Stelios replied to Helios' greeting.
"Yes, I called to speak to you about some urgent matters." The sun god's voice came through the star.
You would think that Stelios is a star but no, he is not. Helios knows enough to determine that he is just making himself look like a star. The two of them are very different. If Stelios were a celestial god, then he would have a shot at being a star. A star is a Celestial entity that turns Origin gods, no matter how crazy like Guntu, into ashes. Stelios is far from the power of such an entity. He is just posing grandly but Helios isn't impressed.
'If it were urgent then you would have come to me immediately and you wouldn't have let me wait outside your throne room like some unwelcome suitor.' Helios doesn't agree with Stelios at all on the urgency of the discussion but he chose wisely to keep it to himself.
His opinion was proven right when Stelios began to scan his body with his divine sense. Stelios just wanted him here, close by for his routine thorough scan.
He spoke after assessing Helios' body. "You have become strong in an unprecedented fashion. You have even created your rune. It is fine work too."
The strength of his body didn't escape Stelios' search neither did his newly completed rune. His entire body except for a small circular area on his back is covered with golden intricate tattoos drawn with characters lesser than a millimeter in size packed together.
Even Stelios knows enough to tell that it is fine work. Helios would call it the peak of rune making but he isn't one to toot his horns. He can't be giddy about this success when he still hasn't cracked Stelios' Stigmata. He has to admit that Stelios might be very good with runes.
A Stigmata is made with both knowledge and divine will. Since he has mastered the knowledge, he knows how the Stigmata works but not what it wants to do. The Stigmata that Stelios is drawing on his back is a sort of gate like that of Staniel's portal rune. It connects Helios's body to an unknown dimension.
He knows all of that but he doesn't know where it connects to and how to trigger the stigmata to work. That's the part obscured by the divine will. He has put in some failsafe to siphon the energy of the portal to delay its activation for now. That's all he can do for now. He can block the portal when he becomes a transcendent but it isn't time for that yet.
Stelios spoke after admiring the rune for a while.
"It is a fine work indeed. Your skills for rune making are top-notch."
He liked the rune more the more he examined it and felt impressed that Helios has been able to achieve so much in short a short time.
"My theoretical knowledge may be top-notch but my practical ability is still lacking. It took me years to do something that would have taken other Rune masters days to do." Helios said humbly.
"You are young so it is normal. What is the name of the rune and what does it do?" Stelios asked.
"I call it the child of the sun. It allows me to use the power of the sun core better." Helios replied.
Stelios chuckled. "You're so eccentric. You didn't create a weapon but instead tried to use your core with your body. You could have waited to become a transcendent. You would have been able to achieve it then without wasting your space for runes."
He explained. "I want to confirm something for my research and need to achieve this now."
He wasn't lying. He just isn't telling the sun god that he invented evolvable runes that will become powerful when he becomes a transcendent and will continue to grow till he becomes a titan of law. The rune is a concept in the making. It just needs laws and energy. This will ensure that it doesn't become obsolete. Unlike other giants of order that don't worry about that since they can't go past transcendence, he has a promising future.
"The first agenda for this meeting is to complete your Stigmata. It has been many years since I started and it is almost complete. Turn your back to me." Stelios said.
Helios did as he was told. The sun god got to work immediately on the Stigmata. His divine sense attached to Helios's back and began etching runes with his divine energy. It is a painful process but Helios was stoic throughout the process.
The marking of the Stigmata began when he was 10 years old, so he is already used to the process. Stelios usually calls him every ten years to write a portion of the stigmata. This will be the tenth and final addition to the Stigmata.
Stelios finally completed the stigmata so the free circular space on his back became tattoed with the image of the sun. The image is so vivid and life-like that it is actually moving. The tentacles attached to the round star are waving up and down. Helios was shocked and very impressed.
He asked Stelios, "This is strange, I haven't seen this type of rune before. What does it do, father?"
He has never seen this Stigmata on other divine lords who used to be demigods of the sun god. Demigods of the sun usually get the star bow on their 10th birthday. The second rune for their 20th is up to them but Stelios didn't give him the Star bow. He has enough justification to be curious and question the sun god without appearing suspicious.
"I call it the Hand of the Sun God. It is the fruit of my research. With it, you can call for assistance and I can bestow divine power on you. The amount you can handle is dependent on how much you can take. With it with you, you will always have my assistance." Stelios' voice was full of pride.
