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Chapter 8 The Burning Earth

Speaking of which, Helios took Phaethon's hand and walked towards the sun chariot parked beside the silver gate.

It can be seen that Hephaestus was very careful when building the sun chariot. This artifact is not only powerful, but also beautiful as a whole.

The axles, shafts and wheels are all golden, and there are burning flames attached to the wheels. Nine shining gems are regularly arranged on the seats, reflecting the beautiful sun car, more like a work of art.

Phaethon couldn't help marveling at the superb skills of Hephaestus.

He stretched out his hand out of nowhere, wanting to touch the Sun God Chariot, but the next second he cried out in pain and quickly retracted it.

The flames on the wheels left a burn on his hand, and Phaethon forgot that he could not bear the divine power of the sun chariot.

He unconsciously looked to his father Helios, wanting to ask for help.

Helios smiled like a loving father.

He picked up Phaethon's burnt right hand, and a divine power brushed over it, and the burn disappeared.

"Try again," he said.

Phaethon tried again to reach out and touch the chariot of the sun.

"Wow!" he exclaimed.

This time, the flames from the wheels did not hurt him.

Phaethon was like a child who got a novelty toy, touching the axle for a while, touching the wheels for a while, and then playfully put his hands in the flames on the wheels to roast.

"Sit up." His father Helios ordered from behind.

Phaethon acted on his word, and for the first time in his life got on the chariot of the sun.

Helios asked from the side, "How do you feel?"

"Great!" Phaeton replied excitedly on the sun chariot.

"Very well, my son, remember the feeling."

"This is your only chance to control this artifact."

"But you deserve it."

Helios' words seemed to have other meanings. As he spoke, he came to the front of the four golden flame horses pulling the cart and fed them fodder so that they would have enough strength to run.

These four flame horses are the inheritance left by the ancient sun god Hyperion, the father of Helios, and they were born together on the day the god in charge of the power of the sun was born.

In a sense, they are an integral part of the power of the sun, and even the flames on the sun chariot built by Hephaestus cannot harm them.

As the new sun god, Helios, who has only medium divine power, pays special attention to these four flame horses, and feeds them daily fodder himself.

When this was done, he handed Phae the same whip and the horse's bridle.

Then, he personally opened the towering silver gate of the Sun Temple for Phaeton, revealing the vast space of the world before his eyes.

The world outside the temple is still at night, and the stars are scattered in the sky. Helios' sister, Selene, the moon god, has already returned, and the time of night is about to end.

"Go, Phaeton, everything is going well." Helios said loudly.

Holding the reins tightly, Phaethon excitedly swung his whip and whipped the flame horse. He couldn't wait to bring light to the earth, so that the gods could marvel at his deeds.

Four winged flame horses neighed, their searing breath sending sparks through the air.

The horse's hooves stomped, and Phaethon flew out of the Sun Temple, breaking through the mist of dawn.

As soon as the sun chariot appeared in the sky, the gloomy world instantly became clear.

The boundless land and ocean are like a picture scroll, slowly unfolding in Phaethon's eyes.

He has never seen such a wonderful scenery, driving the sun chariot up and down for a while, shouting excitedly in the empty sky.

When he was going up, the earth was dark, as if there were dark clouds covering the sun; when he was going down, the creatures on the earth would suffer, the heat was unbearable.

On the ground, a half-man, half-horse creature seems to have noticed that today's sun is a bit unusual compared to the past.

He simply does not know what the sun represents.

He ran, chased, and drew his bow and arrows from time to time, trying to shoot down the sun.

Phaethon quickly noticed the strange behavior of the centaur.

He considered it a provocation.

Although Phaethon always appeared humble and cowardly in front of Helios, in fact he was a violent and violent person.

The source of his confidence is his father, the sun god Helios. Apart from this, he has no other commendable abilities.

The more a person lacks something, the more he desires to be recognized in this regard, and the same is true for Phaethon.

Angrily, he lowered the sun chariot even lower, so that the centaur could see his strength.

In an instant, the earth was cracked by burning, the river boiled, and the forest caught fire. Human beings in the Silver Age were drowned in the sea of ​​flames. People struggled and screamed in the waves of fire, and then died miserably, becoming a scorched corpse.

He couldn't see these Phaetons, he only had the provocative centaur in his eyes. He sat on the chariot of the sun god and watched cruelly as the centaur was covered in flames, rolling on the ground, struggling uselessly, and Laughed happily.

