Big octopus in the deep sea: I can evolve infinitely

Chapter 98
In the rolling mountains, in the depths of the mountains covered by bushes and swamps, a group of men and women wearing animal skins held hands and knelt around the lit bonfire, reciting prayers, in front of them, a big head The bull let out a 'moo' sound uneasily, trying to get away from the fire, away from this place where it felt dangerous, but the slender thread like a spider's silk held it firmly, no matter how hard it tried There is no way to break free from the shackles of these filaments.

After a while, a kneeling woman stood up, then took out a sharp bone blade and walked towards the big bull.

"Moo~"

Sensing the danger approaching, the bull struggled harder and made a threatening sound, but the woman ignored the bull's movements and threats, walked slowly to the bull, and stretched out her hand to stroke the big bull's lower abdomen Standing up, and with her stroking, a long wound was cut on the smooth and shiny belly of the bull, and the bright red blood flowed down from the wound, completely dyeing the woman's hand red, and then, the bull fell heavily on the ground.

Seeing this scene, the voices of men and women kneeling on the ground became louder and louder.

"The invisible world hidden in the visible world, the invisible world born with the manifest world, your humblest servants offer sacrifices to you..."

Will this sacrifice be a success?

This woman, the witch of the clan, looked at the flames in front of her and the god statues made of random piles of stones behind the flames, her pupils were uncertain.

The reason why she sacrificed to the nameless god was completely forced and helpless.

It is also a life created by the gods. When the human beings outside the mountains have begun to arm themselves with steel and gradually established a unified empire, they, the mountain people living in the mountains, are still wrapping their bodies in the fur of wild animals. Still using the outdated bronze weapons sent in by merchants outside the mountain.

What's more, monsters are rampant in the mountains. In order to resist these monsters, they offer sacrifices to powerful monsters in the form of sacrifices, seeking the protection of powerful monsters.

Some of these sacrifices are prey hunted, some are shiny things found from other places, and sometimes, they even offer their own kind.

Relying on this method, they have spent decades here safely.

But this method has recently begun to fail. The reason is that the monster who sheltered them has a growing appetite and is more and more satisfied, even to the point where the entire tribe can't satisfy the monster.

In order to prevent the entire clan from being devoured by the monster that he has enshrined for decades, the clan leaders and warriors are determined to kill the monster. However, although the clan leaders and warriors are brave, they are only human beings, not a hybrid of humans and gods. A hero who wants to kill monsters with a mortal body is undoubtedly a wolf in the mouth of a lion.

In order to strengthen their strength and increase their hope of winning, the witches set their sights on the sacrificial ceremony of the unnamed sect that was popular for a while.

According to the texts recorded by the ancestors, this ceremony is to offer sacrifices to another master who is located in another hidden world that is parallel to this world, not interwoven, and cannot be seen and heard, a god without a name. He obtained knowledge and power from him, but it was clearly written on the parchment that after using this ceremony, those who gained power from the sacrifice would suffer unspeakable bad luck. the curse of sacrifice.

For this reason, the ancestors who recorded the ceremony on the parchment solemnly wrote a warning on it, warning the latecomers that the ceremony must not be used until the time of life and death.

It's just that it's here now.

The witch looked at the burning bonfire in front of her, and waited slowly.

hum-

A faint mist suddenly diffused, covering everyone in it. A vaguely blurred world was outlined in the mist.

"The ceremony was successful..."

Just as the witch was about to say this sentence, she shut her mouth, because someone said it faster than her.

Who.

The witch turned her head, only to see a tall figure in gorgeous clothes standing behind her at some point, with a power in her body that seemed to make her feel like she was about to be torn apart at a glance, but her face was extremely pale, her cheeks A man with beads of sweat remaining on his forehead.

And the moment she saw this man, countless memories emerged in the witch's mind.

In these memories, this foreigner whose name she didn't know was always there, he was there when the monster guarding the clan asked them to offer an impossible sacrifice, he was there when their clan was discussing, she found the sheepskin He was there when the scroll was rolled, and when the sacrifice was made, he also stood in the crowd and watched.

But whether it was she, the leader of the clan, the warriors, or others, they all ignored him inexplicably, and ignored this foreigner that he had never seen before.

Watching this man, the witch suddenly felt chills all over her body.

Dense beads of sweat dripped from her head.

