This was no exaggeration. This was the Daedalus Familia's labor of a thousand years, and since it was called a "maze," it was naturally a tangled labyrinth. One wrong turn and they really could get lost.
Half-Snake Xenos!
"Who are you people?"
"Ah, enemy attack! We're under attack!"
"Run for your lives!"
"Don't kill me, please, don't..."
"Ah—"
Tonight, the vast artificial maze suffered a devastating calamity.
As a Familia that operated in the shadows, Ikelos did not have many members to begin with. At least, before the Freya Familia, they were utterly helpless.
Under the slaughter of the four Gulliver Brothers, everyone they encountered was killed.
Because this was the goddess's command, they carried it out without question. Men, women, old, young—anyone they came across was eliminated.
The artificial maze gradually filled with the pungent stench of blood.
"Hmm? Is this a warehouse?"
After winding through several passages, they arrived at a fairly large space.
Inside were iron cages after iron cages, each holding large numbers of monsters. The monsters came in all shapes and sizes—some from the upper floors, some from the lower floors.
Without exception, every one of them looked utterly listless, curled up inside their cages.
When they saw Cao Ye, pairs of scarlet eyes turned toward him, filled with anger, hostility, hatred, and more.
"Lord Cao Ye, there are so many monsters. Why did the Ikelos Familia capture them?"
Tsubaki looked at the monsters, deeply puzzled. There were so many of them, yet instead of killing them, the Ikelos Familia had captured them. She could not understand it.
"Why? To sell them outside Orario, of course, and earn an exorbitant amount of Valis."
"Sell monsters?"
"They aren't ordinary monsters."
Looking at the monsters locked in the iron cages, information about them surfaced in Cao