The world-devouring dragon

"..."

In the middle of the noisy meeting hall, a tall man wearing a crown sat silently at the top, with many nobles sitting beside him who were talking about it.

They were debating how the two criminals should be sentenced.

Finally, when the voice died down, and with the unanimous advice of the nobles, the man wearing the crown raised his hand.

His lips moved slightly as he made his final verdict on his niece.

"exile."

…

Waking up from the nightmare again, the queen covered her head and sat on the bed, but this scene was still echoing in her mind.

After a long silence, she murmured.

"It wasn't supposed to be like this."

Alcmene, the queen, now lives in the city of Thebes.

But she was not the queen of Thebes. In fact, she should be the queen of Mycenae. The reason why I say this is theoretically because she was exiled from her own country.

Her father Electryon was the king of Mycenae, but in an accident, her husband Amphitryon accidentally killed his father. Later, it was her uncle Steneros who succeeded to the throne of Mecenae.

Because of his husband's sins, the new king sentenced the two to exile and never set foot in Messina again.

The ashamed Amphitryon took his wife to the city of his uncle Creon, king of Thebes, and settled there. So, a few years passed.

However, Amphitryon was not a mediocre person. This hospitable prince had great ambitions. He did not want to stay under his uncle and always tried to seize a piece of land of his own.

When a war broke out between Thebes and the Taphians, this brave man saw an opportunity and took the initiative to join the war.

The war lasted for a long time, and the women of Thebes were waiting for the return of their husbands, as was the queen who had no territory of her own.

She looks forward to her husband's return.

Although the king of Thebes did not treat his nephew badly and gave Alcmene a good life, after all, he was dependent on others and the feeling of living cautiously was not pleasant.

As usual, he was combing his long hair in front of the window, while looking out the window with a frown.

Many times, she would always imagine that her husband would suddenly come under her window and tell her that he was back. But such expectations always come to nothing from dawn to dusk.

"Amphitryon, my husband, when will you return?"

Close your eyes and pray silently in your heart.

"It seems like someone is calling my name."

At this moment, a joking voice sounded outside the window.

The beautiful woman looked up and was surprised to find a handsome man laughing and looking at her outside the window.

While the woman was reunited with her husband after a long separation, not far outside the city of Thebes, an army was returning.

The king, who was riding a tall horse and surrounded by people, stared at the looming city of Thebes on the horizon.

"Alcmene, I'm back."

This exiled prince, who experienced many legends in his life, finally seized his own piece of land in a foreign land and established his own country.

Right now, the only thing he has to do is share the joy of victory with his beloved wife.

However, if it is Amphitryon who is outside the city now, then who is the person in the city who is having fun with the queen.

…

Hades.

Hades, the master of the dead and the king of the underworld, looked at everything on the ground and the two stunned people in the city, the extremely angry king and the ashamed and angry queen, with indifferent expressions on their cold faces.

"Absurd farce."

Regarding this scene, Pluto gave an unceremonious comment.

He knew that his brother had always been ridiculous, but he didn't realize that it would be so ridiculous. The day before her husband came back, she transformed into someone else's husband and slept with his wife.

This kind of operation can only be described as... leaving him speechless.

But that was all, but according to his brother's instructions, he also had to help take care of the child conceived in that woman's belly.

In fact, not only Pluto, but also several secret gods, including the messenger god Hermes, also received orders from Zeus to take good care of the gestating fetus.

In this regard, even though he felt that his brother was doing something ridiculous again and causing such a farce, Pluto could only agree.

For the sake of the woman he loved, this god-king once made the earth rise into an island and made the sea give in. Everything was done according to his own temper. It was just a matter of letting a few gods take care of her until birth, but there was nothing special about it.

As for this child, Pluto only had a vague feeling... This child might not be ordinary.

"Another chosen heir? Zeus, what are you thinking about?"

Pluto held the scepter in his hand and turned it unconsciously.

