Greek Mythology: The Spiritual Dominator.

Chapter 586 Flowers in the Mirror

"Golden Age... It turns out that there are still people alive today..."

"Your Highness Prometheus, do you know anything about the golden survivors mentioned by the Goddess of the Magic Net?"

In reality, next to a pond that has long dried up.

The stone where Hecate and Selene sat was long gone, and the clear pool of water was filled with dead branches and leaves.

In front of Hercules, traces of the past reappeared, but he could not see the true bodies of the two goddesses. Instead, there was only a halo filled with different rules.

Obviously, even if it is not a great divine power, and even if Hecate, who ascended to the throne in the Bronze Age, has not even entered the realm of powerful divine power not long ago, the true body of the gods is still difficult to be reflected so easily.

Through the shadows of the past, the audience could only see the interaction between the two balls of light and shadow, as well as some fuzzy and distorted sounds.

"...I don't know. As for the King of the Golden Age, I only remember that he knew that he had received divine revelation in a dream and was the first human created by Chaos."

"Perhaps it's because God put more effort into creating him, or perhaps because he was the first 'man', he was favored by fate. In short, he has a longer lifespan than his peers."

"However, no matter how long one's life is, it is difficult to conceal the nature of mortals. Under absolute power, it is difficult for him to survive... I always thought that he had died at the turn of the era, but I didn't expect that he would live to this day."

Before the flood caused by the trident, Prometheus had been taken away as a criminal, so he did not see the battle between the son of Poseidon and humans.

So when faced with Hercules' question, the forerunner could not give an answer.

"His name is Cohen. This is one of the few memories I have of him."

"Just as the Demonic Web Goddess said, he, like every golden human, is a model of integrity and kindness."

"Beyond that, I have nothing more to say."

"I see."

Nodding slowly, the great hero accepted it, albeit with a little regret.

Indeed, the existence of golden humans is quite unfamiliar to the current Olympian gods, who basically have not lived in that era.

Without further ado, Hercules continued to focus his attention on the Shadow of the Past.

The Golden Age was just a small episode that had nothing to do with him; the entrance to the spirit world was what he really wanted to find.

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An unknown amount of time ago, by the pond, the Moon Goddess and Hecate stayed here for more than a few months.

Under the guidance of the Goddess of the Magic Net, an antique wooden house that took more than ten thousand years to build reappeared in the world, and then under her superb skills, it was once again hidden under the complicated mystery locks.

During this period, there were gods who transformed themselves into breezes and wandered here, but they were ultimately defeated and returned empty-handed due to the crisscrossing strings of the magic web.

The two goddesses settled down here and lived, reminiscing about the times of the last era.

Time flies, and several months have passed.

On this day, a surprised cheer rang out from the wooden house.

The figure flashed and ripples appeared in the void.

In an instant, Hecate put down the half-roasted lucky game in her hand and appeared beside Selene.

As soon as I entered the house, the soft moonlight illuminated all around, and a bright white phantom moon appeared behind the goddess.

With just one glance, Hecate knew that Selene had made a breakthrough in her meditation practice, and even caused resonance with a certain phase of the moon in the spiritual world.

No, not just one round, but almost all of them.

As a natural-born moon goddess, Selene's affinity for the realm of the moon is unmatched...

"Hey——"

Selene slowly opened her eyes and was about to stand up to share the joy of her successful breakthrough with her friends, but unexpectedly she bumped into Hecate's face.

After rolling on the ground, the moon goddess raised her head angrily, but then calmed down under the innocent look of Hecate.

After a while, on another ancient road not far from the wooden house.

There were weeds and bushes everywhere, and there was no trace of a road at all.

Hecate did not say what she was going to do after bringing Selene all the way here.

Only after the Moon Goddess stood obediently beside her and was silent for a moment did she carefully draw a circle on the ground.

In an instant, time seemed to begin to flow backwards inside the circle.

The grass grows and withers, eventually turning into seeds; the soil becomes moist, then dries up again.

Day after day, year after year.

In the blink of an eye, the time here seemed to flow backwards for tens of millions of years.

Gradually, a small footprint and the mark of someone lying down appeared here. In addition, there was also a mark of a hard object sunken in.

"what is this?"

