Her long hair cascaded down, like a swath of silk wrapping around her curvaceous body. The image of her holding his face and kissing him was like Antonio Canova's sculpture, Psyche Revived by Cupid's Kiss. Cupid's arms gently embrace Psyche, awakening his sleeping lover with a kiss. The gesture of cupping the face is delicate and gentle, symbolizing the sacred power of love.
A similar scene, occurring in reality, now displayed a hard-to-explain bewitchment. The goddess's tongue moved seductively, searching for the position of Seiya's. An immense amount of information and a comfortable feeling, as if to pierce through him, raced through Seiya's mind.
Might as well let it all happen naturally.
Seiya's consciousness gradually lost itself in the dizzying, uplifting sensation. And the goddess, as if seeing through the Saint's thoughts, revealed a faint smile.
A Godslayer possesses a tenacious resistance to all forms of mystery. This is effective not only against an enemy's techniques but also against harmless, beneficial magic. A Godslayer will repel even magic used by their own companions. Therefore, the most direct method is to drive the mystery directly into their body.
What the goddess was now exercising was a magic that imparted her own knowledge.
It was the history related to the goddess Aphrodite.
As told in Hesiod's Theogony, Aphrodite was born from the foam created when the symbol of the sky god Uranus was cast into the sea. She was the princess of the foam. She emerged from a giant seashell that rose from the sea and walked barefoot onto the beach. Wherever she walked, beautiful flowers bloomed.
She is a symbol of beauty and love, with direct links to ancient fertility and nurturing goddesses such as Hathor, Isis, Inanna, and Astarte. At the same time, from the wellspring of mythology, Aphrodite can also be traced back to the Phoenicians, and she is the sister of the Babylonian goddess Ishtar and the Syrian Phoenician goddess Astarte—Inanna.
Therefore, beauty, nurturing, and lust are all her Authorities. Aphrodite was also once revered as the patron goddess of sailors. The people living on bays and islands widely worshipped Aphrodite, so she also had various epithets such as "Aphrodite on the Bay," "Aphrodite who grants fair winds," and "Aphrodite who calms the seas." In addition, in places like Cyprus, Cythera, and Sparta, she was also revered as an armored war god.
But the closest and most representative connection is love.
The Authority of love could make all things unable to bear her harm. The Authority of love could allow her to easily capture all of humanity. The Authority of love could allow her to summon the power of friends with whom she had connections in various myths, or even in reality. At the same time, the Authority of love could also erupt with astonishing power when the necessary conditions were met.
For example, now.
A kiss is the most primitive of contracts, symbolizing the connection between people. Many primates also exhibit kissing behavior. In a more distant era, kissing displayed the primitive biological meaning of smelling hormones. And at this moment, through this contract, an invisible ribbon was tied between the two of them.
The purpose was to immediately and in detail teach Seiya the history and nature related to Aphrodite. This was all thanks to the forbidden knowledge transmitted through lips and tongue, through sweet breath and saliva, which gradually unveiled the true face of the goddess Aphrodite.
The three names Aphrodite, Venus, and Stella also represented a shift in her focus.
But at this very moment, a violent moonlight poured down like a heavy pressure. The sky and the courtyard were connected by a silver-white line.
The death-heralding night wind blew across the land, but the frail goddess was not afraid in the slightest. Because Seiya, his chest bared, was standing in front of her, shielding her. And this forced Athena to stay her hand!
The true goddess of war, the triune Athena, finally made her appearance. But what entered her sight was Seiya, his face cupped by Stella, seemingly having lost his self-awareness. His entire body was wrapped in the Belt of Friendship, his original clothes completely dissolved in the moonlight. At this moment, he was like the naked boy Cupid in Caravaggio's Amor Vincit Omnia, where lust had triumphed over civilization.
In the domain of love, Stella was equivalent to a powerhouse like Shaka or Saga among the Saints!
"Oh, Athena, you've come!" Stella wrapped her arms around Seiya's neck from behind, resting her chin lightly on his shoulder and looking playfully at the goddess with whom she had a deep-seated grudge. "Oh, and I forgot to tell you... Pegasus tastes wonderful. Very moist!"
Athena's gaze was sharp. "You base beast, dominated by lust. This humble one will nail you to Mount Etna and let a thousand vipers and a thousand owls peck at your body every day. Prepare yourself!"
"Oh, that sounds so scary, hahahaha!" Stella laughed, hugging Seiya's neck. "This is the expression! This expression of hating me to the point of madness, this expression of jealousy! I must record it and spread it for all the gods to admire!"
Stella laughed, one could even say she roared with laughter! She laughed with abandon, with exhilaration! Her conflict with Athena was long-standing. From the catalyst of the Golden Apple incident, to the division of camps in the Trojan War, to their complete opposition in the field of modern philosophy. Athena's wisdom was seen as a model of reason by philosophers like Plato, while Stella's passion was the source of creativity in Greek philosophy.
They represented the two poles of ancient Greek mythology: reason and desire, order and freedom. But unfortunately, Stella, as the other pole, had rarely won against Athena. In the divine realm, she had even been nearly beaten to soul-death by the other war goddess, Athena. Beaten from a voluptuous, mature woman into a charmless loli, beaten until her heart-gathering, huge breasts were nothing but a pair of unremarkable A-cups. How could she not hate, how could she not resent?
From the very beginning, her target was the Pegasus she had spied through her spirit vision while in the divine realm! Don't you get it, Athena? The strong belong only to the beautiful!
"What I have lost, I will definitely take back!" Stella clenched her fists, grinding her teeth.
Now that I have obtained this incredibly strong Pegasus, I will definitely return to the divine realm and beat Athena until she kneels on the ground, until she becomes my slave! But first, let's start with this stronger, triune holy mother!
Athena held her winged staff, her divine might like a prison. She was not a goddess of eloquence, nor did she intend to waste words on this base Stella. Facing Athena, Stella still felt an instinctual fear. But soon, she tightened her arms around Seiya's neck and revealed a triumphant smile.
In her hands now, she held an unbeatable trump card!
"Pegasus, you will definitely protect me, right?" Stella whispered in Seiya's ear, her voice full of seduction. "Now, use the Pegasus Meteor Fist on Athena!"
Stella watched as the light rose from the Saint's fists, and in the next instant, a hand was choking her own neck.
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