Volume 20 Chapter 76 Star Gods with Difficulties

Looking at the twelve-star gods standing in front of him, Aphrodite suddenly felt like she was getting into the mouth of a tiger. However, thinking that she was now here to invite them on Zeus' order, and this process is recorded, so they should not dare to make things difficult for themselves.

After thinking it through, Aphrodite was no longer timid, but went straight to the last step and followed the Saint Seiya who led the way to the twelve-star gods.

"Dear Lord Gods, Goddess Aphrodite has arrived." The Saint Seiya who led the way first reported to the twelve star gods.

Aries, Iris walked out and asked the Saint Seiya to leave first, then he greeted Aphrodite and invited her into the interior of the Aries Palace.

Among the twelve star gods, Aries is the frontier palace, but this does not mean that it has the lowest level. Just thinking, Aries is actually the highest leader among the twelve star gods, which is equivalent to the representative of the twelve star gods. However, although Aries is the most powerful among the twelve star gods, his combat power is not the strongest. There is no conclusion about who is the strongest among the twelve star gods. Some people say it is Vogor, while others think it is Jiminal, Geminal.

Some people say that it is Libra's Leibrool, and some even think that it is Sagittarius' Sagittarius. However, because the twelve star gods have never formally fought each other, and even if they are in competition, most of them have not tried their best, so this speculation has never been determined. However, these four guys who are considered the strongest star gods are indeed the four most powerful among the twelve star gods, which is correct. However, no matter how powerful it is, it is just a manifestation of combat effectiveness and has nothing to do with leadership ability and status.

Among the twelve star gods, the one with the strongest leadership ability and the highest status is Aries in the first house, and the second is the eighth star god, Scott Beyoncé in Scorpio. Although both of them are not in the top four of the twelve star gods, the status is the highest among the twelve star gods.

Because Iris' status was transcendent, he invited Aphrodite to enter the Aries Palace, and the other star gods said nothing, and followed them into the interior of the palace.

Although it is not a faction, the Gods and the Gods of the Underworld are all members of the Olympian tribe, and the architectural styles are quite similar. The structure inside this Star Temple is very similar to the Soul Qualifiers of the Three Hells who tried special souls. On the front of the hall is a row of tall pillars from the ground to the top, each of which requires seven or eight adults to hold hands before they can be held together. The height is as high as twenty or thirty meters.

Behind this row of columns is a corridor that is more than ten meters wide, but it does not extend forward, but is spread horizontally. In the middle of this corridor, there is a gate seven or eight meters high. When the golden door panel that is nearly one meter thick is opened, there is a huge hall inside. Opposite the hall is a partition wall that is not connected to the walls on both sides. In front of the wall is a high platform, and a set of gorgeous office desks and chairs are placed on the platform. Bypassing the partition wall, the exit is behind it and leading to the outside of the Aries Palace. There are more than a dozen small doors on both sides of the hall, leading to the rest area and some other functional areas. Saints of the Star Gods also live in those doors.

Iris did not intend to talk to Aphrodite in the hall, but took Aphrodite to open a small door on the left side of the hall and entered the interior.

After passing through the door, there was a not-so-large restaurant. In addition to the door you entered, there were two doors in the restaurant, located on two other walls opposite. Iris took Aphrodite and other star gods out from a small door to the right, and then walked through a corridor with many doors in the middle, and finally went up the second floor at a turn of the corridor. The second floor was like the first floor, but after walking up the stairs, Aphrodite was opened and let Aphrodite in. The star gods behind them also entered one after another.

After entering the room, Aphrodite looked at the inside of the room. It was obviously not a study, but a room similar to a small household bar. In addition to a row of counters filled with various beverages, there were only two sets of sofas in two circles, and a large floor-standing organ.

Because there are many sofas, the Twelve Star Gods and Aphrodite are not too crowded here. After Iris arranged for everyone to sit down, he walked to the next to the organ, and then pressed one of the keys of the organ, and then walked back to the seat left for him on the sofa and sat down. When he pressed the key, Aphrodite could clearly feel that his sensing range was limited to the inside of the room, which means that the outside and the inside of the room should have been completely isolated. Even if someone outside wanted to eavesdrop on the conversations of insiders.

