[Chapter Size: 3178 Words.]Lucius POVDungeoeenth Floor.

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  When I woke up, I still felt my head throbbing with pain from that damn staff. As soon as I opened my eyes, my ha straight to the bump developed in the middle of my forehead.

  "Riviera, you went so hard on me! How could you?!" I pined as I tried to get up, cursing my future wife a bit.

  "Lucius-Kun!? You finally woke up!" Said a startled Aphrodite upon hearing my sudden voice.

  "Aphrodite? How long have I been unscious?" I asked without wasting time, as I imagine I might have missed some things.

  "A whole day. Riviera brought you to the camp yesterday, although she didn't mention the reason for your injury or why you two were in the middle of an explosion that was heard throughout the floor..." She said thoughtfully, but I didn't make an effort to answer her curiosities and ged the subject.

  "The Loki family, have they left already? I say this because I have the impression that it's just the two of us here, isn't it? What's happening with the rest of roup?" I asked, knowing that Riviera and the others should have goo the surface right after the bath event.

  But still, I didn't hear any noise ing from outside the tent, and seeing only Aphrodite here was a bit strange, 'Unless... darn... I'm quite te... why did I faint so close to such importas?!' I excimed internally.

  I began tret, while Aphrodite started to expin what was happening, and what I had imagined was indeed underway.

  "Yes, they have already left because of some problems caused by some adventurers from Rivira. And you're right, only the two of us are here... You're not thinking of taking advantage of me and wanting to do something wrong with this beautiful goddess and her perfect body, are you, Lucius-kun?" She said in Aphrodite's usual narcissistie, seemingly more like she wao seduce me by showing off her body when she spoke these words than stating that it was wrong. Essentially, she was asking if she actually wanted me to take advantage of her, but there were other issues to address now, and Aphrodite firmed my hypothesis.

  "Aphrodite! Focus, tell me what happened!" I demanded, and she stopped the teasing.

  Why did she suddenly bee serious and speak without her usual tone?

  "Bell aia are in trouble. Hestia was kidnapped, and Bell is ered by a group of adventurers. My daughters and the rest of the adventurers here decided to ad are going now to help Bell aia. I stayed in case yained sciousness, as I am useless in a fight." She stated everything I had imagined.

  So, to keep me from being alone while I'm unscious, she stayed to take care of me. I cluded with a mental o thaer.

  "I wao be prepared for this earlier, but unfortunately, I had this problem with Riviera," I thought a bit frustrated.

  "Let's find the others; I feel like this kidnapping will result in something big happening on this floor!" I said, and she looked at me with wide eyes, as she could sense if I was lying or not and heard only siruth from my vision of the future, the ical knowledge.

  "Yes, Lucius-kun!" She also got up quickly to apany me.

  I grabbed my leather armor that I had bought before meeting Riviera and put it on since I had healed myself with my spell and was almost 100% scious now. I took a piece of cloth that looked somewhat burnt and torn, which I had obtai the inn when I visited it, ao the rubble yesterday, casting a spell on it.

  [- Repair Clothing] The cloth began to expand, leaving Aphrodite open-mouthed at what was happening. Sihere wasn't much for her to do here, she aying full attention to what I was doing before we could leave.

  The cloth expanded, gaining colors aails. This was my old cloak that had been torn a at the inn even before the explosion. It art of my old outfit that I retrieved when I visited the ierday, after asking the owo let me go to the rubble, where I found it.

  Now, looking at the wonderful piece, my cloak was in perfect dition, and I leased with it as I put it over my leather armor.

  "That's amazing! I've never seen magic that repairs clothes; that's very useful..." Aphrodite excimed. As a woman, she obviously would like to be able to do that too, and I couldn't disagree with those shining eyes as she looked at my cloak.

  "And this mage cloak looks so beautiful on you!" She also excimed.

  "Thank you, now let's prepare to help them." I said, and she nodded.

  In the end, I put two swords I found at the camp on my waist and some potions I found in a bag. I took everything I found; I had to prepare as much as I could. After all, the battle would be against a mutant Goliath.

  We ran to where Aphrodite said her children were. I noticed that the goddess couldn't move like an adventurer, so I approached her.

  "Huh? Lucius-Kun? What are you doing?!" She shouted as soon as I grabbed her and pced her like a princess in front of me. She blushed at that and was a little surprised, something I didn't think I would see in the goddess of love, sidering the kind of goddess she is.

  Don't mistake this for a romantic retionship; I'm just her friend, and what she does with her life is her problem. But I wouldn't deny having fun with her as a friend with bes, just like I do with Demeter.

  'Thinking like this, ever since my memories returned, I've only been having sex with goddesses! Fet about it, it's not the time to think about this, not now...' I cluded my thought and e. It wasn't the situation to think about these things.

  "This is faster, Goddess Aphrodite. Your children, my family, and our friends are in danger, I feel it, so we 't be te!" I warned, and she nodded shyly. In the end, she put her head on my chest as we ran to the location.

