Chapter 733
The Omnipotent Being Forced to Take on a Job, His Abilities Increase Hugely
Chapter 733 The Omnipotent Being Forced to Take on a Job, His Abilities Increase Hugely
"Rei, do you know why monsters pile up?"
On the 24th level of the maze, a figure descended from the sky, and the red lizardman hidden in the cave asked a question.
"The food storage was sealed off, and some enhanced monsters broke in. I saw those guys that Fels mentioned from the sky, and I dealt with the enhanced monsters that broke in."
The Songbird, a female monster resembling a harpy, shares the information she has gathered with her companions.
"So, these guys are connected to those poachers who secretly hunt our companions. I'm going to take them out!"
A gray stone dragon grinned, revealing its ferocious fangs, and prepared to leave the hidden cave on the cliff and head towards the food storehouse.
"Guros, don't be impulsive. The strange people connected to poachers are not so easy to deal with. What we should do now is contact Fels and Uranus."
Reed the lizardman quickly stepped forward to stop them, and just then, a monster resembling a Jorogumo walked over.
"The adventurers who came near here have been scared away by us. No one has died, but no one will be grateful to us for scaring them away."
“Don’t say that, Lani. I believe that one day, we heretics will be able to have peaceful and friendly exchanges with humans.”
Reed's words elicited a cold snort from Stone Dragon Guross beside him, clearly indicating that he did not quite agree with what Reed said, but he still did not say anything.
. . . .
"Uranus, a communication has come from the Heretics..."
At the guild headquarters' underground altar, the Great Sage, hidden beneath a black robe, quickly found the guild's chief god, Uranus, with a communication crystal in hand, and reported the anomaly that had occurred on the 24th floor of the dungeon.
"Deep within the dungeon, a filthy fairy is manipulating her minions in the labyrinth of the 24th floor. What conspiracy is she plotting...?"
"Reed and his group disguised themselves as irrational monsters and triggered a controlled monster riot, scaring away the adventurers exploring the 24th floor of the labyrinth and preventing a large number of casualties. However, this incident involves a possible conspiracy by the Filthy Fairy, and we must investigate the situation as soon as possible."
"Can we ask Heretic to help with the investigation?"
“That probably won’t work. It’s difficult for the Heretic to leave the dungeon and survive in the outside world. The Filthy Fairy’s strange retinue can move between floors within the dungeon. Once it attracts the Filthy Fairy’s attention, the Heretic’s survival will become difficult.”
"Yes, we really need to consider the situation of the heretics. Fels, what are your thoughts?"
The guild's chief god, seated on the altar, gazed questioningly at the black-robed sage below.
"First, we need to find out what the Filthy Fairy is doing on the 24th floor. Perhaps we can ask a clan that is good at intelligence gathering to help us."
“Hermes…” Uranus hesitated for a moment, then shook his head. “I cannot fully trust his wavering neutral divine will.”
"There's no need to tell them the truth about the main god; just pay them enough to hire their retinue to help."
"Well then, Fels, I'll leave this to you."
The sage in black robes took his leave.
. . . .
On the streets at night, Lulune came out of the tavern and was on her way back to her clan's settlement when she keenly sensed a presence behind her. She hid at a corner, and just as the person following her was about to approach, she suddenly jumped in front of him with a dagger in hand.
"Who are you? Why are you secretly following me?"
The dog-woman exuded an aura of menace and warily questioned the black-robed man who had followed her and seemed somewhat familiar.
"It's me, the person who asked you to retrieve something from the dungeon."
Fels' words caused the dog-woman's expression to stiffen slightly.
"Ah, the thing you didn't ask me to retrieve turned out to be such a dangerous item, which almost killed me in that quest..."
"Well, the mission failed, and now the item is gone, so I can't give it to you. But don't blame me; at most, I'll return the deposit you gave me."
Lulune felt extremely guilty that someone had given her a high-paying commission and even paid a substantial deposit in advance, but she failed in her mission and was now being pursued.
"I'm not here to ask for a refund."
The person in black robes shook their head; their voice was neutral, making it impossible to tell whether they were male or female.
"Uh, who are you looking for?"
"A new commission..."
. . . . .
"Lulune, you mean you encountered a mysterious man in black robes on your way back from drinking, and that man, through you, issued a request to our entire Hermes Familia's intelligence network to investigate the cause of the monster riot in the 24th floor labyrinth?"
“Yes, Lady Asphie…”
Seeing Lulune shrinking her neck as she answered her question, Asifi, the top-ranking leader of the Hermes Familia, known as the Omnipotent One, raised her hand and rubbed her throbbing temples: "This matter is clearly related to the special monster that broke into the city on the day of the Monster Festival. You also learned how powerful it was during the previous mission. How did you dare to accept it?"
