Danmachi: Is It Wrong To Devour Monsters In The Dungeon - Chapter 4.2 (Patreon)

I barely entered through the entrance of the decrepit church, before a busty, twin tailed missile launched through the air and slammed into me.

"Caeelaaaaan you're back!" Hestia cheered, legs locking around my waist and arms around my neck.
It was a good thing she barely weighed anything, despite her massive rack, or this could have gone rather badly, what with me carrying a fridge over my shoulder and all.

Thank fuck for divinity blessed strength.

I settled my balance before I replied, "Course I am," I replied, looking down at her lovely, pouting face, "I was just hitting up the dungeon a bit."

"You should have told me before you left!" she shot back, her limps tightening around me and her pout becoming more pronounced.

Not that I'm complaining mind you, because it's making her huge tits squish into my chest even more. God, they're amazing.

It took pretty much all the willpower I had not to allow the blood to flow to my crotch, or she wouldn't need to worry about holding on to me to stay up, she'd get a full on 'ledge' to sit her pretty ass down on.

"I didn't want to wake you up, you looked comfy." I rattled off as an excuse, it wasn't exactly a lie, because I didn't want to wake her up just to see me off. I know I hated when people woke me up for stupid shit like that.

Despite her body latched on to my front, I walked over to the church podium and set the fridge down.

"I thought I dreamt you up when I woke up to find you gone," her lips trembled for a moment, before beaming, "Course, then I felt your link to me and realised I wasn't, but still, you should tell me before you head out like that." her sadness seemed to vanish in an instant and she was all happy again.

I sat down on the podium, ending up with her in my lap, "There wasn't any reason to though," I shrugged, "Not unless you wanted to kiss me good luck or something."

Hestia looked away from me, avoiding my eyes, and her cheeks looked a little flushed at my words, "Wait…really?!" I gaped.

Like, I knew she jumped right in to showering Bell with affection, but I wasn't expecting her to want to do it with me so easily as well.

"Well...I mean, you're my first child right, so it's fine for me to shower you with my affection, right?" she twiddled her fingers together, before turning and glaring cutely at me, "Besides, you were all like 'I want your attention all to myself' last night, remember!"

I did say that.

I couldn't help it, I laughed, "Oh, I'm not complaining at all, I'll happily have all of your affection." I shamelessly replied, then reached into my pocket and pulled out the small bag containing the ribbons I just bought, "In fact, I got you a present while I was out."

She blinked, before suddenly sniffling, "You're such a good boy Caelan!" the goddess wailed, before hopping over and hugging me tight for a few moments.

I resisted the urge to cop a feel. It was so hard though, she was just that gorgeous.

When she was done, Hestia took the bag from my grasp and pulled out her present, and gasped as she did.

She eyed the bell-clad hair ribbons for a moment, before suddenly rushing downstairs. Presumably, to put them on in front of the mirror, there was only one in this place, a small, cracked thing within the bathroom.

I really need to go all in on the money making so we can get a sweet place to live. Fuck waiting for Apollo to start his shit.

Standing up, I heaved the fridge up onto my shoulder and made my way down stairs. I found a corner for it in the small kitchenette beside the bathroom and once I stepped back out, found Hestia waiting for me, the familiar ribbons replacing the bands she had before holding up her twin tails.

"How do I look?" she asked, twirling in place for a moment, her long twin tails whipping through the air.

"Gorgeous," I replied without missing a beat, "But then, you're already beautiful beyond belief, so they don't really change much."

I'm not Bell who's barely ever interacted with a girl before he came here. And cringe as saying this stuff out loud back home would be with modern girls, things are different here.

Hestia giggled, cupping her cheeks, "Ah Caelan! You charmer you, I'll need to hide you from the other goddesses, they'll want to steal you right away!" she replied bashfully before freezing and suddenly going wide eyed with horror, "…Oh no, I actually will."

I chuckled and sat down on the couch, "You don't need to worry about that," I assured her, "I told you last night didn't I? I'd rather get all your attention to myself, not like other familia's. Besides, Loki is flat as a board and Freya is a no go, I'm not the type to be in a harem, I'm the type to have one."

Hypocritical, yes, but I know what I'm about. Besides, I've never really been interested in Freya, I always preferred her as Syr to Freya. Weird that, I don't even want to touch Freya, but I'd rail her silly as Syr.

Hestia gave me an odd look, "…You know I was wondering what kind of dreams you had, I was going to ask you today about what you wanted to aim for and accomplish as an adventurer," she hummed, "So…it's a harem of girls you want then?"

…Is it?

"…Well I wouldn't say no," I shrugged, it was the truth and I won't lie about that, the vast majority of guys would love a harem of beautiful girls all to themselves, and I am no exception, "But to be honest, I don't really have any grand aspiration right now. I just had a vague plan, get you all to myself and. get strong, rich and famous."

It's not exactly some grand aspiration to become a hero or get revenge and defeat the One Eyed Black dragon, but, not everyone needed that kind of thing to have a fulfilled life.

I didn't. I just want to watch my numbers go up and enjoy life.

At my upfront admission, Hestia's cheeks burned, "…Well you already have that first part," she whispered lightly, before looking at me a bit hesitantly, "…Would you prefer it if you were my only familia member?"

I froze at the question.

…Would I?

"I wouldn't…mind it," I nodded slowly, "It could be really fun to be your only familia member and have the Hestia Famila become the best regardless, it would a real challenge right? But, at the same time, I'm not so stupid to wave off getting other members that would be a massive help in dire situations."

