Chapter 764

"Ah, it's the Loki Familia's Joint Expeditionary Force, they're back!"

Three days later, Broly returned to the surface with the Expedition Force.

"It's really lively, though, are these people a bit too excited?"

As one of the Expedition Force team members, walking in the middle of the procession with the squad, Broly looked curiously at the city residents welcoming them on both sides of the street.

"The Dungeon is the reason for Orario's prosperity, but it is also a hidden danger to this city's existence; in the past, there have been many instances of monsters from the Dungeon trying to rush out."

Therefore, the act of exploring unknown Labyrinth areas and capturing the Dungeon is treated by this city's populace as a heroic deed."

"Fame, status, wealth — these are precisely the glory that Familias exploring unknown Labyrinth floors and those daring to adventure can enjoy."

Finn explained the reason why the populace would welcome the Expedition Force, and this is also the reason why top-tier Familias are willing to pay a huge price, even risking their lives, to conduct Dungeon expeditions time and again.

On the surface it looks like an expedition, but in reality it is the pursuit of wealth, fame, and status.

"Of course, the biggest contributor to this expedition's success is you, Broly; the glory belonging to you will absolutely not be privately appropriated by our Familia — do you need me to have the Familia members help publicize it for you?"

Finn asked the Saiyan boy.

"Having a good reputation has many benefits; for instance, Familia recruitment — you won't have to go out on the streets pulling people to join like small Familias do; instead, many quality talents will come seeking to join because of the Familia's own fame……"

Gareth said a sentence from the side, and the severe burns on his body had already been nursed back to health with a large amount of healing potions by the time they came out.

"However, being too famous also has some drawbacks."

"What drawbacks?"

Broly looked at Riveria.

"In the case of your Hestia Familia, the biggest drawback is probably that the Familia's Level will see a large increase.

And the low-tax benefits originally enjoyed as a lowest-level Exploration Familia will return to their original state, or even exceed it.

Of course, more tax revenue also means your Familia will have more say in Orario, but for a Familia lacking core strength, it will be somewhat unfriendly.

New adventurers, before they can earn big money right after debuting, have to face the exaggerated high-yield taxes from the Guild on high-level Familias.

Generally speaking, high-level Familias use commissions from funds earned by high-level adventurers within the Familia to subsidize this part of the high-yield tax loss for low-level adventurers within the Familia, but in your case, you'll probably have to subsidize the entire Familia by yourself.

The more members, the more tax to subsidize; although not subsidizing is actually possible, it would affect the cultivation of new Familia members."

Riveria analyzed; becoming famous itself is a situation with pros and cons — for the Loki Familia it is absolutely more pros than cons, but for a small Familia just starting out, some drawbacks are comparatively larger; people fear fame as pigs fear being fat, a big tree with shallow roots easily falls.

However, with an existence like Broly who can slaughter randomly in unknown areas, his legs are extremely thick; even if the Hestia Familia's core strength isn't great, toppling it would be very difficult.

"On this point, Broly, you can discuss with Lady Hestia first; once you have ideas about your Familia's development, we'll cooperate.

And before that, we'll temporarily keep the specific contents of this expedition secret.

Of course, at most we can drag it a day or two before we have to report to the Guild.

Otherwise, the Guild people will come knocking on their own."

"Broly, let's go back to the Familia first; we'll come find you tomorrow."

When the Joint Expeditionary Force disbanded and parted ways, Tiona turned and waved goodbye to him; her energetic appearance made it impossible to tell this girl had just returned from a Dungeon expedition, and the main reason they went back was to update their individual Ability Values.

Broly stood in place, waving goodbye to the Amazoness girl.

"Then, Broly, I have to go back to the Familia too."

After Tiona left, Chun also said this to him, but indicated she would probably go to Hearth Manor with her own Goddess tonight.

This Half-dwarf young lady missed Hearth Manor's warm hot spring pool, and the Saiyan boy's comfortable scrubbing and massage.

Although during the Dungeon expedition, she slept in the same tent as Broly every night and had some intimate physical contact, after all the place wasn't right and they had to consider others' feelings, so it always had a taste of just scratching the surface.

Now that they're back, naturally they should do it properly, seriously, do more, do more comprehensively; to put it more simply, Chun wants to do a simple addition math problem with Broly.

