"Thetis, I have no doubt about your determination. However, this method requires you to ignite divine fire with your divinity as the fuel to temper Achilles' body and transform it into that of a god. This will be a severe test for both of you, mother and son! "
Thinking of the agony of tearing the essence of her divinity, Thetis couldn't help shivering. And putting Achilles into the divine fire for tempering was an extremely torturous pain. How could an infant endure such agony?
But for her child to survive in the future, this mother resolutely made the cruel decision.
Under the protection of Tyche, Thetis endured the pain, tore a part of the essence of her divinity from the divine fire to draw out the divine flames, and then put the sleeping Achilles into the divine fire to be calcined!
The infant's pain was unmasked. His piercing cries made the three attendant deities standing by turn their faces away, unable to bear to watch any longer.
The divine blood inherited from his parents emerged in this divine fire, which symbolized transcendence. Achilles' flesh and skin were gone, and only a faint golden glow faintly emerged from his blood. The divine nature was refined in his mother's divine fire in a weak form!
Thetis' complexion was pale, and her body trembled slightly. The ceaseless pain, accompanied by the crying in her ears, tormented her even more.
Tyche took a silver bottle from Medusa's hands and poured the spring water she had scooped from the Well of Wisdom onto Achilles' body. The vigorous vitality from the World Tree promoted the growth of new tissues, endowing him with the ability to resist sharp blades. The pain was soothed in the cool spring water, and Achilles sank into a deep sleep amidst the pain and rebirth.
When all was over, Achilles' body emitted a soft light, and he became a demigod no inferior to the nymphs and the descendants of the gods.
As for Thetis, she was already tottering. Her originally weak - level divinity had dropped to a very low - level due to the massive loss of divinity, which was an extremely great loss.
Nevertheless, Thetis still mustered up her strength to thank Tyche, "Thank you, Your Highness Tyche. I will always remember your kindness! "
"Thetis, do not spoil him too much. Teach him tolerance and honesty, compassion and bravery. Do not harm the unarmed weak and women and children. Follow the guidance of virtues and do good deeds. "
Thetis nodded vaguely and then fell into a deep sleep due to extreme weakness.
The Rainbow Goddesses and Medusa looked at each other, took Achilles from the feeble Thetis, and led a ewe to feed the hungry Achilles.
Tyche held Achilles' ankle and only let go when she was satisfied that there were no more weaknesses in his body.
The nymphs were very used to taking care of infants. Both Ganymede and Zeus had grown up in the form of infants, and they had been accompanied by the care of nymphs during their growth.
Thetis needed to sleep for a while to recover from her loss. During this period, Achilles was cared for by the maids.
At first, Tyche wanted Iris to send Achilles to his father Peleus, but at the nymphs' pleading, she decided to keep him.
There had been no children's laughter on the island for a long time. This made the nymphs very much look forward to Achilles' arrival. They dressed the young Achilles as a little girl, putting on skirts and doing his makeup for him. It was not until Thetis woke up that they reluctantly returned Achilles to his mother.
The power of the Web of Magic was constantly present on the Island of the Formless. When the maids such as Philyra were bored, they would study the spells they were interested in. They sent a gift for Achilles, perhaps never to meet again - a magic ring with various blessings.
This ring was woven from the tender branches of the apple tree, which could restore the wearer's physical strength when in a forest or near a water source.
After sending Thetis and Achilles away, Tyche returned to the foot of the World Tree to continue waiting for the fruits to ripen.
Under the continuous supply of the earth's divine power, the fruits on the World Tree were about to ripen, and Tyche's next journey was not far off.
When Chaos was completely destroyed, the primordial gods would no longer be strongly retained by the laws. Of course, the primordial gods who regained their freedom also lost some privileges. If Tyche and Eros broke out in conflict again now and harmed this world, the laws would not stand idly by. This was also one of the reasons why Tyche transferred the battlefield to the deep sea during the war with Pontus.
Achilles grew into a young man under his mother's teachings and learned martial arts from the centaur Chiron, becoming a hero who demonstrated virtues.
He helped the weak, never participated in senseless killings, and won the trust of the people.
However, he still inevitably got involved in the disputes between countries.
