Chapter 716: The Loki Familia's Wrath Skill Incident That Nearly Truly Made a Clown of Them

The blonde girl carried a hefty harvest of nearly four million valis as she stepped into the Familia residence, Twilight Manor, and just inside the door she spotted the elf girl Lefiya running toward her with slightly reddened eye sockets, her face full of a wronged look.

"Lefiya, what's wrong, did someone bully you?"

Ais subconsciously halted her steps, her tone carrying a hint of concern.

"No one bullied her; if you had to say there was, it'd probably be you, Ais."

Tiona, who had followed along, said from the side with her hands behind her head.

"Ais-san, where on earth did you go today?"

Lefiya's voice carried an obvious choking sob, her soft voice wrapped in a touch of grievance.

"I went to find Mr. Broly and form a party to dive the Dungeon."

Ais tilted her head, not understanding how she had become the person bullying Lefiya in Tiona's words, but she still answered the elf girl's question truthfully.

And this answer was actually not outside Lefiya's expectations; what the elf girl truly wanted to ask was: "Ais-san, then why didn't you call me along too?"

"No promise, out of the blue, who are you, why should I have to go call you?"

If it were the werewolf Bert, he would probably say something like that.

"I'm sorry, Lefiya, I thought you've been training too hard these recent days and needed plenty of rest, so I didn't go disturb you."

But with Ais, the Sword Princess girl apologized instead.

"I'm sorry, I forgot that you also want to get stronger, want to find Mr. Broly for training, and today I monopolized him all by myself……"

Projecting herself onto others, the somewhat naturally airheaded Ais felt she had already understood everything, believing the elf girl was also angry at her for secretly finding Broly for extra training without calling her because she wanted to be trained to get stronger.

"Sorry, Lefiya, I underestimated your heart that wants to get stronger too, you being angry at me now is only right."

The Sword Princess sincerely apologized to the elf girl.

Lefiya: "……"

Although she also wanted to get stronger, not to drag her companions down, the reason she was angry was fundamentally not that at all.

"Uh, Ais, I feel Lefiya's anger should be unrelated to this."

Tiona's intuition was good, able to detect the cause of the elf girl's anger.

"Yeah, Lefiya should just be angry that 【you didn't take her out to play with you】."

Tione added from the side.

"Eh, is that how it is?"

A flash of confusion crossed Ais's eyes as she turned to look at the elf girl.

"Ah, I'm not angry because of that, it's just, if possible, I hope to be able to grow together with Ais-san, get stronger together……"

The elf girl's face reddened; in this situation she really couldn't bring herself to say 【she actually just wanted to stay by Ais-san's side】, the kind of words only a child who hasn't grown up would say when spoiling an adult.

"Good, then let's get stronger together, tomorrow we'll go find Mr. Broly and dive the Dungeon for training together."

Ais looked at the elf girl with a gentle gaze and nodded in agreement.

"Uu……"

Lefiya wanted to say something but didn't know how to say it; compared to finding the Saiyan boy of Hestia Familia to accept training, she actually wanted to train alone with just the two of them, her and Ais-san.

"Ais, you're back, how was it, today you went to find Broly again for training, how was the harvest?"

The Captain and Gareth and the others had just returned from training at the training grounds, and upon seeing the Sword Princess girl over here they walked over to ask.

"Today, harvest, very much."

Ais answered concisely, the corners of her mouth even curving up slightly.

"Eh, Ais, did she just smile?"

And the expression the girl revealed made the people watching feel stunned.

Actually, besides the title Sword Princess, Ais has another nickname — Magic Doll Girl.

Her exquisite face always had no expression, looking unlike a real living person, therefore she earned this address.

So, when her face now displayed a smile, it made those familiar with her feel quite strange, even a feeling of whether she had contracted some laughing sickness.

"Mr. Broly said today that emotions will affect my swordsmanship performance, that I must learn to control my own emotions, he had me use expressions to outwardly reveal my inner emotions."

Seeing everyone looking a bit like they'd seen a ghost, Ais opened her mouth to explain.

"Is my smile a bit fake?"

She raised a hand to touch her own face, doubting whether her smile had a problem.

"Like this, would it be better?"

The girl placed both index fingers at the corners of her mouth and made the upward curve of her lips become larger.

【Uu…… So cute Ais (san)!】

This was the first thought produced in everyone upon seeing the Sword Princess girl's manual smile behavior.

【Mr. Broly, how did you tune Ais into this state?!】

And this was the second thought some people subsequently produced; compared to the girl who was like an exquisite magic doll before, the current Ais's manual smile performance, though somewhat comical, was yet closer to a normal person.

"Cough cough, as long as there's harvest that's good."

Finn nodded, satisfied with the Sword Princess girl's humanization change.

"Captain, I want to ask you and Gareth together to help test my harvest……"

Just as the Pallum Captain was preparing to raise his foot and leave, Ais said to him.

"Eh, does this mean you want to spar with me?"

Finn looked over curiously.

"Mm."

The Sword Princess girl nodded in acknowledgment.

"Looks like your harvest today really is huge, to actually want to spar with old man me and Finn."

