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Chapter 94 The Unreproachable Element and Its Opposite

And what about Hephaestus?
The fire god that the centaur god prayed to?

He returned to the present world following the hidden belief connection, and immediately understood the difference between the great ones.

He finally saw a little bit clearly why, as the supreme Erebus, who symbolized the death of countless fallen and broken worlds and everything, he had to wait until the end of this world before he could take a step forward.

The present world is different.

It's where it all began, and it should be where it all ends.

Both Erebus and myself are conceived by it and part of it.

They can be an individual and still belong to the world that gave birth to them.

Only at the moment when the present world completely perishes can they be regarded as having truly escaped from their mother's embrace, and will they truly grow up and be able to walk in the chaos.

If the present world is compared to a tree, whether it is Erebus, the god of darkness, or Epimetheus, his friend, or even himself, they are all one of the thousands of fruits it bears.

No full-grown fruit is ripe until it withers.

In this world, it is trying its best to breed the sweetest "fruit" that can swim in the chaos.

Perhaps, this is the tragic fate of the world itself.

Obviously, all the spirits it breeds are useless to it, but it still desperately bred such a miracle with thinking.

Then, let them ask for it.

From an ignorant world to intelligent life, is this another kind of "evolution" that cannot be understood or observed, or... some people's passionate speculation and self-moving?

Maybe the world itself is unconscious?Everything is a beautiful coincidence?

But one thing Hephaestus can be sure of is that no matter what the world is like, whether it is unconscious or thinking, everything in it is unmeasurable and has nothing to do with itself.

Just as mortals can live their lives without ever really knowing the gods they believe in, so it is with gods.

The existence forms of the three are essentially different, and they are destined to be incomprehensible and unable to merge.

Ordinary people live and die, wanting to have an infinitely splendid life in a short life.The gods are eternal, and want to pursue omnipotence that is more blazing than eternity.As for the world, it can't be observed, it can't even prove whether it exists, it has nothing to want, or, mortals and gods can't understand it, so they can't judge it with their shallow knowledge.

And in this world, it is the most special world among all worlds.

Although, those fallen and broken worlds floating in the chaos were once the present world.

However, this world has uniqueness.

This title can only be inherited by the only remaining world that is still alive.

Different from those ruined worlds that fell in the past, in this world, it is in the present time.

It carries all souls, breeds all souls, is the cornerstone and beginning of all souls, and it still has infinite possibilities.

Hephaestus once also assumed that when the world becomes stronger due to unpredictable reasons, and the whole with the power of fire becomes stronger, he can use this to become a great one.

But the truth is quite the opposite.

In other words, he got the sequence wrong.

When he returned to the world as a great one, he also brought a new and purer flame power to the world.

The totality of flame power has increased in this world, and it has become the fundamental element of this world that cannot be blamed.

Therefore, from his point of view, this world is stronger, able to carry more creatures, and breed more miracles.

Regarding this point, the eldest sister of the god king Zeus, the goddess Hestia has the most say.

She is in charge of a pale flame, and she is one of the small group of people standing at the top, the one closest to the source of the flame.

She is a beautiful woman and mature.

At this moment, Hestia, one of the main gods of the Olympus pantheon, lived alone in a hidden temple away from the Olympus mountain where she was enshrined.

Because she has no husband, no lover, and no goddess who is particularly close, she always walks alone.

She has never begged anyone so far, and naturally she has never owed anyone a favor. She wanted to do something she didn't want to do.

On the contrary, people often come to ask her for a little favor.

In the hidden temple, Hestia, who was leisurely watering the flowers, was suddenly stunned. She felt a bit surprised by the sudden increase in her share at the root of the flame.

"He fell?"

But she quickly reacted, and slowly turned to face Hephaestus: "No, he is stronger."

She put down the watering pot, thought for a moment and went to Lemnos.

There is no way, she has to go.

Hephaestus, he is now the great one, and the fire, from the beginning, has been his.

Although Hephaestus didn't care about it before, nor explicitly forbade it.

But today is different, and when the status is not equal, Hestia knows that he has to express his position.

But why him!

Hephaestus is the god Hestia is least willing to face!
Just like the sky god Uranus and the earth goddess Gaia are opposites, just like night and day are opposites, the opposite of Hestia is Hephaestus.

This is what Hestia has observed in this world for a long time, thanks to her root and authority-harmony.

The harmony between things and things, and even concepts.Reduce the strong side and benefit the weak side, so as to achieve a balance that is beneficial to the whole.

But even Hestia himself didn't want to understand why the opposite of harmony is flame, or is it because flame itself represents destruction and chaos, which is the embodiment of disharmony?
As the eldest daughter of the previous god-king Cronus, Hestia vaguely knew something.

Opposition is not the goal, but integration and completion are.

She regretted a little that she was so curious when she was young.

Why do you want to know all this?
When you are facing a great person, lies have no effect, and if you know it, it means that he will probably know it too.

This is undoubtedly unfair, but it is a reality that has always existed.

An idea flashed across Hestia's mind.

It is not necessarily wiser to be afraid of dying consciously than to die unconsciously.

But Hestia quickly dismissed this bad idea.

Why die?

Seeing, knowing, advancing, and leaping are the normal state of life. Death is just a trivial result, not a gorgeous process.

Hestia raised his head and had already arrived at the Vulcan Temple on Lemnos Island.

The temple was empty and unpopular.

As the master, Hephaestus obviously has no plans to return, and his beloved, the goddess of life weaving, Clotho, is also missing.

There are no resting seats in the temple, but there is a cot in the corner.

For this trip, Hestia is still a little bit sure.

Soon after the birth of the flame, she understood many things, but she ended up doing nothing.

She thinks she knows Hephaestus. Although this man is strange, he is not mean. He has not plundered so far, and he has even rejected his faith.

Even if one becomes a great person, the inner change does not happen overnight.

So Hestia wanted to look casual.

Her mature body curve fell on the corner bed, forming a beautiful arc...

(End of this chapter)