Chapter 34: Centaur Charon
After listening to the answers of the three disciples, it was not much different from what he guessed, and the three disciples, only the youngest Sisyphus, was the most suitable for his requirements, and he did not let his work in the city of Corinth teach him for a year in vain.
Without saying a word, Adros led them on. Ahead of them is another kingdom in the current human world, Thebes.
It is a federation of many cities, each with its own king, and there is no unified king. The river god Lykos chose to be king here, as did Cadmus, the son of the Phoenician king Agenor, the legendary hero Athamas founded his city here, and other heroes came here.
It can be said that this castle complex located in the east is one of the three most important states in human society today, along with Athens and Sparta.
Due to the large number of heroes here, it is already more prosperous than other places. And not long ago, in this place, there was a god from the earth, the son of Zeus, the god of wine, Dionysus.
After Semele was burned to death, Zeus took the premature baby from Hermes and sewed him into his own powerful thigh. After Dionysus matured in his father's thigh, Zeus cut open his thigh in the city of Athens, in front of the gods and the world, took him out, named him, and promised that he would become the god of Olympus.
Near the hill of Lacanon on the island of Icarus, Hermes took little Dionysus from Zeus, took him in his arms, crossed the sky to Piosia, and gave the child to the children of the river god Ramos, Lamides, to be raised.
The Rumides took the lovely child in their arms, took turns feeding him with milk, and playing with him on their backs. Little Dionysus would often gaze at his father's starry sky, and when he was happy, he would kick the sky with his foot and smile with his heart.
Hera watched the baby from afar, jealousy burning in her heart. She came to the Ramos River and whipped Lamides mercilessly, venting her anger on them.
After being beaten, the Lamides went mad, beating the servants in the house, hacking and chopping the travelers to pieces on the way, and doing many horrible things. They were in a trance, running and jumping around in a trance, sometimes crying, sometimes laughing, their distorted faces rolling their terrible eyes, and their breasts whitened with foam from their mouths. Just as they were about to chop little Dionysus into pieces with their knives, Hermes suddenly flew up and quickly snatched the child out of their hands.
Hermes carried Dionysus to the house of Semele's sister Ino. Eno is the wife of Athamas, who had recently given birth to her son, Melicerates, and was lovingly nursing the child in her arms, and the abundance of milk made her ** swell like a ball about to burst.
Hermes came up with little Dionysus in his arms and coaxed Eno with kind words to persuade her to accept her sister's son, which hinted at the oracle's will, saying, "Madame, please accept the newborn son of your sister Semele." The child was not burned to death in his mother's womb, and the lightning bolts did not hurt him. Let your hall cover him, and let the sun shine on him during the day and the moon at night, and let the jealous Hera discover him and hurt him. As for the hard work you put in, Zeus, the god-king, will give you the reward you deserve. You are the luckiest of the daughters of Cadmus: Semele will be burned to death by electric fire, Ottonoe will die with her son, and Mount Catalon will build a tomb for them, and Agauge will tear apart his son Penthos with his own hands and become a murderer. You are the only proud daughter of Cadmus, Thebais will not be able to tolerate you, you will have the vast sea, move into the water palace of Poseidon, your son Melicertes, he will be the king of mankind on the sea, and you will live together forever!"
These oracles were heard by Hermes from the sun god Apollo, and they were also revealed by the prophetic oracles.
After listening to Hermes, Ino accepted the motherless baby. Hermes then flapped his Swallow Wind shoes into the air and headed straight back to Olympus.
Eno lovingly held little Dionysus in her arms while nursing Dionysus and her own son with her breasts. When the two children had sucked enough milk, her son Melicelotes would always crawl up to little Dionysus with excitement and babble to him, "Oh!"
Ino left little Dionysus in the care of her maid Mystis. Mystis was a hairdressing girl in Sidon who was assigned by Cadmus to serve on Eno when she was a little girl. Mystis avoided the gaze and hid little Dionysus in a hidden room. At this moment, the child's face glowed brightly, illuminating the dark room, revealing his divine lineage.
As the grandson of King Cadmus and the nephew of King Atamas's wife, Dionysus enjoyed the princely treatment here.
Although he had not been in Thebais for a few years, he was discovered by Hera, the queen of heaven, and Hermes took him to the dense forests of Phrygia, the dwelling of Rhea, the goddess of time.
