Research and relaxing

Research and relaxing

(Normal POV)

I was entirely unaware of what was going on at the test due to the blade I gave Hroldar and even after it was over he never showed up so I totally forgot about it. Instead I worked on testing my new flames to get a feel for what they were capable of, the answer to which was complicated. See the first thing I tested was the temperature of the flames by using iron since I knew how hot it had to be to melt the stuff and how much hotter it had to be to melt it faster than that minimum point.-

Turning the fire to as hot as i could burned through my energy(pun very intended) at extremely high speeds but could turn a three inch iron nail to slag in about half a second. This meant my hottest was about 1700 or so degrees Celsius. Hot enough that even being near it should make things very uncomfortable if not downright hostile. That was where things got complicated as neither Bell or myself could feel anything more that a normal warmth from like a campfire or something similar.-

In addition to that my fire COULDN'T burn me, like at all. Yes I know you are likely asking how i knew that and the answer was because I tested it. Don't fucking judge me this was something important to know. Anyways I could flare my fire up as hot as I wanted and then stick my hand in it and nothing would happen, I may as well have been putting my hand through air. Another thing I discovered was that my fire needed to be kept away from water at all fucking costs. Not because it acted like a grease fire but because it ate the water and grew rapidly.-

Spent a couple of days practicing with my weapon before I finally felt confident to head back into the dungeon. Bell on the other hand was making astoundingly fast progress as with his most recent update he was at H rank in all his physical stats but hadn't gotten anywhere with magic which was to be expected since he lacked any way to use that stat. His foundation was solid though as he had taken what I had taught him as well as what he figured out from our spars to get a handle on how he wanted to fight.-

He was actually going in the exact opposite direction from myself as I wanted to hit the hardest without sacrificing maneuverability while he traded impact for speed and quantity of attacks. Neither path was wrong but both ended in different ways given enough time. Mine ended with each strike of mine being a potential death sentence while his ended with a death by thousand cuts type scenario or as a distraction so a heavy hitter like me can safely move in for the big ticket damage. If it wasn't for my magic not being team friendly we would probably make a very effective two man unit in the dungeon.-

I had made a bunch of figurines already which Hestia had moved to selling instead of Jagamarukuns since they brought in way more profit. They were apparently very popular with the gods and women in the city to the point that she was sold out mere minutes after she opened in the morning. This meant she got most of the day to do whatever she wanted after that which tended to be her lazing about at the church or cheering on Bell as he trained. Thanks to this influx of money we were now eating good food nightly.-

Unfortunately all good things come to an end eventually and Hephaestus finally got a chance to catch Hestia and ask about me. It was odd really as the red head was downright flirtacious when she introduced herself. Hestia had apparently told the goddess how my cursed technique worked since they were friends and now the red head was trying to poach me to her familia openly. I myself wanted nothing to do with the woman as the looks she was giving me made me feel like she was moments away from eating me.