AN: this story will have a couple characters 12 at most, from different fantasy anime universes to help flush out more and add even more to this story since I want to add even more character development and flush out more things.

And no I'm not gonna be like some writers and just dump like 30 new characters since they are hot. (If you've talked to me on discord, you know who).
I'm doing this to help the story with lots of ideas I have to make it stand out more.
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"My dear Odr is becoming so strong, so fast" said Freya with a smile as she watched him train from up in her tower and had a large smile on her face.

Her eyes then went down to the update he got and informed the guild and she couldn't stop smiling at seeing this.

Level 2 in a little over a month.

He went and defeated a irregular infant dragon, then spent 4 whole days in the dungeon killing everything in his path, so he could make enough valis to pay off the debt he owed to the Hostess.

"You've become so strong so fast my dear Odr... but I can tell something is still holding you back and preventing you from shining even brighter.. and I have to fix that" she said with a smile as she slowly twirled her wine glass. Then her eyes went to her mirror where she saw her dear Ottar currently hunting down a worthy subject to train so her Odr can fight it, to finally get past this block he's on.

Her eyes then turned to the door being opened and Allen walking inside holding a piece of paper.

"Here you are lady Freya" he said getting on a knee and holding it out for her.

"Thank you Allen" she said taking it from him and began to read what the paper said about Rose Fannet, the one that was her Odrs mate.

She began to read It and there was nothing of true interest except for the simple fact that Bell saved her in the dungeon and she fell for him hard.

Freyas eyes then went to the guild where said woman was, she then pulled out her mirror and waved infront of it and the image of Rose appeared as she was working the Stone exchange today.

"Hmm what to do.. what to do.." she said before her eyes then went to report she wrote on Bell when he first registered. Her eyes immediately went to one line.

'Wants to be a adventurer to be both a hero and one day start a family'.

Family.. which meant children, the one thing Freya couldn't give him and she would've given him everything.

She then looked again, but at Rose's soul and saw the bright red soul, that had a outline of nothing but white that kept pulsing, showing she was truly in love with Bell.

Her eyes then went to the Hostess towards a certain elf and she saw her beautiful light green soul that held so much pain and suffering... yet ever since Bell showed up, it's been burning more brightly and it showed she was happier, with it very very subtly rippling every once and a while around Bell showing a growing interest and the possibility of love.

An image ran through her head and it didn't bother her in the slightest...it made her excited, it was a image of a bunch of blonde and white haired half elves running around along with a bunch of red and white haired half werewolves running around.

A smile grew on her face from this and a new thought, she never thought she'd have entered her mind.

"What if I were to share him... not only would I get my Odr but.. then his soul would shine even more brightly and he'd get the family he's always wanted" she thought to herself.

Because of this, new ideas began to play in her mind.. would his soul shine even brighter if he had more lovers? Would it become even more beautiful than it already was.

A shiver ran down her spine at that thought.. it was already intoxicating to see it now... but the thought of it getting even more beautiful and shining more brightly! This was almost enough to make her moan in pleasure at the thought.

Freya now had so much to think about and she couldn't help but thank Bell for it, since it was making her this excited and feel feelings she's never felt before.

But then a new thought entered her mind as a image of one of her Familia members came to her mind. She was very very beautiful and Freya had to admit it herself, for a mortal she was one of the most beautiful and that was even with the horrible scar she got while in the dungeon.

"Allen" Freya said as a new plan started to brew in her mind at the thought of Bell and her getting together and Freya finally being able to see her smile again and her silver soul shine once more.

"Yes lady Freya?" He said while lowering his head a bit to make sure he didn't miss anything.

"Tell Hedin I need him to deliver a letter to Hermes and tell Hermes I need this sent with utmost haste, valis won't he a concern" said Freya as she stood up and began to write a letter to her Familia member she allowed to go off and explore the world to help heal her soul after the injury she received and the fact it left a massive scar from her right eye, to her right elbow.

After finishing writing it, he sealed the letter with some wax and her Familia symbol, but quickly wrote on the letter who it was for.

Húsfreya, the Valkyrie.

"I will bring it to him with utmost haste" said Allen as he disappeared to find the elf and give him his instructions.

Freya smiled a bit and picked up her wine glass before standing up and walking back up to her window and looked down at the massive city. "Hmhmhm oh Odr just what are you doing to me" she said feeling a tingle of excitement run up her spine.

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"Again" said Ais as she brought up her swords scabbard infront of her. She had been training Bell for last 3 hours along with Riveria, Ryuu had to go back to work or she would've stayed to help train him too.

Bell was panting from exhaustion and the fact he didn't activate his skill since his life wasn't in danger.

Hardening his resolve he dashed in and went for a low strike with his sword, but Ais easily dodged it, but this is when Bell did something neither her and Riveria were expecting.

He ducked even lower and used his shield to block the strike as he went and slid under her and tried to stab her back, but Ais easily countered it, relying on her instincts and kicked him away.

Bell went flying and smashed into the tree again and was unconscious once more.

"I must say, he's improving at an exceptional rate" said Riveria with a very tiny smile.

"I wasn't expecting him to do that slide for him to get behind me" said Ais as she made note of it, since it'd be useful against certain large monsters, if she used it right.

"That just shows he's improving" said Riveria walking over towards him and using some healing magic on him, to help him wake up faster.

Ais felt her brow furrow at that since, she enjoyed giving him lap pillows.. it was nice... she then moved forward and sat on her knees and placed his head on her lap.

"Ugh... it's always the kick that I can't dodge.." he said holding his head in pain.

"You are improving very quickly, but I sense a tiny bit of fear in you" said Ais "are you scared of something?".

Images of the minotaur came back into his head along with... him... the one who cursed him.

