A Mistaken Encounter: The Hero of the World

"The Lord God refuses to show up even in this situation. It's a pity that you have been willing to work for Him for hundreds of years." Serven raised his eyebrows.

Leia frowned slightly but did not refute.

Serven came to the vendor who was loudly soliciting customers and thrust the long black knife into his throat. The vendor roared unwillingly from the depths of his throat, smiled at Serven, and turned into light and dissipated.

Leia watched this scene excitedly. Welf, who originally wanted to stop Serven, closed his mouth in surprise.

"So, Lord Serven can help you solve it in this way?" Ming asked with some surprise.

"Yes!" Leia responded excitedly, "According to the Oracle of Prometheus, the only way to purify the [filthy flame] is to rely on the power of the flame... As the "Vestal Maiden", I have been taught this and have been waiting for Hestia to come to us. However, Mr. Adonis seems to have mastered a magical power."

I saw Serven on the street. Although he had to take a break every time, he had helped several people to be successfully freed.

"Orion...seems to be in pain..." Artemis looked worried.

After hearing her best friend's words, Hestia realized that Serven's purification process was not easy. After each purification, he had to close his eyes and grit his teeth as if he was enduring something before continuing to purify.

Without thinking too much, she ran forward and found that Serven's eyes were already full of bloodshot in a short period of time. She quickly pulled Serven back.

"Serven, stop it! Don't go on."

Serven looked back at Hestia and smiled widely. "Don't be so nervous. I'm a first-level adventurer. I'm not that fragile. Didn't Miss Leia say that these are all filthy flames? As long as I purify them a little more..."

Then you can purify less. Hestia immediately understood the second half of Serven's unsaid sentence.

She could no longer stop Serven and could only watch silently as Serven moved forward again, slashing his sword at the group of firemen who were disguised as residents, and freeing the imprisoned souls who had been crying day and night.

"Hestia—" Serven finally purified the souls of an entire street. His eyes turned red, and his emotions became uncontrollably agitated. "Without my permission, you are not allowed to participate in this damn purification ceremony! I am enough for this purification, you don't need to do anything!"

Hephaestus frowned, she had never seen Serven so out of control. Even when she drank with Serven and made him drunk, Serven just hid under the table and laughed to himself, then fell asleep quietly, without any signs of venting his emotions to others.

But now——he was like a completely different person.

She looked to the side, Artemis and the elf girl both looked worried. She walked to Liu's side, "Liu, do you know something?"

Liu was silent for a while before he spoke, "I'm sorry, I can't say."

Can’t say? If you can’t say, it means the problem is very serious!

Hephaestus became even more worried, and Hestia also looked worried.

"Lady Hestia, Lord Eton asks you to go to the Great Temple." A warrior trotted over and leaned over Hestia and whispered softly.

"Don't go!" With his observation Haki, Serven effortlessly understood the warrior's words. He jumped to Hestia's side, stretched out his big hand, and tightly grasped Hestia's small hand, "Don't go, Hestia."

Hestia frowned, and looking at the willful Serven, she showed a helpless smile, "Okay, I won't go. Be obedient, let go of my hand, I won't go over there."

Serven shook his head. Hephaestus couldn't bear it any longer. "Serven, let go. Look at what you've done to Hestia's hand."

When Serven looked down, he found that Hestia's hands were left with heavy red marks, which was obviously because he failed to control his strength and held it too tightly.

"I'm sorry, Hestia."

"It's okay." Hestia shook her head gently and looked at Serven's red eyes with some concern, "Serven, are you okay?"

"I'm fine, maybe I need to rest for a while."

Hestia looked at the warrior beside her and said, "I'm sorry, please tell your God Speaker, I need to take care of our companions now, so I'm busy now."

"Okay." The warrior bowed slightly to Hestia again, turned and ran towards the great temple on the top of the mountain.

Hestia looked towards the top of the mountain with some worry, she looked at Hephaestus and Artemis, and Artemis's expression immediately became sad.

At night, when Serven went out to fight the Flame Man again, Hestia also left the inn and came to the great temple on the top of the mountain under the escort of several warriors.

Ayton was waiting here with a smile on his face.

"No need to say more, the [Sky Fire] is going out of control, right?" Hestia had no interest in listening to Eton's idle chatter, "Take me over to take a look."

"Yes!" Led by the priestess Illya, the many door cards under the great temple were opened, and Hestia came to a huge underground space.

