But seriously though,
Moe Connection covered most of volume 2 and 3. The only thing I probably would add is that the minotaur in volume 3 is not "just a random minotaur". Eina also went on "a date"/armor shopping with Bell in volume 2, which leads to volume 4.
There's not much happening in volume 4, Bell found the blacksmith that made his armguard/protector as seen in
this. The
blacksmith is a descendent from a lineage that can craft magic swords (recall that magic abilities are rare and OP as hell in this world), but he hates his family so he refuses to craft them. He partied up with Bell, who got to test his Argonaut skill, which is an "active action" skill that acts as a charge ability (think arcades like Street Fighter). They started heading to mid-floor at the end of the main plot.
One of the side story involves Dian Cecht demanding payment from Miach (Mian, who is Dian Cecht's son in Irish mythology); we then find out about his assistant Nadha's silver arm, which pretty much tells you the neta for the character is legendadry Irish king Nuada Airgetlám (but Nadha is female in the story). Airmed, who is Miach's sister in legend, is Dian Cecht's Familiar member.
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Another is the early days of Hestia and Bell when they first began their Familia.
Interestingly enough, according to the legends, Nuada is killed by Balor (
more here, the Second Battle especially; Bell might be Theseus,
David, and Lugh all in one), whom in the story is the Monster Rex of Level 49 (highest level monster known to date). Tale-wise, Balor is killed by a spear made from the Goibniu family, whom also appeared in this story and one of the patron of his craft is Ais
; she carries an indestructible sword made from Goibniu himself. After reading Sword Oratoria though, indestructible means "super high endurance", as the acid-bomb-powder-thing from the
Lamia-type creature past level 51 can still wear it down a little (even though they evaporated everyone else's weapon).
Dionysus and Demeter also made appearances in the side story; Dionysus is supposed to be "fighting" with Hestia for one of the spots of the Twelve Olympians gods in myths, but he
might be against Loki instead in the story; he is the most mysterious figure in the story right now. Hermes also appeared in the web and Apollo[n] and Ares were mentioned by name in Volume 4 and web respectively. Would be interesting to see the rest of The Twelve (
massive bonus points if Zeus is a sexy, but so far the gender for the gods have been unaltered).
There isn't much else that can be said without a ton of typing (I apologize since this is getting long already ...), but there's also this gathering (furigana デナトゥス, no idea what that is) during which gods assign titles to people who reach level 2. Since half the adventurers are still stuck in level 1, getting to level 2 is kinda a big deal. But really it is a joke feast cause the bigger families usually bully the small families and give really retarded names like "Burning Fighting Fighter" (I wonder if this is a neta to Oreshura, who's also GA Bunko) to their newly rank-upped members. Ais was supposed to change from Sword Princess to Sword Master but they don't think it fit her image (they also proposed to name her "Our Waifu" but Loki threatened physical violence so they gave up
). Bell was "spared" cause Freya told them to come up with something cute, so he's named "Little Rookie".
Finally, there's not a single person nor demi-human younger than Bell (so far). This is the definitely the novel (gospel) for (older)siscon
.