Simulate the universe, starting with speedrunning Greek.

Just as he once refused Zeus's offer to recruit him.

However, Ares, whose main selling point is to be unpredictable, rule-breaking, and unconventional, stated—

The victory of Greece was the common expectation of all the Olympian gods, and even the great god Zeus held this hope.

For Greece to win, even if the moon goddess Artemis knew about it, she wouldn't care...

To put it simply, the final meaning of this implied meaning is—

Even Artemis dared not disobey the command of Zeus, the king of the gods! You had no choice but to comply!

This is a classic case of using someone else's name to intimidate others!

And Ares was putting himself in such a difficult position.

Night's heart also grew cold, these two grass spirits.

A war god who aids the weakest side and wants to perpetuate the war, is undoubtedly—if he were to be assigned a faction, he would be either chaotic neutral or chaotic evil.

Night finally realized that she had always vaguely sensed that she seemed to have overlooked something, and that was exactly where it was.

He had previously planned to kill Diomedes to protect the God of War, the main damage dealer on the battlefield. But then, Diomedes suddenly appeared in Greece.

In the original mythological description, the reason why the god of war helped Troy was because Troy was the weaker party at the time. In order to create a more chaotic situation, he stepped in to help the weak fight the strong in order to maintain the balance between the two sides.

Let the war continue forever!

This idea is undeniably malicious to humanity.

In reality, Ares had no real preference for either Greece or Troy.

certainly--

Perhaps things would have been different if Aphrodite, the goddess of love and beauty, had whispered some sweet nothings in his ear.

This made Ye even suspect that the God of War and the Goddess of Beauty might be having a cold war lately.

Otherwise, why would they allow such a powerful lover to come to Greece?

At this point, not only was the guess correct, but if one were to be even bolder and speculate about the influence of the night on oneself, it would be even more grounded in reality.

Ares then gave Night three days to consider.

The domineering God of War seemed completely unafraid to seek help from his chief goddess Artemis at night.

His desire to openly seize the hero Griffith was so obvious that it was common knowledge among all the heroes in the Greek camp.

Ares: Griffiths, I'm taking you!

Such a wild warrior should belong to my ranks, fight alongside me until the end of time, and forever be condemned to a hell of slaughter.

He believed that Griffith's essence must be that of a warrior who, like himself, craved war, chaos, and bloodshed.

He had held this belief ever since he witnessed Griffith's battle with his daughter and Hector, the strongest Trojan hero.

Placing such a wild black dragon with the goddess of the hunt would only result in raising a domesticated reindeer devoid of any wildness, turning it into a pet with no sense of threat whatsoever.

True warriors should not be forgotten.

The more Ares thought about it, the more he felt that what he was doing was absolutely right, and that he had no criminal mentality whatsoever that of a robber.

Instead, they acted as if it were perfectly natural and domineering!

The god of war, who even outwardly obeyed the orders of Zeus, the king of the gods, would naturally not fear the goddess of the hunt, Artemis.

Normally, he would give that crazy goddess some face, but when it came to things he liked, Ares would grab them and would never back down on that.

On the other hand, although Night clearly refused and did not consider it at all, Ares still gave him time to think it over.

If you refuse him again after three days, the wrath of the God of War is something a mere mortal like you cannot bear.

'This is already a threat, isn't it?!' A nameless fire was burning in Ye's heart.

Perhaps there is a force of destiny at play in everything.

Just like he borrowed the identity of Kratos's descendant.

And Kratos's story began with his conflicts and complex relationships with Ares, the God of War.

He sold his soul to Ares in order to defeat a powerful enemy on the battlefield and obtain the Twin Blades of Chaos. However, upon his return, he was tricked by the God of War and became his lackey, killing his wife and children in the process.

Later, through Athena's redemption, he transformed the twin blades into the Athena Blade, successfully defeating and overthrowing the ambitious God of War, and ascending to the throne of the new God of War.

After the meeting ended, he learned from the other heroes what exactly the God of War's blessing was.

Night felt increasingly that his experience was similar to Kratos's.

The so-called blessing—

They've essentially sold their souls and become the lackeys of the God of War.

To be reduced to a tool and fight for them forever—what kind of divine protection or blessing is that?

For a normal person, this could be considered a curse.

It's reasonable to say that gaining great power comes at a price.

But forcing someone to buy or sell is not a good practice...

Chapter 118 Joint Summoning, How Strange—Have the Gods Gone Mad? Who's Next?

