Greek Mythology: Evolution from the Gargoyle

"Is this the place of decisive battle created by the Queen of the Underworld..."

The underworld, a desolate and dark land, with hazy mountains in the distance.

There is a palace located here, which is completely black and translucent.

Suddenly, cheers and cheers filled the air, and bouquets of flowers and wine foam flew into the air.

Amidst the intoxicating smell of wine and bright bouquets of flowers, a portal appeared.

Negi jumped out of the portal.

She landed on the ground and looked around curiously.

She looked towards the mysterious and magnificent palace in the distance, and saw that the ground was covered with neat and majestic black stone slabs.

"No wonder it is so." Naji smiled.

Negi discovered dozens of days ago that she had lost her shadow.

Even under the strong light, she still had no shadow.

This is not only true for herself, but also for her brothers and sisters, as well as for the beasts and creatures in the underworld.

All living beings have lost their shadow.

"The great Queen of the Underworld..." Naji suddenly remembered the shadow that would always hang on Persephone's pale face.

"You took away the shadows of all the creatures in the underworld and used their shadows to create this huge place of decisive battle."

Nai Ji looked around, the desolate land was covered with black stone slabs, and there was no end in sight. What a terrible amount of work.

"Lord Hades, Lord of Hades, is said to be one of the top three warriors in the God Realm."

Naji thought to herself.

"But sometimes, I even wonder if the great Queen of Hades is stronger than King of Hades?"

The portal in the sky opened again, and a girl wearing gorgeous golden armor appeared from it, it was Bea.

In her arms she held an extremely old and sleeping goddess.

"How is our God Mother?" Negi asked.

"Very good. She should be reborn soon." Bea fell to the ground, and then she was stunned.

"My shadow is here?!"

Bea looked into the distance and felt that there were a million floors there made of her own shadow.

Naji nodded, "Yes."

"This place is made of shadows. The shadows of all the creatures in the underworld."

"The Land of Shadows. The place for the final decisive battle."

…

The three judges of the underworld, the Styx boatman and other gods also arrived here one after another.

I don’t know when it started, but this huge and boundless land of shadows was filled with countless creatures.

Funeral crows and mourning birds were flying in the air, dark elves and dead shadow giants were chatting eagerly, and wild beasts and shadow bugs were making calls one after another.

Bustling.

All living beings know that this is a grand event in the underworld, where two strong men will have a life-and-death duel, and the King of Hades and the Queen of Hades will confer the priesthood on the winner.

There are countless pairs of eyes staring at the center of the battlefield, looking forward to the beginning of the decisive battle.

Suddenly, all the creatures raised their heads and looked at the horizon.

Together, they saw a noble and gorgeous goddess in black robes descending from the sky. Her pale face was condensed with the shadow of death, and her lips were as red as blood.

"You are the boundless night, the flower blooming in the darkness, the master of thousands of dead souls. Beautiful and powerful, mysterious and majestic Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld!"

"May your existence be as eternal as death, and may all the shadows in the world be controlled by you. The Queen of the Underworld is immortal! The Queen of the Underworld is immortal! The Queen of the Underworld is immortal!"

Including birds in the sky, insects on the ground, and thousands of creatures, they all bowed down and saluted Persephone.

The sound of praise from his mouth resounded throughout the sky, as if the earth was shaking.

"Great Queen of the Underworld... No wonder everything in this underworld is under your control."

Naji also bowed and saluted. She raised her head and stared at Persephone in the sky, her heart boiling inexplicably.

She saw thousands of chains rising from behind Persephone, and those chains were tightly wrapped around a dark throne, with Hades sitting on it.

Persephone fell gently to the ground, as silently as the fall of night.

The dark throne also fell gently to the ground.

In an instant, everything was silent, and all the creatures were silent, waiting for the divine voice of the Queen of the Underworld.

She looked at all the creatures with a smile and said:

"My people, stand up. I accept your praise wholeheartedly. I am the Queen of the Underworld, so I naturally deserve your worship."

"However, don't forget that only the souls of the dead are under my control and enjoy eternal rest. Although you surrender to me, you are still the living, and your souls still belong to you."

"The night has its beauty, and death also has its mercy. I am in charge of everything in the underworld, but I disdain to control everything. The dead enjoy rest, and the living have their freedom. This is the most basic right I give you."

"Tonight, we will hold a decisive battle in the competition to celebrate the interdependence and interdependence of darkness and life. The living cannot escape the embrace of death, and the dead cannot escape the fetters of life. All living creatures, in the embrace of the night, enjoy this competition!"

"Queen of the Underworld..." Naji looked at Persephone in the distance, feeling touched in her heart. Her heart seemed to be touched by Persephone.

"Queen of Hades... I'm sorry... I want to escape from here."

"I feel that a huge disaster is about to break out in the underworld. The fear of death has been tormenting me. Otherwise, I am willing to serve you."

"But is Lord Hades still motionless?"

"It's the same this time, brought by the Underworld Queen herself."

Naji thought in her mind, "How long has Hades been sitting on that throne?"

Suddenly, a chubby hand stretched out from the side, and Negi turned around. It was her mother, Stix, who had completed her rebirth and was struggling to jump out of Bea's arms.

"Mother." Naji hugged the fat baby girl and smelled the strong fragrance of milk emanating from her body. "What's wrong?"

