The Warrior of Love

After the fairy girl was excited, she wilted like an eggplant hit by frost.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Jiang Liu..."

"It doesn't matter……"

Jiang Liu shook his head. He still viewed the girl as a friend. Although he vaguely sensed her affection for him, he was a married man after all and could not accept it casually.

Turning around, Jiang Liu looked at the goddess with a playful smile on her face and his expression became serious.

"Stop teasing her...Why is the goddess here?"

"I'm looking for something."

The goddess was unexpectedly frank and took out a stone carving to show Jiang Liu.

"Like this, something born from rock... but much heavier and more precious than this. Only by finding that can I return to my original form.

The reason I came to this island is because this island has a very deep connection with me. If I can't find it here, it will be impossible to find it anywhere else."

"The original posture?"

Jiang Liu narrowed his eyes slightly: "Speaking of which, what is your real name?"

"I'm……"

The goddess suddenly closed her mouth, glanced at Liliana who was still struggling, and suddenly a vicious smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

"What a heartless man! You can't even remember your own wife? I gave birth to a child for you!"

"what?"

Jiang Liu widened his eyes and was stunned for a moment.

Liliana also raised her head blankly, opening her mouth as if she wanted to say something but stopped herself.

"Ha ha……"

The goddess smiled happily, turned around gracefully, and then disappeared into the crowd.

"Goodbye. You don't want to fight me in a place like this anyway, do you? But don't worry, my husband, my enemy... I will come back to find you after I regain my original form."

Chapter 522: Athena and Echidna

"I gave birth to a child for you" - this sentence was obviously not said to Jiang Liu.

Just kidding, although he can't be considered "chaste", he has always been chaste since he established his relationship with Heber and Feng. How could he suddenly have a wife with a child? !

After thinking about it, it seems that it can only be because of his other identity: Hercules from another world, on top of which he has integrated the divinity of the great hero of this world.

If the goddess was speaking to the godhead of Hercules, then everything would make sense.

But... it is difficult to calculate her real name based on this.

Because Hercules in mythology was a super stud!

Compared to him, Jiang Liu is simply an innocent little boy!

Except for his three wives, Hercules was a bachelor most of the time, basically carrying women wherever he went.

Princesses, priestesses, snake ladies, queens... The most powerful time, he challenged fifty princesses alone (and knocked down forty-nine of them), and each of them gave birth to his children...

Hercules had a particularly rich love history, and surprisingly, most of his lovers gave birth to sons... Let’s put it this way, there is more than one nation with Hercules as its ancestor!

Many of his sons became kings, and their footprints were all over Europe and Asia!

According to the standards of this world, more than one of Hercules' wives could be called the goddess of disobedience.

(By the way, Hercules was bisexual, his adopted son and nephew were both his lovers, and his feelings for them were deeper than those of ordinary lovers... Uncle B didn't expect you to be like this, I really misjudged you!)

How could Jiang Liu possibly find someone's real name from this...

However, the goddess said that she has a deep connection with this land, so perhaps we can start from here.

"Myths and legends about Sicily?"

Under Liliana's searching gaze, Jiang Liu fell into deep thought...

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Mount Etna, one of the most famous tourist attractions, is 3,200 meters above sea level and is known as the highest active volcano in Europe.

Yes, it is still in an active period like Mount Fuji. Although frequent volcanic eruptions bring dangers, they also bring extremely fertile soil and a large amount of tourism resources to the local area.

"Fire means destruction."

A pair of white bare feet walked on the dark volcanic rocks, and the graceful goddess strolled in purgatory.

"But fire is also the origin of creation."

She walked past volcanic cones of all sizes. These holes were like pores in the earth, penetrating the crust and connecting to the interior of the planet. They were far more active than the main craters, occasionally spewing out hot gases that could instantly cook flesh and blood, or even flowing out red-gold magma.

However, the goddess in white robes was fearless, as if she was taking a leisurely stroll in her own yard. The pungent smell of sulfur, the scorching heat, the poisonous gases and magma that could erupt at any time...such a harsh environment had no effect on her at all.

