Fang Zheng swore that he had never, never, never spent so much effort on an adventure.

In Fang Zheng's memory, the most exhausting adventure he had ever had was when he was sending a little thief who had learned to have zero sense of existence on his own back home. At that time, the little guy was cursed, and then all kinds of unfortunate events happened along the way, and nothing good happened to anyone from beginning to end.

But at least it was just an unfortunate incident and we can get through it as long as we keep our spirits up.

But right now... Fang Zheng just felt a headache.

"Fang Zheng Fang Zheng, can I blow that up?"

"no!"

"Fang Zheng Fang Zheng, there's a Minotaur coming over there! I'm sure the others can't stop it!"

"Just shut up!"

"Fang Zheng Fang Zheng, if I can do it, this maze..."

"If you scream again, I'll knock you out and throw you into the abyss."

Looking at Huihui who was screaming and jumping around beside him, Fang Zheng completely regretted why he let the priestess choose this guy to join the team.

At the moment, Fang Zheng and his group were not carrying out any mission. On the contrary, they were doing the most orthodox activity that was in line with all players' imaginations of adventurers.

That's the maze guide.

Fang Zheng also learned afterwards that there were areas called "the deepest maze" everywhere on this continent. No one knew when it was formed, but according to legend, this maze seemed to be spread all over the continent, and it was as huge as an ant's nest. Since the beginning of historical records, no one had ever reached the deepest part of the maze, and no one knew what was there.

Rumor has it that it is the gate to the demon world, and some say that the demon god is sealed in the deepest part of the maze. There was even a time when adventurers flocked in to try to dig out the treasures and secrets.

But unfortunately, the craze disappeared soon after.

After all, adventurers also need to support their families. Like the priestess, their job is to register with the Adventurer's Guild, accept missions, complete them, and get paid. This is the adventurer's job.

The romance of exploring a crypt, the joy of searching for treasure, is the stuff of novels and stories.

The real adventure to the dungeon is boring, dangerous, and lonely. There is no law, no order, nothing here, only greedy desires and death.

Over time, more and more adventurers gave up exploring the deepest maze. This place was like a large RAID copy that was forgotten after a version upgrade, and most adventurers wouldn't even look at it.

But for Fang Zheng and his friends, this place is just right.

Fang Zheng himself didn't care about money, and Aisi only wanted to become stronger. Huihui didn't care about anything else as long as she could fire one explosion a day. As for the priestess, she was also working hard to hone her skills. In Fang Zheng's opinion, it was most important to lay a solid foundation and adapt to combat, so there was no need to take on special missions.

The priestess and Ai Si were relatively obedient, but Hui Hui, the middle school magician, was a real headache for Fang Zheng. This girl wanted to blow up everything she saw, so Fang Zheng had to tie her up to him to prevent her from causing any trouble. You have to know that they were not on the surface, but underground. If there was an explosion, it was hard to say whether the monsters would be killed or not, and they might be buried alive.

Fang Zheng has begun to doubt whether it would have been a better idea for him to follow Lina Inbas on the adventure... After all, this mentally ill explosion maniac is really... a headache.

But then again…

"There really isn't anything good in here."

Fang Zheng kicked away the rusty sword in the hands of the skeleton soldier in front of him. The maze strategy in reality is much more boring than in the game. Fang Zheng and his friends have gone down three levels in a row, but in the end they didn't find anything that could be called a spoils of war.

On the contrary, there are countless monsters, and most of them are worthless.

No wonder adventurers are reluctant to come.

If Fang Zheng hadn't intended to come here to train the team, he wouldn't have been willing to come.

The priestess was well-behaved and obedient, so she was not a big deal. But Aisi was different. At first, Fang Zheng saw that Aisi had no expression on her face and thought she was an iceberg goddess. But after spending a few days with her, Fang Zheng was speechless to find that she was not an iceberg goddess at all, but a complete idiot!

Add to that Huihui, the middle school magician...what kind of people are in this team!

If Fang Zheng were given another chance, he would definitely choose someone else.

Unfortunately, there is no way for him to take the medicine of regret now.

But even so, the current situation made Fang Zheng's head ache.

"Aisi, pull all those monsters over here, I'm going to give them a big beating!"

"good."

After hearing what Huihui said, Ais nodded, and immediately rushed forward to fight with the minotaur warriors who were wandering not far away. Seeing this, the priestess hurriedly tried to dissuade them.

“Wait, Huihui, this place is too dangerous, don’t use explosion magic here!”

