Chapter 33: The Vengeful Valkyrie (3) Grows Up
In the year 376 of the Great Calendar, Athena was 16 years old and Hades was 19 years old.
Due to Athena's appearance, in order to avoid some unnecessary trouble, Hades usually asked Athena to wear the mask she often wore to hide her appearance.
On this day, when Hades was about to go to bed, Athena walked in with a late arrival.
"Master Hades, Mr. Mask... Give me a hint," Athena held up the delay with one hand, and tapped the mask lightly with the other, making a crisp sound.
The 16-year-old Athena's body has fully grown, no longer the thin and small appearance she used to be, her beautiful purple hair has dragged directly to her calves.
After meeting Hades, Mr. Mask never spoke again, and Athena felt that it might be that Mr. Mask had returned to Hades, after all, Mr. Mask was just Qiu's soul.
However, Athena is still a little skeptical, after all, the Mr. Mask in her memories is too different from Hades's personality, in short, it doesn't look like a person.
Maybe it's because the souls have been separated for too long and have different personalities? Athena could only comfort herself with this.
And today, the mask actually spoke again, but unfortunately, the mask just said the words as if he were reading from a script, and then fell into silence again.
Mr. Mask... Athena couldn't help but recall her childhood, when she and her brother and sister scavenged again, and then Mr. Mask kept talking in her ear like a chatterbox.
However, after the incident 3 years ago, Mr. Mask has been silent, it's all himself, he was too weak at the beginning.
"Hints, what hints?" Hades quickly focused on hearing the mask's distraction from the imminent need to sleep.
That mask, however, has a soul of its own, and has been made into an object by an unknown being, and the hint he gave must be very important.
"The God of Light will return in 19 years, and at that time, he will cleanse the country, just as he cleansed the Temple of Light a hundred years ago, and he will launch a doomsday judgment on the fallen Ruiying. β
Hearing the news that the God of Light was returning, Hades's pupils instantly expanded, and a mixed emotion surged in his heart, panic, anticipation, and hatred, which were not enough.
"If we are not prepared, in that great trial, we will all die, die forever, and there will be no third chance," said Athena, speaking of her thoughts, "I am afraid that the existence of the God of Light is not as advertised by the Patriarch, otherwise, my body would not be like this..."
"I thought I had this feeling," hearing that Athena felt the same as himself, Hades's heart instantly relaxed, at least he was not alone, "Therefore, the death of Mai and Qiu is probably not as simple as the legend." β
Athena put it on Hades' table later: "I'm not used to putting my fate in praying for the god of light to be perfect as he said in his legend, so we have to plan ahead." β
Hades divided the delay in half, gave half to Athena, and ate the remaining half by himself: "Does the mask give you any plan? β
"Mr. Mask said that you have to find the Seven Saints and awaken all the memories before you can give your next move," Athena naturally took half of the snack that Hades had given her, and began to eat.
"The location of the other six items of the Seven Objects of the Saints has been engraved in my mind, what do you think will be the next step for us to find the Seven Objects of the Saints?"
"What's next? Either find the weapon of the God Slayer, or make us gods," Hades' gaze was deep with wisdom, "because only gods can defeat gods." β
"The mask has a touch of touch, and you're right, it's definitely one of these two methods. β
was watching the cold game of Hades and Athena talking, and when he heard Hades's speculation, he almost knelt down, brother, don't you be so smart, okay, you guessed it all...
Now that you've guessed it all, then I can't go as planned.
The arrangement that he had worked on was actually guessed by Hades, which made Leng Yi a little annoyed. So the original plan was temporarily modified, so that Hades did not guess all the revised plans.
After they collected the seven things of the saints, Leng Yi originally wanted them to absorb the priesthood of the God of Brains and become the new God of Brains, and then the God of Darkness would give them the horn and let them use their huge faith to rush the God of Light into the River Styx.
Now... Don't give the horn, keep it, just give the god of the brain the priesthood, well, the weapon of the god of slaughter is gone, so Hades doesn't guess it all.
"It's troublesome... My family has already arranged my future, I will graduate from Ruiying Academy next year, and at that time, I will marry my fiancΓ©e, and after the wedding, I will go to 'Mai' to work as a priest's assistant to my distant uncle," Hades touched his head in annoyance at the thought of the future he had already set for the family.
To go to "Mai", naturally not to see the dead Mai, the Mai here refers to a big city-state of Ruiying, yes, in addition to Mai, the big city-state of Ruiying also has Qiu.
