[3rd POV]
"The object I want made is one that'll strengthen Aiz's development, mainly her rate of leveling" Loki said, causing Talia to raise an eyebrow.
"Now that is an interesting ask. You do understand just how powerful that sort of item could be, especially in her hands, right?" Talia asked, wanting to make sure Loki knew just what she was asking for.
"I do. But Aiz needs it, especially with Freya and the shit she's stirring up" Loki replied, causing Talia to chuckle.
"Alright, I'll make it. But, I want something in return"
"Name it. As long as it's within my power, I'll give it to you" Loki replied, causing Talia to smile.
"I want a drop of your blood. Simple, right?" Talia asked, while Loki frowned.
Talia has asked for the blood for one specific reason, this being: Potential. She wanted it for the potential usage it may have for her. As Loki a Goddess, even if she was a weak one, in comparison to what you'd expect.
This blood might just be usable in the future, especially considering she still had the Giant's Blood, and it's possible usage.
"And what are you going to use it for, if I give it to you?"
"What else besides my and my girlfriends development? You don't need to worry about anything nefarious, as I won't be using it to harm you or your familia. Afterall, my girlfriends are members of your familia, even if we both know they could leave whenever they want" Talia responded, calming Loki's worries.
The Blood of a God was...powerful, and dangerous. As it held pieces of their divinity within, even if it was very little. Such a thing could become incredibly problematic if used for the wrong reasons, hence Loki's worry.
"Fine. But if I find out you're using it for any evil reasons, then I will do everything in my power to stop you" Loki replied, causing Talia to chuckle.
"I'd expect nothing less, Loki" Talia said, a smile forming on her face as Loki softly cut her finger with a blade Talia made. A singular drop of glowing golden blood trickling out of the cut, before the cut healed.
"Here. Now, the item, please" Loki said, causing Talia to smile. Glowing, she began to use one of her magics involved in item creation, creating the item that Loki had wanted from her.
Slowly a glow formed in her right hand, as it formed into a small silver ring. "Here. This is the item you asked for. An item created to boost Aiz's rate of leveling, without weakening her potential. It'll let her level and improve at 2x her previous speed. I do believe that is enough, right?"
Loki's eyes were wide as the ring floated into her hand. "That-That's more than enough, way more than enough. I don't think there's a single item in Orario that is anything like this..."
"Well, you did give me some blood, so I think it's only right I give you something worthwhile" Talia replied, inwardly grinning as she looked at the glowing blood.
[Freely Given Blood of the Trickster God - Blood freely given by the Trickster God, Loki. Like the Giant's blood, this blood is powerful, and special in nature. Upon consumption increases the users magic by ??. Upon consumption strengthens the users ????????. Upon consumption increases the power of the users illusion by ??. Has more hidden effects]
'...So the system even strengthens/uses non system received items. I figured, but this is definitely better than I was expecting. I've already got a few rituals in mind, most of which should work with it. But I think...I think it's better if I wait. My instincts haven't done me wrong so far' Talia thought, knowing just how powerful the blood would be, and the sort of effects it may have on her.
"Thank you Talia, truly" Loki said, happy with the item. She wanted to help one of her children grow, and this item would be incredibly important to that.
"No Problem, Loki"
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[1.5 Months later]
Time had flown by after Talia's deal with Loki, and quite a lot had happened in that time.
First, the girls had continued to delve deeper and deeper into the dungeon. Rapidly growing stronger. And by the end of the 1st week after Talia and Loki's meeting, the trio had leveled up to level 2. Each of them developing another skill, and even a development ability.
Hope had gotten "Mage" which Improves power, widens effect range, and basically improves all her magical abilities. Creates a magic circle under the user that support the magic, allowing her to use spells with more power, efficiently, and easier.
Clary had gotten "Swordwoman" which basically just improves all her swordmanship skills, abilities, and rate of growth.
And Isabelle had gotten "Chain Attack" which increases the powers of attack delivered continuously. She had also gotten a new skill upon leveling up.
Poison Mistress: Allows the creation and development of poisons. The blood of the wielder is now poisonous to any monster that attempts to consume the blood through force. The poisonous blood grows stronger through consuming other poisons. Also grants complete immunity to poisons.
The skill was...powerful, and surprising. But after talking with Isabelle a good bit, Talia found out that the Lightwood family used to be immensely skilled and proficient in the usage of poisons, and they sort of had a natural affinity with the usage of it. Like Clary and Art and swordsmanship.
