Despite her surprise, Eina was very efficient and responsible. However, feeling that Takatsuki and the others were too outstanding, she privately and earnestly advised Takatsuki not to attract too much atten
Despite her surprise, Eina was very efficient and responsible. However, feeling that Takatsuki and the others were too outstanding, she privately and earnestly advised Takatsuki not to attract too much attention, otherwise they might be targeted by unscrupulous individuals.
"The Goliath's Magic Stone, plus a bag of Magic Stones and dropped materials, totals twenty-three million. Please take it."
In the middle levels, it would take over a week for one person to farm twenty-three million Magic Stones. This wouldn't just involve fighting monsters; travel and rest time would take up a significant portion.
After all, the Dungeon isn't a place where there are endless monsters to farm as soon as you enter, and if it were, no adventurer would likely return alive.
Most adventurers choose to kill lone monsters or team up to challenge large groups of monsters.
However, they never expected Takatsuki to do the opposite, not taking the regular passage but directly blasting through the floor to reach the lower level, and even intentionally creating a commotion to attract monsters.
He even triggered a monster feast, but the monsters on the middle floor were no match for Fu Hua and Takatsuki. Although the lack of Honkai Energy support from outside prevented Fu Hua's Edge of Taixuan from functioning as it normally would, her magic artifacts combined with her powerful physical attributes made her even stronger than she usually was at St. Freya Academy.
As for Takatsuki's unreasonable Fire Magic and the blast ability of the Dragon Talisman, no matter how many monsters came, they were just giving themselves away for free. The only pity was that many magic stones were pulverized in the explosions and could not be recovered.
And for some unknown reason, when he was grinding monsters with Fu Hua, not a single material dropped; it was purely the quantity accumulated from magic stones.
After the group settled into the house Eina helped them find, Hestia finally burst out, "What in the world happened with you all? Without the Falna, you actually cleared the Floor Boss within an hour?"
"Are you natural-born heroes? I can't believe I'm so lucky!"
Watching Hestia pace around, imagining things, Takatsuki quickly stopped her and said, "Lady Hestia, I'll explain that to you later. Shouldn't you be bestowing the Blessing upon us now?"
"Ah, yes, yes, that..."
Hestia only came to her senses after Takatsuki's reminder, looked around, and then pointed at Bell: "Bell! You first!"
"Huh? Me?"
Bell hadn't yet recovered from the shock. He had originally thought he joined a Familia with nothing, but he didn't care, because he believed that steadily advancing step by step was what made adventurers so charming. However, this idea was shattered in less than half a day.
It even made him wonder if he was too weak.
"That's right, come on in."
The new house didn't have many rooms and couldn't compare to the villa Takatsuki and the others lived in. It only had three bedrooms and a living room, but it was still quite spacious. Hestia took Bell into a room and quickly came out.
"Alright, next up, it's you! Takatsuki!"
Since she was just starting to activate the Falna, Hestia didn't print it on paper, as there was nothing interesting to see with all the data at 0.
After following Hestia into the room, Hestia closed the door.
"You should tell me what's going on with you now."
Takatsuki took off his upper garment and lay on the bed, exposing his back: "Of course, but I think you might know the answer after you see my Falna."
"What do you mean? Have you received a Falna before?"
Hestia could only think of that, but she didn't know that the actual situation was beyond her imagination.
"Of course not. You'll know once you see it. I'm actually curious what kind of skills will manifest for me."
Hestia pouted: "Skills aren't that easy to obtain."
Even as she said this, she climbed onto the bed, then pricked her finger and let a drop of divine blood fall onto Takatsuki's back.
A holy flame-like pattern appeared on Takatsuki's back.
Many characters also appeared around it, but these were divine characters, only understandable by gods or learned sages.
And then...
"What is this!!!"
Takatsuki LV1
Strength: 0
Endurance: 0
Dexterity: 0
Agility: 0
Magic: 0
"Magic"
None
"Skills"
[Stand: Heaven's Stairway]
Manifestation of spiritual energy
Possesses strong growth potential and special abilities
[Death Defiance]
Special resistance gained from surviving multiple deaths
Immunity to instant death effects; all abilities greatly increase when hit by an instant death attack
Mental resistance bonus, negative status resistance bonus
Automatic recovery of stamina and mental power
[????]
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Looking at the characters imprinted on the paper from Takatsuki's back, Hestia looked at Takatsuki in front of her: "He actually has three skills!? And one that even the Falna can't analyze?"
Taking the paper in his hand, Takatsuki looked at it and sighed: "It seems even the Falna can't analyze my abilities."
"Lady Hestia, you must have talked about some things with Mei and the others earlier, did they tell you about our origins?"
Hestia nodded: "She said you are all students of St. Freya Academy."
"Yes, but St. Freya Academy does not exist in this world."
Seeing Hestia's surprise, Takatsuki continued to explain: "This unanalyzable ability is why I can bring them to this place. This ability gives me the possibility of randomly traveling to other worlds. I originally wanted to see if the Falna could analyze it."
"World-traveling!?"
Takatsuki could completely understand Hestia's surprise: "The reason we have such powerful strength is also because of this. In the world we come from, there is an existence called Honkai."
Takatsuki briefly explained the concept of Honkai to Hestia, then said: "So we hope to find a way to fight Honkai and save humanity here."
"This is... this is truly great!"
Hestia became excited after hearing this: "Traveling through worlds, saving your own world, isn't that just like the heroes in heroic tales!? Takatsuki, can you take me to your world? As long as everyone is granted a Blessing, we can definitely overcome the disaster."
"I'm sorry, I can't do that."
It was not a lie. Takatsuki's system did not have the function to bring people back, and after D4C came to this world, its world-traveling ability was disabled, meaning that there were no parallel or adjacent worlds in this world.
"That's a real shame, but don't worry! I will cultivate you well, and when you return, you will definitely be able to defeat Honkai!"
Hearing Hestia's words, Takatsuki smiled: "That's wonderful. Then I'll trouble Lady Hestia. And regarding the abilities of the others later, I hope you can help me keep them a secret, because their situations might be quite special."