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It took a while for Naaza to regain her bearings at my offer. After all, what I did offer, was a premium sales location, free access to materials needed for potion creation and fifty percent profit on the potions themselves.
The amount of valis she would make then would blow what she was making now out of the water and off into the horizon never to be seen again.
I left not long after she did go back to normal. She was all for the offer, but needed to run it by Miach first.
And before all that, I needed to see about getting that store in Babel Tower. And I would need to rely on Hestia using her friendship with Hephaestus for that.
That would be something to discuss with her tonight.
For now though, it was time for me to put into action what prompted me to buy mind potions in the first place.
Once I left the Blue Pharmacy, I made my way through Daedulus Street and down into an empty alleyway.
Once I was there, I stopped and took a deep breath, before focusing. Moments later, thick crystal plate armour formed over my body, not only over my feet and arms like before, but this time, forming into a full set of body armour that covered me from head to toe.
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When I finished, I almost toppled over, my head feeling a bit light. 'Nearly hit mind down.' I grimaced.
Despite my magic stat now being in the D-tier, it took pretty much everything I had to form this set of armour.
Exactly why I bought mind potions in the first place.
I popped the face guard on the full crystal helmet open and wasted no time in downing one of the mind potions. It wasn't the nicest tasting out there, almost like a mint that had gone off, but I breathed a sigh of relief as I felt my magic reserves fill back up by nearly a half.
And then I downed another bringing me back to full magical capacity. 'Three left.' I noted.
That should do me well enough.
I grinned as I looked myself over. It was a bit rough, but it looked good. Shiny and impressive looking and would draw many an eye. "Free advertisement, heh." I chuckled.
I was confident and cocky, not stupid.
Any singular monster I come across, won't be a problem for the floors I'm going to. But Killer Ant's could be a problem. They could form swarms of hundreds thanks to their pheromone generation ability.
They were known as the rookie killer. They tended to kill more early adventurers than any other monster.
With this armour of mine, even if that many formed, they would have a hell of a time actually damaging me.
"Now let's go have a party." I grinned excitedly and made my way out of the ally, my crystal blue armour gleaming brightly under the shining sunlight as I did.
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As I suspected, on my way to the dungeon, I stood out a bunch. People stopped and stared, and other adventurers around me, mostly the lower levelled ones like myself stared on enviously.
After all, while my armour was free to me, it looked extra super duper expensive.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if some Soma Familia members tried to shake me down in the dungeons or an alleyway or something.
As it was, I just grinned and basked in the staress. After all, if I'm gonna make the Hestia Familia the best and greatest of all Familia's, I've got to bring in that reputation.
They'll see a newbie familia, with a newbie captain equipped with this epic gear and then my exploits will spread and people will want to join.
Not that I'm going to allow the standard scrub to get into the Familia. There's tons of trashy bastards around here after all. And even then, I'm not really interested in the familia growing too large and being full of absolute nobodies who I couldn't even remember the names of.
The decent ones, I'll shunt off to the Miach Familia. If my plan works out, they'll be more or less subordinate familia to the Hestia Familia, treated more like treasured allies, but there will be no contest on which Familia has the power in the relationship.
Though, that is the big plan, who knows if it will actually pan out like that.
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My first stop in the dungeon was the first floor.
That was kind of obvious really since everybody had to pass through there to get to the deeper floors.
But, what I meant was that instead of going straight down, I took a leisurely walk through the first floor, checking every nook and cranny and made my way towards the first floor pantry where the spawned monsters came to eat.
Along the way, I tore through dozens of goblins and kobolds that burst out of the walls in an attempt to kill me.
Not that they could. They were incapable of harming me while in my armour. Despite how hard the crystal was, it had a surprising flexibility to it and even the armour joints weren't weak at all, so there wasn't really any point of the set of armour where it was weakest.
…Well except the face guard when I lifted it up and the open visor for my eyes.
"I really need a supporter." I mused, tossing the last of the magic crystals I'd torn from the slain monsters bodies up into the air and catching it between my teeth, before biting down and shattering it, swallowing the shards.
Cutting the magic stones out myself was hella tedious.
'It's not like I've not tried though.' I sighed, continuing on my way towards the pantry. I've been keeping my eye out for Lili, but I've not caught sight of her at all.
I want her, it's that simple. Not only because she was a hot little midget that could switch her appearance on the fly, but also because I want to pick her brain about her skill.
Artel Assist.
A skill that compensated for the weight of items the user was carrying. If I had that, I would be able to carry heavy objects with less strain and it would make even large powerful weapons much more wieldable.
'And it would help a hell of a lot with armour as well.' I mentally noted. Despite all the benefits this armour provided.
It was incredibly heavy. Way heavier than standard metal I'd say at that.
I was already beginning to breathe heavily.
A minute or so later I arrived at my destination. The pantry. I'd actually been spending quite a bit of time around here the last few days and checking in every so often.
I was looking for something specific.
My eyes scanned the wide open room that was the pantry. It looked like little more than a wide dark cavern space, except for the large quartz pillar at the end of the room secreting a dark liquid that flowed down forming into a large sticky puddle.
A large sticky puddle that had dozens of monsters, goblin and kobold alike gathered around it, bent down and feeding from.
And a golden feathered rooster that seemed totally out of place.
Huh.
I blinked slowly for a moment. That was what I was looking for. Had been for a while. Since my first trip into the dungeon actually.
A Jack Bird.
…I just wasn't expecting it to be here. Hoped for it and checked in just in case, but wasn't at all expecting it.