Chapter 272 Don’t Come Over Here!!! (6k)
A warm current containing vigorous vitality surged into the body, and Thetis woke up from her coma. Looking at the familiar figure that appeared in front of her, she murmured with mixed feelings in her heart.
"Lorne..."
He traveled almost all over the Oceanus Sea and prayed to the gods, but he was the only one who responded.
"If you are injured, don't talk and take a good rest."
Loen comforted her softly, and his hand on Thetis's back continued to inject divine power into her body to help her stabilize her injuries and dispel the other force that had invaded her body.
Feeling the reassuring warmth, Thetis's tense nerves completely relaxed, like a bird with a broken wing that found its home nest, curled up obediently in the sheltered harbor.
“Crash!”
At the same time, large splashes of water surged in the sea, breaking the brief tenderness between the two.
A wet and disheveled figure rushed out of the water and cast an angry look at the two figures hugging each other in front of him.
"Damn it, what are you doing? She's mine! Get your dirty hands off me!"
Hearing the roar, Loen didn't even look at the figure rushing towards him and pressed down with his backhand.
Suddenly, a water-blue narwhal jumped out from behind and knocked the other party into the sea.
Less than ten seconds after Peleus emerged from the water, he experienced the pressure of the deep sea and the suffocating feeling of lack of oxygen again.
A hint of worry appeared in Thetis's eyes. She pursed her lips, leaned close to Loen's ear and whispered a reminder.
"His name is Peleus, the grandson of my father god Zeus. This time he came here under the instruction of Zeus to force me to marry him and fulfill the will of heaven."
Prometheus, the fire thief, once told Zeus that if he married Thetis, he would give birth to a child stronger than his father. The cautious and suspicious king of gods did not want to give birth to a dangerous rival, so although he coveted Thetis's beauty, he never made a move on her.
Today, Zeus seems to have made up his mind to eliminate this hidden danger through the hands of his grandson Peleus.
After all, as long as the father's upper limit is locked, even if the child born by Thetis fulfills the prophecy, no matter how powerful he is, he will not threaten his position.
As for Peleus himself, neither his abilities nor his achievements are noteworthy in mythological history.
Hearing this, Luo En couldn't help but frown.
"The son of Aeacus, the judge of the underworld? The one on Aegina?"
Thetis nodded, looking quite helpless.
Actually, Peleus' father Aeacus, like the sea god Poseidon, was also her brother-in-law.
Back then, Zeus transformed himself into a condor, abducted the nymph Aegina, took her to an uninhabited island, forced her to have sex with him, and then gave birth to Aeacus.
Aeacus' wife was Endaeus, the daughter of Chiron, the Centaur Sage. They had two sons, Telamon and Peleus. Later, Aeacus fell in love with Psamathe, the daughter of Nereus, the old man of the sea. In order to get rid of him, the latter turned herself into a seal, but this did not fool Aeacus. After a long chase, the son of Zeus finally pursued Psamathe and had a son with her, Phocos, who was the famous ancestor of the city of Phocos.
From then on, Thetis' family had another relative.
However, when Aeacus' three children grew up, Telamon and Peleus were very jealous of their half-brother Phocus, so they deliberately killed him while throwing a discus. When Aeacus learned about this, he was furious and drove Telamon and Peleus out of Aegina, and cut off all ties with the two rebellious sons.
After that, Peleus just wandered around outside, but he didn't make any name for himself, and was even inferior to his brother Telamon.
Recently, he was recalled by Zeus from a corner, so he had good luck, and with the prophecy of "destiny", he came to the Sea of Oceanus in a grand manner to pursue Thetis.
But after the sudden death of her nephew, Thetis naturally would not have a good impression of Peleus, so she tried her best to avoid his pursuit.
But Peleus also inherited the fine traditions of his father and grandfather. When his pursuit failed, he turned to intimidation and even took out the weapons given by God in order to achieve his goal by force.
