"Hades!!!"
Artemis raised the Moon Silver Bow in her hand.
"The mortal world is not a place you can come to."
"Humph."
Hades turned the double-pronged fork in his hand.
Suddenly, a black lightning bolt fell from the sky, knocking the silver bow of the bright moon in Artemis's hand to the ground. At the same time, Hades turned the direction of his chariot and came directly in front of Artemis.
"How dare you, daughter of Zeus, use force against me?"
"Here, this is the mortal world!"
Artemis said nervously:
"You are the king of the underworld and you should not be here."
"What do these restraints have to do with me in this world?" Hades had a blank expression. His angular and handsome face was filled with an indescribable coldness. "If I continue to lock myself in the underworld and wait until changes that are enough to change the entire world occur, then it will be too late for me to come out. Humph, fortunately Poseidon told me what happened, so I know how ridiculous things happened on the ground!"
"Poseidon... sir?"
Artemis was a little surprised.
Doesn't Poseidon dislike getting involved in these things?
However, Hades continued, "Artemis, you should know what happened."
“…I think so.”
"Zeus, that kid, is probably planning to do something shameful again. However, you children of Zeus definitely don't know what Zeus did in the past. Now, Zeus wants to continue doing this to realize his hegemony, so he has to ask me, Hades, if I agree first." Hades looked at the people sleeping around him, and seemed to feel that Artemis was a little worried, so he said, "Don't worry, everyone here is asleep, and I asked Hypnos to hypnotize everyone, so there will be no problem."
“Ah, ah, so that’s it.”
Hypnos is the god of sleep.
In the underworld, he is the twin brother of Thanatos, the god of death.
"I don't want mortals to see me like this."
"Everyone I can see is basically dead."
"Humph."
Hades seems to be in a bad temper.
He raised the fork in his hand and pointed it at Artemis in front of him.
"I don't trust you."
"…I don't trust you either, Lord Hades."
Artemis was not afraid.
"Hades, who rules the underworld, suddenly left where he was supposed to be and came to the ground. I think anyone would be scared if this happened. I don't know why you suddenly came out, nor do I know what Lord Poseidon said to you. If you want to bring plague, disaster, and death to this land, then I will definitely stop you."
"That's not necessary."
Hades said very calmly.
"If it was death I wanted, I wouldn't have let Hypnos do it."
"Ok, I know."
"I came out now only because I know that Zeus wants to find the original library of creation. Humph, it's wishful thinking to hide this from me. Poseidon and I know what Zeus' purpose is in creating the original library without even thinking about it."
"What purpose?"
Artemis sounded a little confused.
She wasn't quite sure what Hades was talking about.
After all, it was strange enough that Hades suddenly appeared here.
"I won't talk to you for now."
Hades looked around and said helplessly, "Unfortunately, even if we knew Zeus's plan, Poseidon and I don't have the power to stop him. As a god, Zeus's power is far superior to ours. I'm afraid you are not sure of his strength, Artemis. However, Zeus is a coward. He would never dare to leave the realm of the gods and come to the ground in person unless he had no other choice."
"This one……"
Artemis is sure of that.
The Genesis Original Book Library is so important.
Zeus let other gods take it, and he himself did not take any action.
This is enough to prove that Zeus is not actually very brave to come to the earth.
Chapter 7, Section 10: The Unknown Truth
Limitations set by the Creator God.
The supreme power of the gods can only be restricted within a limited range.
And God is actually divided into two parts.
Some of them are gods who rule the places where the sun can shine. Including Artemis, Zeus and Poseidon, these gods who rule the mortal world are all so-called gods. When gods leave the divine realm, they will be forced to transform into mortal bodies, their power will be weakened, and once they are killed, they will usher in real death. The other part is the gods of the underworld who rule the dark world, including Hades and Persephone. These gods live in the kingdom of the dead, but if they come to the mortal world, their power will also be weakened.
However, the chaos in the world usually has nothing to do with the God of the Underworld.
Like a series of things that have happened recently.
In fact, it was just a fight between gods.
Now Hades has openly broken through the restrictions of the underworld and appeared in the human world in his true form. This is already very strange. However, Artemis did not dare to ask too much. As long as Hades had no intention of harming the human world, Artemis naturally did not dare to influence this powerful king of the underworld.
"When I was on earth, there was once an oracle."
"Well, the one who killed innocent people, Cleopatra."
"Oh yes."
Hades said coldly:
"If you want to gain the power of the underworld, you must provide it with new dead. This is the price of power."
“Why do you do this!?”
