Bells' Narrative
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I have never experienced that the words of people can stung very venomously.
"Hahahaha, did you see what happened in the dungeon today? Ais why don't you tell that story."
I have never experienced such humility in such a way through words.
"You know, the minotaur one!"
I have never ever let anyone disrespected the people I care.
"That rabbit looking midget laying down on the floor like that HAHAHAHA!"
Especially towards the one that I admired most.
"And that big guy! he just have a big body but he's pathetically weak. Probably came from a weak Familia HAHAHAHA!"
I promise I will get stronger.
Stronger than anyone else in this city so that NO one looks down on us.
Mister
Lady Hestia
I promise that I'll surpass myself to get to new heights.
I promise that ALL of us would get stronger together.
I promis-
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Bells' eyes suddenly opens as Bell was awoke from his sleep.
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Bell looked upon the ceiling, remembering it being his familias' home.
"Oh....so it was a dream huh?...."
"....or should I say a nightmare."
Bell said as he reminiscing the experience that he had with the dream he had.
"Well, it could've been worse." Bell said as he smiled with bitterness.
Bell then continued to lay down on the bed. He then proceeded to get up into a sitting position.
As he was adjusting himself with the position that he is in, all of a sudden a voice call out his name.
"Bell! You're awake!"
Bell then looked towards the place the voice came from, only to see two peach balloons
getting closer to his face.
"Bell!~"
The two balloons hit the face of the rabbit, bringing him back down on the bed where he once lay down.
Those two balloons belongs to the one and only goddess Hestia.
"Ahahaha!~ Bell! You're awake! I'm so worried about you not waking up. Thank goodness you're awake!" Hestia said happily while she suffocates fhe poor rabbit boy.
"Mphf! Mphf!" Bell uttered muffled words under the weight of Hestias' two balloons.
"A-Ah! I'm sorry!" Hestia said with a tinge of pink on his cheeks.
Hestia then went ahead and got off from Bell. The rabbit now all red as a tomato from the events that has occurred.
"Goddess, warn me next time that you are going to crash-land on me." Bell said, with a red face still.
Hestia noticing Bell that he's is in a faltered state, decided to more fire to it.
"Oh~ is someone a bit shy towards the touch of a woman?~" Hestia said as she leans in closer towards Bell to tease the poor rabbit.
"A- I-I W-Wha-" Bell said, stuttering his words upon the sudden playful nature of the goddess.
As they were being playful with each other, a booming voice was suddenly heard.
"I'm home." Said the voice.
The two then turn their heads towards the direction of the voice. What they saw was a tall man, ducking down through the door of the room.
"Oh kid you're awake."
The man, or more specifically the titan, has been revealed to be Aurelius himself.
"Oh hello there Aurelius. Welcome home! How was the dungeon today?" Hestia said towards the titan that is back from it's job.
"It was fine, nothing crazy happened....well nothing but a massacre that is." Aurelius said with a nonchalant face.
Hestia with a sweatdrop then said. "I don't think that it's normal to say that with a blank face, child."
"Well, I'm not those men. I'm Aurelius. Aurelius. I am built different." Said the titan as he flexed his muscles.
The two the sweatdropped upon the sudden uncanny nature that the titan is showing.
"Wait. Hold on. did you just said you went to the dungeon? alone?" Bell said shocked and confused upon the realization.
"Yeah. You were unconscious after we healed you this morning." Aurelius said.
"huh?! wait?! what time is it now?!" Bell ask frantically wanting to know how long
"It's already sundown." Aurelius said.
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"EHHHHHHH?!" Bell shouted.
"So, you're saying I was out for the ENTIRE day?!" Bell said in disbelief upon the information he received.
"Seems like it. Did he woke just now goddess?" Aurelius ask Hestia as he looked at her.
"Uh-huh. Pretty much." Hestia answered.
Aurelius then looked at Bell to answer his question.
"Pretty much." Aurelius said as he repeated Hestias' words.
Bell then slumped down upon the missed opportunity to get stronger today.
"A day missed on the dungeon T-T." Bell said as comical tears falling down from his cheeks.
"I mean, by the looks of you being soaked in blood this morning, I'm guessing you went to the dungeon yesterday night?" Aurelius guessed with narrow eyes.
"A-Ah well about that hehehe..." Bell laugh nervously upon the titans' guess.
*sigh* "Whatever the reason that made you go to the dungeon yesterday, at least you're safe now. Just don't do something like that again unless necessary. Got it kid?" Aurelius ask serious on his conviction.
"Y-yes mister!" Said Bell with a salute.
"Okay now that all of this is done and dusted, how about I update your statuses?" Ask Hestia towards the two children of hers.
"I think I'll pass." Aurelius said.
"Eh? Why exactly?" Hestia asked confused with a raised eyebrow.
"Well I'm thinking of honing my fighting experience a bit more with the monsters. If I were to kept increasing my stats, I'm afraid that I would be too strong to do that. At some point I would be able to one shot the monsters when my stats are too high. It's not a bad idea to one hit one kill enemies, in fact it's great, but just in case when a fight that requires actual hand-to-hand is on the table, my arsenal won't be with dull swords." Aurelius explains his reasoning.
"Well if that's what you want, then it's up to you. I'm just saying, playing the safe game here is much better then not doing it." Hestia said.
"Well how about you Bell? Do you want to update your status?" Hestia ask looking at Bell.
"Sure thing!" Bell said.
He then starts to take off his shirt and lay down on his stomach, leaving his bare back for Hestia to tinker with.
Hestia then starts her usual ritual. She pricked her fingers to have a drop of her blood onto Bells' back as she updated Bells' status.
After she's finished with the update, she then put a paper on Bells' back to paste the contents on to the paper.
"Here you go Bell!" Hestia said as she gives the paper towards the rabbit.
Bell then looked within the contents of the paper.
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BELL CRANEL
LVL 1
STR > C 632 ---> B 724
END > D 547 ---> C 631
DEX > B 791 ---> A 878
AGI > A 843 ---> S 923
MAG > I 0
MAGIC:
SKILL:
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"Alright! I'm catching up to you mister! just you wait, I'll be standing side by side with you." Bell said as excitedly upon knowing that he's getting closer towards the man he admired.
