Chapter 14: The Curse of Asopus

On an island near Attica, the beautiful girl Aegina looks into the distance and caresses her growing belly. The girl's heart is full of sweetness and sorrow.

In the sky, a figure was flying towards her, and the girl was suddenly surprised, but when the figure fell, her surprise became another kind of surprise. If there is more joy than surprise, it becomes more surprise than joy.

"Father, how did you find here?"

The old river god Asopus was holding a crutch and saw his beloved daughter, and he couldn't help but burst into tears and cry out in pain.

Seeing her father's mixed sorrow and joy, Egina couldn't hold back the tears in her heart, and began to cry with her father. Eventually, the father and daughter stopped crying, and Asopos asked about Aekina.

Ever since she was taken captive to this island by Zeus, Aegina has lived in sorrow without a companion. Only the child alone can give her lonely heart some comfort.

Asopus cursed Zeus incessantly, and he could not understand why such a lustful and lascivious god would become their king. However, Aegina stopped Asopus from cursing, fearing that he would be punished by Zeus, and at the same time, in her heart, she already had a deep love for Zeus, the god king who was domineering and gentle.

As if to understand her daughter's heart, Asopos sighed and took out a bottle of medicine from her bosom, coaxing Aegina to say that it was medicine for the fetus. Without hesitation, Egina drank the medicine.

Far away on Mount Olympus, Hera, the queen of gods, saw this scene through her magical crystal, and the corners of her mouth curled slightly: "This is the first one." ”

When Asopos saw that her daughter had drunk it, she had no problem at all, and she was also reassured. After spending some time with Aegina, Asopos was ready to leave, looking for news of his other daughter.

"Father, do you have news of Antiope's sister?" said Aegina, who had only recently learned from Zeus that her sister had agreed to conceive the god-king's child, but Zeus would not tell her about Antiope's whereabouts.

For this sister, she was angry and resentful at first, but now, she is even a little grateful. It was she who told Zeus her news, and it was also because she herself had a loved one and was about to have a lovely child.

When Asopos heard what Aegina said, his face turned red with anger, and he never thought that the culprit who caused him to lose his last daughter was another daughter.

Despondent, Asopus returned to the temple of Hera, the queen of heaven, and when he saw the bottle of medicine in the temple, he picked it up without saying a word, and asked Hera about Antiope's whereabouts.

"She was in the city of Thebais, hidden in a dwelling on the west. ”

Asopos, along with his brother Lykos, followed Hera's guidance and finally found his other daughter. Antiope, full of shame, looked at his father and uncle, bowed his head and did not dare to say a word.

She had known for a long time that her father was constantly looking for her and her sister Ecina, and she knew that the neighborhood had come to the neighborhood, but she did not dare to come out to meet her. Because she coveted her pleasure with Zeus, she betrayed her beautiful and simple sister to Zeus, and it was also because of her that her elderly father was lame by Zeus.

Asopus looked at Antiope, who was also pregnant, and there was no joy at seeing her young daughter, Aegena, but only deep disappointment and pain. He didn't understand how his daughter Antiope could become like this, even if she had a child with someone else, and betrayed her sister for her lover. Although her lover is Zeus, the god-king who rules the heavens and the earth.

Also in the name of the fetal medicine, Antiope was asked to take the medicine given by Hera, the queen of heaven, and Asopus ignored him, and he looked at his brother, Lykos, the king of Thea.

"In my life, I used to be the happiest and proudest of my daughters, but I didn't expect that the most humiliating and painful thing for me was my daughter. ”

After saying this, he inserted the crutch in his hand directly into his heart, and then fell to the ground in great pain, constantly struggling and convulsing.

Lykos was so shocked that he quickly crouched down next to Asopus and lifted his body, while his daughter Antiope fell directly to the ground, crying out in pain.

Asopus took the hand of his brother Lykos and trembled and said, "Help me to take care of Antiope, but do not be kind to her, reprimand her, make her repent, and know the sins she has committed." ”

Lycos looked at his dying brother Asopos, and then at his pitiful-looking niece Antiope, and finally nodded in agreement.

Seeing that Lykos had agreed to his request, Asopos smiled, then pushed Lykos away, and with the last of his strength, ran outside alone.

