After the joke passed, the expressions of the three goddesses turned serious.
"This time, what Levi is attempting can probably no longer be kept completely hidden," Demeter sighed softly.
The two goddesses beside her nodded in agreement.
However, compared to the Goddess of Agriculture, who had not yet truly joined their inner circle, both Hestia and Hephaestus looked much more relaxed.
They were aware of Levi's layout. Not to mention distant matters, but within Orario today—and including Port Town Melin—among the top combat factions, the Loki Familia and Ganesha Familia were on good terms with the Hestia Familia.
Among the medium and large factions, the vast majority had either signed commercial treaties or formed offensive and defensive alliances with Levi.
Add to that the massive number of lower-class adventurers won over by the Grand Bathhouse's hot springs.
If anything were to happen to Levi, the shipyard, clothing factories, and bathhouse bound to him would all cease operations, subsequently plunging Orario into a prolonged period of riots.
Even the orders currently issued by the Guild might not be as effective as his words.
In a certain sense, Levi could already be considered the Uncrowned King of Orario.
Let alone casually creating a Black Dragon that existed for less than ten minutes; even if he were to truly take that dragon for a couple of laps around the skies of Orario, no one would dare to trouble him.
As for those Gods of Entertainment or Evil Gods hiding in the shadows...
If those fellows dared to release their Divine Power, catching him off guard, it was indeed possible they could take down Levi, who currently only possessed the status of a Demigod.
But as for Gods of Entertainment... they ran faster than anyone when watching others' misfortune, but the moment it involved themselves, they would immediately cease all hostilities.
The best example was Hermes.
Ever since the members under his command were publicly notified by the Hestia Familia that they would be charged double for purchases, he, as their patron god, had never appeared privately before Levi or Hestia again.
As for what happened in the dark, neither Levi nor Hestia cared in the slightest.
In a world where mighty power belongs to oneself, strength is the only true passport.
*
The facts were exactly as Hestia and Hephaestus had thought.
Inside Twilight Manor, Loki narrowed her eyes.
"Was it destroyed shortly after it was born?"
Immediately, a scoff escaped her mouth. "Heh, it seems Hestia's child is 'conducting experiments'~"
Most of the deities in Orario were already aware that Levi was a Demigod.
However, they had originally assumed that this child of the Lower World, who had created numerous miracles, achieved Demigod status by relying on the Falna system, or at the very least, by borrowing the power of divine blood.
Now, it appeared they might have been mistaken.
The greatest 'Unknown' of the Lower World, discovered first by Hestia, still held many things in his hands that others knew nothing about.
At the very least, if it were Loki, even if she unsealed her Divine Power and utilized her Arcanum, she would have no way to create a true 'Black Dragon'.
The other gods felt largely the same.
"Although I don't know exactly what you intend to do, the Lower World has indeed been stagnant for a long time. It's about time it was blown by a wind from the outside."
Muttering this, Loki found Finn and, without wasting any words, directly stated that she wanted to form a closer cooperative relationship with the Hestia Familia.
She was not the only deity to do so.
Other patron gods of medium and large factions—those who had appeared in the anime Levi watched in his past life, as well as those who had not—also made the same choice one after another.
The Guild had existed in Orario for nearly a thousand years, yet the 'One-Eyed Black Dragon', one of the Three Great Quests, continued to threaten the survival of the Lower World.
Now that an existence capable of contending with the Black Dragon had been born, deities of the Good or Order alignments, along with their dependents, would naturally gather around the Hestia Familia—whether out of consideration for benefits or simply due to their nature.
Just as they had followed the Zeus Familia and Hera Familia in the past.
Even Ouranos, sitting on the golden throne suppressing the Labyrinth.
After sensing the new Black Dragon being born and then instantly eliminated, he said nothing, but secretly formed new plans.
However, tomorrow was the Sword Festival. Whether it was the Guild or the other medium and large Familias, they all needed to send people to participate in exhibition matches for the people of Orario.
In order not to affect the normal operation of the Labyrinth City, Ouranos did not have Fels come knocking immediately.
*
Returning to the Elsoth Ruins.
After changing his 'Two-phase Divine Power' to 'Three-phase Divine Power (Pseudo)', Levi was only one final wait away from becoming a true deity.
He was not a foolish person; he knew that his past actions of briefly creating a 'Pitch-black Dragonoid' could not be hidden from that group of gods.
Of course, at this stage, whether he hid it or not didn't really matter.
After tossing the Pitch-black Magic Stone to his clone, Rindr, and having her continue to manufacture 'God-killing Majesty' in the Starry Paradise on his behalf, Levi's figure reappeared in reality.
Next, he took out a 'High-Rank Spirit Origin Exchange Ticket' and a piece of flesh cut from Filvis's body from his Inventory, chanting the incantation for Heroic Spirit Summoning.
Levi had performed similar operations twice before.
It could be said he was on a familiar road.
However, this time, somewhat unexpectedly, the Heroic Spirit Summoning for Filvis failed.
"..."
Looking at the empty scene before him, Levi narrowed his eyes.
There were two reasons why he wanted to summon Filvis again right now.
The first, needless to say, was to see if the Banshee he pulled out of the Reincarnation System again would be Lv.7, Lv.9, or descend in the form of a 'Pitch-black Dragonoid'.
This would be very helpful for understanding the underlying rules of the DanMachi world.
The second was that if Filvis appeared in her Dragonoid form, he could defeat her once more, thereby obtaining a second Pitch-black Magic Stone.
But evidently, after completing the transformation from 'Creature' to 'Dragonoid' and being killed, Filvis's soul did not enter the Reincarnation System of the Tenkai.
Perhaps it had already been shattered and destroyed.
Or perhaps...
Levi turned his head, looking toward Orario, or more precisely, in the direction of the Dungeon.
At this moment, the figure of another existence similar to the Creatures—the Xenos—suddenly flashed through his mind.
Because his Spirit Clones had been stationed in the Deep Floors of the Labyrinth for a long time and kept their Byakugan active for safety reasons, they had actually seen the Xenos quite a few times before.
It was just that Levi knew these special monsters were Ouranos's private army. Precisely because of this, as long as they didn't dance in front of him, he wouldn't bother with them.
The Xenos, on the other hand, were mostly frightened by the terrifying combat power displayed by Levi's Spirit Clones. Even if they accepted Fels's scouting missions, they only dared to hide far away and observe carefully.
The two sides had lived in peace until now, and originally, this would have continued into the eternal future.
But now...
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