"Prometheus, why do you have time to come to my place?"
Athena looked at her friend in front of her with doubts in her heart. She knew very well that her friend had been running around the earth over the years, looking for a stable foothold for his newly created humans. It can be said that the busiest god in the world is Prometheus, the son of Iapetus and the prophet.
Prometheus's beard and hair were thicker and messier than before. His eyes were still so kind and resolute, but they were no longer so energetic and seemed to be full of exhaustion.
"Athena, am I here to ask for your help this time?" Prometheus was not polite and asked for help directly.
"What help?" Athena was very confused. There was something that this wise man among the Titans couldn't solve, and she needed to go to her temple in the world for help.
Prometheus sighed: "I want to ask you to help me go to Hephaestus and ask for the flame."
Athena's heart moved. Although Prometheus didn't say which flame it was, she understood what the prophet was talking about.
After she helped Prometheus create humans, because Prometheus rejected Zeus, he did not allow the newly born humans to worship the gods immediately, which bought humans time to learn to distinguish right from wrong.
It is precisely for this reason that the furious God King Zeus ordered the Fire God Hephaestus to extract the ability to make fire from all newborn humans, use his extremely powerful divine power to turn it into a ball of fire of law, and ordered He shall not give this fire to man.
Not only are the new humans who have lost the fire of law unable to make fire, they even dare not touch the flames made by the bronze and silver humans in the past, as if the flame is their natural enemy.
Prometheus spent twenty years contacting the bronze humans and silver humans who still existed in the world, bringing hundreds of thousands of new humans to various places, opening up cities and lands, and making them live and work in peace and contentment.
As of now, there are no more refugees on the entire land, and human beings have a stable living environment. But because there is no fire, these newborn humans can only eat the pulp raw and cannot cook it.
Under the guidance of Demeter, the goddess of harvest and agriculture, they worked hard to grow food, but they could not enjoy its delicious taste and could only exchange it for food with powerful early-born humans.
The so-called early-born humans are only relative to the late-born humans created by Prometheus. These humans occupy a dominant position in today's human world.
How could Prometheus, who had always regarded humans as his children, watch the humans he created suffer this, so he decided to find a way to solve the problem.
He knew very well that Zeus was extremely unhappy with him, and he did not want to go to Mount Olympus to ask for trouble, so he thought of his good friend, the goddess of wisdom Athena, hoping that she could help him take out the flame of law.
Prometheus looked at his good friend and saw that she didn't say a word. She was walking slowly around in the deserted temple. He was inevitably a little anxious in his heart.
Athena has always been fond of the new humans she helped create, but she knew very well that with her current strength, she could never compete with her father, the God King Zeus. Otherwise, not only will she not be able to help humanity, she will also be punished.
"It's difficult for the two of us to do this alone." After thinking for a long time, the goddess representing wisdom finally made up her mind: "I have a way to get the fire, but it requires you to make some sacrifices."
"I'm not afraid. As long as I can help humans gain the ability to use fire, I will accept it even if it means death." Prometheus was overjoyed after hearing Athena's words, and then said nonchalantly.
Athena looked at him deeply, and then said what she was thinking.
After hearing this, Prometheus couldn't help but nod his head, obviously very much approving of the method Athena said.
"Well, since you agree, we will split up. You go to the goddess Hestia first, and I will go to Apollo for help. Remember not to miss the time."
Before leaving, Athena repeatedly warned Prometheus that if the timing was not right, his life would most likely be in danger.
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Hephaestus was very unhappy because his divine attendant told him that Athena had been drinking with Apollo in Apollo's palace.
He knew very well that most gods liked to drink, and they often met together to drink for fun. But this majority of gods definitely does not include Athena and Apollo.
Apollo and Athena, the two children of Zeus, are very similar, not just in appearance, but in other ways. They are all good at fighting, and no matter who they are, they have the strength to beat the current God of War Ares; they all have various talents, and among the gods, almost no one can match them; and they are not addicted to alcohol. As fate would have it.
Hephaestus had long known that Athena often went to Apollo's palace to fight with him. But this time, she stayed in the Palace of the God of Light for more than ten days, making Hephaestus jealous.
Hephaestus liked Athena, and he knew this ever since he split open Zeus's head and saw the golden goddess emerge.
