Ares, God of War

"It has nothing to do with that incident." The two Arcadia warriors said with serious faces: "Last night, a group of caravans were attacked by a monster in the forest outside the city. According to the survivors, That monster has the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and a python tail that can breathe fire. If you are not in a hurry to leave recently, it is best not to leave the city-state until we confirm that the monster is far away, or please After the heroes have defeated it, it is not too late for you to leave the city-state."

Chapter 227. Hecate blocking the way

Lion head, sheep body, boa constrictor tail, can it breathe fire?

Hearing the Arcadia warrior's narration, Ares couldn't help blinking in surprise.

Isn't this the famous monster in the legends of the Greek world, the Stitched Chimera?

But Ares remembered that this monster should have been the pet of the king of Caria who ruled the southwestern part of Caria Asia Minor when it was a cub. Afterwards, the monster's ferocious temperament gradually revealed as it grew up. It broke free from the chains that the king of Kalia made for it, and then fled all the way from the kingdom of Kalia to the kingdom of Lycia, a neighboring country near Kalia, devouring people and animals along the way, and burning crops with flames, which made it famous for its viciousness of the Greek world.

But why did this ferocious monster appear in the forest of the Kingdom of Arcadia?

Something is wrong.

Reminiscent of Athena who didn't know what she was doing recently, Ares decided that it would be better to go to the forest to have a look.

So he bid farewell to the two Arcadia warriors, then cast magic, covered his figure, quietly left the city-state of Arcadia, and headed towards the area that the Arcadia warriors said The forest went through.

This avatar of Ares is definitely not able to deal with Chimera. As a one-time avatar for arching fire, the quality of this avatar is even lower than that of ordinary humans, and there is no enhancement plug-in installed. Under the extreme operation of Ares, this avatar fought with a group of ordinary soldiers at most.

However, this incarnation can use some small magic that does not require much magic power. Using these magic, Ares is sure that he can touch into the forest to find out the truth.

Even if it was really discovered by that Chimera, Ares could just take back his spirit at worst. This incarnation would have to be discarded, so it would be fine to give it to Chimera as a bite.

With the help of magic, Ares quickly came to the side of the forest. On the side of the road, he saw an ox cart lying on the side, and the debris on it was scattered on the side of the road, and the livestock pulling the cart could not see it. When we arrived, the area around the bullock cart was covered with blood and scorched marks. From the looks of it, this place should be the group of merchants who were attacked by the Chimera.

Ares didn't spend time investigating all kinds of clues at the scene. He directly used another little magic to open a special vision for himself.

In this field of vision, everything around has turned into a gray color, but the bloodstains and scorched marks on the ground instead emit red fluorescence. This magic is independently developed by Ares, which can help the The reader quickly discerned the traces on the ground, but after developing it, Ares understood why Hecate didn't develop similar magic.

This kind of magic is really tasteless for them who are born holy. If Ares comes over with a divine body or divine power clone, the tracking effect of this special vision is not as good as his naked eye sight, but for his current clone For me, this magic is really very useful.

After opening the special horizon, Ares not only captured blood and scorched marks on the ground, but soon, he also saw some footprints on the ground.

These footprints look somewhat similar to cat's paws, but they are huge, even bigger than lion's paw prints. In the sight of Ares, these footprints exude light blue fluorescence, extending all the way from the forest Come out and go all the way to the crime scene.

Ares blinked, added a magic to cover his figure and breath, and then followed the series of footprints in reverse, and he came to a clearing in the forest. Strangely, here, The lion's footprint gradually shrunk and began to slowly become the footprint of a pair of people.

What does it mean?

Seeing this scene, Ares was a little surprised.

Could it be that this chimera was transformed by humans?

Suppressing the surprise in his heart, Ares patiently searched around, and finally found a wonderful thing in a bush.

It was a bronze syringe, and there was still some light blue liquid in the syringe. After seeing the syringe, Ares also confirmed the guess in his heart. Something made by Athena.

This kind of syringe was only used by Athena. When he was in the Xingxingzhou, he had seen Athena use the same type of syringe to extract the spirit seed from the dead Xingxing soldier.

But in this forest, I don't know who became Athena's experiment. It may be an innocent passerby. However, Ares is more inclined to the Hippomenes who lost to him in the field today. .

This guy, Ares remembered that after he took Atalanta away, this guy also left the arena in the chaos, and after that, Ares took Atalanta and scanned the whole city with his eyes, looking for a place to stay At that time, he was not found in the city-state of Arcadia.

He may want to escape from the Kingdom of Arcadia, but in this forest he met the goddess of beauty who gave him golden apples, and then something happened. Hippomenes probably angered Aphrodite, and then He was punished by the God of Beauty and turned into this monster.

Of course, this is just Ares's guess. He guessed this way. It was simply that Athena ordered the Son of Beauty to shoot him and Hecate with an arrow, which almost caused them to make mistakes, and Aphrodite It's better to fool her, maybe Athena had already fooled her when she asked her to borrow her son.

And even if this matter is really as he guessed, he can't blame Aphrodite for anything, and Hippomenes is not his believer. As for disregarding human life, the Greek gods have no such concept.

The most important thing at the moment is to carefully preserve this crime tool and take it back. When the time comes, let Hecate see what the ingredients of the potion are.

To be on the safe side, Ares kept the clone in place, then used his divine power to transform into an animal, came here in person, preserved the syringe with magic, and carefully took it away.

After leaving the Kingdom of Arcadia, Ares did not return to the underworld first, but first took Atalanta across the mountains and rivers of Greece and headed towards the Kingdom of Sparta.

Halfway through, Artemis, the irresponsible main god, seemed to have finally sensed Atalanta's prayer to him, and finally came forward to respond to the believer, and after listening to Atalanta's whole story, he agreed Send her to Sparta.

Under the protection of Ares, Atalanta finally came to the territory of the Kingdom of Sparta. On the plains of Laconia, a girl from Arcadia could already see Sparta in the distance. The towering walls of the city-state.

But just as she continued to move towards the city-state of Sparta and came to a fork in the road, the surrounding sky darkened unknowingly.

Atalanta found herself suddenly entering a dim world, but she didn't panic, but took out the Sky Bow and looked around vigilantly.

After a while, Atalanta saw three faint flames suddenly appear on the road ahead, and with the ringing of a bell, she saw a beautiful goddess with purple hair reaching her waist and a graceful figure, holding a A candlestick came towards her from the darkness.

The goddess came close, blinked at Atalanta, and then asked curiously:

"You are the Princess of Arcadia, Atalanta?"

Chapter 228. Because of wearing yellow glasses

Hecate, goddess of the moon?

Seeing the goddess in front of her, Atalanta also recognized her identity.

Although she grew up in the wilderness, she has little interest in other gods except Artemis, which she believes in. It can be said that she knows nothing except the twelve main gods, but during the journey on the Argo, However, she had witnessed the scene where Hecate and Ares fought back Poseidon together, so she also recognized this powerful goddess.

Moreover, Atalanta still remembered that the relationship between Ares and the goddess Hecate was quite close. Although they were masters and apprentices, their actual relationship was closer than that of a simple teacher and student.

Although this goddess looks a little aggressive now, she probably won't really do anything to her. Atalanta doesn't know how she sees this, but she just has this feeling, maybe this is It must be the wild intuition that children who grow up in the mountains get.

So facing Hecate's question, Atalanta nodded, and put away the bow of the sky, and replied: "Yes, I am Atalanta of Arcadia."

She did not claim to be a princess, and Iasos' various performances made her not quite agree with this identity.

"Heh, she looks pretty pretty."