[Greek Mythology] The Ugly God's Counterattack

When Hephaestus and Hades were approaching the entrance of the underworld, unexpectedly, Hephaestus saw two familiar figures at the entrance.

To be precise, it was two dog shadows.

Dasha and Ergua.These two silver hounds have not been out since they came to the underworld with Hephaestus last time.Because of the recent series of events, Hephaestus has no time to attend to them.

The thin sunlight at the entrance of the underworld was transmitted in, and the not too bright light hit the two silver hounds, with a faint silvery white halo.

It seems that Dasha and Ergua are living well here, and the size is much bigger than before.Thinking of this, Hephaestus walked over without haste.

Dasha and Ergua had spotted Hephaestus and Hades as soon as they appeared, and now seeing their master approaching, Dasha and Ergua wagged their tails and quickly ran towards Hephaestus go.After running to Hephaestus' feet, he rubbed his head obediently against his ankle, as honest as he could be.

Hephaestus looked down at the two silver hounds at his feet, opened his mouth and smiled slightly: "You idiot, it seems that you have a good life in the underworld." The fur of a hound, "How are you getting along with Cerberus?"

Hephaestus said this with teasing elements. These two hounds are too independent and have no sense of being pets. When they go to the underworld to get along with Cerberus, Hephaestus should save them carefully. The idea of ​​running into two dog tempers.Now it seems that the effect is very good.

He wasn't worried that Dasha and Ergua would betray him, as long as he made something himself, no matter if it was an item or a hound, he couldn't betray him.That is the absolute loyalty engraved deep in the soul, which is well reflected in the robot.

Cerberus is no match for Dasha and me now.

Ergua didn't speak, but just stared at Hephaestus, silently conveying this information to him.And Hephaestus also understood the meaning of Ergua very well, and smiled slightly, "You two are so stupid, you two continue to stay here." He didn't intend to take these two with him, Too ostentatious.

After patting the heads of the two hounds, Hephaestus stood up and turned sideways to enter and exit with Hades.At this moment, Shupros' voice came from behind the two of them: "Wait a minute."

Hypnos approached quickly: "Your Majesty Hades," he saluted Hades, then turned his gaze to Hephaestus, "Master Hades, can I borrow these two silver hounds?" Take a moment." He pointed at Dasha and Ergua.

Hephaestus said indifferently: "I didn't intend to let them follow. They have been in the underworld for so long, so naturally they should do something for the underworld."

This is a disguised agreement. Hypnos smiled gratefully at Hephaestus, then turned his head and said to Hades very formally: "Your Majesty Pluto, what you ordered has been dealt with, Thanatos Si will stay in the underworld, and I will take the two silver hounds to Bolesia Island."

After Hypnos finished speaking, he stopped talking, quietly waiting for Hades to reply.Hephaestus looked at Hypnos, who was rarely serious, and then at Hades.It seems that when he went to the bathroom to take a shower, Hades confessed to him something.

Hypnos went to Bolesia Island. If he guessed correctly, he should be going to capture the second-generation sun god Helios.

Hades' next words confirmed his guess, "Hypnos, don't show mercy to Helios."

"Yes, Your Majesty Pluto." Helios changed from his previous laxity, bowed respectfully, nodded to Hephaestus, and left with Dasha and Ergua first.

Seeing Dasha and Ergua who walked away reluctantly, Hephaestus twitched the corners of his mouth. What kind of trouble do these two dogs look like parting from each other?

After the figure of one person and two dogs completely disappeared, Hephaestus looked at Hades and raised his brow slightly: "Hypnos really understands the usefulness of Dasha and Ergua."

When he and Hades fell into the foggy forest back to modern times before, it was Dasha and Ergua who found them first, and the reason was probably because Dasha and Ergua were not confused by the white mist.Able to penetrate the fog and find out exactly where he and Hades are.It can be seen from this that with Dasha and Ergua, Hypnos can basically enter the deepest part of Bolesia Island smoothly without being confused by the surrounding turbid fog.

However, he remembered that Helios had said that the black turbid mist surrounding Bailesia Island was poisonous, and it seemed impossible for Hypnos to walk in it unharmed.

Hephaestus looked up at the calm Hades, and joked, "You're so assured of Hypnos?"

