Chapter 221 I Wanted To Be Present Here
"When did that happen?" Jason asked with a surprised expression.
He wasn't too worried about Duphia since there was a barrier around it. Not only that but Risa and Issac were strong enough to handle things on their own.
"Today morning. Your grandparents had brought your cousin back and even two of the other four families moved in with them. The Feuer and Anvilone families are now staying in Duphia as well." Amon informed.
"Then why do I need to hurry back?"
"Apparently your powers are required there. They need to break something." Amon replied with an expressionless face.
Jason immediately understood that some contracts were needed to be broken by him.
"Let's go back." Jason replied.
"You still have four sins remaining to be cleared. You can come back once this matter has been dealt with." Diana informed. "Also, that child is currently staying up in a room so you might want to bring her down."
"There is no need for that," Jason reassured. "She will come here herself."
Jason closed his eyes and focused on his connection with May. Once he could sense her presence, he immediately called out to her and asked her to come to his location.
[ Where are we going now? ] may questioned as she flew towards Jason's location.
'We are going back home. There is an emergency of sorts there. We will be back on this continent again so there are still many places left to be explored.' Jason replied.
[ I see. ]
May reached him a few minutes later and immediately flew into his arms. Jason held her with a helpless smile while Amber was leaning against his right arm.
"Take us back," he said to Amon before looking at Amber. "Grandma should be able to help you come back in form as soon as we get back."
"You did fine as well. I don't think I would even be conscious if you hadn't supplied me with that energy." Amber smiled as Flamey suddenly appeared around her neck.
[ I will share my warmth with you till then. ]
'Aren't you a bit too late for that.' Amber grumbled.
For some reason, both Jason and Hestia could hear their conversation. It was because Amber and Flamey were allowing the two of them to hear what they were talking about telepathically.
[ I was busy controlling that divinity inside your body. I didn't know it would activate so easily since I had been expecting it to activate later on. That fire mana definitely had traces of divine energy which managed to charge my divinity. ] Flamey commented.
'If all you required was divine energy, you could've asked me for it. I have two sources of divine energy and could've definitely managed to charge your divinity.' Jason offered.
[ it doesn't work like that. In order to charge this piece of divinity, I need divine energy of my own… wait, how did it get charged then? ]
[ Don't tell me you were the one responsible for seeing the succubi divulging with each other in flames of passion. You do get forgetful sometimes. ] Hestia sighed.
[ If it happened, it should have happened before all that but it didn't. Does that mean that this jewel was created when Clover was still divided into separate parts? ]
[ You still didn't change… How am I supposed to know that when I was bound inside a tree and could only know of the major changes happening around the realm? ]
[ True but you did break free after the war started. ]
Jason and Amber exchanged a silent glance while the conversation between their guardians continued. They couldn't relate to the topic since they didn't know half the events.
Meanwhile Amon had already activated his teleportation magic circle to take them away to Duphia.
Amber tightened her grip on Jason's shoulder while he held May closer to his chest. Such a long-distance teleportation was going to make all three of them dizzy, so it was best to hold tightly and prepare themselves.
'If everything—'
[ Don't. Just don't. You will only jinx us so don't even think about thinking what you were about to think. ] The system cut him off.
'I can't even think a simple thought without jinxing us.' Jason sighed since he knew that the system's words were true.
After a few tremors, which according to Amon were space bumps or glitches, the quartet finally appeared outside the Syrward manor.
The moment they did, Jason activated his mana vision and saw the black barrier surrounding the entire city.
It was created purely out of divine energy spread evenly across every inch of the barrier. Jason couldn't help but marvel how much pressure Amon had to face just to maintain the barrier.
"Its not that hard to maintain it with the help of my divinity. Though it is quite difficult to do that right now considering that a literal god is attacking the barrier." Amon said as if he had read Jason's mind.
"How do you do that?"
"Reading expressions and body language goes a long way. I also know that you are curious about most things so its kind of easy for me to guess such things." Amon shrugged.
Both of them turned in the opposite direction and started heading towards the manor, Amber limping right beside Jason.
They entered the house and immediately sensed two sources of divine energy bursting through the house.
"Oh, its you guys." Issac's voice entered their ears. "I thought someone from Duphia was manipulated by that guy."
Issac directly appeared in front of them, sparks of lighting vanishing from his body. Risa didn't appear yet the second source of divine energy vanished as well.
"Things do seem tense here. I am wondering how you still haven't blown up half the town due to your suspiciousness." Amon mused.
"It's because Risa and Ray are here to keep me sane. Not to mention that Zara and Nora, alongside the Feuer and Anvilone family are managing things in the town. They are keeping things in order." Issac explained.
"What about outside the town?" Jason questioned.
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"Things are tense there. Julian appeared with a small army outside the barrier and tried destroying it. It was clear that he wasn't possessed but all of a sudden, his patron descended and demanded that we handed Jason, Amber, Zeke and Wade over to him.
I told him to shove his divinity up his ass but that didn't work well. Then he suddenly vanished and Risa decided to contact you and warn you. Though we didn't know you would be coming back here." Issac said in a surprised tone.
Jason and Amber immediately looked at Amon, who had said that Jason's grandparents were asking them to come back.
"I am sorry I had to lie to you both but that was the quickest way to make things proceed smoothly," Amon apologized. "I came here because the barrier was feeling some pressure.
I don't trust the sins that much to leave you both alone there, so I had to take you back as well. Wade will remain safe due to his spirit but you both would be defenseless. We can go back once I stabilize the barrier."
"You could have explained that to us there only…" Jason sighed.
"Would have taken too much time." Amon suddenly looked outside. "After all, I wanted to be present here when this happened."
Moments after the words left his mouth, an earthquake shook the entire mansion. A roaring sound echoed around the entire town.
A second later, a cracking noise slowly rose from the noise of terror...