Audience with Aeetes [Sixth Update]

Carrying the secret he had heard from the bartender and a bellyful of doubts, Jason left the tavern.

He had no idea that after he left, the bartender began clearing their table. Suddenly, the man shuddered, and his eyes turned vacant.

"Did I... just take a nap? What did I just do? Why can't I remember? Did I fall asleep?"

As though awakening from a dream, the bartender rubbed his face, then suddenly pulled out the piece of gold Jason had given him as a tip.

"This... where did this come from? Did I steal it? Or..."

Unable to make sense of it, the bartender immediately tucked it back into his clothes warily, then hurried away.

No one noticed that after he left, a handsome man clad in an ornate mage robe and holding a staff appeared out of thin air. Then, amid a ripple of distorted space, he vanished again, leaving only a satisfied smile behind.

Jason had never realized that a bartender could not possibly know so many secrets about mages.

After that, Jason had no desire to continue wandering around the city.

The information from the bartender made him realize that a vast shadowy force lay behind this small island, this kingdom, and those mages. He could not help worrying about his goal of obtaining the Golden Fleece.

Even if King Aeetes could not command the mages, his own background was worth careful consideration. He was certainly not someone easy to deal with.

But since they had already arrived on Colchis Island, it would be hard to justify not giving it a try.

No matter how powerful the force behind Aeetes was, as Argonauts, they could not give up halfway.

Otherwise, they would be letting down all those who had followed him here, as well as