After eating he heard some screaming coming from the slope that was the entrance.
"*oooooooooooOOWAAAAAH!* *oof* ow! you should have told me it was this deep!" a familiar voice was heard around the place
After hearing that, Calvin went with bell and his party to the location of the sound while Ais followed.
Reaching it, they came across Hestia that was staring at bell with teary eyes.
"Bell! bell, are you real!?" Hestia said pouncing on bell and touching his face.
"Yes! Yes, I'm real!" He said, but looking at Hestia that was about to cry he spoke again.
"Yes, I'm sorry for worrying you" he said again, giving her a small hug.
"it's good that you remember the important things, now give me a kiss-" she said while pulling bell's face closer to her, only to get her head grabbed by Lili.
"I think that's enough Hestia-Sama" Lili said.
"L-let go! You are interrupting our loving encounter!" Hestia said squirming around.
"Bell-Sama saved us so he is very tired right now so stop bothering him!" Lili said while holding Hestia.
"Cranel, are you fine?" a blonde-haired elf suddenly spoke.
Calvin that was a few meters from the scene widened his eyes at this 'the hell? I felt nothing from her, that's some next level stealth'.
"ryuu?" bell said but before he could continue. Another figure came from the slope.
The man with a feathered hat came in front of calvin and said:
"Are you Calvin Gadsint?"
"Yes? And you are...?" Calvin answered.
"so, you are him... I wanted to meet you, I am Hermes, nice to meet you" he said extending his hand.
"Oh, then nice-" in the moment their hands were about to touch Calvin retracted his hand.
'This guy... my instincts flared up for a moment, he must be more dangerous than Loki' Calvin thought while waving his hand.
Hermes seeing this smiled mysteriously.
"i see... then you must be bell, I wanted to meet you too, I've heard a lot of things about you" he said turning to bell an extending his hand.
"Yes, I am Bell Cranel, thank you for protecting Hestia" bell said shaking Hernes's hand.
"Oh no you shouldn't be thanking me, you should thank them" signaling to more people coming down the slope "they were the ones that brought us here in one piece".
Revealing some members of the takemikazuchi Familia which earned some hated glares from welf and Lili.
After that everyone went to a tent and discussed their next actions while the members of the takemikazuchi Familia apologized for leading the horde of hellhounds to bell's party.
Witch they accepted they also gave something to welf and Calvin, something inside a cloth for welf and a wooden box to Calvin.
While welf was looking at his gift with a complex gaze , calvin was looking at it with gleaming eyes, cause he already knew what it was.
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[Ruined church, surface]
"So, we are going to search for them in the dungeon". Hermes said.
"What? You can't possibly be talking about going to the dungeon, it's against the rules for gods to go there" Hephaestus said.
"Yes! I'm going to the dungeon in search for bell and his party" Hermes replied.
"Even though I can't go there myself seeing that my Familia caused this, 3 members of my Familia will go search for them" takemikazuchi said.
"Thank you take! Then as bell's god is my duty to go search for him personally, maybe they ran into Calvin, he can keep them alive for more time" Hestia said.
"*Siiiiiighhh* I see that you are not gonna change your decision, so I'm gonna give you a package for welf, as he is one of the only Crozzo alive" Hephaestus said looking at takemikazuchi then at Hestia" and Calvin... he is one of the only adventurers that have affinity to space so, I'm going to give him that sword that he keeps copying every morning" she said looking at Hestia in the eyes "so that you stop welcoming him to the staff room".
"Y-you knew!?" Hestia exclaimed with fear.
"Hah! I know everything that happens inside my store, but this is the last time I do you a favor... FOR REAL" she said.
"Hephaestus..." Hestia looked at her friend with teary eyes, she couldn't believe that her best friend was this good to her.
"But you are still working in my shop, so don't get too excited" Hephaestus said.
Making the previous look that Hestia had about her friend crumble.
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Calvin was in a tent provided by the loki familia looking at the note in his hands while the other was holding a sword.
'Seeing that you are the only person who can use the sword, I decided to give it to you.
But you still have to pay if you somehow break it or lose it so be careful with it, its name is Gram.
-Hephaestus'
"Gram huh?" suddenly the sword shone a blue light, with more runes scribbling themselves on the surface of the black blade.
Looking at 'Gram' calving could feel the link between them 'this sword can surely cut through solid jerrytanium without leaving a scratch'
'Although I probably won't break with a hit from ais, I could see it breaking from a serious hit from Karen' although it wasn't near-indestructible like Ais's sword it's still very durable.
'Now... if I use the real 'magic sword' will its level [Calvinian swordsmanship]?' Calvin thought as that skill wasn't leveling at all no matter what he tried.
Testing his new weapon, he could feel that it was light and sharp as hell so killing monsters became even easier now.
After that he meditated until he fell asleep
[Meditation has reached level 6]
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The next morning, they were walking to the city of Rivira.
"Are we there yet? I feel like my legs are gonna give out" Hestia complained.
