Atlas (Greek: τλα; English: Atlas)—those unfamiliar with Greek Mythology might be a little baffled upon hearing the name, unable to recall who he was at first.
Su Ming himself had not known much about the man either, until he later watched a game called Savage Six online.
The game's cover art featured a statue of a man carrying a huge sphere. Streamers saw it every time they logged in, and Su Ming increasingly felt that it must represent something.
Later, he looked it up online and understood. This was Atlas, the Sky-Bearer God of Greek Mythology.
He was one of the Titans and was said to be unimaginably enormous, carrying the entire Firmament upon his shoulders. In mythology, without him, heaven and earth would stick together and become a mass of Chaos.
Su Ming did not know whether the universe would truly grind to a halt without this guy, but he did know that Atlas was also Zeus's father-in-law.
One of Zeus's mistresses was Atlas's daughter Maya. The Magic Dimension Bobo had mastered was also named after her. She was Olympus's Goddess of wind and rain, as well as Hermes's mother.
Yet as one of the Titans, Atlas had also taken part in the great uprising against Zeus. After their defeat, he was not imprisoned in the dungeons beneath Paradise Island. Because he was too large, he was instead sentenced to hold up the Firmament atop the Mountain of the Far West.
The punishment seemed nearly endless, as though it would continue forever. Atlas could not simply walk away, either. If he dropped the sky, his fellow Titans, his daughter, and his grandson would all die, while Zeus might not even be hurt.
He had probably been doing this job for tens of thousands of years. Then, during Perseus's journey