Playing With Other Supernaturals

Chapter 1016 A Story only for Her

It wasn't actually their first time coming across the monster that was going to be known as Black Dragon in their search for the 'King'. It was a unique small-sized reptilian monster that had the ability to enter and melt into the walls of the Dungeon and evade pursuit. Since it wasn't a particularly strong monster despite its unique ability, everyone was just warned of its ambush and evasion because despite it being weaker than most monsters of that time, it still continually and intelligently ambushed groups of Adventurers.

They hadn't realized it yet, but it was there that they made the mistake of letting it go on multiple occasions for its ability is not to traverse the Dungeon freely, but assimilation.

"As a living being, the Dungeon has the same properties that make up a Spirit. With its power of beguilement and assimilation, it silently and secretly, was able to amass its own strength by absorbing the power of Spirits. And when we found out about it, it had already broken through to the surface and wreaked havoc among its inhabitants without much contest.

"I won't go into detail on how we found out but it essentially 'farmed' the Spirits it captured deep into the Dungeon and after years of doing so, it gained strength and power that dwarfed the previous 'Kings' by a large margin. Even then my and Hera's children were able to defeat it after a great sacrifice."

"But it's still clearly flying around until now." Loki interrupted him, getting impatient from his long story.

"We weren't able to kill it..." Zeus sighed once again, "To be precise, it ditched its body and hid within Aria and was not able to be detected until it was already too late."

Ais was shaking and clenching her fist as a certain memory resurfaced in her head.

"After a few months of staying silent, the monster suddenly sprung into action and took over Aria's body while also assimilating Ais into itself. We weren't able to save Aria at that time but we were able to get Ais back thanks to Aria's consciousness still being present and Albert taking away one of its eyes... However, the weak child was strongly affected by its aura so one of my children sealed her in a barrier to let the aura dissipate slowly and naturally."

"More than twenty years ago, the seal was finally broken and we're able to save the child that Albert and Aria protected with their lives. However, the monster, now known as the One-Eyed Black Dragon and secretly known as Aria, felt the barrier going down too and tried to take her away. We don't know if it's Aria's lingering consciousness but it was very adamant to consume the child and we're only able to fend it off after another great sacrifice. It was that time that I entrusted Ais to Loki, hoping that she'd grow stronger and would have a chance to change her fate."

Zeus then looked at the frightened Ais directly in her eyes and said, "And now that the Black Dragon is calling out to you, it's causing the lingering aura to go uncontrollable. That monster is actually the source of your black 'Wind' and your skill 'Avenger'."

Silence then took over the entire room as everyone was trying to digest everything he just said. Zeus was about to ask how Aria was able to present herself here when something on Riveria's wrist started ringing.

With all eyes converging on her, Riveria was making a fed-up expression as she raised her right arm with the wristwatch that she's quite fond of, "You bastard... You even modified my watch."

She then took it off and placed it on the table and a slightly translucent screen appeared in the air showing the man with the striped bucket hat, "Hello everyone~ I hope I didn't interrupt something important~"

"Tsk!" Riveria clicked her tongue angrily, "Enough of your bullshit. You were probably listening to all of that so tell us what you want."

Kisuke looked at her and said with a grin, "But we're in reality and the tragic heroine should also have a chance to fend for herself. I just don't like how boring these Deities think. What would you feel if you were in that girl's shoes?"

"With those Deities trying to weave a story for me? I'd cut them down once I'd realized it."

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A few days later at dawn, all the Adventurers and Mercenaries that came through Teleportation Magic heard the menacing roar of the Black Dragon and knew it was the signal for war.

Although everyone had already prepared as much as they could, they still couldn't help but feel nervous, "Is this how it felt when the monsters were still running rampant on the surface a thousand years ago?", Narvi Roll, one of the old Loki Familia members, asked.

"Who knows?... But I sure don't like this feeling." Her fellow Familia member, Elfy Colette, answered back.

"Want to know how to feel a bit less nervous?" Alicia Forestlight asked.

The other two looked at her with confusion and the latter just pointed at the man with short black hair at the distance holding the flag of Loki Familia, "Look at Raul, about to faint from nervousness."

The two looked at the executive that looked like he was about to soil himself and much of their nervousness disappeared and was replaced by immense worry, "Is he going to be alright?"

"Err... Probably. When push comes to shove, the inner leader in him pops up. He's going to be fine... Probably."

"Right. Raul has always been like this so there is no need to worry about him so much." Alicia nodded, "But have you heard, once the Black Dragon appears, we're going to focus our entire force on it, and if the corrupted Spirit decides to move at that time, Riveria-sama alone would have to hold it back?"

"Ah, we're also curious about that. However, it seems that Riveria-sama proposed this herself and the captains of the other Familias agreed to it. Riveria-sama probably has some secret weapon on her."