The Wizard’s Fairy Tale

In the age of the ancient gods, on the holy mountain Olympus, there lived twelve high gods.

They are Zeus, the king of the gods, Hera, the queen of heaven, Poseidon, the god of the sea, Demeter, the goddess of agriculture, Athena, the goddess of wisdom, Apollo, the god of light, Artemis, the goddess of hunting, and Ari, the god of war. Aphrodite, god of love, Hephaestus, god of fire, Hestia, goddess of hearth, and Hermes, god of gods.

However, due to some special reasons, Hestia, the goddess of the hearth, gave up her position as the main god to another god—the God of Dionysus!

The god of wine, Dionysus, was the god of wine believed by the public in ancient times. He not only held the intoxicating power of wine, but also gave joy and love. He became a very charismatic god at that time. Among his powers was Part of agriculture and culture, is a powerful deity, the only one of the twelve main gods whose mother is a mortal.

According to legend, Dionysus, the god of wine, was the son of Zeus, the king of the gods, and Semele, the princess of Thebes.

Zeus' wife, Queen Hera, was jealous and instigated Semele to ask Zeus to appear as a god. After being bewitched, Semele made this request to Zeus to verify his love for her.

Zeus couldn't resist Semele's request, so he had to show himself as a god.

But mortals should not look directly at God is not just lip service.

After seeing the real body of the god of thunder and weather, Semele triggered the thunder fire on the god of thunder and was burned alive.

Zeus only had time to rescue Semele's seriously wounded son.

In order to save the child, Zeus had to sew it on his thigh, replace the mother's body with his own blood and flesh essence of the god king, to support the child, and took it out until the full term.

Because Zeus walked like a lame when he was in Zeus' lap, he was named Dionysus, which means "the lame man".

Dionysus was appointed as the god of carnival by King Zeus when he was young, and Silenus, the half-man and half-goat forest god, was his counselor, who taught him and accompanied him on his travels.

He roamed around in his cart pulled by the beast Panther. He holds all the secrets of nature and the history of wine. Wherever He went, He taught how to grow grapes and make sweet wine.

Wherever He went, music, singing, and drinking followed.

His attendants, known as Dionysians, were also known for their rowdy and disorderly behavior. They laughed wildly, drank, danced and sang carelessly.

Among his female followers, the least rigid were the Dionysian priests. In the carnival atmosphere, they danced like drunk, and accompanied him all the time, from one kingdom to another. When they are insane or in a state of ecstasy, they use brutal violence and are known as madwomen of Maynard.

For those who refuse to believe in Dionysus, madwomen often punish them during Dionysus sacrifices. It is said that Pentheus, king of Thebes, did not respect Dionysus comrades, and even tied up Dionysus, the god of wine, and imprisoned him in prison. , also persecuted believers.

So during the Dionysus Sacrifice, Pentheus's mother Agaue personally took the lead and together with the crazy women tore Pentheus to pieces.

So were the daughters of Lycurgus, king of Thracia, and Mineas, son of the sea god. .

Legend has it that the famous singer Orpheus was also torn to pieces by crazy women because he did not toast the god of wine!

- "Dionysus and his madwoman"

In the Orgy Hotel of the Homeless.

Brightly lit, bright yellow light illuminates the entire room.

Dark-skinned men, women with rough palms, and skinny children in scanty clothes gathered around tables with short corners and short legs, reveling in carousing, drinking heavily, and eating meat.

No worries, no worries.

A group of people are drunk and dreamy, as if they are in heaven!

Garba, the eldest son of the gardener Hanlaine, who has the blood of an unknown wind deity, was attracted by the lively atmosphere of the hotel, and couldn't help walking into it, and under the welcome of everyone in the tavern,

It didn't take long to get into it.

He also drank heavily, ate the bloody beef that had been torn into strips on the table, and sang loudly with everyone in the tavern, and the atmosphere of joy spread far and far.

William frowned slightly, standing outside the tavern, watching the lively scene inside, an urge to actively join in emerged in his heart.

As soon as this impulse arose, William noticed something was wrong.

As soon as he stepped back, his body disappeared in place, and he teleported to appear above the tavern, looking at the tavern under the night sky from afar.

"It's not right, even me, a third-level wizard, has been affected."

"Mirror, mirror, check carefully to see what's going on in this hotel?" William ordered to the mirror.

"Yes, master!"

After a while, the voice of the magic mirror sounded in William's mind.

It said to William, "Master, we didn't find any extraordinary person or equipment in the whole tavern. All the participants are ordinary people, but the whole tavern seems to be shrouded by something special..."

"What?" William asked.

"It is currently impossible to find out." The magic mirror replied truthfully.

William was a little disappointed and became vigilant. The magic mirror could not detect the reason, and it almost affected him. Why not keep William on guard?

No wonder in the fairy tale, the gardener's eldest son and second son were introduced into this tavern, even forgetting their mission! William thought.

After thinking about it, he still felt that there was no need to venture into the tavern. Let's investigate the details of this tavern from other places first.

Anyway, he is not in a hurry to find the country that owns the golden horse now, so he just proceeds step by step.

Thinking of this, William's figure disappeared in midair.

The wind whimpered and whimpered.

Early the next morning, William, dressed as a traveling merchant, walked into this somewhat weird village.

He didn't go directly to the "Never Returning Carnival Hotel", because under the detection of the magic mirror, the carnival in the tavern was still going on.

