[Greek Mythology] The weakest goddess will never be a slave!

The young Hercules killed his music teacher Reinos by a momentary mistake.

Renos was not only a musician of great prestige, he was also the bloodline of the sun god Apollo, and his death undoubtedly caused an uproar in the city of Thebai. Apollo was also furious at the death of his own demigod bloodline, and ordered the priests in the temple to issue an oracle that King Amphitryon must judge Heracles for his crimes.

An imperceptible pleasure flashed in the depths of Amphitlion's eyes, but with a look of pain and helplessness on his face, he nodded and agreed to the priest's request.

King of the gods, you see, it is not that I did not do what you commanded, but that Apollo, who is also the Lord God, issued an oracle, and I am really embarrassed.

Soon, the trial of the law presided over by Heracles' adoptive father, the king of Thebae, and Amphitryon sat on the highest seat of the judgment seat with his queen Alcomene and his eldest son Eurystheus, surrounded by the princes and nobles of Thebae, and below them was Hercules bound in chains.

In fact, these chains were no different from small hemp ropes for the powerful Hercules, but the demigod bloodline knew that he was really in trouble this time, so he silently let them bind themselves to the court.

People looked at the judged Heracles, a boy who was now only thirteen or fourteen years old, but already taller than the average adult, his strong physique, his blue eyes revealing stubbornness and sadness, and the trial of the court was about to begin, and this trial was also watched by the gods.

On the sacred and beautiful Mount Olympus, the king of the gods sat on his throne, looking at this judgment of his bloodline with gloomy eyes, with obvious displeasure on his face, and opposite him, sat the sun god Apollo, who also had a cold face.

"Apollo, a demigod bloodline with thin divine nature, also deserves your demigod brother to be judged by mortals?"

"Reinos is also my divine son anyway, and besides, he is also the teacher of Hercules, and he is not grateful to Renos for teaching him the knowledge of music and singing, and he also killed him, which is a violation of the law." Even if he has the blood of a god and now belongs to the human being, do not forget that the law of the world was established by you yourself, the goddess of justice and law. "

Although Renos has a thin divine blood, his musical talent is still very appreciated by Apollo, the father god, Reinos could have enjoyed his old age and died naturally with glory and happiness, but he killed Hercules halfway, leaving Reinos to die on the spot.

Being smashed to death by a child with a harp was too ugly, which caused Apollo's anger.

"Zeus, in order to ensure the fairness of this trial, I have specially asked the goddess Themis to preside over herself, and let the goddess judge Hercules not guilty. With

Apollo's words, mortal judgment officially began, and above the court, the statue of Themis, the goddess of justice and law, shone faintly, and the scales in her hand swayed up and down, swaying back and forth between good and evil, guilty and innocent.

Amphitryon and the people of the mortal world naturally also saw the miracles manifested by the goddess, and they praised the majesty and justice of the goddess, and then Amphitryon explained the events clearly in a voice of sorrow and regret, and according to the law, Hercules would have the right to justify his actions, and if his justification was legitimate and justified, and could be approved by Themis, then he would be acquitted, otherwise he would be judged for the crime and severely punished.

At this time, Zeus, the god king of Mount Olympus, glanced at Hermes, who was standing beside him, holding a double snake staff. The messenger of the gods, who had served the god-king for many years, naturally understood what Zeus meant.

Hermes sighed secretly, and now he was going to apologize to Apollo afterwards, and you father and son quarreled, what did you do by pulling me into the water.

Although he couldn't help but complain in his heart, Hermes did not dare to slacken, his double snake staff flashed a faint imperceptible light, and the eloquent godhead in his body shone, temporarily giving Hercules the agile and cunning mind of the world, as well as eloquent eloquence.

And Hercules in the courtroom suddenly lifted his spirits, he felt that his thinking became clearer than ever, the young demigod looked at the stone statue of the goddess of justice in the courtroom, his eyes showed a touch of determination.

"Themis, the goddess of majesty and justice, I, Hercules, am willing to accept a fair trial, and it is a fact that my teacher Renos was indeed smashed to death by the harp I threw out. Hercules paused, then looked at the people in the courtroom and continued, "But gentlemen, when you attack the male lion with your spear, do you expect the male lion to kneel and beg for mercy, let it abandon its claws and teeth, and walk into a cage made of steel?

"I am the prince of Thebai, the blood of God, I respect my teacher, but my teacher does not respect me, he distorts my behavior, changes my nature, and tries to domesticate a male lion into a cute and docile house cat. It wasn't the first time he had scolded me, he knew that his behavior was unreasonable, but he still didn't change his whipping and abuse at me, so I fought back, anger made me forget to control my natural power, what I thought was a light blow, but took the teacher's life.

Hercules looked at the statue of the goddess of justice again with blue eyes, and under the gaze of the other party, said resolutely: "I am sorry for my actions, but I do not regret it." For it is my righteous and reasonable deeds after being persecuted by the other party, and if I are to be convicted and take my life for this, then the law should also state that all oppressed people shall not resist, and when they are oppressed, they should be slaughtered like meek lambs. With

the help of eloquent power, Hercules' argument was loud and reasonable, and above the court, the Libra in the hand of Themis, the goddess of justice and law, emitted a burst of light, absorbing Heracles' defense, and after a fluctuation between the ends of the scale, Libra finally lowered the final judgment.