After Chun left, Broly took out the Communication Magic Stone on him; learning that Hestia was on holiday today and didn't need to go to work, he went straight back to Hearth Manor.

Just as he entered, unsurprisingly, this Loli Goddess Hestia pounced on him; her ample chest seemed to want to suffocate him.

"Broly, you're finally back, I missed you so much~"

"Mm, Lady Hestia, I missed you too."

Broly didn't struggle; instead he embraced Hestia pouncing on him, and took a deep breath in her chest, smelling the scent on the Goddess's body that carried a hint of lavender fragrance.

"Broly……"

"Mm?"

"Have you grown taller?"

The matter of conveniently having an entrance-way battle with the Goddess didn't occur; Hestia suddenly asked Broly this question instead.

"Originally you could only reach my chest level; when hugging you, you would just squeeze right in, but now……"

Hestia's legs lowered from their originally indecent position clamping the boy's waist, and she discovered that while being held by Broly, her feet actually couldn't touch the ground anymore.

"Eh, seems like you've grown a bit taller."

Broly put the Goddess down, discovering he could now look Hestia in the eye, only then realizing this.

"No wonder I've been feeling a bit itchy all over recently……"

Originally thought it was bones not knitting right after breaking, but now it seems it's just the body developing.

After Broly entered this world, he ran at six times speed; if his physical age develops according to his original world's time, six days here equals one day in the Dragon Ball World.

From discovering he could get hard until now, half a month has passed, but converted to the Dragon Ball World it's only been a few days.

And this physical development is related to the Fairy Spirit smashing him into the ground three days ago; before developing, Saiyans maintain a juvenile body state for a very long time — that's to reduce the vigilance of people on other planets before conquering those planets, a juvenile posture lowers wariness.

And once development starts, and during that period intense battles occur, especially when receiving injuries, the Saiyan body will enter an even faster development phase in order to gain higher combat ability.

Being smashed and breaking bones was only a minor injury, but to Broly's body it was undoubtedly an external existence threatening itself, which instinctively promoted the body's development speed.

Others staying with him might have noticed, or might not have noticed at all; in any case no one told him, and Broly's own nerves are quite thick, so it wasn't until he returned that Hestia reminded him.

"Your body developed, but who knows if other places developed?"

Hestia pulled the boy into the room and directly started examining his body.

"Mm-hmm, development situation very good, already grown from 11 to 15?"

Hestia was very satisfied; the values on Broly's second ability panel had already reached 15s, and fighting monsters above his level had given him a lot of experience bonuses.

"Broly, Bell has reached Level 2."

After copying down the values from the second ability panel, Hestia suddenly started talking about the boy's situation.

"Eh? That fast? Were Bell's stats maxed out? Can't he break the limit?"

Broly was somewhat surprised.

"They were maxed, and he did break the limit. However, it's not quite the same as your S and S limit-break situation. After breaking the limit, Bell's ability panel shows SS, but the subsequent growth of his stats is extremely slow. It shouldn't be that he comprehended your Battle Race Skill, but merely his own talent..."

Hestia said with a sigh. When she first saw Bell's limit-break on his panel, she thought he had single-mindedly yearned for that special Skill, letting the boy perfectly replicate Broly's Battle Race Skill. But the result was not so. Unlike Broly's growth curve, which rose in a straight line with almost no flattening, Bell's growth curves for all stats after limit-breaking trended toward a horizontal line.

Although there was still a slight rise, it rose extremely slowly; in two days the values had only increased by a dozen or so points. Okay, compared to other Adventurers this value was already exaggerated, but Hestia had eaten Broly, who was even better.

"Since there is growth, why the rush to level up?"

Broly didn't quite understand. For Adventurers, leveling up faster isn't necessarily better. On the contrary, if one levels up quickly without raising their stats, it's very possible to end up as a high-Level but low-stat Adventurer who can't beat a low-Level but high-stat Adventurer.

"Although the combat techniques he learned from you are enough for him to explore the Middle Floors Labyrinth with Level 1 stats, recently, he formed a party with Takemikazuchi's children, and on the 21st Floor they encountered a Strengthened Species monster. They went through a life-and-death battle that nearly wiped the party. Bell felt the insufficiency of his own strength, so..."