"Heh, it'll take you more then that to actually take me down brat. Dream on." Aurelius said with a mocking smile.
"Now now you two, no need to bicker. I am positive that the both of you are going to be very strong in the future." Hestia said towards the two rivalry that her children has.
"Now there's something that I wanted to tell you both." said Hestia announcing her verdict.
"What is it goddess? is it something important?" Bell asked, curious upon the goddess' thoughts.
"I will be gone for a couple of days starting tomorrow night. Probably 2-3 days. Reason that I'm going to attend to ganeshas' banquet." Hestia said.
"Oh, a banquet by Lord Ganesha?" Aurelius ask.
"Yes it is. So while I'm gone, please don't do anything life threatening okay, both of you?" Hestia said as she smiles threateningly towards her two children, seemingly having a dark aura surrounding her.
""Y-Yes ma'am./ Crystal clear my lady."" Bell and Aurelius said respectively.
"Good boys." Hestia satisfy with their answers.
They then talked some more about menial things about daily life stuff.
After some time conversing with each other, They went to bed, awaiting the arrival of tomorrow.
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The next morning came as they woke from their slumber for another day at work.
They got ready, packing the necessities that are needed for their work.
"Okay then you two. See you in a couple of days." Hestia said as she waves at the two adventurers.
"See ya." Aurelius said.
"See you later goddess!" Bell said.
They then left the goddess as she looks upon their departure.
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"Don't worry you two, I'll bring back gifts for you to use on your rise to strength." Hestia mutterd.
Hestia smiles as she then got ready for her work.
Aurelius and Bell continued walking towards the Tower of Babel. However, their goal for today is not to raid the dungeon. No.
Their goal for today is to head towards the tower itself, more specifically the shopping district.
The tower itself has around 50 floors. The first 20 are filled with businesses, facilities and money exchanges. Good to note that from the 4th floor up until the 8th floor belongs to the Haphaestus Familia. Selling many weapons and armors alike. The rest of the 30 floors after the 20th one are living areas for the most prominent of gods in the city of Orario. That includes Freya who has been said to be living at the top of the tower, watching every actions of the people below.
As they arrived at the tower, they then proceeded to use the elevator to go up the floors of the tower.
They then reached their designated floor. Upon arriving they saw a plathora of different kinds of craftsmanship. Weapons, Armors, ornaments, jewels and many more. They couldn't help but be at awe upon the shining and gleaming presence that they possess.
However, with flashy looks, comes flashy prices as well.
"By the goddess, 30 million Valis?! For single sword?!" Bell said, not believing what is in front of him.
"Probably because of the material they use to make the sword or the level of craftsmanship that the blacksmith who made it has." Aurelius said.
"I know that. It's just that it's hard to believe that a sword costs that much." Bell said.
They then continued to walk through the isles of many, very expensive, items. Knowing that can't afford a single thing in this section, they then leave the floor and went towards the upper floors, cheaper items are sold.
After arriving, they saw that there are far more many people in this floor of the tower. The reason being is that it's more cheaper and more affordable than that of the lower, more expensive floors. Although the quality is nowhere near close of that in theblower floors, it gets the job done for most of adventurers.
The both of them then wander around the floor, looking and surveying the shops for any useful ones. If there comes a time in the future where they needed anything, they can come to the place they deemed good.
However, so far there's non reaching their standards.
*sigh* "There's no good shops available to our liking." Bell said, saddened by the fact that there's no good results in their findings.
"I've always thought about having a cool weapon. Especially a twin broadsword." Bell said with a gloomy face.
"Didn't you have one already?" Aurelius ask, raising an eyebrow.
"Well not the kind that I dreamed of. I did tell you and goddess Hestia about my dream weapon right mister?" Bell said, asking to know if the titan beside him still remembers.
"What is it again? The type of weapon that you like?" Aurelius ask, forgetting the rabbits dream weapon.
"Well it's a type of weapon that can shoot out two beams of slashes towards our target." Bell said, making gestures from what he had thought in mind.
"Oh that! Yeah that's impossible to find in this floor. might as well sell your body parts for a weapon like that. Although, from your description, you basically ask for a magic sword right?" Aurelius ask.
"No! magic swords just breaks apart if you use it many times over. I wanted so that it stays in good shape and can freely flow mana through it so that the magic attack isn't slowly destroying the sword." Bell said.
".....That sounds like a fairy tail." Aurelius said with a deadpan face.
'Although the Hestia knife in the original is very powerful, as of right now, there's no way anyone can make it except for the forge goddess, Haphaestus herself.'
'There's also a man named welf crozo too, the very man that left the Haphaestus Familia. However, he made a wepon that can function as bell and is more powerful later on in the series. So it's still a far away from that conclusion. Besides, I don't know if the circumstances will be met the moment welf created that OP sword in season 5. Considering that he made in a cave, quite literally with a bunch of scraps, I don't know if he'll be at that level when I'm around.'
'Eh, we'll see. the only thing that I need to worry now is the present.' Thought Aurelius.
They then stroll some more around the floor and decided that they had enough with exploration.
Afterwards, they went to the elevator and proceeds exit the tower.
While walking through the streets, Bell can't help but to ask.
"Hey mister?"
"Yeah? what is it kid?"
"I can't help but to think about my rate of growth." Bell said.
"?" Aurelius looked at him with curiosity on where this is going.
"Well, what I meant was, How is it that my stats grow at almost the same speed as yours do without any skill to assist me? Beacuse I refuse to belief that I'm different others." Bell said, a bit skeptical towards his rate of growth.
Aurelius then look towards him, as if wanting to answer him. However, he decided against. He looked forward once more and said...
"I'll ask goddess Hestia to explain it to you." Aurelius said.
"Wait, you know the reason?" Bell ask.
"Yes I do but goddess Hestia told me to not tell you about it. It's for a good reason." Aurelius said.
"Is it a curse?" Bell said, scared and shivered upon the thought of it.
