Freya silently saw Shirou training and sighed heavily seeing his growth.
'Even though strength increase is possible even without falna, this magnitude is still a bit shocking. However, upon careful consideration, it makes sense.' Freya contemplated.
'Currently Shirou lives at the [Hostess of Fertility] tavern, here are at least two high-level adventurers who have spare time to spar with him, as long as he can withstand the attacks of high-level adventers with skill or willpower, he can gain a lot of experience in combat.'
'The increase in magic power comes from extensive use of magic, presumably a child trains until his magic power is depleted every day he can certainly geow magic stat, the projection magic of his is indeed very suitable for training. Though without a falna it's growth is very miniscule.'
'As for dexterity, it should be because he practiced everyday bit by bit. He accumulated the experience.'
"To be honest, if it were an ordinary child, with this level of growth, rather than feeling pleased, I would be more worried."
This kind of abnormal growth speed, Freya has seen it before. Once there was a child, whose family members were involved in an attack by a Evilus, and were killed.
From then on, he started training desperately, recklessly exploring the dungeon, not only leveling up quickly, but also increasing his status by nearly 800 points in the two weeks after leveling up.
And that child's end was, using a magic sword and a firestone trap, as a newly leveled Lv.2, he perished together with a high-ranking Evilus executive who was also Lv.3.
His name is engraved in the history of Orario's struggle with the Evilus as a "hero", but Freya doesn't want such things to happen again.
Though Shirou didn't join her familia, over time she took a liking to the boy and consider him as a cute little brother.
His extraordinary growth may mean extraordinary talent, or it may mean, burning oneself out.
However, unexpectedly, Freya is not worried about Shirou. With the eyes of a god, she has long seen that this child is special.
'He has clear and firm eyes, knowing what he wants.'
"Shirou-kun, next, would you like to try dungeon adventuring?"
"Yes. It's been two weeks since I'm training under Anya-san. It's time for me to explore Dungeon.
"Alright. Best of luck." Syr (Freya) silently supported him from behind.
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"Shirou-kun, are you preparing to enter the dungeon, nya~?" Anya asked while eating grilled fish.
This cat girl is only particularly elegant when eating fish, fast and skilled, a small fish is quickly reduced to bones, and not a drop of oil stains the cat girl's mouth.
"Yes, for the first time, it's just to familiarize myself with the dungeon environment." Shirou said while grilling small fish,"At the beginning, there will be experienced adventurers leading."
Bringing up the topic of the dungeon, Ryuu's mood visibly darkened, but after struggling for a long time, she could only say,"Shirou, be careful."
After these two weeks of interaction, Ryuu's condition has improved significantly, she's not as stubborn as before, and her psychological trauma seems to have healed a lot.
Also, Ryuu and Syr's relationship has improved a lot, Syr seems to have put a lot of effort into counseling the elf girl.
However, now only Shirou and Syr can approach Ryuu without triggering her instinctive resistance, Anya is very dissatisfied with this, feeling isolated, and tries various ways to touch Ryuu's hand, but Ryuu still can't completely control her instinctive reflexes.
It often ends up in a battle between Lv.4s, with the cat girl having the racial advantage in hand-to-hand combat, but as long as she gets a weapon, even a spoon, Ryuu can immediately turn the tables.
Considering Ryuu is an elf, high-level elf adventurers mostly have magic, Ryuu's overall strength should be above Anya's.
This is Shirou's own judgment, during this time he has occasionally helped at the tavern and has met a few Lv.4 adventurers.
Somehow, he feels like those adventers would be knocked down by a few full-powered cat punches from Anya…
"By the way, Ryuu, Anya, and Syr please take these." Shirou took out a small box.
Inside the box were three bracelets, with green knots and leaf pendants, orange knots and cat paw pendants, and silver knots and gardenia pendants respectively.
"This is a gift for everyone." Shirou said.
"Eh? These aren't made of mithril, are they? They seem expensive, nya~"
"I bought them myself, when I'm exploring the city with the allowance Mama Mia gave me."
"I see… but Shirou, giving girls gifts before your first dungeon dive feels like setting up a flag, nya… ouch…"
"Stupid cat, don't say such unlucky things!"
"Useless elf, because Anya said it out loud the flag is broken, how dare you hit Anya's head…"
"Don't worry, I will definitely come back."Shirou smiled and said.
"Promise, Shirou."
...
"Has the people from Loki Familia not arrived yet?"
At the entrance to the dungeon in Babel, Mia and Shirou waited.
On his first day as an adventurer, Shirou was accompanied by Mia because she is too worried she hired someone to take care of him. Now that he's first come to the dungeon's entrance.
Although he has seen Babel from afar, being this close is a first, and Shirou is awed by the towering giant tower.
And for some reason, he vaguely feels like someone is watching him from the tower… probably just his imagination?