"Heracles' self-defense and counterattack are just and reasonable, and he will be exempt from the punishment of killing others, but the mistakes Renos made are not enough to pay for his life. Therefore, Hercules still has to pay the price, and you will be banished from the palace of Thebai and go to the mountains of Kateron to graze for King Amphitryon until adulthood, atonement for your sins, and then return to your kingdom.

Themis pronounced the verdict according to the instructions of the righteous scales, and her voice did not rise or fall, without any personal emotion, and spread to every corner of the courtroom, and the people in the courtroom also confirmed that Heracles' actions were overdefensive.

Apollo on the sacred mountain turned livid, he glared at Hermes fiercely, stood up and left angrily.

Although Amphiterion hated that his scheme had failed to sentence Hercules to a harsher punishment, it was a good thing to be able to drive him out of the palace and not hinder his eyes.

The king himself sent Heracles out of the city gates, pretended to be reluctant to give Hercules a few words, and returned to the palace without looking back.

Hercules drove the cattle to Mount Katyron to graze according to the oracle, but as he passed a forest, a middle-aged man came out from behind the tree, a tall, white-dressed Heaton with a cane carved with a giant serpent.

He was Asclepius, who had been instructed by the father god Apollo to avenge his half-brother.

Asclepius is another demigod of Apollo on earth, and the birth of this son is also quite bloody, precisely because of the curse that the full moon goddess Selene inflicted on Apollo.

Asclepius' mother was the princess of Thessalis Kolonis, the most beautiful woman in all of Thessalis, and therefore also favored by the handsome sun god Apollo and fell in love with him.

But compared to other women who are easy to fall into the quagmire of love, this princess is a rare sobriety in the world, she clearly knows that she is only a mortal after all, youth will soon die, it is impossible to stay with the sun god for life, once her face is old, she will definitely be abandoned.

So when Apollo returned to the celestial realm, the pregnant Kolonis did not keep the festival for the sun god, she turned her head and fell in love with another human handsome, Jeskus, and had reached the point of talking about marriage.

However, all this was seen by Robb, the holy bird of Apollo, and after discovering the infidelity of Apollo's lover, this snow-white holy bird hurriedly flapped its wings and flew towards the sacred mountain, reporting the incident to its master, hoping to receive a reward from Apollo.

Kolonis obviously underestimated the domineering and crazy of a god, and after hearing that Kolonis had found a new partner in the world, Apollo's heart was mixed, and the young and beautiful Kolonis still had his love, and he really couldn't bear her infidelity.

The angry sun god appeared in front of Kolonis, bending his bow at his former beloved, he asked Kolonis why he betrayed him, he expected Kolonis's confession, if she could relent to him or say a word of pleading, then Apollo would put down his bow and arrow to calm his anger.

But Kolonis was surprisingly calm, like a pool of stagnant water, without the slightest hint of remorse or pleading. This undoubtedly made the sun god lose his mind, and a jealous golden arrow flew out from the trembling bowstring and penetrated the poor girl's chest.

After the death of his former lover, Apollo, who had come to his senses, regretted it, he held Kolonis's gradually cold corpse and cried, endured the grief in his heart and took out his own divine son, Asclepius, from her belly.

Apollo hated his holy bird for this, because it was he who told him this unseemly thing that caused this tragedy, so he cursed it, punished it for not being able to speak again, but making ugly calls, and its feathers became dark, and later generations called the bird a crow.

Asclepius inherited Apollo's divine bloodline and medical talent, and under the guidance of the wise horseman Charon, became a demigod hero with superb medical skills, and Apollo sent blessings to him to master a lot of medical divine arts, intending to let him take over his medical priesthood in the future.

Having said that, Asclepius received instructions from the Father and stood in the way of Hercules.

"In front of me, but the exiled prince of Thebai, Heracles?"

Hercules looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, and after seeing his face that was five points similar to his former teacher Renos, his body froze, and his heart secretly became wary.

"

Heracles, I am the brother of Renos the innocent, whom you killed, and now I have come to avenge him." After

saying that, Asclepius raised the scepter of the giant snake in his hand, the medical poison is not divided, Asclepius as a demigod with superb medical skills, his poison achievements are naturally not low, the giant snake on the scepter suddenly came to life, opened his mouth and roared towards Hercules, and a green venom sprayed out.

This poison that exerted divine power was not something that Hercules could avoid at this time, and the moment the venom touched his skin, Hercules immediately turned blue and fell to the ground, his body constantly convulsing, as if he was experiencing great pain.

Asclepius quickly turned away after doing all this, but what he did had already been seen by the king of the gods, and the angry god king raised his hand to summon a thunderbolt, which suddenly split Asclepius into a piece of char.

"Zeus, you are too much!" Feeling

the death of the Son of God, the figure of Apollo appeared on the earth, and he looked at Asclepius, who had become charred, and was angry.

