What Exactly Did They Do?

Just today, before Leo went out, Raul told Leo something.

"Our Chief God is looking for you. Go see her when you come back tonight."

Heaven have mercy, Leo hasn't seen that scoundrel Chief God for a full ten days.

The other party is either hungover or on their way to hangover every day. In addition, Leo is now so addicted to the Dungeon that he can't get out. He goes out at dawn and doesn't come back until dark. And when he comes back, he basically washes up and goes straight to bed and falls into a baby-like sleep. As a result, Leo hasn't seen his own Chief God for the past ten days, making him wonder if he has been forgotten by that lousy Chief God.

Fortunately, the other party finally remembered him; it was truly a rare occurrence.

In light of this, Leo quickened his pace to get home. By the time he returned to the Twilight Manor, there were still some sunset clouds in the sky, which was much earlier than his usual routine of returning home after it was completely dark.

At this time, the Twilight Manor seemed rather deserted, with hardly anyone in sight.

When Leo entered the courtyard, the blonde, golden-eyed girl was not there waiting for him as usual.

"Are you eating at a restaurant at this time?"

Leo could roughly guess what the members of the Familia were doing.

According to Loki's personal opinion, since they are all family members of the same clan, they should all eat together. Therefore, Loki Familia's breakfast and dinner would only begin after all the members except those on patrol had arrived.

Perfect timing, it's dinnertime now.

Therefore, the large restaurant in the Twilight Manor must be packed with dozens of group members by now, and incredibly lively, right?

Leo rarely went there. After all, he was just a trainee member before. Even the members responsible for patrolling and guarding had their meal times separated. As a trainee member in charge of logistics, he naturally rarely had the opportunity to go to the main dining hall. Usually, other people would bring him food.

Now he's a full member of the group, but he gets up earlier than the chickens and goes home later than the dogs. He just grabs a quick breakfast and dinner outside, so he hasn't been to a fancy restaurant even once in these ten days.

"Ais probably at the restaurant right now?"

After thinking for a moment, Leo went back to his room first, unloaded all his weapons, armor, and supplies, changed into casual clothes, and then went to the Central Tower, arriving at the Divine Room on the top floor.

"I'm Leo, may I come in?"

Leo's knocking and greeting had barely begun when a horrible Kansai accent came from inside.

"Come in, come in, we've just gotten back."

Hearing this rather frivolous voice, Leo pushed open the door and went inside.

"You're back pretty early today, aren't you? Were you already looking forward to it, you little rascal?"

This time, Loki wasn't fast asleep with a bottle of liquor in his arms. Instead, he sat in a chair, legs crossed, leaning back on the bed in a very arrogant posture, picking his teeth with a wooden skewer in his hand.

Leo suppressed the urge to complain and sat down in front of Loki.

"After all, my Chief God only just remembered me after a long time, so I have to come back as soon as possible, right?"

Leo's words brought a half-smile to Loki's face.

"I haven't forgotten you, you brat. It's just that you haven't come to see me yet," Loki said pointedly. "I thought you'd been eager to come and update your stats the very day you received this Falna, but—"

Goodness, you actually dragged this out for ten days! You've got real patience. If we hadn't called you over, were you planning to keep running Dungeon with zero proficiency in all your abilities?

This isn't just Loki making things up.

Although she's unreliable, she still cares about her family, and she's been paying close attention to Leo, this special person, otherwise she wouldn't have known that Leo was coming back earlier than usual.

Loki knew basic information about Leo's daily routine, such as when he left and when he returned, which showed that she hadn't forgotten Leo; she just hadn't waited for Leo to come looking for her.

She truly hadn't expected that Leo, a Lower World who had just received Falna, would be able to resist the urge to become stronger and refuse to come to her to update his ability values.

Even if she's not home sometimes, if Leo wanted to find her, surely he wouldn't be unable to find her for ten whole days?

What does this tell us?

This shows that this kid is really not in a hurry at all!

Loki was truly impressed by Leo after seeing this.

"It's unbelievable that you've dared to spend ten days in the Dungeon in your current state, leaving early and returning late every day. Don't you really want to get stronger?"

Loki asked curiously.

"Of course I want to get stronger," Leo said without changing his expression. "But since not updating my stats for now won't affect my experience points, I'll just train a little longer in my current state. You can't rush these things."

