Simulate the universe, starting with speedrunning Greek.

You know, in Greece, not to mention mortals, there are quite a few gods with abnormal sexual orientations. Being stuck in one place for too long, he was really worried that one day some sailor would suddenly come and confess his love to him.

Meanwhile, the sailors, completely unaware of Ye's thoughts, looked up but found nothing.

Until someone suddenly realized: "You mean the sun? Hero?"

Night: "That's right. It's the sun."

"Ah, I know, you must mean that we can also pray to the great sun god Apollo."

"Pray to the merciful Lord of Light... and ask that His radiance guide us on our path forward."

"That's right, we can also ask the gods for help!"

The sailors became excited and seemed to approve of the idea.

They even harbored considerable expectations.

After all, in Greece, as long as you are sincere enough, or if something really happens, the gods won't necessarily grant your every wish...

However, the chances of someone having a good deed are not small.

If it's just pointing out a direction, and the gods can hear the request, they generally won't hesitate to offer guidance.

So the group of people hurriedly knelt down devoutly, facing the direction of the sun, and began to praise the sun, praise Apollo, the god of light, and pray.

Night, who witnessed the entire scene: "………………"

Is it possible that when I mention the sun, I'm not asking you to pray to the gods, but rather to use the sun to determine your location?

Seeking divine help in this way is too reliant on luck!

Gods don't have time to care about the lives and deaths of ordinary people every day, or about such trivial matters.

Well, if it were Apollo, he might actually respond.

Ye was able to have this thought entirely because she, a person blessed by Apollo, was trapped and died on the island.

Whether it was for amusement or for some special favor, Apollo must have been keeping an eye on this place all along.

Even a fool could guess that some deity had been spying on his every move the whole time.

Now that he's in trouble, Apollo can't just watch him stay there and starve to death.

never mind--

Let these people worship if they want.

If Apollo can help guide us, that would be great; if Apollo doesn't step forward, it's not too late for him to do so.

then--

Among the two gods who have been secretly observing this place the longest, there are two.

It was as if the eyes of Apollo, the sun god, and Artemis, the moon goddess, were simultaneously illuminated.

Chapter Thirty: To look at it is blasphemy, not to look at it is to look down on it; even goddesses are women.

When mortals pray to the gods for help, doesn't that give them a good reason and opportunity to step in?

Having watched for so long, Apollo could no longer suppress the urge to join the fray.

Especially since these people pray to him as the Lord of Light for hope, he, as the guide on the path of glory, also has an obligation to respond to his believers.

However, just as Apollo slightly opened his eyes, his divine gaze looked down at the mortal realm with aloof indifference. The handsome god was contemplating how to appear before mortals to demonstrate his authority as the Lord of Light.

On the other side, there was a figure who reacted even faster than Apollo—

"Great gods!! Sunlight, please guide us who are lost in the wrong direction!" the people shouted in unison, and worshipped the sun's position.

The next moment, a deafening roar!

Suddenly, thunder roared along the coast, the sky darkened, and a storm swept across the sea.

This astonishing phenomenon didn't seem like the imminent arrival of the sun god Apollo at all; it seemed more like the sea god Poseidon.

The sailors turned pale with fright.

I'm starting to wonder if I've been praying to the wrong god—

After all, the sea is Poseidon's domain. Perhaps it was because they prayed to other gods for help here instead of to Poseidon that the Lord of the Sea wanted to drown them with storms and tsunamis?

To be honest, this is something Poseidon would do.

However, Ye remained relatively calm at this moment. He sensed that this storm and the storm that had previously blocked their ships' progress belonged to the same force, and that the same force had also erupted in the direction from which the Sirens had fled in the distance.

This force may not necessarily be hostile; let's wait and see how it develops.

And then there was that dazzling and handsome figure, standing tall and unyielding in the storm, like a crane among chickens.

Artemis was quite pleased with the calm of the night.

He personally descended a veil of moonlight and draped it over her, carefully shielding her from the storm.

The soft light was harmless, and Ye, who noticed this immediately, did not make any rash moves. She let the gauze robe be draped over her body, and instantly, as if light pollution had its own special effects buff, her body emitted a faint, holy, and soft moonlight.

This scene astonished the sailors, who almost thought that Night was a disguised form of some deity.

Fortunately, the main character finally made his appearance at this moment—

As the clouds on the horizon parted, and surrounded by the light of the stars, a holy female figure rode a sacred golden stag slowly down from the clouds.

Her hair, as white as the starry sky with a hint of azure, and her beautiful pale purple eyes, sparkling like perfect purple gemstones gazing down.

Wearing a cool white dress, her fair, jade-like arms and slender hands were exposed to the air, making her look youthful and pleasing to the eye. The goddess, carrying a bow and arrow, descended before Ye and the others.

