Heroes praised by the bards!

[T/N: 2.5 x Chapter]

Goddess Amphitrite, Queen of Sea, is obviously surprised by learning that Prometheus had given his left eye to Jason.

Because after sensing that Jason is speaking the truth, Amphitrite has naturally guessed that to subconsciously peep into her destiny Prometheus must have given considerable rights over his left eye to Jason.

And, as the Queen of Sea, Amphitrite is obviously aware of the capabilities of the eye of the great God of Foresight and Prophesy Prometheus.

After all, among the Gods, it is a well-known fact that the abilities possessed by the pair of eyes of Prometheus are comparable to the abilities possessed by the eyes of Athena, Goddess of Wisdom.

Actually, as a matter of fact, the left eye, that Prometheus has given to Jason, is using most of its energy in constantly hiding the most extraordinary path in Jason, the path of Godslaying.

Which has indirectly turned the abilities of Prometheus's left eye into passive ones.

But even then, this one eye, with just its superficial passive abilities, has the terrifying capability of predicting the future and easily seeing through the fate of people and even gods.

This is why, Jason was able to peep into the fate of even Amphitrite, who holds the title of Queen of Sea.

So, Jason confirmed for Amphitrite that Prometheus had indeed given the left eye to him: "Yes."

And, through the information given by Prometheus's eye, Jason has already learned the identity of the Goddess in front of him, so he naturally understood why Pegasus, the warhorse of Poseidon, had promptly responded to the summon of this Goddess, Poseidon's wife.

So, Jason explained again, hoping that he doesn't end up unknowingly offending the Queen of Sea too, after unknowingly offending the Queen of Gods three years ago.

[T/N: For those who might not remember, Jason had initially offended Hera by unknowingly 'changing his belief'.]

But at the same time, Jason also mentioned his teacher, Hecate, in consideration that if Amphitrite does still feel offended, at least there might be a chance that she won't directly punish him before contacting Hecate.

"Goddess Amphitrite, I believe, because I was wondering about your identity, the left eye of God Prometheus buried in my destiny by Teacher Hecate must have sensed it.

"But I can't control this eye, so it found and gave me the answer on its own accord."

"I really have never intended in my heart to offend you Goddess Amphitrite."

"Hecate?" Amphitrite curiously looked at Jason: "That Hecate has actually begun accepting students, and, even then, Poseidon had allowed Pegasus to follow you... child, are you willing to tell me about your story?"

Hearing this, after thinking for a few moments to arrange his words, Jason began speaking about his adventures by using the words that make it sound as trivial as possible, but, at the same time, he also glanced at the Goddess in front of him with a clear surprise in his eyes.

After all, although this is exactly how things should have been, this is really the first time Jason has met a God or Goddess that doesn't know anything about him.

Actually, till now, although Jason has become quite famous among the Greek Gods due to being part of many significant matters, as a matter of fact, so far, the Gods who really know about Jason and his adventures are the gods of Olympus and the gods of Underworld.

However, most of the gods of Sea still don't know much about Jason.

After all, although Jason had gone through his first adventure around three years ago, for the immortal gods three years is nothing more than a slightly longer flash of time.

And Amphitrite, as the Queen of Sea, who doesn't interact much with humans and doesn't even have many temples built in her name, hasn't left the islands around this place in many years and has been only interacting with her Oceanid sisters living on the several nearby islands, so it is not really strange that she doesn't know about Jason.

[T/N: For those who might have not known, the total number of Oceanids is 3000.]

However, even if Amphitrite hadn't previously known anything more than a few rumors about Jason from her Oceanid sisters and Jason is also giving his best to make his words sound as flat as possible, once Amphitrite heard a few familiar names, she began asking questions to know more, and the more she listened, the more strange her expression became.

After all, even if Jason's words were originally insipid, once Amphitrite began asking questions, Jason was indirectly forced to explain everything while feeling helpless in his heart, because of knowing that lies don't work in front of Gods.

"Although I still want to ask and know many more things from you... you have just said that you were going to Colchis to meet the princess of Colchis, Medea, your sister and also a student of Hecate, then get a harp from her, right?"

Jason nodded to Amphitrite and said: "Yes, Goddess Amphitrite."

