After getting his falna updated, Adrian asked how Ais is doing after using his Tear of the Goddess magic, restoring all his injuries, regaining his eyes, and removing all hidden wounds left from the escape.
"Have a look at her falna."
Loki handed Adrian a piece of paper that recorded Ais status.
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Ais Wallenstein
Race: Human
Level: 1
Strength: SSS1211
Endurance: SSS1240
Dexterity: SSS1320
Agility: SSS1340
Magic: I0
Magic:
[Ariel]
- Enhancement Magic
- boosts the power of things by imbuing them with wind
- puts a burden on the user's body the more wind elements are imbued into things
- can be used multiple times
- Ultra-Short Chant
- Chant: Tempest
Skill:
[Avenger]
- massively increases attack power when fighting monsters
- massively increases attack power when fighting dragon-like beings
- effect raises based on the user's hate
[Heroine's Longing]
- select a person who you define as your hero
- increases growth rate the more intense your feelings
- increases growth rate the bigger the gap between you and your hero is
- immune to charm and mental control of any kind
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"I can teach her how to enhance her body using mana, as it is what I've been working on and used to get to the surface when all the gods were watching."
Adrian said to Loki, seeing that Ais has magic.
"Does it put any burden on your body when used?"
Loki asked concerned.
"It doesn't. It should also have no limit to how much it can strengthen the body, when completely finished."
"How is that even possible?!"
Loki exclaimed in shock.
"It's because it is based on the amount of mana used, if you double the mana used, you will double the strength increase, which will double again and again the more mana used."
They continued to talk, before Adrian asked Loki 3 questions.
"Loki, can I now go into the dungeon with most of my senses deprived? Can I also begin to learn different crafts? Do you know of any good craftsman that I can begin to prepare for a gift for when Ais reaches Level 2?"
"You can go into the dungeon with your senses deprived, and can also begin to learn different crafts. About good craftsman, there is Tsubaki Collbrande of the Hephaestus Familia. If you are going to learn different crafts, I want you to learn from some of the best so I will try to use my connections with the other gods and goddesses if they or their best children want to teach you. We can also see if your Tear of the Goddess magic can remove the curse on Hephaestus."
After this they continued to talk, before Adrian left, Loki leaving shortly after to prepare the best teachers for him.
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Time has passed and it has been a week, in this time Loki has prepared the teachers for Adrian, with Adrian completing the training for his sense of hearing and smelling, now able to hear truth and lies and smell emotions.
At this time, Adrian is entering Hephaestus' room in the Hephaestus Familia.
"Hello, Adrian Yggdrasil correct?"
At the other side of the room, Adrian saw a goddess with red short hair, an eyepatch covering one eye, red eyes, and a busty figure.
"Yes, I am Adrian Yggdrasil. Goddess Loki said that my healing magic might be able to cure your curse or something, as it is able to revive those that died within a month and is able to be used once a week when used with its full chant."
Hephaestus then got up and walked to Adrian, removing her eyepatch, revealing a curse that is beyond divine, reaching the strength of a curse used by a Super God (beyond the strongest gods in Danmachi, reaching the strength of the full strength Soul King in Bleach Universe).
Adrian saw it, and muttered to himself.
"How beautiful. I can only see the beauty of the negative mana with my Spirit God's Eyes. You should have been cursed by the world itself, bearing all the karma of the gods. Its intricacies are extremely beautiful."
Hephaestus heard this and deeply blushed, detecting no falsehood in Adrian's words.
"I'll begin to see if I can heal it."
Adrian began to chant, with life energy, holy energy, and natural energy beginning to condense into a drop of water in the shape of a tear above Hephaestus.
"Oh the almighty goddesses beyond heaven itself,
please lower your boundless mercy upon this underserving believer,
gracefully bestow upon thee a blessed tear of your almighty power,
allowing this believer to show your almighty power and limitless mercy,
with the power bestowed upon thee,
I declare that all those touched by your mercy shall be revived."
As Adrian finished chanting, the water drop fell onto Hephaestus, making her glow as the curse began to unravel and dissipate at a slow but steady speed.
After about 5 minutes, the curse has completely disappeared, with Hephaestus' face radiating excitement.
After she calmed down, she called Tsubaki over, asking Adrian to leave for a minute.
While Adrian was waiting outside the room, he heard Hephaestus and Tsubaki talking.
"Tsubaki, you must teach Adrian with all your ability. He is amazing beyond what you could comprehend."
"What did he do to make you say that? Also, if you think he is so amazing, why don't you teach him?"
"I've got to compose myself as I am not ready to face him yet. He has broken past his limits, something we gods believed to be impossible as his soul lit a flame, growing exponentially and expanding his vessel without help from a falna or levelling up."
Hephaestus continued to talk, acting like a fan girl as she excitedly told Tsubaki all about Adrian.
"He defeated 2 enhanced Goliaths who fought him at the same time, while still being level 1, and almost escaped from the dungeon that was attempting to kill him harder than the gods who enter, reaching the stairs to the 1st floor before his body couldn't stand it anymore, being rescued by Finn who came to rescue himself and the girl he was protecting."
