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"I think an explanation will suffice..."

"Why do you think Mother is in the Land of the Underworld?" Amaterasu sighed, "She was not born as a god in the Land of the Underworld. On the contrary, she is a noble goddess."

"I was born with great brightness, and I saw a rich world. But I was born from my father's left eye, and what my father saw became my knowledge, allowing me to be born with a mature body."

"So I know that the seemingly wealthy world was once barren, just like the vertical hell and the falling abyss. That was the world that was destroyed in the upheaval. My father and mother revived the small world made up of two plates."

"But they are ultimately no match for the ancient gods. They cannot create the world from nothingness, nor do they have the power to kill the great monsters and use their bodies to create the world. All they have is [reproduction]."

"Without the earth, they gave birth to the gods of the earth. But the gods of the earth were too great for them to give birth to, so they had to settle for the next best thing and give birth to the gods of the soil. If that still didn't work, they would take another step back and give birth to the gods of the mountains and rivers of a region, or the gods of the rivers of a stream."

"The sky was also important. They gave birth to the cloud gods, the north wind gods, and so on. Eventually they gave birth to millions of gods, and like a puzzle, this little world gradually took shape."

"But they couldn't give birth to you." Blaze looked back at Amaterasu. She was so beautiful and noble, like the center of a mythical totem.

She is the sun, symbolizing the source of all life. She was destined to be born only between the great sky and the great earth, and could never be conceived by two gods who needed to rely on continuous reproduction to create the world.

Without the sun, even if there is sky and earth, wind and water, no life will be born in the world.

"That's right. As long as they have the sun, they don't need to create the world through reproduction. The world will become orderly with the sun as the center. But wanting to create the sun is a bold and reckless thing to do."

"The Sun was successfully conceived, but the Mother was unable to withstand the power of the Sun and was burned to death. As a result, the Sun that was supposed to be born was born prematurely and incompletely."

Amaterasu covered her face with her hands. Her voice was extremely calm, but Blaze could hear a woman's desperate cry.

A mother was burned to death by her unborn child.

"My mother became the first person to die in that little world. She fell into the depths of the earth and became the first resident of the Land of the Underworld. My father went looking for her because he missed her."

"As a result, my father fled the Land of the Dead because of my mother's terrifying appearance as a dead person. He even blocked the only road with his own hands to prevent my mother from chasing him."

"And the blocked road is Naraku, which leads directly to the underworld."

Chapter 1294 Bitter Chocolate

Now we know why Amaterasu got so angry when Kurene suggested that Naraku leave.

The deepest part of Naraku is the Land of the Underworld, and the relationship between the ruler of the Underworld and Amaterasu is delicate.

This stems from the birth of three brothers and sisters.

Their father broke into the underworld, expressed his longing for their mother, and asked her to leave with him, but his only request was that he must not look back.

Perhaps if the mother had not made this request, the father would not have turned back. At that time, the only thing on his mind was to take his wife and quickly leave this place of death.

But my mother said that once my father became curious and had distracting thoughts, he would inevitably turn back.

Those eyes saw the burnt, severely decomposed, maggot-infested corpse, and the nose smelled the stench of decay.

There is only one sentence to describe the horror of that scene. My father subconsciously turned around and ran away, and once he ran, everything was out of control.

The mother chased the father, maybe she was really angry, maybe she was just sad, but in the father's eyes there was only terror, so he lifted a huge rock to block the only entrance.

The image of his mother's death kept appearing before his eyes, and the smell of his mother's death lingered in his nostrils. He seemed as if he was still face to face with his dead wife.

So he performed a purification ritual, cleansing his eyes and nose. His mother's horrific death appearance and breath of death turned into filth and were washed away. It was not just a simple purification, but a farewell like the boulder that he used to seal Naraku.

And the three brothers and sisters were born in filth.

The first dead and the first living in this small world gave birth to the sun, the moon, and the storm together.

That mother is Amaterasu's mother, but also not. The fact that the father gave birth to life alone means that he no longer needs a mother. Amaterasu is the proof of movement.

Putting this aspect aside, Amaterasu will not affect Blaze because of her personal feelings. This [subtlety] is not worth Amaterasu's intense reaction. At most, she will just hide like before.

What really made Amaterasu angry was that the Land of Hades was extremely dangerous.

After being cruelly killed by Amaterasu's father, the mother naturally went to extremes, from being the goddess who created life to the goddess who took away life.

She used to give birth to a thousand lives every day. After she fell into the underworld, she threatened to kill a thousand lives every day. It can be said that she is a very dangerous existence.

If Hela is just a mistress of the underworld who looks scary on the outside and is actually scary on the inside, but at least she is reasonable and can be talked to, then [Mother] is the Queen of the Underworld who is scary in every way and is also very crazy.

