Chapter 119: Greece's Goodwill, the True Origin of Arcadia

"Please, though I do not know if the tea I brewed myself suits your taste."

Opposite Su Nian sat a Greek-style woman wearing an olive wreath, with golden hair reaching her waist, exuding an intellectual aura, and possessing an extraordinarily beautiful appearance.

Yes, that is right, this is the famous Goddess of Victory, Athena, the goddess who cut off Algol's head with a little scheme and was called a petty, ugly woman by Algol.

Facing the tea Athena handed over, Su Nian stiffly took it, took a small sip, and said cautiously.

"Good tea."

Then Su Nian stopped speaking, quietly waiting for Athena to open her mouth.

For a time, the atmosphere remained stiffly deadlocked.

After all, of all people to meet, he had to meet Athena; in Little Garden, Su Nian was confident he could defeat 99% of existences in the lower levels, even those he could not beat.

He was also confident he could escape.

But Athena was precisely one of the very few whom Su Nian could neither defeat nor escape from.

At that very moment, Su Nian had been completely locked on by the Victory Authority; no matter what he wanted to do, there was only one possibility: failure.

Athena had already anchored her victory in advance.

Su Nian finally understood why Scathach said he could only barely be considered to have Four-Digit Exceptional combat power.

And when facing the Avatar of a true, old-school Three-digit, he knew the gap.

What he used were still just powers, or at most, special Gifts; but the Four-Digit Exceptional Avatars of other Three-digits used Authority.

The only thing that can counter Authority is always another Authority, or a Secret Treasure-level Gift.

For example, the Star Holy Sword that Su Nian brought, after being re-endowed with Spirit Status, also possessed the power to counter Authority.

But it was likely useless against Athena; the Sword of Promised Victory, just by hearing the name, one knew it was within the scope of the Victory Authority, and Athena was the Goddess of Victory.

A collision between victory and victory, unless the Thirteen Constraints were fully released, would likely result in Athena's victory.

But the re-observed Star Holy Sword no longer had the dictatorial power like the Old Sword; this one truly had to abide by the Thirteen Constraints.

Su Nian drank his tea quietly, while Athena watched Su Nian pick up and put down the same cup of tea more than a dozen times.

Athena could not help but twitch twice, and asked Su Nian in surprise.

"Mr. Su Nian, do you think I am scary?"

Su Nian naturally could not admit it, and could only say evasively.

"I am very sorry, I am a bit allergic to beautiful women."

Yes, allergic to dangerous women like you, that is.

"Oh... is that so?"

Athena nodded, as if she believed Su Nian's excuse, and then continued to try to open the topic.

"Then let me ask a question, what do you think of my Knight, Aishiliya?"

What could he think? He and she had met less than twice in total.

Well... to be precise, once; the time with Ouroboros, his identity could not be revealed.

However, although he thought this, Su Nian still said very politely.

"In my view, Aishiliya is a quite beautiful woman, powerful and beautiful; I just don't know who will be lucky enough to marry her."

Athena suddenly chuckled, and said with a rather playful expression.

"Then how about I take charge and betroth her to you? You shouldn't be married yet, right?"

"Ah?"

Su Nian was stunned for a moment, his expression becoming even more vigilant as he looked at Athena, and he even subconsciously shrank back twice.

"Sorry, Heavenly Lord Athena, I already have a fiancée."

Su Nian had never been as grateful for Shiroyasha's arrangement as he was at this moment, and grateful for Jialing's letting bygones be bygones.

At the critical moment, Jialing, this fiancée, was indeed of great use, just like now, directly blocking an arrow for Su Nian.

Otherwise, Su Nian really would not have known what excuse to use to muddle through.

This pie was drawn so sweetly; this woman Athena definitely had some schemes and plans.

In any case, Su Nian would not believe that Athena would give him benefits for no reason.

He firmly believed that there was no such thing as a free lunch; Athena sacrificing Perseus and Aishiliya definitely had other schemes.

In any case, Su Nian absolutely did not want to get involved in Athena's schemes; one Halloween Queen was already enough to make him fearful.

With another Athena, Su Nian was afraid he would die without even knowing how.

The Goddess of Wisdom was not someone easy to get along with; she really would scheme people to death.

Athena's prestige was all earned by her fighting one by one.

Did he really think Algol could be killed by Perseus just like that?

Athena had done plenty of pushing behind the scenes.

"Oh? Is that so? That is truly a pity."

Athena still wore a perfect motherly smile, carefully looking Su Nian up and down, as if she were looking at her own son-in-law.

"But since Magic Star Algol is Perseus's Inheritance Gift, it cannot flow out; in order to ensure that Algol can return to Perseus."

"So, would you mind having one more fiancée?"

