Myth: The Ruler of Spirituality

Chapter 732 - 261: Harvest

"I hope everything goes as you say, Aphrodite, and remember to prepare your Divine Descending avatar."

"I will prepare mine as well. This time, we must succeed, failure is not an option."

"I also hope that what you’ve prepared is truly as useful as you say. As for my affairs, you needn’t concern yourself." Experience more content on novelhall.Côm

Speaking indifferently, Aphrodite touched her belt.

"It will be useful, there is no other possibility."

"A clean hit—Athena will have no chance to interfere, that place is not her domain after all. Once we succeed, we’ll have the kingdoms of the mortal realm form an alliance."

"Athens has their magic and alchemy," Hera sneered as she gripped the armrests of her golden throne, "but they are no match for the gods!"

"Metis, Prometheus, Athena... These gods that deem themselves wise are always so arrogant, but history will teach them a lesson."

"Ah, yes, a lesson."

Neither agreeing nor disagreeing, Aphrodite smiled in response: "But Hera, you still harbor a grudge against Metis’ existence."

"Do you need to borrow my belt? Honestly, instead of obsessing over someone whose death is unknown, you’d do better to take action and make the Divine King revolve around you, rather than him prowling the mortal realm for affairs—oh, I almost forgot."

"The revered Divine King, he’s not just hunting for love these days—"

—Boom!

She must first concentrate on completing her own tasks; as for the future?

She would be involved in every one of Zeus’s affairs, even if she was always seen as a spiteful and jealous wife in the dead of night, but she didn’t care.

It was so in the past and will be so in the future. Let those innocent mortals she disrupted hate her... she takes it all in stride.

...

In the blink of an eye in the heavens, several springs and autumns passed in the mortal realm.

In a distant Alien Realm, not much time might have passed, but in the Chaos World, it had already been more than a year.

This was a consequence of Egypt’s downfall, a perfectly normal event.

After all, even the present Chaos World had experienced a disruption of time due to Typhon’s rebellion, so it was no surprise that similar incidents occurred in the mortal realm of Egypt.

So, standing on a high cliff at the Acropolis of Athens, when Laine returned once again to the last Guard before reaching the City of Athens, it was already very different from his previous visit.

More numerous and elite guards, materials amassed in the storerooms. And though it might seem unchanged at a glance, one could sense, with just a slight effort, the slowly forming magic arrays buried beneath the earth.

They would form a massive Rune barrier, covering the entire city, ultimately serving as a defense much like the Maze Lock of Silver Moon City—the only difference being, the latter can operate continuously without interruption, because the pervasive Magic Net is its source of power, and defense is just one aspect of its function. In contrast, the former is merely a temporary shield, and no one knows how long it can last.

Regardless, everything in sight proved that Athens had long realized the gravity of their situation and had begun making covert preparations for war.

Of course, their preparations were theirs to make, and theoretically, this had little to do with Laine; his presence here now was for another reason entirely.

However, the conclusion of affairs in the Alien Realm causing a momentary unification of consciousness forced Laine to pause here, considering the various impacts Hemenu’s ending might bring upon him.