Type-Moon, there are too many myths that defy the heavens!

Facing the lineup of the Mistress of the Underworld, the child was not afraid.

He stretched out his tender hands and wiped away the tears that the goddess hadn't even noticed.

He doesn't hate me.

I don't hate myself for losing my energy and vitality and becoming a horror.

This is really... This is really...

Persephone looked at the child who had already warmed her heart and responded to her prayers time and time again, and a huge wave of emotion surged in her heart.

Sure enough, this child is the one Hades predicted...

The mistress of the underworld couldn't help but hold up the child in her arms. In the presence of gods and humans, she kissed the child's forehead and made a declaration.

"From this day forward, this child will be synonymous with me, Persephone."

"To be his enemy is to be my enemy!"

With the goddess's announcement, all the gods and people in Eleusis, Athens and even the whole of Greece knew one thing.

The mistress of the underworld had a child.

A child who was her equal.

【Singing Degree +500】

[As expected of a host, you've created a new legend with ease! ]

[So powerful, so powerful! ]

[This system is not qualified to guide you at all. You are born to be the protagonist! ]

What happened?

How come Persephone suddenly announced to the world that I was her equal child?

At the center of the storm, Ash, who had given up on causing trouble simply because he couldn't bear to see his adoptive mother sad, was a little confused by the sudden surge in popularity of the song.

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Chapter 10: Actually, Ash has never been to school

What's going on with Persephone?

I haven't taken the initiative to give her gold coins, I just wiped her tears. How come she suddenly gave out so many gold coins?

Isn't she the mistress of the underworld, the goddess whose power in Greece is theoretically second only to Hera? Why does she seem so gullible... no, so easy to coax?

On the way to the underworld, Ash, pretending to be asleep in Persephone's arms, kept thinking about this question.

Logically speaking, aren't Type-Moon's Greek gods mechas who derive their personalities from human beliefs? Therefore, wouldn't their emotional modules also be more mechanical than human?

Why can she, a mecha god, behave so emotionally?

Or... is this part of the most classic abstract content of Type-Moon God Era, "This is not recorded in history, but it does exist in reality"?

Although Ash couldn't understand the logic, he still understood that the mistress of the underworld who bestowed the highest blessing on him really liked him.

No.

This can no longer be called love, nor can it even be called pampering.

This level of favorability is just like pushing a certain paper man and getting a character with full treasures, full levels and all skills, and then encountering the paper man himself!

This is so exaggerated, it's unbelievable!

After much thought, Ash remembered an almost useless but real setting in the Type-Moon world: the gods, dragons, and even heroes with partial divinity in the Moon world all possessed a vision that mortals could not understand.

This vision allows them to glimpse part of their own future, and even destiny itself.

That is to say...Persephone knew about her future encounter with me long before she actually saw me.

If this is true, then everything that is unreasonable becomes reasonable!

Thinking of this, most of the mysteries lingering in Ash's mind disappeared immediately.

At the same time, he also had a new question in his mind -

"System... what identity did you assign to me? How could I want to die just by looking at Aphrodite, and how could Persephone like me so much?"

[So... Host, you still don't know your identity? ]

[Possessing the reverberations of 'love' and 'beauty', 'spring' favored by 'death'...with such obvious and complete mythological elements, host, do you not know the answer?]

"No, buddy, how is this obvious? Do you think I'm an expert on mythology?" Ash complained, "My understanding of the Greek Age of the Gods is limited to the myths and legends of the twelve main gods and great heroes like Hercules!"

"If you have time to be a riddle teller here, you might as well just reveal the answer!"

[Uh...you are Adonis from Greek mythology...]

"Adonis..." Ash thought for a moment, then asked, bewildered, "Who is he sending this to?"

【what? 】

When Ash said this, the system was immediately frightened.

[...This god was passed down from Greek mythology to the Roman era, and from the Roman era to the church era, and was widely sung and praised during the Renaissance!]

[His story with Aphrodite and Persephone was so widespread that even the church had a collection of related poems and paintings.]

"Host, aren't you a priest? Didn't you go to a church school and learn relevant knowledge?"

"Is it possible that I am a combat priest of the Type-Moon Cathedral Church, rather than a normal priest?"

"What's more, I belong to the British branch of the Holy Church." Ash complained, "You don't think...the British church would have the conscience to provide education for consumables who may die on the battlefield any day, do you?"

[...I was inconsiderate. Sorry.]

"It's okay. I've known you're a loser for a long time." Ash readily accepted the system's apology and then asked, "So who is this Adonis? Is there any story behind him?"

[Uh... there are so many versions of his mythology that it's hard to describe.]

"Let's cut to the chase," Ash urged, "or even a provincial version of the handsome and beautiful one would be fine!"

【OK. 】

[Simply put, Adonis is a beautiful young man in Greek mythology who was fought over by the goddess of beauty Aphrodite and the queen of the underworld Persephone, and was constantly passed between the two goddesses.]

"Flowing between the two goddesses?" Ash asked doubtfully, "You mean... this Adonis has his feet on both Aphrodite and Persephone's boats at the same time, and he hasn't been killed yet?"

[Uh... you're mistaken...]

Adonis represents the concept of "plants" in mythology. His story of wandering between the goddess of beauty and the underworld symbolizes the four-season cycle of plants growing in spring and dying in winter.

