Chapter 101: Mark Reddish (2)

Perseus POV

Once the 2 arrived, they along with the chief escorted the 'guests' to their closest place of stay within the village under a watch eye of dozens of watchers, after all, as of now, they are nothing but a sprouted bud, they can't go against the watchers yet, heroes or not, they'll die.

And I went home as I let the 2 who arrived to deal with all of this since a word from a goddess is difficult to go against, but I did commit a crime that is assaulting a hero which can entail capital punishment.

But the problem is that the heroes came here with the intent of capturing me despite knowing the fact that a person of my personality won't do it peacefully, so it should exonerate me, they probably would have spin the narrative otherwise if I've lost.

Mark the holy, they call him, was adopted by count Reddish, and has somehow replaced his own siblings as the heir, though he isn't going to actually be the air due to his tie with the church, and the status was only placed upon him so that the real children of the count can actually stop being deadbeats.

Mark has already cemented himself as the count's favorite child, but he is very well hated amongst his siblings due to him being a genius and the next saint, they can't really bully him, but they isolate him and talk behind his back. A real lonely guy, it seems that everyone else but the actual children of the count, love the guy.

And in the case of me marrying Maple and she become mortal, he will be the one to replace her as the new god of autumn, so he's a good ally to have. But I doubt he'll really listen since I just beat the group that he is supposed to join later down the line into unrecognizable pulps.

But for now, he'll be my key to accessing the southern continent which is something I need. I used a bit of magic and I can feel myself progressing towards the 5th star which is nice.

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"You've given me hell, you know that?" mark sighs as he drank some hot tea

We are currently at the chief's house who is hosting the 2 guest a bit, our village have no nobility and rarely do we give any outsiders a lot of priority and privilege when they visit, but it's different for Mark and the pope, after all, they serve the daughter of the gods my village worship.

We created dances and made festivals in not just the name of our founders, but the sun and moon god, and Mark as the proclaimed next saint due to his large holy presence or whatever is a very highly valued guest, even more so than Edward, since he is one of the people who directly serve the third most worshipped god in the village, Maple Autumn.

It'll be funny once they realize I raised several flags with their goddess.

"What does the goddess even see in you?" Mark inspected me

"Of course, my awesomeness."

"Definitely not, is it because you're the lord of 2 roses?"

"Lonely, low self esteem, sleepless nights..." I replied and then piqued his interest a bit "A result of being isolated and having a lot of burden on your shoulder, you feel like you need to be perfect to be in control since people don't just expect it out of you, but know that you'll be their next greatest pope and stepping into the realm of a saint."

"What are you trying to get at here?"

"Must feel really lonely at the top, huh? Everyone distance themselves from you because they feel inadeq- OW, what the hell?!" I turned to see the chief smack me at the back of my head faster than I could react

"Didn't your mother tell you to stop doing that?" he scolded "I don't want to see him quit being religious like you made the previous head of the adventurer's guild retire."

"What?! I was just curious."

"Then you should have pursued higher education in psychology instead of being an unemployed bum."

"Unemployed?! I make more money than you!"

"Oh please, your mothers do everything and all you do is provide the secret ingredient every couple months, now stop it or I'll hit you again, son."

"I'm not your son."

"Hey! Don't be disrespectful to your father! He raised you." Mark interjected

"He ain't my dad!"

"You might feel like this now, but one day, you'll grow to regret the way you treat your father, no one is there for you forever."

"Dude, I ain't got a dad, I got lesbian parents! And if anyone's gonna be my dad, it sure ain't him, he literally threw me into a pack of wolves after he sprinkled my body with salt, and after I survived that, he threw me in the middle of a herd of stampeding rhinos, what kind of person will do that?!"

"That's cuz the next chief is supposed to be tough." Chief Aminu replied

"Those wolves have poisonous fangs that can instantly kill a 5 star of under."

"You share our blood, you won't die that easily, you'll have 30 minutes at least, besides, you survived, you only managed to get a chunk of your right leg ripped off."

"I hate your ruin your father-son moment, but I need to bring us back on topic." Mark said "The goddess only asked us to come here as quick as possible to help the so called Perseus Silver who killed the culprits behind the enraged kraken, but I don't understand something, how did you know the reason behind the kraken's rage?"

"Leilah can talk to certain animals and I made a promise to deliver revenge in its place, besides, the false accusation at the southern continent sort of piss me off."

"Well I'm here to serve as the middleman, after all it seems that you still have some culprits left to pursue that weren't at the play, I don't know who, but the heroes want to have a discussion about it and how to pursue all of this further."

"The heroes? They've recovered this quickly?"

"No, their representatives said so. So, what will you do?"