Chapter 1039: Chapter 784: Prewar Announcement
"You’re not cutting it, kiddo Reiger."
In the divine chamber, Loki sucked on her freshly pricked, bleeding finger, giggling all the while.
"It’s been two months since you leveled up, two months, and your overall skill proficiency hasn’t increased by 2000. This growth rate absolutely doesn’t live up to your [Limit Breaker] reputation, does it?"
Hearing this, Reiger, throwing a translated parchment into the fire and putting on his shirt, couldn’t help but roll his eyes at Loki.
"And what do you think is the reason for that?" Reiger replied irritably, "Isn’t it because the Familia needs to handle the artificial labyrinth conquest, leaving me no time to properly accumulate experience?"
Since reaching Lv.8, Reiger has continued to explore the artificial labyrinth Knossos with the Familia, and subsequently, in line with Familia’s directives, constantly searched for entrances to the artificial labyrinth in the underground city.
During this time, Reiger did experience several major battles, such as the confrontation with the Galli Familia outside the city gates and the incident in Fengyue Street, but although these seemed eventful, in reality, to Reiger, now at Lv.8, they weren’t particularly challenging.
In other words, these events failed to provide Reiger with much experience.
Hence, after two months, Reiger’s overall ability proficiency had improved by less than 2000.
Of course, that was actually quite fast already.
For other Lv.8s, such growth in just two months would be utterly impossible.
At Lv.8, ordinary training and battles no longer yield significant experience.
The battles and events Reiger experienced only brought this level of growth when applied to him; placed onto someone like Ota, also at Lv.8, it might not even be enough for one basic ability to break through to level I.
Reiger was able to raise "Strength" and "Endurance" to tier F, and "Dexterity", "Agility", and "Magic Power" to tier E, nearing the lowest leveling-up requirement where one basic ability must reach tier D, thanks largely to the exceptional growth speed granted by the [Fool’s Obsession].
Besides, the full concentration state of Sun Breathing, akin to the sword techniques of the Akasha continent, allowed mana circulation and bodily honing, keeping Reiger in a perpetually refining state, elevating proficiency in all abilities round-the-clock.
This is why Reiger could achieve such growth without undergoing noteworthy adventures.
So, regarding his growth this time, Reiger was actually fairly satisfied.
Loki, naturally, was well aware of this.
But she just wanted to tease Reiger.
No helping it.
"This main goddess is forced to act like a mascot on that boring battlefield daily without a drop to drink, and there you are, not only causing trouble now and then but constantly running around with our Ais, so much that even Rephia’s been tricked into following you almost every day, how’s that fair?"
Loki took a hefty swig from a wine bottle, grumbling as if harboring a great sense of imbalance.
"I see, you’re just slacking off, lazy! If you have time to flirt with cute girls, why not use it for adventure, you’d definitely have achieved more than your current growth."
That’s indeed the case, if Reiger hadn’t been constantly rushed off his feet and, like before, ventured into the ultra-deep levels with his true power sealed, battling endless monsters, he would surely have grown quicker.
However...
"Didn’t I tell you? Due to the artificial labyrinth, I haven’t had a moment’s breather."
Reiger was speechless.
What do you mean by flirting?
Where was he flirting?
Sure, during this period, he indeed always moved alongside Ais and often with Rephia tagging along, making them practically a fixed little team heading anywhere together, but they weren’t playing around, they had official business to attend to.
Unfortunately, facing this sulking trickster goddess, Reiger realized that reasoning with her was futile.
Thus, Reiger changed the subject.
"You didn’t drag me here just to check my growth progress and slip in a few jabs, did you?"
Reiger cast a suspicious glance at Loki.
"What if I did, what about it?" Loki retorted, a bit huffily, "Can’t a god (parent) even say a few words to you? Kids these days, none listen anymore, guess it’s that rebellious phase, huh?"
Hearing this, Reiger didn’t respond, just stared straight at Loki until her expression grew a bit unnatural.
"...Alright, alright, I did want to discuss something with you."
After several tens of seconds, Loki couldn’t help it anymore and started grumbling.
"Seriously, kids these days are getting less and less cute."
After mumbling for a bit, Loki finally got to the point.
"You’ve made it public you’ve reached Lv.6 two months ago, right?"
The remark slightly startled Reiger.
"Precisely 60 days." Reiger nodded, "Why?"
"Oh, nothing." Loki chuckled, "Just wondering if you’re ready to announce you’ve reached Lv.7?"