Simulate the universe, starting with speedrunning Greek.

The scholar Plato recorded and described it in his writings as follows.

'Demon King—Talos!'

This is the new identity of the hero Griffith, who has abandoned his original name and glorious appearance.

It is also a homonym of Tartarus's name, Tarros, intended to make him completely abandon his past as a hero.

...The abyss god meant for him to abandon his past glory and become a complete slave to power.

Although this name is the same as that of a certain enormous mechanical creation, the colossal creature forged by the god of fire to protect Princess Europa, they should not be regarded as the same.

The name Talos was once feared throughout the Greek world, a mysterious figure whose name was so taboo that people dared not even mention it.

The world knows this name not because the name Talos made the Demon King, but because the Demon King made Talos.

This will be the name of a demon king that will strike fear into the hearts of countless people.

……

Tartarus himself opened the gates to the mortal world for the night…

The abyss is also part of the underworld, so naturally one can return to the surface from here.

Not to mention the relationship between Tartarus and Gaia, who is Mother Earth.

Although the old woman helped Zeus for a period of time in the middle of the story, she was always dissatisfied with Zeus's killing of Uranus and imprisoning his children, the Titans, in the abyss, and had wanted to overthrow Zeus's rule for a long time.

Or rather—on the Greek continent, there were quite a few gods who wanted to overthrow Zeus, and many of them were not only known to Zeus, but some of them had even tried it themselves.

But Zeus did not kill them, and neither did Athena or Poseidon; they only gave them minor punishments as a warning.

This is not because he is magnanimous; this petty man is never magnanimous.

Rather, it is difficult for gods to truly kill them, like the wise Prometheus who was chained to Mount Caucasus, exposed to wind, rain, and sun all day long, and suffered the torment of having his heart and liver pecked at by Zeus's eagle.

Every time Prometheus's body was eaten, his internal organs would regenerate the next day, and the cycle would repeat itself.

Zeus could not kill him, but he devised this cruelest punishment.

Similarly—for those who rebel against their own God.

Because they still need their help to maintain their rule, they haven't completely broken ties yet and are just maintaining peace for the time being.

That's why Gaia cooperated with Tartarus. Now that she's nominally on the same side as Tartarus, the pragmatic Night naturally became an ally of the Earth Mother Goddess.

Gaia's consciousness, which was supposed to prevent the dead from returning to the earth, turned a blind eye to the sudden opening on the ground from which night and many enormous Titans emerged.

And that is, the instant you cross the portal and arrive in the outside world.

Night felt her own heartbeat again.

'He's alive!'

It's an incredible transformation.

Orpheus had told him that any soul who wanted to leave the underworld would be subjected to a trial.

In the end, the hero Orpheus failed to distinguish between reality and illusion, and turned back at the crucial moment, causing his wife to be sucked back into the underworld.

He seemed to easily return to the ground using Tartarus's power.

But wasn't the battle with the Titans a trial before?

And those hundred-armed giants and the like that served them...

Although they came to the mortal world at this time, they did not seem to be truly resurrected, but rather appeared briefly on earth through special means.

Having gained a portion of Tartarus's power, Ye was unsure exactly how much stronger he had become, but he could still suppress these incomplete hundred-armed giants.

Now that we're back in the present world, the first thing we need to do is find out where we are, and the second is to determine the current timeline.

Night leaped and landed on the shoulder of a hundred-armed giant.

They were in a mountain forest. As the saying goes, the higher you stand, the farther you can see. Soon, he spotted a settlement at the edge of his field of vision.

A group of scantily clad beauties are performing a bull sacrifice, with fruit and wine scattered throughout the ceremony.

Although they were far apart, with the blessing of Tartarus's divine power, he could clearly hear those words and know his current location.

Crete – an island that holds a significant place in Greek mythology.

Many heroic myths have taken place on this island.

This place once had a magnificent civilization of its own, but it was later obviously absorbed by Greek civilization.

The three judges of the underworld ruled this kingdom during their lifetimes.

There is indeed a legend that Crete is the closest place on earth to the underworld.

Dionysus, the only one of the twelve Olympian gods to be incorporated into Greek mythology as a foreign god, frequently held banquets with his followers here.

During the Dionysian festival, believers would set out wine and offer a wine-red bull as a sacrifice, waiting for the god to descend so they could revel together.

Perhaps because Dionysus himself was a rather handsome man, his followers were mostly women, all of them madwomen indulging in lust.

It is said that after Orpheus left the underworld and returned to the mortal world, he fell for these women.

Is it time for the new Dionysian festival to begin?

These women were Thracians, who originally had their own mythological beliefs, leaning more towards Celtic Druidism.

Their harvest god has a distinctive appearance with two horns on his head, which closely resembles the bull image among the many depictions of Dionysus, the god of wine.

