6 years.

I switched the shower off, and stepped out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around my private parts.

The city of altena was a very beautiful one, covered with numerous magic devices in various places, tall buildings and small parks. It was very close to the modern world.

Here I trained to use [Limitless] passively as well as [mana manipulation] and [akashic record] though I never told anyone here about [akashic record] because these guys don't like when people can cast more than 3 spells, they absolutely hate lefiya and riveria because they can cast more than 3 spells, if I told them I can cast any and every magic in existence as long as I know about it, they are going flip.

I looked at the mirror, damn sometimes I forget I am handsome now.

Long white hairs reaching my waist, a perfect body with six packs, as a 16 years old. Yes I am 16 now. How?, time skip no jutsu.

This kick ass figure is majorly the perk of falna, it makes you a better mortal in every aspect that's why nearly every adventurer looks dope but then again there are always exceptions.

Falna makes you better except for mental stuff, Then again when actual deities are involved, the concept good and evil become rather vague, just look at that guy lying on the bed, he is responsible for the destruction of who knows how many continents, innumerable people have been wiped out at his hands, but then destruction of the old world brought forth new world and new life.

When dungeon appeared, his method to deal with it was to remove it along with entire gekai and just rebuild it again and this time without any mistakes. Of course the ones who would have to 'just rebuild it' had some things to say to him.

Yes, he said the dungeon was a mistake on gods part and he doesn't know what happened or who did it but he only noticed it when suddenly a large number of mortals started dying. Now I am fairly curious, what is at the bottom of that hell hole?.

Shiva thinks that ouranos did something because he was first one to jump down when the prospect of Gods descending was brought up, he was either extremely bored or hiding something to jump down so quickly.

Well whatever, I changed my clothes inside the bathroom and went down the mansion we have been staying at, since we were going to stay here longer we decided to go for our own residence instead of an Inn.

When we told that to the goddess who was in charge of this, Athena, she was overjoyed.

Altena as a heavy trade relation with orario, these guys buy a lot of magic crystals or monster cores from orario, like a lot of them, for the guild itself, I think a fourth of the guild's income comes from here, so people don't outright attack them but,

Athena had been bugged by large countries like raika and empire to join hands with them, but she always refused and then they started poking around the borders of the city-state and distributing trade, but it stopped when they heard that I was staying here, because no one wants to poke around the house of someone that can drop a mountain on there ass. Surprisingly even Ares stopped.

There was even a council held amongst the nations after few months, to sort out there situation, there were representatives from every major nation or city-state on the continent, they were either the gods in charge or the king of the region, all major nations and City-States were there except for orario and Atlanta, because these two didn't give two shits about anything other than each other,

The sudden council showed that the people were upset with the offset of balance my presence, directly and indirectly, created. Long story short I was a bigger threat to them then the one eyed black dragon, and they weren't all wrong, I am pretty sure that I can crush it easily now.

Anyway, back to the main stuff, the people of the continent had to determine my stand, since my own power was more than enough to rival a nation's, and most importantly unlike orario which has high restrictions and Atlanta which was mainly focused on orario and settling down in there new homes and life, I on the other hand had no restrictions and my god, who was currently dozing off in the middle of the council, actually enjoyed when I level mountains and countries.

They wanted me to join one of the major powers to determine my position and put restrictions on my movements, that was there ultimatum, hence I told them my entire plan,

"I will stay in altena for few years and learn more about magic and magic device, then I will be scaling the depths of the dungeon"

That was my plan for now, that mean I will be busy in my own goals to bother with the rest of them. That was a relief for them.

Upon reaching the dinning area, I was greeted with a lot of good morning's from the adventurers there, they were the Artemis familia.

They decided to stay in altena as there goddess Artemis was good friends with Athena, and since the mansion they gave was way too big for two people we decided to invite them to stay with us, and they readily accepted because they wanted to train with me.

"good morning lio, did you have breakfast yet?" Artemis asked.

At first them living with us was only due to training with me and getting my help in there quests, like how I have to save there asses in edolas ruins, where that creepy one eyed scorpion was residing, ha that shit actually exist and it's target was shiva and Artemis form start even his plans were the same, damn now I think author didn't make shit up, Artemis familia started the fight but some realised that this was undeus level monster meaning they stood no chance, and me being the broken ass of a character I am, one shot-ed it.

