Chapter Size: 1717 Words.]Third Person POVOrario, Apollo's Mansion.

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  ...As soon as the lights went out, many people were stunned, both gods and their own children, but a part of them remained quite calm and curious, thinking that Apollo had anized some kind of event aertai in the middle of the ba. Apollo appeared with a light above him to grab the attention of everyone present."Everyone, I hope you're enjoying the ba!" He said, maintaining a friendly smile as he walked among everyoo the dance floor, standing in front of Bell with a smile that seemed quite unpleasant and disgusting to the poor young man. Anht covered Bell and Aiz on the dance floor, illuminated by one of the adventurers in the dark."BELL-KUN!" Hestia stepped in front of Bell to protect him from Apollo as soon as she saw the eyes and smile of her former heavenly colleague."Hm? Hello Hestia, I heard that your children had some trouble with some of mine a few days ago...""Oh... sorry about that..." Hestia was nervous now, looking guilty. Lucius looked at this pathetically sihey were the ones who phis; there was no reason for his goddess to apologize in front of everyone, he found it humiliating."Could you accept your apologies in front of all those present? My children were injured by them, so I roper pensation!" He said, f a greedy smile."Bell also came bajured, it wasn't our fault!" Hestia tried tue." you still talk after seeing this?" Apollo struck a ridiculous pose, pointing his finger behind him, and a new light shoallum, tied up all over the body, injured and disoriented with a quite ridiculous se, in Lucius's opinion."OUCH! TOO MUCH! HELP ME!" The little hobbit screamed in the middle of all that staging.'These guys have no shame, do they?' Lucius said to himself, stepping away from the divine waists he had in his arms and starting to walk to where Apollo and his family were."Lucius-kun?""What are you going to do?"Both goddesses couldn't help but ask as Lucius moved away from them. There was a tone of in them, as it involved Hestia and her children."Me? I'm just going to join in on this fun too..." Lucius said with a rather diabolical smile, leaving them stunned."BELL-KUN, did you really do this?" Hestia was nervous, believing in this staging, much to Lucius's displeasure as he approached."OF COURSE NOT!" Bell protested immediately; he was equally i and naive."Hm? But I have witnesses!" Apollo pointed behind the injured Pallum, and other adventurers showed up with a new light on them, all with sadistic smiles on their faces. It didn't take a genius to figure out that they beloo the Apollo family as well."This was staged..." People in the dark murmured, the se clearly obvious to them.Meanwhile, eveia saw this with angry eyes now."This is nonsense; let's find Lucius-Kun and leave, Bell-Kun!" Hestia said, ready to take Bell away."You refuse to take responsibility, Hestia?" Apollo said with a crooked smile and raised his hands to emphasize his words."Very well! I challehe Hestia family to a war game with my family, the Apollo family!!" He announced, leaving almost everyounned with that statement."O!?""Yes, a war game!""That's so cool!"

  "Apollo is so brutal!""I wao see this!""That's right, and if I win... I'll take Bell el!" Apollo announced.

  This armed Hestia, especially with Apollo's not-so-hidden iions. Bell was nervous behind her due to these suddes. It was in this excited moment that no oiced some footsteps approag behind Apollo. While everyone was imagining the expectations of seeing a war game, no oiced a new individual in the ter of the dance floor as he raised his hand calmly.*SLAP!*The loud sound of the sp echoed through the hall, interrupting the otion and creating instant silence. All eyes turo the in of the sound, surprised and curious about what could have caused this abrupt interruption.

  Hestia and Bell, who were closer to the se, had eyes as wide as eggs, shocked by the sudden turn of events. However, they weren't the only ohe rest of those present at that ba were also stunned by the ued sp that reverberated through the hall.

  Apollo, who was smiling seds ago, suddenly felt a sharp pain on the right side of his face, f his head to move to the opposite side. Startled, he staggered with the shod ended up falling directly on the dance floor. Incredulity took hold of him, uo prehend how someone dared to hit him from behind.

  "WHO DARES?!" Apollo's voice echoed as the only sound in the ba, filled with fury. His enraged eyes quickly turo the assaint, revealing a man in a bck tuxedo, blond hair, and a star tattooed on his forehead. Apollo's anger gave way to a stunned expression when he realized that the man was smiling at him as if he had found prey.

