[Greek mythology] Born to be arrogant

Apollo smiled.

"You know a lot, Colonis."

"They did quarrel in front of me, and they almost started fighting. It's just that there is not much difference between 'the origin of the world is water' and 'the origin of the world is water, earth, wind and fire'..."

He suddenly stopped talking, took a step forward, and with a wave of heat steaming all over his body, he asked sharply, "Who?!"

A gigantic lion slowly climbed up from the bottom of the Nile, but there was an equally huge human face on its head.It rolled its eyeballs at Diana, drooped its head and slid towards her, knelt at her feet, panting.

Apollo's face changed slightly.

In the world, only the goddess of hunting can make the lion kneel down and the beasts bow down without doing anything.

she……

She bent down, touched the huge head, and comforted with a smile: "Don't be depressed, don't be depressed. Even if I guess your riddle, there are still many people in the world who can't. You have always been a A smart and mighty good lion."

The sphinx raised his head and looked at her with an extremely hot gaze.

She tugged at its round animal ears, and continued to nod affirmatively: "It's still a very handsome and dedicated lion!"

The sphinx cocked its tail triumphantly, and walked away with its head held high, leaving only a handsome and unrestrained back.

Diana: ...

She patted the gravel on the corner of her skirt, stood up, and continued to look up at Apollo.Even though her stature has been growing vigorously these days, she barely grows to his shoulders... a little further down, it is very difficult to talk to him.

Apollo looked at her quietly, a smile finally appeared in his golden eyes.

He seemed a little bit convinced that she had something to do with Diana.

Diana felt a little uncomfortable being watched by him, moved a little to the side, and then continued to ask stupidly and naively: "Different? Why are they different? Could it be that 'water' and 'water, fire, climate' are actually the same...they Obviously it's different..."

Apollo suddenly smiled, and his eyes were stained with a touch of faint blue again.

"Because of Poseidon."

Diana's heart skipped a beat: Sure enough!

"My relationship with Poseidon was once very good. At that time, I had just stepped out of the island of Deros, and Zeus had just gathered the gods in Olympus to try to overthrow Cronus..."

Apollo sat down against a stone, his eyes flickering.

Diana was also kneeling beside him, with an expression of "listening to His Highness's instruction".

"...To overthrow him, we must first find out his details. At that time, we learned an ancient legend. At the beginning of the world, the gods could not fly."

Diana was stunned.

Obviously, all the gods she has seen, including gods from ancient times to the present, can fly...

"At that time, the sky and the earth were tightly bound together, and there were only front, back, left, and right sides in the world, and there was no up and down. Cronus separated the sky and the earth with a scythe, so the gods learned to fly." Apollo paused for a moment, eyes The faint blue is getting darker, "Except for Uranus. He can't understand the existence of 'up' and 'down', so he can't fly."

Diana thought for a moment and understood.

Cronus created the third dimension of the world, but Uranus could not understand this third dimension, so he could never cross "up" and "down", nor could he learn to fly.

"He exhausted his whole life, but he didn't understand why there are 'up' and 'down' in the world, so he fell into an eternal sleep."

Apollo changed the subject, and his eyes became sharper, "At that time, the gods of Olympus agreed that if we could create an 'order' that even Cronus could not understand, we would naturally exile him forever Abyss of Darkness."

"We tried many times, even turning the world upside down, but failed. Later, Zeus suggested that we might as well start from the origin of the world. Cronus is the god in charge of time and space, and the eternity of time and space is his The 'rules' that govern everything..."

"I was still too young at the time, and I only vaguely remembered that Poseidon said that the origin of the world should be water, but Zeus said that it should be water, fire, wind and soil. Hades kept silent all the time, and he kept calculating frantically... until later , Athena threw out a theory: the origin of all things should be countless tiny and indivisible 'atoms'. Only then did we know that she got the help of the human race."

"Gods will fall into a deep sleep because they cannot understand this world, but humans will not."

"Zeus finally got his wish. At that time, it was also the first time I tried to come to the world, in Miletus, to talk to the human race."

"In a debate at Miletus, I met Poseidon."

"He was drinking at the time, and when he was drunk, he told me that he was having a bad time."

"He said: If he is not the son-in-law of Pontus, the god of the sea, it will be more difficult for Hades to control the underworld than Hades."

"I drank with him all night and told him that as long as I was in Miletus, the Milesians would keep trying to argue that 'the origin of the world is water'. Then he gave up, even Conquered the whole earth, and single-handedly created Atlantis."

"15 years ago, Poseidon came to me again and asked me if I hated Zeus."

"And 'the origin of the world is water' and 'the origin of the world is water, earth, wind and fire' were originally wrong. But because of Poseidon and me, they became right for the time being."

