With a flash of magic, Loki Familia's figures appeared once again on the Dungeon's fiftieth floor.
Looking at the black smoke rising around them and the destroyed camp.
There was no dejection in anyone's heart. On the contrary, they were all brimming with passion.
After all, having witnessed a battle straight out of a heroic epic, how could they not be excited?
As they looked at Shirou Emiya's tall, straight figure standing in the camp, their eyes shone with admiration.
The next moment, cheers rang through the heavens.
"Is this the price of showing off?"
Feeling the weapons being destroyed within Unlimited Blade Works, Shirou Emiya couldn't help wearing a pained expression.
Under the corrosive liquid's dissolution, Shirou Emiya lost hundreds of Projection weapons outright. One had to know that every weapon in Unlimited Blade Works had been accumulated by him bit by bit.
He had built up such a vast collection by using magic to perform Projection whenever he had nothing else to do.
But this still wasn't the peak of his collection.
After all, all of his previous Projection weapons had been shattered by Garisong during his battle with Shining Girl Angelica. The weapons in Unlimited Blade Works now were all ones he had re-Projected during this period.
It was called Unlimited Blade Works, but at most, there were only a few thousand weapons inside.
Yet losing hundreds in one go still broke Shirou Emiya's heart.
To be honest, using Myriad Sword Return to Origin to attack under those circumstances hadn't been the optimal solution. The best choice would have been to avoid pulling in any members of Loki Familia and only drag in the monsters.
Then he could have fired off several Super Illusionary Collapses and annihilated them all. That would have been the correct approach.
But that wouldn't have looked cool!
As the saying went, strength lasted for a moment, but looking cool lasted a lifetime.
As for the lines spoken during the battle between Giant Hero Emiya and Shining Girl Angelica, he had wanted to say them again for a long time.
Although he himself was Giant Hero Emiya, his memories had awakened too late, so that scene had felt just like watching a movie, without any sense of immersion.
One had to understand that the Shirou Emiya of now wasn't merely Giant Hero Emiya. He was the combination of the memories of the transmigrator Emiya and Shirou Emiya.
If one really counted it as watching a movie, he didn't even know how many times he had watched Vow in the Snow.
"Forget it. It'll be fine! I can just slowly Project them again!"
No longer dwelling on it, Shirou Emiya looked at the scenery in the distance and couldn't help feeling refreshed.
He was also taking a well-deserved break right now.
"Big Brother, have you found the ingredients?"
Hearing Lefia's voice, Shirou Emiya quickly replied, "I've found them. Let's head back!"
As he walked through the newly rebuilt camp with Lefia, Shirou Emiya constantly received greetings from his companions.
"Shirou, good morning!"
"Good morning!"
"Shirou, thanks for the effort!"
"It was nothing. No need to thank me!"
"Shirou, would you like to try some fruit I just picked?"
"Some other time. Lefia and I still have to deliver the ingredients!"
As he continuously responded to the greetings from those around him, Shirou Emiya could clearly feel furtive gazes following him from every direction.
"You're really popular, Big Brother!"
Hearing the elf girl's tsk of disapproval beside him, Shirou Emiya could only respond with an awkward smile.
Ever since he had turned the tide yesterday, scenes like this had begun.
The male members of the Familia were still fine; they merely respected him more than before.
But the female members of the Familia were different. They were always secretly watching him, then blushing as they whispered among themselves in groups.
Of course, there were also those who greeted him in various ways, like just now.
"Could this be the woman-trouble fate that comes with Shirou Emiya?"
"Could I have unknowingly conquered every woman in the Familia, like a pole-vaulter clearing the bar?"
"No! This isn't what I want! Loki will kill me!"
At the thought that he had unknowingly turned Loki's harem into his own, the corner of Shirou Emiya's eye twitched.
He hurriedly left with Lefia. After handing the ingredients to the staff responsible for them, Shirou Emiya was just about to find an excuse to leave when he heard a Familia member calling out.
"Shirou, Lefia, the captain wants you to attend a meeting!"
"Got it!"
Hearing that Finn was calling a meeting, Shirou Emiya hurried toward the tent in the center of the camp.
The moment he entered the tent, Shirou Emiya felt everyone's teasing gazes.
"Well, well, isn't this our Great Hero?"
"Could you stop calling me Great Hero? I only did what I could!"
Besides, the title of Great Hero was simply too ominous.
"I did notice that the young girls in the Familia have all been staring at you. In their hearts, you're definitely a Great Hero now, aren't you?"
"Don't say that! Loki will kill me!"
"Hahahaha!"
Hearing the exchange between Gareth and Shirou Emiya, everyone couldn't help laughing.
Several girls inside the tent even had flushed faces, making everyone's gazes toward Shirou Emiya even more teasing.
Just as Shirou Emiya was feeling completely uncomfortable, Finn's words put an end to the teasing.
"All right, time is of the essence. We need to make use of every second! So save the jokes for when we get back!"
Hearing Finn, everyone became serious.
Besides Loki Familia's executives of Level 5 and above, those seated in the tent also included core members of the second-string team, such as Raul.
"After the New Species' attack, our various supplies have been heavily depleted. If Shirou hadn't annihilated the monsters in time, we would have had to return immediately!"
"But our remaining supplies are still enough for us to stay here for another day. We need to use this time to quickly minimize our losses!"
Previously, in order to hurry, Loki Familia hadn't collected many materials or Magic Stones dropped by monsters. After all, those items were certainly inferior to the drops from beyond the fiftieth floor.
On top of that, several of Loki Familia's main fighters, led by Tiona, had had their weapons destroyed. They now needed a large amount of Valis to minimize their losses.
Looking at everyone lost in thought, Finn continued, "After breakfast, we'll split into two teams and fight separately to collect spoils."
"I'll lead the other members of the Familia to the forty-ninth floor with Riveria and Gareth. The remaining executives will take Shirou and Lefia to the fifty-first floor to explore."
"Remember, don't go to the fifty-second floor. It isn't suitable for obtaining spoils!"
"Understood!"
The area from the fifty-second floor to the fifty-eighth floor was known as Dragon's Pot, and its defining feature was that it ignored the floors.
The dragon-type monsters on the fifty-eighth floor could launch breath attacks directly upward from the fifty-eighth floor, reaching all the way to the fifty-second floor.
Therefore, once they entered the fifty-second floor, they had to keep running constantly to guard against attacks from below.
After hearing Finn's personnel assignments, Shirou Emiya found them quite reasonable.
Since a large force needed to advance, they required Finn's command, as well as Riveria's Elf Squad. These were all Divine Weapons for large-scale group battles.
With Gareth's protection added in, they could ensure the safety of the members on the fifty-ninth floor.
The remaining elites would head to the more dangerous fifty-first floor. With Shirou Emiya there, even if they encountered a New Species, they could deal with it properly.
This truly was the method that would maximize their gains.
Thinking of this, Shirou Emiya couldn't help becoming excited.
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