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Valhalla Saga (Web Novel) - Episode 52, Chapter 6 - The pursuers (6)
Episode 52, Chapter 6: The pursuers (6)
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Translator: Tsubak
Editor: SlowAsLightning
The second night since Athena’s meeting started.
Tae Ho’s day started with a blessing from Adenmaha and ended with the blessing of Athena.
Looking at the Goddess bless Tae Ho in turn was a really bewildering scene but the group had already become quite accustomed to it.
But of course, there was someone that still hadn’t gotten accustomed to it.
It was Drakon Ismenios that had just joined the group and it was the first time he saw the blessing relay.
But he expressed deep regret instead of being bewildered.
“You don’t need me to do it? I’m also considered a God.”
Drakon Ismenios looked at Tae Ho with burning eyes and said. His voice was one that sadness a sincere lamentation could be heard from.
“Uh, yes. I will just receive your feelings.”
It was really beautiful to see the youth that seemed like he came out of a picture acting in excellence but he still refused it.
As Tae Ho declined while dripping cold sweat Ismenios let out a sigh once again and Bracky ate a chicken leg and laughed refreshingly.
“Tae Ho’s saga is only meant for Goddesses.”
Even the name was ‘the warrior that had a Goddess meet him’.
Bracky had said that he was jealous of Tae Ho’s saga since long ago but his attitude had changed nowadays. The reason was simple like him.
Because he had the wolf Goddess along him.
He had started to get more tolerant and relaxed since Siri started to give him blessings outside the eyes of the others.
Whatever the case, Drakon Ismenios shed tears once again and felt regret.
“Kuhuk, why was I born as a man? This is the first time I resent my mother since I was born. It would have been good if I was born as a Goddess.”
He had a really beautiful and sad appearance that could move the hearts of those that saw him but Cuchulainn’s reaction was different.
‘Hey, he really is weird. Stay as far away from him as possible.’
‘I will take it into account.’
Everything Cuchulainn said aside from battles was absurd but at least this time his words became a good advice.
“Hehe, I’m a Goddess. Adenmaha said that I was a dragon Goddess.”
Ismenios spoke sincerely once again as Nidhogg said like boasting.
“Kuhuk, I’m jealous noonim.”
“Thank you dongsaeng.”
It seemed like she liked the word noonim more than he was jealous of her.
[Apollo is satisfied.]
[But contrary to that, he is worried about the pursuers.]
The voices of the Gods was heard. Athena, who was drinking hot water at the innermost side of the shelter spoke to everyone.
“You don’t have to worry too much. Glaucus is patrolling nearby.”
It was different from before when she had lost consciousness and couldn’t make a surveillance range. She had also recovered a bit of her divine power so she could place Glaucus’ wide range under her senses.
“Athena-nim, can you tell us about the children of Ares?”
Rasgrid asked carefully and Athena let out a low exclamation.
“Ah, that’s right. Knowing about your enemy is a really important thing. I was missing an important thing as I was busy on healing my injuries. Thank you for telling me.”
“It’s nothing.”
Rasgrid expressed etiquette once again. Their way of speaking and expressions were stiff but the two of them were respectful.
Tae Ho looked at that Rasgrid and Athena and nodded.
‘The two of them really resemble each other, right?’
‘They do.’
The Goddess of warfare Athena and Odin’s Valkyrie Rasgrid.
The color of their hair was black and silver so you could say that they were opposites but aside of that their way of speaking and personalities resembled quite a lot.
Athena drank hot water once again and started to speak.
“Ares has almost a hundred children and they are divided in three big factions. One of them is a force with the children of Aphrodite as the core, the other one are the children of the Gods excluding the first ones and the last one are the amazoness.”
“The amazoness……are you talking about the female warriors?”
Athena nodded at Tae Ho’s question.
“So you already know about them. Right, the amazoness are a group of strong female warriors. I think that they will work well with the Valkyries of Asgard.”
Because the two of them were associations only composed by females.
Athena continued to speak.
“Enyalius, the one you defeated last time, was the one leading the faction composed by the children of several Gods. Deimos and Phobos were in the faction of Aphrodite’s children so actually two of the three factions have been weakened.”
