Apollo, this is the only "god" who retained his original name after being transferred from the Greek pantheon to the Roman religious system. Many people in later generations only know that he is the sun god in ancient Greek mythology, but in fact, this "god" was only the god in charge of art in Greek legends, and he was not given the sun until around the fifth century BC. The function of the God of God and the God of Light. After the Romans included this god in their religious system, they did not give it a new name like other Greek gods, but directly retained the title of Apollo. And in the later evolution of mythology, he was endowed with various functions-music, medicine, prophecy, light, the sun... In the Roman mythology system, Apollo has a lot of priestly powers, which fully reflects this For a period of time, the brain power of the masses of working people, and...
The fall of the kingdom of the gods.
The reason is simple. When the thunder giants (that is, the Zeus family) on Mount Olympus were still prosperous, they directly ruled the creatures on the earth. Their existence was real and unquestionable. Naturally, he clearly knows who the gods he serves and what kind of power they possess, but as the army of demon hunters breaks through the Olympus barrier, Zeus and his eighteen generations are involved in the war and cannot If you get away, you will naturally have no time to pay attention to the things on the earth. The connection with the Kingdom of God has been intermittent for hundreds of years, but the priests on the earth have to find ways to maintain the status and influence of the gods they admire, so it seems that there is no good way except to create fan fiction for these gods .
As a result, each of the originally clear and definite gods became blurred, and after being wrapped in a mysterious veil, a large number of unknown priesthoods were hung.
On days when there are no religious activities and celebrations, the temple is relatively deserted. At this moment, the Romans have not yet entered the period when the whole country is drunk and dreaming of death, and the people still need to spend a lot of time on work, so basically only the nobles or those who pray for help when they encounter disasters usually enter the temple. Commoners, today is obviously a day when the temple is particularly sparsely populated. Hao Ren and his party stepped into the gate of the temple, and saw the empty hall inside. The statue of the sun god Apollo and the altar stood majestically in front, while several monks were cleaning around the altar.
Heatherana glanced at the statue of Apollo, curled her lips: "The eyes are big."
Hasselblad also looked up: "I killed this one."
Hao Ren: "..."
The monks in the temple noticed this group of uninvited guests who stepped into the holy place but commented on the statue. An old man in a white robe with purple border came over. He looked at the one-eyed Hasu warily, as if he had been serving the "god" for many years. "And he also had a certain sense of the breath of the demon hunter: "Are you here to seek the guidance of the great Apollo?"
Hao Ren glanced at the old man: "Who is your officiant here?"
The old man straightened his back, full of pride and nobility like every clergyman of this era: "I am."
Hao Ren nodded: "Okay, we want to talk to Apollo, you help us contact him."
The old man froze for a moment, this didn't sound like something that people who come to the temple to pray for help or worship the gods would say—in fact, he had been a priest here for most of his life, and he had never heard of anyone coming up with such a thing. Request: "No disrespect! Did you know this is a sacred place?"
Heather Anna took a step forward: "Of course I know, so let's come here to find Apollo, otherwise, where can we find the external window of Olympus."
The old priest blinked, and suddenly thought that the people in front of him were barbarians who didn't understand the rules of the civilized world, so he patiently explained: "If you mean to listen to the revelation of the gods, you should first..."
Lily became impatient, and suddenly took a step forward and grabbed the old priest by the collar, a pair of energetic wolf ears popped out from her head: "Old man, you can't understand human words!! We are just looking for Abo Talk to Luo! Look at my ears, you still don’t understand what we are doing?”
The old priest stared wide-eyed at the wolf ears that popped out of Lily's head, and then saw a ball of blood-colored energy summoned by Hesiana, and finally realized what happened: "You... you... are gods? "
At this moment, the age of mythology is not over. Although the demon hunters have conquered Mount Olympus, aliens are still often seen walking in the world. For ordinary humans, these aliens have a unified classification: gods !
Although this weird social and religious form is a bit ridiculous to Hao Ren who directly deals with the true god, but in this era, it is indeed common sense, and even a part of human life.
Lily nodded with satisfaction: "Just know, we have something to discuss with Apollo, but now that Olympus is closed, we know that priests like you have sacred objects that can establish contact with Olympus, so come to Looking for you."
Hasselblad added nonchalantly: "This is a great honor."
