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Chapter 151 "Let Erebus come down to pick you up?"

Haven't those mortals who voluntarily jumped into the bottomless abyss never doubted it?Under the abyss is not the gateway for the living to die, but the way for the living to die.

Maybe they had doubted it too, but they just didn't want to believe it.

What is the purpose of those gods who spread rumors, they lured mortals to come here, and exposed Lemnos to the sight of the gods.

Now, the gods vaguely know that Hephaestus is still in the mortal world and on the ocean.

Naturally, Hephaestus will not leave.This is true even if he already knows that Gaia and the others are paying more attention to him.

He just wanted to stay in the world, in the ocean, so what?

He can leave voluntarily, but he will never allow others to force him to leave.

If anyone is unwilling, come to him!

Thinking of this, Hephaestus let out a cold snort, and sat down on the threshold of the temple with an indifferent expression.

He has always been rational since he was born, and has never sinned against mortals, and his behavior has still been seen by those who care.

Batch after batch of mortals who were lured to die just came to disgust him, like flies that couldn't be driven away.

I just don't know who is testing me and what kind of information I want to get.

The huge natural vortex surrounding Lemnos has cut off the connection between Lemnos and the sea. The entire Lemnos island is floating in the center of this vortex, not relying on the sky and the earth, nor on the sea, but Beyond the vortex, there is also a hint of fate under Klotob, all mundane things that come close to here will spontaneously stay away from here.

The so-called burial places of streams, lakes and seas are the natural eddies surrounding Lemnos, which are actually places that mortals can never reach.

However, they just came, and they arrived here in a big boat brazenly.

Although this is their choice, it has nothing to do with them.

But Hephaestus didn't like to see them arrive here in waves, jump into the eddy, and die not far from their own dwellings.

He didn't want to save them either. As an independent will, every mortal must independently bear the consequences of this choice from the moment he makes a choice.

It doesn't matter about anything else, just because they are all independent will, can think for themselves, and can also bear their own responsibilities.

But it still made Hephaestus feel sick.

Someone must be trying to do something with it, or it's just trying to wear down his patience.

You have to figure out a way.

He was lost in thought on the threshold.

……

Below the island of Lemnos, at the bottom of the Abyss.

It is shrouded in darkness all year round, and being in it is like being trapped at the bottom of a well.The difference is that this place is much bigger than any well in the world. Being at the "bottom of the well" is like standing in the endless desert at night.The surroundings are not the sand and soil of any well, but the eddies that stir the infinite sea water.

It's too big here, and the sea sand on the bottom of the sea is no longer fine and soft because it loses the moisture of the sea water.

From the bottom up, the island of Lemnos, floating level with the sea above, has become a black dot.

The black snake trapped in the lock was wandering at the bottom of the abyss.

It is close to the side of the vortex, the triangular snake head is facing the island of Lemnos above, and beside it is the infinite sea water swirling down.The reflection in the snake pupil ignored the barrier of Lemnos Island, showing Hephaestus sitting on the threshold of the temple above.

The god of fire sits on the threshold, with his back to his temple, facing the world he left behind in the legend of the Church of Anser a hundred years ago.

Threshold...

No god sits on the threshold, and no god turns his back on his temple.

But in the eyes of those who care, Hephaestus sitting on the threshold of the temple is actually in a very special state.Because the residence of the gods is the invisible line that divides the heaven and the human world, the heaven is inside the temple, and the human world is outside the temple.

When Hephaestus sat on the threshold of the temple, half of his body was in the temple, that is, heaven; the other half was outside the temple, that is, the world.He took his seat at the boundary, but he was naturally unaffected, as if he should have been sitting there, and that was his divine seat.

What does this indicate?
Or... Hephaestus really has humanity!
Maybe not... It should be that mortals today have the divinity of Hephaestus!
If the eternal human beings in the golden age belong to Gaia, she takes back the created human beings in order to hold the vase of life.There was also a reason for the birth of humans in the Silver Age, and Iapetus used this to confirm his status as the ancestor.As for the Bronze Age, it was Zeus' attempt on the path of faith.

And isn't the current era a continuation of the Bronze Age?It was to gain better faith that the humans who created this era in the Bronze Age were destroyed.

If Hermamene hadn't been blinded by the Olympus group at that time, then her memory would not be wrong.

Then... the person who proposed the path of faith was Hephaestus himself!
What does it mean?The way of faith he proposed, but he himself does not strive for the slightest benefit?

Not only that, but he is also the only god who categorically rejects belief...

what does he want to do...

The human beings now come from Epimetheus the Idiot, a guy who hides in the dark, but he happens to know Hephaestus, and he once joined hands with Hephaestus to attack the lost Hermamene.

Although the Epimetheus family is the creator of this era, is there a possibility... Just like Iapetus is the ancestor of humans in the Silver Age, Hephaestus is the origin of humans in this era? ! !

what is this……

The gods enslaved humans to plunder beliefs as a basis, while the true origin of humans hid behind the scenes and watched jokes.

Isn't faith a dead end?

A gleam of fear flashed across the black snake's eyes.In the age of the long night, during the years when she was fighting with Hermamene, she would not forget that it was the guy in front of her who stopped the sun and made her win the long night with difficulty.

And in the long night, mortals' belief in the night also became her help, and became the last straw for her to crush Hermamene.

I didn't expect that the straw would be on me in the end, and it still remains in the dark night until now, but I still regard it as a treasure...

Fortunately, I lured mortals to try it out. For such an ambitious guy, it's better to keep Clotho away from him.

The black snake skin was shed, and the beautiful goddess of the night appeared under the bottomless abyss.

She raised her hand to cut through nothingness, to open a crack leading to the depths of chaos.

But... nothingness didn't respond to her this time...

She looked towards the island of Lemnos above. The flame god who had been sitting on the threshold of the temple on the island had quietly left at some point.

He went... behind!
"Your Majesty, hello." The elegant middle-aged man greeted her.

"Is this cage for the ordinary and supreme still satisfied?"

"It was originally built for a wandering supreme I met in the chaos, but I didn't expect to wait for you."

"Sure enough, as mortals often say, you can't catch those you want to catch, you can only hold on to those you don't want."

The night is spreading, the supreme power is colliding, and the law of nature will forcibly stop the vast eddy that stretches to the bottom of the sea.

But everything is in vain.Nix, the goddess of the night, never gave up. She tried and responded: "Is there any difference between what mortals say and what you say? Isn't it all what you say?"

Hephaestus smiled brightly when he heard the words: "That's the truth."

"But don't waste your efforts in vain, Your Majesty."

"I may not be your opponent in the chaos, but since you have entered the cage yourself, how can I not seize the opportunity?"

"This is connected to my treasure house, and the artifacts I have built over the years are all inside, probably tens of thousands of pieces."

"They have blocked this sea abyss from all directions."

"Let me do the math, you can forcibly smash one piece a day, how long will it take you to escape? It's not slow, it only takes 200 years."

Speaking of this, Hephaestus smiled even brighter: "The big ship that voluntarily jumped into the abyss was attracted by the crown, and there are also burial sites that spread among the world, passing through streams, lakes and seas, You can go to the underworld as a living person to rescue the souls of the dead, is this also the handwriting of the crown?"

"Then Your Majesty must hurry up."

"You know, I don't like people splashing dirty water on me."

"I hope that the destruction under the crown can be faster than I can forge the artifact, otherwise you will be trapped here forever."

"Or, let Erebus crown you down?"

(End of this chapter)