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  Lucius POV

  Abandoned Church.

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  ...The m, the Hestia family, who would wake up in a typical manner like any other day, found an unusual situation. A disgruntled scream echoed throughout the old church, awakening a goddess and a young man on the sofa, startling them with the repetitive cry."EHHH?!!" Shouted an ed voice this m."Lucius-kun?""Mr. Lucius?"Two more voices were heard in a questioning and frightened manner."WHO GAVE ME THESE NIAMES??!!" The first voice spoke again angrily."Niames, Mr. Lucius? You're still a level 01 adveo have a niame..." Said a fused childlike voice."It's not that, Bell, how I expin this... AHHHH! Fet what I said..." The ondignant voiow sounded mencholic."Why do I only have strange niames? Where are my incredible, majestiiames and sweet melodies to the ears?" He said quietly while holding back tears.Hestia and Bell, unknowingly ign the slight depression in a er of the church, went to prepare the first meal of the day. Even as the day began to seem normal, while three people ate eggs with coffee and bread, there was someone grumbling irritably at the table. Bell aia looked puzzled at the man who fluctuated between cursing aing all the time."I'll kill the damn person who did this!" Lucius was still indignant at the s in front of him, unable even to eat his breakfast, cursing most of the time.

  ---------------------? Niames: Loser/Useless Family Trash/Dungeon Beggar/Milf Syer(New)/Bastard Exploitiiful and I Goddesses(New)/ Pyboy (New) Family Hephaestus's Enemy (New)---------------------

  Seeing the three new niames, he couldn't help but think, 'Milf Syer or Milf Killer.' Wasn't this niame something I thought of yesterday when I decred it myself? I give myself my own niames, or did someone call me that without me notig? I try...'"I am the coolest man in this town!" I shouted, startling my panions once again as I looked up and raised my hand in a pose, then looked at the system, ign my panions."No ge... I guess that's not how it works..." I muttered."Lucius, are you okay?" I heard someone ask."I am, I'm fine..." I said, unaware of the strange looks my panions were givi the moment."Bastard Exploitiiful and I Goddesses and Pyboy?!" I said angrily."This must have been the work of some jealous fool who saw my flirtations with Demeter yesterday, although that hotel clerk looked at me strangely... I'll blow up that pce! That's it!" I said, spping my hand as if I had just solved a great puzzle."We also have the niame Family Hephaestus's Enemy..." I grumbled."What? Enemy of Family Hephaestus? Since when?" I heard a female voice shout indignantly, but I ig."I found this one hirious; it must be that bastard 'half-man'! He must have spread it to other bcksmiths, and now they call me that. ime, I'll bst that creature with firebolts!" I said, vinced.I ignored my current family. Hestia had her mouth open, and her ghostly image was esg from her open mouth; Bell had lifeless eyes. I was so indignant that I didn't look at them and quickly ate my breakfast, leaving the churd heading to the guild while my family didn't move an inch."Hmmm... My goddess, maybe Mr. Lucas wasn't joking about exploiting goddesses or being an enemy of Hephaestus's family, huh..." Bell said, still with a lifeless and scared expressioia trembled when she heard that."I hope not, Bell. I wouldn't want to bee an enemy of Hephaestus, not when I owe her so much money...""How much do you owe?" Bell was startled."Almost nothing, hehe. I only owe a few valis! Hehe" Hestia nervously ughed, not wanting to admit that she owed 200 million valis to her friend Hephaestus.Elsewhere.Without any idea of the versation in my family at the church, I went straight to the guild with the iion of selling my magic stones, which improved my mood a bit with the idea of ??earning some moering the pce, I went straight to the ter of my favorite fox.Rose atteo me as she always did. We chatted a bit, and then I collected ten thousand valis, pnning to have some fun to relieve my stress tonight while having fun with my family, and deposited a portion into my guild at.

  Farewell to Rose, some time ter I was in the dungeon, casting spells tinuously to increase my small quest. I noticed that it was getting easier somehow, without harming my throat as much as my resistaatisticreased. The ge was still small, but it was there, and with my stock of water bottles, I could st quite a while here.

  "FIREBOLT!"*Boom*While on the seventh floor, I heard someone shouting. It wasn't me who cast that spell; I heard a familiar voice juring that attack, killing a group of Killer Ants that I noticed disiing in a nearby corridor as I walked through the tunnels. It was Bell eared in my field of vision along with his support, that little girl who hates adventurers, by the way.

  "Nice shot, Bell..." I said, smiling, making them look at me a bit surprised as I observed from a distance so they wouldn't notice me yet.

  The little Hobbit looked at me with some caution, but Bell opened a big smile when he realized it was me.

  "Mr. Lucius!" Excimed Bell, surprised to find me on the seventh floor.

  "Hello Bell, I see you're doing well!" I said, trying to sound like the mage king from Bck Clover, maturely, not like those situations where he acts like a child when seeing strange spells.

  "Are you alone? Would you like to join us, Mr. Lucius?" He asked excitedly, and Lili got a little nervous, but I deed in the end.

  "Sorry, Bell, I'm just passing through to the ninth floor, and I'm more of a lone wolf type." I said.

  "I uand... Well... Good luck then. See you tonight." Said Bell initially disappointed but became excited ter with the idea of going out for dionight, which we po celebrate. So, I saw him making his way with his support, who was quiet the whole time while giving me some looks, looks that weren't flirtatious but rather studyio rob me at some point, I presume.

