Chapter 122: The Pantheon
"Pantheon"
A ray of light shone on the stone wall in front of Wen Zhong, he looked at the three Chinese traditional characters written on it speechlessly, and he had completely surrendered to the screenwriter's incomparably pit brain, even if the architectural style was mixed and matched, what was the situation when even the Chinese traditional characters were messed into together? Is there still such an operation?
Not to mention the problem of setting, Wen Zhong still knows a little about the story of the Pantheon. After all, being a street writer always dabbles in everything, but he doesn't know a lot about it.
As far as he knows, there are two versions of the Pantheon, the first version is from a more famous game, and it is a Yamaguchiyama game produced by a snow company, the Pantheon in the game plot is actually the name of the Supreme Council of the Titans, looking at the statues of different shapes in front of him, Wen Zhong does not think that these sculptures will be the Titans.
Then it is very likely to be the Pantheon in the second version, that is, the Pantheon in the previous reality when he traveled. It is a building left over from the Roman Empire to worship the gods on Mount Olympia, and it can be said to be a classic building of the Augustan period.
However, in Wen Zhong's time, the building was no longer the original building, but was rebuilt later, and only the eight huge columns on the front of the portico were the original buildings of the Pantheon.
Although Wen Zhong didn't know what the relationship between the four-like thing in front of him and the Pantheon before he crossed over, he felt that the inspiration for this thing came from the Pantheon of ancient Roman architecture.
The ghostly light reflected by the waterhole could not illuminate the whole interior of the "Pantheon", Wen Zhong searched around, but never found anything that could illuminate, so he had no choice but to return to the previous gladiatorial arena and take a torch from there.
Only this time on the way back to the Pantheon from the gladiatorial arena, he didn't feel the weirdness before the last time he came down, and couldn't help but turn on the virtual light screen. There is no more gibberish on the light screen, and it no longer shakes, as if it was just a small glitch before.
For his understanding of his golden finger, Wen Zhong is completely in a blank state. Seeing that the virtual light screen had returned to normal, he didn't think much about it and continued to walk towards the Pantheon.
With the light of the fire, Wen Zhong finally saw the interior of the pantheon clearly. In addition to the statue standing in the shadows that Wen Zhong saw at the beginning, there are only four statues in the entire Pantheon that are still intact, and seven statues seem to have been completely destroyed, and only one is not so badly damaged.
The largest stone statue in the middle was crushed by the collapsed mountain stone, and only half of his body remained, but Wen Zhong recognized his identity at a glance, there was something inserted on the stone platform in front of the statue of Gain, it was a stone sculpture of flames intertwined with thunder, but Wen Zhong knew that it was not just a stone sculpture, his virtual public screen clearly displayed the name of the stone sculpture - thunderbolt (dormant)
can be related to the Pantheon, and there is a dormant thunder in front of him, Wen Zhong can guess at once that this statue with only half of the body left is Zeus, the god king of the twelve gods of Olympus, so the other statues naturally don't need to guess.
As Wen Zhong shone the stone statues one by one with a torch, he found that there was something "inserted" on the stone platform in front of each stone statue.
On the stone platform in front of Hera, the queen of heaven, is a stone sculpture of a scepter with a lotus flower on the top, and the stone statue of the goddess of fertility Demeter has been completely destroyed, and the symbol of the goddess on the stone platform in front of her, the ears of wheat and the sickle, seem to have lost their divine power due to the damage of the stone statue, and in Wen Zhong's eyes, they can't even display their names, and they have been completely reduced to a stone.
In addition to the goddess of abundance, there were seven stone statues, including Athena, the goddess of war and wisdom, Hestia, the goddess of fire and the hearth, Hermes, the god of fire, Hephaestus, the god of fire and goldfish, Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, and Apollo, the goddess of light.
In addition to the statue of Hera, the only stone statues that have survived are Poseidon, the god of the sea, Ares, the god of war, and Artemis, the goddess of hunting and the moon.
The trident and bow and arrow on the stone platform also had the word dormant in Wen Zhong's eyes, only on the stone platform in front of the god of war Ares, there was no word dormant behind the bloodthirsty spear that stood upside down.
Wen Zhong couldn't help but walk up and grabbed the body of the spear, but the mutation happened at this time.
As he tightened his grip on the spear, the entire temple suddenly brightened, and a flame of fire quickly passed through the ravine between the statue and the stone platform, illuminating the stone statues.
Don't ask the author what this is all about, according to the script, it makes no sense at all.