  The surprise wasn't limited to Apollo. Everyone present at the ba was stunned witnessing Lucius assaulting Apollo without him being able to react. The shock was eveer because a mere mortal had dared to strike a god in front of their peers, apparently uned about possible divine sequences.

  "YOU!!!" Apollo couldn't tain the cry of incredulity at what was happening. Everything seemed to be going well, and he was about to involve his friend Heimdall to accuse the mortal and try to recruit him for his family again.

  "If you really want a war game, let's set aside all this theater..." Lucius interrupted the silehat had settled, speaking with a mog tone."...A's give you a real reason to have this game!" Without waiting much, he pointed a hand in the dire of the Pallum who was still pretending to be sick behind him.

  "Hm?" The Pallum was armed by Lucius's hand pointing in his dire. It didn't take long for a 30-timeter-diameter fireball to form and be u him point-bnk. The surprise attack caught everyone off guard, breaking the tension of the moment and elig various reas from the crowd.[Firebolt!]

  Without time to react, both the Pallum and the Apollo family adventurers behind him were engulfed by the explosion.*BOOOM*"AHHHH!!""THAT HURTS!"Cries of pain echoed, but the explosion muffled their sounds for the rest of the people present.

  All adventurers instinctively positiohemselves in front of their gods, ready to protect them from this sudden chaos. Lucius demonstrated a behavior that none of them would ever dream of or had seen in their years in Genkai: he assaulted a god and attacked his children like a ruffian in their own home, something that armed a everyone bewildered."HEY! Is this really happening?""I 't believe what I'm witnessing!""This mortal has guts, I have to admit!"

  "It's no wonder Aphrodite aer are his lovers. Look at this human! So fearless!"

  Hestia aralyzed; she couldn't believe her troublemaker son could act this way!

  "WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Apollo shouted, armed, uo believe that things were taking this turn. He had never been assaulted by a mortal in his life in Genkai and hought it would happen. He believed that, as a god, mortals should revere him, but now he realized how deceived he was. He thought no mortal would dare to attack a god, but there he was, deliberately being hit by one. And it didn't seem to be over, as Lucius's mog gaze returo Apollo.

  "Hm? I'm just giving you what you want, you sex maniaow pretending innoce? If you want a war game, then I'll give you a good reason for it!" Lucius said, starting to walk again and approag an armed Apollo."Wait, Lucius! What are you doing!" Hestia shouted in fear. She still struggled to accept that her son could be so fearless, not only openly attag Apollo but also insulting him in the process.

  "I'm giving him exactly what he wants, and he'll have this war game one way or another. At least, let's give a reason worth it!" Lucius said with a malicious smile.

  As he walked up to the grounded Apollo, several adventurers from the same family rushed to try to stop Lucius from reag their god, but it was already too te. Lucius lifted Apollo by the colr, with the sun god's frightened eyes.

  "YOU!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING? I AM A GOD!"

  *SLAP!*"As I said, I want this war game to start with a good reason!"

  "YOU 'T..."

  *SLAP!*

  "STOP..."

  *SLAP!*

  "..."

  *SLAP!*

  "..."

  *SLAP!*

  Lucius began to sp the god suddenly with his own hands, leaving everyone speechless. Apollo's cheeks turned red after the sequence of sps, sileng him, uo utter another word.

  Meanwhile, Captain Hyakinthos, who was quite far away, tried to prevent Lucius from further hurting his god. He ran with all his might to reach Hestia's mage.

  "I will kill you for this!" Hatred was evident in his voice. He already didn't have a good history with Lucius, and seeing him assaulting Apollo-Sama in front of him drove him mad.

  "Hm? Ah, you want him, don't you? Then take this!" Lucius, seeing the man approag, smiled as he tossed the god like a puppet onto that adventurer. Although he was a mage, Lucius had enough strength to throw the god quite easily, turning the divio something akin to a kicked dog.

  Lucius smiled as Hyakinthos quickly caught his god carefully, who was swollen in his cheeks, losing all the glory that showed until a while ago to look like a kicked dog now.

  "Stop this, Lucius!" A new voice appeared with a new individual stepping in front of Lucius, almost before he could react.

  Seeing this new person and where the voice inated, Lucius smiled and calmly said, not g about the at least 20 Apollo adventurers surrounding him at this moment.

  "It's been a while since I've seen you, Captain... How have you been?" Lucius directed his words to the man who, in times past, he had called ander when he was in Heimdall's family.

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