"The past is like this fallen leaf and goes with the wind." Char said, "Time never goes backwards, and if you keep thinking about the past, you won't have a future." ”

Char looked at the scenery on one side, then narrowed his eyelids slightly, and said with a smile.

"Do you want to be a true hero of salvation?"

Hercules stared at Char silently, and after a while, he said.

"I know what you're trying to say."

He stood up slowly, then lowered his head and stood in the wider courtyard, he was so tall that he even reached the branches hanging down above, but he didn't care.

"Although I am in Hades, I know no less about the changes in this world than you do."

He said calmly.

"Call me anytime you need to.

After all, in my life, there has never been a shortage of battles."

Char stared at Hercules quietly, "Have you ever thought about what your final outcome will be?" ”

Hercules was silent for a moment, then said in a deep voice.

"After the fall of Olympus, my wife also died, and I married after becoming Hercules.

Heber, the goddess of youth, was the daughter of Zeus and Hera. ”

"Isn't she your half-sister?" Alicia couldn't help but say.

"The Greek gods never cared about that." Char teased.

Hercules did not answer, but continued, "She is a very good woman, but unfortunately she is also involuntarily, because she does not have particularly strong divine powers, and as the daughter of Zeus, she has become a wine drinker of the gods.

And because Hera wanted to ease her relationship with me, she was forcibly married to me.

I never thought I was a good man. ”

"Your father is Zeus." Char quipped, "Maybe it's the genes." ”

"Perhaps." Hercules whispered, "Although it is difficult for us to say that we had love before, after her death, I had the will to end myself, but then I gave up. ”

He looked at Char, "If I could, I would have preferred that I had died in battle." ”

Char's eyes flickered, "Is this so?"

He looked up at Hercules, "Do you need me to send you back?" ”

"I have a way to go back." He said, "And I'm here to do something." ”

"But it seems that the poison in your body has not been completely resolved." Char said.

Although Hercules had been patient, Char could still see that the toxin of Nabashim had been eating away at his body just now.

"It's not a big problem." Hercules said, "The poison of the plover is an incurable poison, but I will just go back and kill myself." ”

"That doesn't sound like a big deal." Char nodded.

Hercules turned and left the courtyard, and Char slowly followed him a few steps.

He jumped onto the golden sand below the peninsula, bent his knees slightly, and then.

"Boom!"

The waves were churning, the cliffs were shaking, the sand was flying, and his whole body went straight into the sky like a cannonball, and finally disappeared from their sight completely.

"It was the first time I had seen such a legendary hero other than Semele." Alicia walked over from one side and stood beside Char, "He is really as powerful and strong as in the story, but his personality is a little different from him in the story. ”

Although the epic of a hero sounds great, if it is "adapted from reality", you never know how much a hero has to go through to become a hero. ”

"Did he really kill his wife and children, and kill his teachers and friends?" Alicia asked curiously.

"Haven't you read his story?" Char teased.

"For many years, most of my memories are stories of the Twelve Trials." Alicia said.

Char smiled, "When it comes to Hercules, the first thing that comes to people's minds is only his twelve trials, his great and brilliant heroic life, but throughout his entire life, fate has indeed never favored him."

Alicia nodded and asked, "He chose to go to the king to atone for his sins because he killed his wife and son because of madness, and then there were twelve trials, but what about later?" ”

"Hercules couldn't control his power very well when he was young." Char said, "In his life, there were many teachers, Castor and the centaur Charon, who taught him all kinds of martial arts and knowledge. Apollo's gray-haired son, Reinos, taught him to read and write.

But Reinos is again an impatient teacher. On one occasion, he struck Hercules for no reason, and Hercules grabbed his harp and threw it at the teacher's head, causing him to fall to his death.

However, the upright and knowledgeable judge Radamantis acquitted him. The judge promulgated a new law that acquitted a person who had killed someone in self-defense.

