trip to the underworld

Just as hours pass for mortals, years pass for gods, 5 years soon pass

Inside the volcano, Nero was without armor or weapons and was fighting Medusa.

Medusa is no longer malnourished, her body is beautiful and she wears war armor, her hair green or rather green snakes fly with the wind

At first Medusa spent many months without saying anything, Nero didn't apologize or say motivational phrases, he just took the opportunity to train Medusa and make her able to control part of the curse

Medusa dedicated herself, and day by day she came to trust Nero, her power to turn people who look into her eyes into stone still exists but with the necklace she can leave it disabled and use when necessary.

During the morning, Nero trained hand-to-hand combat with Medusa, during the afternoon Medusa helped by carrying metals to the forge along with the Cyclopes.

Nero gave Medusa a routine and a purpose, after all keeping her mind busy is the best way to overcome problems, working and training keeps Medusa in good health and helps even more in control training

Hephaestus treated her with respect, a god who ignored her origins and kept her as part of his home, without realizing Medusa accepted her new life and finally started talking.

"Your strength is good but your combat malice is still weak, your attacks should aim to defeat the opponent quickly" Nero

"I understand" Medusa

Medusa despite speaking, she always keeps the dialogue in a nutshell

"Also keep training your visual curse, you can petrify much more than mortals, maybe you can kill gods, so train and one day you can kill that god" Nero

Medusa heard Nero's words, and in her mind came the image of a blond god with a pitchfork, she clasped her hands in anger.

"Yes" Medusa

Nero has watched Medusa change, he knows how much she hates Poseidon, he already considers her part of his home and so one day he will give her the opportunity for revenge she so desires.

'Poseidon, Zeus, Hera, Ares and several other divine bastards, one day Olympus will be purified I assure you' Nero

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"dragon tendons, Uru metal and other materials are here son" Hephaestus

Hephaestus loves to forge, Hephaestus' great ambition has always been just to forge, however he knows that his son is different from him, his son has an ambition that a blacksmith god should not have

Hephaestus believes that his son will have a lot of problems with the ambition he carries, but even worse would be to kill a son's ambition.

However Hephaestus never tried to change his son's mind, he just tries to teach him everything he knows and support what he can.

"Thank you dad" Nero

Nero is recovered, now he will forge his armor

Nero began to forge, the volcano fire soon began to melt all the metal

the work was hard, days go by

Hephaestus remains silent looking, for him to look at his son forging is his greatest happiness

Medusa with a cloth wipes the sweat from Nero's face, he doesn't even notice because his concentration is totally on the forging

The joining of tendons with the molten steel is wonderful, the divine power maintains the balance

Soon a scaled armor was formed, strangely resembling scaled skin but still the purest Uru metal.

this thin scaly armor had the ability to multiply defense and resistance, simply a masterpiece of artifacts

Nero's body was destroyed, but his joy kept him on his feet and he soon raised the armor over his head and began to name

"My third artifact created, the one made to protect me and be another part of my skin, I Nero the god of the forge, I call this armor King's Scales"

Purple rays begin to permeate throughout the armor giving a divine baptism, Nero endured as usual

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days later

Nero wore his armor, carried his hammer and a small backpack on his back.

Medusa was beside him, wearing her armor and her sword prepared to accompany Nero.

"my son, are you sure you want to go to the underworld? there are other gods who can teach you magic!" Hephaestus

"I'm sorry father, but I really want to go to Hecate" Nero

A long time ago Nero decided to try to learn magic, and from the beginning Hecate was his first choice, first because she is simply the goddess of magic and second because she doesn't like Zeus.

Hecate has not yet had her mind erased by Zeus and still lives in the underworld, although Hades is the ruler.

In fact, among the trinity of the greater gods, Hades is the only one who takes his job seriously and rules the underworld wisely, so many gods like to live in the underworld instead of olympus, something just ridiculous

"boy.....you get harder every day so stay safe" Hephaestus

Hephaestus then looked at Medusa

"Medusa take care of him, and take care too" Hephaestus

The journey to the underworld is not an easy thing for young gods, although strong gods can come and go easily, Nero is under 30.

"yes" Medusa

Nero gave his father one last hug, and soon he and Medusa began their journey in search of Hecate.

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