Actually, regarding the matter of offering tribute to the god of light Apollo, Jason had basically done the best he could.
He learned the lyre music personally taught by Sea Queen Amphitrite and borrowed Amphitrite's lyre, using the music to subdue the sirens in the sea.
There was also the battle with the giant Geryon, contributing the divine cattle herd for it.
It can be seen that Jason took the matter of the tribute for Apollo very seriously.
Although, to tell the truth, Jason was still a bit afraid of Apollo...
But this was not Jason's fault; who made Apollo have typical cases of male homosexuality.
Anyone would be afraid of that!
But while afraid, Jason had always been very grateful to Apollo.
That golden sharp sword at his waist was still hanging on Jason's body even now; Apollo had not taken it back.
And it was precisely because of this sharp sword that in the beginning, it gave Jason courage and capital, helping Jason a lot.
And everything Jason had done was actually all seen by the god of light Apollo. The divine cattle herd brought by Sea Queen Amphitrite and her sisters, Apollo had already accepted.
Thus, seeing Jason's sincerity, Apollo actually no longer needed Jason to do anything more for him; he had already acknowledged Jason's tribute.
To be precise, if it were not for some sudden events in the middle, after the matter with Ares ended, Apollo would actually have appeared before Jason.
And that thing that made Apollo shift his gaze from Jason, even unable to come watch Jason's challenge against the hundred-headed dragon Ladon at this moment.
Was precisely...
...
...
"Wandering in the endless abyss of the underworld, having an extraordinary relationship with both me and Apollo, the person Goddess Athena told me to find...
If there are no surprises, it should be Senior Brother Asclepius, right?"
Sitting on the golden-horned deer, when the veil of night covered the sun in the sky and stars dotted the earth.
At a campfire in a forest, still wearing a white robe, Jason ate the wild fruits found for him by the golden-horned deer and muttered softly.
Senior Brother Asclepius, full name Asclepius, the future god of medicine!
The title of god of medicine came from his invention of a divine medicine that could resurrect the dead. During Jason's first descent from the mountain after three years of secluded cultivation, he had briefly appeared once.
And at that time, Asclepius's attainments in medicine had already surpassed his teacher, the centaur sage Chiron.
The reason Jason guessed it was him was simple: he was precisely the son of the god of light Apollo!
The most unfortunate, yet also the most fortunate male god... Over this long time, Jason had actually already understood the meaning of the oracle Athena gave him.
Because Apollo actually had another very well-known title: the tragic male god.
Due to his father being Zeus and having a handsome appearance, Apollo was naturally also a quite promiscuous male god.
But the problem was that his romantic history almost always ended in tragedy...
The person Apollo was homosexual for was the beautiful youth Hyacinthus. Apollo liked him very much, even willing to accompany him like a servant.
But because of an accident, while playing with him, Apollo threw a golden discus and personally smashed him to death!
There was also a very well-known story called the love of the laurel hanging on the tree.
Apollo fell in love with the laurel goddess Daphne and pursued her, but he did not expect his pursuit to drive Daphne to death, ultimately transforming her into a laurel tree.
Let us also talk about the story of the mother of this god of medicine Asclepius and Apollo. Asclepius's mother was named Coronis.
After Apollo obtained Coronis, the other's father flew into a rage and always wanted to separate the two, even ultimately forcing Apollo to act and send Coronis's father to the underworld.
But similarly because of this, Coronis no longer spent time with Apollo and washed her face with tears every day.
By a chance opportunity, Apollo heard a rumor that Coronis was cheating on him behind his back, so in a fit of anger, he burned Coronis to death.
Only to finally learn that it was actually just a rumor...
This was also the reason Asclepius hated Apollo so much.
Clearly the most handsome, most talented, the most perfect male god in the minds of all Greek women.
But only in terms of love, Apollo had never succeeded once.
This was also why Athena called him the happiest but at the same time the most unfortunate male god.
What Apollo wanted to obtain and wanted to cherish had never ended happily!
Thus, connecting these words and returning to Asclepius, Jason immediately understood why Athena would point out another path for him.
Having him go to the underworld to find Asclepius.
In the original story of Asclepius, because he researched out a divine medicine that could resurrect the dead, he was ultimately struck dead by Zeus's thunderbolt.
And because of Asclepius's death, Apollo flew into a rage and went to find Zeus, and it was even said that he personally went to the underworld to demand the person, causing a great commotion.
Ultimately forcing Zeus to compromise and elevate Asclepius to the seat of the gods (Ophiuchus), and only then did the matter end.
One must know that due to too many tragic histories, Apollo had not sought out women for a very long time... At least in the three or four years Jason had known Apollo, he had never heard of his romantic stories.
And at this time, if his valued child died again, it would be strange if Apollo did not lose his temper!
"The underworld again... This time, I will not trouble Teacher first."
Jason, having sorted out his thoughts and thinking that he had to return to the underworld again, and also thinking of Teacher Hecate, could not help but shrink his head.
After all, the day before yesterday, he had been fiercely lectured.
Even though this time he had a legitimate reason to go back, he would probably still be lectured... And it was not even certain if he could see her.
Although when Jason used the last magic on the caduceus, Divine Thunder, he vaguely heard Hecate scolding him as an idiot.
Clearly, Hecate did not care about this matter at all; if she did, she would not have engraved this magic on the caduceus for Jason.
But at the same time, because of this, the current Hecate was indeed not in the underworld; she was on Mount Olympus... Last night, after Athena had explained things to Jason, she had left in a hurry.
It was because she sensed that Hecate had gone to Mount Olympus.
Stealing the power of the king of the gods was no small matter!
But all of this had nothing to do with the current Jason... Even though he was indeed favored to a certain extent, this was not something he could intervene in.
However, this matter was not a big problem, because the stolen power itself was not strong, and Hecate was not a minor god.
Moreover, at this moment, not only was Athena assisting Hecate, but in the Olympus that Jason did not know about now.
The one with the headache now was not Hecate at all, but Zeus.
Because...
Seated on the throne of the king of the gods, Zeus looked at Hestia, Demeter, and the lively Artemis who had come running, aside from Hecate and Athena before him.
His head was full of black lines...
And this was not the end; one must know that the forces behind Hecate were already not small.
When night fell, the five primordial goddess of night Nyx came to visit Zeus...
Thus, later, after a verbal assurance from Hecate, this matter ended just like that... Of course, the main reason was still because of Hecate's personality, which most gods knew.
She truly had no interest in divine positions or anything like that; even if the world was destroyed, she would not glance at it twice.
Thus, this time Zeus called Hecate to Mount Olympus not simply to punish her, but with some ulterior motives...
Hecate was a beautiful goddess and quite powerful.
She was not an underworld god; why did she hide in the underworld and never come out?
Think about Zeus's nickname, that stud god...
In any case, after a day's companionship, Jason once again bid farewell to the golden-horned deer and headed to the underworld.
However, this time, Jason did not go through the gates of the underworld, nor did he use the caduceus for teleportation.
But rather...
Not long after,
In the underworld, in the endless abyss.
Holding the demon spear, Jason arrived alone before the ancestor of all demons, the greatest enemy of the king of the gods Zeus, and in the future, the only one who almost defeated Zeus.
Typhon, before him.
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