Lu Mingfei challenges FGO

93. Under the legend

Theoretically speaking, the person in the most dangerous situation at this moment is undoubtedly Kirshtalia.

Prior to this, Kirshtalia took the lead in discovering the absence of Hades in this singularity, so he exploited the loophole and positioned himself as the 'Thirteenth of the Twelve Gods of Olympus'.

But what Kirshtalia (the author) didn’t know at the time was that all of this was actually the work of the real Pluto in this singularity—the ancient god Athena!

The ancient god Athena is the goddess of snakes. Snakes are related to dragons. At the same time, snakes symbolize reincarnation. Reincarnation is divided into life and death. Life and death are usually associated with heaven and earth. In addition, Athena's symbolic creature is to play with the world and the underworld. The owl. It makes perfect sense that the ancient god Athena was the goddess in charge of the underworld.

Rather, the ancient Earth Mother Goddess had more or less powers related to the underworld.

Because BB originally mentioned the so-called "game play" of collecting the twelve gods, almost everyone thought that the theme of this singularity was the mythical era of Greece and Rome, and thus fell into a misunderstanding.

The precise 'time point' of this singularity is not the well-known 'era of Greek mythology', but the alien Cybertronians, who were later called Greek gods, have not yet arrived, or rather, have just arrived, but have not yet interacted with them. The era of the fusion of the earth's native gods and the war with the earth's native gods has not yet fully begun.

That is to say——

"Different from Eastern spells that emphasize 'lies' and 'the power of language (word spirit)', Western mythological system magic basically emphasizes 'imitation', imitating the power of gods and imitating the appearance of nature. In other words, the so-called imitation, after deconstruction, is essentially 'reproduction'. It can be said that the mysterious history of the West is a history of imitation of the past - no, it should be said to be 'reproduction history'."

"In this way, the so-called large-scale ritual magic can actually be regarded as a world-scale social experiment, right? It is easy to understand how to reproduce the mythical era in order to more conveniently obtain the power of the mythical era, but why should we Is the time locked at the point where 'the Greek gods just arrived'?"

“Can’t we move forward, or can’t we move forward?”

"First of all, rule out the fact that we can't move forward. If we continue to move forward, the power of Hades belongs to the ancient earth mother goddess Athena, whose name was later taken away. But I just suddenly lost the power of Hades. This represents the real Hades. Appearing, she returned to her throne, squeezing me out while pretending to be sitting on Hades’ throne.”

"I was able to borrow the power of Pluto's identity so easily before, probably because the ancient god Athena pushed me to the front of the stage in order to hide herself. Sure enough, loopholes cannot be exploited casually, especially such a particularly obvious loophole."

"The ancient god Athena has appeared. The goddess Hecate on the top of the throne has deliberately locked this time. It is impossible not to predict this. As long as you realize that the Athena here is the ancient god and not the Olympian god , then the real point in time of this singularity will be clear.”

"In other words, the appearance of the ancient god Athena was intentional by Hecate. This was her purpose. At this point in time, the ancient god Athena was at war with the alien visitors, so Athena was naturally hostile to the players. Because at this moment, as a large number of 'travelers' players, their status is actually the corresponding 'visitors from outside the world' in the process of reproducing history."

"The person who collects the core of the Machine God will become the enemy of the ancient god in terms of identity and will be hunted by the ancient god Athena. Then, Hecate's purpose is to use such an opportunity to let the ancient god Athena Will Na clean up the enemies for herself?"

".That's not right either."

"If it's just for this, there is no need to lock in this time point. Although occultism is basically the power of looking back to the past, the older it is, the more powerful it is. However, this time point in Greek mythology is a special case. The Cybertronian gods and The earth’s indigenous mysterious fusion also brings the high technology of the alien wanderers.”

"If we directly reproduce the real Greek mythological era, we should be able to borrow more and stronger power more easily and simply."

