Danmachi – Card Wizard - Chapter 54

“Ha! Ais, Aidan, come here!” Said Loki, talking loudly as usual.

“Hello, Loki.” Answered Aidan as he sat on the couch in front of the goddess while Ais nodded as a greeting.

“Now, you should know why I called you two back, right?” Asked Loki as she gave a grin to Aidan, who only nodded as he already knew what she wanted.

“Here are the aliases that I thought about. What is your opinion?” She asked as she gave him a list with aliases for both him and Ais.

“Hum, most are pretty bad.” He said while glancing at Loki, who reddened in shame as she was the one who thought of those. “I mean, for me, wildcard, ace and joker aren’t bad, and Ais’s sword princess is pretty nice too. As for the others tho? Card magician and trickster, in particular, they would make me look like a street magician.” He continued as he shook his head as even Ais had hee eyes grow wide as she looked at Loki wearily.

“Okay, okay. My poor hearth.” Started the goddess as she placed both of her hands on her flat left breast at the position of her heart. “I get it. The names are bad. So, if you’re so good, what about you tell me what you would like to be named?” She asked with a grin.

“Since we have the twin star skill and with our hair colour, I’d go with Sol and Luna.” He said as Ais opened her eyes before nodding furiously at Loki, who was also taken aback by those two names.

“I agree. The names are pretty good. Alright, those will be your new aliases. It won’t even be hard to get them since if they mess with you or Ais, they can say goodbye to their cards.” Chimed Loki as she knew the power Aidan and Ais, by consequence, held over a lot of gods who had their life a lot easier with the cards.

“Did you know that it became a sign of status for gods if every of their level two and above child had a storage card?” Asked Loki as she grinned widely. “However, it became even crazier when some competitive gods started to buy a storage card with bigger space simply because they could for their children and themselves. However, it’s only amongst the lower-grade familia as having a bigger storage card means that their child can bring more resources in the dungeon and improve faster and more safely.” She continued with a smile as thanks to Aidan. She was swimming in gold.

With that news, Aidan and Ais lifted their eyebrows. Aidan, in particular, hadn’t expected that only having different sizes of storage cards would trigger such a phenomenon.

“However, the symbol of status for higher ranking familia is to have a perfect map of the floors. The more maps completed, the more they can brag about it. Due to this, our maps are getting better and better without needing to do anything, and they still pay to work for us.” Continued Loki as she showed a prominent and cunning smile.

Upon seeing the stare of both youngsters in front of her, Loki explained. “The gods are rarely happy to be scammed, and being a part of this is making me happy.”

“Alright, apart from calling you back from the dungeon for your alias, I also wanted to update your status. You have been fighting on the nineteenth floor for two weeks, so it’s time to update.” She said as Aidan immediately took his shirt off before she could express her famous: “Strip.” Loki had told this to every member of the familia once or twice, and they all learned to show their back before she could say it.

With a click of her tongue, she patted Aidan’s back a bit forcefully, which he almost didn’t feel anything as his endurance parameter had significantly increased, which increased his defence.

With a drop of blood falling on his back, his status updated, and Loki, who had just calmed down after having her fun taken away from her, grinned once again. “Damn, you worked hard!” She exclaimed as she studied his new status.

“Alright, here.” She said she stamped a sheet of paper on his back to copy his status before handing it over to him.

[Name: Aidan

Level: 2

Strength: I-10 -> A-870

Endurance: I-10 -> A-894

Dexterity: I-10 -> A-845

Agility: I-10 -> A-869

Magic: I-10 -> S-903

Skill: High Human, Twin Star, Avenger, Triple Step

Magic: Card Magic, Telekinesis

Development ability: Hunter, Luck]

‘Eum, I see why she was pumped. However, I understand why my parameters upgraded so much. I spent a few hours each day for more than a month fighting on the seventeenth floor and then two weeks on the nineteenth floor. I expected that it would upgrade so much.

When I was level one, it became hard to upgrade my parameters to 1500 since I surpassed every adventurer, but once I levelled up and turned back at I-10, I could restart gaining excelia from the thirteenth floor. So, improving this much is expected.’ He nodded his head in understanding while he turned to Ais, who had just finished updating her status.

[Name: Ais

Level: 2

Strength: I-10 -> C-647

Endurance: I-10 -> C-698

Dexterity: I-10 -> C-651

Agility: I-10 -> C-666

Magic: I-10 -> C-679

Skill: Avenger, Twin Star, Half-Spirit, High-Human(Abnormal status resistance)

Magic: Wind slash

Development ability: Hunter, Luck]

‘Hum, she made great progress, but I guess that two weeks weren’t able to close the gap of more than a month of fighting. However, it’s alright. After all, I have to reach 1500 while she reaches 1250, so the difference isn’t exactly bad, and we will level up at the same time again.’ He thought while nodding his head and looking at her status.

“Well, the two of you made great progress. It is understandable since you can fight on the nineteenth floor compared to adventurers of your level who would be fighting a hard battle on the thirteenth floor. Those extra parameters give you an incredible edge against others even if increasing your parameters from 1000 to 1250 and 1500 respectively is a lot harder than others.” She said pensively as she looked at the two youngsters in front of her.

“Alright, I’ll be going to the Denatus, so don’t go back to the dungeon. You’ll hear of your alias tomorrow morning.” She grinned as she left the room, not caring that she left the two in her room. Instead, she couldn’t wait to see the face of the other gods when they learned that two eight years old had managed to level up to two.

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A few hours later (POV Loki)

“Alright, everyone to your seat.” Said Ouranos loudly, calming every god who was talking together. “We only have one order of business. Today, we are to choose the aliases of newly promoted adventurers. We will start with Nira Lisstu of the Benzaiten familia. (Hindu goddess of knowledge according to google.)

“I propose fast foot!” Shouted a god as he looked gloatingly at Benzaiten as he referred to the escape ability.

With more and more aliases popping from everywhere, Loki, who was extremely serious due to having to get Aidan’s and Ais’s nickname looked coldly at the table of gods, which stopped them in their tracks as they started to offer better aliases in fear of angering the goddess of one of the two strongest familia of Orario.

Of course, none of the gods knew what was going on in Loki’s head. She was only focused on getting the aliases that her two children had asked and couldn’t care less about the nickname of that Nira girl. However, due to her serious face, Loki received a thankful look from Benzaiten, who had finally regained some colour.

The Denatus continued on its way as finally, after two hours, Aidan’s name appeared on the table, and Ouranos read his file.

“Aidan, a member of the Loki familia and the card mage who has been producing the cards for the city. His feat was to kill a minotaur. Aidan is currently eight years old.” He said after reading the file on the young boy.

Before any gods or goddesses could make a sound, Loki tapped on the table, bringing attention to her. “I propose the alias of Sol.” She said while giving a glance at the few gods who wanted to talk.

In the end, no one disapproved despite quite a few gods being angry and wanting to mess with the famous card mage.

“Alright, next one is Ais from the Loki familia. Her feat was also to kill a minotaur. She is currently eight years old.” Summarized Ouranos as his left eyebrow lifted slightly after noticing that the two were partners.

“I propose Luna.” Said Loki, who once again received no disapproval voice despite a few gods wanting to mess with her.

“Alright, next one.” Continued Ouranos, who didn’t care about the few gods who were gritting their teeth.

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Author note:

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