"It's too late. My seal has been broken. Dark energy gathers at my fingertips, eager to destroy everything! Come, Lord of Fire, destroyer of all things. In the name of the Crimson Demons, I call upon you, the root power from the End of the World. Show it before me - Explosion!"

The next moment, a blazing fire flashed, the ground began to tremble, and gravel fell from the sky like a rainstorm. Then, a wild magic fire suddenly exploded.

Seeing this, the priestess was also shocked and quickly raised her hand.

"Merciful Mother Earth, please protect us from harm - Holy Shield!"

A golden holy shield instantly appeared, blocking the way of several people. At the same time, along with the impact of the explosion magic, everything around seemed to collapse. Gravel, mud and dust rushed down, completely burying the passage in front of them.

After a long while, Aisi finally came out from inside, covered in dust and looked around.

"All done?"

“It’s not a question of whether to do it or not.”

Fang Zheng, who came out right after him, was speechless.

"If you were half a step later, you would have been blown away!"

“But it worked well.”

"Yeah, the effect is good. I'm afraid there won't be anything else that can move on this floor except us."

Fang Zheng complained while looking around. He saw that this layer of the maze had been blown into pieces by Huihui’s explosion magic, and one part was about to collapse... To be honest, this sick-headed Crimson Demon girl was really only a genius in explosion magic.

This was also the biggest reason why Fang Zheng let Hui Hui go. Frankly speaking, if it was any other team, almost no one would accept someone like Hui Hui. But it was different here. Ai Si, a natural idiot, didn't care if there was a sudden explosion magic in front of her, and the priestess was busy trying to resist the aftermath of Hui Hui's explosion magic.

Although it does look very speechless and funny, under this high-intensity training, the two really made rapid progress. The priestess obtained the third divine spell "Holy Shield" in addition to "Small Healing" and "Holy Light", and finally qualified to become the backbone of the team.

Well... from a certain perspective, the reason why she was able to use the divine art of Holy Shield so skillfully was that she was forced to do so by Huihui.

As for Ais, she has also learned to observe and predict the release and direction of magic through the flow of magic in the air, which also gave her a considerable advantage in the next battle against monsters. Of course, the reason she did this at the beginning was simply to be able to escape farther in time when Huihui released the explosion magic.

From a certain perspective, these are all the benefits brought by Huihui's explosion magic.

Well, I'll just have to give him some benefits... Fang Zheng could only comfort himself in this way.

As for the culprit himself...

"Are you okay, Megumin?"

“Oh…so good…”

When Huihui was dug out of the mud by the priestess, her face was flushed, and she looked satisfied, with her eyes closed as if she had just enjoyed supreme happiness.

Whenever Fang Zheng saw Hui Hui like this, he felt itchy and wanted to let her truly experience the joy of flying to the top of the clouds.

By that time, let’s see if this mentally ill explosive girl will use explosive magic at every turn again!

"That's all for today. Tomorrow we'll go back to the Adventurer's Guild and take on quests."

"Hey? Are you going to take the mission?"

"That's right. Exploring the maze is just for exercise. You don't really want to stay in this dark place forever, do you?"

"As long as I can cast explosion magic, it doesn't matter where!"

Huihui gathered her strength, raised her hands and shouted.

And Aisi nodded.

"As long as I can become stronger, I don't care."

"That's why your level can't be raised."

Facing the two's answers, Fang Zheng rolled his eyes helplessly. The level of the Adventurer's Guild is not equal to the level of personal strength. If we judge by personal strength, Huihui's Explosion Magic alone is at least gold level. And Aisi can at least reach silver, but in fact, these two people are both white porcelain level in the Adventurer's Guild - the same level as the priestess who came out of the temple and became an adventurer just one month ago.

The reason why Huihui couldn't level up was very simple. No one wanted a great magician who could only cast explosion magic.

The reason why Aisi didn't level up was very funny. She was sent to live in a nearby temple since she was a child, and she has always been in the temple. So Aisi has become accustomed to living with the temple as the core. Although she registered as an adventurer, she has always been waiting in the temple for people to send her tasks... Of course, this didn't happen.

This is also the reason why the priestess met Aisi in the temple of the Earth Mother...

The reason why Fang Zheng wanted the three of them to take the mission at this time was not simply to let them improve their adventurer levels, but because through surveillance, Fang Zheng discovered that Lina and the others had already come into contact with the Red Mage Raizo. Next, if Fang Zheng's memory is correct, the Red Mage Raizo will obtain the Philosopher's Stone and then remove the seal of the Demon King in his body... Well, that's not the point.

