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  Third Person POV.

  Somewhere in Orario

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  Third Person POV -

  "A book about magic?!" asked a young man no older than 15, with surprise aement in his voice.

  "Yes, a er left it here, so you take it to learn a bit about the magic you've been wanting! You've always pined about not being able to increase that stat, so maybe this will help. Just return it after you've read it, Bell-kun," said the beautiful gray-haired waitress, Syr Flova, as she handed a peculiar book to the young adventurer with white hair.

  "Really?! Thank you so much, Miss Syr!" said the excited young man. Looking at the book in his hands, he seemed radiant with the anticipation of learning more about magic, as he currently had no spells and couldn't increase that stat in his Falna, which remai zero.

  "Maybe this will really help me!" he thought to himself as he studied the book's cover in front of him for several seds.

  Bell bid farewell to the waitress and began running back to the old abandoned church where he and his goddess lived alone. Meanwhile, a young woman in front of the famous bar "Hostess of Fertility" watched the adventurer running through the streets of Orario aing further away. Her eyes sparkled with ahyst hue, revealing a mischievous look. However, her expression quickly ged when an authoritative voice reprimanded her.

  "SYR! Get baside and start w! ers are starting to arrive, and we're about to open!" The voice echoed from ihe pub, causing the young woman to lose her posure and rush baside.

  Meanwhile, Bell tinued running, lost in happy thoughts as he ehe Orario slums and approached the abandoned church. However, his distracted mind caused him to collide with someone else without notig. Being an adventurer, Bell had a sturdier body thaher party, who seemed to be an ordinary person. This made the ordinary person fall to the ground like a marioe.

  "SORRY! NO!... I MEAN... I'M SORRY FOR THAT!" Bell quickly excimed when he realized he had uionally knocked someone down and rushed to help.

  "Are you okay..." replied the other person cautiously, revealing a tone of pain.

  "Are you really okay?" Bell asked with , extending a hand to assist the man who had fallen.

  Bell helped him to his feet, but he was still ed for the ordinary person. He had e to Orario with the goal of being a hero and clearly didn't want to harm ordinary people.

  Bell noticed that the man, seemingly in his twenties like most of the waitresses he knew, got up with his help and tried to brush some of the dirt off his clothes. He turned his face to Bell and gave a shy smile. Bell noticed that the man oorly dressed and had an unpleasant odor, but he didn't mind these details, as he was more ed about the idea of having hurt someone.

  "It was nothing, but I have to admit, you're quite strong, kid. Are you an adventurer by any ce?" He asked without anger in his voice. Bell was relieved by the other person's rea and responded enthusiastically.

  "Yes, I'm a level 1 adventurer, but I'll soon reaew heights! Still, I'm sorry about that!" Bell bowed as a sign of apology to the ordinary man.

  "It's alright, young adventurer. I tinue on my way. Thanks for the help either way, young adventurer," said the man, thanking Bell, and began walking in the opposite dire.

  "Goodbye, take care!"

  Seeing that the man was fine as he tinued down the slum streets, Bell bid farewell and tinued running toward the abandoned church.

  Upoering the church, he announced his presence as enthusiastically as possible.

  "Goddess Hestia! Goddess Hestia!" He called for his goddess multiple times with excitement.

  "Hmm? What's up, Bell-kun? Did something happen for you to be so happy?" Hestia appeared in the hallway, narrowing her eyes at Bell, who was extremely excited as he called for her.

  "And what if Bell has done something with that Aiz Wallenstein... what?" She thought, annoyed. Hestia didn't want Bell getting close to the Loki Familia adventurer since he had acquired that strange ability. Bell was developing because of her, but he wasn't aware of it, as he kept that hidden from his goddess.

  "Goddess Hestia, I mao borrow a book to learn about magic!" He said excitedly.

  "A book? Let me see it, where is it?" She asked, curious about the book Bell had obtained.

  "Here!" He said, raising his hands in front of his goddess. However, at that moment, Bell realized he had nothing in his hands.

  "EHH?" Bell excimed in fusion, seeing oy air where the book should have been.

  "EHHHHHH!?" He shouted even louder and more startled, realizing he had lost the borrowed book.

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  A Certain Goddess's POV

  Atop the Babel Tower.

  "WHAT HAPPENED?!" came an angry voice. A voice that usually sounded sensual, but had pletely lost its posure at that moment.

  "I stopped watg for just a few mihere's no way something like this could happen on the way back from the Hostess of Fertility!" roared the goddess's voice, trying to uand what had happened for Bell to lose the book she had ily given to the adventurer.

  "Goddess Freya? Did something happen? May I inquire about the reason for yer?" said a muscur man who ehe room as soon as he heard his goddess roar in anger.

  Rarely did something like this happen since he had been taken in by his goddess and joined her familia a few decades ago. Usually, his goddess had trol over all situations, and seeing her in that state enraged him as well. He would do anything to punish anyone who upset her to that extent.

  "Something isn't right here... I don't need your help yet, Ottar, but be prepared for when I call for you," Freya warned with a bit more ess in her voice, although her anger was still apparent.

  "As you wish, Goddess Freya," he said, leaving the room.

  Freya tio observe the adventurer's despair as he tinued searg for the lost book in his arms. He was the same boy who had caught her attention a week ago, and she wished to see his development, as his soul ure and potentially unique in all her loen the mortal world. However, the grimoire she had po give him to learn some spells disappeared somehow while he was on his way bae, and she had no clue how that happened. She had always been in trol of everything, and this event annoyed her more than any other i years.

