Excelia Coupon

"How does that sound?"

Alex raised his voice to everyone. The suggestions wasn't really important but if Bell who was the party leader will agree.

"I don't think..."

Bell mutters to himself. As he was filled with kindness, having Lilly to take on the attacks of brutal monsters wasn't something he wanted to see. Even though he was aware about the greatness of Welf's creations as the fellow survived without any damage against the attack of the Goliath, he was still reluctant.

"About that Bell... I agree with Alex."

Bell turned his head towards Welf who spoke while holding his chin.

"Now that I've leveled up, I'm confident that I could make armors and equipments better than I currently wear for Lil'E."

(#A/N: Welf's status before leveling up.

Name: Welf Crozzo

Race: Human

Level: 1

Abilities:

Strength: S- 999

Endurance: S- 999

Dexterity: S- 999

Agility: S- 999

Magic: S- 999

Pagma's Successor: S )

It wasn't just a matter of pride. He knew the greatness of being Pagma's Successor after experiencing it so he agreed to the suggestion of Alex.

"Also, we had another kind of insurance anyway."

Welf said as he took something from his inventory. As they were aware about this ability of his, Bell and Lilly was no longer surprised but they still wouldn't share this to anyone.

Taking some sort of paper, Welf then said that the coupon in his hand could help Lilly to get stronger and catch up with them.

[Excelia Coupon]

[* Massively increases the excelia in the body and exponentially increase the Basic Abilities to the maximum limit.

* If basic abilities had already reached the limit, automatically increases the user's level upon use.

* Removes the user's talent cap.

* Disappear's upon consumption.

Condition of Use: Level 1.]

As Bell and Lilly doesn't have the system, Welf explained with words what's this coupon was all about.

"So that means, this coupon can maximize my stats before leveling up?"

"Yes, that's the pretty much of it."

Welf said but he wasn't really sure if his words was right.

"Thus, it also allows me for faster and easier level ups than my usual capability... ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?"

Screamed Lilly before freezing up. The three covered their ears as she was pretty loud. Alex happened to have the same coupon after defeating the Goliath but as the coupon were only for level 1, none of the three could use it, including Welf who had just become a level 2.

Although it also removed the user's talent limit, it did not mean it improved one's talent. Actually, a person's talent remained the same and apart from the fact that the user would have no limit and their excelia gain will increase, the coupon did not help in regards in actual talent.

For example in Lilly's case who had no talent which was why she was stuck in level 1 for many years suddenly takes the coupon, she will not suddenly turn into some sort of god of war.

With the Excelia Coupon, one could remove their talent cap, but other than just excelia gain became faster, it didn't do much. Moreover, even if a talentless person took the coupon, they could outmost raise their stats to be absurbly strong, but if they were to face someone stronger as they were then they would be instantly defeated.

However the reason why Lilly froze was because she knew the value of this piece of paper. If the public would know about this, it would cause chaos and controversies in the entire Orario.

The majority in Orario's population was level 1 adventurers as not all were lucky enough to level up. It was already known that gaining excelia to increase the basic abilities were very slow. From I to D, it would commonly take atleast a year or more to reach the basic requirement to rank up.

However with this coupon, one could instantly obtain the basic abilities of S- 999 without much effort. Even if this was only for the level 1, it was a sacred object for them. Also even just the excelia gain was just a little bit faster, talentless people would treat that as the greatest thing as it could give them hope to rank up for higher levels that was unattainable for them.

"Um, Welf~sama. Is it really okay for Lilly to use this precious paper?"

Lilly saw herself unbefitting for the Excelia Coupon knowing how precious it was. She thought it would be a waste if Welf would let her use this.

"Don't worry about it Lil'E. I can't use this anyway and I wanted my party member to be stronger too. We are still going to have our adventures, right?"

Seeing that Welf smiled and wholeheartedly agreed, a tear appeared in her eyes. Relieving the guilt, Lilly used the coupon and inserted her Mind and followed Welf's advice on how to use it.

Suddenly, the coupon turned into particles of light and entered her body. Alex carefully watched the process with his eyes as he was interested about this. Bell on the other hand was wishing Lilly the best.

As the light subsided, Lilly muttered.

"I don't feel any particular change."

She then scanned around her body but still couldn't find anything different. Looking at her, Bell explained to her that the change in the basic abilities weren't noticeable unless she will engage some monsters in battle based on his experience. Hearing it from Bell, Lilly accepted the explanation and thanked him.

