Chapter 424: Casus Belli.

Chapter 424: Casus Belli.

[Arcane Fever (Minor)] [Starvation (Minor)] inflicted on [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]

311 human, beastman, elf, dwarf followers gained

Total follower count updated. Total followers of [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor]: 22362

Multiple proficiency requirements fulfilled. [Solar Core Lv. 5] [Venerated Saintess Lv. 5] [Draconic Barrier Lv. 9] [Fluid Cast Lv. 7] [Foresight Lv. 5] [Detection Sensor Lv. 4] [Fear Resistance Lv. 9] [Tranquil Mind Lv. 5] [High-Speed Calculation Lv. 3] gained

Thanks for the update, parallel minds. Really had no time to look at all the upgrades with all the action. Especially the [Fear Resistance] really leveled up when I fought Galg. Anyways, back to whats important right now!

Krampf! Mhampgf! Mhmm, gam. Hoooooo, maampf! My dragon maw worked, chomping down on giant pieces of meat and bowls of rice large enough to fit an entire feast-sized dining table.

The noise was equally as loud next to me, as I heard not only neighing but voracious gorging of food and water. Magmp! Ung! Mamf, kramp, kamf! Hmmm! Kraampf!

Saori, in her wolfkin form, was looking at us all this time, silently slurping her noodles after she humanized after the battle. She frowned, wiping her mouth, before looking up at us as the both of us were still in our dragon forms. I get you two are hungry, but could you, you know, not eat like skorrs?

Neill and I looked at each other, making me notice her mouth and cheeks were dirtied with sauce, rice, and some bits of meat. I pursed my lips, noticing I was equally as dirty as her. However, we just shrugged and wiped our mouths clean, before turning to Saori to raise our tails.

Just eat. Saori gave up.

Miss Saori, please, dont support them. You need to be sterner! Tasianna, on the other hand, tried to push her to continue scolding us, but Saori just shook her head, saying she was too tired and hungry to do anything.

[There is no shame in eating like this, Tasianna,] Beth came to our support, seeing as she was a wyvern, she didnt really care for etiquette when one dined. Even if she had been assimilating well into life in society.

Her brother, Shay, nodded his head as well. [They are in their true forms. They should eat like dragons, not humanoids.]

Urgh, I just need a break, come on, guys.

The First Event Quest Incident. Now that was a catchy headline for sure, and something a lot of people will remember for a long time since, as I could attest, it would make history for so many reasons. The announcement of the Shakaie-Narn Alliancedwarven for North Star Alliance, or Star-North if you wanted to be exactthe celebration of the Event Quests fulfillment, and then the whole tragedy of Maagneils interference in all of this, all starting with his employment by the demonkin Prince of Greed to his last moments as a grieving father.

The chroniclers and historians will remember him as a monster for what he did and, honestly, its exactly what he deserves. His intentions were that of a fathers but with his actions, he defiled his sons body and memory. I was seeing the matter as a bystander and enemy, but as a daughter, it did make me wonder what my own Papa would do if it meant we could be together again.

He was a law-abiding and hard-working person, even if he had a temper. Papa loved Mama, me, Nanny, and everybody in his close family. He was a family man through and through. However, watching Maagneils madness surfacing like this made me scared of the possibility of Papa unable to properly cope with my death. I hoped he wouldnt blame himself.

Regardless, I was already in anguish with my whole Earth family situation, it would be better to not mind it for now. The consequences of my death would show themselves once I was done with Aurenas request. I could worry about it then as there were far more pressing matters I could handle, right now.

This was my break time. I needed the food due to how I went a bit overboard for all of this. [Arcane Fever] was the most pressing matter, as my skin had turned pretty blue with a lot of purple patches around my right arm. My crimson scales were hiding it, but if you looked through the gaps, you could see how sickly they looked.

Not exactly [Arcane Fever]s fault, but it was still arcane corruption, specifically, the mana I accidentally absorbed when I snatched the Earth Elemental Emperor from Maagneil. Oh boy, I didnt expect the damn elemental to have absorbed the demonic mana, or energy or whatever it was called, until the System told me I had to usurp it. No wonder Maagneil was on a bloody spree of mayhem despite how Saori thought he was dead, the elemental was actually being supercharged by everything going on.

It spoke to me, cursing me how I was ruining everything, again or how I was another of Crustacias minions. Buddy, I already got one goddess on my back, I dont need another. Nevertheless, it was true that I was doing this for her and to fulfill my Divine Quest, so I saved the elemental from all the demonic influence, which caused my arm to really feel what arcane corruption could do to my body. It probably wouldnt leave a scar after my treatment, but it sure hurt a lot, as if something was inside my arm, squirming around.

