Aphrodite looked at Hephaestus delicately, and smiled softly: "So you are not that simple..."
After saying this, Aphrodite sneered again: "But think about it, why would a simple guy want to 'catch rape'?"
Hephaestus was slightly startled, pursed his lips slightly, and there was a trace of panic in his eyes. He explained hastily: "That's not the case, Your Highness. I didn't want to catch rape or anything, and you don't belong to me, so how could I do it?" What about this faux pas. I just thought, just thought..."
Hephaestus struggled for a long time, but couldn't describe the tangled mood.
After realizing his own clumsiness, Hephaestus simply shut up, and put the shield of Aquis directly into Aphrodite's hand: "This is my apology to you, please forgive me offend!"
Aphrodite carefully admired this magical sheepskin shield. The sheepskin on the shield of Aquis was stripped from the female goat that once fed Zeus, and was made into a shield by Hephaestus. , has the characteristics of being invincible, immune to divine power and magic, and expelling disasters and misfortunes. It is a very precious and rare treasure.
Aphrodite looked at it for a while, sighed, and gave it back to Hephaestus, shaking her head and refusing: "The shield is very good, if it is made from your personal materials and given to me, I will accept it." But this is the task that Zeus entrusted to you. If he finds out that you are shoddy, he will definitely not let you go. Forget it, you can give me the shield made of the remaining old materials. "
Hephaestus shook his head, not wanting the shield of Aquis, and his attitude was very firm: "Your Highness, I am the god of forging, please respect my priesthood and ability. If you are worried, I can even give you a guarantee , even if these two shields are really put together for a competition, the God King will not pick out the difference... "
As he spoke, he paused and hinted in a low voice, "But you can't compare too many times."
Aphrodite understood it, accepted the shield of Aquis, and praised: "Your Highness, Hephaestus, from 'rose' to 'shield of Aquis', your craftsmanship has always amazed me extraordinary."
Hephaestus' golden-red eyes were like burning fire, and the pupils were incredibly bright.
Aphrodite liked this shield of Aquis very much. Although he didn't necessarily use it, as a top-notch and perfect weapon from the hand of the God of Forging, it was perfect to keep for collection and appreciation.
Aphrodite promised Hephaestus: "Then I will accept this shield, because it is very valuable, and I may promise Your Highness a wish that is not particularly embarrassing for me."
Hephaestus said strongly, "This is an apology."
Aphrodite said with a smile: "As an apology, it is too expensive. What's more, doesn't Your Highness want to get something from me by promising?"
Hephaestus was stunned, and the words of refusal were swallowed by him again.
Hephaestus asked softly: "For Your Highness, what is the boundary that makes you 'difficult'?"
Aphrodite glanced at him with a half-smile, stood up, and the falling shadow blocked Hephaestus, he smiled softly and said: "I don't have the habit of dissecting myself to other gods, if Your Highness is not afraid of me If you are angry or feel that you are too offensive, you can start from the most excessive request and test my bottom line a little bit. If you are afraid... "
Aphrodite raised her eyebrows, and said frivolously, "Then you just make a small request that doesn't matter, and let me catch it."
Hephaestus's heartbeat was beating like a drum, and his voice was extremely hoarse. After pouring himself a sip of tea, he lowered his head shyly and asked in a low voice: "Then I can ask you for this 'wish' later. ?"
Aphrodite raised her hand, touched his short and hard stubble, pressed it lightly along his neck, and said with a smile: "Of course, Your Highness can lift it at any time."
The clear touch from the neck made Hephaestus stiff, and he said almost panicked: "Your Highness, don't do this."
Aphrodite withdrew her hand innocently, sighed softly, stared at the Eros Godhead as bright as the sun in the scepter of the main god, and explained: "Sorry, it may be affected by the Eros Godhead, I sometimes Would love to do some extra action…”
He paused while speaking, blinked his bright and beautiful eyes, and asked with a smile: "You don't misunderstand me, do you?"
Hephaestus looked at him blankly, unable to tell whether he was relieved or disappointed, he pursed his lips slightly, and forced a smile: "Of course, I won't misunderstand."
Aphrodite shook her head slightly: "Stupid."
Then he sat down under Hephaestus' somewhat dazed gaze, sipping his tea leisurely with lowered eyebrows.
After Apollo and Artemis left the secret garden, they walked towards the Temple of the King of God together.
On the way, Apollo asked unhappily: "Sister, what did you want to say in the garden before? Now I am alone. Is there something that you can't even tell me?"