Another of his mentors also died at his hands. ”

"Velvet?" Alicia's memory seemed to be clearer.

Char nodded, "He was accidentally injured during a chase of a centaur bandit, his teacher Charon. It was the indestructible arrow that the teacher gave him back then.

The arrow passed through the body of a centaur bandit and struck Caron in the throat behind. Charon was immortal, but Hercules' arrows were soaked in the poisonous blood of the hydra Hüdra, and Charon felt pain and torment more than death.

At that time, Prometheus was being tortured by Zeus on the Caucasus Mountain because he had stolen the Heavenly Fire for human use, and Hercules came here in search of Hesperides. He saw that the eagle was pecking at Prometheus' liver, so he took out his bow and arrow, and shot the eagle down next to Prometheus' liver.

Then he loosened the chains, freed Prometheus, and took him away from the cliff. But in order to meet Zeus's conditions, Charon took the initiative to stand up, although he could live forever, but in order to save Prometheus, he suffered from the venom of the hydra at the same time, so he was willing to give his life.

Charon decided to exchange himself with Prometheus, freeing Prometheus from his pain and giving up his own eternal life, freeing both parties. Later, he was lifted into the sky by Zeus and became a Sagittarius with a bow and arrow.

His friend Iphitos was also killed by him for a mad attack. ”

While the two were chatting, Char and Alicia returned to the courtyard of the peninsula and continued to sit on the corridor, one side of which was marked by Hercules' heavy size, and the soil was actually soft because of the stream.

"I remember that his madness came from Hera, right, and a large part of the twelve trials actually came from her." Alicia said.

Char nodded noncommittently, "That's true." ”

"But he forgave Hera anyway."

Char smiled, "He can't resist fate, and he can't resist Zeus. ”

Alicia nodded, she silently raised the teacup in front of her and poured a cup for Char herself, without saying a word.

She lifted the teacup, put it to her mouth and blew on it, and continued.

"It's the first time I've felt it."

"What?"

"Feel the cruelty of fate." Alicia looked up at Char, "After meeting you, it seems that my life has always been favored by fate. ”

Char smiled, "Do you want to go for a walk in the streets?" ”

Alicia's eyelids narrowed slightly, "Where are you going?" ”

"The imperial capital of Britannia, it seems that we haven't been to the imperial capital for a long time, and there are great changes now."

With portals and mobile castles that can be moved forever, Char and Alicia both tend to go to places they haven't been to before.

The imperial capital, which has been staying, has not been there for a long time.

Alicia nodded and smiled, "Okay." ”

They walked back to the hall together.

"Cassifer." Char shouted to Cassifer in the fireplace, "Heat up the hot water, we'll come back and take a shower." ”

“OK！” Cassifer shouted, knowing it well, and took a pile of firewood from the pile of firewood placed on the stove on one side and added some firewood to himself.

Although the electricity outside has begun to become popular, and Char can also connect electricity to his villa, the hot water is still better for Cassifer, after all, he can perfectly control the optimal temperature.

"Was that a god just now?" Cassifer's eyes came out of the hearth, "It looks so oppressive that I don't even dare to poke my head out." ”

"He should be counted as God." Char said, "But I think he wants to be more human." ”

Char stood at the doorway with Alicia in his arms and said, "Cassifer, drive the castle back to Sky Island." ”

Cassifer nodded.

Char pushed open the door and entered the tavern with Alicia.

The tavern was not open at the moment, it was still very quiet, and the warm sunlight shone through the glass windows into the dim space, as if every speck of dust had been illuminated.

In addition to the faint aroma of wine, there is also a faint woody aroma in the air.

Every piece of furniture here is more than 100 years old, and the years have given this tavern a lot of texture, and Char likes this texture very much, so he hasn't changed anything here.

"It looks like I haven't seen Semeler in a long time." Alicia said.