"Wow, pretty insightful, lad." Loki tossed aside the small wooden stick in his hand, looked at Leo, and sighed, "If only Ais had your mindset, we parents wouldn't have to worry about her doing anything reckless when we can't see her."

That blonde, golden-eyed female swordswoman was exceptionally obsessed with becoming stronger. Even on her days off after returning from expeditions, she would go into Dungeon to kill monsters, returning each day looking disheveled, which caused Loki, Riveria, and the others a lot of worry.

"Is she still around?" Leo was taken aback, and asked in surprise, "I thought she had behaved herself a lot lately and hadn't been causing trouble like before."

Lately, Leo has been seeing Ais practicing her sword in the courtyard every day before he leaves, and she's also waiting for him when he returns, leading him to believe that Ais hasn't been going out much these days.

"Hmph, that's because you didn't see it," Loki said irritably. "Lately, Ais has been leaving shortly after you go out and not returning until shortly before you come back."

Upon hearing this, Leo fell silent.

He had no idea that Ais always left right after him, and would even return before him.

Was she doing it on purpose?

"I don't know what's so great about you that makes our Ais so attached to you," Loki said huffily. "Let's get this straight, Ais is mine. If you dare try to take her from me, you'd better watch out when you walk alone at night."

As he said this, Loki picked up the box of needles next to him and lazily spoke as he took out the needles.

"Alright, turn around and take off your shirt. We want to see what kind of mess you've made of yourself in these past ten days."

Hearing this, Leo suppressed his chaotic thoughts, turned around, took off his shirt, and revealed his back.

Loki was quick and efficient; with one needle, a drop of blood immediately seeped from his fingertip and dripped onto Leo's back, causing ripples to slowly spread across Leo's back, like the surface of a lake.

Soon after, a clown emblem appeared, revealing Leo's previously locked stats.

Then, Loki injected the needle again, squeezing out a second drop of blood, which was dripped onto Leo's back, causing Leo's stats to glow faintly.

One by one, Divine Script floated out as if floating, falling into Loki's eyes.

Loki stretched out his fingers and traced, altered, and wrote on these Divine Script.

"Wow, I've certainly accumulated quite a few experience points."

Loki's somewhat cheerful voice rang out.

"Extract all these experience points, turn them into nourishment for growth, and then make some changes—"

"Okay, that's about right."

"Let's see, your abilities have improved—"

Loki stopped talking abruptly after that.

Not only was there no sound, but there was also no movement. Leo could even feel Loki's fingers frozen on his back, as if completely frozen in place.

"What's wrong?"

Leo turned his head, somewhat puzzled, and looked at Loki.

Leo took in Loki's dumbfounded expression, which made him freeze in place.

"----how so?"

This usually unreliable and unserious Chief God was now completely stunned, his usually squinting eyes wide open as if he had seen a ghost, and his face was contorted in shock.

"What exactly happened?"

Seeing Loki open even his squinty eyes, Leo's heart skipped a beat, and he became nervous.

Is there something wrong with my stats again?

Thinking about that inexplicable special skill, Leo was genuinely worried that something might be wrong with his stats again.

"What have you been doing for the past ten days?"

Loki finally came to his senses, looking at Leo with trembling eyes, even stuttering.

They looked as if Leo was the god and Loki was just a mortal, perfectly demonstrating what it means to have met a god.

"I didn't do anything," Leo frowned, hesitatingly saying, "I was just exploring the Dungeon normally, is there anything wrong with that?"

"Heh." Loki smirked, revealing a smile more like a grimace, and said, "Normal exploration of Dungeon? You call this kind of growth rate normal exploration? Normal exploration my ass!"

Loki's voice involuntarily grew louder, as if he were about to go mad.

"What growth rate? Tell me about it!"

Leo was almost intimidated by the other party's performance, and his heart couldn't help but jump.

"Take a look for yourself!"

Loki opened his mouth, then closed it again, looking like he wanted to say something but hesitated, and finally gave up explaining. He quickly copied Leo's ability values onto parchment, translated them into Common Language, and threw it in Leo's face.

Leo quickly caught it and looked up.

Leo was stunned when he saw it.

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Leo Eligos Lv.1

Strength: 10 → D557

Durability:10→E496

Dexterity: I0→D581

Agility: 10 → C644

Demonic Power: 10 → B752