Chapter 3: Gaining Knaww-ledge

Corban made his way directly to the local library, it only took ten minutes of walking. The library was a rather large building, it could fit more than twenty of Corban's house, though in comparison Corban is poor and his house is small.

"Now then, let's get that knawwledge," Corban mumbled underneath his breath before strolling into the library slowly. "I haven't been here since mum tried to get me to read more often, ahhhh, how time passes." Corban walked through the rows of books calmly reminiscing about the past.

Finding the section he was looking for, 'Greek Gods', he took several books. One about the basics of Asclepius, another for the basic Greek pantheon, a few other books he picked because he had thought they sounded interesting.

He took a small look around the medicinal section, but shrugged off reading a few of them for later. He finally made it to a nearby table, placing down his books he took a seat and picked up the first book, 'Asclepius's ascension to God hood', probably could have picked up a different book.

It read a little something like, "Asclepius, son of Apollo and the mortal Koronis of Thessaly. Koronis abandoned Asclepius, and as such was raised by his father in the way of medicine and herbs. He was also tutored by the wise centaur, Cheiron."

"That's neat, but why would he give me his blessing, is it because my blessing was already healing related, or did it become that way when he blessed me?" Corban asked in confusion, only to not be answered, "So many questions so little time."

As he continued reading the book he read up on how he was given Medusa blood which he used to revive the dead, for which he was punished with death by lightning bolt.

This happened because Zeus was scared that Asclepius would change the eternal division between gods and mortals, and heard that he could even revive the dead. Apollo was punished for protesting against the treatment of his son, but he was punished by Zeus for impiety and forced to serve the King of Thessaly for one year.

(For more details visit https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ancient.eu/amp/1-10395/ , thank you)

With knowledge now embedded into his head, some of which would be useless, he set off to read books related to medicine and basic herbs, before preparing to leave the library.

(Also I still have no idea what Asclepius actually looks like, I've seen images of statues, but I mainly want the basics, like his hair color. Sorry for ranting.)