This is not surprising. After all, she is the Earth Mother Goddess and the earth is her origin. In places with frequent geological activities such as volcanoes, the earth's spirit is also extremely active, which is as comfortable to her as taking a hot spring bath.

The high temperature and poisonous gas are lethal to ordinary people, but it is natural that a disobedient god would not be afraid of them.

"Magma brings destruction, but after destruction comes rebirth. This has been the cycle of the earth since its creation."

Although walking seems slow, the goddess's leg strength is actually quite extraordinary. She easily covers a distance of dozens of kilometers, passes through an area surrounded by dense volcanic cones, and climbs to the top of Mount Etna.

She once told Jiang Liu that she was looking for something, so it was really strange that she climbed Mount Etna.

Because for an active volcano, it is impossible for there to be anything with a long history around it.

In fact, the whole road is really barren. Not to mention treasures, even plants and animals are rare. It seems that it is because it has not been long since the last eruption, and the ecosystem has not yet evolved. The environment here is harsher than the most desolate Gobi Desert.

But there was no hesitation or confusion on the black-haired goddess' face. She had a faint smile on her face from beginning to end, as if everything was under her control.

Soon, she arrived near the mountain pass, but did not reach the top. Instead, she turned and went around the crater halfway, stopping in front of an empty rock wall that looked nothing special.

"Haha, interesting."

The goddess walked towards the rock wall, and then passed by like a phantom.

"Human warlocks really have some wonderful ideas."

After passing through the obscuring barrier, what came into her sight was a long corridor. The flat steps and stone walls proved that this was a man-made relic.

Incredibly, this relic is hidden in a volcano!

I don't know what method the people who built the ruins used, but they not only carved out a small space for sacrifices in the mountain, but also restricted the direction of the spiritual energy of the entire mountain, indirectly affecting the direction of the lava, so that even if a volcanic eruption occurred, it would not destroy this place.

After passing through a winding corridor and destroying countless barriers, the goddess came to a small secret room.

Since it is hidden in the volcanic mountain, the scale of the ruins is bound to be not too large, and this stone chamber is indeed very small, barely enough to accommodate a small altar.

There are simple stone pillars, stone statues, murals and other things on it, proving that this place was indeed used, but it is not known how many years it has been abandoned.

Judging from the ancient style of these cultural relics, they may have a history of thousands or even tens of thousands of years...

At the very center of the altar, surrounded by stone pillars on the four corners, is a ritual implement, an obsidian statue about half a meter high.

The upper body is a naked woman with long hair and a graceful figure. Her face has long been blurred, but the lower body is two intertwined snake tails, which looks obscene and weird, but for some reason there is a sense of sacredness.

"really……"

The goddess couldn't help but smile and picked up the statue with great care.

The altar seemed to have some kind of protective barrier, but the excited goddess ignored it, and they certainly couldn't stop her.

"Are you late?"

Just as the goddess was about to leave with the statue, she heard a childish but majestic voice, which made her frown and turn around.

She was a cute little girl wearing a knitted sweater and a cat-ear hat, but her face was unusually cold.

"You're one step ahead of me, Echidna."

"Oh, this originally belonged to me, so it's only natural that it's back in my hands."

After seeing the other person's appearance clearly, the black-haired goddess raised the corners of her mouth and sneered without restraint.

"How dare you, Athena, come here and steal the symbol of your compatriots?"

Chapter 523: Thundering Volcano

Athena is the daughter of Zeus, the Greek king of gods, and the protector of the city of Athens. Her fame is known to everyone without any explanation.

Although it is quite surprising that the goddess of wisdom would appear in the form of a little girl, there is nothing much to say other than that.

On the contrary, the black-haired goddess, Echidna, is a very special existence in Greek mythology.

She may not be as well-known as Athena, but the role she plays is just as important as that of the goddess of wisdom.

In legend, she is the "Mother of Demons". She was originally a nymph (fairy), but was later degraded to a monster.

She combined with the giant Typhon to give birth to many monsters, such as the nine-headed serpent Hydra, the three-headed dog Cerberus, the Chimaera, the Harpy, the Sphinx, the hundred-headed evil dragon Ladon, etc. Quite a number of famous demons can be traced back to her.