"No brat, what curse boosts your stats like that?" Aurelius said.
"Don't worry you'll know soon after. We'll tell you everything." Aurelius said towards the rabbit beside him.
"Okay..." Bell said pouting.
As they were walking through the area, a voice called out to them.
"Oh hello there, Bell, Aurelius." The person said.
Aurelius and Bell then turned around to see the source of it.
The person in question wears a dark wrobe. He has long blue hair until waiste length with blue eyes. He as well has a handsome face to go along with it.
"Oh hello there god Miach."
Indeed, the person who called them is non other than Miach, The god of healing.
"What are you two doing in this evening time?" Miach ask.
"Oh we just got back from the tower. Now we're just heading back towards our home." Aurelius said towards the humble looking god.
"Is that so? is there anything that catch your attention?" Miach ask.
"Not at all. Everything isn't up to what we expected. Well there is, but we rather keep our kidneys rather then having to loose them for one, absurdy expensive item." Bell said.
"Hehe, Well that is what you would expect Bell." Miach said as he pulls out two bottles of potion.
"Here take these." Miach said.
"I can't take these! We already have enough at our home." Bell said, declining the gods' offer.
"Just take it. Think of it as a patronage towards my familia." Miach said as he gives the to potions towards Bell.
Bell accepted the potions hesitatingly. Although Miach knew they're pretty much well of for two members, he still was kind enough to give out to them for free.
"God Miach, you didn't get invited to the banquet that god Ganesha is throwing?" Aurelius ask the humble god.
"While he did invited me for his banquet, circumstances of my familia does not allow me to accept it. Although I'm greatful for his invitation, I apologized upon his thoughtfulness of inviting someone like me." Miach said.
"I see. Well if you needed anything to help with, the both of us are ready to help you if we have free time." Aurelius said.
"Thank you both of you, I truly appreciate the kindness." Miach said with a smile.
"Well. I will be on my way now. My duties is still ongoing. Until then." Miach said as he started to walk away from the two.
"Bye bye god Miach!" Bell said as he waves his hands towards the humble god.
Miach then waves back at the rabbit as he walks further from them, possibly going back towards his familia home.
"God Miach is so kind isn't it mister?" Bell ask the titan beside.
"mhmm. Despite his burden, he still goes out his way to give us potions as if they're something cheap. I respect him for that." Aurelius said as he looked towards the direction of the once there god of healing.
They both then continued walking. As they do so, rumbling sound was heard from the rabbit.
*stomach noises*
It was indeed his stomach growling from hunger.
Aurelius then looked towards the hungry rabbit.
"ehehehe, I think we should find something to eat." Bell said embarrassed.
"Then how about we go to hostess place you went yesterday? Considering that it's almost sun down, it should open in a couple of moments. Is the food good? Is the price is as what she says?" Aurelius ask multiple questions.
"Yeah, it's good! And the price is not too shabby either! Last night I payed for...the....food..." Bell suddenly stop mid way through as something pops up in his mind suddenly.
"Hmm? What's the matter kid? You stopped your sentence half way through." Aurelius asked confused upon the sudden action of the rabbit.
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"...shit." Bell suddenly cursed.
"Oi! you never cursed before brat. What's wrong here?" Aurelius ask.
All of a sudden, Bell rushes forward towards who knows where.
"MISTER!! WE NEED TO HURRY TO THE HOSTESS!!" Bell said as he ran off towards the direction of the hostess.
"OI WHAT'S WRONG YOU IDIOT?!" Aurelius ask shouting.
"I FORGOT TO PAY FOR THE FOOD YESTERDAAAYYY!!" Bell shouts as he was gone in the distant sun.
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*facepalm* "Of course you would." Aurelius said as he went to chase after the rabbit in distress.
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After a while of chasing, Aurelius then arrived at the hostess. The establishment doesn't have many as of yet considering that they just open.
Aurelius then went inside the establishment, only to see a commotion was going on.
"I'm sorry miss Mia! I was careless last night!"
A voice shouts at the middle of the commotion. Upon seeing who it is, the people in question are Bell and a woman that wears a black maid outfit.
"Careless my ass! You stormed of out of my shop yesterday." An aggressive voice of a woman spoke towards Bell.
"I know! I'm sorry! I'll pay for it now!" Bell said, bowing down at a 90 degree angle.
*sigh* "Fine, but if you do it one more time, I'll make sure you won't see the light of day!" The woman said, warning the little rabbit.
"Eeek?! O-Okay I promise!" Bell said, apologizing still at a 90 degree angle.
Bell was about to pay for the money as suddenly a booming voice called out to him.
"Oi brat!" the person said.
The woman and Bell then looked towards the source of the voice towards the door of the establishment.
"A-Ah mister!" Bell said as he saw the titan, Aurelius, arrived.
"You just have to run off leaving me in the dust now didn't you?" Aurelius said with a glare towards the rabbit.
"I-I'm sorry mister. I had to, or else I'm not gonna be safe." said bell while shivered upon the thought of it.
The woman then looked towards the huge man in front of her and proceeded to ask the him.
"Who're you supposed to be punk?" The lady ask the titan.
"His familia member, more specifically, his captain." Aurelius said with a stern voice.
"Oh! A tough one aren't ya kiddo?" The lady said as he stares at the titan with intent with the titan doing the same.
They stared at each other, the atmosphere intense between the two. One seemingly exudes an aura of white while the an aura of gold, respectively for the lady and the titan.
Then all of a sudden, they laughed.
""HAHAHAHAHA""
"Your one tough guy I'll give you that brat!" The lady said.
"You too hag! you too!" Aurelius said with a prideful voice.
"The names Aurelius. Captain of Hestia Familia." Aurelius said looking towards the lady as he held out his hands.
"Nice to meet ya! Mia Grand or you can call me Mia, whatever suits you." The lady, now known as Mama Mia, said as she held out her hand to shook the titans'.
'Wow...to think the two of them would go ahead and be friends instantaneously after meeting...I can only wish to survive in the ladys' presence.' Bell thought as he looked between these two brutes.
