Greece brings evildoers

"Old man, thanks..."

After luckily saving his life, Sisyphus leaned in front of the stone wall, patted his chest with lingering fear, and sincerely thanked his temporary teammates around him.

Although this guy is always full of bad intentions and seems to want to sell him out.

But at every critical moment, this guy was surprisingly reliable, saving him from danger two or three times.

I don't know if this is a grudge or a favor.

At this time, Lorne had no time to take into account Sisyphus' complicated mood. He looked at the figure standing in the center of the cave from a distance, with a trace of astonishment flashing in his eyes.

Medusa?

No, that's not right!

Soon, Lorne took a closer look and shook his head decisively, overturning what he was thinking.

The face shape and body shape of the half-human, half-snake female figure in the cave are not exactly the same as those of Medusa. They are only 30% similar at most.

Specifically, she has higher scale coverage, has pointed ears, has speckled skin, retains more snake-like characteristics, is more like a deity in an incomplete state than a deity, and has more temperament. Tends to be cold.

And more importantly, she is not a living person, but a wandering ghost.

Lorne looked up at the half-human, half-snake white skeleton in the corner of the cave. Combined with the legend of the Arima Crypt, he already had a rough guess about the identity of the soul in front of him.

"Cerberus, silly boy, I told you not to come again, He will kill you!"

Accompanied by a faint sigh, the half-human, half-snake ghost's eyes showed a trace of helpless anger.

The three-headed hell dog whined and lowered his head, like a child who had done something wrong, with a frustrated look on his face.

"Don't blame Cerberus, he is also worried about your safety. A child's attachment to its mother should not be so harshly criticized."

Lorne touched the head of the three-headed hell dog in the center, smiled and stepped forward to persuade.

"Well, he's a good boy, I've never doubted that."

The half-human, half-snake ghost nodded, and then carefully looked at the strange visitor in front of him, with a hint of vigilance in his eyes.

"As for you, why do you have the scent of my three daughters on you?!"

"Well..."

Lorne didn't answer directly and looked somewhere behind him faintly.

Suddenly, Sisyphus, who was huddled in the corner, was startled and quickly begged with a sad face.

"Brother, I understand the rules. You don't have to be gentle or harsh. Can I do it myself this time?"

As he spoke, he decisively picked up a stone from the ground, knocked Adonis unconscious next to him with lightning speed, and then gestured to his head while making a vow.

"Don't worry, we promise we didn't hear anything, what..."

"boom!"

However, before he finished speaking, Sisyphus groaned and fell straight down.

Thetis retracted her lotus-rooted arm across her back, and then skillfully threw out seventeen or eight spells such as suppression, stun, and restraint, and spoke calmly.

"I'm afraid he's pretending to be faint."

"Well done!"

Lorne gave a thumbs up in approval and pointed at Adonis beside him.

"Remember to make up for him too."

Regarding Lorne's suggestion, Thetis readily agreed and dealt with the unconscious Adonis as usual.

After confirming that the surrounding hidden dangers had been eliminated, Lorne turned his head and smiled warmly at the half-human, half-snake figure in the cave.

"Don't worry, Medusa and the three of them are very good, and they have all been promoted to gods."

As he spoke, Lorne handed the bronze emblem stained with Gorgon's divinity to the half-human, half-snake undead as a certificate.

After careful sensing, the half-human, half-snake undead finally breathed a sigh of relief. The hostility towards Lorne and the others in his eyes gradually faded away, and he sighed in confusion.

"Among these children, they have the most naughty characters. They must have caused you a lot of trouble, right?"

When talking about the three Medusa sisters, there is no hint of gloominess on the imaginary cheeks with scales, but instead adds a bit of gentle motherhood.

Lorne shook his head slightly, with a gentle and friendly smile on his face.

"Nothing, Lady Echidna, they helped me a lot."

Echidna, the mother of snakes, is one of the famous nymphs mentioned by Hesiod in "Theogony":

"The furious goddess Echidna, whose upper body is a slant-eyed, white-cheeked nymph, and whose lower body is a serpent; huge and formidable, has spotted skin, eats raw meat, and lives underground. Here she has a cave. , which lies beneath a hollow stone, far away from the abode of the immortal gods and short-lived mortals, where the gods have given her a home, and she watches over Arima beneath the earth; the terrible Echidna, a youth. The eternal nymph..."

But compared to herself, the children of gods and monsters she gave birth to with Demon Ancestor Typhon are more famous.

Ladon, the hundred-headed dragon guarding the golden apple orchard, the ferocious dragon of Colchis guarding the golden fleece, the legendary twin dragons of Troy;

Cerberus, the three-headed dog of hell who guards the gates of Hades, Hydra, the hydra that killed countless heroes, and the Nemean lion killed by Hercules;

The Caucasian condor that pecked the liver of Prometheus, the Sphinx that told the classic riddle, and the Harpy Harpy on the sea;

As well as the three Gorgon sisters who were originally persecuted on the invisible island and experienced ups and downs all the way to become the slave gods of Athena...

The above are all descendants of the demon ancestor Typhon and the snake mother Echidna.

That's right.

The ghost in front of her is actually the biological mother of the three Gorgon sisters and Lorne's nominal mother-in-law.

The reason why Cerberus was affectionate and tame to him was probably because the auras of the three Gorgon sisters recognized him as a kindred spirit and wanted to come to this cave together to meet their mother Echidna.

But judging from the current situation, the mother-in-law's situation does not seem to be good.

"Medusa and the others rarely talk to me about their family affairs. I would like to ask, who are you?"

