[Chapter Size: 2461 Words.]Lucius POVTwenty-Sed Floor, Dungeon.

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  After dealing with the unfortunate Heimdall family, Lucius tinued his journey, moving through the floors peacefully, with only monsters and his newfound panion for pany.

  "Sorry!" He apologized to a goblin beside him, clearly hurt by what he had done.

  "HEEE!" The small creature protested.

  "Yes, I swear I'll never do that again! I was angry at that moment."

  "HEE."

  "I know, I know."

  A siletled as we walked until Riekling spoke again.

  "HEEEEE?" After a while, my goblin panion spoke up again.

  "About them? I don't know how those bastards got so bold, but I hope my message was crystal clear, and they don't want to bother us anymore."

  "HEEEE!?"

  "If they e bad attack me? I will indeed send them all to hell if there's no choice!" I protested, making it clear. I hope they take care of their own lives; otherwise, I'll fulfill my promises.

  "Heeee?"

  "Why didn't I kill them there? Simple, it was Heimdall himself who sent them. If I elimihem, they'll know it was me aaliate against me and the people I know seeking revenge. I hahat, but Bell and the others? I doubt that even with all the gods trying to protect him and his es, he'll survive a joint attack from that family seeking vengeance," I expined.

  "Heee..."

  "Yes, imagine finding out that yroup/panions/children were murdered. I know a woman who sought revenge and wiped out few families alone. We have to set limits; it's ohing to kill a random group in the dungeon, but in this situation, I have to sider the sequences," Lucius said calmly.

  "HEE!"

  "Anyway, it seems we have to deal with Apollo now. I want to reach level 3 before the war game; my stats are doing well so far, after interaining i 10 days."

  "HEE."

  "Yes, let's spend some time on the surface to see how things are before we return here."

  "Heee."

  "Hm? About them, I don't know..."

  "HEEEEEEEEE!"

  "What? Of course not. Do you think I'm afraid of the Elf after what happened?"

  "HE HE HE."

  "Don't mock, you know the st time we met, she was falling for my charms."

  "HEEEE."

  "That was just an act! I knew how ed she was for me after I passed out; we were just in a friendly fight when I actally fainted..." I tried to lie to Riekling, but the goblin still looked at me with suspicious and unvinced eyes.

  "HE!"

  "Those wounds were just scratches! Riviera and I have a date, and I'm not afraid to see her, so don't make fun of it!" I said, closing the subject, then tinued our way to Rivira.

  Internally, of course, I'm a bit cautious. Holy, I think I overreacted st time; I hope Riviera is still avaible to give me some magic lessons after our little flict because I'm sure that will open doors to new skills with the knowledge learned from her.

  "Skills and my future wife! Two in one." I excimed loudly with this thought and a big smile.

  "HEEE?"

  "Fet what I said, I'm just thinking out loud."

  So, we proceeded to the eighteenth floor, passing through the entire i and root area. When I reached the city, I entered calmly and sold enough to replenish some stock, enough to go to the surface, ahe crystals I didn't use in the system to sell on the surface, where it's more profitable.

  Passing through all the floors, a few hours ter, we arrived at the guild with me, dressed as a mage, and a big smile on my face, and Riekling, with a backpack full of high-quality crystals.

  "Miss Rose!" I said with aed smile as I ehe main hall of the guild and greeted the werewolf woman, after she rejected 20 love fessions with her stoic face.

  "HEE!"

  "Lucius? Hello, Riekling!" She greeted and tio look at me for a while before speaking again.

  "Where have you been? Even your family asked about you at the guild." She said with a ral voice, still a bit angry due to the st i.

  "I was in training, even though I spent more time in the duhan expected..." I said, scratg my head.

  "Did something happen?" I asked a bit worried after seeing her serious look.

  "Besides you somehow being famous, and everyoalking about the adventurer responsible for destroying the crystal in Rivira? Nothing, except having to answer some questions about you or your whereabouts for some curious ones, sihe information about your assion to level 2 is publiow..." She said with ay look.

  "I'm sorry for that... You must be under pressure... But I 't promise things will get better. In fact, I believe everything will turn even more chaotic soon, hehehe." I said nervously uhe stoic gaze of that fox, which seemed like a challeo see if my words were true.

  "But then, my old family asked about me, right? I'd like to know what they wanted...". I tinued speaking and asked something I kneehey wouldn't try to ambush me without getting some information.

  Rose looked at me for a few seds and said seriously, something that indicated the seriousness of the situation.

  "Heimdall himself came with his captain, asked all sorts of things, yrowth, movements, whereabouts, address, amount of stones obtained, your status..." She said, and I didn't like any of it.

  "It seems that bastard is quite bold now..." I said thinking out loud.

