Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Sheng asked Athena about something.

For example, where did Zeus and other gods go?

What do she mean by cosmic tides?

If he could know the news of the gods from Athena, Chen Sheng felt that he should be more reliable than Hippolyta, the queen of the Amazons.

And Athena didn't have any intention to hide it, and answered Chen Sheng's questions very simply.

The gods left this world.

As for where they went, Athena told Chen Sheng that the gods followed the cosmic tides and went to other places beyond the starry sky.

As for what the cosmic tides are, Athena explained that this is a high-density energy, widely distributed in the starry sky, which is the basis of the energy of all things, but it is difficult to detect.

But as a powerful transcendent being, this energy is the key to immortality for the gods.

Without a constant supply of these energies, the gods would not be able to maintain their eternal power, and would fall into weakness or even a deep sleep.

It's just that this kind of energy will not remain endless forever, but like the tides of the sea, a huge amount of energy is constantly flowing and moving in the starry sky, and the tide rises and falls.

At its peak, the cosmic tides will give the gods such transcendent beings an incomparably powerful and vigorous energy, and they will use endless divine power to do what they want, but at the lowest tide, this energy may be depleted to only one-ten-thousandth or even less than the peak of its peak.

Countless epochs ago, before the age of mythology, it was still the primeval era, when there were only the Titans and gods on the earth, no Olympus, and no humans, and there was once such a rise and fall of the cosmic tide.

After this energy left this world, the Titan gods developed a certain weakening, and it was not until dozens of epochs later that they regained it, so this event was recorded.

But unlike the Titans, the gods of Olympus, led by Zeus, could not accept the retreat of the cosmic tides.

Because the third-generation gods cannot be compared with the second-generation Titan gods in the essence of life, and the gap between the fourth-generation gods such as Ares is even greater.

The departure of the cosmic tide has a much more serious impact on the Olympian gods than the original Titan gods.

So in order not to fall into the deep sleep of divine exhaustion, the gods led by Zeus made a decision, that is, to leave, and wait until the cosmic tide returns, and then return to this land.

It's just that this kind of decision is obviously not agreed by everyone.

"So Ares stayed, and so did you?"

Chen Sheng said.

Athena's description of the cosmic tides somehow reminded him of what he knew in his own world, about dark matter and dark energy.

Chen Sheng faintly thought in his heart.

If you treat things like magic power, divine power, or arcane energy as some kind of dark matter or dark energy, it seems to make sense.

But the mystical energy is quite special, because as Chen Sheng, who has the inheritance of the mystic, knows that the essence of the mystical energy is extracted from the infinite dimension of the multiverse, so there is almost no possibility of exhaustion, and this unique spell system has created the uniqueness of the mystic.

"Ares sees this as a betrayal of Gaia."

Athena's cold voice said calmly.

"Although he was very ambitious, he was indeed a worshipper of the Mother Goddess and a loyal follower of this world. And because he is more special, the source of his divine power mainly relies on absorbing the spirit of war, and the demand for cosmic tides is not very large, so he was the first to jump out and oppose it, that is, at that time, he proposed to use the mother box to simulate the cosmic tides with the energy created by the mother box, and this conversion can also be supplied to the gods. It is not necessary to leave the land where they were born. ”

"However, Zeus rejected him outright."

Zeus thought that activating the mother box would only lead to unnecessary trouble. And he sealed the mother box separately because he didn't want to attract those greedy and brutal invaders from the depths of the starry sky again, and if this happened during the period when the tide of the universe gradually ebbed and flowed, the consequences would undoubtedly be even more unpredictable. ”

Later, the two fell into a long stalemate. No one could convince anyone, and Ares' paranoia eventually caused Zeus to be angry. ”

"I tried to stand up and settle the dispute, but Zeus also thought I was going against his will."

"So he made a move. Zeus will punish not only Ares, but also me. In that battle, even my shield was shattered by him. ”

Athena shook her head.

"What a complete bastard father, huh."

“........”

Chen Sheng couldn't help but think of the allusion about the birth of Athena. Zeus, fearing a prophecy that might cost him the throne, swallowed Athena's biological mother, the goddess of the sea, Metis, and when she was about to give birth, Athena broke off Zeus's head and was born from the light.

Although I don't know if it's really so magical, it can be seen from this story that Zeus's nature is actually more irritable and cruel.

"Later, more than one battle broke out between Ares and Zeus. And I stayed away from those. ”

"Then, the two of them can be said to be defeated, the gods at that time have left this world one after another, even the former master of the underworld has left with the Olympian gods, and the wounded Zeus used the last time in this world to create these islands of the Amazons, and then left."

"That's it."

Athena and Chen Sheng were talking, and the two of them had come to the edge of the river in the underworld.

Chen Sheng didn't ask Athena why she didn't go with him, because seeing that she admired Gaia so much, she must be reluctant to leave this world.

"Is your current state related to the so-called cosmic tides?"

"Pretty much."

Athena said casually.

"It's also because of the dark wounds left by the battle with Zeus."

“... I think you can get a few artifacts to restore yourself now. ”

Chen Sheng said.

"I guess you shouldn't just have the three artifacts you lost to me."

"These are two different things. I am a true soul that has been traumatized. That's why the recovery is so slow, and even if I absorb a lot of divine power, it will slowly drain away for reasons that I can't fully control, normally, it's just a waste. ”

Athena glanced at Chen Sheng, but did not admit or deny Chen Sheng's words.

"Unless I find something strange that can restore my soul power, completely repair my dark wounds. But this kind of thing, even for God, is too rare. ”

However, what Athena didn't say was that if she could clean up these unnecessary troubles for Gaia, then she could undoubtedly take advantage of the awakening of Mother Earth Goddess during this time to be given some benefits.

It is not difficult to restore one's true spirit.

As if she was about to say something more, Athena suddenly stopped talking and turned her head to look at a mist in front of the river to the right.

"Huh? It seems that our goal has come to its own. ”