"...Food is ready. Are you okay?"

Suddenly, a voice was heard coming from outside the tent. A beautiful girl pokes her head in.

Lilly and Welf's jaws drop as the Sword Princess appears in front of their eyes.

•~~~•

Following Ais Wallenstein, they reach the center of the camp in no time. A large number of people are sitting in a circle in the open space at the center of their campsite.

"Loki Familia."

Alex softly muttered as he recognized them. He already suspected it the moment he saw Ais but this just confirms it that the Loki Familia was the one who took care of Bell and the others.

The big circle isn't just the Loki Familia, Hephaistos Familia's high smiths are here, too. Aiz explains what's going on as Welf recognizes someone in the circle.

"Hello there..."

Alex greeted as they made their way to an empty spot and took a seat. Bell sat on Ais's left. Lilly sat down on Bell's right, followed by Welf and lastly Alex.

"Everyone, please listen. They're brave adventurers that risked their lives for each other. I'm not saying that you need to be friendly with them but please treat them some respect as a fellow adventurers."

The captain of the Loki Familia, Finn Deimne. Finn has medium length scruffy blonde hair and blue eyes with a fair skin tone. He has a small body, but is still strong. Finn has the appearance of a child however it was known that he was over 40 years old. He wears a yellow vest over a purple long-sleeved shirt and trousers.

"Now then."

The large circles of adventures raised their glasses.

"Cheers!"

Thus, the breakfast feast has began. It was a meal similar to a day prior, only this time, Ais brought Bell and his fellow adventurers who regained their consciousness.

Some beauties of the Loki Familia were shouting "Little Argonaut-kun!" as they keep teasing the white haired boy. Everybody had smiles blooming on their faces. That is except for a certian elven mage who was currently sitting by herself and eating neither soup nor fruits as the cheerful voices around her.

She has long golden yellow hair, round dark blue eyes, and pointy ears. She wears a rosette pink cape on top of a white shirt and pink corset dress. A purple bow hangs at the collar.

Her eyes were fixated on the small group of adventurers seated in a short distance away— a group that consisted of Ais, Bell and his three companions.

"What's wrong Lefiya?"

Ask by a tall with jade-colored hair tied in a ponytail that reaches to her waist, same color eyes, and Elf ears. She wears a green outfit with yellow borders, a white cloak over it, a black belt, a yellow sash, black leggings, and long brown boots.

"Erm, Lady Riveria, Captain?" Lefiya neared the group of Familia elites.

"Did you see Bell Cranel defeating the Minotaur?"

The elites exchanged glances before the latter two nodded.

"We did."

"Finn and I, were there to observe him."

"As were Ais, Bete, Tiona and Tione."

Reveria and Finn answered respectfully, both of them glancing in Bell's direction.

"It was quite a spectacle." Both of them confirmed wholeheartedly that Bell was able to defeat a Minotaur on his own, voices steeped in admiration.

Lefiya felt an emotion that could only be described as "intense anguish" upon confirmation of her rival's feat.

'I was not able to take on a minotaur singe-handedly until I'd reached level 3...'

As Lefiya was thinking in her mind, Fin continued.

"However, Bell Cranel wasn't the only amazing adventurer in their group."

Hearing her captain, Lefiya immediately looked at him wondering who he was referring.

"You see that, crimson haired adventurer with them..."

Finn smiled as he continued.

"Apparently, before we got to see Bell. We had encountered Ottar on the way."

"Ottar? The captain of the Freya Familia?"

Lefiya was surprised when she heard Finn mentioned the name of Ottar.

"You might not know this, but Ottar acknowledges the strong or those who had experienced their adventures. When we encountered him, he said something at that time but I'll simplify it."

"So you're saying captain..."

"That lad's skills was acknowledged by Ottar."

"Huh?"

Lefiya made a cute sound of surprise. She stared at the direction of Alex who was calmly eating his meal, unlike the loud and laughing people around him.

Suddenly, Alex turned his eyes in their direction. Lefiya panicked a bit but Finn simply chuckled.

"His senses was sharp. He immediately detected that we were looking at him."

Alex on the side, saw that a very cute elf was sharply looking at him.

'What? Did I do something to get their attention? Especially that beautiful one.'