The group was already standing near the door of Hephaestus' forge. Even outside the door, the sound of forging could be heard. It usually does, but not today.
- "Hephaestus, we are friends! I haven't found anyone who wants to join my family yet. I promise that I will move out of here soon, so please let me stay here for about another month!" the girl said with a little sob.
- "Hestia! If you had made any effort at least once, I might have thought about your proposal, but you're just lying on the couch and doing nothing! If you don't find anyone by the end of this month, then I'm sorry, I'll kick you out!" - A high female voice with notes of anger was heard by everyone.
When the door opened, an unusual picture appeared in front of everyone. A little girl hugs another girl who is trying to get a little girl away from herself.
One had a rather ordinary dress and blue ribbons that held her two tails of hair on her head.
The other was wearing a shirt, but most of all she was distinguished by a bandage on her right eye.
It was immediately clear that it was Hestia and Hephaestus.
Hearing the sound of the door opening, they both turned their heads towards Victor.
There was an awkward silence.
After 5 seconds, the two goddesses quickly recovered and looked at Victor again.
As the mistress of the forge, Hephaestus spoke first.
- "Ahem. Welcome to our forge. What question did you come here for? Hephaestus summarized her thoughts.
When Victor wanted to answer, he heard a familiar sound.
[New task created]
[Task: Establish friendly relations with Hephaestus]
[note: The completion status will be calculated in points]
[Minimum execution threshold: 70]
[Current execution status: 20]
[Reward to choose from:
1)Summoning an Alter Ego Class Servant: Senji Muramasa
2) Summoning a Saber Class SSR Rank Servant
3) 90 saint quartz]
[Note: Senji Muramasa's summon
may affect the course of the original story so be careful]
When Victor heard the system alert, he was shocked. He drew attention to the first award, which was too tempting.
(System why can I choose an alien god's apostle as a reward?)
[This was made possible because of the connection between Hephaestus and the Alter Ego in the fifth Lostbelt. Muramasa compared his forging skills with Hephaestus, thus we can say that karma was formed between them. Although the Hephaestus of this world differs from the original one, their divinity is about the same]
Victor understood the reasons for Muramasa's appearance in the awards. Although Victor saw that his challenge would lead to even greater anomalies, but right now Muramasa would be the strongest weapon of Chaldea.
After all, it is in the Alter Ego class that Muramasa has a skill that enhances his damage to enemies with divinity as well as gods. And such enemies will very often come across in the future.
With this thought, Victor answered Hephaestus' question.
- "My greetings goddess Hephaestus! My name is Victor and I, along with my comrades, came to find out if the goddess who recently came to this world is here?" - Victor decided to tell the truth right away. After all, the gods can feel when they are being lied to.
Hestia, who was next to Hephaestus, hearing Victor's words immediately assumed a joyful expression and ran up to Victor.
- "It's me! I recently came into this world! My name is Hestia! Didn't you come here to join my family?" - Hestia saw in Victor the hope of creating her own family.
Hephaestus was very skeptical about this.
"Hestia, I don't think these people have come this far just to join your family. I'm not kicking you out of my house right away. You can-" - Hephaestus did not have time to finish her thought as Victor's answer came here.
"That's right goddess Hestia. We have come to you to join your family. I know it may seem suspicious, but please listen to us" - Victor consulted with everyone in advance about telling them about their purpose and organization.
After 10 minutes of questions and explanations to Hephaestus and Hestia, it became clear that Victor and his group had come here for good purposes.
- "Wow! I would never have thought to meet people from another world almost immediately after my arrival in this city! Maybe it's fate? In general, welcome to the Hestia family!" - Hestia was not bothered by what Victor told her, but on the contrary attracted her interest.
When Hephaestus found out about everything, she was in a little shock. Who would have thought that today would be such an eventful day, but Hephaestus immediately remembered something from Victor's story.
-"You said that the holy grail is here and when it appears, something bad always happens, right? Then can you tell me roughly where he appeared?"Hephaestus was a little worried about the fact that something terrible might happen.
Da Vinci took out a small device that could track the magic signal of the Holy Grail and saw the location of the grail.
- "We can't establish the exact location yet, but we know one thing for sure, namely that the holy grail is located in the dungeon"
Hearing Da Vinci's conclusions, Hephaestus and Hestia frowned a little. Hestia, as the new god here, did not understand the local affairs too well, but Hephaestus immediately came up with the idea that a dungeon breakthrough was possible.
A dungeon breakthrough is when the monsters inside the dungeon break out, namely into the city. The last major breakthrough led to the disappearance of two powerful families, which can show the serious consequences of the breakthrough.
Victor decided to relax the tension in the room a little.
"Everything is fine at the moment. We just need to be more vigilant than usual and in case of a bad outcome, immediately eliminate the problem. We plan to go down to the dungeon in two days and check the current changes there. Then we will inform you about it"
Hephaestus was pleased with such a rational analysis from Victor.
[Status Update]
[Friendship Status: 20 -> 40]
Hestia, in turn, also asked her own question.
"If that's the case, why don't we inform the other gods in the city? It will be much more efficient and there will be fewer problems"
Hephaestus decided to enlighten Hestia about this.
"Nothing good will come of it. Most of the gods are now busy satisfying their selfish desires. And the fighting families in the city, although not few, but most of them consist of weak people. If we reveal the whole truth to them, then in any case, one of the gods will not want to cooperate with us and will want to steal the holy grail for himself. After all, the almost infinite magical power in the Holy Grail can instantly turn from a weak family into almost the most powerful family."
Hestia, who was just beginning to understand how the local society of the gods works, and she listened attentively to what Hephaestus said. She could not have thought that this place would corrupt almost all the local gods so much.
-"I think we have learned quite a lot of information for today. In the meantime, Hestia, you can give us Falna. After all, we are now part of your family" - Victor wanted to complete at least one task as soon as possible, namely to join the family.
Hestia enthusiastically led everyone to the second floor of the forge where people usually live.
Victor can't wait to find out what effects he will get from Falna.