novelonline Chapter 2024 The doubling is over! ! ! ! !
Chapter 2024 The doubling is over! ! ! ! !
Chapter 2024 The doubling is over! ! ! ! !
"If you want to replace me, you will have to wait a long, long time!" Zeus said with a sneer.
If possible, Zeus actually didn't want children, at least not sons. But there was nothing he could do, he just liked this in his life, and he hadn't changed his bad habits for more than 10,000 years, and he probably wouldn't change them in the future. In a word, he just liked it.
And for children, this thing itself is a by-product of their hobby.
Just in the ancient Greek mythology of the earth, a rough calculation shows that Zeus had a total of 24 lovers, 1 male lover (Ganymede). As for his children, there were 46 in total, including 1 giant, 1 Minotaur, 11 males, and 33 females. Two came out of eggs, one jumped out of Zeus' head, and one was born secretly. And these children also constituted the main force of Greek mythology, creating the most glorious era of Greek mythology.
Of course, if you want to say that Zeus is a complete jerk who doesn't care about his own children... that's not the case. Zeus occasionally shows his fatherly love, but only occasionally. There are not many children who are really valued by Zeus and promoted to gods.
"Then why did you call me here?" The sturdy man walked out of the shadows.
A sturdy man wearing traditional ancient Greek warrior clothing showed up (actually tight leather pants, skirt, armor and a cloak). First of all, he had exaggerated muscles, really exaggerated ones. You couldn't even see his neck, all were bulging muscles.
The cape he was wearing was actually a lion skin! It was a trophy from the Nemean Lion!
Killing the Nemean Lion was the first of the twelve labors of Hercules. The Nemean Lion looked like an ordinary lion, but was much larger. Its greatest feature was its thick skin, which was impervious to swords and arrows. It was particularly cruel and ruthless, and ate countless people. It invaded the three places of Theraetus, Apissus, and Nemea.
The reason why it is called the Nemean Lion is because it has been endangering the Nemean region for a long time. The ancient Greek poet Theocritus recorded the process of fighting the lion in the most detailed way: Eurystheus (asked Hercules to get rid of the evil beast that killed the people and bring back the lion skin as evidence. The hero carried a bow and arrow, and made a stick with olive wood, and set off immediately. After half a day, he finally found a nest in the mountains. He hid behind the bushes, and when the lion returned, he took advantage of its unpreparedness and shot an arrow at its left side. However, the arrow bounced away and could not penetrate the lion's skin at all. He shot another arrow, hitting the chest, but it was also unsuccessful. At this time, the lion had discovered the hero's whereabouts and pounced on him. Hercules hit its head with a wooden stick, and the stick cracked. Although the lion's scalp was not broken, it was unstable under the shock and fell to the ground. So the hero threw down his bow and arrow, strangled the lion's neck with his arms, and gradually lifted the whole lion's body. The evil beast finally suffocated to death.
Hercules wanted to peel off the lion's skin, but it was difficult to do so without a magic weapon. After thinking hard for a long time, he suddenly had an idea and came up with a wonderful idea. He then used the lion's claws to cut the lion's skin himself and succeeded. From then on, he used the lion's skin as armor and the lion's head as a helmet, which helped him a lot in the subsequent fierce battles. It is said that he looked so powerful after wearing the lion's skin that Eurystheus was so scared that he hid in a copper jar and dared to talk to him only through a herald.
He also carried a big stick on his back... It was really a stick, the kind that was thick at one end and thin at the other. In order to increase the attack power, Hercules also embedded the claws and teeth of the Nemean lion on one end of the stick, making the stick look weird.
This thing sounds a bit uncool, but in fact it is very lethal!
From then on, lion skin and olive wood stick became the image symbols of Hercules: the upper and lower jaws of the lion's head were like the mask of a helmet, the lion's claws were closed on the chest to protect the heart, and the whole piece of skin was like a cloak.
"What are you doing, Zeus?" Hercules ignored Zeus's displeasure and asked another question: "What you did is a shame to the gods. You were defeated by a two thousand year old child. More importantly, you let him take away your thunder and fire and then walked away. Do you know what this means? Once the outside world knows that the Pantheon is so weak now, we will be in endless trouble!"
