Athena Goddess who has high reputation among the gods and goddesses.

Takafumi thought that the gods and goddess were the ancient myths. He could not believe that he was able to see Athena Goddess for real.

“I knew you have many questions, but before that, I needed to tell you about this world first,” said Athena Goddess kindly. She told the beginning of the worlds, “Zues, the king of gods and goddesses created 5 worlds, each world has several parallel worlds, that mean there were a lot of world and different timelines in the universe. — The origin of this world was created thousands of years ago. Zues created this world with plenty of nature and wild animals. He also created the spirit world and assigned the spirits to each world. As you may well be aware, this world has the world tree spirit, The Queen of Spirits who rules the spirit world. Zues created the spirits from natural energies and the solar system in purpose of the balance between nature and lives. That’s why there were spirits that complied with the natural power as well as 4 elements, earth, water, wind, and fire, and the power of solar system, light, and dark. — Zues stated the rules that all gods and goddesses must not interfere the world directly, even though they have responsibility to take care of those worlds. In case of emergency, they need the permission from Zues first. — For that reason, I decided to create my representatives in this world. So, I can indirectly interfere in any kind of situation at any time in this world.”

Athena Goddess continued to tell him about this world, “A thousand years ago, I incarnated ‘Helius’, the demigod with my power. I created his body with the ideal type of dragon, strong body, and high magic power. He has ability of shape-shifting between dragon and human. His dragon form was black dragon with blue sapphire eyes. His human form was a formidable man, tall, handsome, black hair, and blue sapphire eyes. He can reborn himself by laying an egg and hatching itself once a thousand years. His body and power will stronger every time of his rebirth and he can remember everything in his previous body. Now, he was in the egg and wait to hatch himself. — I gave him 1 in 10 of my magic power, it was maximum power that I can give to any representative. That’s why he was the strongest among my representatives. He has abilities to use magic power of light, healing, protection, and 4 elements. — He has duties to balance the power and keep the world peace. And he was an ancestor of the boy, the body that your soul possesses now.”

“I incarnated ‘Agnes’, The Queen of elves with my power as well. I created her body with the ideal type of elf, long-life race and compatible with the nature. She can live with my magic power and the natural energies around her. That’s why her appearance was not aged even the thousand years passed. — I gave her 1 in 15 of my magic power. I can’t give the maximum power to all the representatives. She has abilities to use magic power of time, protection, and 4 elements. — I created the 8 high elves with the same ideal type but I could give each of them 1 in 100 of my power, so I made them strong with each type of powers instead. They have abilities to use magic power of 4 elements and the individual magic power, mind control, shape-shifting, wood, metal, lightning, time, protection, and healing. — They have duties to protect the nature in this world.”

“900 years ago, I created the physical bodies of humans and put the souls inside the bodies. I chose the souls from many worlds including parallel worlds by erasing their memory in their previous lives but remaining their intelligence and some ability individually. Therefore, they could live and survive by themselves. And sometime the humans got the guidance from the spirits without knowledge of their existence.”

“600 years ago, this world was disturbed by Ares God, the god of brutal war. He was cruel and slaughter, that’s why he has no duty in any world. He had created ‘Diabolus’ by Incarnating some of his dark magic power to human-monster body. The creature that had physical body like human but stronger, only different part was his Taurus horns on his head. He was cruel and slaughter like Ares.”

“Ares also created 4 Monster Lords in human-monster body. They had intelligence and dark magic power at high level. They changed the wild animals to be monsters by feeding them dark magic stones. They planned to destroy human world but failed because I had protection planned and predicted the situation since the beginning. That’s why I incarnated Helius, Agnes, and the 8 high elves and gave them magic power before created the humans. — I knew that Ares was crazy about war, battle, and slaughter. He did all cruel things for increasing his dark magic power. Zues punished and destroyed his power once but he found the other way to increase his power by generating wars and got humans sacrifice from wars.”

“I also gave magic power to humans to fight the monsters at that time. Their descendants can inherit the magic power like genetic inheritance. The magic power can be lost, bit by bit if they have a bad intention or dangerous behavior to the innocent lives.”

