[Greek mythology] Born to be arrogant

There was a burst of clear and crisp laughter.

Soft, yet icy cold.

Iapetus held his son's body and looked up, his red eyes seemed to be possessed.But that icy cold voice still came from all directions, revealing the chill that penetrated deep into the bones.

"Does it hurt? Is it sad?"

"You know, when I watched Apollo die in my arms..."

"I wish I could die with him, but my mind is full of him. He laughed heartily, his gentle eyes, his warm hands... Oh, and I had a big fight with him, because I think he If you don't take me to the Temple of Order, you will dislike me..."

"Prometheus has been eaten by eagles for 3000 years. No amount of hatred will settle into the killing intent in his bones. I understand, and you must understand better than me. But Iapetus, do you still remember that Prometheus was Why were you punished?"

"One, he deceived Zeus in the sacrificial offering, replacing beef with a cow's stomach and bone."

"Second, he stole the sky fire."

"He claimed to steal the skyfire for human beings, but according to Athena, he distributed the gifts that Zeus bestowed to many races ahead of time. When the human race came to him, he had nothing to do but steal the skyfire."

"Do you believe in Prometheus or Athena?"

"I only believe that Zeus imprisoned my son." Iapetos said in a deep voice.

"Well, an excellent reason."

As soon as the words fell, the sky and the earth were covered with a layer of moonlight like a gauze, and a round of clear moon slowly rose, softer than water, but colder than ice.Stepping on the moonlight, Diana walked slowly from mid-air, with drop-shaped sapphires hanging from the silver forehead ornament, like teardrops that have flowed away.

She smiled shallowly, raised the golden scepter, and slanted it across her chest, as if singing: "In the name of the moon god, I will teach the sky and the earth: Time must be frozen, space must be curled, atoms must be Divided into finer particles, on the scale of quarks, space-time will be boiled into a boiling hot particle soup!"

No one could understand what she was saying, not even the staggering Iapetus.

"You have lost, my lord." She smiled softly, with tears in her eyes.

"It's a pity—it's a pity that the sun god has disappeared forever, and it's a pity that your children can never return! Lord Iapetus, why don't we die together?"

what……

perish together?

Iapetos looked up at the hazy sky and the earth, only to realize that the surroundings had changed at some point.All the mountains, rivers, plants, trees and rivers disappeared, and even the sun and stars disappeared, leaving only a bright moon in the whole world, which was so bright that it could illuminate countless dirt, countless filth, and countless... people's hearts.

"You are the god who protects mankind, and so is Prometheus." He heard the moon god say to him in an indifferent tone, "but you should not use the name of 'guardian' to harm the gods!...Especially , my brother."

She laughed softly, and in the hazy moonlight, there was a stern chill.

"I defend myself, Lord Iapetus."

"I'm not as great as you, let alone endured for thousands of years like you."

"I admit that my means are insidious, and I also admit that my behavior is biased. But I think I will never hurt innocent people, never."

"I hate it most when someone seeks personal revenge in the name of nobleness."

"Do you know? At that moment, when you said 'the earth revolves around the sun', when you revealed your intention to 'use the sun god Apollo', how much I thought—— Kill you."

"But I won't do that."

"Because I'll keep you...watch..."

Her voice gradually became blurred and drifted away with the cold wind.Iapetos stood up abruptly, pulled out the saber from his waist, and slashed at the surrounding moonlight frantically.But every time I slashed, I only hit... the familiar shadows one after another, Oceanos, Gaia, Hyperion, Erebus...

"No...no!!!" He started yelling frantically.

Accompanied by his roar, the surrounding moonlight began to disperse little by little, like a broken glass cover, splashing all over the sky.He is horrified to find that Prometheus is no longer there.Prometheus, who was lying at his feet just now and fell into a deep sleep quietly, his most beloved child, was gone.

"Diana!!!" His eyes were red, and he shouted with all his might.

He was answered by a continuous clattering sound.

The glass cover cast by the moonlight has been completely shattered, and the scattered moonlight has peeled off this broken world little by little, leaving only devastated and hideous faces.

Iapetos gradually reacted, laughed a few times, and slashed down hard along the trajectory of the moonlight shattering.

slam-la-

The whole world collapsed completely, the space began to distort, and the sword in his hand turned into a quill, writing the cruelest words on the scroll of order:

——In order to follow the simple beauty of the mathematical world, the stars will abandon the perfect circle.

