Myth: The Ruler of Spirituality

Chapter 484 - 135: The Second Arrow and the Vastly Different Abyss_3

Of course, for Helios, these things could not harm him. He had never been here in the past, so naturally, he felt no change in this place. He was only here to search for Mother Earth, and indeed, he found no trace of Gaia here.

Previously, the God of Sun had already visited the Fields of Truth, and there, he had successfully met Hades and the long-missing Persephone. However, contrary to his expectations, the bride who had been forcefully taken did not seem excited or joyful upon seeing him, quite the opposite, in fact.

Throughout the conversation, Helios always felt that the other party was a bit... disdainful? Nevertheless, the God of Sun had still completed half of his mission for this trip.

He conveyed the opinions of the pantheon gods and the Divine King’s tactful advice. Zeus had no intention of convicting Hades because of this, but the incident indeed affected the interests of all deities.

And, unexpectedly again, Hades was quite agreeable to this matter.

Although Zeus had agreed to his conditions first and now came bearing the guise of ’mediating conflict’ afterward, Hades still readily stated that Persephone was here to be the Queen of the Underworld, not a prisoner, so if she wished to leave, he naturally would not hinder her.

But the next moment, Hades revealed another truth. Because the marriage of Zeus and Hera was the ’exemplar for the gods’ and his ’model to learn from,’ he had also shared divine authority with his own Queen of the Underworld. However, the price for the Goddess of Agriculture accepting the scepter was that her origin would henceforth be connected to the Underworld.

So, no matter what, she must spend half her time in the Underworld from now on; that is a rule that even the Primordial Deities cannot violate. Whether Demeter accepts it or not, this cannot be changed anymore.

’Marriage’s exemplar’... While listening to Hades’s narrative, although Helios did not know whether the truth about the authority was true, he did indeed sense the clear sarcasm therein, as the marriage of King Zeus and Hera was also quite ’complicated’ in the legends.

With one step forward, Helios’s figure immediately disappeared into the twisted spacetime.

No one saw this scene, as another deity entered Tartarus... with one exception. That was Gaia, who, because Helios had mentioned her, suddenly had a premonition.

...

Spacetime shifted, and light warped. In just a fleeting moment, everything before him had drastically changed.

Stepping into the Abyss, Helios thought he would see an endless chaos of spacetime and face immediate rejection from the realm, but to his surprise, there was none of that.

Layer upon layer of boundaries overlapped and then separated, with matter arranged within them. The suppressing force was quite weak, as if it had temporarily been diverted elsewhere... Looking at the interior of Tartarus before him, the God of Sun was genuinely taken aback.

"So this is the Abyss? It seems rumors really cannot be trusted," he said.

Legends of the Abyss were not so benign, he thought as he shook his head. Helios did not linger in place.

Whether Gaia was there or not, she would not be at the entrance. He still needed to venture deeper inside in order to find any possible traces of Mother Earth.