Lyra: Astrea-sama, we're home.
Astrea: How was your descent?
Me: I have some progress to make. I am thinking of asking Kaguya and Ryu to train me.
Astrea: Good idea, but I warn you that Kaguya is rather violent in her training.
Me: I know Lyra warned me. Astrea-sama could you update my falna.
Astrea: Of course, wait for me in my room I arrive in 5 minutes.
Here I am, lift your top.
Tank Yukki
Strength: I0 I 5
Endurance I 0 I 6
Agility I 0 I 9
Dexterity I 0 I 8
Magic I 0 I 8
Development ability:
Magic:
Sotrmbolt: swiftstrike magic
Skill:
Egaliser : add all statistics gains to form a single number, ce nombre est alors ajouté à chaque statistique utilisée. Also harmonizes the Developement abilites.
Astrea: Already... Tank, you have awakened a skill, and a powerful one. look.
Tank: Wow, I don't know what else to say. It just seems... broken.
Astrea: With this skill you could maybe even compete the level up record.
Tank: Who is it held by?
Astrea: Bell Cranel, a level 2 adventurer from the Ishtar famillia. He leveled up in 3 months to everyone's surprise, the former champion was Ais Wallenstein with a record of one year.
3 months... wait for what 3 months?! What is this Bell exploded on the ground, normally he level up in 7 weeks! He wouldn't have awakened Liaris Freese in this universe, or a weaker version maybe?
Me: Do we know how he did it?
Astrea: He has a growth skill that allows him to gain more excelia as long as he acts heroically. Ishtar could not prevent himself from venter during the Denatus. To the great displeasure of Freya.
Me: Do they hate each other that much?
Astrea: It's especially that Freya can see the souls of mortals and that Bell's is magnificent for her. so she would have wanted to have him in her famillia. When Ishtar learned it, she decided to take him into hers.
Me: And Alfia authorized that? Today I very briefly crossed paths with Bell, watched him for a few seconds was enough to get targeted by Alfia and it was terrifying.
Astrea laughs: In fact, Alfia mainly helps the guild and protects Bell. When he had to choose between the two, he chose Ishtar, because Freya and Alfia's former famillia hated each other.
Me: It surprises me anyway that she is let Bell join this famillia.
Astrea: It's because she doesn't influence Bell, she just protects him when she considers him in danger.
Ah here is the reason for the delay in level up, mama Alfia had to overprotect Bell preventing him from facing all the crises he is going through in the canon, hence a delayed growth. Delayed compared to the cannon, 6 months remains incredible for normal adventurers.
Me: Interesting. Astrea-sama while waiting for the others, could we practice again?
Astrea: Oh! With pleasure, the girls never want to fight with me...
With what I went through yesterday, I understand why. But I have a growth skill and I intend to use it well. Not to mention that experience is also something that I am laking. And so for two hours I confronted Astrea, or rather I defended myself some exchange before getting submitted. Lyra she died from laughing, then Neze joins her once back home.
After the fight, the three prepared dinner while I managed my bones and dignity on the couch.
Alise: We're back, oh Tank still facing AStrea-sama?
Me: Yeah, it's formative... but painful. Ryu can I borrow your magic?
Ryu: Of course. Noah heal.
Me: Ah thank you. And before I forget Kaguya after eating, can you train me?
Alise: You confront Astrea on the way home and then want to face Kaguya? Do you like to suffer or?
Me: No, I have a growth skill and I want to push it.
Girls: WHAT!?
Me: Hahaha you would see your heads! It's hilarious!
Neze: Astrea-sama, is that true?
Astrea: That's true, see.
Alise: Egalizer... and it's effective?
Astrea: He awakened it today, so we'll have to wait until tomorrow.
Kaguya smiling: So you will push your skill. Then we will push your skill...
Me: I don't like your smile...
Ryu: I'm sorry for you.
Lyra: Remember, it's you who asked for it.
And so after eating I faced Kaguya... with a real weapon. It helps to I quote "get used to my sword, the pain and the sensation of sliced flesh". If I compared the training of Astrea to hell then I come back to it, in comparison Astrea is a walk in a park. Kaguya's training did not last more than an hour and I had to ask for Ryu's intervention 6 times. We stopped not because of me but because of Ryu's mind down. Kaguya then called her a useless elf delaying my progress. After the training, Alise pushed me to update my status.
