"Wake up, wake up! Pegasus?"
Seiya felt like he was lying on a wave, a gentle female voice by his ear calling his name.
Where is this? The Sanctuary? The Divine Realm of Olympus? Or... Bikini Bottom? He increasingly felt that traversing worlds was a technical skill harder than reincarnation. In the Godslayer universe cluster, he could still cross the cosmos with relative ease using the Strong Wind, but as he reached a higher level of the multiverse, his Strong Wind became as agitated as an out-of-control pendulum.
"But thankfully, I still managed to land." If it had been another three-hundredths of a second later, Seiya was planning to just find any old world to land in and catch his breath first.
His nostrils were filled with the fragrance of lavender and orange jasmine. The female voice that filled him with a sense of security sounded from above his head. Seiya slowly opened his eyes, and what came into view was a graceful young woman, clad in a white robe, holding a golden tassel in her left hand.
—Athena.
Although this was the first time he had seen her, Seiya could be certain of her identity.
Could it be that I used Athena as an anchor to cross the heavens? This was the first question that came to Seiya's mind upon seeing her.
"You must be Pegasus, but how did you turn into this?" Athena looked at the Seiya before her, a lively curiosity in her platinum-green bright eyes. "But you're quite handsome!"
Seiya sat up, rubbing his head. "I am Pegasus, but I am...!"
Athena leaned down, and the small bells strung across her chest tinkled. As the maiden drew closer, she grabbed Seiya's hand and pulled him onto her chariot.
"Don't talk," she said. "You're going to attend the council of the gods anyway, aren't you? Then let's hurry. Any later and it would be a breach of etiquette for us Greek gods!"
His feeling just now had indeed been correct. He had indeed been lying on a wave, but it wasn't a sea wave, but a wave of clouds.
At this moment, Athena was sitting in a chariot drawn by three white horses. And in front, holding the reins, a winged god with a diadem on his head was driving the chariot, swiftly advancing towards the temple ahead, which was bathed in sunlight.
It was a magnificent building like the Pantheon of ancient Rome. The light from the top illuminated the interior of the temple, making it look magnificent and grand, with a religious and mystical atmosphere. The vault was cast from bronze plates, and two bell towers were built on either side of the portico. With Athena's arrival, they mechanically chimed out the goddess's august name.
When Seiya and Athena arrived at the temple, it was indeed as the goddess had said; the other gods seemed to have already arrived.
There was a giant with the head of an elephant and the body of a man; a man in a suit and tie; a goddess in a red sari with a golden feathered crown; a woman with a human head and a snake's body, clad in Hanfu... It was truly a banquet of the gods. The deities were all exquisitely adorned. There were also nymphs in simple, long dresses serving these gods from different mythologies.
Evidently, Athena's status among the gods was also very high. She quickly led Seiya to a seat at the very front. With a clap of her hands, beautiful nymph-fairies brought food and desserts before her. And she, without hesitation, passed a dish she found delicious to Seiya.
"You try this. This is an exploding beef ball made by the God of Cookery from Cathay. It's really delicious." Seiya looked at the dish Athena handed him. He looked up towards the due east, and a man who looked strikingly like Stephen Chow nodded and smiled at him.
Then came roasted bread from Justitia, rice balls from the goddess Pomona, pheasant broth from Peng Zu, boar meat stewed in magic mead from Andhrímnir. Seiya even saw a traditional Ottoman dessert that was a secret wax... well, seeing this date pastry shaped like a certain female part, Seiya frowned. Unless it was said to nourish one's yin and bolster one's yang, only then might he eat it.
Of course, there were even more bizarre foods, like the Japanese nyotaimori, using fine rice cakes to simulate snowy-white flesh, with sashimi of copper-colored fish decorating the abdomen, resembling a beautiful young woman made of food. All sorts of foods that Seiya had heard of but never seen were now presented before him.
Leaving aside those bizarre foods, Seiya ate the God of Cookery's "Sorrowful Rice," and suddenly felt that coming to this unknown mythological world wasn't so bad after all.
"And there's cake! One serving for me!" Athena raised her hand cheerfully.
