greek mythology stuff

Chapter 91 He is—a god!
All the while, Chiron kept an eye on the mortal.

His changed mortal appearance is very young, sitting on the floor under the eaves of the shop, full of abjection and poverty.

He wanted to eat a little bit, but felt that this place was not suitable.

It's too noisy here, the sea waves are rolling, and there are an unknown number of gods crowding the entire ocean, and their bored eyes make people feel uncomfortable.

He somewhat wanted to move on, to see if he could find a suitable "residence" for rest.

He hesitated in his mind, no longer paying attention to that mortal.

But at this time, the mortal took the initiative to lean forward and squatted beside Chiron.

From the looks of it, he is still familiar.

"Where are you going?" he asked.

Chiron is used to the questioning and communication of mortals, and he responds with ease:

"Pilgrimage. Along the coast, there is the original temple of Poseidon, the god of the sea. I want to visit him."

"Walking?"

"walk there."

The man nodded, pretending to understand.

"That's great," he said.

He suddenly pointed to Chiron's cowhide bag for money, which was tied with a straw rope and tied in a beautiful knot.

"I have one too," he said excitedly.

As soon as the words fell, he turned calm again: "It's a pity that the rope was stolen, otherwise I can go on a pilgrimage."

Chiron was stunned—is there any necessary connection between the rope being stolen and going on a pilgrimage?
He inadvertently asked, "Why did you steal your rope?"

The man didn't seem to hear it, and was still immersed in his own world.

He became excited again: "What's your name?"

"Chiron."

"My name is Kata."

Then both fell silent.

Chiron felt that the person in front of him was too excited, so excited that he lost the etiquette between mortal conversations.

He felt something was wrong.

While hesitating, Kata suddenly raised his head: "How old are you?"

Chiron: "It must be older than you."

Kata: "I'm 16 years old."

Chiron replied without thinking, "I'm 25 years old."

Kata laughed twice: "Then you are older than me."

He suddenly stood up excitedly, and vigorously slapped the coarse clothes on his body, causing bursts of smoke and dust.

"It's all dirty," he said to Chiron.

He pointed to a wooden barrel under the eaves of the shop, which was stuffed with thatch.

"It was done by tidying thatch."

In fact, Chiron didn't want to know this, he didn't ask.

At this time, Kata turned around suddenly, he pulled his clothes and turned his head around.

"Do you know the word?"

Only then did Chiron realize that there was a large character embroidered on the back of his clothes.Crooked and ugly.

He nodded: "Yes, 'Suo'."

"Suo." Kata laughed loudly, he was crazy: "My name is Ka Suo."

But after a while, he immediately calmed down this madness, with a smile on his face, like a curious seeker.

"You're going so far away, where do you live?"

Chiron is used to the escape of the person in front of him, and reluctantly accepted his way of dialogue: "Anywhere is fine." He replied.

"You can live anywhere. It doesn't have to be a house."

He looked around the shop: "I will live here tonight."

"It's just too noisy. The sound of the tide here keeps me from sleeping. Fortunately, I'm used to it."

Kata looked at him seriously: "Then you can live in the village!"

"Go ahead and turn around. There is an open space there, and many people used to live there."

Chiron became interested.

There are houses in the village for shelter, which should be very good.

He pointed to the front of the road: "Is it in this direction? If you go forward, you can turn in?"

Kata: "I'll take you there!"

Chiron readily agreed.

He and Kata took advantage of the moonlight to walk forward.

On the corner that Kata said, there was a crappy house opposite it.

Kata explained to Chiron while walking.In his hand he held Chiron's fresh water and pancakes filled with blue wild fruits.

He pointed to the rotten house opposite and said to Chiron, "Actually, you can live there."

"Unfortunately, it has been sealed now."

Chiron followed his fingers and looked forward.

A very nice place indeed - for mortals.

The rotten house has two floors, and it is still well preserved. The door is sealed with wooden boards.

He asked Kata, "Does anyone live in it?"

"No."

"Is there a bed?"

"Yes! I used to live in it often!"

Speaking here, Kata paused: "Kora will still hit me."

As he spoke, he pointed to his shoulders and back: "Here, here, and here are all one by one."