"Is that so..." Ash understood what the system said, "Then Adonis is like Persephone, spending four months of the year in the human world and eight months in the underworld, belonging to different goddesses at different times?"

[To be precise, it was four months for Aphrodite, four months for Persephone, and the remaining four months were his free time.]

[Of course, in mythology, Adonis would almost always choose to be with Aphrodite during these four months of freedom, because Aphrodite was his true love.]

Ash was silent for a long, long time.

"...System, are you sure this story of Adonis...isn't a plagiarism of the story of Hades abducting Persephone?"

Ash couldn't help but complain, "Why do I feel like the Persephone in this story is so much like Erlang Shen Yang Jian, whose story of splitting the mountain to save his mother was plagiarized in "The Lotus Lantern" and who was turned into the villain?"

[Host, you may not know that myths and legends from various countries often borrow plots from each other, and even merge with each other.]

[There is a typical example in Greek mythology - Helios. ]

He was originally the Greek sun god. Later, as mythology evolved, he became conflated with Apollo. Under the influence of the Roman and Persian civilizations, he merged with Mithra of Zoroastrianism, acquiring the attributes of "god of war," "god of the covenant," and "savior." He became the Christ of the church and one of the prototypes of Maitreya Buddha in Buddhism.

[The same is true of Hercules, a Hercules who shares similar elements with the Phoenician mythological god-king Mercal, the Buddhist Vajra, and the Catholic Samson.]

"I understand now." Ash nodded and continued, "Then who was the prototype of Adonis, Persephone?"

[To be precise, the prototype of Adonis is Dumuzi, the husband of Ishtar, whom she sought to reclaim from the underworld god Ereshkigal in Sumerian mythology. He is one of the causes of the changing seasons.]

"Dumuzi... that foul-mouthed golden-haired sheep from FGO who looks like he deserves a beating?"

【Yes. 】

"Good man, why is it that thing!" Ash asked, "And then, is there any other story related to this Adonis?"

【there is none left. 】

"So... this is a legendary gigolo, right?"

If you understand it this way, there's no problem...

"Isn't that just some unknown pretty boy?" Ash complained. "Isn't it normal that I don't know this pretty boy?"

[So... you mean you hate being a gigolo?]

"Of course I like it!"

"Why would I want to suffer if I can be a gigolo?" Ya Xiu said confidently, "I'm not a masochist!"

[Host...you have lost your moral integrity.]

What are you losing? I don’t have anything at all!

Chapter 11: If given a choice, who wants to be a hero?

Ash is a very realistic person.

In terms of Adonis' popularity and status in Greek mythology, Ash could directly describe him as a stinky, low-level pretty boy character who is not even a hair inferior to Hercules.

But if he were to be the pretty boy...it would be completely different!

Who says this Adonis has a stinky bottom and shockwave, and is not even a hair behind Hercules? I say this Adonis is awesome!

Isn't it better to be a lazy guy who makes a living by his looks in Greece during the Age of Gods than to be a Greek hero?

You know, heroes from all countries are always filled with suffering and torture. Even Finn the God-killer in Celtic mythology, who is comparable to the protagonist of brainless and cool novels, and Cuchulainn, the Cannon King, had an unknown old age. Not to mention that this is Greece, the ancient country that loved tragedy the most!

Judging from Ash's experience of Greek heroic stories, these Greek heroes basically have to go through some painful lessons, such as being backstabbed by relatives, being killed by minotaurs, being forced to do suicide missions by gods, being cursed to go mad and kill relatives, being cursed to become a monster, and being tortured by fate and dying with their mothers without knowing it... These are all very miserable!

Even though his first wife was abducted, his second wife fell in love with his child, and Theseus was even turned into a calf and captured by the lunar historian after his death, he can be considered a lucky man among all the Greek heroes.

Don’t ask whether Theseus’ life was smooth or not, just ask whether he spent his old age in peace and died of old age normally!

If we have to find an exception, it seems that only Perseus, an early hero in Greek mythology, can be said to have had a smooth life, a happy family, and no tragedy.

Of course, this only applies to Perseus during his lifetime.

After all, even after he became a Heroic Spirit after his death, he was still at the hands of a certain Black Hearted Fungus, and became a hero tormented by tragedy during the Holy Grail War.

With this comparison, isn't being a gigolo much better than being a hero?

[Host, are you satisfied with the identity of Adonis? ]

"It's not bad." Ash said critically, "Although he can only be a stinking little white face who can't achieve anything in his life, at least he lives a comfortable life."

[So, host, you don't plan to be a hero anymore? ]

"Who wants to be a hero if given a choice? Are you bored?"

"I've suffered two lifetimes, I don't want to suffer anymore." Ash complained, "This can help me live a good life, it's more reliable than anything else!"

[Host, you truly are... contented with what you have.]

"It's important for people to know themselves."

[You are so optimistic, aren't you afraid of something going wrong? ]

"Got it wrong?" Ash complained. "In Greek mythology, Adonis is just a sleazy figure with only one story. How could he possibly go wrong?"

"Could it be possible that such a minor character could find a place in other stories?"

You are right.

Even in the rich anthology of Greek mythology, which boasts numerous secondary, tertiary, and even quadruple creations by ancient Greek poets, Adonis only appears in one story.

【However, Adonis’ story is not just a one-man show. 】