"I have no interest in you humans."
"Is it……"
"But I advise you to tell me everything about Nyx."
Hera reached out and patted Sophia's cheek.
"Otherwise, I have countless ways to torture you."
"..."
Sophia sighed.
"In fact, I have said everything I need to say. I know almost nothing about Lord Nyx. I am just an ordinary maid, a slave who was sold from Carthage to Athens. It was only because of the grace of my master that I gained the status of a free man, and then I became what I am now. I don't know why Lord Nyx found me. I just have this power to reverse day and night."
"You still don't want to say it?"
Hera was losing some patience.
After being brought back here, Sophia kept repeating this sentence.
She didn't know who Nyx was.
I don't know where Nyx is.
I don't even know where the power comes from.
Sophia did not lie, she was telling the truth, but Hera did not believe it. She thought that Sophia was lying, so she was particularly angry. In order to teach Sophia a lesson, Hera directly twisted Sophia's arm. Seeing her painful expression and the whimpering sound in her throat, Hera's cruel desire for violence was also awakened. She smiled coldly, as if warning Sophia, and continued:
"Well, let me get an hourglass."
Hera snapped her fingers and placed an hourglass next to it.
"The sand in the hourglass has run out, and if you don't tell me, I will break your limbs, and then watch you heal yourself, and then continue the timekeeping."
"So, over and over again, over and over again, I believe you can tell it."
"What I said... is all true."
Sophia, lying on the ground, smiled weakly.
"You can believe it or not."
"If you're stubborn, just keep going."
Hera sneered and walked aside, looking at the hourglass next to her.
Sophia's hands and feet were indeed twisted off, but under the power of God, the injured parts healed completely, so now Sophia's limbs are back to normal. However, the pain was real. However, Sophia couldn't help thinking that Hera's method of abusing and torturing others was too weak. Compared with Hilde, Hera was simply an angel.
When Hilde interrogated the prisoners, he tortured them to the point of wanting to tell the truth and be killed. Not only did he break their hands and feet, he also used what Hilde called the "tiger bench". Sophia had seen these things before, so she naturally knew something about this kind of thing.
But Sophia was helpless.
She is telling the truth.
But Hera didn't listen at all.
Hera was actually quite anxious. Catching an oracle of Nyx made Hera excited and scared. However, between fear and excitement, she found that the clues stopped here. After Hera learned that Nyx was still alive, she felt that the world was about to be destroyed. Nyx would come back and seek revenge on Zeus and Hera. However, she found that the oracle of Nyx was not that powerful. It was just the sudden attack that made Hera a little overwhelmed at first, so this was the problem.
After seizing the opportunity and finding the right time, he found that the person chosen by Nyx was just so-so. So he brought the other person back easily, waiting to find clues about Nyx, and then bring this precious clue to Zeus. In this way, he might be able to follow Nyx's clues to solve a series of difficult problems encountered recently. This expectation made Hera really want to ask Sophia something.
but……
Judging from the current results.
It became almost impossible to ask anything.
The hourglass soon ran out again.
Sophia's limbs were twisted off again in an instant, and she almost cried out in pain.
However, Sophia clenched her teeth and prevented herself from screaming. In Hera's eyes, this stubborn look was full of provocation and contempt for her, which made Hera furious.
The ninth chapter of the ninth chapter: A desperate situation
"Okay, you're awesome."
Hera said angrily:
"If you don't tell me, I'm going to break your neck next."
"Then come on."
Sophia thought, if you really could kill me in one go, that would be great.
It's better than being abused endlessly here.
But it was obvious that Hera would never dare to harm Sophia. She was still hoping to get useful information from Sophia. If she killed Sophia, Hera would probably regret it.
Seeing Sophia so "stubborn".
Hera was helpless.
Anyway, there is plenty of time. As long as we torture her slowly, she will definitely confess.
As a result, the hourglass was turned upside down over and over again, and each time it was turned upside down, Sophia had to go through an inhuman torture. And the repeated inversions gradually made Hera's patience collapse. The greater the expectation, the greater the disappointment. Hera put almost all her expectations on whether she could get valuable information from Sophia, but Sophia just refused to speak, and kept saying things she didn't know.
Sometimes, Hera couldn't help but think, just kill this guy, after all, this is the realm of the gods, with Hera's supernatural power, it can be said that it is easy to kill such a demigod. But every time Hera endured the anger in her heart, she didn't want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity because of her momentary anger.
After going back and forth a dozen times.
Hera lost her patience.
She looked at Sophia, who was gasping for breath in pain.
He asked angrily:
"You'd better tell me what you know as soon as possible. If you tell me, I may be able to let you go and reunite you with your dear Hilde."
"...I don't believe you would really do that. In my opinion, if I really tell the truth, I will be the first to die. And even if I want to say it, I can't. I really don't know where Master Nyx is."
"Still talking arrogantly!"
Hera was furious.
But at this moment, Hermes' voice suddenly came from the door.
"Lord Hera, Lord Zeus asks you to come over."
"……okay, I get it."
Hermes was the messenger of God. Generally speaking, any order from Zeus was conveyed by Hermes. Now that Zeus came to find her, Hera suddenly panicked. Could it be that Zeus already knew about Nyx? If so, would Zeus blame her for secretly hiding the oracle of Nyx in his temple?
