[Chapter Size: 3201 Words.]Lucius POVSomewhere, Orario.

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  Freya remai the top of the Tower of Babel, the upper floors with an intrigued expression. The day, she met with Ottar, her loyal follower, in search of information about the ret events involving the Hestia and Apollo families.

  " you tell me again, Ottar?" The goddess's voice sounded, filled with curiosity and a subtle hint of malice. Ottar, always respectful, maintained his indifferent posture while narrating the events.

  "The members of the Hestia family cshed with the Apollo family st night," Ottar reported, revealiails with appareionless precision. Freya, surrounded by an aura of intrigue, yearned for more information.

  " you give me details?" She insisted, her eyes shining with insatiable curiosity, especially as it involved her Odr, the diviribute that ected her to her beloved.

  "Acc to our iigation, a group led by Hyakinthos, the level three captain himself, followed Bell el and his group to a bar. There, a member of the Apollo family provoked them, triggering the beginning of the brawl." Ottar's narrative tinued, remainiral in the face of events.

  "So Apollo wants to mess with my Odr? It seems I'll have to destroy him after all!" The goddess decred with a dangerous gleam in her eyes, suggesting an unwaveriermination to protect what was hers. Ottar, aware of Freya's intense feelings, khat his goddess was ready to eradicate Apollo, with meticulous pns already f in her mind.

  "tinue, I want to know how it ended." Freya's seductive and captivating voice echoed once again, revealing her tinued i in the narrative.

  "Bell and others engaged in a fight, except for the mage Lucius and Captain Hyakinthos, who remained on the sidelihe Hestia family ended up prevailing in the chaos, demonstrating their strength over the provocateurs from the Apollo family." Ottar cluded, realizing that his goddess patiently awaited the final developments of the events.

  Ottar remained undisturbed, his expression unged as he reported the events to the goddess Freya, who attentively watched the narrative of the ret events.

  "The fight was ing to an end, with all members of the Apollo family defeated on the ground," an, maintaining a cold and objective tone. "However, as the dust settled, Hyakinthos, the relentless captain, rose with renewed determination, attag furiously and catg the members of the Hestia family off guard."

  He tinued, detailing the se he had iigated. "It was when he grabbed Bell el's hat the st member of the Hestia family acted. Without ceremony, he cast fire magi Hyakinthos, catg him off guard with the sudden attack."

  The description of the fight extending into the streets was delivered with equally undisturbed posure. "The battle moved to the streets in a frontatioween Lucius and Hyakinthos. Many witnesses observed Lucius demonstrating she teleportation skills, skillfully dodging Hyakinthos's attacks. However, even with this notable talent, Lucius has already reached the peak of level 2 in physical terms, an advahat tradicts the usual leveling expectations in just two weeks," ically analyzed.

  Addressing questions about Lucius and his intriguing nature, Ottar remairue to his serious and undisturbed nature. "This peculiar member who joihe Hestia family seems to have notable abilities," he stated, without giving any hints of surprise or emotion.Freya looked at him and reflected, "However, his soul doesn't attract as much attention as Bell's. It's remarkably ordinary. This raises the question: am I being deceived before my eyes? Who is this Lucius? Any additional information since we began iigating?" she questioned, maintaining her sensual tone, awaiting Ottar's response.

  She was always keeping an eye on Bell el and those who ied with him, with the iion that nothing bad would happen to him. She never paid much attention to Lucius, beyoing whether he would be a threat to her Odr or not. But she saw only a on purple soul, nothing too fshy; however, she is starting to feel that she is being deceived before her own eyes because his growth is no longer lower than Bell's, risking to say that it is still greater thatle newer.

  "Nothing more than we've already gathered, a mediocre adventurer who came to Orario two years ago, showed little talent, being one of the poorest ever recorded in Orario's history.""He beloo the Heimdall family but was expelled two months ago for showing nress despite his efforts. He joihe Hestia family almost two months ago and has been showis pletely opposite to what he was experieng i years. I won't be surprised if he breaks the record for leveling from two to three in the few weeks, acc to my iigation."Freya remained serene, her pierg gaze fixed on Ottar as she calmly formuted her questions. The atmosphere around, in the divine enviro, was impregnated with the subtle tension that precedes intriguing discoveries.

