Chapter 11 - Gift from Athena

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ZAN BACK HERE

I'm back HAHA missed me?

I'm happy to say that I survived another college year, I'm also happy to say that we are back to our normal schedules, we will put this story back in the ranking.

I NEED YOUR HELP FOR THIS, vote with your Power stones.

Enjoy the chapter, the journey has just begun.

See you in the next chapter.

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Loki and Riveria were shocked by Athena's statement, with this training, Merlin will became a fearsome opponent.

Athena, "with that said, would you like to join my family?, we don't have a house yet but I will have one built with the money from the staff of Riveria, in the meantime we will stay in the house of the Loki family" Athena asked me, while keeping the smile, not taking the emerald eyes from mine.

Loki, "hey Athena don't decide everything by yourself" Athena just turned to her.

Athena, "Do you have a problem? It wasn't you who wanted me to make a family, deal with it" Athena said in a tone that she wouldn't accept another opinion.

Loki, "tsk, it's okay" Loki said before going out the door stepping hard with Riveria following right behind.

Athena turned to me and my brothers, "so, would you like to enter my family? I may be an unknown goddess yet, but I can guide you any way you want, I have a lot of knowledge accumulated, magic, blacksmithing, potions, creation of magic items, I know about all the monsters found that were discovered by the adventurers, I promise you will not regret it"

I and my brothers only had one thing on our minds 'that's not much useful?, we got the most helpful goddess in the sky, suck that bell', with a quick change of look we came to an agreement.

Merlin, Leone, Nier "Please accept us into your family!!" my brothers and I bow and wait for our goddess's response.

Athena remained firm, but a huge smile appeared on her face, "no need for that, welcome to my family".

Ahri, who was watching the whole time, spoke strongly to Athena, "Athena-sama, please accept me into your family too, I may not be strong like them, but I know how to manage business and deal with finances".

Athena turned to Ahri, "business? It could be good, I wanted to open a magic store to help the family, you can help me manage and deal with the family finances, welcome to the family" Athena sighed inside with relief, 'with her help I'll be able to continue my reading time, it won't be as much as before, what a pity the sacrifices we do for our family'

Athena, "since this is already taken care of, let's register you as family members, can you handle it Eina-san? I would like you to be the guild advisor to my children, since you understand everything that happened today".

Eina, "of course Athena-sama, I will be honored to be your family's counselor" I realized from her emotions that she was very excited to help us, I was happy with her excitement.

We finished the paperwork of the guild and we are officially part of the Athena family, we returned to the base of the Loki family just like the anime was a gigantic fortress-like mansion, there were adventurers of the family doing rounds 'I think that means being one of the biggest families of orario' the people around us look at us curiosity before going their own way, Athena led us through the mansion and its corridors unnecessarily confused, she showed us our rooms that were close to yours, she said we will stay here while our house is built.

Athena told Leone, Nier and Ahri to wait in the common room between our rooms, while she and I would fix my problem with empathy.

I accompanied Athena through the halls while we had a light conversation, she told me a little about her, she came down from the sky a year ago and was excited about human knowledge and culture, then she locked herself in her room and dedicated herself to her passion for learning, I told her a little about me and my brothers, we kept the conversation until we arrived at a brick building in the back of the mansion.

Athena, "here's the forge, let's go in and I'll make the equipment to help you have control over your empathic abilities".

I look around and see a forge like you find in RPG games, I also see some ingots of different colors, colored stones stacked in the closet.

I watch athena catch a hammer made of magic stone, she turns to me, "do you have any special requests?"

Merlin, "do what you think is best" athena gives me a funny smile in response, 'I hope I didn't make a mistake with this choice'

I watch athena doing her work for the forge, I can't help but admire her, she does everything perfectly, without wasting any movement, 100% focused on her task, 'she looks very beautiful when she gets concentrated' I watch her work for 2 hours, where I see athena giving her final touches on the project.

Athena turns to me, "all ready, now the enchantment" athena starts singing in an unknown language, waving her rune hands appear in the air and fill the whole room, I don't know what athena is doing but I look amazed by all this.

'Magic, I want so much to learn, to know everything there is to know, it's so beautiful, exciting, wonderful, without limits'

Athena slowed down her charm until she stopped talking, the dark room with only the forge lit now glows with a bluish tone that comes from the item athena has just created, "come and tell me what you think, I need you to put the finishing touches".

I approach Athena and see the item that produces this blue light, the source of the light are two blue magic stones sculpted in the shape of a diamond, a dark metal part tied to the magic stones, I get a little confused how to use it and I turn to athena next to me, "it's beautiful, but where do I use it?" She gives me a smile

"are earrings, fool" athena says smiling happy for me.

"ohh, I've never worn an earring..." I say kind of insecure

"no problem, better late than never" athena takes the earrings and quickly approaches me, she keeps her face close to me while she puts the earrings on me, I can feel her breathing tickling my chin, I can't help but turn red with her proximity.

After putting them on she walks away and looks at me, I give her a shy smile, "So, how did it look?" She looks a little stunned, 'so bad?' I can't help but think that with her lack of response.

Meanwhile, in the thoughts of a blonde goddess, 'damn, I outdid myself, he got even prettier, he can give the gods a run for their money, so beautiful!'.

Merlin, "well, at least the blue matches my eyes" this speech takes athena out of her thoughts, she gets a little red on her cheeks, imperceptible in the dark forge.

Athena ,"*Cough* *cough*...it looks great on you, now you should be able to control your ability little by little, with training you can improve, at least you will not be influenced by scattered emotions, but beware the emotions can still influence you, if you go deeper into someone's deeper and stronger emotions".

Merlin, "understood, thank you very much for everything, goddess" I feel strongly grateful, I suffered all my past life with it, now I am finally free.

Athena, "no problem, call me Athena please, I hate formalities even more with my family" athena answers me with a calm smile.

Merlin, "athena... Could you teach me about magic?" I ask my goddess with a pleading expression.

Athena, "of course... What do you want to learn?" she asked me with curiosity.

Merlin, "everything there is to know, enchantment, creation of magic items, everything you can teach me".

Athena looks into Merlin's eyes, his desire for magic reminded her of her own thirst for knowledge, her love for learning new things, athena smiles having found someone with a burning passion like hers.

Athena, "I will teach you everything I know, but not today, let's go back to the others and open your Status".

I'm thrilled to learn magic, but I quickly recover and start following athena towards the mansion, 'finally, let's see my status'