"Yeah.. I know it's pathetic" he said sitting up and his brain not registering he was just laying on her lap again.

"On the contrary, fear is very important for an adventurer to have, if they didn't have it, then they'd get sloppy and would either die themselves or get a comrad killed" said Riveria.

"Really? But neither of you seem scared while in the dungeon" he said confused.

"That's given how much experience we have, also given our levels, the higher floors aren't dangerous to us, but even then we know to not take the dungeon lightly, since It could change at any second" said Riveria.

"So the higher the level, the easier it is and the less dangerous the higher floors are" he said.

"Correct and given your now a level two, you can technically go to the middle floors, though I'd highly recommend not doing that until your used to your level up and your more experienced, those floors are a lot more dangerous" said Riveria.

Ais nodded her head in agreement as memories came back when she used to run into them and on multiple occasions almost died from it.

"I'll keep that in mind.. I'm planning to head into the dungeon tomorrow with my supporter so we can start to work together again and in time hopefully go into the middle floors" said Bell.

"I'll train you till then and when we have to go on our next expedition" said Ais.

"R-really?" He asked shocked.

"I don't see why not, your a fast learner and it'd be much safer for me to continue to train you" she said.

"I won't be able to come around as much as Ais, but I'll stop by and help you with your magic.. speaking of which, let's see how good you are with using spells during combat" she said with a smile. She then tapped her staff on the ground and said a small chant before a shield surrounded the garden like area behind the Hostess. "Now you don't have to worry about destroying anything".

"R-right" he said before he looked at the high elf and raised his arm "Firebolt!".

The spell came racing towards Riveria and she easily deflected it like it was nothing, but she then saw Bell racing at her while charging another spell.

"ThunderBolt!!" The spell shot right at her and once again, she easily deflected it, but had to step back to dodge the swipe of his sword, before he turned and had another spell ready. "ThunderBolt!".

Riveria smiled a tiny bit and said a small chant as ice formed and deflected his spell like nothing.

"Your doing good, using spells for both distraction and attack, but you need to think more, think outside the box" she said

Nodding he moved in again and charged another Firebolt, but instead he aimed it at the ground before shooting it and creating a massive cloud of smoke and dust.

"I did say think outside the box" she thought before her adventurer senses went off and she brought her staff up and blocked a sword strike with ease. "That's much better Mr Cranel".

"T-thank you" he said as he stepped back and sheathed his blade "and thank you both for helping me train".

"It's no trouble at all.. besides you have slightly peaked my interest on how you grow so fast" she said.

"I wish I knew why too... none of my skills mention anything about fast growth" he said as he remembered his status sheet.

"Hmm well maybe ask your goddess again and see what she says, since it isn't normal to level up from a level 1 to 2 in a month" said Riveria.

"I'll be sure too" he said with a small smile.

"When would you like to train next?" Asked Ais.

"Well I usually head to the wall every morning to do my morning run around 6, so I'm available for about an hour, then I come here and Ms Ryuu makes me a lunch, then I spend the rest of the day in the dungeon before I stop here again to eat dinner" he said.

"Very well, then I'll see you tomorrow morning Bell" said Ais.

"R-right I look forward to training with you" he said with a blush as he smiled.

Riveria saw something in the corner of her eye, it a pair of fluffy brown cat ears that were near the window, they then quickly disappeared inside the Hostess.

"Sorry to cut this conversation short but me and Ais have to head back to our home before Loki starts to send search parties to find us, anyways Ais will train you tomorrow Cranel, if I find an available day before the next expedition then I'll join in as well" said Riveria.

"Alright and thank you two again for everything" he said with a small bow.

Riveria smiled lightly and began to leave with Ais following her, but she stopped for a second and waved goodbye to him before she too left.

"Alright now to find Lily so we can get ready for the dungeon tomorrow.. also I need more potions" he said to himself while rolling his shoulder that was in pain.

He walked off and walked through the Hostess where he nodded or waved to the workers as he was leaving, but before he could get past the counter, a large hand grabbed his collar.

"And where ya think ya going?" Asked Mama Mia looking at him with a raised eye.

"U-um to b-buy more potions and tell my supporter that I'll be h-heading to the dungeon tomorrow" he said nervously.

Her eyes narrowed a bit before she let him go "Remember to stop here and eat or else I'll have my elf hunt you down or worse... Anya".

Bell silently wondered how Anya the airhead could be wo... never mind.

"R-right" he said quickly glancing around the room and not seeing Syr or Ryuu or said cat girl "um could you tell those two and Syr I said goodbye and I'll either be here for dinner tonight or see them tomorrow?".

"Ya sure, now get going kid unless your gonna buy something" she said.

Bell waved and left the Hostess to go track down his supporter.

"So Mr Cranel is going to be learning with the sword princess tomorrow on the wall?" Said Ryuu with a raised eyebrow.

"Mhm, mewowhite hair is gonna be all alone with her" said Anya hoping to get a reaction, but didn't see any so she pushed more. "I mean think about it nya, he'll have to train with her all alone and probably keep getting lap pillows meow".

She saw it faintly, but Ryuus eyebrow twitched ever so slightly.

"Meowhite hair might not even learn how to finish each strike properly nya, he might end up hurt again" she said.

Ryuu stopped what she was doing then turned and walked off towards Mama Mia to go ask her something.

"Mfufu Ryuu is cute nya" she said before sighing slightly "only is Meowhite used a spear, then nya could teach him how to fight with it".

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With Bell he was walking down the road heading to the guild to hopefully find Lily their, but as he was walking, he recognized someone who was walking towards him.

"Hermes?" He said.

"Ahh Bell, just the person I've been looking for" he said in his usual dramatic way.

"Hm what for?" Bell asked curiously and a little on edge since he knew from firsthand experience how Hermes could be... he had to deal with him back in the village when he'd visit his grandpa.