The seaside city - state of Troy had impregnable walls built by Apollo and Poseidon. It had frequent commercial exchanges, and ships came and went in its port, making it the wealthiest of all the city - states.
Paris, the prince of Troy, visited Sparta as an envoy at the request of his father but fell in love with Queen Helen of Sparta at a banquet hosted by King Menelaus for him.
Coincidentally, Menelaus had to go to Crete after the banquet and left the hostess Helen to entertain these guests.
During their daily interactions, Paris finally couldn't hold back and confessed his love to Helen, who was already married.
The naive Helen was blinded by Paris' sweet words and left everything behind to return to Troy with him.
This made King Menelaus of Sparta extremely angry. Together with his elder brother Agamemnon, he summoned the monarchs of various city - states and launched a war under the pretext of reclaiming his abducted wife.
The kings of all the city - states were greedy for the wealth of Troy and agreed to join Agamemnon's allied forces.
This war almost swept across the entire land. Apollo and Poseidon, who had built the walls for Troy and became the protectors of this city, also participated in the war to defend their followers.
With the participation of these two chief gods, the goddess of marriage Hera and the god of war Ares also joined the fray.
Hera detested Paris for abducting someone else's wife and stood behind the allied forces with Ares, who was eager for war, to confront Apollo and Poseidon.
The war intensified and soon involved most of the gods.
The battle between the two sides lasted for nine years. The two most outstanding heroes in this war were Achilles on the side of the allied forces and Hector, the prince of Troy, who outshone all the other heroes present.
Protected by the walls, Troy defended calmly. The allied forces attacked with an army several times the size of Troy's but failed to damage the walls at all.
During these nine years, the supplies consumed by the allied forces were several times those of Troy, which made Agamemnon, the leader of the allied forces, very depressed.
The Trojans never left the walls rashly, thus forming a confrontation with the encirclement of the Greek allied forces.
To replenish supplies, Agamemnon set his sights on other city - states adjacent to Troy.
The islands of Tenedos and Lesbos were successively captured by the allied forces, and even the ancient city - state of Thebes was not spared from the ravages of war.
To force the Trojans to leave the walls, Agamemnon ordered the army to loot these city - states, letting the soldiers carry away the maidens and treasures, also to boost the morale of the demoralized army.
However, Agamemnon's move aroused the dissatisfaction of many heroes. Achilles angrily refused to execute the commander's order and publicly reprimanded Agamemnon's atrocities in front of all the heroes.
Agamemnon, fearing that this hero would snatch away his position as commander, became even more indulgent towards the soldiers in order to suppress Achilles and enhance his own prestige.
In the temple of Thebes, Chryses, the eldest priest of Apollo, received a divine oracle. Apollo showed this pious priest the tragic scenes in the city - state after Thebes was captured.
The old priest Chryses was not afraid of death. He stood firm in the temple, vowing to defend the god he served to the death.
Apollo was touched by his loyalty and asked his two daughters, who were also priests, to take the women and children to the seaside temple to hide.
This dilapidated temple originally belonged to Tyche. As a primordial god, Tyche didn't need faith, so this unanswered temple gradually fell into disrepair. However, Tyche, who had the divine office of protecting women and children, would not refuse this group of refugees. Presumably, their safety could be ensured.
But Agamemnon did something that stunned all the gods! Perhaps because of the support of a chief god, Agamemnon was not afraid of the god in this temple. He pushed aside the shrinking soldiers and swung his sword to break open the door of the dilapidated temple.
Chryseis and Briseis, hiding behind the temple, shivered with fear. Nevertheless, in the face of Agamemnon's raised butcher knife, they resolutely stood up and stood in front of the crying children together with their mothers!
On the altar, the stone statue of the god, whose face was already indistinguishable, suddenly made a harsh cracking sound. The eyes of the goddess showed dark holes as the rubble fell, and two streams of bloody tears slowly flowed down. Then two black snakes slithered out of the holes.
Seeing this strange phenomenon, the soldiers behind him threw down their weapons and retreated from the temple.
Agamemnon shouted, "My soldiers! Pick up your weapons! Isn't the wealth of Thebes the very reason you came here?"
Saying this, he pointed at the two beautiful priestesses, "Look at these beautiful women. The chance for you, these high - ranking noble priests, to have these noble priestesses serve you like slaves will never come again."
