Two new Fanfics posted
Life in the Honkai World Starting from Zero
Genshin Impact: I Became a God and Entered the Gacha Pool
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"Hm?"
Hearing Athena's voice, Hephaestus looked up and saw Athena before her, causing her to be slightly stunned.
"Athena... Why are you here?"
Athena was also stunned for a moment, then widened her eyes as she looked at Hephaestus.
I've been standing here for half a day, and you're only noticing me now?!
Hephaestus tilted her head slightly, glanced at Jason and then at Athena, then softly said: "Whatever, come inside."
Then, just as Athena and the nodding Jason had just entered Hephaestus's temple, Hephaestus suddenly lightly clapped her hands.
In the next second, the floor beneath Athena's feet cracked open without warning. Athena did not even have time to let out a scream before she fell through.
Jason stood beside Hephaestus, staring dumbfounded at this scene. Before he could say anything to Hephaestus,
"Does she already know?"
Hephaestus, with her brows slightly furrowed at this moment, looked at Jason and said: "She shouldn't know... This is too dangerous for Jason."
...What are you talking about?
Jason looked confusedly at Hephaestus before him. Just as he was completely unable to understand what was going on,
A graceful underworld butterfly emerged from the silver pouch hanging at Jason's waist, gently landing on his shoulder.
"No, she still doesn't know... Although she has probably guessed some things, she has not yet grasped complete certainty."
Then, the voice of Goddess Hecate rang out, sounding somewhat helpless as she said: "However... With her abilities, it is only a matter of time."
"What exactly is going on here?"
Hearing this, Hephaestus's brows did not relax.
Jason blinked, looking at Hephaestus before him, then at the underworld butterfly on his shoulder, and pondered for a moment.
Although he did not know what had happened, he very obediently kept his mouth shut.
Hecate then said nothing more and had Jason take out his caduceus staff.
Once Jason took out the caduceus staff, it automatically began to operate, drawing out a magic circle.
Then a blooming flower of time was teleported over by Hecate.
This was a flower of time capable of recording past events... Hecate knew Hephaestus would surely ask, so she had prepared it for her in advance.
Hephaestus took the flower of time, opened it, and read the memory fragments sealed inside by Hecate. After understanding the whole story,
"I see..."
Hephaestus said softly, and a cluster of divine fire ignited in her hand, burning away this flower of time that recorded memories it should not have.
Then Hephaestus gently beckoned, and the pouch at Jason's waist appeared in her hand.
The demon spear given by Typhon was taken out by Hephaestus.
Hephaestus stroked this demon spear, and after not long, her divine power permeated into it...
"Hm?"
The voice of the Ancestor of All Monsters Typhon rang in Hephaestus's ear.
"This divine power is not Hecate's... Who are you?"
"...Jason's teacher." Hephaestus explained flatly: "Hephaestus."
After saying this, a vast divine power instantly suppressed the traces left by the Ancestor of All Monsters Typhon on this demon spear.
And at this moment, in the endless abyss of Tartarus in the underworld, the Ancestor of All Monsters Typhon opened his eyes, a hint of surprise flickering in them.
"Hephaestus... This is truly unexpected. I never imagined that not only Hecate, but another goddess is also protecting him?"
"The Goddess of Fire and Craftsmen Hephaestus... I hear the divine artifacts she creates can even interfere with the power of the God King and Queen of the Heavens. It seems the power I left on that child will be thoroughly suppressed now."
Typhon said this, his face showing some regret, but he did not seem too concerned about it.
After all, He had never thought he could obtain Jason just like this.
He would wait... Quietly hiding, awaiting the day when the time was ripe!
"How is it, Hephaestus?" Seeing Hephaestus suppress Typhon's power, Hecate communicated with her via the underworld butterfly: "Can you resolve the hidden danger on this demon spear?"
"Yes." Hephaestus said flatly: "But I need one year... After one year, I can completely refine this abyss power and the destructive power left by the Ancestor of All Monsters Typhon."
"As expected of you."
Hearing this, Hecate breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
"However..."
Hephaestus hesitated for a moment after saying this, then looked at Jason.
After thinking for a bit, she said gently to Jason: "Jason, can you cover your ears first? ...Good, be obedient."
Before Jason could react, one of the maidservant automatons standing silently nearby suddenly stepped forward and helped cover Jason's ears.