In a giant deep pit, there was a sticky purple-red flame similar to magma, and purple-black gas was rising from the flame.

"Excuse me, that adventurer does have some purification ability, but his purification ability is negligible compared to Olympia with a population of 50,000, not to mention the filth accumulated from the erosion of the underworld for three thousand years." Eaton walked over.

Hestia said coldly, "I will come to suppress it tomorrow. I will go back today."

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"Goddess Hestia, do you know what kind of pain that adventurer will suffer when he is purified?" Eaton asked with a smile.

Hestia glanced back at him, "I don't know what kind of creature you are, but don't underestimate the power of a god."

"God is omniscient. Don't you even know this common sense?" She looked at the priestess Illya beside her, "After I perform the ritual, send all of them back."

"…Okay, okay, Lady Hestia."

early morning.

Serven returned again, this time he was supported by Ming. Yamato Ming, who learned the inside story during the day, also participated in the suppression of the Flame Man tonight.

"Lady Hestia, are you still awake?"

Hestia smiled at everyone, "Ming, leave Serven to me. I want to talk to him for a while. And--" Her gaze also stayed on Ming for a few seconds, "Thank you for taking care of me all the time."

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“…Why are you suddenly saying this?”

"...No. Maybe it's because I feel I still have a lot of shortcomings when compared to Hephaestus and Artemis."

"Lady Hestia, it's Lady Hestia. Although I may not be as good as those two goddesses, I can feel your sincere feelings."

"Thank you, Miss Ming." Hestia smiled, her eyes resting on Serven. Ming and Liu left tacitly, making room for the two.

"Serven, why aren't you talking...are you tired?"

Serven leaned weakly on the sofa, his tightly closed eyes opened for a moment, his gaze lingered on Hestia for a few seconds, and then his scarlet eyes quickly closed, "I can feel... you are very sad. I'm sorry, I still can't help you."

"...No. This is originally the mission of our gods. You have already helped me a lot." Hestia sat over and stroked Serven's face with her fingers.

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"Hestia, take me to the [Heavenly Fire] tomorrow. I should be able to purify all that filth..."

"...And then? Can Serven still stay?"

Serven smiled bitterly and rested his head on Hestia's small shoulder, "If you go to purify? Can you still stay?"

"I am a god! The Holy Fire is the power I control. I promise you, I will be more careful and prudent, and I will be able to purify the Holy Fire..."

"If you use your divine power in the lower world, won't you be sent back to the heaven?"

"I'm here to help. If I'm sent back to heaven, I'll beat the shit out of those gods!"

"Just let me cleanse you..."

"…Yeah." Hestia looked away and responded softly.

Chapter 162: The Altar of Sacrifice to the Goddess [Subscription Request]

The next morning, sunlight poured in through the window and a breeze gently blew through the curtains.

Serven woke up from the sofa, rubbing his temple. Yesterday, he purified more than a hundred fire people and had been trying hard to digest the negative emotions... But he fell asleep inexplicably while talking to Hestia.

His brain has been bombarded with huge amounts of information and negative emotions, and now he is still a little confused.

He propped himself up from the sofa and found that the person next to him had been replaced by Artemis. Hestia was gone, and his heart couldn't help but skip a beat.

"Artemis, where's Hestia?"

"…Hestia has gone to the Great Temple."

"Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you stop her?!" Serven held Artemis' shoulders.

"Calm down, Serven." Artemis looked out the window. "This matter was originally a disaster brought to the underworld by the gods, and it should be resolved by us gods." "Eight Seven Three"

Serven let go of Artemis' shoulders. "Yes, I am indeed a fragile mortal. Why? Even you are unwilling to trust me a little more?"

“…It’s too late.”

"what?"

"Today is the day when the [Sky Fire] gets out of control again. Hestia must complete the purification to save this land, Serven."

Serven lowered his head, clenched his fists, and rushed to the top of the mountain at a rapid speed.

But it was too late—

The entire ground of Olympia shook violently, and Serven was blown away by the shock wave without control, "Damn it——!"

In an instant, it seemed as if endless purple-red flames were gushing out from the ground.

But the tiles of the street were still intact, only broken walls and ruins appeared from the broken barrier.

There was clearly no flame in front of him. The tragic scene of the flames that had just erupted and engulfed the entire city of Olympia and the entire island seemed to be just an illusion.

