Volume 20 Chapter 76 Star Gods with Difficulties

Looking at the twelve star gods standing in a circle in front of her, Aphrodite suddenly felt as if she was in a tiger's mouth. However, considering that she was here to invite them on the order of Zeus, this process was recorded. , so they should not dare to embarrass themselves. After thinking about it, Aphrodite was no longer timid, but walked directly to the last step and followed the Saint who led the way to the Twelve Star Gods. 【】

"Dear gods, the goddess Aphrodite has arrived." The Saint who led the way first reported to the Twelve Star Gods.

Iris of Aries came out and asked the Saint to leave first, and then he greeted Aphrodite and invited her into the Aries Palace.

Aries is the highest palace among the twelve star gods, but this does not mean that it is the lowest. Just think about it, among the twelve star gods, Iris in Aries is actually the supreme leader, equivalent to the representative of the twelve star gods. However, although Iris is the most powerful among the twelve star gods, his combat effectiveness is not the strongest. There has never been a conclusion on who the most powerful among the twelve star gods is. Some people say it is Vogeol in Virgo, others think it is Jiminar in Gemini, and some people say it is Lebrool in Libra. Some even think it is Sagittarius Tirelius. However, because the Twelve Star Gods have never officially fought against each other, and most of them did not try their best even if they competed, so this guess has never been confirmed. However, these four guys who are considered to be the strongest star gods are indeed the four most powerful among the twelve star gods. This is correct. However, being powerful is great. This is just a manifestation of combat effectiveness and has nothing to do with leadership ability or status.

Among the twelve star gods, the one with the strongest leadership ability and the highest status is Iris in the first house, Aries, and the second-ranked star god is the eighth star god, Beyoncé in Scorpio. Although the strength of the two of them is not among the top four among the twelve star gods, their status is the highest among the twelve star gods.

Because of Iris's transcendent status, he invited Aphrodite to enter the Aries Palace. The other star gods didn't say anything and followed her into the palace.

Although they are not the same faction, the Celestial Gods and the Hades are both members of the Olympus Gods after all, and their architectural styles are quite similar. The internal structure of this star temple is very similar to the Hell Tribunal where the three giants of hell try to deal with special undead souls. In front of the hall is a row of tall pillars from the ground to the top. Each pillar requires seven or eight adults to hold hands to hold it together. And its height is as high as twenty or thirty meters.

Behind this row of pillars is a corridor more than ten meters wide, but it does not extend forward, but spreads out laterally. There is a seven-eight-meter-high door in the middle of this corridor. When the nearly one-meter-thick golden door panel is pushed open, there is a huge hall inside. Opposite this hall there is a partition wall that is not connected to the walls on both sides. In front of the wall is a high platform with a set of gorgeous desks and chairs placed on the high platform. After bypassing the partition wall, there is an exit leading to the outside of Aries Palace. There are more than a dozen small doors on each side of the main hall, leading to the rest area and other functional areas. Saints belonging to various star gods also live within those doors.

Iris had no intention of discussing matters with Aphrodite in the hall, but instead led Aphrodite to open a small door on the left side of the hall and entered the interior.

After passing through that door, there is a restaurant that is not very big. In addition to the entrance door, there are two doors in the restaurant, which are located on the other two walls besides the opposite one. Iris took Aphrodite and the other Star Gods out through a small door on the right, then passed through a corridor with many doors in the middle, and finally went up to the second floor at a turn in the corridor. There was a corridor above the second floor just like the first floor, but after walking only a few steps up the stairs, Iris opened a door and let Aphrodite in, and the star gods behind them also filed in.

After entering the room, Aphrodite took stock of the situation inside the room. This is obviously not a study, but a room that resembles a home bar. Apart from a row of counters filled with various drinks placed against the wall, the only other things left in the room were two sets of sofas in two circles, and a large floor-to-ceiling pipe organ.

Since there are many sofas, the twelve star gods plus Aphrodite are not too crowded here. After Iris arranged for everyone to sit down, he walked to the organ, then pressed one of the keys of the organ, and then walked back to the seat reserved for himself on the sofa and sat down. When he pressed the key, Aphrodite could clearly feel that her sensing range was limited to the inside of the room, which meant that the outside and inside of the room should have been completely isolated at this time. Even if someone outside wants to eavesdrop on the conversations of insiders, it is impossible.

