The goddess thanked me for my as before leaving to grieve more privately and I just watched her go.

  "Wipe that look off your face d! You've done what was good and proper and should be proud of it!" A gruff voice said as I felt a heavy hand pat me on the back.

  Looking at the source of the voice I found a dark skinned dwarf man with heavy armor and a wide toothy grin.

  "Hrun familia!" the dwarf introduced himself while holding out a hand.

  "Alexander Drake, Hestia familia but I go by Alex." I said shaking the hand.

  It was rough and calloused but Hroldar clearly held back his strength sihe shake was firm but not harsh.

  "Well met Alex! It is good to find that this city has uping adventurers who've got their heart in the right pothing wrong with a bit of glory or wealth but those should always e after what is right." Hroldar said with a smile.

  "How'd you know I ing adventurer?" I asked curiously.

  "Year d, no offe it's sorely g for anything other than the first few floors. Not to mention how you acted with that goddess there, a vet would be calmer. It's a sad thing to e across but anyone's whos been at this long enough has been in the same spot once or twiow lets get you to the guild to turn in your loot, good deeds rarely keep the belly filled by themselves aye?" he said with a smile and we headed over to the guild.

  When we were done Hroldar was looking at me oddly as I walked out of the guild with a total of three thousand seven hundred valis more than I walked in with.

  "Be ho with me d, you got a skill that increases drop rate for you? It's not unheard of but it's oher." Hroldar asked curiously.

  I shook my head "Nah I've got no skill like that." I said holy.

  'I should probably start holding bae of the drops I harvest to prevent suspis from building.' I thought seriously.

  "Musta just been real lucky then to get so mah. Most goblins only drop three or four if any at all." Hroldar said not doubti all.

  "I don't know, maybe it's my just deserts after the shit luck I had yesterday." I joked and he raised an eyebrow.

  "I delved for the first time yesterday and I shit you not I came across a variant goblin that looked like it had just evolved. Some asshole robably killing goblins on their way further down ahe stones behind. Anyways this goblin was as tall as me and had this pale skin with red eyes and long fangs..." I told my tale with great enthusiasm leaving out how I killed it sihat would reveal my teique.

  "You're right that is some shit luck. From the sounds of it though that variant was a fresh one so you might be onto something with that idea someone killed the goblins on the way down and didn't grab the stones. Guild'll sp a hefty fine on anyoed doing it more than o theres always a few who do it anyways. Buncha selfish fools in my opinion." Hroldar said spitting on the ground in disdain.

  "Alex! Please e in and have a seat!" Syr said with a smile as we arrived at the hostess.

  "Not today I'm afraid, gotta save up you see. I just came to drop off the tainer for the meal you made me is all. A bit of advice from someone's whos had to learn how to cook before, taste the food you are cooking before and after adding salt or seasonings. It'll help you determine if you need more or it's just fine as is." I said while handing over the lunch tainer with a smile.

  Syr seemed to defte when I said I wasn't going to stay but paid close attention to the advice I gave her and told me she'd remember it for the future.

  "Shame you'll not be staying Alex, would've loved to share a pint as we got to chattin." Hroldar said with a grin before wishing me well and heading into the restaurant himself.

  I oher hao the Blue pharmacy to drop off my empty vials and repce the potions for tomorrow and my practice at the church. Once I got back to the church I wasted no time at all grabbing one of my uailed figurines and began to shape it and form the fiuff. This one allum based fairy with long smooth hair and dragonfly wings holding a pair of small curved bdes in an attag pose.-

  The wings were the trickiest part as a dragonflies wings have a lot of small details to them. I was getting good at this process and was quickly starting to beore effit with my energy usage as I worked. Surprisingly I only needed a siion to plete the figurihis time and even had a little cursed energy to spare. The potions were getting less and less effective however as my reserve grew to match my magic stat at every moment in a slow but tinuous process.-

  If the growth followed the same speed as my previous updates the growth would reach my current status in ahree days or so. Still I had another potio aside for practid waited for my reserve to refill before downing the potion and w on refining the sword I got from the variant as the material was surprisingly hard to refine. So far I had gotten the rust off of it and had barely improved the bdes hardness and durability. Don't get me wrong though the bde put any steel on in this city to shame by quite a lot.-

  I was tempted to transform the thing into my own on type or at least fuse the metal into my on but that felt wasteful to me for some reason. I couldn't even begin to tell you why but it was just a gut feeling I had and I teo listen to those. So here I was instead making the already good bde even more exceptional by burning through my cursed energy like rocket fuel. The design of the sword wasn't anything special but a single g the thing was enough to tell ahat it was far beyond normal bdes.-

  'I wonder if I could add a cursed attribute to the thing and turn it into a cursed tool?' I had this sudden thought and it ed my mind.

  'What makes a cursed tool a cursed tool? Is it just the ability to house cursed energy on it's own or does it need a teique or restri carved into it?' I pondered seriously as I closed my eyes a my cursed energy flow along the bde and try to pee it.