Magic items are the easiest to craft among the things Orsted has mastered.
He can create one in just five minutes. However, crafting storage magic items took twice as long—about ten minutes.
Examining the five rings in his hand, Orsted narrowed his eyes slightly.
"I'll call you Hestia's Rings. Naming them after Hestia feels fitting."
He slipped two onto his left hand's fingers and stored the remaining three in one of Hestia's Rings.
Glancing at his backpack, Orsted waved his hand, instantly transferring it into another Ring.
"Phew, no more lugging this around. Much lighter," he said, stretching with a relieved tone.
Patting his legs, Orsted stood and resud his journey.
But before leaving the twenty-eighth floor, he encountered familiar figures.
"Orsted, didn't expect to run into you here," Finn said with a warm smile. "Heading to the deeper floors?"
"Orsted-san, it's been a while!" Tiona exclaid, practically bouncing with excitent.
"Ser Orsted, good to see you," Lefiya said, her enthusiasm tempered by elven reserve, though her eyes sparkled.
Tione, more composed, gave a nod and a simple, "Long ti no see."
"Likewise," Orsted replied, greeting Tiona, Lefiya, and Tione before turning to Finn.
"The monsters on the middle and lower floors don't challenge anymore, so I'm aiming for the deeper floors. Whether I go that far depends."
"I see," Finn nodded, understanding.
He'd learned of Orsted's unique strength from Ais recently and wasn't surprised he was on the lower floors, even expecting him to venture deeper.
"Where are Ais and Riveria?" Orsted asked, curious. Finn's group typically included them, but they were absent.
Realizing the answer mid-question, Orsted wondered if Ais was staying on the thirty-seventh floor, as in the ani, with Riveria accompanying her.
"Ais's situation is complicated," Finn said with a wry smile. "She wants to stay in the dungeon a day or two longer. Riveria's with her."
Finn and Riveria hadn't found a chance to guide Ais recently. He hoped Riveria would seize this opportunity.
"Got it. I might run into them then," Orsted said, nodding with a smile.
"If you do, please look out for them," Finn said earnestly. "If possible, join Ais and Riveria."
He was uneasy about leaving them in the deep floors, but Riveria had insisted, so he hadn't refused. Still, he worried.
Orsted's presence would reduce their risks significantly, given his strength. The mory of Orsted's golden torrent—a week ago, piercing the eighteenth floor's ceiling—lingered vividly.
"I'll team up with them if we cross paths," Orsted agreed without hesitation.
"Great, see you next ti," Finn said. Orsted nodded to the others, passed them, and headed toward the passage to the twenty-ninth floor.
The group didn't leave imdiately, watching Orsted vanish down the passage.
"Orsted-san's exactly like my ideal Argonaut," Tiona said dreamily once he was out of sight.
She hadn't witnessed Orsted's battles, but Ais had shared two incidents. First, as a Level 1, Orsted slew three Minotaurs.
Second, a week ago in Rivira's attack, Level 2 Orsted helped Ais defeat an adventurer even she struggled against, then unleashed a golden torrent that shattered the ceiling between the eighteenth and nineteenth floors.
That ceiling, part of a safe floor, wasn't easily broken—unless the dungeon itself acted. Yet Orsted had blasted through, causing the eighteenth floor's river to flood the nineteenth in a surreal spectacle.
These feats outshone the protagonists of heroic tales, captivating Tiona.
"Definitely," Tione agreed. Orsted's performance in Rivira matched the epic heroes of legend, especially that golden torrent.
"I wish Ser Orsted were in our Familia," Lefiya murmured.
"I'd love for him to be in the Loki Familia too, but we missed our chance," Finn said, a touch of regret in his voice. Orsted's potential was magnetic, even stirring envy in Finn.
With Orsted, the Loki Familia could surge past the Freya Familia within half a year, becoming Orario's top Familia.
Shaking his head, Finn urged, "Let's head back."
Tiona, Lefiya, and Tione turned, following Finn toward the surface.
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