[Chapter Size: 1740 Words.]Lucius POVDungeoeenth Floor.

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  Dungeoeenth Floor. Hermes finally appeared with Asfi by his side. She was staring at me strangely, not like a romantiterest, just studyier seeing my fight with Mikoto. After witnessing me cast spells with some short ts and some without, it was normal as everyone does when they see an anomaly.

  "HEE!" Riekling, who had been watg the entire fight, groa Hermes and his daughter. 'Even you feel he's not trustworthy, huh, Riekling?' I looked at my friend and thought.

  "You must be Lucius, the seember of the Hestia family..." Said Hermes, looking at me while adjusting his famous hat. "And you are the God Hermes. To think there are three gods on this floor. I fear what the dungeon do if they sehem here..." I made a joke, but I was interying to study the god in front of me. There are only two gods, as far as I know, that I o be quite cautious about, one of them is Freya, and the other is the god in front of me, both great maniputors, ready to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals.

  I'm not too worried about the god from my old family. If he doesn't interfere with me or Hestia, I don't care about what he's doing, uhese gods. He's like Apollo and even a great friend of his, but he's the easy-to-deal-with type with a bit of force, which I hate is about politid maniputions, something that these gods I have to be careful with use to achieve their goals.

  "HAHAHAHA" He nervously ughed at my words, but he k was just his act. "I hope that doesn't happen..." Asfi mented, seeing the gravity of my words beside him. Her is not unfounded. With two gods here, the dungeo a mutant Goliath. Imagine 3, and not to mention that I unleashed the power of a higher deity when I leveled up. I hope things stay like the .

  "I wao thank you for the rescue you did with Bell. He's very special, and I would regret it a lot if he died like that..." Said Hermes after a siletled between us. Mikoto was a little embarrassed by these words, seeing that she and her family were the reason Bell almost died. Ign her, I spoke again.

  "As I told Hestia, I did what I should have done as a family member... There's no reason to be surprised by that," I said calmly. "Hahaha! That's the way to talk, young man!" He said. And seeing that there wasn't much more to say, as I didn't give him much opening with my gaze, he studied me enough in this exge. Suddenly, he turo leave with Asfi by his side, but not before stopping suddenly and speaking a few st words after a few steps.

  "An adventurer expelled from that "God" who seeks strength above all else in his family, joihe Hestia family and reached level 2 a few days after Bell, and his magic demonstration is quite iing, very iing... I look forward to hearing more about you iure!" He said. Simple words, but I could see that there were many hidden things in them, and I am not a very intelligent man in politianipution to uand the real meaning. But aook hold of me, even without fully uanding what he meant. I am tired of damn gods who want to trol you. Hearing these words, I couldn't help but let my eyes start to glow with amethyst light. I was holding back from releasing my magical aura, regardless of whether he was a God directly trusted by Uranus.

  As I always thought, I was never good at listening to suonsense. I always hated these maniputions and political games, preferring to solve my problems and challenges with strength. Asfi remained calm on her face while my threat was unfolding on the se, but I saw her hand move slightly to prepare for any attaing from me. I could explode at any moment while trying to trol my anger.

  "Well, let's go, Asfi-kun, we 't disturb these young ones who just want to be alone in the middle of the forest..." Hermes said, provoking us, and tinued walkiering the forest without g about how I was showing anger in my glowing eyes. Mikoto blushed a bit hearing Hermes' words, as there was a misuanding here.

  "Don't mind that God, he's always like that..." I tried to reassure Mikoto. "I uand... But... what was all that?" She asked, as my exge of words was not normal, and my expression of anger on the verge of exploding did not go unnoticed by her.

  "plicated things, sensei, plicated things..." I said, sighing, not wanting to delve too muto this delicate situation. Mikoto was about to say something; however, other voices appeared in a er of the field where we fought.

  "It's him, isn't it?" We heard that void turo see a group of 5 girls looking at us. 'What the hell is it now?' I excimed internally, seeing new guests that I couldn't identify at first, as they didn't seem like members of the Loki family camp.