"Hupno is the god of sleep. He can close his sensory consciousness and pass through the black mist in his sleep. With the addition of two hounds, his combat effectiveness will not be bad." Hades explained.

Hephaestus snorted lightly, and said, "Then let's go too, and get the third red shard from Zeus."

Hephaestus had a strong premonition that as long as he found the last red shard, many things could be unraveled.And Huo Qilin will definitely appear in front of him again, and at that time, he will definitely interrogate him "properly" what is going on.

He came to the familiar Olympus Mountain once again, and Hephaestus' mood at this time was indescribably complicated.His body trembled slightly. He looked down at his hands, and suddenly felt a sense of trembling. He didn't know if this was the excitement before the truth was about to come.Those unknown and known things invaded his mind, this time, he had to completely expel them from his mind!

Hephaestus and Hades carefully avoided the other gods and took a shortcut to Zeus's palace without asking the maid to tell them.

Outside the palace of Zeus, it was not surprising to see Hermes.

Hermes was overjoyed when he saw them, and gestured for them to enter the temple.

Hephaestus and Hades looked at each other, and they walked towards the temple in a tacit understanding without saying a word.

Judging by Hermes' appearance, he should have been waiting for him and Hades for a long time.

Zeus should have guessed that they would come.

Zeus sat on the throne of the Lord of the Sky, and when he saw Hephaestus and Hades, he narrowed his eyes, got up and walked down: "Welcome, my fire god Hephaestus, and my elder brother Hades." He spread his hand and pointed to the place next to the temple: "Sit down, I've been waiting for you for a long time."

Hades didn't sit down, Hephaestus also shook his head, looked at Zeus who was approaching, and said, "Your Majesty, since you knew we would come, you should have guessed the purpose of me and Hades coming here." .”

His eyes were fixed on Zeus, and others could read something from Zeus's facial expression.Yet besides smiling, Zeus showed no other noteworthy emotion.This stallion man can become the king of the gods, and his wisdom is no worse than that of Hades.Hephaestus raised his eyebrows and gave Hades a look.

Hades nodded slightly, and then said to Zeus: "Gaia, the Mother Earth, brought Poseidon here, Zeus, you should be aware of your situation."

Zeus put his arms around his shoulders and said nonchalantly, "How about that? She can restrain me, but she can't shake me."

Hades said calmly: "Once a secret is discovered, it will no longer be a secret."

As soon as Hades finished speaking, Zeus' body was slightly startled.This hint, which was not cryptic or obvious, was enough to shock him.Hades really knew about the little tricks he made when he used the lottery method to select the domain master.He had guessed that Hades had seen through his scheme at the time, but his eldest brother had always been very indifferent to power matters, and Hades had never mentioned it.Over time, he himself buried the seeds of doubt in the deepest part.

Thoughts were spinning in his mind. In fact, Zeus was just surprised and covered up all his emotions.Glancing at Hephaestus, Zeus rarely became serious: "Brother, I think we have proved our sincerity by standing here today." Speaking of this, he paused, shrugged, and continued: "That guy who is exactly like Hephaestus has Gaia's backing, I have to let him go."

Hades was sharp and did not speak.Hephaestus frowned slightly, and said with almost certainty: "The red fragment is with you."

"Yes," Zeus admitted generously, "If you are talking about a fragment that fell from Typhon, it is indeed in my place."

Hephaestus was a little dissatisfied: "Why didn't you mention it?"

"You didn't ask me." Zeus said very lightly: "I only know that it has something to do with you. I thought the fragment was an accident. Wouldn't it protect you from another way if I didn't mention it? My dear Vulcan, I am I'm thinking about you."

Hephaestus frowned, although he knew what Zeus said was right. At that time, Typhon and the giant race escaped from the abyss, and the unknown person who helped them out was unknown. If he took out the red fragments at that time, it would undoubtedly make people The other gods of Olympus only suspected him of doing it.But if you know it, you know it, but what's the matter with his tone?If possible, Hephaestus would like to shake this guy's collar vigorously, asking if you can speak normally!

Zeus smiled and said, "Hermes told me that the guy who looks exactly like you is called Fire Qilin. I'm curious why his godhead is exactly the same as yours."

