It has been a year and two months since I joined Hephaestus familia, I am very excited today, as much as my first day when I received the falna and also two skills in my status.
Flashback__
Six months after joining the familia I maxed out all my stats, it wasn't surprising as I spent at least six hours in the dungeon and fought with members of my familia daily. But I was not satisfied, as I had heard from my mother that some people had skills that could break the shackles of level limits. So I begged the goddess to not level up yet, to which she readily agreed, and I also asked her for a level four adventurer to spar with me and beat me up, which she disagreed at first but when I said that I would only do it for six months max she reluctantly agreed.
From that day I increased my training and dungeon time and stopped my smithing practice, I exercised my whole body until I couldn't move a finger, then fought a familia member named Bakari, he looked similar to Arthur, with black hair, a muscular build, square jawline, brown eyes, later I came to know that they were brothers. Arthur had developed his stats in an around manner, he had good speed and strength, and he did his job very well that is, beat me up daily, lucky me, Prakasha had taught me a very good healing spell, called Holy Blessing.
I then went to the dungeon and came back and again practiced my spear skills remembering my fighting the whole day. After three months I didn't get my skill, but I didn't lose my will, I would meditate daily before sleep and sharpened my will for the next day, I theorized that maybe my mysterious skill could help if I increased my knowledge on improving stats by looking into guild documents on the experience of adventures. So I bought copies of these documents and studied them carefully, I don't know about the mysterious skill but, I had a better idea to challenge myself, I used monsters and different tactics to challenge each base stat. I used Killer Ants-red giant ants, and War shadow-humanoid monsters with sharp three claws, to increase my agility, dexterity and also strength, and endurance when I got hit occasionally. I also used magic taught by Prakasha extensively, of course, I only used my enhancement magic while fighting as I was not proficient enough in concurrent chanting, a technique to chant while moving.
I continued to go deeper into the dungeon when I felt comfortable with each floor, I fought many monsters that I learned about in books given to me by my advisor a woman named Marissa, she had blue hair, blue eyes, an oval face, and a good figure, and she was also very patient with me.
Finally, yesterday I reached the seventeenth floor and fought against a group of Minotaur- a bull-headed humanoid monster and Ligerfang- a tiger monster, and almost died but while straining myself I felt a shackle break and my spear skills also seemed more fluid. After a very hard fight, I killed them drank a healing potion, then hurried to the surface.
Present__
I came near Hephaestus's room and knocked on her door, she said to get in, I entered and closed the door, she was sitting on a table and designing a weapon, I suddenly felt a chill run down my spine, I turned to look at Hephaestus and saw her glaring at me, I knew right away that she knew I had come back from the dungeon bloodied, yesterday. I looked guiltily at my toes, after a few moments I heard a sigh, " Get on the bed " the goddess said. I simply took off my shirt and lay on the bed.
Hephaestus is looking into my status report with a serious face, she then looked at me and gave me the report. I saw the status and knew I had a stupid smile on my face.
Status
Name: Aahan Haldir
Str: SS1120
End: SS1105
Dex: SS1125
Agi: SS1110
Magic: SS1150
Magic:
Spear Rain: 'Enemies in front, the spirit of a warrior in my heart, the light of destruction converge, spears cover the sky, enemies tremble, weakness will be struck without mercy, destroy them all-Spear Rain.'
Skills:
Arcana-???
Hide- Hide oneself according to the will.
Warrior- Break the shackles of the body and mind and get the development ability spearman.
" I am very happy Aahan, but I hope you do not put yourself in extreme situations again," said the goddess with concern and joy on her face.
" I am very sorry goddess, I was so engrossed in ways to break my limits and didn't think about the stress I had caused you," I said with guilt.
" As long as you know, when my children get hurt my heart hurts as well," said the goddess.