After listening to the answers from the three disciples, they were not much different from what he had guessed. Of the three disciples, only Sisyphus, the youngest, met his requirements the most, and he did not let his year of teaching him in Corinth go to waste.
Adros led them forward without saying a word. In front of them is another country in the current human world, Thebes.
This is a federation of many cities, each with its own king, without a unified king. The river god Lykos chose to be king here, Cadmus, the son of King Agenor of Phoenicia, also chose this place, the legendary hero Athamas also built a city here and became king here, and many other heroes came. Got here.
It can be said that this castle complex in the east is one of the three most important states in human society today, as famous as Athens and Sparta.
Because there are so many heroes here, it is already more prosperous than other places. Not long ago, in this place, a god from the world, the son of Zeus and the god of wine, Dionysus, walked out.
After Semele was burned to death, Zeus took the infant from Hermes and sewed it into his thigh, which was full of divine power. After Dionysus matured in his father's thigh, Zeus cut open the thigh in Athens in front of the gods and the world, took him out, named him, and promised that he would become Olympus. God.
Near the hill of Lacanon on the island of Ikaros, the god Hermes took little Dionysus from Zeus, held him in his arms, traveled across the sky to Boeosia, and handed the child over to They were raised by the Lamids, the daughters of the river god Ramos.
The Lamids held the lovely child in their arms, took turns feeding him with milk, and played with him on their backs. Little Dionysus would often gaze at his father's sky full of stars. When he was happy, he would kick the sky with his feet and giggle.
Hera watched the baby from a distance, jealousy burning in her heart. She came to the river Ramos, whipped Lamides mercilessly, and vented her anger on them.
The Lamides went crazy after being beaten severely. They beat servants in the house, hacked travelers to death and cut them into pieces on the road, and did many horrible things. They were running around in a daze and madly, sometimes wailing, sometimes laughing wildly, with terrible eyes rolling on their twisted faces, and the foam on their mouths stained their chests and clothes white. Just as they were about to chop little Dionysus into pieces with their knives, Hermes suddenly flew up and quickly snatched the child from their hands.
Hermes carried Dionysus to the house of Semele's sister Ino. Ino was the wife of Athamas and had recently given birth to her son Melicertes. At this time, she was lovingly breastfeeding the child in her arms. The abundant milk made her breasts swell like a ball about to burst. .
Hermes came forward with little Dionysus in his arms, coaxed Ino with kind words, and persuaded her to accept her sister's son. His words hinted at the will of the oracle. He said: "Madam, please accept your sister's son." The newborn son of Semele. This child was not burned to death in his mother's womb, and the thunderbolts and lightnings did not harm him. Let your halls cover him, and let not the sun by day or the moon by night shine upon him. Let not jealousy Hera discovered him and caused him harm. As for your hard work, the god-king Zeus will give you the reward you deserve. Among the daughters of Cadmus, you are the luckiest: Semele was burned to death by electric fire ; Autonoe will die with her son on the ground, and Mount Catharon will build a tomb for them; Agaoe will tear apart her son Pentheus with her own hands and become a murderer. You are the only one to be proud of. Daughter of Cadmus, Thebes will not be able to contain you. You will own the vast sea and move into the water palace of Poseidon. Your son Melicertes will become the leader of mankind on the sea. King, you will live together forever!"
These oracles were heard by Hermes from the sun god Apollo, and they were also the contents of the prophetic oracles.
After listening to Hermes' words, Ino accepted the motherless baby. Then Hermes flapped his sandals and rose into the air, heading straight back to Olympus.
Ino lovingly held little Dionysus in her arms, and at the same time used her breasts to feed Dionysus and her son. When the two children had enough milk, her son Melicertes would crawl up to little Dionysus excitedly, babbling "Oho!"
Ino left little Dionysus in the care of the maid Mystis. Mystis was a fair-haired girl from Sidon who was assigned by Cadmus to serve Ino when she was a little girl. Mystis hid little Dionysus away from people's eyes in a secluded room. At this time, the child's face glowed, illuminating the dark room very brightly, showing his divine ancestry.
As the grandson of King Cadmus and the nephew of King Athamas' wife, Dionysus enjoys prince-like treatment here.
Although he had not stayed in Thebes for only a few years, he was discovered by Hera, the queen of heaven, and Hermes took him to the dense forest of Phrygia, the residence of Rhea, the goddess of time, on the earth.
