"I'M BACKK !!!"
On a island with magnificent architecture, a scream so loud that it cause waves on the sea came. The screamer was Hephaestus, who was back from his journey.
"I am finally back, man I really miss this island. Well time to the plit"said Hephaestus
Now you might be wondering what does he means by the 'split'.
During his travel, as Hephaestus's understanding of the laws of the world strengthen, he realized that instead of creating the Vulcan clone during the sacrifice, it will be more beneficial to him to do it before that.
Other then understanding laws of the world, Hephaestus have also been looking into his past lives and during his search he found a very usefull method. The twin gods method.
This method was created by one of his past life who reincarnated into two bodies which cause his many inconvinience. To combat this, he created a method to that allowed him to fuse and split his bodies.
Similar to him, Hephaestus plan to also use this method but instead of using it to fuse he will use it to split himself into Hephaestus and Vulcan.
He already prepared a body for vulcan. It was a shard of the sun given to him by Gaia during their talk. This shard has a very interesting beckstory.
Flashback
"Here, a gift from me as a thank you" said Gaia
"Oh thank you ! So.. what is this ?" Asked Hephaestus
"Oh it's a shard of the sun when it was about to born." Said Gaia
"WHAT ? HOW CAN YOU HAVE IT ? DID YOU TRIED TO DESTROY THE SUN !" Asked Hephaestus
"No, Uranus did !" Said Gaia, smiling
"Huh ?" Hephaestus
"Well when the sun and moon was just born, Uranus tried to devour them to make them a part of the sky and failed. But he manage to broke a part of the sun during this process. Anyway it's yours now" said Gaia
"Oh thank you very much" said Hephaestus
Flashback End
Ever since Hephaestus got the shard, he has been bathing it in the laws of fire. And after a couple thousand years that he spent travelling, the shard finally change and become like a tiny sun made purely of fire making it the perfect embrio for a god.
And so Hephaestus went back to his man-cave and went into seclusion.
Time skip-
Hephaestus POV
"Great, I finally split my devine personality"
I split my divine personality into two, the first part the represent the god of fire such as making volcanoes, diffrent fires, etc.
The second part is the part that represent 'Hephaestus' like my birth, my achivement in forging, etc.
Now all I need to do is to fuse it my god of fire personality with the Vulcan seed and the fire sun shard. I also plan to take out Hera's aura that practically advertise me as her son. By doing this I should be able to be more hidden by letting 'Vulcan' take all the exposure as the god of fire and Hera's son.
[Note : one of the abilities that Hephaestus as a reincarnator/traveler have is the ability to condence his past lifes into seeds that can be use as a clone when fuse with a body that fits it. This is in chapter 1 or 2]
Although this will weaken me a lot since my current power is from fire, this should give me a chance to open my path of craftmenship.