I'm tied to Athena.

“Hahahaha, that’s the expression on your face. I’ve always wanted to see this expression on your face!” However, the black beam of light did not shake Metis’ body. She tore through the magic power that was released and grabbed Athena’s neck with her hand. “That frustrated expression!”

"Angry? Jealous? Furious?"

Pulling the petite body closer, Metis faced her face to face.

"You will never understand my anger. No matter how much I want to take revenge on him, you always say it's not the right time. I am the God King who reigns supreme over the world, and a queen who is more powerful than the usurper, but you keep hiding and refusing to seek revenge!"

"Hehehe... Look at your expression, Athena. It's such an intoxicating expression when I learned that the man I love was taken away by someone else."

The goddess of vengeance kept irritating Athena with her words, and then she stretched out her tongue and gently licked Athena's smooth little face, "But don't worry, I will send you to reunite with him. From now on, the three of us will merge into one and never separate again.

Chapter 200: Even the mother-in-law is not spared!

This is pure darkness, without air, light or sound... Nothing that should exist in the world is here. All that can be felt is pure and ultimate darkness.

"Where is this...?" A voice that only he could hear echoed in his mind, and Li Yun's body suddenly appeared in this dark space.

It is impossible for ordinary people to survive in such a space, but Li Yun felt as if he had returned to where he was supposed to be.

"I remember that I was swallowed by Metis..." He touched his body and felt relieved after finding that he was not missing any limbs.

"Is it the inside of the Gorgon Stone? My soul has merged with the Gorgon Stone?" Li Yun, who calmed down and thought again, did not seem to realize the seriousness of the matter.

Well... Actually, even if I tell Li Yun how serious this matter is, he will not show his nervousness and urgency on the surface. He is such a man, even if he is as nervous as an old dog inside, he is calm on the surface.

"That is to say, the person who is using my body now is Metis." With his chin supported by one hand, Li Yun was thinking about how he should get out of here and how he should get his body back from Metis.

Since Metis could come out and take over his body, he should be able to do the same.

The only problem is probably the strength.

Metis forcefully took his body away, but he was not strong enough to do that, so he had no choice but to find other ways.

If you want to get your body back from Metis, you must understand why Metis took Li Yun's body away.

"Revenge." Muttering softly, Metis came out of the Gorgon Stone regardless of everything in order to avenge her husband who swallowed her for the throne.

Simply put, she is a complaining woman, blaming her husband for abandoning her... well, she is even trying to kill someone.

In Greek mythology, Metis is the smartest and kindest of all gods. She is not only the first goddess of wisdom, but also the goddess of the sea. In the myth, she loves her husband very much and devotes everything to him.

The reason why Zeus was able to become the king of gods was because of her advice behind the scenes.

However, her husband, for whom she had given everything, became the King of Gods and feared that her child would overthrow his rule, so he swallowed her and planned to kill her and her child.

The resentment of being abandoned by the person she loved most blinded the first goddess of wisdom with hatred. She tried every possible means to kill Zeus and take back everything that belonged to her.

"Hatred..." Li Yun knew Metis's standards of action, but was still troubled by how he should act.

He couldn't just tell the other party to give your hatred to...

His eyes slowly widened, and Li Yun seemed to have thought of something.

"Although I'm not sure if it will work, it seems that this is the only thing I can do now." After taking a few deep breaths, Li Yun made up his mind. Naturally, the only thing he could rely on now was his mouth, so his idea was very simple - convince Metis!

Well, writing persuasive reading is a strategy. Although she is the mother of Athena, she is actually just a god split from Athena... She should... not be found by the great god of censorship, right?

After making up his mind, Li Yun began to act.

This is inside the body of the Gorgon Stone. As the owner of the Gorgon Stone, Metis must have some of her power left here. As long as we find this power, we can communicate with Metis.

Since he didn't know where Metis was, he could only follow his senses. Anyway, the environment inside the Gorgon Stone was the same, so it didn't matter which way he went.

Following his intuition, he wandered in this empty world without getting anxious, because he knew that it was useless to get anxious. And perhaps because he was once the owner of the Gorgon Stone, the Gorgon Stone guided him to... a dark area filled with resentment!

Li Yun walked to the edge of the area and reached his hand in. Then, black lightning emerged, and a resentment strong enough to drive a person crazy passed through his hand and into his mind.

"!!" The sudden hatred made him pull his hand back immediately. The hatred at that moment even frightened Li Yun.

There could be no one other than Metis who harbored such hatred within the Gorgon Stone.

"This difficulty is five stars." Looking down at his still trembling hands, Li Yun smiled bitterly. If he wanted to communicate with Metis, he had to go in, but if he couldn't find Metis directly after entering, he would be infected by this resentment...

"Let's die!" After giving himself a stern talk, Li Yun stepped into the land of resentment without hesitation.

Deep resentment suddenly enveloped his whole body, just like stepping into a thousand-meter-deep ocean. His thoughts suddenly stopped - all of them were used to resist the resentment that invaded his body.

But he did not stop moving forward. Athena taught him to let his body learn to move on its own.

