Volume 19 Chapter 195 Hades’s Helplessness

"I'm sorry, I didn't know you were Lord Rhadamantis's man. Lord Minos is in the Tribunal, and I don't know where Lord Aeacus is."

After hearing the guard's report, I nodded slightly and ignored the guard and walked directly towards the trial court. Pandora had already drawn a map of this place to me before I came here, so I knew the general location of the buildings very clearly.

Follow the direction indicated on the map, cross the long street in front of you, turn left, and follow the road to the end where you will see a door. This is an obvious portal because it is built on a base that looks like an altar. There is nothing behind the door, only a solitary portal that looks like a miniature version of the Arc de Triomphe standing there.

After passing through the portal, I found myself standing on a platform. The platform was surrounded by endless darkness, even with my dark vision I couldn't see through it. Directly in front of the platform and facing the portal is the back entrance of a building. The reason why I know this is the back door is mainly because although the building is extremely tall, it has no decoration. The outside is smooth and smooth with a large flat rock. If it weren't for the monster sculpture on top of the temple-like building, I might have mistaken it for a cliff.

The first thing you see after entering the building from the door at the back is the passages extending to the left and right. According to Pandora, these two passages actually lead to the front hall, so it doesn't matter which way you go.

After bypassing the passage, I arrived directly at the front hall of the building. The structure here is very similar to the castle where I entered the underworld before. The huge hall seemed to be prepared for giants. Giant stone pillars with a diameter of more than ten meters were neatly arranged on both sides of the hall, supporting the roof above the head, which was at least more than a hundred meters above the ground. In the front of the hall is a row of doors that allow dragons to easily get in and out. In the depth of the hall is a ladder structure that narrows upwards like a pyramid. At the top of the stairs is a huge office desk. There were two fully armed Hades guards standing on both sides of the table, and the person sitting behind the table was the Minos I was looking for.

At this time, Minos was flipping through a thick book. At the bottom of the towering stairs, a guy in ragged clothes and a pale face, who didn't know whether he was a human or a ghost, was being pressed down by two guards. Being interrogated on the ground, Minos above would ask some questions from time to time. As long as the guy below didn't answer honestly, he would be beaten by the guards immediately.

Since the hall was super empty and there were few people, I was spotted immediately as soon as I appeared on the side of the hall. But I didn't intend to hide it anyway. After seeing the other party notice me, I took the initiative to walk towards the steps.

If I immediately attacked or turned around and ran away after being discovered, the other party would take action. However, seeing me walking over calmly, Minos and the guards did not take any action. After all, my reaction didn't look like an intruder, and the location where I appeared also showed that I came from the Temple of Hades at the back. Being able to walk over there at least means that I have entered the dead in the underworld, otherwise I should have walked in through the front door.

Although the other party did not take action, I did not intend to get too close to Minos. Although I am confident that I can defeat him, I am not here to fight, and I will need his assistance later. This is not the right time to cause conflicts, so maintaining the necessary courtesy is a must.

According to the precautions given by Rhadamanthys, I did not go directly up the steps, but walked directly to one of the two guards holding down the deceased, and then wrote the letter that Rhadamanthys wrote to Minos. The letter was given to the guard near me.

The guard was a little wary at first when he saw me approaching, but after seeing the logo on the letter, he immediately relaxed and saluted me quickly. Then he took the letter and ran up the steps and delivered the letter directly to Minos.

After seeing the mark of Rhadamantis on the letter, Minos first looked at me with surprise and doubt, and then opened the envelope and read it. After taking a few minutes to read the contents of the letter, Minos immediately stood up and said to the two guards around him: "Please help me take over temporarily."

The two guards immediately nodded to express their understanding, and then said: "Don't worry, we will try our best to judge every criminal."

Minos nodded, then quickly walked down the steps and waved to me, walked around the side pillars and entered the passage I came through before.

"Where are you Rhadamantis?" Minos asked in a low voice after entering the passage.

