The arena was lively just because Eiji's appearance got the women excited. He was even recommended by the captain of the Ganesha Familia.
Many of the men in the spectator seats were not happy, they bet their money on Eiji's opponent and hoped he would defeat him, and even embarrass him in front of everyone.
Ganesha now introduced the person who would be Eiji's opponent, his voice as loud as ever.
"LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! DON'T LOOK AWAY! EIJI'S OPPONENT IS KANO, A LEVEL 3 ADVENTURER FROM THE ANHUR FAMILIA KNOWN BY THE ALIAS BLOODY AXE!"
"WILL EIJI'S GOOD LOOKS BE ABLE TO WITHSTAND THE POWER OF KANO'S AXE FILLED WITH MONSTER BLOOD!?"
(A/N: In this OG plot, Eiji's opponents will be OC.)
Kano came forward with a huge axe dirty with monster blood from the dungeon, he didn't seem to have bothered to wash it. "Hoi, you seem to be using your appearance to seduce the captain of the Ganesha Familia so that you can come here. But after getting here, you can only rely on your power! Don't blame me for ruining your face."
He said that with a fierce smile as if he wanted to scare Eiji. But he meant what he said.
Even so, Eiji didn't bother dialoguing with an NPC. Under everyone's gaze, his originally golden eyes suddenly turned a deep dark color, with pupils that seemed to be bottomless black holes. Voracity energy began to seep out of his body like a hungry black mist.
It was true.
He decided to use his power as the Emanator of Voracity on this occasion.
Otherwise, what was the point of him having it?
The spectators froze, they could feel the cold and their goosebumps stood up just because of the aura Eiji released.
It was like an apex predator appeared in the center of the arena and would prey on anyone.
Even Ganesha was dumbfounded, he hadn't said anything yet, his words stuck in his throat.
"This aura... this seems unusual. What is this magic?" Shakti wondered with horror and awe in her eyes.
Kano who was standing closest to Eiji was certainly in a very bad situation, his fierce expression disappeared and was replaced with an expression of fear.
His body trembled, and he unconsciously took a step back. Although he tried not to be afraid of the man in front of him, his body did not follow his will.
'What's wrong?'
'Move, I must move!'
What he didn't know was that, in the presence of voracity energy, there weren't many people who were able to withstand fear and were unable to control their own bodies.
Eiji only extended one finger. On his fingertip, he shot a small energy bullet towards the weapon of the man in front of him. As soon as the axe iron touched the black energy released by Eiji, the weapon began to erode and vanish, as if eaten by something invisible.
"What?! My axe vanished?!"
Ignoring his opponent's shout, Eiji spoke to himself but his cold voice rang in everyone's ears and made them shudder.
"The universe is a big banquet... and you're just a flea that's not even enough of an appetizer for me."
Eiji snapped his fingers. Instantly, the space around his opponent warped. A manifestation of the Emanator of Voracity appeared—a giant mouth made of black shadow appeared under Kano's feet. Without having time to scream, the Level 3 adventurer was blown into the air as all his energy and strength seemed to be forcibly sucked out of his body, making him collapse instantly in a state of complete weakness.
"....." Silence fell in the arena filled with hundreds of spectators.
Demeter even covered her mouth with one of her hands.
Ganesha stood stiffly on the podium, his elephant mask almost slipping off. "I... I am Ganesha? No... what just happened?! The Kano Adventurer didn't even move! Level 3 was dropped like a bug in an instant! And Eiji...! He seems to be using magic without chanting at all!?"
The spectators gasped. Many started cheering and the entire arena chanted Eiji's name.
"Eiji! Eiji! Eiji!"
However, they also suddenly felt hungry and wanted to eat something. They didn't know it was a side effect of being close to the voracity energy.
And Eiji refrained of course. Otherwise, everyone around him would go crazy with hunger and would eat anything they saw.
Should he do it?
Of course not.
Among the spectators, there were Shakti and even Demeter. Eiji just realized the existence of the latter and blinked his eyes at her.
"Ara? Is he teasing me? Very attractive man." Demeter was surprised before giggling.
Just like the others, she was also amazed by the power Eiji showed. It was even capable of affecting a goddess like her.
For a moment, she doubted he was human.
Was he a god? But gods were forbidden from using their divine powers in the lower world.
This was why Demeter and Ganesha did not suspect Eiji was a god. Ouranos did not announce that Eiji was a different god from them.
In yesterday's conversation, although I didn't write it down, he even asked Eiji not to expose the fact that he could use his power freely as a god in the lower world, unless he was forced to do so. That was so that the other gods wouldn't make a big deal out of it and make trouble.
Ganesha adjusted the position of his mask before saying, "AWESOME! THE WINNER IS EIJI! WE HAVE JUST WITNESSED A POWER THAT... THAT TRANSCENDS LOGIC! BECAUSE I AM GANESHA!"
No, what does my power have to do with you being Ganesha?
