Chapter 778: C-Rank Small Exploration Familia

By the riverside, Broly merely tasted Xier's flavor and made no move toward deeper intimacy; just as the girl grew stirred and tried to pull his hand toward some soft place to feel warm, fragrant, soft jade, Broly timely released his mouth and let go of her.

"The celebration banquet is still going on; let's head back, otherwise if others discover we're missing, they might come looking for us."

Xier nodded, her breath still somewhat disordered; the taste of the youth seemed to linger in her mouth.

Freya had never experienced such a feeling; she herself was unexpectedly so infatuated with one person's taste.

She was now just like a young girl with a fevered mind; whatever the youth said was what she did.

On the way back, Broly held her hand, interlocking their fingers, causing the gradually recovering Goddess's cheeks to turn somewhat blushing.

"Broly, your kiss just now and holding hands now—exactly how many girls' mouths have you kissed, and how many girls' small hands have you held, to be so skilled?"

"As for holding hands, I haven't kept count, but if it's just kissing, I think there are still over fifty."

Broly thought carefully and then honestly gave a rough answer.

But as soon as the answer came out, Broly felt the girl holding his palm suddenly increase her grip strength.

Clearly, she was somewhat dissatisfied.

"However, Xier, I feel you also cooperate very skillfully; did you have kissing experience before?"

Being skilled at kissing and not being skilled at kissing—this kind of thing is actually very easy to distinguish.

In the Crystal Palace, the first kiss targets of the vast majority of Broly's wives were him.

And their first kisses were all rather awkward, only gradually becoming skilled afterward.

Of course, there were also wives like Merad who had kissing experience with other girls very early on.

And Xier's feeling to him did not seem like that of a newbie.

"Ah, no."

Hearing this, Freya's heart was startled, and she hurriedly denied it.

"Broly, I can guarantee you that the kissing targets of this body of mine are you alone, and no one else."

She was telling the truth; Xier was her maiden aspect, and this aspect represented longing for love and a maiden's purity.

"Mm, I believe you."

For the road ahead, the two said nothing more; Broly simply quietly enjoyed the feeling of holding hands and walking with the girl beside him.

In contrast, Freya transformed into Xier was somewhat absent-minded; she somewhat regretted bringing up this topic of kissing and holding hands experience counts just now.

Compared to the youth's experience count of over fifty people, her side really had some injustice.

Fortunately, the other party did not pursue it further, letting her feel much more at ease.

"Xier."

And when they arrived at the tavern's back door, Helen was already waiting here.

"Miss Helen, good evening."

Broly greeted the other party.

"I have something to say to my younger sister; Mr. Broly, could you please leave first?"

Helen's gaze was fixed on the two people's joined hands, and she said expressionlessly.

"Then Xier, I'll head back first."

Broly released the girl's hand and opened the door to enter the tavern.

The back door was closed, and in the back alley only the nominal sisters remained.

"Goddess Freya, was tonight successful?"

After Helen's footsteps faded away into the distance behind the door, she then asked in a small voice toward the girl before her.

"Very successful, everything was perfect, if..."

"If?"

"No, nothing..."

Freya, having returned to her Goddess posture, had a somewhat complex complexion and did not say more about what had just happened.

"Helen, I have a request; I don't know if you can agree to me?"

She asked the girl before her.

"Goddess Freya, let alone one request, even if it were one hundred, one thousand, I would agree."

Helen bowed her waist toward the Goddess.

"Broly, where did you go?"

Inside the tavern, Broly returned, and Hestia asked him.

"Goddess Hestia, I went on a date with Xier."

Broly honestly answered the Loli Goddess's question.

"Eh, then did you do anything bad to her?"

The Loli Goddess asked with wide eyes.

"I did."

"Did what?"

"I danced a dance with her, and kissed her mouth."

"The upper one or the lower one?"

"The upper one."

"Hey, then that doesn't count as anything bad..."

Hearing this, Hestia, who had already done more intimate things, had the look of an Old Driver who didn't take it to heart.