But even Pluto did not realize that in addition to him and several gods, there was actually a force that was also eyeing the city of Thebes.

Under the underworld, close to the abyss, a city, or a civilization, has been established here for some time.

A half-human, half-snake civilization.

Nano City, the center of the snake-people civilization, will always be re-established no matter how many times it is destroyed.

These most loyal family members and heirs of the serpent were once again pulled back from destruction by Mona. She carefully taught these new snake people civilization and knowledge, teaching them various steam technologies.

For those obscure immortal technologies and the steam knowledge that built the brass giant, the wise men of the snake people civilization worked tirelessly to explore. The Father of Snakes may not necessarily care about these little bugs, even if they believe in him, but the little bugs always worship the Father of Snakes, regardless of whether it responds to them or not.

And at the very core of Nano City, there is Mona, the snake girl, sitting high in the palace.

The pale face of this god with the features of the dead stared down at the earth and at the weeping Alcmene.

The woman is not important, but the fetus in that woman's belly is important.

Mona knew this.

Although in her previous exploration of the future, due to the obstruction of the goddess of fate, she knew very little. But she already understood that this fetus must be very special, so special that it could make her feel uneasy, even frightened.

The daughter of snakes and the eternal queen of the snake-people civilization held her scepter tightly and knocked on the brass floor.

"Dong dong dong."

Not long after, many monsters surrounded the eternal queen. She looked around and pointed at one of the eagle-shaped monsters.

"You go and wait on that land for nine months. When the child of man and god is born, you snatch him away. Remember, don't be discovered by those gods."

The eagle-like monster owl screamed, made a strange cry, vibrated its wings, and flew to the earth.

…

And in the city of Thebes.

Whether it's crying, anger, yelling, things being broken, or even helpless acceptance, time is still moving towards nine months later.

The queen's belly was getting bigger and bigger, but this did not make Amphitryon happy, because he did not know whether the child was his own or the god disguised as himself.

In the end, Amphitryon, who was out of sight but out of mind, chose to go out to hunt in the city on the day of the birth and ignore the matter.

On the day of delivery, the queen gave birth to twins with great difficulty in severe pain.

"Wow……"

In the delivery room, the cry of the baby could be heard.

After giving birth, the exhausted queen looked at the twins she had given birth to. Both children looked quite similar. Just one was crying and crying loudly; while the other was very quiet, just sleeping.

"my child……"

Kissing the child and recalling the tragic experience of her life, the queen couldn't help but shed tears.

The gods who had been assigned to look after this place looked at each other. The child had been born, and their responsibilities had been fulfilled.

"Hermes, I'll leave it to you from now on."

Including Hades, the incarnations of several gods dispersed, leaving only Hermes alone.

Hermes, who was a tool man every day, sighed, but there was nothing he could do about it. Who made him known as the fastest among gods and humans was that he was born to run errands.

"But it turns out it's not one, but two."

Hermes looked at the twins thoughtfully. He originally thought he would only give birth to one child, but turned out to be two children?

But some intuition told him that only one of the two children was the child of man and god, while the other was the child of a mortal. But now that the child had just been born, his breath was so mixed that he couldn't tell the difference for the moment.

Looking at this and that, Hermes couldn't help but guess in his mind who was the son of Zeus and a mortal.

But even with this distraction, the opportunity has been seized.

"Violent!"

A huge eagle suddenly flew out from the shadows under the bed. While Hermes was staring at one of the children, the eagle suddenly grabbed the other child and flew out of the window with its wings.

All this happened so fast that even the mother of the child did not react. The newborn baby was snatched away by the eagle.

"No!"

The mother screamed and could only watch helplessly as the eagle snatched away her child.

However, just because mortals can't react doesn't mean that gods can't react either, especially the fastest god in the world.

"Huh? Comparing speed in front of me?"

Seeing that a monster dared to snatch the baby away right in front of his eyes, Hermes smiled with rare anger, turned into a ray of light and chased after him.