The Rise Of Calamity

"We have news!" A man with orange hair shouted at the top of his lungs. The man was wearing long robes alongside holding a staff on his left hand, immediately telling everyone that saw him that he was a mage and that there was no doubt about it.

"What is it Telimar?" A woman with pale green hair asked as she looked at the man.

"The guildmaster of the Discarded Devils guild has confirmed that the Adventurer named Lilith has single handily completed an A++ mission." The surrounding instantly became quiet as the countless people around the man had become completely speechless.

After a couple of seconds, one of the younger ones in the crowd frowned before saying "So what does this have to do with us?".

In an instant, everyone looked at him as if he was an idiot and if I was there too without my mask on and hiding behind the identity of Pandora, I would have looked at him the exact same way everyone had just looked at him.

Same stares were mocking, others were pitying, yet most of them simply shook their heads while sighing in disappointment.

"What?" The younger man, probably no older than 19 started to look around while becoming increasingly more flustered by the second. It was only when someone tapped his shoulder and showed him their crystal that he finally understood why everyone was so shocked.

"W-wait... Lilith was a C-rank? Why did all of you talk about her as if she was some kind of god then!?" The boy was even more confused while his words only made them sigh more.

"The point is that she, a C rank who officially had the power of a B rank which was confirmed when she killed a Silver-tier mercenary that was after he, had just completed a mission that can ONLY be completed by either a team filled with Platinum-tier to Diamond-tier individuals. That means she is officially scraping the walls to the S rank that had not been broken through by anyone but The Red Devil for the last 4 years." A slightly elderly-looking woman explained.

"Damnit! Those damned Discarded Devils! They keep getting all the good ones!" Another man stomped and walked away.

"Wait, wasn't that the Red Devil who had flown down towards June over there before flying off towards the explosion? And now she is confirming that Lilith had completed the mission... Don't tell me that explosion from befo-"

"Don't be stupid Michael!" Another man slapped the back of his friend's head.

"OW!" Michael exclaimed

"Don't ow me! You know it is impossible for anything that had not ascended past the Imperial Mage ranks to create something as big as that!" His friends shouted in retaliation.

June, River, Raquaz, and the rest however were completely speechless. While at first, they were almost certain that I had gone to save them myself, they had not even considered the possibility that the mission would have become an A++ rank mission in such a short amount of time.

"Didn't you say this was at most an A-rank mission!? What the hell June" Elizabeth, Sadra's sister and Raquaz's sister-in-law spouted before glaring at June.

"Yeah, that could have been really dangerous!" Xolder chimed in while ignoring the glares that Sandra and Raquaz were giving them, yet he chose to speak on.

"Guys, lay off" River's voice sounded making all of them stop and look at her while waiting for the explanation that she was about to give.

"This was originally a normal B rank mission, to say that it would be a Possible A-rank mission if not an A+ ranked mission would have been a slight stretch at that, so who would have ever known that it would become an A++ ranked mission in such a short span of time? The original mission is to just find them and leave to let stronger people take on whatever took the people from the two guilds. Honestly, we were stupid to not think of the fact that their capturer would have been at least in the diamond tiers since Yuri is in the diamond tiers and yet, she was still captured." TIver lectured

"Blah Blah Blah River... We get it, but all that explaining in no way tells us why Lilith is so strong. Wasn't she supposed to be an Elemental Knight at the peak of the Grand Wizard rank? Now she is even more powerful than Yuri snow out of nowhere and no one knows why! What I am saying is that the guildmaster of the discarded devils guild had set us up and were going to use us as bait before letting Lilith finish up the job! You saw how confident she was that she could have done it all alone!" Xolder tried to argue however, all he received was a flick to the forehead forcing him to sit down again.

"I am sure June did not know how strong Lilith was, while a more likely theory is that she was also a paw in this, isn't that right" Raquaz bent a knee and got down to cup June's tearful face.

Suddenly, a loud cry from the distance could be heard as someone shouted "Look over there!" while pointing at two beams of light, one being a bright gold color while the other shone with a crimson red that was very similar to blood

"Oh crap, they are coming in this direction... EVERYONE CLEAR THE LANDING AREA!" A man who had been leading against the wave of beasts before started to command everyone on how far they should get from the place they were most likely to land. It only took a few more seconds for those two beams of light to crash into the ground with a loud explosion of dust being thrown upwards in their wake.

Everyone looked towards the dust cloud with anticipation as they watched the golden flickers of light dissipate and the red light shrink until it had become no longer visible.

Within the same instant, the dust cloud was parted like the sea in front of Moses, creating a perfect tunnel with no dust or smoke for them to walk out of.

Immediately, everyone was able to see me, a girl with blonde hair as well as having a black and golden mask on the walk out of the cloud of dust while holding a grown woman, at least 5ft 10, as well as carrying a young girl with snow-white hair and minimal clothes on, on my back.

I slowly let down Olivia from my arms letting her walk again. She staggered a little, however, after a few more seconds of trying to walk, she was finally able to walk normally again. Yuri on the other hand was simply too exhausted therefore making her puke once on the way here before sleeping throughout the entire way and not waking up even after I had landed.

'Olivia?' I spoke through the mind link

'Yes?' She looked at me with a slightly embarrassed glance before looking away with a flushed face.

'wtf' I thought in English text which simply did not make sense to Olivia, therefore, producing a questioning gaze from Olivia.

'You're really flushed. Are you sure you are okay?' I asked with a tinge of worry in my mental voice.

'N-N-NO! NOTHING IS WRONG' She shouted into the mind link which was basically the equivalent of shouting down your mic in a 'call of booty' lobby.

'Anyway, can you check Yuri's pulse? She hasn't woken up even though I just landed' I asked with a sigh.

Hearing my words, Olivia immediately became serious, making her walk over top and putting her hand on her back.

Seeing this, I could not help but ask the question that had been plaguing my mind since the day I had met her.

"Are you stupid?" I sneered

"HEH!? What did I do wrong!" She became even more flustered as she watched me put Yuri down from my back. Afterward, I joined both my index and middle finger together before putting it on the throat of Yuri while checking her pulse.

'Wait... I have divine eyes, why the hell am I asking you?' The sound of me facepalming made everyone look at me with the same questioning gazes that Olivia had towards me a few seconds ago.

I swiftly closed my eyes and opened them again, this time with a 3-dimension star of David spinning around my pupil in random directions, at random intervals.

Instantly with a ding, a pop-up with all her vitals came up showing me how she was doing, and from it, I could tell she was doing perfectly well. The only problems were probably the wounds that were healing extremely well at an extremely fast speed which was apparently due to my blood that she was ingesting.

"Protein toxins in the brain are a little high and she seemed a little exhausted, but she should wake up in the next day or two without any problems" I voiced before carrying her in a princess carry and starting to walk off from the location and towards Rose who was using her communication crystal to talk to someone.

"Excuse me miss Lilith? Can I ask you for an intervie-" I glanced towards the person trying to talk to me, making her instantly turn as frozen like a statue. Only after I had walked a few meters away as she finally able to let out a breath she did not even know she was holding while at the same time getting drenched in buckets of cold sweat

"Lilith!" A familiar voice shouted before stepping in front of me.

Not even sparing her a glance, I simply walked forwards and simultaneously pushed her from my way with a gust of air magic to her liver.