Although Aphrodite felt that the behavior of Iris and the other star gods was quite strange, she did not ask since the other party had not yet begun to explain. She knows that being too positive often means losing the initiative in the conversation.

Sure enough, waiting was the right decision. Iris, who finally sat down, spoke first after everyone calmed down, and when he opened his mouth, he cut directly into the subject without any detours.

"Aphrodite, are you working for the Frost Rose Alliance?"

Aphrodite, who was already prepared to exchange words with the other party, suddenly encountered such a straightforward and semi-affirmative question, and was stunned as she didn't know what to say. What's even worse is that although the other party's question was asked in a question, the tone was obviously a statement. The other party was not asking whether she had surrendered to us, but the other party directly told her that she had surrendered to us. This was an affirmative answer, not a question.

Seeing that Aphrodite was silent, Iris also knew that he might have entered the topic too quickly. So, he paused for a moment and then continued: "Zeus and the others have never been to Isengard, and they do not understand the horror there. You and I have both been to Isengard, and we all know what Isengard is like. city. That place cannot be called a city in the human world at all. It is simply a divine city built in the human world, and it is also an armed fortress-type divine city. Compared with her, our Mount Olympus is like Farmhouses are generally shabby.”

Aphrodite frowned and looked at Iris and asked tentatively: "I don't quite understand what you mean."

"What I mean is very simple." Iris looked into Aphrodite's eyes and said in a very sincere tone: "We have all been to Isengard, so we understand his powerful defense. Like Isengard's City, once imprisoned, no one can escape unless they intentionally release you. Therefore, you definitely did not escape from Essinger. You reached an agreement with them and were released. ." Seeing Aphrodite eager to explain, Iris quickly reached out to stop her, and said first: "Don't rush to defend, we have been to Isengard, so we won't believe your words. In addition, you also There is no need to explain, because we will not tell Zeus. We just want a channel that can help us establish contact with the Purple Sun."

Aphrodite frowned, and then began to think about how credible their words were. However, after a short period of thinking, Aphrodite reluctantly admitted that what the other party said was absolutely correct. She was caught in Essinger and came out of Essinger in good condition. During this period, she even knew more about Essinger than Iris and the others. The fact is just as Iris and the others said, Essinger is a divine city built in the human world, and it is also a fortress city. Compared with the architectural structure of Mount Olympus of the Olympus Protoss, which is similar to a natural village, Isinger is completely a war machine. To be able to escape from a place like that, you must have the kind of luck that happens to win the jackpot every time you buy lottery tickets ten times. Otherwise, you can only hope to escape from there in a dream.

Since the matter is irrefutable, Aphrodite is also very single. She nodded directly and admitted: "Okay, I admit, I accepted the conditions of the Frost Rose Alliance and temporarily work for them. But what are your plans for this? I want you to get me here, and then be so mysterious The purpose of contacting me is not just to extract information from me and then go to Zeus to inform you, right?"

"No, no, no." Iris was obviously very excited after hearing Aphrodite's admission. He said with a little excitement: "How could we report you? You are the bridge we finally found. ah."

Aphrodite frowned and said, "What do you mean?"

At this time, Beyoncé, a Scorpio, suddenly opened her mouth and explained: "What Iris means is that we hope to establish a connection with Ziri through you."

After hearing this, Aphrodite asked even more suspiciously: "Didn't you take several sets of communication equipment with you when you went to join the Frost Rose Alliance?"

Upon hearing this, the Star Gods immediately started to smile bitterly. In the end, it was Stone Beyoncé who explained: "The last time we went to the Frost Rose Alliance, it was not at all our own will."

"It's not your own will? Then you..." Aphrodite figured it out halfway through the question, and then suddenly exclaimed: "Then you went there last time to pretend to surrender?"

"Yes and no." Iris took up the topic and continued: "At first, we just felt that Zeus's management method was very problematic. Everyone had complaints in their hearts and no longer wanted to stay in the Olympus Protoss. However, at that time, Everyone just felt that there was no future in staying, and they didn’t really think about taking action. However, Zeus suddenly found us some time ago and gave us a secret mission."

"Did he ask you to pretend to surrender?" Aphrodite responded quickly.