Looking at this Athena who was acting like a lively little girl, Seiya smiled faintly. The sunlight from above illuminated her flawless face, a beauty that was breathtaking. A physique that was between a young girl and a grown woman, as if at the most beautiful age of a girl. Just looking at her made Seiya's mood brighten.
But soon, Seiya was drawn by a god with Buddhist elements, dressed extremely stylishly. Then a white-robed goddess whose two massive assets had to be rested on the seat also sat down not far from him, flashing Seiya a beautiful look that made his heart fill with pity. In this moment, he suddenly felt a sense of familiarity.
With two loud chimes of a bell from the left and right, the world instantly fell silent.
The one who had arrived was a frail old man in a white robe. He walked with steady steps to the divine seat in the very center, and the entire Pantheon instantly fell silent.
"It seems everyone is very satisfied with this banquet," the frail old man said with a low chuckle.
Whether it was Norse mythology, Greek mythology, Japanese mythology, or Indian mythology, at this moment, the gazes of all the gods were gathered on this old man.
The King of the Gods, Zeus. His eye sockets were pitch black, yet they held an invisible majesty that pressed down on the heavens and the earth.
"Since everyone was willing to come, it seems you all agree with this old one's idea," the aged Zeus said slowly. "This mortal world is already defiled. For the past seven million years, you have all seen how humanity has fallen, step by step, to where they are today. In the hands of the humans of this era, the world has been destroyed and is full of sores. The oceans are full of garbage and oil slicks, the forests have also disappeared, and humanity has lost its reverence for the gods."
At this moment, within the hall of the gods, the deities began to murmur among themselves. But most of them showed expressions of disgust towards humanity.
And looking at the reactions of the gods, Zeus revealed a smile that said, "just as I thought."
"Then tomorrow will be the time of the council. This old one feels that humanity itself no longer has any need to continue existing. Why not just wipe them all out, like weeds?"
"I agree. Humanity no longer has any need to live. They have no intention of reflecting on their actions. It would be better to just destroy them all!" a four-armed, three-eyed Shiva said.
"Indeed, as Lord Shiva says. Humanity has made the world so ugly. Creatures are going extinct one after another. If you really think about it, humanity is the disaster that is destroying the world," the blonde, blue-eyed love goddess said, stroking her cheek and revealing a fragile expression that would make anyone pity her.
"Lady Aphrodite is right! We should destroy them!"
"Yes, humanity has lost its reverence. It's better to just kill them all."
With the love goddess, who held unparalleled charm among the gods, speaking up, the tide of this pre-council banquet completely turned towards the side of choosing destruction.
But at this very moment, a voice that was not particularly loud, yet was incomparably clear, transmitted into the ears of every god.
"Oh? It doesn't matter if humanity is wiped out... If you can frankly admit that there's no problem with that kind of thinking, then there's no need to regard the other party as a god anymore, is there..."
Zeus, and all the gods, suddenly looked in one direction. They saw that in the seating section of the Greek mythology, a god clad in a strange, magnificent armor had stood up, looking in Zeus's direction and lifting his chin.
"Oh? Could it be that you disagree?"
Zeus, his expression unchanging, showed a curious gaze. On the other hand, the other gods, as if finding it unbelievable from the bottom of their hearts, looked with puzzlement at this strange god who had stood up.
Pegasus, or rather, Seiya, now stood up from his seat. He looked at Zeus before him, and at all the gods present, his sharp gaze sweeping across the entire hall.
"When the gods no longer see humans as their children, when the self-proclaimed higher beings say they want to destroy humanity, how many people can accept this line of reasoning?"
It's unknown if he had seen Seiya's emotion, or if his opponent's anger brought him more pleasure. A slight smile hung on Zeus's lips. "Ho ho ho, but this old one believes that the human race indeed has no reason to exist..."
BOOM!
Before Zeus's voice had completely fallen, a furious, pained roar had already swept through the entire hall of the gods. But this terrifying attack was met with the combined resistance of the gods, who quickly suppressed it.
But after the storm had passed, the gods were dumbfounded. Because the youth who had just objected was now standing with one foot on the table of Zeus, the King of the Gods, his hands on his hips, gazing down upon the aged God King from a superior position.
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