As the flames rose, a dull voice echoed through the temple: "Finally someone has come, awaken my believers, has the time of the gods returned?" β
Wen Zhong immediately let go of the spear, raised the broken blade in his hand and became vigilant, and asked calmly, "Who is it?" Come out! β
The voice was a little surprised: "Who are you?" Why can non-believers be present in the pantheon? β
Wen Zhong was stunned, he could see that this voice should be similar to the guardian guarding this temple, maybe it would be a hidden plot.
I only heard him say calmly: "Pantheon? If you're talking about this building that has been buried by a mountain, then I'm telling you, no one can get in, and I wouldn't have been able to enter this place if it weren't for the chance. β
The voice wondered, "What the hell is going on?" What about the Temple Guardians? What about the Legacy Priests? β
Wen Zhong frowned and listened to the strange whisper of the voice, what temple guardians and priests, he couldn't help but look around the temple, and sure enough, he found that two skeletons had fallen in a corner of the temple.
He opened his mouth and said, "I haven't seen the temple guardian and the inheritance priest you are talking about, but there are two skeletons over there, I think it should be the temple guardian you are talking about, can't you see it?" β
The voice was silent for a moment, and then spoke, "My name is Faslan, one of the chief priests in charge of the Guardian Temple, would you like to hear my story?" β
Hengzhi was also idle, and Wen Zhong listened to the mysterious voice and told the background story before the script began.
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A long, long time ago, the Anubis continent was still in the age of the gods, it was a bright age, but it was also the last light of the age of the gods.
The Pantheon is located on the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea on the Anubis mainland, which is a sacred place in the eyes of the devotees of the twelve gods, and it is also the place where the twelve gods send their oracles.
But at dusk, everything changed. The sky suddenly turned blood-red, and every now and then thunder and flames flashed through the clouds, and in some places it was covered with clouds, like the end of the worldβa day known as the twilight of the gods.
Faslan was a fortunate and unfortunate child, who had been shipwrecked at sea with his parents on a boat back to the continent of Anubis. After the death of both parents, he was rescued by the Order of the Pantheon, taught by the high priest Codo, and grew up in the Pantheon.
He was twenty-five years old and had become one of the priests of the Pantheon. But since the appearance of Ragnarok, the pantheon has lost the guidance of the gods. No matter how much the high priest or the high priest prayed to the gods, they never received a response from the gods, and just when the Order thought that the gods had abandoned them, the pantheon ushered in twelve divine fires.
There are a total of 17 islands of various sizes in the Spratly Islands, and the largest main island, Xia Orange Island, is home to the Pantheon. On that day, Faslan was praying sincerely in the temple, but suddenly there was a thunder in the sky, and with that breathtaking thunder, the believers of the Order looked at the sky in fear, thinking that the gods were angry, and twelve divine fires fell in the sky one after another.
When the temple keepers went to check on the place where the fire had fallen, they found that it was the symbol of the twelve gods they believed in. At that time, the high priest of the Order knew that something must have happened in the divine realm to descend the symbol of the gods, so he made a decision to sacrifice himself to the gods.
Faslan saw with his own eyes the majestic old man walk up to the altar and kneel before the gods at the prayer of the priesthood led by the high priest. As the solemn prayer sounded, a golden light fell from heaven and shone on the old man's body.
I saw that the old man's eyes emitted a dazzling white light, and he turned to the believers who knelt down in the audience and said, "My believers! The time of the gods is over! An evil god from the outer lands has appeared in this realm, and we are not his opponents, but by gathering the power of the gods, this evil god will be completely sealed, which... It will be the last oracle of the gods, get out of here! My Disciples! β
As soon as the old man's voice fell, the divine light suddenly disappeared, leaving only the corpse of an old man with black smoke in his eyes on the ground...
Everyone looked at each other, not expecting that the life of the high priest in exchange for such a result would be such a result, it seems that the apocalyptic scene in the sky before must be the scene of the battle between the gods in the sky and the evil gods outside the territory.
In the end, it was the only remaining priest of the Pantheon who made the decision to enshrine the symbols of the twelve gods that fell from the sky in the Pantheon, and continued to guard the temple as a believer of the gods, waiting for the return of the gods.
But the High Priest did not understand the last oracle that the High Priest had paid for with his life, and one night when the Pantheon Order was still guarding the Pantheon, an earthquake struck.
The violent earthquake brought a skyrocketing tsunami that engulfed the small islands around Xia Cheng Island one by one. The high priest stood at the top of the pantheon, watching the people around him fall into a panic of disaster, and finally understood the last oracle of God, and the time of God was over.
But he was not reconciled, and summoned before him twelve of the most pious priests in the temple, and Faslan was one of them.
The High Priest promoted the twelve priests to the twelve chief priests, and he decided to use the forbidden method to extract the souls of the twelve people, attach themselves to the twelve symbols of the gods' presence, and wait for the time of the gods to come again, and the transmission of the Pantheon can continue.