"So, what cha doing here at my shop? Are ya here to confess your sins like this brat over here?" Mia Grand said.
"HAH! You wish! But no, I'm here to eat. This kid then rush here without me." Aurelius said while pointing at the rabbit.
"I'm sorry okay T-T" Bell said with teary eyes.
"Eat ya say? Then be my guess! Eat as much you want HAHAHA!" Mia Grand said, laughing haughtily afterwards.
"Girls! a new customer is here to eat! get the move on!" Mia Grand said, ordering her workers.
""""Yes ma'am!"""" They replied.
"Then you two take a seat while we prepare the food." Says Mia Grand.
They both then took a seat at the counter table.
Aurelius then starts to oversee the establishment, more specifically, the workers.
'All of them are level 4's if I remember.' Aurelius then starts to look at them one by one.
'Lunoire Faust, Chloe Rollo, Anya Fromel and Ryuu Lion. All of them are level 4 at the moment and in the future, ryuu became a level 6.' Aurelius said.
'And not to mention the store owner. She's a level 6 and formerly the captain of the Freya Familia.' Aurelius thought thinking about how powerful the lady here is.
After a while waiting, The food arrived in front of them. A lot of food.
"HAHAHA eat to your hearts contents kiddos." Mia said.
The both of them starts to eat the food being served for them.
While eating, Aurelius couldn't help but to think something is a miss.
'Wait a minute, where's "Syr"?' Aurelius ask while looking around the place for her presence.
'I don't like it when that girl is not around where she should be. She might as well planned something for her entertainment.' Aurelius as he contemplates the absence of the goddess in disguise.
'Whatever it is, I'll need to make sure that I'm ready at all times. What better way then to get stronger.' Aurelius thought.
They then continued to eat their fill. Mia wanted to add more on the table for them but Aurelius and Bell quickly put the money on the table and left the establishment, much to the dislike of the former captain.
Afterwards, they went home to rest for the day. As they thought, Hestia isn't home as she has said.
They didn't waste anytime sooner and went to sleep.
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The next day came as they got ready to head to the dungeon once more.
They then set out on their way through the streets of the city. As they were walking in front of the hostess, where they ate at last night, they were suddenly called by a female voice.
"Hey! Wait, nya!" a voice said with a "nya" at the of its sentence spoken.
The two then looked towards the direction of the voice. They saw a cat woman with brown hair and dark yellow eyes wearing a green maid dress standing and waving towards them.
She was none other then Anya Formel
"White-hair, Blonde-mane, I have a request for you both, nya!" The cat lady said.
"Uhm..." Bell uttered, confused by the sudden call.
"Oh, I'm sorry nya. I'm Anya Formel working at the Hostess Of Fertility, Nya!" Anya said as she bowed towards the two.
"O-Oh hello there Anya, Bell Cranel of the Hestia Familia." Bowed Bell in tandem.
"Aruelius, captain of Hestia Familia." Aurelius greeted.
Anya stood up from his decision. She then decided to took out a purple colored purse.
"I want you to give this purse to that scatterbrain Syr, nya." Anya said without proper description on her request.
"Miss, we don't understand why is it all of a sudden you wanted to give this purse towards your friend." Aurelius said.
"nya?" Anya uttered in confusion.
"Anya, that's not how you say if you wanted to explain a request." A sudden voice of feminine rang.
Out of nowhere, an elf came out of the corner of the establishment. Green shoulder length hair, dark blue eyes and is also wearing a green maid outfit.
This person was the former Astrea Familia Gale, Ryuu Lion.
"Don't be stupid ryuu, nya. Syr skipped out on work to go to Monsterphilia, nya. She forgot to bring her purse with her and decided that these two can help give it to her, nya." Anya said, now giving full detail of the problem.
"Now do you both understand?" Ryuu ask.
The two then nodded.
"Good. Well, Syr didn't actually skipped work. She took the day of for today. Possibly right now, she is a pickle situation without her purse."
"You two can help us give this to her right?" Ryuu said as she gives a hopeful look.
"Don't worry. You can count on us to help you." Bell said with a smile.
"Thank you mister Cranel, mister Aurelius. We truly appreciate it." Ryuu said bowing.
"Hmm! Thank you, nya!" Anya said.
Bell then took the purse and proceeded to put in his bag.
They then left the hostess, onwards towards their given mission.
"Well, our trip to the dungeon today is scraped." Aurelius said.
"It's just a delivery trip mister, how bad can it be? Besides, we just need to find a person with grey hair right?" Bell said, ignorant upon the trials ahead.
After several minutes later, they were lost within the current of crowds.
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They both then stared at the many people flooding the streets. Including people with grey hair.
"....Yeah, "Easy" he says." Aurelius said with a deadpan face.
"D-Don't worry, we'll find her eventually." Bell said with a tinge of doubt in his voice.
After a while of searcing with no results, they decided to stop.
"This is useless. There's no way we'll find her at this point. Just look at the amount of people that's here right now! We'll be here forever kid!" Aurelius said impatient upon this hide and seek.
They were searching for "Syr" for a couple of now, yet, still no sign of her.
However, out of nowhere, a female voice was heard from behind them.
"Bell! Aurelius!" The voice calls out to the names of the two.
They then turned their direction towards the source, Only to find their goddess standing behind them.
"Eh? Goddess? What are you doing here?" Bell said upon the sudden appearance of their goddess.
"Well I guess, missed you two hehe" Hestia said with a smile.
They then looked towards the item that Hestia is carrying wrapped in cloth,strapping it across her body. It was a long item that seems like it is longer than her body almost twice, from waist to to head. The girth of it is small in size however. It almost seemed like a sword even.
"Goddess, what is that on your back?" Bell ask, curious about the item that his goddess was carrying.
"This?" Hestia points towards the Item and said, " This is a gift I got for you Bell! You'll love it." Hesta said.
"But for now, how about we go on a family time together?" Hestia said as she took both Bells' and Aurelius' hand.Although, no success at all on pilling the latter.
"Goddess, we we're task to find somebody to give its purse to." Bell said as he is being dragged by the goddess.
