[Chapter Size: 2352 Words.]Lucius POV Abandoned Church, Orario.

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  Lucius POVOrario, Abandoned Church. Some time before the meetiween the key members of the Loki family.Lucius awoke in the dimness of the abandoned church, his face throbbing with pain. The swollen side and broken nose were silent wito the tumultuous night before. Quickly, he invoked healing magic to alleviate the disfort, while his eyes explored the dusty surroundings.

  The a churow an improvised refuge, exuded an atmosphere of abando and mystery. Beams of light filtered through broken windows, illuminating the fotten space. Wooden benches creaked uhe pressure of time, and worn walls whispered a stories that had been fotten.

  "Damn..." Lucius muttered, as if waking up from a hangover, his thoughts unraveling as he tried to restruct the events of the previous night.

  "Heeee..." Riekling, his loyal panioed some grunts in response, expressing his presence beside Lucius during the tumultuous night.

  "Riekling! How are you? Did you protect Hestia yesterday?" Lucius asked, scratg his head as he struggled to recall the details.

  "Heeee! Heeeeee..." Riekling responded, his expressive nguage showiion to his master.

  "Don't ge the subject, boy. About yesterday, I met a very powerful and crazy woman..." Lucius began, trying to dispel any misuandings.

  "Heeee..." Riekling interrupted, indig that the topic wouldn't be easily dropped.

  "I swear I didn't mess with her, just said I wanted nothing to do with her, respectfully!" Lucius tried to close the topic, but Riekling seemed viherwise.

  The brief versation was interrupted by Bell's voice, eg in the church corridor. There were no private rooms in that makeshift pce, only funal spaces for basieeds. Bell, with a worried expression, emerged from the corridor, breaking the silence of the abandoned church.

  "Mr. Lucius?" called Bell, bringing with him an anxious energy.Soon followed, Welf, Lili, aia right behind him."Hey, everyone?" greeted Lucius, a faint smile ad his lips.

  "Man, you beat up that arrogant captain. It was the best thing I've seen in a while!" excimed Welf, his expression radiating happiness.

  "Yes, Mr. Lucius, you saved me at that moment," thanked Bell, though Lucius could sehe young adventurer's ched fists.

  He reflected as he listeo Bell's thanks. "He must have realized that not only am I strohan him now, but there's also a much rger gap between us."

  "Yes, Lili also thanks for saving Bell-Sama, but Lili thinks Lucius-Sama is too reckless and mog a level 5 adventurer like Shakti," mented Lili, her voice den with .

  "RUM. Thanks for saving Bell-kun, but why do you always get into some trouble in this city?" teased Hestia immediately, elig ughter from those present.

  "HEEEEE."

  "What I say? I wao provoke that woman a bit, but I guess it didn't work out too well, hehe." Lucius ughed at his own foolishness, but his expression quickly turned serious as he faced Hestia.

  "Anyway, we were targeted by the Apollo family. You know that, don't you?" stated Lucius, direg a serious look at the goddess before him.

  "It's true, Bell and the others told me what happened before you fought." Hestia firmed, her eyes expressing the seriousness of the moment, while the others remained silent.

  "I don't think it will be the st time. So, better be prepared." Lucius warned, his words eg in the abandoned church like a foreboding of what was to e."But didn't Lucius give a good humiliation to the captain of the Apollo family? Why would they try to mess with us again?" pondered Welf, his words eg in that space of worn walls and broken stained gss.

  Bell aia nodded, expressing approval of the bcksmith's reasoning, but Lili's quietness drew everyone's attention.

  "Lili thinks it's not that simple..." she finally spoke, her words sounding with calcuted seriousness, revealing the strategiature that always characterized the small spy.

  "Lili is right. As much as I humiliated Hyakinthos, I didn't defeat him. And the Apollo family sists of at least 100 adventurers. Even with the majority being level 1 and some level 2, their strength lies in numbers. It's a challenge for us in a direct frontation," expined Lucius, his tone refleg a deep uanding of the situation.

  "My fod is like Apollo, and knowing that type, he'll want revenge, despite that attack at the bar already being pnned! So, you better strengthen yourselves because things are going to get quite plicated at this point," warned Lucius, his eyes refleg the seriousness of the warning.

  "Ahing, the Heimdall family may be targeting us as well. They tried to attack me in the dungeon. That's why I reend that you all focus oing stronger while we have a short time." Lucius left a direct message for a, Hug, and the others, his words den with the urgency of the situation.

  "Lucius, are you suggesting that your former family, the Heimdall family, is also ied in us? This 't be serious..." Hestia spoke with a surprised expression.

