Dark Iron Incident

"I thought they got it wrong in Osiguda..." The beautiful woman smiled. Zallion would have blushed before. "I didn't expect it to be Lord Winter himself."

"...so glad to see you alive, Desert Moon."

"I'll give you this sentence too," Sphinx bowed gracefully, "Can we find a place to talk?"

Only then did he realize that the children were hiding behind him and blatantly admiring this beautiful face. The ice dragon hurriedly turned around, dismissed them, and then led the sphinx to the depths of the small orchard.

"Everyone is too scattered, and it was hard to find. Fortunately, I found you. One more counts as one... I didn't understand you much before, but I heard your stories frequently recently. I love your ice and snow forest. I'm still very interested... I hope you won't let us down if you really fight."

"When the war is won, I will remember to invite you to sit down."

"Well... I'm looking forward to it. But if I remember correctly, you, Lord Winter, have never participated in the war... but Clegane, who has separated from you, has been going to the battlefield on behalf of the Hetalos family. So... I want to make sure, you can handle the problem, right?"

Before he finished speaking, a slightly larger monster landed behind Zallion. It had the head of a lion, the body of a sheep, and the body of a snake. Each part had its own head, which was extremely scary; On the left side of the body beast is the body of a giant wolf dog with two heads on its shoulders, one is smiling and the other is angry.

...that's Chimera and Otrus.The bewildered Ice Dragon suddenly regained his courage. He only remembered that Hydera was the head of the seven kings, but he forgot the largest and most terrifying family behind him. They were the main force in the Bronze War, and they were the worship of Zalien when he was a child. object.But before he had time to be happy, dissatisfaction with what Sphinx said just now rushed to his head.

"Did you... come here to question me?"

"I want to ask for your help." Sphinx spread his wings to show his friendliness. "To tell the truth, don't hate to hear it. There are rumors that you and your father's second son took refuge in the gods. A silver crown is not so easy to wear, I always have to decide whether it is friend or foe."

"So you're following me all the way?"

"No, it's not me, I don't have this kind of leisure. But if you are really a traitor, you should have died under my hands." The pretty face smiled a little amused by his own words, but Zalien couldn't laugh, He knew it was not a joke, and he also knew that the other party just had the ability to see if others were lying.

"Okay, Lord Winter, although it is not easy to gather everyone together, this should be one of their plans, understandable."

"Who?"

"Zeus, Athena, who else?"

"..." Zaleen kept staring at the other party's smile, finally got out, and shook his head, "...Who?"

"Can you concentrate?"

"Can you cover your face?"

"Childish." The Sphinx laughed again, and Zallion could only turn his head away.

"The era is changing, Lord Winter, our era is collapsing... When God's punishment falls and the black iron arrives, no one can escape."

"I don't have the heart to guess what you say."

The Sphinx's face became a little grim: "Say it again? How many times are you going to mention the years I stayed in Thebes?"

"...Quick talk for a while, Desert Moon." Zalian lowered his head and admitted his mistake. The angry Sphinx has no fruit to eat. He is almost the smartest guy in Warcraft, and even Hera set him up for death. He can also crack the game without any damage.

"We have to break through the entrance of the abyss, I hope they can hold on a little longer below," the sphinx spread its paws, "my elder brother is also below, I think he can handle it."

"... Hydera went in too?"

"Surprised." Chimera behind him couldn't help interjecting, obviously he was also very dissatisfied with the result.

"I also thought that even if the idiots in the arena were caught off guard, the seven kings would have escaped, but, yes, Hydera went in." Sphinx pursed his lips , "But he left me a little message, I'm going to visit Grandma Gaia later."

"I don't understand." Ice Dragon stood up, "Is the Bronze Covenant terminated?"

"If the Covenant of Bronze is terminated, we will not be looking for you, but our father."

"...but this is... this is a war waged by Zeus."

"It's not war, it's cleaning," Pretty Face lowered his voice, "I always knew that Zeus wanted to punish humans who were increasingly disrespectful to him, but you must know that the first purpose of signing the Bronze Covenant was to not harm humans, so it was This is an excuse for a truce... If Zeus wanted to clean up humans, he would not be blatant if he wanted to clean up us." Sphinx's tone showed a trace of disgust, and he stopped talking for a long time before continuing, "...But I also admit that, I didn't expect him to be so cunning."

Ice Dragon shook his head: "I still don't understand."

"The black iron is coming, Lord Winter, the fourth generation of human beings, just like Zeus used heavy rain and Pandora to force them into new generations. He wants their admiration, he wants their surrender!"

"He's..." Zaarion thought of every bedtime story he'd heard before, "...is he sending divine punishment?"

