In Hercules's memory illusion, time is forever frozen in a spring thousands of years ago, in an unknown wasteland somewhere on the Greek peninsula, where the hero who completed the twelve trials washed away the blood stains and looked up high above.
Olympus, thinking about his future path. At this moment, he has not yet ushered in the end of his miserable life. He stood on the land of his hometown as a human for the last time, and the next time he returns to this place,
The fragments of Olympus that collapsed from the sky have burned the entire land.
So his memory is fixed here. At this moment, he has lost a lot, but he still has a lot. His hometown in heaven and earth is still there, his father is still sitting on the throne, and he has not yet devoted himself to the world.
He is still a human being in the whirlpool of the world of gods.
At least consider yourself a human being.
"I don't like Olympus," Hercules stood side by side with Hao Ren on a boulder. He crossed his arms and looked up at the sacred mountain in his memory. Part of the sacred mountain was blurred. It belonged to the Queen Hera.
Field, "God is cruel. I don't know how people of your time understand and imagine the age of mythology, but you can guess as viciously as possible. Hera once ridiculed my father. The way she used it was, 'This man is addicted to and
They have sex with their own domestic animals', and in fact, most of the 'gods' on Mount Olympus have this view of human beings. They are still very contradictory. They have unparalleled power, a hundred times more powerful than the people on the earth, but they
It was discovered that the humans on the earth had the same appearance as themselves, which made them confused and angry. The gods dissected countless mortals, just to find evidence of the fundamental differences between the Olympian gods and the mortals on the earth, so as to prove that the two species were indeed
There is a distinction between high and low by birth, and their final conclusion is that no matter how close humans look to the Olympus gods, their souls are just livestock. So later I didn't like that place, even though I once yearned for it extremely."
Hao Ren originally thought that Hercules would immediately tell him about the artifact and Vivian, but he did not expect that the hero would start to recall the past first. But memories are just memories, he thought, and what Hercules said should be meaningful.
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"What kind of group are the 'gods' of Olympus?" Hao Ren asked following Hercules' words.
"Distorted and depressing, I finally figured this out after living on that mountain for hundreds of years," Hercules' voice was low. "At first, I was confused by the radiant appearance there, but slowly,
I came into contact with the true side of the gods: they are like trapped animals in cages, and like lost urchins. They are confused, anxious, confused and contradictory. On the one hand, they show full authority to humans.
and powerful, but on the other hand, they are always worried about their own fate. They seem to know when the end will come, and even know the causes and consequences of the end, but they are powerless. Sometimes I wonder if their meanness and cruelty to human beings will
Is it because of this pressure? They cannot avoid the future they will eventually face, but humans do not have to face this fate. In fact, humans will one day build a new kingdom on the ruins of Olympus, so they
Getting angry and angry..."
"Zeus knows that Mount Olympus will eventually be destroyed?" Hao Ren raised his eyebrows, "Has he ever said what caused the destruction?"
"He said that sooner or later there would be destruction, no matter what the cause, because in this world, except for the humans in the soil, all intelligent creatures are just poor prisoners exiled to this place, and the sentence of death has already fallen on these prisoners,
Execution day will come one day, no matter what form it takes. Very few people know these secrets, and they are basically limited to the twelve main gods. However, in addition, 'demigods' like us are also qualified
Know. My father seems to think that this disaster will only befall pure Olympians, and those of us with half-mortal blood... will be spared. Now think about it, Olympus
The countless mixed-blood descendants left behind by the gods may have been secretly arranged by my father to use their mortal blood to avoid disasters, and to use their Olympian blood to continue the inheritance."
Hercules told everything he knew, and Hao Ren couldn't help but move his eyebrows after hearing it.
This seemingly unfounded speculation may actually have a certain possibility. Based on Zeus's partial knowledge of the "original sin of divine blood", perhaps he would really think of evading or weakening this original sin by creating a large number of mixed-blood offspring!
And his method cannot be said to be ineffective: mixed-blood alien descendants do have a certain resistance to innate hostility, but this effect is still useless after all. Demon hunters are too deeply affected by the God-killing Sword, and they will not be able to use it at all.
Stop hunting because the target is a hybrid.
"What role does Vivian play in Mount Olympus?" Hao Ren asked curiously. This is the key to the problem.