Iris nodded and said: "Zeus meant to bring Zi Sun into the sphere of influence of our Olympus Protoss. As for what he was going to do next, he didn't tell us. Moreover, in order to fear that we would not do things well, he also The magic circle was forcibly inserted into us, which allowed him to monitor our actions and conversations at any time. We had to contact the Frost Rose Alliance according to his requirements, and we did not dare to do anything beyond the scope of the mission."

When Iris said this, Beyoncé, who was standing next to her, continued: "You just asked why we still need you to communicate if we don't have a communicator. That's the reason. We got the communication in the Frost Rose Alliance Zeus also knew about the device, so after he came back, he immediately took all three sets of communicators. First, he wanted to figure out how this thing worked, and then use this thing to eavesdrop on the internal communications of the Frost Rose Alliance. . But this kind of communicator and our divine power structure are two completely unrelated technical systems. Zeus studied it for a long time, and finally broke two communicators and failed to understand the key technology of this thing. In the end, there was only one He didn’t dare mess around with the communicator, but he didn’t give it to us. Instead, he kept it with him so that he could monitor the instructions sent to us by the Frost Rose Alliance at any time.”

Aphrodite nodded: "So now you have to ask me to help you contact the Frost Rose Alliance, right?"

Iris nodded and said: "In fact, we had already thought about joining the Frost Rose Alliance when we received this mission. It's just because we are constantly being monitored by the magic circle, so we don't dare to show any betrayal. Meaning, we can only act according to Zeus’s arrangements.”

"Then how dare you tell me this now?" Of course Aphrodite knew that they must have thought of a way to lift the surveillance, she just wanted to know the specific method and reason.

Iris responded generously: "After we came back, Zeus' supervision of us became much more relaxed, and we also have such a shielded room, so Zeus can't monitor us all the time. But outside of this room, our Behavior still needs to be controlled.”

Aphrodite nodded again and said: "I roughly understand your situation now, but what do you want me to take back now? The communicator here seems to be blocked."

"Actually, we just want the Frost Rose Alliance to help us find a way to get a set of equipment similar to the one on Persephone."

"Persephone..." Aphrodite was still repeating habitually when she heard the other party's words, but suddenly she was stunned, and then looked at Iris and Spurbeyoncé in surprise. When they finally scanned the expressions of the twelve star gods and found that all of them had depressed expressions, they finally said in surprise: "You haven't all been put in an energy dispersion circle by Zeus, right?"

Beyoncé smiled bitterly and said: "If we didn't have an energy dispersion circle that can be activated remotely, why do you think we would listen to Zeus? Even if he installed a surveillance circle on us, he would know that we were rebelling. You know it now, and there's nothing we can do about it. At worst, we can just wait until the Frost Rose Alliance beats Zeus down and then we come back. But with this thing on top, all we need to do is a little bit of rebellion, and Zeus only needs a spell. You can completely kill us."

"No wonder...!" Aphrodite thought for a while and said: "I can't answer you for this yet, but Zeus's order for me is to take you to see him, so I can't stay here for too long. I don’t think it’s better to do this. You follow me first. I will make a detour to Hephaestus to get my equipment. Zeus also knows that my equipment was damaged in the last battle with Zirui, so I will go and get my equipment. It’s also a valid reason, and he probably won’t care. I will try to contact Ziri during this process and see what he says.”

Iris discussed it with several other star gods, and in the end he could only nod helplessly and said: "Okay, this is all we can do for the time being."

After the magic barrier was lifted, the Twelve Star Gods left the Zodiac with Aphrodite, but they did not return directly to Mount Olympus, but took a detour to the lava field of Hephaestus.

Although the Twelve Star Gods all have surveillance circles on them, Aphrodite does not. Deliberately keeping a distance from the Twelve Star Gods, she walked alone at the front of the team and activated the communicator to contact me who was on my way to the Holy See.

"What? The Twelve Star Gods also have an energy dispersion array. I have seen it with my own eyes. It is indeed a remote-controlled energy dispersion array." Aphrodite replied with certainty.

After hearing Aphrodite's words, I immediately said: "I'm not doubting what you said, I'm just surprised that Zeus actually installed a large number of energy disintegration arrays on his subordinates in order to control them. Doesn't he know that this will break up all the people's hearts?" ?"