I nodded and said: "Pandora and Ares are also with me. They have agreed to join the Frost Rose Alliance. As for the purpose of my visit this time, I believe Rhadamantis has already explained it to you in the letter."

Minos nodded and said: "In principle, I have no objection to joining your Frost Rose Alliance, but Radamantis should have told you that we will not betray Lord Hades. If Lord Hades doesn't Even if we agree to join, it is impossible for us to join.”

I nodded and said: "Pandora has already told me about this. Now I just hope that you and Aeacus can act as intermediaries so that Hades and I have a chance to have a good talk."

"I can agree to your request, but before that we have to find Aeacus, and it's best to find someone else."

"who?"

"Philotes."

"What?" To be honest, I was quite surprised when I heard this name. But it's not because of how powerful the character represented by this name is, or because I haven't heard of this name before, but because Philotes is actually the 'obscene' god. That's right. Philotes is the goddess in charge of sex and lust among the Olympians. Her abilities can be described as very unusual, and because her abilities are too weird , so she is an extremely unpopular existence even among the Olympus Protoss, which is famous for its widespread incest. I can understand that Minos asked me to find Aeacus, but this Philotes is a bit puzzling.

When Minos saw my reaction to hearing Philotes, he thought I didn't know who Philotes was, but as soon as he explained a few sentences, I interrupted him and said, "No need to explain, I know Philotes." Who is Si, but I am very strange, why should I call Philotes in this matter?"

Minos directly stretched out two fingers and said: "First, Philotes also has an extremely embarrassing status among our Olympus Protoss, so she will definitely support our switch to your Frost Rose Alliance."

"What about number two?"

"The second is that Philotes is very important to Lord Hades." Seeing me looking at him in confusion, Minos approached me helplessly and whispered: "I can tell you for this matter. This is the inside story, but you must never tell the third person that I said it." Of course, I immediately swore that I would never tell the third person that he told me this. After receiving my assurance, Minos asked in a low voice: "Do you know how Lady Persephone became the Queen of Hades, right?"

I nodded and said, "Victoria is my magic pet, so I know a little bit about your Olympus clan. I heard from her that Persephone seemed to have been snatched to the underworld by Hades."

Minos nodded immediately after hearing this and said: "It seems that you do know a lot of things. Lady Persephone was indeed snatched back by Lord Hades, but taking it back is not the end. Because Lady Persephone is not She volunteered to become the Queen of the Underworld, so she was always cold towards Lord Hades at first."

After hearing what Minos said, I immediately nodded and stopped Minos from continuing. In fact, it's easy to guess what happened at this point. Here you can completely imagine Hades as a bandit on the mountain, and Persephone is the noble lady who passed by the mountain and was unfortunately snatched up the mountain to become the wife of the village. Under such circumstances, it is not difficult to imagine Persephone's attitude towards Hades. If she did not fight to the death with her, it would be considered a compromise. It is inevitable to expect her to be obedient to Hades and be a little sweet wife. No way.

Hades snatched Persephone back because he really liked her, so he snatched her back when Persephone was about to become someone else's wife. As Persephone's pursuer, Hades naturally hoped that Persephone would be obedient and loving to him, but Persephone didn't have a good impression of him at first, and was later forcibly snatched away by him. In the underworld, this feeling will naturally be even worse. In this case, if Hades wanted to get Persephone's love through normal circumstances, it would undoubtedly be a dream. So Hades came up with a more alternative method, which was to let Philotes secretly catalyze Persephone's sexual desire.

Although ooxx and love cannot be equated, we have to admit that most people’s love is based on ooxx. If anyone says that he can maintain love with someone without engaging in ooxx activities at all, congratulations, you have become a saint.

Precisely because ooxx has the role of a catalyst and a reinforcing glue for love, Hades shamelessly chose to let Philotes catalyze Persephone. As a result, Persephone was naturally unable to stop Philo. The effect of Thes's special ability succumbed to Hades, and then after the two people had a physical relationship and Hades deliberately tried to please him, Persephone's attitude towards Hades began to improve rapidly. Of course, the effect of this The premise is based on the premise that Persephone does not know that she and Hades ooxx are the work of Philotes. Once Persephone knew that she had been catalyzed by Philotes' special skills, she would probably have to fight Hades immediately.

