Feeling the light and heat coming from the arrow he shot, Hercules closed his eyes.
He noticed the change in the way Jason looked at him after he shot the arrow.
It was not a look that was looking at the friend who had sailed and adventured with him again, but a look that was looking at something strange - looking at the gods with awe.
Feel respect for its power and fear for its impermanence.
Pure hero?
Perhaps Heracles, who started out as Archer, was indeed the pure hero who escaped Hera's curse of madness.
But it is obvious that based on his spiritual power alone, the current Hercules cannot even be considered a hero.
Now Hercules is a god, a "god" who lost all his "human" weakness in the flames, and a Hercules raised into the sky by the gods.
————————Hercules did betray his best friend Jason and many of the heroes on board the Argonauts.
There is no doubt about this.
Although he felt sad, Hercules did not regret it.
Even if he were given another choice, Hercules, who had engraved all the truth into his eyes that day, would choose to slaughter those heroes and concentrate their treasures and power in his own hands.
Even if he uses his power (Reincarnation Pandora) to take something by force, Heracles will not hesitate.
If you want to ask why————————
This is the only way for this twisted world to survive.
Even if Jason, his companions, and other heroes did not understand him, Hercules decided to carry everything on his shoulders.
Time still needs to go back to the heroes on the Argonaut ship to search for the Holy Grail and try to correct the distorted human nature.
Since then, Hercules has begun to encounter various monsters.
It was as if monsters throughout Greek mythology had chosen to become their enemies.
If it were an ordinary heroic spirit, even if it killed one monster, it wouldn't be able to face so many enemies.
Not to mention that in the end, even the monsters from the ancient country in the south that could only be reached after crossing the sea stopped in front of him and others.
Even if he completed the twelve trials, he could not complete the twenty-second, thirty-second or even the forty-second trial.
Fortunately, Hercules was not alone this time.
Theseus, Oedipus, Atalanta, Asclepius, the Dioscuri brothers and sisters, Medea, Jason...
Although the process is full of ups and downs, in the end the heroes on the Argonauts are always able to achieve the final victory.
With the help of many Argonauts, even Hercules, who thought he was unable to complete this thirteenth trial, believed that this time he would be able to correct human nature and find out the culprit behind the scenes.
Hercules thought so.
After re-writing the heroic stories of the Argonauts on many islands in the Aegean Sea, Hercules, Jason and others finally arrived at Thebes and Macedonia, guided by many gathered clues. The "center of the world" - Delphi.
If you talk about Delphi, you have to mention the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
Although the Greek world had moments of unity when it united to resist Persia and formed a coalition to attack Troy, the Greek world in a broad sense had never been truly unified before Alexander.
The Alexander Empire, which collapsed after Alexander's short life, was involved in the massive Successor War and fell apart.
Until the arrival and conquest of the Romans, the Greek world could not be unified again.
But if the Greeks do not have a link connecting the Greek world, then every Greek who identifies with their own identity, even the Romans who claim to be descendants of Troy, would not agree with this.
The Temple of Apollo at Delphi, the center of the world standing on the navel of the earth, connects every corner of Greece.
Even the oracles in the temple of Zeus at Olympus were not as influential in the minds of the Greeks as the oracles in the temple at Delphi.
Therefore, the Temple of Apollo at Delphi became the undisputed religious center of Greece.
However, the earliest temple at Delphi did not belong to Apollo.
According to legend, as early as the birth of the world, Delphi built a temple dedicated to the earth mother goddess Gaia, and as a descendant of the earth mother god Gaia, a giant python guarded it.
So how did the Temple of Gaia at Delphi become the Temple of Gaia?
On the other side of Typhon that Animusfia had previously discussed with Jason, Ritsuka and others, the giant python shot by Apollo was the same giant python that guarded the temple of Gaia.
The death of the python and the arrival of Apollo transformed this temple that originally belonged to Gaia into the temple of Apollo himself.
The two eagles released from the North and South Pole by Zeus in order to measure the earth finally gathered here, which also proves that Delphi is the center of the world and the navel of the earth.
The Holy Grail that he and others had been searching for for a long time was actually in this most important temple, which made Hercules and Jason sigh in despair.
Should I say that I have never even imagined such an ending?
But then a swarm of monsters interrupted the Argonauts' lament.
However, after seeing the endless ocean of monsters, as Jason said, the heroes of the Argonauts became more convinced that they and others had found the Holy Grail, so they tried their best to cover Hercule. Si entered the temple.
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"What did you see in the temple that day...?"
Under the rays of the sun, Jason asked Hercules with a complex expression.
"And why do you have to cover it up to this extent before you are willing to explain it to me?"
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Under the deep black starry sky, a silver-white "moon surface" shines in the sunlight, and a pure throne is isolated on it.
Its material resembles both flawless jade and lustrous platinum.
If an ordinary person were to come here, it would be difficult to identify whether it is jade or metal.
However, even if a three-year-old child comes here, he will definitely realize that sitting on this throne, which is made of a material between jade and platinum, must be a being that is difficult for ordinary people to match.
"Goddess, please forgive me for my transgression, but why do you still have mercy on those humble humans? They are obviously abominations that are worse than maggots, so why do you still choose to show mercy to them?"
The huge columnar life form rooted on the moon surface grew freely beside the throne, so that the luxurious throne seemed slightly humble compared to it.
However, every blood-red eye on it stared closely at the throne, not daring to go any further than the being sitting on it, and faintly transferred the initiative to the other party's hands.
"What are you talking about, Fornius?"
The goddess on the throne said jokingly.
"Hasn't all mankind been destroyed? Under the corpse of Oceanus."
