greek mythology stuff

Chapter 118 Fortune Ring
Temple of Vulcan, Lemnos.

The gentle Clotho dissipated his connection with the earth, as if he had just done a trivial thing.

She returned to her loom to weave quietly, during which time she glanced at Aglaia, the goddess of radiance sleeping soundly on the small bed, and Hestia, the goddess Hestia, who was chatting with the queen Hera through the mirror.

She looked at the figure sitting on the threshold again. Hephaestus was taking a nap with his head on his hands.

But Crotor knew that Hephaestus' will was not here, and what remained in the temple was only the body.

She frowned beautifully, hesitating whether to tell Hephaestus the news of Chiron's mother Fylula's return.

Clotho has heard it through the ears of mortals Otis and Sata, and Felula claims to be the goddess of beauty.But if she is the goddess who symbolizes beauty, then Aphrodite, the god of love and beauty...

This is not normal.

Symbol and control are two concepts, symbol is the source, and control is authority.

There can be different types of authority, such as pale flames in charge of Hestia, and earth fire in charge of Gaia.

However, the root is unique.Like the source of the flame, Hephaestus has always been the only one.

Clotho soon came to a conclusion.He had to take a trip, and Hephaestus placed great expectations on Chiron, and after he killed Triton, the god of fish, he also came forward to keep him.This is already a great investment, and the investment cannot be without return.

With a decision, Crotor immediately shared the power of Hephaestus.

Her will broke free from the shackles of her body and came out of her body.After glancing at the two unnoticed goddesses on the crib, she floated away from the temple.

She set foot on the deserted path behind the temple, and at the end was a cave.The entrance to the cave is tightly covered by hanging vines full of life.

Clotho pushed aside the vines and walked deep into the cave.The deeper the cave, the hotter it became, and there were occasional deafening thunderclaps.

The vines at the entrance of the cave completely isolated these abnormal noises and blazing heat, making it impossible to detect the slightest bit inside the temple.

At the end, everything becomes clear.

The exit of the cave was originally opened on a cliff inside a volcano, with flowing red magma below, and an orange-red sky rendered by the red light of the magma above.

The location of the exit of the cave is very embarrassing. There is no ground here, and there is no trail on the cliff to wind up.

Crotor looked at the magma from a distance, and could see a vague figure in the center of the magma surging like a vortex. He stood in the center of the vortex, and every time the black hammer in his hand hit, it aroused a raging wave of heat.

That was the mighty power of a divine craftsman. The waves distorted everything around him, and even Clotho's perception and gaze that belonged to a god could not go deep.

All she could see was a vague figure being cast, and all she could do was wait for Hephaestus to stop what he was doing.

Even having shared all of Hephaestus, Crotor could not command them, her will could not penetrate such fierce and fiery waves.

Magma center.

Hephaestus swung his black hammer intently, his work coming to an end.

Although it has been a long time since I picked up the black hammer in my hand to forge, this work does not seem unfamiliar.

And the object he hammered and forged was just a piece of gravel, a piece of ordinary gravel, which he picked up anywhere on the way here.

But this forging is not ordinary, it stems from a major discovery.

At the beginning of the birth of the world, the first god to be conceived was Gaia, the goddess of the earth, and the other primitive gods were conceived in turn.

These primitive gods are part of the world in a sense, and they all symbolize some kind of origin.

In the following years, weaker "roots" were conceived one after another, and they all more or less represented a certain part of the world.But at this time, root and authority are not yet separated.

but.

As there were more and more gods, more gods who were not "roots" but also in charge of authority began to appear in the world, so the root gods and other gods were divided.

As time goes by, the root gods seem to be no longer conceived, but there are more and more gods in charge of authority.

Hephaestus didn't care at first either.Because the root deity is actually a part of the world, and it is impossible to breed endlessly.

Until he inadvertently looked through the long history of this world with one breath...

It turns out that the early world was far less massive than it is now!And the more time passes to the present, the faster the expansion of the world, not only the expansion, but the power of the world is also constantly upgrading.

Of course, speed is only relative.In the eyes of Hephaestus, this process is still very slow.

Its scale is recorded in years, and it takes hundreds of years to see a little change.

However, this is no longer the growth rate that a normal world should have.

Hephaestus, together with the former God King Cronus, gave new life to a fallen world. He understood part of the mystery of creation. With comparison, the abnormality of this world is so obvious.

Hephaestus discovered this secret early on, and over the years he has been trying to unravel the mystery.

Since the will can leave the body and wander in those invisible concepts, this kind of exploration is much more convenient.

He finally found the source!

It turned out to be those authorities that have no root attachment...

It turned out that they were born, and it was the intertwining and entanglement of the existing roots in this world that gave birth to them.

Wind and cloud are lingering, and there is the power of rain; thunder and fire are intertwined, and there is thunderbolt.

All authority without roots comes from this.Conceived by the world and then expanding the world, they are part of the mystery of creation.

And now, Hephaestus saw them.

He immediately understood how Plutos, the god of wealth, used faith to create wealth and power out of nothing. He thought it was just an illusory power accumulated by faith, but it turned out not to be. Faith was only a catalyst, but power was real.

Although it was born from falsehood, it will also be influenced by faith, but its power is real, because it is interwoven from many roots in this world. Faith is just a concept, and The pusher is the world itself!
And the authority bred, as the world continues to expand, may become the root cause, and then interweave new authority.

this!It is the growth of the world!

This kind of growth is destined to be slow, and a miracle will be born only after countless times of fierce collisions between the roots.

But Hephaestus is not only in charge of the forge, he is also the Great...

Abandoning precious materials and cumbersome processes, he wants to mix two completely different forces together with the purest force.

He imitated the operation laws of the world but surpassed it, because the world needs to be conceived by the collision of the root, and he directly chose to conceive with the authority that has not yet grown into the root.

He wants to explore the future of the world in advance and accelerate the growth of the world!

His mighty power is the best guarantee.

Hephaestus didn't even carve the shape of the utensil, he just swung the hammer, forcing the two diametrically opposed forces under the hammer to merge into the gravel.

He doesn't know what kind of power will be bred in the end, because even two kinds of roots will not only stimulate one kind of authority, so every attempt is unknown.

"Huh? Successful?" Hephaestus put down the black hammer he held high in his hand.

The rubble was actually changing by itself, it became a ring.

Hephaestus took it from the center of the magma, and used the power of the forge to gain insight into it.

【Fortune Ring】

[Fortune: symbolizes the temporary fortune in life]

【Fortune-Fortune: Hold a fortune ring and be accompanied by luck】

[Fortune-bad luck: wear a fortune ring, bad luck is by your side]

At the same time, as the owner of the ring of fortune, Hephaestus saw it more clearly—the power of fortune appeared in the world.

(End of this chapter)