Chapter 263: Irreconcilable Contradictions
His gaze gradually shifted to the center of the banquet, and suddenly, Kratos's gaze paused, staring for a long time, and the corners of his mouth couldn't help but raise a meaningful smile.
Kratos didn't expect that person to come here, although his face and aura were perfectly disguised, but in the eyes of Kratos, who even had a snoop on his fate, there was no hiding at all.
The blasphemous epgios, who has mastered the forbidden puppet and tried to subvert the pattern of the gods' ruling faith, only takes a glance and finds that his fate is shrouded in a layer of unpenetrable fog, and unless he pays a huge price, he cannot find out where his past came from and where his future will go.
Epaeus, disguised as an old man, was talking happily to the god beside him, when suddenly his expression stiffened, and his eyes subconsciously looked in the direction where Kratos was.
When he saw Kratos looking at him with a meaningful smile on his face, a flash of gloom flashed in his eyes, and then he immediately turned his head away, continued to talk and laugh, and loudly praised the treasures of the banquet, completely in the form of an orthodox Olympian deity.
Although he saw through the other party's disguise, Kratos was more vigilant in his heart, this Ephaius didn't know what the origin was, there were secrets that could not be snooped on, not only the means were weird, but also the luck was even better to the extreme, and he could escape from the catastrophe of death many times, and even the ancient human ancestor Yan chased and killed him, and finally returned in vain.
Yan's strength is unpredictable, but the only thing that is certain is that it is definitely no less than Kraken, the true god Kraken that Kratos has come into contact with, and that mysterious and ancient aura proves that he must have hidden unknown means.
It seems that the presence of Epaeus has made this backyard feast begin to become confusing, and Kratos has been haunted by a feeling of unease.
Kratos immediately closed his eyes and sank his mind into the depths of his soul, and the power of Ananke's holy artifact sensed the trajectory of fate.
The occasion of fate is vast, every drop of water has the potential to make a change, and it is simply impossible to find a clue from the hundreds of millions of Hengsha, perhaps when Kratos condenses his godhead and reaches the rank of the main god, it is possible to do it.
The scale of the banquet in the back garden is so grand that it is not just a simple enjoyment of treasures, but also the various gods take turns to pay tribute to each main god.
There are no strict rules on the object of this tribute, and the gods can dedicate their tribute to any of the main gods at will, and this has become a way for the main gods to show their influence, and the most precious and most precious tributes will undoubtedly become the most powerful of the main gods.
The only one who did not participate was the god-king Zeus, whose power in Olympus was unquestionable, and half of the other ten main gods were his children, so there was no need for this method to assert his authority.
At the beginning of the tribute of the gods, one god takes turns to take out his own tribute, and hands it over to the attendant gods appointed by each main god, and finally the god king decides the main god who has received the most tribute, and the god who has offered the most precious tribute.
The gods who are judged by the god-king will be rewarded, and they will definitely not be inferior to the value of the tribute offered, so the gods will actively give carefully prepared tributes at each banquet.
Tributes were displayed at the banquet, whether they were priceless gold and silver jewelry, or strange divine artifacts that were rare in the heavens and universes, although they were not as precious as golden apples.
There are even gods who directly pay tribute to the holy weapons that have been trained for countless years, just to win the reward of the Lord God.
In this process, the kings of the human kingdom were not far behind, and they took out the national weapons that have been passed down through the generations and have extraordinary symbolic significance, and the gods have this kind of national weapon, which can directly obtain the faith of the people of the kingdom, and for the main god, it is even more meaningful than ordinary holy weapons.
In addition to the god king Zeus and Hades, who was not present, the other main gods have their own gains, but the most eye-catching of them are still Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war, and Ares, the god of war.
Athena, as the wisest of the main gods, and the guardian of conflict and peace as her own responsibility, and the beauty of her face that even the gods admire, is undoubtedly the most popular main god.
In contrast to this, the god of war is Ares, and although he tried his best to hide his emotions, he still revealed a trace of embarrassment, because in front of this god-servant, there was always nothing, and no god or human king went to pay tribute first.
The god of war Ares was synonymous with war and strife in Olympus, and there used to be some gods who admired force to pay tribute to him, but after a trivial dispute before the feast, the gods quietly changed their minds, and they were unwilling to continue to help Ares rebel.
