[Chapter Size: 1900 Words.]Third Person POVOrario.

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  BOOOM!!!

  Echoes of destru

  The explosio on for a while, everything shaking violently, relentlessly destroying everything in its path, wiping out a part of the slum from the map.

  Cries of horror and fear echoed throughout the city as gods, residents, and adventurers all looked on at the se, an enormous plume of smoke rising, the echo of the bst still lingering in the air.

  The light of the explosion finally faded, with only the smoke trail visible, illuminating the devastated area.

  "Lucius!!" Riveria couldn't help but excim, seeing that Lucius had been caught in the middle of the explosion while she stood outside the slum, feeliy after eling her magi.

  Finn, Ottar, Bell, and other adventurers were gathered around the destroyed area.

  "Lucius-san... will he be alright?" Cassandra csped her hands together, looking at the se with worry.

  The explosion finally began to die down, with no sign of Luffy or the monster, leaving everyone in suspense.

  "Lyd! Are we safe from that monster...? And if we are... we're surrounded." A Xeno muttered as the entire group found themselves in the midst of Orario's highest-ranking adventurers.

  Most were still focused on the explosion, but many eyes were on them, with looks far from favorable.

  "We o wait and see if Lucius is alright." Lyd spoke, and the Xenos around him agreed, despite the grim situation with the city's stro forces present.

  As everyone waited for some oute from the battle and the explosion, the voice of Ouranos emerged at that moment, addressing the ey.

  "The beast has beeroyed..." he decred, and the majority sighed in relief. However, some, like Ottar, had a slightly frustrated look, his eyes searg for Lucius, as he was not the oo have sin the beast.

  Riveria and many of Hestia's family members were now worried about Lucius, but they knew he wouldn't be easily killed.

  "Finn..." Gareth murmured, turning his eyes away from the explosion and heading toward the Xenos.

  "Yes... now we have to deal with them or whatever they are," Finn said, and this thought began to take root in the minds of many adventurers.

  "This..." Welf murmured, watg as the Xenos began to be surrounded.

  "..." Riveria didn't know what to do, as her captain seemed to view them as enemies, while Lucius had protected them and cimed they were his friends.

  "Damn it... what are you doing..." Tsubaki muttered.

  "..." Mama Mia was also part of the battle alongside Orario's stro adventurers. Her gaze fell on Bell's group, seeing that his former family didn't seem to care about the situation, like the other adventurers. Yet, she still seemed somewhat worried about Bell and the others.

  "This is bad... we have to get them out of here..." Fels muttered, floating in the air as he observed the situation, his gaze falling oermath of Lucius's explosion, hoping he would e to help if he was alright after this.

  "We're surrounded..." Gross muttered as they noticed adventurers beginning to view them as enemies, far from Knossos' entran the slum.

  "What should we do with them...? They're monsters, right?" Questioning voices arose as everyoarted to encircle them.

  "Why are they ag like this... Didn't we fight together?" Ray murmured.

  "That's how they are..." Gross replied.

  "Lyd, what should we do..." Another Xeno muttered.

  "I...Hm?!" Before Lyd could ahis difficult question, all the Xenos and adventurers were stunned as dozens of blue spheres with indecipherable symbols appeared, c all the Xenos aia's family in the midst of them.

  "This... Lucius?" Riveria looked towards the smoke of the explosion, knowing that only one person could do this.

  "You will be teleported. Get out of here as quickly as possible... Enter Knossos and go to the dungeon, and don't fet to close the doors. I want you to keep Hestia's family with you until things calm down. I'll hahe rest." Lucius's voice echoed from withiime sphere, only audible to those inside.

  "Wait! Lucius-Sama.... you're not pnning to stay here alone?!" Haruhime excimed.

  "Someone has to stay... And I believe I hahings," Lucius replied, knowing that he had a far better ce of turning the situation around with the es he had, even without Freya as an obsessive lover like Bell had, since he had Ouranos and many gods had made deals with him.

  Aisha, Ryuu, Cassandra, Lili, Daphne, Bell, Welf, and Haruhime could only remain silent, watg Lucius's decision without being able to do anything.

  "Lu-Chi..." Lyd murmured as all the spheres began to disappear along with the Xenos and the others amidst the area surrounded by adventurers.

  "They escaped!" Finn muttered, his gaze falling on the destroyed area, sensing that they had been teleported there. However, they still had to deal with Lucius and his troublesome teleportations...

  "Sorry, everyohen, Lucius's voice emerged as he walked over the destru, his clothes nearly torn to shreds except for his pants, revealing to everyohat despite being a mage, he possessed an athletic, muscur physique—something only Riveria had seen before.

  "Lucius..." Tiona murmured as all the eyes of the city fell upon him.

  "He's staying behind to be captured, and we're fleeing...?" Daphne remarked cautiously.

  "Lucius must have a pn... We should trust him," Erebus ented, while everyone seemed flicted for a moment before nodding.

  "Alright, ... Lu-Chi is doing this because he ha. Let's go!" Lyd made a somewhat difficult decision, but he started walking, and the others followed suit. Eveia's family, though a bit frustrated, also followed, hoping that Lucius could hahe situation. The Xenos who had stayed out of the fight were following Wayne all the while, and now they moved along with the still-unscious girl.

