Danmachi: Is It Wrong to Be the Main Character in Orario?

Chapter 897: An Unusual Talent

The projection fast-forwarded, and the camera shifted to the inside of the tent."???"

Zeus was completely dumbfounded. He had been watching the whole time. How could there suddenly be no one there?

"He’s underground."

Prompted by her words, Zeus quickly noticed that the soil on the ground looked newly turned, as if it had just been dug up. Looking closer, he even spotted several air holes hidden beneath the bed.

He had just thought the boy was being careless, but it turned out he hadn’t been careless at all. On the contrary, he was extremely cautious, hiding himself underground. But where had he learned something like this?

"Oh~"

Only after confirming the surrounding scents did the boy begin packing up his things.

Monsters carried distinctive scents, especially those that had killed before. The stench of blood on them was particularly strong. Judging the surroundings by smell was a very reasonable approach.

He quickly packed up the tent, sliced off a thin strip of meat, and tossed it into the forest beside the main road. He casually rubbed his hands with sand to get rid of the lingering scent of meat, then immediately switched into travel mode.

Time accelerated slightly, and text appeared on the projection.

His labored breathing gradually became rhythmic. His running posture began to change, no longer wasting so much energy, and the sound of his footsteps started to fade.

[Twenty Minutes Later]

Then again.

The boy’s breathing was almost impossible to detect, and even the sound of his movements had disappeared. He moved in complete silence, leaving only footprints on the ground as proof of his passage.

He had corrected his running form on his own, refined his breathing, and even shown rapid growth in stamina. It was as if he was improving every single moment.

"How... how can his growth rate be this fast? He hasn’t even come into contact with the ’Falna System’ yet, has he?"

Even adventurers blessed by the Falna System didn’t display growth at such an obvious pace.

This rate of growth was abnormal, far beyond what a normal adventurer could achieve.

Clearly not.

One god suddenly mentioned the "World," and that reminder made the others recall something important. This boy wasn’t ordinary. He was the "Child of the World." In a sense, shouldn’t that make him a god like them?

"No."

"That child doesn’t possess even a trace of divinity. He has no divine core and not even the slightest bit of divine power. And besides, if the Creator can even create gods, why would it take so much time and effort just to let a single human be born?"

"Therefore, the World won’t grant this child any blessings. Nor will it give him even the slightest help."

"That wasn’t help from the World. It was the child’s own strength."

That kind of power, coming purely from the child himself?

And if he really had that kind of potential, even if he hadn’t come to Orario, Zeus and Hera surely wouldn’t have been able to resist taking him in.

Freya had hit the key point.

Everything he had become, he had grown into on his own.