Chapter 258: Down and Out, Family
A few days later, it was night.
Sensing the familiar resonance of the emblem on her chest, Medusa quietly rode her Pegasus out of the city and landed in the dense forest outside the city that she often visited.
"Coming?"
Lorne's figure walked out of the darkness, smiled, opened his arms, and gave Medusa a big, warm hug.
After a long separation, Medusa wanted to enjoy the rare tenderness between them, but a few monsters who did not understand romance came over excitedly and chattered nearby.
"Gorgon! It's the Gorgon!"
"The smallest one before!"
"Now he's grown so tall, and he still smells like my mother!"
Seeing a group of Typhon descendants with various monster heads appearing before her, Medusa couldn't help but look at Lorne in surprise.
"Did you bring them all?"
"Not all of them, just the eight of them."
Loen counted them, then pointed to the dense forest behind him and added helplessly.
"Oh, yes, there's another one behind."
Medusa looked forward and saw a ferocious monster as tall as a mountain, with black scales all over its body and nine huge snake heads on its front. It was coiled on the ground with its head drooping, not moving.
"Xiaojiu? What happened to her?"
"This girl insisted on fighting those harpies to death. No matter what I did, I couldn't persuade her to stop. So in order to avoid any accidents, I beat her unconscious."
"What did the Harpies do?"
"Nothing much. Just some animal excrement thrown into Lake Lena in order to lure Hydra out of it."
"..." Medusa was silent for a while, then spoke faintly, "She tends to hold grudges..."
"Yeah, she has a very bad temper." Luo En agreed casually while making follow-up arrangements, "When we get to the mountain, let the mother snake wake her up herself."
As for why he didn't come in person, it was because he was the one who planned the immoral act of throwing manure.
At this time, Medusa heard the hidden meaning.
"Aren't you going back with me?"
"I am going to the Far West to meet your eldest sister Ladong."
"You're going to the Golden Apple Grove?"
"Well, the mountain is high and the road is long. It's inconvenient to bring them with you, so I'll ask you to take these problem children up the mountain."
Loen said this and then waved back.
"And you, Melinoe, go up the mountain with Medusa. She will arrange a place for you to stay. If you need anything while I'm away, you can ask her."
The princess of the underworld, who had gone crazy all the way, came out from the shadows reluctantly. Under the threatening gaze of a certain guardian, she could only pinch her voice and pretend to be a good girl and introduce herself actively.
"I am Brother Luo En's sister. Please take care of me in the future."
younger sister?
When Medusa heard this, her originally kind look instantly turned alert, and she felt a little unhappy.
Loen noticed Medusa's mood change and immediately corrected her righteously.
“Damn it!”
"Yes, but we have a good relationship."
At this moment, Melinoe took the initiative to walk up, put his arm around Loen, and showed their intimacy.
And those dark eyes showed a hint of gloating.
Lorne smiled and pulled his right arm out from the barren chest, then gently patted the problem child on the back.
Suddenly, Melinoe felt the divine power in his body dissipate. The malicious smile on his face froze. He looked in surprise at the mark of the dead that lit up on the back of Loen's hand.
Not only was Persephone fooled, but even the old man fell for his magic and gave the seal of God to this guy?
"Alright, I've sealed her divine power. If she doesn't obey, you'll beat her to death!"
Lorne gave Medusa instructions with a smile, and then offered a more heartwarming supplement.
"If you can't do it yourself, you can ask Stheno and Euryale to come. They must be feeling very pent up lately, right?"
"Um!"
Medusa nodded obediently, a smile blooming on her face, and then she unceremoniously dragged Melinoe, who wanted to cause trouble, behind her.
After following the goddess of wisdom Athena for so long, even a stone would have become wise.
Melinoe's little trick of sowing discord was far from enough to destroy the relationship between her and Lorne.
Moreover, her two sisters would certainly be happy to accept this troublemaker with bad intentions.
After all, ever since the two of them were beaten up several times in a row, they haven't had the chance to love their "sister" for a long time.
Feeling the sudden chill in his body, Melinoe shuddered inexplicably and suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.
To be finished...