"Hmm? Well how about we spend time together and search for that person you said? Killing two birds with one stone!" Hestia said.
"Sure why not." Aurelius said confirming it for the goddess.
"Yaaay! okay! Let's go!" Hestia said, happy that she got to be together with her children.
'Wait, I just remembered, this is the that silverback is going to attack us because of freya right? No wonder she was gone last night. She probably was setting up plans for us to face it.' Aurelius thought.
'But, I don't mind she's throwing at me. I'll take it one by one. she tends to send things that can make her target stronger right? then that's fine by me.' Aurelius thought upon his challenge that will happen soon enough.
They then went towards a crepe shop to buy one for themselves. Afterwards, they went ahead and sit nearby the colosseum, where the main event happens in monsterphilia.
However as they were relaxing, they heard sounds of monsters that were screaming within the colosseum.
"Huh? What was that?" Bell ask.
Before anyone can answer, two silhouettes came out of the colosseum.
*growl*
*growl*
From the smoke that it made, out came two silver gorilla monsters.
'So this is what sent towards while I'm here. Another silver back huh?' Aurelius said as he started to smile widely from the adrenaline going through his blood veins.
The two silver backs then spotted their target.
Hestia.
"Kid! Seems like they've targeted us! let's get out of here to deal with in a safer place!" Aurelius said, warning the rabbit about the two silver backs.
"Alright! Goddess let's go!" Bell said as he took Hestias' hand and started to run with her.
They then ran towards an open large area of the city, right in the middle where people is no where at that current spot.
As they ran, people were getting out of their way so that they didn't get swept up by the mess the three made.
Once arrive, they went ahead and put up their stance to fight, while the people watch that the two preaparing for battle.
"Goddess get to a safe place first! we take care of these two!" Bell said towards Hestia.
"But I can't leave you both hear! That's suicide!" Hestia said worried about their safety.
"Just go damn it!" Aurelius said as they saw that one of the two silverbacks charging towards them.
Aurelius brought up his shield to protect them both while the Bell was shielding the goddess.
One of the silverback made impact with the shield as they were sent flying into the air. They landed a bit farther from the two overgrwon gorillas.
"Ugh, Are you two okay?!" Aurelius ask worriedly.
"Y-Yeah we're fine. Just a bit of scratches from that's all. Nothing happend to our goddess." Bell said.
Hestia then looked at the item she's holding onto. She then started to say something.
"Aurelius, can you do me a favor?" Hestia said towards the titan.
"What is it?" Aurelius ask.
"I wanted you to distract the two silverback gorillas while I uncloth the item I have here. It's a weapon that bell can use." Hestia said.
"Does taking of the cloth really takes that long?!" Aurelius said with a tinge of frustration.
"No, there's something that bell needed to do for the weapon to fully work."
"So can you do that for me?" Hestia ask the titan.
*sigh* "Alright then, but make sure you're treating something good, both of you!" Aurelius said as he rushes towards the two silverbacks, surprising them by the sudden change of behavior.
'Alright, here we go!' Aurelius thought, adrenaline seeping through him.
*ROOAARR*
*ROOAARR*
The two silverbacks then started to charge Aurelius. One of them then starts to throw a punch towards his shield.
As the first srike was about to hit the shield, Aurelius then dodged it as the fist landed on the ground. He then punch its forearm to make it stutter upon its movements.
The other silverback then went ahead and throws a punch as well, however, it crash landed on the ground as too because of the titans' evation, resulting with its hands stuck to the ground.
While the second silverback is struggling to get its hands out of the ground, He then went for the first gorilla. He charges towards it as he charges up his fist with the intention of hitting its head.
The first gorilla, seeing this, ready itself to give its own strike towards the giant man. However, as its fist was near the target, Aurelius dodge it in the nick of second, resulting in its hand missing and hitting the air.
Aurelius took advantage of its low posture upon and jumps towards its face,as he lets go of his fist, hitting its face.
*HUP*
The silverback then staggered, almost falling to the ground as it tries to retain it self from that blow. However, before it got to do so, Aurelius was already on his back side of its neck, choking the living daylights out of it.
As he was choking the gorilla, it frantically was flailing around, trying to get the human off from its neck. It tried body slammed it to the ground, crushing the human.
However, to no avail.
Even though it has done quite the damage to the human, it still holds on, not letting it go. Aurelius then started to tighten his hold even more, making sure that the gorilla is dead through and through.
The gorilla started to struggle more as he slowly feels that its loosing its breath. The gorilla then dropped from its knees as it slowly losing consciousness. Aurelius after seeing this, started to twist its neck to break it.
"RAAAGHH" Aurelius screams with all his might.
*CRACK*
The gorilla then suddenly stopped moving. It then fall down to the ground. It then turned to dust, dropping its core.
"One down, one more to go." Aurelius said as he exhaled his breath. Although pain going through his entire being.
When he looked towards the direction the second gorilla. Upon seeing, it was gone.
"What?! Where di-" Aurelius didn't get to continue to speak as a fist was nearing him from the back.
Aurelius, didn't have enough time to attack, stayed there, awaiting the inevitable blow. However, suddenly, a beam slash cut through the middle area of the forearm.
*SHIIINGG*
The gorillas' strike was suddenly put to a stop. Moments later, its hand was cut off from the rest.
*ROOOOAAARR*
The gorilla roars in pain as he falters back. Aurelius then looked towards the source of the attack, only to see that Bell was standing there, with one of his sword being sheath into its scabbard.
"MISTER!" Shouted Bell upon seeing the condition the condition he is in.
Bell then ran towards the injured titan. Upon arriving, the rabbit was frantically searching all over the titans body, seeing if there is amy fatal injury.
"Mister, are you okay?!" Ask the distressed rabbit.
"Yeah I'm fine. Although it hurts a little, nothing that I can't handle." Aurelius said.
Aurelius then looked towards the sword that bell just used, or rather, two twin broadswords.
"So that's the weapon that the goddess gave as a present eh? Color me jealous." Aurelius said.
The two sowrda has a red scabbard with silver pattern on the red one, with each sword scabbard has different patterns to it. The guard has a gold looking wings to it. For the handle, it is wrapped in leather.