  It didn't take long to hear the sound of metals g ahead. I reached the cliff with Aphrodite and saw several adventurers on our side and the other, fighting each other. I saw Welf's magic sword fall off the cliff, and the elf Ryuu, whom I hadn't had tact with these days, appeared to save him on another hill. I noticed Hermes with Alfi while they watched the fight with Bell and the invisible adventurer calmly.

  "Of course, all of this was done by the hands of that God. He wants to create trials for Bell, but I don't like him doing these things in the shadows," I thought angrily.

  I put Aphrodite on the ground; here, we were above him, and it was a safe pce for her to see her daughters fighting and how they were doing.

  I saw that there were 20 adventurers fighting against roup, and another 20 were still watg the fight with Bell. So, I decided to end this charade, f a wicked smile at this thought and walked to the edge of the cliff.

  "All together in one pid close to each other..." In my mind, these words appeared like music.

  "Lucius-kun? Why are you smiling like that? It's sg me..." Aphrodite, notig my new expression, looked at me a bit cautiously with a perplexed expression.

  I took a few steps without b to answer her and raised both hands to that group of adventurers.

  "Lucius-kun..." She didn't finish what she wao say because a rain of fire erupted directly from my hands, heading straight for the group of adventurers who were still spectators of Bell, while he was taking a beating from those men's cowardly acts.

  *Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom**Boom*The small explosions above the adventurers elicited scared screams from everyone. No one ared in my aim; soon, everyoopped fighting, including Bell, who was staring stu a group of adventurers caught by the mini-fire bombs.

  "I'm injured! Damn it!" a voice shouted.

  "Who shot at us like this!"

  "Lucas is unscious!"

  "Give me a healing potion; my arm is burnt!"

  Various indignant cries were heard within the smoke.

  Of course, I didn't kill anyone; I didn't shoot enough for that. But I could easily have killed half of them without them knowing where the attack came from when I shot at them uedly.

  The other adventurers and even Hermes were looking at the in of the shot. Of course, that means me, who was o a goddess with her mouth wide open, big enough to fit a golden egg from Jack Bird easily.

  "What's the matter? 't I join the fun?" I said arrogantly for the first time, showing my presen the area, and my voice easily reached everyone's ears.

  "Lucius!!"

  "Lord Lucius!!"

  "Lucius-Dono"

  "Lucius-kun!"

  On our side, several of my friends called my name happily with my sudden appearance. Oher side...

  "Bastard!"

  "I'm going to kill you for this."

  "e down, you bastard!"

  "It's the bastard who destroyed the inn!"

  "Someone grab him; I want to cut him."

  "Who are you, you wretched piece of trash!?"

  Seeing my new crowd of fans, I couldn't help but sigh. Adventurers and gods were looking at me at this exaent, so it's time for me to formally introduce my true identity in this world, the hat I will leave marked in the history of this p.

  "Well, to start, I would like the author of this o put the song 'Bck Clover OST - Pentagram' as background music while I make my magnifit presentation!" I said mentally.

  "Let me introduce myself. My name is Lucius Drakenar, a member of the Hestia family and the greatest magical potential in this world, the one who will be known and called, the WIZARD KING, iure!" I said shamelessly while raising my arms and shouting the part about the Wizard King as I looked at the crystal on the ceiling as something grand.

  No one spoke after this presentation, but everyone had the same thing in their minds.

  "What a narcissistic show-off!" Whether friends, enemies, ods, everyone excimed this in their minds.

  "What an idiot...""Hahaha, look at this guy.""Wizard king? What nonsense is this?""I've never heard of this guy, and he's already calling himself a king."

  I began to hear the ents of those who should be our enemies, and veins started appearing on my forehead.

  "You bastards!" I said angrily and raised my hand, engulfing the enemy group in a shower of fire.

  "AHHH!""FOR FUCK'S SAKE! SOMEONE MAKE THIS DAMN GUY STOP ATTAG!""WHERE ARE THE ARCHERS?""DIE, YOU DAMNED!" I shouted like a demon in fury.

  My grandiose aura of being a Wizard king was repced by a heartless demon as I burned adventurers imperiously like an AK-47. The sound of fire ing from my hands sounded like a mae gun, while I ughed at others' misfortune.

  While I burhe guys who were running around trying to escape my fire, my friends looked at this se wordlessly, raising a question.

  "How muergy does this guy have?" They woo themselves. Even Bell, Welf, and Lili, who had already seen a bit of my capabilities, were still amazed at the rain of fire I was unleashing without even breaking a sweat.

  "Hmm... Nicole? Why doesn't Mr. Lucius seem to be draining his mental energy whehrows tless fireballs and ti this pace? Is that possible?" said one of Aphrodite's daughters, w how Lucius was throwing fire like it was nothing and still ughing strangely in that attack.

  "I am a mage, but I haven't seen or heard of anyone who do this. It seems like his energy is inexhaustible, not to mention he only o raise his hand to unleash this fire. I saw him do it tirelessly during all the intermediate floors while esc me, which surprised me. But he's doing it now. I'm w how I was mistaken about him back then. I'm still w when he will stop casting so much magic so carelessly!" reported the dark-haired human whom Lucius had helped once.