"It's changed," Sphinx sneered, "form an army of only humans and demigods, and incite those idiots to fight against us. When enough humans pray at the same time, Zeus moves his fingers to open the abyss, and he becomes He became a helper, not a battle. He neither broke the bronze covenant, nor owed mankind, and could drag them down with war... This war dragged on for so long because he wanted to confuse them generation after generation until it became deeply rooted. ...I have thought of a thousand ways to attack us with these imbecile armies ... but I have tried thousands of calculations, but I have not calculated that they are nothing but Zeus' pawns..."

Zallion could feel the sphinx's wrath, his prided wisdom being mocked, but it really wasn't his fault, the Bronze Age was just getting on the right track, and no one would have thought that Zeus would be so desperate to move forward again push.

"...he will pay the price... the demigods who died together will not sacrifice in vain, their parents will also be dissatisfied with Zeus, and opening the abyss of the earth mother will also consume a lot of his divine power and lose control. This is what he holds Snowball, the lord of Winter, even if he is the god of the gods, there is no way to stop.

"Just as he can never change Moira's spinning threads, no matter how much he punishes those little human beings, they will find a way to live like weeds, and one day, when their roots are deep enough and they are spread enough. Guang... That's when he, Zeus, played himself to death." Sphinx's beautiful face began to twist, "I'm waiting for that day."

Only then did Zalien think of those heroes and demigods who fought, the unbelievable horror on their faces when they fell into the abyss of the Earth Mother... When they died, their thoughts were all hopeless, and they might still be cursing the high gods, but their names will be remembered by future generations. Be praised by others and become an indispensable hero...

...Do you know how the gods control people's hearts...

His mother's face came up to him.

……my child……

"Even in the Black Iron Age... humans will not stop chasing us," Ice Dragon raised his head, "Even if this world is really controlled by humans, we are... evil things..."

"Life after life is endless," Sphinx kept smiling as if he had thought about it a long time ago, "but it's right that we cannibalize people, we take pleasure in hurting them, and never give them our strength, so Think about it, and balance it out. Eat as much as you can. That's what I do."

"—Zeus killed the most people! And that Hera...that Ares!"

"Well, well, so what?... What are you going to do? Give your power to humans like a god? What are you? Child?... Stop, Lord Winter, do you know, and You always have a weird feeling when you talk... some of what you say is on point, and some of it is ridiculously childish, and now it's like something in between... I've talked to Clegane too, it's not like that You make me suddenly very curious about the way Lord Hetalos raises his children."

"Please don't make fun of my family affairs!"

"War is not a joke! What we want are soldiers, not children." Even the head of the two-headed dog that had been laughing at it became ferocious, and the giant Chimera beast closest to the ice dragon also moved, and the atmosphere was somewhat nervous.

"You'd better understand what's waiting for us, as I said, Zeus is a god anyway,"

Sphinx didn't want to continue this boring discussion anymore, so he stood up and shook his wings, "Maybe in a few centuries, no one will remember that he has the same blood on his body as my father, but I think Father doesn't care. I'm going to meet Grandma Gaia now. If you want to help, go to Scylla. She's on the coast of Isa. If you want to continue to blame yourself, stay and hide here... I don't A place that knows what it's called, and babysitting the kids out there who might never live to see their prime."

Zalyon leaned forward a little ashamed.When he didn't pay attention for a while, he returned to the state of arguing with Clegane, who would let him and protect him anyway, making him forget how cruel the reality is.

"...I... apologize for my attitude, Desert Moon."

Sphinx didn't care about it any more, just returned his sincere apology, and the smile returned to his face: "In this case, I am looking forward to seeing your fighting posture. I hope it is right to come to you, Huh House Talos is never absent from battle."

The ice dragon looked back at the lion-headed goat that was slowly moving away from him: "——you...you came, came to me because of my family?"

"No! We thought you were a traitor. We wanted to come and chat with you. We have too much time and don't know what to do with it—for Gaia's sake, Lord Winter! Of course because you are the son of Lord Hetalos!" The Sphinx rolled his eyes, a little overwhelmed by the kid, "I thought we all knew all about the humor."

"But—but you should go to Clegane—"

"Oh! So it's this... I forgot to say, my fault!" The two-headed dog shook its head, and opened its mouth at the same time, "I was right next to Geryon at the time, and I could see it very clearly, World Destroyer Already fell into the abyss of the Earth Mother. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that some ridiculous human beat him, but, well, he seemed to send his men out, and then, um, yes, he jumped in himself. He's crazy, you know? You know what I mean? World Destroyer himself jumped in."