My mother's love song

Finally, Zeus was afraid that everything on earth would become desolate, so he sent Hermes to persuade Hades to return Persephone to Demeter.

But before Hermes arrived, Hades tricked Persephone into eating four pomegranate seeds, which forced Persephone to return to the underworld for four months every year.

There is a huge difference between the Greek mythology on Type-Moon and on Earth.

In the Type-Moon world, the Olympians are actually starships from other universes.

The humans on Earth regarded the functions of spaceships as the power of God, worshipped the fleets as gods, gave them personalities, and compiled myths.

The Starfleet gained a new meaning of existence on its new home planet Earth, transforming from machines into mecha-gods.

The Greek mythology of the Type-Moon world is not as confusing as it was exaggerated by later generations, and the parent-child relationship is not at the biological level but at the technological level.

Demeter, the goddess of the earth and harvest, was also a member of the first interstellar fleet to arrive on Earth. She was of the same level as the main god Zeus, and was an interstellar material production ship.

She is the successor ship that inherits most features from the prototype ship Gaia, and her daughter Persephone is the successor model she created using her power.

Demeter had endless love for her daughter, so when Persephone was abducted, the goddess was distraught.

She didn't know how to rescue her daughter from the underworld, but she thought of someone.

Demeter was one of the original twelve gods and one of the only few who survived the apocalyptic war ten thousand years ago and knew of Rhodes' true identity.

If it was Rhodes, he would definitely be able to help him get his daughter back.

"Rod, listen... Persephone is calling my name... What a poor child! She is now suffering and starving in the cold underworld."

Demeter looked up at Rhodes with tears in her eyes and bit her lip tightly: "Persephone loved you so much in the beginning... Rhodes, you won't just stand by and watch, right?"

"I try my best."

Rhodes said with some difficulty.

Among the twelve Olympias, Aphrodite is a large terminal responsible for the teaching of intelligent life forms.

In the distant past, the Goddess of Love awakened Rhodes' lost intellect and became his irreplaceable and most important relative.

As for Demeter, she was the goddess that Rhode admired the most and had the best relationship with besides the goddess of love because of her power [Rich Soil]...

"Humph!"

As the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite certainly would not believe such nonsense. She could totally read her son's thoughts.

"Is that your admiration? You are lusting after her body!" The god of love often gets jealous because of this.

Not only that, her daughter Persephone also had a close relationship with Rhodes.

In the great battle with the White Giant ten thousand years ago, although Rod sealed the alien enemy, he himself was also seriously injured in the battle.

After the war, it was Persephone who was entrusted by Aphrodite to take care of Rhodes.

Thanks to the goddess' careful care, he survived the most difficult period and regained his health.

Although it was inevitable for Persephone to become the Queen of the Underworld, Rhode could not just sit back and watch if she did not do it voluntarily.

"I'll think of a way."

Rhode stroked the goddess' head and comforted her, "But don't cry yet... The green land around us is withering."

"Ugh...I'm sorry."

Demeter stood up from the grass and rubbed her red eyes from crying as Atalanta stared at her in amazement.

Rhode was lost in thought: Didn't Demeter just say that Zeus was unwilling to help her...

Well, after all, Hades here

"Rod!"

While Rhodes was thinking, his face was buried deep in the fertile snow-white valley again.

“Gua ...

"That's great... Thank you, I knew you would help me!"

"Oh, I mean I'll try my best."

"I really don't know how to thank you... wuwu... by the way~"

Demeter held up Rhodes' face and gave the boy a passionate kiss on the forehead.

"I like you the most, Rod... Hey, please."

The dignified and majestic goddess of abundance smiled shyly, blushed as she leaned close to Rhode's ear and whispered, "When you return triumphantly from the underworld, I will definitely repay you..."

Repay? How to repay?

Rhodes swallowed, his eyes involuntarily fixed on the proud maternal presence before him.

If Aphrodite saw this scene, she would probably be furious and rush over to fight her to the death.

Atalanta was also speechless: "That lady Demeter actually..."

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Rhodes finally calmed the goddess down after much persuasion and asked her to return to the temple and wait for news.

Atalanta on the side finally came back to her senses from her shock.

She grabbed Rhodes' wrist and said, "Hey... Rhodes, you are not really going to help Lady Demeter go to the underworld to get her daughter back, are you?"

"Well."

Rhodes pursed his lips and said nothing.

