Ares asking Hecate to drive out the four Mechanical Gods was not actually to have them deal with Poseidon. Even if the four mechs could defeat Poseidon together, Ares would not want them to go.
These were masterpieces that he and Hecate had painstakingly created, and Ares would be heartbroken if they were even slightly damaged or directly destroyed.
Now was not the time for the Mechanical Gods to confront the Olympus Gods. At least, they had to wait until the Main God-level Mechanical Gods were made before the Mechanical Gods could appear before the world.
As for this time, it was just him letting the Mechanical Gods out for a breather, and incidentally, for Noah to see. In this era, human perspective was still very narrow. From Noah's perspective, he could only see four mechanical angels speeding towards the collapsing and sinking Atlantis in the deep sea. As for the subsequent story, Ares left it to them, allowing them to imagine it themselves.
After destroying Atlantis, the knot in Poseidon's heart seemed to have slightly lessened. Ares saw him return to his Golden Palace to vent his frustrations on the Atlanteans' widows. Looking at the Sea God's back, Ares shook his head, and then his main body in the Underworld created another phantom clone, which he threw into Tartarus.
When Poseidon destroyed Atlantis, a large number of Atlanteans' phantoms simultaneously poured into the Underworld. Fortunately, Hecate was well-prepared, ordering her Lamphades to pilot the bone boats she had made, assisting the Underworld boatman Charon in transporting the phantoms. Otherwise, this brother of the God of Death and the God of Sleep would probably become the first God in the history of the Gods to die from overwork.
These Atlanteans were brought by the Lamphades to the Fields of Truth, where they were judged by the newly appointed three judges, Minos, Aeacus, and Rhadamanthus, in the newly established Three Judges Palace. During this process, it was natural for some to inquire about the situation in Atlantis, and as Gods of the Underworld pantheon, the three judges naturally had no need to fear Poseidon, so they honestly told these Atlanteans the current situation of Atlantis and their widows.
Moreover, these Atlanteans used to oppress the common people of Atlantis quite a bit, so they were mostly sentenced to Tartarus, with no chance of ever rising again.
However, what the three judges did not expect was that a peculiar phantom had appeared in Tartarus. Just as these Atlanteans were sentenced to Tartarus, they saw this unique phantom on the desolate, dead, and toxic land of Hell, filled with deadly gases, poisons, and flames.
"Are you also a God of the Underworld?"
Seeing this phantom blocking the path to Hell, the Atlanteans' phantoms asked him.
"No, Atlanteans, who I am is not important."
Eerie ghost fires burned beside this phantom. He approached the Atlanteans and whispered to them:
"What's important is, do you want revenge on Poseidon or not?"
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Routines, routines. A routine becomes a routine not because it's cliché, but because it's effective.
Just like now, Ares used his old trick again in Tartarus, and quickly recruited these Atlanteans' ghosts, training them just as he had trained the humans of the Silver Age many years ago.
When the day comes for him to rise up in revolt, this group of phantoms will also become one of his assistants.
Not only that, because Hecate has effectively become the ruler of the Underworld, in the future, those who harbor resentment towards the Gods can also be recruited using the same routine after falling into the Underworld, joining his phantom army.
Having gained some more living power, Ares happily sent his divine power clone back to Olympus, and then continued to research the creation of Mechanical Main Gods with Hecate in the Underworld. After some time passed, one day, Ares's sister, the Goddess of Youth Hebe, suddenly came to his temple to find him.
"Hebe." Ares looked at his sister, not as irritable as he usually acted. He asked, "Do you have something to tell me? Or is Hera looking for me?"
Although the Goddess of Youth Hebe, who stood before Ares, was the daughter of Zeus and Heavenly Queen Hera, and theoretically the most legitimate princess on Olympus, she was not among the Olympus Twelve Main Gods. Zeus merely assigned her the duty of pouring wine for the Gods at banquets.
Not only that, what was even more outrageous was that some time ago, Zeus, perhaps influenced by Apollo's remark that "cross-dressers are better than women," actually transformed into an eagle and directly abducted Ganymede, the son of the King of Troy.
He brought this beautiful youth to the heavens, had Athena lead a group of goddesses to apply beautiful makeup on him, dressed him up as a goddess, and then openly kept him among the Olympus Gods as his lover.
Sometimes, Ares truly could not understand the brain circuitry of Zeus, this God King. Not only did he keep Ganymede in front of Hera, making love with this beautiful man in front of Hera, but he also summoned Hebe, casually accused her of stumbling during a wine-pouring, and used it as an excuse to dismiss her from her duties as a cupbearer, then immediately transferred the duties he had stripped from his own daughter to Ganymede.
So now, the Goddess of Youth Hebe became Hera's subordinate deity. Besides staying by her mother's side, she could only run errands and deliver messages for Hera to sustain her life.
At a previous banquet, Ares had also seen this legendary "beautiful man." He didn't know if Athena's makeup skills were superb, or if Ganymede himself truly had a talent for being a cross-dresser, but in any case, this cupbearer was indeed very good-looking.
But every time he thought of his innocent sister, the Goddess of Youth Hebe, being so casually cast aside by her own father, Ares felt his God of War divine power throbbing. When he saw Ganymede and Zeus exchanging flirtatious glances, and the effeminate act of Ganymede purposely touching his lips when pouring wine for the God King, Ares almost wanted to rush up and kick both of them.
It wasn't that he hadn't seen Apollo with other boys before. After all, Apollo's partner, well, was also a prince of their Sparta, named Hyacinthus.
But Apollo was very self-aware. Before dating Hyacinthus, he first sought the consent of Hyacinthus himself and his father, and also informed Ares. Moreover, when he and Hyacinthus went on dates, they would go to a less crowded place outside the city, knowing to avoid the Heroes, especially Ares's eyes and ears, out of sight, out of mind.
But Ares simply couldn't stand Ganymede and Zeus. It was too vulgar. Their God King was simply too vulgar when he was hugging and embracing this man.
At this banquet, their actions even made Hestia and Hera so angry that they directly left, and Artemis couldn't bear to watch.
So this time, upon seeing Hebe come to him, Ares immediately assumed she was looking for her brother to back her up. So after asking, he continued to press:
"Are you here to ask me to help you deal with that effeminate Ganymede?"
"No, although that Ganymede... sigh, let's not talk about it," Hebe covered her forehead helplessly and sighed faintly, "Dear Ares, if it were only Ganymede, that would be good."
"What's wrong?" Ares was stunned. "Someone else again?"
"Yes." Hebe nodded, looking troubled. "Zeus went and harmed another queen. Hera looks a bit strange now, you should go see her quickly."