One_Fall_Leaf

It's fine, I'll tie it back in during chapter 18

That's a longass comment that I can't be bothered reading, so I'll just respond to the first part: Danmachi is filled with examples of people doing absolutely ridiculous accomplishments and gaining very little from them. Bell would be an absolute leveling machine if every time he crossed the level gap he got the appropriate award, Welf and hell everyone in that Water City Rex fight would have leveled up. For Elric, he's facing things above his stat cap and later his level, but they're not fights that force him to improve himself. They are accomplishments, and his stat growth has increased because of it, but it's not going to explode him through the roof in days. Him leveling twelve times faster than the current record holder is already insane

As I stated in the comment you're responding to, the familias seem to be more of the exception than the rule.

Ais is the classic example, she was like 8 when she started working as a supporter, before transitioning to combat duty in the same year. The thing is the Gods seem to hold two standards for these things, they fund orphanages and there's no sign of kids working anywhere in Orario but the familias. I assume it's because it's a 'family' thing where, just like how craftsman's kids will often learn the trade from a young age, the Gods are fine with their kids getting in on the family trade

People asked me to do it okay? Sorry xD

Ask for a job, or get a job, also she didn't try very hard to start her familia she more just mooched off of Hephaestus until she got kicked out

I can only remember her being offhandedly mentioned as running some city, but I thought people wouldn't remember that little tidbit xD that's kinda my bad, I'll try and tie it in later

As of this chapter, he is Sneak – 52

We never really see children working in Danmachi outside of special cases like familias, and we know they have orphanages that take in kids and just raise them. That does seem to be the standard the gods have set outside of their little soldiers. In time Hestia will be hypocrite as she takes Bell into the familia, effectively making him a child soldier, but right now she's aight

She did, but it was like one off hand line and I thought no one would remember xD Egg on my face there