[Greek mythology] Born to be arrogant

world.

Kingdom of Thessaly.

After getting Apollo's promise, Diana was stunned for a while.

She didn't expect Apollo to be so easy to talk to.In other words, I didn't expect Apollo with golden eyes to be so eloquent.

Isn't he... has a bad temper?

"What does His Highness the Sun God say?" King Felekis shook his beard nervously behind her.However, in just one day and one evening, he felt that his hair and beard had turned gray again.

"Your Highness has promised." Diana stood up and breathed a sigh of relief, "Please rest assured, Father, just... His Highness the Sun God will not anger the Kingdom of Thessaly."

"And you?" King Felekis asked.

Diana smiled: "Don't worry about my father, I'm... fine."

Diana is a pretty mobile goddess.Even if he becomes a human, he is quite a man of action.

So the next morning, she packed her luggage and followed Ramses to the vast Aegean Sea, then detoured from the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea, sailed into the flooded Nile River, and really set foot on that ancient and rich land.

On the boat, Ramses carefully analyzed the situation in Egypt with her, and explained to her clearly all the things that needed attention.Diana took it seriously.However, before entering the Nile, there were still two small episodes.

In the first episode, Apollo suddenly came to the world on a dark and stormy night, and boarded Ramses' kingship without any prior notice.And Diana happened to be on Ramses' kingship.

One is the first priest and favorite concubine of the Sun God, and the other is the pharaoh from a foreign country, plus the Sun God who descended suddenly, it really feels like a rape.

Following Apollo came Athena, the goddess of wisdom, and Venus, the goddess of beauty.

After seeing Diana, Athena simply said two words: "No wonder."

Venus gritted her teeth: "The goddesses of Olympus are saying that Princess Thessaly is naturally beautiful, and she is not much less than the goddess of beauty. It turns out that it is...but that's all."

Diana smiled slightly, not getting angry with Venus.The capital that a main god depends on for food is suddenly challenged by humans, so naturally he wants to talk to the person concerned about his life.For example, you cannot say that someone is more intelligent than her in front of Athena, and you cannot say that someone has more status than her in front of Hera.

Venus took a breath and continued: "The first time I saw you just now, I almost thought that you were the moon god Diana."

After not seeing her for several months, Diana's hair color and pupil color became lighter, her complexion became fairer, and her figure became taller, getting closer to her appearance when she was the moon god.She glanced at Apollo quietly, and tentatively said, "I am indeed Diana..."

Apollo suddenly reached out and pinched her fragile throat, thinking about how hard he should use to completely crush her from body to soul.

"...a shadow left in the world."

Apollo slowly let go, and in front of Athena and Venus, he said word by word: "Remember what I said. Anyone who dares to offend her...die."

His voice was extremely cold, not at all like the bright and fiery sun god, but like the majesty deep in the underworld.

Diana took a deep breath and nodded.

It is terribly unwise to argue with a god who is caught in a nightmare, utterly bereft of emotion and sanity.

She understands, but she also feels more and more uncomfortable and distressed.

That night, Apollo hugged her to sleep as before.But for some unknown reason, he kept frowning deeply, repeating three ravings:

"I'm sorry, Diana. I'm sorry."

"Until Mother wakes up, I can't get you...get you back."

"I miss you. I miss you so much...I miss you so much...always..."

The second episode, comes from a person, or god, whom we haven't seen in nearly 30 years, Orion.

Orion's first words when he saw her were: "You are really getting more and more beautiful, Diana."

Diana was stunned: "Everyone thinks I'm just the shadow of the moon god, so you're so sure I'm her?"

Orion said quite seriously, "Because your beauty is beyond human."

Diana was about to pick up the things at hand and give him something, but she forcibly held back.

Conservation, conservation.

"I'm not joking, Diana." Orion looked quite serious, "Did you never realize that even the most beautiful human girl will be compared to the most ordinary goddess in the God Realm?"

Diana thought about it carefully, and it seemed that this was indeed the case.Goddesses are born with better skin than humans, brighter eyes, more coordinated facial features, more protruding figure, more curved back, and more charming temperament... After adding up all kinds of things, she really didn't find any human beings A girl can be compared to a goddess.In the human world, if a woman is said to be as beautiful as a god, that is a very high praise.

Seeing that she was silent, Orion knew that she had already thought about it, and continued: "For gods, appearance and demeanor are almost directly related to divine power."

Diana immediately picked up the things at hand and gave him another blow: "You mean, the power of Apollo and Venus surpassed all gods, including the sleeping Chaos God Chaos?!"

"No." Orion denied it categorically, "Apollo and Venus' looks are indeed top-notch among the gods, but they are also natural." He paused for a moment, and said very seriously, "However, once a certain god As the power of the god becomes stronger, his/her appearance will also become more outstanding. It is 'becoming more outstanding', not 'natural', understand?"

Diana remembered what Orion said when he saw her just now: You are really getting more and more beautiful, Diana.

"Do you know what this means, Diana?" Orion's serious expression seemed to be facing his father, King Poseidon, "Your divine power has increased. The godhead, divinity and divine power of the gods It was born, but your divine power has been enhanced."

Since Orion's last words were too earth-shattering, Diana graciously kept him on board.Ramses' tutoring class has been upgraded from the life of the Egyptian sun god priest to the personality of the high priest, and the parchment used by Diana to record has also piled up a thick pile.Orion wandered around them every day, always repeating a sentence: "It's really different."

