greek mythology stuff

Chapter 172
One more thing happened in the dream.

Hera transplanted the golden apple tree, and planted it in the far west of the earth, at the feet of the giant Atlas.

There is now an orchard, and the golden apple tree is in the middle of the orchard.

The orchards of the gods have guards, of course.

The "monster" Xingfeng and the ferocious beast "children" of the female snake Echidna have gradually merged into the gods.

Maybe it's because of the fire.

The hundred-headed dragon Radon was brought under the command of the Queen of Heaven.

It has a hundred faucets, and it guards the orchard.

This happened in the dream of Hephaestus, the god of fire.

He was half asleep and half awake, but he knew many things in a daze.

"Wake up, he's grown up." The goddess weaving fate came to wake up the ancient god who had been sleeping for many years with a lamp.

This is a contract.

Then the god of fire opened his eyes.

The misty light in his eyes fell to the world and landed on an island in the sea.

Then his eyes shifted, going through the coat of the earth to the ground.There is the home of the monsters, and the monsters sit around the campfire and sleep peacefully.

There is no place in the world that can give these monsters a sense of security and allow them to sleep soundly than the underground.

Because there is fire in the ground, which represents the fire of acceptance.

Although today's monsters also have a place on the ground, they are still vulnerable underground.Because they are inherently fragile, no matter when and where, and only underground, by the campfire, will they be allowed to show their fragility.

Just as a person who is born without fault will inherit the grievances and grievances of the previous generation, some people will choose to hate, and some people will choose to forgive.

And acceptance is precious.

"..."

"Are they all right?"

"It is difficult to integrate into the orthodox gods, and their appearance and nature are also doomed to this."

"What choice did they make?"

The god in charge of the flame suddenly asked these words.

The goddess with the lamp knew what the old god was asking.

Xingfeng and Echidna, they are monsters and abandoned gods.It is really difficult for them to integrate into this world.

She has watched the world in Lemnos Island for more than ten years, and saw the sea of ​​clouds surging, the sun rising and the moon setting, if Hera, the queen of heaven, had not accepted the dragon with a hundred heads and given him a place on the earth, he The situation of the monster companions is still uncertain.

But these have nothing to do with her, and they cannot make waves on her face.

She said calmly: "They are fine."

"Xu Feng and Echidna can also accept such an imperfect result."

"These years, they have been very peaceful, and they hardly leave the ground."

"In their view, the current situation is already very good, and it will get better little by little."

"Hmm!" Hephaestus smiled. "I'm afraid I'm going to disappoint them. They want to participate in this battle, whether they want to or not."

"The goddess of the earth wants to think this way, and the creation can only do so."

"Isn't that difficult?" Clotho frowned. "The current gods claim to be orthodox and reject them, but their descendants are a great force."

"Big enough to disrupt the existing order."

"If order is disrupted, many people will die."

"If Goddess Gaia controls Fengfeng to join the war, then his descendants will not give up, and the order will definitely be chaotic."

"Hmm, what can I do?" Hephaestus smiled. "Why don't you go quietly to Echidna with the history book, and ask her to restrain her children on the day when the accident comes?"

Hephaestus laughed, but Clotho held the lamp but did not.

Her frown deepened: "Are you serious?"

"Can you save Fengfeng? You want to save him?"

Hephaestus smiled and shook his head: "If you want, you can indeed try to contact Echidna, but I may not be able to make a move, nor may I be able to save her."

"Because I'm not sure, even if I want to, I may not be able to do it."

Clotho thought for a while, and returned the lantern in his hand to Hephaestus.

She said leisurely: "Since it's not necessarily unavoidable, then I'd better go."

"You'd better go there too. Perseus was at his stepfather's dinner party. There seems to be a conflict between their father and son."

"Don't let him die, Zeus still needs him to rectify the world and gather faith to prepare for greatness."

"I understand." Hephaestus said and hugged Clotho.

He embraces another god, his supportive lover.

……

In the world, an island with a kingdom.

This country had a king named Polydectes, who was one of the two fishermen who rescued Perseus on the coast, and is now Perseus' stepfather.

The statement about the stepfather may not be accurate, but it is not necessarily completely wrong.

For nothing better describes the situation of King Polydectes than the title "stepfather."

He fell in love with a woman, Danae, the beautiful mother of Perseus.He left innumerable wealth in Danae, and indirectly raised Perseus. Danae could even come and go from his court at will, and he was doing so.

