On Mount Olympus, another banquet of the gods was held here. Zeus, who was busy outside all day, also made a rare appearance in the hall of the gods, inviting the gods to enjoy themselves with him.
He is indeed worthy of happiness. After Ares, the god of war, he has another child who has been inspired by heaven and earth since birth. He took the two or three-year-old child in his arms and announced his name to the gods, Hermes.
Hermes is the child of Zeus and Maia, the goddess of wind and rain. His mother Maia is the daughter of the second-generation Titan god Atlas.
Atlas and Pleione gave birth to seven daughters, all of whom were forest nymphs and were called the Pleiades sisters. Maia was the eldest among them. They are half-sisters with the three Hesperides sisters who helped Hera guard the golden apples, and they all have considerable divine power.
Not long after Hermes was born, he was still a child sleeping in a cradle. Once, without his mother noticing, he broke away from his swaddling clothes, slipped out of the cave, went to the Pieria Valley, and killed both ends of Apollo. In order not to leave any traces of the cattle, he first tied all the cattle's feet to reeds and branches, then put on adults' straw sandals and drove the cattle in the opposite direction.
As he hurried through Boeotia, he met an old man growing grapes. He asked the old man not to tell anyone that he had seen him, and then left. But some people said that he was worried later, so he turned into another person and found the old man and asked him if he had seen a child driving cattle by. The old man did not know the inside story, so he told him the whereabouts of the child. Hermes was very angry. He turned the old man into stone.
Afterwards, he returned to the forest and continued to drive the cows forward. When he arrived at Pylos, he selected two cows and killed them. He hid the others in the cave. He returned to his mother's house as if nothing had happened and climbed into the cradle. But when his mother discovered his actions, she blamed him for being too reckless and worried that Apollo would retaliate against them.
Sure enough, after Apollo discovered that his cattle had been stolen, he found the cattle thief Hermes, and Zeus ordered Hermes to return the cattle. When Apollo pulled his ox out of the cave, Hermes was sitting on the stone at the entrance of the cave playing the harp. The beautiful sound of the harp made Apollo extremely intoxicated. He thought of his young brother Adros, who was also so clever when he was a child. Monster.
Finally, as the most artistic young man among the gods, Apollo even agreed to give the cows to Hermes for the price of the harp in his hand. Hermes finally got the cows.
You must know that these cows were sacrificed to Adros in his favorite temple. Even if he does not use the sacrifices of the gods, he rarely gives them to others.
During the banquet, the young Hermes suddenly stood up and said that he would give a gift to the God King and Queen of Olympus, which surprised Zeus. He had never received a gift from his children, so he said happily: "If the gift you give me is satisfactory, I will promise you to become the god of Olympus."
The young and cute Hermes covered his mouth and snickered, and took out a spear from a cloth bag he carried with him. It was flashing with the breath of thunder and lightning. It was Zeus's thunder spear, the one used in the Battle of the Titans. At that time, the Cyclops created an artifact for him.
Zeus was shocked that the spear he never left his body could be stolen by the young Hermes. Then he was overjoyed and lamented that Olympus would have another messenger to spread glory for him.
"Okay, good job. From today on, you will be my messenger, delivering messages for me. When you grow older, I will give you other priesthoods."
Now that Hermes is still young, Zeus is not sure which laws he can correspond to, so he can only temporarily let him act as his messenger to facilitate his teaching. As for the original messenger Iris, Zeus had long planned to make her a god and messenger of Hera.
Then, Zeus smiled and said: "I wonder what gifts you have prepared for Hera?" Hera next to her said nothing, but she was also curious about what this lucky boy could give him.
At this time, Hermes took out a small gray bottle, and he didn't know what was inside. He handed the bottle to Hera and said slightly coldly: "Now it has returned to its original owner."
Ever since Hermes took out this small bottle, Zeus's expression changed, and even more so Hera's pretty face turned pale instantly, and she couldn't help but feel nervous. She took the vial handed over by Hermes, glanced at the new god with complicated eyes, and still remained silent.
"Hera, don't you think you need to give me an explanation?" Zeus's voice was full of anger. In his hands, he also held the same two bottles, which he had obtained from Aegina and Antiope. Taken from the hands of sisters. He knew very well that his three sons who could become powerful gods only became demigods because of the medicine in this small bottle.
Seeing that Hera was silent, he grabbed Hera's small bottle, then opened his third eye and carefully observed the medicine in the bottle.
After a long time, Zeus sighed: "It turned out to be the breath of Styx, no wonder it would interrupt the divinity." Then, he became angry, and his angry voice spread throughout the hall of the gods, and the joy in the hall was instantly overshadowed by dark clouds. shrouded.
