GUARDIAN OF THE END

"HAAA!" Jason gasped the moment he appeared at the new location. He had never experienced such a long distance teleportation and was shocked to find out that he had almost died because of suffocation.

That would've been a rather abrupt ending to his story.

Upon looking around, Jason found himself standing at the entrance of Duphia alongside the rest of his family. All of them were standing in a semi-circle and no one had been sent away.

"Nothing happened this time…" Risa sighed before all of them began walking towards the manor.

Risa had been directly aiming for their home but had instead dragged them to the town entrance.

Ray shot out with the help of his wind element. Issac and Risa could only sigh and watch him go.

Risa wanted to help Zara yet she had realized that the problem was out of her league. She had no cure for something she couldn't identify.

'Hestia, did you figure out how Hecate came back?' Jason questioned. He felt good about coming back to his hometown and wanted to enjoy the moment.

However, the current events didn't allow him to do that.

[ No, I am still severely confused about that. She even entered Zara and Ariana's bodies, both of whom are well over twenty. This means that she overcame the limit as well. ]

'That doesn't sound great…'

[ That's because it isn't great from any possible angle. ]

Jason fell silent. He started thinking about Hecate and her wicked mists. It was very easy for her to create illusions due to her control over the mists.

Jason knew that it was hard to tell reality apart from illusion unless one looked at the details closely.

[ Its quite easy if you have a sixth sense as well as a nice system. ] The system said without any emotion.

'That's true.' Jason couldn't find any argument in that. It was only due to their combination that they had avoided dangerous situations many times.

They soon reached the house and found out that ray had already deactivated the defense system.

'For once, I understand why people say there is no other place like home…' Jason thought silently while stepping foot inside the mansion.

"Ray, take her to your room and put her on the bed. I will be back after changing into something comfortable." Risa ordered Ray.

He nodded in acknowledgment and went up the stairs.

"Grandma, I will be in my room." Jason informed. "If I don't come down in a few hours, I will probably not come out of my room for the next few days."

"All r—" Risa suddenly blinked in confusion. The bomb dropped by Jason had been so casually spoken that she had almost let him go away.

"Can you repeat that again?" Issac asked from the side.

Jason repeated his words again. Both his grandparents exchanged a glance to make sure that they had both heard the same thing.

"What are you going to do for that long…" Risa muttered.

"I will be training. Do check up on me after two days but if I am fine, please leave me alone." Jason replied and walked away.

He didn't want to explain too many things at that moment.

Jason was going to train inside his dream world since the events in the capital had made him realize how weak he was.

Kid or not, he would definitely need to go stronger to avoid dangerous situations from taking place in the future.

"Issac, what do you think he is planning to do?" Risa asked curiously.

"The same thing that Michael had started doing. He never told us what he exactly did though." Issac replied.

Both of them fell deep in thought while remembering the activities their son had indulged in.

Michael had only told them that he was going to be training in his sleep. It had been enough for both of them to connect the dots and figure out that he was doing something inside his dream world.

Risa and Issac had dream worlds too but even they couldn't do much inside their dream worlds.

"I have a feeling that whatever he is going to do is going to change him somehow." Issac muttered.

After all, he had seen enough people to know when a turning moment came.

'I have to make sure that the incidents inside the forest don't repeat itself.' Jason silently thought.

'Hestia, I will also try to summon you there to train me. I will try linking you to the dream world too, system.' Jason added before locking himself in the bedroom.

He took a deep breath and entered the bathroom. Jason stared at his reflection and for the first time, he got to see the slight changes in his appearance.

His white hair had grown silkier and had grown thicker. He looked like an elven prince from a fantasy novel.

His purple eyes had a strange glint in them.

Overall, Jason looked more mature after the events of the past week. His power had also increased steadily and all he had to do was to learn to control it efficiently.

Jason then laid on the bed and closed his eyes. His body automatically went to rest mode and he drifted off in a few hours.

The next moment, he found himself standing in the dream world.

He took one glance at Sancus's divinity before closing his eyes and focusing on his connection with Hestia.

'Try coming here like you did back then.' Jason said through the mental connection he shared with Hestia.

The ex-goddess must've heard his voice because moments later, she arrived inside his dream world.

< The Dream World system is temporarily disabled due to invasion of unknown soul inside the Dream World. >

Jason sighed upon seeing the notification.

'Hestia can enter my dream world but it makes the dream world useless…' he thought before turning to his second plan.

His dream world considered Hestia as an outsider. But what if he removed that and allowed her to enter the dream world as a registered person.

"How can I register someone an an official person who can enter my dream world with me?" Jason asked aloud.

Much to his surprise, he got a response from the DW system.

< To register someone as an official, just ask them to offer you a piece of their soul. >

Jason read the words twice before forwarding them to Hestia. The latter frowned and glared at the sky.

"I already have given him a piece of my soul! I had done that the moment I became his guardian!" Hestia shouted.

The system's reply that followed her words made Jason chuckle.

< Er… The Dream World system is back online. Sorry for the inconvenience. >