"She? She plays an important role in almost all the gods," Hercules crossed his hands on his chest. "She is the only one who has no innate hostility towards any race, and at the same time, no race can have strong hostility towards her.
Individual. She has fought countless opponents, including demon hunters and 'others', but have you ever heard of anyone having a mortal grudge against her?"
Hao Ren thought for a while and shook his head.
"Because she is a balance point and the only hope to eliminate disasters. My father once said that all the exiles in the world have committed the same sin, which is to offend a power that created everything in the universe, and this great power
It also leaves the only way to salvation for sinners, which is to seek forgiveness from the 'Forgiver'. Vivian Ancesta is this Pardoner. Her mission in the world is to forgive sinners, but she does not
He will not forgive everyone, nor will he know his mission. My father knew this secret, so he deliberately made friends with that ancient vampire. He hoped to obtain that precious mercy quota, but now it seems... there is no one after all.
People are forgiven.”
Hao Ren discovered that there was a discrepancy between the information obtained from Hercules and the evidence from the Ark of Origin.
According to the evidence in Ark of Origin, "pardon" actually happened at the beginning. The Goddess of Creation completed the pardon for all races at the moment of her death. The ones who executed the pardon were Ark of Origin and the Yugudora Hill Time and Space Fortress.
Vivian's identity was just a guide, but in the eyes of Zeus, Vivian was the one responsible for the pardon. He thought for a while and thought that there was something wrong with Zeus's intelligence.
After all, Zeus didn't know about the existence of the Origin Ark.
After making this conclusion in his mind, Hao Ren looked at Hercules: "So what's going on with that artifact? Why does it have Vivian's power?"
"Because it was made by Vivian Ancesta herself. Of course, the person involved may not remember it now."
Hao Ren was really stunned this time. He was stunned for a full minute before he could hold back a few syllables: "She... did it!? Didn't it mean that the core of the artifact was obtained by you by chance?
?”
"Yes, the core was indeed found by my father from a strange cave at the bottom of Tartarus, but we didn't have time to know anything about it. When Athena just put the thing on the experimental platform, the Countess
Then she suddenly appeared in front of us. I happened to be there at the time, so I still remember the situation at that time... Her eyes became blood red, and she didn't seem to be very conscious. She used a rare violent method to knock away all the guards and force her way in.
, and then asked us to hand over the core."
Hao Ren swallowed: "Did you hand it over?"
"She was snatched away by her," Hercules laughed. "The Countess's power is very strange. Sometimes she is very weak, and sometimes she is extremely powerful. But that day she was extremely powerful, so Ares was beaten to Austria with three moves by her.
At the foot of Mount Limpis, Apollo was beaten to unconsciousness on the spot. Later, her father hurried over and asked us not to stop her, so the countess took the thing away openly. Three days later, she came back and handed us the power.
The staff said that the core was sealed inside the staff, so the staff could produce a steady stream of powerful magic. This was the only safe way to deal with the core. After giving us the staff, she left, and a whole year has passed since then.
No news from her in the century.”
Hao Ren immediately thought that this should be Vivian entering her sleep cycle.
If what Hercules said is true, then Vivian's sleep that year was obviously very different from the previous ones.
"Hathaway didn't tell me this detail..." Hao Ren muttered.
"Because I didn't tell her about it."
"It seems that Vivian already knew the danger of the core of the scepter back then, but since it is such a dangerous thing, why should it be handed over to you?" Hao Ren suddenly felt confused, "Can't she just keep it by herself?
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"I don't know," Hercules spread his hands, "Athena has thought about the same question. She said the only answer is: the countess herself cannot hold the scepter. When the scepter is in her own hand
, the danger will be a hundred times greater, and if the scepter is sealed somewhere, the energy fluctuations it leaks may attract the attention of other families. Therefore, in comparison, it is better to hand the scepter to Olympus.
Even better, my father values his promises and will definitely keep this artifact properly."
Of course, there is another possibility, Hao Ren thought, that maybe Vivian was about to fall into a deep sleep, and she had no time to think of a better solution, so she had to hand over the scepter to the Olympus family first.
"The scepter indeed brought us great power," Hercules smiled bitterly and shook his head. "A century later, the countess came to visit again, but she did not mention the scepter again. My father guessed that she had forgotten it.
This thing, so I simply never mentioned it to her again."