The Ikelos Familia!
Chapter 89: The Ikelos Familia!
Ethan scanned his surroundings, finally relaxing when he no longer sensed any 'malice'.
'Click—'
Just as Ethan was about to dispose of the bald man's body, a spherical object fell out of his clothes.
It had a strange pattern on it, like some kind of totem or rune.
The outer ring was a golden pattern, and the center was a bright red 'eye' pattern.
Looking at this thing, Ethan's pupils shrank.
"A key to the artificial underground labyrinth?"
In the story of "DanMachi", the "Xenos" arc brought up many issues, including the 'darkness' hidden in Orario's shadows.
Looking at the bald man's corpse again, his mood sank slightly.
He directly tore the clothes on the man's back.
There was no sign of Falna on his back, so it should have been sealed.
This was natural, as a member of Evilus, the bald man naturally needed to hide information about his Familia.
After all, Falna was like a person's [Identity Panel], everything about an adventurer was exposed on it.
Even if one did not know how to read 'Hieroglyphs', the Falna given by different gods were obviously different.
'Swoosh—'
Ethan waved his hand, and a crack appeared in the nearby space, linking to the Imaginary Space. He then threw the bald man's corpse into it.
Then, he turned and returned to the place where the other three guys were.
He ignored the two who were already dead and walked straight towards the unlucky guy whose legs were cut off by him.
"You, don't come over..."
Having lost his legs, the guy could only wail and struggle in pain, unable to do anything else.
Ethan had killed everyone in their group else with ease, which had already scared him out of his wits.
His eyes were filled with terror as he looked at the approaching boy.
"Which Familia are you from?"
"Don't come near me, or I'll kill you."
Although his heart was filled with fear, he still gripped his weapon tightly, as it was his last resort.
'Pfft—'
"Ah!!!"
However, Ethan didn't have that much patience.
With another sword strike, he directly cut off the man's arm holding the weapon.
First his legs, then an arm, the pain was almost unbearable for a weak-hearted guy like him.
"I won't ask a third time, are you from the Ikelos Familia?"
"Yes~ Yes!!!"
In the man's eyes, Ethan was no different from a demon, and he was afraid that his last remaining hand would be cut off if he failed to answer.
"Why did you want to attack me?"
The second question followed, and Ethan's eyes flickered slightly.
"Someone commissioned us to bring you and that fox-eared girl back."
Under extreme fear, the man didn't dare to deceive the boy and directly told Ethan everything he knew.
"Who commissioned you?"
"I don't know, this was a mission assigned to us by our boss."
"Who is your boss?"
"Dix, the name of our boss is Dix Perdix, and he is also the captain of our Familia."
"Dix!"
Ethan's heart sank.
As expected, Ishtar was indeed related to Evilus.
And from the looks of it, this unpopular goddess of beauty was not willing to swallow the losses she had suffered before.
If she couldn't harm him openly, she would do it secretly.
It looked like she hired the Ikelos Familia to capture him and Haruhime.
She really had a big appetite.
In Ethan's mind, information about Dix began to be filtered out.
Dix Perdix, the current captain of Ikelos Familia, is also a Level 5 'First-Class Adventurer' with the alias 'Hazer'.
He is also one of the descendants of the famous 'Daedalus Family'.
Due to the blood curse passed down through the generations of the 'Daedalus Family', they had to keep building 'artificial underground labyrinths' known as Man Made Dungeon Knossos, or simply Knossos.
However, Dix later discovered that if he inflicted violence on others and listened to their cries of misery, he could temporarily alleviate the torment of the 'blood curse'.
Just like that, Dix took the first step into hell and could never turn back.
In this way, a pure 'villain' was born.
With the help of the 'artificial underground labyrinth', Dix carried out a series of evil deeds such as smuggling monsters and trafficking people.
As for the 'Daedalus Family', it could be traced back to a thousand years ago.
A thousand years ago, the first batch of gods who came to the lower world, in order to suppress the 'Dungeon' that was constantly spewing out monsters, established a city called 'Orario' on the earth.
The name of an architect who played a major role in the development and creation of Orario was 'Daedalus', the most talented craftsman of that time.
He personally created the iconic building of the labyrinth city, the 'Tower of Babel', and it was also Daedalus who established the original Orario on the earth.
However, after witnessing the marvelous 'Dungeon', this talented craftsman soon fell into madness.
Daedalus was fascinated by the natural spectacle of the [Dungeon] and vowed to build a structure even grander than the Dungeon.
Thus, the plan for 'artificial underground labyrinth' was born.
However, Daedalus was only a human, and his lifespan was limited, and the genius craftsman clearly knew that he could not complete a [work] that surpassed the [Dungeon] in his lifetime.
Therefore, the crazy Daedalus carved this 'obsession' into his bloodline, and it became a 'curse' and a 'bondage' for his descendents.
All the descendants of Daedalus had to complete the 'Man Made Dungeon Knossos' according to the blueprints he drew.
Thus, for thousands of years, generations of members of the 'Daedalus Family' had been completing the [work] of their ancestors in their limited lives.
It was not until this generation that the 'Daedalus Family' joined Evilus during the most prosperous period of adventurers.
Through a series of shady dealings, they accumulated a large amount of funds to continue building the 'artificial underground labyrinth', and Dix Perdix was one of the involved parties.
The current 'artificial underground labyrinth' could be said to be the secret base of Evilus.
To enter the 'Man Made Dungeon Knossos', a key was needed, and this key was the strange sphere that Ethan had just obtained.
This thing was made from the eyes of a member of the 'Daedalus Family'.
After all, in order to prevent the 'artificial underground labyrinth' from being exposed, Daedalus also left behind a backup plan.
Only his own bloodline could open the door to the 'artificial underground labyrinth'.
"It seems that even with the support of 'Freya', I can't avoid getting into trouble."
Ethan felt a sense of urgency.
Although he was very confident and believed that with his current strength, even though he was only Level 2, he could defeat Level 3 and Level 4 adventurers.
However, he was not sure about Level 5 adventurers, let alone a madman like Dix Perdix.
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