(Note: The gains in parenthesis are the original gains per stat, but the value added to the score is the cumulative stat, I have made that so that the gains of the different stats remain visible. If it bothers me, I would only add the final gain for you to tell me what you preferred)
Tank Yukki
Strength: I 5 - (+2) I 21
Endurance I 6 (+7) I 22
Agility I 9 (+4) I 25
Dexterity I 8 (+3) I 24
Magie I 8 (+0) I 24
Cumulative stat: 16
Astrea: Just with training, you have gained 80 points.
Alise: 80 points just with practice, it's absurd. Tank we will push you. Neze, Lyra tomorrow take him directly to the 4th floor.
Lyra: With pleasure, we have a prodigy and we will abuse it!
Astrea: Good idea but be careful. Go everyone to bed tomorrow you have work.
They want to push me and that's good but it's also unthinking. If I progress too quickly, I will attract attention. In the original story, Bell attracted the attention of the gods because of this, notably from Apollo, and he attempted to take Bell from Hestia. Here Apollo is one of the two major powers, impossible for us to defend ourselves if Apollo decides that they desire me. Even though I have a system, I progress relatively slowly if I compare myself to other heroes of fanficiton. Especially since my domains in which the system will help me are not specially combat-oriented. So if I want to stay in this famillia, we will need assets and allies. The famillia that can stand up to Apollo are Freya and Loki. If we want to ally ourselves with one or the other, we will need something to offer.
From what I have seen, the personalities of the characters do not seem to have changed and the vast majority seem to be in their original famillia so Ais should be at Loki's. If I want to form an alliance with them, the best thing I can offer them is either a way to gain power or a way to help their progression in the Dungeon. If I want to succeed in this, the best way is with magical objects. They offer a wide variety of effects that could help them in the Dungeon and improve, not to mention that it will help me and my famillia. But there is a big problem in this plan, which is that to make magical objects, you need 'Mystery' and it's rare. In other fanficiton, it is generally given as a base or offered by the system as a reward. So for me it remains to rely on luck or try to force the appearance of Mystery, after all forged helps you unlock the blacksmith skill, so if I want to guarantee obtaining Mystery I will have to create a magical object without the skill.
Now the reward of a better understanding of magic is more interesting. Ok so tomorrow we focus on the fingers of goblin and kobold.
The next day as planned, the girls accompanied me to the 4th floor, where I faced my first Kobold, faster than the goblins and stronger but a little fewer in number per group. They fight mainly by throwing themselves at their opponent to tear them apart with claws and fangs.
The climb in stat even if light is felt. I always have trouble cutting certain parts of monsters but given that we went down three floors at once it's normal. If I were a normal adventurer, I would have had more difficulties.
Once I got into the rhythm of goblins and kobolds, I had a little personal experience. For the quest of the system I have to sell drop items. Normally they rarely fall once the magic stone is extracted from the body. I then had the idea to cut them directly from their body depending on whether he was alive. The experiment revealed a semi-failure. Indeed, the majority of fingers disappeared normally but the drop rate seemed to increase after a morning of fighting, I had recovered 3 fingers of goblin and kobold. At this rate I should be able to complete this part of my quest tomorrow.
After a lunch break and at my request we went down to the 5th floor. On this floor, in addition to the other two monsters, two new ones appear: the War shadows and the Frogshooters. The War shadows are very fast monsters their claws are much more sharp than previous monsters suiting many beginners, however their resistance is quite weak. The Frogshooters, for their part, are large frogs that fight by pulling their tongues at high speed. In addition to the impact damage of the tongue, its attack is completed by the presence of a sticky spit intended to trap the adventurer so that the monster swallows it. In general, the adventurer is concerned about groups of goblins, kobold or War shadows and is surprised by the ranged attack of the frogshooters.