After Apollo finished speaking in one breath, he felt that the pent-up air in his chest dissipated again. He stared at the bright moon in the sky and stared blankly for a while.

Diana was too shocked to speak: "You know..."

"He is using me." Apollo nodded with a smile, "or, to form an alliance of interests with me. He is using me, so why am I not using him? Why have you been honest with him..."

He closed his eyes, and there was a trace of helplessness and self-mockery in his smile: "I thought I would forget all these pasts. Ever since I brought Diana to Olympus, I have been trying to forget they."

Diana only felt something hard stuck in her throat, and she was too uncomfortable to speak.

After a long, long time, she heard her dry and hoarse voice: "Then... what?"

"Later?" Apollo smiled lightly, "I tried to understand different theories, tried to learn a lot of things, and the godhead was broken and rebuilt again and again...you probably don't know, for gods , There are some theories that cannot be easily tried. Well, then once, I was only a little away from death, but I was called by Zeus to execute the beasts raging in the dark abyss, and the result..."

The result, what was the result?

Diana clenched her sleeves unconsciously.

She knows how much the damage of the broken godhead is, and how difficult it is to rebuild the godhead... Apollo, how many times did he turn on the edge of life and death before he had the tit-for-tat confrontation in the Temple of Order, and that High spirits?

Severely injured and on the verge of death, executing the beast in the dark abyss...

Those ferocious beasts, those ferocious beasts that have existed since ancient times, are existences that even she, the goddess of hunting, dare not provoke easily!

Apollo actually laughed.

"As a result, I failed, and I was degraded by Zeus as a human being, and I was exiled in the Tempe Valley for an eternal year."

Diana's figure froze suddenly, and it took almost all of her strength to keep her voice from yelling.

She knew that Apollo was exiled for the first time.At the time, he was only fourteen months old, fourteen months!

Even if the Protoss will grow up immediately after birth, even if Apollo has the talent of heaven...

He's also only fourteen months old!

He has just walked out of the warm island and experienced the regime change of the previous generation; he has just broken his godhood and rebuilt, and barely escaped from the claws of the ancient beasts, and then, and then he was alone in the Tempe Valley. Lighting a fire and building a house, carefully avoiding beasts, poisonous snakes, insects and ants... no divine power, no help, no company, no... nothing...

She opened her mouth a few times and exhausted all her strength before asking him with a choked voice: "Your Highness... why didn't you... tell Diana... Your Highness?"

"Tell Diana?" Apollo chuckled and shook his head, "No, I will give her the best, and only the best."

It is good to keep these painful memories only for himself.

All these dark interests strife and intrigue, just leave him alone.

Diana, his Diana, should have the brightest and most beautiful thing in the world, the brightest and most beautiful... Apollo.

Diana unconsciously pinched the blood on her palm, her face was as pale as paper.

[So when you parted from the waves and came to Delos, and said to me, "Would you like to go to Olympus with me", the slight instability in your voice was not because of excitement and excitement, but because of the recurrence of old injuries, The pain was unbearable. 】

【So, everything you taught me is that you stumbled, wandering between life and death again and again, kneading the most dangerous and difficult things into sugar, and feeding me one by one. 】

【You will always smile at me gently, and never let me see the wound on your back. 】

【You know... I hate you for being like this...】

【Hate even more... myself...】

She felt her hands shaking.

She wanted to slap Apollo hard in the face, and then hold him and cry.

the best... the best... the best...

Behind these "best", how many...how many...

Apollo suddenly turned his head, the faint blue in his golden eyes became deeper and deeper: "Who?!"

nobody.

He stood up, with a faint layer of light in his hands.

Diana closed her eyes, took a few deep breaths, and smiled quietly.

[I know you don't want to worry me, let alone make me sad. 】

【I'm not going to act like I'm worried about being sad and making you... sadder. 】

[From now on, no matter what will happen, you will never want to get rid of me again. 】

【You like to see my smile, so I keep smiling at you. 】

[Forever, only smiling at you. 】

Apollo looked at the end of the Nile River motionlessly, pursed his lips slightly, and his eyes became sharper.

Gradually, a familiar figure came over under the moonlight, wearing a red and white double crown symbolizing the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, holding a golden scepter with a huge eye-shaped gemstone inlaid on the top of the scepter, walking towards them come over.

"... Ramses?"

Diana stood up, looked at Apollo again, and continued to ask: "Are you here to find me, or to find His Majesty the Sun God?"

Her voice was a little hoarse, trembling uncontrollably.

Ramses looked her up and down in surprise, then at Apollo, and said, "Well, I want to ask you to do me a favor."