The Sword of Drake Chapter 16 The Mysterious Oriental

Different from the cultural traditions of the East, the distinctive elements of the Western culture are more famous for various contracts, etc., and later bounty hunters, mercenaries, etc., and now the French Foreign Legion. Most of them are in a form of employment-like or contractual. The former is based on monetary interests, and the latter is based on blood inheritance.

The relationship between the sorceress and the goddess of the sea is contractual, and this time the completion of the mission of Hades Makaria in exchange for it is more like a bounty hunter's relationship.

Although Mark is still very confident in his team, he seems to be arrogant and conceited......

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The Three Nemesis were born of the castrated blood of the god Uranus who fell on the earth god Gaea. However, in the trial of Orestes' mothericide, the three goddesses of vengeance lost the case. Persuaded by Athena, they gave up their power for revenge and became protectors of prosperity instead.

(PS: Chinese transliteration, slightly biased, choose a more popular statement...... The story of Orestes can be found by himself, so I won't repeat it here. ）

The three goddesses of vengeance include Alecto (Αλήκτω, Alêktô/Alecto): the goddess of restlessness, Μεγαιρα (Megaira/Megaera): the goddess of jealousy, and Tisiphonê/Tisiphone: the goddess of retribution.

As mentioned above, Macaria promised Mark to meet Drake and the chanting book. But the condition is to complete three tasks, the first of which is to kill a fierce lion of the underworld. It is the lion that Tisiphon (goddess of revenge) had previously kept in captivity in the underworld.

With that, Mark and his party set off to hunt lions. In the white owl, he traveled all the way, first to the place of pain, 'Tartarus', where the road was very wide, and from there all the way down, deep in the darkness of the earth, Tartarus....

Tartarus is the deepest place in the underworld, roughly equivalent to the eighteen layers of hell in Eastern culture. Because the distance from here to the ground is equal to the distance from the ground to the celestial dome, it is surrounded by a triple dark curtain (black curtain) and three copper walls, the bronze doors of which were built by Poseidon, where the Titans, who were defeated in the Battle of the Titans, were imprisoned and guarded by hundred-armed giants.

It is also home to the largest prison in the world. The souls of the dead come to the underworld, and after the trial, the guilty will be punished in Tartarus according to their crimes, and those who are innocent will be able to live a happy life in the beautiful and peaceful Elysée Paradise.

The three goddesses of vengeance, mentioned above, usually reside here and punish people or gods who have committed eternal sins.

Because Mark and his party were acting on orders, Hades King Macaria specially gave a pass, basically as long as they didn't go to the forbidden land, they could go sideways in the underworld.

But when Mark and his party had just descended to Tartarus, the white owl that led the way suddenly turned black and melted into the surrounding black background, and there was no trace for a while.

“...... emmm...... Bad luck!bad luck!!" Mark saw that there was no trick, and thought for a while, "It's really amazing that there is no one to lead the way...... Why don't we split up......"

"Yes, that's fine. Clint could only nod helplessly.

"Well, Clint and Monica are in a group. I was in a group with Diana. Marjorie is alone. Whether you find it or not, come back and assemble it!" Mark said quickly. Seeing that everyone had no objection to this, they went their separate ways.

While everyone else was going to split up in search of the owl leading the way, Marjorie met a yellow-skinned craftsman who was instructing an apprentice at a weapons shop.

And listening to him still seems to have a slightly familiar feeling.

"Blind talk! Fight like you do, there are so many residues in the smoothbore cannon, it will be easy to blow up the bore after a few times! Return to the furnace and hit again!"

The reprimander looks like a Westerner in both body shape and skin color, and speaks the Wu language of the Ming Dynasty, which makes Marjorie, who has ever traveled to the East, really amazing, and never thought that he could meet the Ming Dynasty people here!

It looks like he is about 30 years old, his eyes are bright, and he has an extraordinary feeling all over his body. For the first time, Marjorie seemed to have a sense of love at first sight. Well, sure enough, mature men are her dish.

"Excuse me, sir, who are you??" asked Marjorie, boldly, but blushing a little.

"My name is George Sen, ma'am. The man replied in broken English.

"I ...... Ask...... Yours...... ...... name," Marjorie asked with a broken Chinese.

George's eyes lit up and he said, "You will Chinese...... That's great...... My name is Zhao Shizhen......"

Marjorie smiled politely and said, "I've been to the East, I've been to the Ming Empire. I learned a few words Chinese......"

"Then your Chinese is also very good!" George replied in English. Extremely observant, he noticed that Marjorie seemed to be looking for something, and asked tentatively, "Ma'am, what are you looking for?"

Marjorie was blunt, briefly stating that they were going to kill the lion that Tisiphone had previously kept in captivity in the underworld. After listening, George told him what he knew about the lion.

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Due to the war of the gods and the revenge of the three goddesses, the lion set himself up as king, in the hills and dark green forest area north of 'Tartarus', the place of pain in the underworld. However, many strange people and righteous people went to encircle and suppress, but unfortunately more than half of them became people's meals.

The main reason is that this lion is originally a man-eating lion! The man-eating lion is five times the size of an ordinary lion, and its body is stained with animal blood, which adds a bit of horror.

However, the lion has a habit of dragging the prey back to its burrow to eat it slowly after each hunt. And if it hunts a certain amount, even if it sees you, it won't take the initiative to eat you.

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“emmm...... And this kind of operation? maybe we can use this to capture it!" Marjorie thought for a moment.

"Don't hurt it directly, that lion's fur is so hard that ordinary swords and muskets can't hurt it at all!" George shook his head.

"What then?" Marjorie asked.

"That lion has a lot of strength, and with absolute defense, ordinary people can't stop it at all. Unless......" George stopped halfway through his words.

"Unless what?" Marjorie asked, for she had been desperate to get her hands on the book of chanting all along.

"Unless someone is brave enough to fight the monster head-to-head and defeat it, but it takes a lot of courage to face it...... George.

"But where is that kind of machine......" Marjorie said.

"You come with me. With that, George pulled Marjorie into the blacksmith's workshop.

In front of a wall in the workshop, George lifted a black curtain three or four meters high, and a huge steel robot appeared!

"Sir...... What's your name, I'm talking about Chinese name......" Marjorie was still immersed in endless shock.

"My name is Zhao Shizhen!"

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PS: Even if the novels written by the Chinese are fantasy, science fiction, and magic styles, how can there be no Chinese people? The new protagonists of this volume have all appeared, and they will be added later. But that's all for later.

The most important thing now is to complete the mission of Hades.