Devouring World Dragon

Chapter 352 A Strike in a Dream

A few months later.

"Fate is the most wonderful thing in the world. The children of two enemies can fall in love, but a father and his son may turn against each other. Anything that thinks it is eternal will be destroyed. Even the gods will lament the fickleness of fate..."

On the street, a street singer was playing the piano, trying his best 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 all these years, the great hero still believed that there was no better harp player in the world than Orpheus.

On the Argonaut back then, only the sound of Orpheus's harp could cheer up the bored heroes, and they sang together to pass the long time at sea.

Where is Orpheus now?

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

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

Among all the heroes, Jason is the one who ages the fastest. Indulging in enjoyment and life will make a hero as bright as the sun grow old like a mortal.

Many of the other heroes are still alive and well, but time has inevitably left its mark on them.

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

He is already a living legend on earth, a demigod walking among men.

Every day, he created more legends. Every day, he moved forward to a world that mortals could not imagine.

But... where are you, my companions?

Raising his palm and feeling the powerful force hidden in his strong fingers, the hero suddenly sighed.

Leaving the past behind, the hero continued on his journey.

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

The king wanted to keep his throne, so he racked his brains to find ways to give the demigod a more difficult task.

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 once said that he would present a treasure to Poseidon, the god of the sea. He emphasized that the first treasure he saw afterwards would belong to the great earthshaker, god of earthquakes, and god of the sea, Poseidon.

However, when a magical white bull came from the sea, the king became greedy when he saw the magical and beautiful white bull. He broke his promise, secretly hid the 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 the mortals, was filled with anger. Seeing that a mortal dared to deceive him, the earthquake god made the big white bull mad, allowing its hooves to shake the earth and destroy this pathetic and tiny mortal kingdom.

The mad white bull has been wreaking havoc in this mortal kingdom for seven years, and people are suffering terribly. At this time, a great hero comes.

The king was very happy about the arrival of the great hero and welcomed him warmly, but at the banquet, the king told the great hero another trouble.

"Dear hero, in addition to the mad bull, there are two lions that came from nowhere. The two lions and their cubs are wandering in the fields, making the farmers afraid to farm."

The great hero laughed and confidently decided to eliminate this scourge for the king first.

When the hero arrived in 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 snoring sound. After a while, he heard the sound of grass and trees rustling.

"Snoring..."

The hero pretended not to know and snored even louder.

The lion not far away hesitated, and finally walked forward cautiously. When the lion was about to approach, the hero suddenly opened his eyes and pounced on it.

The strong lion wanted to resist, but how could it defeat this demigod? Under the great hero's powerful restraint, the lion barely 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 and loosened his arms. The lion kowtowed repeatedly and made begging expressions like a human.

"Who are you? Why are you weeping? Has some evil wizard cursed you to be bound in this lion's skin?"

The great hero inquired.

The lion was writing clumsily on the ground with its claws. The hero watched carefully as the lion wrote a paragraph.

"I am Atalanta."

Atalanta? The huntress who killed the Calydonian boar?

Hercules knew the name. The notorious Calydonian boar had attracted countless heroes to fight against it, and even Ancaeus, who was comparable to himself, died under the fangs of the monster.

The great hero once tried to hunt the wild boar, but before he could even set out, 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 worked as a maid of the goddess. But she eventually angered the goddess of nature Cybele and was turned into a lion and has been missing ever since.

"You are Atalanta? Why are you here?"

The great hero was very surprised.

The lion, no, or rather Atalanta shook his head, tears streaming down his face.

Then the hero saw Atalanta's husband and her children, another lion and several cubs.

The male lion was relatively calm and was not overly surprised to see the hero, he just bowed his head in salute. The other lion cubs were just playing around, they did not understand their parents' behavior, and when they saw outsiders coming, they acted intimidatingly.

People said that Atalanta and her husband committed blasphemy in the temple of the goddess of nature because they could not control their love, so they were turned into a pair of lions by the goddess of nature.

