Hello everyone it's time for another chapter. Last chapter you found out that you go a new skill while also leveled up to level 2.

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POV: You

Part 1.

It's the day after Denatus day and I was inside their armor shop that Eina took me to get armor when I got my first set of Welf Crozzo armor. I looked around them store for about 10 minutes, rumiging through crate after crate trying to find armor by Welf Crozzo. Not even a single piece of armor with the name Welf Crozzo on it. I walked through their isles to get to them front to see ask where I could get some armor by Welf Crozzo. As I got closer and closer I heard a guy arguing with them store owner.

"Hey man!, why's my stuff always in their back?, I put my life on the line to make and you can't even give me some decent shelf space. Up nice high, eye level" The guy arguing with the store owner says.

The guy had red hair while wearing a black coat, pants and black boots along with a blue scarf around his neck. They store owner looks past him and sees me.

"Sir, can I help you find something?" The owner asks me.

"Yeah, I can't find any armor by Welf Crozzo, Did you stop selling his armor?" I say as I got to the counter.

The owner looked at me and then looked at the guy a few times. I look at the guy and a big smirk appears on his face. He then started laughing so hard it sounded like I just said the funniest joke in the world.

"Shop till you drop kid, armor by Welf Crozzo" The guy says while motioning to the armor on the counter.

"Your Welf Crozzo?" I asked the guy next to me who had a cheeky smile on his face.

"Yup, the one and only" He says "How about we go somewhere to talk"

We walk out of the store and I follow him with the crate of armor in my hands. He leads me to a bench that was in the small plaza under Babel where the entrance to the dungeon is

"What's your name kid?" The guy asks me.

"My name's (Y/n) (L/n), nice to meet you Welf Crozzo" I say whole holding my hand out to him.

"So, the famus Rook is interested in my work, I'm flattered" Welf says.

"Your armor is just what I'm looking for. Strong and durable yet light and easy to move in. My previous set of your armor saved my life a few days ago" I tell him.

Welf then starts talking loudly "So, (Y/n) (L/n), you have purchased my armor twice now haven't you while my armor also saved your life, I suppose that makes you my very satisfied customer"

"Yeah....that's about right"

The people who were standing near us talked a bit before leaving the area. Welf then looks back to me.

"Sorry about that, that was just a little territorial despute" Weld said then gets a bit serious "Now then (Y/n), How would you like to do business with me directly?"

"Sounds great" I replied "Anything you need to clereify?"

"So this is how it will be, I'll give you a special deal on any armor or weapons you need, but I do have one little o'l request for in exchange, It's not much"

"Okay then, what's your request?" I say.

"(Y/n), I humbly ask to become apart of your party" Welf asks.

"I don't see why not. I've been needing to find party members lately" I state.

"So is that a yes?" He questions while getting excited.

"Yup, we're in a party now, unless there's some sort of paper work we need to fill out first"

"Awsome, how about we go to the pantheon right now" Welf says.

Part 2.

It's the next day, Me, Welf, and a grump Lili were on the 11th floor of the dungeon. We just arrived on the floor a few moments ago and boy was Welf excited. I wasn't exactly sure why Lili was all grumpy but I was guessing it was because eof Welf.

"Finally!, I made it to floor 11!" Welf shouts with excitement before posing like a kid who just found something amazing "Sorry (Y/n), I guess I shouldn't of asked you to do this right away"

"It's not a problem Welf, the more people by your side in the dungeon the better"

"I'm glad that at least one of us is happy.." Lili says then turns to Eelf "Don't you think you should be adventuring with someone from your own familia?" Welf then grumbles a bit.

"Welf doesn't exactly get along with his familia all to well" I tell her.

"So you fell for this guy's sob story. Why didn't you discuss this with me first, Your own supporter let alone girlfrined?! Your lucky I don't shoot you in the ass with my crossbow right now!" She then shouts at me.

"Holy hell, no arrows need to be flying at anything but monsters. It's nothing to get mad about for God's sake" I tell her.

"Am I that much of a burden pip squeak?" Welf says.

"Don't call me pip squeak. I have a name you know and it's Liliruca Arde"

"Oh, pardon me a little bit, put her there" Welf says then tries to be a bit civil and holds his hand out.

"I don't think so" Lili says and turns away.

"I'd appreciate it if we could all get along. Besides, Welf Crozzo makes armor that I like" I tell her.

"Crozzo? Did you just say Crozzo?!, The cursed magic swordsmiths from the failed smithing nobility!" Lili shouts.

"Yeah, so what? It's just another last name to me. I did my fair share of research and I honestly don't care about what his family does or used to do" I state.

"At least there's someone who understands" Welf sighs.

We hear the sound of rock breaking around us and we see monsters coming out from the ground, orcs and imps to be more specific.

Welf then draws his sword "You guys can leave the orcs to me, they shouldn't be to hard for me to handle by myself"

"I guess I'll try to back you up the best I can" Lili says while arming her crossbow.

"Aww, thanks little bit" Welf says then whispers to me "I think she likes me"

"No, you make me totally want to puke" Lili says "But I cant let you get into master (Y/n)'s way"

"I didn't know you were into that kind of stuff (Y/n)" Welf chuckles.

"It's not like that, she's the one who decided to call me that since the beginning" I state.

"Yeah yeah what ever you say, let's get on with it" Welf says.

I pulled out hestia knife and held it in front of me. Unfortunately for the first imp that jumped at me, it was met with hestia knife in the chest. I could feel that I have become faster, I was questioning whether it was because of my recent level up or not. Imps surround me with there being about 11 of them. I quickly stabbed each imp in a vital spot, I did it so fast that the imps burst into smoke like a trail of gunpowder burning.

"Holy smokes" Welf says.