Loen looked at Thetis's blood-stained shoulder, with a gloomy look in his eyes.
"Did he shoot you?"
"I'm fine, let's get out of here first."
Thetis shook her head in relief, then lowered her voice to remind him.
"He came for Poseidon..."
When Loen heard this, he immediately understood the meaning of Thetis' words.
Instead of marrying Thetis earlier or later, he chose to force her to marry Peleus, a demigod hero who was unremarkable and had conflicts with the ocean gods.
Obviously, His Majesty the God King wanted to take advantage of this issue to criticize a certain Sea King who has been dancing too happily recently.
It would be even better if we could take the opportunity to lure Poseidon out and trick him into making a mistake.
But as a veteran solitary testicle warrior, and after seven years of hard labor in Thessaly, Eunuch Bo's ability to endure has long surpassed that of before.
Therefore, he had been hiding in the Temple of Poseidon, watching his sister-in-law being humiliated, and had no intention of intervening.
In the end, it was Loen who crashed into the big net.
"Leave? No one of you can leave today!"
A gloomy and suppressed cold snort exploded underwater. Peleus, who had been knocked into the deep sea before, had already broken free from the suppression of the [Giant Whale]. He looked at the couple who were flirting on the sea with humiliation, and threw the cross spear in his hand with all his might.
“Boom!”
In an instant, thunder exploded in the sky, and lightning flashed like poisonous pythons, carrying cross-shaped javelins and heading straight for the target.
The huge momentum and the powerful power contained in it made Loen think of something.
——Zeus’s [Thunderbolt].
The divine weapons created by the Cyclops for this God-King possess unstoppable destructive power.
But obviously, Zeus was not so extravagant as to give his divine weapons to his grandson who was randomly conscripted to use.
The one in front of him was most likely just a low-quality imitation with a trace of thunder power.
Besides, I’ve seen the authentic ones when I was a kid. Who are you trying to scare with this junk?
Loen snorted coldly, and his arm, which was wrapped in layers of divine power, reached forward, violently tearing apart the dense lightning, and grabbed the cross spear that was thrown at him.
The lightning snake was annihilated and the gun tip wailed.
Caught? With bare hands? How is that possible!
Looking at the scene in front of him, Peleus was somewhat incredulous, and his eyes were filled with deep fear for the third party who suddenly appeared.
“Wow~~”
At this moment, white waves and bubbles continued to surge toward the sea surface, and a large shadow quickly approached from underwater. Lorne's heart tightened, and he quickly put Thetis, whose injuries were temporarily stable, on the back of the floating dolphin. The aqua-blue [giant whale] behind him raised its tail and slapped the sea surface heavily.
Suddenly, the rhythmic power surged, the sea surface churned violently, and water columns as thick as buckets exploded.
“Puff, puff, puff!”
The monsters, whose dorsal fins were covered with spikes and whose mouths were full of sharp teeth, looked more like fish than humans. Before they could even break the water, they were minced into pools of meat.
The sickening smell of blood and fish filled the air. Thetis felt nauseous as she looked at the monsters on the sea whose intestines were ripped apart but were still biting and devouring each other.
They had seen these creatures before. They were the Atlanteans who were cursed and lost. They usually lived in the ruins of the fallen Atlantis. They preferred dark and cold environments and rarely surfaced.
This group of crazy prisoners appeared here, which means...
Thetis looked down at the terrifyingly huge shadow in the sea on one side, and her pupils couldn't help but shrink.
“Crash~~”
The sea was surging, and three huge monsters with 50 heads and 100 arms emerged from the sea one after another.
Damn, there are three hundred-armed giants squatting in the ruins of Atlantis!
This situation is really setting a trap for Eunuch Bo.
Loen cursed inwardly, picked up Thetis and prepared to run away.
However, as soon as he took a step, several sharp sounds of breaking through the air were heard behind him.
Always alert, Lorne turned his head and moved, easily avoiding the arrow shot from behind. He turned his head and looked at the attacker.
