Greek Mythology: The Spiritual Dominator

Note: In mythology, creatures such as the three-headed dog, hydra, and chimera can all be called monsters. So just like the previous words "Evil-killing Sword" and "Fairy Fire", these are actually the vocabulary of Western fantasy novels.

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In the underworld, which is always dominated by darkness, the sounds of rolling rivers of fire come and go. The waves formed by the lava occasionally rolled up the bones on the shore, making a hissing sound.

In the increasingly vast underworld, the lavender moonlight remains unchanged. Under its illumination, a dim yellow light streaked across the gray plain.

Along the way, the dim stream of light flickered uncertainly. Although the speed was very fast, it gave people a shaky feeling. But no matter how it shakes, it still flies in the sky, flying straight towards a certain destination.

Through this flickering divine light, the brown clothes are clearly visible. There is no doubt that this is Gaia who left Olympus not long ago.

Unlike the gods who have been walking around the world, for Gaia, the things she experienced were very compact. She had just experienced the ordeal of the change of eras 'a few days ago', and woke up to such a blow. The impact on Gaia can be imagined, so she did not return to the place where she once lived in seclusion, but came to the underworld.

There is nothing left in Delphi, and the few things left are just mocking the incompetence of the Earth Mother. However, she also did not return to her true form even after she failed to turn around. The reason why Gaia still chose to leave after suffering so many blows instead of fighting to the end with the God King was because in her heart, she still had some hope. of.

Even though everything in the world has turned its back on her and the original cornerstone of the existence of this world, Khaos is not just in this world. Even though all the lives that grew up on her heavy body were against her, there were other divine beings on the other side of the world, in a world dominated by chaos. If intelligent beings treat her as nothing, then Gaia will come looking for those without intelligence; if the existence of order rejects her, then she will choose to embrace chaos.

In the past, among the four original gods born in Chaos, only Abyss did not have descendants born directly from the power of the body. This may be a scene that the side of the world order is happy to see, but now, the Earth Mother is ready to change it herself.

Let the Son of Chaos come to the world... As the incarnation of the other side of the world, he will be like the 'king' of the abyss, just like Zeus in this world. And just as chaos is hostile to order, the descendants of Tartarus are bound to be hostile to the God-King, and what Gaia needs to do is let it come into this world.

As for how to do it, it's not difficult. There are two sun gods, but Helios can never compare to his father Hyperion. There are also two generations of goddess queens in charge of [Fertility], but at this point, Hera cannot compare to her.

"Ahem..."

"Cough cough cough..."

"call--"

Hope rose in her heart, but the physical fatigue still existed, making Gaia stagger a little.

Violent coughs kept coming from the divine light, and even her spirit was a little blurry. A deep sleepiness swept over Gaia's heart. She knew very well that all these phenomena were caused by the impending collapse of her personality. signs.

The shackles of the world were as thick as the sky, pressing firmly on Gaia's body, making her almost breathless. The increasingly weakened power made her remaining personality crumbling, and it seemed that she would completely disintegrate at any time.

Of course, although it seems like this, Gaia is still certain that this kind of thing will not actually happen. On the one hand, it is because she still has a little bit of strength left and has not reached the end of her life. On the other hand, it is because she is the original god after all, and her body is supported by the material plane.

Even though due to the influence of the degree of personification, the connection between Gaia and her own body is far less close than that of other primitive gods, it still exists after all. This closer connection than the first-generation Titan and the symbol of the priesthood made it impossible for her to completely fall to this step, but it was precisely because of this that she felt such a strong 'sleep'.

Because for her, the so-called 'falling from greatness' actually has another more appropriate way of expression, which is 'half eternal sleep'.

As the Mother of Earth, Gaia cannot be truly weakened to the realm of powerful divine power. However, this does not guarantee that she will do whatever she wants. It is just that she will forcibly stop the moment her personality falls, and then this pressure will be completely transferred to the personification. , until it was forced to disintegrate into nothingness.

Once that day comes, Gaia's will will be directly knocked back to the main body to sleep in order to maintain its own strength. Only this time, she won't be able to choose when to wake up.

It might be ten thousand years, it might be tens of thousands of years, or it might be that she never wakes up again. It all depends on her recovery and the changes in the laws during this period.

And for such a long time... no one knows what will happen.

"Huh...I still have a chance."

"Zeus...as the Earth Mother, my power is never limited to myself!"

Gritting his teeth and cheering up, Gaia continued to fly through the vast underworld.

