After reaching a Divine Wine supply agreement with Soma and joining forces with the Ganesha Familia to carry out a great purge of its internal members...
Levi returned to the Hestia Familia residence.
However, he did not impatiently begin the subsequent advancement of the magic 'Heaven's Feel (Fragment).'
If his deductions within his consciousness space were correct, once the improved version of the Third Magic for the DanMachi world was completed, it was highly likely that he would acquire certain characteristics of a deity.
At that time, the Dungeon might frantically block his entry, just as it did against the gods.
If it merely spawned some Floor Boss-level Pitch-black monsters to stop him, that would be fine; he could simply treat it as accumulating Feats for the other members of the Hestia Familia.
But if it went a step further and birthed an Assassin of the Gods comparable to the Three Great Quests in the unexplored Deep Floors...
Although Levi now stood at the very apex of Orario's adventurers, he was not yet ready to clash head-on with a monster on the level of the One-Eyed Black Dragon.
Moreover, his Development Ability 'Luck' had not yet risen to Rank C. When the exchange shop's inventory refreshed next month, there was a not-insignificant probability that the Law Crystals he held on hand would fail to pull the 'Hōgyoku' he currently needed most.
Combining all these factors, the advancement of the Third Magic clearly needed to be put on hold for a while.
Of course, this did not mean Levi would idle away the coming days.
Previously, because he wanted to accumulate Feats for leveling up to Lv.6, he had been suppressing the improvement of his Ability Stats at Lv.5.
Now that the external miscellaneous matters were temporarily resolved, naturally, he could no longer drag his feet on this.
Inside the training ground.
Behind the young man with short pale-gold hair, seven beams of light connected head to tail, shifting from intangible to tangible.
It was impressively the 6-star magic 'Seven-Colored Divine Light,' which Levi had compiled using the skill 'Chakra Semi-Ancestor.'
In the next instant, seven types of elemental energy—Pyro, Hydro, Anemo, Electro, Geo, Cryo, and Dendro—condensed within his body.
They spread rapidly, flowing through his limbs and bones, and finally collided and crashed together, forming various Elemental Reactions unique to the world of Genshin.
Burning, Frozen, Vaporize, Overloaded, Bloom...
For Levi, whose physique had now reached the upper tier of Lv.6 (the Tenacity of the Millelith artifact set would be temporarily removed when strengthening attributes), the tempering effect of a single Elemental Reaction was actually very weak.
But he could not withstand more than a dozen reactions appearing simultaneously.
Even he had to stop the infusion of elemental energy every dozen seconds or so and pour a mouthful of Panacea into his mouth.
Only in this way could he ensure that his physical body would not be torn apart by the surging elements rolling within him.
In a certain aspect, Orario's Falna system could be effectively viewed as a 'Heaven Rewards Diligence' system where once verified, it remains forever.
It was just that every increase in strength required a deity's help to update.
Levi, however, could bypass this step because of the cheat he had awakened.
Thus, when the first hour of tempering ended, the Strength, Endurance, Dexterity, and Agility on his status panel directly increased by 300+ points. Magic, due to his higher potential ability value, only increased by less than 220 points.
The second hour, the magnitude of improvement remained unchanged.
The third hour was the same.
Then came the fourth hour, the fifth hour, the sixth hour...
After all, the 'Seven-Colored Divine Light' was a magic Levi had written himself. Unlike a Vision where the elemental output limit was fixed, if he wished, he could exhaust all 7000 points of accumulated elemental energy in one breath every time he tempered his body.
But if he really did that, there was a high probability that Levi wouldn't be able to withstand a blow comparable to the upper tier of Lv.9, or even Lv.10.
He would inevitably turn into a small mushroom cloud, his blood splattering on the spot.
That being said, every time his attribute values welcomed an increase, he would secretly adjust the output ratio of the elemental energy upwards, until it bordered on the limit his physical body could endure.
As the price, the 300-plus bottles of Panacea in his Inventory were cleared out in the blink of an eye.
Converted into Valis, it was equivalent to burning through 200 million.
After the Panacea was exhausted, Levi changed his recovery method to a three-axe combo technique: 'White Grail' + 'Sage Art: Salvation from Misery' + 'Strongest Special Blend.'
Its efficiency was a bit worse than Panacea, but it was barely usable.
By the time the sky grew dark and the moon rose above the branches.
Levi, standing in the center of the training ground, exhaled a breath of turbid air and slowly opened his eyes.
After a full day of elemental tempering, the Strength, Endurance, Dexterity, and Agility on his status panel had all risen to the limit of the current stage, which was 2499 points.
Magic was still lacking quite a bit, only at 1600+.
However, Levi had saved quite a few 'Proficiency Increase Tickets' from his previous gacha pulls. Although they couldn't raise an attribute from 0 to the limit in one breath, they were completely sufficient to make up the difference.
Then, with a snap.
The path of Lv.5, which other adventurers would need years, or even more than a decade or several decades to finish, had consumed less than a day of Levi's time in total.
Next, as long as he could gather the Feats, he could level up directly to Lv.6.
However, achieving this goal was already extremely difficult for other adventurers.
For Levi, it was a challenge akin to hell level.
Accompanying the further growth of his Ability Stats, his base combat power could already stably maintain the standard of the upper tier of Lv.7.
Calculating Magic at 999 points per level for other adventurers, he had just stepped into Lv.8.
If he further combined it with 'Mana Burst,' as well as magic or skill buffs like 'Cold Edge Martial Arts' and 'Lightning Arcanum (Fragment),' it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say he could run directly to challenge the Pitch-black Balor.
But that guy had already been summoned and eliminated once before.
Given the Dungeon's gestation speed, he would have to wait at least half a year to see it again.
During this period, Levi certainly wouldn't mark time in place.
It was even possible that due to the Third Magic, he would never be able to enter the Dungeon again.
As for other potential monsters reaching Lv.9...
There were definitely none in the Labyrinth City (Side note: actually there are, Levi just doesn't know). The final boss of the Great Tree Sea had been solved, so there was only one left in the last remaining secret realm—the Dragon's Valley.
—The One-Eyed Black Dragon.
But that guy's level was at least Lv.10. Running to challenge it with a Lv.8 body...
That wouldn't be called acquiring Feats; it would be suicide.
However, if the 'Hōgyoku' he planned to acquire next truly possessed the ability to break boundaries as described...
Thoughts flashed through his mind, and Levi narrowed his eyes.
As an adult, he naturally couldn't put all his eggs in one basket.
If the Hōgyoku could break through the Falna level limits, that would be best. Conversely, he would need to compile another magic comparable to the 'Spirit's Six Rings.'
As for the train of thought, Levi actually already had one.
The reason the 'Spirit's Six Rings' could instantly kill the Pitch-black Balor by skipping nearly two levels back then was that it used a magic circle to gather mana equivalent to seven of himself as the power source for the magic.
This was the so-called overcoming skill with brute force.
But clearly, without activating the Possession state, he could under no circumstances release that much magic power.
Under limit conditions, he could only reach one-quarter of the output.
The deficit had to be made up using skill buffs or Development Abilities.
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