  "How is this possible?" Ryuu, the elf atg, was stunned while seeing level one and two adventurers screaming and fleeing, their clothes and equipment burning, and their skin covered in burns. It was a se to pity the enemy, even for her.

  "We don't even know," mented Welf. He saw Lucius's fight with Goliath and found it surreal, but there was Lucius again, casting spells like an artillery on, not that Welf had any idea of what that is and the cept.

  "Well... this is ued. He doesn't seem to tire..." Hermes said, squinting from the other side of the hill while watg Lucius practically alone, making a group of level two and one adventurers retreat.

  "He's only level two; he should never have this muergy. Even fes at my level, if they cast half of this attack scale, they would already be in mind-zero," Alfi said, equally surprised at Lucius's magical abilities.

  "Iing, looks like we have another variable here..." cluded Hermes with a mysterious smile.

  But this didn't st long because the other 20 adventurers who were closer to Lucius, fighting against his friends, began to climb the cliff to fight and stop the magiiac who was hurting their other friends.

  "It seems the fun is over, Aphrodite. Take a few steps back while I deal with these adventurers," I said to Aphrodite, bringing her out of her dazed thoughts from the observations so far.

  She nodded, still dazed, but stepped back as I waited for my new adversaries to approach. I increased all my stats by 10%, making myself a level two adventurer with average physical stats of rank C. I cast Iron Skin to give my skin a grayish appearance, and my sword created a lightning aura with rank 2 magic.

  My interrupted magic made them resume fighting and regroup as many of them took healing potions to alleviate their burns. Bell returo his duel with the invisible man wielding the artifact Hermes had given him, but now the young novice had the advantage against the older man, all his movements with his heightened senses.

  As the first five appeared on the cliff where I was, I cast my spell as they approached running towards me.[Gravitational Spell, Gravitational Field!]The me straight to the ground, limiting all their movements.[Fire Spell, Multi-Firebolt!]Four fireballs appeared around me and were unched directly into the midst of them."AHH! That hurts, you bastard!""Damn, how he have the energy to cast so many spells at once?!""It must be some artifact! It's not possible!"

  I didn't waste time with their pints and started kig their heads. The gravitational spell was celed, so I could move freely while they were distracted by their burns.

  I mao knock out two of them without them being able to react, and exged blows with the other three, knog out one more shortly afterward. The st two were still standing, looking at me cautiously. One mao cut my arm with a small cut, but a green glow made the wound quickly heal right before their eyes.'How I love my powers!' I excimed mentally.

  I then cast anravitational field, fusing them, and celed it to run towards them with a kick to eae, throwing both down the cliff. They screamed as they fell onto their other rades climbing the cliff.

  I didn't waste time, as the fight up here would bee b and could harm Aphrodite. So, I jumped to keep up with the falling unsen.

  My dest brought me to join my friends who were still fighting. I noticed Bell cutting his oppo's sword at that moment."Yo, need any help here?" I said with a smile as everyone exged sword blows with their oppos."It's good to see you here, man!" Welf shouted in relief."Lord Lucius!" Some of Aphrodite's girls excimed."Lucius-Dono!" Mikoto said amid her group, making me wonder whearted adding "Dono" to my name.

  Not g about it anymore, I waited for my first oppoo approach running, aiming at him, and releasing a fireball. This made him try to protect himself with his arms c his face, giving me an opening to hit him with the hilt of the sword on his head, knog the man out.

  I was ready to attack the man who was ing to fight me angrily and help my friends when suddenly, I heard a voice from someone familiar that even made all my hairs stand on end with the pressure of the tone.

  "STOP THIS!" She simply said these words that echoed throughout the pce; there was a hint of arum in her voice, but no one seemed to notice.

  Hestia appeared, and her anger was visible in her voice, but no oopped to listen to her. Then she did something that rarely a God would do, but when it es to the well-being of her family, she wouldn't mind.

  *BOOM* An aura exploded, making everyoop fighting immediately as they looked at Hestia cautiously at this moment; no one wao mess with an enraged god.

  Hestia was glowing, with her hair ties falling to the ground; the glow turned her hair reddish.

  "Is this her true form? Redhead?" I wondered as I looked at her walking among all the enemy adventurers, who were bag away in fear while everyone on our side was kneeling, except me, of course. I respect her as my goddess, but I won't kneel or ftter any god; I have my pride.

  She walked up to Bell, making even his aggressor run in fear into the forest.

  "It's almost time," I said, looking at the sky while everyone was celebrating that Bell was safe.

  "Lucius-kun?" Aphrodite, who arrived by my side, asked me why I was looking at the ceiling while everyone was happy and celebrating.

  "It's ing," I simply said that, and everyone looked in my dire, questioning what I was talking about.

  Of course, I didn't feel anything special, but I wouldn't miss the opportunity to look badass here.

  A little after my words, the ceiling began to crack, frightening everyone as the entire floor trembled with the roars of titans.

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