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Chapter 114 "Sun God" Matthew

At the same time, the human world later.

The long night is finally over.The sea gods leaped out one after another, looking at the pure night sky.

The sky is still black because the moon has not set and the sun has not risen.Only when the sun shines on all things tomorrow will the light reappear in the world.

The stars are extraordinarily bright tonight.On Mount Olympus, Leto, the goddess of nourishment, brings good news to her son Apollo.

She said that she went to pray to Hera, the queen of heaven, and finally found the returned fire god.

She said that Hera told her after the day: "I found Hephaestus, and I have verified that it is normal for the sun chariot to lose control."

"The flames that kept the chariot running were burned out and had to be refilled every 1000 years."

"I have already punished him, and he dare not neglect his duties again."

Hera sighed as she spoke, and took her hand to comfort her: "Sister, you made your child suffer."

"When you leave later, go to Nike, the goddess of victory. She is the daughter of Styx of the river of oaths, and one of Zeus's handmaidens."

"Just boldly ask her to take you to my treasure house. The flame at the door is what my sister needs."

"You let Apollo put it on the wheels of the Helios Chariot, and the Helios Chariot can be restored."

"Sister, if you find something you like in the treasury, just use it..."

……

Leto told Apollo the truth about meeting Hera, the Queen of Heaven, and handed him the flame brought back from Hera's treasury.

Today is a big day, and my son has a job again.

Leto personally brought out the flame horses that had been idle for more than 50 years for Apollo, put them on the saddle, and fed them with hay.

She also took out the fine clothes and horsewhip hidden by Apollo, and patiently wiped away the dust and dirt that did not exist on them.

Apollo stood aside, standing by the small window full of artistic atmosphere opened at the back of the temple.

His eyes were dull and lifeless, and he was holding a flame in both hands—the flame didn't show anything strange, it was a bit like the open fire used by mortals on the earth to burn wood and cook.

Outside the window is the temple of the three goddesses of spring, summer, and autumn. There are cheers and laughter, as if the three goddesses gathered in the temple of Tarot, the goddess of spring, to play in the water.

The Nursing Goddess who got everything in order sighed, she went to stroke the flame horse, and put her beautiful hands into the flames stirred up by the flame horse to burn.

She hummed an old song softly, trying to appease them.

After a while, she suddenly turned her back to Apollo and whispered softly, her voice echoing in the empty temple with only mother and child.

"Why, still can't figure it out?"

Apollo turned around when he heard the words, his eyes had a few clear red streaks, which were bloodshot eyes.

But even so, he tried his best to keep his eyes wide open and stare at the flame in his hand.

He spoke, his voice was hoarse and low: "I can't figure it out."

As he spoke, he slammed the flames onto the ground and roared loudly: "I just can't figure it out!"

"This is obviously an ordinary flame, what are you talking about to maintain operation, what are you talking about for 1000 years! It's full of nonsense!"

"Why, Hephaestus, why, because he was born hundreds of years earlier than me? Because he is the source of the flame?"

"I don't accept it! Even if I fall, I won't accept him!"

However, before the flame fell to the ground, it was supported by a gentle force, and then slowly lowered to the ground.

The goddess in charge of nurturing slowly turned around to look at her son, her brows were cold, and there was a terrifying darkness in her eyes.

Apollo seemed to have never seen his mother showing such a terrifying side, which was quite different from the warm and peaceful image of his mother in his memory.

He was frightened, and swallowed the anger that spewed out of his mouth forcefully.

Leto's expression became even colder.

She said calmly: "Isn't that enough? Why do you refuse to accept it?"

"Do you know who I am begging for? My husband's other wife! I bow to her and be accompanied by her maid to her treasury."

"Do you know what she's doing? Do you know that I'm at odds with her? How much do you know that we've fought and fought before?"

"She's humiliating me!"

"My child, Hephaestus has honored her mother, what can you give me in return?"

Apollo pursed his lips, but quickly closed them again.The bloodshot eyes in his eyes became even more bloodshot, and even the warm aura surrounding him became cold.

Seeing this, Leto responded with a sneer. She pointed to the flames on the ground and ordered: "Pick it up."

Apollo did not move, and Leto never retracted his fingers.

She continued to issue her order: "Pick it up, right now!"

Apollo still didn't move.

Leto finally withdrew her finger.She didn't choose to growl, but her eyes were colder, like a piece of ice.

The ruthlessness did not damage her appearance, but added to her appearance.

She looked directly at Apollo's hanging head, as if looking into his eyes.She whispered, her tone harsh and cold: "You also know that this is just an ordinary flame?"

"It doesn't look like you're stupid."

"Then you should know that it doesn't matter if you have this flame or not."

"The important thing is not this flame, but the will of Hephaestus."

"But if you don't answer, do you still want me to find Hera?"

"I will not go."

"Now, pick it up. If you don't pick it up, don't beg me in the future."

The new sun god finally moved.He bent down slowly, his hands trembling first and then holding the flame calmly.He stood up slowly again, looking directly into Leto's eyes.

Leto saw what was hidden in his eyes—cold, dark and bloodthirsty.

She sneered.

"These are my son's eyes."

"Put it away now and go and drive your Helios chariot and be your Helios."

As she said that, she went up, snatched the flame from the hand of Apollo who was staring at her, and threw it on the wheel of the sun chariot.

When the flame meets the wheel, it rises and bursts, and disappears like an ordinary flame—because this is an ordinary flame, there is no burning thing to attach to, and its ultimate destiny is to dissipate.

After finishing all this, Leto pushed open the silver gate of the temple, and stood by the gate to look at his daughter Artemis who was about to fall from the sky.

Apollo behind him didn't need her to remind him, he was already holding the reins of the flame horse on the sun chariot with a sullen face.

They are all waiting for the moment when the moon will set, waiting for the moment when the sun will rise.

Unfortunately, someone was one step ahead of them.

When the moon is about to set, the first rising sun is not the new sun god Apollo.

It was another sun that brought the first ray of morning light to the earth, and there was a figure in the sun.

The figure spoke loudly: "I am Matthew, and I am—the sun god!"

"I am the good god who was knocked down into the sky by the evil god Apollo, and I am back!"

Mount Olympus, Temple of the Sun.

Apollo's eyes split open.

"you dare!"

Then the mortals on the earth saw another sun, which radiated endless light and heat, and shot a converging aurora towards the other sun.

Unfortunately, the hit sun is fake.

Apollo only realized this when he made a move—the mortal who called himself Matthew could only shine this moment with the help of faith, and he himself was not in the sun.

The aurora shot by Apollo pierced the false sun he condensed, and fell on the earth, in the city-states of mortals.

Then the flames burned the city, the flames devoured the charred corpses, and the land plowed by the beam of light became barren.

The surviving people chanted a name in panic and panic - Matthew!
(End of this chapter)