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Chapter 45 Hermes 045
Aphrodite looked at Hephaestus with a subtle expression, and smiled softly: "It turns out that you are not that simple..."
After saying this, Aphrodite snorted again: "But think about it, how can a simple guy think of 'catch a traitor'."
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 mean to catch a 'traitor', and you don't belong to me. , how could I possibly do such a rude thing. I just wanted, just wanted..."
Hephaestus struggled for a long time, but couldn't describe the tangled mood.
After realizing his own clumsiness, Hephaestus shut up and shoved the Aegis Shield directly into Aphrodite's hands: "This is my apology to you, please forgive me as soon as possible. My offense!"
Aphrodite carefully admired this magical sheepskin shield. The sheepskin on the shield of Equus was plucked from the female goat that once nurtured Zeus. After being made into a shield by Hephaestus , possessing the characteristics of being invincible, immune to magic, and expelling disasters and misfortunes, it is a precious and rare treasure.
Aphrodite looked at it for a while, sighed softly, and returned it to Hephaestus, shaking her head and rejecting: "The shield is very good, if it was made of your materials and sent to me, I will accept it. .But this is the task that Zeus gave you. If you are found by him with shoddy, he will not let you go. Forget it, you can give me the remaining shields made of old materials. "
Hephaestus shook his head, not taking the attitude of the Aegis shield: "His Royal Highness, I am the god of blacksmithing, please respect my vocation and ability. If you are worried, I can even give you a guarantee. , even if the two shields are really put together for a test, the king of gods won't pick out the difference..."
After speaking, he paused and whispered: "But not too many times."
Aphrodite understood this, accepted the shield of Aegis, and said with admiration: "His Royal Highness Hephaestus, from 'Rose' to 'Shield of Aegis', your craftsmanship has always amazed me. extraordinary."
Hephaestus' golden-red eyes were like burning fire, and his pupils were incredibly bright.
Aphrodite likes this shield of Aegis very much. Although he doesn't use it, it is quite perfect to keep it as a top-notch and perfect weapon from the hand of the god of forging.
Aphrodite promised Hephaestus: "Then I will accept this shield, because it is very expensive, I may promise that His Highness is not a particularly embarrassing wish for me."
Hephaestus said: "This is an apology."
Aphrodite laughed and said, "It's too expensive to make amends. What's more, doesn't your Highness want to get some from me by promise?"
Hephaestus was stunned, and he swallowed the words he refused.
Hephaestus asked softly: "For Your Highness, what is the limit that makes you "difficult"?"
Aphrodite glanced at him with a half-smile, stood up, and the falling shadow blocked Hephaestus, he smiled and said softly: "I don't have the habit of analyzing myself for other gods, if Your Highness is not afraid of me If you are born or think you are too offensive, you can start with the most excessive demands and test my bottom line. If you are afraid..."
Aphrodite raised her eyebrows and said frivolously, "Then you can make a small, painless request and let me pick it up."
Hephaestus' heart was beating like a drum, his voice was extremely dry and hoarse. After he poured himself a cup of tea, he shyly lowered his head 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 on his neck, and said with a smile: "Of course, Your Highness can mention it anytime. ."
The clear touch from his neck made Hephaestus froze, and he said almost in a panic, "Your Highness, don't do this."
Aphrodite withdrew her hand innocently, sighed softly, stared at the bright sun-like love in the scepter of the Lord God | Desire Godhead, and explained: "Sorry, it may have been influenced by Love | Desire Godhead, I Sometimes I like to do some extra movement..."
He paused as he spoke, blinked his beautiful eyes, and asked with a smile, "You won't misunderstand me, will you?"
Hephaestus looked at him blankly. He couldn't tell if 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: "How 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 Palace of the God-King together.
On the way, Apollo asked unhappily, "Sister, did you want to talk in the garden before? I'm the only one here now. Is there something that you can't even talk to me?"
Artemis said distressed: "I said, it's not a matter, it's just a little bit confusing."
