I Will Be the Son of Man

Hera was silent for a while, she stared at the picture in the water, her golden pupils narrowed, as if she was observing something.

"I think your worry may be unnecessary. Although the child is still in a state of blank paper, the 'seed' seems to have been planted long ago."

"No matter what the impact will be in the future, the nature of this child will not change too much."

"Is that what you think?"

Zeus glanced at Hera, and seemed a little surprised that the other party would make such an answer.

Hera nodded lightly, the meaning she wanted to express was clear without having to say it out loud.

"If that's the case, let's wait and see..."

Looking at the picture on the water together, Zeus's words were full of expectation.

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After leaving the forest hut, Hill embarked on a journey to find Uruk alone.

Looking at the silver gauntlet in his hand and the [New Moon] silver bow contained in it, Hill learned about the abilities of these two things from Artemis.

The silver bow has [bow force that ignores range], while the gauntlet has [blessing of invariable shots].

Compensating for strength and precision, and adjusting the ability as a shooter almost to the limit, it is completely a standard artifact.

Of course, Hill didn't really understand this. The only thing he knew was that the gauntlet and the silver bow allowed him to shoot everything he wanted.

Ripples of silver emerged from his hand, Hill took an apple from it, bit it down, and ate it.

For this strange ability that suddenly appeared, Hill only had a vague feeling.

He knew that he could throw anything he wanted into this silver ripple, but only living things were not allowed.

Moreover, there seems to be a lot of space inside the ripples.

Although I don't understand where it leads to there, and why it can show itself, as long as it can hold countless apples, Hill already thinks it is very practical.

Since he didn't have a horse, along the way, Hill walked out of the forest on foot, and then came to a relatively open field.

Because of the desolate location and the fact that his footsteps were actually very fast, without the guidance of a corresponding passerby, Hill soon found himself lost.

Yes, lost.

That's what I should say about my current state.

Hill thought for a while, and made sure that his current situation fit this concept. He looked left and right at the sparsely populated fields and sparse bushes, and then looked up at the sun in the sky that had sunk below the horizon, as if he was a little confused. Blinking, not sure where to go next.

He ensured Hill's safety, but forgot that Hill didn't know the terrain. I'm afraid this is the common negligence of Artemis and Atalanta.

Not choosing to move on, Hill picked up some dry branches on the spot and piled them together, recalling the way Merlin and Anna lit the fire in his mind, and started to imitate them.

It takes forever to try from theory to practice. After several failures, Hill looked at the flames in front of him, and his chest was different from the feeling of blockage in the past. On the contrary, there was a strange feeling of overflowing. got there.

Without thinking about what it was, Hill unconsciously approached the flame and squinted his eyes, as if enjoying it very much.

After a while, a sense of hunger came from his abdomen. Hill took out the wild pork that Atalanta asked him to bring from the silver ripples, and started his first roast.

Cooking requires accumulated experience. Seeing that many parts of the barbecue in his hand had turned black, Hill didn't mind, and started to eat slowly.

Bitter, astringent, and much harder to chew than before, and there is not much gravy.

But Hill still ate in small bites, and felt a little strange at the same time.

It's obviously bad-tasting barbecue, so why does he think the barbecue in his hand tastes "very good".

Unable to understand the origin of this emotion in his heart, Hill looked up at the starry sky after eating the barbecue, and was slightly dazed until a strange voice suddenly sounded in his ear, and then pulled back his attention.

"Sorry, because I happened to see a fire here when I was passing by, so I came here to take a look."

"Mind if I sit here for a while, boy?"

The old man with white hair and white beard, wearing a traveling robe, asked in the dark.

PS1: Today's Chapter 1 will be delivered, and Chapter 2 will be delivered before [-]pm!Recently, the biological clock has been a little out of balance, so I have to adjust the state, please forgive me, cuties!

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Chapter 013: The Swamp

The old man with white hair and white beard appeared in the darkness without any warning. It should be said that Hill didn't even smell the other party's body before the other party made a sound.

"can."

The golden pupils stared at the old man for a while, but he didn't feel any aura that could be called "dangerous" from the other person, so Hill nodded.

"That's really great. Although this area is relatively desolate, there are still many wild animals at night. I am really grateful for a place to stay."

The old man smiled, then sat down on the stone opposite Hill, stretched out his hands to warm himself up, looking very comfortable.

Hill turned his head to look at the old man, and his nose twitched slightly.

