Myth: The Ruler of Spirituality

However, this was just the beginning... Thebes could be considered one of the most troubled city-states in the history of the Mortal Realm, whether it was an act of clandestine vengeance by the Goddess of Beauty or possibly instructed by the Divine King himself.

Just like the queen Laine just mentioned, in an era where having many children was seen as a capability, that woman who had given birth to seven sons and seven daughters had once been proud and complacent. She even thought that the gods were nothing special.

That was the case with the black-robed Goddess Leto in the heavens, who had only one son, Apollo.

That's what she thought and so she said to her entourage, and then, unfortunately, Leto overheard. Enraged by the sting to her pride, the Goddess of Titans sent her son to use his unparalleled archery skills to shoot dead the queen's seven sons one by one and then in front of her to shoot dead her seven daughters.

From this, it is apparent that a competition only has meaning within the rules, but without the protection of rules, it is merely a joke.

"Tell me, did you surpass anyone special today or encounter any trouble?"

Seeing that Andrea had calmed down, Laine didn't plan to lecture the twelve-year-old girl too much.

He had not stayed to watch the entire day's gambling, so now he wanted to check if there was any more valuable information.

"No, this is the first day, the news has probably not spread yet, and basically those who came were some unknown fellows..."
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After a moment of recollection, Andrea shook her head but then seemed to remember something.

"However, before I left, someone said they would bring Odysseus as my opponent tomorrow—I have heard of him; he is the prince of Ithaca, and he is very capable, hmm... you know him, right?"

"I know."

Hearing this familiar name, Laine felt no particular emotional change.

Odysseus, he certainly knew of him; a significant part of the subsequent historical accounts about Chaos mythology was centered around him.

However, by that time, Odysseus was already an adult and had inherited the throne of Ithaca.

He had once led the Greek Alliance, was the proposer of the Trojan Horse strategy, and after ten years of war and ten years adrift at sea, returned to his homeland to face a group of enemies who thought he had died and had taken over his kingdom. But in terms of the volume of mythological records, he may not be much less featured than Hercules himself.

But that was the Odysseus of later years; there weren't many explicit records of his younger days.

"If it's him, he probably will not follow the rules of the game; he is not one to play by the book."

Smiling, Laine looked at the Little Princess before him.

"So how well have you mastered the 'Dual Binary Balancing Method' I taught you? If there are more than three lines of Gold Coins, can you still figure it out?"

"Of course, I am very good at mental arithmetic!"

With a slight lift of her chin, she quickly shrank back into her seat under Laine's gaze. Since Andrea was so confident, Laine decided to take her word for it.

"Since you are so confident, let's leave it at that."

"If you surpass Odysseus, you should have won half of the tournament already."

Winning half is essentially the same as winning it all, for Andrea is a Priest of Athena. Others might not see through this disguise, but Zeus probably could.

So as long as her performance in the subsequent competitions was passable, that was actually enough. If the Divine King really planned to do something... As long as it involved Athens, Andrea was almost certain to be chosen.