You could say that the children of Aphrodite were rather in a better situation even though they lost their commander figures.
It was because the faction Enyalius lead had been exterminated.
“But he still has close to seventy children. In addition, Ares must have felt something from the last battle so he won’t charge at you recklessly.”
Ares was really vicious and violent but he wasn’t a fool.
His eyes for reading the flow of the battle was outstanding as expected of a God of war.
“Rasgrid, what’s wrong?”
Athena tilted her head a bit and asked. It was because Rasgrid was putting a dumbfounded expression with her eyes round after hearing her explanation.
Rasgrid got a hold of herself at Athena’s voice and then answered at the end of her perplexion.
“Um…it’s a bit impolite to say this but I was surprised at how many children Ares had.”
She had heard that the Gods of Olympus had many children but for Ares to still have more than seventy of them.
In the first place, he had more than a hundred?
Rasgrid’s bewilderment also spread to Ingrid and Gandur.
But Athena just spoke with a calm face.
“Well, it’s not a small number but it’s not that he has a lot. Zeus-nim…and even Poseidon has many more children. I know that Apollo doesn’t have that few either. Wasn’t it about thirty?”
As Athena looked up at the sky and asked the voices of the Gods was heard.
[Apollo is offended.]
[He’s asking how she looked at him to say that.]
‘Well, he’s not a breeding horse either.’
Cuchulainn was a named playboy but even he only had about ten children.
But to have thirty. It was obvious for Apollo to be offended at the number that treated him like a breeding horse.
Not only Cuchulainn but the others of the group thought of the same thing.
But they were thinking of this because they didn’t know Olympus.
“I’m sorry. There are a bit more?”
[Apollo says.]
[They are easily fifty.]
To barely give him thirty. How was she seeing this Apollo?
Athena laughed while being sincerely sorry and Sybilla nodded with a satisfied expression.
‘Ma, master? Didn’t you say that Apollo-nim didn’t have many children?’
Adenmaha transmitted her perplexion through her mystical powers.
To only have fifty children when he didn’t have many. Then how many did you have to have to be able to call them a lot?
‘Um……is it that he doesn’t have many heroes among his children?’
Because Patroclus’ expression was serious when he said that Apollo didn’t have many children.
While Tae Ho and Adenmaha were speaking through mystical powers, the eyes of the others of the group also started to show bewilderment.
Athena blinked as if that scene was marvelous.
“Hm, it seems like the Gods of Asgard are a bit different to us.”
“Uh…yes, a bit.”
Even the always stiff and hard Rasgrid could give out an awkward answer now.
Even Odin, that was the one with the most children in Asgard, was considered to have few children in Olympus.
“What an interesting story. I thought that you would be quite similar to us as it was a neighboring world of Gods but you have more differences than I expected.”
Athena’s, the Goddess of wisdom’s, eyes shone with interest.
Sybilla and Patroclus nodded when Athena nodded again. It seemed like there was something discovered between the people of Olympus.
“Uh…what kind of person is Hades-nim?”
Adenmaha asked carefully. It wasn’t because of what they were speaking before. It was better to have more information as they would have to go and look for him.
Athena closed her eyes and organized her thoughts at Adenmaha’s question and then put on a smile and answered.
“He’s strong and wise. He’s usually calm on all kind of things and has few emotional things.”
“He’s the ideal supporter.”
Athena nodded when Bracky spoke to himself.
“That’s right. But what Apollo said doesn’t talk about such sides of Hades. It’s because of his different love relationship from the other Gods of Olympus.”
‘I think I know.’
Cuchulainn expressed the feelings of everyone.
Tae Ho felt like he knew.
“Hades only loved one woman. I’m talking about Persephone the daughter of Zeus-nim and the Goddess of grain Demeter.”
Zeus was Hades’ brother so actually Persephone was Hades’ niece.
But the group had already become accustomed to this much. They just tilted their ears at Athena’s words instead of becoming bewildered.
“Hades from back then showed really unexpected sides of him. He didn’t know how to act when he fell in love at first sight and was really careful.”
[Apollo smiles bitterly.]
It seemed like the two Gods were reminiscing about the happy time.
