Thanks to this I started getting into a routine over the month of waking up early, stopping by the hostess, delving to floor fifteen or sixteen, spending a good six or seven hetting knocked around and killing any and all mohat want to e at me. then I'd turn in the excess materials or stones i had to the guild to keep up appearances, head over to the hostess again to eat dinner, head to the Blue pharmacy to resto potions and turn in my empty vials and finally head back to the church to spend the rest of the night w oatue until bed time.-

  It was a very rinse a process but that was sort of the way this worked for most adventurers in truth. trary to what it may seem this life was actually very simple most days and rarely worth mentioning. Bell was having a less simple time of things over the st month however and I even had to step in at one point because things were esg when they really didn't o. As it turned out those people from the Soma familia that fucked around and found out kicked the proverbial hors when they went missing.-

  Aggressioween our familia started blooming but the soma familia couldn't decre a war game even if they REALLY wao. Reason being Soma didn't give enough of a shit anymore to actually decre ohe god was never seen ius meetings and was for the most part removed from this situatioirely. His whole familia was basically ag solely uhe orders of his captain and a mortal could only do so much based on the ws of this world.-

  Hestia however wasn't the sort of person to put forth a war game uhe other side was a REALLY big issue and the soma familia was not. They were rich sure but they weren't strong by any means with most of their members being level two and the captain himself only being a low level three minleveler. For reference a minleveler is someone who gets a siat to the minimum o level up(B rank) before they level up. After reag level three the guy pretty much stopped adventuring and focused on l over the Soma familia and as such was only at the start of level three.-

  Even worse was that the guy had this habit of making ating close to level three in the familia vanish to protect his spot as top dog. Yeah real nasty piece of work that o hardy a threat to even Bell so i left the matter aloil the guy started hiring merary type adveo e after Bell. Don't get me wrong it was the right move on the guys part once he figured out no one in his familia could handle Bell or me. That said the Soma familias wealth was a VERY dangerous factor when applied to merary type adventurers.-

  The wihey sold went for hundreds of thousands to up to a couple million valis a gallon jar depending on quality and they had been selling hundreds of jars a month for years now. Naturally this meant that the amount of mohey throw at meraries allows them to hire the dangerously powerful ones sitting at level four and five without sweating. So far the Soma captain had only had level threes harassing Bell but the pret was there for him to get someone higher involved and so I stepped in.-

  My solution was simply to have Hestia marto the Soma familias headquarters with Lili and Bell in tow before f soma to settle this matter personally. This was where thing took a turn for the worst as far as the captain of the familia went as soma gave the Pallum girl a test. She had to drink a cup of undiluted divine wine and while u's effects choose to forsake more wio join our familia. The captain thought she'd fail and ore wi to his horror the girl chose to leave the Soma familia to join ours.-

  The reason this was to his horror was because this single seemingly simple act of not losing herself to the wine woke the wine god from his stupor. He regained his spark of passion and all but begged Lili to stay as he finally found a mortal who could enjoy his wihout losing themselves. She ended up joining us anyways while the god stripped the captain of his falna for his transgressions before taking trol of the familia again. And that as they say was that as far as that whole fiasco was ed and we even got allied to the Soma familia as a bonus.-

  Beyond that it was business as usual in the Hestia familia with Bell and I both delving most days and if not w on improving some other facet of our abilities. In my case creating this statue roving to be a worthy challenge in and of itself as I o be hyper aware of ead every miail to deliver my standard quality for my creations. I'm talking fur density, fur patterning, fur texture, fur length, skiuring, veins, arteries, capilries, muscle definition, cloth texture, realism, expression, the whole shebang. -

  I went all out on this statue and towards the end of the month you could tell as if it wasn't obviously made of crystal the statue looked moments away from standing up and walking around. I thought about shading the ehing in the colors the creature would actually have but I decided against it due to the fact that it would ruiural beauty of the crystal. Finally a st three days before the end of the month I pleted the statue and finally allowed Hestia, Bell and Lili to take in it's radiant splendor.-

  As I discovered over the st month I REALLY didn't like people seeing my unfinished work and had been keeping everyo bay until it was done.

  "It's so pretty!" Hestia said with big bright eyes when she finally saw my creation.

  "Lili thinks you might have gone overboard." the small Pallum girl said in shock as she examihe statue in closer detail.

  "Maybe we have one for our familia too! How about a minotaur since we both used oo level up!?" Bell suggested excitedly.

  "Vetoed! Nope! Absolutely not! I have beeing knocked around by those steaks for the past month and I'll eat my shoes before creating a life-sized statue of ohat'll stick around for lohan a day or two!" I shot down that idea immediately.