  "But acc to your test iigation, he didn't start showing his explosive growth until he joihe Hestia family, did he?" Freya inquired, her voice eg with the certainty of someone aced to trolling the invisible threads of destinies in Orario.

  "Yes, Goddess Freya," Ottar replied, maintaining his serious and respectful tone. "He disappeared from people's eyes after being expelled, but he didn't leave Orario. A week ter, he bumps into Bell el."

  The se unfolded in Orario, where dang shadows and soft lights posed the diviing as the versation tinued.

  "He took that grimoire, didn't he?" Freya questioned, her words den with a mix of curiosity and displeasure. The mystery surrounding the stolen grimoire caused a bitter sensation in her divine mind.

  "Yes, we believe he took the grimoire on purpose. Then, after a few hours, he goes to the church, delivering a new grimoire to the Hestia family."

  Freya pohis revetion, her expression maintaining its usual calm, but her eyes veying an iy of deep thought.

  "So, he stole the grimoire but came back with another one shortly after. A genuine one, as Odr learned his magic that same night."

  "Yes, Goddess Freya," Ottar firmed. "However, even before Bell went into the dungeon with his newly acquired spell, Lucius was already in the dungeon, unleashing the same magic. This indicates that it wasn't from Hestia that he gained his sudden growth. I heard reports that he could cast magidlessly in the few days, from some witnesses, but they all believed he had a rge mana pool."

  The narrative unfolded like a plex py, each revetion adding a yer to the intrigue. Freya, curious aermio uhe mystery of Lucius, pressed on with her questions.

  "So, something happened in that interval between his expulsion and joining the Hestia family... And you don't seem to believe that he has a rge amount of magic, do you?" The curiosity in Freya's voice arent as she sought to uand her son hiddeions through the impassive Ottar. The diviing provided the backdrop for this intriguiial interrogation.

  "No, Goddess Freya. Our intelligence heard reports that he had to rest, but due to physical ditions, his magic seemed to op replenishing; it was as if it were inexhaustible. Furthermore, he's developing many spells, far beyond the limits of an adventurer with 3 slots, and there's no doubt that his spells are being more and more powerful. He's at level 3 or even 4 in magical terms already," Ottar decred, his firm voice resonating in the celestial enviro.

  Freya absorbed this information with a perceptible degree of surprise, her divine eyes refleg the gradual uanding of the extraordinary potential Lucius presented.

  "This is new. Have I been wrong all this time? Is there unpreted potential alongside Odr? I 't see the degree of potential in that soul, as it presents itself as normal before my eyes, but my visioo have been deceiving me all along. This is very iing. I've heard him say some quite arrogant things, but I never imagi was real."The diviing transformed into a spectacle of shimmering colors as Freya processed the revealing information. The celestial room, bathed ihereal light, seemed to echo the secrets that were beginning to unravel.

  "Yes, he is quite arrogant. Seems to fear no one and doesn't even shrink in the presence of gods. Acts as if there are no sequeo his words and as, even against those more powerful than him, he doesn't seem to back down."

  Ottar's revetion about Lucius's audacity echoed in the celestial room, creating a curious tensioween the goddess and her loyal follower. Freya, with her divine wisdom, delved into a moment of refle as destinies iwined amid the revetions.

  Freya's ption, bined with Ottar's fession, created a space of refle in the diviing. Celestial light illumihe knowledge that danced in harmony with surprise. Freya's seductive tone resonated once again, leaving an intriguing echo in the air, as if the very essence of the divine were immersed in mystery.

  "But I don't think he'll st long with that attitude. He drew attention from his fod, and he picked fights with the Hestia and Loki families. He must be hated by the Apollo family after yesterday's events."

  Ottar added more pieces to the puzzle, outlining a more plete picture of the tumultuous panorama in which Lucius found himself. The words echoed, portraying the plexity of the iwined retionships between gods and their followers in Orario.