Selene asked.

"This is where I fell—now, you see, there's the footprint and the mark of my sleep."

"I tripped over a hard object here, and then fell here... Finally, I brought the bad thing that tripped me back with me!"

Pointing at the marks on the ground, Hecate spoke cheerfully.

She took two steps forward, stepped on the footprints of the past, and pressed her hand on the sunken mark.

"This is an exit, an exit that may not have existed before."

“But when I picked it up here, this exit existed.”

"You have meditated more than once, and behind this entrance is the place you saw when you meditated in the past."

"There are many roads leading to the spirit world in this world, but most of them stop at the first level. A few can lead to the second level, and it is impossible to go beyond the third level."

"There are only a few special cases. They were born for some special reasons and have stayed there ever since. Only they can travel to the depths of the spirit world."

"Go in from here and find the spiritual moon that is most closely related to you... Selene, you only have one chance to choose!"

The sound was not loud, and a point of light appeared in the palm of Hecate's hand, eventually covering the entire mark.

The next moment, a silver crack appeared in front of the two people, and the girl in the red dress reached out and pulled, directly pulling the crack to a width wide enough for the two people to pass through.

All of a sudden, an extremely strong spiritual aura came from the other side of the crack, which lifted the spirits of the Moon Goddess.

Looking at the crack in front of her, Selene felt a little at a loss as to what to do.

"I..." Pointing at herself, the Moon Goddess asked hesitantly, "Go and choose a moon from inside?"

"Yes, you may have to take on an extra job in the future. Well, I suggest you find a nymph who is willing to believe in you, promote her to be your servant, and then grant her divinity and let her work for you."

"After all, you are the true Moon Goddess, not one of those people who spends part of their divine duties to forge divine weapons."

"As long as you are willing, the moon is in your hands, and there is absolutely no possibility of it deviating from its orbit."

Hecate tapped her chin and looked at Selene who was still a little hesitant. She took a step back and pushed her towards the crack that was flashing silver light.

With a scream, the Moon Goddess immediately fell to the other side of the gap, and she followed in.

As the two entered, the cracks recovered and everything returned to its original state.

Only the shadows on the ground shifted a little, recording the passage of time here.

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In reality, beside an unknown pond.

The image of the past had not yet ended. Hercules watched as the two halos sank into a mosaic-filled area and then disappeared. Just like a real script, the time in the image would flow faster in unimportant places, but would slow down in critical places.

In a blink of an eye, two halos of light walked out of the "mosaic" and returned to reality.

It was very obvious that the silver-white light seemed to have become much stronger than before, and the bright moonlight almost always surrounded her.

And watching this scene, the great hero had an intuition.

With the entry of the Moon Goddess, it seemed that both the spirit world and herself had gained some kind of enhancement in the realm of the Moon.

No...it's not an enhancement, but a complement.

It's like things that were originally separate have finally become one, and some kind of wonderful reaction occurs at this moment... They complement each other, and the result is that one plus one is greater than two.

Nothing could be more compatible with each other, and perhaps from this moment on, Selene is the true 'Goddess of the Moon'.

As for before that, her title of Moon Goddess was totally unworthy of her.

Unfounded guesses flashed through his mind, and in the image, Hecate's actions continued.

Returning to the human world from the crack, the Demon Net Goddess looked back at the marks on the ground.

She hesitated for a moment, and finally displayed her magic power and moved the pool where she had been before.

Traces intrude into the water, just as the past is buried in the sand.

A powerful mystery lock once shone over this place, but Hecate did not allow the magic network strings to completely cover this place.

She just took out a book from her body, a book that was also a "mosaic" in the eyes of Hercules and Prometheus.

Turning the pages of the book, a projection of something was summoned.

The extremely terrifying blocking effect of the space force sealed this mark in his body forever.

When the Goddess of the Demonic Web finished all this, she took a few steps back and let Selene impose a blockade here as well.

The Moon Goddess didn't know what to do. She thought for a long time, and finally hid the summoned projection in the reflection of the bright moon in the pool. Only at the right time, in the right place, and at the right angle could one see what was inside.

After completing all the preparations, Hecate didn't seem to want to stay here any longer.