Peleus on the sea drew his bow and arrow, looking at the three hundred-armed giants rushing towards him from all sides, and declared proudly.
"She's mine! No matter where you run to, I will get her back. Your Majesty will make the decision for me!"
When Thetis heard the determination to not give up until the goal was achieved, her body trembled and she felt powerless.
That’s right, this is the will of Zeus, no one can disobey it, even his own father and sister choose to stay away from it.
Even if I run away, where can I go?
Just when Thetis was about to accept her fate and give up on herself, she heard a faint groan in her ears.
"I think I still owe you a favor?"
Before the ocean nymph could react, the Gorgon elephant emblem that she had been holding in her hand and cherished as a treasure was gently taken away.
Immediately, strong winds whistled on the sea and afterimages flashed.
In a flash, Peleus, who was uttering harsh words on the sea, was grabbed by the neck and lifted up roughly.
A strong feeling of suffocation came over him like a tide. Peleus, hanging in the air, struggled wildly, his purple face full of fear.
"Father God, save..."
Before the sound stuck in his throat could be uttered, his body was thrown into the air at high speed, like a cannonball, and crashed into the three hundred-armed giants walking towards the sea.
As if it was a stress response when being attacked by mosquitoes, the giant with a hundred arms in the lead casually slapped the flying foreign object.
“Bang…!”
With a crisp sound, Peleus, along with his armor, turned into a pool of meat paste.
Loen, who had already run some distance at this time, looked back at the spare parts scattered onto the sea, shrugged his shoulders, with a look of helplessness and sympathy on his face.
"It seems that you are not that important in the eyes of that Father God?"
"How did you kill him?"
Thetis stared at the bloody crime scene, stunned.
Luo En looked innocent and started to defend himself righteously.
"Look carefully, don't accuse the good guys! I was just returning the hostage. It was the Hundred-Armed Giant who beat him to death!"
"It's useless for me to believe this. Zeus has to believe it..."
Thetis revealed the key in one sentence, looked at Lorne with resentment and complexity, and lowered her head as if she had accepted her fate.
"Tell me, what should we do next?"
"Of course, it's to help His Majesty the Divine King."
Lorne replied with a grin, a dark look of ill intent on his face.
"Since he wants Poseidon to marry you, why don't we just follow his wishes?"
When Thetis heard this, she immediately understood what evil plan Lorne was planning.
To put it bluntly, his way of solving problems is to cover up existing problems by creating bigger ones.
Since His Majesty the King of Gods wants to set a trap for Poseidon, then let's follow his wish and lead the three hundred-armed giants behind him to drag Poseidon into the water.
After all, the so-called witness should be her father Nereus, not her brother-in-law Poseidon.
Even though Poseidon is the King of the Sea and theoretically governs all the ocean gods, his authority has little to do with her marriage.
But it doesn’t matter.
As long as they could successfully muddy the water and get the pair of brothers above to fight each other, their safety would be greatly improved.
If it were in the past, Thetis might have hesitated whether doing so was immoral.
But after being chased by Peleus and having no one to turn to for help, she had completely come to her senses.
I would rather die than let my friend die. Take care of yourself first.
"Go south, 800 kilometers away, there is a new Poseidon Temple built by the survivors of Atlantis in that sea area."
"clear!"
Loen immediately understood and nodded, increasing the speed of the Goat to the extreme. He led the three hundred-armed giants behind him and rushed towards the latest stronghold of Poseidon's family.
The three giants with a hundred arms, who had been chasing after them relentlessly, seemed to have received instructions from some unknown source. They slowed down quietly and followed behind them at a leisurely pace, throwing out a few stones from time to time to symbolically create a sense of crisis.
The howling wind swept the sea water, and the splashing foam weaved a vast sea fog. Thetis looked through the haze at the sparkling sea not far away, and glanced resentfully at the man who held her in his arms.