Relying on his tenacious willpower, Li Yun moved forward step by step. Finally, he came to the center of the area and saw Metis sitting alone on the ground with her knees hugged.

Outside, Metis, who was pinching Athena's throat, felt someone stepping into her territory and was immediately distracted. This moment of distraction was cleverly seized by Athena.

"Snakes." Metis whispered softly, and a dark transmission passage appeared under her feet. Colorful poisonous snakes emerged from it, wrapped around her ankles, and then exerted force to drag her in!

"I really can't let my attention be distracted for even a moment when it comes to you." However, Metis tore through the darkness and venomous snakes with ease and landed on the ruined temple.

"I originally wanted to reunite you with the child and then have a heart-to-heart talk, but the child is a little naughty..."

"My child is stronger than you think. Don't think you can defeat my child so easily!" Athena gripped the sickle tightly and launched another attack.

But Metis smiled, and then the Gorgon's huge hair swept aside and stopped her progress.

"If it were me alone, it might be difficult to deal with you and that kid together. But I'm sorry, I have an accomplice now. It's two against two, so this is a fair fight!"

"It's my turn to play with you, Athena!!!" Gorgon stood in front of Athena with a ferocious smile. The vast divine power formed a violent gale, and even Athena couldn't help but retreat several meters.

"Damn it!" Athena subconsciously glanced at Metis and found that she had closed her eyes to look for Li Yun in her body.

Chapter 201 I'll Bear All of Yours

"I thought you would stay here obediently, but it seems that I overestimated you. You stupid child."

The sudden sound caused the hand in the air to stop. Li Yun looked at Metis, who had opened his eyes at some point, and smiled.

"I'm not a smart person, so it's not surprising that I made this choice."

"Aren't you afraid that I will kill you?" Metis, hugging her knees, disappeared, and then appeared behind Li Yun, with the cold sickle against his throat. The undisguised murderous aura made the surrounding space freeze.

"If you wanted to kill me, you would have done it long ago, right?" However, Li Yun sat down cross-legged and patted the seat next to him, "How about sitting down and talking?"

"I have nothing to say to you!"

"Just think of it as a mother-in-law keeping watch for her daughter. Isn't there a Gorgon outside? Athena can't get in for a while. And even if she gets in, the Gorgon Stone is now in your possession, so it would only take a thought for you to kill me."

As if he was really not afraid of death, Li Yun raised his hand and took away the sickle that was against his throat. He sat up slightly, then grabbed Metis's little hand with his backhand, and while Metis hadn't reacted yet, he half-forcefully pulled her to his side.

"Do you really want to die? Don't touch me!" Metis, who was approaching Li Yun, seemed to be approaching something disgusting. She suddenly distanced herself from him, and an anger that was difficult to conceal appeared on her little face.

"The reaction is really exciting..." Looking at the excited reaction, Li Yun scratched his head in distress, then spread his hands and said, "Okay, then we will keep this distance."

"When did I ever say I wanted to talk to you? Stop talking to yourself!" Perhaps because of Li Yun's attitude, Metis was very unhappy. She raised the sickle in her hand and said, "Naughty children must be punished!"

"You won't kill me."

The understatement of these words made Metis, who was holding up the sickle, subconsciously startled, but then, a surge of anger rose from her heart, and the goddess' beautiful face became ferocious, "Don't talk as if you know me very well!"

"Ah, because I don't understand you, that's why I'm here." The black-haired boy turned his head to look at the goddess, with the same gentle smile as usual on his face, "I want to understand you."

The straightforward words were like an arrow that pierced the goddess' heart. Her ferocious face instantly became panic-stricken, "You, what nonsense are you talking about! You and I are enemies!"

"If you were really an enemy, you would have killed me long ago."

"I was a little flustered when I first met you, so I didn't understand many things. But after coming here and thinking carefully, I realized that you are not our enemy."

That’s right, this is what Li Yun thought of when he was looking for Metis.

As the goddess of vengeance, Metis does not want revenge on everything in the world, she just wants revenge on Zeus. In terms of pattern, this goddess of vengeance is far worse than the Gorgon.

But this does not mean that Metis is not cruel and violent. In order to take revenge on Zeus, she can do anything.

Her original plan was to swallow the sky and plunge the world into endless darkness. This also indirectly reflects Metis' hatred for Zeus.

But this is considered from the perspective of Metis as a "god". What if we consider it from another perspective, that is, "Athena" as a whole?

Metis is Athena's nominal mother, but in terms of the real cause and effect, Athena is Metis' mother. As a part of the split, Metis and Athena share memories and emotions, the only difference is that Athena is more rational and Metis is more crazy.

But this also shows one thing - Metis has the same feelings as Athena.

When Metis devoured Li Yun's soul, she could have wiped him out completely, but why didn't she do that? The answer is simple: she couldn't bear to do it.

She possessed Athena's emotions and memories, and based on Zeus' betrayal of her, she was reluctant to kill Li Yun.

To put it simply, a betrayed woman met a better man, but this man stood in her way of revenge on her ex-husband, so she put this man under house arrest... Well, there should be nothing wrong with this metaphor.

