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Chapter 1


"What the hell!?" A voice yelled. "They're all trying to escape and head towards the upper floor!"

A male werewolf with gray hair shouted as his gaze traveled towards the group of minotaurs all running towards the stairs leading up to the upper floors of dungeon in haste.

"It's a group of rampaging minotaurs and the upper floors are filled with lower-leveled adventurers!" A voice replied with panic evident in her voice. "They won't be able to handle them and they will be massacred!"

"Stop them as soon as possible!" Another voice commanded in a stern tone.

With terrifying speed comparable to that of a tempest, a beautiful young woman rushed through a group of minotaur and swiftly slashed through the side of their bodies making their innards fall out and produced a foul odor in the air. While it was indeed a bad smell, none of the adventurers paid any heed to it due to how focused they were in their current mission.

That mission was to stop the rampaging minotaurs just before they reach the upper floors where low-leveled adventurers resided.

The adventurers who had such a mission was the Loki Familia.

The familia was currently known to be one of the strongest familia based in Orario. The main party of the familia were just headed to exit the dungeon after their latest expedition down towards the lowest floors. As they were heading up, they met numerous minotaurs standing in their way. When they were about to lay waste to the said monsters, the monsters sensed their doomed fate and tried to flee.

One by one, the minotaurs' numbers were slowly dwindling as they traversed through as the adventurers did what they can to quell their numbers.

But it was becoming apparent to them that some of the minotaurs would be able to reached the lower floors due to their panic-filled speed.

They didn't want the bad taste of having low-leveled adventurers dying due to the fleeing minotaurs to be in their mouths.

As they continued to give chase, a figure was suddenly spotted just above the end of the staircase where the minotaurs were heading towards to.

"Someone is up the stairs!" an amazoness called.

The adventurers' sights were then directed towards the end of the stairs where they saw the figure.

The figure was a beautiful and cute girl who couldn't be older than 15. She had long messy snow-white hair and wine-red colored eyes. Her attire didn't amount to much as she was merely wearing a dark brown cloak that was tattered here and there.

"A low-leveled adventurer!?" Another amazoness asked in a panic.

"What the hell is someone like her doing here!?" The werewolf complained. "Out of the way you trash! You want to be flattened!?"

"Please get out of the way!" The golden-haired swordswoman tried to called out scared.

The figure then turned her sights towards their direction and her eyes seemed to widened.

As they were expecting the girl to scream and run away in the opposite direction, they were caught shocked at what happened next.

Instead of the girl fleeing, the girl raised her hands slightly and seemed to say something. Due to the distance between them, the Loki Familia members couldn't hear what she was saying. Almost immediately after the girl had finished speaking, her hands were then engulfed with rushing wind producing a terrifying howl as it danced around her wrists.

The Loki adventurers stared in shock at what's happening, but before they could react or do anything, the figure rushed towards the group of minotaurs with great speed leaving behind a trail of wind from both of her hands as the sound of gushing blood filled the area.

The adventurers could only stare in awe at the scene unfolding right in front of them. The girl stopped right between the werewolf and the golden-haired swordswoman and seemed to be observing at the outcome of her actions.

"One minotaur is still alive and is running away!" The amazon called out breaking the silence and catching the attention of the adventurers.

When they were about to give chase, the girl took a step and uttered something to herself.

"So I missed one?" The girl said in a cute tone.

The adventurers stopped in their tracks and observed what the girl was trying to do.

The girl raised her head back and started to breathe in a huge amount of air in her lungs.

"Breath of the White Dragon!"

With a terrifying sound akin to that of a howl of a tornado or tempest, the girl released a strong torrent of air from her mouth which travelled with great speed as it twirled like it was a twister shot out from a cannon.

The minotaur heard the terrifying howling of the wind and did its best to flee, but it was futile. As if its body was nothing more than a soft fruit, the wind rushed through the minotaur tearing its body apart making its body parts splash around the stairs making a disgusting squish sound as it did.

It didn't need to be questioned that the veteran adventurers were in a state of shock and awe witnessing such a scene and were completely silent as their gaze never left the girl.

"This is scary!" The girl complained. "I only wanted to check if I could handle the lower floors, but it's quite scary."

"WHAT THE HELL!?" The werewolf shouted unable to process what just happened in front of them.


"That concludes the report, Goddess Loki." A male Pallum with blonde hair stated as he finished his debriefing of what they've learned from their latest expedition.

This pallum was named Finn Deimne.

The captain of the Loki Familia.

"A lot of mysteries, yet so little answers for them." A red-haired goddess said as she cupped her chin with her hand. "Seems like we only get more questions than answers the more we dive further down the dungeon."

This goddess was Loki, the goddess of mischief.

"Indeed." Finn nodded. "Speaking of more questions, it seems Riveria and the others have something else to report to you."

Hearing this, Loki turned her gaze towards the green-haired high elf known as Riveria. She was standing besides a male werewolf known as Bete, twin amazoness known as Tione and Tiona, and the golden-haired swordswoman, Aiz.

"I've only heard from the others since I was at a lower floor." Riveria said as she gestured towards Aiz and the others. "So I will leave the telling of the story to them."

"Alright then." Loki nodded.

"During our way up the upper floors of the dungeon, we met up with a huge group of minotaurs." Tione explained. "We aimed to slay them as soon as possible but they sensed the danger that was about to befall them and ran away. That was when we met a cute girl."

