[Greek mythology] Born to be arrogant

Circe stood up abruptly: "His Royal Highness, what do you mean?!"

"I have no malice, Your Majesty the Goddess of Magic." Diana also stood up, bowed slightly, and spoke in an exceptionally gentle tone, "If this has caused your misunderstanding or anger, I would like to express my sincerest apologies to you."

She was wearing a mask, so she couldn't see her expression clearly—in fact, she couldn't see clearly even with the mask off—Circe let out a heavy "hum" and sat back heavily, as if she was really pissed off.

Apollo turned his head and gently pressed Diana's hand, which was very comforting.

Diana smiled, sat back beside Apollo again, lowered her voice and said, "Looking at her appearance, she doesn't seem to be joking. She must have understood the so-called 'magic world' and 'magic elements'." It has been deduced many times.” Moreover, Circe doesn’t look like she was exchanged by someone, or like her, she was reborn from the future.

Apollo also asked in a low voice: "Do you agree with her statement?"

"How is it possible?" Diana laughed dumbly, "You have seen my divine pattern, and I have written a new order for you in the Temple of Order. Apollo, you and I will always stand on the same side. I—— Does not endorse 'magic'."

Apollo nodded slightly, his expression suddenly relaxed.

"Your Majesty, the Goddess of Magic." Athena finally spoke, "You have been insisting on the 'Four Elements Theory' is correct, but it has long been abandoned by the gods. Now it seems that you not only insist on the 'Four Elements', but also On top of the four elements, four more elements have been added?"

Circe nodded, "That's right."

Another goddess of magic, Hecate, looked at this and then at that, and finally spread her hands in frustration: "I don't understand, I don't understand anything. Cousin, you are in Olympus, day and night. Arguing about this? It's too boring."

Apollo smiled, noncommittal.

Athena looked at them in surprise: "'cousin'?!" Although all the gods were more or less related, Hecate was the first one who could directly call Apollo "cousin". Well also the last one.

"Hecate's mother, Asteria, and my mother, Leto, are siblings," Apollo explained.In fact, when Leto was cursed by Hera, it was thanks to the help of Asteria that he successfully gave birth to a pair of children.Apollo has always respected this aunt, and correspondingly, he will take more care of Hecate.

Athena let out a "huh" with a thoughtful expression.

"It's boring, it's boring." Hecate pushed the table and stood up, "I'm leaving, don't miss me too much! Hoho——"

Before the words fell, the person had disappeared.

Athena finally looked better, and turned back to Circe, drawing out one set of logical deduction after another, trying to dispel her thoughts about the "magic world" and "magic elements".After listening for a while, Apollo vaguely guessed Athena's intention to invite him over, and after careful consideration, he also joined the battle group.

Diana sat aside and listened quietly, fiddled with her crackling phalanx from time to time, looking absent-minded.

Athena's attitude is already obvious.

The invitation letter clearly stated "Apollo, the God of Light", and specially designated Luna to hand it over. It was clear that he had found out the identity of Apollo and planned to draw him into his side.As for Apollo himself, "to some extent", he agrees with Athena's position, just as the Milesian school is not very different from the Athenian school to some extent.

What puzzled Apollo was why Athena had to go to such great lengths to call him over to persuade Circe to give up the idea.After all, as long as Circe is refuted one by one at the next meeting of the gods, all problems will be solved.

Athena explained it this way: "Circe said that if you disagree with her opinion, she will cook potion and blow up the whole Olympus!"

Oh, it turned out to be threatened.

But would the goddess of wisdom and war be afraid of threats?

Athena was particularly helpless: "Look at her golden eyes again."[1]

Only the descendants of the sun god will have a pair of golden eyes.

Apollo was very helpless: "Do you think I have something to do with her?"

Athena finally released a bombshell: "She is the goddess who helped Medea. I heard that you were in Athens last time..."

Apollo realized: "You want me to teach her for you?"

Athena chuckled twice: "It's just incidental."

——The goal has been achieved, and it is not your reputation that is ruined, it is really "by the way".

Apollo smiled slightly, took Diana's shoulders, and whispered in her ear: "Hecate is friendly with her, and she must have her magic book in his hand. Go and see what happened. Although I know that the 'eight magic elements' do not exist, since Circe can cook these strange potions, there must be something special about her."

Diana nodded in agreement.

Just like the ancient alchemists, they basically became great chemists in the end.

The so-called "magic" in the mouth of the goddess of magic is probably related to alchemy.

She got up to say goodbye to Athena, and went after Hecate.

Hecate's title is "the goddess of ghosts and magic", and she also has another name: the goddess of the moon.