Aphrodite said disapprovingly this time: "The Olympus Protoss has always been managed like this. The big fist is the boss. This is the order of the Olympus Protoss. In the past, Zeus relied on his personal strength to suppress Everyone, adding an energy dispersion circle now only strengthens the control, which is not an exaggeration."

I shook my head after hearing Aphrodite's words. I have to say that the logic of the Olympus Protoss is really strange. Although repressive policies have been tried by many countries in history, they were based on the absolute control of national freedoms and the inability to resist. The Gods generally don't have too many members, and for them, geographical restrictions are not big at all. Once a certain party adopts a high-pressure policy, fleeing to other gods becomes the first solution those little gods think of.

Before, I thought it was a miracle that Hades split from the Olympus Protoss, but now it seems that the split of the Olympus Protoss is just a matter of time. If they continue to fight smoothly and their faith area continues to expand, then it is better to say that as soon as they encounter obstacles and cannot break through in a short period of time, various internal contradictions will immediately emerge. Therefore, the split of the Olympus Protoss is basically a system issue, and my arrival is just the straw that breaks the camel's back.

"Aphrodite."

"I'm listening."

"where are you now?"

"I just left the Zodiac and am walking towards Hephaestus. I want to use the excuse of getting equipment to go to Hephaestus to find a solution."

Your judgment is correct. Now just take them there according to your own plan. I will inform Hephaestus. Previously, we helped Persephone create a suppression system for the collapse of the magic circle. With Hephaestus's technology, as long as we pass the production data over, he should be able to make the same thing. However, there are really many twelve star gods, and I am afraid that they may not be able to complete so many sets by then. "

"I will try my best to gain time."

"I know this. Anyway, you try to find excuses to walk slower. I will contact Hephaestus now."

Hephaestus was surprised as soon as he received my communication: "What? Zeus installed an energy dispersion array on the twelve star gods?"

I nodded and said in a very sure tone: "Yes, and what they have installed is not the ordinary energy dispersion array, but the remote-controlled energy dispersion array. No matter when, as long as Zeus is happy, a command can destroy ten people. The two-star god turned into twelve cripples or even dead people.”

Hephaestus said with some embarrassment after hearing this: "But if you tell me this, there is nothing I can do. The energy circulation circuit of the energy collapse magic circle determines that it is almost impossible to destroy safely. Dismantling the magic circle itself will cause the magic It is absorbed at a faster speed, and in the end it hurts the person who is imprinted with the magic circle. Although I am good at forging and making magic circle, destroying the magic circle is not my specialty."

"You don't need to destroy it, just help us build something. Now go use the large communicator I gave you and look up a device called the Energy Collapse Array Suppressor, and I will give you access. . Just make me twelve sets according to the drawings."

"Okay, I'll do it right now."

"Wait a moment."

"What's the matter?"

"I don't feel comfortable with the twelve sets."

When Hephaestus heard this, he immediately said angrily: "When did I, Hephaestus, ever play scrapped equipment? How complicated can your small energy dissipation array suppressor be? I can't even close my eyes. I can type it out.”

"No, no, no, I'm not doubting your yield rate, but I think that since Zeus can brand the energy collapse array on the twelve star gods, there's no guarantee that he won't brand other gods with this thing as well. I'm coming to Olin this time. The Pisi Protoss is just here to poach people, I want all the protoss, if I meet someone who has been branded again, I can't let you do it temporarily, can I?"

"That's true. But that can wait. I'll finish the twelve sets first."

Hephaestus's forging technology is unparalleled, and the energy dispersion array we designed for Persephone was not very difficult to design. Therefore, if Hephaestus wants to smash it according to the drawings, it is really difficult. It couldn't be easier.

Although it is very simple for Hephaestus to build this kind of suppressor, after all, it takes twelve sets and there is not much time. Therefore, Hephaestus had just completed the last set when Aphrodite and the others arrived. Suppressor.

Since I had reminded Hephaestus about the situation of the other party before, Hephaestus did not go up and greet Aphrodite stupidly, but first showed abnormality to Aphrodite. of obedience. This was of course done to show Zeus. In fact, the relationship between Aphrodite and Hephaestus was far from that close. In addition, in order to prevent Zeus from seeing the problem, Hephaestus showed a very bad attitude towards the twelve star gods.