"Not here, let's go somewhere a little more private to talk" he said before putting an arm around Bell and leading him off somewhere.

It took them a couple minutes but they found a more secluded spot and Hermes reached into his jacket and pulled out a stone bag.

"This is for you" he said with a grin.

"A stone bag?" Asked Bell slightly confused why he'd need to be taken somewhere private to receive a gift like this.

"Not just any stone bag, it's called infinity purse, it let's you store as many magic stones in here as you want along with your weapons and.. your grandfather gave it to me and asked me to give it to you when he thought you'd be ready" said Hermes.

"I-it was my grandpas.." said Bell shocked.

"Nope, your fathers".

Bells whole world froze at that moment and he slowly reached out and took it from Hermes and held it with so much care.

"I have another gift for you, but your not strong enough for it, but keep progressing like you have been and you'll get it soon" said Hermes with a smile.

"T-thank you Hermes.." he said shocked.

"No problem and also be careful with it since if people find out you have something like that, then they will stop at nothing to get it from you" said Hermes.

"Right.. I'll protect it with my life" Bell said very determined.

"Good, now if you need me, I need to be going since I have some more errands to run" Hermes said before turning and leaving.

"Right, thank you again and goodbye Hermes" said Bell waving to him before he too left, but not without first securing his new object on his person.

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"Master Bell" said Lily excitedly as she ran towards a familiar mop of white hair she saw in the distance, she began to squeeze past everyone around the front of the entrance to the dungeon until she finally arrived.

"Oh hey Lily, sorry for being missing for a while.. I.. did lots of dumb stuff in the last couple days" he said apologetically before he saw her new dog like ears.. or were they always their but hidden because of her hood.

Lily shook her head "it's ok, I talked to your advisor when I was asking about you and she told me that you were seriously injured and needed to rest" she said.

"Thank you for understanding Lily.. also tomorrow I plan to go into the dungeon around 8 or 9 if that would work for you" be said.

"Mhm, that'd work with me Bell" she said with a genuine smile.

"I'm glad, in that case I can't wait to work with you tomorrow Lily, if you need me I have to still go and buy some things unless you want to join" he said.

Lily thought about it for a little bit before she remembered, she stilled had to go make some things "I'm sorry master Bell but I do have some things to do, but how about after our adventur?".

"Sure that'd work with me, see you tomorrow Lily" he said waving and walking away.

Lily smiled as she began to leave "he saved me and I'll do everything I can to help him" she said with a smile... he really was different from other adventurers.

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"Ahhh this feels amazing.." said Loki sinking into the large bath that was being used by the other goddesses.

"I have to agree, this feels amazing" said Hephaestus sinking up to her neck in the bath and feeling all her stress leave her body.

"How many of your kids gonna be joining my children's expedition in two weeks from now since it ended horribly?" Asked Loki as she remembered what Finn told her about that plant monster and Ais.

"Most likely the same ones who joined last time, though Zidril might wanna stay" said Hephaestus with a tiny smile.

"Oh? And why would your favorite dark elf want to" said Loki.

"Someone has caught her eye and he treats her kindly" said Hephaestus "he's younger than her and a lower level but he's very nice to her, also I saw that she used one of her hairs and put it into the shield she made him".

"Oh? If I remember correctly, that's a elven tradition for showing your love for another" said Loki.

"More or less, but with different elves it can change slightly, for her it's more of a growing interest since we both know elves only fall in love once" said Hephaestus.

"Hahaha true, I'm still trying to get my elf princess and other elves to go find someone and start a family one day.. ugh along with my other elf archer who Alicia has a rivalry with, but shes back in her home forest with her sister" said Loki "so who's the guy?".

"Hestias boy, Bell" said Hephaestus.

"Huh!? That kid again.. man he sure seems to have a thing for elves and is a chick magnet.... gotta learn how he does it" said Loki.

"You know him?".

"Mhm, I talked to him a while back, at the Hostess, he's really nice and wears his heart on his sleeve, also seems that the elf that works their has a interest in him, since she kept coming back to the table to check on him" said Loki. "Plus I found out today that apparently he's a level 2 after only a month and my Ais-puu and Riveria were training him today".

"I heard about the level up, he sold me the irregular infant dragon stone and drop, to drop lots of Hestias debt" said Hephaestus "but still... how could he level up only after a month?".

"I don't know, but that tits for brain Hestia is hiding something big, she got extremely defensive when I mentioned I talked to him, she immediately told me to keep my elves and Ais-puu away from him" said Loki.

Letting out a sigh, Hephaestus was about to say something but was cut off when they heard a scream.

"HESTIA HAS GOT A MAN!!!" Yelled Demeter getting everyone's attention.

"Mhm, he's my own child" said Hestia with a smile.

"The shrimp gotta be lying, from what Riveria told me, he's got a girlfriend" said Loki.

"Aww Zidril is gonna be disappointed now" said Hephaestus feeling bad about her dark elf.

"Hey Hephaestus.. wanna mess with the shrimp and save the kid from having to deal with her?" Said Loki with a grin.

"Hmmmm sure why not, maybe I can help my child while I'm at it" said Hephaestus.

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"She totally set this up as a date.. and I wanted to tell her I was already with someone" said Bell with a sigh as he stood in the middle of a massive court yard meant for merchant's to open stands in the morning, he then looked around and saw lots of couples. "Oh...".

"Bell!" Yelled Hestia running up to him with her hair down and a less revealing outfit than her normal one.

"Oh goddess how are you?" He said looking at her.

"I'm doing good... so how do I lo-" she was immediately cut off by other goddesses.

"Oh so this is your man Hestia?" Said a goddess.