My first experience on this floor was marked as for many, by a serious injury inflicted by a War shadows. His speed surprised me and hit my chest, piercing my right side. Neze reacts early and eliminates the monster while I take a potion. I had to try several things to really understand their speed is suitable for me. And with my current statistics, I am too slow to follow their movement. My only effective weapon is my magic. So as long as there are only war shadows and in small numbers I can manage them but when they are present with groups of other monsters I either had to eliminate them directly or ask for help from Neze and Lyra. Several times they asked me if I would like to move to the upper floor to accommodate my load but I refused. The falna only evolves when one faces adversity. And I am very careful to use the 5th floor pressure, especially with a safety net provided by my two companions.
In comparison to war shadows, frogshooters are much more manageable especially with the help of Lyra warning me of their appearance. Their main strength being the surprise attack. We stopped the fight when all my potions were exhausted. Once Neze and Lyra returned, they left me alone with other matters to settle.
Panthéon:
Me: Hello miss Eina, I'm here to exchange my stones.
Eina: Hello... Tank that's it?
Me: That's it.
Eina: So let's see... these are warshadows stones...? You went to the 5th floor!
Me: Uh yes, I was managing the goblins and kobolds well at the same time so I asked Lyra and Neze to take me further down.
Eina: But you started yesterday! You should be on the first floor, or at the second big ceiling!... And how did it go?
Me: I have a lot of trouble managing shadows in melee, but magic helps well for that. Otherwise no real problem, Lyra tells me right away when the frogs appear.
Eina: Be careful and remember to buy your potions. For your harvest today, you collected 11200 valis and with the 7 fingers of a goblin at 2000 valis, the 6 of a kobold at 2500 valis, the two tongues at 1500 and the claw of war shadows at 3000, that makes you 33500 valis. A nice sum, you are lucky on the drop items.
Me: Lyra and Neze told me the same thing. Thank you Eina, have a good evening.
Eina: To you too. Ah hello Bell.
She says all smiling, apparently Bell's charm hasn't changed. Hum what is this pressure! I didn't watch Bell! Effectively Alfia fixed my gaze but not with the same hostility, more with a kind of curiosity.
Alfia: Did you really go to the 5th floor for your second day?
Me: Uh yes Mrs. Alfia, I want to grow.
Oops bad response at the sight of the vein that appeared.
Alfia: I see, don't disappoint me. now get out you're too loud.
Ok... what am I doing now that I have Alfia's attention. In the original story she was talking about the Black Dragon and that Orario wasn't pushing enough. Was it because I pushed so much that I caught her attention? Or did she see something else? Well, no need to focus on it here. More important go recharge my potions.
Me: Hello Naaza.
Naaza: Oh hello, you are Lyra's friend. What can I do for you?
Me: I would need 4 healing potions and 2 mana potions.
Naaza: Right away. Nothing else?
Me: Hmm, two endurance potions, it will be useful for my training tonight.
Naaza: You train after diving, impressive. it will cost you 10,000 valis.
Me: Perfect. Thank you Naaza, so evening.
Naaza: Ah you too... I forgot his name.
Upon returning, I resumed my training with Astrea, the endurance potion allowing me to last longer. But I still end up suffering on the couch waiting for Ryu's return. And after having received my care and eating with the famillia, Kaguya resumed my bloody training.
To finish my day, I update my status.
Tank Yukki
Strength: I 21 (+4) I 65
Endurance: I 22 (+10) I 66
Agility: I 25 (+11) I 69
Dexterity: I 24 (+10) I 68
Magic: I 24 (+9) I 68
Cumulative stat: 44
Total gain of one day, 220 points per day. Not bad but insufficient. But the most important thing is the progress of my quest:
[Goblin's Finger sold: 8/10, Kobold's Doight sold 6/10, Frogshooters' Tongue 2/5, War shadows' claws 1/5, Killer ants' shell 0/1]
The problem is going to be the Killer Ants, to find it I have to go down two more floors. And for that I will need more stats. The guild recommends having a stat at F to face these monsters. I should be able to reach within 4 to 6 days. And by then I will need better equipment, not sure that my guild sword is enough against the shells of ants. They are called the newbie killers because they call for reinforcements but also after many think that their equipment will be enough but that their blades bounce off the monsters. I will ask Lyra to introduce me to one of these contacts.