  Fels felt them leaving the area, while Lucius stood fag all of Orario's adventurers, despite being visibly injured and tired.

  "Lucius Drakenar... you're letting them escape..." Finn spoke, more as an accusation.

  "You could say that... I won't let a past me," Lucius responded, still keeping his gaze on them, while they clicked their tongues and gritted their teeth.

  "They're my friends... They fought alongside you and bled with you against the Juggernaut, and now you want to attack them afterward? That's a bit cowardly of you, don't you think?" Lucius asked calmly.

  "But they're monsters!" someone shouted from the crowd.

  "That's right, why are you helping monsters?"

  "I admired you! Now I see you're a traitor!"

  Protesting voices rose from all around Lucius, but he remaiill, his eyes fixed, waiting for the first to act.

  His gaze nded on Riveria, who was looking at him alongside other members of her family, like the twins, Aiz, ae. After that, his eyes shifted to Mama Mia, atg from atop one of the houses with a certain look of respect.

  'I don't know if you're right in this, but you're certainly firm in what you believe, and I respect that.' Lucius read the lips of the giant level-6 dwarf as she mouthed the words silently from that distance.

  "Lucius Drakenar, you are being taken into custody!" Shakti appeared at that moment with the entire Ganesha family.

  "..." Lucius said nothing, his eyes gng towards a er, hoping the Xenos were finally entering Knossos. The entrao Knossos hadn't been affected due to its durability. Lucius's attack hadn't made a rge hole in the slum, but it had cleared the area, leaving only the entraact, which was exactly where the Xenos and the others were, as they finally ehe pce filled with cages and some beasts that had survived the battle, still r, with the pce littered with bodies.

  "We should pull that lever; it will close the door," Erebus ented, as they ighe bodies, even those of the gods, sihe Juggernaut had spared no one.

  As one of the Xenos pulled the lever, the dan to close at that moment, and everyone sighed in relief. "Let's return to the dungeon and wait for news of Lu-Chi," Lyd remarked as they all started heading in that dire, leaving behind the monsters and corpses.

  "..." Lucius seemed aware of this as he looked at the adventurers and sighed before turning back to them with a calm gaze and a smile.

  His legs gave out at that moment as he felt them colpse beh him, kneeling on the ground and surprising everyone. He raised his hand, uo stand any longer, as the stress had pushed his body to its limit.

  "Well... I surrender." Lucius raised his hands in surrender, remaining on his knees, as not even potions or his healing abilities could aid him now.

  "..." Shakti couldn't believe it at first, trying to gauge if Lucius was genuinely giving himself up.

  "..." Everyone remained silent for a moment, seeing Lucius in that state. Even if he wao escape, he couldn't, not in his current dition. After all, he had used his powers to teleport all the Xenos away from there. It wasn't that he cked magic, but his mind was exhausted from taking so much damage and fighting throughout the entire night.

  It didn't take long froup of adveo rush towards him, quickly holding their ons to his neck.

  "What a warm wele. 't you just put some s on me and take me to prison? Do we need all this theater?" Lucius mocked, seeing Finn and many other adventurers with their ons poi him.

  Despite their irritation at his remark, Ganesha's family approached and began to pti-magic s on him, a material used in traps that reduced his power.

  "Take him away," Shakti ordered as Lucius began to be escorted, struggling to walk out of there, maintaining what dignity he had left.

  Almost the ey watched as he was taken, and a figure stepped in front of him. "Hestia..." Lucius murmured.

  "..." She said nothing, looking at him with closed lips, unsure of what to say.

  "Hestia-sama... as the goddess of the family to which this man belongs, you will be summoned for expnations. The Guild will inform you of the time of the hearing," Shakti ented, knowing she had no authority to detain a god, leaving that matter to the Guild.

  "I'll go with him; he is my child," Hestia decred.

  "Are you sure? You know there's an angry crowd ahead..." Lucius raised an eyebrow.

  "It's alright, I'm yoddess, aren't I? I don't know what happehere... but I trust your as..." She said, standing by his side as they tinued walking.

  "Thank you." Lucius couldn't help but feel somewhat touched by Hestia's determination.

  Hestia only smiled. "They escaped, didn't they?" she couldn't help but ask as Lucius nodded.

  "The adventurers are searg the rubble. I mao trick them for a while, making them think I could stop them from passing. That gave enough time for the others to head towards the dungeon again. Ohings settle... they'll return," Lucius expined, aia nodded.

  Just as Lucius had said, an angry crowd emerged, gring at him with rage and even hatred.

  "My house! You destroyed my house!"

  "Why did you have to ruin our lives?!"

  "Everything was fiil you and your pet monsters showed up."

  "I hate you!"

  "Traitor."

  Lucius knew he would face such backsh from the people of the slum and the city. After all, he had ended up destroying the entire area, leaving these people without homes. But he didn't care; he kept his gaze forward with his head held high, aia, who was alseted, stood by her child, unwavering.

  Lucius, once hailed as a hero of Orario, had, on this night, bee its vilin.

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