"If you think about it this way, pushing back the time of reappearance should be beneficial without any harm. After all, the ancient god Athena is too difficult to control."

"So... maybe, the ancient god Athena is not the reason why Hecate chose this time?"

"We can't go forward, because if we go forward, the Cybertron Mechas have not arrived yet. We can't go back, because if we go back, there is some other reason that prevents Hecate from defining time in the future. It’s time?”

"If you think about it this way, during this period of time - during this period of 'the fusion of the cyber machine god and the earth's native divinity', something terrible must have happened. This event caused Hecate to have to choose This is not the most appropriate time to carry out 'historical reproduction'."

"The ancient god Athena represents the 'earth's native divinity', and the time traveler players play the role of the 'alien visitor Cybertronian machine god'. The two parties will continue to collide, and in the process of overt and covert fighting, the relationship will gradually increase." The integration of both sides.”

"If you think about it carefully, fusion is by no means an easy thing. After all, both parties to the fusion must hope that they are dominant and that they are the one merging rather than the one being fused. If you think about it carefully, this kind of thing will never go smoothly. This paragraph The battle between the locals and outsiders should be longer, more terrifying and bloody, but the record in all the history of Greek mythology is that 'Zeus and others castrated their predecessors to seize power.'"

"Let's not mention what the machine god's reproductive organs are, but this may also show from the side that what happened at that time was so unreasonable. The integration of the local god and the outsider became very smooth for some reason. In other words, , had no choice but to become very smooth.”

"For example, a third party appears to break up the fight and blows up both parties. As a result, both parties have to choose an equal integration in order to survive?"

"Who is this third party? Cronus? Of course, it may be other situations, but no matter what, the root cause of the great fusion event that happened around this time is obviously Hecate The key to all plans is also the most important core for us to clear this singularity!"

"I said that, do you understand?"

Kirshtalia and the Chaldean captain, who were tied up with ropes and hung upside down on a tree, looked pitifully at Katniss, who he said was almost unconscious.

Why does this happen?

In fact, it is not difficult to understand. When Athena felt that her lurking had come to harvest the fruits, the real queen of the underworld took back her throne, and the incarnation of the underworld, Apophis, the god of destruction, swallowed the white horse of the sun, so there was no need to pretend. It went on.

As part of the disguise of the ancient god Athena, after the stolen power of Pluto was recaptured, the power borrowed from Pluto was still secondary. The most important issue was the ritual accompanying Pluto's power, which Kirshtalia constructed. The invisibility spell called 'Hades' Hat' has failed.

About Hades——

Don't doubt it, and don't be misled by the various novels, comics, and stories about second creation, third creation, and so on. Hades is really not strong, it can even be said to be weak.

Too many people preconceptions that Hades is actually a hidden strongman because the name 'Pluto' sounds cool and cool, and because Hades is actually a marginal character with little role in Greek mythology. .

In fact, there is indeed such a "not famous but powerful character" in Greek mythology - that is, Apollo, the god of light, and Hermes, the god of fraud.

As the god of light - and Apollo, who has never been assimilated by the Roman gods, needless to mention, as the god of prophecy, the god of the bow, and the god of order and law, he possesses the power that is closest to human life and the most glorious and solemn.

As for Hermes, although his reputation in battle is not as good as that of Athena, Zeus, Poseidon and others who often launch divine wars, Hermes' status is much higher than many people imagine.

If Prometheus stole fire and enlightened human intelligence, then Hermes was the original magician, not magic, but the ancestor of magicians. It was he who first established several basic concepts of magic theory.

From the very beginning, Hermes divided magic into two parts, namely 'magic that recalls the power of the past' and 'science that explores the power of the future' - of course, it was not called science at that time, but was called alchemy. technique (although the core concepts of alchemy in this world are the same).

One pursues idealism and deconstructs history from a philosophical perspective; the other pursues materialism and understands the world from the perspective of summarizing the laws of change.

