Chapter 31: The start of the event

-with Ingvild and Justice-

"So the time has come"

Ingvild muttered while holding a letter that came from the Loki Familia containing the time of the start of their bet, and the place of the event, the Ganesha Familia's Colosseum.

"Justice... can you beat the core members by yourself?"

Ingvild asked as she put the letter down on the table before looking at Justice who was casually sitting down on the sofa opposite of her.

"Beat? It's more like I'll accidentally kill them if I lose focus in controlling my strength. I might accidentally rupture their internal organs by mistakes so you shouldn't be worried about me, but you should be worried about them"

Justice says with a large smile on her face while crossing her legs, looking for a more comfortable position.

"I guess you're right, but... she wasn't that idiotic after all. If she really thought that this will be act, she wouldn't have wasted the time of her core members to fight you. It looks like she caught on with her mistake, but her pride got in her way and just made an alternative rather than cancelling the bet"

"You mean this new conditions?"

Justice asked while pointing at the piece of paper on the table.

"Yes, they added three new conditions"

She says before taking the latter on the table and reading it loudly for all of the members of the Hestia Familia to hear.

"Since the other party is at least a lvl 8, to make it fair, she is not allowed to use any sort of weapon, and she must place certain amounts of restrains on her body"

"Finally, their will be 3 battles, where the challenging team which is us can pick one fighter to represent us in each battle. The winner will be the Familia that won at least 2 rounds... Is what it says"

She read causing the Hestia Familia to burn in anger from how unfair their one sided conditions were.

"Loki..."

Hestia gritted her teeth in anger while clenching her fist, holding herself back from charging at their estate but couldn't since all of this started through Justice's actions.

"Fueeeee w-w-what should we do?" (Haruhime)

"Should I kill them?" (Kuro)

"T-this a bit too unfair, I think... we should just back down..." (Bell)

"No, that's what she wants, if she can't back down herself, she'll force the other side to forfeit from the match to save her image" (Ingvild)

Ingvild explained before elegantly sipping coffee from her cup.

"W-why are you so calm about this, Ingvild!?!? You're lives are on the line here!!" (Hestia)

"No, all of this are in our favour, Hestia. Remember what I said in the past? 'Information and wit is the key to win any kind of war or conflict'. This fight is a great example for that quote, Goddess Hestia"

Ingvild grinned as she held her laughter back from how naive the Loki, The goddess of Mischief, was. Thinking that such limiters can restrain them in battle, when they know nothing about their abilities, only superficial description that they obtained from observing them fight in the dungeon.

'Even though we said 'we can't beat her entire Familia by ourselves', it is only plausible if she fights herself while her divinity is unsealed because she is the only one that can match my power... but in terms of members... They won't last that long...'

Ingvild thought while rubbing her cup with her two warm hands in a daze. 

'We didn't include the Hestia Familia in our words when we mention their level of strength... If the Hestia Familia joined along with Kuro, they'll be crushed easily in a matter of seconds'

Even though Bell and Haruhime were still both weak compared to the core members of the Loki Familia, they were enough to handle dozens of lvl 4 by themselves due to their sharpened senses and instinct under Justice's training. 

They know how to properly utilize the terrains of the battle field and use anything in their sight to their advantage be it the enemies weakness or their own.

"What do you mean?"

Hestia suspiciously asked with a confused expression on her face as she looked at the grinning woman sitting down on the sofa.

"You'll see"

Ingvild mysterious smiled at her before standing up from the sofa, facing the large gate of their newly built church.

"It's almost time, we should go to Ganesha Familia to prepare ourselves... mentally" (Ingvild)

Timeskip

"Welcome to today's special event. I'm GANEEESHA, today I'll be your presenter as always!"

A muscular man that wears a red and yellow elephant mask over his face shouted loudly at the crowd causing a loud uproar among the large crowd of people who came to watch the special event between the two most powerful adventurers and the entire Loki Familia.

"Justice... do your best"

Ingvild reminded before attaching two bracelets on her wrist and anklets on her ankles. The ankles were bought by the Loki Familia to fulfill their second condition, engraved with magic that multiplies its weight by several folds, enough to restrain the movements level 6 and below because of their incredible weight.

"I should be saying that to you Ingvild since you're the first one to fight"

Justice smirked before patting her back with little force to encourage her.

"Are you sure you can handle those weights? You're not a melee type after all, those weights must've restrained most of your movements"

"It's fine, if I can't move, I'll just have to make sure they can't get closer to me"

Ingvild calmly says before entering the arena, struggling to move due to the weights placed on her four limbs.

"LET US MEET OUR FIGHTERS!!"

He shouted causing the crowd to scream in excitement, echoing throughout the entire colosseum.

"For the first round, fought by the elegant and beautiful Elementalist that decimated all monsters in the deeper floors with her precise and great control over bodies of water... Let us meet our first fighter, INGVILD LEVIATHAN"

"... Is this a wrestling match?"

Ingvild commented as she entered the arena, casually ignoring the screams and calls of the crowd from their seats as she immediately went towards her place, sitting down on the ground, unmoving.

"... What is she doing?"

"Did she just give up?"