Gray scenes flashed around her one by one, with occasional bright spots, but she no longer had the energy to pay attention to her surroundings. At this time, Gaia just kept moving forward according to the feeling in the dark, heading towards the younger brother who was born behind him but had never thought about it.

As it continued to get closer, the aura of laws that made the world's gods feel instinctively disgusted gradually became stronger, until at a certain moment, Gaia's semi-conscious spirit shook slightly, and she temporarily became more awake.

Raising his head, the yellow light fell to the ground. Gaia looked around, looking at this familiar yet unfamiliar place.

She had been here more than once, but she had never been inside. Not only because of the danger inside, but also because as one of the main subjects in the world, the Earth Mother also doesn't like the chaotic atmosphere of the abyss.

But now, she has no choice but to go. So standing on this black land infected by the power of the abyss, Gaia looked at the invisible portal formed by the overlap of Tartarus and Hades.

This intersection of laws that connects the inside and outside of the world releases twisted and weird power, constantly washing away the surrounding space like a tide. Even in the underworld, it seems very out of place.

The underworld is orderly after all, but the abyss is not.

"Haha, I really didn't expect that...in the end, you were the only one who hadn't given up on me..."

With a long sigh, Gaia shook her head, seeming to cheer up. Feeling the vastness of the abyss, Mother Earth opened her arms and began to release her divine power and origin.

In an instant, bright yellow filaments poured out from Gaia's body. They swayed forward and intertwined with the chaotic airflow from the other side of the world. It's like one is embracing the other, just like at the beginning of creation, the abyss was born under the earth, and the two are closely connected.

At the same time, following the entangled power of the two at this time, Gaia decisively conveyed her will.

Even if there is no reason, the abyss is closer to 'life' than the world. Therefore, He can give birth to children, as long as there is a mother body that can carry His power, and the infusion from His original power.

"... Come on, come on... Tartarus, merge with me... I will accept your power and give birth to a new holiness, and it will also become your bridge to touch the world..."

Led by strong negative emotions and driven by great hatred, Gaia tried to arouse the desire of Tartarus by driving her own divine power to give birth to all things.

She was no longer powerful enough to take revenge on the gods, but the abyss certainly could. Although until now, Gaia still rejects and hates contact with the power of chaos, and although she also knows that the offspring born in this way will never be as glorious and perfect as the gods, she no longer cares about this.

At this moment, the hatred in Gaia's heart has already overwhelmed them. She just wants to make those existences that have failed her pay the price. So now, she just needs to——

"--Um?"

His expression changed, as if he had encountered something incomprehensible. On the black land, Gaia stared at everything in front of him.

In front of her, the place where Tartarus and Hades overlapped still existed, with indescribable power surrounding it, and the origin of Gaia was still entangled with the breath of the abyss. But at this moment, Earth Mother clearly felt that the power she had exerted seemed to fall into the void, and no matter what kind of breath she released, there was no response from the other party.

No, not just a lack of response. There was even a vague feeling of rejection. It's as if the abyss thinks Gaia is some kind of threat, so it doesn't accept her approach at all.

"Why? This feeling...how is this possible? This is impossible!"

"You obviously only have instinct, how could you reject me?!"

With each word, Gaia lost her composure again. Feeling the sense of alienation coming from the abyss, she couldn't help but feel ridiculous. After just a short sleep, the world seemed to have changed. Now even the abyss, which has remained unchanged for thousands of years, is no longer what it once was.

Propagating life is an act that everyone in the world craves instinctively, and Tartarus should not be an exception. In the past, it was just that Abyss did not have the ability to actively breed life, but now that I have given him the opportunity, why would he refuse?

Unless, He has achieved his purpose through other means. With the first one, Gaia's existence loses its meaning.

"No, no... maybe it won't work outside... I should go in and have a look!"

The hope that had been raised seemed to be shattered. Looking at this twisted space, Gaia gritted her teeth. The abyss is a place that even she dare not go deep into. It can even weaken the connection between the original god and her own body. But now that the matter has come to this, she can only go in and take a look.

So he took one step, the world changed accordingly, and Gaia's figure became blurred. A certain kind of transfer in time and space was taking place, but just when the transfer was about to be completed, an accident happened again.

boom--

With a muffled sound, the originally insubstantial body solidified into substance. As if it hit something, Gaia reappeared on the spot and even immediately took a few steps back.

"Cough cough cough..."

