way, Jason spent a few days with Hephaestus in the Temple of Hephaestus. On the third night, he explained the whole story to Hephaestus, and Hephaestus nodded.
Jason took out his staff and went to the underworld surrounded by a group of dark butterflies.
Because in the days that followed, in addition to learning forging skills from Hephaestus, Jason also had an important thing to do.
That would be within the next six months or so, at most, before Persephone, Jason's sister, returned to the underworld.
Jason has to finish preparing for the wedding in the underworld.
Offer his tribute to Hades, the god of the underworld, and Persephone, the queen of the underworld!
Then Jason was seen arriving in the underworld, walking skillfully on the road of no return in the underworld. Accompanying him were the dancing Pluto Discs, the apostles of the goddess Hecate, illuminating Jason's way forward in the underworld.
Soon, Jason arrived at the gate of the underworld.
Look left and look right.
Then he said to the two-headed dog Otsius, who was lying in front of the gate and immediately closed his eyes and lowered his ears to pretend that he couldn't see or hear anything, "Lord Otsius, where is Lord Cerberus?"
What about the three-headed hellhound?
Jason was curious.
The last time we fought the hundred-eyed giant Argus, things almost went wrong because the three-headed hellhound Cerberus did not show up.
Otissius didn't want to bother with Jason at first.
But when Jason saw that Artysius ignored him, he climbed onto its body, grabbed its ears, and shouted to Artysius, "Master Artysius, where is Master Cerberus? Where has it gone?"
Otissius had no choice but to open his eyes and look at Jason in front of him.
Looking at Jason in front of him, he seemed so tiny compared to himself.
Otissus really had an impulse to bite Jason off and swallow this annoying guy!
After all, it was Jason who caused Otisius to become one of the hell's watchdogs and never be able to return to the human world!
But... I dare not.
Let's not talk about whether I will swallow this thing or break my teeth when I bite it down.
When Otsius thought of Jason's "dark forces" in the underworld, he could only sigh to the sky.
Woof woof woof!
You can't mess with this guy. You really can't mess with him!
"Cerberus is currently being punished in Tartarus, the deepest part of the underworld, under the watch of the Three Furies."
"Inside Tartarus, being punished?"
Jason was stunned for a moment, and then said to Artesius in surprise: "Lord Artesius, Lord Cerberus, what did it do? Why was it suddenly locked up in Tartarus?"
Otisius did not answer, but just looked at Jason with wide eyes.
Even the snake on its tail turned its head and looked at Jason together with the two dog heads.
This naturally made Jason feel a little puzzled.
Then think a little bit...
"Well, is it... because of me?"
Obviously, Jason still had some self-awareness. He pointed at himself, blinked at Otisius, and asked tentatively.
Otisius still did not answer and continued to look at Jason.
So Jason thought about it again, and then as if he remembered something, he said: "Well, wait... Is it because of what happened with my senior brother last time?"
Jason remembered that Hades seemed to have said that no creatures in the underworld were allowed to help...even Hecate did not do anything at that time.
Hecate simply handed over the items that Apollo, the god of light, asked her to hand over to Jason.
Otsius laughed, and the two dog heads and the snake head laughed together.
Then he lay down again, continued to close his eyes and cover his ears.
Seeing this, Jason, who got the answer, couldn't help feeling a little embarrassed.
Jason was not stupid, so he naturally guessed that Cerberus was probably taking the blame for him... After all, he was the real culprit who caused such a big mess in the underworld last time.
"Well, anyway, I better go find Teacher Hecate first!"
Wiping the cold sweat from his forehead, Jason glanced guiltily in the direction of the abyss of Tartarus, then turned around and walked into the gate of hell.
After a while, Jason came before the ferry god Charon.
As soon as Charon saw Jason, the underworld fire in his skull flickered twice.
Before Jason, who was smiling ingratiatingly, could say anything, Charon crossed his arms and interrupted Jason, saying, "No, go by yourself!"
"Grandpa Charon, I was wrong. Please don't bear grudges. Please don't be angry with me anymore." Jason quickly admitted his mistake with an extremely sincere attitude.
