He could understand why Hephaestus spoke for Shirou Emiya. After all, everyone knew that Shirou Emiya was learning forging skills from Hephaestus.
Many times they thought that Shirou Emiya had joined Hephaestus's family.
But the result was that Hephaestus personally taught Shirou Emiya the forging skills, and Shirou Emiya did not join the Hephaestus family.
It was also because of this that the gods gave up persuading Shirou Emiya to join their clan.
Even Hephaestus, who personally stepped forward to become Shirou Emiya's teacher, was rejected by Shirou Emiya, so the other gods thought they had even less chance.
But Hermes has nothing to do with Shirou Emiya.
"I am neutral, I am just stating a fact—"
Hermes seemed to see the anger in Apollo's eyes and explained.
"After that day, I found the boy again, and his answer was completely different from the evidence you provided!"
"Humph! Without any witnesses, who knows if you threatened that low-level adventurer!"
"Then how do you prove that you didn't threaten that boy at that time?"
The situation came to a standstill in an instant.
Everyone knows the matter of evidence. Evidence of this level can be fabricated at will. Apollo just needs a reason to deal with Shirou Emiya.
But since a god has spoken out on this, evidence is extremely important.
However, the scene did not cool down for long.
Hermes adjusted his hat slightly and spoke softly with a smile.
"I can prove that I did not threaten the boy—"
"I think everyone knows what happened last night!"
"It's not just the Apollo Familia, there are many other Familia who attacked Emiya Shirou."
"And the only people who participated in this incident were the Soma family and the Apollo family."
"The Soma clan was also like the Apollo clan. Almost all of them were annihilated. In the end, only three of them were not attacked by Shirou Emiya."
"When I went to investigate the truth, I was not alone."
"In order to maintain my neutral stance, I invited two gods to go with me."
“Loki——!”
"it's me!"
Loki responded to Hermes.
"And there is also the chief god of the Soma clan, Soma, who was almost defeated by Emiya Shirou!"
Soma, who was sitting in his seat without saying a word, also nodded, indicating that what Hermes said was correct.
One is the main god of the Loki clan, the largest and most powerful faction in Orario.
The other is the chief god of the Soma clan, who has an almost irreconcilable conflict with Shirou Emiya.
With the testimony of the two main gods, the credibility of Hermes' words can be very high.
"Hundreds of adventurers besieged one person, a person who didn't even have a gift. This kind of thing shouldn't happen in Orario."
"What's more, among the hundreds of adventurers, there are more than 2 LV3 adventurers and one LV adventurer."
"And Emiya Shirou is just an ordinary person who broke into the sixteenth floor without any gift—"
As Hermes spoke, the gods below began to whisper.
"It's really pitiful. A person without even a gift has to face so many adventurers."
"He's just a new adventurer who has just made it to the sixteenth floor."
After all, Shirou Emiya only made it to the sixteenth floor, which was too confusing for everyone.
In the absence of the gift, the gods can only judge Shirou Emiya's strength based on the deepest level he can explore.
The sixteenth floor is the middle level, and is also the area where LV2 adventurers are more active.
It can even be said that the lower levels of the entire dungeon are only accessible to LV2 adventurers.
Some LV2 adventurers can even enter the lower levels of the dungeon.
To be honest, the sixteenth floor that Shirou Emiya reached was nothing in LV2.
Most LV2 adventurers can do it, and can even go to lower levels.
Of course, this is in the context of team formation.
This is also why Apollo judged that Shirou Emiya's strength should be at the peak of LV2.
Because he knew that Shirou Emiya had defeated some Lv3 adventurers who bullied the weak in Orario.
When Shirou Emiya defeated those LV3s, he was extremely fast. Rather than a head-on attack, it was more like those LV3s were knocked to the ground because they did not know Shirou Emiya's special force-generating technique.
Therefore, Apollo judged that Shirou Emiya's strength should be at the peak level of Lv2, and he could probably reach the sixteenth floor by himself.
As for the fact that Shirou Emiya was exploring the dungeon alone, only some gods who were paying attention to him knew about it.
Most gods would judge Shirou Emiya by the standards of an ordinary adventurer.
This means that Shirou Emiya reached the 16th floor by forming a team.
So the strength is actually just like that, not strong.
However, even if they knew, they would only assume that Shirou Emiya's strength was at the peak level of LV2.
"Under such circumstances, Emiya Shirou relied on his own willpower to [hardly] defeat a legion of hundreds of people. It can be said that at the last moment of the battle, it was understandable that he regarded Apollo, who was still wandering on the battlefield, as an enemy."
The gods also nodded in approval.
Facing the siege of hundreds of people alone, even at Lv4, it would be extremely difficult, and he might not even be able to win, let alone inflict only minor injuries on those adventurers.
After all, those who came to besiege were humans, not monsters. The reason why humans were able to win despite such a large number gap with monsters was not only because of their strength, but more because of their intelligence.
