Chapter 152 - Confidence

As Ethan began his training, a certain Goddess with bright silver hair and eyes was biting her fingernail in anger.

This is because, even after Loki owed her a favour, the latter was of no use to her plan.

'Using Loki wasn't enough to shake him..'

The Goddess in question hadn't had the opportunity to meddle in Ethan's affairs as much as she would have wished, since her divine instrument was totally useless on him, but even if seen from the vision of nearby people, Ethan seemed not to show any of his tricks up his sleeve, and this led the curiosity of the Goddess to light up more and more days passed.

She was looking for a solution to the problem, as although the Goddess could press Loki, she had no intention of having the entire Orario watching her in a public battle, although the winning prize was very tempting.

While her goddess tried to avoid Loki's involvement in any way possible by studying the possibilities at her disposal, a tall and heavily muscular Boaz with rust-colored hair and eyes along with a pair of boar ears was next to the Goddess, and noticing her frustration, he had already understood what her Goddess wanted. This, led him to speak in a solemn and respectful manner

"If I may speak Freya-sama, that boy seems to possess a rather great thirst for power. My advice is to proceed instead of showing yourself as an enemy, as an ally in helping him to gain the strength he d.e.s.i.r.es."

Saying these words as he lowered his head as a sign of respect, the Boaz didn't add anything else while he closed his eyes waiting for a response or an order of any kind from the Goddess.

She hadn't yet thought about it, but if the hostile approach wasn't possible because of Loki, it wasn't necessarily a bad thing. She could still conquer him for herself by promising him the power that, as the Boaz had suggested, was something he d.e.s.i.r.ed.

Having finally arrived at a stable solution, the Goddess smiled as she licked her lips provocatively.

"As you suggested Ottar, all I need is to offer him a power that Loki cannot offer him. All the limitations that boy imposed on Loki aren't necessarily a good thing"

Freya's thought was simple. Even if she had to wait a year for the laws as it was the minimum time an adventurer had to remain in the familia to be able to leave, that was the only thing Ethan was obligated to respect. Even if Freya knew Ethan had a 10-year contract with Loki, Freya could claim her favour by having Loki cancel the contract, and with Ethan agreeing, the problem would be resolved.

With her smile even wider, Freya thought she had found the perfect solution. She was at least aware of how talented the boy was, so she planned to let him train intensively in magic, then hone his fighting skills here with Ottar, but that was not all, in fact Freya thought to put him in front of many other difficulties, so that after this year, Ethan could already be able to carry out work completely independently.

With a sigh of happiness, Freya thanked Ottar for the suggestion while the latter lowered his head further before heading towards the gate, as Freya wanted to continue observing him...

'Now that I think about it, in a few days we'll have to meet to discuss, I can't wait to see his face when I propose to him to join my familia..'

She was convinced the boy wanted to become stronger, and she was also convinced Ethan wouldn't miss such an opportunity, as it would allow him to become stronger faster, but Freya was unaware that in reality, Ethan wouldn't have succ.u.mbed to her advances so easily....

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From their first training, Tiona could immediately notice Ethan had become stronger, more agile, faster, but above all more resistant to blows, since even after receiving a very heavy blow in which Tiona had put a little too much force, Ethan had managed to not only to react in time - something that already happened before - but instead of avoiding it, Ethan had parred with his arm.

To this, Tiona thought he had broken his arm, but in reality the blow threw him a few inches away, and with his arm trembling from the blow just received, Ethan managed to remain standing and even had a smirk on his face.

By that time, Tiona had begun to put a little more force into her blows knowing Ethan would still be able to bear, and although he had never even managed to hit her, there was already an improvement compared to last time, though his blows are still completely lacking any style, Tiona was convinced he would sooner or later find what he needed.

Although she couldn't teach him her fighting style, Tiona was determined to teach him how to throw punches properly, having discovered much to her surprise that Ethan now possessed a skill very similar to what she possessed.

But that was not all, in fact, once the morning training of the first day was finished, Ethan had returned to discuss with Riveria about what to do, revealing that the books able to translate Maple's words were available from the Dungeon. And even though that wasn't entirely true, Ethan was going to finance his books by entering the dungeon, the only problem was, from what he could see, the SP the [True Dungeon] gave weren't as many as he expected.