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At the Guild Rose suddenly felt her eyebrow twitch and a need to go tell her Mates Goddess, she wasn't with Bell and if she wanted to get with him, she'd have to get her permission first.

Rose then began to quickly finish up her paperwork so she could leave faster and go save her mate.

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Hestia was then more or less shoved out of the way as all the goddesses surrounded Bell, much to his embarrassment.

"Oh so your Hestias child, I must say your really cute".

"And handsome".

"Hey how would you feel about joining my Familia instead, I'd take great care of you".

Bells face began to get redder and redder by the second.

"Just what do you think all of you are doing!?" Said Hestia as her anger grew.

"They are just having some fun shrimp, but gotta admit I'm pretty jealous right now of your boy, wish that was me" said Loki watching it all play out.

"FLAT CHEST!! THIS IS YOUR FAULT!!" Yelled Hestia.

For Bell he managed to squeeze out of all of the goddesses and tried to escape but he fell face first into Demeters heavenly rack.

"Oh well aren't you just daring? I kinda like that~" she said with a blush.

Bell got even more red and backed up and ran into another pair of massive breasts, he then turned around and saw that it was the smithing goddess.

"Long time no see Bell" she lightly teased, finding his reaction funny.

"Oh calm your tits Hestia, we are just having some fun" said Loki.

"Calm down? Your ruining me and Bells date that he agreed to take me on" said Hestia with narrowed eyes.

"Uh huh, then Is that why he currently has a girlfriend?" Said Loki.

"WHAAAAAAT!?!?!?!?!?! WHO IS IT!?!?!" She Screamed in anger.

"I ain't telling ya, you'll probably do something drastic" said Loki with narrowed eyes.

"BELL TELL ME WH- where'd they go?" Said Hestia looking around and not seeing Bell or the other Goddesses.

"Probably somewhere more private, I saw Demeter leading them towards her home" said Loki with a straight face and was trying her hardest not to burst out laughing.

"NOO BELL!!!!" Hestia yelled as she ran off looking for him.

"Hehehe now to go talk to the kid" Loki said walking in a different direction towards where he really was.

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Bell's face was completely red as he sat at a table with multiple goddesses surrounding him, with Demeter being right next to him and gently touching his leg.

"S-s-so.. w-why did y-you all want to talk to m-me" he said embarrassed and a little nervous.

"Oh we were just curious about how Hestia got a man yet back in heaven she denied every single god or goddess that trier to date her" said one goddess.

"Gotta say it is a bit strange, just what did you do Bell?" Asked Hephaestus as she took a sip of her coffee.

"N-nothing and me and my goddess aren't together... I already have a girlfriend a-and I was gonna t-tell her tonight about it, but she then dragged me off for a date" said Bell.

"Awe poor boy, you should tell her that then" said Demeter in a comforting tone.

Bell was about to respond when he jumped when she felt her hand move somewhere it shouldn't, he then took her hand and moved it away from that spot.

Demeters face got pretty red at that, but she kept a poker face and smiled.

"Man kid ya need to teach me how ya do that it's making me jealous" said Loki as she finally joined the group and took a empty seat.

"Oh um... where's my goddess?" Said Bell a little concerned.

"Told her Demeter was taking you to her house or somewhere more private" said Loki.

"Um t-thank you" he said.

"No problem kid.. now tell us, who's ya special girl?" She asked with a grin.

"That'd be me" said a voice that got everyone's attention.

They all looked and saw a very beautiful red headed werewolf wearing her guild uniform and looking at them all with a serious expression that made all the goddesses a little nervous.

"So which one of you is Hestia" she said as her eyes narrowed.

"None of us, Loki made her think we took Bell somewhere else" said Hephaestus hoping to calm the werewolf down.

She looked at the smithing goddess before her eyes landed on Bell "is this true?".

"Y-yes Rose" he said.

Rose let out a deep sigh and all her anger vanished "Good or else I mightve gotten fired for yelling at a goddess, now Lady Demeter please take your hand off Bells leg" she said.

Said Goddess immediately did so.

Rose then walked forward and sat in Bells lap sideways so he could still speak to the other goddesses.

"If you want to date him, you need my permission" Rose then added.

This immediately got everyone's attention.

"Huh?" Said Loki looking at her.

"If you want to date my Bell, you need my permission and actually love him for him" said Rose.

"But aren't you dating him?" Said Hephaestus.

Rose raised an eyebrow "yes, but I don't mind sharing, besides with how he is, I know for a fact he's gonna get multiple lovers or girlfriends".

Bell wanted to die of embarrassment right now.

"Well Zidril, looks like you might have a chance, though you'd have to share" thought Hephaestus with a small smile.

"HehehehHAHAHAAHAHAHA" Loki bursted out laughing at this, in all her years she's only heard about stuff like this happening with certain demi human tribes or nobles getting concubines or out in the far east where this was even more common. "I gotta say kid I'm hella jealous, ya making me wish I was in ya spot".

Bell just blushed more and scratched the back of his head.

Rose smiled and gently kissed his cheek while at the last second, lightly licked it making him jump a bit and saw he smiling and her ears wiggling a bit.

"Cute" he said quietly under his breath as he felt his chest warm up.

"Glad you think I am" she said while leaning on him more "now why are all of you here with Bell".

"Well we were told that Hestia was dating him so we wanted to meet the guy who somehow got her to love him when she rejected literally everyone in heaven that tried to date her" said Demeter with a finger to her chin.

"No we aren't dating" said Bell, he held no romantic feeling for Hestia, she was his goddess and nothing more.

"I'll talk to her to ease her, so you and Rose don't have to deal with the full brunt of her anger and we don't want her to do something drastic" said Hephaestus standing up and was about to leave.

