Chapter 78

Chapter 78

Ais eventually calmed down and she slumped against my chest resting her chin over my shoulder.

I could tell she was probably a bit overwhelmed with what we just did so I moved us around so I could lay on the bench, and she was able to just relax between me and the back of the heavily padded bench, so this position wasn't really all that uncomfortable or anything.

"This reminds me of when I was younger and Riveria would allow me to sleep on her lap after she would tutor me in the library." Ais murmured as she got herself comfortable by wrapping an arm around my mid-section and resting her head on my chest and I could feel her tapping her finger against my side as she was seemingly tracking my heartbeat.

"Do you consider her a mother figure to you?" I asked wondering how she felt about another woman stepping in to raise her as even with being sealed away for literally centuries it was basically a simple nap for her and was only to be awoken with everything she knew torn away and only remembering the pain of seeing her father fail to kill the Dragon.

She nodded and I could feel her long golden hair dragging across my chest with the movement. "Yes. Loki has adopted a number of children into the Familia specially to prod at how motherly Riveria is."

'Well, they literally do call Riveria, Mama in there so it fits.' I thought and then remembered how she was also pretty fond of the Hobbits and even questioned Gandalf at points on why he allowed the other Hobbits besides Frodo to join.

Ais's breathing was starting to even out so I didnt bother to further question her and just yawned while wondering what all the girls were doing downstairs.

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I was awoken from my nap by the basement door in question being thrown open with a mighty crash. "Jake it's time for you to update your falna and level up!" Hestia cried out her shouting voice echoing through the church.

Me and Ais bolted up from our booth in surprise as Hestia strode through the door she kicked up and it seemed our adventurer instincts worked out as she thought we were napping beside one another obviously tired after our battle today.

"Loki and Riveria are coming around the corner so wake up you two." She chided at us.

Ais blankly just nodded obviously still a little emotionally strained from the day's events if not physically at this point. This chapter is updated by nov(e)(l)biin.com

"Hestia let's do my level up after we give our report to Loki, and we can discuss whatever development ability I qualify for." I spoke making Hestia pout and finally nod.

"Fine... I just want you to level up so I can rub in the fact you are already level four with the next Denatus coming." Hestia groused at me cutting off her fun.

'Man, that month long trip in LOTR and just dealing with Alfia and her made the last couple months fly by.' I thought wondering whether they were going to bother to give me a new title or something. To be honest though I was kinda invested in my Orion title as Artemis was my favorite girl when this world was just a fictional place to me.

I no longer had any time to think as Hestia soon escorted Loki and Riveria inside the church and guide them to sit in the bench in front of me and Ais.

"Oiiii Ais why are your lips swollen and why does Jake have a bruise on his neck!" Loki cried pointing at me franticly and I could only feel my neck and as I pushed my hand against it, I could feel a light stinging feeling and knew Ais was up to no good when I fell asleep.

"I marked my territory..." She said blandly with zero shame, but her next words made me facepalm. "I did what Tione says she would do to Finn when she finally made him realize how much he loves her."

Not only me but also Riveria and Loki facepalmed at how the airhead followed the amazon ways of courtship.

"Hestia control your manwhore! He can't take my Ais!" She cried out dramatically

Strength 1478 SS

Endurance 1500 SS

Dexterity 1489 SS

Agility 1490 SS

Magic 1500 SS

Skills.

Argonaut's Journey- mentally delivers a daily quest that when accomplished will provide Excellia and also provides Excellia based on participation to party members.

-Hero's loot- After killing a foe in which you play the hero acquire Excellia from either the foe or scaling in difficulty and renown received. -

Development Skills.

Spirit Healing- Regenerating mind scaling with the lack of total mind amount.

Pure Body- Protects body from all environmental dangers and uses mind to permanently acclimate body to situations.

Magic:

Creations Negation of Entropy 'Combine'. Non sentient Objects must be touching users' skin in order to combine at cost of both stamina and mind to form something better than the sum of all its parts. -

Overloaded Barrel. Non-Chant, magic that allows user to overload magical action for user or ally at expense of user's mind fivefold or higher for double cost and higher. -

Myriad Worlds marble- Non-Chant, partially hypnotizing user allows him to bring a world he considers fictional to his own and the deeper hypnotized user is the more realistic the world.

"Ok so you still have the previous choices, but you now have a couple new ones being Luck, and Magic Resistance." Hestia explained and once again I was torn between the new options as things like Hunter which helped me kill things I had already killed before was useless to me along with magic resistance being a less attractive option to me because my Pure Body skill is already helping me become acclimated to extreme temperature's so most elemental magic will fall off and be useless against me at some point not to mention my armor which is phenomenal at blocking magic attacks.

"Let's go with Luck as I imagine that will help me get more drop items to fuse and it will help me on my adventures in other world." I responded after thinking about my options.

"Hmm alright I am adding it.... Haha you are now level four Jake!" Hestia cried and threw her hands over my shoulder's from behind and I could feel her cleavage pressing into my bareback.

Hestia after a moment of skin ship pulled me up to my feet and towards the basement. "All the girls including Syr knew you were going to level up, so we decided to have a little private party hehe."

I knew exactly what she meant as Freya has been hinting that Syr would like some casual fun with Freya no longer taking her form and messing with her emotions she was finally clear minded when it came to me and just wanted to see what all the fuss was about.