[Divine Quest: Uncover the truth behind this golem and solve the problem on hand with them] completed. You have done well, Champion, please accept your reward

Experience has reached multiple breaking points. [Young Sunfang Dragon, Hestia Atsuko Kargryxmor] has risen from [Level 31] to [Level 32]

Attributes have increased due to level up

Acquired 800 skill points

Your rewards from Goddess Crustacia will be given to you once you visit the Chihiro shrine deep under [Manethalas Nest]. Your Event Quest reward will be sent to you by visiting the Crustacia shrine in Inkoran-Tazuls cathedral of Crustacia

That was what happened after I usurped the demonic energy. More tasks, in other words, instead of just giving me my rewards. Bleh, annoying, but I guess I couldnt complain about being level 31 now. 14 more and I would reach the max level for rank B. Still, to reach rank A, I still needed to level up my essential dragon skills and also wait for about three and a half more years.

Argk! Somebody groaned and it wasnt me.

I turned around, noticing Neill had stopped eating and was inspecting a wound on her leg. It was bandaged instead of healed. It wasnt from her fight against Galg or Maagneil, but instead a present from her battle with Manethala at the end of this whole incident.

Why wasnt it being healed by a potion of healing magic? Well, simply put, I couldnt do it as I was under [Arcane Fever] and didnt want to make it worse; I was in my dragon form for that very reason, after all. The second reason was cause of our surroundings.

I raised my head, finally embracing the chaos happening around me.

Move those legs, tazongs! Another set of twilight slime over to tent four! Get there as soon as possible, the elves and humans cant make so many pots fast enough!

Herbs! More Belzac herbs, now! Get to the storage facility and get us another boxWait, and get another bag of herbs from those Carmaniate traders. They really help with the base making.

ANOTHER SET OF PAELLA, READY TO GO! SERVERS, MOVE! RICE CHOWDER POT READY FOR THE SICK, MOVE!

This was an emergency clinic-slash-war camp.

The reason was due to the aftermath of the earth elemental emperors army, as he had made too many gnomacotta warriors and those serpent golems. During the initial attack, Maagneil had created a ton of those golems to attack everybody, and they were still swarming around the area after everything else was done, so we had to get rid of them now.

The area behind the Hubthe path to the two dungeons and through the valley into Loatryxian landwas a wide open area. Mostly untouched aside from the gravel road.

When Manethala was beaten and Neill caused the giant stone statue to fall, it created a huge roadblock in front of the valley, blocking our way through it by foot. That thing was nearly tall enough to touch the tip of the small bridge on top of the mountains, so when it fell, I was actually worried for everybody who was fighting under it.

Well, suffice to say, people did get hurt. Neill received a pretty major scolding from King Fugnarus and Saorishe really got into it since she was worried we had to pay for it. Personally, I was amazed by the power of [Battle Frenzy (Major)], but it showed just how inexperienced Neill was in using it, as her first technique in that state lacked any of the finesse and control she usually had for her dragon path techniques. It couldnt be helped, as it was her first use of it during a real fight, but it was still irresponsible for her.

Whrooo! Neill let out a mighty sigh of happiness. [Alright, back to fighting.]

[Dont got to crazy, alright.] I warned her.

[Ha, who do you think youre talking to? I am Fargryneill Qi]

[Sis,] I interrupted her, causing her to stiffen up. [I heard you were different before meeting the dragonslayers according to King Fugnarus, but I see this is your real, unbridled personality with the confidence of a true dragonkin. Haa, I see the sister Ive come to know was just a phony.]

[] she didnt even respond, so I kept going.

[Also, dont forget what Yorshka told me, you didnt bring Manethala from 100% down to 10%. You brought him from 24% down to 8%. Very remarkable and worthy of praise, but you know who deserved it, too? The blessed who helped. Yorshka. Midirn. Krim-Slak, Grazlahta, Akast. Or, you know, the damage we did to him before he turned mad? Or did you do all of that?]

[ You dont need to hurt me that much, Hestia. Fathers horn, that hurts more than Moms kicks.] Neill departed our part of the camp in a less than stellar mood, returning to her more humble ways. Only sticks and stones, yeah right, maybe for a monk or a true saint, but words can hurt others and sometimes keep them from becoming worse.

Neill was more-or-less the person who killed Galg and two of his dragonslayersthe armored spearman and then the archer during my third meeting with them. She regained the confidence she lost when they first chased her. It is a good thing but hopefully she wont turn too conceited.

