Sleep hit Bell the moment he laid his head on the pillows.
_______Next Morning_________
The next moment he opened his eyes was in the morning, his body well rested and full of energy, the weakness from before gone like it never existed.
He looked at the dry clothes of his, folded on the bedside besides him, and quickly slipped into them.
Bell walked to a table set with hot dishes after freshening up and saw Goddess Astraea waiting for him, ready at the table to eat.
He slipped casually into the chair opposite to her and started to eat a simple servings of scrambled eggs and bread after greeting her with a good morning.
After they finished a quit breakfast together, in comfortable silence. Goddess Astraea finally spoke after putting their dishes away.
"Child, I've thought about what you told me last night, and after thinking about it for most of the night, I've come to a decision." Astraea spoke with a serious tone.
"If the lower world is really in danger as you say...then no matter what, I have a duty to help you as a Goddess Of Justice," Astraea continued to speak, her voice now more determined.
Goddess Astraea had thought all of these things through the night before, her personal problems and preferences had to take a back seat when it came to something as dire as saving the lower world.
"So, Bell Cranel, please join my Familia." Goddess Astraea spoke seriously while starting to bow her head towards him.
"No....No, Goddess, there is no need to bow to me, I'd be delighted to join your Familia, so please don't bow to me, you're making me feel weird." Bell hurriedly stopped her over the table, stopping her from bowing to him while feeling bittersweet inside.
After some twists and turns, he had finally secured a place into her Familia, finally accomplishing the main reason of coming to Solingen.
Bell felt he'd finally reached the starting line, still very far from those Level 5 monsters, but at least it was progress.
"Bell, let's grant you a Falna then, since you're ready and I'm ready, let's not delay and engrave my Falna on your back." Goddess Astraea was not one to dawdle or doubt after she made a decision.
"Come, take off your tunic and lay on your front, on the bed." Goddess Astraea spoke while walking towards the kitchenette nearby to fetch a small needle to draw blood.
Bell complied without any objections, taking off his tunic, while lying down on the bed, bare back facing the ceiling.
Astraea came back with a needle, gently pricked her finger, and let a drop of divine blood bleed from the small wound.
She smeared her blood across Bell's unrefined back, allowing his body to absorb the essence of a God.
The Godly blood slowly sank into Bell's body, forming the unique tattoo of twin scales, marking him as a part of Astraea Familia.
Primordial letters wrapped around the tattoo, a soft glow radiating from them. His personal status now being engraved.
[Name: Bell Cranel
Attributes -
Strength: 0 [I]
Endurance: 0 [I]
Dexterity: 0 [I]
Agility: 0 [I]
Magic: 0 [I]
Magic:
Skills:
Eight Handled Wheel -
Adaptation to any and all ph*n*m*na]
Astraea was startled by the skills section of the Falna, never having seen something which could even block a God's Falna.
She wordlessly copied his Falna on a sheet of paper and handed it to him, feeling incredulous inside, since she had experience with granting Falna to a large number of people yet had never seen someone with such a unique skill section.
Eight Handled Wheel? Adaptation? To any and all....Phenomena.....I guess?
But how will it work? Any restrictions or limits?
As far as she knew from her experience, the less description an ability has, the more powerful and strong it is.
It was probably even stronger than Alise's [Lubrude Bequia] which increased her stats by a large amount when in combat, raised her endurance and dexterity stats by a large amount in the face of adversity, and raised her agility and magic stats by a large amount when she fought against a powerful opponent. When all three conditions were met, it further increased her strength, agility, and magic stats slightly in proportion to the duration.
Bell turned around and looked at the stat sheet she offered and nearly had his eyes pop out of his sockets.
He really wanted to cry.....so he really had a cheat, that too one so broken that it was really unfair and overpowered.
Bell even had the urge to mourn and burn incense for his future enemies in glee.
Mahoraga's Eight Handled Wheel....Adaptability to any and all phenomena. From Jujutsu Kaisen.
So, the incessant sound of a wheel turning in his mind earlier, was coming from it.
No wonder.....No wonder.
Just thinking about the Wheel working alongside his memories from all over fiction was enough for Bell to even laugh in his sleep.
Bell put on his tunic after Goddess Astraea locked his Falna.
"Bell, your skill is really vague, but just by the bits I can understand, It's a very special and unique skill, so you have to make sure about not sharing it with anyone else, alright?" Goddess Astraea was happy for him, yet spoke with seriousness and caution.
"I've kept your advice in mind Goddess Astraea." Bell reassured with calm tone, already having decided to not even tell the air about his wheel.
Bell felt his confidence gain a huge boost from it.
After all, this was the Wheel which indirectly turned Gojo into Go/jo.
Just think about it.
Black Dragon.
Black/Dragon.