"Thank you lady Hephaestus, If there's anything I can do to pay you back please let me know" said Bell bowing his head a bit to show respect.

She was silent for a bit before a small smile appeared on her face "go buy something off Zidril or ask her to make you something and I'll consider us even" she said before leaving to go track down the Loli goddess.

"So kid, 'eard ya got two of my girls to train you, that's pretty impressive, along with everything ya did in the dungeon" said Loki with a small grin.

"Umm yeah.. Ms Ais and Ms Riveria were very nice and they both taught me a lot, especially since I knew nothing about magic" said Bell.

"Well ya definitely caught my girls attention and 'ere I was thinking ya just 'eard bout them" said Loki before her eyes narrowed a bit "but don't ya try and date my Ais-puu".

Bell blushed and waved his hands "I-I'm to weak to date someone like her.. you don't have to worry about that" he said while thinking "but once I'm strong enough... I'll tell her how I feel".

"Hmph good, cause she's mine" said Loki.

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They continued to talk for a little while longer before they all seperated and Bell walked Rose home and gave her a kiss goodnight and it took all her self control not to drag him inside to bring him into bed and cuddle and kiss him to death, since she knew, she had to wait till he at least turned 16.

Bell then walked himself home and crashed on his very uncomfortable couch and slept till the early morning.

He also found his goddess drunk on her bed and she completely forgot about last night, plus thankfully she had valis on her to pay for the drinks and she didn't release her Arcanum.

But now he was standing on the wall of Oraio early in the morning with his armor and finished his run, now he was just waiting on Ais.

He then did some stretches, when he heard someone land on the wall behind him, he turned and smiled while blushing from seeing the Sword Princess.

"G-good morning Ms Ais" he said.

"Just Ais" she said "now are you ready for today's training? You still have some things I need to fix".

"Mhm" he said taking out his sword and holding it infront of him.

Ais nodded her head and took out her own sword before placing it against the wall, she then grabbed her scabbard and held it infront of her.

They both then charged and Bell slashed, but Ais easily blocked it, but then Bell pulled up his shield and blocked the elbow strike from her, before she pushed her attack.

Seeing the strike coming, he used his shield again and deflected the strike while trying to cut her stomach, but she simply swatted it away before smacking his right over extended arm with her scabbard.

"Agh!" His sword fell out of his hand and he saw her move in, but he remembered he bought more throwing knives yesterday and pulled one out and hurled it.

Ais was slightly surprised at the sneak attack, but moved faster and appeared behind him and smacked him away, making him go flying.

As Bell crashed on the ground and holding his back in pain, Ais looked at him with curiosity and tilted her head to the side "how... is he improving so fast.." she thought.

"Ow..." he said standing back up and grabbing his sword "that hurt".

"That would be because you over extended yourself and wasted needless energy in your attacks" said Ryuu who has been watching the entire fight.

"Ms Ryuu?" He said surprised she showed up "umm no offense but what are you doing here?".

"I thought it'd be a good idea to finish training you on how not to waste needless energy in your attacks and how to fake out opponents, while the sword princess here, helps fix your fighting style and makes you fight faster" she said while her eyes sent a very quick glare at Ais.

Ais immediately saw this and for some reason... she felt... weird? Like she didn't like that this elf wanted to be near Bell, but she couldn't understand why she felt like this.

In her head, mini Ais was no help.

"Oh um.. thank you Ms Ryuu, I really appreciate it" said Bell.

"Of course, also sword princess, I think it'd be beneficial for Bell to get practice fighting multiple opponents at the same time" said Ryuu regaining her neutral expression.

"Hmm I agree it'd be a good idea" said Ais.

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"Bell are you ok?" Said Lily looking at Bell who was walking with her to the dungeon and had a large bruise on his cheek.

"Yeah.. just training and I didn't want to waste a healing potion or Ms Ryuu wasting her magic on me for this" he said.

"Do you wanna wait a hour for your wound to heal?" She asked.

"Nah I'm good, so let's go Lily and while we walk, you can tell me some of things your good at, then I'll tell you what I'm good at so we can plan around them" said Bell.

"Ok" she said smiling "well I'm a supporter obviously and Lily usually hang in the back and provide support with my crossbow, Lily also have some extra potions in my bag along with monster lures and repellent that only work on monsters up to the 18th floor. Lily also carry monster drops and stones so the fighters of the party can solely focus on that and not be weighed down by all the weight".

"Wow supporters are really useful, I don't know where adventurers would be without them" said Bell.

Some passing by parties nodded in agreement with what he just said, while others just glared at him, since they only saw supporters as useless pack mules.

"T-thank you for the compliment" she said with a blush and smile as her tail wagged "your the first to ever call Lily useful".

Bell then reached over and gently patted her head "Well I think your very useful Lily and I'm very happy your with me on this adventure, now come on let's get going" he said.

"Right!" She said happily as she followed him hoping to not disappoint him.

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2 days later.

Bell and Lily have been dungeon crawling like crazy all the way down to floor 11 and have been farming Imps, Orcs, Needle rabbits and Almiraj.

They've been getting lots excelia while doing this and what they didn't know was a couple floors down was Ottar whose spent the last 3 days hunting down a Minotaur. He did thankfully find one and now was leading it to the surface.

In the Loki Familia home was Ais and Riveria who were walking towards the bath when they heard Tiona complaining.

"Oh come on Tione please come with meee I need help to pay off getting my Urga repaired, I just need to go to floor 40 for 2 days and that should be enough to pay off this months due" complained Tiona.

"I'm sorry, but I'm busy, ask someone else or I would come with you" said Tione sounding genuinely sorry.

"Tiona we are going to be doing another deep expedition next week, I'm sure it can wait till then" said Riveria.

