Danmachi SI-The Silence's Heir

Part 2

Chapter 2

ALIZE LOVELL-Captain of Astarea Familia

The Astrea familia stood for justice, equality, and peace. They were the harbingers of hope for the populace, and yet what was that justice remained a debate even in their own familia, with each member of their family harbouring their own definition.

Alize had her own definition. It was to smile when few could and give hope when everything seemed lost. That was her definition of justice, and that was what she aspired to do as the captain of Astrea familia.

And so, it was her duty to bring the infamous Evilus, which had taken away hope from so many. Rudra familia, a faction in the great web that was Evilus, had terrorized Orario for years now, and now, finally they had them dead to rights.

"Your time has come, Rudra familia," she began as she took out her sword, proud at how all of her familia members had come out of their petty traps unharmed.

"All those blazstones, they did nothing!" members of the Rudra familia gasped.

In order to trap them, they had laid down traps with blazstones, traps strong enough that they would have taken down any inexperienced group. But Astrea familia was not any inexperienced group. They were amongst the elites of Orario, boasting many Level 4 and Level 3 adventures amongst their ranks.

"Impossible," she heard the leader of Rudra familia gasp.

Jura Halmer, the captain of the familia gasped as he saw all his familia get surrounded by Astrea familia as she announced triumphantly.

"It's over. Today, your reign of terror comes to an end, Rudra familia," she announced, and as she was about to order their capture, she felt it.

Death.

After feeling it, she heard it. A crack in the dungeon's roof right over their heads which widened infront of their eyes. The silence on the dungeon floor told her that she was not the only one who felt it as the cracks widened and a massive explosion rocked the dungeon's roof.

BOOOM!

"Ahhh," she covered her face as dust clouds covered the whole area, yet she saw the beast that had appeared out of that hole. A beast unlike any they had ever seen, its skin formed out of sharp scales which blurred as it rampaged across the clearing, killing adventurers left and right.

"AHHHH!" adventurers screamed left and right as the monster blurred past them and she could barely react when its eyes turned towards one of their own, and she watched as its claws pierced through one of her comrades.

"NEUN!" she screamed, as did many others, but none could even make a move as the monster cleaved their friend's body into many pieces.

BOOOM!

And then it turned away leaving them all behind. As one of the older familia, they were not new to loss, but facing such a monster, such disparity in strength.

"You damn monster!" she was broken out of her trance, as her dear friend Leon rushed forward blurring past her even as she screamed otherwise.

"WAIT, LEON!" she screamed, but she was too far gone by then, her sword drawn as she jumped at the monster.

And yet Leon's level 4 speed was no match for the monster's agility which swung its tail at Leon as it parried her attack like it was nothing.

"LEONNN!" she screamed, and yet that one second was all it took, as the monster's attention turned towards them.

And as her familia prepared, they were too late, and all she could do was watch as it ripped through her familia, one after another.

"Everyone form a circle," she ordered as she rushed forward.