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"Artemis was captured by a Chaos Titan? How is that possible?" When Apollo received the news, he nearly went mad. He left the front lines in the hands of his subordinate gods and rushed back to the holy mountain at once.

But when he returned to the holy mountain, he found a courtyard full of Nymph Goddesses lying on the ground. It was obvious at a glance that these servants of Artemis had been executed by Hera.

Also executed were Artemis's two Divine Dogs and her beloved Golden-horned deer.

"Wait! Why were they executed?" Apollo cried.

Hera sat high upon the God's Throne, her face frosty. "You know the rules. A servant who cannot protect their master has no reason to exist."

"But..." Apollo's voice caught in his throat.

That was indeed the rule in Olympus.

On the battlefield, the guards who failed to protect their general, and the slaves who failed to protect their master, were all executed—even if they managed to flee back.

Hera was, in fact, only doing her duty.

But no matter how you looked at it, the disappearance of one of the Twelve Main Gods, the Goddess of the Hunt—who had most likely been captured—was simply shocking. It would have an extremely damaging effect not only on mortal worshippers, but even within the Olympus God System.

Suppressing his confusion and unease, Apollo said in a low voice, "Where was she ambushed? I want to go and see."

"Go ahead." Hera flicked her hand, sending a golden ball of spiritual light into Apollo's Sea of Consciousness. "I only sent her on a routine patrol. I never expected this to happen."

As the god of light, prophecy, and medicine in Olympus, Apollo had his own ways of investigating the truth.

He wasted no time. Before long, Apollo