"Broly, wait..."

The celebration banquet ended, and just as everyone was heading their separate ways, Xier called out to the Saiyan boy who was preparing to leave.

"What's wrong?"

Broly walked over in confusion, only to be pulled by Xier into the storage room off to the side.

"Mmph..."

Before he could even open his mouth to ask, the girl in front of him leaned in, her soft lips pressing directly against his.

Unlike Xier before, who had cooperated with him skillfully, the current Xier displayed a kissing technique that was somewhat clumsy, just like a girl experiencing her first kiss.

Broly was just kissed haphazardly by the girl with that clumsy technique, and just as he was preparing to actively respond to the girl's forceful kiss, the moment he touched the softness she had placed into his mouth, the other party retreated rapidly and completely, like a startled rabbit.

"This is payback for you kissing me, Broly. You remember this well."

The girl, her cheeks flushed red, said this and then pushed the dazed boy, who didn't know what had happened, out of the storage room.

"Bang!"

The storage room door was shut, and Xier collapsed into a sitting position, her appearance gradually shifting back to Helen's.

"Helen, I want to ask you, for my sake, to offer your first kiss to Broly..."

The girl's thoughts drifted back to just moments ago at the back door, when the Goddess had made that request of her.

Helen hadn't expected that the thing she agreed to, when actually done, would unexpectedly make someone this nervous.

She took several deep breaths, but her heart was still thumping wildly, difficult to calm.

She couldn't quite tell whether this was Lady Freya's feeling, or her own feeling.

But one thing was certain: this feeling did not make her feel disgusted.

Broly, who had been pulled in for a forceful kiss and then pushed out, wore a dazed expression, but seeing the Happiness Value belonging to Xier on the Crystal Palace Panel continuously rising, he could only ask if Xier had anything else, and upon receiving the reply through the door that she was fine, chose to leave the Abundance Mistress's tavern.

【Xier, did you rinse your mouth?】

On the road back to the Faction Residence, Broly smacked his lips, tasting the girl's flavor in his mouth once more, and couldn't help but generate some doubts in his heart.

However, upon hearing that he had been called to the storage room by the girl to play a kissing game again when leaving the tavern, Hestia also hugged him, wanting to demand a kiss from him.

"Broly-san, Lili wants one too."

After kissing Hestia, Liliruca looked at him with longing eyes.

"This can't be favored one over the other!"

Tiona also leaned in close.

"Broly, do you want to play the kissing game with me too?"

The Sword Princess asked from the side.

"Ah, Miss Ais, please don't follow along with Miss Tiona and the others to go play this kind of little game with Mr. Broly!"

However, Lefiya stopped her.

"Is this something that cannot be done?"

"It cannot."

"Then why do Tiona and the others look like they're very happy?"

The Sword Princess tilted her head.

"I feel that Lefiya just doesn't want you to play this kind of little game with Broly, but if you played it with her, she'd probably be very willing."

Tiona let go of her mouth and said directly to the Sword Princess.

"Is that so? Then Lefiya, do you want to try kissing me?"

"Mmph?!"

Looking at the Sword Princess girl's thin pink lips, faced with the extreme temptation placed before her, Lefiya ultimately chose restraint.

She didn't play the kissing game with Ais, and at the same time didn't allow Ais to play the kissing game with Broly; according to this elf girl's words, kissing is a sacred matter that should only be done after two people get married.

Hmm, kissing and deep intimate acts seem to be on par in the elf side, important matters concerning chastity.

Ais didn't quite understand, but didn't persist either; she merely saw everyone kissing Broly and wanted to try it herself, but this was ultimately just a mouth-to-mouth game, so not playing was fine too.

The next day, Ryuu returned from the Dungeon covered in dust, and this Wild King who had hunted for half a month, upon returning, heard about the War Game.

Of course, that wasn't the main point; the main point was, if she could have returned one day earlier, she could have bet all the Valis she had painstakingly earned these days, letting ten million Valis directly become thirty million Valis.