"Yeah, it's super nice. It has some cool abilities to a long with it." Bell said as he proudly look at his new weapon.
"But this is not what we should talk about right now. We should go ahead defeat that silverback before it causes more trouble. Waiting for help to come is going to be a while." Bell said.
"Yup." Said Aurelius as he got up from his position.
"Alright then kid, the usual! Let's see what that new sword of yours can do!" Aurelius said.
"Yeah!" Bell said and nodded.
"Alright, Let's get this party going!"
Aurelius then held out his shield.
"[TAUNT]"
A golden wave rushing towards gorilla can be seen. It then hit the gorilla, turning its eyes gold from red.
*ROOOAAARRR*
The gorilla the charges towards the human titan as its frenzy state is making it go abosolute wild.
It then made impact with the shield as the titan was pushed back by it. At the same time, Bell attacked the gorrila from the back of the gorillas' body, leaving slash marks all over the place.
The gorilla however isn't phased by it as it kept attacking the shield user. As it kept attacking it, Aurelius kept on taking it's hits. He was overwhelmed by first as the hits were unconditionally heavy. However, as it goes on, it then become less daunting on his body. Still heavy, but not much like beforehand.
The two of them continued to do this until they see that the effect of the magic is getting resist by the gorilla.
*ROOOAAARR*
The gorilla screams as its consciousness is desperate to break from the shakles of the titans' magic.
"Kid! It's starting to resist the magic. We need to finish it now!" Aurelius said.
"Okay!" Bell agrees.
Aurelius then started to charge towards the gorilla. As the gorilla sees this, it is ready to attack with a mighty punch. However, it does not land on the human titan. In fact the titan dodges by ducking his head. All it's left is air to hit.
As the titan passed its fist, it then jumps up from the ground, reaching the hight of the gorillas face. He then punches it with more force than he did with the first silverback.
"HUP!" Aurelius uttered as he punch the gorilla with his might.
The punch landed on its face as it was sent tumbling down to the ground. It wanted to get up, however, the blow was so strong that it temporarily paralyzed its nerves.
"Now Kid! Kill it!" Aurelius shouts.
Then we see Bell ran towards the gorilla. As he was about reach it, he jumped up into the air, sword in hand, ready to plunge his two swords into its eyes.
"RAAAAGGHHH" Bell let out a war cry doing so.
He then landed on the gorilla, its eyes plunge by the sword of the rabbit.
*ROOOAARR*
The gorilla was still alive afterwards. However, Bell will let the beast live to see another day.
"AAAAAGGGGHHH" Bell screams as he thrust harder into its eyes. The gorilla then starts to lessen its desperate action and slowly losing its conscious. Moments later, the body of the gorilla went limp as it turned to dust right after, leaving only its core to be collected.
"We did it.....WE DID IT!" Bell shouts triumphantly upon their victory.
Everyone who witnessed it gave around of a plause to the two incredible adventurers who defeated the two silverback.
"Wow, that's incredible." A voice said in the distance as he not long after arrived to see the two fight fiercely.
This person is none other then Finn Deimne, the captain of the Loki Familia. alongside him are his crew members.
"Hmm, yeah. Didn't expect to see two level 1's defeated two silverback. Especially the big guy over there. He practically killed one of them with his bare hands!" Tione said, impressed by the display of the titan.
"You bet it. Even I wouldn't be strong enough to beat a silverback at level 1. Heck, anybody really." Gareth said as he is also impressed by the strength shown from the titan.
"To think that a level 1 could be this strong. Unbelievable." Riveria said.
"Tch, nothing speacial really. It's just a silverback." Said Bete scoffed at seeing the titan beat a silverback alone.
"...." Ais was silent as always.
However, there's one individual that is in utter awe of strength the titan showed.
"Awesome...." Tiona said, as she can't stop looking at the giant human in front of her from a distance.
After the fight, Hestia came out of hiding as she went straight towards her two children.
"Bell! Aurelius!" Hestia shouted.
"Goddess!" Bell shouted as well upon seeing his patron.
"Are you two okay? There aren't anything lost isn't? You two aren't for life crippled or anything right?" Hestia said as she frantically search all over their bodies for any fatal injuries.
"Not at all goddess, we're pretty much fine." Bell said with a smile.
"Even so, we need to get you both treated. Especially you Aurelius! Seeing you getting crushed by the silver back almost gave a trip towards heaven again." Hestoa said.
"HAHAHA- *cough* I'm fine goddess. Just like you said, I only needed some healing and I'm good as new." Aurelius smiled with a smile.
As they were conversing, a man with an elephant mask came towards them.
"I AM GANEEEESHAAAAAA!!!!" The man, now Ganesha, shouts.
"Well hello there Hestia! I am sorry for what happened here! We suspect that there was a suspect who released the monsters, not them breaking out of their own. However, we didn't know the culprit just yet who it is." Ganesha then bowed down towards the three and said, "I once again apologize for what you have got to go through!"
"It's fine Ganesha. At least everyone is alive here." Hestia said.
"As for compensation towards defeating the two silverback, you got to keep the cores of it." Ganesha said.
"Very well, thank you god Ganesha." Aurelius said.
"HAHAHA I AM GANEEESHAAA!!!" Ganesha once more scream his name.
They then went ahead and got healed. Afterwards, they've gone ahead and exchange in the two silverback cores. Needless to say, they got more from it from the amount they got in the dungeon.
"Wow!! we got more Valis from that then the amount we get from dungeon raiding?! Oh I can't wait to get to floor 11!" Bell said with excitement.
"Hold your horses brat, We need to think about the dangers lurking down there first. Gaining strength is great, but losing a life down there isn't." Aurelius said warning the rabbit.
"Hihi, Even after all that, you two could think about such thing? It seems like my two children here are crazy." Hestia sighs from the utter recklessness that the two showed.
They then continued to walk until Hestia wanted to say something towards them. More specifically, towards Aurelius.
"Hey Aurelius, I have a gift for you as well that I wanted to give." Hestia said.
