Starting to Eat Clone Soft Rice from Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 50

"After we finish eating, I'll update your Blessings for you and see how much we gained today."

Hearing this, Seele and Sakura smiled and nodded.

"Thank you, Sister Hestia."

Even though Sakura could update her own Blessing information without Hestia's help, under Hestia's strong insistence from yesterday, this task was ultimately assigned to her.

As Hestia put it, if she didn't even need to update the Blessing information, then what meaning would she, Hestia, have in this Hestia Familia? Having her God's Blessing severed from her was one thing, but if she lost the chance to personally witness her own Familia children growing, she would really cry.

And so, after the meal, Seele and Sakura took turns lying face down on the bed inside the church, while Hestia updated their Blessing Panels.

Seele

Lv.1

Strength: [B] 756

Endurance: [D] 572

Dexterity: [B] 749

Agility: [A] 823

Magic: [A] 856

Staring at the Blessing Panel before her, Hestia's eyes widened in disbelief.

"Is this increase for real? In just one day, most stats are already above B, and two have even reached A?"

Even considering that Seele had a skill that doubled stat growth, this improvement from her first entry into the Dungeon was terrifying. Calling it unmatched across all of Orario wouldn't be an overstatement.

After all, even first-tier Adventurers—including the Lv.6 members of the Loki Familia and Freya Familia—typically had average stats between C and B when leveling up, with only a few stats reaching A. And those stats were accumulated over one or two years, sometimes even several years.

In other words, Seele had not only walked the path that took those first-tier Adventurers years to tread in a single day, but she had also directly reached their average stats at the time of leveling up. All she needed was one more Great Feat, and she could level up on the spot.

"But Seele didn't really participate in many battles today."

Even Seele herself was puzzled by the magnitude of her stat increase. Since she didn't rely much on the Blessing's enhancement, and her main goal was to train Sakura, she hadn't been very proactive about grinding stats in the Dungeon.

Yet even so, she still saw such a massive stat boost?

"This shows that your talent is excellent, Seele. Even just tapping into a fraction of it is enough to rival years of accumulation for other Adventurers. With a bit more serious training, you could easily raise all your stats to A or even S rank."

"Is that so? Seele understands. From now on, Seele will train seriously and won't let Sister Hestia down."

The talent of a Herrscher Body was beyond doubt. But the reason Seele could achieve such a massive stat increase in just one day with minimal fighting wasn't just due to her Herrscher talent and the stat-doubling skill. Another major factor was that Seele wasn't an ordinary person like other rookie Adventurers.

Strictly speaking, Seele was a max-level veteran pretending to be a fresh Lv.1. Although her Blessing Panel only showed Lv.1, in terms of actual strength, even the strongest Adventurer in Orario—Ottar, the Berserker of the Freya Familia—was far from her match.

With that baseline, even a few casual actions, amplified by her talent and skills, could far surpass the long-term accumulation of other rookie Adventurers. It was only natural.

If Seele's updated panel left Hestia in disbelief, then Sakura's updated panel left Hestia utterly dumbfounded.

Sakura Kinomoto

Lv.1

Strength: [C] 614

Endurance: [D] 523

Dexterity: [C] 644

Agility: [C] 681

Magic: [SSS] 5684

If Seele's stat increase still had some advantage from her actual strength, then Sakura's stat increase was genuinely shocking to the point of being earth-shattering.

One day. SSS-ranked Magic. A Magic stat that had skyrocketed from zero to over five thousand six hundred.

Since the gods descended to the lower world, Hestia had never even heard of such a panel. After all, before Sakura, the absolute limit for any single stat on a human Adventurer's Blessing Panel was S rank—meaning no more than 999 points.

So what was this Magic stat that had gone from zero to over five thousand in a single day?

If Sakura weren't her own child but a member of some other god's Familia, Hestia would have blurted out, "Is this even human?"

But more than the stat increase, Hestia also noticed that Sakura had already completed a Great Feat. In other words, if Sakura wanted to, she could level up right now.

"As for the Great Feat, it's probably because she analyzed the God's Blessing," An Xiu speculated from within the room.

A Great Feat didn't have to be achieved solely through combat. The key was accomplishing something that ordinary people could not.

