In the present world, the southern seas.

It didn't take long for Volos and Eros to cross the long distance, and they traveled from the spiritual realm to the palace of the Sea Emperor in a few flashes of light.

The scented sea, the laxity of the guards, the looming luxury shrine, that's all there is here. Obviously, the Sea Emperor didn't think that anyone could come to him silently in the sea - of course, he was not wrong.

Just like now, even the 'black and white sea' reflected in the first spiritual realm looks different in the area near Poseidon, and even has some colors in it.

Just like Olympus, the place where the gods live all year round is naturally affected by their power, and this influence has even infiltrated another plane of time and space over the years, keeping the spirit life instinct away, and making it difficult for others to sneak directly into the side of the Sea Emperor.

If it was the mythical little goddess of love, there might be no way to face such a situation. He couldn't shoot a god who stayed in his palace, after all, although his golden arrows were particularly powerful, he was not a unique marksman in his own right.

But in the face of the same problem, Volos and Eros are not worried about it. Because while Ouranos' divine blood imposes a 'vengeance' restriction on their bow and arrows, it also gives it the ability to 'lock'. Coupled with the 'Must-hit' inherited from the Spear [Gangenir], everything is much simpler.

Boom –

With the sound of a bowstring vibrating, the golden arrow in Voros's hand shot out.

Obviously, the two of them hadn't even seen anyone yet, but it still flew straight to the palace under the sea in some kind of connection, chasing after the owner of this place.

……

In the shrine, there is a staggered plan.

At this moment, in Poseidon's palace, Amphitrite, the real queen of the sea, has long been unknown. Most of the people who remained here were Poseidon squires from all over the place.

Some of them were found, and some of them simply had Poseidon blood, but this was not surprising among the gods of Kaos, and the Queen of the Sea was not here because of these things

After all, although she doesn't like to behave like Poseidon, she doesn't have the strength and status of Hera after all, so if the Sea Emperor wants to have fun, then she can only choose to endure it. It wasn't until she noticed that more and more strange beings were appearing in the shrine that she felt uncomfortable, that Amphitrite suddenly realized that she moved to another place.

She felt that she understood why Poseidon was not interested in her anymore, not because of the chase she deliberately created before the two got married, but because the other person's hobbies were already different - of course, strictly speaking, there was indeed such a factor in this.

The Sea Emperor did hate Amphitrite's ignorance in the past, but he was also a little bit too much of an 'interracial beauty' to take care of this woman's reasons.

It is worth mentioning here that Poseidon is not unable to recognize beauty and ugliness, he also thinks that Athena and Aphrodite have top-notch beauty, but the scope of his recognition is a little larger. Those aliens selected by him, if you look at them according to their own racial concepts, are actually very 'beautiful'.

This is a bit similar to the legendary dragon clan in later generations, the princess with peerless looks will rob him, and the 'beauty' in the kobold will not let go. So in his palace Poseidon enjoyed the song and dance in front of him, until a golden light flashed in front of him.

Brush –

Suddenly, Poseidon's powerful divine power was released, which instantly caused the death and injury of all the creatures in the palace. But he didn't care in the slightest, and quickly reached out and tried to catch the golden light.

A sneak attack...... There is no doubt that it is, but the forces above are not strong. Although Poseidon did not know who would dare to disturb his interest, he swore that he would make him understand the consequences of disturbing him above the sea.

"Po-"

In the flash of light, the thought had just flashed, and the golden light was approaching. However, to Poseidon's surprise, he was not able to stop the light.

The golden light shattered—or rather ignored the divine power in his hand, and then directly touched his palm, and disappeared in an instant.

The whole process did not give him the slightest time to react, and when it was all over, Poseidon looked at his palm. There were no scars there, and the golden light just now seemed to be an illusion.

"What is this......"

“……？！”

Anger and confusion rose in his heart, and Poseidon was about to do something, but then he stopped moving.

I don't know why, a fiery emotion welled up from his heart, it was the affection for his second sister, Demeter.

“……”

There was a long silence, probably a little struggle, but in the end Poseidon obeyed his feelings. He looked at the palaces around him, and the lives beyond that hadn't been touched by him...... Demeter is his love, so what is this?

So without hesitation, the Sea Emperor stretched out his hand and pressed it, and the radius of a hundred miles instantly quieted down.

After doing this, Poseidon calmed down a little. His reason told him that his current situation was not quite right, and that this must have something to do with the golden light, but most of the gods of Kaos were more emotional than rational, so this calmness was only momentary, and he barely thought about it, he was ready to think about it later.

Now, it's still the most important thing to find your sister.

Transformed into water, Poseidon flew towards the north. He had also heard of the cold winter set off by Demeter, and now, it seemed that the other party was in a human tribe.

……

On the sea, behind a cloud.

"Alright, call it a day—then, just go and wait for the goddess."

Clapping his hands, Volos said with satisfaction.

His golden arrow will keep moving forward until it hits its target. Although it is not impossible to stop it in this world, at least Poseidon should not have this ability.

And now the feeling came that it was indeed so, and it was no surprise that his arrow had hit the target.

"Okay—"

"Speaking of which, that goddess seems to be in the temple that the human kingdom built for her."

Nodding slightly, Eros said with a little longing:

"I don't know when we'll be able to find some believers to play with, and then let them build a temple for us too."

"Then don't want it."

Casually refused, Volos gave an irrefutable reason.

"I think humans are stupid, and it's better to stay away from them. We are gods who control our desires, but we are not gods who are controlled by our desires—but I think humans are quite easily controlled by their own emotions, after all, the highest of them all. ”

“…… Well, you're right, then we'd better not be believers. ”

After thinking about it for a moment, Eroth felt convinced that she really should stay away from them.