"It doesn't need to be so troublesome." Amphitrite suggested with a smile: "I was just preparing to go back to my temple, so come with me, I'll lend you my harp."

Hearing this, Jason barely prevented his expression from becoming stiff, and knowing that it most likely won't be for free, he hurriedly said: "Goddess Amphitrite, how can I bother you with such a trivial thing, Medea, my sister, lives not too far from here, I really don't..."

"It's okay, it is indeed just a trivial thing." Amphitrite interrupted Jason in a soft voice, then reached out to grab Jason's hand and brought him to Pegasus.

Then after sitting on Pegasus, who had crouched down to make climbing on him easier, Amphitrite made Jason sit in front of her.

Already having encountered a similar situation with Hestia, knowing that denying won't work, Jason climbed Pegasus and sat in front of Amphitrite while groaning secretly in his heart.

After all, by now, Jason has naturally noticed that Amphitrite is clearly feeling curious and interested in him, but from what Jason had seen till now and heard from Hecate, Jason has guessed that the only Gods included in Athena's game are most likely only the Gods of Olympus and Hades, which obviously doesn't include Amphitrite, Queen of Sea.

But, Jason, who had unwillingly accumulated a lot of experience in this regard, believes firmly in his heart that unless the desires of these gods are not satisfied, at least a little bit, they will definitely not let him go.

Therefore, finally, Jason decided to give up struggling and play along.

After all, Jason had even written in Jason's laws of survival, that if he encounters a god that can't be hidden from or avoided in any way, then unless it isn't too much, he shouldn't keep resisting that god.

Because, based on his past experience, Jason has concluded that, let alone the obvious possibility of his resistance angering the Gods, it is very likely that his resistance will only make the Gods feel even more interested and excited.

And actually, this is exactly what is happening now.

Because although Jason had already decided to give up struggling, he still had to lean forward a little to avoid inappropriately touching Amphitrite with his back.

After all, Jason knows that the one sitting behind him is the wife of Poseidon, who in myths is known to be short-tempered and moody even among the Greek Gods.

So, Jason believes that what Poseidon interprets of this will only depend on his own mood and no matter what Amphitrite might have originally intended to do, Jason doesn't think that Amphitrite will try to protect him from Poseidon even once.

But on the other side, when Amphitrite, who is sitting behind Jason on Pegasus, noticed Jason leaning forward a little but enough to not touch her front, she leaned forward just to do that with a clear smile on her face.

And when Jason once again leaned forward in response, Amphitrite also did the same and the smile on her face got wider, clearly showing that she is enjoying teasing the young boy sitting in front of her.

Then, while leaning over Jason and sticking even strongly to his back, Amphitrite lightly patted Pegasus, who immediately spread his wings and flew up, but then, it suddenly dived into the sea.

However, naturally, Jason, who hadn't expected Pegasus to suddenly dive into the sea and had never before dived into the sea in both his current and previous life, subconsciously closed his eyes and held his breath with a very surprised expression on his face.

But, Amphitrite, who has been continuously paying attention to Jason, obviously noticed his actions and expression.

So while chuckling happily due to finding Jason's reaction loveable, Amphitrite took out a dark blue bright bead from the bracelet on her arm.

Then, after putting it in Jason's hand and gently holding Jason's hand from the back, Amphitrite said softly: "Open your eyes, child, don't worry, it will be fine."

Hearing Amphitrite's soft voice, Jason slowly opened his eyes, then his eyes gradually widened in surprise.

Because Jason noticed that a transparent spherical barrier is slowly expanding from his hand holding the bead Amphitrite had put in his hands and soon becoming big enough to obstruct seawater from reaching all three Pegasus, Amphitrite, and him.

But at the same time, this transparent barrier allowed Jason to finally look at the scene of the mysterious deep sea.

The name of this deep blue bright bead is Heart of the Deep Sea, and while holding this bead, one will be able to breathe freely in the water and never get drowned.

"Child, is it beautiful?"

"Well, yes, it is very beautiful..."

Hearing Jason's honest answer, Amphitrite happily patted his head, after all, this place in the deep sea is indeed her home.

*****

Soon, Pegasus, while carrying Jason and Amphitrite, arrived in front of a gorgeous underwater temple.

