Mythology: Spiritual Ruler - Chapter 584

Chapter 584 The channel cannot be found

Endless darkness, an indescribable scene.

It is like floating between existence and non-existence, and it is impossible to distinguish between inside and outside.

In his dream, Dionysus felt that he had done a lot of things and said a lot of things.

In the illusory light and shadow, he saw the sky falling and the earth shaking. The statue turned into a human body, replacing the glory of the old master.

The stars hang down and rise from his own body.

One transaction, one replacement.

One fell to the ground, and the other rose to the top of the mountain.

The eternal one lost eternity, and light rose in the darkness. As if the mind that was illuminated by the light and broke through the chaos, Dionysus finally found himself.

Is this a dream, an endless worldly dream…

“…Wake up…”

“Wake up…”

“Wake up!”

“Ho—”

  In the nameless valley, he was awakened by the call.

Dionysus woke up suddenly, but was stabbed by the dazzling light and couldn’t open his eyes.

In front of him, Hercules was looking at him with some concern.

Obviously, the great hero did not expect that his companion would suddenly fall into such a deep sleep that he almost never woke up.

“Wait, stop shouting, I’m awake…Hercules, did I suddenly sleep?”

  Covered his forehead with his right hand and stopped the big hand that was shaking his body with his left hand.

Dionysus felt a little confused in his head, as if he was not sleeping soundly, but was beaten in a dream.

Ah… By the way, there is also Amon, I seem to dream of him.

In the dream, he asked himself if he still remembered the oath he had promised him, and Dionysus naturally said that he had not forgotten it.

Although he is an immortal god, he has recognized this friend. He will live in the world of Kaos with his share forever.

“…Dionisus, I don’t know what’s going on with you.”

“When I answered Sphinx’s three questions, you were already unconscious here.”

After a little relieved, seeing that his companion finally woke up, the great hero reached out to leverage his power and pulled him up from the ground.

“What, did you have some conspiracy just now?”

“Such deep sleep doesn’t seem to happen naturally.”

“Maybe…but now it’s over.”

Shaking his head slightly, Dionysus tried to release the heavy feeling in his mind, but the result was only futile.

An inexplicable sense of weakness came from his heart. As a **** without clergy, although he was immortal, he was not immortal in the sense of an ordinary person.

Once the traces of himself are wiped out, he will fall into a deeper sleep than the star god, and he will not even have the chance to wake up.

After all, the Star God has a tough star core as an anchor. Generally speaking, no **** must crush this thing to ashes, but he does not have such luck.

So Dionysus has always cherished every part of his divine power in the past, even if Zeus gave him a lot of faith.

But today, he felt that his divine power had been consumed for no reason.

“It is probably the power of the rule of the Sphinx…it is likely to have a conflict with the power of the Father God.”

“Whether [king power] or [law], they are the same rules as Sphinx, but they are actually differentiated from one of the highest and core parts of the world, [order].”

“They either combine with each other, one obeys the other and then make the other stronger, or they will conflict with each other and find it difficult to coexist.”

“The ancient Titan left the Divine Court because of this, and the power of the Sphinx might have affected me… I will learn from my mistakes. Next time, I can’t be so careless.”

All kinds of thoughts flashed through my heart, and Dionysus rested on the spot for a while.

In the end, he signaled that he had nothing to do and could continue on the road.

Of course, we cannot directly say the power of Zeus.

So Dionysus also chose to refuse Prometheus’s suggestion that he wanted to check his physical condition.

“…Okay, since you’re fine, let’s set out to the real ruins of Mount Odils now.”

Nodded, Hercules did not refuse.

After getting the legacy of Sphinx, he only felt a strange sense of expansion all over his body.

He really wanted to find something to fight or light a fire to burn it.

Although according to the records in [Book of Purgatory], the road leading to the fourth floor of the spiritual world at the foot of Mount Odils is a “dead road”, he still wants to take a look.

After all, he still remembers the words of the Athenian wise man and his intuition in the eyes of the sea. (See 3-347)

No matter how he does it, no matter whether he just wants to go to the fourth level of the spiritual world to fulfill his vow to himself… It seems that one day, he must take this “correct” path.

– Starting from the bottom of the pillar of heaven, follow the ridge of Mount Sinai to its end.

There, all doubts can be answered and all difficulties no longer exist.

Maybe that day, he didn’t need to use logic, but could personally verify the Sphinx’s problem.

Is the so-called “omniscient and omnipotent” true?

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All the way west, from leaving the nameless valley, Hercules walked hundreds or thousands of miles.

Compared to when he came, he had another magical artifact of the Goddess of the Law.

I don’t know that since I caused the death of Sphinx, did the goddess and her bet win?

“It’s a bit strange to say…End, have you ever thought of a question?”End spoke silently in his heart. With the help of Ande’s ingenious spiritual thread, the great hero can speak directly to it in his heart.

“The rules in the Sphinx field stipulate that no matter who it is, once the question and answer with the Sphinx begins, if he fails to answer a single question, everything he will be lost.”

“On the contrary, if he answers all three questions, Sphinx will lose everything in turn and fulfill the reputation of the answerer – that’s right.”

“Yes,” replied Ander, who already knew what Hercules was asking: “You mean, as His Highness Themis, the goddess of justice, who was in charge of the [justice] and [law], she must have seen it.”

“So her bet with Sphinx was meaningless from the beginning, because even if the other party loses, a dead person can’t fulfill the bet.”

