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  Third Person POVOrario.

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  "You've arrived," Lucius remarked, watg Riveria standing at the entrance of the mansion with a backpack, dressed in a small armor styled as a dress.

  "Yes, shall we?" she asked, and he nodded.

  "Of course. I have everything in my iory, let's go," Lucius said as they started moving toward the city gate, leaving the mansion. The Hestia Familia apahem, intending to bid farewell at the gate.

  People stared at them with suspicious eyes, Lucius Drakenar, who was about to fulfill his punishment—a topic the ey had been buzzing about in the past week. He had spent the time attending to tasks here and there, anizing his responsibilities to ehings would keep running, or at least his projects would, in his absence.

  No one spoke to them directly; they only exged ents among themselves. After all, they weren't criminals in the end. At the gate, the Hestia Familia and the Loki Familia gathered, with a few guards from the Ganesha Familia managing the flow of people entering and leaving the city.

  Lucius smiled warmly at them. "Well, I guess it's time to say goodbye..." he said, approag his family.

  "Good luck, Lucius-kun. e back to Orario soon."

  "Take care, Lucius-sama."

  "We'll be waiting for you, man."

  "Lord Lucius, you'll return soon."

  The Hestia Familia shared their parting words, while the Loki Familia kept their attention on Riveria. She no longer carried her backpack, as Lucius had stored it in his iory.

  "Good luck, Riveria!"

  "This looks so exg! I wish I could go too!"

  "Tsk."

  "These youngsters will definitely have their own adventures from now on."

  "..."

  Each member of the Loki Familia had some rea to Riveria, who aowledged them with a nod.

  "Well then, we'll be off. See you all in a few months. Good luck to everyone," Lucius said, smiling as he ed an arm around Riveria's waist and shot into the sky, flying before disappearing with his teleportation magic.

  "They're gone..." Hestia murmured.

  "I 't believe he took Mom!" Loki's cry erupted, followed by her breaking into tears.

  "But you agreed, Loki-sama..." Tiona murmured.

  "I know, but now I miss Mom. She's already been corrupted by that pint-sized mage. Imagine how she'll ge when she es back! She'll ask to leave the Familia. No! I 't picture her ing to me and saying she's joining that shorty's Familia! Mom 't do that to me!!" Loki seemed genuinely distressed.

  "What nonsense are you spouting, you ft-chested board!" Hestia s Loki. The two began arguing immediately, while the rest of the Familia members sighed and tried to stop them, mindful of the many onlookers waiting in lio ehe city, who were now watg with varied expressions.

  Meanwhile, Lucius tinued flying through the sky until they reached a city quite distant from Orario, having flown over 100 kilometers in an hour. Lucius and Riveria admired the ndscape between the clouds during their journey.

  Lucius nded in the middle of the city without aig, much like when they had first left Orario together. However, this city was rger tha.

  "Do you know where we are?" Lucius asked calmly as she adjusted her slightly wrinkled dress, which he helped smooth out with a bit of magic.

  She g him gratefully for his spell that tidied her clothes and nodded. "Yes, we're in Garily, a city not far from Orario. I spent some time here before heading to Orario for the first time," Riveria ented.

  "I see. Well, let's go," Lucius said as they ventured into the city streets. Being a bustling pce, they quickly entered people buying and selling goods. The pair attracted attention for their attire, clearly marking them as adventurers. Some even reized Riveria instantly.

  "I think we should be more discreet on our journey," Riveria remarked.

  Lucius nodded in agreement, and they headed to an inn. There, they finally settled down after leaving Orario and began discussing their pns.

  It was still mid-m when Lucius pushed the door open, stepping into the inn with Riveria following close behind. They gnced around, finding the pce quite empty, with only a few patrons scattered about. A young woman was serving drinks to the sparse ers, while a middle-aged man stood behind the ter, ing gsses and raising an eyebrow as he studied them. Lucius quickly deduced that they were father and daughter running a family inn.

  He shrugged it off and led Riveria to one of the many vat tables, settling into a er. Riveria sighed as she sat beside him, then turned her gaze to him.

  "So, what's the pn?" she asked, waiting for Lucius to take charge of the mission. Although she was aive of a promi Familia and could tribute her wisdom, Lucius undeniably had stronger leadership skills. It often made her wonder why he had aken and of his own Familia.

  Lucius nodded, pulling a map from his iory and spreading it out. It depicted the tral ti, where they currently were.

  "For now, we're here..." Lucius poio their location—a mid-sized city situated between two more promi ones, Agris and Melen, the tter being a port city farther south of Orario. "We have aire tio search... From Rakia, dominated by Ares, to the arid nds of the Kaios Desert, the Abandoned World, the Empire, beyond the Great Mountain Rahe Dragon Valley, and finally..." Lucius murmured.

  "My homend... the Elven Forest, in the ter of the ti," Riveria said softly, her eyes resting on the map's tral point.

  "Yes... There's so much ground to cover. It won't be an easy journey, but I keep us moving swiftly. Even so, I don't think we should rely on that stantly," Lucius said.

  "Do you have an initial dire in mind?" Riveria asked, studying the map. There were many things they o discuss, but oep at a time.

  "I believe heading south to the Kaios Desert would be the wisest choice," Lucius replied, and Riveria nodded in agreement.

  "Excuse me..." a voiterrupted them. It was the young woman serving drinks, approag cautiously as her eyes flicked betweewers and the map.