  "It's very serious, Hestia. They tried to attack me in the dungeon. It may have been an isoted a; I didn't kill them to prevent them from retaliating, but we better be prepared for the worst." Lucius said with some seriousness.

  "This plicates things even more. We 't igwo powerful families. How do we pn to deal with this?" Bell looked ed.

  "It seems like our problems are just beginning. But we won't give up. If we o get strohen that's what we'll do." Welf frowned.

  "Lucius is right. The strength of the Apollo family is in numbers, and Heimdall may pose a more direct threat. We then ourselves." Lili spoke with a thoughtful expression.

  "All right, everyone. Let's face these challeogether. Lucius, you provide more details about what happened between you and the Heimdall family in the dungeon?" Hestia began tain posure and asked for information.Lucius started narrating the events with the threat from his fod but avoided talking too much about a's words.

  Everyone had plicated expressions at this moment.

  Anyway, we went to eat something, but I could feel their tension about the Apollo family's attack, and with this new information that the Heimdall family attacked me, they now khese attacks wouldn't be the st, Hestia was the most ed.

  Even though I shocked them with my spells and magical strength, which handle a level 3 a an advantage, we're still talking about fighting aire family while the only members of Hestia are Bell and me; Lili isn't officially part of the family yet.

  But Lucius didn't pay much attention to his colleagues' tension; he khat war was iable, and besides getting stronger, discussing possibilities is a waste of time now.

  Even though I altered a bit how things are going from the , I still see the war game; I just o get stronger now, and I o talk to Riviera about it.

  After the first meal, I saw everyone leaving the church for their respective tasks. Hestia went to work, Bell and the others went to the duthen themselves, fag so many challenges, and I even put Riekling with them, so Lili could also fight while my goblin became her emporary support.

  Now that I was alone in the pce, I muttered."I'll study my stats; it's time to review my ret gains."--------------------------------------------------------

  ---Information---? Name: Lucius Drakenar? Race: Human;? Family/Falna: Hestia.? Niames: [OPEN(!)]? Level: 2---Status---? Strength: I60 -> B770? Endurance: H150 -> A812? Dexterity: H110 -> C603? Agility: H105 -> E412? Magic: D310 -> SSS1120---Abilities---? Blessing of ?????? (es Any Mana Cost)? Charged Magiagic for 2 Times its Cooldown and Release 4x Strotack)---Development Abilities---Luck - I---Spells---? Fire Spell/Firebolt/Rank 2. (Mission plete)? Ice Spell/Freeze/Rank 1. (No Mission)? Support Spell/Strength Booster/Rank 2. (Mission plete)? Support Spell/Speed Booster/Rank 2. (Mission plete)? Summoning Spell/Goblin/Rank 2. (Mission plete)? Lightning Spell/Lightning on/Rank 2. (Mission plete)? Healing Spell/Minor Heal/Rank 2. (Mission plete)? Alteration Spell/Magelight/Rank 2. (Mission plete)? Alteration Spell/ Body-Clothes/Rank 2. (Mission plete)? Alteration Spell/Fix Clothes/Rank 2. (Mission plete)? Magic Spell/Minic Aura/Rank 3. (Mission plete)? Fire Spell/Multi-Firebolt/Rank 3. (Mission plete)? Alteration Spell/Ironflesh/Rank 3. (Mission plete)? Gravitational Spell/Minravitational Field/Rank 3. (Mission plete)? Space Spell/Quick Dodge/Rank 3. (Mission plete)? Lightning Spell/Lightning on/Rank 3. (Mission plete)? Summoning Spell/jure Fme Atronach/Rank 3. (Mission plete)? Alteration Spell/Intermediate Creation/Rank 3.? Alteration Spell/Cirvoyance/Rank 3.? Fire Spell/Fireball/Rank 3.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

  "My numbers are great!" I couldn't help but feel satisfied.

  My physical stats have evolved well, refleg the stant effort I dedicated to my abilities. Enduraood out as the statistic that progressed the most, a necessary achievement in the face of challenges in the dungeon. Every blow I resisted, every healing spell I cast, all tributed tthening this crucial area.

  However, agility, my most g area, showed signs of . By prioritizing the clever use of the dodge spell, my physical body took a back seat. A deliberate choice, but ohat I now realize has its own implications.

  "Now, my magic stat..." I couldn't help but murmur.

  Adding my st 2,223 points to these new 1,120, I reach the mark of 3,343 points. A score parable to a level 4 mage. The magical power flowing through me is palpable, fueled by the stant improvement during these weeks of training. My spells, once modest, now exhibit a potency that defies expectations.

