Hello, beloved readers! Full disclosure, this is not a chapter but an introduction for the benefit of new readers and also old ones, too.
For starters, I first published this fanwork on Fanfiction.Net early in 2018 as Warp Writer, so before even the movie Arrow of Orion came out and, of course, before the new lore about Zeus and Hera Familia and other such things that was revealed later through the novels and the Danmachi: Memoria Freese game. Since I've been such a slow and lazy publisher all these years only releasing chapters periodically after months, if not years, much of the content I've written, as well as my plans for the future of this fiction, are canonically incompatible with the official work created by our beloved Fujino Omori. Still, that's a fanfiction for you. Naturally, things won't mesh exactly with official content. Primarily, the Zeus Familia is made up of all men, and the Hera Familia is made up of all women, something that surprised me in the beginning but actually makes sense considering the relationship of the two deities in question. My version of the two familia's has both men and women in their ranks. I won't change that.
Still, this actually worked out positivity for me, I think. Because I was such a slow and lazy procrastinator, the story has had time to build up and fester in my mind, and more details and characters have become better formed compared to before. I can adapt this to better mesh with the current canon while also maintaining my original vision.
With so much new content having been released since this was published, some of the gods and goddesses I was planning on using in this have already been included in the canon. Still, I plan on using my own version of some deities for the future, one in particular. One who will be significantly different from how Omori portrayed them. I hope you, the readers, will appreciate them when they eventually appear.
As for what to expect, this is The Prologue of Bell's (and others) story. As such, it will set the stage of the main story that I will eventually write. Bell will be shown the various aspects of becoming the hero he desires to be, including the physical and the philosophical needs and demands.
As such, you can consider this a slice of life story. There isn't a specific overarching plot to or big bad to defeat here. It is simply the unordinary days of Bell and Zeus Familia, with him learning from them what it means to be a hero.
I suppose that is everything you need to know about this before you begin or continue reading. Let's all enjoy this ride to the end, okay?
Also, one more thing. One of the primary reasons I stopped working on my stories all this time is because I graduated college several years ago, and have been struggling to find a job, so spending my time writing while unemployed and penniless wasn't a primary priority, even though I really missed it and never forgot about it. Even after finally getting a decent job, I find that today's economy makes it hard to live on a single income, so I decided to create a patreon to help boost my income and motivate me to write everything I wanted to write while job hunting but couldn't.
patreon.com/TheWorldForger
You don't have to pay me to continue reading this, but my patreon will contain the latest chapters from now on. Every new chapter will be posted on sites such as Fanfiction.Net, Wattpad, Webnovel.com, ect. Every bit of support will motivate me to keep writing. With all that said, I look forward to continuing building on this Danmachi story that I've created and many others. Look forward to it.