Type-Moon, I heard that after death, you can ascend to the Throne of Heroes?

Seeing Nuoyan finally accept the flute, Hermes took out a small package that he had prepared and handed it to Nuoyan.

"Come on, Nuoyan, this is what Athena asked me to pass on to you, and she also said that you can't open these now, you have to wait until the time is right to open them."

Hearing this, Nuoyan looked at Hermes strangely, and after a brief hesitation, he still put the package away, and sighed: "It seems that my journey of revenge this time will not be very smooth."

"But isn't this exactly your dream, little Nuoyan, and the heroic path you have chosen?" Hermes, who pressed his feather hat, smiled.

Yes, this was Nuoyan's choice in front of Clotho, the goddess of fate.

So after saying goodbye to Hermes, Nuoyan once again sat on Pegasus and went away.

As soon as he left, the wise goddess appeared and grabbed Hermes who was also about to leave.

"Wait, Hermes, how many golden apples do you have? Give me two!"

Looking at Athena who was talking to him anxiously, Hermes spread his hands and said, "No more."

"No more?" Athena frowned, her face full of disbelief.

"Really no more, that was the last one just now." Hermes said, thinking for a while and then continued to explain: "It's mainly because Hera has been keeping a close eye on the golden apples recently. No one will give them to anyone who asks for them, so I really have no more now."

Not only that, Hera also publicly stated not long ago that no one is allowed to give you Athena's golden apples, and anyone who gives them to you is making things difficult for her...

Looking at Athena who was depressed in front of him, Hermes couldn't help but feel a little happy.

You, the goddess of wisdom, have come to this day too!

"Tsk!" Athena said, "No, this can't go on, I have to think of a way!"

After that, Athena, who knew that she couldn't get the golden apples from Hermes, turned around and left.

Hermes looked at Athena who left in a hurry, and then looked in the direction where Nuoyan left.

He couldn't help but wonder why he didn't find Nuoyan earlier. Since he met Nuoyan, Hermes felt that the days were more interesting day by day!

Just like that, three days later,

Nuoyan came to Orpheus... Although Nuoyan had never been troubled by getting lost before, it would take at least half a month, or even longer.

However, Tianma didn't know who Nuoyan was looking for or where he was going, but every time he was ready to leave, a goddess would mark the coordinates for Tianma.

When Nuoyan found Orpheus, it was one night in a tavern in a remote town. When he saw Orpheus, Nuoyan couldn't even believe his eyes.

The suave Orpheus disappeared, and the guy who appeared in front of Nuoyan was a guy who drank all day to drown his sorrows. He even sold the harp given to him by the Centaur Chiron as a graduation gift and exchanged it for wine.

When Nuoyan appeared in front of him, Orpheus thought it was an illusion, but it didn't matter even if it was an illusion. He needed someone who could listen to him, so he hugged Nuoyan and vomited all over Nuoyan who couldn't dodge.

Half crying and half laughing, he told Nuoyan what happened in a daze.

It turned out that Orpheus had gone to the underworld two days ago, and he was appreciated by Hades, the god of the underworld, because his harp made the dead in the underworld shed tears.

But just like in the myth, he couldn't stand the loneliness along the way, and was worried that his wife, the fairy Eurydice, didn't keep up with him, so he finally looked back.

Therefore, what remained in Orpheus' eyes in the end were his wife's sad and tender eyes. The fairy Eurydice did not blame Orpheus, but Orpheus also lost her forever.

It was obvious that this was not the first time that Orpheus confided this to others, so when he finished speaking, the voice in the tavern was not sympathetic, but a burst of laughter.

They told Nuoyan not to believe it, saying that Orpheus was a madman who had been talking nonsense. After all, all ancient Greeks knew that as long as you go to the underworld, it is impossible to come out alive.

Nuoyan did not say anything about this, did not refute or get angry, but calmly cleaned up the vomit on his body and took out the silver leaf that the laurel goddess Daphne gave him before leaving.

Nuoyan exchanged it for Orpheus's harp, and asked someone to help carry him back to a room to live.

"Please help me take care of him, tell him that his friend Nuoyan has come, and that everything so far is just a nightmare, let him rest well, the nightmare will wake up soon, and his wife Eurydice will also come back."

As he said, Nuoyan gave the money he exchanged for the silver leaf to those who were willing to help.

Then Nuoyan left, he left the town, came outside, and opened the small package that Hermes gave him a few days ago.

As soon as the package was opened, a butterfly with dark wings flew out from it, it circled Nuoyan twice, and then flew away, and when Nuoyan didn't catch up, it would stop and wait for Nuoyan.

Following this dark butterfly, Nuoyan came all the way to a cemetery where three roads intersected, accompanied by the sound of dogs barking in the distance.

And at this moment, the moonlight that had been shining on Nuoyan was eroded.