Lorne glanced at the half-human, half-snake skeleton in the cave and asked in a deep voice the reason.

"It was the hundred-eyed giant Argos who killed my body while I was sleeping..." Echidna sighed, but did not shy away from talking about the process of her own murder.

"Because of the Battle of Typhon?" Lorne asked tentatively.

Echidna nodded and recounted the past in a bitter tone.

In order to have eternal kingship, Zeus swallowed his wife Metis, prevented the birth of a successor, and ordered a group of Olympus gods to launch a great flood to destroy the golden generation of mankind, repeatedly violating the laws of life.

The successive acts of perversion eventually led to the wrath of the Earth Mother Goddess Gaia.

So, she entered the Tartarus Hell, extracted the power of death and nothingness from this ancient abyss, combined with her own creative power, gave birth to Typhon, the ancestor of all demons, who represented destruction.

As time matured, Typhon's body finally broke free from the shackles of the abyss, climbed to the surface, led a large number of gods and monsters, invaded Olympus, and started a war with the gods.

Although the god king Zeus successfully defeated this powerful enemy and sealed his remains and soul back into the abyss of Tartarus, the god king was afraid of Typhon's power, and even more afraid that Typhon's descendants would become a threat to Austria in the future. The scourge of Limpis.

Therefore, Olympus sent the hundred-eyed giant Argos to secretly kill the snake mother Echidna.

Some of Typhon's descendants fled to various parts of the world after being persecuted; others chose to surrender and were branded and sent to serve the gods everywhere.

The three Gorgon sisters who fled to the invisible island belong to the former; Cerberus, who guards the gate of Hades, belongs to the latter.

Fortunately among the misfortunes, although the body of the snake mother Echidna was damaged, her soul was fortunately preserved.

And because she was nourished by the death energy of the underworld deep in Arima's crypt, her soul gradually stabilized, retaining her original sanity and did not fall into eternal sleep.

Later, as a son, Cerberus sensed his mother's aura and often went into the depths of Arima's crypt to visit Echidna to relieve the snake mother's loneliness.

With her child by her side, Echidna, who had turned into a ghost, could still comfort herself and continue to stay in the depths of Arima's crypt.

However, the good times did not last long. As time passed, strange changes continued to occur underground.

——Typhon, who was once thrown into the abyss by Zeus, seems to be showing signs of waking up.

——And He was extremely hungry for life and food.

Lorne couldn't help but frown when he thought of the bloody scene in the corridor.

"So, did He really want to kill Cerberus just now?"

Regarding Lorne's confusion, Echidna sneered as usual: "There is no extra warmth in the wilderness. For most gods and monsters, the weak are food. What's more, these children have the divinity of Typhon, who just There are signs of recovery, and we urgently need the power of the same source to supplement..."

Listening to his mother-in-law's narration, Lorne roughly understood the nature of the "father-in-law".

The snake mother Echidna also took care of the three Gorgon sisters and other Typhon descendants to some extent, playing the role of a mother and retaining basic warmth.

But the demon ancestor Typhon, who was born out of destruction, was cruel and tyrannical. He only sowed his seeds arrogantly for the purpose of venting his anger and reproducing. He doesn't understand or care about family ties between children and heirs at all.

Therefore, Echidna calls Typhon by his first name from beginning to end, instead of referring to her husband.

Obviously, just like the mating of male animals occupying female animals in nature, the two parties have no so-called feelings at all.

Echidna, the snake mother, was also unlucky. Not only was she forced to take advantage of her by the Overlord, she was also taken aback by the Olympus gods because of the mess Typhon left behind, and she even lost her life.

Now, the resurrected king of monsters has started thinking about blood relations again. It's strange that Echidna, the snake mother, would look good on Typhon.

"So you might become His food?"

Lorne thought of the giant beast bones piled up in the pit and the dragon head that was beginning to take shape, and couldn't help but worry about his mother-in-law in front of him.

"I have died once, and I am not afraid of dying again." Echidna shook her head indifferently, looked at Cerberus and Lorne in front of her gently, and patiently dissuaded her, "On the other hand, you should leave as soon as possible. Come on, don’t come here again, it’s not safe.”

Lorne thought of the three Gorgon sisters at home and proactively said, "I can take you with me!"

"I understand your kindness, but it's useless." Echidna once again declined Lorne's kindness and explained helplessly, "After Argos killed me, in order to prepare for any eventuality, he took my bones Thrown into the underworld, both my body and my soul have been completely saturated with the death energy of the underworld for a long time, making it impossible to leave here. "

Lorne smiled slightly, took out the Horn of Plenty and the purple vial with the elixir label on it, and spoke leisurely.

"What if I can use the vitality of all things to wash away the dead air in your bones and soul, and use the magic medicine to reshape your body?"

"......!"

Echidna was startled, and her eyes, which were originally ashen, were rekindled with a glimmer of hope.

As long as there is hope, no one can refuse the opportunity to live, and she is the same.

Seeing the mother-in-law's expression, Loen's lips curled up in a happy arc.

In the future, Hungarian mythologist Kereni Karoly speculated based on the vase decoration of an ancient vase that Echidna might have been the patron saint of grape planting.

In other words, the divinity of him, the god of wine, and the snake mother Echidna are similar to each other, and he seems to have an extra position as a subordinate god.

More importantly, as long as he wins over this mother-in-law, the descendants of Typhon scattered around the world may become his help to pry Olympus!

This is a potential force that even Zeus is afraid of, so don't miss it.

As his mind raced, Lorne recalled the demon ancestor who had almost eaten them as a snack, and sneered maliciously.

Typhon, huh? Your wife is gone!