Falsifying history is good business

Chapter 167 The Olympus Trap

"Can you tell me now?" Deep in the temple, under the huge statue of Athena, Lin You urged the owner of the temple.

Athena did not answer, but threw Poseidon at the feet of the statue and asked a question in return: "How is Mount Olympus in the great world?"

"What do you think it should be like?" Lin You used his own method to fight back, also asking a rhetorical question instead of answering.

"Ares - I mean Ares from the big world." Athena seemed to be thinking and recalling. "He promised us that once we trap Zeus from the big world in this world, he can hold back the other gods in the big world and buy us some time."

"The only thing he didn't hold back was me." The writer was still fully armed at this time, and the golden armor on his body was only removed for politeness. "I don't know what Ares is going to do in the big world, but I really want to know what happened in this story world under my feet."

Athena's gaze shifted to Poseidon on the ground: "We...or rather my relatives, have managed to trap the gods from the big world."

“I don’t mean to offend, but it seems that you can’t do this.” Lin You was not trying to boost the morale of the Big World Mount Olympus, but a simple comparison would show that the strength of the two groups of Olympus gods in front of them was far apart.

"If it's just us, of course it won't work." Athena laughed at herself, "But we still have allies from the big world to help us, right?"

"Ares alone is not enough."

"I don't know. Maybe Ares has other allies in the big world."

Lin You didn't know what to do, so he had to go back to the original question: "How did you do it? The gods of the great world can't just sit there and surrender, right?"

"It's not easy." Athena finally began to answer the question directly. "This is the result of conspiracy and magic. We made the gods of the big world mistakenly believe that the process of the world's shattering has accelerated and that the world is about to fall apart; so they began to protect the world without hesitation."

"But they didn't know that before they arrived, the entire Mount Olympus had already been transformed into a huge magic circle; this magic circle was taught to us by Ares."

"The effect of this magic circle is not only to trap the main gods of the big world, but also to continuously extract their divine power to maintain this world."

Lin You frowned. Athena's words echoed the results of the writer's previous investigation; the huge resistance that hindered the quill pen's investigation should come from the so-called magic circle.

I just never expected that the native gods in the God of War world would be so generous and deliberate as to transform an entire holy mountain into a magic circle.

"The main god of the big world actually did not resist at all?" Lin You asked again.

"Of course they resisted, but they didn't dare to resist too violently."

"why?"

Athena sneered and said, "Because this world has been on the verge of collapse at any time; of course, this was also caused intentionally by my relatives. The result of doing this is that the guests of the big world will be cautious and dare not use their divine power to the fullest; because they are absolutely unwilling to die with this story world." "But you native gods are willing to do so?" Lin You was puzzled.

"He was simply blinded by profit." Athena said with a wry smile, "From a Zeus in a story world to a Zeus in a myth world; from an illusory shadow to a true King of Olympus. My father could not withstand this temptation."

"You really have a way to replace the gods of Olympus." Lin You suddenly realized, "When I mentioned this just now, Poseidon attacked me like crazy. It seems that I revealed his secret."

Athena smiled and said, "Replacement? That's an interesting way of saying it. In fact, it should be called 'deprivation and possession of godhood'."

"Did Ares also teach you this method of 'depriving and occupying the godhood'?" Lin You asked this, but he was already 70% sure in his heart.

It's just a game world. Even if there is a setting of depriving the divinity and replacing it, it can't affect the world of mythology, let alone the big world today.

"Actually, Ares didn't teach us; he just gave us a weapon," Athena said, "a weapon that can hurt the gods of the great world. As long as we 'kill' them, we can strip off their godhood and transfer it to others."

Lin You guessed, "And this weapon was given to Kratos, right? Using his destiny in this world is equivalent to gathering the will of the entire world to kill God. Otherwise, even with Ares' weapon, it would be difficult to 'kill' the main god of the big world."

Athena nodded slightly and said, "You are very smart and your guess is correct."

"It's not that I'm smart, it's just that I've been doing this job for a long time and I'm more familiar with concepts like how to use world will and worldview logic." The writer said modestly, "I guess Apollo, the sun god, has been 'killed' by Kratos?"

Athena shook her head. "I don't know. Before the plan started, I was trapped in Athens and couldn't go anywhere. But if Apollo was really 'killed', then the sun god of this world, my brother Apollo, would definitely stay at the scene for a long time. It is not an easy task to absorb and digest the godhood of a major world god."

"You reminded me." The writer changed the subject and said, "Why were you besieged by the God of War and Poseidon? Was it because you disagreed with their plan, or because of the uneven distribution of spoils?"

Such a ridiculously simple and somewhat offensive question actually made Athena think seriously for a long time; and the answer she gave in the end was even more surprising.

"Perhaps, it's both reasons!" Athena said, "Because I know my ending in the story. Not only will I live forever after death, but I will also be separated from the Olympian pantheon to a certain extent and become a unique existence. From the beginning, I had more choices than others. To some extent, this can be regarded as an uneven distribution of spoils!"

Lin You then concluded for Athena: "So you are not very enthusiastic about this plan to murder and replace the main god of the big world, and it has attracted the hostility of other gods?"

"Isn't this the consistent way of thinking of the Olympian gods? It's either this or that, either black or white." Athena laughed at herself, "As long as I am not completely on their side, it is equivalent to standing on the opposite side of them."

“Hehe… you’re right. This way of thinking has been around for a long time and has left endless harm.” Lin You was talking about more than just the gods on Mount Olympus.

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