Hers,
He is one of the twelve Olympian gods in ancient Greek mythology, the son of King Zeus, the ssenger of the gods, who can travel anywhere, including the underworld.
And it's not it...
He is also the god of comrce and cunning, clever and sly, making him one of the smartest beings in Olympus, second only to Athena.
Thus, Zeus often likes to delegate various tasks to Hers, most notably involving his many lovers.
Whenever he gets caught by Hera, in order to rescue his lovers, he would find Hers and ask him to find a way to solve the problem for him.
And Io was one of them.
Athena didn't know who Io was, but when she heard that it was Zeus asking for help, she had already guessed most of the answer.
"Why are you looking for a promise?" Athena asked.
"Because of Hera." Hers replied with a narrowed-eye smile.
Hearing this, Athena imdiately understood.
It was clear that Hers had seen the painting from the previous night and understood Promise's importance in Hera's heart.
And the one who turned Io into a cow was none other than Hera herself.
"But this isn't what the Father God intended, right?" Athena roughly understood it in her heart, so she relaxed and said.
After all, as long as Zeus didn't send a ssage asking Hers to bring Promise to him, everything would be easy to talk about.
Facing Athena, Hers knew that being cunning was pointless, so he nodded and straightforwardly said, "Yes, but I need his help."
"Then you need to ask Promise himself about this matter. After all, he is a loyal believer of Hera. I can't make the decision."
Hearing this, the latter looked at Athena with so surprise in his orange eyes, and he actually found a hint of jealousy.
But of course, he was not foolish enough to point it out.
So he took off the feather hat on his head, bowed to Athena again, and said, "I understand. I will go to see the child now."
Having said that, just as Hers was about to leave.
"Wait." Athena stopping him, thought for a mont, and then said, "From today on, you
must tell the gods one thing: they can see that child, Promise, and they can ask for tribute, but they need to prepare a golden apple for him."
Promise, now has four golden apples in his hand.
Athena didn't have it anymore, and it was obvious that Hera would not give her any, so she hadn't been able to provide any to Promise recently.
But Clotho had, so he went to the Temple of Destiny once and once the night before.
"And if he is willing, you must promise one thing."
"Tell , Athena." Hers replied with a smile.
For Hers, being stopped by Athena and asked for a favor was not surprising at all; after all, he was not the battle-idiot like Ares.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have co to Athena before going to Promise.
"If that child falls into the underworld, you have to help rescue him once."
Hearing Athena say this, Hers instinctively asked, "Is that child going to fall into the underworld soon?"
"I don't know." The latter shook her head.
"You don't know?" Hers was stunned for a mont, then looked at Athena's golden eyes with great surprise.
"I really don't know. After all, it seems to that he wanders around the fork in the road to the underworld almost every day, but he doesn't go in. So I just want to be on the safe side."
Athena said this and paused before continuing to speak to Hers,
"As for what's really going on, you'll understand everything once you et him."
Upon hearing this, Hers, with doubts in his heart, went to the Kingdom of Calydon, and it didn't take much effort for him to et Promise.
Because at this ti the boy in Calydon was just like a star; no matter where he went, people would greet him excitedly.
Not to ntion the marks left by several goddesses on him, which to Hers, were as conspicuous as lighthouses in a sea fog.
And when they t, looking at the black-haired, green-eyed young man, although his appearance was not the most handso that Hers had ever seen, the natural artistic aura that adorned him, along with his amiable smile, still made Hers internally remark,
What a lovely boy.
Then he turned around and prepared to leave.
Hers now understood why Athena had instructed him to prepare golden apples and be ready to fish soone out of the underworld.
After all, in this age of gods in ancient Greece, even infants could probably live a couple of days longer than Promise.
At this mont, Hers dismissed the idea of taking Promise to rescue Io.
In fact, due to the competition between Athena and Hera, as well as the fa that Promise had gradually gained so far, any normal person or god would probably think that the boy was nearly as powerful as the great human hero, Hercules.
Not to ntion, they all graduated from the Centaur Sage Chiron... Oh, that's not right, it
seems that Promise didn't graduate at all, he ran away secretly.
