Chapter 68: The Journey of Hercules
The hydra Hydra was much smarter than the lion, and it waited for Hercules' attack with its head held high. Hercules stepped forward and slashed off the head of the largest snake.
To his great surprise, two new heads immediately grew on the snake's neck, and the ten heads were wobbly and creepy.
While Hercules was thinking about what to do, a large crab that was in cahoots with Hydra crept up and bit Hercules' foot tightly with two large claws.
When Medea saw it, she used her magical magic to put the giant crab in a tiny box.
Seeing that the cancer was gone, Hercules called out to his companions Iolaus and Medea to help him, and Iolaus held a torch and set fire to the nearby woods, and then burned the head of the newly grown snake with a burning branch to prevent it from growing.
Medea, on the other hand, chanted a spell that interfered with Hydra's mind, and found out which head it was that made it immortal, pointing it out to Hercules.
At this time, Hercules took the opportunity to cut off Hydra's immortal head and buried it by the side of the road, with a heavy stone pressed on it. Then he split the serpent's body into two pieces and soaked the arrow in the poisonous snake's blood. From then on, there was no cure for the enemy who had been shot by his arrow.
After they were gone, Medea followed Hecate's instructions and drove magic to put away the remnants of the monster's corpse. Her main goddess, Hekate, will use the monster's corpse to create mysterious potions.
Hercules' divine power increased again, and Medea, who worked with him, blessed her soul and broke through the shackles of the human body in one fell swoop and became a demigod.
Seriously, she didn't actually help Hercules much, and it was good to be able to get a ride and get some benefits.
The next thing Hercules had to face was to capture one of Artemis' red deer. But Adros thought that catching deer could not be a powerful example of the power of the children of fate, so he replaced the red deer with a dragon, the dragon of Corchis, the son of Typhon captured by Aphrodite after the Typhonian Rebellion.
It took Hercules nearly a year to find the dragon, and finally found it in a large canyon. And this time, the one who was chosen by Adros to slay the dragon with Hercules was Adros's divine servant, the white jade-like human goddess of war, Ian.
Not only that, but Adros also sent someone to spread the news that Hercules' teacher Charon and the Corinthian king Sisyphus, two human disciples who had been accepted before, were sent to deal with the Colchis dragon together.
Also the son of Typhon, the dragon of Colchis has not been beaten to pieces like the Nimir Lion before him. The four demigod heroes worked together and with great difficulty, they finally captured the dragon.
Eventually, Ian rode on the dragon's body and crossed most of the human world, flying out of the Talam Gorge, where the dragon hid, and into the Arcadian Jungle, where Artemis was located.
The heroic and beautiful female knight riding on the dragon caused all the humans who saw her to cheer, and from this day on, all human warriors were honored to be able to ride the dragon. And the one who possesses this glory is called the Dragon Knight, Ian, the goddess who will shine in the future, and is called the head of the Dragon Knights by the warriors of the Kaos god line.
Zeus, the god-king, always kept an eye on his son's actions, for fear that something that had been arranged would go unexpected. He was relieved when he finally saw that Aiko had survived the ordeal without any danger, but when he noticed the female warrior riding a dragon in the air, his eyes lit up. The white jade-like skin made him full of yearning.
Ian, Charon, and Sisyphus didn't take advantage of this opportunity to become gods, but after fighting the dragon Colchis, they had a deeper understanding of the law and divine power, and they were already approaching the threshold of gods.
Hercules' next mission was to capture the Boar of Erymantos alive and bring it back to McKenny intact for King Eurystheus. This was the mandate issued by Dionysus, the god of wine, and like the one of Apollo, it was also decreed by Adros through him.
Speaking of which, the boar is also a pitiful child, but it is Artemis, the goddess of the hunt, who captures it. For decades, it became Artemis and her gods' best hunting target, and the wounds on her body never broke.
Hercules was joined by Artemis, a girl adopted by Artemis. This androgynous girl, with archery skills not inferior to Hercules, captured the boar, and she also succeeded in igniting a divine fire and became a demigod hero.
The next task, which was promulgated by Hermes and Athena, had nothing to do with Adros, and Hercules completed it easily.
Hermes gave him the task of cleaning the cowshed, which all heroes did not bother to do. This is also Zeus who saw Hercules fighting many battles and was exhausted, so he let him rest for a while. The quick-witted Hercules brought the water of the river, and even his hands were not dirty, so he cleaned the cowshed.
Later, Athena asked him to get rid of a bird of prey, but it was quite difficult. This is a huge bird of prey, with iron wings, iron beak, iron claws, very powerful. They inhabit the shores of Lake Stynfaros in Alcadia. Their feathers are like arrows, and their iron beaks can even peck through bronze shields, where they have harmed countless humans and animals.
But Athena gave Hercules the two brass drums that Hephaestus had given her at the time of forging. Hercules, with the help of the power of the brass drum, either shot them or drove them out.
Hercules, who had once again gained divine power, did not realize that his half-brother, Hephaestus, the god of forging and fire, looked at him with an angry gaze, as well as the bronze drum that he had in his pocket.
As one of the twelve Olympian gods, Poseidon also symbolically issued a mission to tame the bull on the island of Crete and bring it back to King Eurystheus.
The bull had been promised to Poseidon by King Minos of Crete, but because he broke the contract, Poseidon turned the bull into a rage and wreaked havoc on the island of Crete.
It should be said here that Poseidon did not let Minos go generously, his wife developed a desire for the white bull, and as a result, the queen disguised herself as a cow to seduce the white bull and gave birth to the Minotaur.
But what is surprising is that although the father Minos was very angry, he did not kill the Minotaur, but used him to defend his authority.
He had Daedalus, a genius of Cretan architecture, build a lavish palace complex, including a labyrinth that anyone could not get out of, and had the Minotaur eat the people he had put in the labyrinth.
When his own son, Androgeus, won the Athenian race and was killed by the jealous Athenians, Minos used his military might to order the city of Athens to worship seven pairs of boys and girls every nine years in exchange for peace, and each time the boys and girls were thrown into the labyrinth to be eaten by the Minotaur.
Of course, this matter was ended in the future by the demigod hero Theseus, who has to say that he is the hero of the princess of Athens who had sex with the king of Athens Aegean and the god of the sea Poseidon at the same time.
Closer to home, Hercules easily completed this and the next task of subduing the cannibal herd from Ares, the god of war.
By this time, the demigod son of Zeus had four missions left to complete. These tasks were issued by Hera to seize the belt of Queen Hippolyta of the Amazon, Zeus to bring back the herd of Grimion, Aphrodite to pluck the golden apple, and Hades to bring the three-headed dog out of the underworld.
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These tasks take an extremely long time, but not comparable to the previous ones, just when Hercules went to complete the tasks of Hera and Zeus, in the star scroll, the goddess of beauty Eurynomer was finally released by Adros.
During this time, Adros went to the Star Space every once in a while. At the beginning, Eurynomer turned a cold face when he saw him, and even fought with Adros.
Adros also used the golden arrow as a weapon to fight her, and after several times, Eurynome changed. Perhaps in her eyes, Adros's image has changed dramatically.
Originally, every time she saw Adros, she had an expression of disgust and disgust, but I don't know when it started, looking at Adros's gaze became complicated, and finally, it was even more gentle.