GUARDIAN OF THE END

"So now that you're connected to this place… train me." Jason said with eager eyes.

"You want me to train you?" Hestia repeated. Jason simply nodded in reply which made the ex-goddess shrug. "Well then, what do you want training in?"

"Controlling a passive ability." Jason replied simply. He could feel his heart beating faster as he was about to reveal one of his biggest secret abilities.

Truth be told, Jason wanted to keep it a secret but there was a chance that he could be missing out on valuable lessons.

He couldn't get any help from his family either. Hestia was his best bet at being taught anything related to his passive healing ability.

"Show me your ability." Hestia replied with curious. She would be lying if she said that she wasn't interested in seeing Jason' passive ability.

Jason took a deep breath. He passed some mana into the ring of Vancouver, which had conveniently followed him inside the Dream world.

Once he had turned his ring into a dagger, Jason cut another wound in his arm

'Though I can deal damage to myself inside the dream world, it doesn't hurt me…' Jason silently observed.

The wound in his arm glistened with blood. Hestia watched this in suspense while trying to predict what would happen.

"Wait…" her lips suddenly parted.

Jason's arm had already started healing. The blood coming out of the wound soon started vanishing while the skin perfectly knit itself back into shape.

Jason was surprised to find out that this happened much slowly in the dream world as compared to the real one.

He was able to see the tiniest of details in slow motion. However, his attention was soon shifted to Hestia's shocked and awestruck face.

"You are exactly like him…" Hestia mumbled.

"Exactly like who?" Jason frowned.

Whoever Hestia was referring to remained a mystery for the next five minutes. She kept on mumbling things to herself before looking at Jason in the end.

"Jason, do you know who Aiden Shadowstone is?" Hestia slowly asked.

"Aiden as in a guy with black hair, red eyes and huge horns?" Jason guessed. The excitement that appeared on Hestia's face told him that he was right.

"If you know him, you must know that he is called by many names. One such name is 'infinite regenerator'. He can heal himself countless time, no matter what type of attack is used against him.

Even many gods can't fight and defeat him without using their full powers which in turn burns their power to an unrecoverable degree." Hestia explained.

"So he can regenerate any damage he has received as long as its not from a god at full power." Jason summarized.

"Yes and the only reason he can do this is due to his control over the dark and light element. Even though neither of them can singlehandedly compare to the healing provided by the life element, their combination is terrifying.

With the dark element, one can severe any damaged body cell and instantly replace it with the help of the light element." Hestia finished.

Jason finally understood the excitement she had felt. She had basically described his powers being used at the peak.

"If you can control your powers similarly, we can reduce your the damage taken and even fight much older and powerful guardians head on."

"Uh, why would we need to fight guardians?" Jason questioned. He would've understood if Hestia had only specified Hecate but multiple guardians?

Jason would rather open a laundry service or hospital rather than doing that.

"Ahem, you are soon going to be hotstuff in the different guardian realms. That little stunt where I used divine energy might have attracted a lot more attraction than what I intended…" Hestia mumbled and averted her gaze.

She knew that there were many people who were present on Clover that originally belonged to other realms.

Such people were descendants of a few guardians who could also travel between both the realms since one of their ancestors had a baby while they were a vessel.

This made them the perfect spies. They traded information and important news from one realm to another and had the power to sense when some guardian used a major attack.

"So that means that I am soon going to be famous across nine realms. At least the people in Clover don't know about this…" Jason tried to look for the positive thing.

"Well, that's true up to some extent but don't worry about it. As long as I am with you, I will make sure that no real harm comes to you." Hestia reassured him.

Jason felt a bit conflicted yet there wasn't any other option for him to choose.

"Tell me how you know Aiden? Is it because he was famous?" Jason curiously asked.

"He was famous across all ten realms as well as the Bar of Gods. He might even have become a god from this realm which hadn't happened for a long time," Hestia's eyes darkened.

"But things went bad and a war happened… I was Aiden's partner and was banished to one of the realm without my memories. It took me a long time to regain them and once I did, I came here in search of things related to the past.

That's when I found out about the guardian system and how Aiden was portrayed…"

Once her voice trailed off, Jason started imagining what the black-haired man he had seen could've done.

Furthermore, Hestia had helped Aiden too which thickened the plot.

"Well, let's just say that I acted as Aiden's guardian back then," Hestia suddenly paused as though she was remembering something from the past. "Now that I think about it, I am pretty sure that I did meet a god of shadows at that time too…"

'Erebus?' Jason immediately reached out to his patron.

The god of shadows chose this moment to remain silent.

Erebus was sitting in the Bar of Gods at his counter even though he had temporarily closed the bar.

? 'Why now?' Erebus questioned himself while staring at the scene in front of him.

Hestia had come back with her memories intact and then there was the scene where Jason and met Aiden.

Not only that but Jason being born into Syrward family made things even weirder. It was as though someone was slowly collecting the pieces of a puzzle to finish it.

'I am going to pay him a visit.' Erebus suddenly thought and vanished from his place.

It was time he paid the Divine emperor a visit and asked him about the things that were taking place on Clover.