Became the Weapon Monopolist of the Gods-Chapter 58: Golden-horned deer of Kerineia

“Keeeeeeeek─!”

The Hydra’s heads were cut off by the giant sickle of thought swung by Hercules.

Kugugugun... ....

The space that the sickle of thought crossed was split in half.

The trees, rocks, the ground, everything collapsed in two.

It was an incredibly overwhelming sight.

However, the flesh around the Hydra’s neck where its head had been cut off twitched as if new heads were about to sprout.

The sight of two new heads swarming in the place of one head was more like a nightmare.

Since three heads had been cut off, six heads would grow if left alone.

After all, the Hydra was a demonic beast that multiplied infinitely.

“Iolaus, light the torch!”

“Yes!”

At Hercules' shout, Iolaus poured the oil can he had prepared onto the Hydra's severed section.

Clang!

Iolaus held the torch he had prepared to the Hydra's section, which was soaked in oil.

Hwarurururuk

The Hydra's neck burned in an instant.

Iolaus carried a thick chunk of wood with both hands and quickly burned the burning neck.

Chewy... ...!

The sound of flesh being cooked was accompanied by a cloud of acrid smoke.

'That's how it was burned.'

I was curious about how the Hydra's neck was burned with a torch, but the torch was used to light the oil, and the wood was pulled out and burned.

That's why the Hydra can't regenerate.

When the smoke cleared, the cut surface was a completely charred, pitch-black lump of charcoal.

We used this method to lure the Hydra's heads and cut them off one by one.

The Hydra's heads, entangled with each other, were helplessly cut off and burned.

The number of heads decreased from twelve to nine, then six.

However, the Hydra did not just take it.

Ss ... The grass that touched his breath turned black and crumbled, and the rotten wood split.

If you were facing such a beast, the standard strategy would be to use guerrilla warfare, being aware of the poison and then retreating.

However, Hercules was a true hero who did not rely on such boring strategies.

“Iolaus, light the torch as soon as I cut off his head.”

“Understood, Hercules.”

His nephew, Iolaus, too.

Iolaus pulled out a thick piece of wood—was this a torch?—and soaked it in oil, preparing to light it.

He asked Hercules, looking at him who showed no signs of suspicion.

“You still have a lot of heads. Are you okay?”

“Six or two should be enough to fight.”

“The poison would be dangerous.”

“Can’t Jeanne next to you purify it?”

Jeanne, who was pointed out by Hercules, spoke in a tone of uncertainty.

“Yes, purification is possible. However, it’s difficult if you’re poisoned beyond a certain amount. About the size of your palm.... Not more than that.”

“Then it’s fine.”

“......?”

Did he hear this correctly?

“Hercules, it’s the size of your palm.”

“I heard.”

“.......”

Hercules didn’t hear wrong.

He didn’t have the confidence to be poisoned by more than the size of your palm.

After all, in the original, the monster that fought the nine-headed Hydra was none other than Hercules.

And yet, there was no record of Hercules being poisoned.

Six heads for a human like that... ... .

Hercules, holding an olive wood club, bends his knees.

His feet dig into the ground.

Soon, Hercules was thrown back as his bent knees straightened.

Kwaaang─!

The ground he had stepped on crumbled like a cookie.

Hercules had already flown up to the head of the Hydra.

“Kii?!”

The Hydra opened its eyes wide in surprise at the sudden «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» appearance of Hercules.

Before the guy could react, the wooden club was swung.

Slap!

“Kieek?!”

One of the Hydra’s heads fell down, knocked unconscious after being hit squarely in the crown.

Kukugugugun─

The thick neck, over 10 meters long, fell to the ground.

It was just ‘one hit’.

And then.

Sugeuk─

The giant scythe of will cut through the Hydra’s neck.

Then, as if he had been waiting, Iolaus, who had a burning tree on his head, jumped out and slit the guy’s neck.

Chiiik...!

In an instant, one of Hydra’s heads turned to ashes.

‘Hmm, I guess there’s nothing I can do.’

I tried to attack slowly but carefully, but once Hercules moved, the guerrilla warfare was already over.

“Kieeeeeee!”

The enraged Hydra was attacking Hercules from all sides.

Taang─!

Taang─!

I shot a magic bullet to distract the Hydra.

“Kii?!”

The Hydra’s two heads turned in the direction the magic bullets had come from.

“Vanesha, please buy me a moment.”

“Yes, Eun-gong.”

Vanessa lured the heads that had turned their heads away.

She freely crossed the boundaries of darkness and shadows, moving around the forest.

Her movements, fast as a ghost and nimble as a shadow, took the spirit of Hydra out of him.

Meanwhile, Hercules moved nimbly and engaged in a close battle with Hydras.

Cheeeeeee... ...

Hercules, dodging poison and swinging his club, was truly a hero from mythology.

He did not allow even a little poison, as he boasted.

I supported Hercules while looking around.

According to the myths I know, Hydra was not the only one here.

Hera, who interfered with Hercules’ task, sent a giant crab, ‘Carkinos’, as reinforcements to help Hydra.

However, while we were catching Hydra, Carkinos did not show himself.

The expert hunter would hide somewhere and aim for Hercules’ ‘ankle’ when he let his guard down at a crucial moment.

I searched for Karkinos and carefully examined the ground. Then something strange caught my eye.

Swish, swish.

The ground near Hercules was quietly ‘moving’. fгeewёbnoѵel.cσm

Hera’s subordinate.

It was a giant crab, Karkinos.

Hercules was about to step on top of it.

