Chapter 168: Facing the Minotaur (42k)

Chapter 168: Facing the Minotaur (4.2k)

On the hillside, Admetus, the King of Thessaly, looked at the terrifying figures emerging from the crypts one by one, his face pale.

Gigantes Giants!

They are the blood of the Titans, also called [Giants].

Legend has it that when the second-generation God King Kronos obeyed the order of Gaia, the Earth Mother, to castrate Uranus, the Father of Heaven, Uranus spurted out a large amount of divine blood from the wound under his crotch, which was absorbed by Gaia, and thus gave birth to a large number of Titans, which was the predecessor of the Gigantes clan.

Later, the Titan War broke out, and Mount Olympus and Mount Othrys fought a bloody battle in Thessaly and won the final victory.

But those Titan bloods who were dissatisfied with this did not choose to submit to the rule of the God King Zeus, but merged into the Gigantes clan and continued their cause against Olympus.

However, facing the descendants of the gods of Olympus, who were in their heyday, the Guigantes clan was defeated repeatedly and suffered losses.

The most recent attack can be traced back to the rebellion of the Titan Atlas more than ten years ago.

Even though the Guigantes clan, led by the Titan Atlas, rushed to Olympus with great momentum, they were eventually defeated by the goddess of wisdom Athena. Even the Titan, who was the leader, has now become a prisoner supporting a corner of the sky.

Since that major blow, the Guigantes clan, which was severely injured, gradually disappeared.

But it was unexpected that only more than ten years later, these remnants of the old era could not bear the loneliness and crawled out of the rat holes underground.

Moreover, the landing place they chose was Thessaly, which they were in charge of.

Surrounded by shadows, the King of Thessaly looked up at the towering giants around him, moved his throat with difficulty, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and secretly regretted not listening to the warning of the temple priests.

——In recent days, strange sounds have been heard from the underground of Thessaly, and the insects, fish, birds and beasts in the mountains have also shown signs of uneasiness.

The temple priests who felt the vision urged him to make a great sacrifice to the great god Zeus in order to get the revelation of the gods.

However, at that time, he was in love with his newlywed wife and did not take this matter to heart.

As a result, one wrong step planted the seeds of disaster.

Realizing that the situation was critical, the King of Thessaly immediately drew the bronze sword at his waist and shouted at the guards behind him.

"Go back and tell the city to block the gate and impose martial law!"

As the towering figures came striding over, Admetus tore off his loose robe, took a round shield handed over by the guards beside him, and roared forward.

"Form a formation and meet the enemy!"

Obviously, he was trying to put together a temporary line of defense with himself as the core.

In the world of gods, humans are too small and fragile after all.

Even the God Blood Guards from the City Builder family are only slightly stronger ants in the face of these Gegantes giants.

At the moment, the only one who can hinder them is probably himself, the demigod who is a city builder.

No matter it is the responsibility of being a king or the consciousness of being a strong man.

He needs to stand up at this moment to buy enough time for the people of Thessaly to react.

While preparing, Admetus did not forget to push the handsome shepherd behind him and signaled the guards to put him on the warhorse.

Although he was the monarch of this land, he did not have a good life because it was a poor and bad land that had been devastated by the Titan War.

But since he followed the revelation of the great god Zeus and the prophecy of the temple priests and took in two foreign slaves, everything in Thessaly began to improve.

Not only did the fishing and animal husbandry industries develop fully under the hard work of the two foreign slaves.

Even he himself was lucky enough to marry a beautiful wife because of his kindness to the shepherd behind him.

—— Pelias, the king of the neighboring country Iolcus, only agreed to marry his daughter to someone who could ride a chariot pulled by lions and bears. The shepherd behind him used his unique talent for manipulating animals to meet his marriage requirements and marry the princess of the neighboring country.

Now, he and his wife are in harmony and happy.

In order to express his gratitude to the shepherd, Admetus not only exempted him from hard labor, but also put aside his dignity as a king and often came to the shepherd's grazing place to listen to his performance as a listener.

After a while, although Admetus vaguely knew that the shepherd had an unusual identity, he did not delve into it. The other party was also satisfied with this mode of getting along, and the two formed a deep friendship.

Whether it was because of friendship or gratitude, he wanted the shepherd to survive.

However, the shepherd stood firmly in place and refused to get on the horse, wasting his efforts in vain.