"No, I'm not angry." Charon shook his head and looked at Jason and said, "I'm just curious, how many ways do you have to cross the Styx!"
"Grandpa Charon, don't be angry. I won't dare to do it again next time..."
"I'm really not angry... In fact, it would save me the trouble if you could go there by yourself, after all, you come to the underworld every few days."
Hearing this, Jason looked at Charon.
Because Charon had a skull, Jason couldn't tell whether he was telling the truth or a lie.
"Um...Grandpa Charon, you're really not mad at me?"
"If I was really mad at you, would I have helped you last time?... I would have thrown you into this Styx long ago!"
Charon smiled, and the skull pretended to laugh.
"Throw it in... Grandpa Charon, it's no use throwing me in. I'm not a landlubber. I can swim."
"And Grandpa Charon, please take me over. I really can't get over by myself this time. If you don't take me over, I can only swim over by myself."
"Don't you have that strange harp?" Charon asked curiously.
"That was the harp that Amphitrite, the Queen of the Sea, lent me. I returned it to her later. Now I only have this..."
As he spoke, Jason took out the lyre given to him by Apollo, the god of light.
This harp does not have the ability to cross the river. The main reason why people were able to use it to escape from the underworld that day was because of Apollo, the god of light.
The function of the lyre is to dispel all darkness and purify filth.
Seeing this, Charon thought for a while and said, "I see...Okay, I can take you there this time, but next time, you have to find a way to get there by yourself."
"Eh..."
"I'm serious." Charon said to Jason, "You will go in and out of the underworld more frequently from now on... This is good for both you and me."
"Hmm...Grandpa Charon, do you know that I offered tribute to Hades' brother-in-law?" Jason rolled his eyes and asked thoughtfully.
"Last time, Lord Pluto summoned all of us together and asked us to try our best to meet all your requests in the next six months."
Charon explained simply.
Hearing this, Jason naturally understood.
"Okay, I get it, Grandpa Charon. I'll find a way."
Soon after Jason crossed the River Styx, he arrived at the temple of the goddess Hecate.
"Teacher Hecate, open the door, open the door..."
"Your teacher isn't here!"
"...Teacher Hecate, you always play the same trick. I am tired of it even if you are not tired of it."
Not long after Jason finished speaking, Hecate opened the door and looked at Jason with a very unfriendly look. She gritted her teeth and said, "You evil disciple...sooner or later, I will expel you from my sect!"
"Hehe, teacher, how could you possibly expel me from your sect? You simply can't bear to do that... Let's not talk about that anymore. Teacher, I came to you for something!"
As Jason spoke, he saw that Hecate's expression was becoming increasingly gloomy. He knew that if he continued to tease her, he would be in trouble, so he quickly changed the subject.
"Is there something wrong? ... You said that every time you came to see me, it was as if nothing happened!"
Hecate glared at Jason, then turned around angrily and walked into the temple.
When Jason heard this, he thought about it for a while and found that it seemed to be true.
Almost every time he came to see Hecate, he would cause trouble for her...just like when Jason encountered Hermes.
No wonder Hecate always wanted to avoid Jason.
"It seems that...I am really a bad disciple."
Jason tilted his head and spoke thoughtfully, but immediately stopped caring and said, "Forget it, a bad disciple is a bad disciple. He is still a disciple anyway."
"Hey, teacher, don't walk so fast, wait for me!"
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PS: The recent plot is at the end and beginning of a big event, so I will write a little about daily life.
But don't worry, we will soon enter the plot.
I haven't posted recently, so I can't see your feedback. To be honest, I'm a little nervous.
Chapter 130: Punishment from the Underworld!
"Tell me, how are you going to torment me, your teacher, this time?"
Sitting down in the temple hall, the goddess Hecate, dressed in a black dress, crossed her arms in front of her and crossed her legs.
The beautiful red eyes stared at Jason in front of her.
His expression seemed a little impatient, but more of helplessness.
There's nothing she can do about it. Who made her end up with such an evil disciple?
"Hey, teacher, don't say that. How could I possibly make things difficult for you..." Jason hadn't finished his words.
