Hestia, I Saw Everything!

Chapter 10 - Hestia, I Saw Everything!

A place with eaves to keep out the wind and rain was soon found among the ruins—a church that was almost completely dilapidated.

Inside the church, there were still many chairs that hadn't yet rotted. There were also many other usable items.

In the church, there was also a confessional room. Apart from a lot of dust, there was a sofa and a bed that wasn't particularly shabby.

However, he couldn't understand why there was a bed in the confessional room.

The sheets on the bed didn't have any strange stains, but they had turned gray from disuse.

If they weren't cleaned, they would definitely need to be replaced. Luckily, Bell had a change of sheets in his Spatial Pocket.

Three hours had passed since the simple cleaning was done.

"Ugh..."

Without the image of the goddess, Hestia lay on the bed that had been tidied up. Cleaning up the ruins took a lot of physical and mental energy.

In three hours, she had accomplished more than she had since arriving in the lower world. Now, Hestia was extremely tired.

Lying on the slightly hard mattress with aching muscles, she thought, "Compared to Hephaestus's place, this is much worse." Hestia couldn't help but miss her life as a goddess.

But as soon as she turned her head, she saw Bell, who had also been busy just now. The exhausted look disappeared, and she even sat up straight from the bed.

"No way, Hestia! You're not the idle goddess you were before. You have a child now."

Hestia, who had just thought that, sat up instantly.

"Bell-kun."

Bell, who had just finished his work, saw Hestia sitting and looking at him. That sitting posture made Bell take a step forward and say, "I'm sorry, Hestia," changing her sitting posture.

When her white dress shifted as she sat cross-legged, he really saw everything, and the sight wasn't bad.

"Hestia, you usually need to pay more attention when wearing such thin clothes. That sitting position is too easy to expose you."

Hestia quickly grabbed her skirt with both hands. Her cute face instantly turned red.

She had apparently forgotten that they were going to live together from now on, and it was a boy she going to live with.

"Well, I'm going to live with Bell-kun in the future, so I also need to pay attention to this issue."

Hestia took a deep breath and made some adjustments before speaking.

"Bell-kun, from today onwards, you are the first member of my Familia, so you need to be careful. Because you're my only family, if something happens to you, I will be devastated."

The implication of this sentence was clear,

"Please don't die carelessly."

Bell certainly understood the implication.

He wasn't an idiot, and he didn't take risks lightly.

Many things need to be done step by step to get results, and sometimes rushing can lead to failure.

Although he desired power, he also cherishs his life.

"Hestia, please don't worry. What I desire is strength, not death. It's inevitable to put in effort and take risks to gain strength, but I will also proceed step by step and will not fall in the dungeon."

"Phew, that's good."

Hestia was obviously relieved. She was worried that her child would be too eager for power and end up in danger.

Though she never had a family, Hestia often heard from her friends in Orario that many children would jump into danger.

She didn't know about others, but for Bell, Hestia really didn't want such a thing to happen.

"So, what will Bell-kun do next? Are you planning on going to the dungeon?"

Bell nodded slightly.

"That's what I planned. The environment outside is dangerous, but I heard that the dungeon is much more dangerous than outside. So, I don't plan to go to dangerous places until I'm used to the dungeon and have upgraded."

Dungeons are dangerous. But as long as the danger of the dungeon is controlled within a certain range, it will become a source of growth.

Given the dangerous nature of the dungeon, Bell also doesn't plan to go too deep.

Whether now or in the future, he must take a cautious approach. He is not an experienced adventurer, so he needs to go through the dungeon to quickly accumulate experience.

"Sure enough, I don't need to worry too much about this child."

Hestia was truly relieved now. It is not a bad thing to desire power, but this desire needs to be controlled.

One must act according to their own strength. Exceeding this will only bring trouble. Hestia didn't need to worry about this issue.

Hestia looked at her child with approval.

"Well, Bell-kun, your idea is correct. The dungeon is a very dangerous place. As an inexperienced rookie adventurer, what you need to do is not to enter the lower floors of the dungeon."

You need to get used to the environment and understand that it constantly desires to destroy everything.

"The desire to destroy everything... Is the dungeon really alive?"

Bell raised his eyebrows and then furrowed them.

Hestia nodded solemnly, speaking with a cautious tone.

"A dungeon is a living entity. It doesn't have self-awareness, but only instinctual reactions. It's always alive, like a womb nurturing monsters. It hates gods and continuously breeds monsters to destroy the world."

"That's why Orario was built on top of the dungeon. This is to suppress the number of monsters bred in the dungeon and control their population. If the dungeon is not suppressed, the monsters bred within it would overrun the world."

"The deepest part of the dungeon is also its core. It is said that controlling the core prevents it from becoming a breeding ground for even more monsters."

This was the extent of Hestia's knowledge. The deep secrets of the dungeon were beyond her reach, and few gods knew them.

She told Bell this to make him aware of the dungeon's dangers.

Upon hearing this, Bell's first thought was "One-Eyed Black Dragon."

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