<p>She will most likely get a replacement similar to her original sword. It's just her style. Part of her persona. </p><p>I wouldn't want it to be an exact duplicate of the previous sword. Possibly one that has another benefit beyond boosting her magical abilities. Like how Bell's Hakugen can cure poison. Maybe her new one can not only increase the power of her spell but decrease the amount of mind needed for the spell. </p>

Maybe a sword made from Mithril. So it can conduct Magic.

<p>As it has already been said she won’t get a sword that is made of any metal, Ryuu needs something to boost the power of her magic. The purpose of a weapon of a magic user is to boost the power of the user’s magic. Mithril just conducts magic which is useless unless there is something else to amplify it, which is what magic stones do in a staff. So she won’t get a sword of mithril neither of other metal because there is metal that can do that. </p>

<p>Ryu isn’t strictly a magic user though, she does a lot of things well and very versatile, one of her skills actually ups her attack power too... so why does she need to have a weapon that ups her magic power? Don’t get me wrong it would help for her to have something like that, but she doesn’t need to have something like that because she isn’t like Lefiya who relies solely on magic, heck she don’t any have the mage DA. You can’t pigeon hole her into strictly using a wooden blade just cuz she uses magic often...Ais uses her Ariel all the time and she uses metal weapons... What would be more telling in the direction that she goes as a character than her weapon, would be the skills/magic/DA she gets if/when she levels up. Think about it, she hasn’t had a status update in 5 years and she has done a lot in that time. She could easily get an a skill that could be on par with realise phrase. Your thoughts? </p>

<p>The reason for saying that she won’t get a metal sword is because she needs something that amplifies her magic because that is how it is her fighting style. If she wanted a metal sword she would had gotten one before, it is the way she is used to fight so suddenly changing without a reason wouldn’t make sense as it has always worked for her to use that fight in style. </p><p>About her status, people say that there had passed five years but they have to remember that those were years in which she didn’t do something except training which doesn’t give excelia. There had been only two things she has done that could give her excelia and those were the fights against the Black Goliath and the Juggernaut. </p><p>And that has nothing to do with Liaris Freese. Liaris Freese is a skill that Bell developed because of falling in love with Ais not because of fighting so she wouldn’t get one like that. Also, what makes it special is that Bell’s feelings were so strong to make it appear so giving someone else a skill similar would make it lose it’s meaning and what makes it special. Also it would just be plot convenience for someone to get a skill like that and show that Oomori is desperately trying to make up for the problem of Bell’s friends falling behind him. </p>

<p>Ryu doens't need a skill to level up. Her best stats were already close to 900 5 years ago. All she needed to level up was a heroic deed and a status update. Fending off Juggernaut easily qualifies as a deed if you ask me. </p><p>Regarding the subject, I think Ryu will have to meet Astraea regardless her decision to join or not. Either she will transfer familias or update the status. I know her status might've been already set into transferring state, but I personally don't think it's the case. Story-wise I see no reason why Ryu would distantiate from her goddess if she decides to continue adventuring. So I think the meeting will happen and Astraea will gift Ryu a fitting weapon. </p>

<p>What the other person said is not that Ryuu should get a skill similar to Liaris Freese to level up but that she should do it and in the same update get the skill. </p><p>About Astraea giving her a weapon. Even if she got more members in her Familia there are no really ways to get too much money out of Orario and a weapon of a first class adventurer already cost millions so it wouldn’t make sense that Astraea had a weapon for Ryuu. </p>

<div class="quote"><i>Rigel31415 wrote:
The reason for saying that she won’t get a metal sword is because she needs something that amplifies her magic because that is how it is her fighting style. If she wanted a metal sword she would had gotten one before, it is the way she is used to fight so suddenly changing without a reason wouldn’t make sense as it has always worked for her to use that fight in style. <p>About her status, people say that there had passed five years but they have to remember that those were years in which she didn’t do something except training which doesn’t give excelia. There had been only two things she has done that could give her excelia and those were the fights against the Black Goliath and the Juggernaut. </p><p>And that has nothing to do with Liaris Freese. Liaris Freese is a skill that Bell developed because of falling in love with Ais not because of fighting so she wouldn’t get one like that. Also, what makes it special is that Bell’s feelings were so strong to make it appear so giving someone else a skill similar would make it lose it’s meaning and what makes it special. Also it would just be plot convenience for someone to get a skill like that and show that Oomori is desperately trying to make up for the problem of Bell’s friends falling behind him. </p> </i></div>
<p>I said before she doesn't need something to increase her magic, her style is very versatile in that she can output both physical and magical dmg effectively...she is very much like Ais in that regard and Ais doesn't use anything to increase her magic dmg. </p><p>would a wooden sword that buffs her magic help her yes...does she NEED it, No... </p><p>you said they get no excelia from training, well true I guess but yet training still ups their stats and develops their fighting technique (Remember Bell upped his stats by training and Ais upped her stats by training with Ottar, Argana and Bache are both lvl 6 but they don't fight monsters that high...they train fighting each other) And if she has maintained a consistent training regiment for the 5 years the the results can be quite a big increase... </p><p>I think you're also mistaken on how growth works, it doesn't only come from killing monsters but everything they do effects them... And Ryu has done a lot more than those 2 things since the start of the season let alone the last 5 years.Your forgetting that since her last update she hunted those responsible for the death of her familia and killed them, she's made multiple trips down to the 17th floor to visit her friends' graves no doubt killing many monsters to get there she also made a trip to go rescue Bell killing many along the way. She fought in the war game, had a duel with Ais, fought Chloe and Lunoire, fought monster Filvis, killed a bunch of monsters on lvl 4 besides the Juggernaut all the while surviving a near death experience and more so ya I would say her stats are going to skyrocket when she updates her status. </p><p>And what I meant as far as a skill that would rival Liaris Freese is that it's potential would rival it, not that it work the same way nor do the same thing. I don't think it will be anything close to it at all. I'm merely stating that she has been through a lot so her getting a powerful skill or magic ability is warranted and wouldn't seem like mere plot convenience. </p>