"You won't bother me? Then I'm leaving." Having said that, Hecate prepared to get up and leave.
"No, no, no, I'd better continue to torment you." Jason replied subconsciously, and was then grabbed by Hecate who turned around and glared at him, and was severely beaten.
"Teacher, this is called fishing enforcement." Jason looked at Hecate in front of him with some depression. After torturing him, her mood instantly improved a lot.
Then he told Hecate that he was going to offer tribute to Hades, the god of the underworld, and Persephone, the queen of the underworld.
And Hecate naturally knew about this...it should be said that many gods in the underworld now know about it.
And as Jason offered tribute to the gods, the news gradually spread in the underworld.
He heard about the tributes Jason offered to Artemis and Apollo, and witnessed how Jason brought his senior brother out of the underworld.
Now the gods of the underworld are waiting to see what Jason will do.
"It's their wedding, right... I know that. Tell me what I can do for you."
"Actually, you don't need to do anything right now, teacher, because I am the tribute to them, and I have plenty of time, so I just want to tell you... And teacher, you must not tell sister Persephone, otherwise the surprise will be gone!"
Hecate naturally had no reason to refuse such a small request.
So after nodding, he thought about Hecate, and then asked Jason curiously: "So what is this wedding called...oh, by the way, is it romantic?"
"Of course, I will give Brother-in-law Hades and Sister Persephone an unforgettable wedding experience this time!"
Jason nodded and promised solemnly.
Seeing Jason like this, Hecate remembered the series of effects after Jason offered tribute to Artemis last time...
"You'd better take it easy."
Hecate could not help but said to Jason: "Don't forget, there are still many gods who need to offer tributes to you."
"I know...but I'm still prepared to do my best."
Jason shook his head at Hecate and said seriously: "After all, Brother-in-law Hades and Sister Persephone have always helped me a lot..."
"What about me?" Hecate asked subconsciously.
"Teacher, you?" Jason was stunned for a moment, looking at the beautiful goddess in front of him, and then couldn't help but smile.
"By the way, teacher, I heard that Cerberus was imprisoned in the abyss... Is that true?"
Hecate frowned as she looked at Jason who was trying to change the subject. She really wanted to move his head away to see what he was thinking about.he quickly gave up and said, "Yes, because Hades couldn't bear to punish you, so he used it as a scapegoat."
"Um... Teacher, do you know how to save it?"
"You want to save it?" Hecate looked at Jason.
"I don't care about it. I'm afraid that after it is released, it will bite me next time it sees me." Jason spread his hands, expressing helplessness.
Besides, this was originally his fault.
"Then go find Hades yourself. There's no use looking for me."
"Okay, I'll go look for Brother-in-law Hades later."
Jason nodded, and then the two of them looked at each other in silence for a while.
"...Wait, that's it?"
"Ah?" Jason looked at Hecate in confusion.
"Nothing else?" Hecate added.
"Hmm..." Jason thought for a moment, "It seems there is nothing else."
"Why do you come to me for such a trivial matter?!" Hecate's face was dark.
"Why can't you come to see the teacher if you have nothing to do?"
Jason replied in surprise, then smiled at Hecate and said, "And the main reason I came here is because I missed you, teacher."
After a period of reunion, Jason left Hecate's temple and went to Hades, the god of the underworld.
Hecate did not follow him and sent Jason away with a sentence saying, "I need to do an experiment."
Accompanied by the Hades butterfly, Jason, dressed in white, arrived safely before Hades, the god of the underworld.
Although Hades is the King of the Underworld and the Lord of the Underworld, he is actually very idle.
Although there are many things happening in the underworld, he is neither the god of death nor the judge. There are special gods working on all the big and small things in the underworld.
Hades, as his name suggests, is merely the master of the underworld.
When Jason met Hades, the god of the underworld, he explained his purpose.
"I have entrusted the punishment of Cerberus to the three goddesses of vengeance... Almost all punishments, big or small, in the underworld are carried out by them. If you go find them, they will tell you about Cerberus."
Hades seemed to have known that Jason would come to him for this matter, and he quickly gave an answer.
