Every god has something they absolutely cannot tolerate. I am like this, and so are you, Athena."
Just as the Goddess of Wisdom in the sky hurried away, a crack emitting a chilling aura of death suddenly appeared on the ground. Then, Ares, with a leisurely demeanor, stepped out from the Underworld and walked towards Sparta.
He wore a pitch-black robe, upon which he had cast several interfering charms and spells to ensure he would not be spied upon by the gods in the heavens. The mischievous breeze on the Laconia Plain playfully lifted the hem of the master's robe, and the entire land of Sparta seemed to be expressing intimacy and submission towards him.
This was his true form. After confirming the terrifying prophecy of the future, Ares's true form had not left Hecate's home or the Underworld to come to the earth for countless years, but this long-awaited personal appearance was because his current action required his true form to arrive.
Ares appeared leisurely and carefree, but privately, he had made various meticulous arrangements to ensure the safety of his true form.
He strolled through the fields of Sparta. The moment he passed through the city gates of Sparta, his figure suddenly transformed into a well-known medical officer within the city, and he came to the side of the unconscious girl who had collapsed on the ground.
Arriving before the poor girl, Ares bent down and gently examined her physical condition. The girl's body was covered with various scars, and her complexion was very weak. It seemed she had once again been caught in the dispute between Zeus and Hera. The Queen of Heaven, upon realizing her husband had cheated again, only needed a casual command, and naturally, there would be monstrous creatures eager to climb to high positions to do her bidding, persecuting or even killing this girl.
However, due to Zeus's protection, this girl somehow managed to turn misfortune into blessings each time, so despite enduring many hardships along the way, she still did not die after arriving in Sparta.
However, the most serious problem remaining on the girl at this moment was not her injuries, but a curse left on her by a certain god.
Ares, who could now barely be considered a master of arcane arts, easily deciphered the conditions of this curse: the girl would not be able to reveal the true identity of her child to others in the future, otherwise, she would be cursed to become a terrifying monster.
"Leave her to me."
After examining the girl's physical condition, Ares stood up and instructed the surrounding Spartans:
"Send her to my medical clinic."
Obeying commands was the culture of the Sparta, and after Ares spoke, the surrounding Spartans quickly dispersed. A few enthusiastic ones came over and helped Ares take the girl to the city-state's medical clinic.
The true owner of this medical clinic, the physician Ares had transformed into, was currently traveling outside the city-state, which was why Ares chose to transform into him.
After sending away all the extraneous people, Ares cast several magical barriers in the room, isolating all external perception. Then, he came before the unconscious girl to treat her injuries.
As a human girl, her severe injuries were nothing in front of Ares. Ares even casually removed the curse attached to her. However, Ares's main purpose in coming here was not to treat her wounds, but for the life currently gestating in her womb.
After confirming that the girl's physical condition had stabilized, Ares applied a mental stabilization spell to himself, then extended his hand and gently pressed it on the girl's abdomen.
His mental power then probed into the life cradle within the girl's body. There, he perceived two nascent but already possessing rudimentary sentience mental bodies.
One could only say that what was on Zeus and Wandering Star was indeed very powerful and terrifying. After they combined with human embryos, it generally took at least four months for life to possess the most basic mental activity, but driven by Zeus's blood, these two lives, still in an embryonic state, already possessed the sentience of infants and could now perceive their external surroundings.
When Ares's mind touched these two nascent sentient beings, he also understood the situation of these two new lives. The Goddess of Wisdom was indeed very cautious. Among these two embryos, only one was the prime body that inherited the Star Crest of Youxing Vanguard No. 3, but to conceal this situation, she deliberately cast a spell to create two twin embryos within the girl's body, and also cast a spell to make the other embryo, which was not the Youxing Vanguard infant, be born with a natural tattoo similar to the Star Crest, thereby concealing the identity of the other true prime body.
And this true prime body, which inherited the Star Crest, its sentient body had now, under the stimulation of Wandering Star's power, even reached a point where it could initially interact with the outside world.
Perhaps inheriting the power of Wandering Star, after the initial contact with Ares's mind, this sentient body harbored an extremely strong hostility towards him and ferociously attempted to attack Ares.
However, it was still just an embryo without a physical form, so Ares easily subdued its violent mind and cast a calming charm upon it.
After appeasing the emotions of this new "Youxing Vanguard," Ares also successfully established a mental dialogue with it. The moment the mental connection was established, Ares "heard" the other party's somewhat difficult, broken voice:
"Who… are… you?"
Ares took a deep breath, calmed his emotions, and then, using his most stable mental power, conveyed the message he wanted to convey to this sentient being:
"My name is Ares, and I have come here to make a deal with you."
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As the sun set in the west, Ares finally emerged from the room and casually closed the door.
He waved his hand to dispel the magical barrier and then used a spell to conceal it, making the fully recovered girl appear as if she had only been treated with human medical skills and her curse remained unsolved.
He also did not bother to send anyone to protect the girl, because he knew that in the coming time, the Goddess of Wisdom, Athena, would fully undertake the task of guarding this girl until the child in her belly was safely born.
With his hands behind his back, Ares left the medical clinic and walked towards outside the city. On a high slope outside the Sparta, Ares gazed at the gradually receding Helios and slowly restored his original appearance.
He knew that the prelude to his rebellion was finally about to officially begin.