Gareth spoke a sentence, agreed, and brought the Sword Princess girl to the training ground.

"I'll go first."

The dwarf burly man stepped forward voluntarily, serving as the first sparring partner.

Then, having readied himself as a sparring partner, he saw the Sword Princess girl across from him shake her head and say a sentence: "Not enough."

"What's not enough?"

Gareth looked over with some confusion.

"Still need the Captain and Riveria together."

Ais then looked at the elf and Pallum beside her and spoke.

"Ah, Ais, are you planning to challenge the Captain and two others by yourself?"

Tiona and the others who had also come to watch the battle all showed surprised expressions on their faces.

They didn't understand what kind of harvest could give Ais the confidence to simultaneously battle three First Class Adventurers.

"I'm not certain how great today's harvest actually is; additionally, I'm also not certain whether this harvest will cause me to fall into a rampage state..."

Ais's answer made Finn frown.

"Ais, what's the deal with the rampage you speak of?"

Finn pursued the question.

"Mr. Broly has a Skill similar to the Captain's berserk Magic; he said I should also have shared his Skill, so I want to try using it.

However, worried about a rampage accident, I need the Captain, Mr. Gareth, and you Riveria's help to stop me when I rampage."

Ais explained.

"So that's how it is."

Finn nodded.

"Eh, that Skill, turns out it also has the effect of sharing other Skills?"

Gareth was somewhat surprised.

"If it's what he said, then it should be true."

Riveria spoke a sentence.

"Ais, what do you mean you shared his Skill?"

Tiona then asked in confusion, and Tione beside her also looked over.

These two sisters belonged to those completely unaware of the Temporary Skill 【Invisible Wings】.

"Mm, telling you two doesn't matter, but I hope you won't spread it."

Finn spoke.

"Eh, so mysterious, but no problem, Captain, my mouth is tight."

Tiona muttered, then immediately expressed her attitude.

"The Captain sharing a personal secret with me, I of course would never tell even if I died!"

Tione this love-brain also clearly expressed her attitude.

"It's not that serious; additionally, this isn't my secret, but Broly's secret."

Finn corrected the error in the girl's words, coughed twice, and began speaking of the Temporary Skill 【Invisible Wings】.

"So that's how it is, no wonder before, Captain you had us go to the Dungeon with Broly!"

"It wasn't me who had you; it was Loki who had us, she hoped each of us would obtain this Temporary Skill."

"Pity, besides Ais and Lefiya, no one else obtained the Temporary Skill 【Invisible Wings】 capable of breaking capability limit values from Broly again."

"Eh, Captain, didn't you discuss it with Mr. Broly?"

Tione asked curiously.

"We discussed it, on the day we invited him to our Familia for a meal; however, regrettably, this capability of his also isn't something that can be randomly bestowed on others."

"Then why could Ais and Lefiya?"

Tiona asked curiously.

"That's because..."

Gareth's words had not yet been spoken when they were interrupted by a cough from beside him.

"Alright, let's still enter the main topic of testing the Skill."

Finn spoke a sentence, then used a glance to signal the dwarf looking over in confusion at him to look at Lefiya beside him.

The dwarf looked over, then reacted, instantly understanding.

Although Lefiya isn't that kind of high-clean-freak elf, if she knew the Saiyan boy was stepping on multiple boats, wanting to simultaneously encounter herself and her respected Senior Ais, who knows what trouble would arise.

Lefiya herself could go refuse Broly's encounter, but as for Ais, given the effect of the Invisible Wings Skill, with Gareth's understanding of the girl he'd watched grow up from childhood, using his butt to think he knows the girl wouldn't mind the boy wanting multiple encounters with herself and others.

"Right, let's still enter the main topic."

Tiona was perfunctorily brushed off.

"Ais, we're prepared, you can begin."

"Mm."

Ais nodded, then stood facing the three.

【Activation condition, is extreme Anger...】

Ais said to herself, then began recalling the past that caused her pain and made her feel incomparable hatred.

"Ah..."

A low growl issued from the girl's mouth, yet at extreme speed she entered a state of extreme anger.

Must say, the simple-minded naturally airheaded contestant has a talent for getting into her own emotional scenes.

"Damn it... a monster?!"

The Sword Princess girl lifted her head, her golden pupils seeming to ignite, and in a mere instant, her rationality was burned clean away.

The girl moved, charging straight at the three people ahead who, in her eyes, had already turned into the image of some draconic monster.

The moment the ground she stood on cracked under her step, the girl's figure appeared before Finn.

"So fast?!"

The Brave widened his eyes, only managing to bring the long spear in his hands up to block before his face.

The next moment, his whole person was kicked flying.

"Finn?!"

The Nine Magic Princesses exclaimed.

"Don't get distracted, Riveria!"

Then, she heard the dwarf's words.

"Bang~"

Gareth stood before the female elf, his legs already plowing two gullies into the ground, the heavy force transmitted through the shield making him almost think he was facing a frontal attack from Udaeus, the 37th Floor Layer Lord of the Dungeon — the Layer Lord's physique is massive, and in terms of pure strength comparison, it far surpasses adventurers of the same Level.

