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According to Uranus, Hestia is really a god who is easy to fool. Hestia is the goddess of home and the protector of the family. As long as you can become her family member, it will be easy to win Hestia's favor.
It was easy to become Hestia's family, all you had to do was become her Familia and show that you were willing to support her.
As long as Su Qing disguises himself as an ordinary person and becomes Hestia's follower, even if he reveals his identity and strength later, Su Qing will say that he did it on purpose... As long as he slightly praises Hestia and says that it was because Hestia was too cute that he deliberately became Hestia's follower, Hestia will most likely not care.
After all, Hestia is considered a 'good god', and a good god won't be petty.
During the period when the story just started, the relationship between Hestia and Bell could not be considered very good, it was just at the level of an ordinary god and his followers.
Having said that, if they continue to spend time together, their relationship will improve quickly, right?
When two good people get along, one of them feels that the other is too good to him/her, so he/she decides to respond to the other party twice as well. After the other one is responded to twice as well, he/she feels that he/she is not worthy of it, so he/she responds to the other party even harder... If they keep pulling each other, their feelings will naturally heat up quickly.
But if it were now, joining the Hestia family, it wouldn't be difficult to steal someone's love - these were Uranus' original words.
Bell is a human being specially trained by Zeus and is a key link in a long plan.
Thousands of years ago, Uranus and other gods lured the gods to the lower world and induced them to like the life in the lower world... Uranus and other gods planned to make a break with the gods of pleasure in the lower world, and naturally they were also looking for more partners.
Through various heroic stories in the underworld and some secret guidance, some gods are trained to become heroic chefs.
No one can tell how long this secretly guided interest will last, but given the gods' sense of time, it could easily last a thousand years or even longer.
Bell was born.
Bell's aunt, once a high-ranking adventurer of the Hera clan, 'Silence' Alfia, was praised as a monster of talent and was regarded as the best adventurer since the advent of the gods.
He possesses three magics, each of which can be called a cheat. His comprehension is so high that he can copy the opponent's physical skills just by taking a look at them.
However, God is jealous of talented people. Alfia was born with a serious illness. The illness even manifested itself in the form of skills in God's Grace, and no means of healing were effective for her.
This is even a genetic disease. Not only does Alfia have it, but Alfia's sister, Bell's mother, also has this disease.
But Bell had no symptoms.
Correspondingly, Bell does not have Alfia's exaggerated talent - at least that's what it seems.
An unchangeable fact is that in the original book, Bell is the holder of the record for the fastest upgrade.
At first glance, Bell's own qualifications are not outstanding, and his rapid growth is entirely due to the skill of "Devotion" which can accelerate his growth.
But in fact, being able to awaken the skill of "wholehearted admiration" is already a manifestation of talent.
Could it be that in order to complete the dungeon, only Bell's "boy's admiration for the girl" was pure enough?
Of course not, but the skill of "wholeheartedly longing" was acquired by Bell alone.
Alfia is a monster made up of talent and illness. Both her talent and illness are so exaggerated that everyone can notice them at a glance.
It's a failure.
But Bale's talent is even more exaggerated, but it seems relatively hidden.
At a glance, Bell is just an ordinary person with no talent, but he has some rare skills, so he can become stronger at an extremely fast speed.
Moreover, Bell's rare skills are all linked to the 'heart', which shows that it is not because Bell's talents are so excellent, but because of the power of the 'heart' that he can overcome numerous crises.
——I have to say that Uranus and others played very well in this area.
Let the gods come down to the mortal world, experience the changes of the people in the mortal world, cultivate the gods' interests, and let the gods like heroes.
But with God's favor, are there still heroes on the ground?
Heroes can overcome numerous dangers and break through themselves in disasters, but can adventurers do it?
Uranus and others first weakened the expectations of the gods and lowered their interest in humans. After receiving the favor of the gods, the adventures of adventurers were far inferior to those of heroes.
First they lowered the gods' opinion of humans, and then exploded it all at once - they had mastered the art of first suppressing and then praising.
Belcrane is an adventurer who can satisfy the gods' definition of a hero.
An ordinary adventurer, but because of the power of 'thinking', relying on the power of 'heart' and continuous efforts, he grew from 'ordinary' to 'great'.
But that's false.
Bell is an adventurer with such talent that he holds the record for the fastest leveling up. Under his 'ordinary' appearance, he has 'rare skills that others cannot awaken no matter what, but I, Bell Crani, have enough qualifications to awaken the skills'.
At first glance, Bell seems to be able to survive only by relying on various rare skills. Without these skills, he would just be an ordinary adventurer. On the surface, this is indeed the case, but in essence, this is the talent of "encountering the same dangers, having the same object of admiration in his heart, but only Bell can awaken rare skills".
If we must make a comparison, Alfia and Bell's situations are somewhat opposite.
Alfia's talents are all reflected in her appearance. When others mention her strength, they only say that her talent is innate, and then ignore her efforts. Others just think that if they are given talents as strong as Alfia, they can do it too.