Missing the chance to make quick money gave Ryuu a feeling of remorse similar to a gambler who bet right but couldn't place the wager, especially since she had wanted to return the day before yesterday.

It was just that, before returning, she encountered two suspicious individuals on the 18th floor of the Labyrinth, and after catching them herself, confirmed they were remnants of the Dark Faction hidden in the Dungeon Labyrinth.

And in order to investigate this matter, Ryuu was delayed a bit, ultimately only obtaining a Tool of unknown use that looked like an eyeball bead.

【Damn Dark Faction!】

The elf cursed silently in her heart, then lowered the brim of her hood and headed in the direction of Hearth Manor.

And just as she approached this side of Hearth Manor, Ryuu saw a group of scantily clad Amazons lying at the entrance of Hearth Manor.

As for Broly, he kicked an Amazon out.

"Ah, what happened, Broly, were you guys attacked by someone?"

Ryuu hurried over to ask.

"Counts as an attack, but I've already handled it."

Broly picked up Algana from the ground and threw her out as well.

How should I put it.

The War Game with the Apollo Familia greatly shortened his leisure time.

These members of the Kali Familia, who knows if they entered through official channels or snuck into Orario, came to attack him again today before dawn.

"Listen up, if you don't want to be imprisoned by the City Guards, you'd best not appear before me again!"

Broly finished speaking and pulled the elf he hadn't seen in many days inside.

Outside the door, Algana's shout could vaguely be heard: "Broly-sama, I will absolutely never give up on obtaining your love!"

Hearing this, Liu's originally somewhat tired spirit was shaken; in the days she hadn't been here keeping watch, just how many more bees and butterflies harboring feelings for him had appeared around the Saiyan boy her friend liked?

And when she learned the identity of the Amazoness who had been beaten away, the reason they clung to Broly, and their exact strength, only one sentence surfaced in Liu's heart:

【Xier, how am I supposed to protect the boy you like from a group of Amazonesses led by a Lv. 6?!】

Of course, he should be called a youth now.

Broly's height had grown a bit more in these two days.

"Miss Fels, this is ten million Valis."

Liu, having washed properly and changed clothes, found the Fool Miss in the Magic Laboratory and took out all the harvest from her these days of farming in the Dungeon.

"Eh, what do you mean by this?"

Fels looked at the elf before her with some puzzlement.

"Your and Broly's resurrection experiment is for the sake of reviving my former friend, so I want to bear the cost of this resurrection experiment."

"Uh, Miss Liu, you have the heart, but this money, you should take it back."

"Ah, is it that Broly won't let you take my money?"

"That's not it, it's just that this money is too little, not even enough for what I burn in a day."

Liu: "..."

Fels has recently been researching an experiment to revitalize dead bones, only because that resurrected chicken with the prosthetic limb has now developed some problems as well.

Although she is still persisting in burning money to keep it alive to obtain more research data, Fels judges that the time it will return to death will be roughly half a month later.

"Liu, you actually don't need to mind the cost of reviving your friend Adi; the Fool Miss is willing to bear a part, and I also earned a large sum yesterday."

"No, Adi is my friend; her revival cost should be borne by me."

However, faced with Broly's persuasion, Liu was very insistent.

In a certain sense, she is very similar to Ais; the difference lies only in that Ais wants to avenge her parents alone and is working hard to become stronger, while Liu wants to revive her friend alone and is working hard to earn money.

Regarding this, Broly could only respect her thoughts and prepare to help her from the side; hmm, taking the other party to the 37th floor Labyrinth Death Colosseum to farm gold might be a not bad choice.

However, since Liu had just returned from the Dungeon, Broly didn't bring it up directly, planning to wait for the elf miss to rest properly for a few days before telling her this matter.

And in the afternoon, Broly's Dungeon Advisor Miss Eina came to visit: "Hestia-sama, I am here on behalf of the Guild to assess your Familia's current Level."

The War Game, Broly used strength to vindicate himself, and this act of vindication also triggered subsequent linked events.

The Guild sent people, planning to update their Familia's information.