Rhea, the goddess of time, raised him to protect him from the vengeance of Hera and allowed him to grow into a powerful god.
The young Dionysus was appointed by Zeus as the god of carnival, and the half-man, half-goat Silenus was his tutor, educating and accompanying him on his travels. He rode in his chariot pulled by the beast panther. The car travels everywhere**. He mastered all the secrets of nature and the history of wine. Wherever he went, he taught people how to grow grapes and make sweet wine.
The wine made by Dionysus was far superior to any existing wine. It was both delicious and easy to get drunk. In the fire-stealing plan of Athena and Prometheus, the wine they used to make Hephaestus, the god of fire, drunk was brewed by the god of carnival.
Although he likes to travel everywhere, in Dionysus' heart, Thebes is his hometown. Every once in a while, he would return to Thebes to visit his relatives in the world and have carnivals with them.
The city of Thebes, where a god often had carnivals with humans, attracted all the legendary heroes. Here, there are banquets, singing and dancing, and battles between legendary heroes everywhere, making all fun and aggressive humans linger here.
Among the many legendary heroes, there is one who is not a human hero. He is recognized as the strongest among the heroes and has defeated all the human heroes in the city of Thebes. He is the legendary centaur hero, Chiron.
But this time, news came out from the city of Thebes that Chiron set up a battle stage in the market and wanted to challenge all the legendary heroes of Thebes alone and canonize the strong ones.
The so-called market began to exist in places like Thebes where dragons and snakes were mixed. The large number of foreign people needed to barter here, so the market was born.
Adros, who had just heard the name Chiron, subconsciously thought of the old boatman on the Styx, the ferryman who suffered from the Styx day after day and was determined to become a god.
But when he saw the real person, Adros realized that he was wrong. This Chiron was a high-spirited centaur. His upper body is a human torso, including hands and head, while his lower body is a horse's body, including torso and legs. Although Chiron is thin, there is immeasurable tyrannical power hidden inside. He holds a war spear in his hand and carries a bow and arrow on his back, full of the smell of blood and fire.
Speaking of the centaur race, its origins are much earlier than all humans today. They were a kind of experiment before the first generation of god-king Uranus created humans. The god-king at that time once created a variety of creatures, including centaurs, centaurs, lion-headed men, rock men, etc. All kinds of things, but they were all lost in history with the wars of the gods again and again.
Centaurs are undoubtedly lucky. Because they look similar to centaurs, they have also been protected by Silenus, the half-man and half-goat god of the forest. They have survived from the golden age of mankind to the present.
Both centaurs and centaurs are lustful and lustful races, just like their patron saint Silenus. After the rise of Dionysus, they all became passionate, greedy, and generous people. Followers of Dionysus.
Of course, among these half-humans, there is also an unexpected one, and he is the centaur Chiron. Centaurs have a relatively long lifespan, and young Chiron once experienced the Battle of the Titans more than a hundred years ago.
It was also because he experienced the great battle that he witnessed the divine power and martial arts of the gods. From then on, he had the idea to obtain the same abilities as the gods.
He traveled around, looking for ways to improve his strength. He set foot on the battlefield between silver humans and bronze humans, becoming a powerful legendary hero, and was later called a sainted strongman by humans.
But now that he is in his twilight years, he has witnessed the battle between gods and monsters on Mount Olympus, and once again appreciated the power of gods, he finally realized that he was still far from being a god.
Seeing that he was getting older and older, but could not find a way to take another step forward, Chiron finally made up his mind to come to the city of Thebes and challenge all the legends in the world in order to break the path between life and death.
He is over a hundred years old and has experienced countless things. He once witnessed the birth of mankind's first legendary warrior. It was a battlefield of life and death. Only one silver human was killed. Faced with the siege of thousands of bronze humans around him, this silver human finally understood the law and killed ten thousand people with one person. From then on, legendary warriors began to emerge.
Now, Chiron wants to imitate the unknown warrior from the beginning, fighting against thousands of people by himself, in order to walk a path above the legend.
He stood quietly in the center of the battle platform, with his eyes closed, feeling that there were more and more people around him, and his mood was extremely calm. There are more and more people watching, and almost everyone from the market has come.
Gradually, legendary warriors came out of the crowd and came to the battlefield, surrounding Chiron in the middle, silently.
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