Apollo sneered: "If that's the case, you should tell me that if you can't do it, let me do it for you."
Artemis pursed his lips slightly and asked, "If that's the case, why don't you tell me first, what were you and Aphrodite doing before I arrived in the garden?"
Apollo suddenly fell silent, Artemis bowed his head, kicked away a stone on the side of the road, and 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 dazed."
Artemis tilted his head and looked at Apollo with a puzzled expression.
Apollo carefully recalled Aphrodite's demeanor, and caressed the harp with his fingertips carelessly. After a while, he said, "His Royal Highness does not like to be too close to his god. He is indeed an ascetic god. But sometimes ...He may be a little bit unable to restrain himself, and then he seems a little... um, boring? I think it may be because his words do not match his behavior, he always spit it out lightly Countless sweet words to "fascinate" and "confuse" others. Maybe he will be "fascinated" and "fascinated" by himself occasionally, and then he will do some strange things."
Artemis didn't speak, she was in a daze as she walked. After a while, she asked, "Then you say, which goddess will your Highness marry?"
Apollo asked, "Do you like Your Highness?"
Artemis straight and strong: "He is the most beautiful god, full of wisdom and authority. No god can not like him, right?"
Apollo retorted: "Father doesn't like him."
Artemis said angrily: "That's because His Highness Aphrodite has always been right with him! If His Highness suddenly softens to him one day, God Father will no longer hate him, and will give all the treasures His Highness wants. Bring them all in front of him!"
Apollo thought for a while, and felt that Artemis' words were very reasonable.
So he replied, "I don't think Your Highness will marry any goddess."
Artemis was stunned for a while, and his thoughts didn't keep up with Apollo's topic-changing speed for a while.
After reacting for a while, she lowered her head and said disappointedly, "Okay then."
Apollo asked, "So, why are you struggling?"
Artemis pursed his lips slightly and said, "I want to swear to the Oath River and be a virgin goddess."
Apollo stopped playing the harp, turned his head to look absurdly at Artemis, 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 he has a favorite goddess. Does this have anything to do with me wanting to be a virgin?"
Apollo looked at her silently and did not speak, Artemis said irritably: "Well, there is a reason, but the order should be transferred."
Artemis sighed lightly: "I have always had the idea of becoming a virgin, 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 and there is no god. I can refuse him. But if he doesn't have this idea, it's fine, I still want to be a virgin according to the original idea."
Apollo asked, "But why do you think so?"
Artemis brushed his silver hair and said casually: "For a goddess, you must have some sense of crisis. Like the goddess Hera, although she is bitter and vicious, the process of her becoming a goddess is a tragedy. She She was also a pure virgin goddess, but she was forced to lose her virginity by the king of gods. Although I am the daughter of the king of gods, the queen of gods 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 gods. So I'm going to swear to the river of oath before the king of gods can move his mind. Be a virgin, and if you have the law to bear witness, you can avoid all this."
Apollo did not speak, he was thinking.
In the eyes of the gods, the influence of bloodline is extremely weak, and it will not affect the pursuit of goddess by some male gods at all.
Therefore, Artemis's worries are somewhat reasonable, and Apollo did not want his sister to be forced by the king of gods, and finally bear the name of a mistress.
He said distressedly: "You are right, but this matter is complicated. Let's talk about it later. Let's go to the Temple of the King of God and fish out the kid who may have been born before we talk about it."
Artemis pursed his lips slightly and nodded.
The two entered the temple of the king of gods to meet the king of gods, 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 the goddess of love, Hermes is the god of commerce, but also a quick thief and a cunning liar.
Although gold coins were of limited use to the gods, Hermes liked them.
After throwing down the gold coins, the Gemini Lord God returned to his normal state.
Zeus sat down on the throne of the God King holding the thunder scepter. He looked at his son and daughter, and asked indifferently and dignifiedly: "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 place left for the position of the main god, and the other main gods have been sealed for so long, but However, there has been no banquet to invite the gods to gather together, should your Majesty put the banquet on the agenda?"