Artemis said distressedly: "Let me tell you, it's not a big deal, it's just a little confusing."
Apollo sneered: "Since this is the case, you should tell me that if you can't make a decision, let me make it for you."
Artemis pursed her lips slightly, and asked, "In that case, why don't you tell me first, what were you and His Highness Aphrodite doing before I arrived in the garden?"
Apollo suddenly fell silent, and Artemis lowered her head and kicked away a stone on the side of the road. She whispered, "Look, you don't tell me either."
After a while, Apollo said: "It's not that I don't want to tell you, it's just that I'm a little confused."
Artemis tilted her head and looked at Apollo suspiciously, her expression full of puzzlement.
Apollo seriously recalled Aphrodite's demeanor, caressing the harp with his fingertips carelessly, and after a while, he said: "Your Highness does not like to get too close to his god, he is indeed an ascetic god. But occasionally ...He may be a little bit unable to restrain himself, and then he looks a little... um, sullen? I think this may be because his words do not match his behavior. He always spits out countless sweet words lightly to confuse Others. Maybe he will be confused by himself occasionally, and then do some strange things."
Artemis did not speak, she was in a daze while walking, and after a while, she asked: "Then tell me, which goddess will he marry, Your Highness?"
Apollo asked, "Do you like Your Highness?"
Artemis is confident: "He is the most beautiful god, full of wisdom and authority, no god can not like him, right?"
Apollo retorted: "The Father doesn't like him."
Artemis said angrily: "That's because His Highness Aphrodite has always been against him! If His Highness suddenly becomes gentle with him one day, Father God will no longer hate him, and will give all the treasures His Highness wants Hold them all in front of him!"
Apollo thought for a while, and felt that Artemis' words made sense.
So he replied: "I don't think His Highness will marry any goddess."
Artemis froze for a while, his thoughts couldn't keep up with Apollo's speed of changing topics.
After reacting for a while, she lowered her head and said disappointedly, "Okay then."
Apollo asked, "So, what are you struggling with?"
Artemis pursed her lips slightly, and said, "I want to swear to the river of oath, to be a virgin."
Apollo stopped playing the harp, turned his head to look at Artemis absurdly, and asked with a frown, "Because Your Highness Aphrodite doesn't want to marry you?"
Artemis said angrily: "Apollo, what nonsense are you talking about! I just asked His Highness if there is a goddess he likes. What does this have to do with my desire to become a virgin?"
Apollo watched her silently, and Artemis said irritably, "Well, there is a reason, but the order should be reversed."
Artemis sighed softly: "I have always had the idea of becoming a virgin goddess, but if His Royal Highness Aphrodite is willing to marry me, I think I can give up this idea, after all, he is so perfect, there is no god. I can reject him. But it’s fine if he doesn’t have this idea, I still want to become a virgin according to my original idea.”
Apollo asked: "But why do you have such an idea?"
Artemis brushed her silver hair and said casually: "As a goddess, you must have some sense of crisis. Like the queen of Hera, although she is bitter and vicious, the process of her becoming a queen is a tragedy. She She was originally a pure virgin goddess, but she was forced by the god king to lose her virginity. Although I am the daughter of the god king, the god queen is also his sister."
Artemis said casually: "I don't think I will have such good luck when I encounter this kind of thing, and I can reverse the situation and become the queen of God. So I am going to swear to the river of oath before the king of God moves his mind." If you become a virgin and have the law to witness, you can avoid all this."
Apollo didn't speak, he was thinking.
In the eyes of the gods, the influence of blood relationship is extremely weak, and it will not affect some male gods' pursuit of goddesses at all.
So Artemis' concerns are reasonable, and Apollo doesn't want his sister to be forced by the king of gods, and finally bear the name of mistress.
He said distressedly: "What you said is also reasonable, but this matter is a little complicated. Let's talk about it later. Let's go to the Palace of the King of God to fish out the kid who may have been born."
Artemis pursed her lips slightly and nodded.
The two entered the hall of the god king to meet the god king, and Zeus walked out of the temple after a while to meet the two of them.
While waiting for Zeus, Apollo quietly threw a gold coin at the foot of a distant stone pillar.
In the memory of Venus, Hermes is the god of business, a nimble thief and a cunning liar.
Although gold coins are of limited use to the gods, Hermes likes them quite a lot.
After throwing down the gold coin, the twin master gods returned to their normal demeanor.
