Chapter 214 The Legend of Achilles
Achilles was Tang Lin’s first divine follower and Tang Lin’s first successful experimental product. It can be said that Achilles has a very important and milestone significance. After this warrior who should have died in the Trojan War, he became invincible in the world after receiving Tang Lin’s blood and the long sword he gave him.
At least at that time, Achilles was the representative of invincibility.
After the Trojan War, Achilles participated in many wars and was awarded the title of God of War. Originally, Achilles had no ambitions, but thought that he should use the power given by the gods. If he could die gloriously on the battlefield in a even-match battle, this would be his best destination.
However, this even opponent has never appeared. So much so that with the assistance of Achilles, the territory of the Greek Kingdom was several times larger than in history.
When he said this, Achilles couldn't help but look at Elier Landolf, who shrugged and said that he could not blame him. The battlefield between the Frost Giant and Asgard was in the Arctic, and he was busy as a deserter at that time.
Achilles did not meet his opponent and continued his legendary life. As a hero like a god of war, he soon became a group of wives and concubines and had a bunch of children. These children more or less inherited a little Achilles' power and rarely showed unusual talents.
For example, when you are born, you are very strong, with red scale patterns on your body, and you are unusually fascinated by flames.
But when his child was born, people discovered a very strange situation. The children of Achilles couldn't grow up. The oldest children were already ten years old, but they still looked like babies.
It was thought that God had punished Achilles too much for killing people, and many people felt sympathy for him at that time. However, soon everyone discovered that this was not a punishment, but because Achilles had the ability to live forever.
His children don't grow up because their growth cycle is longer than that of ordinary people. The best proof is that Achilles is nearly sixty years old, still the same as when he was young.
When Achilles's secret of immortality was discovered, a disaster that he could not imagine came.
The Greek king at that time was a few years younger than Achilles, but he felt his body aging and longed to obtain a longer life. He summoned Achilles over and looked at the young face of the war god, asking him about his way to live with jealousy and desire.
Achilles was still an honest man at this time, so he naturally confessed everything, saying that it was a gift from a giant. The giant who could give people eternal life was also the nickname that was circulated from this conversation. At that time, the king knew that Achilles was powerful and did not use any violent means. Instead, he built a temple for this giant, and kept asking the beautiful girl to pray in the temple day and night.
During this period, the Greek gods were not as brilliant as this immortal giant. There were huge stone statues in almost every place. Every Greek knew the story of the immortal giant granting Achilles eternal life.
But after many years, the giants who had received so many sacrifices still did not appear, and the older Greek king became anxious. He felt that he had not had a few days left, and his sons wanted to return to the west immediately so that they could inherit the throne. And the Achilles, who was loved by the gods, was still so young and strong that he needed several women to satisfy him every night.
This king was extremely jealous. You should know that he was no longer able to do it ten years ago! For a king, waiting for death was ten times harder than that of ordinary people, and he gradually lost his mind. Finally, at the suggestion of a jester, the king sent Achilles out on an expedition. While Achilles was away, the king ordered Achilles' children to be captured into the palace and ordered the children to be killed and bleed for him to drink.
Although they were descendants of the God of War, they grew slowly due to their bloodlines, and they were all just children and were unable to resist. When they drank the blood of the first child, the old king miraculously grew black hair and his hunched body became straight again.
When he drank the blood of the first child, the king was ten years younger. But when he killed other children and drank the blood, the effect began to decrease rapidly. Until Achilles' last child was cruelly killed, the king had only returned to his forties and fifties.
Of course this cannot satisfy him. What he wants is to keep his youth forever like Achilles. The blood of Achilles' descendants is useless, so what about Achilles himself? Anyway, he has already killed Achilles's children, and this Greek god of war will definitely rebel, so he will kill him and let him go.
With this stupid idea, the king issued an order to assassinate Achilles. On the battlefield, Achilles was betrayed, and countless sharp arrows and spears shot behind him, but he failed to kill him, but he only angered the god of war.