—Everything in the world grows and perishes, including the sun, the moon, and the stars.

——Time crumbles in...

"Lord Iapetus."

A clear and cold voice came from behind, accompanied by the misty moonlight sweeping around, which made Iapetos couldn't help but have an urge to tremble.

He turned his head slowly, and found that all the gods were looking at him leisurely, standing or sitting, or stroking the golden scepter or holding their arms, their eyes were all cold, and there was a look of "I've been waiting for you for a long time." I can see right through you."

Iapetos felt a little uneasy for no reason.

No, he shouldn't have been upset.

The earth revolves around the sun, which is the supreme aesthetic logic of the universe.As long as you have it...

Your suffering will not be in vain, my dear son, Prometheus.

Iapetos suddenly calmed down, looked at Zeus with a sneer, and Zeus also looked at him with a sneer.

Iapetus froze suddenly.

this smile...

Zeus' smile...

It is exactly the same as the moon god Diana!

He turned his head to look in horror, and sure enough, he saw that the Moon God had already sat back on Xiwei, with a smile on his lips, and two slender, white fingers gently tapped the table, du, du, du... There is a strange feeling of chills in the vest.

This goddess... this goddess...

He suddenly remembered the words Luna said when he confronted Luna last time: the horizon should be closed.

He has calculated for a full 30 years, together with countless amazing and talented scholars, but he has never been able to figure out what is meant by "the horizon should be closed".

It wasn't until later, when he accidentally passed by the residence of the Night God Clan, that he realized that it was already pitch black, and he could no longer enter or exit.

Is it her handwriting?

He didn't know, but it didn't prevent him from feeling the fear.

"Lord Iapetus." Luna said leisurely, "Why...don't continue?"

As if awakened from a dream, Iapetos gave Diana a hard look, turned around and wrote new words on the scroll of order:

- the world should...

A hand suddenly stretched out from the slanting thorn, and snatched his quill.

That hand was slender and well-articulated, with thin calluses on the pads of the fingers, especially the sides of the thumb and little finger.This is the trace left by long-term use of bows and arrows.Iapetos turned his head slowly, and saw a handsome face without exception, as well as... golden sunlight scattered in the air.

Apollo the sun god.

Iapetus turned his head and found that the moon god was looking sideways at the sun god who descended suddenly, and his eyes were full of love.

She loves him.

Even Iapetus, who was a passer-by, could clearly feel Diana's... kind of deep-rooted, but almost desperate love for Apollo.

— She said the sun god was dead.

— because of him.

——No wonder she hated him so much that she had to put him to death.

--what.

——But the sun god still had to die, and the moon god... also had to die.

——Because the blood of Zeus flows in their bodies...

——This is the original sin.

Iapetos imitated Luna and smiled coldly.Sun God still looked at him motionless, his five fingers slightly closed, and after two slight clicks, the quill in his hand was completely shattered into pieces.

"It's you." Sun God stated a sentence flatly.

"Yes, it's me." Iapetus laughed, "Zeus killed your son, don't you hate him?"

The Sun God's body froze slightly, and the sunlight in the air also began to froze.He tilted his head slightly to look at Diana, a trace of imperceptible pain flashed in his sea-blue eyes, then he slowly turned his head and said word by word: "You are not qualified to be buried with the gods."

"Hey, I'm not qualified? Then who is qualified? You? Apollo?!"

"I understand your mood, Iapetus." The sun god looked at him, and the tall figure invisibly caused a strong sense of oppression, which made Iapetos feel an inexplicable unhappiness, "But I Love Diana more."

"That's not a contradiction," said Iapetus grimly.

"This is very contradictory." The sun god smoothed the scroll of order, and said slowly, "Aspirekous' death is indeed his own fault, and secondly - he can be resurrected. You know what I want most What do you want to do? What I want to do most is to create an eternal golden kingdom for my favorite goddess, so that she can live happily forever."

pat.

A small sound caught the attention of the two of them.When she turned her head to look, the goddess of the moon accidentally dropped the golden scepter, her fingertips trembling slightly, she looked at the sun god Apollo, unable to speak a word.

The sun god's eyes were gradually stained with an intoxicating tenderness.

"As you can see, I entered your dream, Diana."