"Was that pun intended?" I questioned.

"Take it how you want it" Welf states.

"Welf, Lili, look out!" I shout as I see a armored armadillo.

They move out of the way right in time as the armadillo rolls it's self up into a ball and sped towards me. I extended my hand out and shot a fire bolt at the thing. Once the bolt of fire hit the armadillo, it went into the air before turning to ash.

"It seems my magic has gotten stronger"

"I guess that's all of them for now" I say.

"I'll start picking up the stones" Lili says then starts picking up the magic stones.

Welf walks over to a rock near by and sits on it "Sure is great to be in a party am I right?, Sucks being lonely"

"Yeah, I get what you mean" I replied. I then see some other guys arrive on the scene "looks like another party showed up"

"Let's eat lunch after little miss finishes picking up all the magic stones. Well leave the monsters to them" Welf says and nodded then walked away a bit "Hey sparkles, what's that?"

I look down and I see that my right hand was covered in white and blue sparkles, like pixie dust "I'm not sure, this hasn't happened before"

We then hear screaming and yelling, we turn in that direction and we see the party of 3 guys yelling while running towards us.

"Get out of here, it's a dragon!" One of the guys shout as they run past us.

We then see a big wingless lizard that looked like a poor excuse for a dragon. To me it just looked like a large salamander that never got to enjoy water. It roars with its red eyes glowing brightly. In the heat of the moment I raise my hand up, aiming for its head.

"Firebolt!"

Instead of a orange lightning bolt of fire, a lightning bolt of white and blue fire two times the size of a normal fire bolt shoots out of my hand and went towards the dragons head. The bolt of white and blue fire hit the dragons head and exploded in a blinding white and blue light. The dragon bursts into smoke with a pretty big magic stone dropping onto the ground. Lili was looking towards us from in front of us, not even realizing that the dragon was even there.

"Did I miss something?" Lili questions.

"Did you not just see that big dragon right next to you?!" I ask her.

"No, I was to busy picking up the magic stones of the monsters you guys killed" She states.

I face palm at her response "Now you got one big stone to pick up as well"

"So what was with all that? He sparkles and stuff" Welf questions me.

"That must of been my Argonaut skill" I state.

"Argonaut? Sounds like a move a hero would have" Welf says.

"My goddess told me I got the skill because I've always wanted to become a hero since I was a kid" I tell him.

"Sounds like your dream is coming true" Welf says with a smirk.

"That's been happening a lot to me lately" I say with a smile while looking at Lili.

Part 3.

It's a few days later and I met up with Welf in front of the dungeon. Unfortunately, Lili got sick so I guess for a few days we won't have her in the dungeon with us.

"So where's little miss? Is she taking some time off" Welf asks me, noticing that she isn't at my side.

"Yeah, I went to check up on her and the father of the nome that runs the boarding house she stays at says that she's sick and needs to rest. She told me that she was sorry that she couldn't make it" I explained to him.

"That's to bad" Welf says sincerely "In that case, do you want to come and hang out with me for today. Think of it like this, I want to say thank you for letting me be in your party. I want to make you a new piece of gear"

"I don't have a problem with that"

Welf starts walking and I follow him. We walked through Orario until we got to a area there were brick and wooden buildings clustered near eachother. We then got to a small quaint wooden building that was like a outsider from the other buildings. He opens the door and turns a few lanterns on.

"Make yourself at home" He states "Sorry about the mess, I wasn't exactly expecting to bring you here today"

"So this is where you make your weapons and armor?" I asks.

"Yeah" He says as he puts up his sword "So what do you need, feel free to try something out"

I see a sword next to me and I pick it up, it was very good quality sword to be honest. Though it was a two handed sword.

"That one didn't sell" Welf says.

"It's quite awesome, how could this of not been sold" I say.

"Huh, I thought you would be wanting a magic sword or something. You already did your research so I don't really need to explain now do I" Welf says.

"I don't need a magic sword to get me where I want to go" I say as I swung the sword.

"That's good to hear from the person I have a contract with" Welf says "Now, back to the topic at hand. What kind of new gear to you need?"

"A light sword and another knife would help, the minotaur a few days ago broke my basalarge and backup knife" I say to him.

"Sounds good to me" Welf says then looks at my belt "Hmm, what are those?" He says while pointing at the two minotaur horns on my belt.

"Oh these? I got them from the minotaur I defeated" I tell him.

"Then let's use those then" He tells me.

I give him the horns and we go into a separate room where his work area is. There were tools on the walls along with a anvil in the center of the room. There was also a forge as well. He starts working on the weapons as I watched and had a conversation with him.

"I despise magic swords" He tells me.

"How come?" I ask.

"They always bring out the worst customers. I'm so tired of it, they just want something to make them strong and make them famous, but that's so wrong. Their missing the point, that's not what weapons are for. A weapon is not a means to conquer the world, it's an equal partner with its user, no matter what happens you weapon is the one thing that should never betray you, but magic swords aren't like that. They always break and leave you with nothing. They destroy people, the users pride, the smiths reputation, everything. That's why I always refused to forge one"

Before we knew it was hours later. He finished the knife and sword then opened a window inside the workshop, letting in the light of the late afternoon sun. He looks at the two weapons and smiles.

"The material was really nice, of all the things I've made, these might be the best ones. Now then , how about we name the knife Ushiwakmaru and name the sword Raikou, their both ancient warriors" Welf says.

"Wow, you really but some thought into the names" I say.

"Well you got to call them something" he states "Here" He hands me the sword and knife which came with sheaths "I know we just met and all but I consider you my friend"

"I consider you as my friend as well Welf" I say.

"What would I do without the people around me?"

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Hello everyone this is the end of the chapter. I hope you guys enjoyed He chapter. Until next time bye.