Compared to excavating hidden potential, the boy paid more attention to the safety of the companions who went into the Dungeon with him. This led him to choose to level up without developing his current Level's stats to the limit.

"Mm, that works too. Miss Eina said Adventurers who are always adventuring tend to die, but Adventurers who know when to stop can live long."

Broly nodded, expressing approval of Bell's choice to level up.

"Before long, the Divine Council will open. At that time, the Gods will give aliases to the children who have newly reached Level 2 but don't yet have a title. Broly, what alias do you think would be good for that boy Bell?"

"How about 'Prisoner Player'?"

This popped up in Broly's consciousness, and he subconsciously replied.

"What does that mean?"

Hestia looked over with a puzzled face.

"Uh, I mean, Team Light."

"Mm, that's not bad. Bell chose to level up for the sake of the team."

Hestia nodded in approval, deciding to propose this new alias for the boy at the Divine Council in a few days.

Broly sat up, put on his clothes, and asked Hestia whether they needed to become famous after the expedition.

"Developing the Familia's reputation is indeed very important, but the increased income tax after raising the Familia's level makes one feel conflicted..."

Hestia sat cross-legged on the bed, hugged her arms, and thought seriously for a while, then reached a conclusion: Compared to becoming famous to recruit, it's better to get rich quietly. At most, when they encounter quality talent, they can take the initiative to make contact and let them see the Familia's hard strength.

Of course, the more main reason is, if there are more children, the Goddess herself will get busy. Just regularly updating the children's stats is a job in itself.

Compared to getting busy for other strange children, Hestia wanted to take care of Broly, this familiar child, more.

"If we encounter a girl without a Familia who is also someone you want to encounter, we can recruit her. As for large-scale Familia development, I don't think it's needed yet."

Hestia set the Familia's development policy: build the Familia centered on Broly. Bell, the boy who already joined, goes without saying. Ideally, any children who join the Familia afterwards would be people Broly wants to encounter. Hestia felt this situation was most suitable.

Mm, a Goddess is the Parent of all. With this status, Hestia felt her position as the Main Wife in Broly's harem would be rock-solid from now on.

"Broly, the stat growth check is done. Now let me check the growth of other places?!"

Hestia looked at the boy's crotch. Just as she was preparing to take off his pants, *thump thump thump* knocking sounds rang out.

"Am I disturbing you?"

Fels stood at the front door, looking at the Loli Goddess who came to open the door with a displeased face, and asked.

"Miss Fool, is there something?"

"Mm, it's about Resurrection Magic."

Fels nodded.

"Our previous resurrection experiments using other materials to repair remains failed. The repaired defective parts of those resurrected chickens began showing varying degrees of necrosis three to five days after resurrection..."

Bringing the returned Saiyan boy to the Magic Laboratory, Fels introduced the somewhat pessimistic magic experiment results regarding resurrection of defective subjects.

"Resurrection Magic is the suturing of soul and flesh. Those parts filled and repaired with other materials — the soul was not sutured into them. Like necrotic rotten flesh, even healing magic or Panacea-grade healing potions cannot repair them."

The sole surviving Resurrection Chicken in the experiment cage was gasping its last. Beside it lay some empty Panacea potion bottles that had been used up.

Obviously, to save its life that was about to pass away again, Fels had spared no expense using many methods, but none had any effect.

"What can I do?"

Broly tried using Healing Magic, but also achieved no effect, so he couldn't help but ask.

"For the new resurrection experiment, I believe it's a problem with the choice of repair materials. These are chicken Prosthetic Materials specially custom-ordered from the Deiankete Familia."

Fels placed the newly assembled dead chicken remains before Broly, signaling him to help use the Resurrection Magic that only a Gacha God can use.

"Eh? Deiankete Familia's prosthetics? I remember those are quite pricey, right?"

Broly released the Resurrection Magic, then subconsciously asked.

"One chicken, nearly one-fourth of the remains, cost five hundred million Valis."

Fels nodded, grabbed the resurrected five-hundred-million chicken, and put it into the cage.

"No wonder it's a project that can put the entire Mia Familia in debt."

Broly exclaimed, then asked: "Is your research funding still enough?"

"You needn't worry about research funds. I can earn it back by selling a few Grimoires."

Fels said it with outrageous wealth.

As a magic researcher, she can burn money, but her money-making speed is also top-tier.

(Chapter End)