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

So at this time, whether it was Demeter, Persephone, or the gods who were watching this scene, they had all seen it.

Although the promise was made to fulfill an agreement with Hades, the god of the underworld, it was mainly because of the future that the goddess of fate told him, a future in which many people would die, that he came before the god Demeter.

This is the only artifact that can take Demeter's daughter away quietly as a tribute in exchange for the opportunity to change her destiny.

So Persephone remained silent, she looked at the invisibility helmet in her mother's hand and said nothing more.

Demeter was silent for a long time, and finally she sighed and said, "I accept this tribute."

Demeter said, her purple eyes reflecting the delicate boy in front of her, "I can't possibly hand my daughter over to Hades, but I certainly can't refuse your tribute to me, and at the same time...Hera, you have a good believer."

The envious tone made Hera, who was watching this scene, puff out her chest with pride.

"Child, what I am about to give you is not a gift, but a test."

The gift is a vow that Demeter will not let the earth go barren and vent her anger on the whole world.

As for the trial, if the promise was kept, then she would not only have to fulfill her oath, but also allow Persephone and Hades to meet.

Therefore, at this time, even Persephone looked at Demeter with some surprise and astonishment.

"My daughter, please don't misunderstand me. I told you that I will never approve of what's going on between you and Hades." Demeter said this calmly, while looking at Nuoyan tenderly, and said, "I just... don't want to embarrass this child."

"And didn't you realize that even though it was a trial, this child's request was just to allow you to meet Hades?"

After hearing this, Persephone finally responded.

"Because I have already said so." Then Nuoyan took over and said to Persephone: "Before the goddess Demeter agrees, I can't really take you away.

But whether it is for my friends, my agreement with Hades, or my oath with the goddesses, I have to do this.

I also know how arrogant my thoughts and choices are, but... Sorry, gods, this is my choice."

Nuoyan lowered his head and said this. He knew that the gods should be looking at him at this moment, and Hades, the god of the underworld, was most likely among them.

But this is the best solution that Nuoyan has tried his best to come up with without the help of God and using everything he has.

"Lift your head, child." Persephone came over, her beautiful eyes staring at Nuoyan, without any blame in her eyes, but distress, and said: "You don't need to apologize, it is me who should apologize to you, because it is because of me that you are in such pain.

At the same time, I can assure you that Hades will never blame you!"

Hades was of course watching at this moment, and he really didn't think of blaming Nuoyan, even though Nuoyan took his helmet as a tribute.

After all, he never thought from the beginning that the promise could really help him.

What's more, when you see that boy who is as fragile as a baby has the courage to stand in front of a main god, not even caring about his own life, just to change the desolate fate of the world, who can say anything?

But Hades was angry at this time, but the objects of his anger were Hera and Athena who had done nothing so far.

"Thank you, Goddess Persephone." Looking at the goddess in front of him who did not blame him, Nuoyan sincerely expressed his gratitude to Persephone.

He had just handed Persephone's hopes into the hands of her mother.

Persephone smiled and shook her head when she heard that, indicating that it was okay.

So Nuoyan looked towards Demeter, whose emerald eyes reflected the goddess before him, and said, "Goddess Demeter, what kind of trial is this?"

Demeter looked into the boy's clear, bright eyes, with a struggling expression on her face. Finally, she said to Nuoyan in a somewhat ashamed tone: "I'm sorry, child, although I also want to see you change your fate and fulfill your promise to your friend.

But for my daughter, the test I give you is destined to be an absolutely impossible one!"

After that, Demeter took a deep breath and told her the test she had already thought of, saying: "And that test is that you must walk step by step to Hades, the god of the underworld, without the help of any gods.

And during this period, just as my daughter has disappeared from the world, all the seeds in the world will remain silent in the soil.

On that road, you will lose your hearing and vision and fall into endless darkness!"

Demeter obviously thought of such a trial because of the promise she made to her friend.

Orpheus wanted to take his wife away from the underworld, thus embarking on a journey of no return, but he ultimately failed and became depressed from then on.