A violent coughing sound came again, but Gaia just looked at the void in front of her in disbelief.

"You refuse my entry? Why, why on earth is this?"

Questions rang out one after another, but Abyss obviously would not respond. Facing her own closed realm, the hope that had just risen in Gaia's heart was shattered again.

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The lavender moonlight shines on the underworld, bringing some life to this gray land.

No one knew that at the entrance of the abyss, something happened that seemed ordinary but ran counter to the original fate.

Tartarus rejected Gaia and even turned her away directly. This was actually something that even Ryan had not thought of. Because in his opinion, the birth of Typhon is destined, which involves the fate of the collision between the two worlds. Therefore, just like the replacement of the God King, the King of Demons will inevitably come to the world. This is why the current time will change no matter what. No ending.

However, regardless of whether you can understand it or not, or whether there is a deeper reason behind it, this is indeed the case. When the core of Tartarus gave birth to his own life, he no longer longed for new life; when another interface opened up in his body, he instinctively began to reject any powerful existence trying to enter his body.

And Gaia, no matter how weak she is, cannot change her original God nature.

"ah--!"

A sharp cry shook the entire underworld, echoing in the endless dust. Countless low-level undead were wiped out in an instant, and in the Garden of Truth, the Pluto Palace, which had just returned to calm, began to shake again, causing Hades's face to change again and again.

He had not had a good life in the past two days. The earth shook and the fish underground was affected. He had no choice but to try his best to stabilize the core of the underworld and hope that the war on the ground would end soon.

But I didn't expect that it was over, and Gaia came to the underworld again. This made Hades a little worried. After all, who couldn't figure out what Mother Earth was thinking? What if she suffered a loss at the hands of Zeus and wanted to take revenge on Pluto?

These are all uncertain things, but no matter what, Hades can only wait for the result. No matter how weak Gaia's power is, it is still beyond his reach.

At the same time, the shrill voice of Mother Earth attracted the attention of other gods. Erebus and Ryan, who had already gone to the surface again, glanced here, and then looked back. The former thought this was just another incompetent rage of Gaia, while the latter thought it was just a prelude to the birth of Typhon.

So after half a day, when the underworld finally returned to silence, when Gaia became quiet, she was still standing alone at the entrance of the abyss, and no existence paid attention to her behavior.

Lying on her back on the ground, Earth Mother's last hope was extinguished. The gods of the world have turned their backs on her, the primitive gods have ignored her, and even the abyss, which has only instinct, is resisting her entry in an almost impossible situation. At this moment, Gaia does not know the meaning of her existence.

Extreme loneliness and despair, and the resulting desire for destruction. She wanted to destroy everything in the world and make everything feel his pain, but she sadly discovered that only in this matter could she attract the world's attention.

As long as she really dares to do this, the laws of this world will naturally respond with the same fierce response to her. She is not the complete greatness integrated with the ontology, which means that her existence itself is not that important.

She has even gradually realized that perhaps the best earth mother for the world is her whose personality is on the verge of collapse and who is sleeping in her true body.

'……Come……'

"Why, why don't you die? Why do you exist in this world, why is everything aimed at me..."

At first he was still gnashing his teeth, but then his voice gradually became deeper. Gaia hoped that something could tell her the answer, but no existence responded to her.

‘………’

At this moment, she even had nowhere to go. Her self-born heirs, the sky, the sea and the mountains have withdrawn from this world, all of which seem to imply something.

'……Come……'

Lying on the ground tiredly, sleepiness came one after another. When the spirit that had been forcibly propped up before calmed down, what greeted Gaia was the deeper oppression of the world.

She once again released her power in the underworld, even though it was not much, but for the Earth Mother who was already in a bad state, this was just adding insult to injury. Her thoughts began to become chaotic. At this moment, Gaia even felt that she was hallucinating. Something was waving to her and calling her forward.

'……Come……'

'……Come……'

"…………Come!"

"who!"

Suddenly waking up, Gaia 'opened' her eyes, but she suddenly discovered that she was no longer in the underworld.

A ray of light and shadow hung in the sky, and the dark red earth seemed to be soaked with blood. In the middle of the sky and earth, chains extended from the void and were tied to an indescribable scarlet giant. What she just saw The arm' is actually a branch of Him.

Life...perfection...unification...all kinds of vague concepts were understood by Gaia. Looking at the giant tree in the distance, she seemed to be looking at some absolute truth in the distance.