Char smiled, "My bet won't be long before I win, and he's going to come back to fulfill this promise after all." ”

Alicia shrugged, she had heard of the bet too.

They walked out of the tavern and walked on the streets of Britannia for the first time in a long time, and the quaint bluestone brick road was very textured to walk on.

Of course, compared to the stone road when Char first came here, the middle has been replaced by a reinforced concrete road.

The road is a mix of classic cars and multi-legged mecha cars, and it is rare to see horse-drawn carriages anymore, and there are even some policemen patrolling the streets in four-legged reconnaissance mechs.

These mechs are all equipment that has retired from the war, so you can even see some bullet marks and even blood stains on them, and the exhaust pipe at the end is rumbling with smoke, but compared to the pollution of this place by the factory here in the past, the smoke emitted by the mecha is really nothing.

I don't know if it's not beautiful, not long after Char and Alicia came to the streets of the imperial capital, there was a rumbling sound in their ears.

Dark clouds swayed slowly from the distant skyline, and soon enveloped the entire imperial capital, as if night was coming, a thunderbolt flashed, crossing half of the sky, as if a fire dragon was about to swallow the entire city, and a rainstorm was coming.

The people on the street hurried to get back as soon as possible, when the wind crashed through the street between the two rows of houses.

"It seems that it is easy for the imperial capital to rain." Char said, "Every time we come to the imperial capital, there are basically not many sunny days. ”

"Other countries have climate, but in the imperial capital there is only weather." Alicia also complained helplessly, "Maybe it's a sunny day one second, but the next second it's going to rain down, people here should be used to it, you see that people on the street basically don't have umbrellas." ”

Char looked at the crowds of people walking around the streets, and found that there were indeed no people with umbrellas.

"Because it's useless to bring an umbrella." "Maybe the umbrella didn't open long before the rain stopped." ”

"It stands to reason that this is not the direction of the Atlantic Current." Char said, "It's unlikely that there should be so much rain." ”

Alicia shrugged, "Who knows. ”

However, she seemed to sense something, frowned slightly and looked at the sky in the distance, and after staring at it for a long time, she raised her hand and pointed to the side.

"There. There seems to be a huge force. ”

Char likewise looked in the direction she was staring, his gaze flickering, but speechless.

Alicia slowly turned her head to look at him, "Don't you feel it?" ”

"Let's go over and see." Char said.

Alicia nodded.

They walked slowly, through a few blocks, and the torrential rain was pouring down like a waterfall at the train station near them, and bean-sized raindrops beat on the dome of the train station.

But the rain didn't touch the two of them at all.

As they made their way through the neighborhood to a main street, Alicia frowned slightly.

People shouted and scuffled in the streets, and even stabbed each other with sharp weapons, and vehicles crashed into fire hydrants, and water gushed and smoke rose into the sky. Even the gendarmes who came to the street picked up their guns and began to slaughter the people around them.

Of course, there are some people who are crazy about robbing in the shops on both sides, and even taking off their clothes directly to the street, blood mixed with rainwater flows into the sewage ditch on one side, and a stench mixed with the smell of blood spreads in the rainy night.

The people here have all lost their minds and become slaves to their desires.

"What's going on?" Alicia frowned.

"From, the power of a ruby." Char muttered softly.

Hypnos had obtained the sandbag and mask, and the last of the three treasures he had lost was the ruby, the most powerful of his powers.

Char actually proposed to take a walk on the streets of the imperial capital, but he actually had the intention of coming to join in the fun.

Char's words continue, "Its essence is a "black mirror that refracts humanity", and this force wears away the threads that bind their desires and reveals what their hearts desire."

Alicia didn't respond, and Char turned her head suspiciously, and met her slightly misty eyes.

She hugged Char, breathing greedily into his breath, then buried her face in his neck and kissed him, her hands caressing his back.

Char stood quietly in place, muttering a little helplessly and a little funny.

"You need to learn more about magic." (End of chapter)