Although there is no direct inheritance relationship with most magicians, Hermes did establish the foundation for Western magicians. It is worth mentioning that the existence of legends that deconstruct history from the perspective of spiritual idealism is found in myths around the world. There are many people in Zhongdu, but Hermes is indeed particularly rare among those who propose to understand the world from the perspective of summarizing the laws of material change.

Now it seems that the reason why Hermes is so special may be because the real Hermes actually comes from the supercomputer AI of a once highly developed Cybertronian silicon-based civilization.

But Hades is really weak.

Hades is really just Hades Cricket, and almost all the 'data' that can be used to praise Hades are fabricated and imagined.

The most classic one is the story about the three brothers who drew lots. Zeus drew the heaven, Poseidon drew the ocean, and Hades drew the underworld. Because the person who came up with the idea was Prometheus, the fire thief, there is always Conspiracy people believe that Zeus plotted against his eldest brother.

This understanding is completely wrong.

However, the story itself does have conspiracism in it, but the content of the conspiracy is not that Hades was calculated. On the contrary, Hades is the beneficiary of this story, and Zeus is the victim.

In ancient Greek mythology, Zeus was the absolute king of gods. He was invincible and could crush anyone, almost to the level of a monotheistic religion. Therefore, he was also called the ‘Almighty God’ in mysticism.

And those stories about how he gained the position of the God King through calculation and lost the divine weapon thunder and lightning, are all stigmatizing tampering carried out by later generations in order to weaken Zeus.

The classic thing about the lottery story is that it does not directly disparage Zeus, but it makes people think so.

And Hades?

Hades's status in Greek mythology is probably similar to that of Sun Wu in the Three Kingdoms. He came out just to make up for the Three Kingdoms. Of course, there was also the Song Dynasty who envied Sun Wu's military power and was embarrassed.

Hades is not among the Twelve Olympus Gods, which may mean that Hades, who is also a Mecha-god, is the only one without a Mecha-god core.

This is equivalent to the fact that other Mechas have Titan graphics cards, but Hades only has Core graphics.

Hades is the Lord of the Underworld. As the Lord of the Underworld, although he does not have the power of the underworld, he can control the gods of the underworld who are in charge of the power of the underworld - sounds domineering?

But if you think about it carefully, isn’t this just being ignored? Isn't this the mascot sent to the borderland of the underworld by the Olympian gods? In fact, those gods who are nominally under the management of Pluto actually have their own set of rules and do not listen to Hades at all.

Don't always subconsciously think that Lao Ha is a hidden ruthless character just because of Saint Seiya!

He is really weak, okay! He was even a soft-tempered doormat. When Hercules came to snatch his pet dog, the unlucky kid tried to stop him and was beaten up in turn. Then he went to Zeus to reason with him in tears.

Hades' daily life in Greek mythology was to be beaten and scared to tears, and then go to Mount Olympus to complain.

Who is not the Lord of the Underworld? Even when Achilles was given an immortal body by Athena, he could also go to the underworld and become the king of the underworld to rule over ghosts and ghosts.

Hades is really just a marginal character.

Even the 'pandemic', the most powerful power that could cause mass death in that era, was in the hands of Apollo. Even the sickle, which became the symbol of many gods of death in later generations, actually originated from the moon god Arte, who was the god of harvest. Miss.

The only thing worthy of praise for Hades is the Hat of Hades made for him by Cyclops.

"Stop stop stop!!!"

Katniss couldn't stand what Kirshtalia said.

"I'm asking you about your origins! Where does your power come from! Who are you and why are you an enemy of me! What the hell are you doing here with me so much? And the world seems to have just exploded. I can’t figure out what’s going on, but you look pretty smart and cunning, bean sprouts. You must know it! Say it quickly! If you continue to ramble on, I’m going to beat you into a patty!”

Well, that's probably it.

