Chapter 760: Can Brushing Favorability Really Trigger Skills?

"Does this resurrection count as a success?"

A new day, and another round of resurrection experiments; chicken bones assembled by Fels from various materials (occupying one-quarter of the body), enveloped in the light of resurrection magic, regained their former life, and looked far better than the bone experiment from the day before yesterday, making Broly unable to help but ask happily.

"This still cannot be confirmed; we must let time give the answer."

Fels replied, then placed each resurrected chicken into cages separately.

"Alright, Mr. Broly, I temporarily don't need your help here; next I still have to prepare some alternative plans in case this one fails, you are free to act as you wish now, you can even go back to sleep for a nap."

A nap was naturally out of the question; Broly changed into a set of clothes and went out to buy today's breakfast for his wife and reserve wives.

"Here, this is the breakfast portion you ordered last night."

At the Hostess of Fertility, the quest board girl handed over the stacked, bundled lunch boxes in her hands to the Saiyan boy before her.

"Thanks, Xier."

Broly expressed his thanks.

"I heard from Ryu that Lord Hephaestus and her Familia's Captain Miss Chun also moved to reside at Hearth Manor yesterday, right?"

"Mhm."

"So, they are also women you want to encounter?"

Facing Xier's question, Broly didn't conceal it either, directly nodding to admit it.

"Broly, you really are a bit of a philanderer~"

Xier puffed her cheeks, seeming to say it somewhat angrily.

"I'm sorry."

"Eh, you're not going to defend yourself a little?"

"Wanting to encounter multiple different women simultaneously is philandering under the universal values of the vast majority of worlds; this is a fact, I have no defense."

Broly responded seriously; wives had said this about him before, and now he also understood his own behavior was philandering.

"Usually at a time like this, you should defend yourself by saying Lord Hephaestus and her Familia's Captain Miss Chun only went to reside at Hearth Manor because of their good private relationship with Lady Hestia, not directly admit to me that you want to have encounters with those two..."

Xier kept a straight face, just like a teacher instructing a student on the correct operation of stepping on multiple girlfriend boats.

"Mhm, Xier, what you say may be the correct way to respond, but I don't want to deceive you."

Broly thought for a moment, then answered.

"Ugh, then if I hadn't asked you just now..."

"I wouldn't have said it on my own."

"If asked you confess honestly, if not asked you pretend nothing happened; I don't know whether to say you don't know how to adapt, or that you possess great wisdom disguised as foolishness."

"I don't know about that. Xier, are you still angry?"

"Since you've confessed so honestly, if I got angry again, wouldn't that make me seem petty?"

Freya wasn't truly angry; she just wanted to tease Broly a bit a moment ago.

Feelings, this kind of thing, need teasing to become sticky.

Women also need to occasionally act spoiled, throw a little tantrum, to make men cherish them more, favor them more. (Premise being built on sufficient favorability and affection)

Although Broly this child isn't a man yet, still a boy, the principle is the same.

Just, to Freya's slight surprise, the other party completely didn't buy the teasing, apologizing without any defense at all.

【Quite different from some guys who clearly have lustful hearts but still make excuses to cover for themselves, smooth-talking types...】

"Xier, thank you."

Broly sincerely thanked the quest board girl; the situation of continuously capturing specific capture targets and gradually developing feelings with those targets — philandering — is indeed a flaw of his, and every wife willing to tolerate this flaw is worthy of gratitude.

At this moment Broly thought of the wives in the Crystal Palace, like Aqua Master, like Roxy; this act of recalling the wives who tolerate him while thanking the quest board girl before him made Freya, who can see soul colors, sink deep into it.

In her Divine Eye perspective, the boy's soul was emitting colorful radiance, representing the sincerity in the other party's words of thanks, as well as a feeling Freya also couldn't quite comprehend but could vaguely sense, a feeling named happiness.

"Xier, if there's nothing else, I'm heading back."

Freya was startled awake by the boy's words.

"Ah, I still have one thing."

She hurriedly fished an item from her pocket and held it out to Broly.

"This is?"

Receiving the thing that looked somewhat like a pendant, Broly looked at Xier with some puzzlement.

"Before long, aren't you going on a Dungeon expedition with the Loki Familia?"

"Mhm."

"So, this is an amulet I requested for you; although it can't guarantee it will definitely take effect, it is my wish for you to return safely."

Freya's customized surveillance tool was only finished the day before yesterday; today counts as sending it out with a legitimate reason.

"Mhm, thanks, I'll properly cherish your sentiment."

Broly hung the pendant around his neck and said seriously to Xier.

"Well, as long as you return safely later, that's fine; as for the amulet, even if it breaks or gets lost, you can just come ask me for another, mhm, your safety is most important."

Although the amulet is a surveillance tool, it also has protective magic; when encountering danger, it really can block a fatal injury once.

