Zongman: I Travel Through Countless Worlds At The Same Time

281. Hera's Pillar

"Don't worry, the king is the king, we are just knights, so we just need to obey the king's orders.

Erica is very open to this matter, and Higashino Yu's strength will never be believed by anyone who has not seen it.

"Speaking of which, what kind of person is King Dongye?" Diyana looked at the two and asked curiously. Although Yu Dongye had already taken the "Bronze Black Cross" under his command, he was only able to see his true face. Only a few people.

"My lord, he is a very good person." Lily smiled unconsciously when she thought of Higashino Yuu's usual appearance.

"Oh, it seems that Lily is really attracted by King Dongye. When will I meet such a gentle man as King Dongye?"

Diyana sighed while looking at Liliana.

That's right, in Di Lina's view, Higashino Yu is a very gentle person. You must know that Higashino Yu came this time to kill the gods, but he didn't bring Liliana who is a witch.

I'm not talking about a witch with magic here. In the world of magic, this title means a lot.

Her rival, Erica Blondry, is also a witch in a broad sense, but that's just what it means to be a female magician.

There is a thin line between a witch and a simple magician.

This is a word that represents the descendants of women who became saints, priestesses and priestesses in the most primitive era.

Naples was originally a colonial city of the ancient Greeks.

The ruins of the quarry where the slaves worked at that time, the ruins of the sewers and water storage tanks built by the Romans in later generations, and even the ruins of the underground warehouses that stored food and alcohol left in the Middle Ages.

Those buildings are still around the old city, and they exist as underground relics.

Although the underground ruins of the old city and other places have become tourist attractions, there are still ruins that have not been released to the public, but have been sealed and hidden by the witches of Naples.

At this time, Higashino Yuu walked alone in the long and slender underground ruins passageway like an abandoned tunnel.

If it dates back to BC, this place was originally a quarry, so it is natural that it looks like an abandoned tunnel, but the large number of murals carved on the walls are not the same.

They are all simple and simple line drawings. If it is said that they were carved by humans in the Stone Age, some people may believe it.

"I don't know if this thing can attract that guy like the original book...々"..." Higashino Yuu looked at the big snake with a long body curled up on the painting wall, and there were also several heads. Hydra, and snakes with bat-like wings, all kinds of snakes are depicted on the wall and can't help but mutter.

In addition to snakes, there are some line drawings of cows, birds, pigs and lions.

As long as people with a bit of magic training see it, they will know that these are all symbols of the Mother Goddess. The period when these murals were carved is probably after the era of the Roman Empire.

Ever since a patriarchal monotheistic religion became the state religion, priestesses who used to possess divine power were all regarded as witches and hunted down.

So they fled underground, and in order to protect their wisdom, they built these underground temples for the purpose of conveying information.

These murals are carved out of the witch's belief object, trying to imitate the posture of God.

In the ancient world, the priestess who served the Mother Earth was the archetype of the witch.

With the popularization of Christianity, Europe has lost its beliefs since ancient times, and it can also be said to be suppressed and resisted. In this process, the witches who were supposed to be holy were persecuted and became feared and tabooed.

Most of the ancient earth goddesses were goddesses of life and death who ruled both the earth and the underworld.

Athena, Ishtar, Isis, Tiamat, Hiberia, etc. are too numerous to mention. Aphrodite, known as the goddess of love and beauty, was originally a powerful goddess of the earth.

And the holy beast that represents the cycle between death and life is the snake.

Therefore, the snake is a symbol of the earth mother, the guardian of the witches.

Soon, he reached the depths of the underground temple.

Then what catches the eye is a pitch-black obsidian stone pillar, engraved on the surface like a line drawing of a big snake entrenched, although it is only a clumsy carving, but it has a magical power that can attract the attention of the viewer.

As mentioned in Liliana's report, because the magic club here found the Gorgon stone slab this spring, it didn't take long for this stone pillar to respond to the absorption of magic power, and it was able to hide it with magic at the beginning. , but as time got longer and longer, more and more magic power accumulated in the stone pillar, even if they wanted to hide it, they couldn't hide it.

In the end, in desperation, I could only find Higashino Yu to help solve it.

"The report shows that Hera is enshrined here, right..."

Higashino Yuu looked at Shizhu and muttered.

For ordinary people, Hera has always been the Queen of the Third Generation in ancient Greek mythology, as well as the goddess of marriage and fertility, and one of the twelve main gods of Olympus. The daughter of Cronus and Rhea, the king and queen of the Second Generation, the co-governor who shares power with Zeus, the sister and seventh wife of Zeus.

However, this goddess was originally the goddess of the earth in the Peloponnese peninsula.

After being invaded and conquered by the Indo-European equestrian peoples who were the prototype of Zeus and worshiped the sky god, Hera was forced to become the goddess subordinate to Zeus.

In fact, the reason for this is that the mythology of the godslayer world is different from the mythology of other worlds. The mythology of the godslayer world pays more attention to the origin of the myth, so not only does a god wear different vests, but the relationship between gods Also intricately zero.

In the past few years, Higashino Yu has been studying this issue, but even now there are still many legends that are not clear.

As long as the legends in the world are circulating, the legends of the gods in mythology will keep changing. Therefore, it is more and more difficult to find (of) the origin.

"々. Then, I will release you now."

Looking at the Hera stone pillar, Higashino Yuu stretched out his fist, and then bombarded the stone pillar with one punch.

Accompanied by the terrifying roar, the whole of Naples trembled violently, and the rumbling sound of the ground continued to resound, causing the residents of the town to look at the Mount Vesuvius towering in the distance with panic.

You must know that this volcano has the reputation of "the most dangerous volcano in Europe". A violent eruption in 79 AD destroyed the ancient city of Pompeii, which had more than 20,000 people at that time. If it is erupting this time, it is very likely that they will turn into another Pompeii ancient city for future generations to dig.

But fortunately, there is no sign of eruption of the imagined volcano, which makes the residents living in Naples feel a long sigh of relief, but they will never know that this is just the beginning of the crisis. .