"I see, I understand, Brother Hades...By the way, Brother Hades, do you have any way to let me cross the River of Pain freely?"
Jason then told Hades what Charon, the ferry god, had said.
Hades thought about this for a while.
"I remember you had a Pegasus, right?"
"Yes." Jason nodded, "It was lent to me by Lord Poseidon and the Goddess Hestia."
"Wait for me."
After saying this, Hades left the temple.
After a while, Hades came back with a black rein in his hand.
"Here is the reins of my steed. I give it to you now."
Hades gave Jason the reins and said, "Next time you come to the underworld, put these reins on the Pegasus. It will be able to enter and leave the underworld freely, and have the right to fly over the underworld."
Jason did not hesitate to take the black reins from Hades.
After all, this person is now his brother-in-law.
Hades then asked a nymph in his temple to take Jason to the place where the three goddesses of vengeance were.
The three goddesses of vengeance are Alecto, the goddess of unrest, Megera, the goddess of jealousy, and Tisiphone, the goddess of retribution.
They have wings on their shoulders, and they chase murderers (especially fratricide) across the earth, tormenting their consciences and driving them mad.
In the underworld, they are responsible for punishing the sinful souls.
These three gods can travel between the human world and the underworld, just like Hermes, the messenger of the gods.
They punish all injustices and faults, leaving no one alone.
They are angry, ruthless and cruel, using "punishment" as a means of maintaining order.
But at the same time, they were faithful to their mission and maintained the absoluteness of order with their awe-inspiring divinity. They were the gods most feared by the Greeks.
When Jason came to them, before he could say anything to them, they recognized him and knew why he came.
After all, he is a young man with blond hair and blue eyes, dressed in white and accompanied by a dark butterfly.
This recognition is really too high.
"Jason, the son of Hecate, the goddess of roads, who came from the human world. The three-headed dog of hell, Cerberus, that you are looking for, is not here with us now."
Then the goddess of anxiety Alecto came out, looked at Jason in front of her, and said: "It is now in the endless abyss, and the great primordial god, Lord Tartarus, the god of the abyss, is waiting for your arrival in the abyss."
When Jason heard this, he was stunned for a moment.
"This is your punishment, child of Hecate."
Megera, the goddess of hatred, came out and said to Jason: "You have disturbed the order of Hell. Even if this was allowed by Hades, the god of the underworld, and you were not the mastermind, you are still part of the disturbance."
"So you need to go to the endless abyss and take away Cerberus, the three-headed dog of hell."
Then the last goddess, Tisiphone, the goddess of alms, came out and said to Jason: "When you bring out Cerberus, we will recognize you... and the gods of the underworld will truly recognize you."
After listening to the words of the three goddesses of vengeance, Jason suddenly understood.
He understood why Hecate and Hades suddenly let him act alone today. Perhaps... they had guessed this situation a long time ago.
And go to the endless abyss where even the concept of time seems to be non-existent, and bring out the three-headed hellhound Cerberus imprisoned there.
This kind of punishment is actually not small.
Because you have to know that in the abyss Tartarus, there are many powerful gods imprisoned, and they will never have the chance to come out. This shows how powerful Tartarus, the god of the abyss, is.
After all, he is one of the five original gods.
And because Hecate's actions at the time were very secretive and few gods knew about the magic spear, naturally no one would know that Jason had actually been to the endless abyss Tartarus under the leadership of Hecate.
Hades was able to rest assured, probably because Hecate had secretly told him not to worry.
"I know, the three great goddesses."
Jason came back to his senses, smiled faintly and said to the three goddesses of vengeance: "I am willing to accept this punishment."
After saying this, under the surprised gazes of the three goddesses of vengeance, Jason walked into the endless abyss with a calm face and without fear, and was swallowed by it.
"...He just walked in like that?" Tisiphone, the youngest goddess of alms, turned her head and looked at her two sisters in surprise.
Then I found that they were also surprised.
"Should I say that he is worthy of being the most famous child among the gods recently, and is valued by many gods?"
The second sister, the jealous goddess Mekelala, said with admiration: "Such courage alone is enough to prove his qualifications!"
