Danmaku, my skills refresh weekly.

“Hmm.” Charles nodded. “Not bad, you are very loyal. What do you want? I will reward you.”

"Orange!!" Marie raised her hands high.

“I think… what you want is a fish tank…” Ciel retorted.

Marie must have been born not long ago; her speech and consciousness were still like those of an infant. Even seven years later, she hadn't improved much.

While in the dungeon, on a whim, I wanted to raise a Paru that could provide an endless supply of high-level healing materials—mermaid blood. So I recklessly fed it oranges…

"Now it seems like I feel guilty for luring innocent girls."

"Doshida?"

"It's nothing, come and have some oranges." Charles stroked Marie's soft green hair, then turned around and slapped the unconscious Palum on the bottom.

"Uwaa ...

"Stop yelling." Charles picked up the lazy Palu with one hand: "Go, buy my fish a bigger fish tank."

"I'm still alive?! Oh my god!" Lily was stunned for two seconds, then groped around before jumping up happily.

"What? Buy a fish tank? Sure, no problem, Lord Ciel, I'll go right away."

Lily took the goblin gold card that Charles threw out and disappeared through the doorway in a flash.

Ignoring the fishman who was busy devouring and showing off his oranges, Ciel began to tally his spoils. He rummaged through his backpack:

"Two large backpacks full of Magical Citrus, 1 x Goliath's Hardened Leather, 50 x Broken Lone King Magic Stone Fragments, and 1 x Encyclopedia of Most Common Monsters Up to Floor 27..."

Charles stroked his chin: "My gold coins have plummeted to 2800 million... My wealth hasn't increased much, but the important thing is... my ability value."

He pulled a bottle of renewal potion from his backpack, mixed it with divine blood, and channeled it into his back, unlocking the shackles and igniting the flame.

Ciel lit the magic stone lamp and saw the data of Grace reflected in the broken bronze mirror.

Charles:

Charl lv1

—Ability Values—

Strength: H151 → SS1001

Durability: B705→SSS1972

Dexterity: H199 → S999

Agility: H135 → S999

Magic: F307→S999

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Magic: The Ring of Miracles

Skills: [Carrying Heavy Load] [???] [Gambling Instinct]

—Upgradeable—

新*

[Gambling Instinct]

• Durability Release (Maximum durability removed)

• Triggered when severely injured, resulting in a significant decrease in stats; the lower the health, the greater the decrease in stats.

• Gain more durability experience points each time you survive a death.

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Turn your head and carefully examine the sacred text on it.

"Hmm... what's this? A new skill?"

The new grid that I thought would be added after the upgrade has actually appeared now.

"And it's actually a negative one... well, not exactly a negative one..." Charles looked at this new ability with a puzzled expression.

"The bottleneck of durability has been broken, and it has also gained the effect of rapid development, but it is actually a ditch skill with negative status effects!"

After analyzing the origin of the skill, Xia Er immediately understood:

"I knew it was because I had done too many stupid things before."

Throughout the entire level 1 stage, Ciel was either gambling or on his way to gamble. Whether it was the "Fragile College Student" or the later "Divine Favor," he was constantly playing a game of wits with death.

This skill seems to be warning Ciel not to push himself into a corner again, while also thoughtfully making him more durable and ensuring that he doesn't die so easily.

Conversely, this also encourages Charles to continue his self-destructive behavior!

He's a true gambler! He's gambling with his life!

"However... unlocking my abilities is a good thing. At least at level 1, my physical strength and defense will be stronger than Bell's at the same stage!"

As for the negative effects...

Charles smiled dismissively:

"Pandora! Upgrade!"

Chapter 68 Divine Script I

"When high-speed machinery entered China..."

"Sacrifice ten years of Marie's lifespan, give it to me!"

Charles bathed and burned incense, offering Marie as a "sacrifice," praying for the blessings of all the gods and Buddhas. He muttered incomprehensible chants to increase his luck.

Having gained experience from several gacha pulls, he still silently chanted in his mind, "Get stronger, get stronger..."

Right now, becoming stronger quickly is indeed what he's most eager to do.

However, it was different from usual.

After all attributes were reset to zero, the familiar skill information did not pop up.

The favors behind it seem to be rapidly recombining and reprogramming, as if scrambled code has been generated.

Charles had anticipated this situation.

The escalation of grace is a rare example of God influencing the outcome subjectively from the outside.

Choose to develop abilities, allocate advanced experience to showcase skills, store experience to guide excess achievements to the next level, and complete continuous upgrades, etc...

Xia Er didn't go to Somo; leveling up in two weeks was still too astonishing.

Furthermore...

"I also want to try to see if my skills can completely break free from the control of the gods! Or even break through the seal of grace by the main god."

After a brief downtime, the sacred text behind it merged into a chaotic vortex.

Within Xia Er's consciousness, orbs of light, each recording a simple word, rotated.

[Hunter], [Abnormal Resistance], [Cooking], [Healing], [Magic], [Gluttony]...

One by one, development ability entries that Xia Er knew or had never seen before kept rotating and flashing.

"This... is the same old routine. Bro, can I top up my account? 648! I can place a hundred orders, give me an orange one!"

In fact, Ciel wasn't given many options.

As the light wheel spun, a dark gray ball of light pierced through the chaos, vanished in a flash, and crashed into the center of the chaos.

"It's over... They didn't even give me blue!"

Before he could even feel disappointed, Sharlford intuitively saw the content related to developing abilities.

【Shenwen I】

There's no extra explanation available; in fact, most of Orario's current development capabilities require individual exploration.

But Charles quickly realized the changes this ability brought about.

In the mirror, the worm-like sacred script behind him disappeared, replaced by square script familiar to Charles.

"This...has been translated into Chinese?"

Within the mirror, Ciel clearly saw the overlooked details among the many favors bestowed.

It not only displays the usual attribute panel, but also records his experiences from the time he was granted the blessing until now:

At what time and what monster was defeated, what crazy thing was done, all of this was recorded in small print.

There were also some texts that Ciel didn't quite understand, but he felt they were related to maintaining the operation of the Grace.

Charles felt that once he thoroughly understood these things, he would be able to do many things that only gods could do.

such as……

The grace of self-renewal extends to the grace of giving to others.

Charles now seems to have mastered a rudimentary programming language and is attempting to tamper with the game's underlying data.

"Wait... I shouldn't be so ambitious. Let's start with a simple writing system for now."

Charles quickly calmed down. The depth of his development in the [Divine Script] ability was no less than that in the [Mystic] ability. Let's do a brief recap.

Which races in the world of DanMachi possess sacred writing?

Elf royalty, fairies, gods, Ais, Fels...

Leaving aside the extraordinary beings like gods and immortals... who wrote Ais's sacred script? Why should children be taught this kind of knowledge?

Could this be the secret to the Mercenary King Albert's immense strength?

What if not? Did every child in that era need to master sacred writing?

A thousand years after the Knights of Finana breached the Great Void, will humanity discover some new system from lost artifacts or the wisdom of the immortals?

If so, then the current prohibition of sacred writing and the disappearance of civilization—could this be the work of the gods?

Was their true reason for descending to the mortal realm to prevent humanity from developing a civilization that surpasses the gods using sacred writing? Or did they simply want to eliminate a mortal who had usurped divine authority?

Isn't the so-called true "promised day" with Albert, rather than with the dungeon?