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" Hehe, don't worry, I'll tell you the reason, a thousand years ago from now, just some time after the three great beasts leaving the dungeon. And before the God King Ouranos descended. "
" The Black Dragon encountered Albert and his party members. "
" Albert, said to be the strongest hero the mortal world has ever seen, was able to gouge out one of its eyed, giving it the moniker of One- Eyed Black Dragon. But sadly the strongest mortal hero was no match for the dragon, unable to defeat the dragon and died. "
" Now you can see how strong the OBED is, even the strongest hero was unable to defeat it. "
" The mortal world needs a hero!!! A hero strong enough to defeat the OBED. "
"Ahem! Sorry, I got a little excited there, anyway continuing after the fall of the Zeus and Hera Familia. "
" They both were driven out of Orario, with the Loki Familia and the Freya Familiar taking up their places as the bigshots. "
" But the world had already lost some of its hope seeing that even the two Familia's standing strong for a thousand years were not enough to bring down the OEBD. "
" And even though the Freya and the Loki Familiar took over, they were not strong enough to keep the various gods with their nefarious schemes in check. "
" A group of Radical Gods claiming to be evil banded together to be known as the Evilus and wrecked havoc on Orario as soon as the Zeus and Hera Familiar were weakened and exiled. "
" The time when Evilus the started wreaking havoc is known as the beginning of Orario's Dark Age. "
Looking at my interested face as if wanting to know more made the old man chuckle, but then he took on a more somber looked and continued, " You may also know about the next part I'm going to talk about. "
" When the Evilus and the rest of Orario came head to head against each other about two months back. "
I did not tell him about me not being in Orario, and listened him to continue speaking.
" The God of Darkness Erebus, found out that two people from Hera and Zeus Familia's who had survived the fight against the OEBD were here in retirement somewhere near Orario. "
" Somehow convincing the two people, the Gluttony of Zeus Familia and the Silence of the Hera Familia, brought about the worst massacre/ bloodbath in Orario's history known as the Great Feud."
" They killed seven gods sending them to heaven, promised people that if they did what they were told, they could meet their loved ones. "
" The Evilus then used those people as detonators, giving each one a bomb and asking them to blow up, taking evrything they can see along with them. "
" Those human detonator's having been brainwashed, did not differentiate between friends and foes, blowing themselves up and wreaking havoc on the whole of Orario. "
" As if that was not enough, they made a god from their own side release their arcanum on the deep floors of the dungeon and brought a black boss monster from below the dungeon to destroy the entire city of Orario. "
" The City of Orario and the adventurers had to pay a steep price, along with the death of the all the older Level 2 and above adventurers sacrificing their lives, the city of Orario was saved. "
" But as you can see the effects of that are still visible all over Orario, but there were benefits of it too, most of the Evilus except their commanders were killed, The King Ottar levelled up to Level 7 and the entire Astraea Familiar levelled up to Level 4. "
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"Good bye, old man. "
After hearing some more stories about the world outside of Orario, I bid goodbye to the old man and mulled over the information I had gotten.
' So he's like the NPC's who randomly pop-up and give you a background information about the world.'
' And even the strongest mortal, the greatest hero the world has ever seen, was only able to gouge out a single eye of the Black Dragon, but was unable to defeat it.'
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As Light was going through his thoughts and soon disappeared at the end of the street connected to the bridge, the old man was still standing there and looking at Albert's Statue.
If you were near enough to him, you could hear the words,
" This world needs a hero, this world needs a hero. "
Bring murmured over and over.
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"Oi, enough of your daydreaming, I've come back from investigating the dungeon. "
The old man's was brought out of his thoughts by the voice of a girl who had appeared next to him, at some time.
" Ah, just a minute Asfi." Looking around and not seeing anyone around the girl, the old man straightened his back, removed the white beard and the white wig.
Gone was the old man, and in his place was a man with blond hair and orange eyes, now having an effeminate looks and an overwhelming charm.
