Chapter 361: Failing to show off but getting X instead
In the main hall.
While Lorne was secretly concerned about Jason's physiological functions, Atalanta stepped forward and asked curiously.
“Teacher, what were you talking about just now?”
“Oh, he said he was jealous that I had so many good girls with me.”
Lorne replied without changing his expression, looking at the charming figures around him with a smile.
Helen, the most beautiful woman in Greece in the future, Katniss, the most beautiful woman in Thessaly today, the legendary beautiful witch Medea and the huntress Atalanta, as well as the famous Amazon Queen Hippolyta and her subordinates Amazon girl group…
Such a high-quality beauty, if an ordinary divine-blood hero owns one, it can often become his capital to show off and brag.
But here, almost all beauties with a score of 8 or above can manage two tables of mahjong.
After being complimented by the majestic Lord God, all the beauties present relaxed their faces and looked very useful. They subconsciously moved closer to Lorne in the center, further releasing their beauty, hoping to gain more recognition.
Alas, where does this sense of unreasonable comparison come from?
Lorne, who was like a star over the moon, picked up the wine glass and pretended to sigh while admiring the eye-catching scenery of the flowers around him with great interest.
On the field, a bunch of jealous or envious eyes fell on a certain lucky **** surrounded by beauties.
But soon, Lorne's exclusive favor attracted hatred for himself.
"Hey, kid, where did you come from? What achievements have you made? What qualifications do you have to sit here?"
A middle-aged man with wine burps walked over with a frivolous step, slapped Lorne's desk, and questioned coldly.
“That's right, say it and let everyone listen.”
Another person followed behind, holding his arms and cheering.
The two men, who were suspected of being brothers, looked at the frail little white face in front of them with disdain, their eyes full of disdain and dissatisfaction.
Everyone is here to support the divine blood heroes of Thessaly. Why can this pretty boy sit in the front and enjoy the service of so many beauties?
However, the two people who were drinking to vent their dissatisfaction did not realize that as soon as their words came out, the whole place fell into silence, and eyes of pity or ridicule were focused on them.
Whose family do these two unlucky adults belong to? Don't you know that those sitting at the front are often the ones who can fight the best?
The dozen or so divine-blooded heroes who participated in the battle between the giant spirits were even more gloating about their misfortune.
Unlike these newcomers, they had seen with their own eyes the brutal scene in which this "little pretty boy" pinned a group of giant spirits to the ground and beat them into a pile of minced meat.
Now, there is something good to watch.
And Lorne looked at the two people who came to find trouble, his eyes could not help but be filled with intimacy.
A wild and brainless villain, he is said to be his favorite top-notch material suitable for showing off and slapping people in the face! After living in Greece for so long, I finally met a living person!
Every time I fight monsters at a higher level, this time I have to try the feeling of abusing vegetables in the novice village!
“Whoosh! Whoosh!”
However, before Lorne could come up with his own cool script, two sharp blasts of sound exploded from behind.
Everyone's eyes were dazzled when they saw two arrows sinking into a stone pillar in the hall, their tails buzzing and trembling.
The two middle-aged men who were arguing at the table paused for a moment, and then they noticed a burning sting on their cheeks. They subconsciously raised their hands, and a stream of warm liquid poured into their palms.
Blood!
The stinging pain from the further tearing of the wound on their cheeks caused their drunkenness to turn into cold sweats.
“Now, are we qualified to sit here?”
Atalanta was clasping her bowstring, with a grim look on her face.
The two middle-aged men seemed to smell the breath of death and quickly set their goals.
“I'm talking about him, you...”
"He is my teacher and a distinguished guest of Arcadia. To insult him is to insult the whole of Arcadia!"
Atalanta revealed her identity as the Queen of Arcadia with a cold snort, and cast a sharp gaze on the two of them.
The two brothers in front of the table suddenly felt like rabbits being stared at by a leopard. Cold air ran down their necks, their faces turned pale, and they subconsciously curled up their necks and ran away.
However, as soon as they turned around, a roaring spear was nailed to the feet of the two of them, almost piercing the soles of their feet.
“Let you go?”
Katniss sneered and stepped forward, pulled out the spear that was inserted seven or eight inches into the floor, and slapped the two men's bleeding faces unceremoniously with the cold and hard tip.
"Where did you come from? What achievements have you made? What qualifications do you have to stand in front of us?"