Bell's talents are all reflected inside. When others mention Bell's strength, they will only say that Bell worked hard enough and created miracles with his own will and vision. Bell himself is just an ordinary adventurer.
——But in fact, the miracles that Bell caused were just the potential hidden in his own body.
Alfia was a swan, and everyone could see it at a glance.
Bell is an ugly duckling, but the ugly duckling can become a swan because the ugly duckling itself is a swan, not because the ugly duckling was originally a duck and used its willpower to cause a miracle, tamper with its own genes, and change its own species.
But putting aside the essence, Bell's experience best fits the gods' definition of a "hero".
At least when Uranus and others were planning to launch a plan to take action against certain gods of pleasure, Bell's existence could make some gods of pleasure choose to stand by and watch, or even induce some gods of pleasure to be curious about Bell's future and then surrender to the enemy.
When Uranus and others were about to launch the plan, the more interested the gods were in the underworld, the less resistance they would face.
——That’s how Bellcraney was born.
Chapter 13 Guardian
"I came here to talk about Bell Crane."
Su Qing spoke.
It was visibly that Hestia's brows were slightly furrowed, and her face revealed visible worry.
With the magnitude of the changes that happened around the Tower of Babel, it would be a lie for her to say that she was not worried. Below the Tower of Babel was the dungeon, and it was still unknown what had happened to the adventurers in the dungeon after the tower had completely changed.
"What happened to Bell-kun?"
"Don't worry, there is no problem now. What I want to talk about is the future."
Su Qing said.
"future?"
Hestia was stunned.
"Yes, the future."
Tricking Hestia and getting her to join the Hestia family is indeed a good way to capture Hestia.
But that would be too despicable - Su Qing certainly wouldn't think that way.
If it was the right situation, like if he needed Hestia's power to survive, he would never hesitate.
Now, Su Qing would not hesitate, but he would not hesitate to use this method.
There is no need. Even without using this method, Su Qing has a way to recruit Hestia.
Moreover, this is the person who will be brought to the small garden to work for him.
Su Qing was not very resistant to overly despicable means, but that could never be used as a regular means. Once outsiders knew about it, his reputation would decline.
Meanness can be used as a means, but even a liar has to disguise himself on a daily basis. The better the reputation of a person, the less likely people will be alert when he or she deceives others.
That’s what Su Qing thought.
Although, if he showed his eager side, the woman Canary would probably be very happy? That woman might want him to be immersed in something and unable to extricate himself.
It would be best if he was completely immersed in it and only served as a tool to open the door to another world.
Su Qing smiled and said, "The lifespan of gods is almost infinite, but the people of the lower world, even the elves with longer lifespans, are nothing to the gods. What are you going to do after a hundred years... or several hundred years?"
Loki, who was hiding at the entrance of the alley to conceal his presence, felt his heart tighten when he heard this.
This is what she thought too.
Unlike Hestia who had just descended to the mortal world, she had been there for a long time and had experienced separations and deaths from her family members. Some had died in adventures, and some had died of old age. In the disaster caused by Erebus a few years ago, a large number of retired members of Loki's family had died in battle.
However, Hestia has not had this experience yet, as she has only been in the lower world for a short time.
Having said that, Hestia couldn't help but follow Su Qing's words.
Watching the family members of my clan grow up little by little, become stronger little by little, and grow old little by little.
Spend a happy life with your children, wait until your children become middle-aged or even old, spend a long life together, and finally watch your children ascend to heaven and their souls reincarnate.
That must be a very sad thing.
At the same time, it must be a very happy thing.
As the patron saint of the family and the goddess of fire, this is what Hestia was thinking at the moment.
Hestia frowned and replied, "It's a matter of a few hundred years from now, so we can talk about it then. Any questions?"
She calmly accepted the answer that her family members would one day grow old and die and leave her.
Any emotion is constantly accumulating. At this stage, Hestia and Belcrane have just formed a family. It cannot be said that their relationship is bad, but it is far from comparable to the later period of the original work when they went through many ups and downs together.
——Although even in the later stages, Hestia’s emotional line was blocked.
In the later part of the plot, Hestia's moral integrity may not be reliable, but Belcrany is respectful to his own god.
For Hestia now, there is nothing she can do about the fact that her family will leave her one day.
After all, the gods of this world can't even make people immortal.
The gods in the world of Dicuo are powerful, but their strength is similar to that of Li Yuanba, who is born with divine power.
Li Yuanba can easily defeat various martial arts masters, but the martial arts masters understand the knowledge of acupoints and the way to exert force, which Li Yuanba has no idea about.
The gods have hundreds of millions of years of experience, but for most of them, they are only far superior to humans in the area of 'the gods' own divine authority'.
Because the gods are interested in these.
But immortality is a blind spot for gods, because gods have already achieved immortality.
Nowadays, when people in the lower world lament the fleeting life of humans, perhaps there are gods studying the method of immortality.