After simply completing the handover, Loen gave Medusa another hug, kissed her smooth forehead, and said goodbye gently.
"Then I'll leave them to you. Just follow the arrangements of the Snake Mother and Athena. I should be leaving now."
Medusa stroked the wet marks on her forehead, nodded gently, and watched Ron's figure gradually disappear into the night.
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Seven days later, in the far west.
After traveling day and night, Loen arrived at the foot of a mountain.
Looking from afar, the mountains are rolling and undulating, with the most majestic and upright main peak in the center standing at the junction of the chaotic world, like a giant holding up the sky. The vast and dense forests are his beard and hair, the ridges supporting the mountain are his shoulders, hands and bones, and the peak that reaches the clouds is his head.
Atlas Mountains...
It seems that the Titan who was exiled here is almost dead.
Loen murmured something and then looked towards the churning sea.
The legendary Golden Apple Garden is located on an isolated island in the Western Ocean near the Atlas Mountains.
At that time, Mount Olympus won the Titan War. To show her support, the goddess Gaia brought back a large lush tree from the west coast as a wedding gift for the new king of gods Zeus and queen of heaven Hera. The tree was full of golden apples that embodied immortality.
Hera was overjoyed and planted the precious golden apple tree in her sacred garden. She also sent three nymphs of the Hesperides and the hundred-headed dragon Ladon to guard it.
After searching carefully along the sea near Mount Atlas, half a day later, Loen finally found an unnamed isolated island hidden by several magic circles.
Looking at the changing colorful glow of the island, Loen nodded secretly.
That should be it.
Legend has it that the three Hesperides sisters who guard the sacred garden were named Glory, Red Glow and Dusk, representing the changes in the glow at sunset.
The unique divine manifestation on the island has already indicated the location of the Holy Garden of the Golden Apples.
However, finding the right place is only the first step. How can you get the golden apple without arousing other people's suspicion?
Just as Loen was feeling troubled, he had unknowingly flown out of the boundaries of the normal ocean and arrived in the chaotic and disordered primitive ocean.
As soon as we entered this wild area, the strong smell of blood hit us in the face.
Covered by the red and black blood mist, dense swarms of primitive sea beasts surged onto the surface of the water, their eyes bloodshot and expressions insane, engaging in a bloody melee and fight with each other.
Seeing those gods and monsters rushing forward fearlessly and biting their opponents fiercely even though their limbs were torn into pieces and their organs were pulled out, Loen frowned slightly.
Their state is a bit strange, as if they were under some kind of spell...
As he caught a glimpse of the red and black blood mist on the sea that seemed to be expanding, a light bulb went off in Loen's mind and he instantly thought of the real answer.
It's the divinity of war!
Quietly hiding himself and observing from the periphery, Loen soon found the source of the chaos.
——A goddess with long red hair and black wings was standing in the clouds, clapping excitedly at the chaotic battlefield.
"Fight, fight! I want to see a river of blood!"
Seeing the iconic red hair and black wings, as well as the expression that seemed to wish for chaos in the world, Loen was stunned.
Eris? Why is she here?
Soon, as streams of blood and energy on the sea surface as if they were real flowed into Eris' body, vaguely raising her divinity a few points, Loen suddenly realized.
As the goddess of discord and strife, her divinity is naturally related to chaos and fighting.
In the last chase, she and the three goddesses of vengeance almost turned half of the Oceanus Sea upside down. Countless sea beasts and the blood clans of the gods died directly or indirectly at their hands.
Although Hecate intervened in the end, not only throwing the three goddesses of vengeance into the underworld to work, but also almost plucking all the feathers of Eris, the chaos caused by them obviously made this goddess of discord taste the sweetness.
Therefore, she would sneak into this pristine ocean, cause and create chaos among the sea beasts, and seduce them to fight and sacrifice, in order to increase her own divinity.
In the past, he was able to cheat people and gods without restraint, but now he has even fallen to the point where he has to fight against sea beasts and do it secretly.
I'm in such a bad situation, my family...
Loen looked at the goddess of discord who was shouting in the clouds, and shook his head with pity, his eyes flickering faintly.
He seemed to have an idea about who would settle the Golden Apple's account.
(End of this chapter)
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