Zeus held on to the thunder scepter and sat down on the throne of the god king. He looked at his two sons and daughters, and asked indifferently and majesticly: "Artemis, Apollo, why did you come to see me?"
Artemis and Apollo saluted together, and Apollo asked gently and respectfully: "Your Majesty, there is only one position of the main god left vacant, and the other main gods have been sealed for so long, but But there has been no banquet to invite the gods to gather, so should His Majesty put the banquet on the agenda?"
Zeus stroked his beard, looked at the twin gods strangely, and asked doubtfully, "Is that why you came here?"
The twin gods answered softly.
Zeus looked at the two of them condescendingly, and smiled slightly: "The banquet has been delayed for so long, and we are not in a hurry to hold it for a while. Let's celebrate together after the last main god ascends the throne."
Artemis and Apollo looked at each other, and there was some shock in their eyes.
Although Zeus didn't say who would be the main god, they got some signals from Zeus' words that a new main god might appear soon.
The twin main gods were silent for a moment, Artemis inserted her fingers into her hair and pulled her back, she said with a smile: "I hope the next main god will appear soon, there has been no lively events in Shenshan for a long time, it's really boring. "
Zeus lingered on her face for a moment, then nodded slightly: "Soon."
Apollo lowered his head and replied, "Then let's say goodbye first, Your Majesty the God King."
Zeus nodded casually, got up and left without saying hello to them. Apollo and Artemis also left the temple immediately.
When the temple was empty and quiet again, an orange head poked out from behind the stone pillar quietly. He looked around, and after making sure that there was no one in the temple, he walked out from behind the stone pillar.
He knelt down to pick up the gold coin dropped by Apollo, curiously put it in his mouth and bit it, but did not move.
This is a short orange-haired god. Although he looks petite and looks quite young, people who see him will not regard him as an ignorant child, because he looks very shrewd, especially his eyes. When turning, the witty and cunning breath is blowing.
He squatted on the ground with a gold coin in his mouth, his dark blue eyes gurgling, got up and quietly followed Apollo and the others out of the temple.
In the secret garden, Aphrodite is fiddling with metal plates.
Hephaestus said that only a few monitoring balls were thrown out, but in fact, except for Aphrodite's palace, the temples of other main gods were within the monitoring range.
After asking Hephaestus for advice on how to adjust the monitoring, Aphrodite sat here and stared at the movement on the projection, focusing on the temple of Zeus.
When he saw the orange-haired little man sneaking out of the temple, Aphrodite's eyes lit up immediately, and he said softly, "This little man is Hermes, right... He was actually born!" Is it? What the hell is the god king doing, why didn't he release Hermes directly, instead locked him in the temple?"
Aphrodite rubbed her chin with a puzzled face. After Hephaestus saw that he had a new brother born, a trace of disgust quickly slipped through his eyes.
Aphrodite turned back and said to Hephaestus, "Your Highness Hephaestus, I'm going to see Her Majesty Hermes, and I'm leaving for a while. Do you want to go back first?"
Aphrodite is not here, of course Hephaestus has no need to stay. Hearing this, he immediately got up and said, "I'll go out with you!"
Aphrodite smiled slightly, and Hephaestus and Hephaestus left through the entrance, and then walked out of the Temple of Eros, saying goodbye.
As for the metal plate, it was also returned to Hephaestus by Aphrodite.
Aphrodite memorized the direction Hermes ran out from the God King's Palace, and after roughly judging the direction, she also followed down the mountain.
He walked for a while and found that this direction was the direction of Apollo's temple, and Apollo's pasture was also on the plain behind the temple.
Aphrodite pondered for a few seconds, remembering the famous deeds of Hermes, and walked directly to the pasture across the temple.
Apollo raised fifty divine bulls in the ranch. These divine bulls are very strong and beautiful, and they belong to the favorite sacrifices of the gods, and Hermes is no exception.
When Aphrodite appeared on the pasture, Hermes was disguising the cattle, hanging straw brooms on their tails, and driving the cattle forward. Sweep on the ground to smooth out the traces of the cattle leaving.
And Hermes was jumping behind the cow with a smile on his face and a gold coin in his mouth, looking extremely happy.
Aphrodite smiled, and teleported directly to sit on the back of the bull, while Hermes was still shaking his head and singing.
Aphrodite drawled and said casually, "Look what I saw—"
"A thief is stealing the divine cow raised by the God of Light. This is really an amazing scene."
