The Red Dragon Emperor from Douluo Continent

"Andre, I'm fine. Mr. Longcheng finally kept his hand." Tony stimulated the little magic power in his body to recover from his injury.

"Leave the Hera Stone Pillar to me." Long Cheng said to the two, and then turned and left with Athena and Liliana.

"Long Cheng-jun, I have a question."

Tony's weak voice came from behind.

"...Say it."

Long Cheng stopped and replied.

"That sword... what is it called?"

"God Extinguisher——Star Buster (StarBuster)!"

After speaking, Long Cheng took the two of them back to the second-hand bookstore. Since it was getting late, everyone decided to deal with the matter of the Hera Stone Pillar after dinner. Anyway, Long Cheng was not in a hurry.

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After eating the sumptuous dinner prepared by Lily, everyone arrived at the location of the Hera Stone Pillar.

Santa Lucia area.

This is a tourist attraction facing the Bay of Naples, including Santa Lucia Port and Egg Castle.

Everyone entered an old clothes store in that area and said hello to the aunt in the store.

Even if it sounds nice, it is not a beautiful shop. The fat lady proprietress who matches the shop very well leads Liliana, Long Cheng and Athena to the depths of the shop. She is actually Diyana. The witch at hand.

In the depths of the store is a place that is absolutely impossible for non-witches to see—the entrance to an underground ruin.

On the uncovered ground, a four-cornered cave was suddenly opened, and stone stairs extended to the ground. Although the light was dim, none of the people present walked down the stairs without needing a flashlight.

This is a long and slender underground passageway like an abandoned tunnel.

If it dates back to BC, this place was originally a quarry, so it is natural that it looks like an abandoned tunnel, but the large number of murals carved on the walls are not the same thing.

They are all simple and unadorned line drawings. If it is said that they were carved by humans in the Stone Age, some people may believe it.

There are many snake-like creatures painted on the walls.There are large snakes with long bodies curled up, hydras with multiple heads, and snakes with wings like bream bats. Various snakes are carved on the walls.

Others can also see some line drawings of cows, birds, pigs and lions.

As long as people with a bit of magic training see it, they will know that these are all symbols of the Mother Goddess. The period when these murals were carved is probably after the era of the Roman Empire.

Of course, these were introduced by Liliana to Long Cheng, after all, he didn't know much about various myths.

"...I always feel that there are more elements of 'snake', and then 'cow'?"

"Because this used to be the location of the underground secret temple...

Ever since a patriarchal monotheistic religion became the state religion, priestesses who used to possess divine power were all regarded as "witches" and hunted down.

So they fled underground, and in order to protect their wisdom, they built these underground temples for the purpose of conveying information.

These murals are carved out of the witch's belief object, trying to imitate the posture of God. "

"So, snakes seem to be the patron saint of witches, why?" Long Cheng asked the two of them.

"Because in the ancient world, the priestess who served the Mother Earth Goddess was the archetype of a 'witch'.

With the popularization of Christianity, Europe lost its beliefs since ancient times, and it can also be said to be suppressed and resisted. In the process, the witches who were supposed to be holy were persecuted and became feared and tabooed.

Most of the ancient earth goddesses were goddesses of life and death who ruled both the earth and the underworld.

Concubines (Athena), Ishtar, Isis, Tiamat, Hiberia, etc. are too numerous to mention. Aphrodite, known as the goddess of love and beauty, was originally a powerful goddess of the earth.

And the holy beast that represents the cycle between death and life is the snake.

Therefore, the snake is a symbol of the earth mother, the guardian of the witches. "

The answer to Long Cheng was Athena who kept silent all the time.

"Then, is this Hera Temple the place where your companions hid?"

"Yes, the Gorgon Stone discovered a few months ago is the seal of the goddesses Medusa and Athena, and the Temple of Hera is the seal of the goddess Hera. There are such legends in ancient times. Hera has Goddess of curly hair and cow's eyes—each of these seals reveals the divinity of the Earth Mother."

Liliana glanced at Athena, then said. .

Not long after walking, everyone came to the interior of the temple.

A column made of black stone similar to obsidian appeared in front of everyone.

299. Artificial God Destroyer

From the floor of an underground temple that was once a quarry long ago, a tree grows.

There is a line drawing that looks like a serpent entrenched on the surface. Although it is only a poor carving, it has a magical power that can attract the attention of the viewer.

The height is about two meters, and the material is black. This is the appearance of the Hera Stone Pillar.

Long Cheng clearly felt that the power of the earth was being continuously absorbed by the stone pillar.

"It's sucking the spirit of the earth."

"That's right, the person who discovered this stone pillar in Greece and worked hard to move it to this place was the Neapolitan witch hundreds of years ago—our ancestors.

It happened to be the spring of this year—the time when the Stone of Gorgon was discovered in Calabria, and it seemed to be in order to respond to the other party and began to store mana power. Fortunately, it was not so strong at the beginning, so Miss Diana could organize people to weave The barrier of "Hidden" hides it, but..."