Eiji shook his head, he opened his familia group chat and asked how his women were doing in the dungeon.
Although he was sure they would be fine, he still asked out of curiosity as to what floor they were on.
[Morgan: My husband, this is very easy. The monsters in this place are very weak, but it still gives me exp points and thanks to your Falna System, I can see my strength being increased in real-time.]
Inside the dungeon.
Morgan didn't bother to glance at her surroundings, she was staring at the message from her husband with a sweet smile. When the roars of monsters rang out, she simply waved one of her hands and instantly more than a dozen Silverbacks (Large monkey monsters covered in white fur with silver feathers in the center) were impaled on a hail of giant ice spikes that fell from the sky.
Not only them, the area they were in was covered in ice spikes. Morgan clearly didn't bother educating them and just unleashed an AOE-type attack at them.
[Artoria: We were on the 12th floor and killed every monster that was on the floor without any left. As Morgan said, we got a lot of exp points to boost our stats from killing these monsters... I felt like I was cheating.]
As expected of an honest King of Knights.
She even felt guilty for getting stronger so easily. Still, they had reached the 12th floor in less than three hours?
That speed could be considered fast because they even killed every monster on the floors they passed in order to gain exp points.
Other parties would take much longer just to reach more than ten floors.
[Scáthach: The higher the floor you go, the larger the area. Conquering an entire floor may take more than a day, or even several days.]
[Medusa: +1. I would also like to say the same thing as Scáthach, master.]
[Eiji: You all have done well. There's no need to conquer the entire floor in the dungeon and return within the allotted time.]
Seeing the message from their man, the women understood and would do as he said.
Their goal was not to quickly conquer the dungeon, but to increase their stats.
In the process, they must have met other adventurers and were amazed when they witnessed their power.
When asked which family they were from, they always replied that they were from the Seiya Family.
Back to the Colosseum.
Eiji was certainly pleased with the achievements of his women. This way, their family name would be known to more people and it would be easy for him to convince certain women to join his family in the future.
[So, you are doing all this so that you can more easily woo the women of this world, host?]
'That's right, Miss System.'
He didn't deny it.
Ganesha asked if he needed a break before continuing the match since the event was like a tournament.
Eiji casually said, "No need. Please continue the match immediately."
"Hahahaha! That's what Eiji said! We'll see his power again soon!" Ganesha laughed happily.
"Eiji! Eiji! Eiji!" The crowd cheered again and chanted his name.
Eiji suddenly found himself enjoying the cheers of the crowd quite a bit, he couldn't resist brushing his hair back like Aizen.
"Kyaaa!!! So handsome!"
"Eiji, I want to carry your child!"
Among the women, the amazonesses were the noisiest and their words were shocking.
However, he pretended not to hear them and glanced at the two amazonesses he knew for a moment.
They were also here?
"Nee, Tione. That super handsome guy just glanced at me, right? Is he in love with me!?"
"Tiona, you're narcissistic. He obviously glanced at my figure which is better than yours. Unfortunately, my heart already belongs to our captain, Finn."
"You...! Nonsense, he's clearly looking at me, not you!"
It was the Hiryute Sisters, they were the executive members of the Loki Familia.
Being bored and in need of entertainment, today the two women decided to watch a show organized by Ganesha Familia.
However, they did not expect the event to be more interesting than usual because of Eiji's appearance.
Tione glanced at her younger sister who seemed to have fallen in love with a helpless expression.
Although she had to admit that she didn't have Finn in her heart yet, she also wanted to bear the child of a man who was so handsome and strong like Eiji.
"Eiji's next opponent is Hogra, a Level 4 adventurer from the Agni Familia known for his absolute shield defense! The Iron Wall! Does Eiji's good looks and power also penetrate this iron wall?!"
Ganesha announced who Eiji's next opponent would be.
Soon, a man with a giant shield covered in reinforcing magic appeared on the other side of the arena. "I don't know what trick you used earlier, but Level 4 is in a different dimension. You won't be able to break through my defenses!"
"I don't want to say this to someone like you, but... Aren't you curious what my level is? Why do you think my level is lower than yours?"
Eiji asked several questions filled with logic.
Hogra was stunned and snorted with a mocking expression. "That's because of my eyesight! A man with your appearance must have worse power than a rough man like me."
[Heh, I can't tell if this male NPC is mocking himself or me. Well, that's quite entertaining.]
[You will also be my stepping stone.]
The heroines: "...."
Eiji didn't seem to consider his current interlocutor as a human.
Those who didn't know him well enough must think he was arrogant. But that's right, it's not wrong at all.
"Well, well... Then, let's test how strong your defenses are."
This time, Eiji walked towards his opponent calmly, his steps creating black ripples on the ground.
He unleashed the power of his Voracity again. One of his hands turned into a shadowy claw that emitted dark energy. As Hogra raised his shield, Eiji just touched the metal edge. Instantly, the strengthening magic on the shield was sucked away, followed by the metal which began to crack and crumble like a dry biscuit.