Although Aphrodite thought that the behavior of Iris and the other star gods was quite strange, since the other party had not started to explain, she did not ask. She knew that being too active often means losing the initiative in conversation.

Sure enough, waiting was the right decision. After everyone calmed down, Iris spoke first, and he opened his mouth and cut into the main body directly without any bends.

"Aphrodite, are you working for the Frost Rose League?"

Aphrodite, who had already prepared to talk to each other with each other, suddenly encountered such a straightforward semi-affirm question, and was asked at once and didn't know what to say. What's worse is that although the other party's words were asked in question, the tone was obviously a statement. The other party was either asking whether she had defected to us or directly saying the matter of her defected to us. This is the affirmative answer, not the meaning of the question.

Seeing that Aphrodite didn't speak, Iris knew that he had entered the subject too quickly. So he paused for a moment and continued, "Zeus and the others had never been to Aesinger, and they did not understand the horror there. You and I have both been to Aesinger before, and we all know what kind of city Esinger is. That place cannot be called a city in the human world. It is simply a divine city built in the human world, and it is a divine city of armed fortresses. Compared to her, our Mount Olympus is as simple as a farmhouse."

Aphrodite frowned and looked at Iris tentatively asking, "I don't quite understand what you mean."

"I mean very simple." Iris looked at Aphrodite's eyes and said in a very sincere tone: "We have all been to Aphrodite, so we understand his strong defense. Once a city like Aphrodite is locked up, no one can escape unless they intentionally release you. So, you definitely did not escape from Aphrodite. You have reached an agreement with them and were released." Seeing Aphrodite anxiously asking for explanation, Aphrodite quickly reached out to stop her and said first: "Don't be busy defending, we have been to Aphrodite, so we won't believe you. In addition, you don't need to explain, because we won't tell Zeus. We just want a channel that can help us establish a connection with Ziri."

Aphrodite frowned and began to think about the credibility of what they said. However, after a brief thought, Aphrodite reluctantly admitted that what the other party said was not right. She was caught and walked out of Aphrodite. During this period, she even knew more about Aphrodite than Aerys and the others. The fact is just like Aerys and the others said, Aphrodite is a god city built on the human world, and it is also a fortress city. Compared with the Olympus Mountains, which is similar to the natural village of the Olympus tribe, Aphrodite is a war machine. If you can run out of such a place, you must have the luck of buying a lottery ten times in a row and winning the first prize every time, otherwise you can only expect to escape from there in your dream.

Since the matter was irrefutable, Aphrodite was also very bachelor. She nodded and admitted, "Okay, I admit that I accepted the conditions of the Frost Rose Alliance and served them for the time being. But what are your plans for this? I think you brought me here and then contacted me so mysteriously, not just to get my information out and go to Zeus to inform me, right?"

"No, no, no." After hearing Aphrodite admit it in person, Iris was obviously quite excited. He said with a little excitement: "How could we report you? You are the bridge we have finally found."

Aphrodite frowned and said, "What does it mean?"

At this time, Scorpio Scott Beyoncé suddenly spoke and explained: "Iris means we hope to connect with Zi Ri through you."

After hearing this, Aphrodite asked in even more confusion: "When you went to join the Frost Rose Alliance before, didn't you take a few sets of communication equipment to leave?"

As soon as they heard this, the star gods immediately smiled bitterly. Finally, Scott Beyoncé explained: "The last time we went to the Frost Rose League was not our own wish."

"It's not your own wish? Then..." Aphrodite figured it out halfway through the question, and then suddenly exclaimed: "Then was it a fake surrender to you last time?"

"Yes, right?" Iris took over the topic and continued: "At first we just thought that Zeus's management method was a problem. Everyone had complaints in their hearts and no longer wanted to stay in the Olympus tribe. However, at that time, everyone just felt that there was no future to stay, and they didn't really think about taking action. However, Zeus suddenly found us some time ago and assigned us a secret mission."

"Is he who asked you to surrender?" Aphrodite reacted slowly.

Iris nodded and said, "Zeus means to lead Zi Sun into the sphere of influence of our Olympian tribe. He didn't tell us what to do later. Moreover, in order to avoid us not doing things well, he forced into a magic circle on us, which allowed him to monitor our actions and conversations at any time. We had to contact the Frost Rose Alliance as he asked, and did not dare to do anything beyond the scope of the mission."