At this time, Achilles had just received the news that his family was cruelly killed. In a rage, Achilles led his loyal subordinates to fight back to Athens, bringing the Greek dynasty he had beaten with himself to an end.
The brutal king died, the royal family was slaughtered by Achilles, and the villains who slandered him were chased by Achilles to the bottom of the sky. It took ten years to take revenge, and Achilles killed all his enemies and walked into the temple of the giants.
Achilles stayed in the temple for ten days, and then disappeared in front of everyone with his golden sword. No one knew where he went, and everyone thought he was dead.
Because of Achilles' massacre, the originally powerful Greece completely split into dozens of city-states, becoming extremely chaotic. At this time, Achilles began to travel around the world, hoping to find the immortal giant and receive guidance from the gods.
Achilles has traveled almost all over the world. Every ten years or hundreds of years, Achilles always hears rumors that giants have arrived to resurrect mortals. Achilles found many new gods and learned from their mouths that the immortal giant did appear again, but he missed every time.
Later, by chance, Achilles heard that there were also the myths of giants in the ancient kingdom of the East. Their Creation God was a giant who split the world with an axe in his hand. When the giant launched a war, it broke the pillar of heaven and caused a world-destroying flood. There were giants who could chase the sun in the sky... These mythological stories made Achilles feel that he should go to China to take a look.
After a lot of hardships, he finally set foot on the land of China. This completely different civilization opened Achilles's eyes. It turned out that there was a civilization that was even more brilliant than Greece in the world.
Achilles spent a lot of effort to learn Chinese culture, and then when he was studying, he read this sentence: "Therefore, when God is about to give a great responsibility to this man, he must first suffer his mind and mind, exhaust his muscles and bones, starve his body, and be empty of his body, and act and disturb his actions. Therefore, he has moved his heart and endured his nature and has made him unable to do so."
After reading the words of the saint, Achilles couldn't help but recall what the god said to him: "Achilles, you are far from being my warrior now. Go back and use the sword I gave you to cast a legend. Only when you accomplish what mortals cannot achieve can you be qualified to listen to the oracle again."
Achilles suddenly realized that everything he had experienced before was a test given to him by the gods. If he hadn't been addicted to pleasure, he would not have suffered the tragic disaster of extermination. The subsequent massacre caused his soul to fall, wandering aimlessly on the earth, wasting hundreds of years. It was because he forgot the words of the gods that led to him losing everything.
Therefore, the disheartened Achilles cheered up again. After years of travel, Achilles saw countless people who had lost all their suffering like him, so he decided that his sword would be wielded only for those who could not fight, and to save those who were suffering like him.
Perhaps it was the arrangement of fate. When Achilles was determined to change, the land of China was invaded by alien races, and the extremely cruel alien races even attacked the capital of the court at that time. Achilles felt that this was the prompt given to him by God, so he raised his long sword to help the Chinese resist the alien races.
"So, did you help the Northern Song Dynasty destroy the Liao Kingdom, the Jin Kingdom and the Mongolian Kingdom?" Tang Lin was stunned after hearing this.
"It's not all my credit. I met a friend named Yue Fei in the distant China. He is a real warrior and a wise commander. In most cases, he customizes tactics. I share the bloodline given by the gods with him, and then defeats all these alien races with him.
"But before I got back here, I heard that he seemed to be in a bad relationship with the emperors of China. I once advised him to leave together, but in the end he chose to stay in China. Then, I formed the Assassin Organization with Hassan. Sure enough, my idea was right. After I achieved a legend, I received your summons again." Achilles said modestly and excitedly.
Tang Lin was speechless for a long time. He said that thing just to show off. In fact, he was just a scumbag who pulled out the ruthlessness and never paid attention to this divine favor.
Now that he heard his experience over the past two thousand years, Tang Lin could only sigh that Achilles was really awesome.
