Myth: The Spiritual Dominator

"This is what happened... Hermes, go to the underworld and tell me what happened there."

Outside the sacred mountain, it was bright a moment ago, but now it is dark. The tone of the whole world became a little dark for a while, but standing in front of the throne, Zeus's divine power dispelled the chill in the air, but failed to dispel the chill in his heart.

Hades is dead, and even now the God King still can't believe it. He is even more inclined to think that it is some kind of misjudgment. After all, he had never heard of a god dying since the creation of heaven and earth.

So Zeus called his messenger, and he asked him to go to the underworld to see it in person. After all, when it comes to speed, Hermes may not be the crown of the gods, but he is still the main god worshiped by travelers. His unique authority allows him to easily travel between the two realms and quickly travel between the earth and the underworld. This is why the God King asked him to be his messenger.

However, after a while, no one in the temple responded to Zeus's call, so the God King looked around and finally set his sights on Helios.

"...Your Majesty, Hermes has not returned since he left seven days ago."

Seeing Zeus looking at him, Helios had no choice but to respond.

"...Yes, that's what happened. He went there on my order."

After a moment of silence, Zeus remembered this matter.

He thought that the other party had come back, but now it was obvious that he had not. Although several days have passed, Hermes is still still in the world.

Maybe after completing the tasks he assigned, he went to other places to play, which is what he often does on weekdays. This was not a big deal at first, but now, it was obvious that I couldn't spend time waiting for him.

"call--"

Exhaling a breath, the hesitation in the God King's heart dissipated.

He admitted that he was a little scared just now, even though he didn't know who his enemy was yet. Although the immortality of the gods has been an iron law since the creation of the world, the movements coming from the source sea are also never false.

If two Absolutes were in conflict with each other, one of them was obviously being violated, and that was what he was worried about.

Therefore, Zeus immediately wanted people to test it first, which was also his consistent habit. But after calming down, he gave up this idea.

If Hades' 'death' was indeed fake, there would be nothing to fear. And if it's true...

"Then everyone, come with me to see it now."

The God King said calmly.

The next moment, with a violent roar, golden light flew from a palace in the sacred mountain and fell directly into the palm of Zeus, which was his [Thunder].

He hasn't used it for many years, because since Typhon, there have been few opponents in the world worthy of using his full strength. At this moment, Zeus's mood calmed down as he held the artifact that accompanied him all the way to the battle.

If Hades is dead, then no matter what caused all this, as long as it has consciousness, it will never be possible for it and the gods to coexist... Since it has to be faced eventually, what's the point of delaying?

The three generations of god-kings of Chaos may be different from each other, but at least they are very similar in one thing. At least from beginning to end, they dared to swing their swords at powerful enemies when there was no way to avoid it.

So he walked out of the palace and stood on the top of the sacred mountain. Zeus looked towards the earth.

First there were layers of gray clouds, which were arranged from bottom to top, as if they were cutting off the sky and the world.

Through these rain-stained clouds, the trembling of the earth continues. The God King flicked his right hand, and the shining silver snake on [Thunder] fell from the sky like a chain, sinking deeply into the four poles of the earth.

"Come on, let me see what you are."

It is naturally impossible to step directly into the underworld. Courage is not recklessness, so he held the other end of the chain and Zeus pulled hard.

There was no change at first, and the roar of the earth was obscured by the original vibration. However, soon, Olympus sank slightly, and the extremely vast strata were uprooted by the God King and flew towards the sky.

If you don't want to go underground, then lift the 'lid', this is what Zeus thinks. So the earth rose under his great power, and all living beings howled in despair. But no one could stop him. Even the gods behind Zeus were shocked by such terrifying power for a while and forgot about life in the world.

Until the next moment, a bright light suddenly rose from the ground, causing the earth to separate from left to right.

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"The seventh day."

In just a few days, the appearance of the dark and deep underworld has changed.

The shadow of the sun hung high in the sky, even becoming more solid. It releases more and more powerful light and heat, making the gray earth seem to be purified, revealing a little darkness.

The underworld seems to have lost some of its original characteristics, and it is gradually moving closer to the ordinary 'earth'. This seems like a good thing—if you ignore the other side of it.

At this moment, standing in the sky and looking down, the originally vast underworld has only a radius of less than a hundred miles, and even at the very edge, it is still disintegrating and wasting away. The originally vast space was empty, and there was only the endless void that carried the existence of the world.

The void has no size, and even compared to the matter within the world, it does not even exist. If there is "nothing" outside the world and "being" inside the world, then the void that carries the world is the being in "nothing" and the nothing in "being".

There is no matter here, and this is what it was like when the world was first born. Now standing in the void, after about to destroy a world with his own hands, Ryan also had a deeper understanding of the beginning of creation.

He doesn't know why the world was born, and how the first concept came into being out of absolute nothingness, just like future generations of humans don't know how the heaven, earth, and universe first appeared. They could only try their best to try to guess the initial state of all things, but in the end they could not explain how it came about in the first place.

Just like the physical rules in the world, they are objectively existing things. If there must be a reason, it is that 'everything is born this way'.

So if we had to give this 'initial driving force' a name, then Ryan felt that 'Tao' might be more suitable to describe it. The original "one" born of "Tao" is the void that carries the world.

It is "there" for absolute "nothing", but it does not exist for everything in the world. It is on its basis that "one" gave birth to "two", and the mutually opposing but unified matter and spirituality were born together. When the two meet, everything begins.

Now, the collapse of the world also follows such a process. As the scope of the underworld becomes smaller and smaller, and more and more matter disintegrates, Ryan can feel that the spiritual part of it is also disintegrating. When everything ends, this place will return to the environment at the beginning of creation, with nothing but void.

"In this way, the latest time I came to this world should be before the birth of this 'two'."

Making a judgment silently, although Ryan didn't know what the use was, it didn't stop him from keeping it in mind. He has always paid much attention to the period when he was initially unconscious.