Greek Mythology: The Spiritual Dominator

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The underworld, the field of truth.

A gray light flashed, the space trembled, and Hades staggered out of the void.

At this moment, his face was extremely tired, full of the look of surviving a disaster.

Just like when Typhon's plague just started, Helios in the sun was infected by the mother tree. As the interface closest to the abyss and Niflheim in terms of time and space, the underworld was directly affected by the mother tree. The erosion of power. Endless power surged in along the gaps in time and space from the beginning, bypassing the seal and assimilating everything around it.

Some small interfaces that were very close to each other were changed in nature almost instantly, and the underworld also encountered a catastrophe. Almost immediately, Hades chose to merge with the symbol of the priesthood to fight against this sudden disaster.

Pluto is naturally unable to fight against the mother tree, but fortunately, compared to Helios, who only occupies a smaller half of the power of the sun, the gods in charge of the underworld are united and are trying their best to block the erosion of the power of the mother tree. In addition, Hades as a whole is already larger than the sun, so Hades still managed to persist until the moment Typhon fell.

At this moment, although many tributaries of the River Styx have been silently changed, many places in the Hades divided by the River of Fire have been completely assimilated by foreign forces.

Feedback to the gods revealed that Hades's robes were missing a lot; a large number of traces of corruption appeared in the gray plains, and countless undead lives were polluted into monsters, but no matter what, the main body of Hades was intact after all. of.

So Hades, who had actually worked hard for many years in the chaos of time and space, could finally relax a little. He withdrew from the special state of being attached to Hades and let Persephone operate for him.

Since Typhon's death, the mother tree's erosion of the outside world has changed from the initial violent flow to an endless trickle, and the pressure on the underworld has also been greatly reduced. Even if the power of the Underworld Queen is not as strong as his, it can be replaced temporarily.

At this moment, Hades was extremely glad that he had found his own Queen of the Underworld as soon as possible, otherwise it would have been difficult for him alone.

"Outer God...what a terrible disaster."

"Even the ancient spiritual world and the realm of primitive gods have not escaped, with the exception of Tartarus - no, maybe this is just because the abyss does not have the power to extend outside."

Finally able to breathe, Hades looked at the vast gray plains, feeling heartbroken and a little horrified.

He had no time to count the specific losses in Hades, but just how terrible this sudden disaster was could be roughly judged by looking at the state of several primitive gods.

When the Typhon Rebellion broke out, day and night were still alternating, so the power of the Land of Eternal Night and the Lightless Realm was the same as before, surging or sinking like the ebb and flow of sea water. And these powers released from the realm collided with the power of the outer gods, and two terrifying existences were born.

[Ancient Evil Object·Crown of Silence] [Ancient Evil Object·Twisted Shadow], they descended on the land of the underworld as soon as they were born. One occupied a vast area and turned it into a restricted area, and the other crazily raged in the underworld, giving the original The interface, which is heavily influenced by alien gods, adds to the trauma.

As for the spirit world... the power of the mother tree also did not enter the spirit world, but one of the rivers of Styx, the [River of Oblivion] jointly controlled by the underworld and the spirit world, did not escape its poisonous hands.

Some tributaries were eroded, and a large number of souls that were contaminated by the power of evil but did not dissipate on the ground gathered there. They came together under the power of [Primordial Hate·Flemish Mother Tree], triggering some kind of qualitative change - sheer quantity could not have crossed this limit, and no matter how many souls of mortals would sublimate into gods, but now, Countless souls were unified and transformed into the [Ancient Evil Thousand-faced Soul Eater].

This last-born ancient evil thing almost perfectly embodies the chaotic and crazy side of the outer gods. 'Thousand Faces' is just a nickname. In fact, countless evil spirits are fighting each other in its body all the time, and the evil things are also killing each other all the time. He is always eager to devour the spiritual bodies of the outside world.

In its body, every evil spirit that reaches a certain level can be regarded as part of the will of the Thousand-Faced Soul Eater. Each spirit body also has its own will, so when it is reflected to the outside, no one knows about it. How will the whole thing react?

Now it is moving up the tributaries of the River Styx, trying to swallow more spirits. The undead on both sides have become part of it in the roaring evil spirits.

"Oh, that means Styx and Ming Yue have stabilized the situation, otherwise I'm afraid there will be two more big troubles."

Shaking his head slightly, Hades was still a little lucky.

Compared to the River of Oaths and even Hades, the Hades Moon was the focus of erosion by the Outer Gods during the entire turbulent process.

Just like He chose the sun on the earth, as the only light body underground, once the Hades Moon is affected by the Mother Tree, along with the moonlight shining through Hades, His power can spread throughout the entire interface, even around the world. Many small worlds are not immune.

In this case, Hades saw with his own eyes the blood mist lingering around Ziyue, as well as the scattered crystal leaves. Even at the most dangerous time, Pluto once noticed that part of the dark moon seemed to be briefly activated, and a black moon seemed to be separated from it, but then it was firmly locked in by a brass-colored ancient book. Under the moonlight.

As [Ancient Evils], just like the true gods, there are also differences between them. Hades can be sure that if the Dark Moon is really torn in half, the existence born from it will definitely be much more terrifying than the previous three.