Hephaestus did not speak, and Hermes would tell Zeus these things, and he was not surprised at all.Although he vaguely felt that Hermes might have admiration for him, but that admiration was very shallow. In front of his filial piety and loyalty to His Majesty the God King, Hermes would make a rational judgment and tell some things to Zeus.

Seeing that Hephaestus didn't speak, Zeus continued, "After Gaia took the fire unicorn away, I thought about it for a long time. There are no two individuals with the same godhead in this world. I have imagined many kinds of people. Maybe, the final conclusion is that he does not belong to this world. Although it is unbelievable, except for this reasoning, other things are not valid. So I have to believe that there are other worlds, which really shocks me .Dear Hephaestus, the mysteries about you make me even more intoxicated." After speaking, he licked his lips quite erotically at Hephaestus.

Hephaestus glared at him angrily, but was actually surprised by his words.At this time, Hephaestus also had to admit that Zeus had the capital to be the king of the gods. He quickly sorted out his thoughts after knowing little information, filled in the vacant and incomplete places with his own guesses, and then reasoned draw conclusions that are closest to the truth.

Thinking of this, the way Hephaestus looked at Zeus became more subtle.

Zeus opened his hands and let Hephaestus look at him, not caring about his scrutiny.Seeing Hephaestus's appearance, he was sure that his guess about the Fire Qilin was indistinguishable.

Hephaestus stretched out his hand: "Your Majesty, I need the red shard in your hand."

Zeus raised his eyebrows: "No."

Hephaestus was furious, and the thin chain on his wrist had turned into a long whip.

Seeing this, Zeus quickly waved his hands, and said with a smile, "Just kidding, don't take it so seriously, it's not good to accidentally injure." Although Zeus said so, his expression did not show panic at all, but a little teasing.

"Red shards." Hephaestus spread his hand again.

This time Zeus honestly took out the red fragment.But not from anywhere in the room, nor from his pocket, but from the inner core of his Thunder Scepter.

"Why did you put him there?" Hephaestus asked Zeus, but his eyes fell on the red shard already in his hand.

Sure enough, the totem on the red shard had turned dark red at this time.

"What color was the totem on this shard originally?" Hades asked this time.

"Black." Zeus answered Hades, and then looked at Hephaestus: "It's not that I want to put it in the Thunder Scepter. After I picked it up, this red fragment itself merged into my body." In the Thunder Scepter, as soon as I take it out, it will go in by itself." Speaking of this, Zeus touched his chin with a look of interest: "But now it seems that it is not going to run into the Thunder God in your hands. It's in the stick..."

Zeus spoke vigorously, but Hephaestus ignored him and took out the other two red shards.

The three red shards had all been found, and Hephaestus subconsciously looked at Hades, after the other side nodded to him.He took a deep breath and put the three red fragments together.

The three red fragments fit together completely, complete...without the slightest crack, as if they had never been separated.

It became a red original tablet the size of a palm, with an ancient and weird dark red totem on the bright red color.

Zeus watched this scene with great interest, but the seriousness in his eyes showed that he cared at the moment.He pointed to the complete red pieces in Hephaestus' hands, and after thinking of something, he said, "It seems that this thing is the final key to open Pandora's box."

Hephaestus nodded, and after a moment of silence, he said, "I'm going to find Pandora now."

"You want to open that box?" Zeus said, leaning forward slightly, his face almost touching Hephaestus' cheek.

Hephaestus held the ax against Zeus's lower body with one hand, and put away the real key with the other hand. Without looking at Zeus, Hephaestus asked Hades directly, "Together?"

"Well," Hades smiled lightly.

And Zeus was selectively ignored by the two of them.Just like that, after leaving the temple, Hephaestus said goodbye to Hermes and went to Pandora.

In fact, it wasn't him and Hades who really stopped Zeus. Zeus, as the lord of the sky, returned as soon as the queen was arrested. Many things were calm on the surface, but they were not simple behind the scenes.Zeus has his own affairs to attend to, so even if Hephaestus asked him to come along, he wouldn't go.

On the way, there were only Hephaestus and Hades. Because they had been honest with each other, Hephaestus had no scruples to discuss with him what the red fragment of Zeus represented.