When Iris said this, Scott Beyoncé next to him continued: "You just asked us why you should communicate with us if we don't have a communicator. This is the reason. Zeus also knew about the communicator we got in the Frost Rose Alliance, so after he came back, he immediately took all three communicators. First, he wanted to figure out how this thing worked, and then eavesdrop on the internal communications of the Frost Rose Alliance through this thing. However, this communicator and our divine power structure are completely unrelated technical systems. Zeus studied it for a long time, but he broke the two communicators but failed to understand the key technology of this thing. In the end, he did not dare to toss around with the remaining communicator, but he did not give it to us. Instead, he stayed with him to monitor the instructions sent to us by the Frost Rose Alliance at any time."

Aphrodite nodded and said, "So you have to ask me to help you contact the Frost Rose Alliance now, right?"

Iris nodded and said, "In fact, when we received this mission, we had already decided to join the Frost Rose Alliance. It was just that because we were always monitored by the magic circle, we did not dare to show any intention of betrayal. We could only act according to Zeus's arrangement."

"Then how dare you tell me this now?" Aphrodite certainly knew that they must have thought of a way to remove the surveillance, but they just wanted to know the specific methods and reasons.

Iris replied generously: "After we came back, Zeus' supervision of us has been much relaxed, and we have such a blocked room, so Zeus cannot monitor us throughout the process. However, after leaving this room, our behavior will still be under control."

Aphrodite nodded again and said, "I roughly understand your situation now, but what do you want me to bring back now? The communicator seems to be blocked here."

"Actually, we just want the Frost Rose League to help us find a set of equipment that is the same as the one in Persephone."

"Percephone..." As soon as she heard the other party's words, Aphrodite was still repetitively, but suddenly she was stunned, then looked at Iris and Scott Beyoncé in surprise. Finally, she swept the expressions of the twelve-star gods and found that they all had depressed expressions, and finally said in surprise: "You are not all hit by Zeus in the energy-breaking magic array, right?"

Scott Beyoncé smiled bitterly and said, "If it weren't for a remote-controlled energy dispersion array, what do you think we should listen to Zeus? Even if he installed a surveillance array on us, he would know that we had to know when we betrayed him, and he would have no choice but to do anything to us. At worst, he would wait until the Frost Rose Alliance kills Zeus down and we will come back. But with this thing on it, we only have a little rebellious behavior, and Zeus can completely kill us with just a spell."

"No wonder..." Aphrodite thought for a while and said, "I can't answer you this yet, but Zeus asked me to come to take you to see him, so I can't stay here for too long. I don't think so, so you follow me first. I will take a detour to Hephaestus to get my equipment. Zeus also knew that my equipment was damaged in the last battle with Zi Ri, and it was a legitimate reason to get the equipment, and he shouldn't care. During this process, I will try to contact Zi Ri and see what he said."

Iris discussed with several other star gods, and finally nodded helplessly and said, "Okay, I can only do this for the time being."

After the magic barrier was removed, the twelve star gods left the Zodiac with Aphrodite. However, instead of returning to Mount Olympus, they took a detour to the lava crypt of Hephaestus.

Although the twelve star gods had surveillance magic circles, Aphrodite did not. She deliberately distanced herself from the twelve star gods, and then she walked alone at the front of the team and activated the communicator to contact me who was rushing to the Holy See.

"What? There is also an energy-breaking magic array on the twelve-star gods?"

"Yes, I've seen it with my own eyes. It's indeed a remote-controlled activation energy dispersion magic array." Aphrodite replied with great affirmation.

When I heard Aphrodite's words, I immediately said: "I'm not suspicious of what you said. I was just surprised that Zeus actually installed a large number of energy-breaking magic arrays for his subordinates in order to control them. Didn't he know that this would disperse all people's hearts?"

Aphrodite said disapprovingly this time: "The Olympus tribe has always been managed in this way. The big fist is the boss, and this is the order of the Olympus tribe. In the past, Zeus relied on his personal strength to suppress everyone. Now, adding an energy dispersion array is nothing more than strengthening the control. It is not an exaggeration."

