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Maybe it's just a jump from a small cage to a bigger one, but so what?
At least now, he was aware of the existence of the small cage. Maybe he jumped into a bigger cage, but just maybe.
Meanwhile, Aisi continued to breathe heavily.
In the battle just now, Bert only relied on his basic attributes, while she used magic to bless herself, and the consumption of the two was completely different.
She admitted that she had lost miserably.
But she didn't feel the slightest bit of frustration at defeat, and the hand holding the sword was trembling slightly.
Bert had become stronger than she was—so could she.
Although she didn't want to compare herself with her companions, she was better than them in terms of skills, magic, and even development capabilities.
The image of her father leaving flashed through her mind.
Ai Si took a deep breath, walked towards Su Qing and lowered her head.
Loki shrugged. She had guessed that her little Aisi had always been very proactive in becoming stronger.
"Please beat me, please"
Loki: “?”
Su Qing's expression paused slightly, what a vicious word.
Shrugging, Su Qing said, "...Okay, but there is a condition."
Ai Si said without hesitation: "I promise."
"Go to a dungeon, any floor, and find a dragon monster."
"Kill?" Aisi tilted her head.
Su Qing said: "No, if you can resist drawing your sword for one day, I will help you become stronger."
Su Qing sighed inwardly.
It’s not that he wants to make things difficult for anyone. People like Burt have been beaten up by reality. Although he has an awkward and arrogant personality, this is not a weakness.
For someone like Bell, whose dream of being a hero was too strong, he took the box garden away. That was his fatal weakness, and Su Qing never intended to take him to the box garden.
Aisi is also a problem child.
Her hatred for monsters formed her skill of the Revenge Princess, which, when activated, would even erode her own mind.
The skills rooted in God's grace don't matter, Su Qing can wash them off easily, the key is her hatred.
On the surface, Aisi is an expressionless idiot, but she is actually very crazy inside.
It doesn’t matter if she’s crazy, but the prerequisite is that she can control herself. It doesn’t matter if she hates monsters, but she must be able to stay rational and not rush towards monsters regardless of her life or death when she meets them.
If she can't control herself... when playing the favor game in the small garden, the enemy sets a trap and releases some monsters in it, will she just jump in?
Chapter 35: Choice
As soon as Su Qing finished speaking, Finn's face turned strange.
Ais joined the Loki family when she was seven years old. It is a bit of a stretch to say that he can be called Ais's father, but Livilia can definitely be called Ais's mother.
Of course, he was not unaware of Ai Si's problems.
He is too obsessed with power, too impulsive when facing monsters, and does not trust the weak.
The obsession with power is not a huge weakness, Aisi's pursuit of power is essentially due to the death of her parents whom she admired.
Her father is a hero, and because she admires her father so much, in addition to hating monsters, Ais's personality is also moving in the direction of being a hero.
Finn was sure that Ais would never sell her soul for power out of admiration.
——The premise is easy.
If someone could really provide the power for Ais to defeat the black dragon, and if that wasn't enough, then resurrecting her parents... Not to mention Ais, even if it was him, if someone could guarantee to revitalize the dwarf race and use that as a condition for him to leave Loki's clan, Finn felt that he would agree.
Although that would only happen in dreams, Finn didn't think he was that worthy.
Being too obsessed with power is not Ai Si's weakness. As long as the price is paid, anyone can be bribed, but the other two points are.
When Loki's family was adventuring in the dungeon, Aisi disrupted his command more than once or twice, acting on her own to disrupt the formation he had arranged, causing him a lot of trouble.
Finn knew exactly what Ace was thinking.
When ordinary members of Loki's clan face the sea of monsters, under his command, it is almost impossible for them to face monsters that exceed their own limits. Normally, each battle is not too dangerous.
But you have to know that in large-scale group battles, no one can guarantee that there will be no casualties.
Even if they are in a battle with a favorable advantage, if someone in the underground clan is unlucky and their hands sweat too much and they don't hold the weapon tightly, and the monster hits them in the vitals, they will still die.
Moreover, after all, it is impossible for adventurers to avoid risks. The daily attribute growth can be barely dealt with by safe combat, but great deeds can never be accomplished absolutely safely.
Normally, the team members are protected too well, which makes them more likely to die when faced with the great task of searching.
Generally, a clan will let senior adventurers lead new adventurers, but they will not completely protect the newbies from beginning to end. Instead, they will teach the newbies basic common sense and ensure that the risks faced by the newbies are within a controllable range.
The team members below were able to deal with the monster's attacks, but their hands slipped and they didn't hold their weapons tightly, and they fell, revealing their flaws... Even if high-level adventurers protected them one-on-one, they probably wouldn't be able to do it.
When the large group of Loki's followers faced a group of monsters, even if it was a battle they were sure to win, the members would still take some risks.
Fighting involves risks, that's inevitable. If you become an adventurer, you must be aware of this.
But Aisi didn't think so.