"Familia information update is mainly divided into two parts: one part is scale, one part is Level.

Hestia-sama, are your Familia's current member count still just Mr. Broly and Mr. Bell, two people?"

"Yes, currently we have no intention of adding new members."

"Then it is still a small Familia of under ten people."

The half-elf recorded this in her notebook.

"Next is the Familia Level assessment; Hestia-sama, please truthfully tell me Mr. Broly's true Adventurer Level. We will conduct the most professional judgment based on your Familia's strongest member's Level and the Labyrinth floors once reached."

"Please rest assured; although a Familia Level increase will raise revenue tax, high-level Familias also enjoy benefits low-level Familias do not have, such as hosting Divine Banquets, conducting special activities in Orario, enjoying medical discounts and consumption discounts at Babel Tower, and so on..."

High-level Familias enjoy benefits; although most benefits in the eyes of mortals seem to be reputation greater than actual profit, for Gods, reputation is precisely what they need.

"What, Lv. 1, Hestia-sama, are you sure you're not joking with us?"

However, upon learning Broly's Level was only Lv. 1, the two Guild staff who came, including Eina, all found it somewhat hard to believe.

"We all watched yesterday's War Game; Mr. Broly, who could so easily defeat over a hundred Lv. 1 to Lv. 3 Adventurers, is merely a Lv. 1 newbie Adventurer? Hestia-sama, please don't make this kind of joke."

"I am stating facts; if you don't believe me, I can show the Guild my family's child's Ability Value Imprinting Paper. However, it will involve my family's child's special abilities; I must erase the parts inconvenient to display, leaving only the parts that can prove the Level."

"I'm stating facts. If you don't believe me, I can give you all the Guild a look at my child's Ability Value Imprinting Paper, however, it will involve my child's special capabilities, so I have to erase the parts that are inconvenient to demonstrate, leaving only the parts that can prove the Level."

"That works too."

Eina nodded, but the Guild staff beside her proposed the condition of updating in front of them, to avoid Ability Value Imprint information forgery.

Hestia did not refuse; in front of the two, she imprinted the second Ability Value Panel's information from Broly's back.

Then, Eina obtained a sheet of Ability Value Imprint information paper where, except for the Level and name being clear, everything else — Basic Abilities, Magic column, Skill column — was all blacked out.

Then, Eina obtained one share of Status Board imprinting information paper where, besides the Level and Last Name being clear, everything else — Basic Abilities, Magic Slot, Skill Slot — was completely blacked out afterward.

"The black parts are naturally my family's child's secrets not convenient to expose publicly; the Guild doesn't seem to have a hard regulation requiring Adventurers to reveal their specific Ability Values, Magic, and Skills, right?"

"The black parts are naturally my child's secrets that are inconvenient to expose publicly; the Guild doesn't seem to have any hard Regulation requiring Adventurers to reveal their specific Capability values, as well as Magic and Skill, right?"

Looking at the colleague's Ability Value Imprinting Paper where the youth's Level column clearly imprinted Lv. 1, and then looking at her own recorded record of the deepest Labyrinth floor reached in cooperation, 59, this half-elf Eina for a time also didn't know how to continue writing.

The initial Level, the openly deepest explored Labyrinth floor, plus the actual brilliant battle record in the War Game of basically solo defeating an entire C-Rank Large Familia.

Besides the Familia scale being clearly registrable as a Small Familia, how should the remaining Familia Level be written?

"Hestia-sama, we may have to go back and report this information to the Guild upper levels, to discuss and research how exactly your Familia's Level should be assessed."

"Lady Hestia, we might have to go back and report this information to the Guild's upper echelons, to discuss and study how exactly your Familia's Level should be assessed."

Hestia calmly sipped her tea and had Broly help see the guests out.

And after the Guild upper levels received this special information, another two days passed before they gave an assessment:

【Hestia Familia, C+ Rank Small Exploration Familia.】

【Hestia Familia, C+ Rank Small Exploration Familia.】

(Chapter End)