"What did Apollo rely on to become the Sun God?" Selûne turned to Hill. "That golden bow and arrow were fierce, but they didn't give me that scorching feeling."
"He had a Sun Chariot," Hill replied slowly. "Rising in the east and setting in the west."
"Oh... a Box World..." Selûne finally understood. "No wonder it was destroyed so thoroughly.
They didn't have the Bottomless Abyss's tricks."
Hill was truly helpless... Selûne's reactions were always instinctive and hit the nail on the head, but understanding what people said was indeed a little difficult for her.
"Actually, the Greek Pantheon had its own Abyss as well," Hill said softly. "Unfortunately, before it could develop, it was destroyed by their own internal strife."
Hill blinked, suddenly thinking of Typhon... Asmodeus had taken that fellow's remains away, hadn't he?
Rose surely wanted to seize them too, but she probably wanted Gaia's portion even more.
Hill vaguely remembered Rose once probing the Undead for information related to Typhon... but her luck had not been very good. She had run into thoroughgoing Easterners.
The sort who, when it came to foreign pantheons, knew at most Athena, Poseidon, and Hades... and most of them only remembered Athena.
Though they were not from the same era, they had merely expanded into the outer universe rather than lost their civilization, so certain stories that ought to exist still did.
So, after Rose tangled with that group for a while, she could no longer stand those people who kept talking about "protecting Athena"... namely, the Black-and-White Road.
There was nothing to be done about it. Although Ink Pen of the Black-and-White Road Clan was utterly respectful toward the Spider Queen, he was also the most vigilant one.
The reason he had ended up like that was because he had