This time, he actually smelled something that didn't exist before from the other party.

However, the transmitted smell is very complex, not only has a tingling smell that makes people feel numb, but also has a variety of floral fragrances, and at the same time has strands of metallic smell.

It's completely different from the humans I've seen before. The scent carried by the old man is too complicated.

"Young man, here alone at this late hour, are you also traveling?"

Suddenly, the old man raised the topic and asked first.

"Ah."

Hill nodded lightly, and at the same time took out two apples from the silver ripple, handed one of them over and said.

"Apple, do you want to eat?"

"Apple... If that's the case, then I'll accept it bluntly!"

The old man only showed a slight interest in the sudden appearance of the apple, but he didn't ask much.

Reaching out his hand to take the apple and biting it down, the old man started talking on his own.

"Speaking of which, traveling is really a good thing! It can not only increase your knowledge, but also meet more people. Looking at you like this, I think of the time when I went out alone on a journey a long time ago. …”

As if caught in his own memory, the old man's eyes gradually became deep, and gradually, he stopped speaking.

Hill glanced at the old man who was suddenly silent, but he didn't care.

He just lowered his head and ate the apple, staring straight at the beating bonfire.

Just like that, the atmosphere between the two suddenly became strangely quiet.

"What? Business? I know, I'm just getting old, I'm just feeling a little bit, it's not that I forgot..."

Suddenly, as if talking to himself or talking to someone else, the old man murmured softly, and then sighed softly.

"By the way, young man, if you don't mind, can you talk to me, an old man whose half leg has been buried in the ground, about the purpose of your trip this time?"

"Of course, I just want to chat. After all, at this age, listening to other people's stories is my only pastime now."

The old man laughed twice, stretched out his hand to stroke his white beard, and looked at Hill expectantly.

"I'm going to find Uruk."

He answered the other party without any pause. From Hill's point of view, he also wanted to learn about Uruk from the old man.

"Uruk? Which city-state or place name is this?"

"Although I have traveled to many places over the years, this is the first time I have heard such a strange name..."

The old man frowned, and after thinking for a while, shook his head.

"You too, don't you know?"

He bowed his head and was silent for a while. Although Hill didn't say anything, he could make people feel his faint loss.

"Oh! Don't worry about it, boy! After all, it's just that I haven't heard of it, and it doesn't mean that everyone in this land has never heard of it."

"If you continue to search, maybe you will be able to find the place you want to go!"

The old man comforted, and at the same time his eyes became deep again, as if containing endless wisdom.

"Gains and losses are things that can be learned well during the journey."

"Taste it well, feel it, and let yourself grow, boy!"

As if full of some kind of expectation, the old man said meaningfully.

"By the way, if you really don't know where to go, try to look towards the west! It's the direction where the sun sets every day..."

As if worried that the other party did not understand the concept of orientation, the old man explained in an easy-to-understand manner.

"Which direction does the sun set?"

Hill raised his head, intending to ask again, but found that the old man sitting across from him had long since disappeared, only a pile of stones remained under the light and shadow of the bonfire.

"It's gone..."

Standing up and sniffing left and right, there was no trace of the smell from the old man around. Hill looked down at the apple in his hand and blinked, as if confused.

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——Let’s go in the direction where the sun goes down...

Hill, who was already in a "lost" state, lost his purpose, and for the time being, followed the words of the old man who suddenly appeared and disappeared last night, and started heading west.

With his footsteps enough to surpass Atalanta, after several sunrises and sunsets, Hill finally came to a different wilderness.

It seems to be a huge wet woodland bred by a swamp, but it seems that due to some ecological problems, the color of the swamp forest from the outside to the center gradually changes from emerald green to autumn yellow, so that when it reaches When it was almost in the center, an area was completely vacated.

Smelling a faint smell from the swamp forest, Xierben wanted to avoid this strange woodland, but just at this moment, he felt a sense of hunger in his abdomen, and the wild boar stored on his body also It was eaten up a few days ago.

As for, Apple...

If Hill understands the term "strategic goods," Apple means that to Hill.

Unless it is absolutely necessary, Hill will not use apples as a source of food, because in that case, the apples will be eaten soon.

The [New Moon] silver bow appeared on Baiyin's left hand armor. Hill walked into the swamp forest and started the hunting that he was most familiar with before, but now he has changed it in a different way.

Sniffing the smell in the forest lightly, and filtering out the rotten fine stench autonomously, Hill suddenly smelled a familiar smell.