Even the new beast god who had just come to Olympus and could be said to have no grudges had become the object of Ares' insult, and the gods didn't know when this kind of disaster would befall them, so they all used this method to vent their silent rebukes.
The god of war, Ares, sat upright on the seat of the main god, with a hideous smile on his face all the time, and his golden eyes seemed to hide poisonous snakes, which made people shudder at the sight.
But his hideous expression didn't last long, and was replaced by an even more ugly one, for he saw a scene that he was even more unwilling to accept than nothing.
Kratos slowly walked up to the messenger under the throne of the god of war, put down a box of precious jewels from the Orpheus Sect, and then turned back to his seat without saying a word.
Insult, blatant insult! In Ares' eyes, Kratos's actions were undoubtedly a resounding slap in the face of the gods, and he had to break his teeth and swallow them in his stomach, and he couldn't attack on the spot.
The gods watched everything that happened on the field, and most of them gave Kratos a deep look, their eyes full of meaning.
In their opinion, the behavior of the beast god is quite irrational, which is equivalent to exacerbating the contradiction with the god of war. A mere beast god, and the most brutal and unkind main god to contradict each other, is simply self-defeating.
The god, who used to talk and laugh with Kratos, no longer spoke to him at this time. Although he was not angry with the cruelty of the god of war, he did not dare to blatantly provoke the majesty of the god of war, in the eyes of the gods, Kratos was already a dead man, and with the character of the god of war, he would definitely make a move after this banquet.
What the gods didn't know was that this new beast god had already settled a deep blood feud with the god of war in the mortal world, and even the god of war Ares himself didn't know that on a whim, he actually left himself a deadly enemy.
Kratos didn't pay any attention to the changes in the gods around him, he had long known that this was a world that tended to be inflammatory, and only strength was the real dependence, when he had enough strength, he could trample everything under his feet, just as the gods looked down on mortals, and the various human kings present, which one was not a tool for the gods to plunder their faith.
From the moment he entered Hera's back garden, Kratos knew that contradictions were inevitable, and that if that was the case, why swallow his anger any longer. The Spartans, when it is time to fight, will not hesitate to show their weapons, even if they know that they are invincible, they will fight to the death!
In the middle of the feast, the ominous goddess suddenly stood up and used her divine power to make her voice reach the ears of every deity.
"Your Majesty, the feast is as wonderful as ever, but my heart has been tempted by something more interesting, and I don't know when it will begin, the game we have been waiting for for a long time. ”
Although the ominous goddess was jokingly called a game, everyone knew what it was referring to, so they sat upright and waited for the god-king's answer.
The god-king Zeus sat majestically on the throne and whispered a few words to Hera behind him, who nodded and said aloud: "Then ask our human prince Paris, to judge for us who is the most beautiful god." ”
Not long after Hera's words fell, a young and handsome human entered the banquet under the guidance of two powerful attendants, his expression calm and seductive, without the slightest nervousness that mortals should have when they saw so many gods.
"Son of Priam, King of Troy, Paris praises the great God-King, Your glory shines on Olympus, immortal forever. ”
Prince Paris's humility and arrogance have been appreciated by many gods, especially some goddesses, who are even attracted by his graceful demeanor, even if they are only mortals, want to have a night of love with him.
Listen to the queen of God Hera said: "Eris, since you proposed this beauty pageant, then for the sake of fairness, let you preside over it." ”
Wearing a black robe and exuding an ominous aura, the ominous goddess Eris did not hesitate to accept the power given by the god Hera, walked to the center of the feast, and said to the gods: "The human Paris, whose good name is sung in the mortal world, here he will accomplish a great feat, which must be fair, just, and public, and recognized and upheld by all the gods. ”
After the words of the ominous goddess Eris, all the gods, including the twelve main gods, nodded slightly, indicating that they agreed with her rules, and no matter what the outcome was, they would be recognized and maintained, and no god could question them.
After gaining the approval of the gods, Eris, the ominous goddess, smiled strangely at Paris, but the latter was not fooled by her smile, but remained graceful and returned a polite smile.
The smile of the ominous goddess has been hailed as a nightmare for gods and mortals, and it is said that those who smile in the face of the ominous goddess will suffer from endless strife.