"A girl!?" Loki stood up from her seat as she slammed her hands on a table. "Is she super adorable!?"

"Really!?" Bete lashed out. "That's what you focused at!?"

"Well!?" Loki continued still. "Is she!?"

"Yeah, she is super cute!" Tiona confirmed with a huge grin on her face.

"Heck yeah!" Loki cheered raising her hands up in the air. "Let's recruit her!"

"Will you quiet down for a moment!" Riveria walked up to Loki and elbowed her making the goddess plopped down on top of the table.

"Guh!" Loki grunted. "F-fine, sorry. Please go on."


"So she's strong?" Loki stared at her familia members with all seriousness now present on her expression.

"Yes." Aiz nodded as she answered. "Within just mere moments she managed to take care of those horde of minotaurs without much problem."

"Did she say anything at all to you guys?" Loki asked.

"None." Bete answered with a growl. "After killing those stupid minotaurs, she just took the intact magic stones and went on her way not minding our voices as we called her."

"You say she was using some form of magic that all of you have never seen before?" Finn asked clearly now intrigued by this unknown girl who wielded unknown magic.

"Indeed." Riveria nodded. "While I didn't see it myself, they asked me about it and gave me the details regarding this uknown girl's magic,"

"And?"

"I've never heard of such magic." Riveria shook her head dissatisfied that she was unable to appraised the magic. "I've listened to their description, especially Aiz's and Bete's since they were the closest, but I'm unable to discern just what magic this girl had used."

"She did say a name though right before she unleashed her breath attack." Bete added in.

"And what's that."

"She called it..." This time it was Aiz who answered. Her tone was serious and firm. "Breath of the White Dragon."

Hearing what the girl named her magic attack, the entire room became silent. It was unheard of after all. A magic that seemed to be connected directly to dragons?

It was unheard of before.

"I've never heard of a magic named like that in the past." Loki confirmed. "Have you tried asking around?"

"Not just yet." Riveria shook her head.

"We focused more on trying to rack our heads off to find if we do know this girl before and had just forgotten about her."

"The answer?"

"Impossible." Riveria stated in a firm tone. "If we did ever learnt of such a person before, surely we wouldn't be able to forget about her no matter how much time passed."

"That is correct." Finn nodded.

"Have you tried asking around?" Loki asked as she leaned back on her chair staring at the ceiling of the room.

"Not yet."

"Understandable." Loki replied as she started to rock back and forth on her chair. "You just came back from a huge expedition after all."

"We're planing on asking around after a few days' rest." Riveria added as she gazed over her allies who obviously still looked tired and worn out.

"Good." Loki stood up from her chair and put her hands on her waist as she revealed a small smile on her face. "Rest well my children, you deserve it. We'll leave the recruiting of this girl at a later date."

"You intend to recruit her?" Finn asked with a raised brow.

"She's strong."

"...And cute?" Tiona added in a small voice but it was heard by Loki.

"AND CUTE!" Loki exclaimed with a huge grin.


"Get away from here, you cursed girl!"

"Stay away from our children you girl of misfortune!"

I am a human like them, yet why do they yell these words at me as they looked at me with eyes full of disgust and hatred. It was as if I'm some sort of carrier of an illness.

I only wanted to play with the other kids.

But the other kids as well as the adults all ran away from me as soon as they set their eyes upon me.

Why?

Why was that?

Did I do something wrong?

"Ugh. Just look at her red eyes!"

I heard an adult say as she pointed at me with a finger.

"Clearly a sign of misfortune!"

I gazed down towards a puddle of water at the ground and saw my reflection. The children and the adults here shared the same traits with each other physically.

But I was different.

I had a different colored hair and eyes from them.

Was this why they hated me?

I mean no harm.

I only want to play with them.

I don't want to be alone.

Please don't leave me alone.

"I don't want to hurt anyone!" I said. "I only want to play with other-"

As I was about to reach out my hand towards them, I felt something sharp and heavy hit my forhead. With a loud thunk, I looked down and saw a rock with its edge covered with blood.

My blood.

I felt a stream of my blood trail down my face from my forhead.

It felt both warm and cold.

"W-why?"

Why do you hate me?

I couldn't help let my tears rolled down from my eyes.

"We don't want anything with you!"

"Get out of here!"

"Cursed child!"

I wanted to calm them. To tell them I didn't bring any harm.

But soon several more rocks flew towards me. Most of them missed me, but some managed to hit me.

It hurts.

It hurts physically but it also hurts my heart.

Why did they hate me so?

How could they look at me with such resentment present in their eyes?

I only wanted a friend.

Was that so much to ask?

Soon, I found myself running away. I lived inside a forest with my parents, by their no longer around.

Why am I hated?

It was already dark when I collapsed on the ground on my hands and knees panting.

Collecting myself, I sat up on the ground and hugged my knees close.

Why did they hate me?

I did nothing.

Why?

Without any pause, my tears fell.

"It seems you too are in solitude, child of man." A deep rumbling voice called out.

In shock, I tilted my head up and saw something I seemed to have failed to noticed earlier despite the fact that it should've impossible for me not too considering the sheer size of it.

It was a creature.

A creature so beautiful and majestic. So strong and powerful.

"What is your name, child of man."

"Belle." I answered. "Belle Cranel."

To be Continued.


Afterword

Here we are, back at it again!

Due to several requests, I'm bringing it back! It was really a surprise to learn that there are still readers who remembers this story! It's really heartwarming! Thanks for the support!

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