Faced with Ares's pressure, Ye was in a real bind.

If he were strong enough now, he would surely stage a Kratos epic in Greece—the sequel.

Now that the gods have come to believe in the existence of a hero like Kratos.

Then let that shining epic of heroes write a new and even more magnificent epic chapter.

Following the dragon slaying—the great feat of killing a god!

As night fell, although the night did not inform Artemis of what had happened during the day, the many gods who were always watching the night gradually learned of Ares's coercion of the hero Griffith.

then--

Boom!

The moonlight on Mount Olympus suddenly unleashed a terrifying divine power.

On a night already studded with stars, the stars appeared even larger and brighter, as if they might fall from the sky at any moment.

The big boss finally arrived behind the night!

"Ares—!!!" The moon goddess's cold, suppressed anger echoed across the sky.

The moon goddess's anger and questioning stemmed from her discovery that her partner had been poached.

Before Ares could respond, an arrow filled with destructive moonlight shot out from space and into the central command tent of the Greek army. The terrifying divine power, as if it could sink continental plates, fell in an instant.

Bang~! ! !

The goddess Athena, wielding the holy shield Aegis, blocked the arrow's path. The immense power of the arrow was completely absorbed by Aegis, leaving little impact before it was stopped.

It almost caused a disaster. Athena breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the arrow, which was enough to destroy the entire Greek camp, failed to land.

"Step aside—Goddess of Wisdom, this is a matter between me and Ares, the God of War. It's none of anyone else's business!" Artemis's voice turned cold as she saw the goddess Athena appear before her and use her divine artifact to block her power.

And on the other side-

Athena, as the goddess who pays the most attention to the night, already knew the whole story and understood why the goddess of the hunt was angry and why she had come.

Athena began to try to quell Artemis's anger with courageous words.

He also told her that Zeus, the king of the gods, already knew about this matter, and that Zeus had ordered him to guard this place and not allow them, as the chief gods, to fight here, as this would affect the Greek coalition on earth.

As for Artemis's concerns, she could assure her, in the name of Athena, that Griffith would be protected and Ares's plans would not succeed.

Artemis's response was simple and brutal: she unleashed another arrow.

The capricious goddess of purity would not easily give up her idea of ​​teaching Ares a lesson just because she heard the name of her father, Zeus.

After all, the night is a special existence that Artemis cannot understand, and it holds an unknown weight in her heart.

All she knew was that upon hearing Ares's desire to seize Griffith, and even his attempt to morally blackmail Griffith using the name of Greece, Artemis's composure crumbled completely. Ugh—~!

In that instant, it was as if a string in my mind had snapped, followed by a burst of black flames that ignited in my chest.

She had only one thought: to shoot down all the poachers who coveted her treasures with her holy arrows.

Only the blood of God can quell this rage.

And that's exactly what she did—

In the end, Athena had no choice but to fight alongside Artemis, and she deliberately led the battle to the stars.

Boom! ...

Stars are occasionally shot down in the Greek sky.

Artemis, unleashing her full power and even exceeding expectations, still managed to launch a terrifying attack, capable of shooting down planets, even after she had already separated a portion of the artifact's authority from the Queen of Night.

And regarding this——

Athena, who also has the side of a goddess of war, is one of the few goddesses among the twelve Olympian gods known for their bravery, and is forced to unleash her full power.

The two goddesses finally got really into a fight.

After an unknown period of time, the stars in the Greek night sky dimmed, one after another.

finally--

After spending an unknown amount of effort to 'physically' appease the Moon Goddess.

Although Athena is named the goddess of wisdom and war, she is often jokingly referred to as the goddess of victory in mythology. Luckily, she almost suffered a setback this time because the moon goddess suddenly unleashed her power.

A somewhat disheveled Athena returned from the sky and noticed Ares, the god of war who had previously made threatening remarks but was now pretending to be completely unaware of the battle and killing intent in the heavens, still cowering in his tent.

A dark cloud also rose in Athena's heart.

Hehehe—! Hehehehe!!!

Artemis and I were fighting to the death up there, and you were just sitting back and enjoying the benefits, huh?

Although Athena had gained the upper hand over Artemis in the recent divine battle thanks to the power of her divine artifacts and her superior martial skills, and had physically persuaded Artemis to reluctantly agree to stop causing trouble for Ares, Athena still had to protect the chastity of the night—

Sigh, protect the existence of night.

We must not allow the God of War to forcibly bestow protection.