For a long time, Hephaestus, who knew that he was ugly and very self-aware, did not dare to confess to Athena. Until one day, Prometheus, the prophet and son of Iapetus, came to Olympus and created man together with Athena.
After that time, Hephaestus risked everything and followed Athena to the world. He confessed his love to Athena and even wanted to commit suicide in front of Athena.
Hephaestus, who was already crazy at that time, committed suicide, but Athena had already left, and the essence in his body was absorbed by the earth, giving birth to the first king of Athens, Erechthonius.
Hephaestus, who was already awake at the time, left in shame and abandoned his children, but Athena was informed of this by the Earth Mother. The goddess of wisdom knew what had happened, so she summoned the divine attendants and asked them to raise Erechthonius.
Erechthonius was worthy of being the son of the gods. He became a powerful demigod and the first king of the Greek city next to the Aegean Sea.
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"Are you sure Hephaestus will come here?" Apollo asked, looking at his sister in front of him. Although Athena repeatedly asked to call her sister, in Apollo's heart, his only sister was Artemis.
"He will come."
Athena picked up the wine glass in front of her and took a sip. She felt that the taste was just average. She really didn't understand why the gods were so obsessed with this kind of thing.
Sure enough, a moment later, one of the nine Muses, the god of Apollo, led Hephaestus over.
When Hephaestus saw Apollo and Athena, they were just drinking and doing nothing else. He felt half happy and half nervous. He didn't know what Athena meant.
"Here you are, come and drink with me." Athena flushed her face, then squinted her eyes and threw a barrel of wine next to Hephaestus.
"Athena, you've already drunk too much. It's better to stop drinking." Although he didn't understand what happened to Athena, Hephaestus didn't drink much. Alcohol would seriously affect his forging business. He also didn't want Athena to keep drinking, she looked almost drunk.
"If you don't drink, what are you doing here? Leave quickly. Gods who don't drink are not welcome here. Athena and I will continue to drink." Apollo also looked drunk and scolded Hephaestus.
The helpless God of Forging could only open the wine barrel in front of him and start drinking with them. He didn't notice that when he started drinking, Apollo and Athena looked at each other, with a slight joy in their eyes.
Hephaestus drank slowly, and then he felt that he had entered a state he had never enjoyed before. He seemed drunk but not drunk, and seemed awake but not awake. Everything around him was clear and blurry. He vaguely heard Apollo talking to him. The sun god Helios cursed and said he would teach him a lesson.
Athena sneered from the side: "Helios can control the flames on the sun. Although it is not at the center of the sun, it is not comparable to you."
Apollo said angrily: "I will definitely find a treasure that can subdue the fire of Helios, and then beat him severely."
"Where in the world can there be such a magical treasure?" Athena said.
"Why not? I have something in my hand that can suppress Helios's sun fire." The half-drunk Hephaestus listened to Athena's words and took out a colorful ball from his own space. Flame, and then said to them: "This treasure of mine is the fire of law extracted from the human body. Although I don't know if it can work on Hestia's flames, it can definitely restrain the flames of Helios."
"I don't believe it." Athena shook her head.
Hearing that the goddess in his heart did not believe his words, Hephaestus said anxiously: "How can you not believe it? It must be possible. This is what the God King said himself."
Athena still shook her head in disbelief and asked Hephaestus to explain.
"Hey, let me take it and fight Helios to find out whether it is possible or not." Apollo said impatiently.
"Okay, here you go, take my fire of law to teach the Sun God Helios a lesson." Hephaestus handed the colorful flames in his hand to Apollo. He couldn't wait to let Athena know that he This flame is so powerful.
Apollo took the flame, still looking drunk, and said loudly: "Let's go together to teach Helios a lesson."
The three Olympian gods, the sons of Zeus, walked drunkenly on Mount Olympus, walking in three steps to the palace of the sun god Helios.
Helios was resting in the palace today. He had been driving the sun carriage in the sky for more than ten days, and it was about to be cloudy for a while. Suddenly, there was a loud noise outside the door, which made the always serious Sun God Helios frown.
"Helios, get out of here. I'm going to teach you a lesson today."
Helios walked out of the hall and found Apollo looking drunk, sitting on his sun chariot and yelling at him. Next to Apollo, there were Hephaestus, the god of forging, and Athena, the goddess of wisdom, who were lying drunk on the ground.
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