Sitting down on a stool in front of Loki, Eiji took off his dusty shirt, revealing his fair back, which immediately caught Loki's previously unfocused attention.
"Ahem... let's begin!"
Loki retrieved a needle from the clutter by the bed, pricked her fingertip, squeezed out some blood, and pressed the divine blood onto Eiji's back, then began to trace some ritualistic patterns.
Ripples like water waves spread across Eiji's back, the original sacred script gradually faded, and new ability values appeared.
Loki quickly glanced over the basic abilities, focusing her attention on the skills section.
Then, her expression slightly stiffened.
A new skill had indeed appeared in the skills section.
However, it wasn't what she had been expecting.
"It might take a bit more time," she thought to herself.
"Alright, here you go."
Loki translated the ability values into the common language, imprinted them, and handed them to Eiji.
Eiji took it, his gaze sweeping over the full-length mirror in front of Loki's bed, where he could see the sacred script on his back reflected.
His eyes flickered slightly, then he calmly looked down to examine the parchment.
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[Eiji Nangou]
[LV·1]
[Strength: I·0 → I·31]
[Endurance: I·0 → I·27]
[Dexterity: I·0 → I·55]
[Agility: I·0 → I·48]
[Magic: I·0 → I·4]
[Skills: Ten Years of Sharpening a Sword]
[Magic: None]
[Development Abilities: None]
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[Ten Years of Sharpening a Sword]
• Indomitable: Can continue fighting even with fatal injuries.
• Ultimate Mastery: When fighting with a sword, can maximize the potential of oneself as a swordsman.
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"You must have gone to quite a deep level, right?"
"Spent the whole day on the tenth floor."
"No wonder, people from the lower world have a rapid progression period when they first become adventurers, on average reaching about H in half a month, but that's for rookies. You're already a professional, and you went to such a deep level to train, so this progress is normal, but it should slow down later!"
The essence of the blessing is to turn one's own history into nutrients for growth, in other words, the more experiences one has, the faster one grows.
That is to say, as long as one keeps fighting and gaining enough experience points, one can keep growing.
Eventually becoming closer and closer to a god.
"By the way, do you know, kid? Skills are largely related to one's essence, or interests."
Loki showed a cunning smile like a fox, "It seems you've been near death often in the past? And your magic is quite interesting too, even without magic, it has improved."
The timing of skill activation has no pattern, but after thousands of years of observation by the gods, the conditions for skill appearance have been figured out.
The appearance of skills, besides depending on the tendency of one's experience points, is also related to one's essence and interests. What your essence is, the closer the skill will be to that essence.
Eiji's skill [Ten Years of Sharpening a Sword] probably refers to him spending nearly ten years sharpening himself as a sword, and the "indomitable" in the skill clearly refers to his experiences of being near death.
Moreover, in Loki's eyes, Eiji's magic improvement is even more bizarre.
Basic abilities need to be trained accordingly to improve.
Take endurance for example, as long as one keeps getting hit, whether by people or monsters, one must have some training in this aspect for endurance to improve.
Conversely, if one hasn't been hit at all, then endurance won't increase at all.
Similarly, only by using magic will the magic attribute improve.
But magic is a kind of spiritual energy that is only used when casting spells, meaning that only after using magic will there be an improvement in magic.
Eiji has no magic, yet his magic improved on its own, which means there must be some secret related to magic within him.
Or, he has some innate magic.
Eiji remained silent, tacitly acknowledging it.
"Well, although I'm curious, if you don't want to talk about it, I won't force you. Everyone has secrets."
Loki shook her head, carelessly swinging the wine bottle.
"Thanks."
Eiji nodded, expressing his gratitude.
The atmosphere in the Loki Familia is indeed good.
Although it's good, he has just joined this familia, and his relationship with the people here isn't that close yet. If the secret of 〈Absolute GodSpeed〉 were exposed, it might attract some unnecessary trouble.
If one day he finds that the people in this familia can be trusted unconditionally like his senior sister, then it wouldn't be too late to talk about it.
"But, what's the deal with this skill of mine?"
Eiji looked down at the skills section at the bottom of the parchment, somewhat puzzled.
The skill [Ten Years of Sharpening a Sword] seems to have two effects, which can be said to be very powerful. The first effect is easy to understand, it means "battle continuation."
But the second effect is harder to understand.
Maximizing the potential of oneself as a swordsman, what does this potential refer to?
"This kind of situation happens often, the explanation of the blessing is like solving a riddle, you'll understand after you experiment with it yourself later."
Loki waved her hand, swinging the wine bottle in her arms, her face showing a perverted smile, "Alright, you should head back now, I need to enjoy some time with this little guy!"
"One more thing, if I want to make an appointment in the future, how often can I get an update?"
"Hmm? Ah, right, there's that too..."
Loki propped her chin with one hand, thinking very seriously for a moment.
"You're a newcomer, you should get more attention, but if I have to update every day, it's quite annoying... how about every three days?"
"Once every three days... that's fine."
Eiji pondered briefly, not dissatisfied.
Everything has its pros and cons, he joined a top-tier familia like Loki's, so it's inevitable to lose something in other aspects. Not being able to update every day might not be timely, but once every three days is acceptable.
Eiji put on his clothes and turned to leave Loki's room.
After he left, Loki didn't immediately open the wine bottle, her previously eager expression gradually faded, replaced by wisdom, unlike her usual frivolity.
She was very interested in Eiji.
Not only did he have a charm that even gods couldn't match, but he also had many other secrets, making him a very interesting human.
If other gods knew, they would surely pester him endlessly.
But since he had already joined her familia, there was no need to rush. She wouldn't act like other gods who, upon discovering something new, would eagerly pursue it.
And—
"Familia is family... that guy Ouranos, really knows how to say nice things."
Loki walked to the window, gazing at the grand pantheon on the northwest street in the distance.
Gods should treat the children of their familia as their own family.
This is a rule that gods have followed for thousands of years since descending to the lower world.
Thanks to this, Loki's personality has also changed a lot.
For the sake of the familia, she no longer incites wars as she did in the heavens. If she were to do such things lightly, the familia would inevitably be dragged down, causing her children to become outcasts.
"Well, it's not too late for him to talk when he wants to~"
The serious expression on her face completely disappeared, Loki happily picked up the wine bottle and started chugging.
"Puhaha! Refreshing~!"
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