"W-where is this...how could I - no!"

"This is still the underworld...I haven't moved at all."

With a jolt of energy, Earth Mother's loose consciousness became a little clearer again. She looked around intently, and this time, Gaia quickly noticed something was wrong.

Whether it is the dark red earth or the majestic and holy giant trees, they are all fake, or to be more precise, they are all reflections refracted from some distant space. The only thing that is real is that branch.

It was a translucent red branch, with its crystal-clear branches and leaves like the most perfect work of art. In other words, its existence itself was synonymous with 'perfect life'.

It defines what is the ultimate of life. Looking at it, the content that I understood from the [Life Aquarius] in the past is so insignificant. In front of Gaia, this branch has been swaying slightly, and some kind of small, but unimaginable power emanates from it. It is this power that previously affected Mother Earth's perception.

Obviously from the perspective of 'quantity', it can't compare to the weakest true god, but with its supreme nature, it temporarily confused the judgment of the original god. Even if Gaia's condition is very bad, this is enough. Shocking. But for Earth Mother at this moment, looking at the strange scene in front of her while alert, she actually felt a little inexplicably happy.

"What is 伱?"

"You came to me...why?"

Speaking softly, no matter what, this strange existence hidden behind the scenes was the only 'person' who gave Gaia a response at this moment. So out of some subtle psychology, she actually developed a slight liking for him.

‘………’

‘………’

'……look……'

‘………’

It seemed that he could not express his meaning clearly. As the branches swayed slightly, no further information was transmitted. Only a flash of light and shadow slowly appeared in front of Mother Earth.

It was a somewhat strange world. In a "vibrant" realm, a giant tree symbolizing life and eternity exists peacefully, and all souls live and work in peace and contentment, living together in harmony. But everything did not last long. One day, the peace was finally broken. Some kind of power from the outside penetrated into this world. It suppressed the power of the giant tree and began to devour and plunder the entire interface. Shortly afterwards, another One of his minions came to this world and saw the beauty of this place and the specialness of the giant tree.

The black figure was so powerful and confident that he simply attacked the giant tree, and the giant tree was forced to fight back. During the fight, due to carelessness at the beginning, a branch inserted into the hand of the man in black, and then turned into power and stayed in it.

Light and shadow flickered, and scenes flashed by quickly. Another figure arrived, and he joined forces with the previous shadow to fight against the enemy, but the giant tree still did not fall behind. But the victory or defeat at the world level ultimately belongs to the world. The giant tree was not defeated by the outsiders, but was eventually sealed with the disintegration of the interface power. From then on, the image of Him disappeared, and only the broken branch remained in the flashing images.

The light and shadow flowed, and this power that was unexpectedly freed from the seal seemed to have experienced a lot. And as time went by, after being expelled several times to no avail, the power of this branch finally became attached to a mass of flesh and blood. In the end, the dark shadow, who had been traumatized by this, took them out together one day and handed them over to a figure that was familiar to Gaia.

That was her former attendant and one of the leaders of the nymphs beside Mother Earth. It's just that the figure is no longer as weak as before, but exudes a powerful aura. Behind her, a tall golden apple tree swayed.

"..."

"..."

"..."

The image ended and everything became clear. The boundless chill invaded the bone marrow, but this time, Gaia did not make any more noise.

She had sobered up a lot after calming down. Gaia knew that besides being a pointless way to vent her emotions, that kind of behavior would only make people laugh.

But with the end of light and shadow, the ancient Earth Mother Goddess clarified many things and solved many doubts.

Chaos lowered his power to suppress the fragments outside the boundary. Erebus and Ryan arrived one after another, and... the figure of his former maid, Moanda.

Perhaps Zeus was indeed not the mastermind - he was just an accomplice of the Dark Lord, and even Ryan was involved, and it was his power that caused Moanda to somehow occupy the golden apple tree as a body. But according to the description of the light and shadow, the annoying spiritual master was probably not the final winner. He was tricked by Erebus and Zeus. So at the end of the 'film', the fruit trees and artifacts belonged to his brother who was hiding in the darkness, and Zeus gained the friendship of the golden apple and another primitive god, but Ryan, who was also involved in all this, gained nothing.

This also explains the reason why Ryan suddenly 'attacked' the gods a few days ago and Erebus 'protected' him. Gaia, who was carried away by anger before, had not thought about it carefully, but now, she felt that she finally saw the truth clearly.

