49 – The Witch with the Poisonous Smile
I urged them not to even think about leaving this place, and when Hercules refused to do so, the others had no choice but to sit quietly.
“Oh no…”
“Is this really the right thing to do? No matter how bad their behavior may be, Orion and his gang are members of this forest…”
“We just hope the beautiful nymphs don’t enjoy the blood.”
While I was grilling meat with Hercules, I was told to sit down, and as if I really meant to sit still until the meat came out, the whispers of the other golden generations stabbed me in the back of the head mercilessly.
The way you talk or what you say.
The members of the political faction, who took good care of their family members whether they raped or slaughtered, were the ones that came to mind.
“I’m not saying that’s bad”
As I shrugged my shoulders and turned the lamb over, Hercules, who was tearing up the raw meat on the other side, shook his head in sympathy.
“It is not wrong to follow Hestia-sama’s virtues.
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However, that is nothing but empty talk without the power of Ares and the wisdom of Athena”
“Yes, in order to realize cooperation, you need wisdom to see it correctly and the strength to put it into practice.”
Other than that, it’s just tabletop talk.
In that sense, they were similar to the members of the Murim League in their previous lives.
It’s the same political faction, but it’s still a member of the same forest.
Those who think with more emphasis on the object’s character, state, or belonging rather than good or evil.
At the same time, they were arguing with each other in the mountains about what a good is and what a good is, while watching the world go crazy, and in the end, all of these things fell away in my hands.
‘Come to think of it, most of those guys fell into my grass and ended their lives in tragedy, just like those who were called adherents of political factions.’
First of all, Theseus kidnapped a girl who was a lot younger than me to try to be taller, and then the country was blown away by his brothers, and then he was caught off guard and killed by the king of the kingdom in exile.
Jason went through a lot of hard work and broke the succession quest, but it was probably because the wife he brought with him was a witch.
He left his wife alone and tried to take her concubine, but her family was ruined by the main wife, and he died accidentally due to madness.
Asclepius was killed by a thunderbolt after being caught among the Olympus bean flour humans, and then reincarnated as a god.
Orpheus went to the underworld to save his wife and returned, but the quest to revive his wife failed due to his negligence.
Murdered by drunkards passing by.
…Ugh.
Looking at it like this, none of the guys here died after living a relatively easy life.
“Yaya! Aren’t you eating meat!”
“…Ah”
And the sprout of this great hero who makes a fuss about cooking meat in front of me… What are you talking about?
Among all the guys gathered here, isn’t this guy the one with the most twisted arm?
“Hey. Why do you look like that? Like watching an old man who will die soon?”
“…Nothing”
God recursion was like that.
The life of the world is to be sold separately.
Everything in the world is up to one’s own business, and each person takes care of his or her own life.
Both this guy and those guys have their own circumstances, so they take on hardships and overcome them to leave their names in the myths of history.
Like in the past, I received the wish of a million magicians, ascended to the throne of hellfire and became a god.
For now, since I’m here, I don’t know if I can affect their lives to some extent, but I can’t, and shouldn’t, get involved and change their lives beyond that.
It was foolish to take pity on them without even touching them.
“By the way, can I not go to Mr. Nesneria?”
“Hmm, shall we go soon? I’m done playing.”
Whew, I don’t know how much effort I’ll have to go through to rebuild my original inactivity.
Is it time to worry about others?
After organizing my thoughts like that, I reach out for the new meat again.
Something strange caught my eye.
“Hey. What is that?”
“Huh? What?”
“That. Is that… a bird in the sky?”
The moment I raised my head following the smoke rising from the grill.
Under the bright halo of the moon, something freely roaming the sky caught my eye.
“…A pink bird?”
Colorful flying objects that emit a tremendous presence that cannot be given without eye contact were freely roaming the sky.
Even the aerobatics and 360-degree rotation, looking at me and automatically pulling aggro.
It’s not even a bird.
Can you believe that really ancient UFOs did exist?
…I tried to ease the tension with a stupid thought, but the time that had passed well over a hundred years caught the brakes, saying that it wasn’t such a silly thing.
“How come the smell of an accident is strong…”
Even so, if you urgently raise your eyesight and look at it with an unusual intuition.
The bloody eyes were staring straight at me, smiling poisonously.
“What the hell are you looking at? What else is pink? The air currents were rough today, so there were no birds, right?”
A bewildered Hercules was busy chattering next to me, but I had no time to reply.