"Sorry Mama Mia, we're not late, are we?"
"No, we just arrived early, this child is excited for his first dungeon dive." Mia said.
Appearing before Shirou was, how to put it, a man who doesn't stand out much.
Wearing what looks like ordinary full-body armor, with an ordinary hairstyle and unremarkable features, he's the type you wouldn't notice at a glance in a crowd of adventurers.
"Oh~ it's [High Novice]." Mia recognized him.
"Although I don't really like this title… but yes, it's me, [High Novice] Raul Nord."
[Titles] are something every adventurer above Lv.2 has. It's the proof that they have really broken the human limits by a life and death duel in dungeon and won.
More than fifty percent of adventurers in the labyrinth city are stuck at Lv.1, worldwide this percentage might be as high as eighty, and the conditions for leveling up are:
1. One status value reaches at least D rank, which is 500.
2. Achieve a great feat.
The former isn't too hard, even a dull person can slowly reach it through perseverance, at least endurance will go up after being beaten enough, the latter is more difficult and abstract, and is the reason many adventurers are stuck.
Life and death duel is not something everyone could do. Many couldn't gather the courage to challenge it.
Therefore, any adventurer who reaches Lv.2 has at least achieved a great feat, and even in the labyrinth city, the center of the world, they can be considered a notable figure.
At this point, the gods will hold a [Danthus] meaning Banquet of Gods, as the name suggests, a banquet of gods, and through collective decision, assign them a [Title].
Like Ryuu's title is [Gale], and this man's title is [High Novice].
Lv.3 adventurer, [High Novice] Raul Nord, a high-ranking adventurer of the Loki Familia.
But the meaning of this title isn't "High Novice", but "super ordinary man", yes, Raul is not only ordinary in appearance, but his adventurer status values are also very ordinary.
Having reached the height of Lv.3 a second class adventuter but with 0 magic, 0 skills, and no outstanding basic status values, too ordinary, to a strange degree.
"Ahem, this is our Loki Familia's new recruit, an elf mage, Lefiya, a high level Lv.1." Raul coughed twice, he stepped aside to reveal the child hiding behind him.
"Lefiya Viridis, pleased to meet you." The elf girl hurriedly bowed, somehow giving off an unexpectedly clumsy vibe.
The girl has a head of rich golden hair, tied into a ponytail at the back, her hair color is very eye-catching, reminiscent of beautiful yamabuki flowers.
Yamabuki bloom as overlapping many golden yellow flowers on the supple slender drooping branches. Because of the legend and the appearance of the flowers, the meaning of Yamabuki in the language of flowers is "Luck with money" or "Elegance".
Her appearance is as proper and beautiful as expected of an elf, with long ears peeking out from her hair, unlike Ryuu who is also an elf, Lefiya doesn't give off a cold or unapproachable vibe, but is instead very cute and there is her racial elegance.
"And then there are two newbies from the Ganesha Familia, we met on the way, so we came together."
"Niran Hoofie, Lv.1, warrior, pleased to meet you."
"Yuri Toole, Lv.1, spearman, pleased to meet you."
Niran is a female Cowkin, with a very tall height and an exaggeratedly voluptuous figure, not only Raul and Yuri, but even Lefiya and Mia couldn't help but glance and secretly compare themselves, it's just the Cowkin race, their racial talent is too strong, even Raul couldn't look away.
This is probably the law of universal gravitation.
Besides the exaggerated "pectoral muscles", Niran also has robust abs and a height and shoulder width exceeding that of the average man, carrying a huge shield and greatsword on her back, this physique as a warrior gives a strong sense of security.
On the other hand, Yuri is a Pallum, in stark contrast to Niran, with golden hair, carrying a spear taller than himself.
"Emiya Shirou, though I don't have falna, I'm skilled with the sword, also somewhat knowledgeable with the bow, pleased to meet you."
On the advice of Mama Mia and Anya, Shirou has taken up the bow again.
Shirou's constant training with Anya, had make him stronger. Though he doesn't have a falna, his strength surpassed any new level 1 adventurer.
After grinding everyday with Anya Shirou's abilities are high such as weapon handling, attack accuracy, the probability of finding and hitting enemy weak points, etc…
And it's the most important ability for adventurers, blacksmiths might need strength, endurance, and dexterity, while alchemists mainly pursue dexterity.
And for high-dexterity adventurers, the weapon that benefits the most is the bow, because the biggest role of dexterity is to increase the accuracy that bows need the most.
Additionally, Shirou's projection magic is also perfectly suited for bows, as long as he has enough magic power, his arrows can be replenished infinitely.
Though Shirou still felt discomfort while using projection magic, but projecting a few arrows are still bearable.
Coincidentally, Shirou has experience with archery from his previous life, so he picked it up quickly with a bit of learning.