The large object also began to be eroded by voracity energy and was eaten away.
Hogra widened his eyes. "Impossible... my shield just vanished!?"
"What are you going to do next?" Asked Eiji while standing right in front of his opponent, there was a faint smile on his handsome face.
From Hogra's point of view, that smile was very creepy and his body shook violently.
He was unable to speak as if the person in front of him was a predator baring its fangs and ready to eat him at any moment.
Eiji gave a light push to the body of the man in front of him with one hand. Instantly, pure physical power slammed into Hogra, throwing him away. The big man's figure flew at supersonic speed and crashed into the arena wall unconscious.
The spectators and Ganesha again fell silent as the battle quickly came to an end.
"Level 4 was even defeated so easily!!! What exactly is Eiji's level? Someone must be strong enough to reveal his secret! BECAUSE I AM GANESHA!"
Ganesha posed exaggeratedly when saying that.
"OOOOOHHHHH!!" The spectators exclaimed loudly.
Of course, many of them also mentioned Eiji's name as if he was their idol.
"Next." Eiji said with a flat expression, his gaze often falling on Shakti and Demeter.
The former often blushed when that happened and the latter became increasingly interested in him.
A while later.
The final round began.
"THIS IS IT! THE PINNACLE OF ALL PINNACLES! THE FINAL BATTLE OF THE DAY! Eiji's final opponent is Goro, a Level 5 adventurer from Kahn Familia!"
Goro entered the arena with a menacing aura. He looked a bit like Ottar, but had disheveled blonde hair and huge muscles.
He looked at Eiji with an expressionless face and spoke in a deep voice. "You... you're very strong. I know that, but I won't give up."
"You have a better personality than the previous guys. I'm giving you the opportunity to attack first."
Hearing what Eiji said, Goro was not angry and happily did as he said. With the big sword in his hand, he moved as fast as Level 5. He swung his sword at the man in front of him, but Eiji defended using the Path of Voracity.
Goro's attacks came closer but were never able to reach him due to the dark aura around him. The man continued to attack, but instead made his own energy weak, as if the space around Eiji was a giant stomach that absorbed his opponent's energy.
Eiji then raised one hand to the sky. "Ouroboros Hunger."
A giant black vortex appeared and covered the entire sky above the arena.
The sight made the entire spectators feel horrified, some of them even fainted.
Goro tried to hold on with all his strength, but he felt his soul being forcefully pulled away. The pillar of dark energy descending from the black vortex in the sky didn't help either, it pressed down on Goro's body until the ground beneath his feet shattered into pieces.
Not only that, all his energy was drained until his muscles shrank and he fainted like Eiji's previous opponents.
"..." Everyone.
No one had ever seen a Level 5 adventurer defeated so easily by another adventurer.
From start to finish, Eiji also used his magic in a way that wasn't the same as other mages.
Many of them looked at Eiji as if he was a monster.
When the sky returned to normal, Ganesh jumped to the center of the arena. "WITH THIS... WE HAVE A NEW CHAMPION! A MAN WHO IS NOT ONLY EXTREMELY HANDSOME, BUT ALSO EXTREMELY STRONG AND OF A MYSTERIOUS LEVEL! OUR CHAMPION IS... EIJI!"
After a moment of silence, the crowd erupted in cheers. "EIJI! EIJI! EIJI!"
"Yare-yare." Eiji said.
With this, not only Shakti. From Leme, he knew many beautiful women in the original work were like being mesmerized by him.
Their positivity level increased drastically.
After all, who are the women who don't like extremely handsome and strong men in the fantasy world?
Not all of them, but in reality there are only a few of them.
"BY THE WAY!" Ganesha walked up to him and pointed at him in a strange pose. "FOR OUR CHAMPION THIS TIME, I HAVE ALSO DECIDED ON AN ALIAS! BECAUSE I AM GANESHA!"
Alias? Eiji raised his eyebrows, this was the first time he had heard of such a thing.
Of course, he knew adventurers in the Danmachi world generally earned an official alias or nickname approved by the Gods and Goddesses when they achieved an outstanding achievement recognized by the Orario Guild, often coinciding with a level up or after performing a prominent act of heroism.
But winning a tournament like this was also included?
"Eiji, your alias is..."
Ganesha said with a dramatic pause.
Eiji looked at the man with a faint smile, he hoped he didn't give him an ugly or silly alias.
Otherwise, he might have to change everyone's memory here about that and give himself an alias.
"THE EXECUTOR! THE WAY HE DEFEATS HIS OPPONENTS IN NO TIME AND HIS POWER THAT HAS NO KNOWN LIMITS... HE IS THE EXECUTOR!"
Hearing this, the spectators chanted the alias Ganesha gave Eiji.
Eiji blinked his eyes a few times.
Was the alias Ganesha had given him bad?
Actually no, it wasn't too bad.
[Just admit that you quite like that alias, host.]
"Miss System, I'm not a tsundere."
[Really?]