Based on the above reasons, Philotes is holding Hades's hand, so if she is present, even if Hades does not agree to change jobs, he will at least keep calm and finish the conversation with me, so that he will not get into trouble. Come up and do it with me.

After understanding what Minos meant, we walked through the space door together and returned to the space where the Temple of Hades was. The process of finding Philotes was very simple, and this woman was probably indeed attracted by Olin. The gods of Pise were bullied badly, so when she heard about the opportunity to transfer, she immediately excitedly wanted to help me contact Hades. I felt like she was more proactive than me! However, although Philotes was found, Aeacus was nowhere to be found. We went around all the places where he might appear, but no one was found at all. In the end, we had no choice but to go directly to Hades' Temple of Hades without looking for him.

"You two wait here, I'll go in and talk to Lord Hades first." After arriving at the Temple of Hades, Minos asked Philotes and I to wait outside. Even Dis is considered an outsider, and places like the Temple of Hades are not suitable for us to enter directly.

After Minos entered, Philotes and I waited outside for more than ten minutes. Just when we thought something went wrong, Minos ran out and called us in.

As soon as Philotes saw Minos coming out, he immediately asked: "What took so long?"

Minos also said helplessly: "Ms. Persephone is inside, and it's really hard for us to talk about this matter in front of her, so I have to wait for her to leave before reporting to Master Hades. Oh, by the way, Aea. That guy Kos is in there too.”

Upon hearing this, Philotes immediately said: "No wonder I couldn't find him even after looking for him."

As we talked, we entered the interior of the Temple of Hades. Under the leadership of Minos, we passed through several guards and finally entered a huge room. Somewhat unexpectedly, this is not the kind of office-like living room I imagined. Although most of the protoss I met before received me in similar rooms, Hades chose one. A rather special room.

The area of ​​this room is about 200 square meters. Opposite the door is a wall of floor-to-ceiling windows. Through the windows, you can see the garden outside, which is very beautiful. There are a row of cabinets on the left and right sides of the room. One side is filled with books, and the other side is filled with various alcoholic beverages. The middle of the room is relatively empty. Apart from a set of gorgeous desks and chairs, there are only a couch and a huge black piano that can be used as a bed.

To be honest, this room looks more like a private bar than an office. If Hades hadn't been more sentimental and turned his office into a bar, it would have been because this room was not a reception room at all but a rest room.

When we came in, Hades was sitting in front of the giant piano, playing a piece of music that sounded very depressing. Although I don't know what the music was, I'm sure Hades is playing this music now. Definitely not a good thing.

After we all entered the room, Aeacus, who was standing by the door, closed the door, and then he and Minos stood on both sides of Hades' piano, while Philotes sat down on his own unceremoniously. On that sofa, she felt more casual than the owner here.

Seeing that they had all found their seats, I walked to the center of the room, but I did not sit down or talk to Hades. I just stood there quietly watching Hades play the piano.

With Hades' strength, he certainly knew who came into the room, so he must have ignored me on purpose. But I came here to poach, not to fight Hades, so I didn't react too much to his ignoring. Instead, I just looked at him and waited until he finished playing the song he was playing.

After the song ended, Hades stood up from his seat and turned to look at me. However, he did not speak. Instead, after looking at me, he walked directly to his desk and sat down. Then he returned from He took out a small box from the desk drawer and placed it on the table. After placing the box, he gently pressed it on the top of the box, and a red crystal pillar immediately popped out from the top of the box and emitted circles of red ripples. It wasn't until this thing started that Hades suddenly changed his previous attitude and said to me enthusiastically: "I'm sorry, President Ziri, I really didn't want to show off in front of you just now. It's really..."

I asked before Hades finished speaking: "Is there also Zeus's spy here?"

