After examining Genichi’s updated ability values, Demeter fell into a long silence.
The air inside the room seemed frozen.
Only the evening breeze rustling through the courtyard leaves could be heard outside.
Demeter stared fixedly at the parchment with her amber eyes.
Her brows tightened and relaxed while her lips moved slightly, as though silently repeating something or struggling to process an overwhelming discovery.
She stood completely motionless, resembling a statue trapped by a binding magic.
Hanyu Genichi waited facedown on the bed until his neck began aching, yet Demeter still said nothing.
Unable to endure the silence, he turned and looked at her over his shoulder.
Demeter was staring blankly at the parchment with an indescribably complicated expression.
Shock, confusion, disbelief, and a trace of caution she might not have noticed herself were mixed within it.
“Goddess, have you finished updating me yet?”
Genichi finally urged her to respond, his voice carrying impatience and curiosity.
“Did you find something so ridiculous that it left you completely stunned?”
His voice finally brought Demeter back to her senses.
She drew a deep breath as though trying to suppress her shock, then released a complicated sigh and handed him the parchment.
“See for yourself.”
Her voice sounded dry, entirely lacking its usual effortless teasing and amusement.
Genichi accepted the parchment, rolled over, and sat up.
The moment he looked down, he also fell silent.
Thanks to [Universal Literacy], Genichi automatically understood every line on the parchment despite being unable to read this world’s written language.
The information caused his pupils to contract as his breathing unconsciously slowed.
[Hanyu Genichi]
[LV.1]
[Strength: H199 → S999]
[Endurance: H199 → S999]
[Dexterity: H199 → S999]
[Agility: H199 → S999]
[Magic: S999]
[Development Ability: Mage E]
[Magic:]
[Dreamwalking]
[Satanas Verion]
[Genos Angelus]
[Skills:]
[Language Mastery]
[Universal Literacy]
[Slaanesh]
[Fairy Anthem]
[Perfect Being]
[• Synchronizes every ability value with the highest value.]
[Bloodlust]
[• Killing a target restores stamina.]
[• Killing a target restores Mind.]
“…”
Genichi stared at the parchment for a long time.
The final trace of sunlight disappeared beyond the horizon, leaving only the dim oil lamp flickering on the table and casting restless shadows across the walls.
Eventually, Genichi slowly exhaled and lowered the parchment.
His initial shock gradually changed into an indescribably complicated expression.
It contained delight, pride, lingering fear, and a trace of caution he didn’t notice himself.
No wonder Demeter had stared at the parchment without speaking.
[Perfect Being] had synchronized every one of Genichi’s ability values with his highest value, raising them all to S999!
Previously, his Strength, Endurance, Dexterity, and Agility had reached H199.
That was already impressive for a Level 1 adventurer, but they remained far below S rank.
Under normal circumstances, Genichi might have needed several days or even weeks of Dungeon battles to slowly raise those attributes to S.
[Perfect Being] completely skipped that accumulation process and raised all four physical attributes to the same peak as his Magic overnight.
In other words, every one of Genichi’s attributes had reached S999.
For a Level 1 adventurer, those values represented an unprecedented ceiling.
Even Ais Wallenstein, the genius known by the alias “Sword Princess,” probably hadn’t achieved S999 in every attribute while she was Level 1.
Beyond that, Genichi had awakened another new skill: [Bloodlust].
Killing a target restored both his stamina and Mind.
The effect appeared simple, but Genichi clearly understood its significance.
It granted him endurance resembling a perpetual-motion machine.
Inside the Dungeon, stamina determined how long an adventurer could fight, how far they could travel, and how many attacks their body could withstand.
Mind determined how many times they could use magic and how long they could maintain their focus and judgment.
Most adventurers retreated from the Dungeon’s deeper floors not because they couldn’t defeat the monsters but because they had exhausted their stamina and Mind.
They simply couldn’t continue fighting.
[Bloodlust] completely changed that situation.
As long as Genichi continued killing monsters, he would continually recover stamina and Mind.
In theory, that allowed him to keep fighting inside the Dungeon far longer than other adventurers.
If enough monsters surrounded him, he could continue slaughtering them, growing more energetic and powerful with every kill.
Naturally, the skill couldn’t grant genuinely infinite endurance.
Its recovery rate probably couldn’t keep pace with the consumption caused by extremely intense battles.
Even so, it greatly increased his survivability and combat endurance.
It was practically the perfect skill for a Dungeon adventurer.
“You…”
Demeter finally spoke, sounding as though she had countless things to say but no idea where to begin.
Her amber eyes reflected Genichi’s young and slightly proud face.
So many complicated emotions filled her gaze that she genuinely didn’t know how to describe him.
Without question, he was a monster.
No one could object if Genichi were called the most talented adventurer in Orario’s history.
In only one day, his four physical ability values had risen from H199 to S999.
He had also awakened two powerful new skills.
Such growth was completely unheard of throughout Orario’s long history.
However…
Demeter rubbed her temples as a faint headache began building.
This extraordinarily talented adventurer was also a thoroughly questionable person!
What decent person would ever awaken a skill like [Slaanesh]?