"What nonsense are you talking about? We are enemies! Enemies!" The goddess looked at Li Yun's smiling face and serious eyes, and couldn't help but roar. But this was just her bravado - she subconsciously took two steps back, which showed that she couldn't do anything to Li Yun after all.

"Yeah, he's a tsundere... No, he refuses to face his own feelings?" Li Yun touched his chin and muttered in a low voice, then stood up and walked towards Metis.

"Stop, don't come over here!" Seeing him approaching, Metis suddenly became anxious and retreated in a panic like a girl whose disguise was exposed. But suddenly, an invisible obstacle appeared behind her.

"Why!?" Metis touched the invisible obstacle behind him. He really couldn't understand why his territory was controlled by Li Yun.

"Why?" The gentle smile turned into a smirk like a gangster. "The Gorgon Stone doesn't belong to you alone. It belongs to 'us'."

"....." The gangster-like words left Metis speechless for a moment, but now was not the time to think about how to take back the Gorgon Stone, as he was getting closer and closer.

Suddenly, she noticed the sickle in her hand. Perhaps it was her most trusted weapon that gave her courage. "Stop! If you come any closer, don't blame me for chopping you off!"

"It's okay." The words spoken without hesitation stunned Metis again, and while she was stunned, Li Yun had already walked within three meters of her.

This unhesitating action and pressure made Metis' mind go blank, so she picked up the sickle.

The dark blade slashed down, and the sound of flesh tearing was heard. The blank brain became clear at this moment, and then became blank again.

She chopped down without hesitation, and tore him apart from the left shoulder to the waist.

"I, I!??" What have I done?! Metis's body trembled violently, her beautiful face turned crazy, her blood-red eyes suddenly lost their luster, and the huge blow was too much for her to bear.

"It's ok."

Tenderness surrounded the panicked goddess, and the doting words reached her eardrums. The boy gently stroked her hair and comforted her: "It's okay, don't be afraid anymore, I will always be with you from now on. You don't have to be afraid of being hurt or betrayed, and you don't have to bear this heavy resentment alone anymore."

"give it to me."

“I will bear all that you have.

Chapter 202: Goddess Metis, strategy completed

The gentle and doting words seemed to light up Metis's dark world in an instant. She raised her head tremblingly and looked at the young man in front of her who had no complaints even after being cut by her.

She felt it... She felt his feelings. There was no falsehood, pure and warm feelings as clear as a blank sheet of paper.

I will bear everything for you.

This is not empty talk, this is true. He tolerates everything about her, whether it is feelings or resentment, anger or hatred, as long as it is hers, he tolerates it.

The area filled with resentment slowly disappeared because of Li Yun's words, the darkness of resentment in the Gorgon Stone gradually faded, and the black aura on Metis also disappeared.

"That's good..." Li Yun's face turned pale, which looked very strange in this dark area, but his expression did change.

"You've endured it for too long. From now on... leave it to me."

"Fool...."

How long has it been since Metis felt warmth? Ever since the birth of the myth, she has been burdened with the resentment of being abandoned, the anger of being insulted, and has been called the poor goddess who was abandoned and the wife of Zeus.

She hated Zeus who took away her status, hated him who abandoned her mythology, and hated the man who immersed her in darkness - her life was a life of resentment.

But now, she doesn't hate it anymore.

Someone dispelled her coldness with a warm embrace and proved his feelings with his actions. She was accepted, and from that moment on she was no longer alone and no longer had to bear everything...

"How could I let you bear all this alone?" The goddess gently wrapped her slender arms around Li Yun's neck and gave him a kiss. "We should bear it together."

The moment their lips touched, it seemed as if their minds were connected. In the dark world, their faces were slowly filled with color, and their pale faces turned rosy.

Outside, Athena, who was fighting fiercely with the Gorgon, sensed something. A hint of joy flashed in her dark eyes, and then she left the battlefield.

"What's wrong, Athena? Are you scared?" The goddess, who had transformed into a huge monster a hundred meters tall again, smiled grimly.

"The word 'fear' is not in my dictionary." Facing Gorgon's ridicule, Athena crossed her arms and sneered, "I left the battlefield only because he will take over the next battle."

"Him?" Gorgon turned his head subconsciously, and then his ferocious face was filled with astonishment, "The resentment... has dissipated!?"

A faint divine power permeated around Li Yun, and a hint of silver hair in the black color fluttered in the wind. Although there was no change from before, Gorgon still discovered - he was not 'him' anymore!

"It's not that I've dispersed, it's that I've carried it on my shoulders." Li Yun raised his head and looked at her, "She and I shouldered this resentment together."

"What?" Gorgon, who couldn't understand what Li Yun meant, gave up thinking. She bit her lips and said in a low voice: "So, you plan to betray me! Forget everything they did to you and join them again!"

"It's not about forgetting, but burying it deep in my heart." The body floated gently into the air, and Li Yun and Gorgon looked at each other face to face. "Because I know who my enemy is, I will not use this kind of action that is similar to venting to implicate innocent people."