A huge golden flame gushed out from the great temple on the top of the mountain. Numerous platinum-colored pillars of light surrounded the flame. Countless torches on both sides of the streets of Olympia emitted a cold blue light, extending all the way to the top of the mountain, forming a huge seal that blocked the flames that were trying to gush out from the ground.

The ceremony has begun——!

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The huge shock wave shook the ground and Yasfi almost lost her balance. In an instant, she saw herself being engulfed by the purple-red flames gushing out from the ground.

“——What is that thing?!”

The beautiful street scene has disappeared, and in the distance only a deserted and dilapidated city can be seen.

"The Great Fire. The [Heavenly Fire] has reached its critical point again, and the disaster that destroyed Olympia has begun again. Its power and reaction force blew away the [Shell (Barrier)]. What you see before you now is the true appearance of Olympia." Aphrodite said, looking at the city in the distance.

“?!” Yasfi opened her eyes wide in surprise, “What about the illusion of purple-red flames that I just saw?”

"If the original "Great Fire Disaster" really happened, we here would also be engulfed in flames. Now we have stopped at the brink of danger..."

Hermes looked towards the white-gold pillar of light outside the Great Temple, "...It seems that Hestia has prevented the worst of the situation. The pillar erected in the temple is proof that she carries the [Fire of Heaven]."

"Hestia-sama...she carries the [Heavenly Fire]? What does that mean? Please explain clearly, Hermes-sama! Didn't Hestia-sama go to purify the [Filthy Fire]?"

"Now the entire Olympia is an altar. The so-called purification you mentioned is to control the [Heavenly Fire] and seal it inside the altar... to burn it up with the life of the gods."

"What...!?" Yasifei had never thought that purification would require such a huge price.

"The [Fire of Heaven] is too filthy now, so it has to be done to this extent. That thing has the same nature as the [Divine Power]. Even if Hephaestus uses the [Divine Power] with the intention of being returned, it will still be absorbed... Without sacrificing the goddess who controls the [Holy Fire], the two cannot cancel each other out." Hermes narrowed his eyes and fell silent as he looked at Olympia in the distance.

"...So, you knew it from the beginning? When the Olympian messenger came to Orario, did the gods know that Lady Hestia would become a living sacrifice?!"

"Isn't this natural? Gods are omniscient beings. It would be strange if they didn't know anything. Not to mention that this matter is related to the "First Fire". The gods can naturally think of the worst case scenario."

"!!...Lord Hermes!!" Yasfi shouted, wanting to teach her main god a lesson immediately.

"Don't be angry. There's nothing we can do about it. It was destined three thousand years ago, a debt left by the gods. Yes, Prometheus was a failed example. Before the gods established the rules for the underworld, by giving humans [fire], he fully revealed what would happen if the gods intervened in the underworld."

Hermes recalled the Black Goliath he had encountered before. And the black monsters that appeared after [Sky Fire] came to the underworld - the Black Scorpion, Behemoth, Leviathan, and the One-eyed Dragon...

He couldn't help but sigh, "It's impossible to defeat the God's Assassin with the power of God."

"The uncontrollable flames in the underworld are becoming more and more dirty. The huge power from the heavens will only be severely distorted in the underworld. Ironically, this was proven by the "God of Foresight". There is no way to rely on the power of the gods. They can only destroy the underworld, but they can't save anything."

"…Prometheus' fire brought temporary abundance, but left behind a huge disaster." Aphrodite said, "So, the gods must pay for it."

Hermes said solemnly, "That is now. The gods have sown the seeds, and it is up to them to clean up the mess."

Yasfi glared at the Lord God who was standing here talking but doing nothing, "When I get back, I will definitely crush your face, Lord Hermes!"

She activated her shoes and flew quickly towards Olympia.

"...Your Familia is a really good kid, Hermes."

"Right? She is my pride."

"Yeah, it's completely different from you. After all, you just put on a pretentious expression and sacrificed Hestia."

"…Whatever you say." Hermes looked at the huge pillar of fire in Olympia, "I will not refute you now."

"By the way, didn't Hephaestus and Artemis stop their fellow gods?"

"...Gods also have their duties. They had a scene the night Illya's sister came to visit. 3.0 wanted to stop Hestia, but ended up being persuaded. She also asked us to help take care of her family's children..."

Hermes looked at the ruins of Olympia in the distance and for a moment he showed a sad expression.

"Come on, brother Bell, brother Serven..." He murmured in a low voice as if holding on to some kind of hope.

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“W-What’s going on!?”