After visiting Welt, Takatsuki and Seele returned directly. Welt also had his own matters to attend to, preparing to leave. After receiving the information left by his future self and fully recovering from his injuries, Welt Yang also began to act.
At the very least, the scattered state of Anti-Entropy could not continue.
Moreover, from the future intelligence, he also knew many things that the radical faction had done in his absence.
"We're back."
As soon as Takatsuki entered the door, he saw Hestia and Bronya playing games in the living room. It was surprisingly not Kiana sitting in front of the game console, which surprised Takatsuki a bit.
"Ah, welcome back."
"Seele..."
Compared to the game, Seele was clearly more important. Bronya immediately dropped the controller and ran towards the door.
Hestia had no choice but to pause the game.
"Where are Kiana and the others?"
Takatsuki glanced at the living room; or rather, he didn't sense anyone else's presence in the house.
"They were dragged off to train by Fu Hua, and Theresa and Himeko said they had work and went out. Do you need them for something?"
"Not really, just curious. Bronya didn't go, surprisingly."
Looking at Bronya, who was pulling Seele towards her room, Hestia sighed: "Bronya said she wanted to wait for Seele to come back, so Fu Hua let her off the hook."
"Bronya and Seele's relationship is even better than I thought."
Takatsuki said, rubbing his chin, as he watched the two enter the room.
"Hehehe, Takatsuki, don't mind the others. Come to my room, I'll show you something good."
"?"
Takatsuki was puzzled, looking at Hestia, who had suddenly become secretive.
However, he still followed Hestia into the room.
"Takatsuki, wait a moment."
After saying that, Hestia lay on the ground, sticking her butt up, and tried to crawl under the bed.
However, her ample chest made this simple action quite difficult.
Watching Hestia make such an extremely suggestive pose, Takatsuki felt like his nose was about to bleed.
Are you testing a cadre with this?
Fortunately, this test didn't last too long. Hestia pulled out a red and black high-tech katana from under the bed.
"This is something I found in St. Freya Academy. This katana is amazing, Takatsuki, take a look."
Takatsuki looked at the weapon in front of him and found its identity in his memories.
"Jizo Mitama..."
"?"
Hestia tilted her head: "Takatsuki, you know this?"
Searching his memories for information about Jizo Mitama, Takatsuki only remembered that this Divine Key was made from the core of the Previous Era's Herrscher of Corruption in the plot, and after the Yae Sakura incident, Yae Kasumi threw it out of the Stigmata Space, and its whereabouts were unknown.
He had once seen a post from a netizen saying that this Divine Key was indeed left in St. Freya Academy.
After that, it was never mentioned again, leading to suspicions that it was retconned again.
Unexpectedly, Hestia picked up this weapon.
"Yes, this sword is called Jizo Mitama. In this world, it has a unified name: Divine Key. It is a weapon made by people of the previous civilization using herrscher cores, a crystallization of all the technological power of an era. Excluding one rather special Divine Key, there are only twelve in total."
The Key of Domination is quite special; there are a thousand of them. Although the game divides them into two, Xuanyuan Sword and Grips of Tai Xuan, in reality, each one is a different weapon.
"So, it's something that powerful?"
Hestia stared wide-eyed at the weapon in her hand. She never expected that a random sword she picked up would be so powerful. Although she sensed the immense power contained within the weapon, she only thought it was a relatively strong one. Otherwise, why would anyone discard it?
One must know that this sword was casually discarded in a bush. If it weren't for her sharp intuition, she wouldn't have found it at all.
It could truly be called a divine artifact.
"Takatsuki-kun, take this weapon, it's yours."
"Mine?"
"Of course! I don't need to fight, and keeping a weapon is useless to me. It's more correct to give it to someone who needs it than to keep it with me."
After hearing Hestia's words, Takatsuki didn't act coy and directly accepted Jizo Mitama.
"Takatsuki-kun, you've adventured in other worlds before, right? While you have the chance, I'll update your Blessing."
It was only when Hestia reminded Takatsuki that he remembered he had a Blessing.
"Indeed, this trip involved fighting a rather strong enemy, so there might have been a lot of progress."
After lying on the bed and letting Hestia update his Blessing, Hestia made an imprint of the Blessing.
However, contrary to Takatsuki's expectations, although he reached the level for an upgrade after returning from this trip, it didn't reach the previous extreme. Only two attributes reached B-rank.
But now wasn't the situation where he had to rush to complete a mission before leaving a world, so there was no rush to upgrade.
The enhancements brought by the Blessing are a qualitative leap at each level, but in terms of pure destructive power, the Blessing's effect isn't obvious.
This is also why Lefiya, who is LV3 in the world of DanMachi, can unleash destructive power equivalent to LV5 or higher.
Because the Blessing leans more towards the evolution of life essence. Even the Xenos have said that adventurers are difficult to kill, and this is partly why.
"Although it's not as fast as before, Takatsuki-kun, your leveling speed is already historically very fast. Plus, challenging powerful enemies in various worlds, perhaps you truly have the possibility of reaching LV10."
Hestia sat by the bed and said, "Reaching LV7 in less than a year is an achievement unprecedented even in Orario's history."
"If I reach LV10, can I defeat Honkai?"
Hestia: "Honkai, huh? I've learned a bit about it in the Academy's library recently. To defeat a Herrscher should be enough, but to defeat all of Honkai, I'm not sure."
"After all, you see, the Honkai you speak of doesn't actually have a physical form; it's more akin to a natural law, like the Dungeon. But at least the Dungeon has an exit. If there were clear coordinates, perhaps one could suppress it with their divine power, like Ouranos, and then just regularly clear out the monsters born from Honkai Energy."
"Clear coordinates, huh?"
Takatsuki looked up at the sky outside the window. Although it wasn't dark yet, he could faintly see the outline of the moon: "That thing might be on the moon."
At least the Herrscher of the End is sealed there, and the Honkai's trial only needs to be overcome by surpassing the Herrscher of the End.