Denatus

After returning from the historic mission to the 59th floor, there was much abuzz in Orario. Due to the imminent threat of the demi spirits, the Denatus schedule was pushed up for a couple weeks. In the meeting, Loki replaced Hermes who was originally scheduled as chair because of Hermes' inability to talk with his mouth glued shut. Also with the primary topic being the new threat, it made sense for Loki to run the meeting.

Finn was front and center in the presentation, with Ottar was next to him That surprised many when they realized that it was a joint operation involving the 2 top familias.

Finn "The parasitization process is started when a jewel fetus merges with a monster. The monster then undergoes a metamorphosis and becomes much more powerful. We believe that is because the jewel fetus is an 'offspring' of a corrupted spirit. If the merged being is fed an enormous amount of high quality magic stones, then it may evolve into a demi spirit. A half-spirit half-monster being with enormous magic powers and regeneration abilities. The two that we fought were able to cast two cast extremely powerful magic spells before harvesting magic energy from nearby monsters. We estimate the attack spells to be similar to a those from a level 7 mage."

Ottar "We were fortunate to be able to defeat those 2 monsters"

Loki "I believe there could be more of these jewel fetus from a source that is deep in the dungeon. Based on the word of a hybrid human-monster that was killed by my familia, their goal is the destruction of Orario by simultaneously smuggling multiple demi spirits and other monsters to the surface."

The entire meeting erupted with this ominous information. The gods quickly formed a committee to combat this threat. In additional to Loki, Freya, Hermes and Hephaestus, Ganesha and Dionysus were also getting involved. What was not stated was that Loki and Freya suspected one or more gods were involved in the demi spirit threat, but disclosing the general information unfortunately did not flush anyone out.

After the serious business, there was an rough explanation for Hermes punishment, which was cheered by many goddesses. Of course, Loki skipped over the part where the peeping happened in the dungeon...

It was then time for the fun part of the Denatus. There were some incredibly bad nicknames given, including Take's Mikoto being named Zetsu Ei. However, no one dared confront Loki's favorite when it came to Ais Wallenstein's nickname, which was kept as Sword Princess. Then it came to Freya's new favorite.

Loki "Well, now we have the new record holder"

Apollo "Less than 1 month, are we serious?"

Freya "Actually it was 3 weeks"

Finn "And we were there to witness the level 1 event when he defeated a minotaur by his own strength", which made everyone gasp.

Finn "I, Braver, would gladly serve as a reference for Bell Cranel. Even though he was a level 2, he went down with us to the 59th floor. And he delivered two magic attacks, each of which changed the course of the battle", also skillfully avoiding the information that Freya updated Bell inside the dungeon...

Apollo "How could that be? When there are far higher level adventurers in your party including yourself and Nine Hells"

Finn "I will not disclose Bell Cranel's confidential data, but let's just say he first preempted one of the demi spirits from launching a powerful magic at us. And later on, when we were injured and near defeat, he led our counterattack with a strike that temporarily knock down the same demi spirit which had regenerated".

That drew many ouuuuu and ahhhhh comments among the gods. Apollo was practically drooling.

Loki "Well, does anyone have a suggestion for a nickname?"

Finn "Our members have been calling Bell 'little argonaut'.

Freya "I like that"

Loki "I second that", as such the Tiona's nickname for Bell was adopted without objection.

While the Denatus was ongoing, Bell was training with Ais and Tiona. Bell wanted badly to level so he was working as hard as possible to have his other stats catch up to his magic stats. Recovered from the peeping incident, Ais and Bell were having a good time sparring. Compared to their previous training, Bell has leveled and then gotten even stronger. Thus, Ais could easily tell the difference. Nevertheless, Tiona and Ais were however having a competition in the number of lap pillows given to Bell. As such, Bell had gotten to learn more about the two girls' thighs than he ever expected. Of course, not that he was complaining...

That evening, Freya gave Bell an update before telling him about his new nickname. He had a healthy jump from the day of intense training.

level 2

strength: 137

endurance: 243

agility: 171

dexterity: 128

magic: 569

skill: argonaut

magic: firebolt

development ability: luck

Freya then told Bell about Little Argonaut, which made him happy. With that, there was another hot kiss on the cheek which made Bell embarrassed as well as warm inside. He did go to bed early, as tomorrow would be a busy day. He had another day of training, but he first needed to buy new set of armor after the girls took his damaged pieces as souvenirs in the monkey pile on the 18th floor.