8 – The Beginning of the Journey
The bewildered Nesneria did not know what spirit she had returned to the sea.
Of course, as it was the last day of the year when the energy of the monsters increased, it was later learned that Dianes had followed and escorted Nesneria as she rushed into the sea in panic.
Coincidentally, a few days after their first meeting was Nesneria’s coming-of-age day.
Nymphs who are still young, but each has a different opportunity to grow, just celebrate the coming-of-age ceremony of their little brother
It was a grand celebration.
However, even in the midst of the sisters’ celebration, Nesneria was left blank at the thought of the boy she met that day, named Dianes.
And when Apollo’s chariot raced through the sky to celebrate his coming-of-age ceremony, he first arrived alone on the brightly lit coast of Pasos Island.
“How are you? Two days?”
She was greeted by Dianes, who wielded her sword on her white sandy beach.
Once again Nesneria felt her heart thump on her sweaty face under the bright sun.
“Uh, how are you here?”
“Huh? This is my original training ground. The sound of the waves is good, and no one comes because there are rumors of monsters appearing.”
Saying that, Dianes took up his sword again and started dancing dangerously on the rocks.
On that day, Nesneria saw something beautiful in the world for the second time.
Looking at her, her cool smile, her face becomes sharp enough to be sincere within seconds, and her wooden sword moves naturally as he stretches it, dancing freely like a wave on an ocean current or a wind rushing down a mountain slope. Danced
And that day continued.
Every hour of the day, Dianes came down to the beach of the nymphs, brandished a sword, and Nesneria, or rather, the nymph called Neri, by the name given to him, watched them quietly.
Days of visiting the city with him and learning various strange martial arts in the forest.
I thought that those days would continue.
“Profit!”
“Neri!”
Neri ran to Nymph Beach in one month and jumped into the sea in an instant.
Behind her, her dyanes scrambled up and tried to catch her, but it was faster for her to melt into her waves.
As it was, Neri gave herself to the waves and went down into the deep sea without looking back.
“Sister!”
“Neri?!”
Arriving at Tetus Palace in an instant, Neri was thrown into the arms of her older sister, who was embroidering him.
The older sister, who was wondering what was going on at the youngest child’s sudden indulgence, listened to everything and soon
He let out a deep sigh.
“Ehh… What should I do because my maknae is sad?”
“Ahh! Sister yi yi!!”
A nymph who fell in love with a human was so heartbreaking.
A nymph who is tied to one place and cannot go out.
A human who passionately burns his life as if he couldn’t be tied down to a small world.
The love of the two would end with the pain of either side like this.
But.
“Neri, what are you worried about?”
“Huh?”
Being tied up was just another nymph’s story.
They are Nereid nymphs.
It was the spirit of the vast sea.
No matter how much humans fly and crawl, humans who walk in Greece will never be able to escape from the hands of the sea.
There was no human who could escape the hands of the Nereid nymphs.
“Come on! This is not the time to be crying!”
“Eh?”
“All Gather!! Our youngest is going to get a man!”
At the call of the roaring queen nymph, the nymph sisters from all over the sea rushed in an instant.
Thanks to this, the fishermen and travelers were in trouble due to an unexpected storm.
Something more important than that happened.
“What?!”
“The youngest chases men?!”
“Who are you? After all, that black hair?!”
In the midst of the sisters gathering with their eyes shining almost to the point of ferocity, like a Nemean lion that has found its prey.
A farewell was in full swing in Pasos above the sea.
* * *
“Goodbye. Dianes. Please become a hero famous in Greece.”
The hand of the old priest caressed my young head and consecrated it, then with eyes full of envy and envy.
I saw the faces of temple orphans looking at me.
Everyone seemed envious of leaving this small island and going to the mainland, and to the forest of Chiron, the teacher of great heroes.
“I thought this day would come since you first came. Go. Go be a great hero and shake this Greece!”
“May the journey be accompanied by the blessings of Hermes!”
“May the Lord Zeus bless you!”
“Yes! How are you all!”
I also waved at their warm welcome and boarded the boat overlooking Chiron.
Soon, the ship departed amidst a grand farewell, and the island of Pasos slowly began to move away.
“You seem to have a lot on your mind”
“Well, that’s right”
Kyron, the centaur, slowly approached me with a clatter and smiled benevolently as he spoke to me.
“Is that child of a nymph getting stepped on in the eyes?”
“Are you smart?”
There’s no way you can’t be worried.
I left like this without being able to say goodbye to the guy who had been chasing me since the coming-of-age ceremony.
No matter how much I was, my heart was not clear.
“Well, they are a long-lived species. I’ll see you when I come back later.”
“Kuhmm… Well, it seems like there is no need to worry about a reunion.”
Chiron looked down at the sea in a questionable tone, smiled bitterly, and knelt beside me.
Still, with the body of an adult and the body of a horse, the eye level was still quite high.
“So how do you feel?”
“How do you feel? Well, it’s been a long time since I’ve been pounding.”
A Greek myth that everyone remembered and indulged in at least once in their first life.