In any case, the Twelve Star Gods are still members of the Celestial Gods of the Olympus Protoss, and the relationship between Hephaestus and the Celestial Gods has always been extremely unharmonious, so the worse his attitude becomes at this time, the more likely Zeus On the contrary, there will be less doubt.

Aphrodite had previously communicated with Hephaestus through the communicator on the precautions, so as soon as she came in, she followed the script and started asking Hephaestus if her equipment was complete. Because I got back the golden thread flower, this equipment is naturally completed. However, in order to find an opportunity to assemble a limiter for the Twelve Star Gods, Hephaestus did not say it was finished, but told them that there was still one last bit left, so he asked them to wait.

Later, when Hephaestus told them to wait, Aphrodite immediately pretended to be anxious and asked to go to the smelting place. Hephaestus immediately agreed, and then brought Aphrodite and the others to the smelting room.

"This is your smelting room? Isn't it good?" Iris asked deliberately pretending to be disdainful.

In fact, the training room they are in now is the training room with the magma river that I visited before, not the real forging room. Hephaestus didn't want Zeus to know what his forging workshop looked like, so he only brought them here. Anyway, it's just a trick to deceive Zeus. It doesn't matter which smelting room you use.

After hearing what Iris said, Hephaestus also pretended to be angry and had a few words with Iris. In the end, of course, Aphrodite came out to smooth things over. After being calmed down, Hephaestus took out something similar to sunglasses and handed it to Aphrodite. Aphrodite took the thing suspiciously and asked, "Why did you give me this?"

Hephaestus immediately explained: "I'm going to turn on the furnace soon, and it will be very dazzling here, so I have to bring a mountain to see things. After a while, the sound will be very loud, so you'd better keep your ears open." Block it up and write on the pink board on the table if you have anything to do."

After hearing this, Aphrodite immediately asked: "But what should they do?"

Hephaestus pretended to be very reluctant and said that it didn't matter whether they could see it or not, but after Aphrodite's persuasion, he finally took out twelve sets of sunglasses and gave them to the twelve star gods. After they all put on sunglasses, following Hephaestus's order, his assistant immediately opened the smelting furnace, and the entire cave was immediately flooded with a blinding light. If you don't wear sunglasses, you can't expect to see anything here.

At the same time as the strong light, when the furnace door was opened, there was a roar in the room, which was also mixed with the jingling sound of forging metal. Anyway, the noise was so loud that even standing together shouting at each other could hardly be heard. In this environment, Zeus's surveillance array is completely useless, because it can only collect sound and light information like eyes and ears. Now what it can transmit back to Zeus is an orange-red world plus a lot of noise. , anyway, I can’t see or hear anything useful.

\\Using the cover of the noise and bright light, Hephaestus quickly dug out the energy dissipation array suppressor that had been placed under a workbench and used a pink board with written words to remind the twelve star gods. Take off your armor quickly.

The Twelve Star Gods didn't know that they had prepared the suppressor before, because they were afraid of being heard by Zeus. Before, Aphrodite only told them in a guided language that they would come here later to keep secrets with Hephaestus. Do something, but you can't tell them exactly what to do. Now the Twelve Star Gods suddenly discovered that they had prepared the energy dispersion array suppressor, and they immediately wanted to scream in excitement, but they were all high-level gods, so they still had some self-control. I was excited, but I didn't do anything excessive.

At the request of Hephaestus, the Twelve Star Gods took off their armor and exposed the energy dispersion array printed on their backs.

The energy dispersion array on the Twelve Star Gods is obviously different from the one on Persephone. This is mainly because Zeus has improved his energy dispersion array based on the lessons of Persephone's failure. Of course, Zeus fundamentally got his research in the wrong direction. He thought that we had thought of a way to crack the magic circle and make it ineffective, but in fact we did not crack the magic circle, we just made it unable to work properly. Because Zeus made a wrong research direction, he strengthened the structure of the energy dissipation array after returning, and also specially added a protective array to prevent it from being cracked. It's just that these changes are completely useless to our suppressor, because the suppressor has no intention of breaking the magic circle at all.