"It's you, it's you, why did you destroy my child's divinity?" Zeus struck the scepter violently on the throne, and thunder exploded in the hall, as if it was the end of the world.
Hera also recovered at this time and glanced at Zeus lightly: "Why? You secretly had sex with others behind my back and gave birth to so many illegitimate children. I was already magnanimous by not killing your lover and children directly."
Zeus listened and roared again: "Do you know that these children are the future and hope of our Olympus?" He had to be angry. Among the many gods, Olympus was not as powerful as imagined. , only by continuously developing strength can we compete with the alien gods described by Earth Mother to him.
The best way to develop strength is to have more blood descendants. But his wife Hera destroyed the divinity of these children out of jealousy in her heart.
Hera said coldly: "It's your future and hope, not mine." Zeus was happy during this time, and he was accompanied by beautiful women everywhere in the world. But what about her? A man gave birth to their daughter Enio, and Zeus did not even show his face. On the contrary, he is always concerned about his descendants in the human world.
Zeus shook his head, as if his face was full of pain: "You are my queen, what is mine is yours, and what is yours is mine."
"Humph, you also know that you have a divine queen, so what do these things in the mortal world mean?" Hera laughed at herself: "Mine is indeed yours, and these are all." She pointed to Hephaestus Ares and others said coldly: "But yours may not be mine. I can't give birth to so many children."
"If they are not your children, you will destroy them. How can you be so vicious." Zeus was once again angered by Hera.
At this time, Hera heard Zeus commenting on herself like this for the first time. Her heart was filled with sorrow and anger, and she said angrily: "I am so cruel, so what can I do? If you have children in the future, I will still try my best to destroy them." "
"Ah." Zeus couldn't help shouting. In anger, he took out the gold chain and anvil, tied Hera's hands with the gold chain, and tied Hera's feet with the anvil, and hung her upside down. In the mid-air of the Olympus Hall, let the gods watch her make a fool of herself.
Hera didn't even resist at all and allowed Zeus to do what he did. She just looked at her husband, Zeus, the God King of Olympus, coldly with a pair of wonderful eyes.
"If you don't get rid of the thoughts in your mind, then you will hang in this hall for the rest of your life." Zeus looked at Hera, although he could not bear it, but finally said forcefully.
Hera looked at him, shaking her head, and there was even a hint of self-deprecation on the corner of her mouth.
At this time, the gods in the hall of the gods were already stunned. They had no idea that such a big change would happen in just a short time.
But at this time, looking at the angry God King Zeus and the somewhat crazy God Queen Hera, no god dared to stand up and intercede for Hera.
Among the Olympian gods who dare to resist Zeus, the two Titans Rhea, the goddess of time, and Themis, the lord of justice, are at the mother earth. Hestia, the eldest sister of Zeus, is still in the world, and Hades, the king of Hades. and Poseidon, the King of the Sea, are also in their respective regions. The remaining gods are either the children of Zeus or some foreign gods. How dare they resist the powerful god king Zeus.
Even Hera's two sons, Hephaestus, the god of fire and forging, and Ares, the god of war, did not dare to say a word. And the newly born little Hermes, although smart and talented, was frightened by the scene he had caused. He stayed in a corner and did not dare to speak.
His original plan was to return the bottle to Hera so that she would stop having any bad thoughts about him. Who would have known that he was not the first son of Zeus to receive such treatment. There were already three children in front of them. Without his great power and luck, their divinity had been cut off by Hera.
Hera just hung quietly in the hall. Zeus and all the gods present watched quietly. Except for Zeus who kept drinking strong wine, no one of the gods dared to make a sound.
The whole scene continued like this, quiet and depressing.
"Hey, isn't this the Queen of Gods? Why are you performing for the gods here? This is too ugly, I think I'd better forget it."
A ridiculing voice came, and then a young god with green robes, black hair, and wide sleeves came in. Without saying a word, he drew the long sword from his waist and cut off the gold chain hanging from Hera.
Hera just fell out of the air and landed directly on the ground. The young god quickly held Hera in his arms to prevent her from hitting the ground face first.
It was Adros who came in. After he came out of Hera's palace, he wanted to find Hera to thank him. After all, the divine object that restored the body was not something that could be obtained casually. If Adros were to do it on his own, it would probably take at least three to five years to recover.
He learned that Hera was attending a banquet in the Hall of the Gods, so he rushed over. Unexpectedly, he saw this scene as soon as he entered the door.
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