30 Chapter 30
As we walked the streets of Orario, I introduced them to a few places along the way to Bahamut's old house. They were a bit too excited at the sight of new things. Most of their time had been spent on training.
Perhaps they had been influenced by me in some form which made me both happy and sad, thinking that I might have ruined their childhood somehow.
Clair seemed quite and kept stealing glances at me but I pretended not to notice.
I had a lot in my plate now. I hadn't even finished with one decent relationship so starting a new one was a stupid idea even if I wanted a harem.
My relationship with Bahamut and Hephaestus were the only ones progressing but even that had its issues.
I needed a suitable identity and was too young in body to progress further. The goddesses weren't going anywhere and I had time on my hands.
If any of my romantic interests were to fall for someone else. It simply meant that it was not meant to be. At least that's how I would view it.
They weren't my properties and I definitely wouldn't be the only suitor so as far as it wasn't official it was all fair game. Sure I would hurt but if she was happy then that's fine.
While I was lost in all these thoughts on romance, we arrived at the house. Lili and Bahamut were still packing up anything useful as we had already sold the house. We had to move today to the newly built manor.
I asked my siblings and Clair to help while I went to procure a carriage to move our stuff to the new house storage.
Bahamut was thrilled to see her new familia members but introductions would have to wait till after the move.
A few hours later we have now fully settled in the new manor. We hadn't named it yet but I had one in mind. We gathered at the lounge area so my siblings could introduce themselves.
Them being my siblings didn't automatically mean Bahamut would let them join because she had to judge their character by herself, after-all that's what gods do. I believed that they would pass easily, they were my siblings anyway.
"Well, everyone this is Bahamut, goddess of the Bahamut familia. Please introduce yourself along with your goals for joining this familia. If you don't intend to join I can recommend you to a suitable familia" I said, but that was just me acting as a captain should.
Well I couldn't really show any favouritism and I was basically making decisions on my own for my siblings. They deserved to have their voices heard and make their own decisions here. Me being in the Bahamut familia didn't mean they should also join but I had to give them other options. To my surprise, after hearing my words they all laughed.
"Nii san with all the letters you sent about your familia, did you think we wouldn't want to join" Vasiliki said. The others nodded in agreement with her.
"Well I am a captain just doing my duty" I said, to cover up the fact that I was slightly embarrassed for harbouring doubts.
"I am Michalis Black, I will join the Bahamut's familia to become the strongest adventurer" he said while stepping forward and slightly bowing to Bahamut. This earned a few chuckles from the others.
"Nikolaos Black, joining to further my smithing craft" said Nikolaos, imitating Michalis.
"Vasileios Black, joining to be the sturdiest" said Vasileios in a similar fashion to the others.
The girls seeing the boys like this just giggled as it was funny to see them being so serious. After which they introduced themselves.
After introductions, it was time to grant them falna . They all looked excited about it, so I led them to the 3rd floor where Bahamut's room is located in the new manor. An hour later they were all done and their status sheet was quite shocking.
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Name: Michalis Black
Level: 1
Strength: I 0
Endurance: I 0
Dexterity: I 0
Agility: I 0
Magic: I 0
Magic:
Slot 1:???
Slot 2:???
Slot3: ???
Skills:
Unforgiving: Your daggers blur, in a dance of deathly pain. Each strike adds to your critical hit chance. After a critical attack, your chain resets as you begin another dance.
Development abilities:
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Name: Nikolaos Black
Level: 1
Strength: I 0
Endurance: I 0
Dexterity: I 0
Agility: I 0
Magic: I 0
Magic:
Slot 1:???
Slot 2:???
Slot3: ???
Skills:
Tempering Expertise: increase chances of improving item quality when tempering. Scales on users level of smithing.
Development abilities:
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Name: Vasileios Black
Level: 1
Strength: I 0
Endurance: I 0
Dexterity: I 0
Agility: I 0
Magic: I 0
Magic:
Slot 1:???
Slot 2:???
Slot3: ???
Skills:
Adamant trust of steel: You know how to make the most of your equipment, gaining bonus defence based on the quality of Amour.
Sacrifice: Activate to absorb a certain amount of damage from members bearing the same falna during battle. Also regain 10% stamina for every 10% absorbed damage.
Development abilities
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Name: Eleni Black
Level: 1
Strength: I 0
Endurance: I 0
Dexterity: I 0
Agility: I 0
Magic: I 0
Magic:
Slot 1:???
Slot 2:???
Slot3: ???
Skills:
Killers alchemy: Allows the craft of elixirs that give an uncanny edge in battle. You do bonus damage with all attacks for a short time whenever you use an elixir or potion.
Development abilities:
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Name: Dimitra Black
Level: 1
Strength: I 0
Endurance: I 0
Dexterity: I 0
Agility: I 0
Magic: I 0
Magic:
Slot 1:???
Slot 2:???
Slot3: ???
Skills:
Pincushion: If the first blow doesn't kill them, the tenth might. Each consecutive hit with a bow attack does progressively more damage to the target.
Development abilities:
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Name: Vasiliki Black
Level: 1
Strength: I 0
Endurance: I 0
Dexterity: I 0
Agility: I 0
Magic: I 0
Magic:
Slot 1: Blizzard: You summon a domain with a freezing blizzard to chill and damage enemies inside it. Has secondary effects of slow and other ice spells may be cast inside domain.
Chant: The stride of the wild hunt leads to the domain of permafrost, come furiously the winds of seven Blizzards to return the world to absolute Zero.
Slot 2:???
Slot3: ???
Skills:
Ice amour: You draw on cold magic near you to protect you from all attacks. Standing near a frozen enemy or a persistent cold spell reduces all damage you take and applies a slow debuff when hit.
Spell Derivative: You use spells derivatives of the same element of a current and previously cast spell.
Development abilities:
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Name: Clair Strauss
Level: 1
Strength: I 0
Endurance: I 0
Dexterity: I 0
Agility: I 0
Magic: I 0
Magic:
Slot 1:???
Slot 2:???
Slot3: ???
Skills:
Enhanced reflexes: increase reaction speed.
Pierce: increases the penetrative power of piercing weapons wielded.
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Looking at everyone's stat sheet made me go crazy. Their abilities were insane. Some were very expensive to raise like the killers alchemy skill.
I was happy when I saw potions in the description because no way was I going to spend money spamming elixirs to increase her damage.
Thankfully a healing or stamina potion could be modified by the skill. Vasileios skills were also ridiculous as he was a full blown tank but it looked expensive as his defence depended on the quality of his amour which wasn't cheap.
That meant the deeper we dive in the dungeon the more expensive his gear would be, but I felt it would be worth it somehow.
After reviewing the status sheet, they all seemed eager to enter the dungeon but, I wasn't going to let them go today.
I had to start doing paperwork to manage our finances, set up rules for the familia and see if I could get materials to start training our smith and alchemist.
There was so much to do and things to buy. I wasn't sure there was enough money, so I directed them to their rooms on the second floor. I would talk to them about their journey after I was done with paper work.
'They can explore the house in the meantime' I though, while making my way to the executive meeting room which also functioned as a study and where my office was.