The man who was regarded by the witch as an outsider, that is, Zeus, noticed that the witch was looking at him, but he ignored the witch, and stared at the fog in front of him with a pair of divine eyes.

At the beginning, he was worried that the wreckage of this different universe would absorb too much power in this universe and then recover, bringing huge changes to the world and becoming an unstable factor, so he demolished the bridge after crossing the river.

——He asked his own daughter, the Three Fates, to cut off the lifelines of all those who used this ritual to make sacrifices to the 'wreckage of another universe'.

And all the sacrificers who had their lifelines cut off encountered all kinds of strange disasters and then died.

As a result, this unnamed sect, which had spread throughout the entire human population in a very short period of time, declined at a rate a few minutes faster than its rise, and quickly disappeared.

After confirming that the Unnamed Sect had no remnants of death, he naturally focused on other things. For him, this matter was just something that he could remember a little bit in his infinite time, but …When He could no longer bear the torment of his own child in his head, He took the initiative to repair the bridge that was torn down.

For a god-king with a strong mind, no pain can knock him down, but he can endure any pain, but he cannot bear the pain with no end in sight and no end.

However, as a king of gods, as the highest person in the entire universe, even if he wants to ask for another existence, he can never sacrifice to any existence. Therefore, he came to this deep mountain and manipulated the monsters guarding this tribe to offer sacrifices to this existence. Only the clan put forward their difficult requirements, and then tricked the people of this clan to sacrifice to the unknown god, attracting the wreckage of another universe.

The mist that wrapped Zeus in seemed to sense the presence of Zeus. The dense fog rolled over slightly, and then sent a message, but it was not sent to Zeus, but to the sacrificer, that is, the witch.

Seeing this scene, Zeus took the initiative to say, "The wreckage of another universe after it was destroyed, or the unnamed god, I came to you in the hope of reaching a deal with you."

After His voice spread, the dense fog remained silent. Seeing this scene, Zeus continued to speak, "I promise you, as long as you can solve my problem, I will never stop you from this universe. what you get from it.”

"Even if."

Looking at the still unresponsive fog, Zeus took out his biggest weight in a cold voice, "What you want is the entire universe."

boom.

With the opening of Zeus, thunder appeared between the heaven and the earth, and the four basic components of the world, the earth, the sea, the sky, and the underworld, began to vibrate. Ripples appeared in the inextricable darkness.

The entire universe, those ancient gods, have witnessed the oath of the ruler of the universe.

And as Zeus swore the oath, the dense fog suddenly rolled up, and strands of information were transmitted from it and penetrated into Zeus's brain.

And Zeus, who got the information, looked at the thick fog in front of him with dim eyes, and asked again, "Is this really possible?"

The fog billowed, but the answer he gave was that he didn't know.

do not know……

Zeus' eyes flickered.

He looked at the thick fog, turned around and left the mountain, and returned to the holy mountain of Olympus. After he left, the dense fog began to slowly dissipate, slowly revealing a huge monster behind the thick fog.

……

On the holy mountain of Olympus, the gods who were busy with their own affairs suddenly saw their god king coming back from the outside, and they all looked surprised. When did he leave the temple to go outside?But the surprise is the surprise. After seeing that the god king was safe and sound, all the gods on the holy mountain were still relieved.

Especially Hera, after Zeus came back, he immediately walked out of the temple and greeted him,
"You're back... are you all right?"

Hera didn't ask what happened, why Zeus swallowed Metis, the goddess of primitive wisdom, and didn't ask why her husband kept him locked in the temple, and why he left suddenly. He only asked her husband, but It's okay.

For Him, it was as long as his husband was fine, and nothing else mattered.

However, for Hera's inquiry, Zeus was only silent for a moment before asking about something unrelated to this matter, "Where is Hephaestus? Call him here."

Hearing this, Hera immediately asked her child Hephaestus to be called over.

Soon, Hephaestus, the god of fire and craftsman who was the best at making weapons in the holy mountain of Olympus, walked in with more than one-third of the weapons of the gods.

"Hephaestus, my child, I want you to do one thing for me."

"Father, you said, no matter what you want me to do, even if it means my life, I will agree."

Hephaestus immediately became excited when he heard Zeus say 'my child'.

And the reason why he was excited because of this was entirely because of his life experience.

