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Chapter 53 - Mobilization and Revelation

The boy with dark silver hair thought with surprise. "He was disguised as Uncle's Fourth Guardian?!" He looked around the sand pit for any sign of the Fourth Guardian but the Fourth Guardian was nowhere to be seen. He thought with surprise. "When did he disappear?! How long has he been gone?!" 

Nikator chuckled loudly and said. "I didn't even notice he disappeared." He smirked and said. "Atreus, go with them." 

Atreus looked up at Nikator and said. "As you command, Your Supreme Majesty." 

Aineas looked over at the Western side of the stadium and said. "Fifth Guardian of the Hypatos Kingdom, you know something don't you?" 

The boy with dark silver hair turned his head and looked over at the Fifth Guardian of the Kingdom of Hypatos, the man with dark green hair, and thought. "Is he connected to the Nameless One too?" 

The man with dark green hair turned his head and looked over at Aineas. He had a look of cluelessness on his face as he said. "Know what, Supreme Fifth?" 

Aineas sighed and said. "Nevermind. It seems I was mistaken." He turned his head and looked over at Atreus.

The boy with dark silver hair continued to stare at the man with dark green hair. 

The man with dark green hair noticed the boy with dark silver hair looking at him. A slight smirk formed on his lips and he then looked away. 

The boy with dark silver hair thought. "There is something off about him..." 

Aineas said to Atreus. "You have a week. Don't waste time." 

Atreus said. "You think it would take me a week, Brother? I can search the entirety of both the Hypatos Kingdom and Kapaneus Kingdom in five days." 

Aineas put up three fingers on his right hand and said. "Then you have three days." 

Atreus put a thumbs up with his left hand and said. "That's more like it." 

Aineas looked up at the top section of the stadium and then disappeared from where he was standing. 

Atreus turned his head and looked at Kapaneus as he said. "Is there someone we can teleport to in your kingdom?" 

Kapaneus nodded his head and said. "Yes. I gave one to my Fourth Guardian in case he needed to teleport here or I needed to teleport there." 

Atreus looked at the mask in Kapaneus's right hand and said. "Your teleporter is built into your mask, right? Give me it! I can sync yours with mine and then teleport both of us." 

Kapaneus had a confused expression on his face as he said. "But couldn't I just-?" 

Eris appeared next to both Atreus and Kapaneus and said. "Sync? Connections? I can forcibly teleport anyone anywhere." She got ready to snap her fingers on her left hand. 

Nikator chuckled and said. "Hold on a second, Eris. Leaving already?" 

Eris looked up at Nikator and said in a questioning tone. "What is it?" 

Nikator smirked and gestured to Alketo as he said. "Number Seven seems to recognize you. Do you have any idea why?" 

Alekto gripped her scythe tight in her hands as she looked up at Nikator. 

Eris looked at Nikator and then at Alekto as she said. "No." She looked at Nikator again and said, "Now I'll be on my way." She snapped her fingers. 

Eris, Atreus, and Kapaneus disappeared from the sand pit. 

The boy with dark silver hair noticed the girl with the club reach out her left hand as she muttered. "Tha... na..." 

The boy with dark silver hair thought. "She's already awake?"

The girl with the club clenched the sand into her left hand as she began to lift herself up off the ground. Sand fell off of her as she rose up from the ground. 

The boy with dark silver hair ran over to the girl with the club. He stopped in front of her and offered his right shoulder as he said. "Let me help." 

The girl with the club nodded and grabbed his shoulder with her left hand as she lifted herself onto her feet. She said as she held onto his shoulder. "Thana? Where did she go?" 

The boy with dark silver hair thought. "Thana? That was the name of that god's vessel, right?" He said to the girl with the club. "She left. How do you know her?"

The girl with the club released her hand from the dark silver haired boy's shoulder and stood on her two feet as she looked at him and said. "She is my friend... and Mother's Second Guardian." 

Nikator smirked as he looked at Alekto and said. "Your Second Guardian, huh? Is she the one that gave you your teleporter?" 

Alekto tapped her mask with her right pointer finger and said. "Are you talking about this?"

Nikator chuckled mischievously and said. "You're not even trying to hide it?" 

Alketo giggled and said. "Oh my. Did you not know?" 

Nikator furrowed his eyebrows and said. "Did I not know what?" 

Alekto giggled and said. "I received this from Father when I was a young and helpless little girl." 

Nikator had a surprised expression on his face as he said. "What?!" 

Alekto giggled again and said. "Oh my. Were you not paying attention earlier? Set said there were five people here who are supposed to have a teleporter. I'm one of the five." 

Nikator was speechless. He had an expression of both shock and surprise plastered on his face. 

Alketo giggled again as she said. "Oh my. Did you think Set was referring to himself as one of the five people? The gods don't refer to themselves as people, they refer to themselves as deities. That is common knowledge in this nation. You're a foreigner, aren't you? Where exactly are you from?" 

Phobos said with disdain. "A foreigner?!" 

Nikator sighed with annoyance and said. "Enough of this! Even if I was wrong about the teleporter your daughter transformed into a Devourer, did she not? What do you have to say about that?" 

Alketo giggled again and said. "And what if she did? What does that have to do with me? What are you trying to insinuate? Are you trying to imply that since my daughter is a Devourer that I am too?" 

Nikator smirked mischievously and said. "Am what if I am? I've heard reports that a large number of Devourers have been spotted within your territory."

Alekto said. "Oh my. Is that all you've heard?" 

Nikator narrowed his eyes and said. "What do you mean?" 

Alekto said truthfully. "There has also been a large number spotted within Klymene's territory and Chara's as well. All three of us are constantly attacked by a Devourer who calls herself Kalliste and who holds the rank of Sixth Slasher. She is the one who infected my daughter."