The place Kata refers to is not clear, and Chiron guessed that it should be something like a whip or a wooden strip.

He asked Kata, "Who is Cora?"

Kata is still very excited and talkative.

"With a bald head, this house belongs to him. Later he sealed it, so I couldn't go in and sleep."

Chiron knew it well, and he made a pun: "What about your parents? Don't they care?"

Kata walked in front. Although he couldn't see his expression clearly, his tone was very calm and ordinary: "They are all dead. I am an orphan."

Chiron was touched for a moment.

"Then what do you do? Who do you live with? Grandpa or grandma? Or grandpa and grandma?"

Kata: "They are all old and dead. I live with my uncle."

"You can also live in my house. My house is very big and there is a yard."

Chiron: "It's okay if it's just you, you live with your uncle, it's not good for me to go."

During the conversation, the two had come to the clearing that Kata had mentioned.

Chiron looked at this place—it was a very nice place.

Surrounded by houses one after another, this open space is enclosed and the sound of the mighty tide is kept out.

There is a large stone platform next to the open space, and there are four small stones at the four corners of the stone platform, on which people can sit.Above the stone platform is a big banyan tree, which can enjoy the shade.

Chiron and Kata sat opposite each other on the stone platform, and Kata put Chiron's fresh water and blue wild fruit pancakes on the stone platform.

After sitting down, Kata suddenly became stiff.

He fixedly looked at the pancakes on the stone platform, and then raised his eyes to Chiron.

He suddenly said, "Aren't you going to eat?"

Chiron untied the cowhide bag from his waist and placed it on the stone platform.

In fact, he is not hungry, how can the god be hungry?
But after Kata told the fact that he was an orphan, his heart was slightly disturbed.

Chiron: "I'm not hungry yet. Are you hungry? If you are hungry, you can eat a little first."

Kata swallowed: "I'm not hungry, I just want to taste what it tastes like."

Chiron smiled, unwrapped the pancake leaf package with his own hands, took another pancake from inside and handed it to Kata: "Actually, I'm hungry, so you can have a piece too."

Kata took it with a smile and swallowed it whole.

Chiron handed him three more dollars in succession.

Later, Kata became familiar with it, and reached out to get it by herself.He shook the stone under his seat, making a creaking sound.

Chiron said nothing.

Seeing that Kata broke open the pancake, revealing the hollow of the blue wild fruit inside, he frowned: "I've eaten this before."

Chiron didn't know what to say for a while.He had no choice but to ignore it, and instead opened the cowhide bag on the stone platform, carefully counting today's expenses.

He was a little tired, trying to dismiss the person in front of him politely in this way.

But he couldn't stop a madman.

Kata stared at the coin in Chiron's hand, and said stupidly: "I used to have it too."

He showed a bright smile to Chiron: "I went to work in the city-state, and the people there were old and bad. They stole my money when I was sleeping, and they beat me when I woke up."

"If I have money, I can go on a pilgrimage with you!"

Chiron subconsciously closed the cowhide bag, but he quickly realized that the person in front of him was just a mortal.

Kata's soliloquy did not stop: "You know what? The shop you went to today is that person, he hit me!"

He pointed to his chest: "He beat my chest with his fist."

Suddenly, the cry of a baby was heard in the distance.

Kata suddenly fell silent.

"Shh!" He gestured.

"Did you hear anything?"

Chiron couldn't understand him.He listened attentively, and there was nothing special about it.

So he tentatively replied: "The cry of a child."

Kata became excited: "Yes! It's crying."

He pretended to shake his head: "It's hitting again."

Chiron was a little annoyed, he was silent for a moment, trying to calm the two of them down, and said after achieving his goal, "Aren't you going home? It's already very late."

Kata pointed to the banyan tree beside him: "I sleep here at night."

Chiron was stunned, and for a moment he seemed to think of something bad: "Why?" He asked.

Kata behaved very normally, as if he was thinking too much: "It's too hot at home, it's cooler here." He replied.

He suddenly started talking to himself again, and whispered to Chiron, "You know what? The people here are actually very bad."

"They were all cheated, the shop was cheated, the house was cheated, they were all cheated..."