Blazer held his chin and started to have a headache. What's the point of Valentine's Day without chocolate? Just the cocoa trees in the orchard of Kullene alone, even if the cocoa beans produced in them were used as mission rewards, would not be enough to hold a Valentine's Day event.

Not to mention the chocolate coins and so on that were originally planned.

After all, chocolate was defined as the core of Valentine's Day from the very beginning. If there is not enough chocolate, the scale of Valentine's Day activities cannot be expanded.

If you want to get a lot of cocoa beans, you have to reach the first floor and break through from the ground which symbolizes the thirteenth floor.

Apart from the underworld, the earth itself is divided into the ground, underground space, and the afterlife as the lowest level.

Legend has it that in the Age of Gods, the afterlife existed somewhere in the world.

Just like Asgard's Valhalla and Helheim, most of the legendary afterlife is underground, existing at the bottom of the world. Unlike now, after death, the soul will return to the earth itself.

Many foreigners have a special liking for digging holes, and after hearing this legend, they try to reach the afterlife directly. However, considering the thickness of the earth and the difficulties encountered along the way, it is impossible to find the afterlife by digging.

Now, the Land of the Underworld can be said to be the first clearly known world after death. Even the way to get there is extremely simple. You just need to find the Cave of Naraku to get there directly.

As long as you break through the Land of the Underworld, you will pass the thirteenth world. The next twelve levels will be easy to pass. You just need to jump directly down from the hole on the twelfth underground world.

As for whether he could finally get the cocoa tree from the hands of the gods on the first level, Blaze was not worried. Even Kullene could cheat and slip dozens of times, so it made no sense for him and other strangers not to get it.

But all things are difficult at the beginning, and how to pass the thirteenth ground is the biggest challenge.

Blaze sat on Amaterasu's skirt, holding her chin and thinking about this question.

To be honest, the background of Valentine's Day is always warm and comfortable, and the occasional random appearance of murderous strangers holding torches seems a bit interesting in this atmosphere.

It is not funny to provoke a crazy Queen of the Underworld for the Valentine's Day event, not to mention that this is not a one-time pass through the Kingdom of the Underworld. Maybe a stable channel needs to be built for subsequent Valentine's Day events.

This is a negotiation that is more difficult than defeating or breaking through.

but……

Blaze tapped his face with his fingers, and Kulene's mysterious smile appeared in front of him. He was very concerned about what Kulene said.

Many things are coincidences and accidents, but those coincidences and accidents are put together through human choices and become an inevitable result.

This may be a manifestation of fate.

Valentine's Day, chocolate, the original mythological totem [Butterfly], and the new mythological totem born from a part of the [Butterfly], these seemingly unrelated elements are being connected together as he moves forward.

The rest depends on how he chooses.

"As for me, I don't like giving up. If I challenge someone, even if I lose, I will definitely gain something. If I give up, not only will I gain nothing, I will also miss a lot." Blaze stood up and stretched hard.

He had made up his mind.

"Besides, this isn't a life-threatening matter. It's just Valentine's Day. We can go down easily, and if things go wrong, we can just run away. It won't be too late to give up then."

There was another reason that Blaze didn't say.

Amaterasu seems to care a lot about this [Mother], so let's go and see her.

"There is absolutely no need for you to do this, but no matter what you do, I will support you. After all, this is the relationship between us!" Amaterasu sighed, but her words became light.

She took advantage of Blaze's stretching time and threw herself on his back, hugged Blaze's neck and started shaking.

"Let me be clear, you are really asking for trouble this time."

"Because it's Valentine's Day, and chocolate is bitter."

Chapter 1295 Three Meals a Day Check-in

Blaze and Amaterasu will return to the cocoa orchard, and seeing that Amaterasu is no longer emitting strong light, Kullene and Hebi will know the answer.

"You really do like to eat bitter food." Hebie shook her head helplessly. She was ready to use candy instead.

But since Blaze has made up his mind, she will try her best to cooperate.

"There is still a month until the Valentine's Day event. According to the habits of strangers, they usually start to be active in the first two weeks and end on the day of the Valentine's Day event. In other words, you have about two weeks to find a stable route to the first floor."

"But I won't put all my hopes on whether your mission will go smoothly. In order for the event to continue smoothly, I will make two plans."

"That sounds like plenty of time."

Blaze touched his neck. Compared to the war activities taking place on the territory of the Third Kingdom, facing the crazy Queen of the Underworld might sound particularly easy.

"By the way, what are your plans for both scenarios?"

"Tell the strangers the truth, there are only a limited number of cocoa beans in this world, so in order to get the raw materials for making chocolate, fight! Strangers!" Herbie raised his fist and his voice suddenly became high-pitched.

“Only the winner gets the chocolate!”

"Do you have to make Valentine's Day so violent?"

"You don't understand this." Herbie shook his finger and grinned. "According to my observations over the past two years, strangers traveling together will fight over chocolate, and strangers traveling alone will fight even more for chocolate. Valentine's Day is inherently violent!"