  "Hmm... Is his past the one you firmed?"

  "Yes, he ged his st name, but he really belongs to the Ranekard family. He is the eldest, who escaped two years ago to e to Orario. The guild tacted him whearted attrag attention, whided with the guild leader being threate that moment."

  Details about Lucius's past, buried in the depths of the celestial city, were revealed to Freya. Her expression revealed a mix of fasation and surprise at the intricate plot that was beginning to unfold.

  "So, that magical explosion came from him a few weeks ago? How iing. I never expected there to be someone like him hiding while beio my Odr! Who really are you..." Freya stared fixedly at a side of the city, where, in the slums, there was a destroyed church. I, a unsan y, with one side of his cheek swollen, a wito ret events that were beginning to e to light."I want all the information about him and his movements iime as well," Freya ordered, her words resonating with uiohority. Her gaze, pierg as the sky itself, fixed on Ottar, eagerly awaiting the updates that would flow from the most hidden ers of Orario.

  "Yes, Goddess Freya," Ottar replied, bowing in a sign of respect before divine will. The words were spoken with typical solemnity, refleg the follower's unwaveriion to his deity.

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  Third Person POV

  Some time after Freya and Ottar discussed the events of yesterday, in another part of the city, in the sumptuous Twilight Mansion, the enviro was drastically different from the slums that trasted with its opulence. A richly adorned area, full of majestisions belonging to great merts and nobles, stood out for the presence of a singur mansion: the Twilight Mansion. An imposing structure that transded the others, and whose influence permeated harmoniously throughout the neighborhood. Everyone khat this was due to one of the most powerful families in Orario, the residents of the Twilight Mansion.

  Ihe mansion, a se of refi and elegance, araordinarily signifit meeting was taking pce. Executives and members of the main team, all gathered in a private room, holding a vital discussion. The importance of the meeting was evident, as no member of the sedary team was summoned, indig the gravity of the unfoldis.

  "ARE YOU SAYING THAT THE CHIBI HAS AREMELY POWERFUL WIZARD, IN ADDITION TO THAT RECORD-HOLDING RABBIT?!" excimed Loki, his voice eg through the elegant corridors of the mansion, expressing his disbelief in the face of the events narrated by Bete, ao the ret developments.

  Loki's tone reverberated through the room, alternatiween surprise and indignation at the surprisiion. The atmosphere of the meeting, illuminated by golden deliers, veyed a sense of importand urgency as the powerful discussed the ued developments challenging the established expectations in Orario.

  "From what I heard from Bete, he summon a fire creature resembling a human woman, in addition to that Goblin, and cast various spells without an intation. But what's more surprising is that he didn't seem to stop casting them as the fight tinued..." pondered Finn, the family captain, his eyes refleg intrigue at Lucius's extraordinary abilities.

  Collective attention focused on Riviera, the elf who, immersed ihoughts, had withe events involving the enigmatic human.

  "Have you heard of anyone like that, Riviera?" Finn inquired, seeking some crification on the mystery surrounding Lucius from the elf's wisdom.

  "Holy, that human has been a plete mystery sihe day I met him on the seventh floor. His growth is very rapid, not even someone like that among the elves in our history. He truly is incredibly powerful in magical terms. Even still at level two, I believe he fight a level 4 and even win, if he has a powerful enough spell in his arsenal," pondered Riviera, her voice eg with the sideration of someone who faced the enigma called Lucius.Lefiya, by her side, shifted unfortably; she was quite jealous of someone even more talehan her emerging and now taking the attention of everyone in her family, even if the person iion was outside her family.

  "So, the rumors are true?! Did he really destroy a Crystal on top of a Goliath in Revira?" Tione asked, her voice filled with excitement at epic feats, even if performed by an adventurer siderably less experiehaione had withe ge on the floor i few weeks, but the idea that the one responsible was the same man who had been knocked out by Riviera before the st expedition still intrigued her.