But this wasn't the Layer Lord's offense, it was merely Ais's offense.

"Aaah~~"

Ais, her attack blocked, merely paused her movements slightly, then wildly swung her fists at the shield obstructing her.

The training wooden shield, after just two or three hits, began to emit cracking sounds, and with wood chips continuously flying off, it was actually shattered to pieces by the Sword Princess girl's bare fists.

Finn returned in time to defend, Riveria also readied her magic, but it was useless; Ais with the Wrath Skill activated is now a stat monster, and though she lacks rationality, she still let the two of them properly experience the feeling of being crushed by stats.

Riveria's magic was dodged, the wooden spear in Finn's hands was shattered by a kick, and his abdomen was stomped on by the Sword Princess girl; his whole person shot out like an arrow from a bow, and it was only because Tione rushed over in time to catch him, serving as a cushioning meat pad, that he didn't end up rolling several times on the ground and getting injured.

"No good, Ais's strength is too great, hurry up and help."

Gareth seized the chance to grapple the girl with both arms, but was soon pried open by her raw strength; he shouted toward Tiona's direction.

The Amazoness girl hurriedly rushed over to help, attempting to subdue the irrational Ais together with Gareth, but the combined hold was still broken free from by the Sword Princess girl.

The stat multiplier bonus from the activated Wrath Skill clearly exceeded the girl's original estimate; Sword Princess Ais Wallenstein, please call her Little Saiyan now.

The commotion on this side of the training ground quickly spread, triggering a disturbance throughout the entire Loki Familia...

When Ais woke up, she found herself already lying on the bed in the room.

"Ais, you're awake?"

Loki sat by the bedside, seemingly looking after her.

"Loki, how did I end up here?"

Ais asked in confusion.

"Don't remember?"

"Uh, right, I was trying out Mr. Broly's Wrath Skill, and then, it seemed like a monster appeared, and right after that, I..."

Ais raised a hand to press against her forehead, her pretty brows furrowing slightly, but for the memories after that, she couldn't recall them at all.

"Let me tell you then; after you used Broly's skill you became super powerful, Finn, Gareth, and Riveria joined forces, yet completely failed to subdue you.

After that, Tiona, Tione, Bete and the others also went up, and you beat them up too; in the end I sneaked up behind you and sealed the Ability Value Panel of the God's Blessing, which finally calmed you down."

Finishing these words, Loki rubbed her own abdomen, continuing: "Because of this, I still took a kick from you; if Tiona hadn't been hugging your leg, I might've been kicked straight back to Heaven by you.

Ah, what absurd skill did that brat Broly share with you, it's even more terrifying than when you're drunk.

Close call, our Familia would've really become clowns, wiped out by our own Familia member testing a skill, even killing the Familia's Main God, that's probably the funniest Familia disbandment method and god death method ever.

If that really happened, me, this Clown God, would probably be teased by other gods as an eternal joke..."

Ais looked at her own Goddess, at that expression of lingering fear, of nearly becoming Gotham's Clown, and directly lowered her head to apologize: "Lord Loki, I'm sorry."

"Now, now, this isn't little Ais's fault either, who knew the skill that brat Broly shared with you would actually have such an absurd effect?!"

"Mr. Broly explained the effects of his Wrath Skill, and also warned me that I'd best not use this skill of his..."

Hearing this, the Sword Princess girl couldn't help but speak up, defending the boy with a sentence.

"Huh, turning your elbow outward, starting to protect the other side?"

Loki then showed a heartbroken look; Ais looked over in some confusion, not quite understanding the meaning of the Goddess's words.

But before she could question the Goddess, the room door was pushed open.

"Alright, Loki, don't blame Ais too much, this child didn't do it on purpose either, it's us three who were too careless."

Riveria strode in with large steps, saying to the Clown God putting on an act before the Sword Princess girl at the bedside, taking the responsibility for the evening's disturbance onto herself.

"Oh my, even the Guardian Mom is coming to play favorites?!"

Loki gave a strange cry, then yielded the spot by the bed to the Pallum Captain, the dwarf, and the elf.

"Ais, the matter on the training ground this evening is not your fault; the injured have all received proper medical treatment, no one was crippled because of it, and no one died because of it."

Finn didn't beat around the bush, directly explaining that the situation was not serious.

"However, this skill Broly shared with you is truly a bit too dangerous.

In the future, unless it's a last resort, Ais, you absolutely must not lightly use it."

After Finn finished speaking, Riveria took over, admonishing the girl.

"After using that skill, you were like you were drunk, Ais, even more terrifying."

Gareth added from the side.

"If not for the potions, you'd probably be pretty badly injured right now too."

"Mm, I understand; unless it's a last resort, I won't lightly use that skill."

Ais nodded seriously in response.

"Although the Skill's Side Effects are Somewhat large, it's still a very Powerful trump card.

Just Don't Know if I can Rely On training to turn it into something like my Berserk Magic.

Gradually changing from an uncontrollable state of lost Rationality into a controlled state."

Finn spoke his Expectation.

Hearing this, the Sword Princess girl also felt some Expectation.

(Chapter End)