"The reward they offered was very high..."
As the dog-girl spoke, she was glared at by the bespectacled girl leader.
"In addition, it seems that person knew about our clan's presence in the guild and lied about the clan's strength and members' levels."
They said that if we refused the mission, they would report us to the guild for concealing information, and our clan would likely face extremely high guild fines.
Upon hearing this, the Omnipotent One was speechless. This was indeed a great threat. If it were really exposed, the fines that her clan would face would definitely be severe.
"Wait, how did they know you were a member of the Hermes Familia?"
Suddenly, Asifi noticed a blind spot and quickly asked.
"Ah, this..."
Lulune tried to change the subject, but under the stern gaze of her captain, she had no choice but to obediently tell the truth.
"That was probably something I said when I was drunk in a tavern in Rivera..."
Adventurers always have a lot of flaws, and boasting about themselves at the dinner table is probably one of them.
However, this is not really a major problem.
Lulune always manages to glean the latest information about adventurers from drinking parties because she boasts about herself and manages to mingle with some of them.
However, there have also been cases like this, where a troublesome mysterious person comes to your door and makes a request that is difficult to refuse.
Fortunately, although the mysterious person used a similar threatening method to get their clan to accept the commission, the price offered was indeed not low.
Even if it were a normal commission, without having to threaten them by revealing their clan's concealment of information, Asphi felt that she had a high chance of accepting this high-paying commission.
"Lady Asphie, should we refuse this request?"
"What do you think?"
On one hand, there's the punishment of having your guild exposed; on the other hand, there's a high-reward commission with unknown risks. Anyone would choose either way.
Of course, before that, she needed to clarify the contents of the commission with the mysterious guy who gave Lulune the commission.
"Give me the communication crystal they gave me."
. . . .
"We are just intelligence personnel. We can accept your request to investigate the monster riot in the 24th floor of the labyrinth, but if we encounter something that we cannot handle, we will not take risks beyond our capabilities just for the sake of the investigation."
"No problem, I just want you to help investigate the situation, I never intended for you to die."
Fels agreed with Afies's statement, and the investigation was commissioned.
. . . .
"Ah, Broly, your stats have increased so much this time?"
The Saiyan boy, who had finished eating and returned to his clan's camp, was lying on a soft bed, while the loli goddess sat on his buttocks, updating the stat panel on his back.
Hestia exclaimed in surprise after the second ability panel was activated by the divine blood and began to display variable values.
Lily Luca quickly moved closer to take a look. Although she couldn't understand the sacred writing on the boy's back, she could still understand the simple numbers.
The little girl saw that four of Broly's five basic abilities on his secondary ability panel had values exceeding 10,000, and the remaining ones that hadn't reached 10,000 were four-digit numbers starting with 9.
Broly's base ability value of 5 seconds was greatly improved after his frantic monster-slaying in the Death Arena. After Hestia updated his ability value, it reached 11 seconds, although his magic power was a weak point.
"Lord Hestia, what level is Broly at now?"
Looking at the report on the Saiyan boy's back, which showed an exaggeratedly high number of his secondary ability values, Lily Luca couldn't help but ask the Loli Goddess a question.
"I don't know about this either."
Hestia shook her head in response.
"Eh?"
Seeing the puzzled look on the little girl's face, Hestia explained, "The ability panel brought by the grace of the gods will have a level sublimation effect after leveling up."
This will make the value of each point of basic ability at the current level higher in quality than the value of each point of basic ability at previous levels.
But apart from Broly and Bell, I don't have any other high-ranking children in my familia. Without any reference points, how am I supposed to know what level he is at now?
Of course, I don't know his exact skill level, but roughly speaking, our Broly is definitely the best in the world!
Hestia then pounced on him, the loli goddess burying the Saiyan boy's head in her soft, broad bosom.
"Of course I know that. I just want to know if Broly currently represents the highest level of stats among Orario adventurers, and is even stronger than that fierce Freya Familia member?"
"The fierce one?"
Broly crawled out of the Loli Goddess's arms and looked at the little girl with some curiosity.
"The Mighty Ota is known as the tallest wall in Orario. Many years ago, he was the only Lv.7 adventurer in the city, and there are rumors that he may have reached Lv.8."
Lily Luca explained that information like this was quite common among adventurers in Orario.
"Whether it's Lv.7 or Lv.8, Broly will eventually be able to surpass his opponent in terms of raw strength using the base stats accumulated on his Lv.1 ability panel."
As Hestia was saying this, she suddenly remembered something and changed her words, saying, "Oh no, that's not right. This is the second ability panel. If we upgrade now to remove the effects of the Overload Training skill, the combined strength should be enough to surpass that powerful figure, Broly, right?!"