Zeus "touched" his beard, glanced at the Gemini Lord God a little strangely, and said "bewildered": "You are here for this matter?"
The Gemini Lord God said softly.
Zeus looked down at the two of them condescendingly and smiled slightly: "The banquet has been dragged on for so long, and we are not in a hurry to hold it for a while. Let's celebrate together after the last Lord 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 was going to be named the main god, they got some signals from Zeus' words that the main god might appear soon.
The twin gods were silent for a moment, Artemis' five fingers "inserted" into the hair and pulled back, she smiled: "I hope the next god will appear soon, the mountain has not been lively for a long time. It's really exciting. boring."
Zeus' eyes stayed on her face for a moment, and then nodded lightly: "Come on."
Apollo lowered his head and replied, "Then let's say goodbye first, His Majesty the King of God."
Zeus shook his head at will, without greeting them, got up and left. Apollo and Artemis also left the temple immediately.
When the temple was empty and silent again, an orange head quietly poked out from behind the stone pillar. He looked around, and after confirming that there was no one in the temple, he walked out from behind the stone pillar.
He squatted down and picked up the gold coin dropped by Apollo, put it in his mouth curiously and bit it, but didn't bite.
This is Dwarf's orange-haired god. Although he looks petite and has a very youthful appearance, those who see him will not regard him as an ignorant child, because he looks very shrewd, especially When the eyes rolled, the clever and cunning breath almost rushed to the face.
He squatted on the ground with the gold coins in his mouth, his dark blue eyes twitched, and he got up and quietly followed Apollo and the others and slipped out of the temple.
In the secret garden, Aphrodite is playing with metal plates.
Hephaestus said that only a few surveillance balls were thrown out, but in fact, except for Aphrodite's palace, the temples of other gods were all within the surveillance range.
After asking Hephaestus how to adjust the monitoring, Aphrodite sat here and stared at the movement on the projection. The place to observe was the temple of Zeus.
When he saw the orange-haired boy sneaking out of the temple, Aphrodite's eyes lit up immediately, and he said lightly, "This dwarf is Hermes, right? ...Is he actually born? What the hell is the god king doing, why didn't Hermes be released directly, but locked in the temple instead?"
Aphrodite "touched" her chin, her face full of confusion. When Hephaestus saw that he had another brother born, a trace of disgust quickly slid across his eyes.
Aphrodite turned around and said to Hephaestus: "His Royal Highness Hephaestus, I'm going to see this Hermes Highness and leave for a while. Do you want to go back first?"
Aphrodite's absence, 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 left the passage with Hephaestus, then walked out of the Temple of Love|Desire and said goodbye.
As for the metal plate, it was also returned to Hephaestus by Aphrodite.
Aphrodite wrote down the direction Hermes ran out of the temple of the god-king, and after 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 groaned for a few seconds, remembering the famous deeds of Hermes, and walked directly to the pasture across the temple.
Apollo raised five sacred cows in the pasture. These sacred cows were strong and beautiful, and they were very popular sacrifices by the gods, and Hermes was no exception.
When Aphrodite appeared in the pasture, Hermes was disguising the cows, hanging brooms on their tails, and driving the cows along, and when the cows started walking, the brooms were Sweeping the ground, smoothing out the trail of the cow leaving.
On the other hand, Hermes was smirking and dancing behind the cow with a gold coin in his eyes, and he looked extremely happy.
Aphrodite smiled slightly, teleported directly to the cow's back and sat down, while Hermes was still shaking his head and singing.
Aphrodite dragged her tone and said casually, "Look at what I see—"
"A thief is stealing the divine cow raised by the God of Light. This is an amazing scene."
Hermes opened his eyes, and he didn't feel embarrassed that he was caught stealing anything. After seeing Aphrodite, he immediately exclaimed, jumped on the back of the cow, and held his face in Aphrodite. Dite probed her head around and shouted, "Wow, brother, you are so beautiful! The first time I saw you, the biuling~biuling~ ground in front of me was glistening, brother, you are so beautiful, is it the unparalleled beauty? My lord Aphrodite!"
