And I don't mean in the way he inally thought where I simply got more drops. While that was certainly a factor but my cursed teique was a veritable treasure trove because of the sheer versatility of what I had discovered it capable of through trial and error. Healing, drops, item creation, ingredient improvement, bat application and who knew how many other things it was capable of make it damn near an omnitool for any need one might have. Something like this simply did, it was uo me alone and that was dangerous to share with others.-

  If you are w about the whole hostess of fertility thing I made sure that they only knew a single fay teique which was my ability to enhangredients. Skills and spells that could do that did exist already and weren't all that unoher for crafters that didn't delve more than absolutely necessary. But for a new and small familia like mihat didn't have anyone over level one exposing my teique would only cause the gods to decre a war game to snatch me to their roster.-

  Anyways after that trip I only got a bit over a thousand valis and headed home after turning the food tainer back over to Syr and giving her some more advice like how to make boiled soy eggs which happeo be a favorite of mi was literally just boiling eggs and then soaking the deshelled eggs in soy marinade ht. They were a quid easy food that tasted amazing in my opinion. After that I hit up the Blue pharmacy to restod trade out potion vials before finally making to the church. Rather than work on anurihough I instead grabbed the variants skull and began the refi.-

  The thied me every step of the way because of it's stupidly high durability but by the time Hestia came home the grey hard skull had turned bd had a sinister gleam to it. Three fug potiohe price I paid to refihe damn thing to this degree and I could tell instinctually that this was the best I do at the moment. All that was left was the separate the teeth from the skull before transf the skull into bracers.-

  I was fused wheia came home as she was not alo had a sy white haired boy with her.

  "A new member already? Thought I'd o get to level twher before we started getting any." I said casually as she brought the by down to the room.

  "Umu! I bumped into him on the way back from work and it turned out he was looking for a familia!" She said puffing out her chest proudly.

  "Well if the goddess says you're in then you're in, wele to the family kid." I said with a smile.

  "T-thank you for havihe boy said loudly and nervously.

  "Whats your name kid? Mines Alexander Drake but I go by Alex." I asked while introdug myself.

  "Bell el Sir!" the boy said stiffly which made it clear that he wasn't sure how he should act.

  "You rex Bell and drop the stiff attitude, we don't do that here." I said with a smile.

  Bell slouched with a sigh of relief at that and I motioned him to take a seat on the couch.

  "Now if you would take off your shirt so Hestia grant you her blessing we make this official." I said and he paused for a moment before taking off his shirt.

  Hestia did her thing and soon we had Bells status sheet to look over.

  Name: Bell el

  Race: Human

  Level:1

  Strength:10(I)

  Endurance:10(I)

  Agility:10(I)

  Dexterity:10(I)

  Magic:10(I)

  Spells: none

  Skills: none

  "Nothing special it seems but that's just fine si means you are a bnk ste and go any dire you want." I said patting the boy on the back reassuringly as he looked dejected not seeing anything special on his status.

  Bell brightened up at that "You really think so?" he asked with hopeful eyes.

  I smiled "Yeah not a doubt in my mind that if you put in the work you'll turn out alright in the end." I said holy.

  I meant every word too as the falna responds to emotions and effort so no matter how talentless you are if you are willing to push yourself to stantly improve, you will. After that we all headed to the hostess to blow through fifteen thousand valis to celebrate Bell joining the family. Syr was ag odd when we were there though as she was lookiween Bell ah a strange expression.

  Hestia as it turned out was an absolute light weight when alcohol was involved and o be carried home after our small celebration. Once back at the church I told Bell to take the couch as I simply removed my boots and flopped on the bed with Hestia in my arms to save Bell from getting sneak attacked and used as a body pillow by her sometime during the night. It was funny how quickly I gave up on the idea of sleeping aloer moving into the church inally.-

  There was nothing romantic about this whole sario either but merely just a thing I had gotteo after Hestia turned out to be a gy ninja. No, seriously the woman somehow got out of the bed, walked over to the coud THEN somehow mao slip under my bo y against my chest all without waking me up. I am NOT a heavy sleeper so unless she was a ninja I had no fug idea how she pulled it off every single night. Knowing that she was unstoppable in this regard I chose to spare Bell that experience as the boy was na?ve and i.-

  My sacrifice paid off as the goddess was right where I left her when I woke up in the m. Thanks to her being a light weight she didn't even have a hangover beyond a slight headache that went away shortly after she woke up.

  "Why 't I e to the dungeon with you though?" Bell whined when I stopped him from following me.

  "Because as you are right now going to the dungeon is a death sentence. Look just do what I did and raise your physical stats to G rank and then I might take you with me. Trust me on this and you'll thaer when you do go to the dungeon. In the church theres a sword that should work well to get you familiar with holding a on, use that today and tomorrow I'll spend the day creating a routio follow in order to raise your stats. The only reason I am not doing that today is that I am pretty sure that I have a friend waiting for me at the duhat I o let know whats going on." I told him seriously.