Its true identity was a woman.
With long pink hair, a beauty that boasts sensuality even from a distance, and a poisonous smile overlaid on it, the word ‘s*xy woman’ came out of nowhere.
However, the huge bat-like wings behind her back and the unusual bloody aura around her told me that she was her god, and that she was a very, very dangerous god.
“…I’m back”
Leaving those words simply, I deployed Mangnyangbo with all my might.
The goddess with the poisonous smile was definitely headed toward the forest that Neri said she was headed for.
Anyway, it seems that tonight is also not going to go quietly.
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As if even the grass bugs were horrified by the tragedy, there were two figures wandering in a mess in the quiet forest.
“Huh! Whoa…!”
“Poetry, poetry, poetry. Noisy! Noisy!”
Poseidon’s son Orion, Hecate’s son Hekyteris.
The glory and confidence of those days were nowhere to be found in those who were each in the limelight as the next great hero and great shaman. Even the slyness he threw at nymphs and heroines after being turned into a profiteer, or the ferocity he wielded against those weaker than himself, was nowhere to be found.
The disheveled hair, the tunic soiled with soil and leaves, and the hands and knees bleeding from how much he rolled on the ground.
However, more than anything else, what would surprise others was the face that reminded them of a madman.
The wide open eyes, the stupidly open mouth that drools and bleeds, and the crooked nose.
It is said that he was once a small hero who was harvesting in the Forest of Heroes.
A miserable face that cannot be seen as a cunning tyrant who persecuted countless young talents.
However, the indescribable, terrible tragedy that just happened right in front of their eyes was enough to shock even the most stalwart of spirits.
“Kyahahahahaha! Where! Hide and seek? Hide and seek? Anything I like!
Dianes did it! If you explode, you have to clean up after work!”
So don’t run away~
And a clear voice wrapped around the back of their heads like a whip.
They couldn’t slow down at the sound of the voice that flew in when they felt weak and slowed down even a little.
How long did it run like that? Eventually, the exhausted wizard screamed at Orion.
“Oh, oh, Orion…!”
“What, what! If you want to search, search alone!”
“Strange! Strange!”
“What the hell is weird!”
“This forest!”
“What?”
It was only after hearing the words of the last of his gang that Orion also realized that it was strange.
Originally, the forest for hunting and gathering practice attached to the Forest of Heroes was not very large.
At most, if Orion runs on its full power, it can run in five minutes.
But they must have been running through this forest for over thirty minutes now.
“What happened to this…?”
“Not only that!”
It is self-evident that if things go on like this, that scammer will leave him as bait and run away.
As the wizard, who had to stick to him somehow, was eagerly rolling his eyes, he discovered the biggest surprise.
“Everything, there is no moon”
“What?”
Awed by those words, Orion looked up at the sky, and only then did Orion sense something strange.
On this clear night without a single cloud, Artemis’ carriage, which should have been looking down on them, was nowhere to be seen.
“Lee. How did this happen?”
Looking up at the knight who couldn’t be there stupidly, Poseidon’s son and Hecate’s son couldn’t stand up at all because their legs gave out.
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The moon was the goddess’ chariot that ran through the night and the eye of Olympus that protected Greece day and night.
But the moon disappeared?
It was said that a force so powerful that even the eyes of Olympus had imprisoned them and the forest.
“Oh, how the hell is this even possible? This is the Forest of Heroes! The unchanging sanctuary bestowed by the sage Chiron from the twelve gods of Olympus!”
Hecate’s son, who is well versed in sorcery and magic, encounters a strange phenomenon that does not explain any wisdom he has learned.
He clutched his head as if he had lost his mind and screamed.
No god, let alone the god-king Zeus, dared to show such great prestige privately in this forest of heroes.
The honor of the Twelve Gods of Olympus and even the king of the underworld who had no enemies in Olympus were priests dedicated to Chiron with respect.
It was impossible to unleash such enormous divine power to hide the moon in this forest.
“This…That…”
Oryon gnashed his teeth as he saw the last of his gang kneeling on the ground and screaming.
How did things get so twisted?
What on earth did he touch?
Why did he have to suffer such humiliation?
At the end of the series of questions and endless hatred, Orion simply gave up.
“I… The son of Poseidon…!”
Orion, who was trembling all over with despair and hatred, slowly raised his head at the presence of a lightly landing in front of him.
“Hello~ Are you very busy?”
There, a beautiful woman looking down at him was smiling poisonously.