Perhaps encouraged by her mother, Eina frequently found various excuses to visit Leon's library over the next few days, practically becoming an integral part of Leon's life.
In the past few days, the situation between the Loki Familia and the Astrea Familia has also begun to escalate, and the entire Orario has been in an uproar. However, none of this concerned Leon.
Leon had been staying in the library for the past few days. Apart from meeting Demeter and going to the Hephaestus Familia's headquarters to use the materials obtained from the expedition to upgrade Tsubaki's weapon, he hadn't gone out.
However, Tione and Tiona have had frequently visiting Leon these past few days, and they also brought Ais and Lefiya along with them.
Because of her frequent visits, Hestia unsurprisingly discovered Leon's relationship with the two sisters. However, Hestia didn't react aggressively to this. Instead, she became familiar with the two of them, and also with Ais and Lefiya.
Leon breathed a huge sigh of relief at this situation.
However, this was exactly what he had expected.
After learning from Hephaestus that it was Hestia who had brought it up, Leon understood that Hestia wouldn't care about it.
"I wonder how well the information about Riveria is being compiled?"
Inside the counter, Leon looked at the books while pondering Riveria's situation.
Leon still remembered the promise he had made with Riveria to resurrect her mother. Speaking of which, her name was Clarice.
She was a famous mage in Orario back then, but fifty years have passed and few people in Orario know about her anymore, not even the gods. After all, many of the gods who knew Clarice were mostly sent away when Evilus was at their peak.
These past few days, Lefiya had been visiting, and Leon learned from her that Riveria had been writing these past few days, seemingly recording something.
Leon knew that Riveria was recording her memories of her mother, but she didn't know when she would be able to finish.
"Leon, I'm here for a free meal."
Just as Leon was pondering Riveria's matter, a familiar voice rang out.
Leon looked up and saw Tsubaki and Hephaestus walking side by side toward him. He suddenly realized that it was already evening when he glanced at the sky outside.
"Alright, go inside and sit down. Hestia is inside. You two go chat with Hestia. I'll close the library and go cook." Leon smiled at the two of them and said.
These past few days, Hephaestus and Tsubaki had been having lunch and dinner at his place with him and Hestia, except for breakfast.
"Slurp! Leon, I want to eat pork today." Tsubaki slurped her saliva and then said with a smile.
"Okay." Leon nodded indulgently.
Hephaestus didn't say anything, but simply greeted Leon and then led Tsubaki inside.
After the two entered the inner courtyard, Leon started making arrangements to close the library.
After closing the library, he followed them back to the inner courtyard and went into the kitchen to start preparing dinner.
While Leon was preparing dinner, on the other side, in the guild's underground altar.
Ouranos slowly opened his tightly closed eyes, his brows furrowed.
"How are you, Ouranos?" Fels, who had been waiting, asked quickly after seeing Ouranos open his eyes.
"Found it, that black dragon went to
the 75th floor." Ouranos's face was somewhat gloomy as he said in a deep voice.
"They actually went up to such a deep
floor?" Upon hearing this, Fels was taken aback and was quite surprised.
"Ouranos, tell me, what exactly is the
dungeon planning?"
"You've thoroughly investigated every
floor these past few days, but the
dungeon hasn't reacted at all. The expected riots never happened."
Fels knew what Ouranos was thinking. The floors beyond the 60th floor are forbidden floors for Ouranos, they are floors that he is absolutely not allowed to explore.
This time, Ouranos was prepared to cause a riot in the dungeon in order to find out the floor where the newly born black dragon was located and its activities.
To this end, they specifically contacted Ganesha, asking him to send the first-class adventurers of the Ganesha Familia.
Ouranos had been exploring the floors beyond the 60th floor, but there has been no movement from the dungeon. This surprised them greatly.
They were already very wary of the dungeon
because of the sudden appearance of three great quests again, and now they were even more wary of it.
However, despite the apprehension, the necessary investigations must still be conducted.
Over the past few days, Ouranos has thoroughly explored all the floors after the 60th floor, investigating each floor one by one, and finally discovered the black dragon on the 75th floor.
"The way the dungeon operates is getting more and more baffling. What exactly is it trying to do?" Ouranos said in a deep voice.
"Stop thinking about it. We have no clue what to do right now, so we can only deal with things as they come."
"Ouranos, have you found out what the black dragon is doing on the 75th floor?" Fels asked.
Ouranos replied, "The black dragon is an enhanced species, it can devour the magic stones of monsters to become stronger. It is currently killing monsters everywhere and devouring their magic stones."
"Although my divine power can detect
situations, it cannot detect their strength. It can only vaguely sense some of it."
"The black dragon's aura seems to have changed. I think it has ranked up in the past two weeks and reached level 9."
"Only half a month has passed, and it's already ranked up?!" Fels was shocked.
"If we give the black dragon another month or two, wouldn't it advance to level 10, just like that one-eyed black dragon at the end of the world?" Fels murmured to himself.
"That's what | was worried about
too. We must get rid of that black dragon
as soon as possible." Ouranos nodded.
"Leon's strength is enough to deal with level 9, but I don't know about level 10."
"We must get Leon and the others started their next expedition as soon as possible."
"However, floors beyond the 65th floor require keys, which is a hassle." Fels
nodded, then pondered.
Ouranos sighed, "Yes, the key is indeed a problem. But we have no choice but to bite the bullet and do it."
"What's the current situation with Leon, the Loki Familia, and the Astraea Familia?"
"The Loki and Astraea familias have been processing the spoils of the expedition and preparing supplies for the next one these past few days." Fels replied.
"That's good. By the way, we should also discuss the Freya Familia with Leon
and the Loki Familia. Fels, go and communicate with them." Ouranos said, nodding.
"I understand. However, Ouranos, besides the Freya Familia, we should now add the Kali Familia." Fels nodded
slightly, then brought up another
matter.
"Hmm? The Kali Familia?" Ouranos
frowned upon hearing this.
Fels said, "Athough I don't know what happened, Argana and Bache of the Kali Familia had a match with Tione and Tiona of the Loki Familia, and Argana and Bache were defeated. After that, the Kali Familia and the
Loki Eamilia formed an alliance."
"For this next expedition, the Loki
Familia will probably bring along the
Kali Familia."
"ls that so?" Ouranos was surprised.
"Yes, I was also surprised. It's almost unbelievable that they would lose to Tione and Tiona but it's true. However, I have a guess." Fels nodded slightly and then said.
.
"What guess?" Ouranos asked curiously.
Fels said, "It seenms to be related to Leon. Many Amazonesss of the Kali Familia covet Leon. When they first arrived in Orario, they often sought him out, seemingly wanting him to raise the next generation with them. However, Leon refused, and it seems the reason for his refusal was Tione and Tiona."
"'So Argana and Bache took the initiative
to lower their stance and apologize to
Tione and Tiona," Fels said, revealing
his quess.
Upon hearing the reason, Ouranos fell silent.
Fels remained silent as well.
After a long while, Ouranos finally spoke, "l've heard of beautiful women causing trouble, but now it seems that handsome men can also cause trouble."
Fels nodded. "It seems so. At leas 90% of the female adventurers in Orario covet Leon."
After a brief silence, Ouranos spoke
calmly, "Go and make the arrangements."
"Mm." Fels nodded slightly, then retreated into the darkness.
Ouranos was left alone on the altar once again. He closed his eyes and once again used his divine power to observe the black dragon's every move on the 75th floor.
Unbeknownst to Ouranos, in a hidden space deep within the building, a pair of scarlet pupils slowly opened.