Cupid's Arrow [Third Update]

Realizing that to obtain the Golden Fleece, they had to overcome the trial posed by the Colchian Dragon, all the Argonauts felt a terrible headache coming on.

To them, this condition was practically an insurmountable obstacle.

"Didn't they say the trials couldn't be too unrealistic?"

After a long while, someone finally squeezed out that remark.

But someone else quickly refuted it.

"But nominally, this isn't a trial at all. It's a condition for obtaining the reward after we pass the trials."

That left the others speechless.

That was right. The trials the other side had set were not unrealistic, but they had never promised to hand over the Golden Fleece directly.

Even if they completed the trials but could not obtain the Golden Fleece themselves, they could not blame anyone else. After all, they had agreed to those terms themselves.

Thinking of this, everyone looked at Jason with a trace of blame in their eyes.

Why had he agreed so readily without even properly analyzing the conditions?

For a moment, Jason felt somewhat guilty as well.

However, there was a reason he had agreed so quickly at the time.

After all, during the initial negotiations, Aeetes had sternly rejected him. As a result, he had not held much hope for the negotiations and had spent the entire afternoon in anxious uncertainty.

Yet when Aeetes announced the final terms that evening, he unexpectedly made a huge concession. The conditions for the "trials" he offered came as an enormous surprise to Jason.

That joy, combined with Jason's subsequent desire to display the bold bearing of a hero, led him to make such a thoughtless decision and fall for old fox Aeetes's scheme.

At that moment, however, Tiphys, the Argonauts' helmsman and the smartest among them after Ye Ting and Circe, stepped forward