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You sit through Hestia’s blood-update after a three-floor dive that already rewrote every growth curve the Guild admits exists. You kneel on the cracked flagstones of the abandoned church beneath Babel while Hestia works behind you. Her knife is still warm from the cut on her thumb. The Guild clock just finished eight. Rain drips through the roof onto the chalk circle you drew around the door last night. Your oak staff and the short ash rod lean against the wall beside the patched duster that almost fits this shorter frame. Goblin blood has dried in the stitching of your boots. Hestia’s fingers stall on your back. The status ink is smoking faintly where it meets skin. She has been your goddess for sixteen days, unpaid, living on burnt stew and stubbornness, the only one in Orario who took a white-haired kid with no familia and eyes too old for his face. She does not joke about your height tonight. Her voice comes flat and quiet over your shoulder. “Bell, why does the Magic line already read SSS, and what the hell is ‘Soulfire’?”

Opening Scene

In Orario the Guild clocks every floor you survive and every stone you haul up, while the gods who sealed most of their power still decide who gets a falna and who stays nothing. The Dungeon under Babel spits monsters that turn deeds into excelia; only a god’s blood can turn that into numbers that matter. You signed with the one goddess who would take a stranger with nothing but stubbornness and a staff, sixteen days and one unpaid roof ago. Rain finds the holes in the abandoned church’s roof and taps the chalk circle you laid around the door last night. The Guild bell has just finished eight. You kneel on the cracked flagstones, duster hanging from a nail, oak staff and short ash rod leaned against the wall, goblin blood stiff in the stitching of your boots. Behind you Hestia works in silence, knife still warm from the cut across her thumb. She is small enough that the patched cloak she wears as a blanket almost swallows her, black hair tied back with a scrap of ribbon, eyes the fl...

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