In order to change all this, Nuoyan went to the underworld to see Hades.

But when Demeter finished speaking, before Promise could answer.

"What are you talking about, mother? Do you want this child to die immediately?!" Persephone looked at Demeter in disbelief and said, "Given this child's situation, he will be trapped there forever as soon as he arrives in the underworld!"

“So this is the path you will follow.”

Demeter's reaction was calm. She looked at Persephone and continued, "I allow you to light the lamp and follow him. At the same time, I will not seal your divine power. You can save him at any time.

But you have to understand that when you take action, the trial will be over."

I understand the promise.

Not only the promise, but also the gods who were spying here understood it.

On the Holy Mount Olympus, Queen Hera, who had just stood up suddenly and almost wanted to rush out to stop this ridiculous farce, now sat down again.

Because in this trial, the safety of Nuo Yan is no longer a problem, but... this is already a trial that is absolutely impossible to complete!

After all, not to mention the promise of losing hearing and vision, how could one get to Hades, the god of the underworld? Just Persephone following behind him was already an extremely unstable bomb.

"Demeter never intended to let Nuoyan complete the trial. Her real intention was to use this opportunity to let Persephone see the underworld clearly."

Hermes saw through Demeter's thoughts at a glance. Even though he was bruised and battered, he still did not forget his nature of eating melons. He said: "And Demeter also knows that with Persephone's character, she will definitely take action when the promise is in danger.

And if she takes action, it is equivalent to giving up the opportunity to meet Hades with her own hands."

Athena glanced at Hermes when she heard this. She didn't object to what Hermes said, but she was thinking that since he spoke so bluntly, it seemed that she had hit him too lightly just now.

"It seems that even Demeter likes Nuoyan, so she doesn't intend to let him be in real danger." Apollo, the God of Light, couldn't help laughing.

"Who wouldn't like it?" Artemis nodded, recalling the painting that night.

Hearing this, the gods present did not refute. After all, they gathered here because of the promise.

Only Hermes secretly curled his lips at this moment. After all, he had just been severely beaten by Athena because of his promise.

But even if time could go back, Hermes would probably... no, definitely make the same choice.

After all, this melon is really delicious!

"That's great." Queen Hera, whose beautiful golden curly hair flowed out from under the crown, finally breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "In this way, the child is finally safe..."

But before Hera could finish her words, Athena beside her sighed heavily.

The golden eyes stared at her in confusion and said, "So, Hera, you should give up your position as soon as possible. You... don't understand that child at all!"

Without waiting for Hera, who was glaring at her with wide eyes, to say anything, Athena continued, “Because even with such conditions and such an impossible trial, that child would never give up.

Not only because this is the path he chose to become a hero, and this is the oath he made to us, but also because it is impossible for that child to let go of the fate that is entangled with him.

Therefore, if he fails, there is only one possibility... that is, his blood will bloom like flowers on the road to the underworld."

After saying this, he ignored Hera who was stunned, and even Apollo and Artemis who were also stunned beside him.

Athena tilted her head and looked at the goddess of fate who had arrived here at some point, and said, "Am I right, Clotho?"

Hearing this, the eyes of the gods present naturally and subconsciously gathered on Atropos. Beside her, her sister Clotho was holding the crystal ball as usual. She hadn't known when she stood there.

That’s right, at this time Cloto had already walked out of the temple of destiny, and she no longer continued to look for the possibility of promised destiny.

Because they had already met before the promise went to the goddess Demeter.

And when she came here, it meant that the number of people... was finally together.

The four gods whose fate is intertwined with the promise.

"Kloto?!" Hera looked at her in surprise and said, "When did you come... Oh, by the way, Cloto, I heard that you have been observing the fate of that child. What kind of future did you see..."

Hera hadn't finished her anxious words yet.

"Just as the respected goddess of wisdom said." Clotho replied slowly in his tender voice: "His bright blood, like the most beautiful flower in the world, bloomed in the underworld."

Yes, this is the destiny that Cloto has always seen in the Temple of Destiny and wants to see a different future.

