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  Third Person POVOrario.

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  A little closer to the entrance of Kronos, the Minotaur's roar followed by an explosive shout echoed as he raised his enormous sword and struck against the oppos in front of him—Aiz, Bete, Tione, and Tiona, who had surrounded him until that moment.

  As his bde crashed into the ground, f all four of them to retreat, sound and dust rose as Asterius prepared to get rid of them befoing after his destined challenge.

  "This guy is hard to take down..." Bete muttered before sensing someone moving through the smoke, advang towards Asterius. It was the two Amazons rushing at him.

  They ran along the side through the dust, only seeing his silhouette as Asterius waited, feeling them approag while they charged towards him.

  The following moment, they leapt, appearing in front of him, trying to strike with punches. Asterius quickly moved his sword, hitting one of them with the blunt side of the bde directly. Tione was sent flying, crashing against debris, while Tiona reappeared at his unguarded side.

  "You bastard!" she excimed, furious that he had struck her sister, delivering a punch that forced him back a few meters. But Asterius remaieady, swinging his sword at her in the moment, f her to dodge and advance again through another opening.

  Tiona hit him with another pund a sweeping kick, causing him to lose bance for a moment, but he quickly swept her away with the sword in another blow, hitting her like her sister.

  "I'm fighting too!" Bete spoke up at that moment, reappearing in his werewolf form, further boosting his strength. He cshed his cws directly against Asterius' sword, both of them struggling for power as they tried to overpower each other. Bete felt the pressure from the Minotaur increasing a moment ter.

  Asterius' strength was already overwhelming, ae was sent flying back as well. Aiz was the only one who had gotten back up, approag the se while seeing all her panions down. She looked at the Minotaur with a glint of hatred, yet he remained calm.

  She said nothing, expressed nothing, just charged with all her speed, attag with her slender sword, striking directly against Asterius' bde. The sound of the bdes echoed through the air, but uhe others, Aiz did not retreat, gaining a bit of ground.

  Asterius noticed this and began to put more strength into his arm as it bulged, f her to slightly back off, dodging the strikes and ung attacks with a speed superior to Asterius, managing to make a small cut on his arm. The Minotaur reacted quickly, swinging his massive on, f Aiz to back off a little more, but she soon moved to his side.

  Asterius raised his sword, trying to stop her from cirg around him and finding an opening, while Aiz pressed him from the fnk. The fight began to intensify, their swords g repeatedly, with Aiz tinuing to use her superior speed to her advantage.

  Bete, Tione, and Tiona watched from afar, finally notig that Aiz was fighting alone.

  "Wait... is she going to do that?" Tione murmured with a serious look as they were about to interfere to help. But then, they realized that Aiz reparing her greatest skill, Ariel.

  Quickly, her body began to be enveloped by winds swirling around her. Asterius tried to strike her, but she kept getting faster, being harder to track. Aiz reached a level of speed beyond what the Minotaur could respond to, and he felt a new cut on his leg. He tried to hit her from the side, but she was already oher, hitting his back. Asterius grew enraged, r as he tried to strike her, but only mao hit the ground, raising debris.

  Aiz distanced herself a bit, him from afar, her eyes still fixed on the Minotaur. He let out a growl of pain, but remained uerred, still able to fight without fear of the human. He looked at her seriously, raising his sword as he saw that she, too, reparing for a direct attack.

  "RUAHH!!" He roared and quickly charged at Aiz. The swordswoman, surrounded by green winds, also rushed directly towards the Minotaur, and the two met in a csh of strength a moment ter.

  However, Aiz was faster. She was already oher side of him when the giant Minotaur stopped, his arm severed with a cut. The limb fell to the ground, severed along with his sword, and blood spttered across the floor.

  "She did it!" Tiona said, surprised, looking at them.

  Meanwhile, the Xenos and the Hestia Familia kept running through the streets, advang and managing to avoid all the adventurers. Those who tried to stop them were few now, or they realized the situation was not in their favor and ran away, trying their luck, but were easily detained.

  "e on, we're almost there," Asfi said as she put on a mask to avoid being identified.

  "Hey, Erebus, shrink down. The girl is already small, you don't o stay so huge, it draws too much attention!" Gros pio the giant, who was destroying the ground with each step.

  Erebus nodded, beginning to shrink in size while carrying a small blue-haired girl on his shoulder.

  "Let's go." He said with a smile, still heavy enough to crack the ground with every step, even though he was no lowenty meters tall.