<div class="quote"><i> <p>Quote: </p> I said before she doesn't need something to increase her magic, her style is very versatile in that she can output both physical and magical dmg effectively...she is very much like Ais in that regard and Ais doesn't use anything to increase her magic dmg.</i></div>
<p>She has already her fighting style stablished, there is no point in changing now. She uses magic as part of her fighting style, yes her style is kind of similar to Ais’ style but at the end it’s different and it requires something that amplifies her magic. Whether you like it or not it was already stablished like that and it won’t change unless she wants something which is unlikely to happen. </p> <div class="quote"><i> you said they get no excelia from training, well true I guess but yet training still ups their stats and develops their fighting technique (Remember Bell upped his stats by training and Ais upped her stats by training with Ottar, Argana and Bache are both lvl 6 but they don't fight monsters that high...they train fighting each other) And if she has maintained a consistent training regiment for the 5 years the the results can be quite a big increase...</i></div>
<p>You are misunderstanding how excelia works. In Bell and Ais case they were training with someone of a higher level something that always gives excelia. And Argana and Bache don’t do training they fight seriously which gives more excelia and they are from the same level. All of them were fighting with some else who was as strong or stronger than them. Ryuu has been training alone something that gives almost nothing of excelia as it was showed with Bete who trained for days alone and only got 3 points which Loki said that it was a high increase from just training so usually they get even less that 3 points. </p> <div class="quote"><i> Your forgetting that since her last update she hunted those responsible for the death of her familia and killed them, she's made multiple trips down to the 17th floor to visit her friends' graves no doubt killing many monsters to get there she also made a trip to go rescue Bell killing many along the way. She fought in the war game, had a duel with Ais, fought Chloe and Lunoire, fought monster Filvis, killed a bunch of monsters on lvl 4 besides the Juggernaut all the while surviving a near death experience and more so ya I would say her stats are going to skyrocket when she updates her status.</i></div>
<p>She killed people and monsters of lower levels than them. If an adventurer fights opponents of lower level than them even if they are too much they get little excelia as it was said and shown in SO Volume 1 with Ais who fought dozens if not hundreds of enemies and her stats grew just a little. In the trip to Floor 18 there are Monster Level 1 and 2 which are way lower than her so she didn’t got excelia from them really. The same goes for the War Game as the strongest members she fought were Level 2 still 2 levels lower than her. Against Ais it was already said that UnK reduces the amount of excelia gained so she didn’t got much of it as well. And while her experience in the 37 Floor was near dead and fought plenty of Level 4 monsters it was already said and shown with Finn, Riveria and Gareth in SO Volume 6 that the excelia gained from floors that they already cleared is not enough for them as their stats grew very little even though they were in a life or death situation against the Demi Spirit. Ryuu has reached Floor 41 so it should happen to her the same as them. </p> <div class="quote"><i> <p>And what I meant as far as a skill that would rival Liaris Freese is that it's potential would rival it, not that it work the same way nor do the same thing. I don't think it will be anything close to it at all. I'm merely stating that she has been through a lot so her getting a powerful skill or magic ability is warranted and wouldn't seem like mere plot convenience. </p> </i></div>
<p>Giving someone a skill which potential was as much or near the same as Liaris Freese would be just plot convenience as it would show that Oomori is trying to make up for the fact that no one can keep up with Bell as well as feeling forced. Giving Bell a skill like that was already too much but he is the protagonist so it is logic that he gets something like that but for a secondary character like Ryuu it would just be plot convenience. </p>

<p>I believe that when Ryu updates her status she will gain not one but two or more skills (as far as I remember, the amount of skills that can be gained by updating are not limited) . </p><p>Ryu not only did everything that was mentioned above but also did in the last 5 years with a certain frequency (probably over a period of months) operations similar to those described in Familia Chronicle (she must have done this several times previously to become a rumor).   </p><p>Rigel31415 you are forgetting that the higher the status is the more difficult it is to increase, not to mention that there is a limit to how much a status can increase (I'm not talking about the value S999), that once this limit is reached your status will not increase no matter what you do , in this case you only have two choices, stay stagnant or level up. (by defeating Udeaus, Aiz increased her status very little but level up). </p><p>
As for Ryuu weapon, perhaps Astreia (that's if it really appears in the story) does not give the weapon itself but the materials to make it. </p>