Admetus raised his round shield, gritted his teeth to block a gray-brown arm, swung his sword to cut off two fingers as thick as tree trunks, and couldn't help turning his head and shouting.

"You idiot, it will be too late if you don't leave now!"

"No need..."

The shepherd murmured under the push of the two blood guards, raised his head and looked forward, his handsome face was uncertain, and a sense of inexplicable humiliation surged in his eyes.

"We don't need to run away."

"Boom boom boom!"

At the same time, the earth trembled, and the ether in the air gathered and stirred wildly. A mighty golden bull shadow rushed out of the mountain road at lightning speed, bumping and trampling on the Titans on the path, and stood like a mountain in front of the pasture where Apollo and the King of Thessaly were.

The Titans and gods who had just crawled out of the cave were lifted up by the sudden huge force before they could react. They fell heavily, and the blood was scattered wantonly. The crisp sound of bones breaking was endless.

And the three giants who relied on their arm strength and bravery waved their fists like they didn't believe in evil, and stepped forward shoulder to shoulder, trying to tear the rampaging bull to pieces.

But as soon as they came into contact, the originally powerful [Bull] suddenly became empty and turned into a nimble [Goat], leaping high above their heads, and then two thighs wrapped in golden divinity, stirring up a fierce wind, fell like a long whip made of steel.

Accompanied by a dull explosion, the heads of the three Titan giants blocking the road exploded, and a foul-smelling slurry mixed with red, black and white gushed out from the broken necks, pouring like raindrops on the surrounding dense forests and the ground.

"Damn it! It's the bastard on Olympus, let's go together!"

The leader giant with a lion's head in front of the team saw his companions fall under that figure one after another, and immediately waved his hand and roared, ordering people to solve the threat from the front and back first.

Hearing the order, the Titan monster with eagle wings and human body, the burning rock giant, and the primitive monster with seven or eight giant snake heads, roared and rushed out of the team, taking out their respective killers.

For a moment, bronze feathers shot like sharp arrows, gushing red and black flames, and dark green poisonous juices hit him.

Seeing that there was no escape, Loen raised his foot and stomped hard. The wheel behind him turned, and the streams in the surrounding rivers, the moisture in the air, and even the water veins underground gathered around him frantically under the traction of divinity, turning into a huge water-blue narwhal.

Then, the giant whale swung its head and tail, opened its mouth and swallowed, sucking the feathers, flames, and venom into its body.

Then, at the moment of reaching its limit, the giant whale, which had been dyed black and green, roared and crashed into the enemy formation in front, and exploded.

The eagle-winged monster, the rock giant, and the primitive monster were caught off guard and were drenched. They immediately made a squeaking corrosion sound and a large amount of pungent smoke rose.

Painful screams followed.

"It's my turn!"

At the same time, the figure on the mountain road had already rushed into the formation with the speed of a [goat], and then the figure behind him changed to a golden [bull] phantom, and the arm wrapped in golden divinity was like a huge battering ram, swinging down.

The rock giant, which was the first to bear the brunt, was instantly shattered into pieces, turning into charred black stones rolling all over the ground, and the original living fire was also annihilated in the violent divinity.

The eagle-winged monster following closely behind also had no time to react before being grabbed by a hand on the thigh.

Then, this Titan monster, which was more than ten meters tall, was like a broken sack, being swung left and right by a violent force, and kept hitting the ground heavily, leaving one terrifying deep pit after another.

Large pieces of feathers and flesh flew everywhere, making the scene look bloody and cruel.

"Hiss~~!"

Seeing his two companions suffer such a tragic end, the last primitive monster immediately let out a horrified hiss, raised several snake heads that were corroded to the bone, and madly spewed out venom mixed with his own divine blood.

As soon as the thick green juice came into contact with the air, it instantly spread into a large area of ​​poisonous fog, sweeping forward.

In an instant, the surroundings were dark and gloomy. Once the plants and animals in the range came into contact with the toxins, they immediately withered and died, and even the stones were chirping and smoking.

Lorne just took a breath from a distance, and his head felt a little groggy and his vision became blurred.

It must be said that in the Greek Age of Gods, [poison] is a kind of divinity that is quite difficult to evaluate, with both the upper and lower limits being very high.

As strong as the great hero Hercules and the sage Chiron, they all fell under the corrosion of the divinity of [poison].

