"This wasn't just a matter for the gods anymore. No matter what, I was a member of the Hestia Familia. I couldn't just stand by and do nothing. Rather than letting me act on my own and possibly make some wrong judgment, wouldn't it be better to tell me what was going on?"
Although Hermes' reasoning made perfect sense—after all, Heavenly Fire had been thrown down by Prometheus, so if there was a problem, it was surely related to that god—Shen Fei was still part of Hestia's Familia. He could not possibly watch her come to harm.
"Just tell him." After Moon Goddess Artemis and Hephaestus exchanged glances, they both looked at Hermes.
"The truth was, we didn't know the exact nature of Heavenly Fire's problem either. This was our first time in Olympia as well. All we knew was that Heavenly Fire had been contaminated in the Lower World. Judging from Prometheus asking Hestia for help, that god had probably lost control of the situation already." Hermes then gave Shen Fei a rough account of what he knew.
Heavenly Fire was an object of the Heaven Realm. Since the Heaven Realm was flawless, Heavenly Fire could not develop problems there. But the Lower World was incomplete. More importantly, no one in the Lower World could perfectly control Heavenly Fire. Back then, Flame Hero Epimetheus had merely borrowed its power.
As time passed, Heavenly Fire had been contaminated by humanity's negative emotions in the Lower World. Shen Fei understood this very well. As a human himself, he knew just how terrifying humanity's negative emotions could be. Especially in such a desperate world, those emotions only ran higher.
"God Assassins? So all three great commissions were God Assassins."
Besides explaining Heavenly Fire's problem, Hermes revealed another extremely important matter: the God