Witness a wedding? It would be nice if it was real.
However, Ron, who was concentrating on running, obviously did not notice the subtle change in Thetis' expression.
Seeing that the destination was within sight, he dived into the sparkling sea, and like a nimble fish, he passed through the blockade of several Atlantis guards and headed straight for the newly built Temple of Poseidon.
The Sea King family, who were hiding in their stronghold, saw the man and woman running towards them, and three huge monsters as tall as mountains behind them. The familiar scene brought back their nightmarish memories.
That’s how the once glorious Kingdom of Atlantis disappeared.
The survivors of Atlantis and the ocean gods all had stress reactions, their faces turned pale and their eyes were filled with fear.
Among them, Poseidon's reaction was the most obvious. He looked at the two shameless guides with a pair of bloodshot eyes, and his sad accusation was tinged with a hint of uncontrollable crying.
"Assholes, don't come over here!"
Loen turned a deaf ear to him, with a warm smile on his face. He held Thetis in his arms, smashed the dome of the Temple of Poseidon, fell into the hall, and greeted the grief-stricken Poseidon cordially.
"We meet again, Your Majesty."
Poseidon reacted and looked at that bright smiling face, his eyes suddenly turned red.
"You come to hurt me again!"
Facing the trident that the Sea King took out, Loen smiled and spoke slowly.
"It seems that the little thing you and Apollo did behind my back has come to light."
“……!”
Poseidon's face changed drastically when he heard this.
After successfully helping the Aquaman on the opposite side calm down, Loen continued to speak.
"How about we cooperate? You are responsible for stopping the three hundred-armed giants behind, and I will help you get what you want - regain control of the Oceanus Sea, or, go further?"
Upon hearing this, Poseidon felt it was ridiculous and sneered disdainfully.
"Just you?"
"Don't you believe me? How about this? I swear on my soul. If I can't do it, my soul will belong to you."
"What do I want your soul for?"
Poseidon had a constipated expression on his face, and from time to time he turned his head to look at the three hundred-armed giants on the sea that were getting closer and closer to the Temple of Poseidon.
"Have you heard of the Heart of Zagreus?" Lorne smiled slightly, a twelve-sided dice appeared in his palm, and he said quietly, "You should be very interested in this chip, right?"
In an instant, Aquaman's breathing became rapid and a strong blood color surged in his eyes.
[Heart of Zagreus], the original successor to the God-King, is said to have the potential to claim the supreme kingship of Olympus.
If it could fall into his hands, even if he lacked half of the paternal authority, he might still have a chance to get that position.
Thinking of this, Poseidon's face showed a strong maliciousness.
"Friendly reminder, Athena asked me to help, don't be impulsive."
Lorne answered with a mixture of truth and a reassuring smile.
It was true that Athena asked him to help, but she was helping Thetis and it had little to do with the rebellion that Poseidon was planning.
When Poseidon heard it, he believed it to be true. His boiling blood cooled down again. After carefully considering the pros and cons, he made up his mind immediately.
Done!
Anyway, I've been found, so it won't be a big deal to just fight with the three watchdogs outside first.
If the timing is not right, the worst that can happen is that you can find a way to get away with it later.
Although there is a high risk of conflict with the three hundred-armed giants now, the rewards from this wave of action will undoubtedly bring multiple benefits.
On the one hand, he could form an alliance with Athena, thus increasing the success rate of the conspiracy exponentially.
On the other hand, even if the rebellion fails, the [Heart of Zagros], the treasure that can help him become the God-King, will be his!
As long as he can withstand the punishment and absorb the divinity contained in it, he will be able to go further and sooner or later have the opportunity to once again challenge the supreme kingship of Olympus.
No matter how you calculate it, you won’t lose, so of course you have to give it a try!
When Loen saw Poseidon's final fierce expression, he smiled and stretched out his left hand.
"Have you figured it out? Then let's sign a soul contract?"
"good!"