Hephaestus continued to talk, taking off her eyepatch she put back on, surprising Tsubaki as she finished talking.
"He also removed the curse I had. Can you teach him everything you know, with me also teaching him after I have prepared myself?"
"Sure. However, if he doesn't take it seriously, I won't teach him much."
"That's fine. But give him a chance."
After this was said, Tsubaki opened the door, letting Adrian back in as they talked about what was going to happen, before Tsubaki took Adrian to her workshop.
Tsubaki has long black hair, brown skin, red eyes, has an eyepatch covering the opposite eye that Hephaestus' covers, and has a busty figure.
At her workshop, Tsubaki began to teach Adrian, who quickly mastered everything he was taught.
"Adrian, tomorrow I will have you begin forging a sword. It would normally take about a month for others to know all the theory about forging that I taught you this morning, and is also why most people skip it and begin to forge different equipment. I did that at the start and after finding that my Blacksmith development ability didn't increase in rank for a long time, I asked Hephaestus, who told me that I was forging like a wild beast, knowing what I was doing but not understanding what I was doing."
"Okay, Tsubaki. Goodbye, see you tomorrow. Please send my regards to Goddess Hephaestus."
After saying that, Adrian left the Hephaestus Familia's property and began to go to his next destination, the Hermes Familia's property, the Traveler's Inn.
As Adrian was walking down the street to reach the Traveler's Inn, he noticed dark element and light element residue, deciding to see what was going on.
Adrian quickly began to follow the trace, finding the trace leading to a dilapidated house. Adrian walked in the house and saw that there was a lesser light spirit and a lesser darkness spirit or a lesser Lux and a lesser Shade.
"Hello there. What are you doing here? Are you lost? Do you want to follow me? I promise that you will get a warm bed, warm food and cold water."
'Why does it feel like I am a creepy uncle trying to lure a child into a white van.'
Adrian asked the spirits some questions, hoping to form a contract with both of them.
"Can we form a contract with you? I promise we won't cause you any trouble. We will be quiet, not disturb you, and follow your orders, just please don't abandon us like the others."
The Lux said to Adrian, looking at him expectantly.
"You can both form a contract with me. What are your names?"
"We are called Dawn and Dusk."
Adrian and Dawn continued to talk, before Adrian quickly made a contract with Dawn and Dusk, before rushing to the Traveler's Inn.
A few minutes have passed and Adrian has arrived at the Traveler's Inn with Dawn and Dusk on both his shoulders, having shrunk until they are the size of his palm.
Adrian knocked on the door of the Traveler's Inn, with the door opening and a girl coming out.
"Adrian Yggdrasil, right?"
"Yes."
"Follow me, you are almost late."
Adrian then followed the girl, who led him to a door, knocking on it.
"Asfi, Adrian is here for you to teach him how to make magic items."
"Come in."
After the girl said something to the inside, a voice came from inside, inviting them in.
The girl opened the door for Adrian, motioning for him to enter. After Adrian entered, the girl closed the door behind him, and at a table there is a beautiful girl with aqua blue hair, cyan eyes, and wears glasses.
"My name is Asfi Al Andromeda, and I'm only teaching you because Master Hermes told me to. However, he also said that if I find you to be a nuisance, I can stop teaching you after today. And you were almost late, when you should have had enough time to get here earlier, so why was that?"
Asfi told Adrian bluntly before asking him what took him so long.
"My name is Adrian Yggdrasil, and I was late because I made a contract with two spirits, who are now sitting on my shoulders and are named Dawn and Dusk."
Asfi looked at Adrian's shoulders, noticing them and accepted the reason.
"Okay, let's get started quickly, I will teach you theory until I think you know enough before getting started with making magic items."
"I'm fine with that. Let's begin."
As they talked about theory, time passed quickly and it has become night.
"You can come and see me tomorrow to continue. It will probably take a few more days for you to learn all the theory, and then you will begin to learn Hieroglyphs and will need to use it when making magic items that are more powerful and have better effects."
"That's okay. Can you tell me if I can begin to make some magic items in between learning the Hieroglyphs?"
"If you learn at a speed I deem adequate, then you can begin to make some magic items in between with me watching."
As they finished talking and said goodbye to each other, Adrian left and went back to the Twilight Manor.
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It has been 2 months, and Adrian is finally ready to begin his level up.
In this time Adrian has formed a contract with an Undine and a Gnome, which were a lesser water spirit and a lesser earth spirit, called Undi and Gnomu.
Adrian has also learnt all the theory of mixing, blacksmithing, making magic items, metalworking, and has learnt all the Hieroglyphs.
Adrian has used his Chosen Divine Craftsman skill to create a few extremely strong materials for crafting, and also how to create most of the training equipment going to be used.