She had to pay reparations for the statue, and it was something the Loatryxian leader of the alliance couldnt dissuade King Fugnarus out of. Well, I made it sound so sinister, but it was more like Neill accepted the punishment after she saw what her powers did. With great power comes great responsibility, which was something Neill understood from her education.

Dont worry, Ill get rid of all of it. Concentrate on the injured and the roaming enemies, she told him, and that was the reparations. She would get rid of all the rocks blocking the path, and the money to rebuild it, she just said, Im a rank A adventurer after Elyonda, do you know how much those Quests pay?

Speaking of which, I hadnt taken my rank A exam yet. Too many things happened after I first met the dwarves, and I had no time for anything else, even when I was in Artorias to gain the funds to deceive Maagneil with my obsidian trap. I forgot I had to speak with Muraina for the exam.

With everything going on, I probably wouldnt be able to gain my advancement until after the alliances formal founding and the ensuing battle against the Prince of Envy. Especially with everything that is happening now.

We will meet during the summit. Have a rest, Meoschaera Hestia, was what King Elutis of Saelariel told me.

King Fugnarus practically confirmed what our next move was, as he and his wife were pretty infuriated. Too many people died, and the dwarves believed in Kronnazs ideology when it came to bloodshed or crimes. Grudges had to be avenged.

War I have to dissuade them from going on a full-on war.

That was a priority for me during the summit. Fighting couldnt be avoided, since I had to prove the current bishop of the church of Aurena was a fraud; the moment I do, I would have to fight him. For that, I needed more people to believe me, and, thankfully, one person survived it.

I need to speak to Saintess Fleindia as soon as she wakes.

Another point on my to-do list.

Sadly, not now. I couldnt even walk away now with Tasianna and the wyvern twins adamant about me standing down and recovering. I couldnt even act as a surgeon. Currently, the healing duties were all handled by Asaka and the white mages from Saelariel when it came to those heavily injured, while the alchemists prepared proper curatives for anybody else. That was why Neill only received some bandages, she was relying on her natural healing factor to kick in while the stronger healing options were needed for those in more urgent need.

Those at the fair, those at the Hubs entrance, and those who fought back the attackerstoo many had died and were hurt. I could still hear crying in the distance as children and family members cried over those lost from Maagneils insanity, grating my ears as it made me question if I could have stopped it all by keeping his gundam within the dungeon.

It made me angry, to the point my body temperature was getting higher and higher.

Hestia, you are almost warm enough that we are the only place with no snow, Saori noted, prompting me to look down at the muddy brown ground I was sitting on.

I looked around, noticing some white bits mixed in the earth around the camp. Some blood stained the ground also.

We were close to winter, after all, so this much was just normal. What wasnt normal was that I was melting all the snow around me. Anger really ruined the beauty of life, huh?

Haaaa, I sighed to myself as I looked over to the clinic, seeing Asaka shouting at a few dwarves, beastmen, and elves to get a move on while grabbing what looked like buckets full of her beige slime.

Her twilight-element slime that was able to heal wounds was surprisingly pretty useful in a situation like this where there werent a lot of healers and the alchemist couldnt make enough potions in time to heal people. Why was there a lack of potions? Well, the potion shops and even the alchemist guild were practically destroyed in the mess; in fact, a lot of guilds and shops were destroyed in the chaos.

The potions the guard and adventurers had were used for those currently tracking down the wandering golems. Master, for example, was with everybody to heal and support them. Those golem serpents I mentioned were pretty much just like the ones I fought when I first met the Earth Elemental Emperor, so they were decently sturdy even if they didnt have [Geokinesis]. You needed proper weapons to even break through their shell.

That was why Asaka was being worked to the bones. The conviction she showed everybody to handle the healing duty in my stead was transformed in her now ordering people around as she gave them her healing slime. Since it could be transported around, it worked just like potions or sealed spells, allowing non-mages to heal people.

Now, why were the elves listening to her was another question, and the answer to that was how she planted her feet and announced to people, I am a Saintess of Ilsaphone! before she began spraying graffiti on those who tried to argue back. Like, she just painted on a few people and ruined their clothes.

Well, as you would imagine, not everybody believed her at first as it was hard to associate her with the Goddess of Death and Necromancy. You would believe a necromancer or a dark mage would be more up the alley, until people from the church of Marsven appeared.

