Seeing the wimping Sera Hades let out a sigh.

Hades ”don’t worry girl, we already told you, as long as you cooperate, you wont be hurt”

Sera just noded, the pain in her body didn’t let her think straight.

Day “we know about your search skill, we want you to find two things and we would let you go, the first is a person”

Sera didn’t want to speak, but she didn’t have a choice here, she just hoped her words wont anger them.

Sera who was feeling like her hand was in a meat grinder even if it was already gone answered straight to the point, she couldn’t think of almost anything at all, that was how intense her pain was.

Sera” I need something that is connected with them ,picture or something that is theirs, the more information the faster we can find him”

Day ”so this is how your skill works”

Sera noded .

Day knew that it should have some restrictions, otherwise it would be just too op.

But the three of them looked at each other, they didn’t really have anything belonging to Night.

Hades “we can go to a mage and tell him to take a picture from our memory to find him”

Honestly speaking none of them were prepared for it, they knew that the skill would probably have a condition, and in normal situations they would have guessed that it was something in those lines, but Inferno wasn’t interfering, and both Hades and Day were too concerned from one thing or other to think about that.

All three of them frowned, thankfully the spell they needed was a minor one so not even a mage was needed to do it but they needed to wait till day or come up with something, this was getting problematic.

But all of them shrugged, compared to kidnapping Sera this was easier, they didn’t even need to wait till sunrise, Day stayed to keep watch and Hades went to take care of the picture.

In a well light place a kid and a man were sitting on a table full of food, and were chatting like old friends.

The kid had short, dark blue hair that looked like a crescent moon, with muscular body unbefitting of his age, his face had an air of strength, but now as he was laughing and talking, his face still seemed childish.

Night, unknown to Day, was having fun.

Ivan laughed “but really, you suck at stalking, do you want me to give you a few tips, it would help ”.

Night ”shut up, you are just too good, I was raised on the streets, I know how to follow, but you still caught me ”

Ivan shook his head with a teasing grin “unless the streets you are referring to is the name of some badly named kindergarten, I doubt you have managed to fool anybody”

Night laughed “just wait till my brother, friend , and that asshole get here and we will see”

Night thought that he could almost hear Inferno saying ”KID YOU LACK ANY RESPECT FOR THE GODS ” and laughed even harder.

Ivan ”I cant wait, cheers” they made a toast and continued to drink and eat, of course this was not alcohol but juice, in Ivan opinion Night was too young to drink, and he himself wasn’t found of alcohol either.

Night remembered how he got to this point and couldn’t help but laugh bitterly.

Hours ago after leaving Hades, he waited for his guardian to leave and went back to the Hunter guild where he waited for the last fourth person to appear.

They all knew about the appearance of all the people just in case, so Night decided to follow him to prove to Day that nothing wrong would happen, and if something were to go wrong his instincts would tell him and he would escape but the things didn’t turn out that way.

Medium sized and well proportionate body, on the muscular side, the face was average with black hair, and dark blue eyes and cheerful air around him.

By the description he quickly found Ivan, and started to follow him, but he would have never expected that the latter would have noticed him, and whats more he had hid that fact while making a trap for him, making him get caught.

Night really didn’t want to admit that Day was right, but ..he was right.

Thankfully Ivan didn’t seem to have any bad intention towards him so he didn’t worry too much, but that was probably also the reason why his instinct didn’t activate, which was kind of funny, cause since the other side didn’t have bad intention towards him, he fell into his trap resulting in getting caught.

After he got caught Ivan thoroughly interrogated him(no torture or something similar was used) and then brought him here, after which they talked and then started eating like they were celebrating something.

Night knew that the food wasn’t poisoned since there was no sense for it to be, he knew the latter was stronger, if he wanted him dead he would have died already, and after talking for a bit they seem to have hit it off pretty well.

Ivan “but honestly, a God, I have never seen one before”

Night let out a sight and shook his head ”I don’t even know how you found but believe me, you shouldn’t have high expectations towards this one”

Ivan laughed ’well I have met several saints before, so I think I have got pretty good idea of what they are like”

Night looked at him ”but honestly how did you found me, I didn’t make a sound, and I am sure, I looked natural, and hid well”

Ivan became serious ”ok I will tell you if you want to know” he then laughed ”you just really, really suck at following, hahahaahah”

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Hearing the answer Night made a dejected expression he really wanted to know.

Ivan looked at him and let ought a sight ”well, joke aside, it was above average, it might work on people who are little better, but on strong people it wont, they have a different way to see their surroundings, unless you have a special concealment skill, magic or something similar that counters them, they would be able to tell you are there, but lets leave that, I think your friends would be here shortly, they know by now that Sera has the search skill”

Night couldn’t respond, when he got caught he let everything out, he knew that there were people like his brother who could tell the truth and he really didn’t want to risk it with the person who captured him, of course he tried to hide some stuff, but the latter seemed to be able to figure out the rest on his own, honestly Night had fallen in a word trap and confirmed Ivan guess about the god, but Night was qurious why he had made that guess in the first place, after all god being here was something extremely rear, there was much higher chance winning the lottery.

But well he didn’t care too much, the latter would still have found out when Hades, Night and Inferno came here.

And the reason he was so sure they would come here beside to find him was cause this place had the formation they were all looking for.

Ivan smiled innocently while talking, which for some strange reason seemed natural ”but honestly I didn’t expect it to be found out this soon, Gods really are amazing”

There was slight sarcasm in his tone.

Night frowned ”I still cant believe you have something to do with that, you don’t seem like a bad guy, why are you doing this”

Hearing this Ivan let out a deep sigh with a different meaning than the previous one,{he really is still a kid after all, even after all that he has been trough}.