The materials he has created are;
Dir Pure Adamantite that is extremely pure but also extremely light adamantite
Dir Pure Mithril that is as pure as pure adamantite, but also extremely light like Dir Adamantite
Dir Pure Oricalchum that is as pure as pure adamantite, but also extremely light like Dir Adamantite
perfect 100% alloy, memory alloy, and thread alloy of Dir Pure Adamantite, Dir Pure Mithril, and Dir Pure Oricalchum, that retains all the good effects of each of the materials and removes the bad stuff, allowing the metal to have the requirements to create Divine Equipment, and is one of the only materials able to create Divine Equipment found in the lower world.
Perfectly merged All Element Spirit's Threads, that has the power of Undine Cloth, Salamander Wool, Sylph Silk, Gnome Polyester, Lux Cotton, Shade Yarn, and Tonitrus Linen all at the same time, with them complementing each other increasing the effects by 5x. It is one of the only materials able to create Divine Equipment found in the lower world:
Salamander Wool - increases heat, cold, and fire resistance
Undine Cloth - increases heat and water resistance, reduces water resistance and water pressure, and increases mobility and attack power underwater.
Sylph Silk - increases heat and wind resistance, and reduces air resistance
Gnome Polyester - increases cold and earth resistance, and is extremely tough and flexible
Lux Cotton - increases cold and light resistance, and increases mobility and attack power when in bright areas
Shade Yarn - increases cold and dark resistance, and increases mobility and attack power when in dark areas
Tonitrus Linen - increases heat and lightning resistance, and greatly reduces the effect of paralysis
The training equipment to be used are; Gravity Bracelets, Abnormal Status Potion, Abnormal Status Potion Antidote, Sense Deprivation Ring, Monster Attraction Ring, Recovery Inhibition Ring, Movement Inhibition Ring, Time Delay Ring, Signal Disruption Ring, Opposite Ring, and Simple Clothes.
In this time, Adrian has also encountered hundreds of Jack Birds every time he went to the dungeon, wanting to get enough Valis to not need to worry about money anymore, with him getting around 200 billion Valis.
Adrian has also completed the magic he has been working on, has completed the sense deprivation training he was doing, and has gotten much closer to Tsubaki, Hephaestus, and Asfi from learning from them.
He has also gotten closer to Ais, Riveria, Finn, Etc. most people in his familia, and is finally ready to level up.
"Loki, I'm ready to level up."
"Okay, lay down on the couch and I will update your falna."
Adrian lay on the couch, remembering something he turned to Loki and said that Finn, Riveria, and Gareth could come and see my level up.
"Okay, I will get them."
After a few minutes, they have arrived and Loki began to update Adrian's falna, levelling him up as well.
"Hmm, you can pick 9 development abilities, and if there is no change in your mind, I will choose the ones you wanted as a top priority, is that okay?"
"It's fine."
"I've picked Luck, Blacksmith, Mixing, Mystery, Metalworking, Swordsman, Spirit Healing, Healing Power, and Mage as the development abilities."
Loki then completed Adrian's level up, with a projection appearing above Adrian but still in the room, showing scenes of many different worlds, however one thing that they all have in common is that they are relatively low in fantasy power scaling.
After about 5 minutes, the projection stopped and disappeared, with Adrian's level up being complete. Loki handed Adrian his new status, which he read and was extremely happy to see.
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Adrian Yggdrasil
Race: High Human
Level: 2
Strength: I0
Endurance: I0
Dexterity: I0
Agility: I0
Magic: I0
Development Abilities:
Luck: I
Swordsman: I
Mystery: I
Blacksmith: I
Mixing: I
Metalworking: I
Spirit Healing: I
Healing Power: I
Mage: I
Magic (new):
[Dark Magic - Spirit]
- can control the darkness element in various different ways
- can create your own dark magic
- no chant/selectable chant
- no limit on number of dark magic created
[Light Magic - Spirit]
- can control the light element in various different ways
- can create your own light magic
- no chant/selectable chant
- no limit on number of light magic created
[Water Magic - Spirit]
- can control the water element in various different ways
- can create your own water magic
- no chant/selectable chant
- no limit on number of water magic created
[Earth Magic - Spirit]
- can control the earth element in various different ways
- can create your own earth magic
- no chant/selectable chant
- no limit on number of earth magic created
Skills (new):
[Super Senses]
- Able to smell, hear, see, taste, and feel the touch of anything within 5km
- Able to smell emotions,
- Able to hear truth or lies
- Able to see the worth of things and fraud, also being able to have X-Ray vision
- Able to taste poison, recipes, ingredients, and antidotes
- Able to feel malice and goodwill
- Has an extremely strong sixth sense, beyond most gods
[Max Stats 1]
- gives an extra 1.5x modifier to all stats
PS. Luck development ability doesn't count luck increasing skills, just pure luck of the possessor that increases slowly over time with the speed depending on the original luck of the possessor
PPS. Development abilities all start at I and will increase faster if you are already good at it. Eg. someone with a swordsmanship ability of S, but just got the swordsman development ability would have the development ability increase extremely fast until it reaches their development in a month at most.
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After checking this, Adrian had a small smile on his face, as he felt like he was finally past the starting line, able to begin travelling to different worlds and grow rapidly.