Poseidon happily agreed with excitement, and a crown-like trident seal was imprinted on the back of the guarantor's hand.
As a subtle connection was formed between them because of the oath, the originally timid Aquaman suddenly burst out with infinite courage, holding the trident, and went out with great momentum.
"Zeus, don't go too far!"
"I always say that what happened at sea has nothing to do with me. Why are you three here again? I'm going to fight you!"
Immediately afterwards, huge waves surged on the sea, divine power surged, and the King of the Ocean holding a trident, riding billions of tons of waves, rushed towards the three hundred-armed giants with a look of grief and anger on his face. The battle between the two sides began, and the newly built Temple of Poseidon was affected again, turning into miserable ruins.
Poseidon's heart was bleeding. With new hatred and old grudges, he swung the trident in his hand even harder at the three hundred-armed giants.
At the same time, Lorne, who had taken advantage of the chaos to sneak away a hundred miles away, held Thetis in his arms and commented with a smile on his face about the massive war of gods in the distance.
Yes, Uncle Bo is still quite good at home.
The three hundred-armed giants did not kill him. It seemed that Zeus was just suspicious at most, but had no substantial evidence.
But Thetis on the side couldn't laugh, and looked at Lorne beside her with worried eyes.
"You've provoked them all, what are you going to do next?"
"Too many lice don't itch, too many debts don't worry."
Loen waved his hand nonchalantly, then looked meaningfully at the trident seal on the back of his hand and spoke jokingly.
"When I borrowed the money, I asked him for help; when it comes time to ask for the money back, maybe he asked me for help."
Thetis didn't understand what he meant. She just looked at the man in front of her who had risked his life for her and even sacrificed his future for her, and felt a pang of regret in her heart.
"If I had known things would turn out like this, I shouldn't have let you come."
"You didn't ask me to come here. I came here voluntarily. No one forced me to come here."
Lorne smiled, looking calm.
Thetis nodded slightly, her eyes looking across at him completely melting.
Loen glanced at the battle between the gods on the sea, which was still undecided, and breathed a sigh of relief: "Zeus didn't leave. It seems that he didn't pay attention to the Sea of Oceanus. This time he just took the opportunity to attack. Then Poseidon will take care of Peleus's matter, so it won't be a problem for the time being."
Thetis's eyes were filled with worry: "So, the next big trouble is coming?"
Lorne nodded, looked at the perceptive Thetis with appreciation, and gave instructions in a deep voice.
"Go to the foundry at Mount Etnate and meet Hephaestus. Ask the god of craftsmanship to do me a favor."
"Yeah!" Thetis nodded in response, then looked at the man in front of her, "What about you?"
"A trip to the underworld." Luo En looked down into the dark depths of the sea and stated the purpose of this trip, "... to borrow money!"
Thetis was a little confused and looked at Lorne blankly.
"Just now on the way out of the Sea God Temple, I thought of an interesting question." Luo En said, with a playful smile on his face, "When you borrow money from one or two people, when the repayment date comes, the other party will hope that you will be finished so that they can liquidate your property and make up for the loss. But when you owe enough money and owe enough people, what will happen?"
Thetis thought seriously for a moment, and finally shook her head helplessly.
Lorne's eyes flickered, and he gave an answer that Thetis had not expected.
"They would love for you to be alive and well."
"?"
"Because if you die, not only will the accounts not be settled, but the entire game will be unplayable, and everyone may go bankrupt!"
Loen explained meaningfully, and then made a summary quietly.
"So, when you owe everyone, everyone owes you too."
After leaving an answer that went against common sense, Loen said goodbye to Thetis, jumped, and swam towards the gate of the underworld deep in the sea.
The deal with Poseidon had an additional condition, which allowed him free access to the gate to the underworld built by the sea king.
The Mark of the Trident and the Mark of the Dead were enough to allow him to come and go freely in the underworld.
Next, he needs to make some preparations to face the real crisis.
(End of this chapter)
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