Su Nian froze for a moment; so was his charm really that high? That could not be, right?

What kind of madness was Athena having?

Forget it, it was better to just speak his mind; otherwise, if they kept deadlocking like this, Su Nian did not know how long it would last.

Perhaps Athena was just waiting for Su Nian to speak up himself.

"Heavenly Lord Athena, can you just say what is on your mind? Is there a need to be so roundabout?"

Su Nian put down his teacup, looked at Athena very seriously, met Athena's smiling emerald eyes, and then subconsciously looked away.

This woman is actually damnably sweet.

A goddess of Athena's level still has a bit too much lethality for him.

Athena watched Su Nian's movements and revealed a slightly bright smile; in her view, Su Nian was quite interesting at this moment.

"Alright, then I will be direct: I hope you can join the Greek God Group."

"Why?"

Su Nian looked at Athena with curiosity; he was somewhat puzzled as to why Athena would suddenly propose that he join the Greek God Group.

"I think Goddess Athena should know that I am a Subordinate God of Shiroyasha, right?"

Even if one wants to poach someone, there is no need to do it so openly, right? Or does this not even count as open?

Using Perseus to lure him over—this method certainly cannot be considered proper.

"I certainly know, but if you don't want Noname to encounter the same fate as Arcadia again, you had best join the Greek God Group."

Athena looked straight into Su Nian's eyes and applied pressure on him as she spoke.

The Ouroboros side will not allow Arcadia, which they just crushed, to show signs of a comeback only a few days later.

When that time comes, Su Nian will not be someone a mere Shiroyasha can protect.

Unless the one standing behind Su Nian to protect him at all costs is the Baiye King, not Shiroyasha.

"Wait, why are you able to say the name Noname (Arcadia)?"

Su Nian noticed the key point in Athena's words; Athena was actually able to say the name Arcadia? This surprised Su Nian.

As for the so-called encounter like the previous Arcadia? Su Nian was actually hoping they would make a move, as that would be the only way to thoroughly boil this stagnant pool that is Little Garden.

Instead, it was the fact that Athena could say the name Arcadia that piqued Su Nian's interest more.

Athena sighed and revealed a look of reminiscence as she spoke.

"Because Arcadia's flag and title were originally provided to Canary by Greece; Arcadia is the birthplace of Hermes."

"During the Dystopia War back then, since Arcadia wanted to fight within the West District, they naturally needed a headquarters, and Hermes transferred the Sovereignty of his birthplace to Canary; only then did Canary establish the Community and use the name Arcadia."

"However, later on, as Arcadia defeated Dystopia and grew, Canary returned the Sovereignty of Arcadia to us."

"So we can also be considered one of the few existences capable of saying the name Arcadia."

This could also be considered one of the contingency plans Canary left behind back then, a helpless measure to prevent the flag from being stolen by others and becoming unrecoverable.

It was also to entrust the final spark and inheritance to the Greek God Group, hoping it could play a role at a critical moment.

In fact, before Arcadia grew up, Greece was Arcadia's primary investor.

Orpheus, the teacher who taught Canary the Poet's methods, was from the Greek God Group.

Even later on, Greece did not provide any less capital to Arcadia.

This is also why Canary chose to return the Sovereignty of Arcadia (the name of the land) to Greece, and it has been buried by the Greek God Group ever since.

Su Nian nodded slightly; in the Mythology knowledge he had been cramming, there were indeed rumors that Hermes was born in Arcadia.

Hermes was born at Mount Cyllene in Greece, located in the Arcadia region.

Thinking of this, Su Nian relaxed his vigilance slightly, but a sense of being unable to laugh or cry arose in his heart.

The identity he had made up while chatting nonsense with Shiroyasha—the hero cultivated by Arcadia in the outside world, the student of Baron Keluoya Balong—who would have thought it would have such an effect now?

Instead of fishing out Ouroboros, it had attracted the Greek God Group instead.

Su Nian truly had not expected this; the effect was a bit excessively good.

But then again, a Boundary Spirit Status, Space Authority, and having survived one Humanity's Final Trial to save the world.

It could completely be said that he was one of the heroes cultivated by Arcadia in the outside world to deal with Absolute Evil.

Aside from Arcadia, there was no other place that could be worthy of him.

But who told him his luck was bad, that just as he was preparing to come to Little Garden, Arcadia was gone?

However, in that case, he would just continue to act out this identity.

Su Nian gathered his emotions, and with a hint of cold madness in his eyes, he said.

"I still thank Goddess Athena for her good intentions, but one of my purposes in shouldering the burden of Arcadia was precisely to attract their attention."

At this very moment, he only wanted to find the true culprit and then take revenge!

(End of chapter)