"The power of the underworld is different from that of the heavens. Your power can be directly transmitted to your oracles, but my power must pass through the underworld before it can reach the human world. Communication between the underworld and the mortal world is extremely difficult. The living cannot enter, and the dead cannot leave. Only when a person goes from life to death can the gate to the underworld be opened. Therefore, if Cleopatra wants to drive the dead to fight for her, she must have an equal number of living souls to open the road to the underworld before it can be realized."
"then you……"
Artemis couldn't understand.
"Why choose an oracle at all?"
"I need to know where the world is heading."
Hades said helplessly:
"Now, I know."
"So what are you going to do now?"
"The world has undergone irreversible changes. The boundary between the underworld and the mortal world has gradually become blurred. When I was touring the underworld, I found that the sunlight on the ground could already shine into the underworld. This is not allowed and has never happened before. However, I suddenly discovered that the power from the underworld can easily come to the surface of the earth."
"This is?"
Artemis had never heard of anything like it.
But Hades couldn't lie.
"what's going on?"
"I don't know the details."
Hades shook his head.
"However, above the surface, a power that I am very familiar with suddenly appeared. This power connects the mortal world and the underworld and opens the door to the underworld. As a result, Hypnos and I can freely come to this land." Hades looked around, hesitated for a moment, and finally decided to tell the truth, "It is the goddess of night, Nyx. Nyx's divine power has reappeared on this land. In this world, only Nyx can freely travel between the underworld and the human world."
"Ah, this..."
Artemis knew.
Isn’t this the oracle of Nyx Sophia?
Could it be that Sophia performed a miracle and opened up a passage between the human world and the underworld?
"So, you should know what happened, right?"
"of course."
Artemis answered directly: "In fact, there is an oracle in the Byzantine Kingdom. She is... the Oracle of Nyx."
"What!? Impossible!"
Hades frowned and directly refuted.
"Nyx has disappeared from this world. I originally thought that some of Nyx's remaining artifacts were discovered, which stimulated Nyx's divine power. How could there still be an oracle of Nyx?"
“This is the real deal, I’m sure of it.”
Artemis didn't explain much.
Seeing Artemis like this.
Hades withdrew his shock and said, "Then everything can be explained. Why did the passage between the underworld and the human world suddenly open in this place? This happened last time, but I didn't notice it at the time. I only sensed the residual breath later. However, Cleopatra is dead. I don't have a new oracle to help me investigate the truth for the time being."
"Anyway, that's what happened."
"Where did the Oracle of Nyx go?"
Faced with this problem of Hades.
Artemis could only say helplessly: "He was taken away."
"Taken? Who took him away?"
"Hera."
"……I see."
Hades shook his head helplessly.
Artemis felt that Hades must know a lot of truth, so she asked carefully: "Lord Hades, may I ask, what happened? Why was Sophia captured? Nyx... She is the powerful goddess of the night. Everyone knows that Nyx is a creator god-level existence. How could she suddenly disappear?"
"You should know the answer in your heart."
"I……"
"Do you remember the Great Flood?"
"big flood?"
Of course Artemis remembered.
"Wasn't that a long, long time ago?"
"Yes, the flood destroyed the old humans and all civilizations. In the epics of mankind, only Deucalion and his wife survived on the ark. Of course, they were not the only ones who survived. The human civilization built under the Titans and the Creator God was completely destroyed in the flood. Ancient countries like Atlantis had long been sleeping under the sea. Humans believed that it was the stupidity of the ancient humans at that time that angered Zeus. As a result, the storm brought by Zeus and Poseidon raised the sea water, which eventually triggered a flood that destroyed everything."
"um, yes."
Artemis' memory of the incident was vague.
To be precise, when the great flood occurred.
These gods have not yet been born.
Zeus and his wife had various offspring only after he overthrew his father and took the throne of the gods, which is different from what is recorded in the epic. The Great Flood had already occurred before Artemis was born. The gods, including Artemis, were not clear about the things about ancient humans.
The oracle who was chosen
To be precise, for gods like Artemis, Ares, and Athena who were born later, the ancient humans in their eyes might be the Mycenaeans and Cretans, who have a history of more than a thousand years. And those ancient humans who spanned thousands or even tens of thousands of years became a period of history that Artemis and his group did not understand.
Hades continued:
"You should also know that, apart from the gods of Olympus, almost all other gods have disappeared. You have only heard of their names, and of the gods left over from the Titan era, the only one you have seen is Prometheus. But later, Prometheus also disappeared. From the moment he disappeared, the world has only you, the gods of Olympus."
"Yes."
This is also something Artemis questions.
The mystery of Prometheus.
