Lili, Liliruca Arde, a Pallum who possessed the special transformation magic 'Cinder ella'. She could transform according to her imagination during chanting, able to change into other races and even change gender.
From the perspective of a certain series where ninja wear orange, this magic was weak, because almost everyone there could transform.
But it was different in the Danmachi world.
In the Danmachi world, this magic gave her extremely powerful concealment abilities.
Especially when doing underground work, she could easily hide herself through transformation. Except when facing deities, basically no one could find fault with her. Because one cannot lie in front of deities - lies would be discovered.
This was a basic passive ability that gods possessed. Using this transformation magic, she could do many underhanded operations, like sabotaging the adventurers who hired her.
The relationship between supporters and adventurers, from the details Nathaniel understood, was quite pathological.
Adventurers in the Danmachi world didn't have spatial storage abilities, so the supplies they could carry were limited. To enter the deeper levels of the dungeon, large familias need to directly move as a group with their own supporters. Otherwise, they could only hire supporters from outside.
Especially for smaller familias or small adventurer teams, they basically relied on hired supporters. But this relationship that should have been mutually cooperative unknowingly became twisted.
Adventurers needed supporters to help them carry and transport supplies. But adventurers who considered themselves powerful and superior would oppress supporters, not pay supporters, and even use supporters as meat shields in dangerous situations.
Meanwhile supporters, needing adventurers to provide payment, would sometimes deliberately sabotage adventurers, luring monsters to kill adventurers and then steal their equipment.
And Liliruca Arde was such a supporter.
Of course, it's not that she was like this from childhood. Her living environment since childhood was very harsh. Her familia, Soma Familia, was also a bunch of scammers. Even her patron deity was a scammer.
Her parents were even scammed to death. Being oppressed by those around her since childhood, her inner heart naturally became somewhat twisted. Not everyone can forcibly remain sunny like a certain Seventh Hokage.
Having watched the anime, Nathaniel naturally knew who Lili was. But after coming to this world, he hadn't sought her out.
After all, he had no interest in her. He considered himself a person who loved many waifu and want to have many wives to build a harem, but in the Danmachi world, he only liked Hestia.
He had no interest in this Lili.
Now, the Pallum girl before him who had actively approached him as a supporter was named Lili. This made him a bit concerned.
A supporter girl who actively approached me, and happens to be named Lili - it can't be that much of a coincidence, right? Has she targeted me?
Nathaniel had no evidence, so he couldn't directly say he wouldn't hire her. Perhaps she just happened to have this name. And they had already entered the dungeon, so he decided to just go with it for now.
"Is something wrong, Mr. Nathaniel?"
"It's nothing."
Nathaniel sudden stare seemed to confuse this Lili, but Nathaniel naturally wouldn't say anything. He continued deeper into the dungeon carrying his AK.
Nathaniel was already very familiar with the first 10 floors, so he didn't plan to farm monsters on the first 10 floors. Today he would start attacking from the 11th floor, aiming to advance from the 11th floor all the way to the 17th floor.
The final enemy was the 17th floor boss. What was needed for familia level ups were great feats. Farming ordinary monsters could no longer provide Nathaniel with much in terms of great feats, so Nathaniel planned to directly take on boss.
The 17th floor boss was equivalent to a Level 4 monster.
For Nathaniel as a Level 1 to defeat it should provide quite a lot of excellia.
As for whether he could defeat the boss, Nathaniel hadn't considered it. Because the equipment on him, especially those two lightsabers, could definitely easily kill the boss.
"The pace up ahead will be faster. Can you keep up?"
"No problem, Mr. Nathaniel, I can keep up."
After confirming with Lili, Nathaniel directly started accelerating. The dungeon monsters that jumped out along the way were all killed by Nathaniel burst fire from the AK.
After the original solid bullets became magic bullets, consumption decreased greatly and weight also decreased greatly. Most importantly, not only did the power not decrease, it even increased significantly.
Low-level monsters had no magic resistance at all. When Nathaniel magic AK fired, the magic power-condensed bullets flew even faster than the previous solid bullets, looking like beams of light directly hitting the monsters' bodies.
A hit would directly penetrate and cripple a monster's body. If it hit the head or vital organs, it could instantly kill the monster, turning it to ashes.
This killing power greatly satisfied Nathaniel. Simple tests in the laboratory and actual field tests are indeed quite different. The latter is definitely better.
So, should this be called a beam rifle? Looking at the fallen monster's body dissipating and the rapidly fading shot trajectory in the air, Nathaniel felt his modifications were becoming more and more sci-fi.
As the monster's corpse disappeared, leaving behind magic stones, Lily, who was following behind Nathaniel, immediately went to pick them up and put them in her backpack. This was the job she needed to do as a supporter.
After Lily finished collecting the magic stones on the ground, Nathaniel continued deeper into the dungeon. For the first 10 floors, he tried to avoid fighting monsters when possible, so he rarely fired his weapon.
Unless a monster was blocking a path they had to take, they would simply pass by, getting close enough to draw the monster's aggro before quickly moving out of range.
Progressing like this, the two of them directly reached the 11th floor.
Moo!
As soon as they arrived on the 11th floor, they heard a roar.
"It's a Minotaur, Mr. Nathaniel."
The Minotaur, also known as the bull-headed man, was a higher level monster compared to the previous ones. It was very dangerous for LV1 newcomers.
Nathaniel didn't think it was particularly dangerous, but he found it annoying.
"I didn't expect to encounter an NTR right away. Does this count as bad luck?"
"NTR?"
Lily didn't understand what NTR meant, but she could roughly grasp Nathaniel meaning.
Hearing the roars in the distance, she couldn't help but ask:
"Mr. Nathaniel, I'd like to confirm - are you LV2 or higher?"
"No, I'm just a measly LV1."
"Then shouldn't we..."
Pointing at the entrance to the previous floor, Lily seemed to want to suggest that Nathaniel retreat.
"Don't worry."
Nathaniel pulled the bolt on his AK and flashed a bright smile.
"Today, I'm here to kill NTRs!"
[Note : anyone know the correlation between minotaur and NTR?]