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  A Certain Grimoire Thief's POV

  Elsewhere, a

  few kilometers from the same abandoned church, in an alley in the middle of the Orario slums.

  A young man with short blond hair, appearing to be around 21 years old, with a star on his forehead, was leaning against a wall, out of sight of others. He was seated while reading a strange book.

  This young man was the same one who had collided with Bell some time ago. He had preteo fall on purpose so that Bell wouldn't notice wheealthily took the book from the adventurer. It wasn't something he liked to do, but it was necessary. Just over a week ago, memories of another world had flooded his mind, and he had been living miserably as a result of some events triggered by those memories. When those memories surfaced, a system with a challenging mission had appeared, making his life even more difficult.

  "I thought my arrival in this world would be peaceful... But that damn God must have dohis on purpose. I remember my past life at 21, the age at which I died oh. And now, this damn mission makes me live a miserable life..." He was frustrated, thinking about the events of the past few weeks.

  He had no more money or a pce to sleep. Unfortunately, he looked like a plete beggar as he slept oreets of Orario. His clothes weren't torn, but they were dirty.

  While reading the book, the grimoire suddenly glowed, and all its tent disappeared, leaving only bnk pages.

  "It's like in the anime! Finally!" he excimed happily, with a cheerful ugh.

  "A week! A week living like a beggar in this pce, doing whatever I could to get money and food, and I finally mao get the book as pnned!" He was frustrated as he looked at the s that appeared in his mind.

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  [Infinite Mana System]

  [Status: Locked, Reason: plete the Initial Mission]

  [Initial Mission: Learn a Spell without Iing with Any Gods!]

  [Reward: System Unlock]

  [Punishment: If you speak to any god during this time, the system will be permaly locked.]

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  My name is Lucius Drakenar, and in a way, I've been trapped in this world with my memories for a week, thanks to the reination cycle. When I died in my former life, in a pce called Earth, I was transported to a ie and entered a higher being known as the Creator. This being e to reinate into a world of its choosing, which, to my surprise, seemed to fun like aertai story.

  After disc the world to which I would be sent, I was entitled to make a single wish. Without wasting time, I chose to have infinite energy to use spells and a system to acquire new spells. After all, in a magical world with these ditions, I could easily bee the best, right?

  However, the higher beiated to grant my wish, g it was two wishes. After about five minutes of iation, I finally persuaded it.

  When I woke up in this world with my memories, I realized I was in the body of a man of the same age and with the same name as I had in my past life.

  With my memories, I was furious about the situation I found myself in. In this world, or at least the me without memories, art of a God's family iy. The family was of medium size, with a Level 4 Captain, while the family's average was Level 2. However, this world's Lucius hadn't evolved much since he ehe family, even after two years. His stats remai Level 1.

  This made him despised by everyone in the family, sidered the weakest and most useless of all. He even had a retionship with a half-elf from the same family, a Level 2 adventurer, whided before he was expelled. It didn't take long for his own God to decide to get rid of him because he no longer saw hope in Lucius and believed he was a waste of resources. Moreover, he became the subject of jokes among the ods.

  Lucius spent a year brooding over this, not uanding why his talent was so bad and why his stats remained so low. He worked harder than anyone else in the family, risking his life and spendiire nights on the lower dungeon floors trying to increase his strength, but everything seemed in vain.

  It ainful to be despised by everyone ahe cruel words they said about him. However, losing the Falna was even worse, as it was rare iy. Moreover, for an adventurer, it was a career death sentence.

  It wasn't just a matter of family dissolution; he had been expelled. No God would trust an adventurer expelled from his old family. No divine being would accept him. On the day of his expulsion, he was depressed and ready to leave the city. However, his memories of life oh finally merged with the memories of Lucius born in Danmachi.

  With these two bined, he discovered that Lucius Drakenar from Earth and Lucius Drakenar from Danmachi were the same person, except for the differen appeara that moment, he was identical to Julius Novao, the Magic Emperor of Bck Clover, but with the same personality he had in his previous life.

  However, he also found out that, due to his wish for infinite energy, the system had blocked his growth potential until he reached the age at which he died oh. When he realized this, his previous life awakened and his memories merged, something that happened a week ago.

  When the memories merged, he became even more frustrated with his situation. Without a Falna, he couldn't grow, and he realized that having infinite magiergy meant nothing without the ability to use it. Even if he could learn spells on his own, he was human and cked the magical talent of the elves. It would take years for him to develop his abilities.

  However, an initial mission appeared, giving him a ce to ge his situation.

  He was excited, but when he saw that the initial mission challenged him to learn a spell without iing with any of the city's Gods, he was a bit frustrated. This would greatly limit his options in Orario, where Gods were abundant. Speaking to any adventurer could attract his God's attention, and he needed a grimoire, something well beyond his means.

  He spent the entire week without money, avoiding banks and rich people who could lead to Gods, and doing what he could to eat and avoid enters with Gods.

  It was then that he po steal the grimoire that would give Bell the Firebolt spell. He discovered Bell's timeline and realized that taking Bell's grimoire would be his best ce to learn a spell and plete the mission

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  Even without knowing what the future held and without a pce to call home, as his family lived in an empire across the sea, he did what he could to survive alone and plete the mission.

  "But I finally did it! It was risky for Freya to see me take the grimoire, but in the end, it worked out. I promise I'll reward Bell one day! I swear!" Lucius said happily.

  As he celebrated, remembering the difficult times he had endured, hungry and sleeping in the slum alleys, a message appeared before him.

  [Learn a Spell without Iing with a God Mission, pleted!]