Chapter 20: Can One Really Long For This?
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Helping Liang Yue update her ability stats was one of the few things Hestia could do right now.
Having undergone intense dungeon exploration over the past few days, Liang Yue possessed extraordinary talent. Hestia herself eagerly anticipated how much her abilities would improve.
After swiftly finishing dinner like a whirlwind, she took out the prepared parchment for updating ability stats and sat on the edge of the bed.
Her pristine, alluring white feet swung gently. Her toes played lightly, making no rush for Liang Yue, who was still eating.
Once Liang Yue rested well, Hestia smiled and called out, “Liang Yue, come update your ability stats!”
“Thank you very much, Lady Hestia.”
After removing her shirt, Liang Yue’s muscular lines had gradually become more defined thanks to the rigorous dungeon explorations and comprehensive nutritional supplementation.
Yet, her left arm, restrained by the limiter, still bore the fearsome demon hand. She was already familiar with the process of updating her ability stats.
She lay prone on the bed.
Liang Yue was curious about how her stats would change. Partly, she also hoped to help Hestia overcome her low spirits.
As a goddess, helping her followers was something she ought to do.
“That is my duty,” Hestia replied.
She then climbed onto the bed, sitting on Liang Yue’s thigh, her bright blue eyes flickering with curiosity as she gazed at the gradually sculpted muscles on Liang Yue’s back.
Secretly...
A small touch should be harmless, right?
Of course it was!
As a high goddess concerned for her follower’s physical condition, such care was only natural. Convincing herself, Hestia hesitated but eventually reached out.
When her cool fingertips brushed Liang Yue’s back, the newly defined muscle contours gave her a strange sensation, causing the young goddess to blush instantly.
“Hah.”
“Let’s get to work!”
Flustered, Hestia quickly withdrew her hand and took a silver needle, pricking her finger lightly.
She squeezed out a drop of divine blood onto Liang Yue’s back.
As a gentle glow emerged, she erased the original ability stats and replaced them with the latest ones gained through experience.
Finally,
she used the parchment to imprint Liang Yue’s updated ability stats.
“With Liang Yue’s talent,”
“and the time spent training in the dungeon, her ability stats should see comprehensive improvement!”
Hestia was full of confidence in Liang Yue but was still shocked when she saw the final updated stats clearly.
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Liang Yue
Lv. 1
Strength: F337 | Endurance: F369 | Dexterity: F301 | Agility: F354 | Mana: i0
Development Ability: None
Magic: None
Skills: Inner Demon Sword Technique, Triple Slash, Moonlight Slash, Backward Jump Slash
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“This is only after two days...”
“The mana attribute still hasn’t changed, but all other stats have jumped by two ranks. This rate of growth...”
“Wait a moment.”
“Where did these three new skills come from?”
Normally, after updating ability stats, Hestia would no longer sit atop Liang Yue, but today was different.
The changes in stats were not the most surprising thing.
Instead, the unfamiliar names in the skill section were what unsettled the goddess.
When recruiting Liang Yue as her follower, he had already mastered the “Inner Demon Sword Technique,”
which indicated his exceptional swordsmanship talent. Indeed, this was true, but what Hestia hadn’t expected was...
that his talent was this overwhelmingly powerful!
She struggled to calm herself before asking, “Liang Yue, how exactly did you manage this?”
“Many adventurers...”
“Even if they spend their entire lives, they can’t comprehend so many skills!”
“...”
Feeling the perfect weight sitting on her, Hestia’s question left Liang Yue somewhat at a loss.
He couldn’t just say...
“There’s no special cheat, it’s just day after day of hard work and sweat.”
After some thought, he decided to soften his words: “I want to be of greater help to Lady Hestia.”
“I hope to stand by your side through my strength.”
“Liang Yue...”
His sincere words briefly stunned Hestia; she did not doubt their truth.
When she first took Liang Yue in, it was mainly because he was wandering aimlessly in Oralie...
and secondarily to develop her lineage.
The mature and steady Liang Yue, despite having greater options due to his talent, chose to stay with the family.
At this moment, Hestia regarded him with familial affection.
Yet, occasional inadvertent teasing...
always caused her heartbeat to quicken inexplicably, much like when she worked at the potato stall — having thoroughly prepared, only to forget a crucial ingredient.
Discovering it days later, she’d realize...
it had spoiled!!
Hestia did not continue sitting atop Liang Yue, but a spontaneous sense of happiness bloomed, bringing a genuine smile to her face.
She handed over the parchment with the imprinted stats.
“Liang Yue, take a look at the changes in your stats. You’ve made great progress, but please remember to take care of your body.”
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“Thank you for your concern, Lady Hestia.”
Liang Yue smiled as he took the parchment, curious about what stat improvements had caused Hestia to act so unusually.
He skimmed through it casually.
He chose to ignore the skill section for now since those were all new skills granted by the “Sword Soul Template” upon leveling.
But the stat increases...
truly exceeded his expectations, leaping directly from rank H to rank F, and that was only from exploring the upper layers of the dungeon so far.
“Is it possible...”
“That I’m actually a stat freak across the board?”
To raise his mana attribute, first he would have to master magic. Judging by the price of magic guidebooks in Oralie, he dared not even imagine that path.
He might as well discard that route entirely.
With all S-rank stats combined with the skills provided by the “Sword Soul Template,”
Liang Yue looked forward eagerly...
to how a stat-driven powerhouse would perform in the labyrinthine city of Oralie and the perilous dungeons beyond.
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In the wild battlefield,
Bell, having finished his dungeon adventure, returned to the family base, full of curiosity about Liang Yue, who claimed to be “just a passing ordinary swordsman.”
More precisely...
Bell admired him.
He wanted to become as strong an adventurer as Liang Yue.
Not yet having had time to rest, Bell was led by senior Ota directly to Lady Freya’s chamber upon arriving at the palace.
They were to update his ability stats after his recent training.
“Bell,”
“Was your dungeon adventure going fairly smoothly?” Freya, the goddess responsible for beauty and authority, with natural gray hair draped over her shoulders and unmatched beauty, gazed gently at the boy lying on the bed undergoing the update.
“Your Highness, it was... fairly smooth, I guess?”
Bell recalled the moment on the seventh floor when Liang Yue kindly helped him against the murder ant swarm, his smile tinged with a hint of shyness.
Without that help, he might have faced danger.
Bell, lying there, failed to notice the subtle expression change on Freya’s face as she looked at the completed updated stats.
She furrowed her brow and glanced at the skill section.
“Admirer.”
“This child...”
“What exactly did he experience in the dungeon?”