My Upgrades Are Invincible

It was when Ryuu trounced me in another one of our spars that I couldn't help but feel irritated at how inexperienced I was in comparison to how fast as I was growing in pure stats.

"Ryuu how can I get better with my sword." I asked as I ran a towel over my sword at Ryuu's insistence as despite its over worldly nature, it still could pick up a bit of dust during our battles and she had a good point of if I didnt take good care of my weapon I probably wouldn't be taking care of myself.

Ryuu uncharacteristically and instantly covered her mouth, but I could see her expression as she clearly took her own joy out of my question, and it took a couple seconds for her to school her expression into her usual stoic face as she replied. "Jake the vast majority of high-quality adventurers built themselves up over the literal decades it took them to gain there strength unlike you who within not even a year overtook the likes of Finn Demie and Lady Riveria's work of decades."

Thats true... I mean Riveria is literally 99 years old and it's my help that helped her get the high quality Excellia and stat points for her to level up to level seven and I could see it not only within her eyes, but the rest of the Loki members wanted to adventure with me to gain easy stat points. Then I could also take them to another world to fight a dangerous monster or being to gain the high quality Excellia to level up all within a couple months instead of years of dangerous grinding within the dungeon.

Another thing unspoken by Ryuu was how her female elvish style of fighting simply wasn't compatible with my male human body, so I needed to find another teacher to learn how to use my ridiculous sized katana. Which frankly didnt exist as far as I was aware in Danmachi as typically only dwarves would use a five-meter-long sword like I do but theirs's would be a fat great sword that could split the likes of a Valgang Dragon in twain whereas my style was using high speed movement's along with my flying boots to go for critical areas.

"Alright. Thanks for the spar Ryuu, I will hopefully catch you later." I told her as I finished cleaning up my weapon. Ryuu who was sitting down on one of the metal benches I moved outside for us to rest on after spars just waved me off as I went inside to go talk to Hestia about my new idea.

Hestia and Freya were sitting downstairs in the basement working on some paperwork quietly conversing. "Hestia, I think I need to take a couple weeks off from this world and go learn some swordsmanship as I am starting to fall behind against people who have been training since they been able to walk." Just like Dix that captain of the Ikelos Familia. He knew since he was a child of his bloodline and how it cured him to push him to become strong enough to continue his ancestor's work. And even with all that people still didnt make it past the fiftieth floor which I plan to change when I finally get some space magic related materials by making teleporting way points.

Although Freya nodded respecting my choice of wanting to slow down and get better handling of my weapon skills, Hestia on the other hand clearly didnt want me to disappear for a couple weeks. "Cant you hire a teacher or something. Ah! Why don't I ask my friend Takemikazuchi to teach you? He is a god of war and knows all weapons styles."

Granted I imagine he would be a phenomenal teacher but I didnt want to indebt myself towards a Familia I could no longer even adventure with as they were far too weak for me to drag them down to the twenty and below floors. "Hestia, I think its best I went to a group who have studied and worked out styles for the same kind of sword I am wielding for centuries. Plus, unless I give Takemikazuchi's Familia some fused stuff which no one wants me to do I will feel indebted towards him as my teacher."

She pouted hearing me turn her own sort of jealously against her, as she saw me giving away my fused items as cheating for whatever reason and she even got a bit pouty when I gave Ryuu her flying boots as well, just because she was still attached to Astraea and didnt join Hestia's Familia when I offered.

"Fine! but you best not be gone for more than three weeks Jake!" She yelled throwing herself into my arms.

As I firmly hugged Hestia I mentally kept track of the fact that at least for when we went to LOTR there was four times, time dilation between words so for every week here in Danmachi was at least a month in LOTR so if it was similar, I would have around three months to explore and kill some demons and the reason I chose Demon Slayer besides the Nichirin swords I wanted to snag for myself and to fuse to my armor was to kill those demons who had space manipulation abilities so I could make the teleporters I envisioned for the public to use and conquer the dungeon.