It's a pity that he didn't get Danae's love, and he didn't even touch his hands.

But in the eyes of his people, he was Perseus' stepfather.

Because Danae enjoyed all the powers that a princess should have, even the most prominent one.The people can't know the whole picture of a matter, so they take it for granted that Perseus is a member of the noble and extraordinary royal family.

Perseus and his "stepfather" did have conflicts, but the conflicts were not necessarily intense.

The contradiction is this—the "stepfather" Polydectes fell in love with Perseus's mother, Danae. Although he raised Perseus, he ran away every day because Perseus did not recognize him. There was a constant obstruction between him and Danae.On the other side of the contradiction, Perseus, when he was a child, his mother Danae told him that he was the son of God King Zeus in the mortal world, and he was destined to become a hero.So how could the Son of God despise himself in the mortal world?
But the kindness of Polydectes is a fact. Perseus always wanted to end it, and then took his mother away.

He felt that today's dinner was an opportunity.

At the dinner party, everyone was noisy, and his mother Danae sat next to his "stepfather" Polydectes. The two were chatting, and Danae occasionally covered his lips and snickered.

At such a festive moment, Perseus interrupted the joy by rising.He raised his right hand high to signal everyone to look at him, and everyone's eyes focused on him.

At the same time, the lights at the banquet were flickering gently.

It's a pity that no one will pay attention to this scene, even if there is no wind during the banquet.Their eyes were all attracted to Perseus, and they didn't know that the god in charge of fire walked on the light of the lamp and walked into the mortal world.

Hephaestus watched them.

He looked to the left because the cold was blowing from the left.There is a corner of the banquet, shrouded in mist, and there is a portal in the mist to see the scene of the dead kingdom, and the ruler of the dead kingdom can be seen sitting on his throne.

He looked to the right again.On the lintel above the banquet hall, there is a small statue, which is Zeus, the king of gods today.

Beside the lintel stood a goddess, a living goddess, she was Athena.Seeing Hephaestus looking over, she returned a slightly stiff smile, dodged her eyes, and quickly lowered her head.

There was also a god during the banquet, who mixed with the banquet crowd, sat with them and ate wine, but poured it by himself, because the mortals around him could not see him.

He is the former God King Cronus.There is the breath of mountains behind him, but it is completely hidden by his broad shoulders, and the ancient mountain god Uriah who hides behind him cannot be found.Hephaestus looked at him, but he didn't look up, but raised his wine glass to signal from afar.

"It's so lively." Hephaestus greeted him loudly.

He found a place, sat down next to a mortal, drank his wine, and stuffed grapes generously into his mouth.

Then misfortune happened.

The great breath spread wildly from afar, and there was an initial ray of light coming!

It was indeed the original light, the first ray of light at the beginning of the world's creation. It should have long since disappeared and been buried in the dark earth.

Legend has it that this ray came from the first sun god Hyperion, who is now imprisoned in the bottomless abyss of Tartarus, but even he, in his first days, still failed to grasp the first ray of light.

For the light was so fast that the god could see it but could not catch it and hold it in the palm of his hand.Just like ordinary people can't catch the running water, as long as the hands are spread apart, the water drops will flow from the fingers.

However, this ray of light appeared again...

The former god king suddenly raised his head during the banquet.In the portal, the monarch of the dead country also clenched his fork, and a breath that also belonged to the greatness loomed under the dead country, like a ghost that would rise from the grave at any time!
Then "He" came, the owner of the light came, with his eyes closed tightly, there were some illusory floating shapes as if in the light, as if in a dream.

His existence also seemed to confirm that everything was a dream of his, and it was he who dreamed here, not he who came into the dream.

Carrying a beam of initial light, he lightly landed among the crowd at the banquet, and landed next to a mortal.

Then he raised his wine glass and respected everyone present, and the amber-like wine fell into his illusory body.

The monarch of the dead country sat down again, and the previous god king also sat down, but the fog that enveloped the dead king became deeper, and the shoulders of the previous god king became wider. Although he was drinking with his head down, his back But it was straighter than before, like a sharp sword about to be unsheathed.

They all saw who it was.

It is the belated, the foolish Epimetheus!

He was great, later great...

There is no authority to be found in him, and it seems that authority is filling every part of his illusory body. They are blending and gestating, as if they are muttering, and seem to be gestating.They are looking for a possibility, an infinite possibility that can turn the impossible into the possible, so that they can emerge from the illusory body of the god.

