My introduction to the strongest.

I was standing in front of a cword of adventurers who were considerably stronger than me, thankfully I wasn't alone with my god shiva standing there, as well as, the little old me hiding behind his leg, like how a proper 5 year old should react when seeing dangerous people, though the reason was a little different in my case.

The said god was just standing there, stareing at hermes with his usual "I don't give a fuck, do you?" face. I am a little worried he will pick a fight with them, and drag my sorry ass into the mess. Don't blame me, he was the one who didn't told me that alfia of all the people, was here,

Though I do want to say she is drop dead gorgeous, and if I remember properly, her talent was limited due to her disease, can [angel's blood] cure her?, it did say it could cure and heal anything. But I did not have enough SP to buy the spell.

"so he is the little hero we heard so much about" hermes said with a warming smile, alfia also looked at me with curiosity,

"yes, he is our pride and joy, he even know healing magic which he uses on the injured people without asking for anything. We are blessed to have an adventurer like him in our desolate Town" the old mayor said with a smile which was almost mocking, that's when I realised that I was a healer at the level of orario's best.

Oi, you geezer, shut yer trap. Look I am very happy for the compliment but this is so not the time. At the statement by the mayor, both alfia and hermes eyes went as wide as could they could get as well as the rest the adventurers, suddenly a silence hung over the entire.

"how does he have a spell as a level 1" alfia spoke for the first time, oh I remember now, magic and skills only appeared after leveling up, well normally(Bell) . In magic's case, human's chances of acquiring a spell through adventuring as close to none and only way to get those was through grimoires which was something only stuff of legends in our small town. Seriously one grimoire was enough to buy this entire town and everything in it.

"level 2" my god said replied, nice save my lord god, I need to avoid speaking with hermes since he can tell when I am lying.

"what?" hermes asked as if to confirm, wait hold on, I don't like where this is going.

"he is level 2" shiva said

"didn't you said he got his falna only 3 months ago" one of the adventurer asked the mayor. Fuck.

"Lord hermes, ask the boy" said a male whom I assumed was the captain of his familia, since asfi would be around my age right now.

Hermes was going to follow his advise and I moved even more behind my God holding his legs for dear life, as he suddenly glared at hermes who backed up seeing the obvious hostility against his actions, and finally noticed the boy in question was scared. This guy can get father mode too huh?. Thank you.

Hermes cleared his throat and crutched at my height, and said

"sorry for scaring you little one, my name is hermes, a god, and I have some questions do you mind answering" he asked, I looked at shiva and he shrugged his shoulder.

"ok"

"perfect. first, are you level 2?" "yes" it was the truth

"and when did you get your falna" asked the million valis question as suddenly every occupant in the Inn was stareing at me,

"around 2 months and 3 weeks ago" I said while tapping my chin thinking, that was around the time, yep.

Hermes eyes looked like it would pop out.

"he is saying the truth" hermes said to everyone, as silence again filled the halls. Then chaos erupted, even those graceful hera familia members were in an uproar.

"holy shit"

"how?"

"he only took 3 month to reach level 2 even without the dungeon"

"the beat miss alfia's record of 1 year and 4 months record"

"beat?, it isn't even close, it is on a different level."

Every adventurer was looking at me now, some admiration, some envy and some suspected I had a skill to progress so fast and they weren't all wrong. Some wanted to interrogate me but got a hold of themselves, they were adults and I was 5, it was their job to guide me not the other way round, hence I don't know whether it was there pride or just maturity, they held off there desire to dig of all my secrets and simply patted by back, congratulated me, some of the female ones gave me some smooches as well saying who cute and talented I was, it was all worth it just for this. Hermes, zeus and hera familia were respectable familias.

Alfia was now full on staring at me, now that I think about It I should be as fast as her in terms of growth if she did not have her disease. Maybe.

"who knew we will find such a gem in this desolate part of the continent" hermes said with a laugh. As he and his familia left as we left as well. Now I have done it. There was no going back, I just need to keep the fallout minimum and make sure nothing ridiculous happens again. And take full advantage of this to further train myself.