  My abilities remain unged, steadfast in their effectiveness, but it's in the spells that I see the true metamorphosis. The t exceeding 20 is a notable feat. Not even Riviera, the experienced elf, seems to boast such magical diversity. An achievement that, I must admit, fills me with a sense of aplishment and, at the same time, a shadow of unease.

  As I revisit my missions, a certainty emerges: my evolution, though impressive, is only the beginning of a path that stretches ahead of me.

  ---MISSIONS---? [Initial Mission: Learn a Spell Without Iing With a God, | {Progress: pleted} | {Reward: System Initialization.}]? [FireBolt Mission (Rank 2): Cast 10,000 Firebolts! | t: "Firebolt!" | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [Strength Booster Mission (Rank 2): Cast 100th Boosters! | t: "Strength Booster Spell!" | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [Speed Booster Mission (Rank 2): Cast 1000 Speed Boosters! | t: "Speed Booster Spell!" | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [Goblin Summon Mission (Rank 2): Keep the Goblin Active for 100 Hours! | t: "Summoning Spell, Goblin!" | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [Lightning on Mission (Rank 2): Cast 5000 Lightning ons Rank 2! | t: "Lightning on!" | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [Intermediate Monster Rex Missio Goliath Alone on the Seveh Floor! | {Progress: pleted - (100%)} | {Reward: 100,000 Points.}] (Hidden dition: You defeated Goliath at level 01 [Hidden Reward: 01x Card that Nullifies a Chosen Magic t! + 100,000 Points!])? [Minor Heal Mission (Rank 2): Cast 5000 Minor Heals Rank 2: | t: "Minor Heal!" | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [Magelight Mission (Rank 2): Cast 2000 Magelights Rank 2: | t: "Magelight!" | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [ Body-Clothes Mission (Rank 2): Cast 1000 Body-Clothes Rank 2: | t: " Body-Clothes!" | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [Fix Clothes Mission (Rank 2): Cast 1000 Fix Clothes Rank 2: | t: "Fix Clothes!" | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [Minravitational Field Mission (Rank 3): Cast 10,000 Minravitational Fields Rank 3: | t: "Gravitational Spell, Minravitational Field!" | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [Multi-Firebolt Mission (Rank 3): Cast 10,000 Multi-Firebolts Rank 3: | t: "Fire Spell, Multi-Firebolt!" | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [Ironflesh Mission (Rank 3): Cast 5000 Ironflesh Rank 3: | t: "Alteration Spell, Ironflesh!" | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]

  ? [Minic Aura Mission (Rank 3): Keep Minic Aura Rank 3 active for 200 Hours! | t: "Magic Spell, Minic Aura!" | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [(!HIDDEN!) Variant Monster Rex Missio Bck Goliath Alone! | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: 500,000 Points.}] (Hidden dition: You defeated Goliath at level 2 [Hidden Reward: 01x Random Rank 3 Magic Card! + 01x Card that Nullifies a Chosen Magic t! + 500,000 Points!])? [Fast Dodge Mission (Rank 3): Cast 10,000 Fast Dodges, Rank 3: | t: "Space Spell, Fast Dodge!" | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [Lightning on Mission (Rank 3): Cast 5000 Lightning ons Rank 3: | t: "Lightning Spell, Lightning on!" | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [jure Fme Atronach Mission (Rank 3): Keep jure Fme Atronach Rank 3 active for 200 Hours! | t: "Summoning Spell, Summon Atronach!" | {Progress: pleted (100%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [Cirvoyance Mission (Rank 3): Keep Cirvoyance Rank 3 active for 100 Hours! | t: "Illusion Spell, Cirvoyance!" | {Progress: 0/100 - (0%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [Intermediate Creation Mission (Rank 3): Cast 2000 Intermediate Creations Rank 2: | t: "Alteration Spell, Intermediate Creation!" | {Progress: 28/2000 - (1%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]? [Fireball Mission (Rank 3): Cast 10,000 Fireball Rank 3: | t: "Fire Spell, Fireball!" | {Progress: 23/10000 - (0%)} | {Reward: User Cast Spell Without ting.}]------------------------------------------------

  "All missions are almost plete; I just o tackle the st 3, which are the most ret ones." I decred as I observed the massive s projeg the details of my journey.

  After thhly reviewing all my stats, I decided to clude the analysis. Although I had accumuted 150,000 store points, I chose to save them strategically, aiming to acquire a high-caliber spell at the peak of the store's rank 3.

  With a sigh, I closed the holographic ss, ending the immersion in my own numbers. I adjusted myself and, determined, headed towards the imposing Twilight Mansion, where I could further develop my magic with Riveria.

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