However, this is not what he should do!
The death of countless creatures was not something he could bear. He violated Helios' oath made by pointing to the river Styx.

Retribution came in an instant.

Phaethon felt very hot, and it was getting hotter and hotter. He checked in doubt, but was horrified to find that Helios' protection for him seemed to have lost its effect, and his luxurious clothes were ignited by the flames on the wheels at some point. with.

He immediately thought of the oath his father had made.

Phaethon lashed the flame horse in panic, wanting to rush back to the Sun Temple, and shouted in fear: "Father, save me!"

Lemnos island.

Hephaestus is sleeping. Although he has become a god, he still retains the habit of sleeping as a human.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes suddenly, looking at the burning world.

The god in charge of the flames woke up, and the raging flames in the world could no longer act recklessly, and were immediately extinguished.

But the power of the sun does not allow Hephaestus to intervene. The remaining humans in the Silver Age are just passing from one kind of suffering to another, being roasted alive by the raging sun in the sky and turned into mummies.

"Stop, drive the chariot of the sun god into the sky." Hephaestus' voice sounded in Phaethon's ear.

But Phaethon ignored it at all, and still went his own way, beating the flame horse frantically, trying to rush back to the Temple of the Sun, back to his father Helios, only by going back can he survive!

"Calm down, the flames of the Sun Chariot can no longer hurt you, drive him to the sky!" Hephaestus continued, not wanting to give up.

"Calm down, how do you want me to be calm!" Phaethon went completely insane with the illusory tributaries of the Styx River appearing in the corner of his eyes.

"The life and death of those mortals has nothing to do with me!"

Phaethon didn't know, he completely blocked his last way of life.

His actions annoyed Gaia, the avatar of the earth and one of the six great powers.

Although this goddess has surpassed the limitations of the authority of the earth itself and is no longer dependent on the earth, but just like a person's clothes, if someone breaks it for no reason, she will be angry.

The earth is the clothes and face of the goddess Gaia, and the cracks in the earth are hitting her in the face.

Originally, when Hephaestus appeared, Gaia, the goddess of the earth, wanted to let Phaeth go on the same horse, but he asked for his own death, and Gaia didn't mind giving him a ride.

On the sacred mountain of Olympus, the voice of Gaia, the goddess of the earth, suddenly appeared in the ear of Zeus who was having a banquet.

"See what you've done."

Zeus was a little baffled, and looked at the human world suspiciously, only to see the tragic situation in the human world, his eyes immediately turned red.

Because Helios is his person, the offended gods will also be blamed on him, and as the sun scorches the earth, as many lakes and waters are evaporated, as many water gods will be offended.

How much is specific is simply irrelevant.

Zeus asked angrily, and his voice echoed in the sky.

"Helios, what are you doing?"

"No, you are not Helios, who are you?"

"Phaethon?"

"Then go to die!"

The artifact representing the power of the god-king, the spear "Thunderbolt" appeared in the hands of Zeus, and he swung it down towards Phaethon furiously without any reservation.

The desperate Phaethon could only watch a thunderbolt fall from the sky, unable to dodge and powerless to dodge.

Like many creatures on the earth, he became a charred corpse and fell from the gorgeous chariot of the sun.

Below, the phantom tributaries of the Styx awaited him, in which he soaked eternity, with no chance of rest and rebirth.

Mount Olympus, Temple of the Sun.

Helios did as he and Phaeton promised, without even blinking an eye.

Helios knows what kind of person Phaethon is like. From the moment Phaethon excitedly drove the sun chariot up into the sky, Helios had already told him in his heart. Sentenced to death.

Or to put it another way, Phaethon's character today is the inevitable result of his deliberate guidance.

Helios suppressed the sense of refreshment in his heart that seemed to be avenged, with a sad expression on his face, ready to deal with Zeus who came to ask the teacher for his crime.

In this matter, he can clean himself up.After all, all the crimes were committed by Phaethon himself, and he only needs to retell what happened "as it is".

Lemnos, Hephaestus looking to the world.

The land is devastated, and there are very few surviving humans.

Hephaestus wanted to say something, but he couldn't open his mouth. In the end, there was only a long sigh of despair: "Is this the end of the Silver Age?"

"Then why start."

"It's hopeless."

(End of this chapter)