I Think I've "Opened Up" 3/3
At that very moment, as Samael swallowed the pitch-black cube, a Divinity of Destiny made him acutely aware of its true nature.
A divinely created container that absorbs calamities, plagues, and the evil desires of life—the so-called Pandora's Box!
In theory, this thing was indeed originally a gift given to humankind, to grant them prosperity and to help them purify the world.
At the same time, any container has a certain capacity. When the container is full, disaster will flow uncontrollably across the earth, returning all the evil accumulated over the past hundred years to mankind!
Under normal circumstances, humans are not incapable of having malice and selfishness. If they release and digest these desires little by little, they can actually become a catalyst for the species to move forward.
If one were to infuse a human body with evil thoughts accumulated over a century in an instant, even an individual with nerves as hard as iron would find it difficult to resist this terrifying erosion.
Moreover, these evil thoughts are inherently one's own; the hardest enemy for any species to overcome is always itself.
Furthermore, Samael was wrong from the start; the way to open Pandora's Box is not from the outside in.
Yes, from the inside to the outside!
Within this cube, the consciousness born from the Human Evil, as well as the calamities and plagues of this world, is what is known as "Pandora"!
Pandora is not a person; she is a weapon!
She is not a mere creation; her birth was to lure humanity into self-destruction!
A powerful tremor emanated from within his body, causing various parts of the Primordial Serpent coiled in the sky to swell and contract, as if being torn and kneaded into various shapes of clay by a terrifying force.
"Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!"
The sound of tearing fabric came from the fascia and muscles, and cracks as large as ravines and as small as lines appeared continuously on various parts of the ancient snake's body.
Patches of scales tore off from the blood-soaked wounds, revealing chunks of flesh and the tattered bones that were cracking and splintering under the strain.
Through the bones and fascia, the humans on the ground could see that inside the suspended, pitch-black snake's abdominal cavity, a surging Red-black Mudflow was constantly changing shape, surging and churning.
Golden, silver, red, black and other colorful divine powers surged and converged in the black tide, while divine runes representing different properties, such as thunder, moon, lightning flame, and shield, lit up one after another.
Zeus, you son of a bitch!
Samael's eyes bulged out, and he screamed in pain, cursing the Wise King of Gods in his heart.
Pandora's Box contains not only human selfishness and evil thoughts, but also the malice of the gods towards mankind!
There are some things he simply can't handle!
No wonder the relationship between humans and gods is becoming increasingly harmonious...
No wonder you could disregard the oath you made to Prometheus ...
You did not actually harm humanity; in fact, you openly instructed the Divine General humanity into Pandora's Box and bury it in the earth.
Afterwards, this will lead to the expansion of human desires amidst prosperity, and the absorption of the world's plagues and crises brought upon this species.
Mistakes are wrong, and prosperity inevitably leads to chaos!
You will not destroy humanity with your own hands, thus giving the gods a reason to criticize you.
You are causing humanity to be driven by selfish desires, defy destiny, trample on divine power, and destroy itself!
In reality, Pandora's Box was merely the source of humanity's depravity, not the direct cause of humanity's destruction.
In the future, after Pandora's Box was opened, Tantalus, the ruler of Mycenae and son of Zeus, could dine at the same table as Zeus and did not have to avoid the conversations of the gods.
But he was insatiable and had no reverence for the gods' kindness. Not only did he reveal the secrets of the gods' lives in public, but he also stole mead and elixirs from their tables and shared them with his mortal friends.
He appropriated the sacrifices offered to the gods for himself and stole pets from the temple of Zeus, committing numerous crimes.
He even invited the gods to his palace as guests. To test whether the gods knew everything, he had his son Pelops killed, then fried, roasted, and boiled into a dish to entertain them.
After being exposed, he remained shameless and unrepentant, saying that he was just imitating Prometheus by offering beef and bones as sacrifices to Olympus to tease the gods.
The problem is that even the prophet who wanted to dismantle theocracy only offered beef as a form of deception, and this deception was not out of selfishness, but out of a helpless offense for the future of humanity.
Tantalus even boiled his own son and made the gods taste him; during this time Demeter, Goddess of Agriculture, who was distracted, even ate a piece...
After this, the gods completely exhausted their goodwill and patience towards humanity, and through a divine council, unanimously agreed to cleanse these fallen beings with a Great Flood.
The extinction of humanity can be attributed to Pandora's Box as a trigger, but what truly led them to their doom was their unbridled selfishness, arrogance, and hubris.
So, they essentially ruined themselves.
We must not allow this accumulated pure malice to spread and surge across the land, otherwise it will become a source of disaster sooner or later!
Having figured everything out, Samael gritted his teeth and hissed, opening his deep, gaping maw. The Seven Deadly Sins engraved on the Fate Tablet within his body lit up one by one, rippling in layers of golden-black light in the sky.
In an instant, drawn by divine authority, the inverted golden-black vortex covered the entire Greek land. Wisps of black mist clinging to every corner and every madman were gradually drawn away and gathered in mid-air.
Thousands of red and black smoke columns rose up, like a thousand rivers flowing into the sea, converging into Samael's mouth.
The Kuroshio Current has receded!
The people of Crete, Mycenae, the Athenian Academy, and other settlements, watching the Black Mud gradually evaporate and be drained outside the light curtain, embraced each other excitedly and cheered with relief.
The fallen one, who had been pinned to the ground and was in a frenzy, also lost the bloodshot color in his eyes as the black aura dissipated, and his face was filled with confusion or lingering fear.
"Boom!"
Just as the humans who had survived the catastrophe were celebrating their good fortune, a bolt of silver-purple lightning exploded in the surging lead-gray clouds, striking directly at the back of the Primordial Serpent.
Samael's back was torn and bleeding as he tumbled down from the clouds and crashed to the ground.
"Those who defy fate!"
At this moment, the Wise King of Gods, seated high in the temple of Olympus, suddenly opened his eyes, his divine light shining like torches, and looked at the giant serpent coiled above Mycenae, his clenched steel teeth grinding together.
"Prepare to die!"
Zeus was enraged and roared as he rose from his throne, raising his Thunderbolt Scepter high and unleashing hundreds of silver lightning bolts that strangled the black serpent coiled on the ground.
"Aaaaaa!"
At this critical moment, a high-pitched chant came from within the city wall, and emerald green light patterns rippled out, forcefully resisting the thunder that crashed down from mid-air.
At the same time, the Young Goddess Form body swayed, her small face showing signs of difficulty continuing.
Tina!
Samael!
Seeing that the Origin Goddess had already acted on instinct and rushed to Samael's side first, Athena Medusa immediately tensed up and prepared to follow suit without hesitation.