Chapter 40: Sisyphus

The revision of the Book of the Dead is a great deal for groups like the Grim Reaper.

After Balu and Sebas reported the matter, the staff of Hades began to pass it up layer by layer, and no one dared to deal with this kind of thing.

Eventually, the news was reported to the Great Grim Reaper, who had just awakened from his long sleep, the original Grim Reaper, Thanatos.

Thanatos and his brother did not have a very high status in Greek mythology in the past, but they were only two subordinate gods of Hades, and they did not even have a decent palace.

It wasn't until the Greek gods fell into eternal sleep that he took charge of the underworld and built a very large castle in Tartarus, which was built later, so it is very similar to the architectural style of Britannia, and it is a baroque castle.

In the oval office in the tower on the left side of the castle, Thanatos was sitting at his desk at the moment, frowning slightly at the two low-level Grim Reapers, kneeling on his ground.

It was a classic Greek image, with black hair and black eyes, three-dimensional facial features, especially the straight nose, which was a classic Greek nose.

He was dressed in the same black robes as them, but with a pair of black wings behind him.

Sebas and Balu faced Tanatos in a five-body posture, trembling slightly, not daring to say a word.

Both of them were seeing the real Grim Reaper for the first time.

There was silence in the whole palace, and Thangka, who had greeted Sebas not long ago, stood beside the Great Grim Reaper with a document in his arms.

"What you're saying is true?" Thanatos solemnly asked, "The Book of the Dead has been altered?" ”

His voice was steady, speaking an ancient Greek language that was understandable to all, whether they spoke it or not.

Balu looked up, "You can probe our memories, or.... Or we can bring that Hart back for interrogation. ”

Thanatos came back to his senses, stroked his forehead with a little headache, and he was silent for a moment, waving his hand at the two little Grim Reapers.

"I know about this, you guys should step back first."

Sebas and Lu glanced at each other, and each could see a little surprise in the other's eyes.

Before they came to the palace, they had made two assumptions about the Grim Reaper's reaction, or they just didn't believe what they said.

Either they were furious and ordered a thorough investigation of the matter, after all, although it was too crude to directly change the Book of the Dead, in a sense, it could be regarded as interfering with death.

This is a provocation to Hades.

But he never expected that the Great Death would react like this.

It seems to believe them, but .... But so calm.

But this kind of thing is not something that a little person like them can ask about, and from now on, this matter is none of their business.

They obediently got up and withdrew from the office.

"I kind of understand what woke me up.....

Thanatos turned his head and looked out the window with a deep gaze, a fiery magma purgatory, in which countless ghasts wailed, and scorched earth as far as his eyes could see.

Thangka tilted his head in confusion, but did not speak.

The office was silent, and after a long pause, Thanatos let out a soft breath.

He had actually encountered this kind of thing in the past.

It's not like He didn't leave any legends on earth.

In the Homeric epic, there is such a very famous story called "Sisyphus"

In the records, Sisyphus was the most resourceful and ingenious man on earth, the founder and king of Corinth.

When Zeus kidnapped Izina, the daughter of the river god Isopus, and the river god went to Corinth to find his daughter, Sisyphus, who learned of this, told him in exchange for a river that flowed all year round.

By revealing Zeus's secrets, Zeus sent the Grim Reaper to take him to hell.

Unexpectedly, Sisyphus kidnapped the Grim Reaper with a trick, resulting in no one dying in the world for a long time, until the Grim Reaper was rescued, and Sisyphus was also sent to the underworld.

Before being sent to the underworld, Sisyphus instructed his wife Merope not to bury his body.

After arriving in the underworld, Sisyphus told Persephone that a person who was not buried was not eligible to stay in the underworld, and asked for three days of leave to deal with his own affairs.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Sisyphus saw the beautiful land, he didn't want to go back to Hades.

It was not until after his death that Sisyphus was sentenced to accept the punishment of pushing a stone up the mountain.

He was going to push a large stone to the other side of the mountain, but because of the weight of the stone, every time he pushed it to the top, the stone would roll down again, and Sisyphus could only repeat it over and over again.

This is a real story.

What many people, and even some gods, don't know is that before this happened, Thanatos had met a man, an old man.

It was a mortal without a sense of divinity, and all the Greek gods at that time were dismissive of mortals, and to the gods, mortals were nothing more than worms on the earth.

He was like that, and he offended the old man because of it.

He said that he was going to give himself a chastise, to make him realize the power of mortals.

At the time, he was unimpressed, even a little disdainful, until not long after, when the Sisyphus incident happened.

A god is kidnapped by mortals?

And it's the most terrible Grim Reaper for mortals!?

This sounded outrageous to both mortals and gods, and it happened.

He became the laughing stock of the gods, an incompetent clown in the Greek gods.

Until now, this incident has been the greatest shame of his life for Thanatos.

That's why, when he took control of Hades, he chose to delete all accounts of the matter.

During the years of his captivity by that mortal, He also knew something.

In this world, there are indeed some terrifying forces that even the gods can hardly imagine.

He believed, but the twelve Greek gods, including Zeus, did not believe and even kept laughing at His incompetence.

Then they fell into eternal sleep.

And He became the Lord of Hades.

He was silent for a moment, and then spoke.

"Send the order down and inform all the Grim Reapers, including the Trainee Grim Reaper.

In the future, if you encounter something similar to the Book of the Dead being altered, don't report it again, and treat it as if nothing happened. ”

Thangka replied without any doubt.

"Yes."

Then he left the office.

And Thanatos was once again lost in thought.

If it was really that being, he wanted to hide it, and no one would be aware of his existence.

And now it is clearly not his style of doing things.

Thanatos remembered the voice that had awakened him from his sleep, and he seemed to realize something, and slowly got up from his seat.

Yes, it must be so.

This should have been deliberately exposed to himself, what message he had to convey to himself.

It seems that it is necessary for me to go to the world.....