Chiron seemed to understand something, he asked a question: "How did your parents die."

Kata was very excited: "They were killed by the waves. They went out to work, and they were killed by the waves of the mermaid god."

"Many people came to the temple of the Mermaid God and gave a lot of money! Many people also came to the temple of the God of Wealth and gave a lot of money!"

Chiron looked at the coarse clothes on Kata: "Where's the money?"

Kata: "It's at the village chief's place. He keeps it for me."

Chiron fell silent.It was the first time he was truly silent tonight.

But Kata was still talking nonstop. He leaned towards Chiron, as if sharing something good: "You know what? I went to steal chicken from the village chief's house, and he beat me."

"There is also old Corey, I set fire to his house, I have no money to pay, and he beat me too..."

Chiron interrupted him: "Why steal someone else's chicken?"

Kata looked as if it should be taken for granted: "I want to eat! Only when I am full will I have strength!"

Chiron didn't expect this answer, and he asked again: "Why do you want to burn down other people's houses?"

Kata fell silent for a moment: "Uncle won't come to pick me up."

"Why didn't you come to pick you up?"

"Because I stole food and got caught."

"So you burned down other people's houses?"

"Correct."

Chiron didn't know what to say, he felt that everything was expected, and everything seemed to be beyond reason.

He thought for a while: "It's wrong for you to do this. It won't make things better, it will only make things worse."

He was silent for a while: "I always feel that you want to tell me something, but you don't say it clearly."

Kata turned his head and began to talk to himself excitedly. Coincidentally, this happened to avoid Chiron's sight.

"Hush! Did you hear any sound!" He was nervous.

Chiron shouted: "Look at me!"

Kata looked a little overwhelmed.

Chiron's tone softened: "I'll teach you."

"When talking to someone, don't look elsewhere, don't do other things, and don't talk to yourself."

Kata was quiet for a moment, and he nodded: "I see, brother."

So Chiron handed him fresh water: "Drink some water, you should be thirsty."

Kata took a sip, only a sip.He is quieter.

He said suddenly: "I'm going back." Then he stood up and ran away quickly.

Chiron watched his back.

Kata said his parents were killed by the waves of the Mermaid God, and Chiron knew what happened.

Nothing but faith.

Triton, the god of mermaids, is the heir and only heir of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and Amphitrine, the queen of the sea.His image is half man, half fish, holding a trident one size smaller than his father Poseidon, with a conch in his waist that can control the wind and waves.

He is one of the main collectors of faith for the deities of the sea.

But even though his background is so prominent, it still can't hide the light of his opponent.

His opponent is Plutus, the god of wealth, a new god who appears out of nowhere.At the beginning, this new god was still very weak, but he soon became strong by relying on his faith, because behind him stood Demeter, the goddess of harvest.

No one knows the origin of this new god, only know that at the very beginning, Plutus did not even have authority, but now, relying on specific and clear teachings, he is already the god of wealth.

It is not the first time that Plutos, the god of wealth, and Triton, the god of mermaids, have collided with each other, and what happened to Kata's parents is definitely not the only one.

This is always the case in the world, there must be mortals to bear the suffering, and Chiron is used to it.

But to his surprise, Kata came back again.

He carried a coarse cloth bag tied with a rope.

Chiron noticed that his clothes were missing a piece of fabric.

"Hey!" Kata greeted from afar.He sat back across from Chiron again.

He put the coarse cloth bag on his back on the stone platform, and showed off to Chiron: "Look, I have it too!"

Chiron responded to him: "You are here again. Didn't your uncle scold you?"

Kata untied the sealing rope, and replied casually: "He was enjoying the cool at the door and ignored me."

He took out two books from the untied bag and handed them to Chiron.

"look!"

Chiron took the flip and knew it—it was a teaching given out by the temple for free.

The first page is densely packed with text, and the following pages are all pictures.The stories painted above are vivid and beautiful.

but.

all fake.

Lost interest in one glance.

Chiron handed it back again, and he said to Kata: "I will teach you."

"You are too young now, don't look at things related to gods. You don't have your own experience, and you will fall into it."

"Oh." Kata looked a little disappointed.

