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  Third Person POVDungeon.

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  Lucius nodded, pleased with the addition to their forces for this battle. Then, leading the group, they set off from the hideout, heading towards the upper floors. Their group quickly started to asd the floors, not w about entering a that time of night, and Lucius also possessed the spell to deteyone and monsters. As they passed, they effortlessly killed everything the duhrew at them. It wasn't long before they began to see the roots of the Revira Tree.

  "We're getting close," Lucius turo the group and tinued. "From now o me introduce you, so just watch." Lucius spoke to the leaders.

  "Are we going to meet Lucius' family?!" One of the somewhat childish xenos said excitedly.

  "Will they be as cool as you, Lucius?" Let, the goblin, asked curiously.

  "That will depend on how we make this tact, but knowing them, it will be fine," Lucius assured with a small smile.

  "That's cool, I'm ready to meet new humans!" Ray said excitedly as he fpped his wing.

  "Yes, Lu-chi. We're looking forward to this!" Lyd said.

  "..." Gros and Erebus remained silent but nodded.

  Lucius looked at the leaders and some of the maed xenos behind them. After all, they wao meet other humans, since meeting Lucius had improved their opinion of other surfahabitants. "Let's go, we have to meet our brothers in arms in this war," Lucius said and tinued up the stairs.

  They emerged in Rivira, ign the expressions of many there who had never ehat floor before. Lucius headed to a secluded side where his family was waiting.

  "It's dark now, but over a period of time, the crystal in the ceiling glows," ented one of the xenos who had been to this floor before.

  "Amazing! It looks so beautiful! What is that?" Another xeno asked the elders.

  "That is the city of humans; they stop at this pce to rest," one of the elders expined.

  "Hey, do you remember that crystal buried in the ground?" One of the xenos familiar with the pce poio a huge crystal stu the location, where it was supposed to be on the ceiling.

  "No, it wasn't there the st time I came here..." said the other, while this became a mystery for the xenos, not knowing that the real cause of the enviroal ge was the mage leading the group. But Erebus was different, still remembering the battle in his memories, yet chose to remain silent.

  Ryuu was watg the area for any activity from atop a tree wheiced Lucius approag, but was utterly shocked by what followed him closely behind.

  "Hey, elf! Is it him approag?" Aisha asked below, notig the group ing towards them.

  "Yes." Ryuu jumped from the tree and nded beside her.

  "Why that face, and I sense a rge group, where did Lucius get so many people from?" Aisha murmured.

  "Let's gather the others; you'll uand when you see them." She said, and upon reag the pce where all the members were, everyone waited for Lucius to approach after Ryuu notified them of his arrival.

  In the middle of the clearing, they saw the mage emerging from the tree with his magelight magic, "I had imagihis face..." Lucius murmured, looking not at him but at the dozens of shadows emerging behind him entering the light, showing a bunonsters moving in a humanoid manner while wearing armor and ons. Erebus was also quite intimidating with his size.

  "What is this? What am I seeing?!" Daphne said, shocked.

  "Lili hopes this is a summoning..." Lili ented, dazed.

  "..." Welf frowned.

  "This..." Cassandra stepped ba fear.

  "Are these monsters?!" Bell said, frightened and with a scared face.

  "Lucius-Dono. What is this?" Mikoto also asked, stunned.

  "..." Haruhime stayed behind Aisha.

  Now Aisha uood why Ryuu had been shocked, while Ryuu looked at Lucius with a gaze seeking answers.

  Lucius sighed, standiween the xenos who looked curiously at the group but remained silent, waiting for Lucius to initiate the first tact between them. "Well, I uand how you're surprised by this. But let me expin," he spoke and looked at the xenos before turning back to his group.

  "The first thing you o uand is that these are xenos, a different kind of creation from the dungeon," he said.

  "What do you mean by that?" Aisha asked.

  "What I'm about to tell is a closely guarded secret known by very few, not even families like Freya or Loki are aware of it. A few years ago, the dungeon began to create a new form of life, something simir to you and me," Lucius began, he had some theories behind this, and seeing that Xenos had memories of seeing the world outside the dungeon, it was quite likely that they were adventurers who had died in the dungeon, but this could not be proven and would also cause chaos, imagine adventurers knowing they could beonsters a few years after their death...

  "Simir to us?! What do you mean by that?" Lili asked, even more bewildered.

  Sighing firmly, Lucius went on to expin. "This new form of life made by the dungeon is highly intelligent and has the same emotions as any of us. They are known, as I said, as Xenos."

  "Xenos," Bell murmured, looking at all the armed monsters who had yet to speak, just looking on, waiting for Lucius to introduce them first.

  "Yes, I know it's hard to uand, but it's also hard to expin. We don't know the ins of why they were born, nor do they themselves know. But ohing I'm sure of, I've met them some time ago, and sider them friends, after all, they've saved my life and we've fought together several times, bleeding together as well," Lucius said with some fidence.

  "Lu-chi!!" Lyd couldn't hold bad started to cry out loud.

  "Calm down, Lyd! We should wait for Lucius to finish!" Ray said beside him, f his friend.

  "LUCIUS!!!" A collective shout from the excited monsters spoke at the same time while they cried like babies.