Hope and Clary sadly didn't develop another skill, even after the level up that came two weeks later.
The trio had gotten to level 3 at an unprecedented rate, thanks to the aid of Talia, and their own hard work. Plus their skills had been quite the boon as well.
Getting S in each stat was easy enough for them, after learning the intricacies of how the stats actually worked. And thanks to their skills, the trio was roughly comparable to a middle ranked Level 4, making them quite a bit stronger than any normal level 3.
And through this, the trio had managed to get all the way to floor 35, where they began to have genuine difficulty with most monsters.
The trio had even gotten their own aliases by the Gods, when they were at Denatus, which was a sort of meeting of Gods, where they spoke about important topics, and gave up and coming adventurers aliases.
Hope had been dubbed "Magic Blessed Mage" Due to her dozens of spells, something no other magic user could do...to any normal God's knowledge.
Clary had been dubbed "Angelic Swordsman" Due to her using several runes, some of which gave her a pair of false, glowing angel wings.
And Isabelle had been dubbed "Poison Queen" Due to her unparalleled control over poisons. None of the aliases were particularly unique or surprising, but the three liked them either way.
The trio were currently half way to level 4,
They had only grown so quickly, due to a mixture of dislike of being weak, and their own desire to be powerful enough to travel again. As while they enjoyed the city of Orario, and all it's sights. The trio had rather quickly gotten tired of the place, mostly due to the arrogant Gods, Adventurers, and lack of technology.
And Talia was growing to agree with them. As while the world wasn't bad or anything, she found it to be immensely...boring. As there wasn't much to do there besides dates, going deeper in the dungeon, leveling within her own dungeon, cooking, and sex...a lot of sex. Plus the magic in the world was pretty weak in most ways.
There was also the fact that she knew there was more mates out there, mates that she wanted to meet quite a bit.
Besides that, Talia and the girls kept out of the plot of Danmachi. Mostly because they didn't care about it, and because Talia wanted to let Bell develop as he would have normally. As the world of Danmachi did genuinely need a hero, and he was the last of them. Plus, she wasn't sure she wanted to fuck with Plot Armor that Anime worlds tended to have.
That included ignoring the fight with the Black Goliath at the deeper floors, a monster that only spawned due to the presence of Hestia and Hermes. A monster that was...utterly useless to them, so they left it alone, knowing that Bell and the rest would be able to take care of it easily enough.
Aiz, Tione, Tiona, and Bete had all grown to Level 6 during this time. Tione and Tiona being members of the Loki familia, and sisters. They hadn't interacted with Talia much, so she didn't care much about them, leaving them to their own business.
Talia hadn't been passive during this long month, as she too had rapidly grown.
She had rapidly went deeper into the Orario dungeon, getting all the way down to Floor 99, before deciding to stop. As she knew whatever was beyond the door to Floor 100, would be powerful, and probably have implications for the rest of the dungeon, so, she wanted to wait until she completed her own vampire dungeon until then.
Through those floors, she had amassed a...LOT of new herbs, minerals, ores, drops from creatures, and a whole host of neat new items that could be useful. The ones she liked the most were the array of flowers, herbs, etc. All of which she planned on planting in her own sort of garden, once she had a proper one made.
Speaking of the vampire dungeon, she had...flown through it. As due to her having quite a lot of free time with the girls adventuring so often, she had a lot of free time to go into it.
Thanks to that, she ended up finishing off the rest of the High Level vampires, and turning them all into her familiars. Giving her 8 levels from killing 500 high level vampires, and 20 levels for turning all of them into familiars, alongside a rather special reward, one she desperately needed.
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[Flashback]
Standing within the center of the high level area of the dungeon, Talia sighed as she dropped the dead corpse of the last high level vampire, before it slowly got to it's feet, glowing just like the rest of her familiars.
"Thank god that's over. I'm getting sick of this damn dungeon, almost as much as the Orario one" Talia said with a sigh, wanting to be over with both dungeons.
[Hidden Quest Complete!]
All High Vampires are mine!
Details - Turn all 500 High Level Vampires into your familiars.
Rewards - 20 Levels, 1 random holocron.
'Oh? A random holocron? Go ahead and claim it, system'
[Inheritance of the Light and Jedi]
A special Holocron, one that is immensely useful. Holds the teachings of every Jedi to ever live, every form of Jedi lightsaber combat and their teachings, and every bit of Jedi history, all housed within this Holocron. It is up to the user to understand the teachings, learn and use the abilities taught within, and the Lightsaber Forms.
