Chapter 93: I Would Have Known
|Author's note: Perseus Original world have a mix of both events that exist or fictional ones that I purely made up, so if you find historical inaccuracies, just know, this is all different or I'm just dumb and play it off as a fictional made up event.|
3rd Person POV
"So how far have you gotten with our son?" Nyra asked Leilah
They were at home enjoying their day off and the parents are taking their time to learn more about Leilah personally since Perseus isn't here to sway anyone's opinion.
"Oh, we've only kissed a couple of times, that's about it." Leilah answered
"How did you 2 meet?" Nyra asked "We've never really asked that."
"Uh...we've meet through our dreams."
"Please stop joking, Perseus always say that to avoid the subject."
"But I'm not joking? We've met through each other's dream."
"And you then happen to fall in love with a very young boy, don't you think you should turn yourself to the authorities?"
"No I fell for the image of what he looks like in the future." she then used magic t project an image of the grown up Perseus for them to see, even Vince who barely talk with him can tell that the projection is Perseus, his face doesn't change much apart from the muscles and the sense of slight maturity.
"Damn, no wonder he's got ladies around him." Nyra clicked her tongue "Too many, I see letters every fricking day from noble daughters asking for an arranged marriage, it's annoying."
"Well you have to admit, he's gonna grow up into a very...attractive guy, if it weren't for his attitude, I might just fawn over him." Ruka shrugged
Now it was Leilah's turn to click her tongue in annoyance.
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Perseus POV
*Achoo*
Weird, I sneezed, someone's definitely talking about me, I live in a fictional world after all, let me scroll up a bit, damn the author censored it all for me, I even took effort to break the 4th wall and everything.
Anyway, it didn't take long for him to come and nap in his bedroom which I then tied him up with my chains, steal some of his clothes from his wardrobe and some of his spare sheets as well since they're made from ridiculously expensive fabrics.
I then used the power of shadows and shadow travel out of here while being invisible and emerged with the guy over my shoulder and went out of the city to an abandoned warehouse cuz for some reason, in a fictional world, an abandoned warehouse with no one around for miles exist.
But in the chance of being discovered by a random person, I sunk into the shadow of the warehouse and do my business in there.
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"Oh, you're finally awake."
"Where? Perseus Silver!" she exclaimed as he saw my undisguised self
"Yo, the one and only, alright, I'll get to the poin-"
"Spare me!" he pleaded "As long as you guarantee my life, I'll tell you everything you need to know."
This guy, come on, resist, spit in my face, make it hard for me, come on, value your pettiness more. It seems this guy is just a coward in his hear putting u a strong front.
"Huh? Aren't you an 8 star mage?"
"And you're the lord of the black rose, the guardian can finish me off with a flick of her finger." his teeth is clattering in this cartoonish matter "Since you've captured me, it means that you must know of what we've done."
"The false accusation and the deaths of thousands that was caused by angering the kraken, so I'll get to the point, where are the children?"
"The church of the spring goddess have it." he answered quickly "We work for the lord of the yellow rose and the church."
"What's their goal? And who amongst the church?"
"A cardinal." he answered "We work with one of the pope's right hand men, their church is known for discrimination against those of mixed both or those they deem imperfect beings, even against some of the current heroes, those who are um not in the proper image of the true gods, those with demon blood, those who are corrupted by interaction with demons, those with darker skin...pretty much they discriminate most of those from your nation, Tehios, and those born in the southern continent.
"Their influence are wide spread and that's how we easily accused you of false crimes, their goals were to enslave those children of the kraken for the yellow rose to command and create an unstoppable army by the time we fight against the demon lord." he explained "And we joined the plan all those time back, though some of the eggs were more fragile than expected and we ended killing it in the process.
"Unlike a regular octopus, a kraken only lay about 10,000 eggs or so with only 5 at best surviving to adulthood and 1 of those will become the same size as the one you saw, we managed to raise the top 50 babies in a safe environment...it's a forbidden project because of ethical issues...but you have to understand, the demons are more of a threat unlike any other."
"What do you guys think you are? You think you're better or something? You just admitted to working with people who are racially discriminating against those that don't look like your true gods, I bet that if the demon lord were to die, y'all would definitely target me next."
He just whimpered and stayed quiet after that, the true gods, that's another nickname for the sun and moon god whom I usually refer to as the primordial gods since that's what people of my village usually call em as well.
In paintings and older pictures, all of them were shown to have whiter skin, it's also evident by the looks of the rose guardians and the goddesses, only the first demons were shown to have different color of skin after all. Certain humans developed darker skin throughout time, but...
To think this kind of racial discrimination still exist, I guess the church didn't have such agendas recorded for a good reason, cuz I would have known.