Blazer wanted to refute, but after carefully imagining what the strangers would do when there was not enough chocolate, he found that Herbie's statement was still relatively tactful.

First of all, no matter what it is, once it is labeled as rare or even uncommon, foreigners will want to get it regardless of whether they need it or not.

If you tell foreigners that cocoa beans are such a rare commodity, they will definitely fight over it, and the intensity of the fight will be doubled if it happens against the backdrop of Valentine's Day.

The most enthusiastic ones are undoubtedly the strangers who are alone. In order to prevent the strangers who are traveling with others from getting the chocolate, they will burst out with amazing potential.

Thinking about it this way, Blaze found himself under a lot of pressure, because he had to protect the peace of Valentine's Day!

Blaze looked at Kullene, who was posing next to him, as if waiting for him to ask questions, and said unhappily: "Tell me everything you know quickly. Anyway, you must be expecting this kind of development."

"You have a huge misunderstanding of me. Just because I like you doesn't mean I will take the initiative to promote it." Kullene raised an eyebrow at Blaze and then coughed lightly.

"This time I have told you everything I know. As for the Naraku Cave, I only know that it exists, but I don't know where it is exactly. But you are carrying Amaterasu, the center of the mythical totem. Everything related to it will lean towards you. Even if you do nothing, the Naraku Cave will actively approach you."

Cyrene spread her hands and distanced herself from the matter.

Blaze couldn't say anything, after all, he was the one who asked for trouble this time, and Kullene was willing to provide all the cocoa beans to support the Valentine's Day event, which was already a great help.

But as Kurene said, doing nothing and waiting for events related to the Cave of Naraku to come up is not his style. Since he is asking for trouble this time, he might as well go all the way and take the initiative.

Before that, Blaze sent Herbie to Camelot to join the Valentine's Day event planning team formed by Jasmine, Morgan, and Kate Cat.

Besides Morgan, who serves as the mascot and stamper, Jasmine and Kitty Cat present Herbie with formidable enemies. Kitty Cat is a competitor, while Jasmine, the Ark AI, makes Herbie feel inexplicably uneasy, as if he is losing some sense of uniqueness.

While Herbie was on guard, Chiron handed Blaze a list of three meals a day written by Jasmine.

Chiron and Jasmine do not need to eat, so the three meals a day target is for Blaze. It is said that in order to train Morgan into a sword master within two years, Jasmine also prepared a three meals a day schedule for Morgan.

"Wow~" Blaze looked at this extremely detailed three-meal schedule, not knowing how he could react except to exclaim in amazement.

What’s funny is that there are rules on the other side of the three meals a day table.

As long as he completes the check-in for three meals a day and accumulates it for 30 times, he can redeem rewards from Jasmine. The longer the continuous login time, the higher the reward, and there are additional rewards for cumulative logins.

"You're treating me like a child. You think you need rewards to make me finish my three meals a day." Blaze shook the three-meals-a-day table in his hand and smiled helplessly at Chiron. "In a few months, I'll be 18 years old and an adult. Is it that serious?"

"Then can you hold on?"

"That's not..." Blaze wanted to agree without hesitation, but he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have not had breakfast today.

Not just today, ever since he put on [Armor·Living Being], he no longer felt hungry, and even after he could take off his armor, he got used to eating when he wanted to.

There was no other way. The skills provided by Ouroboros, such as [Super Strong Physique], allowed Blaze to always be in an absolutely healthy state. Every bit of nutrition he ate could be guaranteed to be used in the most critical places.

His eating habits were totally messed up.

"This, this seems unexpectedly difficult! If I have to make the things above by myself, it will be even more difficult!"

"That's not the case." Chiron took out a set of spheres marked with numbers from 1 to 7. "This is a time capsule we made. It can only be opened at a set time, and the time of the things inside will also stop."

"Oh! A time capsule!"

Blaze is not unfamiliar with this. Strictly speaking, the humans of today and the humans of the Age of Gods are two different types of humans.

The humans of the Age of Gods are the last descendants of the humans of the Age of Gods, and the humans of today have evolved again from beasts after an extremely long time.

For modern humans, the Age of Gods is a civilization that surpasses ancient times, and the reason why modern humans can understand the Age of Gods is because of the time capsule left behind by the Age of Gods.

Most of these time capsules were buried in the soil, but unexpectedly they contained some simple little things.

Those things are not powerful forces, they are just ordinary, beautiful stories.

A time capsule is like a seal, which allows the beauty inside to transcend time and be opened one day in the future.

Chapter 1296: Fortune Teller and Feng Shui Master

Blaze received two weeks' worth of time capsules at once.

As soon as he vowed to himself that he would eat on time, completed the two-week three-meal-a-day check-in and received the reward, he started to have crooked thoughts.