The expressions of Adenmaha, Siri and the Valkyries because of the story that wasn’t like Olympus.
“Hades went to find Zeus-nim at the end of his thoughts and acted only after he received advice from him. He made a beautiful flower bloom in the cliff that connects to the underworld to seduce Persephone and then abducted her.”
“W, wait. Wait a moment. He kidnapped her?”
Adenmaha asked back as she was listening to the story in a good way.
Why did he kidnap her when he was doing well?
But Athena continued speaking with a calm face.
“Right, he kidnapped her. But even so Hades was different to the other Gods. He expressed devotion only for Persephone and asked her for marriage and in the end Persephone accepted his feelings. Right now, she is living as the queen of the underworld. She even stepped on the nymph called Mente, that had an unrequited love, because she loved him that much and then turned her into grass.”
Athena spoke with a warm expression as it wasn’t a really heart warming story.
But Adenmaha still found it hard to express something. The story had turned to normal when Hades finally gained her heart when he proposed her marriage but what did she mean with Persephone having transformed a nymph that loved Hades one sidedly into grass?
‘I don’t know where I should tackle this from. In addition, Zeus was the one that advised him to kidnap her? Wasn’t Zeus Persephone’s father?’
‘Uh……isn’t it something like the father allowing their marriage?’
Tae Ho forced himself to come with an answer at Cuchulainn’s bewilderment but Drakon Ismenios interrupted.
“In addition, my mother Demeter was in a deep sadness at that time because she really treasured Persephone. She has found it really hard on her as the underworld wasn’t a place even one of the 12 Olympians could come and go easily. At first, she roamed the world without knowing that she had gone to the underworld.”
‘So her mother didn’t give her permission.’
Tae Ho had nothing to say now. In the first place, he wasn’t in a situation he could speak.
“In that moment, Poseidon attacked my sad mother and had some children with her. They all entered Poseidon’s ranks.”
“I’m really glad Hades-nim is at our side.”
Adenmaha said with a dumbfounded voice and everyone except for the people of Olympus nodded.
But it seemed that Athena misunderstood Adenmaha’s words that she nodded and continued speaking.
“Right, I’m really glad. At the lowest floor of Hades’ underworld is Tartarus, where the titans are locked. Now that even Zeus-nim has changed sides, the reason the titans are not able to rise should be because of Hades.”
Because he was blocking Tartarus.
And this was the strongest proof that Hades still remained as someone wanting to maintain the world.
“Uh…are you saying that the God called Hades is facing the enemy of Olympus alone… the ones wanting to destroy the world?”
Bracky asked with a surprised face.
It was because if it was just like he had said, it meant that Hades was overwhelmingly strong.
But unfortunately Athena shook her head.
“The situation in Asgard is different to Olympus. The titans of Tartarus Hades is suppressing could be considered as remnant forces. We have the Gigas as our enemies, that could be considered to be the giants of Jotunheim.
When Athena moved her hands, illusions of atrocious and vicious monsters that didn’t have the shape of humans appeared in the air.
“They, as beings wanting to destroy the world, are sending their army intermittently from the ends of the world. Thanks to that, Olympus placed a huge fortress at the end of the world and are stopping their advance.”
[Apollo lets out a long sigh.]
[Apollo thinks of the one protecting the ends of the world and trembles.]
“The one protecting the ends of the world.”
Athena also said that and worry spread in her face.
Because the fortress protecting the ends of the world was inside the world that had changed.
There was a high probability the one that protected the fortress also changed.
“You should also know his name. He is the strongest and greatest hero in Olympus.”
The greatest hero in Erin was Cuchulainn.
And Sigurd was the strongest warrior in Asgard.
But this person was different to those two.
He was a more special being than the two of them.
If you had to compare, it was more correct to compare him to the greatest battle God of Asgard, Thor.
The strongest hero of Olympus.
The one that has started as a demigod hero and climbed to the seat of a God and the one that the title God hero suits the most.
Cuchulainn knew his name.
And the Valkyries also knew the name well.
“Heracles.”
Tae Ho said and Athena nodded slowly.
She closed her eyes for a moment as if trying to hide her feelings.
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