Broly gave her a straightforward feeling; Freya worried the protective magic might actually be triggered, and the Saiyan boy might get hung up on the amulet breaking, and consequently encounter danger in the Dungeon.

So, she emphasized the amulet isn't important, the person is.

"Chun, I want to ask you to help put this thing into the Crystal Palace Space."

"Eh, this is?"

"Someone else's sentiment given to me."

"Oh, got it, just like the ribbon and brooch you had me put in before, right?"

"Hmm."

Broly returned to Hearth Manor and had Chun help put the amulet (surveillance tool) Xier gave him into the Crystal Palace Space.

Xier's sentiment — whether the surveillance effect or the protective magic on it — none of it took effect; it was physically isolated in the literal sense.

That night, when Freya tried to use the amulet tool she had sent to remotely check on Broly's situation at Hearth Manor, she discovered the amulet she had sent had lost its traces.

"Is it that a barrier isolating outside-world communication magic was set up inside Hearth Manor?"

Freya could only guess so, and this made her rub her head somewhat irritably.

The next day, Broly bid farewell to Hestia and headed to the rendezvous point together with Chun.

For this Loki Familia expedition, aside from Broly accompanying as combat personnel.

The Hephaestus Familia side sent twenty-three senior craftsmen, including Chun, their Familia regiment commander.

"Mr. Broly, you didn't make preparations?"

After rendezvousing, during the process of checking whether carried supplies were complete, Raul looked at the lightly equipped Broly and couldn't help but ask.

"What preparations?"

"Why, the supply preparations needed for delving deep into the Dungeon, of course."

Raul was a bit frantic.

The Deep Floors' levels are mostly resource-scarce environments; it is basically very difficult to obtain sufficient supplies from the Dungeon's own environment.

"You mean that? Of course I have them."

Broly nodded.

"Where? How come I didn't see any?"

Raul looked left and right, yet also didn't spot any large backpacks stuffed with supplies nearby.

"My supplies are all with Chun."

Broly pointed at the One-Eyed Craftsman.

Raul looked over and discovered the Hephaestus Familia regiment commander was also lightly equipped.

"No, wait, Miss Kobrand, you're not also thinking of going on expedition without bringing anything, are you?"

As the logistics manager, Raul felt his scalp tingle; he hurried over and began questioning her.

"Broly, can I reveal that thing of yours?"

After understanding what he was anxious about, Chun asked the Saiyan boy first.

"Yes."

Broly understood Chun was talking about the Crystal Palace Space, so he nodded.

After receiving the affirmative reply, Chun demonstrated the void-retrieval capability to Raul.

"Eh, what is this?"

"This is a Personal Storage Space; I put all the supplies to bring inside, leaving only self-defense weapons outside."

Hearing this, Raul's mouth gaped open and he hurriedly asked: "Can even more supplies be put in?"

"Well..."

Chun looked at Broly, seemingly asking how she should answer.

"Can put them in."

Broly nodded and said.

A group carrying a pile of supplies into the Dungeon is indeed quite hard.

Anyway, the Crystal Palace Space is currently quite empty, with enough space to store outside items.

"What, Personal Storage Space?"

Finn was somewhat surprised upon hearing Raul's report.

For an expedition, if more supplies can be carried, it means the team capturing Unknown Floors can operate with greater ease.

"Miss Kobrand, I wonder what the specific size of your Personal Storage Space is, and how much supply quantity it can hold?"

Finn came over directly and directly consulted about the Crystal Palace Space situation.

"This..."

Chun was truly a bit troubled, because she hadn't actually measured the Crystal Palace Space's size.

"Currently usable storage space should be about one thousand seven hundred cubic meters."

However, Broly gave a rough answer.

After multiple expansions, the Crystal Palace Internal Space's actual size had long since reached over one thousand nine hundred cubic meters.

Although specific modules consumed a portion of space, the actual storable space still had over one thousand seven hundred cubic meters.

"Uh, Mr. Broly, you answer — could it be this space is yours?"

Finn is very smart; from Chun's attitude he made out something.

"Mhm, it's mine."

Broly nodded; there was nothing to hide about this.

"But when you previously went into the Dungeon, why didn't you use this ability?"

Finn was somewhat curious.

"Because I am currently in a certain self-activated Skill state, the ability to open my Personal Space is temporarily disabled."

"Then what about Miss Kobrand?"

"She is one of the people I encountered."

"So, Ais and Lefiya and them also have the ability to open this Personal Space?"

"No, they're not ready yet."

"Eh, why?"

"Ais and Lefiya are still in the state of having been encountered by me, while Chun has already finished being encountered."

"Is there a difference?"

Finn was somewhat confused.

"Chun is my wife, while Ais and Lefiya, currently, are not."

Broly explained concisely.

