Chapter 3065: Mercury Chronicles (62)

The reputation of Queen Hera among ordinary people was not very good, but she was indeed famous enough. Don't worry about whether she was busy dealing with mistresses every day; anyway, she appeared in every slightly famous Greek mythology story, and she was famous enough in that regard.

And from this, one could see in reverse that Hera had ability. After all, in the Marvel Universe, most people only knew Odin and not Frigga. The so-called Queen of the Gods only played an auxiliary role to the King of the Gods, while Hera could always go against Zeus.

Although she never succeeded in stopping him, in most stories, those lovers and even Zeus himself felt fear of Hera, which showed the prestige of the Queen.

But Hera was the Goddess of Marriage, and her divine office destined her to be bound to Zeus. You couldn't be the one in charge of marriage and get a divorce yourself, right?

Hera also knew that her fundamental interests were consistent with Zeus and Mount Olympus, so the so-called dealing with mistresses was just going through the motions. Fighting back and forth, she never saw any of them really beaten to death. In fact, it was because it didn't touch Hera's fundamental interests, and she was too lazy to care.

So to hollow out Zeus and establish Hera, one must make Hera feel that her core interests had been touched, fundamentally realize that Zeus could not be supported at all, and if he were left alone like this, both she and the entire Mount Olympus would be in danger.

So what were Hera's fundamental interests?

Actually, thinking about it, one knew that the pile of mistresses' sons and daughters of Zeus had never truly shaken Hera's position. Among them, the more outstanding ones, such as Apollo and Hermes, were only main gods, on par with Ares, and their combat power was not as good as Ares'. The others were even less worth mentioning; they were happy with some trivial divine office, not worth worrying about at all.

With Ares there, Hera's position as Queen was unshakable. Although ancient gods would not die and didn't really need heirs, if Zeus had any accident, Ares would inevitably take over.

To move Hera, one must first move Ares.

Moving Ares was not that simple. At least in the DC Universe, he was very capable of fighting. The Wonder Woman universe had gone through several changes; he was either the strongest helper or the strongest villain. To see him first, one had to flip the comics from back to front.

In comics, there were not many times when Ares was killed. Most of the time, it was just said that his conspiracy did not succeed, and he returned to Mount Olympus to do whatever he was doing.

There were several world-ending events in the comics, so it was hard to say who held the highest kill record for ancient gods, but to say who won the easiest, it must be the legendary eldest son.

Releasing the eldest son was the best way to shake the foundation of Mount Olympus.

But this guy was not easy to release either. Several major gods participated in the original seal, and it could not be opened by ordinary methods.

So after Shiler returned to Earth, he went straight to Circe, killed Circe first, and forced her soul to possess him.

Circe's witchcraft was different from all magic; it could be said to be completely two different powers. With the help of witchcraft, Shiler first snatched Faust's key, used the key to open the gate of the Underworld, found the seal of the eldest son, and opened the seal, leading the eldest son to kill Hades first.

When he arrived at Mount Olympus, Ares was indeed not gone, which proved that the name pointed to by the riddle left by Edward was correct. The clever Riddler might have obtained some information when he was affected by Hecate, knowing that Ares was also affected, so he left clues with riddles.

Various factors intertwined, eventually leading to Ares' death. Ares died, the eldest son was still alive, and Hera could already see the future of him and Mount Olympus perishing together.

When the situation on Mount Olympus was good, no matter how Zeus was fooling around outside, it wouldn't affect anything.

But now, because of Zeus's concession, Mount Olympus was on the verge of perishing. Zeus actually wanted to retreat again and again, and even when his own son died, he remained indifferent. From this moment on, the interests of Hera and Zeus split.

Hera wanted to protect herself, protect her children, and protect Mount Olympus for the honor of herself and her family, while Zeus didn't want to care about anything, pushing all of this toward destruction.

And guiding Dick and the others to Mount Olympus was to test whether Hera was already dissatisfied with Zeus.

Zeus wanted Hecate to live so that she could guard the barrier against the darkness for them, while the Young Avengers wanted Hecate to die. Who Hera helped would prove whose side she was on.

Once there was one, there would be two and three. Once on a pirate ship, it would be difficult to get off.

This was just one part of the plan for Shiler and Bruce to deal with Hecate. However, understanding Hecate's characteristic of being reluctant to give up sunk costs, the remaining two fish would be easy to catch.

"What? You said Professor Shiler was arrested again???"

Aisha held the phone and signaled for others in the hall to be quiet. Everyone looked over. After Dick leaned over, he heard Gordon's voice on the phone.

The sheriff said something intermittently. Aisha listened very carefully. After hanging up the phone, she frowned and said: "Commissioner Gordon just called to say that Amanda told him Shiler was arrested and is now in the Florence Supermax Prison..."

"Is it Florence Supermax Prison?" Dick said. "The prison Amanda created for detaining super-powered criminals?"

"Oh, oh, yes, it's Florence," Aisha patted her head and said. "In Colorado, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains."