The soldiers' response to their commander was silence. They retreated one after another, and some even threw away the looted property and fled in the opposite direction.
The angry Agamemnon attributed all this to the eyeless statue in front of him. Under the terrified gaze of everyone, he reached out and pushed over the statue whose origin was indistinguishable.
The two priestesses stood up and angrily denounced Agamemnon's offense. But they saw the enraged Agamemnon swing his sharp sword again and smash the mottled stone pillar. This made the long - neglected temple sway precariously, with rubble and dust falling from time to time.
The panicked priestesses quickly took the children out of the temple, leaving only Agamemnon, who was still venting his anger wildly.
In the sky, Apollo and Poseidon looked at each other, then turned their heads to look at Hera and Ares together.
The four gods stopped their confrontation and looked up at the sky in shock and uncertainty.
On the bright North Star, an arrow wrapped in ominous divine power fell into the camp of the allied forces, and a bottomless fissure opened on the earth.
Three goddesses holding torches spread their bat - like wings and flew out of the underworld. The Furies waved their torches of yew wood, bringing unease and nightmares to the sleeping soldiers.
The looted materials all caught fire and, aided by the wind, quickly grew larger. Soon, these provisions were burned to ashes.
In the seaside temple, Agamemnon walked out of the ruins. Destroying this temple did not calm the anger in his heart. He chased after the priestess Chryseis in front of him and reached out to tear off the girl's clothes, wanting to soothe the surging desire in his heart with her warm bosom.
There was a sudden thunderclap in the sky, and a lightning bolt struck Agamemnon, who was about to commit the atrocity, making him faint. The fleeing priestess and children disappeared in the thin mist.
The Furies were still spreading unease and jealousy, and more and more soldiers were running away and causing disputes, which was almost uncontrollable.
When Agamemnon woke up from his faint, this was the scene he saw.
A headwind blew on the sea, and the waves kept pushing the ships that wanted to escape back to the shore. The terrified soldiers were in a mess and were defeated by Hector, who had seized the opportunity.
And it was not him, the leader, who saved all this, but Achilles, who had stayed in the camp and did not participate in the looting.
When Agamemnon returned to the camp, he received strange looks from everyone. The priests had already received a divine oracle from the gods, and the culprit of all this was Agamemnon, who had desecrated the gods.
Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, was famous among all the heroes for his wisdom. He had never wanted to travel with the brothers Agamemnon. At this time, he stood up and proposed to remove Agamemnon from the position of commander.
"Agamemnon, your actions have brought irreparable losses to everyone! As long as you stay here, the storms will not stop, the ships carrying supplies cannot arrive, and we will all starve to death here!"
The blood on Achilles' armor had not been wiped off. He had just returned from the seaside and learned from his mother, the goddess Thetis, about Tyche's punishment for Agamemnon.
"You have offended an ancient goddess. This goddess has cast a terrible curse on you - the ones you love can no longer touch you or see you, and your cries cannot reach their ears; and the things you covet will slip through your fingers. Before you sincerely repent for your sins, death will not take you away."
Agamemnon was unwilling and was about to speak in his defense. Suddenly, he felt something strange on his body. His bulging muscles gradually became flat, his rough and dark skin became smooth and delicate, and a strange bulge appeared faintly on his chest.
Even more terrifying was that the symbol of his paternal authority between his legs was also slowly disappearing. This change made him exclaim involuntarily, but the sound he made was no longer as loud and powerful as before, but rather coquettish.
The heroes stared at Agamemnon, who had turned into a woman, with wide eyes. Achilles also had a strange look on his face, "When you can give up your desire for power, you can turn back into a man."
Agamemnon's weak body could not even support the weight of the armor. As the long hair finally spread down his back, Agamemnon, who could no longer hold on, collapsed to the ground, letting out a melodious cry of pain.
Tyche in the sky recalled the Furies. Facing the indignant Chiron, he said, "Sometimes death is a release, and hopeless immortality is the most painful punishment."
"The fine food and wine in his mouth will turn into rotting soil, the gold and silver jewels will turn into sand as soon as they are touched, and the ones he loves cannot sense his existence. Let him spend an eternal despair in loneliness."