[Chapter Size: 1486 Words.]
Third Person POV
Orario, Abandoned Church.
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The day, Lucius followed the same routine as the day before, training with Mikoto and the Takemikazuchi family in the m, while spending the rest of the day immersed in reading in the abandoned church. The day passed quickly as he finished four more books; his pace was being quite satisfactory, and his notebook was filling up rapidly. He had a lot of knowledge about magical introdu theories, making him feel that he could enhance his magical abilities even further with it.
It was whe Bell and the others in the evening that he learned new information about the events that had occurred a few days ago. Bell received a letter taining an invitation from Apollo for a ball at his mansion with gods and their children the day. Each god had the right to iwo children to joi the event, something that ged from the inal due to Lucius's interferen ret days. The humiliation the ander suffered must have prompted Apollo to reassess his pns.
"It seems he wants both Bell ao attend," Lucius thought internally. "Apollo and I have a history in Tenkai, but this is quite suspicious. What should we do?" Hestia asked a bit lost. It was clear that it was some kind of trap set by the god. "Do we have a choice?" Lucius asked calmly, aia expressed her opinion. "Hmm... Lucius is right. We have to go, and I have no choice but to take you both. I pn to iakemikazuchi and Miach to join us. With that, I feel safer."
Lucius sighed. So, he would participate in a ba he never pnned, as his initial pn was to let the story run as ically as possible. But the ba, unsurprisingly, wasn't the case. "Alright, it will be tomorrow night. Let's anize ourselves, then. I'll talk to my friends a our clothes, as we have a lot of money saved up." Hestia cluded excitedly, while the rest of us had the rest of the night as usual.
The day, I spent the m with Mikoto and studied iernoon with 3 books, pleting 8 out of the 15 read. "I'm quite satisfied with this. I might even boast to Riviera the ime I meet her. I hope she shows up at the baoo..." Lucius reflected calmly as he finished his third book.
As night fell, Hestia appeared with clothes for me and Bell, traditional social smoking attire that Lucius always found strao exist in a medieval world. But he was in an anime world, so anything ossible, and some things would always be quite illogical. Wearing his suit, Lucius liked how it looked. He had an athletic body that had grown even more i month, so the clothes fit him very well, making him look quite "chad."
A carriage appeared to pick us up in the slum in front of the church. Hestia had arrahis during the day, taking us to one of the richest neighborhoods iy. After a while, we arrived at the location, the rge mansion seen in the anime. Really grand, Lucius noticed. Getting out of the carriage, the trio headed towards the gate. There, there was an adventurer known to the family with level two. Lucius knew him from the anime, but it was the first time he saw him without his mask that appeared in the war game.
"The invitation." Hestia, leading the group, hahe invitation to the elf member of the Apollo family at the gate.
"Yes, Goddess Hestia, you and your family enter," he said, but I could see a look of hatred and maliing in my dire, which I wasn't surprised about after what happened.
Another reason why I wasn't surprised was the new niame I gaihe day after the bar fight.
[Niame: Enemy of the Apollo Family (NEW)]
'Why am I surprised? I earhis niame i few days.' I wao ugh out loud, but just smiled back at the elf, staring at him intensely.
Seeing that the elf still stared, not unnoticed by Hestia or Bell, Lucius decided to py a little with this level two.
"Wow! It's a grand mansion, I admit. I'm tempted to steal it for myself someday." Lucius let slip, still maintaining the same smile.
The elf raised an eyebrow at the statement and stared at him even more intensely, knowing that Lucius rovoking him.
Seeing that the listener didn't respond to his provocation, he tinued, wanting to see the rea of Apollo's members, so he kept talking.
"Hm? Oh, I apologize. Where are my manners! Let me introduce myself. I'm Lucius Draknar, sir...?"
"Lissos, just Lissos." He said with a bit of thinly disguised anger, ign Lucius's extended hand.
"I uand. Well, anyway, I must thank your family for the invitation. I look forward to seeing Apollo tonight. I've heard that yod is quite iing and tends to have a taste... well... quite peculiar..." Lucius ented, earning not only a stunned look from Lissos but also incredulous looks from Hestia and Bell with the kind of statement Lucius was insinuating.
"Tsk! Put yourself in your pce. You won't be disrespectful to Apollo-Sama. Otherwise, our family will make you pay for it!" The elf growled like never before, breaking his posture with my provocative words.
"Hey, hey, o be in a bad mood. I'm just curious. I've heard a lot about how the God Apollo is grand and spectacur in the eyes of mortals!" Lucius said loudly, but everyone could see that he was being ironic. Even anod who arrived to deliver the invitation just behind the group with two members of his family en-mouthed at this mortal speaking like that about a God like Apollo.
"Why... don't you... e in...? Good... party... to... you all..." He spoke slowly with anger, not wanting to respond to the provocation or hear more from Lucius in front of the gate.
"Let's go!" Hestia spoke quickly, pulling Lucius forcibly into the property before he could react.
"WHAT WAS THAT!?" Hestia yelled at Lucius, very dissatisfied, stomping her foot on the ground as she spoke.
While Bell also wao know why this behavior, Lucius sighed and began to speak.
"Hestia, do you think we're having a peaceful stroll here?" Lucius spoke seriously now, makiia stop screaming indignantly and look at him equally seriously.
"Remember, this was set up precisely for our family to fall into their trap." Lucius said to her. They were now quite far away in the mansion's courtyard, with no nearby ears.
"Trap?" Bell asked, raising one of his eyebrows.
"Yes, it's very likely that we'll leave here with a war game." When Lucius said this, both Hestia and Bell were armed.
"No, that 't be possible..." Hestia tried to deny.
"The bar fight nned, Hestia. Even though it didn't go as they wahey will still proceed with their pns," Lucius said calmly, earning silence from the trio.
"That's why I won't wait for Apollo and his family to attack us first. I io create as much chaos as I tonight..." Lucius showed a sadistic smile here, frightening the two in front of him siderably.
After a while in silence, Hestia broke the sileer this decration. "Just don't kill anyone!" Hestia finally spoke, trusting in her son's word, who always solved the family's problems, even if recklessly most of the time.
"Great, so shall we go?" Lucius asked for them to head ihe mansion.
"Wait, Miach should be arriving now; let's wait for him," she said.
"They're already here," Bell ented, pointing to the gate as Miad Naaza approached them in formal attire.
"Hestia, it's good to see you again, as well as Bell-kun and Lucius-kun," he said with a friendly smile.
"It's good to see you, Miach."
"God Miach."
"Miach-Sama."
"Hello, everyohe demihuman girl greeted everyone.
Lucius never ied much with her; he bought some potions from their pharmacy when he first joihe Hestia family, but after he obtained healing, he never o appear again, choosing to get more expensive and higher-quality potions from Dia in case of emergency. She also helped in the rescue team when Bell was in danger, but Lucius never ied with her at the camp; he doesn't even remember her...
After greeting Naaza Erisuis as well, she was the only member of the Miach family, so only she appeared.
"Now, let's go!" Hestia said, and we headed towards what Lucius could defihe day as...
"A very crazy night, full of ups and downs, furious gods, joyful gods, and many bewildered beings!"
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