Leveling up wasn't as simple as just reag the hreshold of strength like in video games despite what the falna shows. It was a very literal refi and evolution to a higher existehis meant all parts of a person are enhanced and made inter forms of themselves. That included whatever type of energy you used for yic stat whi my case was cursed energy. This was also why the same magic showed wildly different power after one leveled up. Simply put the fuel for this magic had improved and so the effect of the magic itself also improved.-

  After leveling up my cursed energy had also beore pure and refined so I was able to do more with less. There was ohing though that bothered me ever since I got my falna, a detail that felt off.

  {Heavenly restri: In exge for the ability to wield mana and magie gains access to cursed energy and cursed teiques.}

  At first ghis description has nothing wrong with it or out of pce if you looked at it from the perspective of this world but that ged with my knowledge from earth. Teiques, as in more thahat one word bothered me as from what I knew of from Jujutsu Kaisen you got ONE cursed teique and that was it. But this very specific w on my skill made me think that just maybe I could be the exception to this rule. The trick was that I simply had no clue how I would even begin to uand how to aplish this if it was true. I wasn't like everyone else with the falna who could naturally ma new spells when they leveled up or use a grimoire to force the process.-

  Or could I? It dawned ohat I holy didn't know how a grimoire would effect me. It could in fact work perfectly fine and simply cause a eique to appear or it could be like my first drink of mana potion where I was gambling with my life. Grimoires were meant t forth magi an individual which was based in mana that was a higher form of energy than cursed energy. I had a theory that before I could even attempt to use a grimoire I should raise my cursed energy to match at very least the normal mana of a level one.-

  I wasn't sure when that would be possible but I assumed when I could e an undiluted lesser mana potion without risk that I had reached that point. For now though I focused my attention on cursed tool crafting and my current cursed teique. I still had so muaster that even thinking about getting aeique was foolish of me. For example out of all of the cursed tools that I had brought to the duhe simplest ones were the only ohat passed the test.-

  One of those tools was literally just a tainer for my cursed fmes that exploded on tact. The only tools worth celebrating about was the unication tokens that let me talk with Hestia who was in the chur the surface while I was iwelfth floor of the dungeon and the metal detector pass. Those tokens in particur were Hestia's favorite creation of mine even if they were a bit creepy with the ear on one side and the mouth oher. It was thanks to them after all that she knew about what had happened mere moments after it happened.-

  While I was tinkering with making aoke for Bell we got a visitor that we hadn't expected.

  "Hroldar? Awfully te to be making a visit no?" I asked seeing the dwarf outside the church.

  He shrugged "Nothing for it d this was the only time I knew I'd be able to catch you here. You are usually in the dungeon for most of the day. Or at least you were before you went an leveled up, quite the surprise that." he said holy.

  "Just got unlucky enough to have to fight a minotaur to death is all, most of my time ent raising my stats till I was satisfied with them after that." i said holy.

  "Aye, that'd do it if you won which you clearly did." Hroldar said nodding in uanding.

  "That reminds me but why'd you take so long to visit anyways? I was stuck here for nearly a month after I leveled up but didn't see hide nor hair of you." I said curiously.

  "Ah, that was bad luck really as you leveled up right before my familias annual expedition to the middle floors to stock up on resources. We just got back a couple of days ago and I had been busy going over our iory till now." he said with a chuckle.

  "Well please e in and make yourself at home, assuming this is a social visit that is." I said opening the door widely.

  He shrugged "Bit of both actually, came to put in a few issions as well to see how you were doing. You seem well enough, gotta ask though whats up with the tattoos anyway?" he asked curiously.

  "They are symbolic." I said not lying but also not really saying everything.

  "Not the straradition i've ever see a Pallum ohat had a tree he'd lick for luck before delving each day. Didn't seem to work since he got killed by a green dragon after his lover betrayed him." Hroldar said with a shrug.

  I couldn't help imagining the se he described with an odd expression.

  "Well regardless whats this about a ission?" I asked ging the topic as we took a seat on the restored pews of the church.

  "After dy Hephaestus firmed you weren't lying about your crafts lun and I decided we'd go to you if we needed something made and as it happened we just got a new level four after this expedition and you also leveled up so we assumed you grabbed bcksmith as a developmental ability and could add effects to your works. After that well here I am." he said holy with a smile.

  "You are right I did grab smith when I leveled up and have been experimenting with it since I got it with mixed results. If you want any of the standard properties though it shouldn't be an issue." I said holy.

  "Good on you d so what we need is a sword like this but the best you've got in you. We will of course provide the drops and have half the payment upfront, two huhousand Valis." Hroldar said as he showed me the sword he brought with him and it was a fairly simple arming sword about a meter long.