"Zeus, thou shameless god, thou squirt about seducing other people's wives and daughters, thou hast become the king of the gods in vain. I curse you today with my life, and one day, you will lose your throne, and your wife and daughter will also become lovers of others. ”

A huge cursed sound rang out in the city of Thebais, spreading all the corners of the city and terrified all the gods and humans. The nearby gods hurried away from this place of right and wrong, and the humans fell to their knees for fear of being punished by the gods.

"Hmph. ”

Sure enough, dark clouds began to gather in the sky, and a loud cold snort shook everyone's ears.

A huge bolt of lightning slashed down and slashed at the body of Asopus who had just cursed him, and the lightning was fleeting, and after it passed, the body of Asopus was gone, leaving only a huge black pit.

Thousands of years later, despite the fact that Thebais has changed hands, this huge black pit has persisted, and people have called this black pit the wrath of the gods.

Hera, the queen of the gods, still saw this scene in her eyes, not sad or happy, but said to herself lightly: "Okay, two have been solved, and the next one should be the daughter of Atlas, the goddess of wind and rain, Maia." ”

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On this small island in Adika, the daughter of the river god Asopos, Aekina, finally gave birth to her own son, Aeakos. Egina was very happy, and from then on, she was no longer alone on this desert island.

The amorous god-king calculated that on this day, Aegina would give birth to her heir, and he had come here a long time ago. Zeus was overjoyed to see another son born, and he promised Aegina that he would grant her a request.

"This place is so lonely, except for ants, there is nothing else to see, which is not conducive to the growth of Ajax, I hope that there will be people on the island to accompany us. ”

Zeus agreed to Aegina's request, and he used his divine power to create people from the earth, and in just a few moments, there were tens of thousands more people on the island. Zeus looked at these newly created people, took some common sense of mankind into their minds, and said to them, "You were made out of the soil from which ants grow, and you will be called Milmidonees." And my son Éax will be your only king. ”

At the end of the creation, Zeus took Ayax in his arms, and suddenly he was startled, and said to Aegina: "Did you eat anything strange when you were pregnant?"

Egina looked strange: "No." I've been on the island all this time, so what is there to eat?" Suddenly, Aegina remembered something: "Last time my father came to see me on the island, he gave me a little medicine to protect the fetus. ”

Zeus did not tell her about Asopos, the father of Aegina, so as not to make her miserable. Poor Eckina still doesn't know that her father, who loved her the most, is dead, and there are no bones left.

"Where's the medicine? Show me. Zeus seems to be in a bit of a hurry.

"No, there was only a little bit of the medicine, and I drank it. Aegina looked worried: "Is there something wrong with little Ayac?" she saw that since he hugged his son, Zeus's face was not very good, and began to ask him about his eating.

"Well, it's a problem, but it's not about life. ”

Zeus and Aegina are both gods with endless lifespans, but as soon as he touched Aax, he realized that he was not a god, just a demigod, he had divine power to use, but his life span had an end.

When Aegina heard Zeus's words, she was so shocked that she was about to cry: "How can this be, how can my father give me this food?" she begged Zeus, asking him if there was a way to solve the problem.

"It's so hard. Zeus shook his head.

Demigods, the descendants of the union of gods and humans, although they can be as powerful as gods. But their lifespan, that is, two or three times that of humans. There is only one way to break free from the shackles of the demigod body, and that is to merge the law with the divine power and directly become the main god. However, with so many gods, there are only so many main gods, how can a demigod with an end of life span succeed.

Just seeing that the goddess in front of him was so sad, Zeus's love saint seed immediately came up and said softly to Aegina: "Don't be sad, it's a big deal that after he dies, I will go to Hades to ask for a position of the god of the underworld." ”

Hearing this, Aegina finally stopped crying and began to curry favor with Zeus.

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A few months later, in one of the cities of Thebais, Zeus looked at the newborn twin in front of him, and sure enough, just like their brother Axes, the body that should have been a god had only become a demigod.

Zeus then looked at Antiope, who had been mistreated here, and was furious and wanted to kill Lykos. Who knew that Antiope just smiled serenely, which made Zeus dispel this thought.

"Your Majesty the God King, I am a guilty man and deserve to be punished here. It's just that my two children, after all, they are your bloodline and should not be abused, please take them away. ”

"As for whether it is a god or not, it doesn't matter, this should be the punishment given to me by God. ”

Zeus had no choice but to let Aerys take the two children away, but he was angry in his heart and wanted to find out the person who had killed his children.