.
At that mont, Atalanta noticed a sound that resembled bones cracking.
She blinked, watching the red-haired young man crying tears of joy in front of her.
The young man was leager, one of the most outstanding participants in the hunting festival besides Promise.
Atalanta also recalled that he was the one Goddess Athena had ntioned who was destined to die at the hands of his own mother, one of the two people whose fates Promise was trying to change.
Well...it was uncertain how Atalanta would react if she knew that leager's fate included so responsibility on her part. Most likely, she wouldn't care at all.
"He's fine now... but if you don't let go, he really will be in trouble soon," Atalanta said calmly, recognizing who he was.
Hearing this, leager finally noticed the huntress standing nearby.
He had been able to arrive so quickly because he had already placed informants around the kingdom.
Promise and Atalanta were quite noticeable, so the mont they entered the city, leager was inford.
"Beautiful huntress, you are indeed here!" leager said, his face beaming with excitent as he looked at Atalanta.
Due to his excitent and nervousness, he unconsciously tightened his grip on Promise.
"...If you don't let go, he really is going to die," Atalanta frowned, looking at leager with displeasure.
Even though leager's gaze toward her wasn't one of possession or invasion like many other n, she still didn't like it.
If it weren't for Promise, she might have already turned and left.
Finally realizing what Atalanta ant, leager released the boy, who then slumped to the ground, unconscious.
Promise hadn't expected that his second near-death experience would be in the embrace of a hero.
Fortunately, it was leager and not Heracles; otherwise, Promise might have found himself waking up back at the Clock Tower.
·
Calydon Kingdom,
Inside a room of a temporary inn.
In the room lit by the afternoon sun, Promise, who had just woken up, was eating a golden apple while looking rather displeased at the embarrassed leager in front of him.
He really didn't expect that while Pegasus didn't manage to kill him, this guy almost did! Now, there were only two golden apples left...
'Speaking of which, it seems that Athena did not give a golden apple when we t last night?'
After all, she had given him a golden apple every ti they t.
Due to the incident with Artemis' hunt last night, Promise hadn't noticed this detail for a while.
Now that he recalled it, he also found Atalanta standing against the wall beside him, looking at the golden apple in his hand with a puzzled look on her face.
Promise didn't say anything about this and just focused on eating the golden apple to feel his body recover significantly, and only after he fully revitalized, did he addressed leager, "Forget it, I won't say much.
Just know that I have already noted this down in my noteboo,k and we will settle this account sooner or later!
By the way, did sothing happen? As soon as I entered the town, I felt sothing was off." "Tonight, there will be a sacrificial ceremony for a god," Without waiting for leager, who was smiling awkwardly, to respond, Atalanta spoke lightly.
During the ti while Promise was resting, she had already gathered the information.
In fact, everyone outside was talking about this matter, so she only needed to stand in a corner and listen for a while to find out what was going on.
"Last night, believers in the temple spread the news throughout the kingdom that a great god would descend here tonight, and this great deity has issued an oracle that everyone must gather under the sacrificial altar this evening.
At that ti, she will choose the bravest warrior of the kingdom in front of everyone to deal with the terrifying beast that has been troubling the kingdom for a long ti... the gigantic boar as big as a small mountain!"
Calydonian Boar?
As Promise listened to Atalanta, he was slightly taken aback before he found that the latter was looking at him with a very strange lo,ok which left him puzzled.
"And that goddess is none other than Athena, one of the twelve most revered deities on Mount Olympus... the Goddess of Wisdom!"
Calydonian Boar,
This well-known myth in Greek mythology has a simple origin.
The King of Calydon, Oeneus, who was also leager's father, held a grand sacrificial
ceremony during a bountiful harvest year.
The first fruits of the harvest were offered as sacrifices to various gods: grains to Deter, the goddess of agriculture, and oils to Athena, the goddess of wisdom.
There were rich offerings in front of the altars of almost every god, except for the altar of the goddess Artemis, which remained empty.
Angered by this slight, Artemis sent a wild boar to ravage Calydon.
She didn't command the boar to attack the town but to destroy all the harvests of Calydon.
Thus, every harvest season, the Calydonian Boar would co down from the mountains, destroying the crops and fruits they had grown, and trampling anyone who stood in its way or couldn't get out of its path in ti.
"It was precisely because of this situation that I participated in the hunting sacrifice at that ti, hoping to receive a gift from the goddess Artemis, hunt the boar, and gain the forgiveness of the goddess.."
In the hallway of the Calydonian Kingdom.
As leager led Promise and Atalanta toward the kingdom's palace, he explained the reasons
in detail to them.
"Therefore, I am truly grateful to you, Promise. Thank you for willing to ask Goddess Artemis
for such a gift on my behalf!"
Looking at leager sincerely expressing his gratitude, the latter rolled his eyes and said grumpily, "Alright, if you really appreciate , just don't suddenly hug next ti. I don't want future bards to sing legends where this great hero dies in such a ridiculous way!"
Hearing this, leager's expression beca awkward again.
But before he could respond, Atalanta said to Promise, "Isn't that exactly what you want? It just happens to fulfill your wish to go to the Underworld."
"Not at all. I'd rather be hunted than thi... No, I don't want to be hunted. I don't want any of
it!"
leager watched from the side, looking at the two and slowly closed his open mouth.
He looked at Promise, then at Atalanta... In fact, he had noticed it just now. Because he had fallen in love with Atalanta at first sight, leager naturally spent a lot of
ti secretly observing her.
Therefore, he actually knew that Atalanta hated n, and she was also a little cold and aloof. She didn't want to contact anyone, and there was no other person in her eyes.
Since he t her, leager had never even seen her smile.
But now...
Watching as Atalanta conversed with Promise, occasionally smiling naturally, he couldn't
help but lose himself for a mont.
"leager, hey, leager... Hey, what are you doing!"
Promise waved a hand fiercely in front of him, and leager snapped back to reality.
Then Promise looked at leager, whose eyes were still fixed on Atalanta, and then glanced
at the huntress, who was looking away with her head tilted.
He couldn't help but say helplessly, "Alright, act normal... By the way, where are you taking
us?"
"Oh, um... I'm taking you to et my father."
leager, having returned to his senses, couldn't help but glance at Atalanta again before
explaining to Promise, "I've already told my father about your affairs, and he's very eager to
et you both.
Now that you're here, and you've brought a gift from Goddess Artemis, he will surely be very
pleased!"
As he was about to say more,
"I don't think it's necessary."
a disheveled, bearded middle-aged man suddenly appeared and interrupted the conversation.
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