In any case, the request of the goddess Demeter could not be refused.

She was the goddess that Rhodes admired the most, and Persephone was a goddess who had been kind to Rhodes in the past.

But, having said that...Hades.

Rhodes frowned. If possible, he really didn't want to meet that guy.

In terms of strength alone, Hades is probably far inferior to Zeus, but in Rhodes' opinion, Pluto is much more difficult to deal with than the King of Gods.

"I can somewhat understand Zeus's reluctance to get involved in this matter..."

Rhodes sighed and stood up.

He turned to Atalanta and said to the girl, "I have to go to the underworld, so I may not be able to meet you in the near future."

The female hunter pouted her lips and said, "That's really a great help... No! Rhode, are you really going to argue with Hades?"

"Ah, yes. Already promised Demeter."

"That, that, that... That's Hades? The most terrifying god of death in all of Greece!"

Rhodes nodded: "I know, I will go even so."

"You're a lust-obsessed idiot!"

Thinking of her own experience, Atalanta was even more furious at Rhodes' decision.

Why are all men like this?

I originally thought that Rhode was different from those fools who didn't care about their lives, but I didn't expect that after meeting the goddess, he would still decide to die so easily.

"That is not the case, Atalanta."

Rhode suddenly turned around to face her, grabbed the girl's shoulders and said, "This is an opportunity. I don't want to escape anymore."

Atalanta frowned slightly: "Don't want to escape?"

"That's right. Ever since I settled here, I've been running away. Running away from my responsibilities, running away from facing my power. Because in the past... because I hurt important people in the past."

The pure white girl appeared in his mind. Rhode hesitated and said after a pause:

"I could have done better, but I didn't, and I didn't keep my promise... In the end, she was left alone in a cold, dark world without even oxygen.

I have been afraid, terrified, and avoiding it ever since."

Ever since the battle with the white giant, Rhodes has been in a state of despair.

What is really hurt is not the body, but the spirit.

The person who helped Rhodes out of the haze was Persephone, and this time he must repay her kindness.

Atalanta stared at Rhodes silently, then said: "Although I don't quite understand what happened to you, I understand."

The female hunter hung the bow diagonally on her body and grabbed Rhodes' hand.

"Why are you still standing there? Let's go?"

"what?"

"What? I can't just leave you alone, can I? I want to go to the underworld with you too."

Atalanta put her hands on her hips and posed like an older sister in front of the boy.

If you think about it, you will understand that Rhodes, who is familiar with the goddess Deltemi, should be countless times older than her, but humans are always visual animals.

She couldn't leave Rhode alone, partly because of this damn beautiful young man.

"But……"

"No buts! You always run into my room capriciously every day, and today it's my turn to be capricious!

Come on, Rhodes! Let's complete the trial of the Harvest Goddess!"

Seeing that Rhodes refused to leave, Atalanta picked him up and placed him on her shoulders.

Like a gust of wind, the female hunter turned over and flew out of her own palace.

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Less than an hour had passed since Rhodes and Atalanta had embarked on their great adventure when the most serious problem arose.

"Rod...how are you going to get to the underworld? I don't know where the entrance to the underworld is."

"I do not know either."

“Hey hey hey hey hey!?”

"But it's okay."

Rhodes brought Atalanta to a wilderness that was noticeably more barren than other places, and pointed at the ground.

“If there is no entrance, create one.”

In the age of the gods, the underworld and the human world were physically connected, and both were part of the surface of the planet.

It was not until the concept of physical laws came to Earth that the world inhabited by gods, the world inhabited by the dead... completely disappeared from the surface of the planet.

The underworld is not an alternate dimension, but exists underground.

In this respect Greece and Mesopotamia were alike.

""

Atalanta opened her mouth in shock at what Rhodes said.

Although it is a well-known fact that the underworld is underground, no one has ever said that they would break through the ground in order to enter the underworld.

Rather than wondering whether it can be done, the idea itself is too ridiculous! What is wrong with this child?

"Ata, give me the bow."

Rhodes gestured to her.

The girl hesitated for a moment, but finally handed the bow to him.

"I have to make it clear in advance that without the blessing of Lady Artemis, this bow cannot exert its full power. It is absolutely impossible to penetrate the ground."

Rhodes smiled softly: "I know, I just use it to aim."

"?"

Under the confused gaze of the girl, Rhodes took out an arrow, put it on the bow and shot it casually into a piece of ground.

"Your level is really low..."