"Wait, really?! Where?!" Aurelius said, excitement fills his body.
"Eager are we now? come on now let's go home." Hestia said.
They then went home. After arriving home, they couldn't help but to see a big box like item sitting in the middle of the room.
"Go ahead then, open it! be my guest!" Said Hestia happily.
Aurelius then went ahead and open the box, only to see a shield in it.
"Woah..." Aurelius said in awe.
"This is one good looking shield." Aurelius said.
"What does it do?" Aurelius ask, curious towards what capabilities that the shield has.
"Your shield, alongside with Bells' swords, have the capabilities to grow stronger with you. It has a will of its own." Hestia said.
"As for what magic that it possess, that is for you to find out." Hestia said with a smirk, teasing him.
"Something like this couldn't possibly be made by normal terms. Is it custom made?" Aurelius said, although he already knew the answer.
"Yeah! Haphaestus made it her self." Hestia said.
"....eh?"
"EHHHH?!" Bell shouts out of shock.
"You mean Goddess Haphaestus made these?" Bell ask.
"Yup!" Hestia said with a thumbs up.
"H-How much does it cost?" Bell ask, scarred upon hearing the price.
Hestia then proceeds to put two of her index finger together as she pushes them.
"Well, only 400 million valis each."
"..."
"..."
"..."
*THUD*
Bell fainted.
*sigh* "You could've told us first Goddess." Aurelius said.
"Don't worry about the price Aurelius. I got it covered.....even if it takes centuries for me." Hestia said with a gloomy face.
"Well, that's one more reason to go down the dungeon deeper." Aurelius said as he messaged his temple.
"I'm sorry for not telling you guys. You two were always doing hardwork while I'm here selling potato puffs. So I decidedto ask for help on making you guys equipments that can help you two." Hestia said with a saddened face.
"It's okay goddess, might as well join in on the road repaying debt I guess. It's not I can't get stronger by it, in fact it motivates more to go deeper in the dungeon." Aurelius said with a prideful smile.
*sob* *sob* "Waaaahhh!! you and Bell are the best children I could wish for waaahhh!" Hestia said ahe higged the big titan.....snot splattered on his his shirt.
"Oi! That's my shirt you plant your snot on!" Aurelius said.
They continued with their nonsensical activities. after a bit Bell as well awoken from his sleep. They then start to remove their shirt for a status update.
"Alright now you two, who's gonna go first?" Hestia said.
"Oooh ooh me!" Bell said excitingly.
"Okay now then, come here Bell!" Hestia said.
They then sent on their normal ritual of updating status.
she then put a piece of paper on to the back of Bell. Giving him the paper to him.
Bell then look towards the content of the paper.
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BELL CRANEL
LVL 1
STR > B 724 ---> S 924
END > C 631---> A 864
DEX > A 878 ---> SS 1041
AGI > S 923 ---> SS 1103
MAG > I 0 ---> H 112
MAGIC:
SKILL:
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"Yes! My stats is of the roof! Oh yeah!" Bell said
"Woah kid! That's nice how your numbers skyrocketed. Congrats!" Aurelius said.
"Hehe, I know." Bell said as he wipes his nose.
"Congrats Bell, let's move to you now Aurelius." Hestia said to prompt for the titan to come towards the bed.
Aurelius then went onto the bed. Hestia then did the status update. She then paste all the contents on the status towards the paper.
What she saw however, shocked her. Very much.
"What are these stats?! IT'S OF THE CHARTS!!" Hestia said as she is in disbelief that a mortal could achieve such a feat.
"What? Really? Let me see goddess."
Aurelius then snatched the paper from the hands of the goddess as Bell tuned in as well to see.
What they saw could've never make anyone believe if he were to say.
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AURELIUS
LVL 1
STR > SS 1194 ---> SSS 2921
END > SS 1086 ---> SSS 2848
DEX > D 567 ---> S 999
AGI > D 523 ---> S 999
MAG > A 823 ---> SSS 1593
MAGIC:
- TAUNT
SKILL:
- VIRTRUS TRANCENDENS
- IUSIURANDUM GOLIATHIS
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""....""
Utter silence.
"Mister....are you even human to begin with?" Bell said with a deadpan face.
"I am brat!" Aurelius said as he hit Bells' head.
"How can this be?! How can you have such an increase here?!" Bell said, despairing upon the fact that he is worlds apart weaker than his idol figure.
"Life's so unfair...." Bell muttered as he pouts upon his misfortune.
"Now now Bell, yours are as well extraordinary from every in your level. No, ANY level. So don't be sad. You're still stronger than all level 1's or even on par with some mid level 2's as well." Hestia said cheering up Bell.
"Really?!" Bell said, hope arisen from his ashen mood.
"Yeah....though compared to your captain here, it is dwarfed." Hestia said as Bells' mood went straight down to the gutters once more.
"I guess the skill that you have, Iusiu- what ever the name is, it's just too powerful." Hestia said, awestruck upon its potential.
"Tch, Lucky mister..." Bell scoffs with jealousy upon the talent the titan has.
"But Aurelius, as of right now you can level up."
"I can?" Aurelius ask.
"Yup! Although, Before I forget to tell you however, to level up, there is a need for two conditions. First, your stats must be at the very bare minimum of D on at least one of the stats." Hestia said.
"Oh, That's easy enough. We've already achieved that." Bell said, happy upon getting the first requirements done.
"So what's the second?" Aurelius ask.
"The second is achieving a feat worthy of the gods. For example, through the battle that you went through earlier, you defeated a silverback while fending off against two at the same time as well as being level 1 ALONE. That to me is a feat worthy of recognition." Hestia explains.
"So that means I can level up now Isn't it?" Aurelius ask.
"Yes, rightfully so." Hestia answered.
"What about me goddess? Do I have any worthy feats?" Bell ask, curious if he qualified to do so.
"Not really, sorry. Although all the times before you were fighting monsters above your level and won or just today you chopped of the hand of a silverback, all of them are situated with assists to your feat." Hestia said, apologizing towards her rabbit child.