Aphrodite felt that Hermes was too lively, and she was dizzy when she probed her head, so she raised her hand and pressed the dwarf's neck and pressed him against her lap.
Hermes was squeezed by the throat of fate and could not move immediately, but this did not affect his ability to play, he immediately said: "Brother! You smell so good!"
Aphrodite smiled and said, "Thank you for your compliment, but it doesn't erase the fact that you are stealing. Your Highness, go see your brother Apollo with me."
Hearing this, Hermes burst into tears: "Brother Meishen, I just think Niuniu is so beautiful and cute, and you don't know, I have lived in a cave where the sun is not seen since I was born, and I have been alone since I was a child. I'm so lonely! I didn't steal the cow on purpose, I just wanted to find a playmate for myself!"
Aphrodite sneered: "Is the temple of His Majesty the King of God actually a dark cave?"
Hermes asked curiously: "Brother Meishen, did you secretly bet on me before? Otherwise, how would you know that I actually live in the palace of the god king?"
Aphrodite rubbed the pulp of his fingers lightly, and he seemed to be smiling, "Yeah, I've been betting on you for a long time, and it's the first time I've seen a slender, petite and lovely male god like you, so I wanted to hide it from you. The sight of other gods secretly deceived you and brought you back to the temple for support."
Hermes was stunned for a moment, pouted and said aggrieved: "It's an honor to be able to make Brother Meishen like me, but my mother goddess is still waiting for me to go back."
Aphrodite snorted: "So what? A weak god like you, let me see your priesthood... Stealing priesthood, sports priesthood, cheating priesthood, hey, there is also a livestock priesthood, but the number is There are quite a few, but unfortunately they are all the most common godheads."
Aphrodite lowered her head, looked at him with dark eyes, and whispered in Hermes' ear: "You said, even if a weak god like you goes back, can you bring something to your mother goddess? Woolen cloth?"
Hermes hummed and hummed like a pig: "My natural godhead is not strong, but my father said that he would make me the main god!"
Aphrodite's eyes flashed and she asked, "Are you sure he's not lying to you?"
Before Hermes spoke, Aphrodite mocked and said, "Forget it, you are the god of deception, and whose lies can be deceived from you?"
Hermes kept twitching his nose, and he said slyly: "But I also smell the breath of countless lies in you. You are a god whose number of lies is not inferior to mine."
Aphrodite tapped his free hand on the head: "I am not like you, the lies of a little liar like you only rob others, but my words bring joy to others, We are different."
Hermes pouted and said unhappily, "Okay okay, Your Highness, you are right, can you let me go first, I am so tired from being crushed by you."
Aphrodite's head: "Yes, but you have to tell me first, what is the purpose of Zeus hiding your mother and son?"
Aphrodite always felt that Zeus was playing a trick, but she never thought about it. Hermes said: "Because my reality is a little too low, it may be difficult to call me the main god, so the god king is trying to find a way." Fascinate and confuse the wisdom of the goddess, find a way to make the goddess like me, and if there is support from the goddess, it will be easy for me to become the main god."
Aphrodite was stunned for a moment, then said in surprise, "Is it for this?"
Hermes' dark blue eyes twitched like watery grapes, very 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 God the Father and Athena talking about you."
Aphrodite didn't ask Hermes Zeus what they said, but said, "His Royal Highness Hermes, I'm starting to think you're very interesting."
"Let me guess why you cooperated with me so much? Because you have to rely on the king of gods to obtain the position of the main god and the position of the main god is completely limited by His Majesty, so you may appear to be well-behaved on the surface, but in fact, you are still a little dissatisfied with this, soSell it to me quietly?"
Hermes denied: "That's not it, Brother Meishen, I just saw how beautiful you are, so I couldn't help but say it, why do you think things are so complicated!"