“A human name ‘Stella’ the first Empress of Sapientia Empire, her soul was reincarnated as well. She was reborn with her memory of her previous life. It was my support plan to choose the pure souls every century to be reincarnated, those souls have talent, good intention, and brave in their nature. — It’s required the holy magic power to destroy Diabolus completely. Stella was a best choice at that time because only woman can possess this power.”

“Excuse me, Could I ask something? I got everything that you wanted to explain but I would like to know why I’m here and in this child body?” Takafumi asked, the questions exploded in his head but he asked her shortly. He got a lot of information from her and he could guess the situation next.

“You and the boy died at the same time, you died from hard work, the boy died from severe hit. Both souls were on the way to ‘The world of Justice’ It is the space between Heaven and Underworld for making justice to all the souls. There were reborn, reincarnation, and destroy. The souls must get one of these choices and all the souls got erased the memory that related to the world of justice,” Athena Goddess said and explained more. “In this space, we, god and goddess who have duty to take care the worlds can interfere. So, we can choose the souls from there and make them reincarnate to our world. — Most of souls are randomly reborn without their memory of their previous life, the pure souls got the chance to reincarnate with their memory of their previous life, the bad souls got punishment and destroyed in underworld. All the souls could not go back to their physical body in their previous life. So, I chose your soul to reincarnate in this child body.”

“Why did you choose me? Is there any reason to be this child body? Don’t tell me that it has something to do with that Diabolus monster. I’m just an ordinary guy who loves playing and developing game. I have no idea why you chose me. I don’t think I can be a great help to you or this world,” Takafumi asked curiously, he felt a bit angry.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to cause you any trouble. You’re clever. I think you can guess something from my information. — I chose your soul because it’s the right timing and your soul is pure. You have the intelligence and creative abilities. If your knowledge, skills, and abilities merged with the magic power of this child’s body, it will be a perfect match. You’re a key to win against the darkness. — I’ve predicted that Ares will do something again. It has high possibility that he will resurrect Diabolus and bring back the darkness to this world. I’m afraid that they might be crueler than the past,” said Athena Goddess, she has a sad expression on her face.

“He was imprisoned deep inside the underworld for his cruel behavior last time but he broke the prison and escaped several months ago. — If the truth be told, the underworld was overcrowding with the bad souls, humans were greedy and did the cruel things, that’s why there are a lot of bad souls in there. As the bad souls were accumulating inside, the bad energies were leaking and reached to Ares. He was stronger bit by bit, and then finally escaped from the prison.”

“He will surely do something after he recovered all of his power. I needed to prepare everything for the upcoming situation. We still have time because Ares need time to recover his power by getting the humans sacrifices from wars or the cruel ways as well. — As you may well be aware, the worlds have many parallel worlds. Hades, King of Underworld, was still finding him. If Ares could escape successfully, he will take time to recover himself around 15 years at least.”

“You said that we need to use holy magic power to destroy Diabolus and only women can possess this power. But I’m a man and even now, I’m in the boy body. How could I be a key to win against the darkness?” Takafumi asked.

“Don’t worry, I chose Stella’s soul to be reborn without memory of her previous life. She was born as a first princess of Sapientia Empire, she has the same age as the boy. She inherited holy magic power at high level as same as Stella at that time. The royal family know their duty very well. They must use this power to destroy the dark magic core inside the king of monsters. Even so, the royal family are normal humans, there is some limit with their bodies. But the boy inherited the strong body and magic power from Helius, demigod. That’s why you are a key to win against the darkness. — Neither of you can do it alone. You must find the trustworthy companions and help each other to destroy the darkness completely,” Athena Goddess said.

“Could you please tell me more about this boy? Who is he? Does he have family? What about the descendant of Helius?” Takafumi asked curiously. He accepted the situation and wanted to know more about the boy. He can do nothing but to adapt himself in this body.