Hades looked at me with a slightly surprised look before continuing: "To be able to become the intermediary of the gods and keep the ring of commandments on their behalf, President Ziri is really not an ordinary person. But I am very curious, how do you know that I am... Being watched, and the person watching me is from Zeus?”

I reached out and pointed at the box and said, "Although I don't know what it is, I happen to have a goddess of illusions next to me, and I am relatively familiar with this special energy structure used to hide people's ears. Since you put this thing out there , then it must be because he is being monitored. As for the main messenger being Zeus, this is actually easy to guess."

"Is it easy to guess?" Hades obviously didn't understand what I meant.

"Of course." I explained: "With your identity and strength of Hades, the King of Hades, there are only eight people who can be equal to you in the entire Olympus Protoss. In addition, Zeus is more powerful than you. There are only nine people who are one level higher than you really need to be afraid of. If the other person was weaker than you, with your strength and character, you would have killed him outright, so how could you be forced to put on a show just for the sake of it? To deceive the other party's eyes and ears? So this person must be one of these nine people."

"But in this case, there are still nine people to guess. Why do you think it must be Zeus?"

"This is about Pandora." When I mentioned Pandora, I paid special attention to Hades's expression. After finding that he had no abnormal reaction, I said with confidence: "I talked to Pandora before I came here. Regarding your transfer. Pandora told me about the status of the Hades family in the Olympus Protoss. She thinks you are a very emotional person, so you are unwilling to betray Zeus, but I don’t think you are. It's because of feelings that you don't dare to betray, and it seems like you have something in the hands of Zeus. Even if my guess is incorrect, given the current situation of your Hades family, you should have betrayed Olympus long ago The Protoss. Even if you don’t find anyone to take refuge in, at least you can establish your own business. If the person who sent someone to monitor you is really among the other eight people, given your current embarrassing situation in the Olympus Protoss, even if you don’t There should be other violent reactions if you directly challenge him to a duel. But you act so comfortable. This means that you cannot touch that person. At this time when your relationship with the Olympus Protoss is so rigid, The person you still dare not touch, then I really can’t think of anyone other than Zeus.”

"Yes, your inference is correct. The person who is monitoring me is Zeus." Hades readily admitted after I guessed it.

When I saw Hades admit it, I followed: "Since you don't deny this matter, does that mean I don't need to persuade you anymore? As long as I can solve the problem of Zeus holding you hostage, you will join us directly, right?"

Hades nodded and said: "If it weren't for Zeus blackmailing me, I would have quit a long time ago. Every time we fight, we rush to the front, and when the benefits are shared, we don't have a share. I don't want to be in such an organization. I'm done here. As for joining you, I can see how powerful your guild is just from you, so it's no problem to join you. I heard that you also supervise some of the work of the underworld in China, and I can just help you if I go there. You take over this part of the job.”

I nodded and said, "That's easy to handle. Now tell me what exactly Zeus is threatening you with, and I'll help you find a solution."

Hades thought for a while and said, "Wait here for a while." After getting my confirmation, he left the room. After a while, he came back, followed by a woman. I know this woman, she is Persephone, Queen of the Underworld. I have to say that Hades was fascinated by her for a reason, because this Persephone was really beautiful. However, I think her biggest feature is not her beauty, but her indescribable vitality. As the goddess of spring, wherever Persephone appears, you will feel as if you are in the spring wilderness, and even the air will become fresh and beautiful. Compared with the rigid and silent underworld, Persephone's aura is simply another extreme. I guess Hades was probably attracted by this extreme temperament, so he couldn't help but fall in love with Persephone. . But if I were Hades, I would definitely choose to marry Pandora instead of Persephone. To be honest, it is a bit incredible that these two seemingly well-matched characters can actually develop a relationship like brother and sister. After all, the Olympus body group has always been known for incest, even if the biological mother and son are , There is a history of intermarriage between father and daughter, and it is even more common for brothers and sisters to be together. As a result, Hades and Pandora, two completely unrelated beings, developed a pure sister-sister relationship, which was really surprising.

