The next day, early morning.
When the bright sunlight shone upon Jason's golden hair, who had fallen asleep leaning against the pegasus, and upon that handso face resembling the God of Light Apollo.
It made Jason subconsciously want to turn over and continue sleeping.
A sudden wafting aroma of at teased Jason's stomach, forcing the groggy Jason to open his eyes.
Then Jason saw that beside the campfire, Atalanta, who had woken up at so unknown ti, was roasting her breakfast, a wild rabbit she had caught.
Eating sothing so greasy first thing in the morning, be careful not to ruin your stomach!
Looking at the roasting rack with only one wild rabbit, Jason pursed his lips and muttered, turned over, and prepared to continue sleeping.
Then, not long after...
"Atalanta, share a bit with ?"
The hunter clad in beautiful erald green clothes tilted her head, looking at the approaching Jason who was blinking at her, and said flatly, "Go catch your own... I have no reason to take care of you now!"
"You did say you would listen to my words..."
"The goddess I believe in is the Huntress Goddess Artemis, so I only eat ga I have hunted myself. And if one wants to exchange for prey from my hands, then one must offer corresponding compensation... Taking care of you three years ago was also because of Artemis's command!"
"Tch..."
Jason pursed his lips.
Truly the sa as always, not cute at all!
Evidently, Jason had completely forgotten how he had praised Atalanta's cuteness in his heart when he first t dea.
"Then I will buy it with money..."
"No need. I do not lack money now."
Atalanta refused Jason again and said, "Because of the Calydonian boar incident last ti, the prince of Calydon... That one called leager or sothing, anyway your senior brother, gave a large sum of reward."
"...Truly not sharing any with ?"
Jason looked at Atalanta. Atalanta also looked at Jason without yielding. Both of their eyes were extrely beautiful, like erald gems.
Then Atalanta directly replied, "I said, offer compensation that satisfies . Otherwise... impossible!"
Hearing this, Jason naturally felt very helpless. But going to catch ga first thing in the morning, Jason did not want to.
Usually eating wild fruits, now slling the aroma of at, Jason naturally did not want to eat them.
Thus, after his eyes turned, and looking at the sunlight sprinkling on the ground, Jason suddenly knew what kind of compensation he should give to Atalanta.
"Alright, then I will play the lyre for you. If you feel this can be considered a tip, then give it to as compensation."
After saying this, regardless of Atalanta's refusal.
Jason, who sat down on a nearby stone, took out the seven-stringed lyre and began to gently play it.
Evidently very confident that Atalanta would definitely give him the compensation.
But Jason indeed had the capital to be confident. The seven-stringed lyre, along with the guidance of the centaur sage Chiron and Sea Queen Amphitrite, as well as the recognition of the sea nymph Muse goddesses.
In the world, how many people would not submit to Jason's lyre music?
Thus, accompanying the rise of the beautiful lyre music, Atalanta, whose brows were originally furrowed looking at Jason, soon beca stunned.
She truly did not expect that Jason actually had such talent... No, simple talent could no longer describe the lyre sound Jason played.
Just as Atalanta was dazedly looking at Jason playing before her eyes, not long after, when she ca back to her senses, she discovered that around them, at so unknown ti, a large number of small animals had gathered.
They were all listening to the wonderful music, showing expressions of enjoynt.
Even the pegasus ca to squat beside Jason.
And how to put it... Atalanta turned her head to look at the Jason before her, clad in white clothes, slender fingers gently plucking the strings, under the illumination of the bright sunlight, golden hair swaying slightly in the wind.
Amid the surprise, this scene also deeply imprinted itself in Atalanta's mind...
One piece ended. Before Jason could even open his mouth, Atalanta reached out and tossed the roasted wild rabbit to Jason.
Jason caught it and, without politeness, took it and enjoyed it beautifully.
And looking at Jason eating the fragrant roasted at, Atalanta could only take out dry rations to gnaw on.
Jason saw her pitiful and took out a few wild fruits for her, but she glared at him.
Thus, in the end, Jason did not even give her the wild fruits.
This made Atalanta's actions of gnawing on the dry rations beco a bit fiercer.
At the sa ti, it made the pegasus's gaze toward Jason sowhat speechless, and also a bit strange.
Because the pegasus had known Jason for so long and discovered that everyone he interacted with, he always tried to please them, showing quite a lot of sentint and smoothness.
How co today, suddenly so...
And actually, the reason was also very simple. Just look at who those people were.
Either gods or monsters.
And then his own senior brother, as well as his sister part-ti senior sister dea.
It would be strange if Jason did not find ways to coax them.
