17. Chapter XVII

"So, what the hell is this. "Poseidon sat on the surface of the sea and looked up at the mountain in amazement.

I don't know how high the mountain, which was originally made of stone, but it reached into the sky and disappeared into the dim clouds, and with the eyes of several gods, it was impossible to see the top of the mountain.

"If I'm not mistaken, it's a stone, or a stone wrapped in a cloth......," Hera murmured, seemingly puzzled by the appearance of the stone, "so why did he eat a stone?"

Specially wrapped in a piece of cloth and eaten?

Savis turned his tail into legs and pulled Hades upward.

"Let's go up there and have a look, and you guys wait down there to prevent the unexpected. He left this sentence.

The mountain was originally made of a small rock, so there was nothing on the mountain, and Savis dragged Hades for a long time, but still didn't see anything.

But even if they seem to have come to the top of the mountain, in fact, they can't get close to the clouds, if the clouds are the top of this space, they would have already found a way out of this space, this dim cloud looks low, but even a few gods can't touch it by all means, at this time, just like the two of them have been walking on the mountain for a long time, the clouds still keep a distance from him.

And it was this situation that surprised them at the height of the mountain.

The summit of this mountain can actually get close to the clouds, and even insert / into it, could it be that this is why Kronos swallowed this stone?

"I didn't feel any life force, and I didn't feel any divine power. Hades said to him, "The change in this stone should be accidental, but since it can touch the clouds, it may be the key to our exit from this in the future." ”

They had always thought that if they could get close to the clouds, they would have an extra chance to get out, but no one had succeeded in this long time.

"Go to the other side and have a look. "The mountain separates the coast, with the ocean on one side and the land on the other, and now they can only see the land on one side, but they can't see the land blocked by the mountain. Savis pulled Hades over the mountain, the mountain was long, but the peaks were getting smaller and smaller, they had already walked a long way before, except that they could not reach the clouds, the nearby peaks had become sharper.

"Huh......" turned it over and felt that something was wrong. "Hades, look. He pointed to the flora and fauna at the foot of the mountain, and his tone was unconcealable in his surprise.

Before, he complained to Hades that if Kronos swallowed another child, then this space would not know what it would evolve into in order to kill them, but as soon as he finished speaking, Kronos sent a new companion of theirs, but this time it was not a child, but a stone, without any vitality. The stone of divine power.

Although this stone has turned into a high mountain, compared to the powerful and brainy gods, this dead mountain will not become a threat to the flora and fauna of this space at all.

But to their surprise, at the foot of the mountain, the patches of plants seemed to be dying as quickly as if they had been poisoned, and the animals that had rushed into the sky with the help of plants were lying on the ground one by one, dying.

With the mountains as the limit, the birds on the ocean are still circling, but the land ones fall to the ground one by one, and after a while, they convulsions and die.

"Let's go back first. Hades frowned and pulled Savis back, "None of them are in the right situation. ”

On the way back, they noticed that the sky, which had been glowing, was rapidly darkening at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Recently, the space has rarely become so dark, and since the change of day and night, even when it is "night", the whole sky will have a little light, but now, it is as if the light source has been destroyed.

"It's a lot like the old sky. "That's how it is when there is no day or night. "Forever dark, as if the sky was going to fall at any moment.

"You're saying that the plants over there are dying in large areas and affecting the animals?" Hestia mused, biting her thumb, "and it always feels weird." ”

"Poseidon, has anything changed in the sea?" Hera asked, turning her head.

Poseidon shook his head: "There is no change, and it is still under my control." ”

Savis beckoned everyone back to the water: "This body of water is here with me, as long as I'm okay, it won't be affected too much, since the birds and plants on the shore are dying on a large scale, then let's not leave the water for the time being, don't use divine power as much as possible, Demeter, Hera, Hestia, you better stay in the water for a while, don't leave the water, so that this space will not find us." He turned his head to look at the mountain just on the shore, "If I'm not mistaken, this mountain might be able to help us a lot." ”

At first, no one knew what he meant, until one day, when the sky glowed a familiar red, the gods were surprised to find that the fire had not fallen on the water, and that all the attacks were directed at the mountain.