“The reason why the Sphinx’s rules are so powerful is that even once the gods enter its realm and start voluntarily Q&A, they will not escape the sanctions of the rules after failure. It is because this force hurts the enemy and himself. In fact, it cannot even restrain Sphinx himself…”

“So in this case, the goddess shouldn’t do such stupid behavior, right?”

“…It’s almost the same.”

The great hero is indeed a little confused when he expressed his approval of this.

Before his death, Sphinx told it that its life and death were also a mystery, and the answer had long been before Hercules.

But perhaps the first three questions consumed too much energy from the big hero, and he could not figure out the reason for it for a while.

“Well… I’m not sure what I’m saying is right, so I can only provide you with a guess.”

He changed his posture in his pocket in front of his clothes, and the puppet smiled and said, “You should also know that the Goddess of the Law is not only the God of Justice, but also the God of Justice.”

“So she shouldn’t simply be biased towards one side when doing things.”

“However, since she restrained Sphinx in the valley, and even set an “equivalent balance” at the entrance of the valley to exchange divine power for the life of the question answerer, all these things were fair measures taken by her with Sphinx’s consent and paid the price, if you look closely, you will still be somewhat biased towards humans.”

“But you have to know that Hercules, the goddess of the law, was never a human being. She was an ancient Titan, the daughter of the Father of Heaven and the Mother of Earth, and the legislator who eradicated the cancer for the present world.”

“In her eyes, whether it is monsters, humans, even giants, sea monsters, or even ants under her feet, they are actually no different. They are just ordinary creatures.”

“In the whole world, probably only evil things with natural chaos will make her feel disgusted… Apart from that, what special things do humans have?”

“So if you think about it carefully, you will find that Sphinx is actually treated the same as humans.”

“It is confined to the valley, which looks like a cage… But if time is long-term, if it still runs rampant in the human world, the gods may not be able to do anything to it, but one day, when Oedipus, who was plotted by the gods and upholding the destiny, comes to it, can it really “lucky” to escape the disaster like now, and finally wait for your arrival?”

“It has lost its freedom, but it has returned to hundreds of years of life… And if you stand from this perspective, and if you look at the stone balance in front of the valley, you will have another result.”

“You mean…” Hercules felt slightly moved, and Hercules felt as if she understood something: “The reason why the goddess left a glimmer of life for the humans who came to answer questions here is not because she was particularly pity for these answerers who came for wealth, status, and fame, but ultimately because of her greed.”

“But because she has given their opponents a step forward, she has given them the same chance?”

“The goddess first made a bet with Sphinx with her artifact, and then this valley… Just as the Goddess who mortgaged their freedom to the goddess first, the crystal of divine power exchanged can prevent them from being erased by the rules.”

“The answerer pays freedom to her in exchange for the divine power to preserve life, the price is to fight for the cause of [justice] for life after failure… Sphinx puts freedom on the gambling table in exchange for the artifact [Golden Balance], the price is to serve the goddess for eternity after failure…”

“So the reason why I can pick up this artifact as a bet is not because of the goddess’s value, but because of her [justice].”

“Just as those divine power crystals used by those who fail to answer questions in exchange for life ended up being the food of the Sphinx, and the artifact [Golden Balance] is also the spoil I deserve.”

Her heart was shocked. At this moment, the ancient god’s distant and long gaze shocked Hercules, but the same was true for her absolute justice in her actions.

Her existence seems to be the explanation of this clergy, and the proof of the word “justice”… Looking down at the [golden balance] on her waist, the great hero knew that this artifact should not belong to him forever.

The crystal of divine power was permanently paid to the Sphinx because the losers of the question finally left.

But even though Sphinx escaped in some way, everything it once had fulfilled Hercules.

Even the great hero cannot guarantee the form of this escaped life.

“Stone statue…or the undead?”

Looking back, at this moment, Hercules had to admit that perhaps some gods acted so ridiculously and so unrespectful.

But in the world of Kaos, those ancient gods who have truly remained unchanged and have lasted more than one era are not as shallow as ordinary people imagine.

Sure enough, weakness and ignorance are not obstacles to survival, only arrogance is.

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Time flies, and as time goes by, Hercules has been wandering around Mount Odils several times.

  Collapsed ruins, dry rivers; burned trees, and tenaciously growing plants.

In this ruins ten thousand years ago, the great hero saw the site suspected to be left over from the Golden Age and saw a few inscriptions recorded in some kind of hieroglyphic.

With the auxiliary interpretation of [Book of Purgatory], several people found an independent building that was said to be very close to the once-golden human gathering area according to the notes recorded on the stone tablet.

   It’s just as time goes by, especially the catastrophe between the Battle of Tifeng at the end of the second season, the crust moves and plates overlap.

Although Hercules found the building, he still failed to find the remains of the main city of the Golden Age.

He raised the stone tablet that guided them all the way toward the sun, and the great hero looked at the reliefs on it that matched the text.

In the sky, the clouds seemed to be burned by fire.

On the top of the tall pillar, there are several abstract figures that are as tall as the sky overlooking the world.

Some of them are indifferent, some are majestic, some are noble, and some are full of disgust.

Humans on the earth are worshiping and praising the greatness of the gods… and between the two, a red meteor is falling from the sky and falling to the mortal world.

“This record…”

“If the sky falls…there will be disaster…there will be disasters?”

In a difficult tone, Hercules read the words on the stone tablet.

“It seems to record a warning from a **** to humanity at that time…but what is the use of this?”

  Shake your head slightly, the hero looked around, feeling helpless.

He has found this place, the base left by this ancient sacred mountain in the world.

But the problem is that the so-called “correct” path to the spiritual world does not seem to be open to him.

(This chapter ends)