Thus, facing Atalanta... Moreover, Atalanta was the one who followed on her own. Jason fundantally did not want to bring this freeloader.
It would be strange if he went to one-sidedly accommodate Atalanta!
As for building favor... Jason wished that Atalanta's favor toward him was a negative number, the better!
After all, beautiful won in Greece were nothing but trouble!
Jason was extrely wary of these things.
Thus, when Jason finished enjoying breakfast and Atalanta had filled her stomach, the two continued their journey.
Jason sat in front, Atalanta sat behind.
The sacred pegasus then carried the two, soaring under the vast blue sky... It was just a pity that, probably besides the gods observing in secret, no one could see this scene.
Because ever since that giant Antaeus back then, one boulder nearly smashed the pegasus and Jason.
After that, Jason had always been applying invisibility magic...
Regarding this, when Atalanta learned of it, for a mont she did not know what to say... She could only say that she originally thought that after the Calydon incident last ti, no matter what, she should have so understanding of Jason.
But in fact, it was in rely one day's ti that she refreshed her understanding of Jason again and again.
Thus, thinking of these things, Atalanta, sitting sideways on the pegasus, tucked the light yellow hair by her ear, looking at Jason's back.
Toward him, she could not help but feel increasingly curious.
On your body... exactly how many secrets and stories are there? The hero unknown to the world, favored by the gods.
As Atalanta was thinking these things.
"Atalanta... Atalanta, Atalanta!"
"Hm, hm." Atalanta ca back to her senses, pressed down the hair blown by the wind, cald herself, and said, "What is the matter?"
"Nothing, just that there are so things I feel I need to make clear to you... This ti, the thing I am going to do is actually according to the oracle of the Goddess of Wisdom Athena, to offer tribute to Lord Hers."
Hers knew Jason, and Atalanta knew that, after all, they had t. But...
Athena's oracle?
And hearing this, Atalanta naturally thought of that evening when she saw Hers and heard his conversation with Jason.
"Wait, if I rember correctly, your tribute to Lord Hers is related to a person called Io, right?
And I rember that the oracle Hers gave you back then was about offering tribute to the God of Craftsn Hephaestus..."
As she spoke, Atalanta naturally thought again of that day when Jason offered tribute to Moon Goddess Artemis and then received Artemis's gift.
At that ti, Atalanta had not thought much of it, but now with this clue connecting...
"Ah, you still rember... Yes, I have already offered the tribute to Teacher Hephaestus. Actually, afterward I also offered tributes to Lord Ares and Lord Apollo. Now it is Lord Hers."
Hearing Jason's words, even Atalanta at this mont could not help but ask, "Hephaestus... Teacher?
And could it be that you obtained a gift from every great god?"
After all, Atalanta was the only one present at the ti who knew that the silver arrow that killed the Calydonian boar was not shot by Moon Goddess Artemis, but by Jason.
And that silver arrow was precisely the return gift from Artemis because of the tribute matter!
"Yes, that counts, after all, the great gods do often bestow boons upon us, right?"
Facing Jason's vague answer, Atalanta suddenly did not want to speak.
Often bestow boons... Ordinary people basically cannot see gods in a lifeti, let alone like you, running back and forth among the gods!
"You are not... planning to offer tributes to all the Olympian gods, are you?"
"Yes... Currently, only twelve..."
"Twelve?" Atalanta's voice rose slightly, evidently understanding which twelve gods Jason was planning to offer tributes to.
Wait, twelve gods, twelve gifts.
If those gifts were also on the level of Goddess Artemis's...
And that lyre this morning, why did it look so familiar? Now I rember, that is not Lord Apollo's seven-stringed lyre?!
"Cough, in any case, Atalanta, listen carefully. Guarding Io is a terrifying monster called the hundred-eyed giant Argus... Because of so reasons, peacefully resolving it should be impossible, so when the ti cos..."
Jason lightly coughed and began to change the topic.
"...Yes, I understand." And the speechless Atalanta, who had looked at Jason for a while, now could only suppress the surprise in her heart and reply, "When that ti cos, I will help you defeat the hundred-eyed giant Argus..."
Before Atalanta's words could finish, she was interrupted by Jason.
One could hear Jason, who turned back to look at her this ti, say to Atalanta in an extrely serious tone, "No, what I an is, when the ti cos, I will give you a hand signal, and then you directly take Io and run. The hundred-eyed giant Argus, I will handle! ...Do not glare at . I am not doubting your ability.
But at that ti, it will be extrely dangerous... Do not forget, you promised to listen to my arrangents along the way. Otherwise, then do not follow !"
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