"Hee..." Styx's divine aura passed into Naji's mind.

"It is said that Master Hades cannot even eat the divine nectar. He will not even lift his lips."

"That is, the Queen of the Underworld... After all the gods left, in the dark hall, she raised a silver spoon, filled it with divine dew, and fed it to Hades."

"..."

A picture emerged in Naji's mind. The noble and gorgeous Queen of the Underworld was half-kneeling on the ground. Only her red lips and silver spoon shone in the darkness, and she put the divine dew into Hades' mouth.

"The king's wife...the king's queen, what a glorious identity it is." Styx smiled, "Our Queen of the Underworld is perfect from appearance to strength. She is the highest point in the underworld, but she also has pain."

"Her husband, the great Lord Hades, is a half-dead god."

"What happened to Lord Hades?" Naji asked. "The failure to compete with the God King for the highest authority is indeed a blow. But how could Lord Hades be so fragile?"

For some reason, Niji suddenly felt some sympathy in her heart, and even felt sorry for Persephone. Even though Persephone was countless times more powerful than she was.

"My child... you are asking one of the most secretive things in Olympus. It is like asking whether the Titan curse will continue. Which child of Zeus will assassinate him and become the new god king."

"Mother, can you tell me?" Naji's heart moved.

Styx is constantly cycled between life and death, and her personality changes as well. In infancy and girlhood, there is greater innocence.

If her mother would tell her, it could only be at this time.

"My child... it would be great if you were like Bea." The baby smiled and pinched Negi's face, "You don't know anything, and you don't want to know. You are too smart."

Naiji turned her head and took a look. Bia didn't know when she had caught many ghost bugs from the wilderness. She was biting off the heads of the bugs with her teeth, sucking out their intestines and swallowing them.

He was eating so well that he didn't even notice the conversation between Naji and Sticks.

"Mother, please tell me!"

"He found the river of destiny. He challenged destiny."

"!!" Naji's pupils trembled.

"Shh... don't ask any more." Sticks blinked, "Fortunately, my precious child, you don't have to challenge your fate, just accept your fate."

"I vaguely predicted your fate. You will be with a powerful and beautiful goddess. Her appearance is no less than Aphrodite, and her power is no less than Persephone. She has not yet been born. , but it will eventually be born, soon, soon, hee..."

After saying this, Sticks seemed a little tired, and she slowly closed her eyes.

"Challenging fate... Pluto fell into a long silence because he challenged fate..." Naji gritted her teeth and hugged Styx tightly.

"I also have my destiny, and I have to accept my destiny...or challenge it without overestimating my abilities..."

"Pluto challenged fate, and then he couldn't even lift his lips..."

Naji's face was a little pale and her body was swaying. She knew the power of fate, and she always felt that it made her feel suffocated and that everything was under control.

In the face of fate, he is just an insignificant insect.

Click - hiss -

Bea bit off the head of a ghost bug about half a meter long and sucked its green, slimy intestines into his mouth.

The moment of decisive battle is coming soon.

At this moment, Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, suddenly opened her eyes.

She raised her head and stared into the sky.

She said softly: "My husband, my great king."

"The messenger from the God Realm is here."

She waited a moment.

"As usual, if you do not answer, I will receive this distinguished messenger."

Then the dark sky of the underworld was rosy red.

In the sky, thirty-three magnificent scenes appeared instantly:

First, one hundred thousand thunderbolts shine in the dark night sky, showing the beauty of violence.

Secondly, thousands of roses bloom from the earth, highlighting the beauty of flowers.

Third, the breeze blows on the grassland, showing the gentle beauty.

Fourth, the emerald green of cat’s eye, the brilliance of diamonds, thousands of gems falling from the sky, raining gems, showing the beauty of colors.

Fifth, the aurora is shining and flowing in the sky, colorful, showing the mysterious beauty.

Sixth, white doves soar in the sky in groups, spreading their wings and flying high, showing the beauty of freedom.

…

Thirty-three, a graceful female figure.

Just the mere sight made Persephone's heart tighten.

Tens of thousands of creatures in the underworld erupted into screams that shook the sky.

Because that figure shows the beauty of a woman.

The red roses in the sky condensed into the Rainbow Bridge, and the figure condensed into an entity, stepping down the Rainbow Bridge.

Messenger of the gods, Aphrodite, the god of love and beauty.

"ah--!!!"

Countless screams suddenly erupted among the creatures, all of which were female creatures. They all covered their faces with their hands and refused to take them off again. Because they saw Aphrodite's face, they first felt envy, then jealousy and anger. Finally, their hearts were broken and they felt that they were extremely ugly and would never let other living beings see her again.

"ah--!!!"

Countless screams suddenly erupted among the creatures. This time, they were all male creatures. They were killing each other, and the smell of blood rose into the sky. Because they saw Aphrodite's face, they felt that all the male creatures They will all be competitors, and the strong desire for love goes to their heads and makes them lose their minds.

"Messenger of Olympus, noble god of love and beauty, please restrain your divine power."

"Let those poor female creatures not have to cover their faces all day long."

"Goddess whose appearance is perfect and beyond perfection, please restrain your divine power."

"Let those poor male creatures not kill each other just to get your gaze."

Persephone's divine voice was like poetry, she spoke softly, as if she was singing to Aphrodite.

"good."

Aphrodite smiled, and the rose-red color around her became lighter.