Hercules came here, partly because of Zeus's call, and partly because he heard what happened in the City of the Almighty.
This made him feel very embarrassed.
He really didn't like the Pantheon, but the problem was that whether he liked it or not, he was a member of the Pantheon, and he was also the son of Zeus. If they were ashamed, Hercules would be ashamed too.
This is a question of stance, he has no choice.
It's like when he was still a demigod, he actually admired his father. At that time, in his eyes, Hera was a vicious woman, and Zeus was a good father who endured humiliation. When Hercules was young, he was definitely the protagonist of a cool novel. Basically, he was assisted by gods in everything he did... Well, that's not right, he had gods to help him.
All the tragedies in his life were caused by Hera.
At least that's what he thought when he was young. He had a very bad impression of Hera at that time.
You know, his name Hercules, to put it simply, was to flatter Hera and hope that Hera would spare his life. Hercules means "the glory of Hera", but even so, Hera still did not let him go.
Let him kill his wife and children with his own hands, and finally die in pain.
He wished he could tear Hera into pieces.
But after he became a god and gained more knowledge, he realized that the person he should really hate was not Hera, but Zeus!
To put it bluntly, all this was brought about by Zeus.
His mother and Zeus gave birth to him, and it was not voluntary. His mother Alcmene was the granddaughter of Perseus, and the great-granddaughter of Zeus. The wife of King Amphitryon of Thebes, she had a husband!
Alcmene's eight brothers were killed by her enemies, so she swore not to sleep with Amphitryon until she had her revenge. Amphitryon planned for a long time and finally got the chance to lead his troops out for revenge.
As a result, at this juncture, Zeus fell in love with his great-granddaughter!
In order to conceal his true intentions, Zeus gave the sun god and the moon goddess a long holiday, making this long night three times longer than usual. Zeus transformed into Amphitryon and seduced Alcmene. Soon after, Amphitryon returned victorious, but found that his wife was pregnant, and was sad. Later, Alcmene gave birth to twins - Hercules (Zeus and her son) and Iphicles (Amphitryon and her son, twins, from different fathers... So, what did they do?).
Hera, the Queen of Heaven, was furious when she heard this and sent two poisonous snakes into Hercules' cradle, but the hero, who was still an infant, showed superhuman strength and strangled the two snakes to death. Hera's actions caused strong dissatisfaction among Zeus, who punished Hera and warned her not to do any more harm to Hercules and to ensure Alcmene's safety. Once, Amphitryon, who was burning with jealousy, was about to burn his unfaithful wife at the stake and lit the pile of wood under her, but suddenly a heavy rain fell from the sky and Alcmene was spared.
Of course, Alcmene’s fate wasn’t much better later on… In fact, all of Zeus’ lovers had bad fates.
Hercules used to think that it was all Hera's fault, but after becoming a god, he found out... bullshit!
Although Zeus pursues girls very attentively, there are not many who truly love them. Most of them are just attracted by their beauty and use despicable means.
Therefore, after becoming a god, Hercules' relationship with Hera became much better, and he became much colder towards Zeus.
Zeus was not too angry when he was scolded and questioned by his own son.
Because it is not necessary.
"I called you here so that you can prepare yourself."
"what to prepare?"
"Take back my Thunderfire, and conquer Asgard while you're at it!"
Zeus said coldly.
"You don't really think I'm too old to do anything?"
Although Zeus has fallen in recent years, he is not so bad that he can't even beat a junior like Thor. Although he has been living a life of luxury, his strength has not declined. You know, he used to live a life of luxury on Earth, right?
After he became the God King, he didn't have to fight very often.
The battle with Typhon was the most thrilling.
Moreover, would a god become weaker because of pleasure? It is impossible!
They are born strong, that's their talent, it can't be weakened.
"and you……'
"Silly boy, I did it on purpose." Zeus said with a snort.
Then he said solemnly: "The Black Death Sword... Damn it, isn't that thing sealed? Why did it come out! This thing shouldn't appear in the material universe at all!"