When a circle of corpses lay beside the high priest, when the tsunami fell from the sky and swallowed the island, when a red light shone on the pantheon that towered on the highest point of the island.
This once-glorious building was gradually swallowed up by the mountain, and many people hid in the pantheon between the rocks of the mountain, but screamed in the fierce red light, and Xia Orange Island disappeared in place. The void left by the instant disappearance caused a whirlpool of the surrounding sea tides, but none of this mattered anymore, and no one witnessed the disappearance of Xia Orange Island in this plane.
Only twelve souls were sleeping silently, waiting for the gods to return once more.
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This is the story of Faslan, when Wen Zhong told him that the temple had collapsed for most of it, the voice was silent for a long time, and finally asked hesitantly, "So outsiders, has the age of the gods returned?" β
Wen Zhong shook his head and told the soul who was pinned on the symbol of the god of war, Ares, about how he came to this place and how he fought with the minotaur on the upper floor.
Faslan was silent for a long time, and when he spoke again, it looked very tired. The long years of trials and tribulations made him begin to doubt the faith he adhered to, and the monster that fought with outsiders should be the guardian of the temple.
I didn't expect that in the long years, even the pious guardians would be corrupted into monsters by the abyss. Hearing Faslan sigh, most of the souls of the twelve chief priests had dissipated, and only three were still asleep, if he hadn't been awakened, he was afraid that he would eventually dissipate completely in the long years.
He said, "Outsider, I feel that my soul is no longer enough to wait, are you willing to accept the inheritance of the Pantheon?" β
Wen Zhong was stunned for a moment, and asked, "What is the inheritance of the Pantheon?" β
"Faith... Gods! Get the power of the gods! Faslan's tone was a little uncertain, but he said it anyway.
Wen Zhong grinned: "You yourself know that the gods have long since left, so I got the inheritance of the Pantheon and there is actually nothing, right?" So I refuse! β
Faslan was silent for a moment, as if he was thinking about something, and finally said slowly: "Then outsiders, let's change the way, how about trading with me?" β
Wen Zhong became interested, "What kind of deal?" β
I only heard Faslan say slowly: "Miracles did not appear at dusk of the gods, and there had been several miracles from the gods before that. If you can leave this place, go to the king of the most powerful country of mankind, tell him about the Pantheon, and ask him to spread the word about the temple. If there are still believers, they will look for this place and eventually pass on the legacy of the Pantheon.
This is the last thing I can do for the Pantheon, and in exchange I will give you a miracle, do you know Perseus? β
Perseus, the hero of Greek mythology, chopped off Medusa's head and then became the boss of Perseus.
Of course, Wen Zhong knew that when Faslan suddenly mentioned Perseus, did he want to give him one of his weapons? However, according to the plot setting, Ray played by Wen Zhong is just a knight from a small mountain village, and he doesn't know about the age of the gods.
When a long list of stories were finished, Wen Zhong was completely sure that the screenwriter of this cheating father had indeed moved the Greek mythological story into this script.
Hear Faslan continue: "You know how Perseus killed Medusa, and you probably know what I mean, right? Master Perseus sent down his weapon to slay Medusa, a sword engraved with divine scripts. The sword was finally enshrined in the Pantheon! Take it away and make a deal between you and me. β
Wen Zhong nodded and accepted Faslan's deal.
Under the guidance of Faslan, Wen Zhong walked through the flames to the stone statue of Ares, the god of war, he looked at the spear that shone with a faint light and asked, "I don't understand, since it is the sword of Perseus, why does it hang on the waist of Ares, the god of war?" β
"Because it was originally a weapon of the god of war, Hermes, the god of messengers, thieves, travelers, and merchants, once stole the sword of the god of war, and although it was eventually returned to Lord Ares, it was only returned as a fake.
Lord Ares didn't often use a sword, and the bloodthirsty spear was his weapon, so the sword was always placed with Lord Hermes.
It is only known that Perseus received a bronze shield from Hermes in order to kill Medusa, but in fact he also obtained the sword of Ares, the god of war.
Now, you hold it! I will borrow the breath of the god of war on the bloodthirsty spear to awaken it! β
Wen Zhong heard this and held the stone sword, only to see that the spear began to emit a slow light, and the stone sword seemed to resonate, and it also began to emit light.
As the light dissipated, Faslan's voice sounded tired, "Outsiders, remember to abide by your deal, I will always guard this place." β
Wen Zhong nodded, carried the rune sword, and left the pantheon with satisfaction in the stunned eyes of the audience.
The "attributes" of this long sword appeared in front of his eyes
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