And Hestia and Savis, who had lived in this space the longest, were quite sure that Cheng DΓΉ of this stray fire was not as good as any of the previous attacks.

"It's kind of like the first one I had when I first came here. Sarvis leaned on Hades's body with his hands on his chest and leisurely recalled, "It always felt more like a temptation or something." ”

"But before this mountain, there are already five gods in this space, even if this mountain is not a god, it shouldn't let the originally fierce attack turn back into such a harmless situation...... right" Such a Cheng dΓΉ, even if they are newborns, they can protect themselves.

"It should be that this stone didn't have any vitality at all when it fell in the whirlpool, and this space automatically judged its death, but because of habit, it was so that I could try to see if there would be a counterattack from the gods or something. So saying, he sent the group back a little, where they had been too close to the shore, and although the fire was directed against the mountain, which had been turned into stone, it was inevitable that some of the fire would fall on the surface of the sea.

"We can give it a try. Hera suddenly thought to herself, "Don't use your divine power to resist even if the fire hits you, let's dive into the water, if I guess correctly, if there is no divine power in the process of this temptation, this space will probably be judged by the stone to be a dead thing." ”

After all, the self-judgment of this space, although the will of the owner gives it a basis for action, but it does not have a god's mind, and the judgment occasionally becomes stiff, and they can always find loopholes, right?

Kronos couldn't know what was going on in his stomach after all.

Savis rolled over and lay down among the shells, and by the way, pulled Hades down: "Let's go down and wait first, if there is danger, you can come down quickly." With that, he closed the shell and sank swiftly.

Leaving the four of them on the surface of the sea, Hades and Savis lay face to face among the shells, and Savis hesitated for a moment before telling his guess: "It is very likely that Rhea replaced his newborn child with this stone. The tightly wrapped cloth and the stone the size of a newborn baby made Savis think in this direction, "Kronos will not allow you to grow up, and as a child of him and Rhea, it is rare that you cannot have divine powers, so Kronos will not risk leaving any of the children behind, he should have thought the stone was a newborn baby, and swallowed it in a hurry." ”

"It is quite possible that the mother gave birth to another child, but she protected the newborn and took his place by wrapping it in a cloth with a stone. "If we guess wrong, under what circumstances do you think he would have swallowed a rock?"

From the memories he passed on, Olympus was surrounded by flowers and fruit trees, and although they were gods and did not need to eat, it did not mean that they could not eat.

But Cronus should have eaten the plump fruit and the sumptuous delicacies, not a cold stone.

"Unless he has been ousted from the throne and taken captive, and the other party forcefully feeds him to eat stones. "It's not impossible, he didn't taunt Ouranos when he defeated him." ”

"Then it won't be one stone, but many. Hades said lightly, "I still think he ate it by mistake." ”

"If our guess is correct, Rhea has already protected a newborn, and if she thinks about it enough, then the child will grow up when Kronos doesn't know it, and if Kronos knows about his existence in the future, even if he doesn't have the idea of fighting his father, Kronos will not let him go, he will have to resist, and then it will be our chance to get out of here. "Unless that kid has found enough people to resist Kronos before them," Hades, do you want to get out of here?"

"Yes. Hades replied without hesitation, even with a hint of longing in his answer.

"Huh?" rarely saw Hades's feelings exposed, and Savis was a little surprised by this.

"I remember you saying that you don't have a godhead anymore. Hades reached out in the darkness and gently stroked his cheek, "Stay here, even if you haven't been discovered by it, there will be a day of death," Savis has been here for too long, and sometimes Hades thinks that this space has destroyed Savis's godhead first, and then it will take his life in the future, "I want to get out of here, go outside, and find you a new godhead." He said firmly.