With the exact same question, the fiery-tempered most beautiful woman in Thessaly snorted disdainfully when she saw their legs shaking unconsciously.
“Two blind stupid dogs, don't you know that these are our state guests from Thessaly? Bah!”
Looking at the mouthful of phlegm on the ground and the spit flying around, Lorne silently put down his wine glass and cursed in his heart.
Katniss, are you too incompetent?
What's even more outrageous is that they actually stole my words!
Lorne turned his head and cast his resentful eyes at his beloved disciple Atalanta, who was firmly protecting him behind him, as well as a large group of heroines and heroes who were gearing up next to him. He felt extremely depressed.
That's the bad thing about revealing his identity too early. There are a lot of people standing up for him wherever he goes, and it's not his turn to take action even if he wants to abuse someone.
The copy of Shuangwen that I finally came across is gone.
You have something to watch tonight!
Lorne glanced at his beloved disciple with evil intentions, and his eyes flickered on the lion's tail.
At this time, Katniss, who was in front of the two provocateurs, lost her patience when she saw that the other party did not answer, and raised the thick black spear in her hand high.
“You won't say it, right? Then there's no need to say it!”
Lorne rubbed the wine glass with his fingertips and looked on with cold eyes.
Katniss is not a good-tempered person, and the Age of Gods is not a civilized and polite era.
For the killing of the property, the killing of the beauty, the murderer for gambling, and the killing of the honor ... This kind of disagreement will fight for you to die, and it happens almost every day.
If you don't have the strength to pretend to be X, you must be prepared to be X.
“Wait a minute!”
Just as the thick, black spear in Katniss's hand whizzed down, a strong figure rushed in from the door and held Katniss' gun barrel.
Seeing the spear above their heads being intercepted, the two middle-aged men who almost went to Hades to report seemed to have lost all support and sat down on the ground, breathing heavily.
Feeling the resistance coming from the gun, Katniss couldn't help but raised her eyebrows and looked at the young man who appeared in front of her.
“Boy, where are you from?”
“Meleager, prince of Calydon; these two are my uncles, and came with me to assist Thessaly against the djinn.”
The young man answered quickly, then lowered his posture and begged for mercy.
"The war is about to begin, please forgive them for their offense because they have to contribute to Thessaly."
—It turned out to be him...
At this time, Lorne, who was sitting at the table, looked at the young man's familiar face and couldn't help but chuckle and shake his head.
When I went to the Academy of Athens to visit Atalanta and Medea, I happened to meet a group of passionate young people who planned to return to their hometown to conquer the monsters and rectify the disaster. This student named Meleager was one of them.
The reason why Lorn remembers it so clearly is because he admires this young man who is righteous and full of ideals.
Later, when he was fighting fires in Arcadia and Thessaly, he heard something about this prince one after another.
His hometown of Calydon was also affected by the beast tide caused by Typhon. A group of demonic pigs ate crops, damaged buildings and killed passers-by.
So, he took the companions he gathered and Calydon's army to hunt the rebellious demon pigs.
In the end, under his leadership, the Calydonians successfully annihilated the evil beasts in the territory.
That large-scale Calydon hunt was also sung by bards in various city-states and was talked about by people.
Since it's this guy, let's give him some face.
Finally, he and Atalanta are still partly responsible for the tide of beasts that reached Calydon.
However, before Lorne could speak to Katniss.
The two middle-aged men who came to their senses on the ground turned red and objected with their necks stiffened.
“Meleagoros, she is humiliating us and humiliating your uncle! Why should we bow our heads? Punish them and show them some color!”
The humiliation they suffered in public just now made them lose all face, and the mocking looks from all directions also made them extremely ashamed and angry. They must rely on their nephew to regain their lost dignity.
"Shut up!"
However, Prince Calydon, who arrived in a hurry, reprimanded them with a cold face and had no intention of standing up for them at all.
Do these two fools really think that here or in Calydon, everyone will let them do whatever they want?
If you don't know how to restrain your domineering personality when you go out, you will die from it sooner or later!
It's a pity that when the two middle-aged men heard their nephew's rebuke, not only did they not calm down, but they became even more angry.
"Meleager, are you just sitting back and watching your blood relatives be treated like this? How can you be so partial to outsiders? What did your mother teach you before setting off?"
Hearing this, the Calydon prince could no longer bear it. He turned around and picked up the collars of his two uncles, snoring gloomily.