  "Hmmm... Mr. Lucius? Remember me?" Said a bck-haired girl among the group, who took the lead. She seemed a bit shy. "Nicole?" I asked, it was the girl I rescued on the fifteenth floor. "You remember!" She said happily, which left me a little stunned, because why would I fet a name so easily?

  "How could I fet? I fet what I ate yesterday, but I wouldn't fet someone I rescued from a buninotaurs, right?" I said to myself, trying to uand why the girl thought I would fet her after our peculiar enter.

  "Mr. Lucius, I'm Honda Fox, the captain of my family. I wao thank you for saving our team member when she was i danger!" Said a half-elf sincerely. I noticed that she was an archer.

  "Lucius, I'll go bay family, which is also at the camp. See you ter." Said Mikoto, wanting to say goodbye. "Yes, see you ter, then." I bid farewell, as I had to pay attention to a new group from the Aphrodite family.

  After that, Mikoto returo her family at the camp, and I ended up walking through the forest with a bunch of girls trying to strike up a versation with me while Riekling was being hugged and shared by all the girls. Aphrodite, as she had told me before, went to Hestia to meet me as soon as she heard about the rescue I did for her daughter. But once she heard about Bell being trapped oermediate floors, she offered help to repay what I did for Nicole. The girls were friendly and fun, so I spent the rest of the afternoon talking with them while walking through the forest.

  "Well well, I 't believe you're so fortable with my daughters, Lucius-kun..." A voiterrupted us, and Aphrodite appeared before us, striking her pose and trying to be charming.

  "Aphrodite-Sama!" Several female voices excimed for her.

  "I don't have any men in my family, but I accept you very well, Lucius-kun. How about leaving that ugly Goddess of yours aing into the good graces of this beautiful Goddess here?" Aphrodite said, winking one of her eyes while referring to herself.

  "Who are you calling an ugly Goddess!!!" Shouted another voiing from one of the bushes, falling stunned and enraged. It was an angry Hestia, and she didn't waste time whe up and jumped on Aphrodite's neck.

  "LET GO OF ME, YOU LOLI GODDESS!" Said the blonde goddess while attag Hestia's cheeks as well.

  "Aphrodite-Sama!" The girls excimed in , and I could only sigh as I walked over to separate the two goddesses rolling on the ground.

  Some time ter.

  Using my healing magic, I ed the cheeks and a reddened neow, there was a group of girls surrounding Aphrodite, and I was o Hestia.

  " you two stop fighting for a bit? I don't want to see either of you actally using Arum and making the dungeon aware that there are 3 gods on this floor!" My voice was loud enough to reach both. I scolded them seriously. They just crossed their arms and turheir faces to opposite sides.

  "Aphrodite-Sama, I appreciate your invitation, but I won't leave the Hestia family. She is my Goddess, and I don't like you asking me if I want to leave my current family. That's disrespectful!" I said seriously. I don't like her askihese things, even though she only does it in front of Hestia to deliberately annoy her. It feels like an insult.

  Aphrodite, hearing my words, pouted and mumbled something like, "Fine, I won't do it again..."

  "Great, why don't we grab something by the ke before the camp? Let's gather tonight and make a big grilled fish by the campfire!" I suggested, and all the girls agreed.

  Walking to the ke, we picked up some fishing rods near some structures built by the advehemselves. There were pces where adventurers left fishing equipment for anyone who wao use it.

  I, Riekling, Hestia, Aphrodite, and the girls went fishing then. It hadn't been a long time with Hestia yet, so it was good to have some time with my own goddess. Even if that time was shared with an Aphrodite trying to flirt with me all the time while Hestia argued about its implications.

  I just wasn't sure if she flirted with me because she really liked me or was just trying to annoy Hestia, si worked quite well.

  At the end of the fishing, I caught 2 fish of 3 meters, Riekling caught 4 fish of 5 meters, although I had to pull the rod for him, and the girls caught on fish. The goddesses didn't caty fish because they only knew how to offend each other and scare away all the aquatiimals with their noises.

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