“After the incident of Diabolus in the past, Helius married human. He got the family name ‘Fortis’ from Stella. They had 5 children and their bloodline continued to the present. The boy is one of direct bloodline, he is the right heir to Fortis and he inherited all types of magic power, the same type as Helius, at very high level. His magic power is the highest among the family’s history but his soul was not pure and brave enough, that’s why he did not qualify to handle the magic power and even died easily,” Athena Goddess said.

“The boy’s name is ‘Ilario H. De Fortis’, he was 5 years old. Remember his name and use it in this world because the boy still has family. His family were still looking for the boy after he got kidnapped. — It’s not the right time for you to return to the boy’s family now. You must learn everything from Agnes and other elves until you were strong enough and could protect yourself. If you go back now, you can find the comfortable life but in a short period of time. Your family was very well known, especially the magic power. There are many greedy humans who wanted to possess it. That’s why the boy got kidnapped, it’s easier to experiment the child, although they cannot take the power directly but they can do something else on the body. For that reason, they wanted to sell the boy to other countries. — It was fate that it must be you. The bad souls cannot handle my magic well. I will give you more power,” said Athena Goddess, she gave him a gold apple. It floated in the air and flew into his hand.

“Eat it. It will double your magic power and stamina, you need the strength body to handle the strong magic power. Your magic power and stamina will be increasing as time goes by. You should strengthen your physical body by training regularly, it will help you to increase magic power and stamina as well. Your magic power will stronger than a high elf when you reached the age of 18,” said Athena Goddess firmly.

Ilario ate the gold apple, the taste was sweet, he felt more energy circulating inside his body. The birthmark was bright and shining light with gold aura, then remained lightly after he finished the gold apple.

“Is this mark relate to my birth or my magic power?” Ilario asked Athena Goddess curiously, he showed his mark to her.

“It related to both of your birth and magic power,” Athena Goddess said. “Helius, Agnes, the 8 high elves, and Stella have their magic symbol marks on back of their right hands, it’s significant that they got magic power from me directly, the symbols are up to their strongest magic powers. — Their descendants inherited the same symbol mark as well, but it called inherited mark. — Normally, the inherited mark was black but the descendants who inherited high magic power, their inherited marks are shining light with gold aura, the brighter light mean they were possessing more power.”

“I directly gave my magic power, low to medium level, to many humans in the incident of Diabolus in the past. They had no magic symbol mark but their descendants continued to inherit their magic powers from generation to generation. — Most of humanity in this world have no magic power. That’s why, the humans who inherited magic powers were special.”

“I just gave you more magic power as a special gift. I must apologize to you for the inconvenience causes. I chose your soul to be reincarnated without asking your opinion first. I will grant you a wish as a token of my gratitude for all your help after you finished this duty.”

“You need to learn how to control your magic power and develop more abilities as fast as you can. Agnes and the elves will teach you everything. Remember that you should not overdo things until you reached the age of 8.”

The appearance of Athena Goddess changed back to be world tree spirit. She smiled lightly and then disappeared.

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3 days ago, In the southern part of Magnus Forest, at the location where Ilario got helped from the elves.

There were broken carriage and the dead bodies of mercenaries at the scene of the crime.

The knights checked the situation and surveyed the damage. They looked around the area to find the survival.

“All the mercenaries died but we could not find Young Lord, sir” a knight said.

“Did you already checked the area nearby?” a superior knight said. He was in his forties, big, high muscles, neat and dark brown hair, dark brown circle beard, blue eyes, he was wearing knight armor.

“We will check again and report back, sir” a knight said and left.

“Did you find him?” a nobleman asked with a worried expression on his face. He was in his late twenties, elite, tall, handsome, neat black hair, light blue eyes, he was wearing noble official suit.

“Not yet, we found only dead bodies of mercenaries but still could not find Ilario.” a superior knight said.

“Uncle, please find him. I could not detect him around this area. I’m really worried, he’s still young,” a nobleman said.

They were searching many areas for Ilario but they found nothing even they were finding him since the morning until the evening. They felt hopeless but keep finding him continually…

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