The moon in the sky seemed to be swallowed up at this moment, and the surroundings fell into darkness. In the darkness, there was a goddess holding a dark lamp in her hand and wearing a black veil on her face. She stepped on the road to the underworld step by step and came to the human world.

There was also a three-headed guard dog beside her.

The guard dog's tail was wagging happily, because there was only a very short time every year when it didn't have to watch the gate of the underworld, but could follow its master to the human world.

The goddess finally stopped in front of Nuoyan, and her scarlet eyes quietly looked at the boy standing in front of her. At the same time, the dark butterfly that brought Nuoyan here flapped its wings and returned to the dark lamp she was holding.

"...... Is Athena finally crazy like her mother?"

Just as Nuoyan was looking at the goddess who appeared in front of him and hesitating about how to speak, the first sentence she said directly stunned Nuoyan.

"You are weaker than a baby. Can you come back after going to the underworld?"

"Forget it. It's none of my business. I'm not interested."

With that, without waiting for Nuoyan to reply, the goddess stepped forward and handed the underworld lamp in her hand to Nuoyan.

"Don't let go after you go down. There is also Cerberus. Take him to the underworld."

Hearing this, Cerberus just cried out miserably twice.

"He brought you honey cakes."

Then the three-headed dog of hell stopped barking.

After making arrangements, the goddess walked past Nuoyan and disappeared at the fork in the road.

Nuoyan looked at her disappearing back and didn't react for a while. During this period, he didn't have time to say a word until Cerberus, who was sitting on the ground, called out twice, which made Nuoyan come back to his senses.

Nuoyan came back to his senses and looked at the dog sitting in front of him with three heads and six eyes staring at him. Naturally, he knew who it was.

The guard dog of the underworld in ancient Greek mythology, the three-headed dog Cerberus!

Seeing that Nuoyan had been staring at him without any other reaction, Cerberus barked twice again in dissatisfaction.

At the same time, his eyes were looking at the package on Nuoyan's body, and his eyes showed desire.

Nuoyan followed his gaze and immediately reacted. He took out the package and opened it. Sure enough, there was a honey cake inside.

In the legend of ancient Greek mythology, honey cake is the favorite food of the three-headed dog of hell, so there is even a custom of putting a piece of honey cake in the coffin of the deceased.

Because as long as there is a piece of honey cake, the three heads of the three-headed dog of hell will fight for it, so that the deceased can leave safely from its presence.

However, there are naturally three pieces of honey cake in Nuoyan's package. Nuoyan took it out and fed it one by one into the three heads of Cerberus.

Seeing that such a weak person like Nuoyan had the courage to feed him, and that he could not smell fear from him, but rather a little excitement, Cerberus looked at Nuoyan with a strange look.

But because Nuoyan brought three honey cakes, he was very sincere, so Cerberus did not care about this little thing. He happily wagged his tail, turned around and walked back with the honey cake in his mouth.

After walking two steps, he saw that Nuoyan did not catch up, and looked back at him, his eyes full of urging.

Seeing this, Nuoyan hurriedly followed, but he felt a little regretful in his heart. It seemed that he had no time to draw this time... Yes, the moment he saw Cerberus, Nuoyan's old problem came back.

Ever since he realized that he was getting further and further away from the orthodox hero path, Nuoyan thought about it. It's okay to be weak. It's not bad to be a summoner who can shake people crazily when fighting!

With a change of mind, Nuoyan felt that it seemed a pity to kill the Calydonian boar.

After all, the wild boar is not Artemis's. We should draw it first and then ask Artemis to catch it. In the future, when we fight, we can throw the giant and the wild boar to smash or hit them to death!

Thinking of this, Nuoyan, who followed the three-headed dog of hell, Cerberus, also came to the underworld.

The underworld lamp given by the veiled goddess lit up the dim underworld road and illuminated the poplar trees and red spider lilies blooming on both sides of the road.

The underworld wind blew, making Nuoyan feel a little cold even holding the underworld lamp.

If there was no underworld lamp, in fact, the gust of wind just now would have allowed Nuoyan to stay in the underworld forever.

Cerberus continued to walk in front, looking back at Nuoyan and asking Nuoyan to follow.

Then Nuoyan didn't know how long he had walked, and finally came to the gate of the underworld.

The gate was lit by two eternal divine fires.

Cerberus returned to the gate, put down the honey cake in his mouth, and then, in Nuoyan's sight, he grew larger at a speed visible to the naked eye, revealing his true body as tall as a hill.

After revealing his true body, Cerberus thought that Nuoyan would be afraid of him, but he didn't expect to smell a more excited breath from Nuoyan... In fact, there was no need to smell it, Nuoyan's emerald eyes were almost bright in a physical sense!

Cerberus looked at Nuoyan very depressed. If he was not so weak, Cerberus would have wanted to shout twice to show his terror.

