The world-devouring dragon

A few months later.

"Destiny is the most wonderful thing in the world. Children of two enemies can love each other, but fathers and sons will turn against each other. Anything that thinks it is eternal will be destroyed. Even the gods will lament the treacherous fate..."

On the street, a street singer played the piano and tried to sing those epic stories.

The tall hero was extremely majestic. After listening to a few words, he curled his lips.

"Not as good as Orpheus."

Even after so many years, the great hero still believed that there was no better piano player than Orpheus in the world.

On the Argonaut back then, only the sound of Orpheus' piano could cheer up those bored heroes, sing together loudly, and spend the long time at sea.

Where is Orpheus now?

He couldn't help but miss his many companions back then.

That happy and joyful adventure still made the participants of that year excited even after many years. It is said that when Jason, who was aging, finally found the remaining hull of the Argo, he missed the past and was killed by the figurehead blessed by Athena.

Among the many heroes, Jason was the one who aged the fastest. Indulging in enjoyment and life will make heroes as bright as the sun grow old like mortals.

Many other heroes are still alive and strong, but time has left traces on them.

Compared with his companions, the great hero is still young and strong. His body has not aged at all, and he is still growing as if there is no end.

He is already a living legend on earth, a demigod walking in the world.

Every day, he is setting up more legends. Every day, he is moving towards a world that mortals cannot imagine.

But... my companions, where are you?

Raising his palm, feeling the powerful power hidden in his strong fingers, the great hero suddenly sighed.

Putting these pasts behind him, the great hero continued his journey.

When he returned to his hometown, King Eurystheus was horrified by the bodies of the strange birds. He realized that when this task was completed, the hero had completed five of the ten agreed tasks.

The king wanted to keep his throne, so he racked his brains and tried his best to arrange a more difficult task for the demigod.

So under the arrangement of the usurper king, the hero had to kill a pet of Poseidon, the god of the sea.

In the distant city-state of Crete, the king there once said that he would offer a treasure to Poseidon, the god of the sea. He emphasized that the first treasure he saw afterwards would belong to the great earthshaker, the god of earthquakes, and the god of the sea.

However, when a magical white bull came from the sea, the king became greedy when he saw this magical and beautiful big white bull. He broke his promise, secretly hid the big white bull, and sacrificed an ordinary bull to Poseidon against his will.

The king thought Poseidon would not notice his promise, but he was wrong.

Poseidon, who had just returned from hard labor with mortals, was full of anger. Seeing that mortals dared to deceive him, the earthquake god made the big white bull crazy, so that its hooves could shake the earth to destroy this pathetic and tiny mortal country.

The mad white bull wreaked havoc in this mortal country for seven years, and people were miserable. At this time, the hero came.

The king was overjoyed at the arrival of the hero and warmly welcomed the hero's arrival, but at the banquet, the king told the hero another trouble.

"Respectable hero, in addition to the mad bull, there are two lions that came from nowhere. The two lions and a few little lions are wandering in the fields, making farmers afraid to farm."

The hero laughed and confidently decided to get rid of this disaster for the king first.

When the hero came to the field, he searched for several days but failed to find the lions, so he decided to use himself as bait.

He took off his gear, leaned against a tree naked, pretended to be asleep, and deliberately made a sound of snoring. After a while, he heard the sound of grass and trees rustling.

"Snoring..."

The hero pretended not to know, and the snoring became louder.

The lion not far away hesitated, and finally walked forward cautiously. Until the lion was finally approaching, the hero suddenly opened his eyes and pounced on it.

The strong lion wanted to resist, but how could he defeat this demigod? Under the great hero's great force, the lion struggled for a moment, and tears actually flowed from its eyes.

The great hero had killed many lions, but he had never seen a lion crying like this.

He was very surprised, so he let go of his arms, and the lion kowtowed repeatedly, begging like a human.

"Who are you? Why are you crying? Did some evil wizard curse you and let you be bound under this lion's skin?"

The hero asked.

The lion wrote clumsily on the ground with its claws. The great hero looked carefully at the lion and wrote a paragraph.

"I am Atalanta."

Atalanta? The female hunter who killed the Calydonian Boar?

Hercules knew this name. The notorious Calydonian Boar attracted countless heroes to fight against it. Even Ancaeus, who was comparable to himself, died under the fangs of the monster.

The hero once tried to hunt the boar, but before he could start, the boar was killed by a female hunter with extraordinary archery skills.

Legend has it that the female hunter named Atalanta was taught archery by the hunting queen Artemis herself, and she also worked as a maid of the goddess. But in the end, she was turned into a lion because she angered the goddess of nature Cybele, and she has been missing ever since.

"Are you Atalanta? How come you are here?"

The hero was very surprised.

Lion, no, or Atalanta shook her head, tears flowing.

Then, the hero met Atalanta's husband and her children, another male lion and several little lions.

The male lion was quite steady, and was not overly surprised to see the hero, and only bowed his head to salute. The other little lions were just playing and fighting, and did not understand the behavior of their parents. When they saw outsiders coming, they also acted intimidatingly.

People said that Atalanta and her husband committed blasphemy in the temple of the goddess of nature because they couldn't help themselves, so they were turned into a pair of lions by the goddess of nature.

The two adult lions clumsily scratched and wrote on the ground with their claws, and talked to the great hero.

"Great hero in the distance, the goddess has turned us into lions for several years, and our sins should be paid off. Please, save us."

The two lions showed eager eyes.

