The olive branch went to Odysseus. After several rounds of riddles from the Sphinx, everyone had to admit that he was, without question, the wisest among them.
The staff went to Achilles. After ten consecutive bloodless contests, every Hero believed himself the strongest, yet even the mighty Hector could only concede defeat.
As for the mirror, no one had expected that its owner would turn out to be Hector.
The mirror itself told them how its owner would be determined: it was simple. After everyone had looked into it, they would ask the mirror who was the most beautiful.
In the end, the mirror named neither the most handsome man nor the most beautiful woman. Instead, it spoke the name "Hector."
Paris was stunned. He had made that suggestion because he had originally wanted the mirror to go to a woman—Helen, the wife of Menelaus, King of Sparta.
At the previous island gathering, he had fallen for her at first sight. One could only say that what was meant to come would come.
He had believed that once the mirror saw Helen, it would surely speak her name.
Yet he had never expected the mirror to choose his elder brother.
The result surprised everyone. Only one person showed the faintest smile.
That person was Odysseus.
The most beautiful person was the Hero with the greatest spirit of sacrifice.
And Hector was precisely the most perfect and tragic Hero of the Trojan War. One could scarcely find any flaw in him.
Wenren Sheng used a small trick to make the mirror speak Hector's name.
As for why he did so, it was simple. In this world with gods, the greater the responsibility one bore, the later one died. Even after death, one could secure a good position.
Otherwise, things would be