In addition, Dionysus is said to have traveled to other worlds and regions, with India and Ethiopia being the places he has specifically visited.

This is a man whose mythology is directly incorporated into his setting. Perhaps Dionysus's other identity in other pantheons is the Celtic god of harvest.

At the same time, Dionysus also has powers related to harvest and plants, which coincides with the plant god aspect that Night possesses.

Thinking of the terms of his deal with Tartarus, he planned to create unrest on the Greek continent upon returning to Earth, especially against Zeus.

Dionysus was the son of Zeus, and because he was born from Zeus's thigh, he was also known as the 'Light of Zeus'.

Of course, his enemies mocked him as the lame Dionysus, even after he had healed himself. The image of him being born lame was still talked about.

This ray of Zeus is unlike those children who liked to rebel against Zeus before.

He had no clear conflict with Zeus, and in fact, he was able to survive Hera's hunt only under the protection of his father, Zeus.

If Dionysus were to become an enemy of Zeus in the future, it would be difficult to determine his stance.

But if this guy is left unchecked, his followers will probably kill Orpheus in the future anyway.

On the night he was grateful for the many favors Apollo and Orpheus had shown him, he had promised to help Orpheus and his wife leave the Underworld together when he left. However, due to special circumstances, he could only leave the Underworld alone. But now he saw that the cause of Orpheus's inevitable death was right before his eyes.

Furthermore, they are destined to become enemies.

'Excellent! The Festival of Dionysus?'

'So, it just so happens that Dionysus is about to descend to earth?'

That handsome, Zeus-like god of wine, who was also equally charming and admired by countless gods, was not the unfavored son of Zeus, such as the god of forging and the god of war.

Losing such a trusted right-hand man and a son who supported him must have been extremely painful for Zeus.

If we use this to complete our task, Tartarus will surely be quite pleasantly surprised.

The head of one of the twelve main gods would be enough to deal with this god of the abyss for a long time.

Have you not seen how Typhon, the progenitor of all demons, fathered so many children on the Greek continent and caused so much trouble, except for the final assault on Olympus, he has made no further moves?

While the attack on Olympus seemed to be a grand affair, causing all the gods to flee in terror, in the end, not a single chief god was killed. In the Star Legend world, Hercules, after ascending to heaven, joined Zeus in taking down Olympus, adding another great achievement to the story.

In comparison, what if we could kill Dionysus...?

Chapter 264 Dionysus: Give me some calamity so I can manifest my divine power; woc Hundred-Armed Giant!

Once the goal is set, the course of action becomes clear.

If you've decided to become a demon king, can you truly be called a demon king if you don't appear with overwhelming force and destroy something?

at the same time--

the other side.

Halfway up the mountain, countless beautiful women were singing and dancing, and in this joyous atmosphere, Dionysus, the god of wine, watched the scene with satisfaction from the sky.

He is the pure light of midsummer, the mysterious and elusive god of wine—Dionysus.

Handsome and mysterious as he is, he always makes his appearance at the last minute.

When the celebration reaches its grandest moment, he will emerge from the flickering campfire and the fire chestnuts, demonstrating his divine power as an omnipotent deity.

This is somewhat reminiscent of the pretentious displays of divine intervention by Christian deities in later Western Europe, but it was a specialty of Dionysus, the god of wine.

As a future god who, in the process of the invasion of the One God (Crus) faith into the Greek land and the gradual obliteration of ancient Greek mythology, lived to the next era as the only god to live in the name of a foreign god.

They were given a new image and were called saints. The wine they symbolized later became a symbol of the blood of Jesus Christ.

Dionysus might just be a saint born into the wrong pantheon.

He's better suited to the kind of showy, public display of talent.

It's like God intending to send a great flood to destroy you, but first having people build an ark to warn you.

Those who survived and saw the prophecy come true felt even more awe for this mystery and divine power, and were grateful for its protection.

At this moment, Dionysus was even thinking to himself, "If something were to happen on earth that is not important to me but of great importance to mankind, I would step forward and easily resolve it, and I would surely be even more loved by the people."

Perhaps Dionysus's desire was too strong, and it actually came true!

Thump, thump... A series of muffled footsteps came from afar.

"My God, what is that?!" At this moment, the mortals on the ground were in an uproar, screaming in terror.

When Dionysus looked, his heart skipped a beat.

The Hundred-Handed Giant—!!!

It was as if he were hallucinating. He actually saw a hundred-armed giant, taller than a mountain range, slowly walking towards him, each step he took on the ground as heavy as a small mountain.

"Wasn't this thing sealed in the abyss? Damn it, how did it get out?" After confirming several times that what was in front of him was not an illusion, Dionysus spoke in fear.

But upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the hundred-armed giant had not truly resurrected; it had merely manifested itself temporarily on the earth through some unknown means…

Dionysus immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

So it turned out to be a useless counterfeit product that looks good but is actually worthless?