Hermes opened his eyes wide, and he didn't feel the embarrassment of being caught stealing at all. After seeing Aphrodite, he immediately let out a wow exclamation, jumped onto the bull's back, and held Aphrodite in his face. Frodite poked her head around and yelled: "Wow, brother, you are so beautiful! The first time I saw you, I felt biuling~biuling~ shimmering in front of me, brother, you are so beautiful, is it that person?" Her Majesty Aphrodite, Goddess of Beauty, is unparalleled in beauty!"
Aphrodite felt that Hermes was a little too lively, and he was dizzy when he poked his head around, so she raised her hand to hold the little dwarf's neck and pressed him on her lap.
Hermes was pinned by the throat of fate, and he couldn't move immediately, but this didn't affect his eloquence. He immediately said: "Brother! You smell so good!"
Aphrodite smiled and said, "Thank you for your praise, but this does not erase the fact that you are stealing. Your Highness, come with me to meet your brother Apollo."
When Hermes heard this, tears welled up in his eyes: "Brother Beauty God, I just think that Niu Niu is so beautiful and cute, and you don't know, I have lived in a dark cave since I was born, and I have been alone since I was a child." Growing up, I was very lonely! I didn't steal cattle on purpose, I just wanted to find a playmate for myself!"
Aphrodite sneered: "Is the temple of His Majesty the God King actually a dark cave?"
Hermes asked curiously: "Brother Beauty God, did you secretly pay attention to me before? Otherwise, how would you know that I actually live in the Palace of the God King?"
Aphrodite's fingertips rubbed lightly, and he smiled half-smile: "Yes, I have been following you for a long time, Your Highness, and this is the first time I have seen a slender, petite and cute male god like you, so I want to hide it from you." The sight of other gods secretly tricked you out and brought you back to the temple to raise."
Hermes was stunned for a moment, pouted and said aggrievedly: "It's a great honor to let Brother Beauty God like me, but my mother god is still waiting for me to go back."
Aphrodite smiled slightly: "So what? A weak god like you, let me see your priesthood... The priesthood of stealing, the priesthood of sports, the priesthood of deception, hey, there is also a priesthood of animal husbandry, the number is not large There are quite a few, but unfortunately they are all the most common third-class godheads."
Aphrodite lowered her head, looked at him with dim eyes, and whispered in Hermes' ear: "Tell me, even if a weak god like you goes back, what can you bring to your mother goddess?" Woolen cloth?"
Hermes groaned and groaned like a little pig: "My inborn godhead is not strong, but my father god said that he would make me the lord god!"
Aphrodite's eyes flashed, and she asked, "Are you sure he's not lying to you?"
Before Hermes could speak, Aphrodite laughed and said, "Forgot, you are the god of deceit, who can hide your lies?"
Hermes' nose twitched constantly, and he said slyly: "But I also smell countless lies in you, you are a god whose number of lies is not inferior to mine."
Aphrodite tapped his head lightly with her free hand: "I am different from you. The lies of a little liar like you will only plunder the interests of others, but my words bring joy to others. It's not the same between us."
Hermes pursed his lips, and said unhappily: "Alright, alright, your Highness, you are right, then can you let me go first, I am so tired of being oppressed by you."
Aphrodite nodded: "Yes, but you have to tell me first, what is the purpose of Zeus hiding your mother and child?"
Aphrodite always felt that Zeus was planning something, but she never thought about it. Hermes said: "Because my strength is a little too low, it may be a little difficult to make me the master god, so the god king is thinking about it." Find a way to confuse the God Empress's rationality, find a way to make the God Empress like me, and with the support of the God Empress, it will be easy for me to become the main god."
Aphrodite froze for a moment, and said in surprise, "Is it for this?"
Hermes' dark blue eyes were rolling around, like watery grapes, extremely agile: "Your Highness, do you think His Majesty the God King is plotting against you?"
Aphrodite sneered: "You know again?"
Hermes smiled innocently: "I overheard Father God and Athena talking about you."
Aphrodite didn't ask Hermes Zeus what they said, but said, "Your Highness Hermes, I'm beginning to find you very interesting."
"Let me guess why you cooperate so much with me? Because you have to rely on the god king to obtain the position of the main god, and the position of the main god is completely limited to His Majesty the god king, so you seem to be well-behaved on the surface, but in fact you are still a little dissatisfied with it, so Quietly sell it to me?"
Hermes denied it: "That's not it, Brother Beauty God, I just saw how beautiful you are, so I couldn't help but speak out, why do you think things are so complicated!"