This was named by the God of Light himself back then, and after Mai Qiu turned against the water a hundred years ago, perhaps because of his thoughts of Ruiying, the God of Light still did not change the names of these two city-states, so the name has been passed down to this day.
"Hmph, then you will go and marry you, and become your priest's assistant! I will go to find the Seven Objects of the Saints myself, if I can't find it, wait until 19 years later, you will wait for the last judgment of the God of Light!" Hearing Hades's words, Athena suddenly felt unhappy, and after a few bites until the last delay, she made a gesture to leave.
Hades grabbed Athena's hand and pulled Athena back: "Wait, Athena, isn't it, can you change it? I can go directly on a leave of absence this year, and take advantage of this time to find the Seven Saints, and I can have a while." β
Leng Yi slapped his thigh in the ancestral temple where no one was paying attention, and shouted loudly.
According to the plot of the novel, it shouldn't be Hades who pulled Athena at this time, but Athena didn't stand firm and was pulled into his arms by Hades, and then the two blushed and didn't dare to look at each other!
Back to Ruiying.
After Athena was pulled back, she directly withdrew her hand: "Your family can't let you go outside for so long..." At the end, Athena whispered, "And what about your studies?"
Hades laughed when he heard this: "The person who should worry about studying is you, I will definitely be able to graduate, unless Ruiying Academy wants to learn skills, otherwise for our group of people, it is a place to mess around, and we can graduate at will." β
"Bishop nobles, bishop nobles," Athena muttered unpleasantly, "anyway, let's go together?"
"Well, let's go and find the Seven Saints together. β
So, on this night, Athena and Hades followed the mask's prompts and prepared to use the two-year gap to collect the Seven Saints.
After completing the formalities, Hades and Athena, following the prompts of the visor, began to embark on a journey to collect the seven objects of the saints.
Between 376 and 378 A.D., Hades and Athena collected 2 of the Seven Objects of the Saints, and with the addition of their own masks, they already had 3 of the Seven Objects of the Saints.
And during the trip, the two also met some companions who could have adventures together, Athena was no longer a girl on the ivory tower, looking at the chaotic Ruiying, she also understood at this time, what Mr. Mask said to herself before he fell asleep... However, Mr. Mask's eloquence is too bad, right?
There are some things that you have to comprehend by yourself, and of course you don't feel much about what I said! Leng Yi, who resolutely refused to admit his poor eloquence, said words in the ancestral temple that no one answered.
However, in the year 378 of the Great Calendar, in the face of Hades, who had escaped from marriage for more than 1 year, the family finally couldn't bear it anymore and sent someone to arrest Hades, just a few people from the fire phosphorus level archmage, in the face of the family's arrival, Hades in order not to implicate others, could only be captured and returned to the family, Athena could only continue to collect the seven things of the saints with the partners she met in the two-year adventure.
In the year 380 of the Great Calendar, the 20-year-old Athena had already collected 4 Saint Seven Objects, and at this time, Athena's small gang heard a shocking thing, Hades was arrested.
Although Hades has been very careful, because of the inherently unequal information, Hades still inadvertently awakened Ruiying (Ruiying's capital is also called Ruiying) during the annual meeting, with Qiu's items, exposing his relationship with Qiu under the nose of the patriarch.
The patriarch bites Hades to death is the reincarnation of the evil spirit, Hades must be executed, and it is a public execution, and Hades's family has a wife and also gives up Hades.
Knowing the news that Qiu was going to be executed, knowing that the strength of her group was useless, Athena still took people back to Ruiying, wanting to save Hades.
The rescue of Hades was not going well, Athena's group had a traitor and leaked part of the plan, and Athena is now only at the purple level, although the upgrade is like riding a rocket, but even if Athena is talented, it is impossible to deal with so many transcendent legends.
Athena's rescue operation, Leng Yi didn't intervene at first, because Leng Yi knew that there was still a force and would go to the rescue, but it didn't work if he looked at it, that force hadn't reached the best action driver, and looking at Athena's state, they couldn't hold on to the arrival of that force.
In desperation, Leng Yi had no choice but to open the hang again, activate the mask, and use the time pause to give Athena a little respite, and relying on Leng Yi's hanging, Athena's rescue team finally survived the arrival of that force.
That force is the Temple of Light!
Relying on the support of the Temple of Light, coupled with the deliberate release of water by some of the Hela family, and the inexplicable defection of Hades's wife, Hades was finally successfully rescued from Ruiying, and took his newborn son, Tartarus. - (Of course, this is also the influence of cold games)
But at the price, the rescue side also suffered heavy casualties, such as Athena's adventure team, and now in addition to Athena and Hades, only 3 people are still alive.