The point is that after the seal of the demon king is lifted, he will immediately start to release miasma, turning all the people in the surrounding cities into stone statues, and even controlling the monsters to attack. In order to be on the safe side, Fang Zheng will not join in the fun, but he also has to make sure that the three girls can stay away... to avoid trouble.

After all, although it seems that the Demon King Shabranigud was easily killed by Lina in the animation, in fact, he can be regarded as the ceiling of the combat power in this world. In terms of strength, even the Pluto Fibrizo and others who came later are actually not as strong as Shabranigud.

And here, we have to talk about the "setting" of this world.

Like many fantasy worlds, this world also has "gods" and "demons", and naturally, there are divine arts and magic. However, it is somewhat different from the main world. The magic in this world is not released by the wizard relying solely on his own power, but through "borrowed" power.

For example, all spells in black magic derive their power from the demon lord Shabranigud, which means that he is immune to the most powerful black magic.

After all, this method of using other people's power to attack yourself is indeed...stupid, don't you think?

The divine arts in this world are divided into two types. One is simple divine arts, like the power that the priestess obtains by praying to the Mother Earth.

The other is called "Gift", which is a power bestowed by God, but it is different from divine arts. It is more like using the power of God to trigger the power hidden deep inside the human body. As long as you become a follower of God, you can obtain the gift and tap into your inner strength.

Ais belongs to this category. According to the priestess, she is a follower of the god Loki, and has a "gift" similar to the stigma on her back.

And Ais can use a magic called "Wind Spirit Sprint" to amplify herself, which is the power given to her by the gift.

As for Huihui's explosion magic, it belongs to the category of elf magic. Of course, when it comes to elf magic, the most appropriate one in Qidian.com is actually the elemental magic of Feng Shui, Fire and Earth. Huihui's explosion magic is one of the most powerful magics in elf magic - of course, logically speaking, the power of explosion magic cannot be compared with the trump card of black magic, Dragon Breaker.

But unfortunately, this brain-sick explosive girl put almost all her strength into explosion magic... To some extent, this can be regarded as a manifestation of extreme bias.

Having said all this, looking back, you can understand why no one else could defeat Shabranigud, and only Lina Inbas succeeded.

First of all, the strongest attack power in this world is black magic, but black magic itself borrows the power of Shabranigud, and you certainly can't manipulate his power to attack him. So facing Shabranigud, black magic is basically useless.

The second is the most powerful move in elven magic, Soul Collapse. The power of this move is comparable to Dragon Break, but unfortunately... unfortunately... Soul Collapse is a spiritual magic, but who is Shabranigud?

He is one of the four top demon kings under the Golden Nightmare King. Can ordinary humans compare to his mental power?

Therefore, Dragon Breaking Slash and Soul Collapse are both ineffective, and the Water Dragon King who once sealed Shablanigud has already died, leaving him without a natural enemy. So logically, after Shablanigud was unsealed, even if he was only sealed to one-seventh of his original state, no one would be able to defeat him.

But unfortunately, Lina Inbas and her Heavy Breaking Slash appeared.

The Heavy Breaking Slash borrows the power of the Golden Nightmare King. To put it bluntly, it is to summon a mother to beat her son. No matter how powerful Shabranigud is, he will be doomed by a slap from his own mother.

As for why Lina Inverse is said to be the biological daughter of the Golden Nightmare King, it is because of this. According to the description in the animation, when Lina Inverse fought Shabranigold, her Heavy Slash was actually still incomplete. It was not until she read Apocalypse of the Otherworld and learned the true form of her power that it was completed.

So the question is, it's fine that Apocalypse of Another World is omniscient and omnipotent, but before that, where did Lina get the unfinished version of the spell of the Heavy Break Slash? She said it was her own original creation, but there must be a reason, it can't be that she dreamed of the Golden King and then came up with it on a whim?

Moreover, according to the animation, Lina Inbass is the only one in the world who knows the spell about the Golden Nightmare King, which is very strange... Apart from the fact that she is the Golden Nightmare King's biological daughter, there is really no other explanation.

It is also because of this that when facing Shablanigud, no one except Lina Inbas, who is surrounded by the aura of the protagonist and the daughter of the Golden Nightmare King, can handle it.

So... Fang Zheng decided to take the girls and run away first, find a deserted place to do the mission, and wait until Lina Inbas and Shabranigood are done, it won't be too late for him to come back!