Diana wanted to throw the thick stack of parchment in his face.

Finally, on a clear day, at noon when the scorching sun meant that Apollo had no time to pay attention to the world, Orion confessed to her: "I do want something from you, Diana."

Diana let out a "hmm", and Ramses next to him touched the whip with great interest, thinking whether he should eavesdrop on the gossip of the gods openly.

"At first, I wanted to make you fall in love with me." Orion didn't shy away from Ramses, and stated his purpose so bluntly, "From the beginning when I led you to Lake Nemi, to our Every word from meeting to saying to you is pre-designed." He shrugged, "I guess, if you have watched Apollo's top handsome face for two or three thousand years, you will definitely not I think how good-looking I am. The only thing I can compare to Apollo is my figure and shamelessness."

Diana looked him up and down.The figure is still not as good as Apollo.It's shameless.

"It's a pity that you 'died' later, and all my plans collapsed." He continued to shrug, "Now if I want to chase you, I will definitely be shot to death by the Sun God, at least it will be a bad death. Now the Sun God... tsk tsk ...I'm ashamed to call him Apollo."

As soon as the word "death" came out, Diana's body shook slightly, her face was also a little pale, and something was faintly coming out of her mind.

"So I decided to have a showdown with you." He pointed to Ramses and said, "cooperate with you like him."

"Cooperation?"

"Remember what I once told you, 'a very important thing'?" Orion continued, "My father, you know, he has always been dissatisfied with the result of the lottery." That's why he created it all by himself. Overlord of the sea Atlantis.

Diana nodded slowly.

"He wants to use his hand to achieve certain goals."

(Drawing lots: After defeating Cronus, Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon drew lots to divide and rule the world. Zeus drew the sky, Hades drew the underworld, and Poseidon drew the sea. shared by the three gods.)

Diana turned Orion's words in her head twice, and understood.

The first "he" refers to his old man Poseidon, His Majesty the Sea King who has always been worried about the results of the lottery.

The second "he" refers to Apollo, the golden-eyed Apollo, who is full of resentment towards Zeus.

"This is indeed a very important bargaining chip..."

Diana slowly raised her head to look at him, the brilliance flowing in her glazed eyes.

"But, what do you want from me?"

Orion said half-jokingly and half-seriously: "If I get you, it's best to have your heart."

Diana's eyes gradually turned cold.

Under her cold gaze, he shrugged helplessly: "The next best thing, everything an ordinary god can have? Strength, status, power...don't look at me like that, I don't know why I came to you .My father asked me to seduce you, and here I am. After the seduction, I suddenly realized that I had lived in vain for thousands of years."

"Except for Triton, who was born to Empress Hai, my father has never taken other children seriously, and I have been left in the world by him to live with my mother. Mother is human, and her life is extremely short. After she passed away, I I just lived wildly by myself. Then I found that there seemed to be something missing in my life."

"I'm a demigod. I won't be able to stand on the top of the gods and overlook the world like you in my life. But I think it's pretty good to find something to do for myself without endangering my life."

He finished speaking in one breath, looked down at Diana, who was not taller than his chest, and waited for her to speak with great interest.

Diana finally found the point in his bunch of eloquent, righteous, upright, game-playing, and clueless words.

"You, why did you tell me about Poseidon's purpose?"

"Poseidon is your father, and I am the main god your father will use..." She gradually lost the last two words because she found that she couldn't utter them completely.

Orion only replied with three words: "I don't know."

Diana can be sure that Orion has a natural ability to make her vomit blood from anger.

Ramses, who had been left aside by them for a long time, suddenly said, "How are you going to deal with them?"

Diana was stunned, and following Ramses' gaze, the land of Egypt was already visible, and the flooded Nile River carried a large amount of sand into the sea.In the sand, a majestic beast with a lion's body and a human face slowly opened its mouth: "There is a bird in the world that neither lives nor dies, lives and dies, lives forever, lives and dies, what is it?"

Behind the sphinx, a large black mast appeared on the flooded Nile.On the ship at the front, a man dressed as a high priest looked at Ramses coldly, and beside him stood a young prince who was about the same age as Ramses. Red and white crown.

"The High Priest has power beyond ghosts and gods." Ramesses explained, his gaze wandering between Diana and Orion.

Orion shrugged his shoulders with an expression of "this has nothing to do with me".

Diana looked down at her hands, which were slender and white, but still unable to support the flow of divine power.If she cannot use divine power, even as the goddess of hunting who controls all beasts, she is still powerless against the sphinx.

Ramses continued to explain: "The riddle of the sphinx is the first level, and the rebels on the Nile is the second level. The high priest may summon the sky to seal the river at any time. Your Royal Highness..." He looked at Diana , paused for a while, "Isn't your relationship with the God of Light very good?"

Diana was a little startled at first, and then gradually showed a trace of "that's how it is" expression.

"You want me to use the power of the God of Light to deal with him, so you brought me here from Delphi at any cost?"

"This is also one of the reasons." Ramses used the word "also" quite frankly.

Diana decided to be magnanimous and not bother with these two stingy guys.

There is a bird in the world, it neither lives nor dies, lives and dies, lives forever and never dies, lives and dies, it is...