Perhaps because her parents died at the hands of a black dragon, while Ai Si hates monsters, she often thinks of the psychological trauma of the past.
When the companions in the family faced the monster, rather than thinking "that is the risk you must take if you want to be an adventurer", Ai Si thought more about "not wanting important things to be taken away by monsters".
Therefore, Aisi was too impulsive. When facing a group of monsters, she often went against his plans, disrupted his arranged formation, rushed to the front line to repel the monsters, and did not let her family members suffer any risks.
Finn was very sure that when he and Livilia grew old, Ais would carry the banner of the Loki Familia and become the ace of the Loki Familia. Ais had the potential.
——But Finn was more certain that Aisi had no way of actually controlling the clan.
The leader in name only needs to be strong enough to serve as a banner, but as for actually managing the various internal affairs of the clan, no one in the younger generation of Loki's clan has demonstrated similar talents.
Finn had talked about Ais's problem more than once or twice, but no matter how he advised, Ais simply wouldn't change.
Finn was helpless.
He was even willing to take a step back - if Aisi could protect everyone in the family and support the confidence of the Loki family by herself, and therefore was determined not to let the members participate in dangerous battles, Finn would feel relieved.
At least you are sticking to what you believe is right. Whether you have the ability to do so or not is another matter.
But Aisi simply didn't want her family members to face danger. She also knew that it was impossible to continue exploring the dungeon without encountering danger. She also knew that she didn't have the ability to make other family members give up adventure and live a peaceful life.
Even so, she still ignored the formation of her clan and eliminated the monsters for the members on the front line... That was just pure willfulness.
With Aisi's strength and qualifications, she has the capital to be willful.
He couldn't use the threat of restricting Aisi from entering the dungeon as a way to teach Aisi a lesson and delay the golden period of her growth, right?
Besides, it would be useless even if he gave the order. After all, it is not the leader who can command everyone in the clan, but you are the leader only if the people in the clan are willing to listen to your orders.
The one who is truly qualified to restrict Ais, forcibly correct Ais's character, and teach Ais a lesson is Loki.
If you disobey orders and act recklessly in the dungeon next time, I will not update your attributes - if Loki is ruthless enough to do this, after Ai Si's misbehavior, he can keep Ai Si on hold for a few months. Finn guarantees that Ai Si's shortcoming of disobeying orders can be corrected.
But with Loki...
Finn could only say that it would be more reliable to rely on Ais's father to help her resolve her emotional issues through a dream. At least the possibility was not negative.
After listening to Su Qing's request to Ai Si, Finn thought to himself that this was too much for Ai Si.
At the same time, I was thinking that it was a really beautiful job.
What should I do if my child is always disobedient? Give him a good spanking twice and all his problems will be gone.
While Finn was worried about Ais, he also felt a little gloating.
Livilia opened her mouth, but hesitated to speak.
She didn't find any room for herself to interrupt. After all, Su Qing only proposed the suggestion of "helping Ai Si become stronger by spending some time with dragon monsters". The right to accept the proposal or not was in Ai Si's hands.
...Although with Aisi's personality, she would never give up the opportunity to become stronger, and it would even be torture for Aisi, but that was also Aisi's own choice.
She can't just say, "Give me some face and I'll kowtow to you on the spot, so as not to make things difficult for Aisi," right?
Isn’t that nonsense!
Loki took two deep breaths, hesitated for a long time, and finally said nothing.
Before leaving, Ais's parents handed Ais to her care, but Loki didn't think much of it. Ais had been frozen by magic from thousands of years ago to this era, and as a hybrid of the strongest hero and a fairy, she was born with great potential and was a hero destined to challenge the black dragon.
She treated Ais more like her own child.
Loki was not unaware of Aisi's character problems, but knowing that didn't mean she would correct them. What was wrong with her child being a little naughty? As the main god of one of the most powerful families in the city, didn't she have the right to let the members of her family be willful?
...Now that Loki thought about it, he realized that there really wasn't one.
The waters of this world are deeper than she thought. On Freya's side, Bell acts as a trap for Freya, and on her side, Ais's parents will hand the child to her before leaving, so she is afraid that they may not be simple either.
Not to mention now that we have been exposed to a wider world.
Ais's character problem would not be a big deal if she was only in Orario and only facing monsters in the dungeon, but if she wanted to move to a broader stage, this would become a shortcoming that needed to be corrected as soon as possible.
and……
Loki smacked his lips.
Aisi, who forces herself to get along with dragon monsters, is so pitiful that tears well up in her eyes, but is unwilling to show her vulnerable side in front of the monsters. She pretends to be strong. Wouldn’t she be cute?
I am a little bit moved.
Loki chose to remain silent.
After hearing the conditions, Ai Si tilted her head slightly, with a hint of confusion on her face.
"…What's the point? Can't we just kill the monster?"
She is the most standard type, and thinks that only dead monsters are good monsters.