Hermes's plan.

I talked to both Ganesha and astraea familia for quite a while, it was mostly me telling them about my journey around the continent and what they heard about it through rumours,

They were shocked when I told them what warusa was actually doing and why was I so angry, I do have to admit that I might have gone a tad bit too far,

"seriously, dropping a mountain the size of orario is tad bit too far" was the response I got. Alright point taken I may have gone too far,

"but they deserved it" I said.

"hmmm maybe" kaguya said in thought,

"wait what happened with freya familia?" neze, a werewolf asked.

I pointed towards my eyes,

"they got the taste of this, first hand"

"hahaha that's why they always cough out blood when you are mentioned" Lyra laughed, she was a pullum girl around my age. Her eyes shining throughout the story of my journey. She was a level 3 which was impressive for her age.

"wait what level are you right now" ardi asked, she was the vice captain of ganesha familia, she was a level 5.

I gave a playful smile, "that is a secret".

...

After a while they all left, while I sat down on one of the chairs and faced the corner.

"come out"

Nothing happened.

"come out before I drag you out"

Suddenly a ghostly figure appeared from the corner, it was fels. The sage. The fool. My eyes narrowed

"my apologies for sneaking around Lionard of shiva familia, it seems like the rumours that nothing escapes your eye is true"

"get to the point, why are you sneaking around?"

"to know your intentions"

"my intentions?"

It seems like even he was confused now, what does he mean by my intentions?... Oh.

"ha ha ha ha ha.." I laughed.

The cheeky orange haired bastard, that party IS the party gods of evilus. And that shit wants me there. So this the game he is playing.

Fels surprised by my sudden laughter, and a little worried,

"don't worry I have no intentions of joining evilus, or any organisation in that matter but the final decision will be of my god" I assured him as he sighed through his nonexistent lungs.

"I see that is a relief, though I have a proposal for you" he said.

"ho? A proposal?"

"yes, my god ouranus wants to form an alliance with shiva familia" he asked

Huh?, an alliance with the guild is interesting, extra work but it will make my time in orario less of a headache going around its rules,

"after I deal with hermes, I will leave orario, I still have unfinished business outside, when I return I will think about it"

"please put it some thought into it, your assistance will be a great help for us" he bowed,

My help huh?, it what matters?, ha let's test.

"my help in dealing with talking monster?" I asked as he jolted and his head immediately moved to face me,

Easy there buddy, your head is attached to your body by a single bone, literally.

"how?" he asked shaking, so xenos still exist huh?.

"ha ha ha ha, didn't you said it yourself before...

... Nothing escapes my eyes"

Well not anymore at least, that incident in warusa still hurts, fuck I was so stupid.

He gulped, nodded and left. Hold on he doesn't even have a throat, how did he gulped?. Well whatever.

First that little shit hermes, I am gonna make him wish he never came to gekai.

.....

In twilight Manor,

Loki was sitting on finn's desk, while the three executives of her familia were also present, the environment was gloomy to say of the least,

"bete leveled up to level 5 in the previous expedition" Finn said

"so did tiona and tione, lefiya is now a high level 2, she only needs to do a feat of achievement to level up" riveria added

Loki nodded, and looked at the patchment of paper she was holding, it was a notice from guild. Of the arrival of two new familias in orario and they will be staying for a few days, and the other one is information from hermes who was tracking evilus,

"what do think about this?" loki asked.

"it's bad" Finn replied.

"can't you just fight him off" loki said.

"you heard the rumours, the entrity of freya familia wasn't even a challenge for him, fighting him is nothing short of suicide" Gareth said

"according to ottarl, he must have already surpassed black dragon, we cannot afford to fight someone like him, not without the two great familias" Finn added while loki growled in annoyance,

It was a perfect excuse for ouranus to bring both the familias back, even if does not join them his presence in orario is enough to upset the balance, then they can say bye bye to being one of the strongest, but the worst thing in this whole ordeal was

"where is aizu?" it was the 12 year old girl who resently became a level 3, she had an extreme hatred for monsters, especially the black dragon, she wanted nothing but to become strong enough to take it down,

She too heard ottarl words, it was an year ago when they ran into freya familia in the dungeon, usually they would have to fight there way out but they completely ignored, like they were thin air, now that they think about it this has been there behaviour since they returned from israfan, Finn thought it had to do something with the rumours about the adventurer called 'destroyer', at first he too thought it was one of those baseless rumours created by nations to scare other to protect themselves but the conversation with ottarl proved him wrong,

He took the gamble to incite ottarl but the response he got was not what he expected, he sounded scared. The king was scared.

