Type-Moon, I heard that after death, you can ascend to the Throne of Heroes?

And gently pushed him who was sitting in front of him.

The next second, Nuoyan felt the world spinning in front of his eyes and his body kept falling, as if he was about to fall into an endless abyss. Then, after an unknown amount of time, Nuoyan suddenly opened his eyes and jumped up from the golden-horned deer beside the bonfire in the human world.

Atalanta, who was keeping watch nearby, looked up with her holy blue eyes, looking puzzledly at Nuoyan, who seemed to have woken up from a nightmare. It was obvious that she had no idea what had happened.

Only the golden-horned deer looked at the disappearing spindle thread of fate on Nuoyan's body and called out to Nuoyan softly.

When Nuoyan heard the voice, he subconsciously looked at the golden-horned deer, and then at Atalanta who was tilting her head to the side.

Finally coming to his senses, and subconsciously looking down at his hand, Nuoyan saw that there was another brand new golden apple in his hand...

At the same time, in the ancient temple interwoven with the threads of fate.

The goddess of fate, Clotho, sat quietly under the threads of fate in the sky, with her head lowered, holding the crystal ball containing the promise of fate in her arms. It seemed as if she had excluded all the destinies of the world from this crystal ball.

Chapter 5 Pegasus! (k)

After returning from the temple of the goddess of fate, although Nuoyan did not care much about what he said at the time, he actually still kept Clotho's prophecy deeply in his heart.

After all, Nuoyan has a lot of things to do now.

Therefore, even if we have been looking forward to a grand and magnificent ending, it is not impossible to postpone the time a little bit now.

And just like that, five days passed in the blink of an eye.

That afternoon, after a simple lunch, the golden-horned deer ran happily in the forest with its promise, and Atalanta followed closely beside it.

Even with the strength of the golden-horned deer, it couldn't throw her off.

Along the way, Atalanta looked at Nuoyan with sharp eyes from time to time and with dissatisfaction.

Nuoyan naturally knew why. In the past few days, the golden-horned deer was carrying Nuoyan, while Atalanta was traveling on foot.

In fact, the golden-horned deer could accommodate two people, and the golden-horned deer didn't mind taking Atalanta along, but as the most loyal believer of the moon goddess Artemis, Atalanta believed that she was not qualified to sit on Artemis' mount.

So in the end, it evolved into what it is now.

At first, Nuoyan was not used to being stared at by Atalanta, and even considered getting off the golden-horned deer. But the golden-horned deer ran really fast, and because it was a divine beast, sitting on it was stable without any bumps.

So after a long time, promises simply don’t matter anymore, just keep staring at it if you want.

Anyway, it's better to have Atalanta staring at it than having her goddess staring at it!

But...Atalanta runs really fast.

Looking at Atalanta, who was following closely behind him, breathing steadily and obviously not using her full strength, Nuoyan could not help but once again deeply feel the physical gap between himself and these heroes of the Age of Gods.

At the same time, it also reminds me of the legendary story about Atalanta's race.

The story is actually related to the golden apple on Nuoyan's body.

Although she was abandoned and raised by Artemis, Atalanta eventually returned to her home and to her biological parents.

At the same time, it was because of that incident that Atalanta completely despaired of men.

A marriage... Even though he knew Atalanta's vow, his father still asked Queen Hera for a marriage that could not be refused.

The reason was very simple. Atalanta returned with full of glory. The hunting of the Calydonian boar and the adventure of the Golden Fleece, coupled with her beauty that was not inferior to any other woman, attracted countless suitors who came to her.

This also brought countless wealth to Atalanta's father.

Atalanta was extremely angry about this, but she could do nothing about it, so she finally decided to decide the winner by running a race. Whoever could outrun her could marry her.

Atalanta was confident that no one in the world could outrun her. In fact, except for a few great heroes, no one could surpass her in speed.

And if anyone lost the race, Atalanta would shoot him to death with an arrow, hoping to prevent anyone from proposing to her.

After all, she had already dedicated everything to the moon goddess Artemis.

But in the end, with the intervention of the goddess of beauty among the twelve Olympian gods, a man named Hippomenes used three golden apples blessed by the god of love to interfere.

Thus ended the race and won.

Thinking of this, Nuoyan suddenly wanted to open his package and throw a golden apple to the current Atalanta to see how she would react.

But Nuoyan still held back and did not do such a suicidal act.

At this moment, the golden-horned deer finally kept its promise. After passing through a forest and seeing the bright scenery, it came to a river with a very slow flow and stopped.

He squatted down, tilted his head and called Nuoyan softly twice.