  "Mind your manners, human!" a voice rang out behind the girl, startling her so much that she jumped. Everyouro see a well-dressed elf gring at her with a fierce expression, as if deeply offended.

  Lucius raised an eyebrow, while Riveria frowhe elf had just ehe inn and, upon notig them, walked over, arriving just after the young woman. "You stand before Princess Riveria Ljos Alf, heir to the throne! Show her the respect she deserves, inferior woman—kneel!" he demanded of the girl, who stood frozen in uainty.

  "Do you know him?" Lucius asked Riveria, who shook her head in response.

  "I see..." Lucius murmured, watg as the elf, seemingly frustrated by the girl's hesitation, k before him and Riveria.

  "Princess, I am here to greet you," the elf decred solemnly.

  "Thank you. Now, you may leave," came the reply, but it wasn't from Riveria. The elf lifted his head in surprise, hearing the man's voistead of the princess's. He turo see Lucius gesturing dismissively, as if telling him to go away.

  "Hm?! What are you doing?" the elf muttered, a mix of fusion and anger fshing across his face as he stared at the princess standing beside the human.

  "I'm saying you leave. I uand I'm known as the Mage King, but that's just a title. People shouldn't be kneeling before me like this," Lucius said with a bored expressioing the elf's gaze. The elf froze for a moment, stunned, while the young woman also watched the se unfold.

  "What did you say...?" the elf finally processed the implication that this human assumed the bowing was for him. Fury overtook his expression. "Who do you think you are, human?! I am Caelith Altharion! Do you dare insult me in the presence of the princess?!" He poi Lucius, his mana beginning to ma. Both Lucius and Riveria could easily sehe surge of power.

  "You have magical talent, as I see, but you're still an elf without a falna, and yic is far too weak. So, goodbye." Lucius spoke, and the elf, who had been juring a spell out of humiliation, was suddenly encased in a magical sphere, vanishing the moment as Lucius sent him to the middle of a river outside the city.

  "You didn't kill him, did you?" Riveria asked, raising an eyebrow.

  "Why are you worried about him?" Lucius replied, gng at her while ign the young woman who had colpsed to the floor after witnessing the elf disappear in a fsh of magical energy. By now, the entire inn had turs attention to them.

  "I'm not worried about him, but the Altharion family is mid-ranking in my kingdom. While they're not high elves, they still cause trouble, and I don't want to see my people dying simply because of their arroga happens often enough during my travels, so you'd better get used to it," Riveria responded with a calm yet geone.

  "And do you think I'll let any elf get close to my woman? Not a ce. You'll see plenty of elves flying in our travels, so you'd better get used to that," Lucius retorted in kind. Riveria gave him a serious look before a small smile escaped her lips.

  "Idiot..." she muttered under her breath, and Lucius shrugged, turning his attention to the man approag them. It was the innkeeper, speaking with his daughter.

  "Greetings to you both... or should I say, Elven Princess..." the man murmured cautiously, having overheard the earlier otion involving his daughter.

  "No need for formalities here," Riveria replied, and the man nodded.

  "Either way, thank you for handling that. I'm here to serve in my daughter's stead. How I help you?" he asked.

  "Could you just bring us a coffee and a tea?" Lucius requested, and the man nodded, heading off to fulfill the order.

  The patrons murmured among themselves, whispering about what they had just witnessed, while Lucius tinued discussing the map with Riveria.

  "There are so many pces to visit on this ti..." Lucius ented, not letting his adventurous spirit take full trol of his thoughts.

  "You haven't been to many pces, have you?" she asked.

  "Of course not. I came from another tio the west, fled to Orario, and the city is only on the western side of this ti. You imagine how much I want to see the rest of this world. There are three unexplored pces in total, ting Orario, and two of them are here... pces where no one has ever returned alive," Lucius expined, his eyes fixed on the map. The first unexplored pce was, of course, the dungeon, but there were two more: one in the north, beyond the nds and mountains of the dwarves, known as the Dragon Valley.

  "Do you think we go there? There are probably monsters we're looking for," Riveria suggested.

  Lucius here was a reason no one had returned alive from these pces—likely due to the presence of extremely powerful monsters.

  "Yes... but there are also many legends about monsters in other parts of the ti. Perhaps we should explore some of those as well," Lucius said, just as the innkeeper returned with coffee for him and tea for Riveria.

  "Excuse me," the innkeeper said, drawing Lucius's attention as he set down the drinks. "I heard you talking about monster legends. Are you hunting them? If I may intrude on your versation..." he asked respectfully.

  Lucius nodded. "Yes, we're on a mission from Orario to hus inhabiting the ti."

  "If you're looking for something crete, I might be able to help. After all, I grew up hearing my father talk about a monster he saw in one of the desert ruins to the south," the innkeeper offered.

  "That sounds iing. You have our attention," Lucius said, raising an eyebrow.

  "I've old ahis because I didn't want trouble. But sider it my payment for you dealing with that elf who insulted my daughter," the innkeeper expined before ung into a tale he had heard many years ago.

  Lucius and Riveria listened ily, gaining their first lead oo hunt their first monster.

  Ra Here:

  I took a while to post because I really liked the image of the ti and all the pces to explore. Moreover, the city they are currently in isn't ical; there will be a few like this, where they'll make brief stops. I'll also be creating the hidden monsters, so they won't be ical either.

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