Hearing that the Queen of Argus City dared to openly say that she was a god, the Argus nobles and upper-class people present were bewitched by the goddess Si Ye.
But the long-standing fear of the Olympus gods still made everyone feel scared, and they looked at the somewhat crazy queen unreasonably.
Dare to say such things, it is no different from directly challenging the gods.
The people present were worried in their hearts, expecting nothing to go wrong, but in the end they felt a chill coming from their hearts, suddenly coming out of their worries.
I saw a dozen clouds of black mist emerging from the palace, which was illuminated by lights a second ago and was as bright as day.
Then dozens of oil lamps changed from fiery red to a frightening blue.
"Protect, protect".
More than a dozen generals in the palace drew out the bronze swords from their waists and shouted to the guards. At the same time, some people dared to approach the black mist while waving their weapons.
And Hades, who transformed into black mist, suddenly felt that these mortals had offended him, and more than a dozen groups of black mist gathered into a ball, rolling violently in the center of the palace.
The strong wind swept anyone who dared to point a weapon at him and sucked him into the black mist.
A dozen generals and dozens of guards who rushed in after hearing the shouts were soon unable to withstand the suction force, and were sucked into the black mist one by one and disappeared.
"Let go, let go of the weapons in your hands."
A general who let go of his bronze sword and found that the suction on his body had disappeared, immediately shouted a reminder to his companions who were still struggling to support him.
Then one by one, the generals and guards released their swords, spears, and shields, and found that the suction on their bodies disappeared.
After Hades threw more than twenty Argus soldiers into the underworld as punishment, he didn't care about those who loosened their weapons.
After all, what he wants is fear. It is more cost-effective to keep these people who have loosened their weapons after being frightened to talk to other soldiers than to kill them.
Thinking of this, Hades drained the lives of the soldiers who were taken into the underworld and turned them into mummies, and then crashed into the still living soldiers in the palace.
A disgusting stench suddenly emerged from the scene, making people want to vomit if they smell it.
Along with the sound of retching, Hades appeared in the air, squinting at the queen who just said that she was a god.
Although he wanted to pull Zeus down from the throne, he also could not accept that mortals dared to challenge the authority of gods. When his figure floated towards the queen little by little,
The King of Argus on the side was panicked and worried and wanted to rush in front of his wife, but after Hades glanced at him, he stopped with a look of fear on his face and stammered in a low voice, "You, you are
who?"
"Lord of the Underworld." Seeing that the King of Argus had lost all courage, Hades's lips turned up and he landed in front of the queen who raised her chin high and had a stubborn look on her face, "Kneel down, mortal."
"I," the queen found herself unable to open her mouth as soon as she spoke. Then she saw Hades smiling and repeating in an aggravated tone, "I am Hades, so I kneel down, mortal."
Hearing Hades say his name, the king, who had already guessed in his mind, his eyes flashed a few times before being enveloped in fear. His whole body was weak, and he fell to his knees involuntarily with a look of horror on his face.
Unlike Mount Olympus represented by Zeus and the gods in the sea represented by Poseidon, Hades, the Lord of the Underworld, does not need the faith of mortals, so he does not need to worry about not killing mortals.
Therefore, upon hearing that the person in front of him was Hades, the King of Argus instantly lost the confidence he had previously had to slander the Olympus gods.
When the queen saw her husband kneeling down, she not only quickly understood that her life and death was completely in the hands of Hades, she also thought deeper and understood that the presence of Hades here meant that she had always been in the hands of Hades.
The approval of Zeus, who guards the underworld.
The long-term fear of the gods easily overwhelmed the queen who wanted to resist the gods. Her legs gave out and she knelt down on the ground in frustration, cursing Zeus and Hades.
"Hehe, this is a mortal." Hades stretched out his hand mockingly, hooked the queen's chin with his fingers, and stared into her fearful eyes and said, "It's not that you say you are a god, you really are a god."
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After speaking, Hades gently slid his finger on the queen's chin and said with a cold light in his eyes, "Even if you are the most noble woman in the world, in the eyes of the gods, you are just a queen with the title
Just ants".
As soon as she finished speaking, a black light emerged from Queen Argus's body. She looked to be only thirty years old. Under the frightened eyes of the king, princess and other nobles, she was aging rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
In five or six seconds, she went from a queen who still had her charm to a emaciated, old, decaying mummy.
"Mother," Princess Argus, who was kneeling on the ground, immediately forgot her fear, stood up, and rushed towards her mother.
Hades raised his hand, and Princess Argus ran a few steps before she hit an invisible magic wall and fell to the ground.
Looking at the princess who had argued against her mother before, and who seemed to be a die-hard believer in Zeus, now she looked at him with the same intention of rebelling against the gods as Queen Argus.
For a moment, Hades felt that he had to thank Prometheus for stealing "fire" from Mount Olympus to the world.
The more humans know, the greater their resistance to the gods. And unlike the God of Light who never appears, the more the Olympus gods like to interfere with mortal things, the easier it is for people to understand them and even see through them.
them.
After losing their mystery, the gods are just powerful higher beings to humans.
In addition, Zeus is a god-king who likes to be merciful. The more merciful he is in the human world, the more mortals will doubt his sanctity.
Perhaps forcing the Argus people to sacrifice their princess would make those mortals who believe in the gods as firmly as the princess abandon their beliefs little by little.
After Hades thought about this, he immediately felt that this method was good.
And if a mortal, or a demigod, rescues the princess, then many mortals who have begun to doubt their beliefs in the face of the gods' refusal to save them will simply abandon their beliefs.
?
Hades smiled and levitated, and said to the King of Argus and the nobles present, "Ten days later, Argus must believe in Zeus again, otherwise, the North Sea Kraken will wake up from the deepest part of the sea and worship the great
On the order of Zeus, the King of Gods, the city of Argus was destroyed.
At the same time, in order to punish you who are blasphemers, Argus must sacrifice your princess to Zeus to appease the anger of the god king."
Zeus, who was far away in Mount Olympus, frowned when he heard what Hades said. But looking at the beautiful Princess Argus, who had been the only one for a long time, he felt that it was no big deal for Hades to do this.