  Explosions started to erupt as they g what was happening nearby, with Shakti, Finn, Gareth, and Riveria fighting against Lucius.

  "Should we help him?" Lyd ented.

  "No, Lucius will be fine," Bell said, sihe priority now was to get the Xenos back to Knossos.

  And so, they tinued past the battle, while Shakti observed the se beside Finn, frowning as she saw the crowd running in the distance, returning to where they came from.

  Lucius also noticed this and teleported, appearing in front of them to prevent any attempts, after all, he was their adversary.

  "Finn, you don't think I'll let you walk away from ht, do you?" Lucius said with a serious tone.

  Finn ched his teeth, knowing he couldn't deal with the strange monsters while Lucius was his oppo at that moment. His gaze shifted to Riveria.

  "Riveria, cast a spell on the group!" he ordered firmly to halt their advance.

  Riveria looked at the group, but her eyes fell on Lucius, who stared at her seriously. It was as if he was saying that if she did that, it would be a betrayal against him. After all, Lucius hated that kind of maneuver, especially ing from someone he loved. It would be a stab to him.

  Seeing that look, Riveria hesitated. Finn noticed this, ched his teeth again but said nothing more. Instead, he positioned himself alongside Gareth and Shakti to tihe fight.

  The crowd kept moving through the slums of Orario while the adveried to catch up. "This is the way we came!" Lyd excimed, still bleeding from his right chest but standing firm as he led the others.

  "e on, it looks like the city is going to treat us as enemies now... What do we do?" Lily murmured.

  "We have no choice..." Welf, determio keep going even if it meant being a criminal from now on, tio run with everyone.

  "Yes, that's true..." Daphne said, panting, as they ran down the corridor.

  "That's why we just o keep going..." Aisha replied firmly, while Mikoto, Ryuu, and Bell remained silent, determio do what was necessary.

  It was at that moment they came across the battle with Asterius, who had just lost an arm. Everyoopped, ae and the Amazons, who were celebrating Aiz's victory, looked bad saw a group of monsters along with the Hestia Familia, as well as a woman wearing a cloak, cealing her identity.

  "They are here..." Bete said in a serious tone.

  "Bell... are we going to have to fight them...?" Tiona murmured.

  "We have no choice. We o get past them..." Tione decred, pointing her sword.

  The Minotaur, who seemed serious, fot his pain the moment he saw Bell among them. "The perfect oppo..." he murmured, his expression turning even more focused than on his still-bleeding arm.

  "Loki Familia, you bastards! Now you're siding with monsters? You won't get past here!" Bete stepped fring at them seriously.

  "..." Tiona didn't seem fident about this, after all, she still sidered Bell and the others her friends, even as they stood before her alongside the mohey had been fighting.

  Tione saw the look on her sister's fad took a step forward. "Bete is right, Tiona. Today, the Hestia Familia is our enemy." She spoke in a serious tone, walking ahead and joinie.

  Meanwhile, a huge explosion occurred in the distance, and a bck hole appeared in the sky, beginning to absorb everything around it. In the fight with Lucius and the others, the members of the Loki Familia, along with Shakti, were struggling to withstand the force of the distortioed by Lucius.

  Lucius appeared beside Shakti at that moment. "Let's end this," he said firmly, managing to touch her. Shakti was surprised to find herself enveloped in a blue sphere before being uo the other side of the city in the moment.

  At that instant, Gareth appeared o Lucius, charging at him with his speed, wielding his hammer. Lucius raised his hand to brace for the impact, feeling his bones shatter as he was struck, but he remained firm. Gareth was also enveloped in a temporal sphere created by Lucius and was sent flying to the other side of the city like a shooting star.

  "That... hurt..." Lucius murmured as he used his healing magiend his body. His previously fractured bones returo normal.

  "This is bad... I'm expending energy every time I heal myself. Every bit of damage I take affects my mental energy..." he muttered, but stayed focused. Suddenly, a spear flew straight at him; with no other optioook the blow on his shoulder.

  Riveria was stuo see Lucius bleeding after Finn's attack had mao catch him just as he escaped the pressure of the gravitational sphere. The small hobbit had mao nd a hit, but Lucius quickly grabbed Finn, who had allowed himself to be hurt just to get close. Finn didn't have time to react before he was sent flying like a bullet.

  "A sed time..." Lucius pined as he healed himself, then teleported to the st person who hadn't attacked him from the start. His eyes were fixed on her, almost cautious, as if his heart was flicted at that moment.

