"A certain goddess?" Erebus questioned. "Which goddess are you talking about?"
"Weren't you keeping an eye on ?" Jason raised an eyebrow.
Before Erebus could reply and make an excuse, he felt soone entering the place forcefully.
It was none other than Hestia who had co to talk to Jason as well as see who his patron god was.
The empty black sky suddenly had an array of stars popping all around. They looked like the light of a candle illuminating a dark room.
"Hello, Jason." A feminine voice entered both Jason and Erebus's ears as a beautiful woman appeared in front of them.
The woman had long curly brown hair that fell down to her waist alongside blood red eyes that reminded Jason a lot about Aiden.
In addition to this, the woman had two long horns protruding from the front of her head, each of them obsidian black.
Hestia was wearing a plain blue dress that went down to her knees and showed her curves in modesty. Jason had to admit that older woman had a charm that younger ones couldn't posses, even if they were centuries old.
Erebus, however, had recognized who the woman was and was looking at her in shock. His mouth was slightly open, which for a god of his caliber, must have been a truly shocking event.
"Hestia…" He muttered her na as the goddess looked at him with surprise.
She took in his appearance and tried to figure out who he was. Hestia racked her brain to search for his na yet no matter how hard she tried, she realized that she didn't know his na.
"Who are you?" Hestia asked slowly as she had been expecting herself to know the man's na.
"Of course you don't know ." Erebus mumbled before replying, "I'm Erebus."
Erebus extended his hand forward for Hestia to shake yet she didn't lift hers. Hestia's entire body was frozen as she looked at Erebus's face with a slightly open mouth.
"You are… darkness…" She mumbled as Erebus rolled his eyes.
"No, I am not. Well not anymore." He sighed. "I'm the god of shadows nowadays as well as a part ti bartender guiding the lost souls."
Hestia didn't know what to say as she looked at Erebus as though he was so kind of historical legend, which in a way, he was.
"Jason, maybe you should have told that your patron was Erebus…" Hestia murmured as Jason shrugged.
"It didn't seem relevant at the ti. After all, we were mostly fighting the entire day." Jason replied as Hestia looked from his face to Erebus's face.
[ Maybe you both should give her a few minutes to digest this. ] The system said inside both of their minds.
'I guess you are right.' Erebus replied as both Jason and the system was able to hear him.
'Ere, why is she behaving that way though?' Jason inquired as Erebus sigh exasperatedly.
'Well its due to the myths surrounding . I'm supposedly one of the first five creations thrown out of sothing called chaos. To her, I'm like the hidden sect ancestor everyone fears and admires.'
'But are those myths true?'
'No one can tell what myths are real or what are fake. So are true and so are just a fignt of imagination that so living being promoted.
In the end, the gods themselves can't tell the truth. mory loss becos quite common once you've lived for this long and every one likes praise until you have stories going around in which you cheated on your sister-wife a thousand tis.'
'I thought you guys had so kind of passive ability that helped you rember stuff better.' Jason mused.
'I an we can rember anything that we want to rember by focusing a bit hard. We just don't have instant recall or perfect mory or anything like that.' Erebus shrugged as the two of them then looked back at Hestia.
She had finally managed to get over the initial shock as she looked at Jason with a surprised look.
"So which one of those divinities is yours?" Hestia asked as Jason suddenly rembered that he had two divinities inside him too.
'What the hell happened to those two?' he asked the system as he rembered that neither of the two divinities had made an appearance and hadn't given him any powerups either.
[ They are currently dormant and the only passive ability you gain is protection from slavery and bad contracts also a slight amount of increase in charm. ] The system replied as Jason sighed audibly.
"Ere, how am I supposed to use the power of the divinities inside ?" Jason asked aloud.
Erebus shook his head before replying, "you can only use their true power after experiencing a tearjerker incident. If the incident relates with either of the two divinities, you will be able to unlock their true power."
Having explained the ans to use their powers, Erebus turned his gaze towards Hestia.
"Neither of those divinities are mine. One of them belongs to Sancus while the other one…" Erebus's voice trailed off as he knew who the golden ring belonged to.
Yet even he didn't want to take the person's na due to certain reasons. There was a chance that things could go terribly wrong if the owner of the divinity herself appeared on Clover.
"Then what have you given him as a patron?" Hestia inquired while observing Jason from head to toe.
"I have given him a system." Erebus shrugged.
"A system…" Hestia suddenly seed to fell deep in thought as though she was rembering sothing from the past.
"Though this discussion is nice and good, can anyone please explain the concept of guardians and what worlds they co from?" Jason asked as his words pulled Hestia back to the present.
"Ahh right…" she pulled her thoughts together. "Guardians basically refer to the strongest people on a realm. There could be around ten to twenty guardians on a single realm."
"Clover is interconnected with nine such realms, all of which can only be accessed from Clover," Erebus continued. "All these realms have nurous guardians who can co to Clover by choosing people below the age of eighteen. These people are called vessels."
"You are my vessel, Jason," Hestia added. "Before I chose you as my vessel, I was surviving inside the body of that goat but that restricted my powers by ninety five percent. That was why I couldn't communicate with you or anything like that."
"I rember that you eradicated Otis and his group in the past using your powers." Jason comnted as Hestia nodded in acknowledgnt.
"Now Clover has nurous vessels due to the guardians wanting to co here. The reason is because Clover has much more powerful natural manner and we can benefit from that."
"You don't have to lie to him," Erebus snorted. "Jason is smarter than you give him credit for."
Hestia seed to pause for a second before continuing, "well the real reason most guardians co here is so that they could ascend to godhood. Most of us have already reached your maximum potential back in our ho worlds."
"Wait, aren't you already a goddess?" Jason interrupted in confusion. "And as far as I rember, Hecate is a goddess too."
"Well… we're both goddesses and not goddesses at the sa ti." Hestia replied as Jason raised his eyebrows in response.
"In simpler terms, they were once goddesses but due to so reasons, they ended up as demi-gods from other realms." Erebus explained.
"Those aren't really simpler terms. Its more like you are leaving things to my imagination." Jason muttered loud enough for both of them to hear his words.
"You wanted to learn about guardians and we will explain that to you. Anything other than that isn't really important at the mont." Erebus replied calmly.
Jason looked from his face to Hestia's before sighing.
"Then can I ask one last question?" Jason asked while looking Hestia right into the eyes.
"As long as its sothing we can answer, sure." Hestia replied, feeling slightly confused.
"Then all I want to know is… why ?"
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