To think of going to the forest of Chiron, where the heroes who will be the center of that myth are infested.
Just like when I first entered Mt.
“Let’s see… You said you grew up on Pasos your whole life, right?”
“Yes, when I was a child, the priest of Epharos saved me from sleeping in the forest of Pasos.”
“I heard from Epharus. He was sleeping in a stream alone late at night.
Do you have any other memories?”
Remember…
The memories of the previous life and the previous life, the memories as the Great Emperor of the Heavenly Demon who shook the midfield, and the memories of working hard on the earth are clear.
If there’s one thing I don’t particularly remember, it’s when I died and after I died.
However, when digging into memories through careful meditation, there were small fragments of memories that came to mind.
A pitch-black darkness that knows no end.
Huge eyes lurking beneath them were looking at me.
And after that…
I don’t know.
After that, I lost my consciousness and when I came to my senses, old man Eparos was looking at me anxiously from the bedside.
“I can’t remember”
“Is that so?”
“I would rather ask. Who is the being that molded my body?”
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“How would I know that?”
Whoa… Is this old man doing this even though he knows everything?
I opened my axe eye and glared at it, but the brown-eyed centaur only smiled kindly.
“The temple was overturned three days before I met you. I don’t know why, but the priests, who were a bit energetic, took out the bed in the VIP room and moved it to the warehouse, and we searched the whole village in search of well-dried rice straw during the day.”
“Oh, thanks to you, I was able to sleep comfortably last night”
“Is that all?”
The mysteriously scented wine that I hid in the storage room deep inside the priest’s room even when I was cleaning it normally.
As it turns out, the old man from Eparos brought out the liquor that Dionysus, the god of wine, brewed himself.
They killed a lot of fat pigs and were preparing a feast.
Even during the seeding festival, all outside guests were bitten and not allowed to enter.
“At the very least, Chiron, I have to say that you have contacted me, or that a centaur is visiting our temple through a different route.
“Whoa… Is that right?”
“That’s also what old Eparos, the other priests, and the other guys told me to take them too.
You wooed me so fervently?”
As a result, it can be seen that the centaur obtained information about me, at least through some circumstances, and came to this far-off Passos targeting me.
And if it’s the source of that information, there’s a high probability that the gods are involved.
“How are you? Is there anything wrong with what I said?”
If that’s the case, wouldn’t he at least know how I fell into this world and who the parents were who gave birth to this body?
The old half-man, half-horse, who had listened to it as if it were exciting, soon clapped and laughed as if in admiration.
“Ha ha ha! You’re a very smart kid I too was greatly impressed.
Yes, that’s right. I came to pick you up by the oracle of that great Olympus.”
Chiron slowly revealed how he came to receive the oracle.
“Let’s see, okay. It was after I was in the middle of my war class with my students.
I laid my weary body under the shade of a tree and got drunk with the whispers of Hypnos for a while.”
Hypnos is the god of sleep, and the word drunk with the sound of its song means that he fell asleep for a while.
“By the way, may Hypnos whisper in my dream.
As the seed sprouts in Pasos, he told me to place it in the field of heroes.”
That’s how Chiron came to Pasos, and before going to see his old friend Epharos, he entered the forest of the island to prepare a gift, and saw Artemis and me fighting each other.
“Now is the time”
“…Isn’t that forest site bad?”
Come to think of it, even when I first tried to set up a training ground in that forest, I had a hard time with bandits and monstrous Gomtaeng.
Thanks to that, I was able to refine my martial arts to some extent.
Anyway, to sum it up, the twelve gods of Olympus paid attention to me, and thanks to that, I am now going to the forest of Chiron.
‘Then do the Olympians know about the identity of this body?’
The reason I’m researching the beginning of this body is none other than this strange aura that flows through my body ever since I came to my senses.
It seems to be similar to the magic I felt when competing with the hermit masters of the Tao School in the past, but the tendency is infinitely deep and dark, yet extremely clean.
This aura flowing in the blood of the whole body veins helped me to practice the martial arts, and at the same time learn the magical arts little by little, helping them every time I used them, helping me to see an effect dozens of times greater than in my previous life.
If I could fully absorb it and make it mine…
‘It may be possible to truly enter the Heavenly Magician’s beyond that’
That’s why I tried to confirm where it came from and who it came from.
It will probably take a long time to find this.
“So I don’t know about your origin either”
“I see…”
As expected, you have to go up to the level of a senior to get information.
But when it comes to the gods of Greek mythology, it’s no big deal because the only ones you’ll meet are those who are almost catastrophic…
“However, one thing is certain: you are a descendant of God.”
“God?”
“Yes, that is a very lofty person. So always honor the gods and be careful about your manners.”
A high god?
Who are you?
Looking at the attributes of the magic that flows through the body, it must be a god related to darkness in nine out of ten. Who is it?
The Great King Hades? Death God Thanatos?
Looking at it that way, energy is more like darkness and pure demonic energy than death.
“Who is…?”
“Hmmm, more than that, let me tell you about the Forest of Heroes we are going to now.”
Chiron cleared his throat and changed the topic.