Hera was a little hesitant, she didn't know whether she should tell Sophia about this matter later. But when she thought about it carefully, Zeus never cared about these disappeared gods, and even Hera only learned from Sophia yesterday that Nyx was still alive.
Then Hera said to Sophia:
"You are here, I will let you take a good rest and think about it carefully. When I come back later, I hope you can give me a satisfactory answer."
"No matter how many times you ask, my answer is always the same. I really don't know..."
Sophia didn't have the strength to speak.
After being tortured for a long time, Sophia was almost reaching her limit of endurance.
Although her injuries would heal immediately after each pain, it was meaningless. Pain brought endless mental torture, and mental torture would consume one's willpower. Sophia was not a hero, she was just an ordinary maid. Just as she and Hera said, she was just a lucky slave who met a master like Hilde and was favored by Lord Nyx.
But apart from this, Sophia is just an ordinary girl, a gentle and kind person. She has not suffered much pain and torture, nor does she have a strong will. The only thing she can do is to know so much and she can only say so much.
After Hera left.
Sophia struggled to prop herself up and sat up from the ground.
This was her first time in the divine realm.
As a mortal, being able to come to the place where the gods live is an experience that not everyone can experience. Although Sophia had just experienced torture and was in great pain, her strong optimism made her curiously observe this very unfamiliar place to her.
This is the temple of Hera, but the style of the temple in the God's Domain is very different from the temples built by humans for gods. Human temples would employ a lot of sculptors to carve exquisite and complex patterns, but no one knows who built the temple in the God's Domain. Although there are patterns, the form of the patterns is too simple. I always feel that it is the pattern of the temples left over from the Mycenaean period.
But this is also correct.
As for gods, they have existed for thousands or even tens of thousands of years.
So their stuff.
It must be very different from people today.
However, the temple seemed lifeless. There was no living creature besides herself, not even plants. This was very different from Sophia's previous impression of the God's Domain. When she was a child, she listened to Sophia reading Homer's epic and a series of mythological stories to her. The God's Domain in her imagination was a paradise with birds singing and flowers blooming, full of various small animals, not like it was now, cold and lifeless.
So, do all gods live in places like this?
No wonder Artemis goes hunting with her huntress every day.
Sophia couldn't help but think.
If she were Artemis, she wouldn't want to go back either.
Thinking of this, Sophia suddenly felt that she was too optimistic. She was clearly on the verge of death and had to endure such inhuman torture, but she didn't seem to care at all. This almost stupid situation made Sophia laugh.
"Ugh……"
Sophia smiled and then sighed.
I don't know how Hilde is doing now.
Is she safe?
Are Tomyris and Artemis safe?
Sophia didn't know any of this.
But Sophia was very sure of one thing, that is, once she came here, it was almost like she could never leave again. Coming here was a death sentence. A place like the Divine Realm was simply not a place that Hilde and the others could enter. The gods here possessed infinite divine power and were countless times more powerful.
Chapter 9, Section 10: Questioning from Zeus
If Hilde and the others really came here to rescue Sophia, they would be waiting to be caught in one fell swoop or eliminated in one fell swoop. Therefore, Sophia did not want anyone to come and save her. Even if she died now, it would be the best relief.
It’s a pity that we won’t be able to see Hilde anymore.
There is no way to take care of the lovely Rod and Dione.
The serious wolf princess is nowhere to be seen either.
And everyone who works together for a common goal.
When these images emerged in her mind, Sophia couldn't help crying. The softest part of her heart was touched. Even though Sophia had not shed a single tear when she was tortured just now, at this moment, her tears couldn't stop flowing.
If possible, if miracles really existed in this world, Sophia still hoped that a miracle would suddenly appear and take her away from this place. But this was where God lived, what was the point of praying for a miracle? Her enemy was the God who controlled miracles.
Forget it.
There is no way to leave here in my lifetime.
Death, maybe even death here.
As a mortal dying at the hands of gods is not a bad life, especially since one is a slave.
But Sophia had many regrets and many unfulfilled wishes. She had thought that after she and Hilde sorted out these messy things, she would go to Carthage with Hilde to take a look. But now, let alone Carthage, she couldn't even go back to Byzantium.
While Sophia was lost in thought.
Hera, feeling uneasy, came to the temple of Zeus.
After delivering the message, Hermes stood at the door of the temple.
Hermes simply bowed respectfully to Hera, but he did not explain in detail why Zeus wanted to find Hera. This means that Hermes either had no idea about the matter, or Zeus did not allow him to say it.
Hera understood this in her heart, so she did not ask too many questions about this aspect. Instead, she simply pushed open the door of the Temple of Zeus and walked in with her head held high. This was her right as Zeus' wife. She could ignore these things and walk directly into the temple openly.
At this time, Zeus was standing in front of his throne.
The Temple of Zeus is more than twice as large as the Temple of Hera.
The interior of the more magnificent temple, like Hera's temple, has no decorations, but is a very plain, marble-style building. The throne representing the king of the gods is also simply carved from marble. It doesn't look any different, and it's not as luxurious as Hilde's throne.
"Lord Zeus."
Hera walked behind Zeus and knelt on one knee.
"What's the matter with you calling me here?"
"Why did you suddenly return from Athens?"
"Lord Zeus, I fought with Hilde and her group yesterday. They had a trick up their sleeve and suddenly attacked me. I was slightly injured, but luckily it wasn't serious in the end. Hercules and I fended off Hilde and her group. I will come back to rest and then hand over Athens to Hercules."