"... The two great familias are no longer the strongest, I doubt even the black dragon will be a challenge for him now. It's only a matter of time before he comes to orario to conquer the dungeon"

This statement from ottarl shocked the entire familia, and mostly aiz. Until now she had no idea about her goal, even the present greatest were no match for the legendary monster, even her father, the mercenary king, lost and was only able to take one of its eye. But now someone was there,

An adventurer who had surpassed all others, including the one eyed black dragon had appeared, she would have ran straight to him, challenged him, begged him to save her mother but she didn't know where he was. So she kept getting stronger.

"she is currently sleeping" riveria answered with a sigh. They can not and by no means, let her hear the news of 'destroyer' is in orario, they still don't know what kind of person he is and what are his intentions but if the rumours are anything to go by it is not good. And loki is not letting her aizu fall into the hands of some manic.

"what about the plan?" Gareth asked, he was talking about their attack on evilus. If that guy is their, there is no chance they will come out easily.

"we will proceed" loki said.

"" "huh?" "" Finn and the other exclaimed.

"They have already formed an alliance with Artemis, she wouldn't let them join evilus, but shiva, he might join them, so we have to move quick, nip them early" loki said. While they all nodded,

Tonight they will put an end to evilus.

.....

That night, while walking down the streets of orario,

"where were you?" lio asked shiva, both of them were wearing expensive looking suits.

The onlooker looked at the duo in confusion, they seemed new here, the one wearing a blindfold was very eye-catching.

"I was catching up with my friends here" shiva replied.

"anything worth note?"

"there is a golden haired girl, aiz wallenstein. She is quite the character, then there is some weird stuff in a place they call daedalus, and the meeting of dumb shits we are going to attend"

"hmm, well then will you join them" I asked shiva.

"what about you?" he asked

"I am not joining anyone not until I get the skills down to a T. If you want to join, feel free, I don't mind running a few errands in between"

"nah, I only want to see Rudra, he used to scoff whenever he saw me, but now hehehehehe.." he is planning to play with them, and I will be the one to do the work, but it won't be that bad, I think I will take out my anger of hermes on there poor souls,

We reached, the mansion where the meeting was being held, using rinnegan I saw everyone inside, no one above level 4, three level 4s, multiple level 3s, and around 12 gods, but what caught my attention was the building behind us, 2 level 6s, 3 level 5s, and 8 level 4s and a god, hermes.

This will be very Interesting. But the astraea familia wasn't there, that's a shame I was looking forward to meet them again.

I told shiva about my findings, as he laughed. Upon reaching the doors, there were a few waiting for us.

"welcome to orario shiva" one of them proclaimed.

Shiva just nodded and went inside the mansion, the moment I entered the entire place grew quite. Several gods along with there strongest adventurers came to greets, shiva just gave them a light nod while I shoke there hands, some tried to squeeze my hand to determine my strength and me being me responded in kind..

And didn't release there hand before I could hear cracking sound. And the weird part about it, the surrounding people were happy, they think I am one of there kind. The fu₹&?.

After like 2 minutes shiva lost it, honestly he lasted a whole 1 minute and 59 seconds more than I thought he would, yes my expectation were that low.

"just get this shit over with, spit out what you lil'shits want" shiva shouted. Rudra on the other hand was no where to be seen. I can see a god at the back of the mansion sending some adventurers somewhere, as well as the god with the attacking force moving closer after shiva's declaration. So I send one [limbo] after each one.

The hall grew quite, when

"you are as blunt as always, shiva" the god which I saw at the back came inside the halls and said.

"that walking crap is called Rudra" he said to me. Huh? So this was the god Rudra.

"get to the point" shiva smirked as he pulled a chair and sat down, while I stood behind him. Facing the entire evilus.

Rudra looked at us, and said "I want you to join us"

"join what?" shiva asked.

"oh? Don't be like that, we have basically exposed ourselves to the people, but after you join us, there will be no need to hide" he said with a laugh while the rest happily nodded, they are all but assured that I will join them, how?,

The handy work of hermes, he used me a bait to pull the entrity of evilus out of hiding. Everything about me, not just my exploits but my nature, that reached here had been nothing but baseless rumours, and everything that was confirmed was bad, that much I got to know from astraea and ganesha familia, And all that showed me as a perfect villain. And hermes is the one who controls most of information that comes from outside orario.

Me even considering joining evilus, was enough of a threat to bring back zeus and hera familia, and he knows that I will not join evilus. With this he had been controlling the movement of loki familia with wrong information. As the freya familia went into hiding on my arrival. Even if my heart is swayed he is certain Artemis, zues and hera familia will talk me out of it.

Hermes has been playing with the entire city using one piece, me.

That guy, I am kinda impressed, but he forgot one tiny little detail. The choice was never mine to make and

"OK, we will join you".

Shiva's an asshole.