The five goddesses seated in their places had all gone stiff, especially after Hers revealed the truth.
Loki hid the twitch at the corner of her mouth and lowered her voice as she muttered to Freya beside her.
"Do you think that guy’s lost it?"
"While I agree with your assessnt, Hers is far more cunning than you give him credit for."
Freya had also broken into a cold sweat monts ago, but her mind moved quickly and she recovered almost imdiately.
"We’ve been doing everything we can to separate Bell’s identity from ours, and he can clearly see that. So Hers is deliberately splitting Bell into two separate personas."
"That lunatic. Doesn’t he realize how obvious that is?"
Loki didn’t believe the gods were idiots. Afterward, they might start paying more attention to Bell—and that would definitely not be a good thing.
"Very obvious. But Hers is the only one who could get away with sothing like that."
"Only he could... oh~"
Loki’s slow reaction finally caught up.
Hers had once been Zeus’s closest companion, a drinking and troublemaking partner. The two of them would even sneak off to peep on goddesses and Genkai children. If any god knew Zeus best, it was Hers.
And Hers was a divine ssenger with Ouranos’s permission to leave Orario freely. He had the most eyes and ears outside the city and the strongest information network among the gods. Not to ntion Zeus and Hera had only been exiled from Orario back then, not banished back to Tenkai.
If Hers really had found Zeus and Hera outside, it wouldn’t be surprising. He was the only god who could have access to such deep intel.
Although Hers claid he learned about Bell from Ouranos, none of the gods present were foolish enough to believe that. They all knew Ouranos was most likely just Hers’s excuse. He must have heard it directly from the gods involved.
In fact, it was more believable that Ouranos learned about Bell from Hers.
Sure enough, one of the gods couldn’t resist teasing him.
"Hers, you’re the ssenger, yet you need Ouranos to tell you about Zeus and Hera? That’s so poor intelligence work."
Hers, shaless as always, didn’t mind at all. Instead, he even looked helpless and wounded as he followed along.
"Exactly. Hera is one thing—I’m scared she’ll kill ."
"But that old Zeus even kept it from ? He clearly doesn’t see as a friend."
"If Ouranos hadn’t ntioned it, I’d still know nothing."
...You shaless bastard.
The god who had teased him couldn’t help cursing internally.
Everyone knew Hers was the one who held all the intel. Only a shaless man like him would pretend to be the one receiving information.
And everyone also understood why Hers was doing this. It definitely had sothing to do with Zeus and Hera.
But they knew Hers kept secrets better than anyone. If they didn’t play along, he wouldn’t reveal anything at all.
"Ahem, Hers, how much do you actually know about that child?"
They hated giving Hers the satisfaction—especially seeing that smug grin—but they couldn’t ignore the fact that he held information they wanted.
As expected, Hers’s lips curved into an unmistakably pleased arc.
"Well~ I don’t know much in detail, but that child’s inherited bloodline is pretty outrageous."
"Outrageous?"
"Mm-hmm~ After all, the one once recognized throughout Orario as the ’Monster of Calamitous Talent’ was that child’s aunt."
After Hers said this, the entire Denatus fell into a long, silent pause.
"Boom!?"
After a brief mont of shock, the gods all jumped to their feet, slamming their hands onto the table.
The nephew of ’Silence’? Damn it. Zeus and Hera left behind a trump card like this? The value of being a "Hero’s Orphan" suddenly beca very clear.
Back then, ’Silence’ had been a terrifying figure who even dared clash head-on with the ’Empress.’ She was known as a "Monster of Calamitous Talent."
And now this inexplicably appearing child actually shared blood with ’Silence’? There was no way they could ignore that.
"The child of Zeus and Hera was already shocking. But now ’Silence’ is involved too?"
"Then this child..."
Every god’s gaze instinctively locked onto the projection showing the child who was hiding his presence.
The value of this kid was likely far beyond anything they had imagined.
They didn’t know his exact strength, but with a ’Silence’ for an aunt, how weak could he possibly be?
"Hers, you should know, right?"
Faced with so many eager, burning stares, Hers looked helpless.
"Sorry, but that child is extrely cautious. Nothing like Zeus’s carefree personality. At this point, probably only his Familia God knows his exact strength."
"However, based on a series of tests of my own, I’m certain the child is at least Level 4."
Level 4 wasn’t low at all.
For most exploration-type familia, Level 4 was the core of their power.
And the gods noticed Hers wasn’t saying "Level 4"—he’d said "Level 4 or above." That nuance was significant.
aning this child’s minimum was Level 4. If that was true, that was seriously exciting.
Unable to suppress their curiosity, one of the gods pressed on.
"Hers, when did this child enter Orario? And how old is he now?"
That was indeed a key question.
With the child’s age, the ti since becoming an adventurer, and the fact that he was at least Level 4, they could determine whether he possessed a talent as inhuman as ’Silence.’
Facing all those hungry eyes, and intent on stirring the pot and severing all association with Bell, Hers prepared to drop an even bigger bomb.
"That child... is about fourteen this year. As for when he arrived in Orario, it was just over half a year ago. Less than a year, to be exact."
That revelation exploded through the gods’ assembly like a shockwave.
It was just too explosive.
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