After Persephone entered the room, she glanced at me first, and then turned her gaze back to Hades. But what she didn't expect was that just when she was about to turn around, Hades suddenly pointed at me from behind. On her neck, Persephone instantly collapsed like a robot whose battery had been removed. If Hades hadn't been prepared, she would have fallen directly to the ground.

Minos and I were all surprised when we saw that Hades had knocked Persephone unconscious. Hades's reputation for doting on his wife was well-known throughout the God Realm. With his love for Persephone, how could he suddenly make her faint?

Just when we were puzzled, Hades had already carried Persephone to the sofa. After signaling Philotes to get out of the way, he put Persephone on the sofa, and then we With doubtful eyes, he lifted up the clothes behind Persephone a little, and then saw him scratch the clothes with his fingers, and the clothes were immediately cut open.

After cutting the clothes, Hades pressed the clothes back on Persephone's body and stretched out his hand to tear the slit wide, exposing a piece of skin on Persephone's back. I saw that the snow-white skin as smooth as jade was actually printed with a magic circle with a thunderbolt mark in the center.

After seeing this thing, I immediately walked over in surprise, and then I wanted to reach out and 'touch' it, but luckily I remembered it again halfway out, and quickly stopped and turned to look at Hades and asked: " May I?"

Hades nodded, and then I pointed two fingers on the thunder chart. After about a few seconds, I frowned and took my hand back. "Do you feel it?" Hades asked, looking at my straight face.

I nodded and was silent for a while before asking, "When was this thing printed?"

"It has been imprinted on it since I snatched Persephone back."

"You mean before..."

"No, it was printed when I snatched her away."

"You mean you were hit directly by Zeus when you came back from snatching Persephone?"

Hades nodded. "That's right, it was put in at that time."

I then asked: "Is Zeus planning to hit you?"

Hades shook his head and said: "No, he was targeting Persephone. Although I tried to stop her, I was still imprinted by him."

"Zeus is too cruel, isn't he? Can he kill his own daughter?"

"He wants to get involved with the daughter he gave birth to with his sister. What do you think he can't do?"

Hades' words stunned me slightly. But having said that, Zeus is really perverted. Persephone's mother was Demeter, the harvest goddess, one of the ten major gods of Olympus. Demeter was actually the second sister of Zeus, and she was also one of Zeus' wives. As for Persephone, she is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. In other words, Zeus, an old whore, married his second sister. He also tried to include Persephone, who was both his daughter and his niece, as his wife. But having said that, Hades is not a good guy if you put it this way, because Hades and Zeus are brothers, so Demeter is Zeus’s second sister and his second sister, and Persephone She is his niece. Of course, compared to that old bastard Zeus who didn't even let go of his own daughter, at least Hades has turned a corner, and Hades is at least more dedicated, unlike that guy Zeus, the whole Olympus There are almost no women from the Protoss who have nothing to do with him.

Seeing that we had been talking there for a long time, Philotes, who had been in a state of surprise next to him, finally couldn't help but interjected and asked: "You two have been talking there for a long time, what is that magic mark?"

"Energy Collapse Array." I said directly to Philotes.

Philotes immediately covered his mouth in surprise when he heard the name. "So to say……?"

Hades nodded and said: "If it weren't for this thing, why do you think the lifeless Temple of Hades turned into a garden-like existence?"

After hearing what Hades said, Minos and the others finally understood. Persephone is the goddess of spring, and her magic power has certain life characteristics. However, because of the energy dispersion circle on her back, she cannot control her magic power at all. As a result, her magic power is everywhere she goes. Wherever it collapsed, the biggest feature of her mana was that it could transform the environment and spawn various plants. As a result, after she settled in the underworld, it uncontrollably turned into a huge garden.

"So that's it!" Aeacus said: "My lord, since this thing is so troublesome, why don't you destroy it?"