"So did you find anything ?" his voice too, changing from the mature voice to a carefree voice, as if whoever heard the voice would feel like beating him.
"Hermes, are you up to one of antics again ? And also who was that boy earlier ?" came the question with a sharp tone from the girl with blue hair and cyan colored eyes, known as Asfi Al Andromeda, the recently promoted captain of the Hermes Familia.
"Ah Asfi, you wound me. I was just passing time waiting for you to come back with the reports from the dungeon."
" As for the boy from earlier, I don't know who he is, but as he was interested in the history of Orario, I was just telling him about that. Nothing else." Hermes started waving his hands in front of him as if he had done nothing wrong.
Looking at her god like this, Asfi just let out a breath and started informing him about his trip to the dungeon.
" I went all the way to the 25th Floor with a few others, even after our entire Familia searched the whole 25 floors over the last two days, nothing unusual was found. "
" If we need to go below the 25th floor and search there, we need to come up with some reason for the guild, and also as the expedition is coming up, I think it is better to give up our search. "
" And also can you now tell the reason why you asked us to search for any unusual occurrences in Orario or in the dungeon ?. "
The girl was curious about the reason her laid back god suddenly started acting as if something important had occurred, asking the entire Hermes Familia to gather information about any unusual occurrences in the dungeon or in Orario making her not able rest properly for the last two days.
"It's just my curiosity. "Hermes evaded to answer Asfi's question and thought back to tow days before.
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As usual he was lazily sleeping on the sofa in his office and skipping work.
A knock on the door had disturbed his grand plan on how to push the rest of his work on his familia's captain Asfi.
The knock was from a member of his familia, who had brought letter's which were directly addressed to Hermes.
The first letter was just some random information from one of his informant who was stationed in the far east.
One thing that caught a bit of his interest was that a Renard was being brought as a slave to Orario.
And that this Renard was apparently a member of a big family in the Far East.
But the next letter made him sit up straight.
Just from the handwriting, he knew who was the person who sent him this letter.
And sure enough the first letter was enough to confirm his thoughts.
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Hello Hermes,
This is Zeus.
How is Orario doing now ?
Has it overcome the aftermath of the Great Feud ?
Also was there anything of importance that happened in the last few days or any anomaly happened in the dungeon ?
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The beginning of the letter as usual were a bunch of questions and reading made the god known for his calm widen his eyes.
" The promised time" had a fluctuation, something was trying to influence it.
Hence the last two questions from Zeus.
The letter also asked him to keep an eye on anomalies or changes in Orario or the dungeon.
The very next second, without wasting any time, Hermes had gone to meet Ouranos to confirm if what Zeus had said was true.
After hearing the confirmation from the God King, Hermes had gathered his Familia and asked them to scour the dungeon for any changes.
And he himself had been visiting various Familia's and the Gods he know to collect information.
Finding nothing, and wanting to fool around, he had worn that wig and beard, he had made his way over to the Bridge of Heroes to see the statutes of heroes from the past.
Seeing the children crowd around the statue of Hero Albert, he has started to tell stories about the heroes and then about the history of Orario to the random boy who looked like he was interested in the topic too.
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Coming back from his thoughts, Hermes shook his head and picking up the bag next to him and handing it over to Asfi, he started moving towards "The Traveler's Inn", the Hermes Familia home.
Asfi behind him grit her teeth looking at the bag handed to her, felt like throwing it, but finally let out a sigh and holding it started to follow her Patron God.
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A / N : Guys, was digging up the entire info dump regarding the background of Danmachi and it's lore.
Let me know if I've missed anything or if anything needs to be corrected.
Also, I did not include the lore from the game as I've not played it and I am not sure if it is cannon or not!
P.S.: I've not added more detailed lore, like about Ais' background or the Astraea Familia vs Alfia and Ottar vs Zald and other things as it would be strange if a random old man knew about these details.