  "I wouldn't use such bold words about a God, but yes, I agree with you..." She said without letting go of her serious look and added.

  "But of course, I have limits to disclose information, and I be ving even to a persistent God." She finished.

  "Thank you for that once again, Rose. That God expelled me from his family, and now suddenly he's iigating me as if I had fled that family in the first pce." I said with a bit of anger, still remembering a's threatening words to me, Hestia, and the others.

  "He was never a God I liked, simir to your friend." She said; it's to ahat Heimdall and Apollo are quite close, always haviings together.

  "So, do you have some magic stones? Anyway, it's good to see you, and be careful with your ex-God, as there are rumors about Hestia and her assion now." She finished, and I thanked her once again as I bid farewell.

  Ign the stares people here started givier a while of talking with Rose and reizing me, I went to the magic stone exge room.

  I sold the vast majority of the stoo buy spells in the system, so I got 200,000 valis for now to hand over to Hestia as a family tax, but it's not enough. Still, it's something I'll have to owe her and solve iure, knowing she'll uand my situation.

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  Some time ter, the famous abandoned church appeared in our field of vision as Riekling and I approached.

  "I'm home!" It was te afternoon when I arrived at the location to meet Hestia, Bell, and Welf.

  "LUCIUS!" Hestia shouted, showing her face after stretg her neck out of the room when she heard my voice.

  "We're back..." I said, sighing as I approached.

  "HEEE!"

  "Lord Lucius! Lord Riekling!" Bell excimed.

  "Hello Lucius, Riekling." Welf, who was also here, appeared beside Bell.

  "YOU'VE BEEN AWAY FOR SO MANY DAYS! WERE YOU IN THE DUNGEON ALL THIS TIME?" Hestia shouted before I could say anything to the others.

  "It's true, but I'm much stronger now!" I said, flexing my arm like a bodybuilder as I pulled it out of my cloak.

  "OHHH!" Bell was excited about this; he must have trained oermediate floors in these st few days as well.

  "So, are you guys going out?" I asked, seeing Bell and Welf in clothes that indicated a small outing in the bustling city of Orari its nighttime.

  "Indeed, we're going out for a bit. Why don't you e with us?" Welf said.

  "Well, that would be iing. I accept and will ge then." I said, grabbing some clothes from my belongings. I agreed to go out with them to withe bar brawl event; today was when things would start with the Apollo family. I had a sadistic smile, thinking about how I would truly beat those bastards this time. Apollo doesn't o fabricate a story for the gods to cim his family got beaten up; I'll do him a favor and turn his accusation into something true.

  Grabbing a slightly dirty and torn outfit that had been lying around for a while, I cast spells to mend and it. Without waiting much, the night arrived, and I went out with the guys to drink with them, while Hestia would stay at the church tonight with Riekling keeping her pany.

  "How were the st few days?" I asked to make small talk as we walked through the city, which was beginning to reach its nightly peak of activity.

  "Basically, we trained in the dungeon and found out that we somehow became a bit famous." Bell said with a bit of embarrassment.

  "Well, specifically, you became quite famous, buddy. People ask about you, and even some specific dwarves are cautious about you in my family..." Welf said with a smile.

  "I noticed the attention, and I'm gd those little men still remember me..." I said with a wicked smile.

  "Even Finn showed up at the church..." Bell added.

  "That's iing already; what does the Loki family want with me?" I asked, and I was sure that if Riekling were here, he would mock me.

  "He asked about your whereabouts a a message that Riviera would like to talk to you." He said, and I was a bit surprised. Despite boasting to my goblin, I kind of expected her to be angry with me still, g anything we agreed upon after what happened. But I'm relieved that I still get some magic lessons with the elven princess.

  "Anyway, Hestia-sama will talk to you tomorrow." He added.

  "So, I'll wait for her to uand the situation, and by the way, I brought the materials for my sword, Welf. Hermes said he would buy them, but I didn't see him." I ged the subject; I spent days fighting on those flot the materials, they were with Riekling, but I couldn't give them to the bcksmith befoing out for drinks, so I'll have to wait to deliver them tomorrow.

  "About that... Asfi Al Andromeda came to my workshop these days when you were away and handed me the material..." He said, and I was surprised as we walked.

  "Well, this is ued, but having a sed reserve on wouldn't hurt anyway," I crified, as I could have a backup on now.

  "Great, if you want, drop by my workshop tomorrow to pick up your sword and deliver the other materials," he said, and I nodded.

  We arrived at a bar that Welf wao take us to; if it were Bell choosing, Mama Mia would have 3 more ers tonight, or 4, because a small Pallum appeared at the entrance waiting for us.

  "You're te!" Lili said with crossed arms in frustration.

  "We're not that te, Lili!" Welf teased.