Another saying is that even Gorgon is her daughter, and she even gave birth to three sons with Hercules in the identity of a snake woman.

In short, her position among monsters is like Chiron's position among heroes.

But the "Mother of Demons" is not her original appearance.

Echidna, like Athena, is one of the oldest earth goddesses.

But because in ancient times, the human race changed from matriarchal to patriarchal, which indirectly affected the changes in mythology, causing those ancient, noble and powerful earth goddesses to be pulled off the throne one after another.

The male gods rose up with swords in hand, depriving the mother goddesses of their authority and status, and degrading their divinity.

So in mythology, the earth goddesses became the wives, daughters, lovers of the male gods, and even degenerated into monsters.

Among these male god usurpers, the most representative one is "Steel".

This is a general term for a type of gods, specifically those who obtain power from the Earth Mother, have slain dragons, snakes, and monsters, and wield divine weapons that symbolize the power of killing... heroic gods who meet these conditions.

Under the invasion of "Fullmetal" and other male gods, most of the earth goddesses were degraded and lost their original status.

Athena was one of them, and so was Echidna, even worse off than Athena.

The Goddess of Wisdom was only separated from her godhood and part of her divinity was corrupted, but Echidna, as the oldest earth goddess, had completely transformed into a monster...

She was originally the goddess of the earth who symbolized "harvest" and "fertility". She had the same origin as Gaia, and it could even be said that they were one and the same.

But as her status declined, her followers separated from her divinity were killed by steel heroes as monsters, and even she herself eventually fell under the sharp blade of steel.

Throughout the entire Greek mythology, demigod heroes can be said to be more eye-catching than the Olympian gods, but most of these heroes came to power by stepping on monsters - the descendants of Echidna.

It can be said that almost all the "steel" in Greece have targeted her. As a result, she is like a representative of the Earth Mother, repeatedly abused by the heroes, and she is also the one with the most miserable end among the Earth Mothers...

The most hateful one among them is Hercules!

The Hero of Steel who not only killed many of her descendants, but also allowed her to give birth to offspring!

Since she has suffered so much persecution, it is impossible to say that she has no resentment in her heart.

She is determined to regain her original self. Only by restoring her divinity and power in its heyday can she take revenge on the male gods who persecuted her.

In order to do this, as a monster, she must retrieve the symbol of the concept of "Mother Earth" and complete her lost divinity.

"Birth Snake" - This statue is a ritual vessel of "harvest" and "fertility", and is also the "sacred tool" of the Earth Mother.

The so-called "divine tools" are naturally special tools that only gods can use. Generally speaking, they contain incredible power, and some divine tools even represent the essence of gods.

Except for the godslayers who may have special means to drive them, humans are simply incapable of using the divine tools properly. And because they are indestructible, for humans, they are just waste that will attract disobedient gods and are a symbol of disaster.

This stone sculpture has part of the essence of Echidna. It seems to have been found by human witches and sorcerers. In order to avoid alarming the Mother Goddess of the Earth, it was hidden in the forest and sealed in a volcano where the earth's spiritual energy activity is most intense.

This can not only calm the active volcano, but also hide the fluctuations in spiritual energy... No wonder Echidna has never been able to sense it.

But perhaps it was the guidance of fate that she was unexpectedly "awakened" this time and inexplicably came to Sicily.

Thinking of another connection with her, and that Mount Etna could be said to be a large relic related to her, she went to Mount Etna to try to search, and indeed found the statue of the goddess.

However, she wasn't the only one who had taken a fancy to the statue.

Athena is also a belittled Earth Goddess. Although what she lacks is different from Echidna, since they are of the same kind, this statue will be of great benefit to her, but the improvement will not be as great as that of Echidna.

The Mother of Demons was not surprised that she was being followed by Athena.

In addition to her Valkyrie side, this goddess of wisdom also has the image of the queen of the underworld. She can freely control darkness and perfectly restrain her aura.

I think he met Echidna by accident, used his wisdom to figure out the intention of the Mother of Demons, and then wanted to play a trick of waiting behind the scenes.