In other words, she is the moon of the underworld.

Diana chased all the way from Olympus to Elysee in the underworld, and finally found the place where the queen of the underworld and the goddess of the moon had afternoon tea.Hecate held a thick magic book in her hand, and was muttering something; Besephone, the Queen of the Underworld, sighed faintly while drinking the black tea that was only available in the human world.

"Your Majesty has not been here for three whole days." The Empress Dowager had a tendency to resent a woman.

Hecate didn't raise his head: "Didn't you hate Your Majesty very much before?"

"It's quite annoying." The Queen of the Underworld sighed, "But he really didn't show up, and I started to miss him again...Sister Diana?!"

Hecate raised her head, called Diana dryly to her cousin, and then continued to fiddle with her magic book.

Diana stepped forward and bowed to the Empress, "Your Highness."

Minghou is her half-sister.However, because of seniority, it is more appropriate to call him "His Royal Highness".

"One or two of you are like this." The Empress continued to sigh, "Hecate, can you stop playing with those potions? The smell is too pungent."

Hecate shook the test tube in his hand: "What? The wind is too strong, I didn't hear clearly!"

The corner of the queen's mouth twitched, and she looked up at the eternally dark sky of the underworld in a daze.

Diana stepped forward and asked Hecate softly, "Can you lend me this magic book?"

"Oh, good." Hecate handed over the magic book and continued to fiddle with her beaker and test tube, "If you understand it, please let me know. Really, you guys argue about this every day in Olympus. , I just want to cook a potion, and I have to understand all these theories. It's annoying, very annoying."

Diana flipped through the book a little bit, and she already had an idea in her mind. She smiled and asked Hecate, "What potion do you want to cook?"

Hecate suddenly regained her spirits: "Laugh! It's the potion mentioned in the book that makes people laugh!"

Diana quickly found the so-called potion in the book, and secretly said "Sure enough".

Sure enough, it was laughing gas.

In later generations, this "potion that makes people laugh constantly" has a particularly awkward name called nitrous oxide.

Even if you didn't study chemistry in your previous life, it is not difficult to prepare laughing gas when you have the raw materials and equipment.

But Circe...

She is such a genius.

"It is said that Circe discovered it by accident." Hecate said while helping Diana hold the test tube, "She likes to play with these weird things when she has nothing to do, and her biggest wish is to put everything in the world away." Roast it on the fire to see the effect. It's a pity that I am not as bold as her, let alone serious. When I went to her house last time, the entire four rooms were full of notebooks..."

The so-called record book should be the experimental record.

Diana admired Circe more and more.Although it is more likely that Circe did these inexplicable tasks because of boredom...

"She said that there are too many hated people in the world, and too many hated gods. She is not smart and cannot master the power of too many rules, so she can only cook more potions to deter those hated people..." Hecate remained the same Gossiping.

Diana decided to take back her previous evaluation.Circe is actually not boring at all.

"So, cousin." Hecate took a plugged crystal test tube that Diana handed her, and asked with a painful face, "You said, we are all goddesses of magic, why is there such a big difference between me and her?" Woolen cloth?"

Diana smiled and comforted her, "You are no worse than her, Hecate."

"But even if I'm facing the book, I can't cook a potion that makes people laugh." Hecate said with a sad face.

Diana was silent, and suddenly wanted to pat her little cousin's head.

Minghou, who was looking at the sky at a 45-degree angle next to her, suddenly regained her spirits, stood up eagerly, hesitated for a moment, and then sat back down.

Hecate threw away the test tube and bowed to Hades, the king of the underworld, who strode into the Elysee: "Your Majesty."

The Queen of Hades glanced at Hades coldly: "What are you doing here again? I said I don't want to see you."

Diana was a little embarrassed.

She put down the test tube and magic book, silently saluted Hades, and then silently stepped aside.This uncle His Majesty has always been moody, withdrawn and indifferent, if someone accidentally said the wrong thing, it would be fatal.

Hades glanced at Diana a few times, frowned slightly, and then turned to look at the queen of the underworld, and sighed: "Three or four hundred years have passed, are you still angry with me?"

Empress Ming snorted, and turned her head away from him.

Hecate gently pulled Diana's clothes, and carefully led her away from Elysee.

The moment they stepped out of the gate, they suddenly heard Hades shouting behind them: "Wait."

Diana turned around and stepped back half a step, allowing Hecate to face Hades, while she silently lowered her head and lowered her hands: "Does Your Majesty have anything else to do?"

Hades' complexion changed several times, and it took a long time before he asked, "How did you become an undead?"

He paused for a moment, then asked tentatively, "Is it because of... my fault last time?"