The sound they make is the sound of the world.It is the sound of wind, thunder, rain, and the sound of lava surging and bursting to tear the earth.

All the sounds poured into the illusory body of the later great man, and it seemed that these sounds originally came from him, just waiting for an opportunity to tear his body apart so that they could become real things.

Hephaestus sat at the banquet, and his will stood on the throne of history. For a moment, he seemed to see the death of his old friend.When the world dies and he sleeps in chaos, those voices that sleep in his body will tear him apart after endless ages, they pour out, pour into chaos, become wind, thunder, sky and earth, Become clouds and rain, and form a world floating in chaos.

But Hephaestus seemed to see the new life of his old friend.When the world ends, he wakes up, and it all fades away, a dream for him.He stretched his hands and feet in the chaos, and was-smiling at him!

Hephaestus looked up, and his old friend was indeed smiling.

Hiding in the light, he couldn't see his face clearly, he was just smiling.

Hephaestus smiled back to himself.

His old friend turned his head again, and greeted Athena who was trembling under the banquet door: "Come and sit, this banquet is to celebrate your father, and you have a seat."

Athena didn't dare to object, and sat down at the banquet with a dazed expression.

This should have ended there.

But the former God King Kronos suddenly raised his head. He raised his glass, took a sip of the wine, and then said calmly, as if ordering: "Drink."

Athena also did not dare to object, so she had to pick up the mortal wine glass on the table and drink the mortal liquid.She never touched these mortal things in the past, and there should be no intersection, but the natural development of things is always so unpredictable, and now she has to drink up the wine in the glass.

Hephaestus ignored her, and most of the time he didn't want to bother with certain people.This is his ability.

Until the arrival of the old friend Epimetheus, all this happened very briefly, and time seemed to be artificially stagnated at this dinner party.

This is very common, because the master of time is here, and he sits at the banquet and eats wine, the wine of mortals.

As long as he wanted, he could postpone the end of this banquet to ten days later.

Fortunately, there is not only time here, but also history.

The king of fire, forge, and history is here too.

Hephaestus threw the wine glass in his hand, and the wine glass made a crisp sound when it touched the ground.

Time returned to the right track, and Perseus, who had stood there for a long time, was finally able to speak.

He met everyone's gaze without any fear, always looking directly at Polydectes, his "stepfather", who was on the throne.He said: "In order to repay the king's kindness, I am willing to give the king a very precious gift."

"Because I will take my mother on a long trip soon."

"I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to repay the king's kindness at that time, and it will make me panic."

"And what does the king want me to retrieve for you?"

Time passed, but it didn't seem to be there. It seemed that the glass of Hephaestus hadn't been completely smashed just now and was stuck in time.

Because it was too quiet at the dinner party.

The people present were not stupid, they were powerful people who knew when to speak and when not to speak.

And when Perseus spoke, that was when they must not speak.He has a good mother.

King Polydectes and his stepson Perseus, there was nothing secret about their affairs.

They paid attention, and quietly looked at the statue-like King Polydectes from the corner of their eyes.

Polydectes was silent for a moment, his cup still in his hand, hanging in the air.At last he moved, put down his glass and laughed.

"Good boy, you really should repay this kindness."

"I want the head of the demon Medusa, can you get it for me?"

Some people at the banquet trembled unconsciously.

Usually at this time, Polydectes would always add this sentence at the end: "If you can't do it, it doesn't matter."

But this time, no.

Has his patience finally run out?Want to show a king's tough side?
The demon Medusa is a monster with a snake tail and snake hair, and also a god.Her father was Phorcus, the wrath of the sea, the offspring of Gaia, the goddess of the earth, and Pontus, the primordial god of the sea.

In the world, Fuerkusi is also known as the father of all monsters, and the wife of the "monster" Feng Feng, the female snake Echidna is his handwriting.

The demon Medusa inherited his power, and any mortal who is watched by Medusa will become a stone, a stone statue.

To ask a mortal to cut off her head is undoubtedly to die.

Perseus knew this too.

He kept staring at his "stepfather" Polydectes, and for the first time there was an unusual meaning in those youthful eyes, as if a flame had been ignited.

But who is he?He is the heir of God King Zeus in the mortal world, the son of God walking on the earth.

He will never back down.He just said coldly: "Can..."
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ps: Sorry for the past two days, I finally made up for the break today.

I'm so sorry.

(End of this chapter)