Playing Genshin Impact in DanMachi Chapter 199: Becoming Someone You Hate

Chapter 199: Becoming Soone You Hate

Caught between advance and retreat.

Unable to take both sides into account.

You can't have both the fish and the bear's paw.¹

"Sigh~"

After Renjiro (Aether) confird that his goddess-sister was under the protection of a Lv.6 vice-captain, he imdiately teleported to Dungeon – Floor 50.

The Star Abyss skill's nightti bonus, granting a staggering 44× mana regeneration, was still in full effect.

With Renjiro's main body current mana capacity, even if he added in the Travelers' twins and replenished all the mana consud by the various Genshin avatars, it would still take less than ten minutes.

To save even a single second, both he (Aether) and Lumine had downed a large number of mana potions.

Honestly, if Lumine didn't have to stay put at the Large Tree Labyrinth, and if Renjiro (Aether) weren't currently on Floor 50, where ensuring his own safety was critical, he would have already canceled the Aerial Luminescence spell and fed several mana potions directly to his main body.

Money? High-efficiency mana potions are expensive?

Sorry, whether for Freya Familia… or even for himself, that simply wasn't a problem.

In the current situation, this was truly a case of… ti being more precious than gold.

On Orario's side, a Antares was still rampaging.

On the Large Tree Labyrinth's side, there were massive numbers of wounded awaiting treatnt.

Both places needed Barbara.

One side needed her as a humanoid warhead to turn the tide.

The other side… after the earlier Rain of Light, many survivors in the military camp were already on the brink of death.

At tis like this, even if the Dea Saint could be teleported over, her ability to instantly heal dozens of people by herself would still amount to little more than a drop in the bucket.

Just look, Riveria had been leading a group of elf maidens nonstop, and even Ryuu, a Lv.4, was helping out. But now… they were all close to entering a state of ntal exhaustion.

There were simply too many wounded.

By contrast,

"So even Ottar can't kill this Antares?"

While Renjiro (Aether) was recovering mana on Floor 50, he naturally left Paimon on the surface to oversee the overall situation.

From what he could see now, Ottar, Orario's sole current Lv.7, the strongest adventurer of this era, was even receiving support from the remaining executives of the Loki Familia.

Yet against that Antares, towering nearly a hundred ters tall, they still couldn't deal any truly effective damage.

Every one of Ottar's strikes was powerful enough to shake the city, yet all they could do was slowly force it out of the urban area.

At monts like this, one of the Scorpion's defining traits, ultra-fast regeneration, was being displayed to its fullest extent.

Renjiro (Aether) knew that this thing had clearly traveled underground through the Chaos Desert region to reach this place in secrecy.

Its estimated combat potential had likely already surpassed Lv.7.

It was on par with the current strongest Floor Boss, Balor.

And since it was also a super-colossal monster, capable of destroying the Babel Tower with a single destructive beam and causing disaster with even the slightest movent… its danger level was likely even higher.

At the very least, when Ottar fought Balor one-on-one, he could still cripple it to so extent.

Unlike now.

Every injury was instantly repaired by ultra-fast regeneration.

Which made one thing abundantly clear,

"To kill tAntares, the most effective way is still to blast it to death with Orion's Arrow."

To be honest, a monster of this level, once it appeared on the surface, would almost inevitably spell total annihilation for the entire Labyrinth City.

And so, it was ti for Renjiro to make a choice.

"The next fully recovered mana pool, do I use it here in Orario, or at the Large Tree Labyrinth?"

While his mana was still recovering and he still had room to choose, he began analyzing rapidly, weighing the pros and cons.

On Orario's side, there was Ottar. There was Finn. And most importantly… there was Ais.

If the latter broke her limits, it wasn't impossible that she could kill the Antares using the unique traits of the Avenger Princess.

But Ais was only Lv.5 right now. The potential consequences…

Were likely that once her Black Wind erupted, she herself, along with vast numbers of nearby residents and adventurers, would be buried together with it.

In fact, even now, with Ottar and the others restraining the Antares and desperately driving it toward the outskirts of the city, the process had already caused trendous casualties within Orario.

Other familias' adventurers truly had no manpower to spare.

Because at this very mont, the Dungeon itself was also running amok.

Faced with this situation, one that could only be described as enemies on all sides, many adventurers, led by the City Guard Ganesha Familia, were desperately holding the lower levels of the Babel Tower.

Finn and the others had only abandoned the idea of jointly sealing the Dungeon with the Ganesha Familia because they had determined that the colossal monster posed the greatest threat.

And with that, the situation beca painfully clear.

"No matter which side I choose, the other will suffer massive casualties."

To be honest, this was the first ti Renjiro had ever stood in such a critical position, having to decide which side to abandon.

The pressure built from countless lives… combined with the less-than-one-hour countdown until the descent of the strongest arrow of the Heavens, the deadline for the Lower World's destruction,

"If I had enough mana… enough power right now…"

Using Wings of Wind to hover above the Gray Tree Forest on Floor 50, avoiding the encirclent of Giant Spiders and Black Rhinos, Renjiro (Aether) subconsciously looked down at his own hands.

So many situations were all shackled by a single factor, mana.

"Is it true that one who refuses to abandon anything… can never change anything?"

The mont this thought surfaced, Renjiro realized he was being a little arrogant.

Because fundantally, whether they were the "strangers" inside Orario or the "strangers" at the Large Tree Labyrinth… they were all just strangers.

Right now, all he wanted was to protect those he knew.

For example, his Goddess of Beauty sister.

For example, the many friends within the Loki Familia.

And Welf, Ryuu, Syr…

He only cared about the safety of these people.

Thinking about the fate of the entire world, that was sothing only heroes (or fools) concerned themselves with.

In truth, if Andarīs weren't charging up a Moon God's Arrow powerful enough to destroy the entire Lower World, and if there weren't currently a lack of "tall enough people" capable of using Orion's Arrow…

He would have already stepped back and said, "Whoever wants to go, go."

The hollow title of "hero" was nothing but trouble. He didn't crave it in the slightest.

But there were no ifs.

"Enough overthinking."

Renjiro (Aether) made his decision.

"I live in Orario, so I'll save this side first."

"The next round of mana will be used to support the wounded at the Large Tree Labyrinth."

"During that ti, Barbara and Diona will just have to rely more on their Elental Skills and Elental Bursts."

His thoughts were clear and orderly.

He knew that letting two Genshin avatars remain manifested effectively distributed the burden of mana recovery by a factor of ×18.

Since the Genshin Descent spell only consud the main body's mana, that level of "loss" was acceptable.

To put it bluntly…

While Barbara's and Diona's Elental Skills and Bursts couldn't regenerate severed limbs, they could at least temporarily preserve Miss Asfi's life.

Based on that,

Aside from Hers, who had once shown up as an uninvited guest, very few people actually knew that Barbara possessed BUG-level healing abilities.

In that case,

"If no one knows that I can do certain things, then holding back a little so I don't beco the target of everyone's arrows… that's fine too, right?"

This was a line of thinking that even Renjiro himself found sowhat distasteful.

Yet it was also a line of thinking that many people would arrive at instinctively.

Reality had always been full of contradictions.

And now, with this impossible dilemma laid squarely before him,

"I can only beco soone I hate… just this once."