  "Sorry, sorry," Bell apologized.

  "Hello, Lord Lucius!"

  "Hello, Lili."

  After that, we ehe bar. We started with a quiet night here, sitting and drinkiertained in our own versation as the hours passed.

  While we were in our own versation, I observed the surroundings, saw some familiar faces in this pce; people looked at us, whispering about the ret events, finding it quite normal due to the history of the people sitting at this table.

  This sted until I noticed a new group arriving and sitting a few tables away, obviously following Bell all the time and passing information to Apollo and his family in these st few days. So the captain and that damn Pallum appeared here with other people, as in the inal story, along with a certain level 5 dog sitting at the ter, drinking calmly but could feel his frustration when he looked at us from time to time.

  My panions didn't care about the group or their surroundings, just fog on their own business, even uhe discreet gnces people were giving us, especially this new group.

  This sted for awo hours...

  The versation revolved around how Bell was close to leveling up when the Pallum from that group left the table and walked towards ours with an air aer hearing this versation. I narrowed my eyes at the man and waited for him to start with his irritating remarks.

  "What? Almost level 3?" He announced, catg all my panions by surprise and making everyone in the bar look at the small hobbit who made the ent.

  "Hmm??"

  "I don't care if they call you a record holder or something, but you shouldn't try to deceive people all the time."

  "A rabbit that only runs away from monsters, simply running away and leveling up and now is close to reag level 3 in such a short time?"

  His ents were highly irritating, but I stayed quiet.

  "I would be ashamed to leave the house."

  "Ighat, Bell-Sama."

  "Oh, yes."

  "Look, almost everyone oeam is from different families, a failed bcksmith, a shorty for support, and another liar g to be a powerful mage who destroyed part of the safe zone."

  "I guess that's a perfect group for cheaters."

  'Calm down, Lucius, let's give everyone a lesson in a short time...' I thought while holding the firebolt f in my hand, knowing that I am a quite impulsive person, even with the odds against me.

  "HAHAHAHAHA" All the men in the Apollo family uniform began to ugh at these ents.

  "There's not much to say; the family of these liars is the weakest of all, after all."

  "But that's because this family is led by a goddess, without dignity and authority; she's only good for those big boobs."

  "TAKE BACK WHAT YOU SAID!" Bell stood up, irritated.

  "Got upset because what I said was true, huh?" He was a bit startled by the outburst but quickly resumed mog.

  "She lets her children associate with members of another family, while they spread lies about absurd things..."

  Before he could tinue, Welf threw his mug at that little Pallum's face.

  "Oh? Sorry, my hand slipped..." He said, mog.

  "You bastard!" Members of the Apollo family stood up to fight, and Lili could only sigh as everyo into a brawl at that moment. I stood still for now.

  "They hahese guys..." I thought as I watched the show.

  And I didn't watch the spectacle without drinking my drink.

  It didn't take long for the fight to end with Welf and Bell finishing them off.

  "Anyone else want a beating!?" Welf shouted.

  "I do." Said the st member of the Apollo family, their level 4 captain, a quite arrogant man who sat the whole time while his panions fought.

  He quickly used his level 3 agility and punched Welf; in the moment, he delivered two puo Bell, catg him by the neck right after.

  "I expected more from you, Little Rookie..." He mocked.

  "He's from the Apollo family!" Some spectator ented.

  "Yes, he's Phoebus Apollo, Hyakinthos!"

  "A level 3?"

  "You hurt my panions; now you must pay!" Said Hyakinthos.

  But before he could tighten his grip on Bell's neck, he felt heat on his right side; wheurned, a fireball collided directly with his face.

  *Fmes*

  *Boom*

  "AHHHH!" Hyakinthos's surprised scream left everyounned as a spell flew straight into the face of the Apollo family captain.

  Bell fell to the ground, while everyouro see who cast the spell, of course, there I was, with my legs crossed oable, dispying a sadistic smile while drinking my st sip of beer, with one hand poio where the spell was cast.

  No one said anything, while the man hit by the fire had his face covered in smoke.

  "Well, well, you hurt my panions, rice must you pay... I wonder?" I said arrogantly, standing up from the table and using his own words against him.

  "Lucius-Sama?" Lili said beside herself with astonishment.

  "YOU!! I'LL MAKE YOU PAY FOR THIS!" The captain growled with evident hatred on his slightly burnt face.

  "e, show me that your family is more than just a group i, living in an y with that disgusting God of yours." I openly mocked.

  My words shocked everyone; no one mocked or disrespected a god. It took a certain kind of boldo do that, and here I am, speaking ill of their god. I wasn't afraid of Apollo.

  "YOING TO DIE!" The man couldn't tain his anger anymore as he advao attack me.

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