'Then why come here at all!? You even forced me to come here!' Calvin thought looking at the goddess with an angry gaze, when he refused to come the moment they said to travel here, Hestia stepped in saying things about 'friendship' and get to know each other better, but when he rejected her again, Hestia's face darkened a little and she spoke again this time quieter so only Calvin could hear 'so you want to stay has a level 2 for all your life, huh?' so now here they are.
Half way to their destination crystals started to appear in the ground more and more often, Calvin grabbed some along the way to investigate them later.
'These crystals seem to be some sort of 'crystalized bent'? Like those magic stones, I thought you can only condense it into a liquid, I guess higher levels of [Bent manipulation] can do that'
Surprisingly every time he tried to move the bent inside the crystal, it would explode in his hands meaning that its structure was made out of pure bent.
They didn't really serve any purpose, just looked nice and reflected a lot of light making them almost imperceptible if held in the air.
After a few more minute of walking, the group finally reached the 'city' of Rivira.
'This... slums are supposed to be a city? Well, I guess it's the best you can find in the dungeon' while everyone was complaining about how expensive everything was, Calvin was just looking around, finding nothing he went back to the group.
The girls said that they wanted to take a bath so it was just Calvin and the boys looking around the place, welf went to buy some minerals and other things to make weapons.
And while Calvin was bored out of his mind, Hermes was ideating a perverse plan and Bell was looking around excitedly Hermes suddenly spoke.
"Hey bell, you want to do something? I assure you is gonna be F-U-N and ENTERTAINING" he said hoping to catch the attention of Calvin.
Witch he did, he started leading bell to the forest nearby while Calvin just followed to see what would happen.
"Hermes Sama are you sure this is all right?" Bell asked When Hermes started climbing a tree.
"of course, there is nothing wrong on doing this, this is the way of the adventurer" Hermes said, making bell have some flashbacks of his grandpa.
When they were in the top of the tree, they looked down to see the girls of the group bathing in the lake, naked.
"AAAhhhhhh this is obviously very wrong" Bell said covering his eyes with his hands, while Calvin and Hermes where just looking without shame.
"How is it?" Hermes asked to Calvin.
"I've seen better" he said thinking of Kala and ella 'Hestia does have big boobs but Ella's are bigger, well everything in Ella is bigger' he thought.
"Oh? I would love to see these individuals you are talking about" Hermes said with a bit of expectation
"In your dreams" Calvin replied making Hermes loose hope instantly.
In that bell slips from the tree falling directly in the lake.
"oops" Hermes said.
"Lucky guy, hahahaha" Calvin thought 'this makes me remember when me and the guys at the village spied on the women's bath, hahaha'
While Bell was having a panic attack, Calvin hid nicely while Hermes wasn't really a master of stealth.
After that whole situation Calvin went to somewhere to train, he was walking around the place looking at some artifacts and trash that was being sold at the price of gold.
'Just scammers' as Calvin was thinking how could you sell trash at high prices someone crashed onto him making the other person fall on his butt while Calvin didn't eve feel it.
He kept going not even bothering to look at the person as it was his own fault.
"This motherfucker thinks that reaching this floor gives him the privilege of treating other adventurers like trash, just like that fucking little rookie, just you wait..." the person said while getting up.
Calvin obviously heard him but he didn't bother with cannon fodder.
Finally reaching a good place he started training with his new sword while activating [Eye of the tiger], he even discovered that Gram could slice crystals without breaking them, that's how sharp the sword was.
After a while of cutting random things, a notification popped up.
[Calvininan swordsmanship has reached level 2]
With his theory approved he started feeling the bent inside him tugging on it trying to make it move, it was working but it might need some time to make it completely malleable.
Ending his training he came back to the group's tent but outside it there was a crumbled paper, reading it Calvin knew what was happening.
Going to the location that the letter said I quicky found welf and the members of the takemikazuchi Familia going there.
'They probably found out about Hestia's kidnaping' Calvin thought while running to the cliff near the giant crystal.
Nearing the top, they found a lot of third-rate adventurers that were more like a street gang.
"Bell must be behind them" welf said
"Cowards!" Kashima exclaimed.
"Cannon fodder" Calvin said as he ran into the crowd swinging his blade slicing the weapons of several adventurers and kicking them unconscious 'I really hate that I can't just kill adventurers as their gods are noticed of their deaths and they could take revenge or ask for compensations' he thought while beating them carefully of not killing them accidentally.
After a while some of the adventurers didn't even want to get close to Calvin.
"STOOOP" suddenly a yell stopped everyone even Calvin stopped as he felt some oppression from the aura that was being released.
Hestia walked in the middle of everything while shining brightly.
'So, this is the power of a god? If I got to break 7 again, I'm sure I could take her although it doesn't feel as strong as Karen, just how strong was she?!'Calvin thought looking at the empowered Hestia.
Hestia jumped towards bell that before this moment was being beaten by a stronger adventurer.
"Bell! I'm glad you are okay; I thought these bad guys were going to seriously injure you" she said hugging bell.
At that moment the crystals in the ceiling turned off making the whole floor turn dark.
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This was very entertaining to write so I hope you liked it.
Also, i went to the doctor and he said that I had a high flu along with a serious cold (What are those?), so I'll be alright in a few days.
That's all today so, see you in the next chapter.