She waved her hand and summoned the carriage that was supposed to be pulling the bright moon from the horizon, and left the remains of the ancient sacred mountain with the Moon Goddess.

The image ends here beside the dry pond.

Turning his gaze towards the dry pool beside him, Hercules knew that this was where everything happened in the old days.

"So that's it."

"The correct passage has been hidden. It is hidden in the 'Moon in the Water'."

"Now there is no water here, so naturally there is no trace of it no matter how hard you look."

After a brief pause, the great hero asked Prometheus to create a flow of water here to fill the pool.

The foresighted one did not refuse. The holy power surged between his palms, and a divine spell was easily performed in the hands of a true god.

Soon, the dried-up pool filled up again, and Hercules watched the sky, waiting for the 'right time' to come.

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Two days passed quickly, and on this day, he stood where Selene once stood.

When the bright moon above his head reached a certain angle, the hero lowered his head and looked at the moon's shadow in the pool.

The moon in the sky and the moon in the water were facing each other from afar, and in the dark, a shackle seemed to be opened.

The next moment, something that was summoned by the Goddess of the Magic Net and hidden in the reflection by the Goddess of the Moon emerged... Looking at the moon shadow on the water, Hercules was speechless.

"what is that?"

Ender asked.

Only one person can see what's there at a time.

The great hero didn't know how to respond to this, he just slightly turned sideways and gave up the position.

"I don't know how to describe it...just take a look for yourself."

The puppet jumped up from the pocket and looked at the thing in the moonlight in mid-air.

For the first time, it saw itself in it.

But after only a moment of surprise, Ander recognized it.

"A mirror? A mirror that seals a flower?"

"No, that's not a flower, it's a portal. It's just that the space around it is distorted, so it looks like a flower to the naked eye..."

"Haha, the moon in the water and the flower in the mirror, I didn't expect that these two goddesses are actually quite artistic."

"But Hercules, it seems that you really have no chance of getting it now - you can't get past her blockade, and in the human world, I can't use my divine power to help you."

"Take away a breath of its aura. This is the only thing you can do. The shadow of the [Mirror of Spreal] wants to break through the space barrier created by it in the human world. Only it can do it."

It is said that this divine weapon symbolizes the realm of [Space]. Since the disappearance of the second generation of God King, there has been no other god or divine weapon in the world that can stand shoulder to shoulder with it in this realm.

Although Ander knew that the proportion of this artifact in the entire Chaos [space] field was definitely not high, there was no other god of space in the world.

From the beginning to the end, the world has never truly delegated the power of time and space to the gods. Otherwise, even as far back as the First Age, if Kronos could truly master more than 70% of Chaos's origin of time and space, he would be a well-deserved great divine power, and perhaps only Tartarus could be compared with him.

However, over the past tens of millions of years, apart from the Abyss which had gained a lot of authority over space due to the influx of mixed alien source power, no other god had this honor.

Even the same was true for several other primordial gods; they only passively possessed some spatial power as their domains expanded.

"It may be the correct passage, but Hercules, it is definitely not for you now."

Prometheus also took a look at the mirror in the moonlight and said.

"You want to go to the [World of All Spirits] and summon the souls of the dead in front of the [Well of Samsara]... According to the [Book of Purgatory], there is also a projection of the [Mirror of Sprell] there."

“Once you can find it, you will be able to open the ‘correct’ path - if everything goes as you expect, and you really have to pass through here in the future.”

"As for now...I'm afraid you won't be able to succeed."

Nodding slightly, the great hero believed what they said.

However, he still tried it himself to see if he could touch the portal that was so close.

However, the result was just as the two had said, the moon in the water and the flower in the mirror seemed to be within reach, but in fact, under the influence of the authority of [Space], the distance between Hercules and them was like a chasm.

"Well... the only thing that can fight against authority is another kind of authority."

"The gods may still be restricted in the human world, but the restrictions on divine weapons are much fewer."

Shaking his head slowly, the hero took a step back.

As Ander said, he absorbed the breath of a divine weapon.

This is a clue that can help guide him in the future... Standing quietly by the pond, time continues to flow.

Soon, the moon moved.

This road that leads directly to the depths of the spiritual world is once again buried in this ancient ruins.

(End of this chapter)