Seeing that Hades was in a bad mood now, I answered on his behalf: "The evil of the energy collapse circle is here. This circle will continuously cause energy collapse, and initially it will collapse the mana. This is a little easier to handle. , but after the magic power is dissipated, it will begin to dissipate the living energy. If left unchecked, the person who is imprinted with this magic circle will soon die due to exhaustion of life force. However, if you do not know the orbit of the magic circle and forcefully break it, If the formation is formed, this magic formation will gather the mana of the person who is imprinted with the magic formation to counterattack his energy core. For you gods, it is an impact on your soul. The final result may be that you lose all your mana and become a useless person, or more seriously. He exploded and died on the spot, and the explosion was quite powerful.”

"What? Isn't Lady Persephone...?" Minos and Aeacus became anxious as soon as they heard my explanation. The biggest characteristic of the gods in the hell system is loyalty, which seems to be the same all over the world. Minos and Aeacus, as the three judges of the underworld on the Olympus side, are naturally loyal to Hades. Now that they heard that Persephone was imprinted with such a dangerous thing and was likely to die soon, how could they not be excited?

Seeing how nervous they were, even Hades, who was in a bad mood, couldn't help but said: "Don't worry too much. Although Zeus doesn't care about the relationship between father and daughter, he is afraid that I will betray the Olympus Protoss. So he used Persephone to set up a yoke for me. The mark on Persephone was not fully activated, it was in a semi-dormant state. Unlike the fully activated Collapse Circle, it is not available all the time. Instead of dissipating energy, it starts for one minute every hour and then turns off. This consumption rate is relatively slow. Persephone's own recovery speed can offset the mana consumption, so it will not cause any harm to her. . However, this state will only last for one year. Every year, Persephone must return to Mount Olympus and live for three months to reset the magic circle, otherwise the magic circle will be fully activated. By that time, Persephone can only last about half a year. If the magic circle is not closed after half a year, the magic circle will begin to consume her vitality, and then she will run out of vitality and die within three months.

"Is this why you won't leave the Olympus Protoss even if you die?" Philotes asked.

Hades nodded and said: "I cannot harm Persephone because of my relationship. Although it is unfair to those of you who follow me, I am not willing to give up anyone's life, so I can only in this way."

I interrupted Philotes who was about to say something else and said: "Hades has his own ideas, so don't say any more." After that, I turned to Hades and said: "Now that the matter is clear, then you Just keep the status quo and don't let Zeus see anything. As for the disintegrating magic circle on Persephone, I will find a solution."

Hades nodded and said: "As long as you can dismantle this magic circle, I will do it with you."

After reaching an agreement with Hades, I released all the familiars around me who were researching magic circles, and then together we conducted some research on the energy dispersion magic circle on Persephone. Of course, our goal is not to crack this magic circle on the spot, that would be too whimsical. After all, Zeus is the boss of the Olympus Protoss. Even though a strong fighting race like them is not very good at things like magic circles, the magic circle built with Zeus's strength is definitely not something that we can just gather around and discuss. Broken. The reason why we want to study this thing is just to understand the various characteristics of this thing so that we can take it back to others for study. If it weren't for Persephone's identity, I would even want to take her back with her. The recorded records are not as good as the original samples.

After recording the various characteristics of this magic circle, I agreed with Hades to come up with a solution as soon as possible. Then under the guidance of Hades, we acted out another scene pretending to break up on bad terms. During our pretend quarrel, Minos pretended to persuade me, but I pushed him. Then he accidentally knocked over the illusion generator, and then what the people outside saw synchronized with what was happening in the house. . Then I pointed at Hades' nose and said something angrily. Hades immediately wanted to chop me, but was held tightly by Aeacus, and I was pulled out of the room by Philotes. .

When the door to the room was closed again, Philotes who was holding me let go, and I immediately returned to my normal expression, assuring Philotes that I would find a way to solve Persephone's problem as soon as possible. This woman only let me leave after the magic circle, and I did not delay. After leaving the underworld, I even gave up my original plan to harass the Olympus Protoss, and ran directly back to Isengard.

As long as we figure out a way to break up the magic circle and bring Hades and the others together, it will be the biggest blow to the Olympus Protoss. So for this ambitious goal, I don't have time to do those sneaky things for the time being. It's a trivial matter.