Not to mention anything else, you, a foreigner, can travel across the ocean to China and understand "Mencius", which is really admirable. Moreover, Achilles also revived the mountains and rivers with Prince Yue. This is a true legendary experience. Tang Lin even wanted to change it with him.
Tang Lin came to a conclusion from Achilles's words, that is, the belief in giants has actually spread very widely. In other words, Tang Lin has many pan-believers, even spread throughout the world.
In this way, Tang Lin’s immigration plan might be bolder.
"Achilles, you have indeed completed the task I have given you, and I have given you the honor of being able to enter my kingdom of God after death."
Tang Lin took out a devil fruit from the storage space and put it on Achilles's face.
"Achilles, I have a more important task here to hand over to you. With your current strength, I'm afraid you won't be able to do it yet. Eat this fruit and you will gain more powerful power than before, but at the same time you will become a person who cannot touch the sea. Once you fall into the sea, you will lose your power. Are you willing to accept this task?" Tang Lin asked.
Without any hesitation, Achilles tore the outer skin of the devil fruit open and bit it down in big mouthfuls. But Achilles soon paid the price for his impulse. The taste of the flesh was so terrible, just as disgusting as the feces of an elephant.
However, this is the test given by the gods. Even if it is unpalatable, it must be eaten.
Tang Lin originally wanted to remind him to take a bite, but before he could speak, he saw Achilles finish eating the devil fruit that was as unpalatable as shit. It would be too heartbreaking to remind him again.
After eating the devil fruit, Achilles' body began to change. Two curved corners appeared on his head, layers of red scales appeared on his body, his hands turned into sharp claws, and a fiery tail appeared behind him.
This situation seems a bit wrong. Tang Lin ate Achilles the horse fruit, which should have turned into a horse. Why does it seem like it strengthens the Qilin bloodline in its body?
"Why do you look like the Qilin Demon in Fengyun? I'm afraid this is not a phantom beast species that turns into an animal fruit?" Tang Lin thought uncertainly.
However, all the artificial devil fruits have been created, which means that the devil fruit can also be mutated. Maybe it will be a different mutation after being combined with the blood power in Achilles' body.
Achilles, who was half-beasted, grabbed his sword again. The sword that he had to wave with both hands could be easily used with one hand.
In other words, Achilles can now compare to ordinary Asgard soldiers. Perhaps he is even worse than the elite of the Furious Legion, Elier Landolf, but he will no longer be the crushed side.
"Very good, Achilles, you have gained more powerful strength and should be able to complete the task I assigned you." Tang Lin said solemnly.
"Listen to the oracle!" Achilles said kneeling in front of Tang Lin.
"Achilles, I order you and Altaïr to assassinate the Pope together to assist Elier Landolf in holding the entire church in his hands. You must complete this task as soon as possible, because I will soon migrate hundreds of millions of human beings to this world." Tang Lin ordered.
Hearing Tang Lin's words, Altaïr and Achilles accepted the task without any hesitation, but Eliette Landolf was a little surprised. This was different from what had been discussed before. Didn't it be agreed that he would just be a regional bishop? Why did it suddenly become a Roman church?
You should know that the difficulty of these two is more than ten times different. Even if Elier Landolph can pretend to be an "angel" who came to the earth from heaven, the higher the faith in the church, the less pious it is. Those who have reached the position of bishop and pope are smart people, and they just use religion to obtain benefits. How can Elier Landolph easily sit in the position of pope?
But Tang Lin turned his head and stared at the Asgardian, and just looked at him silently, which already made Eliye Landolf sweat on his forehead. In desperation, Eliye Landolf had to agree, "I understand... I will definitely do my best."
Ellie Landolph felt that he was on the pirate ship and it was too late to regret it.
Tang Lin then changed into a lighter tone and said, "Don't worry, I'm not asking you to complete this difficult task immediately. This is just your ultimate goal. Now, let Alice Landolph become the regional bishop of Tripoli. You have several years to achieve this goal."
Chapter completed!