"wrong!"

Hearing this, even Apollo couldn't help but frown and retorted: "Persephone is not that kind of god. She would not watch the child die in front of her."

"Under normal circumstances, that's true." Kroto didn't refute, but nodded slightly and said, "But he will personally cut off the possibility of survival!"

......

......

The promise accepted the test.

In fact, no matter what kind of trial the goddess Demeter gives him now, he will choose to accept it.

But Nuoyan's vision and hearing were not sealed at the first time, because Demeter did not have such ability.

And someone is needed to take them to the underworld to undergo this trial.

therefore......

"Beautiful goddess, we meet again."

When I saw the goddess, with her face still veiled, long black hair as beautiful as the night and beautiful red eyes, coming from the underworld to the temple of Demeter.

Nuoyan couldn't help laughing and said.

Hecate, the goddess of roads who helped Nuoyan go to the underworld a few days ago, is also the first goddess who has expressed her blatant disdain towards Nuoyan so far.

Her appearance and involvement in this matter was actually a destined part of fate.

Because in mythology, Hecate is actually the patron of Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld.

In the original myth, when Persephone was abducted to the underworld by Hades and Demeter was searching for her and crying in the human world, it was Hecate who came to see her and told Demeter that Persephone had gone to the underworld.

It was also she who later helped Persephone return to Demeter.

Hecate ignored the promise. She walked straight to Demeter and asked, "Honorable goddess Demeter, what do you want to talk to me about?"

"Goddess Hecate, I would like to ask you to help me take this child and my daughter to the underworld and help me with the next trial." Demeter replied.

Hearing this, Hecate agreed readily and nodded, "Of course no problem. It is my honor to be able to help you, the noble one. So... is it now?"

As Hecate said this, she looked at Persephone.

And he never intended to even look at the promise from beginning to end.

Demeter did not answer immediately, but after looking at the promise, she replied to Hecate: "As long as the child nods, we can start. And Hecate, I will trouble you to help me seal the child's hearing and vision when the time comes."

Hearing this, Hecate, who had frowned slightly, finally glanced at Nuoyan.

Then he nodded to show that he understood.

"Then kid, when do you think we should start?" Seeing this, Demeter asked Nuoyan with a smile.

She was not in a hurry, but she naturally felt that the sooner the better.

Because Demeter was just waiting for her daughter to take action, end it all, and get the artifact, the invisibility helmet.

Persephone on the side lowered her head.

She actually roughly understood her mother's thoughts, but she did not choose to stop her, because in this way, Nuoyan would no longer be involved in this matter.

All eyes were focused on Nuoyan again. After thinking for a while, Nuoyan looked up at Demeter and said, "Goddess Demeter, could you please wait for me for a while? It will be quick, right away."

After Demeter nodded, Nuoyan ran out of the temple.

Demeter and Persephone saw this and followed.

Although Hecate had no interest, she had no choice but to follow them when she saw them all leave.

They followed Nuoyan out of the courtyard where it was spring all year round and came to the gate of the temple. The giant lion, the hundred-eyed giant and the Pegasus, who had been put to sleep by Nuoyan's ink-colored shepherd's flute, had naturally woken up long ago.

They were even communicating in a way that Nuoyan couldn't understand, and they seemed very harmonious.

Nuoyan called back the Pegasus and took out something from the luggage it was carrying.

When the goddesses who followed out found out what Nuoyan took out, they were all slightly surprised.

It was a golden lyre... yes, it was the lyre that Apollo, the god of light, entrusted Nuoyan to give to his son.

Nuoyan held the lyre and looked at Persephone.

"Goddess Persephone, before I go to the underworld for my trial, I need you to promise me something... No, I need you to promise me a vow!"

Seeing Nuoyan's unusually serious expression at this moment, Persephone was stunned for a moment before asking, "What oath?"

“After entering the underworld and my hearing and vision are sealed, I will play the lyre in my hand. During this time, goddess Persephone, you must not interrupt my playing in any way.

And before the music stops,

Goddess Persephone, you cannot stop this trial!"