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Chapter 103 The First Thing and the Second Thing

Hephaestus has been following Otis.

This is for a reason.

Partly because he was free, and partly because he suddenly didn't want anyone to believe in him.

There are various reasons for mortals to worship gods, but in summary, it is nothing more than wanting to obtain something that is difficult to obtain but yearns for.

They longed for a response from the gods.

However, even the gods may not be able to satisfy their desires.

Hephaestus didn't want to respond to them and was tired of them chanting his name all the time.

Sata is a typical example.

Hephaestus was absolutely sure that he wasn't a devout believer in the beginning.But as time passed, he grew a little more respectful of his own fear.

This kind of change may be considered reasonable by Sata, but in the view of Hephaestus, it is precisely unacceptable.

He can endure the chanting of a short-lived species for hundreds of years, but he will never allow a long-lived species to pray to him for thousands of years.

This made other gods uneasy and misunderstood by other gods, which made Hephaestus feel helpless.

So Sata died, even though Hephaestus admired him and wanted to see more possibilities in him.

Hephaestus could save Sata, but he didn't want to and didn't want to. He felt that Sata should be calm and calm, and he should be clean.

Sata is intelligent and a kind and kind old man.

He distributed his eternal life to Otis, hoping to support this younger generation.

For Otis, this is a good thing, but for Hephaestus, the immortals who belong to the Church of Anser are a troublesome thing.

He didn't want another eternal believer to appear.

Anser Church, it is better to be buried in the dust.

So he showed Otis a bright way out.

Otis, he should be a follower of Sata, not his own.

Hope, he'd better not think about something that can have both, after all, people can't be too greedy!

Fortunately, Otis didn't mean that either.

In his heart, faith is not the mainstream, but a happy and splendid life is.

But Hephaestus understands that people are fickle, and everything is just unknown before returning to the Temple of Anser.

He followed Otis all the way, during which three things worth mentioning happened.

First Things First: Storm Goddess Maia

When Otis left the village, it suddenly rained heavily in the outside world.

The rain came so suddenly, there is a goddess flying in the sky, she is Maia.

Maia, the goddess of wind and rain, was the mother of Hermes, who was the child of the god-king Zeus.

However, this does not mean that Hermes' status is so noble.

God King Zeus has many offspring, Hermes is still very young, and his mother is not such a powerful god.

So in Mount Olympus, the status of their mother and son is a bit awkward.

But as a mother, I always want to give my children the best, even if I know that I will be bruised and bruised, I have to try to face it.

Faith is a very good thing.

However, although the cake of faith is huge, there are also many people who share it.

If there are too many people, there will be competition.

Mai Ya didn't dare to think about the center of the land, so she could only develop along the coast. In the coastal areas, there are still a few fishermen who depend on the sea for food.

The coast belongs to the gods of the sea, and battles are inevitable.

Over the years, Maia has always traveled between Mount Olympus and the coastal areas. Her travels are deliberately accompanied by wind and rain, so as to show her existence to mortals. After the storm passes, there will always be a rainbow piercing the night.

It was Iris, the rainbow goddess, Maia's husband, who was sent by God King Zeus to take care of her.

There are not many such people, and there is only one.

So many things, Maia is personally.

For each plunder, Maia's targets are strictly selected.

It can't be too strong, and it can't be too troublesome...

Fortunately, she found her target again.

One of the sea goddesses, Thetis, who is in charge of fish spawning, came to develop along the coast. After careful cultivation and care of the mortals around her, she won many followers.

So Maia came, with wind and rain.

The wind and rain blew into the sea, pouring into Thetis' dwelling on a shallow coral reef.

Strong winds destroy corals of all shapes and sizes, destroy palaces made of shipwrecks, and crush schools of colorful fish that inhabit them.

Maia's wind and rain rolled Thetis up into the sky, exposed her to her followers, and faced her uprightly, making her resist hard.

But this time, her luck was not so good, Hephaestus saw her.

Hephaestus, he is a god of the ocean family, and was adopted by the goddess of the sea, Tesis.

He will protect the grandmother's favored children.

But he also didn't want to hurt a mother, and he didn't want anyone to respect him and be in awe of him.

He caused the dormant volcano on the nearby seabed to erupt, and broke off the battle of gods without appearing.

He himself didn't know whether he was partial or not.But it doesn't matter, after doing everything, it has nothing to do with him, next time, he may not see it again.

None of this has anything to do with Otis as a mortal.

He didn't know that an undersea volcano erupted thousands of miles away, and he didn't know that a mother returned without success, and he didn't know that because of this mother, a sea goddess was invaded unfairly.

He only knew that the wind and rain in the sky passed overhead, and there was a graceful figure of a goddess on it, followed by a rainbow.

All he knew was that he had seen this twice in one day, and was drenched twice by the pouring rain.

All he knew was that he had to quicken his pace...

Second Thing: Farming and Sun Split
Throughout the ages, abundance and the sun have been regarded as an inseparable relationship. A good weather determines whether there will be a good harvest year.

This is because Demeter, the goddess of fertility, and Helios, the former sun god, were ostensible allies.

The new sun god Apollo replaced Helios, and it is logical to have this relationship.

But when the night comes and the sun fails to rise, this relationship no longer makes sense.

Some people think that the excess power of faith should go where it should go.

Hephaestus followed Otis and noticed that the Temple of the Sun and the Temple of Harvest in many places were no longer in harmony, and even a little at odds.

This is a very important signal, and Hephaestus is satisfied.

And in the sky, the goddess of abundance is also proving that she doesn't need the sun with practical actions.

She radiates her power and exercises her authority. She bestows the joy of harvest on mortals, but does not allow them to be too comfortable and satisfied.

Which region's beliefs are more pious, which region can get more gifts.

Speaking of which, the foundation of belief in Apollo, the sun god, collapsed across the board in just 53 years, perhaps without the credit of Demeter, the goddess of fertility.

This may be because the sun's light is too ordinary and too dazzling, covering a lot of Demeter's brilliance...

(End of this chapter)