Greek Mythology: Evolution from the Gargoyle

"In the dream, my mother was Demeter, but in reality, I have no such memory at all..." The Queen of Hades stroked the cat and looked at the dark and boundless underworld outside the hall.

"If you have memories, there will be ghosts...Hades took away your memories." The cat thought to himself, and then said: "So, who is the mother in your memory?"

"My mother?" The Queen of Hades stopped moving her hands, "I don't have a mother."

"My memory begins in the underworld. When I opened my eyes, Hades was next to me. He told me that I was a seed, a dark seed buried deep in the soil."

"Seeds buried deep in the soil..." Yang Qi's head was spinning. There seemed to be such a statement in the mythological records, but he couldn't remember the details.

"Hades did not lie to me... I am indeed a seed buried deep in the soil." The Queen of Hades blinked, "It doesn't matter if I tell you. This is what I saw in the thread of my destiny."

"So, baby, why do your dreams make me addicted to them?" Queen of the Underworld asked, "Don't use your profound divine power to deal with me. The divine power of your dreams is nothing to me."

The cat thought to himself: "I created those dreams according to the records in mythology... Of course I can't say that."

The cat fell into silence. How should he answer this question?

The cat's brain is thinking rapidly.

After a moment, he said slowly: "Mother, do you really want to know the truth?"

"Yes, I want to know the truth."

"The truth may hurt you."

"It doesn't matter, I want to know."

Then, the cat nodded, "Give me some time. I'm not telling you the truth, but giving you the truth so that you can experience it yourself."

The Queen of Hades looked at the cat, then hugged him again, "Okay."

…

After a while, on the land of the underworld, the black cat spread its transparent wings and flew rapidly in the air.

The cat was thinking: "Am I doing the right thing?"

Facing the Queen of Hades' answer just now, Yang Qi had roughly three choices.

The first is to lie and deceive the Queen of Hades. This is difficult. The Queen of Hades' divine power is higher than her own. If she uses her divine power to detect it, she will find that she is lying.

Moreover, Yang Qi did not want to deceive Queen Ming.

The second is to muddle through.

This is easier to spot.

The third is to retrieve the memory of the Queen of Hades and return it to her.

This has several advantages.

First of all, this is Zeus's mission. Styx once said that if he completes this task, he will be appreciated and honored by Zeus. Zeus is the God-King of Olympus, the apex of the gods, and there is absolutely no harm in getting his favor.

Secondly, after knowing the news, the Queen of Hades may have conflicts with Hades.

Yang Qi fell into love that killed his father and married his mother. If he didn't change his fate, he was destined to be the enemy of Hades. It would definitely be good for you to weaken Hades' power.

In the end, you will gain the trust and more love from the Queen of Hades.

After all... Whenever Yang Qi looked at the pale and beautiful face of the Underworld Queen, he always felt hot in his heart.

Of course - this choice also has a huge danger, that is, it may be difficult to hide this matter from Hades.

Yang Qi saw the power of Hades. Before he could even move, he could summon the rest and tranquility of the entire underworld. He could create a source of divine power in an instant. With just one hand, without exerting any force, he could make Zaha Glios could not move.

Doing so would undoubtedly anger Hades. Therefore, when to hand over this memory to the Queen of Hades is a very particular question.

"Let me find that memory first... As for when to give it to the Queen of the Underworld, we have to wait until the right time."

boom!

In an instant, the black fur all over the cat's body fell off, and his whole body became transparent, with a gem heart beating inside. His speed increased several times, and he rushed into the distance.

After flying for a long time.

Buzz… It’s still that roaring divine voice.

The huge torso holds up against the sky. No words can be used to describe its toweringness and incomparable solidity. There are only traces left by time around it - the Optimus Prime.

Yang Qi flew to the side of Optimus Prime, which leads to the highest point of Olympus God Realm, the sky, and to the lowest point of Olympus, the abyss.

Several sharp bird calls came from the side, and then dozens of golden pillar birds flew over.

"You guys again...? Were you not killed by me last time?"

"Meow!"

The cat yelled, flying through the air like lightning, swishing, swishing, swishing, and in an instant, all the Pillar Birds erupted in whining sounds, shattered into pieces, and fell into the endless abyss.

The cat's feet stepped on the golden debris that exploded in the sky. He arched his waist, and the transparent wings behind him spread out, boom! Soaring straight into the sky.