"Heracles' crimes have been tried, and your son of God dares to try to kill him, which is undoubtedly provoking my majesty, what is wrong with me punishing him?" The figure of the king of the gods appeared in the sky, looking at Apollo below and said lightly.

"Oh, take a closer look, is Hercules' life really in danger?" said Apollo with a sneer when he heard this.

When Zeus heard this, he quickly looked in the direction of Hercules, and saw that his demigod bloodline was lying on the ground at this time, his expression was painful, but his vitality did not seem to show signs of exhaustion.

"If you hadn't let Hermes use his eloquent powers to help Heracles, how could his punishment be a joke herding? "Apollo, as the son of Leto, the goddess of the night, is not difficult to enter the underworld.

"You!" Zeus was a little angry for a while, and at the same time a little weak-hearted, and blamed him for making a move in a moment, and did not investigate Hercules' situation first.

"Apollo, for the death of Asclepius, I will give you a few stars as compensation, this matter ends here, what do you think?" The god king Zeus relented, Apollo is one of the twelve main gods, and also the leader of the light god lineage, and the stability of his divine mountain rule still needs the assistance of this god son, and it is not good for him to make too much trouble.

After a moment of silence, Apollo nodded and agreed to Zeus's proposal. Seeing Apollo's softening attitude, Zeus breathed a sigh of relief, raised his hand and divided several stars among Apollo, and then rolled up a gust of wind, swept Heracles and the herd away, and left the land of right and wrong.

"My dear brother Apollo, seeing your brow furrowed, it really cuts my heart. Just

after Zeus had left, the voice of Hermes, the messenger of the gods, sounded at Apollo's side, and the young god in a winged helmet came out from behind the tree and approached his brother with an apologetic and slightly flattering smile on his face.

"Humph, Hermes, why don't you follow the king of the gods who dotes on you, and come to me?" Apollo was clearly still worried about Hermes helping Heracles.

"Hehe, dear brother, you also know that I can't do that, who can withstand the wrath of the king of gods? Besides, I will never forget that your first group of sacred cows was given to me by you.

Hermes continued with an affectionate smile as if he did not see Apollo's coldness and alienation.

Listening to Hermes talk about the brothers' past, Apollo's face softened slightly.

"Dear brother, in order to make reparation for your sins and to stop you from frowning, I, who learned of the death of your Son of God, paid a great price and asked the mistress of Samos for a gift to let your Son set foot on the earth again!" said Hermes, turning to another oak tree by the road, "Please come out, Goddess Elpis." The

black-haired goddess holding the gold box walked out from behind the tree with a faint smile on her face, and she slowly walked into the two male goddesses and glanced at Hermes faintly.

How come I don't know what price you paid?

But the matter is important, since Hermes has asked for his head, Herb is naturally willing to give this ally a little face.

"Apollo, the glorious god of the sun, I am the goddess of Heber, Elpis, the goddess of prayer and hope, who came at the command of the Lord God to perform the miracle of Asclepius' resurrection. "

Hmm?" Apollo stared at the goddess in front of him, although his appearance was different, the other party's purple-gold eyes inexplicably made him feel a little familiar, "How do I not know when that goddess received a new god?"

"Ahaha, Apollo, the most important thing now is to resurrect your Son of God, and my instinct as an undead guide cannot be suppressed after a long time. Hermes hurriedly came out and said haha.

“...... All right. When Apollo heard this, he put the body of Asclepius on the ground, and then looked at the goddess named Elpius.

The goddess walked into the charred corpse with a faint smell of flesh, frowned, and there was a pity in her eyes, poor child, meeting such an unfortunate father god, let him offend the king of the gods who will be rewarded.

"The resurrection requires the power of the same origin, and please ask His Highness Apollo to give me some medicinal power." "Asclepius inherited the talent of medicine, and the divine power in his body naturally carried this attribute.

"No need, just use this godhead. "A godhead appeared in Apollo's hand, crystal clear, exuding a tranquil healing power, which is the godhead of medicine, out of guilt for his own godhead, Apollo decided to give him the godhead directly, using the power of resurrection to transform him into a godhead.

Boom! That's a big shot.

Herb took the medicine godhead, opened the golden box in his arms, and poured out a golden-blue divine power towards Asclepius.

The scorched black corpse trembled, and the resurrected power rekindled the vitality of this body, and the goddess took advantage of this opportunity to press the godhead in her hand.

The crisp sound of clicking sounded, and the scorched black cocoon-like corpse suddenly emitted a burst of divine light, cracking a gap in the middle, and two gods emerged from it.

Asclepius, the god of medicine with a snake staff, and Epione, the goddess of comfort who accompanied him, were born husband and wife, with husbands healing diseases and wives soothing their pains.

"Thank you for your gift, my Father. Asclepius thanked Apollo with his arms around his wife.

“...... It is also because of me that you suffered this calamity, and the medical priesthood was originally intended to be reserved for you, and these stars were also given to you, take your wife to perform the priesthood well, your achievements do not stop there.

Apollo waved his hand, and a little starlight fell on Asclepius, who once again expressed his gratitude to his father, took his wife to the sky, and became the constellation of Ophiuchus.