Faced with the smiling question from the loli goddess, Broly nodded. Although he didn't know the strength level of that fierce person, he knew the absolute difference in strength between himself now and himself before he started super-weight training.
Of course, one is dominated by qi combat power, and the other is dominated by pure physical combat power. And now his physical body should be stronger than before.
"Broly, since you agreed to go on the expedition with the Loki Familia, just to be safe, would you like me to upgrade your second ability panel and unlock the effect of that super-weight training skill?"
Hestia asked.
"Oh, that won't be necessary."
Upon hearing this, Broly immediately refused, explaining that the unknown floor Finn was going to explore was the fifty-ninth floor, a place he had been to before.
Looking back now, only one trembling, talking plant-type monster left a slight impression on him.
As for the dangers of going there and the need for Hestia's help to unlock the super-weight training skill, Broly felt it was unnecessary.
The basic improvements I got from grinding monsters this week were quite good, and this should be the effect of the [Fighting Nation] skill.
[The Fighting Nation]
Effect ①: You become stronger through battle. The more intense the battle, the more it nourishes your own strength. You are a born warrior.
Effect 2: When you are on the verge of death and seriously injured but have not died, you can break through the physical limits of your current level (cross the boundary value). This effect is activated at the current level and will continue until you reach the next level.
Based on the literal description of the skill, after leveling it up, you'll probably face the problem of being stuck at the Lv.2 ability value limit again.
It's impossible to go through another near-death experience to activate the second ability effect of the "Fighting Nation" skill.
When Broly explained his reasons for not upgrading the second panel to Hestia, the loli goddess immediately retorted, "In that case, Broly, you won't have to go to the dungeon anymore?"
Looking at Hestia, who was gazing at him with affection and expectation, Broly suddenly realized that she wasn't talking about leveling up, but rather about not wanting him to go to the dungeon. A week of separation must have made this goddess feel lonely.
"But, Lady Hestia, I still want to continue to become stronger."
Although Broly can continue to grow stronger without an stat panel, training with Super Weight is still more efficient.
Without the Super Weight Training skill, the massive amount of Qi would severely hinder his physical training. But now it's different; he can simply go to the dungeon and fight monsters to gain experience and improve his basic abilities.
"Uh……"
Hestia hadn't expected the boy to say that, but after thinking about it, she realized it made sense. If Broly didn't have the desire to become stronger, how could his combat skills be so high, and how could he have developed two different combat skill types?
"So, Broly, you don't want to grow up with us because you're worried that doing 'that' too early will affect your physical development?"
Hestia suddenly asked.
"Eh?!"
Broly was taken aback, not expecting Hestia to think in this direction.
"It's not entirely because of that reason, but it is certainly part of the reason."
Broly hesitated for a moment, then nodded in partial agreement.
"Ah, so that's the reason. I thought that you, Broly, refused to grow up with me and Lady Hestia because you wanted to save your first experience for Miss Ais and the others!"
Upon hearing this, the little girl looked relieved.
"Uh, no, it wasn't Miss Ais or the others..."
Just as Broly was about to speak, wanting to confess his promises to the humans and gods, Hestia took the initiative to say, "No wonder you seemed to be avoiding us. I'm sorry, Lily and I'm sorry for making those requests difficult for you."
"Uh, um."
Distracted, Broly nodded subconsciously.
"After that, I won't make things difficult for you. It's just that there are still some existing problems that Lily and I will need to help you solve, right?"
Hestia asked a question.
"Ah."
After receiving an affirmative answer from Broly, he and the little girl exchanged a glance and tacitly began to help solve the existing problems.
After resolving the issues and lying in bed to sleep, Broly finally felt much more relaxed.
Lady Hestia and Lilyluka's statements relieved him of the pressure of potentially breaking his promise to Fujimura.
However, once the pressure was gone, the boy who had been sleeping with the little girl in his arms from behind quickly felt himself regaining his energy.
Lily Luca sensed it, but without saying a word, she silently slipped into the covers to help.
After being helped again, he faced the little girl who was sleeping on her side with her back to him.
Broly felt this wouldn't do, so he turned around to face the loli goddess behind him.
But in the end, it was just a matter of going from facing the Pythagorean theorem to facing a deep valley.
The Saiyan boy tossed and turned, unable to sleep even on his back, because both Hestia and Lilyluka would instinctively straddle him when they held him to sleep.
Finally, Broly found the right and comfortable sleeping position: lying on his stomach. Although his tail would still be hooked by the legs straddling him, it was at least not as sensitive as his front tail.
Nothing was said that night, until dawn the next day...
"Mr. Broly, this trip down the dungeon must have been quite tiring, right?"
Liu, who came over for her morning exercise, asked the boy a question after seeing him come out.
"I'm not that tired."
"Then why did you sleep in?"
"Well, actually, I'm still a little tired."
(End of this chapter)