"Since I had to put a lot of valis on this one since my last one got destroyed, I'm in even more debt so I need to make as much valis as I can to pay off this month's due" said Tiona.

Riveria let out a sigh before looking at Ais "would you be willing to help?" She asked.

"Hm I was going to train more today but I think that's fine" she said.

"Very well, I'll also join and ask Alicia to come" said Riveria.

"Yay! You two are the best!!" She said with a smile.

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"Here you are Mr Cranel" said Ryuu handing him his lunch.

"Thank you so much Ms Ryuu and also thank you for helping me get better at fighting, it's a lot easier to make valis now and not get injured.. which means not getting yelled at by Eina or worrying Rose" said Bell.

"It's no problem, oh also Anya made this for you, it's one of the few things Mama Mia let's her cook" said Ryuu handing something else to him.

Bell took it and opened the package and looked curious since it just looked like seeds coated in honey that was cut into a triangle shape.

"It's called Itrion, it's a sweet healthy snack that helps adventurers get a small burst of energy and to just munch on" said Ryuu.

"Oh.. I'm not a sweets person but I'll be sure to try it and tell Ms Anya I said thank you" he said with a small bow.

"I will" said Ryuu with a tiny smile.

"Have fun in the dungeon Bell and remember tonight you have to sit in my area since you were in Anyas last night and Ryuus the day before" said Syr.

"Right I'll be sure to Syr, anyways goodbye you two" he said before running off.

"He's doing a really good job isn't he Ryuu" said Syr.

"Indeed he is" she said with a barely noticeable smile before she walked back Inside and didn't see the giggle Syr let out as her eyes glowed purple for a second.

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"So what did Naza ask you to get?" Said Lily as they were walking through floor 9.

"She asked me to get more blue Papilio wings and if possible needle rabbits tusks for a new potion she wants to make" said Bell before he pulled out the request from the Hephaestus Familia. "This right here also asks for 10 orc hides and the reward will be 30K valis and some Orc hide armor".

"Hmm that seems doable but we should look out for infant Dragons, Lily heard some adventurers were complaining that one was wondering around" said Lily.

"Right, thanks for the heads up Lily, now come on let's go" said Bell with a smile as he was also excited since right now his goddess was getting him his first alias and he really hoped it was a good one.

"Oh Bell I'm sorry to ask this but would it be ok if Lily takes a small extra cut on this adventure so Lily can buy herself her own weapon?" She asked since she almost got injured a couple times.

"Hm yeah that's fine, what were you thinking of getting?" He asked "I also need to get myself something as well".

"Lily was hoping to maybe get a spear and what were you thinking of getting Bell?" She asked.

"I was thinking of asking Zidril if she'd be ok with making me a bow so I can fight at a distance and since my crossbow I once had was to small and weak" he said.

"That'd be a good idea to have, it's give us a lot more options in fighting monsters" said Lily.

"Hey speaking of monsters... where are they? I haven't seen any at all?" Said Bell confused as his hand grabbed his sword ready to draw it.

"Lily doesn't know.. Lily hasn't seen any either or any adventurers" she said.

"RRRROOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRR!!!!!".

They both whipped over to the direction of the roar and what they saw terrified them both.

It was a one horned red minotaur dragging a massive bloody sword.

"W-why is a minotaur on floor 9!?!?!" Said Lily terrified.

Bells whole body began to shake in fear, at seeing the monster that gave him nightmares.

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10 minutes ago.

"What's this? Hestia how did your kid get to level 2 so fast!? Its only been over a month" Said a god in the back.

Every God in the room immediately looked at her with curiosity while a certain goddess of beauties purple eyes twinkled in happiness.

"Given that I think we have to give him a good name!" Said Hermes driving the attention towards him "he's grown really fast.. so how about little rookie?".

Lots of the gods in the room were Nodding in agreement before one goddess raised her hand.

"I don't think little fits him very well" said Demeter getting everyone's attention. "When me and some of my friends were talking to him I was lightly teasing and flirting with him and all I can say is this.. little doesn't suit him".

Hestias eyes looked ready to burst out of her sockets in rage.

Freya couldn't help but smile as a blush grew on her cheeks... this was information she was going to cherish very much.

"Oh so he's well tooled, then in that case, Hestia how much for your boy?" Said Ishtar.

"WHAT!?!?!" Screamed Hestia in rage.

"How much for him? If he's like that and from this picture right here, he'd make me millions of valis and make my girls very happy" said Ishtar with a smirk.

"As if he'd want to sleep with any of your girls, everyone knows you run a area of whores" said Freya with a smile.

"What?" Said Ishtar glaring at Freya.

"I'm simply speaking the truth, you run the red light district, besides from what I've heard, he's already got a lover so he won't want to sleep with a amazon" said Freya.

Elsewhere in Orario and down in the dungon 2 Amazon's sneezed.

"Or even anyone in your pleasure district" she finished.

2 more girls sneezed with one having yellow hair and a fox tail and the other having white hair and multiple fox tails.

Ishtars pipe snapped in her hand "you bitch" she said standing up.

"WHATS THIS ABOUT MY BELL HAVING A LOVER!!!!!!" Screamed Hestia.

"Hahaha Hephaestus weren't ya supposed to tell her" said Loki.

"Ugh I couldn't find her anywhere and when we got in here, I just planned to tell her after this to not cause a incident.

"NO MY BELL IS NOT ALLOWED TO DATE SOMEONE, I FORBID IT, HIS CHASITY IS UNDER MY PROTECTION!!!".

"Oh so he's with someone.. hmm I'll have to see who" thought Hermes. "Ok everyone let's get back to the matter at hand, what will Bell Cranels name be?".

"Why not just keep it as Rookie?" Said Loki "perfectly encapsulates him and thanks to Demeters unneeded information, we can't call him little".