I shook my head when I heard Aphrodite's words. I have to say that the logic of the Olympus tribe is really strange. Although many countries have tried high-pressure policies in history, they are based on the absolute control of national freedom and inability to resist. The gods generally do not have too many members, and for them, the geographical restrictions are actually not large. Once one side adopts a high-pressure policy and flees to other gods, it becomes the first solution that the little gods think of.

Before, I thought it was a miracle that Hades had split from the Olympus tribe. Now it seems that the split of the Olympus tribe is a matter of time. If they keep fighting with the wind and the faith area continues to expand, it would be a good idea to say that as soon as they encounter obstacles, they cannot break through in a short period of time, and various internal contradictions will emerge immediately. Therefore, the split of the Olympus tribe is a system issue, and my arrival is just a straw that suppresses the camel.

"Aphrodite."

"I'm listening."

"Where are you now?"

"I just left the Zodiac Palace and was walking towards Hephaestus. I want to use the excuse of getting equipment to find Hephaestus to find him."

"Your judgment is very correct. Now I will take them there according to your own plan. I will notify him of Hephaestus. We have helped Persephone to build a suppression system for the collapsed magic array. With Hephaestus's technology, as long as we pass the production materials over, he should be able to make the same thing. However, there are really a lot of people in the twelve-star gods, and I am afraid that he may not have come to complete so many sets at that time."

"I will try my best to get time."

"I know this. Anyway, you try to make excuses to go slower. I'll contact Hephaestus now."

As soon as Hephaestus received my communication, he immediately said in surprise: "What? Zeus equipped the twelve-star god with energy collapse array?"

I nodded and said in a very certain tone: "Yes, and they are not equipped with ordinary energy dispersion arrays, but remote-controlled energy dispersion arrays. No matter when, as long as Zeus is happy, a command can turn the twelve star gods into twelve waste people or even dead people."

After hearing this, Hephaestus said in a dilemma: "But you tell me this, I can't do anything about it. The energy circulation circuit of the energy collapse magic array determines that it is almost impossible to destroy safely. Demolition of the magic array itself will cause the magic to be absorbed at a faster speed, and in the end it will hurt the person who has been branded with the magic array. Although I am good at forging and making magic arrays, destroying the magic array is not my specialty."

"You don't need to destroy it, just build something for us. You can use the large communicator I gave you to check out a device called the Energy Crack Array Suppressor. I will open the permissions for you. Just create twelve sets for me according to the drawings."

"Okay, I'll do it now."

"Wait a moment."

"So what's wrong?"

"I feel that I'm not very relieved to set twelve."

Hephaestus immediately became furious when he heard this, and said, "When did I, Hephaestus, have I made scrapped equipment? How complicated can your small energy collapse array suppressor be? I can make it even with my eyes closed."

"No, no, no, I don't doubt your yield rate, but I think that since Zeus can brand the energy to the twelve-star gods, it is hard to guarantee that he will not brand this thing to other gods. This time I came to the Olympus gods to poach. I want all kinds of gods. If I encounter someone branded again, I can't let you do it temporarily, right?"

"That's the case. But that can be done later. I'll finish the twelve sets first."

There is nothing to say about Hephaestus' forging technology, and the energy dispersion array we designed for Persephone before was not difficult, so it would be easier for Hephaestus to smash it according to the drawings.

Although it is very easy for Hephaestus to create this kind of suppressor, it will take twelve sets after all, and there is not much time. Therefore, when Aphrodite and the others arrive, Hephaestus has just completed the last set of suppressors.

Since I had reminded Hephaestus of the other party before, Hephaestus did not run up and greet Aphrodite, but first showed abnormal obedience to Aphrodite. Of course, this was for Zeus to show it. In fact, the relationship between Aphrodite and Hephaestus was far from so close. In addition, in order not to let Zeus see the problem, Hephaestus showed a very bad attitude towards the twelve star gods.

No matter what, the Twelve Star Gods are still members of the Olympus tribe, and the relationship between Hephaestus and the gods has always been extremely uncoordinated, so the worse his attitude at this time, the less Zeus has any doubts.

Aphrodite had also contacted Hephaestus through communicators before and had precautions, so as soon as she came in, she began to ask Hephaestus whether her equipment was completed according to the script. Because I got the golden thread flower back, the equipment was naturally completed. However, in order to find an opportunity to install a limiter for the twelve-star gods, Hephaestus did not say that it was finished, but told them that the last bit was missing, so they asked them to wait first.

