The Greece Antagonist

Chapter 243 I've Never Seen Such a Request in My Life (5.1k)_3

Thanks to his natural good looks, his request was granted by Zeus, and he stayed on Mount Olympus to avoid his enemies' pursuit. However, this man, unable to change his nature, soon reverted to his old ways, and his lustful eyes set upon Hera.

The radiant Queen of Heaven made him lose his senses, and he was audacious enough to brazenly flirt with Hera, hoping that the Queen would elope with him.

After being harassed, Hera immediately reported Ixion's actions to her husband Zeus.

Zeus, who often turned others green with envy, naturally refused to believe that anyone would dare to cuckold him, especially someone who had survived only with his protection.

But, out of caution, and faced with his wife's convincing accusations, Zeus sent a cloud in Hera's shape to Ixion. The irreverent king, suspecting nothing, actually made love to this cloud in the garden, and it gave birth to a half-human, half-horse monster.

This was the origin of the Centaurs—four-legged beasts with savage and brutal natures, who, like their ancestor, had a passion for abducting women. Luo En and Artemis had once implemented a form of population control for the overflowing Centaur population in Arcadia.

After witnessing how he himself was nearly cuckolded, an irate Zeus cast Ixion into the Netherworld, where he was bound to a perpetually spinning wheel of fire, which tormented and tore at his body incessantly.

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The man before me, holding a bow and arrow, with his face charred and his body full of traces from flames and great tearing forces, was clearly Ixion himself.

As for Tantalus, who followed with sword and shield, he was even more of a beast.

Under this severe torture, the once handsome and tall king of Mycenae was now covered in cracked skin, his purplish rotten flesh and stark white bones exposed, deathly fumes emitting from his mouth along with a strong stench of decay, and even the eyeballs within their sockets melted away, revealing hollow and grim flames of the soul, like a walking dead corpse.

Now, they must understand the value of food and that not everything is fit for the green, right?

With a sneer, Luo En raised the golden bough in his hand, the gold and white flames intertwining as they fiercely ignited.

The formerly unconcerned Tantalus, with sword and shield in hand, didn't take Luo En's movements seriously at first. However, as Luo En swung the golden bough, the gold and white blaze spread forth like a rain shower, adhering to Tantalus's weapons, skin, rotting flesh, and innards.

Immediately after, bright and fierce flames raged, baking his soul and consciousness inch by inch, bringing with them acute pain.

"Ahhh! How could this be? Great Melinoe... save me... save..."

The screams stopped abruptly. Enveloped in the fierce flames, Tantalus didn't even have time to cry out before his limbs twisted and disintegrated like burnt out kindling, turning inch by inch into drifting ash.

Watching the golden specks of light flowing back into the Magic Circle Diagram, Luo En shook his head regretfully.

The prohibitions and eternal punishments of the gods were indeed formidable, granting Tantalus a whisper of immortality. Even using Hestia's "Flame" and Apollo's "White Horse" to create the Holy Flame that purifies filth and burns away evil, he'd only destroyed Tantalus's physical vessel, sending him back to his cell to continue his punishment.

Yet for the two scoundrels, such an outcome was more terrifying than eternal death.