[Magic Power Enhancement Lv. 10] (+3) [Mental Stability Lv. 10] (+1)

[Mental Warfare Lv. 8] (+2) [Fluid Cast Lv. 7] (+1)

[Delayed Cast Lv. 5] [Continuous Cast Lv. 6] (+1) [Mana Eyes Lv. 8] (+2)

Physical skills and related:

[True Unarmed Technique Lv. 1] (New) [Sword Technique Lv. 1]

[Draconic Roar Lv. 10] (+4) [All-Damage Enhancement Lv. 1]

Senses and movement skills:

[Silence Lv. 1] [Accuracy Correction Lv. 8]

[Concentration Lv. 10] (+2) [Foresight Lv. 5] (+2)

[Danger Perception Lv. 10] [Probability Correction Lv. 8]

[Detection Sensor Lv. 4] (+1) [Enhanced Olfactory Sense Lv. 6]

[Enhanced Vision Lv. 10] [Tracking Lv. 5] [Night Vision Lv. 10] (+1)

[Odorless Lv. 1]

Resistances:

[Physical Super-Resistance Lv. 10] (+4) [Absolute Pain Tolerance]

[Mental Corruption Resistance Lv. 10] [Mind Protection Lv. 10]

[Mana Leak Resistance Lv. 10] [Abnormal Status Nullification]

[Fear Resistance Lv. 9] (+4) [Lightning Resistance Lv. 10] (+4)

[Sacred Resistance Lv. 6] [Storm Resistance Lv. 5]

[Water Resistance Lv. 6] [Tenebrous Resistance Lv. 1] (New)

Others:

[Stage Fever Lv. 7] (+1) [Handicraft Lv. 7] (+1) [Woodworking Lv. 8] (+1)

[Stonecrafting Lv. 1] [Trap Creation Lv. 10] [Instruction Lv. 2]

[Identity Blocker Lv. 10] [Tranquil Mind Lv. 5] (+4) [Cooking Lv. 9]

[Benevolent Aura Lv. 6] (+3) [Draconic Aura Lv. 5] (+1) [Royal Presence Lv. 5]

[Scale Manipulation Lv. 5] (+3) [Territory Release Lv. 3] (+2)

[Dismantle Lv. 9] [Thought Acceleration Lv. 5] (+1)

[High-Speed Calculation Lv. 3] (+1) [Multi-Thought Processing Lv. 6] (+2)

[Parallel Thoughts Lv. 10] [Core Regulation]

[Humanize Lv. 10] [Telepathy] [Aerokinesis]

Ability List: Dragon:

[Dreadflare Aura] [Hellblade Edge] [Scale-Dust Veil] [Hellflame Breath]

[Solar Beam] [Magmakammer]

Spear:

[Spiral] [Spark Crescent]

Unarmed:

[Dragoon Jump] [Gale Steps] [Dragoon Dive]

Spell List: Custom Magic:

[Symphonie des Feuergottes] [Prayer] [Sanctified Blaze]

[Sanctified Blaze: Halo of Consecration] [Ignite] [Panzer] [Unheilge Engel]

[Scorching Sun] [Hydra] [Sun, Consume All]

Custom Spell Song:

[The Will to Fight and Survive] [Dragon Fire] [My Darkest Thoughts]

[The Heir of Hope]

Lightning Magic:

[Lightning Bolt] [Purple Flash] [Levin Core]

[Overload] [Clouds of Thunder]

Holy Magic:

[Sacred Smite] [Sacred Veil] [Sacred Field] [Banishment Beam]

[Major Heal] [Omnictus] [Gloria Ascendence] [Heavens Sword]

Earth Magic

[Terra Wall] [Bedrock Blades] [Rumbling Might] [Ruinous Rockfall]

Wind Magic:

[Wind Bullet] [Wind Cutter] [Air Shield] [Wind Slash]

[Swift Winds] [Wind Blast] [Featherfall] [Aerial Blitz]

[Tornado Bullet] [Sylphids Cloak] [Tailwind] [Cyclone Madness]

Space-Time Magic:

[Haste] [Storage Magic] [Warp Point: Entry] [Warp Point: Exit] [Room]

The Light Magic:

[Shine] [Sanctuary] [Miraculous Grace]

Titles: [The Light] [Bearer of Kargryxmors Blood] [Divine Inferno]

[Otherworldly Reincarnator] [Princess]

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A note from AbyssRaven

And, with that, the end of the the Summit of Ankor-Nazta arc has concluded. I hope everything ended well for people and despite the hiccups here and there, it was still an enjoyable arc. Hestia's meeting with her cousin and his sudden departure, then her fight with the dragonslayers. Another important point for this arc had been Grimnir's character arc and a chance for Neill to grow, in addition, we also got the chance to get to know Vifi'Yok more and also the state of the demonkin's kingdom.

However, I guess the most important point would be this chapter here. A casus belli had been thrown into the dwarven king's face, and it would be now time for Hestia to stop them from going for an all-out war.

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