"That's enough! If it weren't for mother's sake, you wouldn't even be qualified to join the conquest team! I made an exception for you to join the team, and you actually dare to cause trouble everywhere. The Calydonians will lose face to you. Give it to me immediately Go back!"
"You..." Hearing the insults from their nephew, the two middle-aged men were so angry that their faces turned blue and white, and their hands were shaking slightly.
“Do you want me to say it a second time? Get out of here!”
Prince Calydon pulled the two uncles up from the ground with a sullen face, and then threw them directly out of the door.
“Send them back to Calydon! If mother asks, tell them I did it!”
The two divine blood guards who responded immediately picked up the two middle-aged men, put them into the carriage, and drove decisively away from the Thessaly Palace.
When the carriage completely disappeared from sight, Prince Calydon breathed a visible sigh of relief, then raised his glass and came to Lorne, apologetically confessing.
"My uncles drank some wine and became delirious and offended. Please forgive me. I am willing to take responsibility for what they did!"
“What if the price is life?”
"Well…"
Looking at the prince whose expression changed slightly, Lorne smiled, raised his hand and patted the young man's shoulder, admonishing him sincerely.
“Adults should be responsible for their own actions, rather than letting others take the blame for them. The more you indulge them, the more trouble they will get into, and you may end up getting involved too.”
In fact, what he said was not groundless, but the original fate of Meleager, the prince of Calydon.
In the original Calydon hunt, Atalanta also participated in the expedition, and eventually became the number one hero in killing Calydon's magic pig with her superb archery and fighting skills.
Prince Meleager divided the spoils afterward and gave the most valuable magic pig skin to Atalanta.
But this move aroused the dissatisfaction of the uncles. They summoned several men who were also dissatisfied and took the lead in snatching away the magic pig skin.
Angry Meleager accidentally killed two of his uncles in order to take back the magic pigskin and return it to Atalanta.
When the mother of Meleager, Phedimus, heard that her two brothers had died at the hands of her sons, her love for her sons also died.
The mother recalled the prophecy made by the Furies when Meleager was only a week old: her son's life would be as long as the unburned torch by the hearth. At that time, she immediately took away the torch, threw it into the water to extinguish it, and then hid the torch in a place in the palace that only she knew, hoping that her son would live long.
After hearing the bad news, she was so distraught that she took out a torch and threw it into the fire. As the torch burned, Meleager felt less and less powerful. After her son died, the mother felt very regretful and committed suicide.
It can be said that the tragedy of this family was caused by Meleager's two good uncles.
Just now, although Meleager was scolding his uncles fiercely on the surface and even beat them up and sent them back to Calydon, he was actually just trying to save their lives.
After all, the strength Katniss exerted just now was really killing someone, and Meleager, who took the spear with his own hands, could not have known it.
It is a pity that according to the virtues of these two people, Meleager's hard work will probably be in vain.
And this kind of caring about family ties is destined to cause countless troubles for the Meleager family.
Without getting to the root of the problem, even if Meleager escaped the fate of dying in Calydon hunting, sooner or later he would be dragged to death by these two cheating uncles because of other things.
Prince Calydon in front of the desk thought for a moment and nodded seriously.
“I will keep your teachings in mind, and when I return to Calydon, I will definitely ask my mother to keep a close eye on them.”
"Don't let your mother have more contact with them. It's better to let them become rich than to cause trouble for you outside. After all, not everyone is as easy to talk to as me."
“Yes, sir.”
Meleager nodded again, more respectfully.
Hearing what the Calydon prince called him, Lorne chuckled and shook his head.
This guy is not stupid. It seems that he has probably recognized his identity as the honorary tutor of Athens Academy and the No. 2 unit of Ares Mountain.
“Okay, go and do your work.”
After receiving the formal understanding, Meleager was relieved. He immediately held a glass of wine and interacted with the heroes in the venue, gradually diluting the tension just now.
“Bang!”
Just as the atmosphere on the field gradually eased, a wine glass suddenly fell to the ground and was smashed into pieces. Scarlet wine splashed everywhere.
“Eurystheus, what do you mean?”
Telamon, who was waiting on the guests, stood up angrily and glared at the middle-aged man in front of him who was surrounded by dozens of divine blood heroes.
The middle-aged man expressionlessly wiped away the wine spilled on his attire and spoke calmly.
“I don't drink with slaves…”
At this moment, Hercules was holding a cup with one hand, the veins on his forehead were pulsing and his arms were trembling slightly.
(End of this chapter)
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