"Your Majesty, the matter you ordered has been settled."

While thinking, at the edge of the Garden of Truth, a black shadow in armor came from a distance. Judging from the breath on him, it was a rare and powerful undead.

"Well done, Evans, where is the entrance?"

His face looked much better, and he finally heard good news. Hades looked at his temple that was destroyed again, and couldn't help but sigh at its many disasters.

"Your Majesty, in my perception, the most 'weak' entrance is close to the 'Silent Realm'. I sensed the connection but didn't dare to get close."

The undead warrior lowered his head slightly. The place he was talking about was where the ancient evil was born not long ago.

"There is nothing unusual there, but my intuition tells me that it is dangerous, Your Majesty."

"I understand, Evans. I was going to wait until the disaster was over before dealing with it last, after all, it doesn't look aggressive... Never mind, it's the same."

Hades had a headache after forcing himself to be alert, but he decisively changed his plan, after all, he knew what he was looking for.

Just like Zeus discovered Asgard in the belly of Mount Olympus, Hades, as the lord of the underworld and the king of the underworld with half the power, also noticed something strange with the return of the queen of the underworld, Persephone.

Helheim, the land of the dead in Scandinavian mythology, the domain of the death goddess Hela...Although Hades didn't know its name and past, it didn't prevent him from noticing the existence of this place and the strong breath of death contained in that interface.

But compared to Asgard, where the gods live, this country from the nine realms obviously has a different nature.

The gods of foreign lands can die, and there are precedents of their souls entering the Land of the Dead after the death of their bodies. Even the son of the god king Odin did not escape such a fate, but the gods of Chaos cannot die. This leads to the fact that even though Hades knows that such a place exists, he is still the rightful king of the underworld, but he can't enter here at all.

So in order to completely locate Helheim, Hades can only rely on his undead subordinates.

He tried his best to train them, and then let them sense the entrance to the Land of the Dead in different places in the underworld, but the power of mortals is ultimately not as good as that of the gods.

So until today, perhaps due to the disorder of the laws of the world, or perhaps because of the invasion of the flesh and blood mother tree, this series of changes caused the turbulence of time and space, which finally allowed the undead to lock the location of the Land of the Dead. Although Hades himself may still not be able to enter, at least he can try to send the undead in.

"Very good, you stay here, I'll go there to take a look, it's very likely that you will need to go there again later."

Waving his hand, Hades looked at the area where the ancient evil creatures were hovering.

It's better to be hasty than to be slow. No one knows why the [Ancient Evil · Silent Crown] chose that place as its own domain. Maybe it is also eroding that interface for the Outer Gods.

So Hades can't wait any longer. He wants to kill - at least seal, or expel that evil creature, and then build a city there. It would be best if the undead could explore there, if not...

"I heard that the goddess of the magic net had a power comparable to that of a true god before she obtained the priesthood... Maybe there will be a chance for such a powerful existence to be born in the world in the future?"

Thinking silently, Hades didn't care about it. Since he sent disasters, brought plagues, lies, and disputes to the world, he didn't care much about the beliefs of mortals, so he naturally didn't mind the birth of such a strong man among mortals. Even faintly, he still had some expectations.

Everything will die one day, and after death, it will naturally become a spirit.

"The outer gods that infect the worlds, the chaotic thoughts... are really the enemies of all intelligent life."

Hades flashed, resisting the urge to rest for a while and fled into the distance.

I don't know what the situation is on the ground now... But for Pluto, it is more important to solve his own troubles.

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"It is really an existence that erodes everything, the mother tree of flesh and blood, it seems that he wants to take everything under his control and make it a part of himself... a sinful thing."

In the starry sky, in the spiritual world corresponding to the zodiac star field, the goddess of starlight, Esther, looked at the distant sun through the barrier of time and space.

In the spiritual world, the reflection of the sun is more "real". The trees growing on the back are gurgling, and baby-like fruits are produced on the treetops. The old face is hidden under the flowing flames on the surface of the sun. The expression looks gentle and kind, but inside is pain and struggle.

It's like being tortured-Esther can understand the pain of the sun, but she can't do anything. Ryan was not in the spirit world, and Lyanna was still fighting and expelling the influence of the underworld, so naturally no one had the time to pay attention to the changes in the sun.

In fact, not to mention them, even Esther herself might not care much about the sun. It was just that the zodiac domains were the trajectory of the sun's movement. If it really became the fulcrum of the mother tree in the outside world and became a tool for it to infect the heavens, then the zodiac star field closest to it would inevitably not be spared. This core essence of the starry sky would become a restricted area from then on.

Esther didn't want to see this happen, but she was powerless. Even the [Sun Swallower] may not be able to cope with the sun's drastically changed condition at this moment. Frowning and thinking, the Starlight Goddess was a little at a loss as to what to do, until she spotted the stream of light flying from the earth with her peripheral vision.

"That's...Athena?"

Thinking of Ryan's words before leaving, Esther's eyes lit up slightly, and she thought of a solution to the problem.

Although this will result in no sun on the earth from now on...but that is something the God King should consider. What happens in the world has nothing to do with her.