"Alright..."

Finn felt he understood the difference between them; it should be the major boost to the Wing Skill after confirming a relationship with Broly.

That was what he thought, and then he heard Broly's following words: "However, Tiona can use it."

"Eh?!"

Seeing Finn's surprised expression with his mouth wide open, Broly explained what had happened the day before yesterday: "Just the day before yesterday when I came here, with Tione's matchmaking, I asked for Tiona's opinion, and she agreed to encounter me."

"Captain, you're looking for me?"

The Amazon girl, whose personality was somewhat naive and bright, not feeling any pressure from the expedition at all, was called over.

"Tiona, you try putting this backpack into your personal space."

Finn pointed at a support backpack and said to Tiona.

"Hah?"

The Amazon girl looked at her captain with a puzzled face.

"Hm?"

Finn also looked at Broly with some puzzlement.

"Tiona, when you agreed to encounter me the day before yesterday, did you receive a special invitation message in your consciousness?"

Broly stepped forward and asked.

"Eh, so that wasn't my illusion and auditory hallucination?"

Broly: "..."

"Sorry sorry, when I was little I actually often had auditory hallucinations and illusions, so I subconsciously treated that thing that suddenly appeared in my consciousness as that kind of stuff."

Tiona scratched her head somewhat embarrassedly, and even stuck out her little tongue at Broly to show she didn't mean it.

"In any case, through that panel, you can directly open the internal space."

Under Broly's guidance, Tiona quickly stuffed the backpack Finn pointed at into the Crystal Palace Space.

"Ah, amazing, so magical~"

Tiona's eyes were shining, just like she had obtained some toy; in front of Finn, she repeatedly stuffed the support backpack into the void and pulled it out from the void again.

"Broly, is this space stable? There won't be a situation where it suddenly collapses and everything stored inside vanishes, right?"

"Uh, I don't know about other places, but at least inside the Dungeon, my Crystal Palace Space is still quite stable."

"If that's the case, then..."

Finn thought for a moment, then directly ordered people to bring more extra supplies from the Twilight Manor's storehouse.

Some supplies would be carried normally; as for the supplies loaded into the Crystal Palace Space, they would serve as spares.

"If later we need to use your personal space, Broly, to load drop items, then regarding the gains from that portion of drop items, we will split half with you."

Finn said again.

"No need, just split it according to the normal supporter's share."

Broly waved his hand.

"Good."

At this moment, the Pallum hero recalled the time he previously went into the Dungeon to farm gold with Broly, when he himself refused Broly's fifty-fifty proposal.

And this time, the situation was reversed; Broly refused his fifty-fifty proposal.

Truly, the boy before his eyes is indeed a treasure boy from whom one can harvest true heart and kindness if this side is willing to offer true heart and kindness.

Taking advantage of the time the team was doing final checks, Finn had Tiona run to find Loki to update her status board.

"Eh, Tiona, you really have the Wing Skill too?!"

Loki was originally drunk, but after updating the Amazon girl's status, she exclaimed.

"I have wings too, that's great; this way, I'm the same as Ais and Lefiya and them..."

Tiona laughed foolishly.

"No, how exactly did you acquire this Wing Skill?"

Loki hurriedly asked for details; she still remembered Broly previously saying something about paying a huge cost.

Hearing this, Tiona then told the story of how that day she was struck by the topic of her flat chest, comforted by Broly, and finally pushed by her sister into agreeing to encounter the boy.

"So, that kid, in order to comfort you who was hurt because of flat chest, thereby paid some kind of cost to grant you the Wing Skill?"

From Tiona's description of 【before she was ready to agree to the encounter, she was stopped by Broly, who seemed to do something, then asked her again if she was willing to encounter】, Loki could roughly deduce what happened the day before yesterday.

Loki was a bit stunned; she didn't expect that actions like Tiona's, shamelessly leaning in to brush up Broly's favorability, would actually make the Saiyan boy cough up a precious temporary skill for her.

And just as this red-haired flat-chested goddess Loki was thinking whether to have the other pure women in her Familia also go brush up favorability with Broly to replicate Tiona's successful experience of obtaining a temporary skill, the Loki Familia's joint expedition team also set off.

Departing from Twilight Manor, they blazed a trail to the Central Square, then under the gaze of a large crowd of adventurers, walked into the Dungeon entrance.

And among the adventurers paying their respects, there was a figure wrapped up extremely tightly in a black robe, not a sliver of skin exposed, who quickly followed after the expedition team entered the Dungeon.

"The Loki Familia is going on an expedition, grand scale; this time they'll likely be able to reach the 59th Floor and discover the Polluted Fairy Essence Clone there.

Ye En, you follow them, find some trouble for them, and if there's an opportunity, trap and kill the Expedition Team in the deep zone.

(Chapter End)