This is not a calculation problem of 1+1 equals 2.
To be able to defeat a legion of hundreds of adventurers, including LV2 and LV3 adventurers, Shirou Emiya must have paid a huge price.
There may not be a single intact part of his body, and he may be dying.
The thoughts of those gods who had not witnessed what happened within the Soma clan were constantly racing.
Some people also looked at Su Mo who was present.
He just nodded without understanding why.
Because Hermes had told him that when the divine meeting came, he only had to nod when others looked at him.
After all, he hadn't attended a divine meeting for a long time, and he stayed in his room every day making divine wine.
"Hermes!!! You are lying!!! I was there, Shirou Emiya was not hurt at all!"
Apollo's face was twisted into a ball. He had not expected that something that was originally a sure thing would be disrupted by someone like Hermes.
"When did I say that Shirou Emiya was injured? I was just thinking from his perspective. How much would an adventurer who only broke into the 16th floor without any gifts have to pay to win over a legion of hundreds of adventurers!"
"If surviving a legion alone is not considered self-defense, then I don't know what is."
Hermes just glanced at Apollo, lowered the brim of his hat slightly, and then slowly sat down.
No matter what Apollo said later, the answer given by the gods was no.
The final verdict was consistent with that of the guild - self-defense.
Most of the gods did not know what happened last night, and only a few of them saw everything from beginning to end.
Compared to Apollo, the gods were more willing to believe everything Hermes said.
And Hermes did not tell a single lie from beginning to end.
It was naturally very difficult for Shirou Emiya to defeat a legion of hundreds of people.
At least in Hermes' eyes, it was very difficult to defeat a legion of hundreds of people as it took nearly half an hour.
If he could use his divine power, the legion of hundreds of people would be dealt with by him in less than a second.
It was indeed difficult for Shirou Emiya to win.
Chapter 456 Abnormal Underground Exploration
“Why are there so many monsters!!!!!!”
In the dungeon, a girl named Lily was busy picking up the magic crystals that had fallen on the ground.
It wasn't because she had never seen so many monsters before.
Emmmm, actually she had never seen so many monsters before.
As a Lv1 adventurer, Lily has always acted as a supporter, but because she is a dwarf, she looks very weak.
Few adventurers were willing to take Lily to the dungeon.
On the one hand, lower-level adventurers account for more than half of all adventurers, and the competition is extremely fierce.
Another aspect is that most adventurers' first choice is naturally the supporters of their own clan. Only when there are not enough supporters within the clan will they choose adventurers from other clans.
However, such situations are still rare, and lower-level adventurers in the clan also make up the majority.
There is also a third aspect, which is that many senior adventurers simply look down on lower-level adventurers, and it often happens that senior adventurers take away the magic crystals that the supporters should have received.
So much so that Lily didn't want to team up with those adventurers at all.
It was just unexpected that she asked Shirou Emiya with a tentative attitude, and Shirou Emiya agreed to let Lily become a supporter of the team.
However, Lily did not expect that this was the beginning of a nightmare.
She had never encountered so many monsters on the third floor.
The first four floors of the basement can be said to be friends with newcomers.
Because monsters basically appear one by one from the wall or the ground.
Even if four or five of them appear at once, a novice adventurer can easily deal with them.
But the situation around her at that moment made Lily dare not even breathe, and she could only busy herself with collecting the magic crystals that fell on the ground.
There were so many anomalies, so many that Lily didn't know what was going on.
However, Shirou Emiya was like a **, holding the double guns in his hands and continuously shooting at the monsters rushing towards him.
One monster after another turned into ashes and disappeared into the morning sky.
What Emiya Shirou considers "normal" may be very different from what adventurers consider normal.
What puzzled him at first was that he went from the first floor to the tenth floor without encountering any monsters in the process.
So it feels very unusual.
But after that, monsters will basically spawn in front of Shirou Emiya as normal.
As for the number, Emiya Shirou had not explored the dungeon like a normal adventurer.
Naturally, the number of monsters that appear in your first dungeon should be considered normal.
In fact, Shirou Emiya was still a little confused at first.
But Shirou Emiya remembered what Aina said, that the dungeon was a place that would swallow you up without leaving any bones.
There are countless dangers everywhere, and adventurers may die in the dungeon if they are not careful.
The number of people who die in the dungeon every year is recorded in the thousands.
This is enough to show how dangerous the dungeon is.
If it's so dangerous, then it makes sense that monsters appear so frequently.
Anyway, this is what Shirou Emiya thought.
Shirou Emiya thought this was a normal behavior in a dungeon.
Because he had never formed a team before, he didn't know what kind of situation a normal adventurer would encounter.
As for why he encounters so many monsters every time he goes into the dungeon, the magic crystals obtained by Shirou Emiya are only about twice as much as those obtained by a normal LV2 adventurer.
After all, the drop rate of magic crystals is not fixed, which only proves that Shirou Emiya's luck is not high.
