greek mythology stuff

Chapter 69 The God of Root Authority
On the remote island, the gentle and peaceful voice resounded, adding a bit of popularity to the golden and deserted beach.

"My lord, Hephaestus, I am sorry."

"I still can't feel where my roots are, and I'm failing again."

The beach was silent for a moment before Hephaestus' voice sounded.

"Don't feel sorry, Chiron," he said to the centaur god.

"This has nothing to do with you. I am the one who failed."

Facing Hephaestus' explanation, Chiron just smiled and didn't pander to it.

He said to Hephaestus: "My lord, maybe you were born different..."

"In my opinion, the root you mentioned is not something that every god can have."

"It's normal and normal."

Hephaestus nodded: "I roughly guessed the result."

"Thank you for your help, how should I thank you?"

"How about helping you plan a power?"

Chiron lowered his head when he heard the words, trying to show his humility and cowardice.

"Your Majesty, you are joking."

"This is what I should do, so how can I pay for it?"

Hephaestus smiled, and he waved to Chiron.

"Come forward!" he ordered.

Chiron approached him obediently.

Because his figure was much taller than Hephaestus, he bent his limbs and knelt down in front of Hephaestus, making his head lower than Hephaestus' figure.

Hephaestus held out his palm to him.

He could feel the trembling of the person in front of him.

This is understandable.Taking Chiron's position, he is now facing not only a powerful god, but also the unknown and death.

Fear of the unknown, fear of death, this is human nature.

Hephaestus comforted: "Don't worry, I won't kill you."

He lifted the long hair on Chiron's forehead, leaving a flame-shaped pattern where his fingers brushed.Then put down his hand, allowing the pattern to be covered by Chiron's long hair.

He explained to Chiron: "Your broken arm, I'm sorry."

"Now that you have helped me again, thank you is the right thing to do."

"I've always been clear about grievances and grievances. If you don't want it, I can't refuse it. Although this mark can't give you strength, it's enough to deter some people who have bad intentions against you."

"You're smart and know how to use it wisely."

Chiron was stunned after hearing this.He probably didn't expect to have today's opportunity, so he didn't know what to say for a while.

Hephaestus chuckled, and his figure gradually disappeared in place.

But his voice remained here: "You are lost, Chiron."

"In this case, I will point out a way for you."

"Pursue faith, that will be the mainstream of the road of gods in the future. Anyway, you have nothing, so why not try your luck."

"Maybe everything will be fine..."

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Hephaestus, who left Ke Rong's residence, soon came to his next destination.

The ocean here is a transparent light blue, just like the clear and clear sky.

There is an archipelago in the middle of the sea, and Hephaestus settled on the archipelago.

The sky-colored sea around the archipelago is the birthplace of Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty.

Hephaestus is here to verify a few things.

Flocks of white doves and crows flitted across the sky without interruption, with the doves in front and the crows behind.

A bloody white pigeon body fell in front of him, causing Hephaestus to glance at the sky.

He sighed in his heart: "Mother is really strong!"

The flock of birds in the sky is the epitome of the struggle between the two goddesses.

Among them, the white dove is the symbol of Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty, and the crow is the symbol of his mother Hera.

The relationship between the two goddesses can be seen from this.

Probably because Hera, who is in charge of marriage, can't get used to Aphrodite, who has a hot personality and open behavior.

Hephaestus glanced at it and ignored it. The purpose of his trip was mainly to explore the background of Aphrodite's past and to verify some things.

His power avoided the warning set by Aphrodite and slowly penetrated into this sea area.

According to Aphrodite herself, she is the god of beauty and love, but only she knows the truth.

No god among the gods trusted her, and it was agreed that she might hold some kind of authority related to the sky.

Guess she was part of the sky.

It is a secret history dating back to the time when the god Uranus ruled the land.

At that time, Gaia, the goddess of the earth, was at odds with her husband Uranus, the god of the sky. When she couldn't bear it, she took out a terrifying artifact, which was a sickle.

Then she joined forces with her son Cronus to defeat the god Uranus and force him to stay away from the earth.

