The name Athena is a relatively common name in Ruiying Maiqiu, and many nobles like to name their daughters Athena, precisely to commemorate the great goddess, who was also the goddess of Ruiying Maiqiu's founder, the goddess of wisdom they worshipped.

From ancient times to the present, there are so many Ruiying people called Athena, resulting in the name Athena almost becoming a street commodity in Ruiying, and when the academy is called, it is often necessary to add where Athena, or whose daughter Athena, to distinguish several students named Athena in the same class.

At this time, there is also a woman named Athena, who is also an "ordinary" aristocratic woman, but now she is doing something unusual.

What this Athena has to do is use her mortal body to make her way to her destination by constantly jumping over the River Styx with floating shards of strange hands.

Yes, this is the underworld, it's not that there have been no mortals in the underworld, but most of the mortals who appear in the underworld don't end well, such as as experiments or something, the mortals who can get out of the whole body are all famous people, such as the warlock ancestor Gross, such as Dais, who later became a death knight.

These people entered the underworld, mostly because of the kidnapping of the devil, of course, it is not that there are no humans who have taken the initiative to enter the underworld, such as the last saint ancestor Mei Yi who came to seek revenge, and then this is the current one, an ordinary Ruiying aristocratic woman, Athena, the favorite daughter of Hades, the current patriarch of the Ponza family.

Styx is a terrifying existence that can devour almost everything, Styx will merge everything with the soul, and then stir it into a mess, but after all, it is only almost, there are still some things that Styx cannot melt, at least not easily, such as the fragments of the Abyssal Monster Hand.

A few days ago, a tragic bloody battle broke out between the abyss and hell, and many of the abyssal monsters who were hit were cut off and fled back to the abyss, and the worse thing was simply turned into a corpse floating on the River Styx, and now this girl who took the initiative to enter the underworld is with the help of these corpses, like a vigorous rabbit, and constantly jumps forward without being touched by the water of the River Styx.

If you ask Athena, an ordinary mortal, how can she go to hell on her own initiative, and go to hell for so long without being discovered by the devil or demons, and without being corrupted by the strange aura in the underworld, she can guarantee herself? This is thanks to the new saint Dante, the patron saint of the Ponsar family, who was given the seven things to the new saint by the order of the goddess of wisdom.

The history of the Seven Objects of the Saints can be traced back to the distant time of the founding of the Saints of Ruiying Maiqiu, but the Seven Objects of the Saints of that generation ceased to exist at this time, and the Seven Objects of the Saints held by Athena were newly given by Athena, which was not as powerful as the old ones, but the victory still exists.

In the days when the Benzaar family started, these saints were used by Athena's sixth ancestor, when the Ponsar family was still an ordinary family, and Coonsch relied on the seven saints to gain fame and survive one difficulty after another.

Since then, as the Honsar family has grown and grown, the frequency of the seven things of the saints has become less and less, in addition to the fact that the artifact cannot be easily used, there is another reason why the seven things of the saints are less and less used, that is, because of the increasing number of uses, the power of the seven things of the saints has become weaker and weaker.

Up to now, there are only four of the seven saints left, the cross star earrings with earbuds closed, the butterfly-shaped mask with hidden breath, the colorful cloud boots that are like walking on the ground, and the jade ruyi that restores physical strength, and the only four remaining saints and seven things are left on Athena's body.

Athena was born in 1961 to a member of the Ponsar family, her father was Hades, her grandfather was Monata, and Koenshin was her sixth ancestor.

1961 was an unlucky year, because it was in this year that the bloody conflict, which the gods called the "Ponsar War", broke out, and it can be said that Athena faced war since she was born.

But Athena is also fortunate to have unusual attention, the family has been following since the ancestors of, and the people who have taken Dante's name for generations (this is Dante's interpretation of his own existence) fell in love with Athena at a glance, claiming that Athena was related to the goddess of wisdom, so the person Athena had the most contact with since childhood was Dante.

As Athena grew up, the situation in her homeland, Rui Ying Maiqiu, became worse and worse, and the country was in a precarious state.

When Athena asks Dante why the "Ponsar War" broke out and why the Ponzaar family is fighting against the rulers of Reim Macchiu, Dante says this to Athena:

"A group of villains have usurped Kodomi's place, and their misdeeds have brought great calamity to the country, and they have persecuted countless good people, and these good people have gathered under the protection of your grandfather Monata, which has made your grandfather suffer from the jealousy of Kodomi villains. ”

"This group of villains asks your Grandpa Monata to hand over these good people, or else they will punish your grandfather, can your grandfather agree?"