Then, when Hephaestus said that they would wait, Aphrodite immediately pretended to be anxious and asked to go to the smelting office to see. Hephaestus immediately agreed and then took Aphrodite and the others to the smelting room.

"Is this your smelting room? Isn't it good either?" Iris asked deliberately pretending to be very disdainful.

In fact, they are now in the training room with the magma river I visited before, not really forging room. Hephaestus didn't want Zeus to know what his forging workshop looked like, so he only brought them here. Anyway, it was just a scam from Zeus, and it would be the same as any smelting room used.

After hearing Iris' words, Hephaestus also pretended to be very angry and quarreled with Iris for a few words. In the end, of course, Aphrodite came out to smooth things over. After being settled, Hephaestus took out something similar to sunglasses and handed it to Aphrodite. Aphrodite took the thing in confusion and asked, "What are you doing for me?"

Hephaestus immediately explained: "I will turn on the furnace later, and it will become very dazzling here, so I have to bring a mountain to see things. There will be a lot of noise after turning on the furnace later. You'd better block your ears and write with the powder board on the table if you have any questions."

After hearing this, Aphrodite asked immediately, "But what should they do?"

Hephaestus pretended to be very reluctant and said that they could not see it. However, after Aphrodite's persuasion, he finally took out twelve sets of sunglasses and gave them to the twelve star gods. After they all brought their sunglasses, with Hephaestus' order, his assistant immediately turned on the smelting furnace, and the entire cave was immediately submerged by a dazzling bright light. If he didn't wear sunglasses, he would not expect to see anything here.

At the same time as the strong light, when the furnace door opened, a roar immediately sounded in the room, and there was also a jingle sound when forging metal. Anyway, the noise was so loud that it was almost impossible to hear even standing together and yelling with each other. In this environment, Zeus's surveillance array was completely scrapped, because that thing could only collect sound and light information like eyes and ears. What it could send back to Zeus was an orange-red world plus a bunch of noise. Anyway, nothing useful could be seen or heard.

With the cover of this noise and strong light, Hephaestus quickly took out the energy collapse array suppressor that had been placed long ago from under a workbench and used a well-written pink board to remind the twelve star gods to take off their armor quickly.

The Twelve Star God had no idea that the suppressor had been prepared before, because he was afraid that Zeus would hear it. Before, Aphrodite just used inducing language to tell them that they would come here to do something secretly with Hephaestus, but he couldn't tell them what they were going to do. Now the Twelve Star God suddenly found that he had prepared the energy collapse array suppressor, and immediately wanted to scream. However, they were all high-level gods, and they still had this little self-control. Even though they were excited, they did not do anything excessive.

At the request of Hephaestus, the twelve star gods took off their armor and exposed the energy dispersion array printed on their backs.

The energy-dispersing magic array on the twelve-star gods is obviously different from that on Persephone. This is mainly because after Persephone's failure lesson, Zeus improved his energy-dispersing magic array. Of course, Zeus fundamentally got the wrong direction of research. He thought we had thought of a way to crack the magic array and make it invalid, but in fact we did not crack the magic array, but just made it unable to work normally. Zeus got the wrong research direction, so after returning, he strengthened the structure of the energy-dispersing magic array, and specially added a protective magic array to prevent it from being cracked. However, these changes were useless to our suppressor, because the suppressor did not intend to crack the magic array at all.

After checking the energy scattering array on the twelve star gods and confirming that the design plan we provided was effective, Hephaestus immediately began to adjust their suppressors one by one in a small range. This was just to make the suppressor more closely match the energy characteristics of the individual. After all, the suppressors achieve the purpose of suppressing the energy scattering array by increasing the energy pressure. However, because each person's magic type and strength are different, the same energy scattering array will be slightly different when stamped on different people. If they did not change, it could be used, but Hephaestus is a person who is striving for excellence. He cannot allow the things he has to go out of his hands to be "usable". What he wants is absolutely perfect. Therefore, he finally fine-tuned each star god and re-adjusted the size of the suppressor to adapt to the different figures of the star gods.
To be continued...