A Core Ship From The Start-Chapter 1591 - 1068 Useless Goddess

Unexpectedly, this move of mine actually worked.

Walking on the way home, Duanmu Huai thought about this battle. To be honest, the reason he didn’t deal with Athena at once was to verify his own hypothesis. Actually, upon arriving in this world, Duanmu Huai discovered a loophole.

He couldn’t use Soul Cards for summoning, only for calling names, but there was an exception—he was still the Master of the Holy Grail War and possessed some authority of the Spirit Temple. Along with the similar mythological system in this world, it raised a question.

Could Duanmu Huai summon Heroic Spirits through this method?

Of course, this was not an easy task, because summoning Heroic Spirits requires adherence to basic laws, and the Holy Relic necessary for summoning cannot be omitted.

Unfortunately, Duanmu Huai certainly couldn’t carry Holy Relics belonging to Medea or Ellie with him—Medea was more feasible, but did Ellie even have such a thing as a Holy Relic?

And the Divine Tool brought by Murasakifuji Ilina provided Duanmu Huai with a great experimental object.

It contained the divine power of Athena and perfectly validated the mythology of the Gorgon Sisters, making it an exceedingly fitting Holy Relic for summoning Heroic Spirits. As Duanmu Huai was the Master, he also had authority within the Spirit Temple. More importantly, this item did not appear within the system, so—it’s not a part of the system-sealed Soul Cards.

In this way, Duanmu Huai could bypass the limitations of the system and summon Heroic Spirits.

Now it seems, his prediction was realized.

But honestly, Duanmu Huai was also uncertain if this was a bug, because frankly, he was unlikely to waste his pieces on Heroic Spirits. After all, Heroic Spirits are basically spiritual bodies, and they can be enhanced through Command Spells. Currently, piece transformation requires a physical body as a foundation, and no matter how human these Heroic Spirits appear, they ultimately rely on the Master’s magic to maintain their existence as spiritual entities.

So Duanmu Huai highly doubted whether the pieces were useful to them. If they weren’t—well, perhaps this is why the system hasn’t sealed his ability to summon Heroic Spirits.

Of course, another issue is...

"I’m back."

"Welcome back, Uncle...uh, who are they?"

No wonder Naruse Mio looked bewildered as she came to greet him, given that at the moment, Stheno and Euryale were sitting on Duanmu Huai’s shoulders on either side, while Medusa stood obediently behind him. It indeed looked quite strange.

"Alright, you two should get down now."

Duanmu Huai begrudgingly glared at the two, who just chuckled silently.

"Really, Master, it’s rare for us to bestow you with such honor, yet you don’t know how to cherish it."

"Exactly, every hero worldwide desires to see us even briefly; Master ought to treasure the time spent with goddesses more."

"Enough already?"

Duanmu Huai raised an eyebrow and spoke, while Stheno and Euryale giggled as they leapt from Duanmu Huai’s shoulders and stepped in front of Naruse Mio. Seeing the two dazzlingly beautiful young girls, who looked nearly identical, Naruse Mio felt a bit tense.

"They are the Gorgon Sisters, Heroic Spirits I summoned after seizing Athena’s authority."

However, Duanmu Huai next reached out, pressed down on the heads of the two little girls, and pulled them back.

"Gorgon Sisters...?"

"The one behind is Medusa; surely you recognize her."

"Huh? Medusa?"

As expected, upon hearing Duanmu Huai’s introduction, Naruse Mio was also shocked and quickly looked toward Medusa standing behind Duanmu Huai.

"I heard Medusa turns others to stone when they look at her...ah, indeed she is wearing a blindfold, but her hair isn’t snakes...?"

"Hehe."

Watching this, Duanmu Huai chuckled, then reached out to press down on Stheno and Euryale’s heads, speaking to them.

"It seems your fame in the Human World isn’t quite as great as your sister’s."

Duanmu Huai’s remark wasn’t a random comment; after all, the name Medusa, like Athena, was well-known throughout the world—though unlike Athena, this was in a negative sense. free𝑤ebnovel.com

As for the Gorgon Sisters?

Probably only fans of Greek mythology knew she had two other sisters, but outside of that, these two sisters had virtually no notoriety.

Even in the most famous Medusa myth, the story of Perseus killing Medusa and chopping off her head, the sisters’ presence is only mentioned when Perseus fled after killing Medusa and was pursued by her two sisters. They were said to possess pure divine cores, belonging to immortal goddesses, hence Perseus could not kill them and had to resort to killing Medusa, the only mortal of the sisters...

So from this perspective, Stheno and Euryale really were quite tragic, cast merely as supporting characters in their own story.

"Hmph, that was just Athena sowing discord. In our era, many heroes crossed oceans just to glimpse our beauty at the temple."