Athena, who was still very young at the time, replied in her immature childish voice: "Of course not, we can't give up the pursuit of justice because of the pressure of bad people." ”

"Yes, your grandfather thought the same way, so your grandfather rose up and resisted. If there was only the Kodomi authorities, of course your grandfather could defeat these bad guys, but Ruiying in the south and Sydney in the east both entered the war the following year (1962), and your grandfather was in a dilemma. ”

It's really a dilemma, Athena, who was born in Yan Jike, has not seen her hometown for many years, because Yan Jike and even Nolanza Province, where Yan Jike is located, are occupied (or recovered) by Sydney.

When Athena was older, the situation was even more difficult, in order to support the war, the Ponzaar family led by example, taking the lead in saving to support the war, and even nobles of Athena's status could only eat meat on weekends, and it is conceivable that the life of the commoners was undoubtedly more difficult.

Due to the invasion of Ruiying Maiqiu by Ruiying, the biggest enemy of the Bunsar family soon changed to Sydney, so the two sides tacitly reduced their military operations against each other and focused on driving out the enemy.

But even so, the Benza family, which had a thin background, soon couldn't hold out after more than ten years of war for the first time as organizers rather than generals.

On both sides, Rui Ying and Sydney were already celebrating each other, and they happily claimed to the people in the capital that the evil Rui Ying Mai Qiu would be destroyed in this war, and that the 500-year hatred with Rui Ying Mai Qiu/Millennium Holy War would come to an end, and that the country that had been founded for more than 1,500 years could be said to be the most dangerous situation since the founding of the country.

"This situation is actually a doomed thing after the 'Third Unaike War', because the reliance that supported the two-front battle of Ruiying, Mai and Qiu in the past has been lost in that war, and the Qiu Pass and the steel-like alliance of the south, the Ryoduo, plus your Bunsar family and the Kodomi authorities are still fighting each other, is there still a reason to be undefeated?"

"But don't worry, the Goddess has made a way out for you, and that is your granddaughter, Athena, who will save Rui Ying as Nolanza saved Sydney. ”

Athena, a child who Dante himself watched her grow up with, is not the reincarnation of the goddess, but she is "slightly similar" (Athena) to the goddess in her childhood, and she is still able to ensure a pure heart, which is rare, and she is willing to make her own sacrifice for Rui Ying Maiqiu.

"Ruiying Maiqiu's battle situation is like this, it is almost impossible to win, unless there is a special means, and the means I have prepared, and I have already passed through the qi with the God of the Cutting Realm, if she can reach the Styx Prison with the Seven Objects of the Saints, the God of the Cutting Boundary will allow Mei Yi and Gross to leave the prison. ”

This is the explanation of the goddess of wisdom to Dante, so at this time, Dante instructed Athena to let Athena go to hell to release the ancestor of the saints and the ancestor of the warlock, the two characters at the apex of the mortal world, will help Rui Ying Mai Qiu get out of the predicament, and in this way, Athena can also successfully save Rui Ying Mai Qiu.

Unsurprisingly, hearing that she could save her country, Athena agreed to Dante's quid pro quo and was willing to go to hell: "But how should you go down to the underworld?"

"Normally, you can go directly to the underworld through the gates of hell, but you can't use the gates of hell as the most convenient means, because once you use the gates of hell, even the butterfly mask can't protect you, so you need to go to the underworld by other means. ”

This answer was given to Dante by the god of the bequester, who would open the passage to the underworld at the Holy Sepulchre of Nolanza for Athena to deliver.

However, at this time, the province of Nolanza has been conquered (recovered) by Sydney, why not just open a passage in the province of Ream, but a passage in the Holy Sepulchre of Nolanza?

"But Nolanza is the holy daughter of the Sydneysiders, why is she sheltering me, a Swissman?"

"Sydney is a country of Sydneysiders, but it is not the country of Nolanza Sydneysiders, and these conquerors have done all kinds of evil since they invaded Nolanza, and everyone remembers the rule of the House of Bunza. ”

This is Dante's explanation, although slightly exaggerated, but generally correct, the attitude of the Sydney conquerors towards Nolanza's Sydneysider nobles can not be called friendly, except for a few very hard-related leading party, the rest of the Sydneysider nobles are almost all treated as fat sheep to be slaughtered, and indeed many local Sydneysider nobles are nostalgic for the rule of the Bonsa family.

After agreeing to go to the underworld to free May, Athena set out on the road, under the protection of Dante, through the Sydneyside-controlled province of Nolanza and the surrounding areas, and successfully reached the Holy Sepulchre of Nolanza, the year was 1978, and the 17-year-old Athena took her first steps to become a saint of national salvation.