Hers obviously thought the sa, which was why he ca here.
But the reality was, this boy is not even comparable to Hercules as a baby!
And to know, not only had Hera turned that woman nad Io into a cow, but she even had her guarded by Argus, the giant with a hundred eyes.
Now, not to ntion letting Promise confront that giant and rescue Io, Hers was even worried that if he took him there, the poor boy might be scared to death by the hundred-eyed
giant on the spot!
Just as Hers was about to leave, a casual glance made him stop in his tracks.
He even rubbed his eyes to make sure he wasn't seeing things.
He saw a sword on Promise, the sword of the goddess of justice, Themis.
Then Hers cald down and thought of Athena and how much she valued her promise.
And Athena's character was well known among the Olympian gods-no one could catch her
eye without the qualifications of a hero.
So, Hers chuckled, coming back to his senses.
He felt that this matter seed to be becoming more and more interesting.
thus...
...
"leager, I must go."
In the Kingdom of Calydon,
Promise said helplessly to the red-haired youth leager who had forced him to stay beside
him:
"You know, I still have the oracle given to by the Queen Hera. Now the crew consists of
you, Atalanta and Chopper.
I still have to go find Theseus, Hercules, and Peleus!"
There was no need to explain who Hercules and Theseus were.
As for Peleus, he was the father of Achilles, whose fa would be second only to Hercules in
the future.
"I can go with you." leager said persistently, "I can be your bodyguard and protect you.
And both my father and mother have already promised this."
leager was a prince, but when he expressed this idea in the palace, even his parents did not
object, and even thought it was reasonable.
The painting he presented to the Moon Goddess that night, not only conquered several goddesses, but also apparently conquered the people of this kingdom.
In the past few days, leager's parents have been wanting to give Promise sothing, and
have even hinted to him several tis that they have several very good-looking daughters.
But the boy still just asked them to help spread his na.
"I personally don't mind if you follow , as long as you can convince my Pegasus." Promise
shrugged.
However, when leager heard him say this, he instantly beca depressed.
That was Pegasus, a celestial horse that can normally only be touched and cleansed by the
nine Muses representing art.
Atalanta was allowed to sit because it was smart.
After all, every ti sothing went wrong with Promise, it would rush to the scene and eat
grass in the first place...
So last ti leager touched it out of curiosity, he was kicked to the ground and it took him
a long ti to recover.
If he hadn't been a heroic figure of the Age of Gods, he might still be lying at ho
recuperating.
"Then you can stay in Calydon. As for the search for Hercules and Peleus, you can leave it to
. I will send soone to find them."
However, leager did not intend to let him go.
After all, this ti, he undoubtedly owed Promise a huge favor, even though he didn't know
his fate.
Not to ntion Promise, who made him worried.
"No, this is absolutely not possible. I still need to seek revenge on them!"
Although the quality of Heroic Spirit was very high now making Promise feel that he can fight
in the Holy Grail War in his current condition...
Well, even if his constitution was a big problem, at least he could manage a suicide attack akin
to a teor with Pegasus.
But participating in more legends isn't a bad thing, especially since he's only a step away
from being an A-rank heroic spirit, and with the legend of the Argo as a safety net. With an A-rank heroic spirit as a baseline, Promise felt he might reach S-rank, and if he aid a little higher, perhaps he could even achieve a divine station!
When leager heard the promise of revenge, he wanted to laugh.
Not to ntion, he was quite curious to see how Hercules and the others would react when
Promise sought them out one by one to exact his revenge.
But he was just thinking about it, and when he was about to say sothing, leager suddenly found that his vision beca blurred, and he stood there in a daze. Noticing sothing was off with leager, Promise, who was puzzled, then saw Hers with
his feathered hat and holding a caduceus (double-snake staff) descending from the sky to
stand before him.
The God pressed his feather hat, showing a seemingly refreshing smile, took out a golden apple and placed it in the hand of the stunned young man.
"Hello, lovely child of Queen Hera, I am pleased to et you. I am Hers, and I bring you a great oracle from King Zeus. Would you be willing to help fulfill this great divine will?"
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