  The Hestia family looked bewildered once again, they were still trying to process everything Lucius had said, but seeing the monsters g over Lucius's words left them open-mouthed.

  "Lili must be dreaming..." Lili said.

  "Man, what a crazy night..." Welf scratched his head.

  "Ehh....." Bell moaned, looking at those emotional creatures.

  Lucius tried to ighe otion behind him and turned back to the group. "Anyway, I've called them our allies in this fight, I trust them with my life and hope you accept them, after all, we have a on enemy," Lucius cluded, looking at each member of the Hestia family.

  The group was still looking, not quite knowing what to say. After all, they had never heard anything about this and much less seen, finding it very hard to process everything they had heard and were seeing.

  Haruhime swallowed hard, stepping out from behind Aisha and looked at Lucius. "If Mr. Lucius trusts them, then I will trust them too," she said, making Lucius look at her fondly.

  "Yes, if Lucius has decided this, then I will also believe in him as he believes in me!" Cassandra spoke timidly.

  Ryuu looked serious and just nodded.

  "Well, this story of moalking and being like us, it's very strange, however, I trust you," Welf eo Lucius, who nodded in satisfa to the bcksmith.

  "Lili still 't believe it, but she trusts Mr. Lucius too," Lili ented.

  Aisha remained silent but nodded like Ryuu. The same could be said about Delphine. "Do we have a choice?" She said in agreement.

  Bell nodded like everyone else. "Yes, I trust Lucius. He always knows the best path to follow, I'm sure this time won't be different," Bell cluded.

  "Well, the's move on to the introdus," Lucius finally said, and looked at the Xenos who were still g a bit. But at that moment, they smiled satisfied after hearing such words.

  "Do you want to do this?" Lucius asked, and Lyd stepped forward with a reptilian smile.

  "Hello, surface dwellers. I am Lyd! It's a pleasure to meet Lucius's friends, we are his friends too!" The armored lizard seemed very excited as he approached.

  Lucius was amused watg Bell hesitating as Lyd approached fearlessly, Bell hesitated for a while as Lyd extended his hand. Bell finally raised his hand with everyone looking.

  "Hello, I'm Bell el..." Bell stuttered but made his introdu.

  Lyd widened his smile even further and excimed in front of everyone, "Bell-chi! It's a great pleasure!!!"

  This made all the xenos look over with excited expressions as they began to approach the group, just as they did with Lucius the first time, surrounding the group and starting to chatter.

  "Hello, humans, I'm Cag!..." said a frog.

  "Hi, I'm Vic, very o meet you!" said a cat, wielding two daggers.

  "Hey, are you a friend of Lucius? He's a great friend of mine," said a pnt woman, moving her leaves.

  "I'm Ray!!" said the harpy woman, fluttering her wiedly.

  "Your ears are real, they're as cute as mine!" said Arles, while Haruhime was trying to protect her ears.

  The Hestia familia group was left speechless, not knowing how to react to so many monsters looking at them curiously while asking strange questions.

  "They seem to be getting along well..." Rebus approached Lucius, his steps making the ground shake. Lucius nodded and saw that his familia soon began to open up to the xenos, but there was something more important at the moment. "Well, folks, it's good to see you getting along," Lucius made everyone look at him and tinued. "But now let's focus here,"

  He wao make the seriousness of the situatiohat night, "We're going to war, so better get ready, we 't waste much time here," Lucius said, and a serious atmosphere took over the pce, leaving everyone nodding in agreement.

  "Yes!! We should get to know our new friends ter, first let's deal with the hunters!" Lyd spoke up and all the xenos quickly roared in agreement.

  "Alright, now to Knossos, follow me!" Lucius said, and the group started moving as he led, using cirvoyance magic to find the door.

  They entered a dense forest and followed the path until they finally found a staircase with a yellow structure and a door at the end of the stairs.

  "So this is where they always came out..." Ryuu couldn't help but ent, seeing this pce for the first time.

  Lucius just nodded and took out the key he got from the Dionysus familia. But before approag the pce, his attentiouro the group behind him, starting to give a speech about what was to e.

  "The momeer this pce, there's n back. There will be war, explosions, and eveh. That's why I want to make it clear what we're getting into. And I know it's te to say this, but it's still good to make it clear because those who don't want to ehis situation, where we die and lose our panions, it's better to turn back," he said, looking at the faces of all his familia and the Xenos.

  "Lu-chi, we're here to fight, after all, they are our eoo. As soon as we agreed to e with you, we khe risk. So, don't worry, we'll tio fight by your side with our lives on the line!" Lyd said, causing all the other xenos to make animal sounds in agreement, their morale boosted for the battle.

  "Well, I'm seeing a lot of crazy stuff tonight. However, ohing I'm sure of: I'm here to fight this war, whatever happens behind that door. Let's fight," Welf said, grabbing his magic sword as he unrolled his scroll, ready to use.

  "Alright, the's get started. Today we'll eradicate a rge part of Evilus still in Orario," Lucius said with a somber voice, then taking the key before iing it into the lod turning it. It didn't take long to hear a clid the dan to open. It was the beginning of a long battle that would start from that entrance.

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