Rhea, the goddess of time, raised him from Hera's revenge and grew him into a powerful god.
The young Dionysus was appointed by Zeus as the god of revelry, and the half-human, half-sheep god of the mountains and forests Silenus was his tutor, educating and accompanying him on his travels, and he roamed around in his chariot pulled by the beast Black Panther. He has all the secrets about nature as well as the history of wine. Wherever he went, he taught people how to grow grapes and make sweet wine.
Dionysus made more wine than any other wine in existence, and it was so delicious that it was easy to get drunk. In Athena and Prometheus's plan to steal fire, the wine they used to drunk the god of fire, Hephaestus, was brewed by the god of revelry.
Although he loved to travel everywhere, Thebais was his hometown in Dionysus' heart. Every once in a while, he would return to Thebes to visit his relatives on earth and revel with them.
And there is a god who often carnivals with humans, and the city of Thebais is even more popular with all legendary heroes. Here, there are drinking feasts, singing and dancing, and battles of legendary heroes, which make all the fun and combative humans linger.
Among the many legendary heroes, there is a hero who is not human, he is recognized as the strongest among all heroes, and the human hero who defeated all the human heroes in the city of Thebais, he is the legendary centaur hero, Charon.
And this time, there was news in the city of Thebais that Caron had set up a battle platform in the market to challenge all the legendary heroes of Thebais City and canonize the powerhouse.
The so-called bazaar, at present, began to exist in a place where dragons and snakes were mixed, and many foreigners needed to barter here, so the market was born.
As soon as he heard the name of Charon, Adros subconsciously thought of the old boatman in the River Styx, the ferryman who suffered from the River Styx day after day and was determined to become a god.
However, when he met the real person, Adros realized that he was wrong, that this Charon was a high-spirited centaur. His upper body is the torso of a man, including the hands and head, and the lower body is the body of a horse, which also includes the torso and legs. Although Caron was thin and weak, there was an immeasurable strength hidden in it, carrying a war spear in his hand and a bow and arrows on his back, full of the smell of blood and fire.
Speaking of the centaur race, the origin is much earlier than all humans now. They were a kind of experiment before the creation of the first god king Ouranos, who had created all kinds of creatures, including centaurs, half-sheep, lion-headed people, rock people, and so on, but they were all lost to history with the war of the gods again and again.
Centaurs were undoubtedly lucky, and due to their resemblance to half-sheep, they were also protected by the half-human, half-sheep mountain god Silenos, who has survived from the age of golden humans to the present.
Both centaurs and half-sheep were a dissolute and lustful race, just like their patron god Silenus, and after the rise of Dionysus, they became followers of the amorous and merry Dionysus.
Of course, among these half-humans, there is also an accident, he is the centaur Charon. Centaurs have a relatively long lifespan, and young Charon once experienced the Battle of Titans more than a hundred years ago.
It was also because of that great battle that he saw the divine power and martial arts of the gods, and since then, he has had the idea of obtaining the same abilities as the gods.
Wandering around looking for ways to increase his strength, he set foot in the battlefields of silver and bronze humans, becoming a powerful legendary hero, and later known as a canonized powerhouse by humans.
But now that he is in his twilight years, he has seen the battle between the gods and the monsters on Mount Olympus, and once again appreciated the power of the gods, and he finally realizes that he is still far from the gods.
Seeing that he was getting older and older, but could not find a way to move forward, Karon finally made up his mind to come to this city of Thebais and fight all the legends in the world, in order to break the path between life and death.
At the age of 100 and having experienced countless experiences, he once witnessed the birth of mankind's first legendary warrior. It was a battlefield of life and death, and only one person was left to kill the silver human, and in the face of the siege of thousands of bronze humans around him, this silver human finally comprehended the law, and one person killed ten thousand people. Since then, legendary warriors have begun to pour out.
And now, Charon is to emulate the nameless warrior at the beginning, one person against ten thousand, in order to get out of the road above the legend.
He stood quietly in the middle of the battle platform, his eyes closed, feeling the growing crowd around him, and his mood was extremely calm. There were more and more onlookers, and almost everyone from the market came.
Gradually, legendary warriors came out of the crowd and came to the battle platform, surrounding the Caron in the middle, silent.