And analyzing the God's Blessing—a feat so shocking it would stun the world—was more than enough. If it weren't for the fact that each level-up required a new Great Feat, this single achievement alone could probably cover the requirements from Lv.1 all the way to Lv.9.

"Does Sakura want to level up now?" Hestia asked.

If magic was her primary combat method, and she didn't need to worry too much about raising stats other than Magic, then Sakura could directly level up to Lv.2 and become an upper-tier Adventurer. After all, an SSS-ranked Magic stat had already far surpassed the limits of ordinary Adventurer stats.

But An Xiu shook his head at that.

"Wait until you've raised the other stats a bit more before leveling up."

The Favor System of the DanMachi world was a decent opportunity to slightly patch up Sakura's physical shortcomings. After all, while Sakura was strong in the original story, she always had the suspicion of being a glass cannon.

Now, with the convenience of the DanMachi world's Favor System, she could focus on grinding stats other than magic. With her skills and innate talent as a foundation, even if the other stats didn't match her magic stat, their growth rate wouldn't be slow.

There was no need to push everything to the exaggerated level of SSS—just getting everything above A-Class would be enough to level up. As mentioned before, the DanMachi world's Favor System could slightly compensate for Sakura's physical shortcomings, but only slightly. If she truly wanted to solve this problem completely, relying solely on the Favor System was clearly insufficient.

There was also no need to worry that raising other stats would delay the growth of her magic stat. After Sakura fully analyzed the Favor System of the DanMachi world, it could only help her tap into her potential, but it couldn't lock it away.

Therefore, the SSS magic stat was merely the limit displayed on the Blessing Panel, but it was far from Sakura's true limit.

Chapter 107: Hestia: Please Be Gentle with Seele, My Heart Can't Take It...

And so, three days passed. Counting the first day, a total of four days had gone by.

In these four days, Sakura smoothly raised all stats except magic to A-Class, while Seele pushed all her stats to S-Class~SS-Class. Along the way, she also killed several Minotaurs judged to be Level 2 in strength, thereby achieving the Great Feat needed to level up.

Yes, even though a Minotaur—a monster with a strength assessment of Level 2—could be one-shot by Seele, in the judgment of the Favor System, a Level 1 Seele killing a monster that would be exceptionally troublesome even for a Level 2 Adventurer meant she had successfully completed a Great Feat.

"Alright, now you two have successfully leveled up."

Inside the abandoned church, Hestia wiped non-existent sweat from her brow and spoke to Seele and Sakura, who had just finished leveling up.

Having witnessed the terrifying speed of the two girls' growth over these past few days, seeing their cleared panels after leveling up was still a bit jarring.

Seele's pre-level-up stats, all at least S-Class, went without saying. As for Sakura, while her other stats were slightly lower than Seele's at A-Class, her magic stat had reached a terrifying 9999 points—just one point shy of breaking ten thousand.

The reason it was 9999 magic points wasn't that Sakura could only raise it that high, but that after reaching 9999 points, she could still feel her magic increasing, but such growth would no longer be displayed on the Blessing Panel.

9999 points was the limit the Blessing Panel could show, and Sakura had reached that limit as early as the second day of entering the Dungeon.

"Next, should we go to the Guild to submit new information? If we go now to change the registered level to Level 2, we can still make it to the Gathering of the Gods in half a month."

The so-called Gathering of the Gods was a meeting held once every three months, where a bunch of idle gods gathered to boast and have fun. One segment involved giving representative titles to the newly promoted Level 2 adventurers of each Familia.

For this reason, only gods whose Familias had Level 2 or higher Adventurers were qualified to attend. In the past, Hestia, with not a single member in her Familia, was at the very bottom among the gods of the lower world and naturally had no right to attend.

But now...

Looking at Seele and Sakura before her, Hestia couldn't help the corners of her mouth from curling up.

Who would've thought? This time, I've gotten the script for a loser's comeback!

Leveling up to Level 2 in four days—when that flat-chested Loki finds out, she'll probably pop her eyes out!

No, I can't get too cocky. I need to maintain my image in front of the kids.

"If we rush to change the registered Favor level, there's a good chance the Hestia Familia will be targeted by ill-intentioned people."

An Xiu said calmly.

Familiar with the plot, he knew that once they immediately went to the Guild to submit new registration info, the current Hestia Familia would almost certainly be targeted.