As Pluto's power was taken back by the ancient god Athena, after losing this part of the power, Kirshtalia's invisibility magic suddenly became ineffective. She fought against Canis in the incarnation state of Poseidon, not to mention losing the power of Hades. Now, even with the power of Hades, there is no way to confront him head-on - even Hades himself can't do it, because Hades is weak to earthquakes, and Poseidon is the god of earthquakes.

In fact, Katniss felt baffled as well.

"Calm down and think about it carefully, why did you come out of nowhere to stop me?"

Kirshtalia was amazed when she heard this: "You can actually calm down and think about things?"

"Are you looking for death?! Are you sick!?"

As if in response to Katniss's irritation, the sea horse (Poseidon's mount) beside him roared intimidatingly at Kirshtalia.

Katniss seemed to be impatient. She grabbed Kirshtalia's collar and said, "Forget it, I'll ask you one last time. I don't want to hear content that's meaningless and like exam papers. I don't want to hear anything else." Ask more and tell me! How did you use the power of Hades before? How can you steal the power of gods like you?"

"Let's not talk about the purpose of asking this, Miss Katniss, because I can roughly guess it, but there is one more thing I must mention. In fact, I have already told you the answer to the question you know first. .”

"Huh?" Katniss said, "Are you a liar?" expression.

If Lu Mingfei were here right now, he would definitely sigh, "Boss, you are the Tang Monk who can talk monsters to death."

--However

Kirshtalia did not lie.

After being captured, he actually told Katniss the secret. The reason why Katniss didn't immediately kill Kirshtalia, who was talking nonsense, was because she instinctively knew the answer - or in other words, the Poseidon in her body. The CPU (God Core) confirmed the answer.

But Katniss can't realize it subjectively because she doesn't look very smart.

But this is good, this is also within Kirshtalia's expectation. Now that it has been delayed enough, the new technique can already cause acne.

".The answer is Hermes."

"What? You want to talk nonsense before-"

"No, the answer is really Hermes, Mr. Caenis. Hermes is considered the ancestor of Western magicians, but his own magic has almost nothing to do with the magicians that were passed down later. After all, he specializes in alchemy. Technique, but since it is said to be 'almost no relationship', it still has a relationship, and this relationship is the answer you want to find from me."

"what are you talking about--"

"It's 'astrology'. Astrology originated from the ancient Kingdom of Chaldea, but Greece is a special exception, because this divine realm welcomed a group of guests from the stars in that ancient era. Therefore, in addition to The king of alchemical scientists of the Atlas Academy and the Greek astrologer are the true inheritors of Hermetic Magic."

Hermes, the ancestor of the Greek astrologers.

Of course, he is the god who is best at borrowing the power of the stars. Kirshtalia's method of borrowing the power of Pluto is naturally from the Hermes system.

Originally, in the most ideal situation, Kirshtalia planned to use Hermetic astrology to directly connect with the universe and define the Milky Way as its own magic circuit. However, due to lack of time and conditions, he could only adopt tricky measures. method.

"Hermes is the god of deceit. Of course, Hermes' godhead also has the attribute of deception."

The other gods basically have clear locations, scattered in every corner of the world, and are props that can be picked up.

But the only exception is the godhead of Hermes, because the godhead of Hermes is a fraud. Although he also has an entity that does exist, even if no one can find it, anyone within this singularity will , can weave the spell of 'deception' and 'assume' that the godhead of Hermes is here, thereby borrowing the power of Hermes.

Of course, even though they say this, in fact the only people who can do this are Greek astrologers.

Kirshtalia previously defined himself as Hades, which was essentially a 'fraud' by borrowing the power of his ancestor, Hermes.

At this moment, after weaving these true and false rhetoric to knock Katniss out of his mind, Kirshtalia's preparations were finally completed.

"The essence of prophecy is 'deception'."

"You're talking about-"

The figure of Kirshtalia, who was tied up with a rope and fell onto a tree, disappeared instantly.