Only then did Hephaestus continue to Hecate: "I just saw... That demon sword. You deliberately let me see it, didn't you?"
"Yes." Hecate admitted directly.
In that flower of time, she had indeed added that fragment... In the destroyed Mount Olympus.
The scene of Jason raising the pitch-black demon sword high, pointing it toward Zeus!
"You're wrong."
Hephaestus then said something that utterly surprised Hecate: "Merely Typhon's destructive power alone, no matter how much I forge it, would absolutely be unable to threaten Father God, let alone kill him."
"Is that so?" Hecate was a bit surprised, then thought about it and said: "That's true, after all, he has the boon of the God King's position..."
"But that doesn't mean I can't forge a demon sword capable of slaying Father God... In fact, I can start forging it immediately. The conditions are already met."
Hephaestus's latter sentence choked Hecate.
"...What do you mean?"
"Typhon's blood of destruction alone is indeed insufficient." Hephaestus explained flatly: "But adding the blood of another person would make it enough."
Hearing this, Hecate did not react at first, but when she did, Hecate's eyes gradually widened.
"Goddess of Wisdom Athena... Her blood, right?"
"Yes." Hephaestus resolved Hecate's doubt and said: "The blood of the Ancestor of All Monsters Typhon, sufficient to destroy the world, combined with the blood of Athena, who directly inherited Father God's power... Such a demon sword could slay Father God.
To be precise, such a demon sword would be sufficient to slay any god.
It would be a true... God-slaying sword!"
"...Three years ago, I was still wondering how this child could possibly threaten the gods."
After a long while, Hecate sighed softly: "I never imagined that in just around three years, I would see the horns of destruction emerging."
"...What do you think, Hecate?" Hephaestus asked.
"And you?" Hecate smiled bitterly: "Will you make that weapon for this child?"
"I will." Hephaestus answered without hesitation.
"Why?"
"Because I think he needs such a weapon." Hephaestus's answer was extremely simple. Because she felt Jason needed it, she would make it for him.
"...If he holds that weapon, he might very well destroy the Olympian gods, or even... Point the sword at you." Hecate sighed.
"Yes, I know." Hephaestus said flatly: "But what does it matter... When you told me about this back then, I was already thinking.
If that day truly comes, it actually wouldn't be bad."
Hecate was at a loss for words for a moment. Although Hephaestus spoke very plainly, Hecate knew she meant it sincerely.
"Do you hate the Olympian gods that much?" Hecate could not help but ask.
Who would have thought Hephaestus would shake her head.
"Hate? ...I stopped hating long ago, because no matter what, it really doesn't matter anymore."
"Then you..."
"Because I am Jason's teacher now, so no matter what path he chooses, I can accept it."
Hecate was speechless, and regarding Hephaestus's reason like this... Hecate accepted it.
Because that was how gods were.
They would not consider consequences or the like. They did anything so willfully as they pleased.
"Then let's make it." Hecate then said with a somewhat weary voice: "But don't tell Jason the true function of the demon sword... I still hope he can be happy."
"Being favored by the gods does not necessarily mean happiness."
"But destroying the gods is not necessarily happiness for him either."
After the two voices fell, they both maintained silence together.
"We teachers shouldn't meddle so much... The ending, let's leave it to Jason to choose himself."
Finally, after finishing with Hecate, Hephaestus nodded, agreeing with this statement.
"Then, now there is only one issue left... To actually forge such a demon sword, Athena's ordinary divine blood won't do. It requires her vital essence blood."
After Hephaestus spoke, Hecate followed up: "Vital essence blood? ...That means only one possibility: Athena knows everything and is willing to forge this demon sword..."
"But if Athena is willing to forge this demon sword, that means she wants to see the Olympian gods perish, and she will surely guide Jason in secret... This is obviously something we do not want to see."
Thus, after going around in circles, in the end, the Goddess of Wisdom Athena remained the most central link in the current situation.
However, in actuality, the ordinary blood of the Ancestor of All Monsters Typhon would not suffice either.
The reason Hephaestus and Hecate did not mention this was because the demon spear that the Ancestor of All Monsters Typhon had given Jason from the beginning was made from His vital essence blood, and it even contained abyss power mixed in!
This exceedingly cunning Ancestor of All Monsters Typhon seemed to have long foreseen that this day would come!