Plus you know, I'm all for recruiting Lili and such. It would be piss easy too, all I'd need to do is march through her guild, talk to Soma, he'd probably make me drink some of his pansy ass wine as a test, but it's fucking wine, so not exactly something hard to do, it's not like it's some real Scottish Whiskey or anything like that, then once I showed how weak his piss-water alcohol was, he'd let me do whatever the fuck I wanted.

Hestia gave a single nod, "Alright, you're the familia captain after all, so I'll definitely keep your words in mind, granted, not that anyone besides you has wanted to join me anyway," she sighed, but perked herself up quickly, "So, what was that box thing you were carrying?"

"A fridge, to keep our food fresh for longer." I replied.

"Oh, really? I thought they were super expensive though?" she asked, and made her way over to side down beside me.

"Oh, it was, but we don't really need to worry about money anymore, thanks to you, I've already found a way to make loads of valis quickly," I replied and held my hand up, conjuring a blue crystal gauntlet into existence around it, "This is still pure crystal from a crystal mantis, so the guild will buy them for ten thousand valis a piece."

"Eh?" Hestia blinked, "Eeeeeeeeeeh?!"

Her shock was understandable. After all, right now, going by how much magic power, or mind I have, and how quickly it recovers, I could probably make roughly ten of these a day.

Which would be a hundred thousand valis, without ever having to enter the dungeon. That would be roughly three million valis a month.

Only high ranked familia's could pull in that much from what Ron explained to me. And the higher my magic stat grows, the more volume of magic power I'll have and the more I'll be able to make.

It took a few moments for Hestia to calm down, "Oh…wow…" she trailed off, before chuckling and beaming at me, "You're really amazing Caelan!" she praised me.

"If it wasn't for you giving me that expensive magic crystal of yours last night, I wouldn't be able to do this," I smiled back, "I might have the skill, but I can only use it thanks to your kindness in taking me in and gifting me that magic crystal."

Last night I thought I'd grow way quicker in the likes of Freya's familia. But, honestly, with this, I don't need them, in fact, they'd probably hinder my growth when the rest of those cucks that licked at her feet like mangy mutts realised how much more amazing I am than them.

Give me a year. I'll surpass Ottar, or at the very least, be strong enough to give him a good fight.

"Uwa, I'm so lucky to have you as my child," Hestia latched onto my arm and hugged me tightly, "I'm so glad you chose me."

"Well, Hestia is Bestia after all." I proudly announced.

She giggled, cheeks turning an even darker red than they were previously.

We stayed like that for a few minutes, I wasn't sure what Hestia was thinking, but I was just enjoying having her latched on to me and pressed up against me.


It was only then I remembered, "Oh, hey, can you update my falna?" I asked.
Hestia looked up at me from my side before smiling, "Sure, just take your shirt off and lay down on the bed." she told me.

Nodding, I stood up from the couch and divested myself of the clothing on my torso, before making my way over to the bed and laying down, facing down.

A few moments later, Hestia joined me, climbing up to straddle my bare back and a second later I felt her gentle fingertip, damp with her blood trail gently down my spine.

The room was immersed in a brilliant blue light, and in my peripheral vision, I could make out odd lettering floating through the air and Hestia reading through it with a serious gaze.

"Wow…you really went all in, huh?" she mused to herself. She must be looking through the 'story' of what I went through today. That was one thing that would be hard to work around in general for anybody.

It was almost impossible to lie to a god. For one, they could tell when somebody lied to them when speaking, and if you were in their familia and they updated your falna, they could see exactly what you had done in the time since it was last done, like reading a new update to a story.

I didn't reply, I didn't really need to.

The only solace was, it seemed they couldn't see into the thoughts of the people with the falna through the 'story' on their back.

It was also very, very convenient for giving Hestia the full story behind things without me having to take the time to explain everything. That was kind of awesome, not going to lie.

Moments later, it was done and a rush of information flowed into my head, it was weird how naturally it just seemed to fit in as well, like it was there all along, was the best way I could describe it, almost like remembering something I'd forgotten.

Hestia reached down to hand me a piece of paper with my falna imprinted on it.

"You know, I think I underestimated just how crazy your skill is." Hestia clicked her tongue, laying down across my back and looking over my shoulder as I read over the falna sheet.

…She was not wrong. Fucking hell was she not. Even I'm surprised.

Caelan Odhar

Level: 1

Strength: G269
Endurance: G276
Dexterity: G233
Agility: G235
Magic: G248

Skills
Typhon: Rising Monster King. The power to devour the magic stones of monsters, growing stronger from doing so and gaining the abilities of monsters. Evolving physiology towards pinnacle body. Enhanced teeth. Monstrous combat instinct and the power to break through all limits.

Monster Abilities
Night Vision: The ability to see clearly even in total darkness.
Crystal Armour: The ability to generate crystal armour as over the body to enhance durability.
Enhanced Senses: Vastly enhanced eyesight, hearing and sense of smell.
Flame Breath: The ability to breath out a torrent of flame from the mouth.
Temperature Control: The ability to raise and decrease the body's temperature.
Flame Resistance: A resistance to heat and flame.
Magic Resistance: A resistance to effects of magical nature.

Magic​

Holy fucking shit.

This…this is really insane. In a single day, I've gained another four abilities that may as well be skills or development abilities, or even a flat out magic spell in one. And on top of that, I've already risen a quarter of the way to the typical max stats can reach on the falna, in all categories.