He flipped a page casually and looked at the picture on it carefully, his eyes full of longing.

Chiron couldn't bear it, he stretched out his hand over the stone platform, trying to close the pages of the book.This aroused Kata's vigilance: "What are you doing!"

Chiron's hand stopped in mid-air.

But his hesitation lasted only a moment before he made a decision.The hand continued to reach forward and forcibly closed the pages of the book.

"You shouldn't be watching this, it's not doing you any good."

Under Kata's blank and puzzled gaze, Chiron asked, "Don't you have any plans? Do something you like and have meaning."

Kata frowned and thought for a while: "It seems not."

Chiron: "I don't believe it. Everyone has what they want."

"Then let me put it another way. Do you have any wishes?"

Kata immediately fell silent, and he whispered softly, "Mom and Dad are alive."

Chiron was silent.

He tried to organize the language: "Actually... some people have passed away and can only recall..."

"You can change to a small wish to pursue. You should not focus on an empty place, but another relative and more practical thing."

"do you understand"

Kata thought for a while: "I may understand what you mean."

"But, I only have one wish."

"Mom and Dad came back alive..."

Chiron was a little annoyed: "Is this the only one?"

"Only this one."

Chiron became even more irritable, feeling blocked.He looked at the coarse cloth bag on the stone platform, which belonged to Kata.

In fact, this bag is a luggage.Chiron was no fool, he could tell.

Packing means traveling.

Chiron, however, looked more and more flustered.He suddenly realized that he didn't seem to be able to help Kata. Triton, the god of mermaids, and Plutos, the god of wealth, he couldn't afford to offend any of them.

He looked at Kata on the opposite side of the stone platform. The boy opened the two books again and was looking at the pictures on them seriously, his eyes full of longing.

He suddenly raised his head to meet Chiron's gaze.He showed a bright smile to Chiron, and said cheerfully: "Brother, I have become better."

Chiron felt that this should be the words in the book, and his restless heart did not allow him to explore.

He was silent for a moment, and then whispered to Kata: "I should go, travel alone."

On the opposite side, Kata's face became stern, and he immediately stood up, facing the banyan tree.

His voice was exceptionally loud: "Then you go!"

Chiron began to pack his leather bag, sealing the mouth of the bag with string.

During this period, he hesitated and glanced at Kata.

The boy tied the "rope" that bound the luggage into a dead knot and was trying to untie it.He smiled crazily, and kept chanting two words: "It's fun...it's fun..."

He laughed until Chiron left.

Then, Chiron heard a call behind him: "Hi!"

He didn't dare to look back, but quickened his pace of leaving.

……

Chiron returned to the shop again, he looked behind the empty one, and lay down under the eaves.

He closed his eyes and wanted to sleep, so that he could forget everything in his mind, but he couldn't fall asleep anyway.

He couldn't help thinking of Kata again.

Kata is an orphan, and the villagers treat him badly, but whose fault is it?
16 years old... Is it time to grow up?
But can he still grow up?
The more Chiron thought about it, the more irritable he became.

Two terrifying thoughts suddenly flashed through his mind:

Is the class balance that has lasted for countless years in the world of gods really unbreakable?Everyone has scruples or is powerless, how long will this senseless tug-of-war continue?Every day is clamoring, but never ruthless.If a god with an extraordinary background dies suddenly, can this balance be broken?

Faith... Is it something that only gods can have?But it obviously never had an owner.

The appearance of Kata flashed across Chiron's mind, so he sat up suddenly.

He doesn't like the look of Kata.Cowardly, crazy, but doing the most powerless resistance, like...the former self...

he does not like……

He thought of Triton, the god of mermaids.

If the Sea God's heir dies, can this boring and meaningless balance be broken?
Chiron's gaze became dangerous and wild.

He stood up and walked away.

There was an opportunity in front of him, but he turned it down.

He's going to get it back, with the power and the poison in it, he's got to get it back.

He is going to find that mortal from outside the domain, and fight him to the death.

What he knows, what he has always known, he is the most suitable candidate.

He was the first to be chosen!

He is—a god!
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ps: It's too late, I'm a little confused. Chapter 93 was eaten by me.

(End of this chapter)