The Black Death Sword, a symbiotic weapon forged by the Dark God Knull, was created to destroy the Celestials. Although no one understands why, this thing seems to regard the gods as being on the side of the Celestials.
It has a special attack against gods!
Just like Surtur has a special attack against Asgardians.
The Black Death Sword is naturally nemesis of gods. Their divine power is like an illusion to the Black Death Sword. It is only in form and cannot stop it at all. No matter how powerful a god is, being hit by the Black Death Sword is just like an ordinary person being hit by a sword... or even worse.
This thing can not only ignore the divine power of gods, but it can even absorb the power of gods and strengthen itself.
Gelben was just a dying, chronically malnourished native mortal. Even among mortals, he was the weakest. But after getting the Black Death Sword, such a person could kill a god as easily as killing a chicken...
"Is that thing really that scary?!"
Hercules was a little bit unconvinced.
"That thing originally did not belong to the real universe. It was the Dark God Knull who killed a Celestial Being. The Black Death Sword was forged by the God of Symbiotes Knull using the divine fire in the head of a Celestial Being he killed. It can be considered the first "symbiote" in the universe. However, perhaps because the Black Death Sword experienced the baptism of divine fire in the skull of a Celestial Being during the forging process, the weakness of the symbiote that is afraid of fire is not a problem for the Black Death Sword. Moreover, compared to the attributes of other symbiotes, the attributes of the Black Death Sword symbiote are much stronger."
The symbiotes are somewhat famous in the universe. This race is quite notorious. Their favorite thing to do is to appear on a planet, then begin to devour and slaughter the life on that planet, and finally assimilate it.
However, when all life has been devoured, the symbiotes will begin to kill and devour each other until only a few strong ones are left, and the cycle will begin again.
These bug-like creatures appear anywhere and at any time in the universe.
Other civilizations will basically kill the symbiote immediately upon seeing it.
The Pantheon has dealt with a lot of these things and has a very clear understanding of their weaknesses and origins.
But this had no effect on the Black Death Sword.
However, only a few people in the Pantheon knew about the Celestials and the Dark God Knull, and Hercules did not know about it before.
"The Black Death Sword should have been sealed in the abyss along with its master..."
"So, what exactly is that dark god Nar, and what is that abyss?" Hercules asked curiously.
"We just call it that. The Dark God Knull was born in the dark side of the cosmic void. He is the enemy of the entire universe. He was born in the distant void era. At that time, there was nothing in the universe except the most basic matter. He slept in the darkness until the material universe finally began to take shape. He was awakened by the movement of the gods creating the material universe. He didn't like the noisy new world and wanted to return to eternal nothingness and darkness, so he broke out of the dark void. Then he was defeated and locked in a pocket dimension. We call it the Abyss. As for what's inside, no one knows. Anyway, no one dares to go in. So many years have passed. God knows how the Black Death Sword left his master and appeared in the real universe!"
Zeus explained: "This is why I don't want the Pantheon to come into conflict with Ger. God knows what conspiracy is behind this. We can't just step into it foolishly, so I pushed Asgard and Earth out as a shield!"
Zeus is not stupid. After all, a real fool cannot hold power in the Pantheon.
He was just...scared.
He didn't deny it. Damn... even something as advanced as the Black Death Sword came out. Shouldn't he be afraid?
That's something that can be compared with the God Group.
If they don't dare to fight against the Gods, do they dare to fight against the God of Darkness, Nar?
That's a joke.
"I did it on purpose. To deal with Gol and the Black Death Sword... the risk is too great."
It's not just the risk of fighting, but also the trouble behind it.
God knows which god is causing trouble. They are going to fight with Gul to the death. If they beat Gul, they might offend some god... The one who can get the Black Death Sword out of the sealed abyss must be a god of the same level as the gods. Maybe it's the Dark God Nar himself...
If you can't win, you're doomed.
So, in this case, he can only transfer the risk!
Let Asgard and Earth take the blame.
"I was afraid that the Asgardian boy couldn't handle it, so I gave him the Thunderfire and pretended to be defeated. This way, there's no risk!"
"Then call me..."
"Wait till this is over and bring the Thunderfire back to me!!!"