Since that day, they started sticking around with us even more. We even went to beol mountains together.

"no lady Artemis, I will after I return" I replied to her.

"oh!, are you going somewhere?" she asked.

"yes, there is a guest here waiting for me" I replied, she nodded and I left.

I already had completed most of my tasks here, even the [quest (warlord's treasury)] was finished, but the only thing remain is to show how figure out a way to get mana from my surrounding, for that I need a connection to the nature around me, though a skill allows me to do that, I don't want to waste a skill slot on that, I only got 8 of them. But I have an idea how to solve it.

Currently I had over 105,000,000 SP, which means I can cast resurrection magic, the stuff powered by arcanum, I don't have anything I want to resurrect right now but I really want try this out. Why?, it was SS rank stuff, a league above S, those stuff were the ones I wanted to achieve now,

After reaching the guest hall where the important guests of altena were invited to stay, I knocked on the room where this guest is, though rinnegan already can see who it is,

"come in"

I entered the room to find the orange haired feather hat wearing messager god, hermes. Behind him was an sky blue haired girl, the one who made my blindfold which I am wearing, asfi.

"it has been a while lio" hermes welcomed me.

"that it has, Lord hermes. Now how do I owe you the pleasure of your visit" I asked, I picked up some manner lessons from Artemis since there is no ounce of it in shiva,

"Well we had to deliver messages here and I such message just so happens to be for your god, so I thought I would meet you in person again" he replied with a smile. seriously, you and I both know that you are not that gullible,

"Well then I am honoured, now what is that message if I may ask" I asked as he took out an envelope,

"this is it, an invitation for shiva from his friend" he said.

I looked at the letter and opened it, and looked at the sender's name.

Rudra. Rudra familia was responsible for the massacre of asteria familia, they were a part of evilus, but then again changes brought by me might have changed the situation.

"an invitation for a party in orario, it is interesting."

"so what do think lio?" hermes asked patiently, he is way too eager to get me to orario, Plus the four adventurers hiding in the corners using invisibility cloaks, what is this guy planning, let's play along,

"final decision will be upto shiva, but entering orario will be a pain"

"don't worry hermes familia can help you with that" he proclaimed. Alright something fishy is going on here.

"alright" let's see what he does.

I returned to the mansion and gave the letter to shiva, at first he was dicey about going but when I told him that hermes was planning something, he immediately agreed while laughing,

Somethings definitely wrong here, when the god of death and destruction is happy you know something is wrong, the only thing he knows is what this God Rudra is like, and that has something with hermes's plan.

When we were about to leave Artemis asked if she could accompany us alongside her captain and few of the members, she wanted to meet her friends in orario and entering orario is a cumbersome task when you have a strong familia so hermes helping them will make the process a lot easier, so we departed from altena with hermes familia and went straight to orario,

During the journey, while talking with hermes and his familia, I got to know the current status of orario.

The familia at the top was freya familia with a level 7 ottarl and 3 level 6s, at second was loki with 3 level 6s and multiple level 5s, there was a child who broke the record of fastest level up in orario within an year, aiz wallenstein. Good to know that they found her, the ones in charge of keeping peace were the astraea and Ganesha familia, apparently stuff like the massacre of 24th floor and asteria familia did not happen but also the entirety of evilus is still in hiding, lurking in the shadows.

Upon reaching near orario, one could see a ridiculously tall tower, babel and thick, long walls surrounding the city, it was one of the three great unexplored regions, the labyrinth City.

When we reached the gates the identification process began and they started handing out entry passes that will let us stay for a few days in the city, when mine and shiva's name came there was a light commotion, then they told us to wait for a while,

After sometime near the entrance, a familia alongside there goddess came, it was the astraea familia,

"welcome to orario, shiva and Artemis familia" the goddess in the group who must be astraea exclaimed. She was treating the duo of me and shiva as an entire familia, guess stuff about me also got here, why won't it.

"astraea how have you been?" Artemis asked, while the two of them went of on there own world,

a loud voice suddenly greeted us,

"I am GANESHA!!!"