Ivan shook his head, he had no intention of explaining, but even if he did, he knew that Night was still too young to understand, he was more mature than most kids his age, but he was still a kid at the end.

Since he didn’t want to kill the mood Ivan changed the topic.

Ivan ”leave that aside, there is no point talking about it, lets talk about something different, lets see something interesting… oh I know, artifacts, do you know what are artifacts”

Night saw that opposite party had no intention to answer his question and let it be, he was still captured here, he was not in charge, and he knew that clearly, the opposing party knew that he knew that as well.

But Night was confused, when did this dinner became a lecture.

Night ”well to some degree, aren’t they weapons with special abilities”

Hearing this Ivan chuckled a little ”nah, but not far either, well since we have some time before the other come I will use it to teach you about them, believe me, my knowledge is better than that of most people”

Night didn’t know what to say “Thank you, I guess”

Ivan just laughed at the response, the expressions on this kid, were really honest.

Ivan ”artifacts are not just weapons, but items with special power, there is a large variety of them, but they are basically all the same, they were created using elemental power, the first artifacts is said to have been gifted to human kind by the Gods, but till this day no one knows if its true, most believe that, since the artifacts use elemental power, which is known to only be used by the gods and their saints, its true”

Ivan looked to see if the other side was paying attention and after he saw that he did, he started to explain with more fervor.

Ivan ”but not long ago something had happened, people started to discover artifacts at variety of places, and they found out that sometimes they could be created by nature, but most choose not to believe it since there was no critical evidence. If you think about it, its funny, they all knew that artifacts were created with elemental power and thought it was the gods, but no one had thought of the fact that elemental power is simply the power of nature, or her elements to be more specific and had believed that all the artifacts were created by the goods, it must have been right before their eyes but no one had seen it, hehehe, humans are truly dum”

Seeing that Night didn’t laugh, Ivan stopped and coughed pretending to clear his throat.

Ivan ”anyway, artifacts all have special abilities, some repeat others don’t, now that is something that most people havent found out yet, but the abilities come from the effects of the elemental power, for example a water artifact, is more likely to have a water based power, and lighting artifact will have a lighting based one, but there are many cases where they are the same ”

Night raised his hand like he was a kid in school.

Ivan chuckled and thought it was kinds cute, and pointed at him ”yes, Night”

Night”I have a question, if it depends on the elemental power why do abilities repeat, shouldn’t different elemental powers have different effects”

Ivan nodded ”good question, most people wonder about that as well, that is also the main reason they haven’t figured out the previous part as well, but the answer is simple, the power all comes from the same place, lets explained it like that, imagine the whole world as painting and the elemental power as different kinds of paint, they all combine and create the big picture, the artifacts are like paint brush that can take from this paint and use it, but since all the paints are combined to create the big picture there are traces of the combination of different paints in it, if we work with elemental power, the elemental power of one tipe can create elemental power of other tipes and is combined with elemental power of third tipes, and since the artifacts use that combination of elemental power, or paint, they can have similar or the same abilities.

However the more elemental power of one kind, or if we use the painting comparison, the more paint from one tipe we work with, the higher chance the special abilities belonging to the specific element, here is a bonus knowledge for the good question, the Gods could be said to be the ones that control this paint itself or the elemental power so their power doesn’t have traces of other elemental powers in it, as they can divide it”

Night “so basically the elemental power in the artifact could be said to be a combination of different elemental powers, but the one to which we feel the artifacts belong to is the one with highest quantity, but that doesn’t necessary mean that the special abilities will belong to that tipe”

Ivan nodded satisfied” it seem you paid attention, correct, also since most people didn’t know that nature could create artifacts at the beginning, that is why people say that those items are the artifact of the gods, not only as their origin but to classify them as well, its a way to tell which elemental power is in it, for example even if an artifacts is created by nature but contains water power, people would still say that it is an artifact of the Water God as a way to say which power is dominant inside, of course most people don’t know that ”

Night was surprised, he actually enjoyed this lesson.

Night raised his hand, and even before Ivan pointed at him he asked ”is it possible for humans to create artifact”

Hearing it Ivan let out a sight ”that is a question that people asked themselves since they found the first artifact you know”

Night eyes glittered with expectation.

Seeing this Ivan didn’t want to disappoint, so he decided to reveal a bit of information.

Ivan”yes, it is”

Night who wanted his own artifact couldn’t help but exclaim ”how!”

Ivan wondered how to answer that, as suddenly he received a signal.

Ivan “I will tell you later, it seems that your friends are here ”

Funnily Night sounded a bit douncasted at their bad timing ”really ”

Ivan nodded with a slight chuckle” yes”.

He led Night in another room in which a monitor was placed, there three figures and a cat could be seen.

Sera looked around several times ”it should be here”

Day, Hades and Inferno did the same, but there were only planes here, as they were quite far from the city.

Day materialized the axe, which sent shivers down Sera spine, there was no way that her fear would disappear for years, let alone several hours.

She fell on the ground and begged ”I AM NOT LAING I SWEAR ON MY LIFE, PLEASE SPEAR ME”

Hades got close to her.

Sera looked at the disguised man, and didn’t even notice the now black cat, which was Inferno “disguise”, who got right next to her, he took out a bag of money and handed it to her

Hades”we know”.

Sera didn’t even think twice and started to run, since this night was traumatic to her she didn’t even notice her newly attached arm till she got to her house and locked the door.

All three of them looked around again, Hades and Day could finally feel what Inferno felt before, something was definitely wrong here .