...

Next day, we had some unexpected guests. It was hermes along with a small part of his familia as well as alfia. They were currently talking to anuty miliam, as she waved me to came there, I walked towards her as the new arrivals looked at me.

"hello" I greeted them.

"hello there little one do you want to join our training?" hermes asked, he was looked absolutely harmless, only if I didn't knew what kind of scheming bastard he can be. But still the offer was too good to refuse, I am certain the system will give me a lot of quests because of this.

"Can I?" I asked with genuine sparkle in my eyes,

"sure" hermes said, he led the way outside the city, I waved aunty goodbye, as I followed them, as we reached a clearing were the rest of the orario adventurers were gathered. Alfia took the command as hermes sat down with his familia on one side, a group of female adventures were sitting with Alfia, and one group of strong adventurers who I was guessing were from zeus familia, and then there was our group, the adventurers from the city of Atlanta.

First order of business was to figure out the strength of each of the new adventurers, which meant duels, a lot of them.

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Alfia pov.

As a child I was always suffering. But I never complained because I knew my sister had it much worse, at least I could walk around and become an adventurer but the falna could only slightly increase my sister's life. And it was my fault, she always says that it isn't but I know, I took the talent she was supposed to have, I can't even use it fully because of the damn disease, The disease was a rare one, extremely rare and with no known cure.

But even with the disease, I continued getting stronger so that one day I could heal my sister, maybe deep inside the dungeon there was a cure, till this day I never lost hope. But sometimes I wondered what would be my strength if I didn't had this curse of a disease, but then the answer came to me in form of a child, at first glance he didn't look anything special, but when hermes confirmed that he only took 3 months to become a level 2 and had a healing spell, my interest was peeked. Although him hiding behind his god in fear was a little weird, if this was the same boy who massacred dozens of upper floor monsters after only a few days of receiving the blessing, his behaviour was a little weird, so I invited him to the training we all were doing, this way I would know about the boy a little more,

First up were the level 1 'thoroughly trash' of the city against the level 1 trash but a little better trash of the pervert(zeus) familia, the 'better trash'(zeus familia) wiped the floor of the 'thoroughly trash'(Atlanta's adventurers) nothing noteworthy, but then the boy's turn came, I wanted to test the full capability of the hence I sent ria from my familia who was a new level 3, compared to the rest of us she was an amateur but compering to the boy's only 3 months worth of adventuring, she was more than sufficient to thoroughly gauge the boy's abilities.

The boy picked up a wooden sword, while ria took her wooden spear, and the match began. At the start it was expected, the boy had recently become a level 2 and was still far from reaching a level 3 even if she had recently become one. but then 10 minutes into the fight something unexpected happened, ria was pushed back.

Even though she was holding back it was still shocking because the boy had improved, in just the ten minutes of sparing he improved, his strength and agility seemed around the same but his movements were becoming more refined, he was reading ria's movement, and by the 15th minute he even predicated some of them and countered almost hitting her, at this point ria stopped holding back and displayed the full capability of an level 3 but strangely the gap was the same, the boys was getting faster and better by each passing minute by the end of 30th minutes both parties were holding nothing back and were full on fighting but none of the adventurers interrupted, even hermes was silent as a rock giving the on going battle his full attention.

I too couldn't believe my eyes, the boy wasn't just talented, this level of growth in just a few minutes was downright insane, the same thought was going through everyone's mind as suddenly a loud thud rang through the woods as ria's spear was launched upwards by the boy's sword, I couldn't believe my eyes, hermes mouth was wide open as well as the rest of his and my familias, the pervert familia was cheering for the boy. But my focus went to ria, she was just standing there, most likely still in disbelief as to what just happened.

That boy, when he stepped on to the stage, he changed, he was focused, his initial timidness was gone, as his eyes focused solely on his opponent, a fire burning in his eyes to consume everything in his path to becoming stronger. As he stood there with the wooden sword in hand, panting and smiling after defeating a level 3 as a level 2. There was no doubt in my mind that, in time, he will become the strongest adventurer.