It was the god ganesha, who approached shiva who,

"yo" was as unenthusiastic about it as ganesha was excited, guess these two know each other as well huh?.

Suddenly three women stood in front of me, long red hair and sharp eyes, alise, captain of astraea familia, she was a level 4, behind her was a girl in traditional Japanese clothing, a level 4 named kaguya and lastly a girl with blond hair and green robe, level 4 adventurer, ryuu lion.

"welcome to orario, 'destroyer'." alise scoffed. While kaguya nudged her to behave a little friendly,

Did I do something wrong?. Well I did many things wrong but which one?.

"please forgive her rudeness" kaguya said with a smile, while both alise and ryuu stared daggers at me. Again what did I do wrong?.

"we will escort you and your God along with ganesha familia to the inn you will be staying at." alise said

So even my living quarters are arranged before hand, that's one of the reasons I don't like orario, it feels like a prison and to some extent, it is.

After a while Artemis and her familia left with astraea while shiva went of with ganesha somewhere, while I was being escorted by the earlier trio along with Shakti and ardi Verma of ganesha familia both at level 5. There was also a guy, what was his name again Momonga no no no, morika, nope, momos?. Ahh! Yes Jackson.

His name was modaka.

We reached the Inn where we will be staying at when I decided to address the goliath in the room, yes this was this world's version of elephant in the room,

"you two have been staring at me for a while now, did I do something wrong?" I asked.

"ha he asks if he did something wrong, as if the massacre in warusa was nothing" alise scoffed.

"don't act like warusa was innocent" I responded,

"there were innocent people too"

"they were evacuated beforehand"

As a full on war with words began.

.....

Ryuu was afraid,

She along with the entire familia was afraid of what was coming to orario,

The adventurer known as 'destroyer'. She had only heard rumours before but after lady astraea told them about the happenings in warusa and israfan from lady Artemis, she had to believe, plus the entrity of freya familia was salty about this one adventurer in particular, it became easier to believe,

But that meant that he was extremely dangerous, he was around the age of Lyra who was 15 and had enough power to singlehandedly rival the two great familias which was exiled now,

Ever since the banishment of the two great familias, orario had been in a state of unrest, various malicious elements were lurking at the horizon, waiting for a chance to bare there fangs on us, the only thing stopping them were the present strongest familias in orario since if anything drastic happened it will give ouranus a reason to bring back the great familias and they will no longer be able to monopolize the deeper floors of the dungeon, this is a golden opportunity for them to grow stronger.

And one such organisation is evilus, it is a group of gods who enjoyed evil deeds. It is an extremely dangerous group on which the Ganesha and loki familia were planning on attacking when they all were going to gather in a single place but suddenly they heard the news,

The 'destroyer' along with his god was also invited, and He accepted.

That was bad news, if he decided to join hands with evilus then it will be over for us. Even the two great familias might not be able to stop him, then a wave of good news came, lady Artemis was coming with him and it seems like the two familias were rather close, which meant that even if his god shiva might decide to join evilus, lady Artemis might convince them not to.

But the current situation was a little weird,

Alise and 'destroyer' were bickering like children, arguing whether his actions were right or not. The familia , when Alise insulted his decision, was ready to fight till death but they kept on arguing, no attack, no weapon, no dropping mountains, just arguing on justice,

Kaguya suddenly clapped her hands stopping the two, and pulled Alise back

"now now we shouldn't argue with our guest" kaguya said. While alise growled and 'destroyer' scoffed,

"né-né destroyer-san, why do you wear that blindfold" Lyra asked

"Lionard" huh?

"my name is Lionard, not 'destroyer'." the white haired haired adventurer said.

"alright then Lio-san, why do you wear that blindfold, is it true that anyone who looks in your eyes sees there worst nightmares" Lyra said in a spooky voice, it was a ridiculous rumour about him that people spre...

"yes" huh?.

"Wait seriously, is it actually true" ardi Verma of ganesha familia exclaimed. Hold on is it really true,

The white haired adventurer had a smirk on his face and said,

"yes, it is true. Do you want to see" he said as his hands went for his blindfold.

"nononono.. we.. we are fine" Shakti stopped him. As the lio chuckled with a smirk on his face,

I really don't like that smirk.