I summoned the Twin Dragon Swords.

Suaaa... ...

Pure white energy was overlaid on the Twin Dragon Swords.

Samcheok Seocheon San Ha Dong Saek 三尺誓天山河動色.

I held the Twin Dragon Swords and quietly waited for the guy to move.

Then at some point.

Phuhaak─! Karkinos leaped out of the ground, aiming for Hercules.

The giant pincers aimed for Hercules’ ankles. At the same time, the Twin Dragon Swords were swung.

The pure white qi passed through Karkinos's pincers that were aiming for Hercules' ankles.

Kwaga-ga-gang─!

The huge crab shell was torn apart along with the pincers, and its internal organs burst out.

Hercules looked down in surprise.

Karkinos, who had tried to grab his ankles, had fallen down in a horribly broken state.

Hercules, who had trampled on the guy's broken crab shell, jumped up again and swung his club.

The Hydra responded by opening its huge mouth and spewing poisonous mist.

Normally, Hercules should have avoided it and retreated.

However.

Hwaaaaat─!

The light of the stigmata exploded and the Hydra's poisonous mist was purified for an hour.

It was only for a moment, but it was enough.

Hercules' club struck the Hydra's crown through the cleared poisonous mist.

Pfft!

Another head fainted and fell to the ground.

Soon, Iolaus set fire to the neck cut off by the scythe, and the Hydra's heads were reduced to only three, including the one that Vanessa had lured away.

It was easy to clean up the remaining three heads.

Since the poison fog was neutralized by Jeanne, there was no way for the Hydra to threaten Hercules.

All the Hydra's heads that Vanessa had brought were cut off by Hercules.

Kookoo, ookoo, ookoo!

The Hydra with all its heads cut off the body loses its balance and falls.

But it wasn’t over yet.

‘Immortal head.’

According to mythology, one of the Hydra’s heads possessed immortality that would not die even if killed.

I watched the Hydra’s severed heads closely.

In an instant.

“Kieeeeek!”

One of the severed heads suddenly spewed poison with its eyes wide open.

Hwaaaat!

Jeanne, who had been tense, reacted immediately and the poison fog cleared.

“Kieeeeek!”

The severed head wiggled on its own and opened its red eyes wide.

Even though it was severed from the body, the Hydra’s head showed no signs of dying.

That was the Hydra’s main body.

Because it was the ‘immortal head.’

“Kieeeeek, Kieeeeek.”

There was no way to deal with the guy who kept spewing poisonous mist and threatening.

If left alone, he would start regenerating again.

“I should bury him.”

Hercules approached the cliff where the Hydra’s cave was.

He approached a rock on the cliff.

The size of the rock was larger than the entrance to the cave that the Hydra had entered.

Hercules put his hand under the huge rock.

And.

Ddddddddd... ... .

The ground shook as if there had been an earthquake, and sand dust rose.

The rock slowly lifted.

Hercules, holding the rock above his head, turned his body towards the Hydra’s head.

Hercules slightly bent his knees in front of him.

The ground he stepped on caved in.

‘No way... ... .’

I watched Hercules do something and I cursed without realizing it.

“Crazy.”

Hercules’ back was arching like a bow.

“Eungong, step back.”

Vanessa, who noticed Hercules’ intentions, took me and escaped.

Jeanne created a barrier with her divine power.

“Kieek! Kieek!”

The Hydra, with only its head remaining, flapped and tried to run away, but it was too late.

Hercules’ bent back turned and the rock flew into the sky.

And then.

Kwaaaa ... Soon, when the vision cleared, there was a crater that looked like a crater.

In the center of that crater was a huge stone that Hercules had thrown.

“You won’t be able to move it like this.”

Hercules said, shaking his hands.

It was an ignorant solution, but it was the most certain way.

Hercules would be the only one who could lift and move a stone that big.

“Now, let’s go and announce the completion of the task.”

“Yes.”

Hercules walked, holding one of the dead Hydra’s heads.

When we went to the Mycenae royal palace to report the completion of the task, we were unable to meet Eurystheus, the king of Mycenae.

To be exact, we couldn’t see his ‘face’.

─, we confirmed the completion of the task.

In the king's palace, a huge bronze jar was buried, and Eurystheus' voice rang out from inside the bronze jar.

"Can I not look at it myself?"

─Ko, Copreus. Did you check it?!

"Yes, it's the Hydra."

─Checked.

Eurystheus's behavior seemed pitiful, but in a way, it was natural.

He brought the Hydra's head, which would be poisonous if touched, so no one would want to go near it and risk being poisoned.

Hercules also understood this, so he passed.

"What is the next task?"

─Capture the golden-horned deer in Cerynea. But do not inflict any damage.

"Understood."

Hercules, who received his third task, left the palace carrying the Hydra's head.

─Hey, clean the palace! Quickly!

Leaving Auristheus' scream behind.

Hercules didn't seem to have much difficulty with the task of capturing a deer.

However, contrary to Hercules's expectations, it took him a whole 'one year' to complete the third task.

The deer of Cerineia was by no means an ordinary deer.

'The maid of the moon goddess Artemis.'

The identity of the golden-antlered deer of Cerineia was Taygete, one of the seven Pleiades sisters and the maid of Artemis.

When Zeus took a liking to Taygete, Artemis disguised her as a deer and hid her.

Hercules, unaware of the truth, confidently left the Mycenaean palace.

Having not even the slightest idea that it would take 'one year' to capture the deer.

The one who held the key to this task was the moon goddess Artemis.