  "I am still your oppo, Riveria. Even though I don't like the idea of you following your captain's orders, he's now oher side of the city. I don't want you to hesitate to fight me. After all, we're enemies now, so don't just stand there," Lucius remarked. He khat if Riveria didn't try to stop him, she would face serious trouble with her family, and he didn't want to make things harder for her.

  Riveria uood the message, and her gaze became more resolute as she prepared to fight Lucius. The two mages, and lovers, were ready to face each other.

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  Ra Here:

  I admit that this chapter was much easier to write!

  System - Lucius Status

  ---Information---? Name: Lucius Drakenar.? Race: Human.? Family/Falna: Hestia.? Niames: [+(!)].? Level: 4.

  ---Status---? Strength: I21? Endurance: I54? Dexterity: I9? Agility: I21? Magic: I102

  ---Abilities---? Blessing of ?????? (Nullifies Any Mana Expenditure)

  ---? Charged Magic (Hold the Spell for 2 Times its Cooldown and Release an Attack 4x Times Stronger)

  ---? Mana Zohe Mana Zone ability allows Lucius to absorb and manipute the mana present in the enviro around him, creating a trol area where he amplify his own magid abilities. Within this zone, he draw mana directly from the enviro, enabling him to increase the potency of his spells beyond their usual limits.)

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  ---Development Abilities---? Luck – F -> E

  ? Mage - (I -> S)

  ? Magic Resistance - (I -> S)

  ? tration - (I -> B)

  ---Spells---? Fire Spell / Firebolt / Rank 2? Ice Spell / Freeze / Rank 1? Support Spell / Strength Booster / Rank 2? Support Spell / Speed Booster / Rank 2? Summoning Spell / Goblin / Rank 2? Lightning Spell / Lightning on / Rank 2? Healing Spell / Minor Heal / Rank 2? Alteration Spell / Magelight / Rank 2? Alteration Spell / Cloth-ing / Rank 2? Alteration Spell / Cloth-Repair / Rank 2? Magic Spell / Minic Aura / Rank 3? Fire Spell / Multi-Firebolt / Rank 3? Alteration Spell / Ironflesh / Rank 3? Gravitational Spell / Minravitational Field / Rank 3? Space Spell / Quick Dodge / Rank 3? Lightning Spell / Lightning on / Rank 3? Summoning Spell / jure Fme Atronach / Rank 3? Alteration Spell / Cirvoyance / Rank 3? Alteration Spell / Intermediate Creation / Rank 3? Alteration Spell / Magic Quill / Rank 2? Alteration Spell / Mental Focus / Rank 3? Space Spell / Catch-Loot / Rank 3? Healing Spell / Intermediate Healing / Rank 3? Support and Space Spell / Small Dimensional Arsenal / Rank 3? Alteration Spell / Ebony Flesh / Rank 3? Lightning Spell / Lightning Trap / Rank 3? Lightning Spell / Thunder / Rank 3? Lightning Spell / Lightning / Rank 3? Illusion Spell / Another Face / Rank 3? Support Type Spell / Evolve Invocation / Rank 4? Gravitational Spell / Intermediate Bck Hole / Rank 3? o Spell / o Stasis / Rank 4? o Spell / o Stasis Grigora / Rank 4? o Spell / o Chaos / Rank 4? Alteration Spell / Float / Rank 4? Magic Spell / Fly / Rank 4? Magic Spell / Superiic Aura / Rank 4? Magic Spell / Sunball / Rank 4

  Total Power (Sum of All Levels):---Status---? Strength: 1,381 + 1,719 + 1,491 = 4,591 (Level 5, close to 6)? Endurance: 1,454 + 1,848 + 1,333 = 4,635 (Level 5, close to 6)? Dexterity: 1,386 + 1,738 + 1,212 = 4,336 (Level 5)? Agility: 1,433 + 1,936 + 1,529 = 4,898 (Level 5, close to 6)? Magic: 2,223 + 2,452 + 2,097 = 6,772 (Level 6)

  Level 1 Status---Status---? Strength: SSS1,381? Endurance: SSS1,454? Dexterity: SSS1,386? Agility: SSS1,433? Magic: EX2,223

  Level 2 Status---Status---? Strength: SSS1,719? Endurance: SSS1,848? Dexterity: SSS1,738? Agility: SSS1,936? Magic: EX2,452

  Level 3 Status---Status---? Strength: SSS1,491? Endurance: SSS1,333? Dexterity: SSS1,212? Agility: SSS1,529? Magic: EX2,097

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