The crowd immediately went silent from her actions as whispers and jeers covered the entire colosseum, but Ingvild just ignored everyone and implanted her mana on the ground, to manipulate the flow of the water underground to gather into one location.

"Let's give a round of applause to the 30 lvl 5 adventurers representing the Loki and Freya Familia!!"

"Wait... Freya Familia?"

Ingvild muttered before turning her head back to look at Justice with a questioning look on her face but all she got from her was a shrug and a thumbs up while grinning widely towards Ingvild's direction.

"Justice... What did you do?"

She sighed in exhaustion before looking at the opposite entrance of the arena where multiple adventurers came out with a confident smile plastered on their faces.

"LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!!"

The adventurers immediately dashed towards Ingvild's direction as the mages fired multiple spells at her at the same time to catch her by surprise.

"[Serpentine]"

Ingvild casted as she raised her hand up in the air causing the mass of water underground to break out of the ground, surrounding her body before forming a large phyton made of water inside the arena.

"Knock them out"

Ingvild ordered causing the water serpent to slither towards the group of adventurers charging towards her location.

The serpent swung its giant tail sideway, sweeping the melee adventurers crashing towards the wall before making its way towards the mages, swallowing them whole causing them to drown inside its body before grabbing another adventurer with its tail and throwing it towards the ground at full force.

"As expected of you"

Justice commented as she watched the massacre on the arena with amusement.

"T-this is..."

The crowd watched in shocked as the girl singlehandedly massacred the crowd of adventurers at ease, causing them to tremble in fear from the merciless fighting style of Ingvild.

"G-GET AWAY FROM ME!"

One of the adventurers shouted in fear while running away from the giant serpent as the magicians fired several fire based spell to Ty and evaporate its body but to their surprise the serpent didn't even flinch with their attack and just absorbed it to make itself more powerful than before.

"Attack her!! The serpent will disappear if she is weakened!!"

One of them shouted before brandishing his sword as he charged towards Ingvild's direction causing the other adventurers to follow his actions and attack the girl sitting casually on the ground.

"Idiots"

Ingvild muttered before controlling the water splashed on their body from the serpent's attack to form a rope that binds their body to the ground as soon as they stepped inside her range.

"WHAT A MASSACRE PERFORMED BY INGVILD LEVIATHAN!!"

Ganesh shouted in excitement, breaking the awkward atmosphere among the crowd.

"We lost..."

Loki held her head while sitting beside a slender and beautiful woman with long silver hair and purple eyes, staring at the battle below with pure amusement and interest visible in her eyes.

"No worries, this is the only the first round, Loki. Didn't you propose the 3 rounds for this purpose?"

"... You're right, we only need to win one more round because from my information, the two of them are the only powerful ones inside their Familia"

Loki gritted her teeth as she stared at the relaxed purple haired girl on the arena, blocking every single one of their attacks as the serpent finished them off, eliminating them from the fight.

"Tch... If I was only paying attention in that day... This wouldn't have happened"

She bit her finger in frustration from getting tricked by the two girls.

"For the Goddess of  Mischief to get tricked herself, that is quite astonishing"

Freya muttered as a creepy smile formed on her face before covering it with the fan in her hand.

"But do I wonder... who is this Lucias they mentioned from the information that the information brokers have gathered"

Freya licked her lips with a lustful expression on her face while rubbing her thighs together in excitement.

-with 'creator'-

"For this tainted and dirty woman to lust over my husband"

The 'creator' whispered in a deep and dark voice causing the space around her to ripple from the raw anger that she felt while observing her.

"I cannot... This for my husband's growth and maturity... I cannot interfere, but... I'll help your mistress out, Lucias Frey"

She sighed as she decided to let it pass while caressing her stomach with a tender smile on her face, unlike her usual expressionless and cold face that the primordial beings were used to seeing in all their life.

"It's a pity that I cannot procreate with him in this span of time for it will only injure our child... I'll just have to patiently wait until my time of delivery before I invite him again"

She says before pointing her finger at the image of Freya, Loki and the other gods present in the colosseum, implanting a seed of loyalty inside them towards her husband.

"I cannot wait until the day you stand by my side, Lucias Frey"

She muttered before opening another rift in the space, displaying the dimension where Lucias has entered in.

"Together with our child..."

-with Justice and Ingvild-

"Ingvild stop playing around and just end it, I'm getting pretty bored here!"

Justice shouted from the entrance with extreme boredom, as she itched for fight from seeing Ingvild decimate the adventurers.

"..."

Ingvild kept quite before placing her hand on the ground as her aura dramatically spiked, sending shivers down all of the crowds spine from the sheer amount of magic that is contained within her body.

"[Flashflood]"

Ingvild casted as the serpent collapsed, creating a large flood engulfing the entire arena along with the unconscious adventurers that couldn't resist the serpent's attack, as the large waves crashed on the stone walls of the arena, chipping the wall to dust as it was washed away along with the waves.

The water then covered the remaining adventurer's body before compressing itself to increase it's pressure.

"I win"

Ingvild smiled while pointing at the remaining adventurer binded by the water as she bent her index finger upwards causing the water below the adventurers to condense and blast them from the ground, causing them to faint as soon as they fell on the water filled arena.

"T-THE WINNER OF THIS ROUND IS INGVILD LEVIATHAN!!"