Artemis's beauty was so great that even Odysseus, who had seen Helena, the most beautiful woman in Greece, was infatuated with her.

Even when choosing a wife, they would select one who resembled the Moon Goddess in appearance.

When this Moon Goddess appeared, her beautiful face and youthful figure immediately outshone most of the beautiful girls Ye knew.

What's even more difficult is—

The moon goddess possesses a noble and divine quality that even Chrysei and Helena lack.

For a man, defiling something so sacred must be an incredibly exciting thing.

No wonder so many heroes and gods are so fond of this goddess.

If Artemis hadn't been aware of her own beauty from a young age and hadn't expressed her wish to remain chaste forever when Zeus allowed her to make a request as a child, many gods and heroes would probably have already taken advantage of her.

Putting everything else aside, the one who guarded against this promise best was Zeus himself, after all, this old man had done the outrageous thing of transforming into Hades, the god of the underworld, and sleeping with Hades.

Perphone, the Queen of the Underworld, was the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, the Earth Goddess.

However, at this moment, apart from the night, the sailors on the earth who felt the amazing divine power descending the moment the goddess descended immediately pressed their heads to the ground, unable to lift their knees at all.

Divine power is like a prison!

But this powerful aura seemed to deliberately avoid Ye. Seeing the surrounding environment of lightning and thunder, and the way the air seemed to vibrate slightly, Ye could imagine the unbearable pressure the sailors were probably experiencing.

After all, he had previously experienced firsthand the divine power unconsciously leaked out when Apollo's clone descended.

Artemis deliberately avoided him, and didn't even seem annoyed by his scrutinizing gaze...

Ye was somewhat surprised; she didn't know when she had somehow gained the favor of this goddess.

Because there was no divine pressure, Ye subconsciously witnessed the goddess's beautiful face.

Because of its distinctive and beautiful divine deer with golden horns, Ye immediately guessed the goddess's true identity.

There were only five such divine deer in all of Greece, and their speed was so great that even Hercules could not catch up with them.

In the Twelve Trials of the past, Hercules chased a divine deer for a year, becoming disheveled, filthy, and with bloodshot eyes, yet he was utterly helpless against it. In the process, he even burned away the human aspect of his bloodline. If it weren't for the divine blood nourishing and repairing his body, he would have died from exhaustion long ago.

Hercules, who originally intended to capture the divine deer alive, ultimately went against his original plan and used his bow and arrow to shoot the deer in the leg before finally capturing it.

Apart from Artemis, no other goddess has such a golden deer.

But that's not the problem—

In my impression of the night, Artemis in mythology, although she has a gentle side, is not the most petty among the Greek gods, but she is still quite arrogant.

Along with the sun god Apollo, the brother and sister rarely played with other gods; they usually played by themselves.

They rarely scheme against anyone, but in terms of arrogance, they are no less than the other main gods.

Faced with Ye's direct gaze, the scrutiny of a mere mortal, and knowing that the Moon Goddess was ruthless, taciturn, and had little affection for men, Ye wouldn't be surprised if she were to shoot an arrow at him the next moment.

After his initial, subconscious glance at the goddess's beauty, Ye began to appreciate it openly and honestly.

Looking down now would only anger the goddess more.

It wouldn't be good if I were misunderstood.

Such as what—

Why are you bowing your head? Aren't you beautiful enough? With my beauty, even a mortal like you can't attract me?

Women, whether goddesses or goddesses, are all creatures with complex and difficult-to-understand thoughts.

Knowing full well that they were being unreasonable, and that you couldn't really ignore them, I hardened my heart.

Well, since we've already seen it, we might as well enjoy it and feast our eyes first.

Chapter Thirty-One: Moonlight is also sunlight! Apollo: Have I been cheated on?

Artemis felt a little strange about the gaze that was directed at her in the night.

I can't say whether I hate or like it, I just feel a little uncomfortable!

On Greek soil, any other man who dared to look at him like that would have been blinded by his own arrows long ago.

The night, which is not a god but merely a mortal, now receives an equal and appreciative gaze.

While one might say he is disrespectful to God, there seems to be no filth or blasphemous desire involved. However, his unbridled behavior certainly doesn't suggest he's the type of mortal who obediently follows the words of the gods.

Yet another hero who has no reverence for the gods.

However, because Ye had passed his trials and demonstrated strong willpower in the face of the sirens' temptations, Artemis had a very positive impression of him and he had won her a lot of favor.

She was already prepared to accept Night as her servant; the moon goddess was quite generous and tolerant towards her own people.

Once upon a time, there was a prince who was madly infatuated with the moon goddess. He was the son of Theseus, the king of Athens who solved the labyrinth of Minos.

Because he only loved Artemis's beauty, he refused to associate with any other women in the mortal world and vowed that he would not be interested in any other woman except Artemis.

He was Hippolytus.