Chapter 22 - Fetal Position
To her shock and surprise, Ais woke up with Bell's face right next to her. Suddenly, she remembered how bad she was last night. After Bell carried her to her assigned room in the headquarters, she acted like a 5 year old when he placed her on her bed. She would not let go! What did Bell think? Worst of all, the door to the room was apparently wide open for all to see!
She suddenly realized Tiona, Tione, Riveria were peeking and had sick smiles on their faces! Steamed, she gave them the angry look, and they all ran for their lives. However, the immediate problem is that she did not want to wake Bell up, but she could not move at all without waking him. She was still holding onto him in her fetal position! OMG
When Bell finally woke up, Ais was looking right at him like a scared rabbit. Bell actually was quite calm about it. It was "good morning" and "I am hungry". Then Bell went off whistling to his room to change his clothes and brush his teeth. As he walked away, there was a smirk on his face : )
On his way, he ran into Bete, Gareth and Finn, but not a word was said. Hermes and Zeus must be proud... though the gossip must be over the entire headquarters... Hopefully Wiene would not know or she may take it really hard.
The first meeting for the day is how to improve the team.
A larger army may be needed, and that can come from the Ganesha familia, the Heptaestus familia and others. Basically anyone level 4 and above is fair game. The larger army would account for potential lower level enemy fighters as well as a defensive perimeter.
The core team members also need to get stronger with Revis and possibly more like her. However, that is really hard because eating magic stones is not an option. One possibility is if Haruhime's magic improves, but she just leveled up after the war. Still it was worth a try to send her to Hestia to get an update for a small improvement. They would also send Bell and Ais to get their Falnas updated to get as much improvement as possible.
They can improve their defense by using Welf's reactive armor. But there is only one Welf and other smiths cannot seem to enchant armor with the reactive magic charge. However, how many pieces of armor can Welf make over a short time period? Furthermore, Welf just leveled up after the war, so he is not likely to level up for quite a long time. However, it is still worth a try to send him to Hestia to get an update. A slight improvement is likely from all the smith work he has been doing.
More magic weapons can be created, but Revis is very magic resistant. Still Tsubaki will be working hard on that.
Another move is to improve on Welf's armor. Hephaestus has been already working on improving the armor by adding more thin metal layers, each with an additional magic charger. Even if she succeeds, the bottleneck is still Welf's charging.
They can work with the Xenos to try to level up them up. However there is a limited number magic stones that can be extracted from high level monsters, and the enemy seems to have a monopoly on most of them. Hermes mentions there is an extra magic stone from the prisoner, so that should be given to Wiene.
The meeting only lasted 1 hours, and then Bell, Ais, Welf and Haruhime were sent to Hestia. Lili was left out because she did not partake in anything significant since her level up.
Hestia was really surprised to see them, but Bell got a lot of maternal nurturing...