During the War of Gods, Cronus used the sickle given by his mother Gaia to severely injure Uranus, the god of heaven, and shattered part of his body. Correspondingly, part of the sky left Uranus forever, and fell into the light blue sky in front of him. colored ocean.

This fragment of the sky is the predecessor of Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty.

After talking with his mother Hera, Hephaestus gained a deeper understanding of the roots.He speculated that Uranus lost not only part of the sky during that battle of gods, but also lost part of his own roots along with the departure of this sky.

Because Aphrodite is not an ordinary god, many goddesses can't understand her, but they can't do anything about her.

As someone conceived from the mutilated parts of a god, she came across as overpowering, which didn't make sense.

And after Uranus lost this part of the sky, he really started to settle down, and confronted Gaia day by day.This is also unreasonable.

You must know that before losing this part of the sky, he lived on the earth all year round.The goddess of the earth, Gaia, chose to fight against him, but only after she had won over Kronos and her descendants did she do so.

In this battle, there are only Gaia and Uranus on the surface, but Uranus is actually fighting the gods alone.

His opponents include Gaia, the goddess of the earth, Cronus, the last king of gods, Iapetus, the ancestor of mankind, Hyperion, the first sun god, and his wife, Theia, the ancient goddess of light, and the goddess of the sea. Tesis and her husband Oceanus Oceanus...

At that time, except for his brother Uriah, the mountain god, almost all other powerful ancient gods participated in the war against him either explicitly or secretly.

At that time, the power of Uranus, the god of heaven, can be seen from this.

So Hephaestus has reason to suspect that Aphrodite has indeed inherited part of the root power of the god Uranus.

But why would her power deviate from the nature of the sky?Why... is she as rootless as Chiron?
Hephaestus was puzzled.His power has penetrated into the extreme depths of this sea area, and he has found the birthplace of Aphrodite.

Of course, I also saw the secrets about Aphrodite, knowing that the authority she holds is not love and beauty, but desire.

After meeting Chiron, Hephaestus divided the gods into two types in his heart, one is the root god who is in charge of representing a certain thing like him, and the other is Chiron. Those who have the identity or power of gods are ordinary gods.

Ordinary gods rely on specific authority to drive wind, rain, thunder, and other forces, while root gods can drive specific things even if they have no authority, because he himself represents the thing itself, and his existence has covered the content of the thing. whole concept.

But why is Aphrodite, who inherited part of the root power of the god Uranus, just an ordinary god in charge of the power of desire?

Hephaestus became more and more puzzled.Root and authority, root and god, what is the relationship between the three?
He couldn't help thinking about a question: how did he get to where he is now, and how did he gain his current great power step by step.

He remembered.

He is the source of the flame, and was born so extraordinary.

Before becoming a powerful divine power, he understood himself step by step, understood his own origin, and naturally reached the threshold of a powerful divine power.

After that, he included the authority of history and records, and achieved great power through the subtle characteristics of the two.

But at this point, the identity of the root of the flame cannot give him more help. He has reached the limit of the power that the root of the flame can hold, and he has reached the end.

What about the other gods?

Hephaestus couldn't help thinking of three things.

First, Uranus, the sky god known as the latecomer, was conceived by the earth goddess Gaia. He represents the sky, is the root of the sky, and is the first person to break the shackles and become a great god.

Second, the sea grandmother Taisis who adopted him has many children. Her children were all descended from the rank of divine power because the sun ran out of control and the lake dried up, and because Poseidon launched a world-ending flood to fill the lake water, all of them were in the rank of divine power. recover.

Third, his good friend Epimetheus, the late-knower, has jumped out of the constraints of authority...

Thinking of this, Hephaestus narrowed his eyes.

"Three things, three paths to promotion..."
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ps: The text has been changed, there is only one piece, which adds a path to strength improvement for this book.

In the future, the power level in this book will not only be for the convenience of understanding and narration, but will also be part of the story.

There are six promotion paths temporarily added: Root, Secret, Faith, Wandering, Belonging to God, Division

(End of this chapter)