clan, who has an almost irreconcilable conflict with Shirou Emiya.

With the evidence of the two main gods, the credibility of Hermes' words can be very high.

"Hundreds of adventurers besieged one person, even a person without a gift. This kind of thing itself should not appear in Orario."

"What's more, there are more than 20 LV2 adventurers and one LV3 adventurer among the hundreds of adventurers."

"And Shirou Emiya is just an ordinary person who broke into the sixteenth floor without a gift-"

Accompanying Hermes' words, the gods below began to whisper.

"It's really pitiful. A person without a gift has to face so many adventurers."

"It's just a new adventurer who has just made it to the sixteenth floor."

After all, Shirou Emiya only made it to the sixteenth floor, which is too confusing for everyone.

Without the gift, the gods can only judge Shirou Emiya's strength by the deepest level he can explore.

The 16th level is the middle level, and it is also the range where LV2 adventurers are more active.

It can even be said that the lower level of the entire dungeon is the level that LV2 adventurers can go deep into.

Some LV2 adventurers can even enter the lower level of the dungeon.

To be honest, the 16th level that Shirou Emiya reached is nothing in LV2.

Most LV2 adventurers can do it, and can even go to the lower level.

Of course, in the case of team formation.

This is why Apollo judged that Shirou Emiya's strength should be at the peak of LV2.

Because he knew that Shirou Emiya had defeated some Lv3 adventurers who bullied the weak in Orario.

When Shirou Emiya defeated those LV3, he was very fast. Compared with the frontal attack, it was more like those LV3s were knocked to the ground because they did not know Shirou Emiya's special force technique.

Therefore, Apollo judged that Shirou Emiya's strength should be at the peak level of Lv2, and he could probably reach the 16th floor by himself.

Only some gods who were paying attention to Shirou Emiya knew that Shirou Emiya explored the dungeon alone.

Most gods would judge Shirou Emiya by the standards of ordinary adventurers.

That is, they assumed that Shirou Emiya reached the 16th floor in a team.

So his strength is just like that, not strong.

But even if they knew, they would only say that Shirou Emiya's strength is at the peak level of LV2.

"Under such circumstances, Shirou Emiya relied on his own will and [difficultly] defeated a legion of hundreds of people. It can be said that it was understandable that he regarded Apollo, who was still wandering on the battlefield, as an enemy at the last moment of the battle."

The gods also nodded in approval.

Facing the siege of hundreds of people alone, even Lv4 would feel extremely strenuous, and might not even win, let alone just let those adventurers suffer superficial injuries.

After all, the siege came from humans, not monsters. Humans were able to win with such a large number gap with monsters, in addition to strength, more because of intelligence.

This is not a calculation problem of 1+1 equals 2.

To be able to defeat a legion of hundreds of adventurers in this way, even among them there were LV2 and LV3 adventurers, I believe Shirou Emiya must have paid a great price.

Maybe there was no intact place on his body, and he might have been dying.

The thoughts of the gods who had not seen what happened in the Soma clan were constantly racing.

Some people also looked at Soma who was present.

And he just nodded without knowing why.

Because Hermes told him that when the meeting of gods is held, he only needs to nod when others look at him.

After all, he has not participated in the meeting of gods for a long time, and he stays in his room every day to make divine wine.

"Hermes!!!! You are lying!!!! I was there, Shirou Emiya was not injured at all!"

Apollo's face was twisted into a ball. He did not expect that Hermes would come out to mess up the matter that was originally a sure thing.

"When did I say that Shirou Emiya was injured? I just put myself in his shoes and think about it. How much does an adventurer who only broke into the sixteenth floor without a gift have to pay to win a legion of hundreds of adventurers!"

"If it is not considered self-defense to face a legion alone and survive, then I don't know what is self-defense."

Hermes just glanced at Apollo, lowered his hat brim slightly, and then sat down slowly.

No matter what Apollo said later, the answer given by the gods was no.

The final verdict was consistent with the verdict of the guild - self-defense.

Most of the gods did not know what happened last night, and only a few gods saw everything from beginning to end.

Compared with Apollo, those gods were more willing to believe everything Hermes said.

And Hermes did not lie from beginning to end.

It was naturally difficult for Shirou Emiya to defeat a legion of hundreds of people.

At least in the eyes of Hermes, it took nearly half an hour to defeat a legion of hundreds of people, which was very difficult.

If he could use his divine power, the legion of hundreds of people would be dealt with by himself in less than a second.

For Shirou Emiya, it was indeed difficult to win.

Chapter 456 Abnormal Underground Exploration

"Why are there so many monsters!!!!!!!!!!"

In the dungeon, the girl named Lily was busy picking up the magic crystals that fell on the ground.

It was not because she had never seen so many monsters before.

Emmmm, in fact, she has never seen so many monsters.

As a Lv1 adventurer, Lily has always acted as a supporter, but because she is a dwarf, she looks very weak.

Few adventurers are willing to take Lily to the dungeon.

On the one hand, lower-level adventurers account for more than half of the adventurers, and the competition is extremely fierce.

On the other hand, most adventurers' first choice is naturally the supporters of their own clan. Only when there are not enough supporters in the clan will they choose adventurers from other clans.

And this situation is still a minority, and lower-level adventurers in the clan also account for the majority.

There is also a third aspect, that is, many upper-level adventurers look down on lower-level adventurers, and upper-level adventurers often take away the magic crystals that the supporters should get.

So Lily didn't want to team up with those adventurers at all.

It was just very unexpected that she asked Shirou Emiya with a try-it mood, and Shirou Emiya agreed to let Lily become a supporter in the team.

However, Lily did not expect that this was the beginning of a nightmare.

She had never encountered so many monsters on the third floor.

The first four floors of the underground floor can be said to be the friends of newcomers.

Because the monsters basically appear one by one from the wall or the ground.

Even if four or five appear at a time, the strength of a new adventurer can easily deal with them.

But the situation around at this time made Lily dare not breathe, and she could only collect the magic crystals that fell on the ground with her hands and feet.

There were so many abnormalities that Lily didn't know what was going on.

But Shirou Emiya was like a ****, holding the double guns in his hands and constantly shooting at the monsters rushing over.

One monster after another turned into ashes and dissipated in the early air.

What Shirou Emiya thought of as [normal] may be very different from what adventurers think of as normal.

What he was puzzled about at first was that he went from the first floor to the tenth floor without encountering any monsters in the middle.

So I thought it was very abnormal.

But after that, monsters would spawn in front of Shirou Emiya normally.

As for the number, Shirou Emiya had not explored the dungeon like a normal adventurer.

Naturally, he considered the number of monsters that appeared in his first dungeon as normal.

In fact, Shirou Emiya was still confused at first.

But Shirou Emiya remembered that Aina said that the dungeon was a place that would swallow people without spitting out bones.

It was full of countless dangers, and adventurers would die in the dungeon if they were not careful.

The number of people who died in the dungeon every year was recorded in the thousands.

It was enough to show how dangerous the dungeon was.

Since it was so dangerous, the frequency of monsters appearing like this made sense.

Anyway, this was what Shirou Emiya thought in his mind.

Shirou Emiya thought this should be a normal performance in the dungeon.

Because he had never formed a team, he didn't know what kind of situation a normal adventurer would encounter.

As for why he encountered so many monsters every time he went to the dungeon, the magic crystals Shirou Emiya obtained were only about one times the magic crystals obtained by a normal LV2 adventurer.

After all, the drop rate of magic crystals is not fixed, which only proves that Shirou Emiya's luck is not high.