  I tinued my way, casting my spells ohing that appeared. I remembered that I hadn't shown my Firebolt to Bell yet because I'm a bit cautious with Freya, that goddess. Most likely, she's watg all the time like a maniac stalker. I hoped she didn't know that I could use Firebolt and hoped it wouldn't draw her attention if she saw it because it would be obvious that I stole the spell. I'm sure she didn't see me do it because I was sure an Ottar would appear in that alley before I even had a ce to read that book, or my mission would have failed.

  Personally, I never liked Freya. I always thought she was a bitch who thinks she deserves everything she wants and is willing to do anything for it. She is obsessed with Bell to the point to kill Hestia. She seeks some kind of destined husband, which I think must be the beta of the millennium to take on that kind of woman.

  While thinking about these matters, I was still walking and killing some monsters i hour around this ninth floor while accumuting more points. A few mier, I took a break while drinking a water bottle I took from the bag.

  But I stopped drinking as soon as I heard some steps ing towards me as if I were their target. A few seds ter, I saw who these sounds beloo. There were four well-equipped adventurers ing towards me.

  I didn't need much time to uand what was happening here, with them walking calmly without surprises. They were waiting for me here with malicious eyes, and they are obviously known to the little Lili, whom I saw with Bell an ho.

  "Probably, she warned about me going to the ninth floor, which was much more isoted for murders, or they were spying on me and followed me along the way," I thought.

  "Soma Family?" I said calmly, while looking at the emblem on their armor and neckces.

  Looking at the four adventurers, three humans and a beastman, I looked bored because they didn't seem like important characters that appeared in Lili's introductory episodes; they were more like on thugs.

  'I believe the real frontatioween Lili and her family will happe week. Well, it doesn't matter now...' I thought and got rid of that thought.

  "Look! What do we have here, Gury?" Said one of them, who had stopped some distance away and finally broke the silehat had settled betweewo groups.

  "A lone adventurer! Hehe. This is the type that dies to easy monsters, and it's a waste for moo eat those crystals in his bag with his sword. Why don't we help him, guys?" Said anhing.

  *Boom*"e on, I know that alone wouldn't kill them. So let's tinue..." I said mogly while waiting without moving an inch.

  When the smoke cleared, it showed the four still alive, but there was blood and burns across their bodies, their expressions now showing frustration and hatred. They are all level 1, so it's easy to hurt them with Firebolt. They were fident being 4 against 1, but it's easy to catch them with a quick casting spell."Fools, where's all that arroganow?" I taunted again; it's not every day you leave a thug who wao harm you speechless."If you had any brains, you would have analyzed me from a distao see how I fight before ambushing me here. You would know that I could cast magic without any long ts, but your fiden numbers blinds all of you. I could say that mistakes are part of learning, but for that, you would have to live to learn, and that's something that won't happen!" I mocked them with a vilinous smile, and with my hand still poi them, I tinued.[- Firebolt][- Firebolt][- Firebolt][- Firebolt][- Firebolt][- Firebolt][- Firebolt][- Firebolt][- Firebolt]

  They scattered in desperation as soon as they saw that I was going to attack again. Not all attacks hit, but I started hitting one by one as they tried to advance, leaving them increasingly injured with the attacks that were hitting."WHY WON'T HE STOP ATTAG??" One of them shouted when he saw a panioer suffering 5 attacks from my spell and realized that I didn't seem to decrease while I tinued shouting the spell's HIS ISN'T POSSIBLE!!! HOW DOES HE HAVE SO MUERGY?? RETREAT!!" The man quickly shouted and decided to give up the attack.

  With 3 still alive, they began to run in the opposite dire sihey couldn't get close to me, who was attag all the time. They were being hit and started to have casualties, while they didn't even have a ce to get close to me."HE'S A MONSTER!""WE HAVE TO RUN!"

  Not stopping the attack, I saw the sed of them fall dead to the ground while he was all burned. It wasn't a pretty sight, but I didn't care and tinued with the tinuous attacks.[- Firebolt][- Firebolt][- Firebolt]

  I knocked down one more, the beastman, stopping two of the three who tried to escape to the opposite side. With only one survivor, I accepted him a few more times, which made him see that it was useless to try to escape and seeing his ex-rades charred like the rest of the corpses, he really gave up trying to run.

  He was g at this moment, with his whole body hurt, and the smell of burning flesh from his colleagues didn't help alleviate his despair."PLEASE! HAVE MERCY, MY LORD! I'LL DO ANYTHING! PLEASE, I HAVE A FAMILY!" He said with tears and scared eyes as he begged on his knees; he had given up trying to flee."How many adventurers should have asked this of you by now? How many said these same words, but tell me, how many of them did you spare? I answer, none, so there is no mercy with me." I said with a cold voice. The mortality rate in the dungeon is very high. The anime doesn't show this very well, but with my experience from the st two years, I know that dozens of people die here every day, and the real terror, both of monsters and advehemselves, is that half of the deaths are by the advehemselves.

  Without thinking much more, I raised my hand and jured my fme to end his life. I had cold aionless eyes when I saw him die without blinking. I wouldn't be merciful to this kind of people. Casting a few more firebolts on the fallen bodies so that the bodies disie without aig their deaths, it was easy to make them catch fire as soon as they lost their lives. All the resistahey gained with the falna disappeared when their souls left the body.

  So they burned easily while I was returning to my point colle in the system without g that I had ended 4 lives.