Just like her, Ryan was dissatisfied with the actions of the God King and the Lord of Darkness. It's just that he was not as impulsive as he was. Instead, he chose a suitable moment to retaliate. Even after being blocked for the first time, he took advantage of the situation and chose to give up for the time being. Perhaps this is the most reasonable behavior for the primitive gods. Eternal gods should not care about temporary victory or defeat - but Gaia also knows that if she could have remained calm, she would not have ended up like today. .

The world is easy to change, but the nature is hard to change. Some things cannot be changed just by knowing them. But now that she had figured out everything, Earth Mother also deflected her gaze.

"The underground world...this should belong to me!"

She spoke in a low voice, with overwhelming hatred in her voice. Now, Gaia just wanted to go there immediately, take down the elf who betrayed her master, and let her feel eternal pain. However, just after taking half a step, Earth Mother seemed to have thought of something and couldn't help but stop again.

Erebus... Gaia, who had calmed down a little, finally recalled the gap between the two sides. She knew that unlike Zeus, she had no chance of winning against the Lord of Darkness even if she did not remember the suppression of the law. No matter how hard she tried, no matter how crazy she fought, there was no way she could defeat her brother in the face of absolute power.

So, she needs help.

"What about you, what is your purpose and what do you want to do?"

Turning around and looking at the swaying branches in the void, Gaia suppressed the emotions in her heart.

An existence sealed by Chaos, an existence that can defeat two great divine powers even under the suppression of the world, a divine tree that dominates an interface, no matter what, he is by no means harmless to humans and animals.

Even his cunning brother has suffered a loss because of this. The Lord of Darkness, who has never been exposed to this level of power, has no idea that he has indeed driven out the power like gangrene that attaches to the bone bit by bit, but it actually does not It was not eliminated, but lurked in secret.

This almost [immortal] essence... Gaia couldn't think of anything that could correspond to it for a while. There was only one thing that could be equated with it.

That is the source of the immortality of the gods. Although Gaia felt that the level of [immortality] in the branches in front of her was far from that high, the two sides were already vaguely similar.

If it were power at this level...the Lord of Darkness and Zeus would be nothing more than that.

‘………’

'……you……'

‘………’

'……born……'

‘………’

The branches swayed again, and some hazy thoughts came from them, but Gaia easily understood what he meant.

He needed her, needed her power, and the reason why He chose to appear in front of Mother Earth was precisely because of Gaia's previous hatred for everything in the world and the authority she displayed when facing Tartarus.

The divine right to [reproductive]...this is the only thing He wants Gaia to do. There is no need to provide power. It is only responsible for being the mother body. As the most up-and-coming primitive god in the world of Chaos, Gaia gives birth to the mother tree and her offspring, and then gives this life the identity of walking in the world.

The birth of this new life has only two missions - to leave more 'traces' in Khaos for the Mother Tree, and to obey the Earth Mother's orders and help her complete some things - such as what she expected, to the God King. and temporal revenge.

"...So, you want me to betray the laws of this world and attract the invasion of an outsider like you?"

After a moment of silence, looking at the branches in front of him, Gaia seemed to be talking to Him, or to himself.

"Of course you can, but what you gave me isn't enough."

Gently clenching her fist, Gaia felt the opponent's strength again. It is very powerful and very corrosive, but in any case, it is impossible for it to corrupt an original god while the laws of this world are still intact.

Although the order of the world is becoming more and more disgusting to Gaia, she still will not let Mother Earth's consciousness be infected by other things. So thinking of her powerlessness when facing Zeus and the pressure that the law had been pressing on her so far, she finally made up her mind.

"Mother...tree...right, I'll call you that."

"I can agree to your request, but if it has it, I should have it too."

"The power you give it...you must also leave a share for me."

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Silently, in the corner of Hades, the remnants of the foreign land reached an agreement with the earth mother of Chaos, and the seeds of a new life began to grow in the depths of the earth.

It carries the fate of Typhon, but it is more than that. In this increasingly unpredictable world, it will definitely leave more traces on the world and change the direction of destiny.

[Lord of Billions of Demons], some people called it this in later generations; others believe that it is a symbol of depravity, the source of many [evil things] in ancient times, and the beginning of many disasters in the material world. But no matter what, as the son of the [Mother Tree of Flesh and Blood], there is one thing that is recognized by later generations of mystical scholars.

The end of the ancient third ancient era is closely related to it, and in that lost history, it must also be an indispensable existence.