  "It seems so... we iigated 5 days after the i. There's indeed a ge in the ndscape on that floor, as you've seen, and it was caused by Lucius of the Hestia family..." expined Finn, his tone revealing the seriousness of the ret events. The decision to iigate only occurred after the main team rested while the sed team took over the mission. Discert prevailed because, although some ventured into the dungeon during this interval, no one was certain of what had exactly happened.

  "AHHHHH! Why did we leave at that moment?! I wao see the two Goliaths that I heard from the other adventurers!" meione, ging her mood by 180 degrees.

  "Tsk, that human is still weak; he just knows how to release some fireballs," pined Bete.

  "But his growth is remarkable," Riviera retorted.

  "Hmm? Are you defending him now? Don't tell me there's somethiween you?" mocked Bete, his irritation evident in Riviera's response.

  The gaze of the room verged on the elf at this moment, a palette of strange expressions painting the faces of those present. Aiz, maintaining her imperturbable posture, remained silent. The i was not so mu the possibility of somethiween Riviera and Lucius but rather in the perspective of the family's most powerful mage on the mysterious adventurer.

  Riviera, realizing the attention turo her, blushed slightly at the insinuation. "OF COURSE NOT, I KNOW HIM A BIT. HE'S A NICE GUY IN THE END, ALTHOUGH HE HAS SOME WORRISOME FLAWS," she responded, momentarily breakioic demeanor.

  "Worrisome fws? You say that after having something to do when you cast a high-level spell on him during our camp?" teased Tiona, introdug a touch of humor into the versation.

  "NO! That... was an act," murmured the elf, a slight blush persisting on her cheeks. The small elf by her side, watg attentively, seemed perplexed, as if witnessing an unknown side of her teacher.

  "And she thinks she has one of those sides too..." Lefiya reflected, recalling the days of training under Riviera's striess, which left her restless even during sleep.

  "She even thinks he's a nice guy in the end, these youngsters... hahahaha," ehe level 6 dwarf.

  Riviera found herself in a dead-end corridor as this topitio unfold.

  "MOM..." The impact of those words reverberated through the corridor, suddenly freezing any other versation. All present turheir gazes to the source of these words, revealing the anguished presence of their Goddess. Loki's hands trembled, her fingers ched, and the heads of her family bowed, creating an image of palpable distress.

  "MOM... MOM..." Loki repeated, a ment eg like a somber melody, casting a shadow over the room and instilling apprehension in most of her family members.

  "Are you okay, Loki-Sama...?" Lefiya asked, her voice expressing genuine , while everyone's hearts pulsated in tuh the uainty hanging in the air.

  Upon raising her head, everyonessed Loki g, her tears flowing like drops of despair. The corridor, once silent, was now filled with the solemn sound of Loki's tears, like a symphony of sadness resonating in the dark ers of that space, just seds before the goddess shouted with all the force of her lungs.

  "I'M GOING TO LOSE MOM TO A CHIBI'S SON, UNFIVABLE!!! THESE BREASTS ARE MINE AND BELONG TO NO ONE ELSE!" The entire neighborhood heard Loki scream at this moment, while her family had to cover their ears.

  A while ter, Loki was still g and muttering in a er with depression.

  "So he turns up here today?" Finn asked Bete, who was at the bar and exged a few words with Lucius.

  "Yes, that weakling said he's ing here, and I'm going to beat him, so he's mine!" He announced.

  "Well, this is going to be iing..." Gareth spoke cheerfully.

  But soon the ongoing versation was interrupted by a kno the door. Tiona quickly went to open it for her captain, and there, a level two member of the sedary team stood.

  "Captain Finn, there's a member of the Hestia family at the gate, named Lucius Drakenar, saying he has scheduled a visit with some family members, including Princess Riviera-Sama."

  "Looks like our boy has arrived!" Gareth said again, looking quite excited.

  After he said that, all the members of the room stood up with curiosity to see the man who has been causing a lot of disturban their family tely.

  But not before their Goddess, who was in a er g, and after hearing about Lucius, quickly stood up and ran like a level ten to the door, leaving everyone perplexed, with their mischievous goddess wanting satisfa with this Lucius before anyone else there.

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