After all, in the original story, the protagonist Bell took a month to go from Level 1 to Level 2 and was coveted by the Apollo Familia. Now, with Seele and Sakura leveling up in just a few days, the situation would only be more dangerous.

But An Xiu wasn't suggesting that Seele and Sakura hide their progress.

Hell, what did it matter if someone coveted them? In the entire DanMachi world, unless the gods unsealed their divine power and acted personally, who could beat a fully unleashed Seele?

With absolute strength on their side, antagonists like the Apollo Familia from the original story were nothing more than delivery boys bringing riches.

So they would go to the Guild—not only go, but go openly.

Whether the Hestia Familia could move from the abandoned church to a big mansion depended entirely on when the Apollo Familia came to deliver.

"As long as you're confident."

After hearing An Xiu's plan and realizing that this man intended to turn the ill-intentioned into prey, Hestia didn't say much and simply nodded.

She wasn't worried about whether Seele and Sakura's strength was sufficient. Sakura aside, the life and death aura she had felt from Seele on the street that day—one that rivaled a god's authority—was no joke.

After all, on that day, to lure Hestia in, An Xiu had specifically told Seele and Sakura not to conceal their auras at all. Not only the gods who had descended from the heavens, but even Adventurers at the Level 6 hero level could probably sense that Seele and Sakura were no ordinary beings.

After successfully hooking Hestia, An Xiu had Seele and Sakura suppress their auras again. Unless it was a special god like Freya, who could see directly into a person's soul, ordinary gods could no longer detect anything unusual about them.

This was one of the reasons An Xiu was certain that after Seele and Sakura revealed their talent, someone would take the bait rather than be scared off.

"It's getting late today."

Glancing at the evening sky outside, Hestia spoke.

"We can go to the Guild tomorrow. Sakura and Seele, get some rest early."

In Hestia's eyes, Sakura and Seele were at an age where they were still growing. Exploring the Dungeon every day was already exhausting enough—they shouldn't stay up late.

However, An Xiu had a different opinion.

"Sakura, go rest first. Seele, come find me later."

Hearing this, Seele, who had been quietly sitting by the bed, nodded with a faint blush on her pretty face.

"Seele understands."

Seeing this, Hestia's eyes widened as she stood up indignantly.

"You beast! Are you going to ravage Seele again?!"

In fact, this scene had played out before Hestia more than once—it had been happening every day since she met An Xiu, Sakura, and Seele.

This bastard spent every day squandering the Valis that Seele and Sakura earned on food and fun, and at night, he made Seele, exhausted from a day of exploring the Dungeon, come serve him.

If it were an equal give-and-take, that would be one thing, but Hestia could see the relationship between the two was far from balanced—it was entirely An Xiu taking from Siri unilaterally.

Yet Hestia couldn't say much, because Siri was completely willing to be treated this way by the man named An Xiu.

So all she could do was curse him as a beast under her breath and silently ache with pity, unable to do anything else.

"Th-then, if you really have to do it, could you at least be gentle with Siri? I'm begging you."

Watching Siri obediently lean over and nestle into An Xiu's arms the moment he beckoned, Hestia spoke with extraordinary humility.

Chapter 108: Fastest Level-Up Record, Heading to Loki Familia

The next day, Siri and Sakura went to the Guild early in the morning to update their registration information.

By noon, a piece of news shocking countless people spread throughout all of Orario.

Back then, the fastest level-up record from Lv.1, set by the famous [Sword Princess] Ais Wallenstein of the Loki Familia, had been broken—and broken by two people at once.

What's more, it had been slashed from a full year down to just four days!

Such an absurd report made people wonder if the Guild had made a mistake, but the Guild repeatedly confirmed the information was accurate and even posted a Notice to that effect.

This move thoroughly solidified the truth of the news, since posting a Notice meant the Guild was staking its own reputation on it.

But precisely because of that, it made people question their own sanity even more.

"Just four days, and a newbie who only just received a God's Blessing has already reached Lv.2?"

"And two such people appeared at the same time?"

"What a joke—even the Sword Princess back then took a whole year!"

In an instant, the names Siri O'Flaherty and Sakura Kinomoto spread throughout all of Orario.

It wasn't that these people were overreacting; the news was simply too staggering.