The 'Prank'

"Medea, I know that you are upset but really?"

"I'm not sorry for what I did."

I release a sigh and look at Medea, Rin, and Hermione, who look away from me. After being able to get away from the hospital, I quickly go to our base and ask Medea what they are doing to the Greeks.

After getting their confession, I can only sigh. They decide to destroy every single Temple of Ares but one in Greece and another country. They only left one Temple in China, which was hidden from others. It was the smallest and most desolate Temple of Ares in the world.

What makes matters worse, the Greeks cannot do anything about it. Because of his demotion to a lesser God, they cannot help him investigate this matter; he needs to do it himself. Even if he can get help, no Gods in Greek want to help him. It was the law Zeus made a long time ago so the lesser God could not overthrow him from his throne.

The only one that is willing to do it is Aphrodite, as she is his wife. The reason? The other gods hate his guts. Even Zeus, his father, did not want to get involved in his matter. It looks like the last incident is the last straw for Zeus.

Even Apolo, the most outgoing Gods, did not want to get involved in Ares' mess.

I know that the Greeks knew that it was us who did it, but they did not have evidence to prove it, and they did not want to make matters worse with the Devil Race more than what it is. It looks like they really wash their hands from Ares' anything involving Ares.

Anyway, with almost all of his temples destroyed, his power base also gets destroyed. He will still be alive for a few hundred years because of fame/infamy and this small Temple, but after that? He will disappear. That last Temple is what made him stay in this world, and it was the Temple that he abandoned because it was a small temple.

I guess it was quite ironic. He only survived for a hundred years because of a small temple that he did not care about.

"Haaaa. How long does it take to build a proper temple?"

"Thirty years!"

When I ask that, I can see her expression change into a pleased one. I guess she still has that hate for Gods from her previous life, huh?

"Why that long? I thought that building a temple is like building a normal building."

"No. A proper temple needs a delicate touch. The builder needs to be a fanatic believer as their belief will attract the essence of the Gods they worship. I get some whisper that Ares still has some fanatic worshipers, and this is a check for the foundation. The second thing is that a proper temple needs a specific material, a rare material. Rare material means expensive material and what makes matters better is that the main supplier of the material is the Persian Pantheon, the Greek eternal rival."

That is evil. I often forgot that Medea's favorite pastime is plotting and crafting. I see her crafting every time, but it is the nastiest thing she can think of when she has the time to do some plotting. I start to get afraid of what kind of 'prank' she does to Ares.

"Because Ares' current rank, he cannot split his personality like in the past, and that means his personality on Mars disappears! To build a proper temple, he needs to stay in the Temple for one year non-stop! However, if he did not stay inside his only Temple, his lifespan drained two times faster. Even when the Temple they try to build is close to each other, they will be destroyed. The Chinese community only allows one Temple to be built for each God and will destroy the Temple."

"Stuck between a rock and a hard place."

"That's right. He needs to sacrifice his overall lifespan to increase it slowly. However, it was not enough to restore his power, and he could not build the Temple two at once. Each Temple is built to each other the less effective it becomes."

"In conclusion: He cannot build his temple far away from his current one, he cannot buy the material because not only his fellow gods did not want to help him but also the Persian hate him for what he had done in the past-"

Ares allows the ransacking of a temple when the Greeks conquer the Persians. Not only that, but he also allows his worshiper to r*pe the priestess and priest of the Persian Pantheon.

"He cannot build his Temple nearby because the Chinese Magical side did not allow a temple to be built other than one for each God. Lastly, his followers cannot visit him in his Temple because they are banned from the Chinese community because of what they did in the past. Basically, he is doomed."

"There's more!"

"There is?"

"Yes! We stole every Ares' Spoil of War inside his vault and stored it inside your vault in the pocket dimension. Sadly, we can only use it when he is dead. Lucky for us, he will be dead sooner or later, especially with the Hydra Poison he drinks inside his wine. We need to make these items our Spoil of War. It was the curse Ares put on all these items."

"You steal his treasure and poison his drink?!"

"That is not my idea. I like to see my enemy suffer, but Hermione and Rin over here decide to kill him and save the headache."

I look at both Rin and Hermione before nodding my head.

"Great job, all of you."

I can see Medea look at me with a hint of surprise before saying.

"You were not mad at us?"

"Why should I? You did nothing wrong. I'm a little bit upset that you did not invite me to this plan, but other than that? Nope."

Actually, I'm really glad that they are planning on killing Ares. I did not want to make myself a target of a God of War coming from the Greek Pantheon even when he is demoted into a lesser god. The Greek are well known for their pettiness and thirst for revenge.

"Also, treasure? What kind of treasure do you guys get?"

"Why don't we go and see it?"

"Sure. I'm a little bit bored staying at home all day."

The four of us walk toward the basement and open the portal to my pocket dimension. I wonder what kind of treasure they got from Ares.