The Demeter Familia is a massive production-type faction with a multitude of members under its command.
Under normal circumstances, it would be difficult to gather them all at once.
However, these unfortunate souls had been controlled by Dionysus's divine wine until yesterday evening. Upon returning to Orario today, they were already required to give their statements at the Guild.
Therefore, despite their numbers exceeding the Loki Familia and Freya Familia combined, it took only an afternoon and a small part of the evening for all members to obtain their own unique Constellations.
There is no need to even mention the Astrea Familia; with only two or three kittens, gathering everyone together merely cost Levi an extra five minutes.
Around eleven o'clock at night.
The Hōgyoku, having cooled down for nearly a day, bloomed with light once again within the depths of his soul.
This time, Levi did not rush to initiate the next stage of the limit break advancement. Instead, he used his will to gently tap on the '+' sign behind 'Two-Phase Divine Power'.
On the newly generated notification panel, ignoring the mana consumption and the Hōgyoku's cooldown time, the predicted 8-Star Magic—unfortunately—still bore the name 'Two-Phase Divine Power'. The affix effects were merely slightly improved upon the original base buffs.
Overall, it appeared useful, but not as useful as he had anticipated.
"As expected, it won't work?" Levi shook his head. "Relying solely on the [Hōgyoku] to complete the final type of high-dimensional energy I need..."
As the saying goes, even a clever housewife cannot cook a meal without rice.
Even with the [Hōgyoku], which can limit-break all things, one must adhere to basic logic when using it.
Without consuming extra items or skill books, it will only enhance or slightly expand a skill or magic upon its original foundation, but it cannot generate new power out of thin air.
Of course, this did not mean the Hōgyoku was useless.
The incomplete Arcanums on his character panel—such as Thunder, Geo, Wind, Space, and Time—or passive skills like 'Chakra Semi-Progenitor', were intended to follow the most orthodox advancement route in Levi's conception.
"It just means that the subsequent action plan needs to be slightly altered."
Muttering this in his heart, Levi canceled the limit break for 'Two-Phase Divine Power'. He turned to initiate the limit break advancement from 'H-Rank to G-Rank', causing the just-reactivated Hōgyoku to scatter its brilliance once more and enter cooldown.
The young man with pale-gold short hair stood in the center of the training field, slightly closing his eyes as the modified energy barrier around him activated in sync.
In the next instant, the pressure of a Demigod radiated outward.
However, unlike during the day, it did not penetrate the barrier to be perceived by the gods of Orario.
Transparent, high-temperature orange flames appeared around Levi's body; this was the physical manifestation of the Divine Might within Hestia's divine blood inside him.
But as time passed, these flames continuously decreased in both temperature and volume.
One minute, two minutes, three minutes...
Ten minutes, twenty minutes, forty minutes...
Unknown time passed.
The orange flames that originally hovered and flowed around Levi completely vanished.
Replacing them in that spot were two translucent rings—one gold and one rainbow-colored—interlocked head to tail.
'Byakugan', activate.
Using his X-ray vision, Levi looked at the Falna written in Hieroglyphs on his back.
In the next moment, the sacred fire pattern directly above, symbolizing 'Hearthfire Goddess Hestia', quietly faded away.
Subsequently, a triangular crest appeared slowly: two sides were painted black, the third side was temporarily empty, and a black vortex was depicted in the center.
Immediately following that, the Falna, originally written in Hieroglyphs, maintained its content while all the text transformed into Primordial Runes.
Levi paused for a moment, then, mimicking Hestia's past operations, he circulated the Divine Power and Spiritual Light within his body to scroll the Falna page to the very bottom.
He clearly remembered that there was an [Unknown] skill here, symbolizing his system.
But now, as if it finally no longer needed to hide, it revealed its true name and information to its master.
[Descender & Gaia Sustainer]
[Transcend Dimensions]
[Beloved of the World Will]
To be honest, this answer did not exceed Levi's expectations.
A system either comes from the outside world or originates from oneself.
Levi was an ordinary person in his past life. The biggest difference between him and others in this life was that he unexpectedly awakened his past wisdom as a child and discovered he had transmigrated into the "DanMachi" world.
This was likely the origin of 'Descender' and 'Transcend Dimensions'.
As for Gaia Sustainer...
Levi did not guess blindly. Since he had accepted the favor of the World Will in the past and present—namely, the Pay-to-Win System—he would naturally know how to repay this karma when the time was right in the future.
It came back to that saying.
The strong live, the weak die.
A conviction without power to support it is worthless in any world, in any era.
Thoughts flashed quickly through his mind. With a slight movement of his will, Levi used Space Displaced and vanished from his spot.
About ten minutes later.
Deep within the Elsoth Ruins, inside the Great Tree Sea—which had gradually reverted to a normal forest after the death of Scorpio Antares—where the entrances and exits were completely sealed by rocks and soil.
The young man with pale-gold short hair revealed his figure.
Not far ahead, a black-haired elf lay on an operating table. Her limbs had been severed, and a Magic Stone was embedded in her exposed chest. Upon seeing his appearance, an expression of incomparable terror instantly appeared on her face.
"Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!"
Filvis wanted to scream, wanted to open her mouth to tell Levi to stay away from her.
But because her jaw was dislocated and her tongue had been pulled out, she couldn't even do such a simple thing.
She could only watch as the other party walked toward her, step by step.
Levi was not bloodthirsty, nor did he have a twisted hobby of toying with his prey.
When he previously fought the Dionysus Familia, the reason he spared Filvis's life was initially just out of curiosity regarding 'Creatures'—existences that were a morphological intermediate between humans and monsters.
He had intended to kill her after researching her for a period of time.
But nowadays—more accurately, after obtaining 'Two-Phase Divine Power' and confirming that he could not use the [Hōgyoku] to complete the third type of high-dimensional energy—Filvis's weight in his heart had significantly increased.
This existence, who had not truly 'debuted' in the anime of his past life, might reveal to him the precise method for humans to acquire [Pitch-black Divine Power].
Of course, Levi didn't actually care much if he accidentally killed the opposition during the research process.
Firstly, Filvis had shown hostility toward him and launched attacks. He never showed mercy to enemies, regardless of gender.
Secondly, a high-ranking Spiritual Foundation Exchange Ticket, which could be exchanged for a maximum of 40 million Valis Vouchers, could completely summon the deceased party back to the Lower World.
However, the 'Banshee' did not know that her fate was already sealed.
From the moment she reincarnated into a Creature, her life had nothing left but endless despair.
"Ah! Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!"
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