"Good day. O radiance of almighty Zeus, supreme above all."
"Supreme above all, supreme above all. May the glory of Zeus, who governs the sun in this world without Apollo, endure forever."
"Did you sleep well last night? Give thanks to Zeus, who governs sleep in this world without Hypnos."
"This is quite unexpected. No wonder Sherlock Holmes said this place was a lot like the Great Qin Lostbelt before, just in a different form. Now that I see it, he was right."
Shen Fei had arrived in the city several hours before Mash and Ritsuka. After changing into clothes similar to those worn by the people on the streets, he blended in among them and quickly gathered some intelligence from their conversations.
Although this Lostbelt possessed highly advanced technology, with towering skyscrapers and spotless streets, a brief observation revealed that it resembled the Great Qin Lostbelt in one respect: it was a sub-utopian society. People did not need to work. Resources were distributed according to need, and anyone could simply take whatever they wanted from designated supply depots.
The reason it was only "sub"-utopian was that gods still stood above them, so philosophically speaking, it could only be called a sub-utopia.
"Art academies. Of course, in a world where no one has to work, everyone goes into that sort of thing."
By casually praising Zeus as supreme and wishing for his eternal glory whenever he met someone, Shen Fei acquired quite a bit of information. There were no police here checking identification, so even without any proof of identity, no one knew he was not a local resident.
Through observation and the conversations of others, he discovered that the situation here was somewhat similar to the Great Qin Lostbelt: the gods were praised through art. Of course, that was