The two adult lions clumsily wrote on the ground with their claws and started a conversation with the hero.

"Great hero from afar, it has been several years since the goddess turned us into lions, and it is time for us to pay for our sins. 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 cities, defeat armies, and kill monsters, he was good at that, but if he was asked to remove a curse, that was not his forte.

After thinking for a moment, he tried to offer a sacrifice to his father. He offered a roasted calf to his father in heaven and asked his father if he could help these two poor people.

When the green smoke was carried all the way to the distant sky by the wind, the God King did not accept the sacrifice of his child.

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

The God King did not accept it, so the hero chose to ask his adopted mother for help. In the underworld, the serpent goddess already knew all the reasons, but remained silent and rejected her adopted son's request for help. She was unwilling to take action for this matter because it would bring disaster to her adopted son.

So the great hero turned to Athena, the hero's friend, for help.

The goddess did not appear in the green smoke.

Just when the hero was disappointed, the 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 guidance from the Father of Serpents?"

The great hero was thoughtful.

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

After saying this, the great hero fell into a deep dream.

In a crazy and insane dream, many chaotic and disordered colors such as black, red, yellow, purple and white flashed, and the body seemed to be falling infinitely, making people feel inexplicably fearful and their hearts pounding.

While struggling in pain, the hero suddenly heard a voice.

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

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

The dream fades away, revealing its true nature.

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

Mortals are no different from dust in this world, but the magnificent and huge upright snake eyes are like the sun and the moon hanging high in the sky, overlooking the entire world.

The hero's body fell in the air, but he was always under the gaze of cold pupils.

"Why not, my godfather."

The great hero laughed. He raised his head and looked up at the huge sun, trying hard not to show any weakness.

He is so proud and conceited that he seems to think there is nothing in the world he cannot do.

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

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

The great snake's contemptuous voice rang out, and the sound made the whole world vibrate.

"Of course I do, because I will beat you."

The great hero shouted.

The big snake's sneer became louder and louder.

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

The erect snake pupils widened, and an invisible force instantly pressed down on the hero, twisting his limbs.

The great hero's proud body was as weak as a baby in front of this force. His fingers and joints were forcibly bent into strange angles, but the great hero seemed unable to resist.

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

The big snake laughed wantonly.

The great hero almost cried out in pain as he felt the pain he had not felt for a long time, 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 is a half-human, half-god hero, a mortal with the power of a god, and it is not his ability to create void things. But this is not reality, it is still a dream, isn't it?

In dreams, everything is possible.

There seemed to be a ball of fire in his chest, and the scorching flame spread throughout his body, as if it was going to burn him completely to ashes, burning up the mortal self and revealing the self that was above everything.

Hot, so hot.

The great hero felt the fire about to burst forth, so he tightened his grip on the spear, roared, and hurled it forth.

"what!!!"

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

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

The snake's pupils shrank slightly, trying to dodge.

"call!"

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

Did it hit?

Missed?
The great hero doesn't know.

There was a brief silence, and then a deep voice sounded angrily.

"You little fool!"

Beneath him, a seemingly bottomless abyss opened up, and only then did the great hero realize that it was the huge mouth of the abyss that 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 hero was sweating profusely 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. Looking outside, the sky outside the cave had even darkened.

I seemed to have slept for a long time.

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

A kind of enlightenment arises.

As long as you touch others with this hand, all curses and spells will dissipate into thin air. This is exactly the reward given to me by the father of snakes.

So…I did hit it?
Thinking of this, the great hero suddenly laughed out loud, mocking the snake father's anger and humiliation.

And in the endless abyss beneath the underworld, the majestic and gigantic snake was still sleeping. The deep sleep of the World-Devouring God caused gusts of whistling cold winds, stirring up the entire underworld world.

But on the forehead of the huge snake, a mark appeared on a scale, an almost invisible shallow mark.

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