After checking the energy dissipation array on the Twelve Star Gods and confirming that the design plan we provided was effective, Hephaestus immediately began to make small-scale adjustments to their suppressors one by one. This is just to make the suppressor more suitable for personal energy characteristics. After all, the suppressor achieves the purpose of suppressing the energy collapse array by increasing the energy pressure. However, because everyone's magic power type and intensity are different, the same energy collapse array is printed on different people, and the suppression method will be slightly different. s difference. It would have been usable if he didn't change it, but Hephaestus was a man who was striving for perfection. He couldn't allow the things he got to just "work". What he wanted was absolute perfection. So he ended up making slight adjustments to each C'tan, and re-adjusting the size of the suppressor to accommodate the C'tan's different statures.

After the last energy dispersion circle was completed, Hephaestus picked up another pink board and wrote on it: "Now the energy dispersion circle on your body can no longer threaten you, but it can still be activated. It's just that it can't cause actual harm. In addition, there is a red button on the belt I just installed for you. As long as you press it, the monitoring circle will be disabled, and it will automatically recover if you press it again. But it is best not to press it at ordinary times. To prevent Zeus from finding out that he can’t spy on you and becoming suspicious.”

After reading this passage, Iris took another pink board and wrote some words of thanks on it. The other Star Gods also came up to hug him and thank him. But when Taurus Thors was about to hug, Hephaestus was scared away.

joke! That guy Thors is almost three meters tall, and his arms are thicker than other people's waists. If he didn't control his strength well and used a little more force, Hephaestus would have to spend the rest of his life on the bed. . He just has a slight limp now, and there is no problem with his mobility. He doesn't want to become a polio patient, suffer from hemiplegia or something like that!

After they finished hugging, Hephaestus closed the furnace and pretended to take out the equipment he had prepared for Aphrodite from the furnace. In fact, based on the fire resistance of this set of equipment, it will not melt at all in this magma furnace, or even soften. Hephaestus just put it in it to pretend.

When Aphrodite saw the equipment coming out of the furnace, she immediately jumped on it excitedly. This was not fake, she was really excited. After all, I was used to wearing good equipment, but suddenly without the equipment, I felt like everything was wrong. Now that the new equipment was completed, she was of course extremely excited.

For fear of wasting time, Aphrodite put the equipment on her body after getting it and said goodbye to Hephaestus. Then she happily took the twelve star gods to Mount Olympus and inspected it. The attributes of your new equipment. Although she didn't tell others what attributes it had on it, but looking at her smiling expression like a flower, she knew that the attributes of this set of equipment would only be much better than her original set. Otherwise, if it was just the same or If it's slightly exceeded, the most she can do is smile, and she will never succeed regardless of her image.

Just when Aphrodite took the twelve star gods to Mount Olympus, I finally arrived outside the Holy See of Jehovah.

The Holy See at this time is very different from what it was when I last left. When I left last time, I destroyed the Temple Mount, which eventually caused the Temple Mount to topple over and fall outside the space compression barrier. As a result, half of the city of Rome was crushed by the Temple Mount. Of course, all the innocent casualties caused by this will be blamed on me. But I'm not worried about this. Firstly, I'm not a Roman, so if the NPCs and players here die, I only add experience and honor for killing enemies, not the evil value; secondly, I am an evil profession myself, no matter how much more The evil value does no harm to me either. This is the saying goes that if you have too many debts, you don’t have to worry about it, and if you have too many lice, you don’t have to itch. Anyway, my evil value has already broken the meter, so it doesn’t matter if I have more.

Although the Temple Mount was hacked by me, the Holy See of Jehovah was not finished. They only lost some miscellaneous soldiers and fixed assets such as buildings, and there was not much actual loss. Therefore, they must carry out post-disaster reconstruction.

Although there are no construction machinery in the game, there are magic and various monsters that can be used. Therefore, the actual construction speed is not slower than in reality, but is dozens of times faster.

Although more than half of the city of Rome is still buried under the collapsed mountain, the steep slopes of the mountain have been blasted to form a relatively soft slope with the surrounding horizon, so that buildings can be built Climb up the mountain via stairs or sloping roads. In addition, the top of the collapsed mountain seems to have been artificially leveled, and it seems to be basically flat. It is estimated that the Holy See considered that it was not practical to move the entire mountain, so it simply transformed the mountain into a habitable structure and made it part of the city. However, the originally flat Roman city would become half a mountain in the future. , half of it is in a plain state.

Of course I didn't come here to see the Holy See doing civil engineering. I wanted to find out whether Hera's foreign aid was them, so I still had to find Jehovah first. ! .