They eat when they are hungry, drink when they are thirsty, sleep when they are sleepy, and continue to indulge in pleasures when they wake up, carefree.

William didn't think he could get any useful news from these drunken people, and maybe he would get himself involved instead.

What William did was to go to the fields in the village.

Along the way, many fields were left untended, and the fields were overgrown with weeds, which might have escaped the ears of wheat.

There are only a few scattered fields, and some people are plowing.

If you look carefully, the people in these fields are all old people who are doing farm work with difficulty.

William was stunned for a moment, but soon realized that most of the young men, women and children in the village were having fun in that hotel, and now there were only these old people in the village.

William looked around, found an old man who looked more honest, and walked towards him.

After coming to him, the old man also found William, looking at William vigilantly with cloudy eyes.

In this era, in a very closed small village, outsiders are not so welcome.

William smiled faintly, and the hint technique was cast without a sound. He said to the old man in a gentle tone, "Hi, old man, I am a small businessman from other places. They were all lost, and then I saw your village. I want to hire some hunters in the village who are familiar with the forest to go with me to the forest to retrieve my goods. I just turned around. Why didn’t I see the young people? Did they Did they all go hunting in the forest?"

"Ah, what a poor businessman! The Holy Light will bless you!" Under William's suggestion, the old man eliminated his sense of rejection towards William, a stranger, and said sympathetically to William.

"The Holy Light will protect you too, old man! By the way, why haven't you seen a single young man in the village?" William asked directly.

"Why didn't you see it? It's because you haven't been in the tavern in our village." The old man's eyes were full of bitterness.

"Oh, to tell you the truth, I have lost all my goods, I don't have a copper coin on me, and I don't have the courage to enter the tavern!" William "explained", paused, and then said in a surprised tone, " What's going on here? Is there any festival held in the village recently?"

The bitterness on the old man's face became stronger, "Even if it's a festival, it should be over after so long, but... hey!"

"Sir, you are so lucky that you didn't enter the tavern, otherwise, you wouldn't be able to get out!"

"I'm getting more and more confused. Old man, can you tell me what's going on?" William's eyes looked like a bottomless pool. When the old man looked at William's eyes, he lost everything. wary.

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He said, "Ah, of course I can tell you!"

"This matter has to start some time ago. One day, some strangers came to the village, and they were some strange women."

"The location of our village is quite special. It is the only way to enter and leave the king's city, so from time to time some strangers come to stay overnight, so these women come here. Although we feel a little strange that there are no men, we will not So surprised."

"After these women lived in the village for a few days, because they were roaming around in the village, they were generous and they were women, so they quickly established relationships with some men in the village."

"Then, this part of the men in the village heard these strange women say that they were about to leave. In order to thank them for the joy they had brought them these days, these strange women wanted to invite them to eat and drink in the tavern. , and they will be responsible for the expenses during the period.”

"These idiots love to take advantage of small things. By the Holy Light, there is no such good thing in the world!"

"It's just that these idiots believe it."

"One day, they went to the hotel together, drinking, eating meat, singing and dancing with those strange women until..."

"Until what?" William asked.

"Until now! They have been staying in that hotel. Their wives and children will go to them and they will be detained. Once they stay, they will join their team and cannot go back."

"And so are their friends."

"So, slowly, it became what you see now!" The old man looked desperate.

"Young man, listen to me, never go into that carnival hotel called No Return. If you can't find a place to stay, you can go to the hotel opposite."

"The owner of that hotel and the owner of the carnival hotel are enemies, so he never went into the other party's hotel, but escaped unharmed, and saw the whole story in his eyes, and passed on Come out and let those lucky ones like us know." The old man was caught by William's hinting technique, and at this moment he regarded William as a relative in his heart, so he was naturally very concerned.

"Oh, it looks like this." Originally, William wondered how an old man was so clear about this matter. It turned out that the "informant" was someone else.

"I see, old man, thank you!" William replied first, and then asked again, "Old man, I am also a curious person. I want to know now, are those strange women still in that hotel?"

Needless to say, those strange women must be the instigators of this incident.

If you find them, you may be able to find out the reason, why they did what they did.

"Hey! They're gone! The owner of the hotel opposite the No Return Hotel said, and he watched them laughing the most drunkenly."

"Why didn't you stop it?" William asked. He didn't know he had said the wrong thing until he said it. How dare an ordinary person do such a thing?

So William changed his tune, "Why didn't you report it to the Holy See of the Holy Light?"

"Hey!" The old man sighed again, and said in a bitter tone, "Of course we want to, but there are not many young people in the village, who will report to the servants of the Lord of Light?"

"Even if the report goes up, the gentlemen of the Holy Light's Church are so busy on weekdays, will they really come?"

The old man really took his heart out and told William everything that should be said and should not be said.

"Of course, this is not a problem. In fact, what we are most worried about is whether the masters of the Holy Light's Court will directly say that the villagers in the tavern are devils, and directly burn them to death. What about it?" the old man said anxiously.

This is the aftereffect of the dark violence promoted by the Inquisition of the Holy Light, which injures people at every turn and burns the stake.

"Hey, anyway, the people in the tavern haven't taken any drastic actions right now, so just... just watch it first. Maybe it will get better soon!"

The old man sighed again and again, and said.

"Young man, I have told you all the secrets of the village, you must not speak out casually." At this time, the old man felt a little remorseful, how could he have accidentally revealed the secrets of the village to a A stranger who just met a stranger!

"Don't worry, I won't say anything. Thank you, old man." William said reassuringly.