Talia just read through the item, eyes wide as she understood what this holocron was, and what it meant for her growth in the Force.
'System...how many teachings are inside of this thing?
[Hundreds of thousands. As it houses the total sum of Jedi and Light teachings, dating back tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years. All the way up to the Descendents of the Skywalkers, and their own Jedi order]
'...How the hell am I ever going to learn all of that? That's probably the most amount of knowledge I've ever gotten through consumption!' Talia realized, as the second closest was probably the spells from TVD or Overlord. But neither of them were even remotely close to something like what she was about to receive.
'System...go ahead and consume it' Talia thought, preparing herself for the massive influx of knowledge that was about to be slammed into her head.
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[Flashback end]
To say that she was given a shit ton of knowledge, was an understatement of the century. And even after nearly a month of having the knowledge, she still wasn't able to test or understand even 1/10 of the knowledge housed inside.
Thanks to this knowledge, her development in the Force had rapidly begun to increase, at a far faster rate than ever before. The fact that her Force Wielder class had gotten to level 199 from that, had probably also been a factor as well.
Through this, she had grown even more in the usage of Force Drain, after finding some Jedi/Light based techniques that were similar in nature. With some Jedi having even directly used the technique before, primarily for harmless things, like using it to drain energy from weapons, using it to knock others into unconsciousness through exhaustion, and similar things.
She found that by using the technique, she could absorb the life force of monsters within the dungeon, strengthening not only her body, but her very soul. Which therefore increased the power of her aura, and her various semblances. Through this, she had begun to travel through the dungeon, absorbing literal thousands of monsters, using their life force as sustenance for herself, and her own growth.
And after killing nearly 2,000 monsters within the dungeon, something happened.
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Standing within the Orario dungeon, Talia stared at the screen in front of her, a sigh escaping her lips.
"I was hoping it'd take a bit longer than this...but I guess I shouldn't be surprised"
Talia said, as she read the notification in front of her.
[Level Up!]
[Main Class Maxed out]
[Please select a new Class! Or continue your current class to level 400!]
[Class: Sword Saint]
[Class: Demon Slayer]
[Class: Gunsman]
'Looks like I'll have to make a decision...an important one at that'
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That's the end of the chapter!
Sorry about the lack of uploads for this fic, but quite frankly...I've been getting writers block for it.
Not sure if it's obvious or not, but Danmachi ain't doing it for me, lol.
So sorry about how rushed it may seem, but I kind of just want to get the Danmachi arc done and out of the way. As it was meant to be a training arc either way, so it was always going to be short.
Next arc/volume is going to be far longer, as in, the longest one so far. Probably lasting 100 chapters or so, and will have genuine threats to Talia, and genuine struggles. As well as beings far beyond her in power.
Would y'all be okay with me ending the Danmachi arc within like 3-5 chapters or so? Each chapter is going to be longer to make up for this, so that more will happen each chapter. I plan on making each chapter like 2-4k words each, if that's okay with you guys.
Next volume should be far better in terms of pacing, quality, and moments between her and the girls. Plus she'll be getting her second to last mate there!
I am beginning to realize that writing fics on anime is...not really my thing, lol. Cartoons and Live actions seems to be my strong suit, so I'll be sticking to that, for this fic at least.
I've already decided her next main class, so don't worry about that. And the Holocron...was just luck, as I had a holocron with all Sith teachings, one with the teachings of single masters, like Vader, Yoda, Luke, Palpatine, and several others. But I got this one, so that's the one Talia gets too.
Next chapter will be the next class, rapid dungeon exploration (as there is little Vampire dungeon left of note, besides the final boss of course). It'll probably also mark the subclass maxing out as well. As that class and it's growth, is more so dependent on the person themself, and not the system.
She'll be using that subclass more in the next world, as her next mate is quite the glutton.
The girls are sort of taking the back seat in this world, but that's because they're focused on becoming strong enough to properly stand besides Talia, without being so insanely weak in comparison. Of course, they are still weak in comparison (as is most people), but at least after this training arc, they'll be far stronger than most.
Next volume will be more like the first one. With dates, slice of life stuff, new friends, stuff like that. It'll also be slower as well.
Anyways, have a good day, see you later!