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Riveria, Ais, Alicia and Tiona were all heading down to floor 40 so Tiona can farm high level monsters to pay off this month's due, but as they were walking they passed an injured adventurer and found very bad news.

"Wait a minotaur is down here?" Said Alicia in shock.

" Was there anyone else you saw down here?" Asked Riveria.

"Y-yeah.. a young white haired adventurer with a prum supporter.." he said weakly.

Riveria grabbed a healing potion and made him drink it "thank you, now come on guys we need to kill it before it kills Bell or anyone else".

"Right let's go" said Tiona as she raced forward with everyone following close behind.

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Bell ducked under a swing and raised his arm "Firebolt!".

The blast hit the minotaur and it didn't do anything as it continued to charge at Bell.

He continued to dodge strikes from it over and over, while using his gauntlet shield to block some strikes he couldn't dodge in time.

"I-its just like last time" he thought before he a powerful blow went towards him and sent him flying.

"Thunderbolt!!" The electric blue lightning hit the minotaur and just made it stop for a second before it continued its attack.

Bell drew out his sword and blocked the strike with his gauntlet, while getting in a cut on the minotaurs leg, but the monster just shrugged it off and punched him in the chest.

His chest armor was shattered from the impact and he went flying, before he stood back up and held his chest in pain, he felt it and could tell maybe 3 of his ribs were broken but.

Bell quickly glanced at Lily who was bleeding from the head and was looking at him with fear in her eyes because of the minotaur.

"I can't stop.. I..." his back flared with a burning pain and his resolve hardened and his skill activated "I have to protect Lily".

Charging forward now, he ducked under another swing and slid under its legs before he twisted his body and drove his sword straight through the Minotaurs leg making it howl in pain, before it raised its massive sword to kill Bell.

Seeing the strike coming, he jumped back, but got knicked badly on his face almost making him loose his left eye from the strike.

"I.. no... I have to stay strong.." he thought "Lily get out of here now!!!".

"N-no!".

"Lily do it now!!".

"No I won't leave you master Bell!" She yelled.

"GO NOW!!!".

Lily began to cry harder but ran away hoping to find a party of strong adventurers to save Bell.

"Ok now... I just have to keep you busy.." he said holding his sword infront of him.

The minotaur roared and charged at Bell hoping to finally kill its pray, but Bell was more flexible and faster than it, so it's size and strength went against it.

Dodging another massive strike, Bell slashed its chest again before releasing a firebolt at its face actually making it flinch in pain from thr magic blast.

But then a massive fist came and punched Bell hard in the side, throwing him away, as he flew, he kicked his legs to try and correct his landing so he doesn't land head first. He slammed on the ground and rolled a ways before quickly getting back up to his feet and raising his shield which tanked the strike but made Bell fall to his knees as his body screamed in pain from the force he was trying to hold up.

The minotaur then raised its other arm and swung smashing it into Bells side making him go flying again, before he regained his footing.

"W-why am I struggling so much... I've trained so hard yet" he could feel it, he was determined to survive but... he was still more terrified of this monster.

It charged again and swung it's sword down making Bell jump up to dodge the blow, but he then realized his mistake.

The horn of the Minotaur came and his shield groaned in pain from the blow it tried to stop. A massive crack formed in the metal as he was flung to the side.

Bell looked up and froze at what he saw.

It was Ais, she was standing infront of him and before the minotaur, protecting him once again.

"You did well Bell, let me take It from here" she said drawing her sword.

Bell was both happy she was here and... disappointed in himself.

"No..." his back burned even more as his skills started to roar with life, feeling his determination start to trump his fear, he forced his body up off the ground ignoring Riveria telling him to step back.

He moved forward and walked past Ais "I'm sorry Ms Ais.. but this is my fight" he said.

Ais looked at him and saw the determination in his eyes, she slowly put her sword away and spoke "...fine but if it gets bad I'm stepping in".

Bell pulled out his sword and stared down the minotaur "I won't be rescued anymore... I will be a hero and save everyone!".

He charged at surprising speeds and deflected a swing from the minotaur, before he spun and got it across its arm and then used his left arm to pull his body over the minotaur to try and drive his sword into it's shoulder.

The Minotaur shook its head and slammed its body down on the ground making Bell fall off, but he rolled with this and lifted his arm "Firebolt!!".

This blast was stronger than the ones before and actually burned the minotaurs fur and left a slightly darker red coloration on it's thick hide.

"I won't give up!" He thought blocking another strike but getting cut, but he also drove his blade into its stomach, but had to jump back to dodge a massive swing.

"Remember Bell, just because your fighting a stronger opponent doesn't mean that your going to loose, focus on the battle and make your opponent make a mistake and exploit it" he remembered his master Beatrix telling him.

He took a calm breath and stared at the minotaur who roared and charged at him, he then moved in once again, while pulling out a throwing knife putting his faith that it will be strong enough to hold for what he wanted to do.

The minotaur swung it's sword and Bell swung his throwing knife down, using the momentum of the sword and himself jumping to spin, but at the cost of the knife shattering. He then twisted his body in the air and drove his sword into it's wrist and twisted it violently.

"AGGGGGHH!" The minotaur kicked him away, right when he jumped and landed back on the ground.

Bell could feel his curse starting to burn and try to overtake his body, given all his anger and frustration.

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"HehehHAHAHAHAHA oh it's so beautiful!" Said Freya watching him fight the minotaur and seeing his soul burn like a star, she couldn't stop herself from blushing as a small line of drool left her mouth. "Oh Bell you truly are amazing...".

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Bell gritted his teeth and used his new skill, Indomitable Will and his own to force the curse down, but it did something different... it obeyed him instead of fighting him.

He felt his muscles grow a bit and his canines elongate, but it didn't go any further than that.