And by the time Pegasus landed in front of the underwater temple, the Sea-Nymphs were already standing outside.

Immediately, these Sea-Nymphs respectfully greeted Amphitrite, but at the same time, they were also curiously looking at Jason, after all, humans don't really come to an underwater temple built in the middle of the deep sea.

Then, Amphitrite took Jason into the temple and brought Jason to a room full of gorgeous ornaments and accessories.

Soon, Amphitrite picked up a sea-blue harp from the various items placed in the room.

Then, Amphitrite gently plucked the strings of the harp and after hearing the sound, she nodded in satisfaction.

And then, both of them left the temple to return to the ground.

*****

After both returned to the same island, Amphitrite handed the sea-blue harp to Jason and asked him immediately to play it for her.

Although Jason does not understand what Amphitrite wants to do, he still took the harp and played it using all of his skills.

Chiron's meticulous teaching, coupled with Jason's regular practice during his three years of sleepless study, something that had actually caused Hecate to feel so annoyed that even at this moment a label is hanging in the Hecate's temple that is saying 'Jason is not allowed to play harp in the Temple', Jason has naturally learned quite a few things regarding playing the harp.

And, as a matter of fact, just one melody played by Jason has attracted quite a few Sea-Nymphs to arrive here and listen to the sound of the harp.

"Good, but still...if you're going to dedicate this to the God of Light Apollo, who is also the God of Music, it is still not enough."

After saying this, Amphitrite reached out to take back the sea-blue harp and began gracefully playing it in front of Jason.

And upon hearing the music played by Amphitrite, Jason was surprised to find that this music is almost comparable to the music he heard from Apollo, God of Light and Music.

"What do you think about this?"

After playing a very short melody, Amphitrite looked at Jason with a smile.

"Very pleasant!" Jason replied honestly, and obviously, he isn't stupid enough to compare Amphitrite's music to Apollo's, at her face.

"Do you want to learn? I can teach you... and I can assure you, you will be able to learn it all in about a week or so."

"...Eh?"

Jason was stunned for a moment, but before he could reply, Amphitrite continued.

"And I will not only teach you to play the harp, I even know a way to make Apollo happy."

After saying this, Amphitrite turned her head and pointed her finger into the distance, then she continued: "On an island not far from here, a giant named Geryon lives there."

"He owns a herd of red-brown cattle that are guarded by Orthrus, the two-headed hell-dog, and a herder Centaur Eurytion."

"If you could dedicate that herd to Apollo, he will be very happy."

"And I can help you get those red-brown cows and bring them to Apollo. "

Once again, Amphitrite didn't wait for Jason, who is looking at Amphitrite with a clearly confused expression, to speak or ask anything.

While looking at Jason with a smile, Amphitrite continued: "What happened, are you thinking that it is very strange, it is obviously the first time we are meeting, but I am actually helping you with so many things... Then, do you know, why I had stopped Pegasus and told him to bring you here?"

"Because, by chance, recently, I had heard a rumor from a few of my sisters."

After saying this, Amphitrite again began playing the sea-blue harp in her hand and her beautiful lips began slightly moving, as she began singing what her sisters have told her that they heard from the bards: "Rumors tell about a great hero, bearing the great name Heracles."

"Dressed in pure white clothes personally woven by the Goddess, riding a pure white Pegasus given by the God."

"With golden hair and emerald eyes, just like God of Light Apollo, with a handsome appearance."

"He had obeyed the oracle of the gods to come down from the stars of the moonlit night to the land of Lycia."

"He had fought a terrible monster with the head and body of a lion, the head of a goat, and a tail that ends in snakehead, Chimera."

"With great miraculous powers, he had defeated Chimera, which had defeated many armies."

"With great wisdom and strength, then, he had also defeated Giant Antaeus, who had never been defeated before..."

After singing till here, Amphitrite stopped and rolled up a strand of light blue hair on her earlobe, then, she looked at Jason with a smile and blinked at him while saying: "I haven't paid much attention to it at that time, but I still remembered white Pegasus and your description."

"Then, I found that even bards don't know about all of your adventures, so I asked you to tell me about your stories."

"Still, from the very beginning, after I learned your name, I have a doubt that I've wanted to ask you for a while now."

"Since you are Hecate's believer, why are you using the name Heracles...?"