Humans on the earth only know that he is the son of the god king Zeus and the queen Hera, but because of his ugly appearance, Hera threw him under Mount Olympus, and he tossed in the air for a day and landed in Lemnos On the island, he has been crippled since then. Fortunately, he was picked up and adopted by the goddess of the ocean, Tethys. God of craftsmen.

However, those mortals didn't think about how he, who was born as a god, could become crippled because he fell from the sky to the ground.

The truth of the matter is that he is not the child of Zeus and Hera. To be precise, he is the child of Hera, but not the child of Zeus.

The reason is that his mother, Hera, gave birth to a lot of illegitimate children because of Zeus' promiscuity on the earth. She was so angry that she asked Zeus to reason, but was pushed away by Zeus, and was told, "I have already shared the theocratic power with you." You, why are you so greedy, a woman? 'Irritated almost to the point of madness, in order to retaliate against Zeus, he decided to have a child with someone else, and put a cuckold on Zeus, so that he could also experience his feelings when he saw his illegitimate children.

But as the protector of family and marriage, and as a woman who loves Zeus deeply, Hera didn't actually do it even though she had such an idea. He chose a compromise method.

——He conceived a child by himself, and disguised the child as a child born to him and an adulterer, intending to anger Zeus.

But as time went by, as the child in his belly grew bigger, Hera hesitated instead. It is true that cuckolding Zeus was revenge on Zeus, but Zeus's own child's fate in his rage may be It wouldn't be too good, but when he was hesitating, Zeus came back from the outside. In desperation, Hera directly gave birth to Hephaestus and threw it into the sea, asking the sea goddess Tethys to help Raise the child yourself.

Because he was forcibly born by his mother before he was fully conceived, even though Hephaestus was born a god, he was lame, and his appearance was extremely ugly, which was completely different from the gods who were born beautiful.

Born as a 'heterogeneous' and despised by the gods, he hated his mother deeply when he was a teenager.

He created a Throne of Hephaestus with powerful binding power, and dedicated it to his mother Hera, and then activated the power of the Throne of Hephaestus when Hera sat on it, His mother was imprisoned on the throne, but instead of blaming him afterwards, her mother told Zeus the whole thing, and asked Zeus to give him the identity of the twelve main gods of Olympus. Neither Hebe nor Hebe ever received the honor.

Afterwards, she forcibly matched the most beautiful goddess in the entire universe, Aphrodite, the god of love and beauty, with the order of the Queen of Heaven.

But despite having such an honor, he has always had a heart problem, that is, his father Zeus never called him a child.

Maybe in Zeus' heart, he, the child conceived by Hera, is not actually his seed?
Therefore, when Zeus shouted the phrase 'my child', he would be ecstatic.

"I don't want your life, I want you to find the sharpest weapon in your hand, and then split my head off."

Zeus looked at his special child and said indifferently.

He turned to the 'destroyed wreck of the universe' for a solution to his unending torment, and the wreck told him to just split his head.

Splitting his head... He wasn't worried that he would be chopped to death, but he was worried that his child, the God of Opportunity and Creation chosen by fate, Boros would run out of his head.

However, between facing the pain that he has tasted for decades with no end in sight, and possibly solving the headache, or possibly releasing Boros, He chose the latter.

Hephaestus froze for a moment, looked at his father blankly, and after confirming the request again, he took out a sharp ax and raised it up.

The extremely sharp side of the ax reflected a cold light under the sunlight, even though it hadn't fallen yet, it gave the people under him the illusion that they were about to be split open.

However, Zeus just looked at the ax that was about to fall indifferently, and his spirit was tense to the extreme.

The light of the ax flickered, and the ax fell.

The ax, which is regarded as the sharpest weapon by the god of fire and craftsmen, did not disappoint Hephaestus' approval at all. As soon as it fell, it split Zeus' head.

Countless divine blood flowed from the wound where the armor was split, and Zeus's blood-stained eyes stared at his head, staring at who jumped out of it, the god of opportunity and creation Poros, or Metis, the primordial goddess of wisdom, or the two gods together?
Under Zeus's cold gaze, a graceful and strong goddess jumped out of Zeus's armored head. The color is still the color of the armor itself.

Zeus looked at the goddess but heaved a sigh of relief.

Not Boros, god of chance and creation...

(End of this chapter)