Eat Little Almonds
Chapter 434 The Secret of the Past
Qiao Yu couldn't see anything, he could only hear Hermes humming a tune while tinkering with something.
What made him feel even more bizarre was that even though he had lost his eyeballs, Qiao Yu didn't feel the slightest bit of pain, as if he had been born blind.
Qiao Yu simply sat down on the ground with a thud. As the saying goes, if you can't resist, you might as well enjoy it.
Since he had nothing else to do, Qiao Yu simply started chatting with Hermes.
Qiao Yu: "Hey, Hermes, right? Can I call you Si? Why did you die?"
"Have you heard of Ragnarok? Almost all the divine representatives on earth, and even the gods themselves, died in that battle. Those with intact godhood and divine souls were sealed, and I was one of them."
Qiao Yu: "Then why were you sealed? Who sealed you here? What is the Eternal Eye?"
"Your questions are quite troubling. How about this, I'll tell you everything I know, and you can slowly digest it yourself."
Hermes extended his finger and gently touched Qiao Yu's forehead. A tidal wave of memories surged into his brain, and countless pieces of information flooded Qiao Yu's mind.
"Ah! I feel like my head is about to explode!"
After a long time, Qiao Yu, who had no eyeballs, finally got up, panting for breath. He was drenched in sweat, as if he had just been pulled out of the water.
The information Hermes had inputted into his brain shocked him immensely!
Billions of years ago, many gods, led by Zeus, defeated the Titans and seized control of the world, a battle known as the Titan War.
The entire universe was shattered into twelve pieces in that terrifying battle, known as the Twelve Parallel Universes, each ruled by a chief god. This is the origin of the title of the Twelve Olympian Gods.
Kaiji Star is located in the Ninth Parallel Universe, and the chief god sitting in the Ninth Parallel Universe is none other than the divine messenger Hermes.
Under the leadership of the twelve chief gods, all living beings in the twelve parallel universes lived and worked in peace, ushering in a period of peace known as the Age of Gods.
But as time passed, after the myriad races began to master power, they were no longer satisfied with being inferior to the gods.
Finally, a human named Gorr, wielding the All-Black Necrosword, killed the Dark God and became the first God Butcher in history!
Although Gorr was later killed by Thor, the God of Thunder, this undoubtedly gave the myriad races a shot in the arm!
Because they discovered... that gods can also be hurt, and gods can also die.
When they learned that gods could bleed, gods were no longer gods.
Finally, after the civilizations of the various races developed to a certain extent, war broke out!
The gods were utterly defeated!
Countless gods were slaughtered, and even the twelve chief gods were not spared. Those who could not be killed had their godhood and divine souls sealed. Later generations called this battle Ragnarok.
After this battle, the twelve parallel universes entered the Age Without Gods! And it has continued to this day!
"Mommy..."
Qiao Yu didn't know what words to use to describe the shock in his heart at this time.
The gentle and elegant guy in front of him was actually once the chief god of the Ninth Universe?
"Then what about Hades? Isn't Hades one of the twelve chief gods?"
Qiao Yu suddenly remembered that the memory Hermes had passed on to him didn't seem to mention Hades, the King of the Underworld, at all.
"The twelve chief gods, frankly speaking, are all under the jurisdiction of Zeus. Hades, King of the Underworld, is the lord of hell, the king of the world of the dead, and exists on an equal footing with Zeus, so he naturally cannot be considered one of the twelve chief gods."
"Hades is strict with himself, he is not as lecherous as Poseidon and Zeus, he is cold, likes darkness, but he is fair and just, a god to be feared, and also the most mysterious god among the gods."
"Speaking of which, he should be the most innocent existence in Ragnarok. He was diligently handling affairs in the underworld when suddenly a large group of people came to attack him."
Hermes chuckled, then gave Qiao Yu's body a meaningful look.
"One last question, why do you have the Seed of the Underworld here?" Qiao Yu asked.
"Oh, those are the inheritors of the other four underworld kings. Only the power of the underworld king can unlock the seal of the Eternal Eye, but the four of them were unlucky and died."
Qiao Yu: "..."
He suddenly had the feeling of a sheep entering a tiger's mouth.
"I didn't expect it to really succeed. Okay, try these new eyes."
Qiao Yu: "..."
He knew this Hermes was unreliable!
Hermes pressed lightly, and Qiao Yu's eyes immediately returned to normal.
Qiao Yu had always thought that the Sharingan in Naruto, which could be used at any time, was outrageous, but until today, when this outrageous thing happened to him, Qiao Yu realized that reality was far more outrageous than film and television dramas.
He slowly opened his ghost eyes, which were still azure blue, and there was no change in appearance.
But the effect was vastly different from before. Even without the help of the little skeleton's fire, Qiao Yu could see the deepest part of this Godfall Pit!
He clearly saw that Hermes' body was much thinner than before, and even a little transparent. Obviously, allowing the ghost eyes to merge with the seal of the Eternal Eye was not easy for him either.
At the pupils of the ghost eyes, there was an additional mark, which was an eye surrounded by a triangle and a myriad of rays of light!
Although that mark was small, it seemed to contain all the mysteries of the universe.
A terrifying power slowly flowed into the ghost eyes along that mark, making the ghost eyes stronger at all times!
Qiao Yu vaguely felt that this was the true power that the ghost eyes should have. He hadn't even unleashed one percent of the ghost eyes' power before.
"Okay, here, absorb these four Seeds of the Underworld, and then you can leave." Hermes threw the four Seeds of the Underworld to Qiao Yu like trash, and then directly issued an eviction order.
"Don't you need me to unlock the seal?" Qiao Yu asked doubtfully.
"Your ghost eyes have completely merged with the seal. As time passes, the seal will become weaker and weaker. When the time comes, you only need to shatter the mark in the depths of your pupils, and the seal will break itself." Hermes explained patiently.
"Then what about those Zhang thralls when the seal is broken?"
Once those terrifying Zhang thralls flooded out, not to mention the Western Alliance, even the Great Xia Ancient Kingdom would be destroyed under this terrifying power.
"Zhang thralls? The people on your planet are so weak that they can't even solve the Zhang thralls? Really?" It was Hermes' turn to be dumbfounded.
He had been sealed in the deepest part of the Godfall Pit for who knows how many years. He didn't know what had happened outside, and he didn't even know that Kaiji Star had been sealed and separated from the Ninth Universe.
Seeing that Qiao Yu's expression didn't seem to be joking, Hermes quickly explained.
"Don't worry! I'll take care of the Zhang thralls. They are all condensed from the evil thoughts of my earthly representatives."
Qiao Yu looked at Hermes with suspicion, and then integrated the four Seeds of the Underworld into his body.
[Congratulations to the player for successfully merging the S-grade item Seed of the Underworld x4, Nether Energy Value +40%]
[Nether Energy Value has reached 50%, the player has mastered the new skill Netherworld Fire]
Netherworld Fire: Level: S-grade.
Effect: The strongest flame in the underworld, anything that is stained with Netherworld Fire will be burned to ashes.
(Warm reminder: Releasing it through the ghost eyes allows the Netherworld Fire to have an automatic locking effect.)