The cold sweat on the old priest's forehead dripped onto his shoulders, and then he seemed to react suddenly, and shouted loudly to the junior priests and monks: "Quick! Close the gate of the temple!"
The solemn and heavy gate of the temple was slammed shut during the day, which might arouse speculation and discussion among ordinary people outside, but for Hao Ren and his party who were just passing by, these things were insignificant. Led by the old priest, they went to the depths of the temple. There was also a statue of Apollo and an altar here, but there was no open space around the statue for ordinary believers to worship. Obviously, this was a special place for the temple priests.
Trembling, the old priest took out an exquisite brass box from the hidden compartment under the statue, opened the box and took out a gold badge with a sun relief, with a complex expression of excitement and awe on his face, Pass this badge to Hao Ren's eyes.
When Hao Ren stretched out his hand to take the badge, the old priest suddenly took a deep breath and said, "You...you may not be able to contact the great Apollo."
Hao Ren raised his eyebrows: "Why?"
The old priest seemed to have struggled psychologically—as a humble "servant of mortals", he didn't really understand the world of "the gods", and he didn't know whether his actions at this moment would please the gods or offend them. But after thinking for a while, he still said it: "Actually... Even now it is difficult for us to contact the kingdom of the gods. Perhaps the depravity of human beings has offended the gods. Since decades ago, they It is rare for us to issue decrees directly, and our prayers can only be answered occasionally... Especially in the past ten years, I have not heard the voice of the great Apollo at all, maybe... maybe we have lost God's favor... "
The old priest's tone was a little panicked. On the one hand, it was the uneasiness accumulated by the gods' loss of response, and on the other hand, he was worried that he would offend the group of "gods" of unknown origin in front of him.
Alien gods have never been kind people who are sympathetic to their people. They only need human beings to continuously offer them sacrifices and provide them with entertainment and entertainment. In this era, human beings are more in awe and fear of "gods". If you want to face some gods wandering around, it is really not enough to be cautious and humble enough.
The "gods" will get angry at any time, even if they are not angry, they may slaughter the entire city of humans just for "happy", the old priest does not know whether the people in front of him are good gods or evil gods, so he is naturally anxious.
After Hao Ren heard the other party's words, he and Hasselblad looked at each other.
The war that took place in the "Kingdom of God" will not directly affect the human world, but its influence will inevitably spread to the human world after all.
Those who were first affected were indeed those living in the temples: due to the crumbling state of the kingdom of God, most of the temples in the mortal world have probably lost their connection with the various "kingdoms of God".
However, Hao Ren didn't care about it. As long as Mount Olympus was still there, he would naturally have a way to contact it.
Under the terrified gaze of the old priest, Hao Ren took the badge and put his spiritual power into it.
The gold badge is just superficial. This small metal device has an exquisite magic structure inside. Its function is to read the mental signal of the holder, and after simple decoding and forwarding, it is connected to the Enter the Olympus communication hub.
It's just a magic version of a walkie-talkie.
Moreover, in order to allow humans with weak mental strength and lack of magical skills to use it, this communication device has also deliberately simplified its functions and reduced the difficulty of use. Even so, only a few trained and gifted humans can activate its power, but At least the priests in the temple can use it.
Even ordinary people can master it after training, it will be easier for Hao Ren to decipher the decoding rules of this thing.
With almost no effort, Hao Ren erased the anti-leech module of the gold badge, and then activated its function, and a faint golden light began to glow on the surface of the badge.
The old priest looked at this scene in awe - he exhausted all his strength and could only make the badge respond a little bit, and those little responses were completely different from the current scene of brilliance. He realized the power of the "gods" in front of him, so he lowered his head even more humbly.
"Your strength is amazing."
Obviously, when the gods of Olympus were entangled by demon hunters and had no time to care about the human world, the priests under them had not much "piousness" left. The rule that was originally maintained by violence and intimidation naturally did not How much sustainability.
"You go out first." Hao Ren thought of something, so he told the old priest to leave first, "What we want to talk about is the secret among the gods."
Regarding this request, the old priest still hesitated: "But..."
"Don't worry, Apollo won't blame you," Heatherana glanced at the old priest, "but if you don't go out, we will blame you now."
The old priest immediately trembled and left the place in a hurry.