He flew tens of thousands of meters in an instant, jumped on a Pillar Bird King, opened his claws, and the surrounding space suddenly collapsed, and black chaotic air rushed straight in, and only a sharp metallic sound was heard. The head of the Pillar Bird King was cut off directly.

"Meow!" The cat's body flashed again, flew tens of thousands of meters again, pounced directly on another Pillar Bird King, opened its mouth, and bit off its bird head.

"Crack, click." The cat chewed twice, smashed the bird's head to pieces, and then spit it out, "It tastes really bad."

The cat thought to himself: "I have indeed become much stronger... The last time I used my divine power to fight these pillar birds, it was quite difficult. Now I just use my claws and teeth to kill them casually."

The ferocious power of the cat trembled thousands of birds. They no longer dared to approach and could only keep calling from an extremely distant place.

"I'm too lazy to care about you."

Then the cat flapped its wings and flew towards the root of Optimus Prime.

He saw a large dark cave from which Optimus Prime protruded.

Optimus Prime extends directly from the abyss. This cave is a passage from the underworld to the abyss.

The cat flew into it.

Buzz…

Soon, everything became dark.

Yang Qi kept flying downward in a deep passage, next to the huge Optimus Prime.

"Meow!" Seven white moons appeared, flying around the cat, emitting light and illuminating the surrounding area.

In the surrounding soil, you can first see the roots of various trees, and the deepest ones can reach tens of thousands of meters underground.

Then Yang Qi saw various gem veins scattered here and there.

Then there were the remains of various huge creatures from ancient times. Yang Qi also found a broken sword, but unfortunately all the divine power was dissipated.

When the remains of the creature were no longer visible, poof!

He flew directly into the water, which was already in the deepest water vein underground, and the water flooded the place.

"The deepest water veins underground... A long time ago, when I was participating in the competition in the underworld, I saw creatures that could summon the water veins here to fight."

He flew for hundreds more hours in this cold underground water, until the water gradually dried up and the surrounding soil disappeared, leaving only complete darkness.

In the darkness, there was only the huge Optimus Prime.

"I've been flying for hundreds of hours, and I still can't see the bottom... how far is the abyss?"

Yang Qi flew continuously for dozens of days, and finally he was too sleepy, and all the divine power in his body was exhausted.

He had no choice but to use the power of dreaming to deceive Optimus Prime, then pierced his claws into it, hung himself there, then closed his eyes and fell into sleep.

He had been sleeping for an unknown amount of time when suddenly Yang Qi felt itchy all over his body. When he opened his eyes, he found a centipede with a faint blue light crawling on the tip of his nose, as if it was made of gems.

He casually rolled it up with his tail and stuffed it into his mouth. He suddenly felt that his teeth were almost broken. Its toughness was no less than that of Optimus Prime.

"There is such a hard centipede..." He used the power of dreams to deceive the centipede, making it crispy, chewing it in several bites, and swallowed it into his belly.

Then the cat's heart moved, and he felt a warm current in his belly rushing straight to the Tianling Cap. After circulating in the body for a few breaths, it disappeared.

"It contains such rich divine power..."

"……etc."

The white moon around Yang Qi burst out with intense light. He widened his eyes and looked around, filled with surprise.

If only this blue centipede contained divine power, it would be nothing.

He has an entire treasure house in the underworld, and he has no shortage of various things that can supplement his divine power.

Yang Qi was shocked: there were countless gaps, large and small, on the Optimus Pillar next to him!

The edges of those gaps were sharp, obviously bitten by some kind of creature!

"Oh my god!" Yang Qi stroked the gaps with his paws, "I used the power of dreams and tried my best to deceive Optimus Prime, so I could barely eat a few bites."

"Who on earth can bite Optimus Prime into this state?!"

Yang Qi thought in his mind, and then the white moon around him disappeared, the light dissipated, his figure gradually disappeared, and his spirit became hidden.

He waited patiently here, wondering who had such great power.

Waiting in the dark, it is easy to lose the concept of time. Yang Qi didn't know how long he had been waiting, but there was finally movement around him.

Pfft, pfft.

A hole suddenly opened in the surrounding soil, and then, a centipede with a faint blue light crawling out, the same as the one he ate just now.

It climbed directly onto Optimus Prime, opened its mouth, and bit Optimus Prime.

Puff, puff, countless holes were opened in the surrounding soil. In an instant, hundreds of thousands of blue centipedes crawled out of them. They all lay on the Optimus Prime, densely packed, biting the Optimus Prime.