Atalanta came over quickly, tidied up her slightly messy hair, glanced at the river in front of her, frowned slightly and asked Nuoyan: "What's wrong?"

Nuoyan got off the golden-horned deer, looked at the river whose flow was noticeably slow, thought for a moment and said, "I think we should be there."

"...where Lord Asopos, the river god, lives?" Atalanta was slightly stunned, then reacted and asked.

"Yeah." Nuoyan nodded.

The promise still remembered him, the father of the river goddess Aegina.

Because he chased Aegina who was turned into an eagle, he was eventually struck by an angry lightning and became lame in one leg. As a result, his river became extremely slow.

When Atalanta heard that they had finally arrived, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

During this period, I watched Nuoyan riding on the golden-horned deer to travel during the day and lying on the golden-horned deer to sleep at night.

Atalanta not only had to chase him during the day, but also had to hunt at night to feed him... Although all this was Atalanta's own choice, she was really worried that it would continue like this.

When she can't help it one day, she will shoot Nuoyan twice in the dark and windy night!

Therefore, when she thought that these tormenting days were finally coming to an end, Atalanta's spirits instantly improved a lot. She looked at Nuoyan with a much softer look and asked, "Now that we are here, what should we do next?"

"Prepare tribute and pray for Lord Asopos to come?"

Atalanta said the standard solution in Greek times, but after thinking about it, Nuoyan shook his head and said, "No, he may not appear in that way, and most importantly, I have a simpler way!"

After saying that, as Atalanta tilted her head slightly and looked at him in puzzlement with her holy blue eyes, Nuoyan took out a painting from the luggage placed on the golden-horned deer.

But when Atalanta saw the painting, she was stunned.

Because even if Atalanta didn't understand painting at all, she could tell at a glance that this was a stunning painting. The blue-haired goddess dressed in divine clothes in the painting was lifelike, as if she would walk out of the painting in the next second.

Atalanta Would you like a painting?

Let me tell you, I’m very good!

Since only a few days had passed, Atalanta couldn't help but recall the night when Nuoyan took out the paintbrush and canvas and spoke to her with a bit of boasting on his face.

At the same time, Nuoyan also said that she was the first person he wanted to paint after he came down the mountain...

Just as Atalanta was thinking of this subconsciously, she discovered that Nuoyan had already thrown the painting gently into the air, and the painting was still hanging in front of Nuoyan.

Then Nuoyan stretched out his hand and lightly touched the painting. The painting disappeared under the sunlight, turned into a faint light, and merged into Nuoyan's body.

The originally emerald green eyes of Nuoyan were dyed sky blue.

The feeling of controlling some of the power of the river goddess Aegina once again came to Nuoyan.

Nuoyan turned around and looked at the slowly flowing river in front of him. He stretched out his hand and gently lifted it up. As Atalanta watched with eyes wide open, he saw that the river water actually formed a column and rose into the air!

Seeing this, Atalanta was stunned for a moment and had not yet fully reacted.

"Aegina? This feeling is Aegina!"

"Aegina, my daughter, you are finally back. Are you finally back to your father?!"

The excited voice rang in their ears.

Then the originally slow river water gradually became turbulent. In the faster and faster flowing river, a lame old man wearing an ancient Athenian white robe, with a head full of white hair and a cane, limped out of the river quickly with surprise in his eyes.

After landing, he glanced at Atalanta and Nuoyan, then looked around quickly, raised his head and said anxiously, "Aegina, Aegina, where are you? Don't be afraid. I am here, I am here now, and I will definitely protect you this time!"

Seeing the appearance of the old river god Asopus, the frightened Golden-Horned Deer hurriedly hid behind Nuoyan.

Nuoyan thought about it for a moment, turned around, took out another portrait of her daughter, and came to the side of the old river god Asopus.

"Hello, River God Asopus. I am a student of the Centaur Sage Chiron. At the same time... I am also a friend of the goddess Aegina."

As the old river god Asopus was slightly stunned and tilted his head to look at him, Nuoyan handed him the painting and whispered, "Goddess Aegina is living a good life now. She is a kind goddess of a country. She regards all her people as her own children, and her children respect and admire her very much.

So I'm sorry, River Goddess Asopus, she can't come back to you for the time being, but please rest assured, she is living a happy life now..."

The river god Asopus subconsciously took the painting handed to him by Nuoyan. He saw Aegina in the painting smiling from the bottom of her heart and looking at him with extremely gentle eyes.

At the same time, he finally discovered the traces of Aegina left on Nuoyan... although compared with goddesses such as Athena and Hera, it was not noticeable at all.