"That's right," Jason walked over, swallowed the snack in his mouth, and then said: "Professor Shiler was locked up once before. Why did he go again this time?"

Aisha shook her head and said: "Commissioner Gordon said he didn't know either, just that Amanda sent someone to deliver a letter. Should we ask Tim to check?"

"We should, but I think we have to go see it ourselves," Jason said. "Amanda has no reason to arrest Shiler again. She does hate super-criminals, but if Shiler's existence can help her catch more super-criminals, then they are the most solid allies."

"Since the establishment of the Federal Shield, it has always been Shiler who has been the psychological consultant for Amanda, helping her deal with quite a few tough nuts. What's more, Amanda couldn't have heard nothing about Hecate's resurrection. If the Goddess of Magic really descends again, the mess in the United States still has to be cleaned up by the Federal Shield. Making things difficult for Shiler at this time isn't that making things difficult for herself?"

Others felt it made sense after listening. Raven said: "I feel that Amanda sending someone to pass the letter means you go there first, and we will talk face to face if there is anything."

"I'm afraid that's really the case, but we also have to be prepared to confront Amanda. This woman is like a stone in a dung pit, smelly and hard. She is determined about what she recognizes, and it is really difficult to deal with."

"It doesn't matter," Jason blinked and said: "Didn't Tim recruit a lot of employees? Maybe some of them are willing to work in the Federal Shield?"

"You want to introduce that bunch of Soviets? Are you serious?"

"Amanda is indeed very stubborn, but she is not a one-sided patriot. As long as she can effectively combat super-criminals, she can use anyone. Experienced Soviet agents are much better than the greenhorns she recruited a while ago."

"Fine, it seems this is a very good meeting gift. I hope she can tell us what is going on for the sake of our politeness."

Raven took a few people to Colorado. Because she was worried that Amanda would be stressed, they did not teleport directly into the prison but came to the gate.

Fortunately, Amanda knew they were coming early and sent someone to pick them up at the gate, soon taking them to Amanda's office.

Before Amanda could say anything, Dick said his assumptions first. Amanda opened her eyes in surprise. Of course, she heard that this was not the path of the bald one-eyed dragon in another universe? She originally intended to take it slowly, why did the adopted son of the Wayne family use it first?

However, Amanda was still very satisfied with the performance of Dick and the others, feeling that they were much more polite than that bastard Bruce, so she didn't intend to make things difficult for them but said directly.

"It was not me who arrested Shiler, but he came over that day and said he wanted me to do him a favor. For the sake of his diligent work, I followed his wishes, locked him in the room with the highest confidentiality level, and called you over after 24 hours."

Because she already knew that the previous running-ring task was made by Shiler, Aisha felt her scalp tingle when she heard this. Could it be that there was another huge ball of yarn?

"Oh, by the way, this is what he left for you," Amanda took out a package from the drawer under the desk, threw it to Dick, and then said: "He said you would understand after reading it."

So a few people went to the lounge next door to unpack the package, but after unpacking, they didn't see any envelopes or the like, but a lot of strange raw materials, such as dried fur and scales of animals.

Turning to the bottom, there was finally a piece of paper. On the front of the paper was a complex-looking magic circle, and on the back was written, "Find me, set it up, and activate the magic circle."

A few people looked confused, but Jason could see that the back of the paper was Shiler's handwriting.

Although they didn't know what this magic circle was specifically for, since Professor Shiler requested it, they could only do as told.

Amanda gave them the key to the room where Shiler was locked up and sent someone to lead them all the way to the door. But after opening the room, the scene inside stunned everyone.

Shiler was lying on the ground covered in blood, life or death unknown, and the surrounding walls were full of claw marks and blood.

Aisha let out a sharp explosion and rushed in. Jason and Dick followed closely, but Raven appeared beside Shiler's body first, stopped everyone's actions, and said.

"Don't move, something is wrong. There is no aura of Professor Shiler here, but..."

Hearing her say this, Dick hurriedly grabbed Aisha who wanted to pounce on him. He looked at Raven and said: "But what?"

"I can't say, but it is a very powerful aura, inside this body, and it hasn't left yet."

"Are you sure there is no aura of Professor Shiler?"

"No," Raven shook her head very positively and said: "His soul is not here at all. Maybe he came before, but now he has left."

"Then who is in his body?"

"I don't know either, but..." Raven frowned, magical light slowly covered this body, and suddenly she opened her eyes and said: "Two women, one younger, one older. The young one seems to be torturing the old one, seemingly wanting to ask something from her. I didn't dare to get too close, so I couldn't hear clearly what they were saying."

"I understand. It seems Professor Shiler wants to deal with these two women," Aisha nodded, looked at the package of materials in Dick's hand, and said: "Then what are we waiting for? Let's set up the magic circle first."

A few people set up the magic circle. Raven stood outside the magic circle and transmitted magical power inward. Accompanied by the purple magical light, a huge phantom appeared in the narrow cell along with a familiar power, and a voice full of surprise sounded.

"My dear daughter, where did you find such a delicious sacrifice for me?!" ===== CHAPTER 3066 =====