God Hermes is good at deception and is naturally good at escaping. As a messenger god, he is also a god who is proud of his speed.

Now that Hades' identity has been taken back by the ancient gods, just spend some time to reconstruct a new lie (astrology).

In the blink of an eye, before Katniss could react, Kirshtalia snatched Poseidon's chariot, ran all the way, and disappeared from the end of Katniss' sight!

"How dare you steal my horse!???"

Angry roar.

Katniss, who can fly like a Saiyan above the sea, immediately chases after him!

Kirshtalia borrowed the power of Hermes as much as possible to continuously accelerate and increase the speed.

So here comes another question.

If the power of Hermes is so easy to use, why didn't Kirshtalia use it all the time before? Instead, she borrowed the identity of Pluto and used the invisibility cap to constantly restrain her?

The answer is actually very simple.

Hermes was too fast, and Kirshtalia's body that had been damaged by the origin bomb couldn't hold on, so he could only rely on Hades's invisibility cap to contain him.

Therefore, it is very difficult to escape directly through the power of Hermes.

Is there any other way?

——Differences arise——

[How did Kirshtalia escape? 】

[1/3/4, Hermes’ speed! Keep accelerating to escape! (Conducting a difficult ‘physical fitness’ judgment)]

[2. I heard the invitation from the ancient god Athena to be included]

[5. Hermes is the god of deception, how about escaping in troubled waters by pretending to be a past companion of Katniss? 】

[6/7, Escaped all the way, all the way to the Argonaut? 】

[8/9. High risk and high return are the essence of fraud! Pretending to be Katniss in life! (Successful confrontation judgment can make Katniss become the master of Kirshtaria in disguise)]

【10. Super expansion of chaos】

【1D10=10】

[1D2=2 (big failure)]

【That's it.】

【1. Don't run away, you can't escape】

[2~4. Kainis made an ‘evaluation’ judgment on Kirshtalia and received a correction of -45]

[5. Just out of the tiger's mouth and into the wolf's den (caught by Athena)]

[6. After being captured by Bertha and regressing back to the form of a child, he was caught in London, the city of bad thoughts]

[7. ↑+Bertha tried to get Kirshtalia’s memory lost in it]

[8. He used too much force and tried to confuse Katniss by pretending to be the same as before when he was alive. As a result, the power of the divine core of the deceitful god Hermes, who was temporarily summoned, went out of control, causing the disguise to become irreversible]

[9. ↑+ Even with this result, you still haven’t deceived Katniss? 】

【10. Super expansion of chaos】

【1D10=10】

[1D2=1 (Dice girl, what the hell!?)]

【.What is the specific result of this great success followed by great failure? 】

[1. Return to the previous option and draw again (won’t there be another big success or big failure?)]

[2. Combination of big failure and big success (there is also a new option of luck in misfortune)]

【1D2=2】

【.There are also great successes among great failures, that's probably it.】

[1/4/7, captured by Bertha, unable to escape from London, but kept his mind and did not get lost in it]

[2/5, was caught by the ancient god Athena, but was appreciated by the other party (it is safe for the time being)]

[3/6, disguised as Katniss in life. Although the disguise was seen through, Katniss was unable to take action (as long as the disguise is maintained, Katniss will not be killed)]

[8. Hermes' power went out of control and he could not change back after turning into the appearance of Katniss in life, but he perfectly deceived Katniss]

【9. ↑+ even became her master? 】

【10. Super expansion of chaos】

【1D10=9】

【Ah, anyway! The scene is like this! 】

[Kirshtalia held on to her body and used the power of divine speed to temporarily distance herself, and then deliberately created chaos. Finally, she planned to disguise herself as the former sea princess Katniss and take advantage of the situation to fish in troubled waters. As a result, Hel Mess's power went out of control, and Kirshtalia fell into a coma and was washed up on the coast. Then she found that she could not change back]

【team leader----】

——to be continued!