As the poisonous fog spread, Loen turned his head back, looking past the cows and sheep that were foaming at the mouth and falling to the ground, and looked at the figures that were staggering and falling like drunks, his eyebrows twisted into a ball.

Although the poison on the opposite side may not be as terrible as the nine-headed snake Hydra, it is far from enough to knock him down, but ordinary demigods and mortals may not be able to withstand it.

In just a few seconds, ordinary people who were affected had already fallen down.

At this time, seeing that the blood guards and the demigod king Admetus beside him were in a coma, their faces were blue and purple, and a stream of black blood flowed out of their mouths, Apollo finally couldn't bear it anymore, hugged his friend, bit his lips with steel teeth, turned his head to the figure that appeared in front of him, and shouted humiliatingly.

"Help!"

"Zheng~!"

At this moment, a crisp seven-stringed lyre sound came from outside the green poisonous fog, and then the flute sound, divine words, and chanting were played together.

"Poem of sound, chapter of music, I command you to see the light again!"

Accompanied by elegant chords and chants, the rich ether, under the call of the divine law, turned into notes and crashed into the poisonous fog, bringing out a sizzling sound, burning away the foul-smelling gray-green fog, like the light of the sky breaking through the clouds.

For a moment, the Guigantes giants who had lived underground for a long time covered their eyes and wailed in pain.

The lion-headed leader in the team was obviously a connoisseur. Seeing the nine intellectual goddesses holding musical instruments, scrolls and wax tablets, he immediately shrank his pupils and waved his hands to order.

"It's Muses! Retreat! Retreat quickly!"

Hearing the iconic name of the god, the remaining dozen giants hurriedly jumped into the crypt, and fled to the depths of the earth veins with the divinity bestowed by the earth's protection.

As the last Titan monster disappeared on the horizon, this small-scale rebellion of the Guigantes tribe ended in vain again.

The nine Muses who came to rescue quickly flew through the dissipated poisonous fog, came to the gentle slope one after another, and stretched out their arms to try to help the main god up.

"Lord Apollo, how are you?"

"Get out of here!"

However, Apollo, dressed as a shepherd, swept his arm and mercilessly pushed away the surrounding beauties, his face as gloomy as dead water.

"A bunch of useless trash!"

After being scolded for no reason, the nine Muses bit their lips tightly and looked a little pale.

Lorne frowned when he saw this and spoke up for them.

"Apollo, what are you doing?"

"I'm disciplining my subordinates, when is it your turn to interrupt?"

Hearing the question, Apollo glanced at Lorne behind him and became even more angry.

It's all this guy's fault, for exposing his most miserable and unbearable side in front of these subordinates!

And these Muses are also a bunch of useless trash!

They didn't show up earlier or later, but had to wait until I asked for help before coming to the scene.

At this moment, seemingly because he couldn't stand the workplace bullying of the God of Light, Lorne spoke righteously and loudly to fight for the innocent Muses around him.

"During the time you were punished, Lady Artemis entrusted them to me to take care of them. Seeing that they were treated unfairly, I certainly have the obligation to protect them!"

Hearing this, Apollo felt like a bolt from the blue, his face suddenly turned liver-colored, and he looked at the Muses around him and Lorne in front of him in disbelief.

"You... take care of them?"

"Yes!"

Lorne nodded and frankly told everything that had happened in the past three years.

"Because you were punished, they were also coveted and implicated. In order to protect their safety, Lady Artemis asked me to take care of these Muses for you."

"Take care of them for me? Should I thank you?" Apollo's face turned cold and his voice trembled slightly.

"That's not necessary. I was just entrusted by Lady Artemis."

Lorne waved his hand generously, but then his face changed again. He pointed at the Muses behind him and angrily told them about their grievances.

"It's these Muses who were implicated by you, but they didn't give up their duties and maintained the temple for you. And because they heard that Thessaly was unsafe, they came all the way from Olympus to visit you. It's okay if you don't appreciate it, but you actually spoke ill of it. It's too much!"

Hearing the ruthless and loud rebuke, the Muses who knew Apollo's temper were frightened.

They were about to speak to make amends, but unexpectedly, the God of Light burst into a gloomy sneer, looking at the Muses and Lorne in front of him with disgust and humiliation, as if looking at a group of adulterers.

"Okay, okay! So you are in the same group. Do you want me to give you my seat?"