"Should we help him?" Tisiphone, the youngest goddess of alms, couldn't help but ask, "If he goes in and can't get out..."
"...Let's take a look."
The eldest sister, the restless goddess Alecto, finally spoke up and said, "If he doesn't come out within a month, we will go in and pray to the god of the abyss to let the child go... One month of punishment is enough."
Hearing the eldest sister's words, the other two goddesses looked at each other and nodded in agreement with the proposal.
What they didn't know was that just as they finished talking, Jason had just stepped into the endless abyss...
"Child of Hecate, you are here again."
The incarnation of the endless abyss, one of the great primordial gods, the god of the abyss Tartarus transformed into a white-haired old man and came before Jason.
Jason was not surprised by the arrival of Tartarus.
After respectfully saluting him, Jason said: "Great primordial god, Lord Tartarus, it's been a long time since we last met. This time I came..."
"You came here for that little puppy, I know."
After saying this, Tartarus waved his hand gently.
The next moment, Cerberus, the three-headed hellhound with three confused heads, appeared in front of Jason.
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PS: Today is the first chapter, and today is an update of 10,000 words, so don't worry.
Chapter 131: Tribute to the Abyss! (3k)
"Woof woof…Woof!"
Cerberus called out twice in confusion, looked around, and soon his six big eyes locked onto Jason.
"Woof woof, Jason!"
"Jason, why are you here?"
"Jason, Jason, take me out quickly, it's so scary here!"
Cerberus shouted with his eyes wide open, and ran towards Jason.
"Noisy."
But the cries of the three heads obviously annoyed this great primitive god.
So in the next second, Cerberus' body seemed to be stopped in time, maintaining a stiff movement, and stuck in front of Jason.
"As you can see, the child is fine... I can also let you leave with it."
After dealing with Cerberus, the old man looked at Jason with a smile.
"But there is one condition."
"Great primordial god, Tartarus, the god of the abyss, please speak." Jason replied respectfully.
"Offer tribute to me." The words of Tartarus, the god of the abyss, made Jason's eyes widen.
"I know what you did outside. The tributes you offered to those children were very interesting... I won't make it difficult for you, kid. You just need to offer something that I find interesting."
"Something that you, the great one, find interesting." Jason frowned slightly and looked at Tartarus.
"Yes." The old man nodded and said to Jason, "Just make me feel interesting... It doesn't matter if it's a story, an object, or... a piece of music."
The god of the abyss, Tartarus, did not make things difficult for Jason, because here, he had actually made it clear...
He just wanted to hear Jason playing a piece of music.
That day, Jason's piano music resounded throughout the underworld, and Tartarus naturally heard it as well.
And obviously, Tartarus took a certain interest in that.
"Is there anything interesting..."
But it was obvious that Jason did not notice it, because Jason muttered softly, thinking about Tartarus' identity, the endless time he had, and this empty abyss.
For a moment, Jason unconsciously thought of something else.
I thought of a toy that Jason often saw in novels before he traveled through time, and that the gods in his hometown all liked to play with.
Its name is - Go!
"Great primordial god, Lord Tartarus, the god of the abyss, I have a little toy here... I thought you might be interested."
"Oh?" Tartarus looked at Jason in surprise and said, "What toy? Take it out and show it to me."
"Lord Tartarus, I need some tools to make it, but I don't have those tools now..."
"It's okay." Before Jason finished speaking, Tartarus interrupted him and said, "Just tell me the shape, and I can manifest it here."
Upon hearing this, Jason arranged 19 parallel lines of equal distance and perpendicular intersection in both directions, forming a chessboard with a total of 19×19=361 intersections.
There were also two colors of chess pieces, black and white, mostly in an oblate shape, and the number of black and white pieces should be 180 each, which was told to Tartarus.
According to Jason's request, Tartarus also appeared out of thin air in the abyss, and the chessboard and chess pieces that Jason needed appeared.
But just like now, Cerberus remained stationary, looking at Jason with a confused look on his face.
With a frown on his face, Tartarus, who had turned into an old man, looked at Jason in confusion, and then at the things in front of him