The minotaur tried to lift the sword up but it collapsed to the ground given its broken hand.

Roaring in rage, it charged but Bell quickly lifted his hand "FIREBOLT! THUNDERBOLT!!".

Both spells hit the monster and made it stagger backwards and Bell charged in, grabbing the massive greatsword and didn't notice that when he did, that's when Ottar arrived in the room and was watching in the distance.

He took the sword and swung while spinning his body to get more momentum, which left a massive cut across the minotaur.

It took a step back in pain, only to get sliced again.

"Hey guys.. this is kind of reminding me of the story of argonaut" said Tiona watching all of this.

"You mean the story of the one who becomes a hero?" Said Riveria faintly remembering a book about that when she was teaching Tiona and Tione how to read, write and talk in Koine.

"Mhm".

"A hero.." thought both Ais and Riveria for to different but similar reasons, but they watched more closely.

In the back Ottars eyes widened a bit since he recognized the move Bell was using... and he only knew of one other who used it but he used lightning.

Bell took the great sword and held it in a reverse grip before he ducked under a stab from the horns, he then used his Firebolt to blast as powerful of one as he could, which spun his body at terrifyingly fast speeds and it almost cut the minotaur is half if the sword didn't break half way and get stuck.

Seeing this opportunity, Bell moved in for the strike but he got to tunnel visioned and it paid.

"AGH!" the horn of the Minotaur finally hit its mark and stabbed Bell straight into the side of his stomach.

It grinned in victory before its right eye socket hurt like hell as Bell plunged his sword through it and it went down out the bottom of its jaw.

"ROOOAR" he flung Bell away who rolled on the ground and immediately placed his hand on the wound and made the members of the Loki Familia flinch at what he did.

"FIREBOLT!!".

The minotaur was in great pain and it fell to one knee and looked up at the rabbit... but it froze since it wasn't staring at a rabbit anymore... it was staring at a wolf.

It couldn't move in time as multiple blasts of Firebolt and ThunderBolt smashed into it, before Bell charged and sliced out its throat making it lift its body up as it coughed out blood.

Bell then drove his sword right below it's rib cage just barely missing the magic stone.

The minotaur tried to grab him but Bell saw this immediately.

"FIREBOLT!!!".

Flames exploded out of the Minotaur as it howled in pain, then it heard it again.

"FIREBOLT!!!!!!!".

"FIREBOLT!!".

The minotaur let out one last howl before its body exploded into dust, dropping its magic stone and it's horn.

Once the dust disappeared, it revealed Bell standing with him staring at the ceiling in mind down.

"Wow.." said Alicia amazed that someone with only a months worth of experience and somehow became a level 2 and defeated a minotaur.

Riveria walked towards Bell with Lily joining her to see if he was ok, she gently grabbed him and laid him down on the ground before she began to do a chant.

The room started to glow green and white as a huge magic circle appeared under her feet. "I beseech the seed of the world tree. Ancestors of a distant forest, respond to my desperate song. Please bestow the mercy of healing upon this great warrior. Heavenly star, illuminate the dark places my companion walks for all other lights have gone out. May your blessings beat back the reaper and release them from death. My name is Alf." Riveria stopped over top of his bloodied and battered body where he had multiple cuts, broken bones and a wound be cauterized with his own spell. Everybody watched as she finished her chant. She thrust her staff into the ground and held out her hand toward him. "VAN ALHEIM!"

The room glowed a very bright green and white as his wounds began to mend Bells heavily injured body. Bones began to mend as cuts and laserations healed as well along with the injury over his eye, thankfully saving it and finally the the wound on his stomach he used a firebolt on.

All his injuries were healed from what they could see, except for a couple scars he has on his body from his 4 days of hunting in the dungeon and not getting them healed in time.

Ais walked forward toward him and reached down and gently felt his forehead.

Riveria bent down as well and did something that shocked Alicia, she touched Bell by placing a hand on his neck to feel his pulse.

"He's ok, just in mind down" she said before looking at Ais "could you roll him on his side to make sure I healed the wound".

"Sure" she said as she gently rolled him allowing Riveria to look at his back.

Where the minotaur horn went through, was completely healed thankfully, but she did get a good look at his back and her eyes went wide at seeing this.

Bell Cranel

LV 2

Strength: 0 ► G 275 +100

Endurance: 0 ► F 320 +100

Dexterity: 0 ► G 230 +100

Agility: 0 ► F 370 +100

Luck: B

Magic: 200 ► 350 +100

She couldn't belive her eyes, she then looked down at the rest of his stats and only two thing were covered along with how they worked, while everything else was as clear as day.

****** ******

Indomitable Will.

Unrelenting Endurance.

Hunter ► I

Blood Of Zeus.

Gods Curse. ***********

"Who are you Bell Cranel" she asked before she shook her head and looked at Ais "can you bring him to the surface to the Twilight Manor and tell Lefiya to finish healing him if my spell missed anything".

"Wait why do you want to bring him to our home and not to Armid to get him healed" Asked Tiona confused.

"I'm sorry but we'll have to put your payment on hold till we ask him some things... his stats don't make any sense and if we don't get to the bottom of this.. a war may start because of this boy" said Riveria.

Everyone was shocked at hearing this but they all agreed and they left while Tiona stayed and helped Lily pick up all her and Bells stuff before escorting her to the surface.

After they were far enough away Ottar walked to the center of the room and looked at what was once his sword and for the first time since he fought the Zeus Familia Captain.. he let out a tiny smile appear on his face as deep inside him, a very very tiny ember gained a spark. This ember was his love of Adventuring and a want to get stronger.

"My lady will want to know about all of this along with the fact people may go to war over Bell" he said before leaving and heading to the surface as well, eager to see his goddess after so long.