When the chatter was over, she was about to leave with Volos, but at that moment, a loud noise rang out from the sea beneath her.

A blue light split from it, instantly turning the surrounding life into dust. Then Poseidon's figure jumped out of the sea and flew in the direction of the north.

"Hmm...... It's working—but are mortal hatred-catalyzed arrows really that powerful? ”

Somewhat surprised, and a little confused, Voros felt the surge of emotion in the Sea Emperor's heart, the possessiveness of his sister Demeter, but he seemed to have gone a little too far.

"That's probably what he thought in the first place...... Huh~ You stay away from me!. ”

Looking at Volos to the side, Eros had a disgusted expression on her face. The eleven or twelve-year-old face matched the demeanor at the moment, but it made her look a little contrasting and cute.

"Don't talk nonsense, Eros...... As separate gods of love, the last thing we can do is have feelings for each other. ”

Pouting, Voros also knew that the other party was joking, so he didn't care, just greeted him.

"Let's go, let's follow!"

With a greeting, Volos flew first, and Eros followed with a smile. The big drama was just around the corner, and they didn't want to miss it.

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Spiritual Realm, Fifth Layer.

In the chaotic time and space, it is as quiet as ever, except that there is an unreal realm that looks like a star on the outside, but it seems to be an infinite illusory country inside.

Sitting in the void, Ryan's head and feet were increasingly stable interfaces of positive and negative energy.

A certain connection between them has become more and more intimate, which has gradually equalized the two energy planes that were originally unbalanced. However, at this moment, Ryan's mind is not on them, but on the movements of the outside world.

Of course, Ryan wasn't paying attention to the tiny human kingdom either. Although he did pay attention to everything that happened over there because of the Eros Twins, he didn't have any extra thoughts about the whole thing.

Whether it's Metanella or Demeter, there's nothing to pay attention to. After all, the development of the first half of the matter is extremely similar to the mythology of later generations, and the development of the second half seems to be normal.

Compared to the future son of Zeus, the deeds of a king named Tantalus, this point between the goddess and the queen was nothing at all, and he did not intervene in it. If it weren't even for the rotation of the four seasons, he probably wouldn't have remembered this little thing.

As for what Ryan is doing now...... Naturally, it was waiting to observe an important memory.

Hundreds of years ago, after the end of that divine war, Ryan gave Athena his artifact to spy on her past memories. And during this time, the goddess of wisdom also used it more than once, trying to understand the whereabouts of the mother goddess who was originally in the head of Zeus with her.

However, perhaps there was some higher-level influence during that time, or perhaps it was the subtle interference of fate, or both. In short, whenever Athena tries to explore the brief but important past from the hazy memories of her birth, she is always disturbed by something else that she deflects to something else.

Most of them are blank, but there are very few that do—those are basically when Zeus used the wisdom of Metis.

Whenever this happens, the god-king has to loosen the seal on the goddess. This may not have been enough to free Metis from his captivity, but it did allow a little of what was happening outside to pass in, to be unconsciously heard by the yet-to-be-born Athena.

Originally, these things would not have been remembered by her, but now under the effect of the artifact, Athena 'remembered' them one by one. Of course, although these are also gains, which give the goddess a deeper understanding of the unknown side of her father, Athena still remembers what she was really looking for.

Some higher force had been interfering with her, and it seemed difficult, but it was her own memory, something tangible. So when she found that the 'clever way' couldn't achieve her goal, Athena decisively chose the 'stupid way'.

Since you can't lock that time, let's extract all the memories before birth little by little. This simplest, crude, and most time-consuming method cannot be distracted by the potential impact.

So for most of the past few hundred years, Athena has spent most of her time in her past. Although most of it is tedious and useless work, fortunately, just recently, this search for memory has finally come to an end.

When all the useless parts are isolated, the remaining ones can no longer hide their existence.

So on a small island in the East China Sea, Athena, who was wearing a long dress, took out the scroll. She urged the artifact one last time, touching it against her smooth forehead, and with this act, [History] and [Memory] also acted on the goddess.

The secret was about to be revealed, and Athena's face flashed with a blush caused by a slight mood swing. And at the same moment, Ryan's gaze also moved away from the twins' bodies and looked at the goddess on the island. He was just as excited about the outcome of the expedition.

"Come on, just let me see...... What exactly did you do? ”

The voice echoed in the void, and Ryan's eyes flickered slightly. The next moment, something seemed to have changed, and although his person was still sitting in place, his 'god' seemed to have left his body.

The last exploration was different from the previous one, and Ryan did not choose to simply wait and see, using the power of the artifact to browse the fragments of memory. Because he knew very well that this memory was suspected of involving a confrontation at the world level, its impact was also extremely high.

If you are still waiting for the artifact to give a record by itself...... It's likely that the key positions are all blurred. As for asking Athena at that time, let's not talk about the rest of the questions, even if the other party is willing to tell Ryan word for word, but some 'mysteries' can only be obtained and understood by seeing them with their own eyes.

Like the Rune Rune, the version recorded in the original text and later disseminated is something very different. Over the years, Ryan has looked through the original texts from Odin's treasury, and he has learned a lot of useful things from them every time.

The closer the carrying of 'information' is to the source, the more 'true' and 'complete' it becomes...... So Ryan was going to go in and see for himself.

If there is anything in the entire world of Kaos that can have even the slightest resistance to the power of the world level, it is probably only him.

So when this thought arises, the divine body he left here becomes an empty shell. Ryan's spirit escaped silently, and entered the depths of her memory with Athena, who was far away in the East China Sea.

Intuition tells Ryan...... This memory journey will probably be very interesting. And what he is about to see is probably not just the experience of Zeus obtaining the ritual.

……

(End of chapter)