Chapter 26

"Jake, could you find out what Ais likes?" Bell asked me shyly as we sat back discussing what's going to change and what we needed to look out for.

I just shrugged in response. "Bell. You need to understand something about Ais. She is basically a battle autist that has one goal in life and that's avenging her father and supposedly rescuing her mother from a dragon that slaughtered an army of hundreds of levels 5 and above when the Zeus and Hera Familia tried to kill them while on the high after killing the Leviathan and Behemoth." I shrugged helplessly. "That dragon is something that doesn't belong in this lower world as even an army of spirits could only help the strongest man to ever live Ais's father takes one of its eyes and thus it's known as the One-Eyed Dragon."

Bell looked lost as he scratched his head. "But what does that have to do with me getting to know Ais?"

I palmed my face in frustration. "Bell let me tell you a secret of men. Daddy issues are only a turn-on when she is calling you that in bed, not when you are dealing with a hatred that has lasted literal millennia and drags you in to fight a monster that belongs in the godly world."

"Yes, there have been talks and even attempts of pulling the One-Eyed Black Dragon up into heaven as it's a cheat and breaks the balance of this world but its space manipulation abilities makes it able to even tear its way back to the mortal world." Hestia groaned

A space-controlling fuck off huge dragon huh, no wonder it was able to slaughter the strongest people to walk this world. No one could pin it down at all...

Bell looked conflicted as pretty much all the kids were raised on the old stories of hero's adventures, so he knew that pretty much every little arrogant snowflake of a hero who tried their luck at killing the dragon or even the other two Great Quest monsters never returned until the Zeus and Hera Familia killed the Levithan and Behemoth.

"Bell until you feel strong enough to commit suicide by that dragon don't even bother barking Ais's tree as she won't be interested and will if anything she will look down on you for being weak," Lili said harshly but it rang truthfully.

"Haaa. I sighed. "Bell you're only fourteen years just focus on being an adventure and give it a couple of years and with your growth, you will easily be able to find good woman." I laughed grabbing the rooms attention "Actually I take that back" Bell's face fell. "If anything, you will have to beat off the coming amazons, coming for you after we break Ais's record for fastest level up with a stick."

Bell sputtered and turned bright red as he couldn't deny that he would be a prime target of Amazon's hunt for men with great strength or potential. "Jake I couldn't just hook up with an amazon!"

The girls chuckled as they imagined Bell running away from the redlight district. "Those women are going to break your hips, Bell." Lili said through her snickers

Bell spun to me in fear, but I just shrugged. "Hey man at least you get a woman who has one simple goal in mind. No need for anything complicated." Now it was my turn for the girls to roll there eyes at me.

'Bell just don't get your hips turned into paste...' I thought mournfully of my future friend.

I decided that it was time I became the whale I was born to be and gathered a set of armor and a set of accessories such as a bracelet, a couple rings and a necklace. Basically, stuff that wouldn't interfere with my armor and the swinging of my weapon as seriously try sweeping or something with ten rings on your hands... Not comfortable at all and using the charge blade would grind on those rings a lot more than trying to sweep or something.

"Jake, are you doing what I think you are?" Hestia asked dryly seeing me taking out the vial of her blood.

I gleefully nodded and she sighed in response. "And here I was hoping I wasn't going to need to give out more blood." She pouted seeing Bell and Lili likewise preparing there armor for upgrades and I saw Bell actually got that single weird green arm guard from Eina. Huh I guess fate can't be denied I suppose.

After fusing Bell's chest plate into a Silver+ quality and his arm guard into a Gold- that would make a single time use shield would nullify all inertia excreted on it once a day. I then fused a lot of materials into Lili's boots, meeting the goal of making her basically feather falling boots that would allow her to hop around the battlefield and not be worried about smashing into the ground so long as she could get her feet to be what hits the floor.

Now me on the other hand haha! I couldn't help but manically laugh at how it pays to be pay to win as I looked like a fucking poster for a generic high fantasy MMO as I tried making armor that matched Ebony style armor from Skyrim as we had plenty of dark casted iron armor and where there would have been silver highlights the combined blood of Loki and Hestia made it have glowing red veins along the edges.

-Eternal Seasons Armor Set. - Keeps wearer at a constant temperature and denies the entry of harsh environmental conditions within the armor at cost of mind to provide wearer fresh air. - Platnium-

Wow so basically, it's the combination of a space suit that can keep people alive in dire environments and a bomb suit to protect my body, Haha.

Sadly, I used up all the blood Loki gave, and Hestia already gave us some more blood to make Bell and Lili's stuff and adamantly refused to give more because now we had to update our Falna after what happened the day before so I wasn't going to be able to make my own accessories till I gathered my own material's for them but being honest maybe it would be better to wait till Loki sends her first material shipment to make sure I can make something both good and what I want in particular.

Level 1

Strength 620

Endurance 530

Dexterity 458

Agility 498

Magic 753

Skills:

Argonaut's Journey I Argonauts Adventure. - mentally delivers a daily quest that when accomplished will provide Excellia and also provides Excellia based on participation to party members.- of different tiers for each style of monster killed

-Hero's loot- After killing a foe in which you play the hero acquire Excellia from either the foe or scaling in difficulty and renown received. -

Magic:

Creations Negation Of Entropy 'Combine'. Non sentient Object must be touching users' skin in order to combine at cost of both stamina and mind to form something better than the sum of all its parts.

Daily Quest - Kill 100 goblins on the 8th-9th floor for 100 stat points. 89-100

Kobolds 78-100

Orcs 45-50,

etc.

'Wow that Hero's loot really kicked in fighting those Violas in the middle of the city.' I smiled seeing the great progress being made especially my magic in particular.

After I put on my new armor and the other adventurers of the Hestia Familia playing with there now toys, I could see Hestia glumly sat there obviously a bit jealous at the cool stuff, so I had an idea.

"Hestia, I had an idea what if we built a Hearth Fire for you to control maybe it will have special abilities to keep you busy." Hestia perked up at my suggestion and Bell an Lili saw how excited she looked at the idea and agreed to help.

"I think it would be best for Hestia to organize this as she is the head of the Familia, and you need something to do other than just sitting on these church pews dozing since you quit your job at the potato stand Hestia." I said sternly making her pout, but I wasn't going to allow her to be a lay about like she was when she was bumming off Hephaestus.

"Fine I will do it Jake." She grumped but I could see the excitement she had at being able to have another thing tying into her domains and I was rather curious as to what extent she would be able to get materials to make it.

After giving Hestia a five hundred thousand budget, we prepared to go to the dungeon and try out our new gear unknowing of the chaos unfolding within both the Loki and Freya Familia currently.