But the river god Asopus still heard the blessing from Nuoyan.

Aegina's blessing for the promise, and the attachment hidden in that blessing...

Then, everything came naturally.

Nuoyan was even flattered and confused by the overly enthusiastic attitude of the river god Asopus. He didn't understand why the old river god Asopus looked at him with such loving eyes, just like a father-in-law looking at his son-in-law...

Feeling the attachment his daughter had left on Nuoyan, the river god Asopus was actually very satisfied with Nuoyan's first impression.

The only regret is that Nuoyan’s physique is like that of a newborn baby... No, the babies in the Age of Gods are probably more likely to survive than Nuoyan!

But as long as my daughter likes it!

Soon after, when Nuoyan told the river god Asopus his purpose, the river god Asopus was stunned and answered Nuoyan in a very confused way: "The way to defeat the Calydonian boar... I don't have such a thing here?"

Hearing this, Nuoyan was slightly startled and immediately recalled the prophecy that Clotho had told him, so he described it as follows: "It is like a silver-white meteor among the stars in the dark night... May I ask Asopus, the river god, have you really never seen it?"

Upon hearing this, the river god Asopus was stunned for a while.

He obviously thought of something, but then waved his hands in panic and said, "I haven't seen it, I don't know, I don't know!"

Seeing this, Nuoyan and Atalanta looked at each other thoughtfully.

But before Nuoyan could speak again, the golden-horned deer that had been following Nuoyan quietly suddenly called out softly, and its golden antlers emitted a faint silver light.

Seeing the golden-horned deer like this, the river god Asopus couldn't help but feel helpless, and then he said to Nuoyan: "It's not that I don't want to tell you, child, but... I don't want to see you die in vain like that!

Although I don't know why the wise goddess gave you such an oracle, but... that meteor is really not something you can control!"

"In fact, the goddess of fate has also reminded me of this." Nuoyan thought about it and answered truthfully.

Hearing this, Atalanta couldn't help but look at Nuoyan in confusion.

After all, she thought she had been keeping an eye on him all this time.

“But I still came here because I had a reason to be here.”

Nuoyan said this very seriously, and the river god Asopus also heard Nuoyan's determination, which made his expression when he looked at Nuoyan become very complicated for a moment.

After a while, the river god Asopus sighed, leaned on his cane, turned around and said, "In that case, then you should follow me... Tonight, it happens to be the time when it falls from the stars in the sky."

The river god Asopos was unwilling to watch Nuoyan die, but because he saw the blessing left by his daughter on the child and realized how much his daughter valued Nuoyan, he could not refuse Nuoyan's request.

Therefore, the river god Asopus planned to take Nuoyan to take a look. He thought that when Nuoyan saw and understood that it was not something he could accomplish at all, he would definitely calm down.

And this walk went directly from day to night.

The river god Asopus, carrying the promise, Atalanta and the golden-horned deer, moved along the slow-flowing river and finally stopped at a vast grassland on a high mountain.

When they arrived at their destination and sat under a big tree, the stars were scattered in the night sky, forming a beautiful sea of ​​​​stars.

Asopus, the river god, leaned against a tree with his cane, looked up at the stars in the sky, and said with a complicated expression, "Actually... I also thought about catching that beautiful silver meteor."

Finally he could take a rest and received the promise of a fruit from the golden-horned deer. He tilted his head and looked at the river god Asopus in surprise.

"I even spent decades collecting precious materials and commissioned the great craftsman god Hephaestus to create a divine tool for me that could tame it, but..."

As he spoke, the river god Asopus looked down at his leg that was struck by lightning.

"So..." At this time, Atalanta, who had been silent, finally couldn't help but blinked her holy blue eyes and asked the river god Asopus in confusion: "What is the so-called silver meteor?"

The river god Asopus looked at Atalanta, then at Nuoyan, and smiled. He did not explain immediately, but looked up at the stars in the sky and said, "Wait a little longer, it should be coming soon... During these days of every month, it will come down from the stars and use the clean spring water here to wash its beautiful silver-white body."

Hearing this, just when Atalanta couldn't help but want to ask something else.

The golden-horned deer, who was squatting and quietly eating the fruit fed by Nuoyan, suddenly looked up, gazed at the stars in the sky, stood up, and let out a loud cry.

Seeing this, Nuoyan and Atalanta naturally followed its gaze, looked into the distance, and finally saw the silver meteor falling from the stars.

"Look." The river god Asopus showed his old smile and said in a very happy tone, as if he had seen an old friend he hadn't seen for a long time, "It's coming."

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