For a moment, a faint blue light enveloped the abyss passage.

"Is that you?"

Yang Qi observed carefully, then shook his head, "It seems not."

He saw these blue centipedes, although they tried their best to bite the Optimus Pillar, they couldn't bite it at all. Where they had bitten, Optimus Prime was still smooth.

Just when Yang Qi felt strange, the group of blue centipedes suddenly stopped moving. They burrowed into the soil and disappeared.

Then, a huge red centipede broke through the soil and rushed out.

This centipede was almost as big as Yang Qi. Its whole body was red, as if it was burning, and ashes kept falling all over his body.

Then, it opened its mouth and bit the Optimus Prime with a click. Suddenly, Yang Qi felt that his teeth were sore, and then he opened his eyes wide.

The red centipede actually bit off a small piece of Optimus Prime!

It swallowed the pieces of Optimus Prime into its belly, and its belly bulged. Yang Qi could feel the divine power in the centipede's body expanding rapidly, boom! The whole body of the centipede began to burn, and soon, its tentacles and feet were all reduced to ashes.

The centipede howled mournfully as its whole body was engulfed in flames, completely burned to ashes.

Yang Qi discovered that countless tiny eggs were densely scattered among the ashes, and those eggs exuded a faint blue light!

Soon, the faint blue centipedes that had just disappeared crawled out of the soil again, and they frantically devoured the ashes burned by the red centipedes.

After the ashes were eaten, the centipedes began to kill each other.

Yang Qi discovered that some centipedes gradually grew larger and their entire bodies began to turn red.

Hundreds of thousands of centipedes killed each other in less than five minutes, and in the end there was only one left. Its body also changed to the size of a cat, and its whole body was red.

Pfft, pfft. The blue eggs left behind began to hatch, and then turned into small blue centipedes, burrowing into the soil.

"..." Yang Qi's heart moved. All this happened in less than ten minutes. He saw a cycle of life!

First there are countless small blue centipedes that eat the ashes of the red centipede and then kill each other to form a giant red centipede.

This red centipede can bite Optimus Prime, but it will not survive after eating Optimus Prime.

It leaves behind offspring, which hatch into little blue centipedes, and the cycle continues.

"It's really strange..." Yang Qi waited for a while and waited for a new cycle.

The moment the red centipede bit towards Optimus Prime, he took action, rolled up the centipede with his tail, then wrapped it with divine power and swallowed it into his belly.

Then the cat closed his eyes and carefully observed the red centipede with his divine power.

After a long time, the cat opened its eyes.

"I understand...why such a weak centipede can bite the Optimus Prime."

"This is the power of life...the divine power of life!"

"If these centipedes want to survive in such a harsh environment, their only resource is this Optimus Prime. They must use the power of Optimus Prime."

"Their desire for the continuation of the race and survival is so strong. That strong desire burns in their bodies, so that they can temporarily absorb the power of Optimus Prime."

"I……"

Yang Qi suddenly had a terrible idea.

He wanted to keep this kind of centipede inside his body.

This kind of centipede can bite off a piece of Optimus Prime, but they can't absorb much.

Yang Qi can raise many such centipedes in his body and let them eat Optimus Prime. They can only absorb part of it, and the rest belongs to themselves.

In other words, it is equivalent to exploiting these centipedes and taxing them.

"Do you want to do it?" Yang Qi felt his heart pounding.

"Let's do it... I have to rely on my own strength and use the power of dreams to deceive Optimus Prime. I don't know how much it will cost."

"Besides." Yang Qi suddenly curled his lips, "I won't eat in one place. I will eat a little here and a little there, and it will not threaten the entire Optimus Prime."

"If you are like you, just eat in one place, and over time, it is not impossible to collapse the Optimus Prime."

boom……

The divine light shines, seven white moons, seven black moons, seven shadow moons, a total of twenty-one divine moons, flying around the cat, and then the divine power of shadow appears.

The divine power of shadow turned into tiny threads, like tentacles, penetrating deep into the soil.

"Meow!"

The cat opened his third eye and mobilized the power of the eye. In an instant, the cat could clearly see all the soil within a hundred thousand miles.

Pfft, pfft, pfft.

Those shadow threads were gradually recovered from the soil, entangled with blue centipedes one after another, and landed in front of the cat.

The cat looked at the centipedes and said, "It seems that I have to transform into a dragon again as soon as possible."

"My stomach can't bear so many centipedes."

He opened his mouth and swallowed the centipede.