"what--!!!"
Hilde's angry cry shocked Apollo.
The shield attracted Apollo's attention and slowed down his speed. Hilde seized this opportunity and swung the spear in his hand directly onto Apollo's stomach. The huge force made it impossible for Apollo to remain intact and he was knocked away.
"Are you OK!"
Hilde pulled Tomyris over.
"I, I'm fine..."
"That's good."
Hilde and Tomyris looked at each other and nodded immediately.
Sophia, who was standing far away, was anxious and uneasy after seeing the fierce battle. However, thinking carefully, Hilde had instructed Sophia to feel the divine power in the battle through this battle, to feel it personally, so as to stimulate her true strength. This was what Sophia should do.
Sophia took a deep breath.
“Divine power… Divine power…”
It came from Hilde and Apollo.
It is an extremely rich divine power.
Sophia could feel it, and at the same time, she also felt something different.
She now longed for some ability to appear quickly so that she could protect Hilde. However, the more anxious she was, the harder it would be to see results.
Chapter 5, Section 4: The Discovery of Herodotus
For Sophia, she couldn't find a way to stimulate the potential power in her body like Hilde did before. Even though Hilde had carefully explained to Sophia how to use the power of God, it didn't mean that Sophia could easily explore how to discover her own abilities.
However, the current situation...
After Apollo stood up from the ground.
He looked down at his exposed abdomen.
There was already a wound where Hilde had just hit him.
Even though Apollo was a god, he was now a mortal. Therefore, blood could not stop flowing out of his abdomen. He stared at the wound on his stomach with his eyes wide open in surprise. Then, he wiped the wound with his hand and it healed completely. At this time, Apollo raised his head, and his handsome expression was completely distorted by anger.
"You actually hurt me!"
"Tsk..."
Hilde looked at Apollo like this.
I should have stabbed him straight away.
It was only to protect Tomyris that he chose to throw the spear over.
"I didn't expect that the dignified God of Light could also get hurt." Hilde pinched his waist with a look of contempt, "I thought you were really invulnerable, but I didn't expect that your blood is also red."
"Heh, heh heh..."
Apollo looked at the blood on his palm.
Then there was a creepy laugh.
"Very good! Hilde! You are the first woman who makes me so angry!"
"Tomyris..."
"Ok, I know."
Hilde and Tomyris looked at each other.
Apollo was enraged, completely enraged.
The wound caused by Hilde's attack was the greatest insult to Apollo.
The dignified God of Light was actually injured! ?
Apollo simply couldn't tolerate such a thing.
This is a complete insult to him.
"on!"
While Apollo was still angry, Hilde and Tomyris naturally had to seize the opportunity.
The two men attacked Apollo from two directions. On the left, Tomyris's arrows were accurate, and every arrow that flew towards Apollo was extremely threatening. Moreover, Tomyris shot several arrows in a row, directly blocking all the ways Apollo could escape.
As Hilde rushed over, he picked up the shield on the ground, and then the divine power burst out from deep inside his body, causing thunder to roll in the sky again. The light in the sky seemed to be suppressed by this power.
But Apollo remained motionless.
As if waiting for something.
Hilde's spear pierced Apollo's chest with lightning speed. The thunder and fire rolling around blocked Apollo's last retreat.
Going to succeed! ?
Hilde was also feeling somewhat excited.
She didn't expect that she could really defeat Apollo in such a short time?
"madness."
Apollo's cold voice came from the side.
He reached out and grabbed the spear from Hilde's hand.
No matter how powerful Hilde's attack on Apollo was, the spear looked unstoppable, as if even the god Zeus could pierce Hilde. However, even with such an attack, Apollo grabbed the spear with his hand.
"W-what..."
Hilde's body suddenly stopped in mid-air.
The purple lightning and fire around were directly shattered by the light surrounding Apollo.
The same goes for Tomyris's bow and arrow.
"If you had one-tenth of Athena's strength, I'm afraid I would really be dead."
Apollo looked at the face that looked exactly like Athena's.
In his heart, he was filled with the previous anger, as well as the anger just now.
Now, it all broke out.
"But you are not Athena. You are just a piece of trash in the body of Athena."
"careful--!!!"
Tomyris was about to say something.
A dazzling light suddenly burst out from Apollo.
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At this moment, in the city of Byzantium.
The Byzantine Academy established by Hilde, as the first national academy in the Byzantine Kingdom, has now been put into normal use. The first batch of professors are naturally the philosophers from Athens, such as Socrates who was captured and Herodotus who has always been with Hilde. They are now in this academy, doing their own research work.
And Alcibiades returned from the north.
It was by the side of Herodotus.
He brought Herodotus a large amount of information about the Scythians and Thracians from the north.
But Herodotus now had no intention of studying these things.
He was busy with the tasks given to him by Hilde.
"Lord Herodotus, I brought the information."
Alcibiades pushed open the door and entered.
Then he saw Herodotus staring at a book written on parchment with wide eyes, as if he had discovered something.
"I found it……"
"What's the matter, Master Herodotus?"
"I found the clue to the mission His Majesty assigned to me!!!"
"what?"
Alcibiades was stunned for a moment.
"What clue?"
"Do you remember that His Majesty Hilde once asked me what the combination of the constellation map, ruler, scale, sphere and straight line represents? I have asked you this question before."
"yes……"
Alcibiades nodded slightly.
"But I don't know the answer either."
"Yes, so I have been thinking about it... I remember that there seemed to be such symbols in the secret religion, but I never found them. But now, I suddenly figured it out." Herodotus excitedly pulled Alcibiades aside and said, "Look, if we connect the straight line and the sphere together, what do you think it will be?"
"A straight line and a sphere? Isn't that a plumb bob?"
Tie the shot put under the rope so that when the shot put falls, the rope can remain perpendicular to the ground at 90 degrees. The plumb bob was an indispensable tool when the Greeks used it to build houses.
Alcibiades knew this.
"Yes, then have you ever thought about what plumb bob represents?"
“…No, I don’t know.”
Herodotus slapped the table and said excitedly:
"It's the law of nature!"
"Laws of nature? Ah... yes."
"No matter where you are in Greece, the straight line represented by the plumb line is perpendicular to the ground. This is a universal law of nature!"
Fifth tune, fifth section, goddess of the night, Nyx
Alcibiades could only nod.
"Ah, um..."
"Then, what does the scale represent? It represents fairness and justice. At the same time, it also represents fate and cause and effect. Cause and effect are interconnected, and they also represent the two ends of the scale."
"This, seems to be the case..."
Alcibiades didn't know what to say.
"Then, the most important thing is!"
Herodotus didn't know what to say.
"Please calm down. I will listen."
"well……"
Herodotus took a deep breath.
"The last one is the ruler. The ruler means scale. It is a tool for measuring length. But by extension, the ruler represents the scale that can measure everything. Everything has its own scale, but some can be observed by us, while others cannot. But it is absolute. Everything has its own scale. Therefore, scale can be extended to mean something, which is an inevitable constant!"
"..."
Alcibiades really didn't understand.
How did this idea come about.
But after Herodotus said this, Alcibiades could only nod in agreement.
"Well, then, what did you find?"
"The ruler represents inevitable numbers, the balance represents fate and cause and effect, and the plumb bob represents the laws of nature. So I wonder if the ruler represents Ananke, the goddess of inevitable numbers, the plumb bob represents Adrastia, the goddess of natural laws. And the balance represents Hermamene, the goddess of cause and effect and fate."
"Ah, yes."
If we follow Herodotus' analysis.
There is nothing wrong with this idea.