"Bummer. Oh well, it only serves to grow stronger I suppose." Bell said towards the goddess.
However, he remembered a conversation from yesterday upon the mention of growth.
"Actually, goddess, I have a question that I want to ask." Bell said.
"Hmm? what is it Bell?"
"I wanted to know...why is it my stats growth this fast? Aurelius I understand, it's because of his 2 skills. However, for me to actually somewhat catching up towards mister here, do I have a skill that you hid from me? I-I'm not mad. I can sort of understand why you hid it." Bell said.
"?!" Hestia shocked upon the question, eyes widened.
Hestia then looked towards Aurelius with narrow eyes as the titan avoid her glaring gaze as he whistled doing it.
*sigh* "I guess I can't hide forever huh?" Hestia said with a soft smile.
"Alright. Come here Bell, I'll show you." Hestia said as he picked up the latest status paper.
She then puts her index finger on the skill section. It suddenly glows white as words starting to show itself.
Bell seeing this was in shocked upon seeing his skill manifest, or more like showing itself for the first time.
Hestia then gave to bell for him to see the contents once more to see his skill that says....
"[Liaris Freese]" Bell uttered the very name of his skill.
"I first thought that showing this to you would only serve for you to be careless in situation presented if you were to know of this skill Bell. However, now that I see it, it will only hinder your growth as an adventurer if you are ignorant towards your own skill." Hestia said.
"I see. It's understandable goddess. I too would be worried." Bell said, understood Hestia's resolve.
"Thank you Bell for understanding."
"But what does the skill do?" Bell ask, curious upon its capabilities.
"It's similar to mine actually." Aurelius answered instead.
"Yup that's correct. Your skill here allows you to accelerate its growth as an adventurer, enabling the user to level up more rapidly than others do. The effectiveness of this skill revolves around the intensity and sincerity of the users' feelings towards something. It's similar as Aurelius said compared to his skill." Hestia said.
"O-Oh, feelings huh?" Bell said, stuttering a bit with his words.
Hestia seeing this, took the opportunity to tease the rabbit.
"Yup!" Hestia said as she went closer towards bell, whispering in his ears. "and I know very well that you admired your captain sooo much~".
"?!" Bell, upon hearing his exposed premonition, immediately steadied himself.
*ahem* *ahem* "I don't know what you're talking about goddess." Bell said with a deeper tone of voice (tried), and a stern looking face (also tried).
"Hihi, yeah sure Bell, whatever you say~." Hestia said with a teasing voice.
Aurelius, being quiet all this time and ignorant towards their little conversation, started to ask Hestia.
"Goddess, can we start with the level up now? Kind of impatient here." Aurelius said.
"Okay okay. Lay down on the bed now."
Aurelius then went on the bed. The method of the ritual went the same as updating a status, of course besides leveling up the falna that is.
After finishing the the ritual, Hestia then went ahead and paste all the contents on a piece of paper.
However, this time, there is something new in store with magic and skill department.
"Oh? It seems like you possess another new skill and magic Aurelius." Hestia said.
"Huh?! More?!" Bell ask, not believing the absurdness of his captains' well being.
"Yup! here you Aurelius! take a look." Hestia said as he gave the titan his new status paper.
Aurelius and Bell then looked at the contents of the paper.
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AURELIUS
LVL 1 ---> 2
STR > SSS 2921 ^ I 0
END > SSS 2848 ^ I 0
DEX > S 999 ^ I 0
AGI > S 999 ^ I 0
MAG > SSS 1593 ^ I 0
MAGIC:
- TAUNT
- RULERS AUTHORITY
SKILL:
- VIRTRUS TRANCENDENS
- IUSIURANDUM GOLIATHIS
- POTENS VOLUNTAS
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"Rulers Authority? What does that do?" Bell said as he looked towards her goddess.
"It is basically telekinesis. However, instead of relying on your mana to gauge its strength, you only simply activate it using mana. Its amount of power that can be output will be determined by the users' strength stat. It's essentially built for Aurelius here." Hestia said.
".....unfair." Bell said, gloomy
"But what about the new skill? What does it do?" It was Aurelius' turn to ask a question.
"Well it's similar towards your first skill but different at the same time."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Well it essentially gave you 2x the excelia gained for every stats.....yeah that's pretty much it. Although powerful to say the least." Hestia said.
".....truly, unfair." Bell said, more gloomier than before.
"Hihi, silly Bell." Hestia said.
They then stayed silent for a moment before Hestia spoke.
"Bell, Aurelius.." Hestia called out to them.
They both looked towards their goddess, anticipating her words.
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"....congratulations upon your progress so far! I'm proud of both of you." Said Hestia with a genuine smile.
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Oh yeah! another chapter done! Wohoo!
I usually don't like to this but, I just need to clarify this here.
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This chapter contains over 9000 words.
Yup, you can use that vegeta meme if you want.
But enough of that, let's get to the proper explanation of the new equipment and skills alike shall we?
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Equipment:
Twin Sword Of Hestia
- These swords possesses the capabilities to grow stronger with its user. When channeling mana into them, the user is able to do a slashing wave attack towards the intended target. It can also be imbued with any elemental magic onto it to make the attack much more powerful. For example, Bells OG Fire bolt can be imbued with the wave attack to make it significantly more stronger or the Argonaut skill. These swords can only be wielded fully functional by the user itself.
Shield of Hestia
- The shield possesses the capabilities to grow stronger with its user. When channeling mana into it, the user is able to enhance its defense proportional towards the mana imbued. The shield will also nullify 20% of any impact that has made contact with it. This shield can only be wielded fully functional by the user itself.
Magic:
Rulers Authority
- It functions much like telekinesis, yet with a distinct twist: rather than drawing power from the user's mana pool, mana is merely used to activate the ability. The true measure of its force lies not in magical reserves, but in the user's Strength stat. In essence, it is a power designed to scale with physical might rather than magical prowess.
Potens Voluntas
- It effectively doubles the amount of excelia earned across all stats and possesses the remarkable ability to stack with other multiplier-based skills, further enhancing growth potential.
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Well that's it from me. See ya on the next chapter!