But for this kind of thing, the great hero didn't know how to do it for a while.

If he was asked to conquer the city-state, defeat the army, and kill monsters, these were his strengths. But asking him to lift the curse was not what he was good at.

After thinking for a while, he tried to offer a sacrifice to his father, offering a roasted calf to his father in heaven, asking his father if he could help these two poor people.

When the green smoke was transmitted all the way to the distant sky along the wind, the king of gods did not accept the sacrifice of his children.

This was not something he should participate in, and those who blasphemed the gods should naturally be punished. As the son of the gods, the hero should complete his own great cause at this moment, instead of pleading for the two sinners.

The God King did not accept it, so the hero chose to ask for help from his adoptive mother.

Under the Hades, the serpent goddess already knew all the reasons, but remained silent and refused her adopted son's request for help. She was unwilling to do anything about this matter, because it would bring disaster to her adopted son.

So the hero asked Athena, the hero's friend, for help again.

The goddess did not show up in the green smoke.

Just when the hero was disappointed, the green smoke showed the appearance of another thing, a huge snake. This illusion was fleeting, almost making people suspect that it was an illusion, but the hero was sure that it was not an illusion.

"Athena, are you asking me to seek advice from the father of snakes?"

The hero was thoughtful.

Then, he told the two lions: "I will take a nap later. Whether you can be saved depends on this last chance."

After that, the hero fell into a drowsy dream.

In the frenzied and crazy dream, many chaotic and disordered colors such as black, red, yellow, purple, and white flashed, and the body seemed to be falling infinitely, which made people feel inexplicable fear and their hearts beat wildly.

In the midst of this uncomfortable struggle, the great hero suddenly heard a voice.

"I didn't expect you to dare to ask me for help?"

The low voice sounded like thunder, and in an instant, the whole chaotic dream was illuminated by a white light.

The dream faded, revealing its essence.

A gloomy and terrifying world, a world of infinite falling.

Mortals are no different from dust in this world, and the magnificent and huge vertical snake pupil is like the sun and the moon, overlooking the whole world.

The body of the great hero fell in the air, but was always shrouded in the gaze of the cold pupil.

"Why not, my godfather."

The great hero laughed, he looked up at the huge sun, trying not to show any weakness.

Proud and conceited, as if there was nothing he couldn't do in the world.

It was so in the past, it is so now, and it will be so in the future.

"You want to beg me? Weak little meat ball, are you worthy?"

The big snake's contemptuous voice sounded, and the sound made the whole world resound.

"Of course I am worthy, because I will defeat you."

The great hero said loudly.

The big snake's sneer became louder and louder.

"Arrogant ant, do you think you can challenge me just because you defeated a few pus-filled gods? I will let you know how big the gap between you and me is."

The upright snake pupils widened, and an invisible force instantly pressed on the great hero's body, twisting his limbs.

The powerful body that the great hero was proud of was as weak as a baby in front of this force. The fingers and joints were forcibly bent into a weird angle, but the great hero seemed unable to resist.

"Weak ant, what else can you do when I break your hands and feet?"

The big snake's wanton laughter sounded.

The pain that he had not tasted for a long time came, and the great hero almost cried out in pain, but he gritted his teeth and refused to give in.

His fingers trembled slightly, and before he knew it, a spear appeared in his hand.

The great hero was a half-human, half-god hero, a mortal with the power of a god, and it was not his ability to create things out of thin air. But this is not reality, it is still a dream, isn't it?

In a dream, everything is possible.

There seemed to be a ball of fire in his chest, and the blazing fire spread throughout his body, as if it was going to burn him up, burn the self called mortal, and let the self who was above everything appear.

Hot, so hot.

The hero felt that the fire was about to vent, so he clenched the spear in his hand, roared, and threw it out.

"Ah!!!"

In an instant, the spear turned into a ray of light and shot out.

It was something faster than light, because it was a power that only existed in dreams, and it was unique in reality.

The snake pupils shrank slightly, trying to avoid it.

"Huh!"

In the subtle sound, the gorgeous light left only a long afterglow, and then gradually dissipated like fireworks.

Did it hit?

Did it miss?

The hero didn't know.

The voice was briefly calm for a moment, and a low voice sounded angrily.

"Little thing who doesn't know how to live or die!"

Under him, the bottomless abyss opened up, and it was not until then that the great hero realized that it was the huge mouth of the abyss that the big snake had not yet opened.

The next moment, the great hero was swallowed by the huge mouth of the abyss.

Waking up from the nightmare, the great hero was already sweating and had a splitting headache, as if he had really experienced a painful torture.

Beside him, the little lions were still roaring and playing. The two lions were still nervously waiting for him. And looking out, the sky outside the cave was even dim.

I seemed to have slept for a long time.

At this time, the great hero felt some pain in his palm, opened his hand, and saw a shallow strange mark in his palm.

A kind of enlightenment came.

As long as you touch others with this hand, all curses and spells will dissipate into nothingness. This is exactly the feedback given to him by the father of the snake.

So...I did succeed in hitting it?

Thinking of this, the great hero suddenly laughed, laughing at the anger of the father of the snake.

In the endless abyss under Hades, the magnificent snake was still sleeping. The deep sleep of the World Devourer triggered gusts of howling winds, stirring up the entire Hades world.

But on the forehead of the giant snake, a mark appeared on a scale, a barely visible shallow mark.

Although it was a success in a dream, it is undeniable that at that moment, the great hero did use his courage as a weapon to hit the seemingly invincible thing.