If according to their previous speculation, the red shard from Cronus represents time travel, and the red shard from Caris represents time backwards, then the third red shard, in Zeus' Thunder God After staying in the rod, what kind of power will it represent?

"Traveling through time and space, going back in time...the last one should be related to the ability of the Thunder Scepter." Hephaestus recalled in his mind.

Zeus's Thunder Scepter should be the most powerful weapon. Since Zeus once used the Thunder Scepter to summon thunder, lightning, and wind and rain, it represents a powerful and inviolable absolute power. .

That being the case, "Can we think that the third red fragment represents absolute power?"

but…

Hephaestus frowned, he always felt that this seemed a bit wrong...

Seeing Hephaestus frown, Hades stretched out his hand and gently smoothed Hephaestus' frown, "Relax first, and then think in another way."

"Well," Hephaestus nodded weakly.

On the other side, in a forest close to Bolesia Island, the red-haired man with a mask at the corner of his eyes smiled slightly, and walked unhurriedly towards a palace to the west.

And in that palace, at this moment, an extremely beautiful woman was holding a box, sitting quietly on the bed, as if she was waiting for something...

The flame that can never be extinguished, the red, the black, the strands of darkness, freedom.cowardly.Paralyzed, burned and left.

The six realms of reincarnation, the tide of time, without stop, without rest, resistance and destruction, unrestrained.

Fanning the wind of fire, malicious control in bondage, killing, signaling humiliation, venting, igniting the body.

The crimson flame, noble and hypocritical, breaks through, breaks free, designs, and then - reverses.

The flame that can never be extinguished, the six paths of reincarnation, the control of maliciousness, breaking free and reversing...

"It's finally here." Huo Qilin and Pandora stood together outside the palace, looking at the two figures approaching quickly not far away, muttering in their mouths.

Hephaestus and Hades stopped five meters away from him, and Hephaestus said with a cold smile, "Long time no see."

Huo Qilin also smiled: "Long time no see." After speaking, he glanced at Hades and said inexplicably, "Chu Ze, no, it should be Hephaestus, you should thank me."

"Oh?" Hephaestus folded his hands on his shoulders: "Thank you for what? Thank you for designing a series of bureaus?"

"No..." Huo Qilin shook his head: "You should thank me for giving you love, shouldn't you?"

Hephaestus raised his eyebrows, "Hephaestus, oh no, it's the fire unicorn, you should thank me too." Then, he looked back and forth at the fire unicorn: "You should thank me Let you have a body again, after all, the appearance of this body is no longer your ugly appearance before you don't know how many times of reincarnation. Am I right?" Hephaestus asked back.

Hearing Hephaestus' words, Huo Qilin's eyes became gloomy, and he looked at Hephaestus with colder eyes: "How did you guess?"

Hephaestus said: "Going back to the root, in fact, I have to thank you. After all, you let me fuse the fire of the underworld, and let me travel back to modern times. It takes a lot of time to design a series of things. The awareness of being seen by others. The gentleman who sent me the red shard in modern times is actually you, my dear system master, Huo Qilin?"

Very satisfied watching Huo Qilin's eyes flash past

Surprised, Hephaestus opened the corner of his mouth and smiled, and continued: "There is also the fire of the underworld, and there are more fires, otherwise I wouldn't be able to hear the crazy chants of the undead under the Styx River. ..."

"You..." Huo Qilin was about to say something, but Hephaestus continued: "I, me, what do you think you want to reverse? It's ridiculous, I don't know how many lives I have been reincarnated, and I still don't know how to be honest." He said, Hephaestus gently touched the complete red fragment in his hand, and taunted mercilessly: "You want to use it to open Pandora's box? Do you think you are summoning seven dragon balls and summoning the dragon? Then A god is not a dragon, but you can summon it if you want? How funny!"

Huo Qilin's voice was cold and unwavering: "It seems that I underestimated you."

"Wrong!" Hephaestus shook his head: "You don't underestimate me, you underestimate me and Hades."

As soon as Hephaestus finished speaking, Huo Qilin laughed suddenly. He looked at Hephaestus, "As you said, you guessed it, so what? Now, can you stop me?"

"Who said I want to stop you?" Hephaestus said leisurely: "You have so many designs, and you are almost at the last step. What if I don't cooperate?"