But this was obviously not enough to bring down his will. When she heard the news, Riveria thought about it for a second and, although the idea wasn't bad, she knew very well Ethan would be forced to enter the Dungeon alone, and that worried her.

She obviously had her reasons. As she had known, Ethan couldn't enter the dungeon just because something was wrong, and although Ethan had told her this Dungeon was literally his ability, and if it refused to let him pass, it would be even weirder.

To this Riveria couldn't help but sigh as she advised him to flee immediately as soon as the situation required it and to not act imprudently if he decided to enter the Dungeon, but to this 'concern', Ethan smiled back at her while shaking his head. His intention was to wait for the situation to be a bit more stable before returning to go in the True Dungeon, also because he wanted to know more from Maple as a first thing.

By the time Ethan was training, Riveria, who had the day off, decided to dedicate it to staying next to Maple so that she could protect her in case anything went wrong, and this concern arose precisely from the possibility of the mysterious being to interact with the real world.

After his discussion with Riveria, Ethan spent most of his 'rest' time with Lefiya and Ais, being able to find some calm, and then continue into the afternoon, which Ethan dedicated to finding a way to enter his domain.

But even though he was determined to find the right way into the domain, all Ethan could do was losing himself in his thoughts, keeping going round and round in his mind, and before he knew it, the sun had already fallen as dusk was all he could see.

This was repeated for several days and Ethan was becoming increasingly impatient, this because he would have preferred even a very small progress but all he could see was the most total nothingness, and that nothing wouldn't lead him to anything.

But at this thought, a panel appeared before him

[That is not true]

Reading the content of the message, Ethan initially winced and became angry with the system as the latter had shown up just when he needed it least, and continued to think the same all day, but the next day, seeing that as soon as he started looking for a way to unlock his domain, the system had made the same message appear, Ethan was intrigued.

It seemed all too strange to him that the system could show twice the same thing, and this made him reflect on why this message had appeared in front of him

After digging a bit into his thoughts, Ethan remembered the last thing he had thought before this panel made its appearance

'Nothing wouldn't lead to anything. If that's not true, that means Nothing will lead me to something?"

It was a rather vague suggestion, so Ethan hadn't yet been able to figure out exactly what to do in order to unlock his domain, but at least now he was a step ahead of 6 days ago, which had convinced him to continue to devote these daily hours to reach the goal.

Once his afternoon hours were over, he would then move on to the evening, which Ethan often devoted to spending time with Maple while he watched how everything went. Soon Riveria found herself having to help Maple write, and even if they couldn't write too much since Riveria couldn't devote herself to this every day, they were still able to write a good part during the past 6 days.

In addition to this, Ethan had taken on new habits, such as instead of washing in his room, wash himself in the men's bathroom, while Lefiya and Ais went together in the women's bathroom.

Although Lefiya's presence cut off the time Ais and Ethan had to interact as a real couple, this didn't mean they didn't do anything of the sort. In fact Lefiya, already on the second day had pointed out to Ethan the two of them could act freely, and she wouldn't mind if the two of them exchanged 'effusions'.

This had opened up a new world in Ethan's mind as the latter, previously getting used to her presence, asked over and over again if she was really okay with that, but to these questions Lefiya gave him a smile before she nodded.

At first Ethan felt a little nervous about the idea of exchanging 'effusions ' with Ais in front of Lefiya, but as soon as Ais had heard about it, she thrown herself at him immediately before aiming for his lips, and although this surprised him for a moment, he quickly glanced at Lefiya as he could see the latter was just looking at them with her face all red.

From this, Ethan had understood she was holding back and although he wanted her to know there was no need to go that far, he could feel the kiss was no different from those Ais gave him secretly when everyone was 'sleeping' at night, but this was able to turn him on more than normal..This had obviously surprised Ethan as he didn't expect such a reaction from himself, but he soon realized the different thing from the usual was that this time the two had a spectator.

But, he decided to suppress this feeling and, after Ais distanced herself for a second from him to breathe, Ethan looked at her with a disapproval gaze as he pointed out that Lefiya didn't seem to be ready for this kind of thing just yet...

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