But it estimated that if it shouted in its current state, Nuoyan would stay here forever, so for the sake of the three honey cakes, Cerberus still endured it.

It lay down, yawned and closed its eyes.

The tail shook and pointed to the inside of the gate for Nuoyan.

Nuoyan naturally understood what was happening, and after reluctantly looking at Cerberus for a few times, he turned on the Hades lamp and walked into the gate.

As soon as Nuoyan left, Cerberus, who had pricked up his ears to make sure he was gone, immediately turned back to the size of a puppy, drooling and rushing towards the honey cakes placed aside.

And soon, there were dog howls... Even if there were three honey cakes, and they could have one each, they were still fighting for them!

And the next process was supposed to be to meet Charon, the god of the Styx ferry, and exchange the last ancient Greek coin in the package for the qualification to pass through the Styx.

But just as Nuoyan arrived at the Styx and had not yet seen the boat, he suddenly heard the sound of horse hooves running.

Subconsciously looking up, he saw four Pegasus representing the night in the sky above the underworld, pulling a chariot of the underworld running in the sky.

It was supposed to fly across the Styx and return to the underworld under Nuoyan's gaze.

But halfway through, it suddenly turned a corner as if it had discovered something. With a slight exclamation, the carriage ran back and stopped in front of Nuoyan, who was slightly stunned.

Then, an extremely beautiful goddess walked out of the underworld carriage.

She had a beautiful face, long black hair like the night, eyes as bright as stars, and a divine dress made of night and stars.

She came to Nuoyan.

After walking around Nuoyan twice, she was surprised and delighted to finally confirm Nuoyan's identity. She clapped her hands and said to Nuoyan happily: "It's really you, a believer of Hera. You are the child who used my body as a canvas to paint that night, right?"

With just this one word, Nuoyan naturally reacted immediately and realized who this goddess was.

Nyx, the goddess of the night, is the body and incarnation of the night in ancient Greek mythology, one of the five original gods, and in mythology, she is even the adoptive mother of the current god king Zeus!

"Why did you come to the underworld, kid... and you're holding Hecate's underworld lantern?"

Nyx looked at Nuoyan, then looked at the underworld lantern in Nuoyan's hand, and asked curiously.

Facing such a god, Nuoyan naturally told the truth, saying: "I came to the underworld to see the great Hades."

"You want to see Hades?" Nyx tilted her head, and then without waiting for Nuoyan to nod and answer, she smiled and grabbed Nuoyan's hand, took him to the carriage in the night, and said: "Okay, then I'll take you to see him."

When the carriage in the night flew over the underworld again, the ferry god Charon also came here. He looked at the empty riverside in front of him, smelling the breath of the living, and for a moment he couldn't help but feel a little confused.

And in the carriage in the night, facing the question of the goddess of the night, Nuoyan naturally told everything honestly.

When Nyx, who was almost older than the world, learned that Nuoyan came to the underworld just for his friend named Orpheus, she was stunned.

"Child, aren't you afraid that you will never be able to return to the beautiful world after this trip?" Nyx asked.

There are heroes who come to the world, but there is really no one like Nuoyan who will die when a gust of underworld wind blows!

Not to mention that there is no one, it is estimated that there will be no second person in all senses after him.

"The goddess of wisdom will help me." Nuoyan replied.

"Then have you ever thought that Hades will not agree to you... Moreover, this is not your business, but your friend's business. You come to the underworld where you can lose your life forever at any time for a friend, just to fight for that tiny possibility. Is it really worth it?"

"I haven't thought about whether it is worth it or not. I just think Orpheus shouldn't be like that. He is very different from what I remember, and..."

Speaking of this, Nuoyan paused, smiled at Nyx, and said: "Honorable goddess, isn't this very heroic? Being able to die like a real hero on the road of heroes is my dream of this life."

Nyx actually heard this not for the first time. After the end of the day when the night was the canvas, she curiously went to learn about Nuoyan, so she naturally knew about Nuoyan's oath with Athena and Nuoyan's past in Chiron.

But knowing is completely different from hearing it with your own ears, not to mention that this is the underworld.

Nuoyan really came to the underworld without a trace of hesitation.

Is there anything that can be more convincing than this moment?

"No wonder the two children of Hera and Athena are fighting over you, and even the entire Olympus gods know about it." Nyx couldn't help but sigh.

Nuoyan didn't respond to this, he just remembered the night when the two goddesses were in a standoff and the moon goddess Artemis was watching the show, and felt a headache.

Nuoyan actually saw that Athena really meant it, after all, Athena had already said Clotho's second prophecy at that time.

And Athena has helped him a lot so far, Nuoyan also admits it.

But... Goddess of wisdom, why are you a virgin goddess?

Actually, forget about being a virgin goddess, why are you also a god of fun!

And you are so powerful that Artemis can run out and strangle the heroic spirit. If it were you...