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00:07Theon! Mortal!
00:09You rabid, sixteen temples of the sun, three thousand ordained priests, sacrilege, beyond redemption.
00:17What do you have to say for yourself?
00:22Say what?
00:24Stubborn to the end.
00:26Pythias! High Priestess of Apollo! I authorize you! Make him talk!
00:37Is that it?
00:38The god It's pet can't even swing a whip without running out of breath.
00:44Now that's a spine.
00:46Haven't seen balls like that on this mountain since Prometheus swiped the fire.
00:49Oh, look who trolled out. The mighty conqueror of the twelve labors himself.
00:54Zeus calls, you ghost him every time, but one mortal's about to get his head lopped off, and suddenly here
00:59you are like a stray dog that caught the scent of blood?
01:01I bled for my godhead! Twelve trials, twelve kills! Not like some pretty boy who got invisible cause mommy dunked
01:08him in a river!
01:09I'm here to watch a man die! Problem?
01:13Whatever helps you sleep at night, big guy.
01:17Enough! Cut off his limbs!
01:20Drain him of every last drop of Demgod blood, and throw what's left into the abyss!
01:27You old bastard chaos. I crawled through the pits of hell just to reach you. Thought maybe. Just maybe.
01:36I'd finally have enough to spit in the face of fate. Fought my way through all of it, and it
01:42still wasn't enough.
01:43A whole mountain of false gods, and here I am in chains. That spark you gave me, looks like it
01:50dies today.
01:51Wretched little mud-borne creature. The gods put bread in your mouths, and this is how you repay them?
01:57By sinking your teeth into the hand that feeds you?
02:09Your blade split Apollo's golden idol in half. Sixteen holy temples.
02:16Ash. Thousands of his anointed priests choking on their own blood.
02:21Your soul belongs in the Magna. Let it burn for all eternity.
02:27Three thousand leeches who fatten on the blood of the poor. I put them down, and I do it again.
02:44Silence, wretch. You torched holy ground, butchered priests by the hundreds, and you still have the gall to run your
02:49mouth on this tribunal.
02:50Who gave you the right to judge me, Poseidon?
02:53When the plague tore through Athens, and ten thousand people rotted in the street, where was your precious light then?
02:59People were dying in the gutters. Couldn't even get a handful of herbs.
03:03And what did your temple of light do? Sent down an oracle demanding the poor hand over their last shreph
03:10of food.
03:12Kimmeras were snatching children from their beds, and you didn't lift a finger.
03:18Then you had the nerve to call it... What was it?
03:21Oh, right. A trial ordained by Apollo.
03:29Your so-called divine authority feeds on the living, drinks from the dying.
03:33Every last one I find, I'll rip apart with my bare hands.
03:37The covenant is supposed to be a fair trade.
03:40Take the mortal's grain, then let them feed the beasts.
03:42Deli's been double-dipped. And frankly, it's getting a bit ugly.
03:47The kid's right!
03:49If it were me, I'd have tossed those white-robed cowards into my forge and hammered them into scrap metal.
03:54One by goddamn one!
03:56Sit down!
03:57This is a tribunal, not your forge.
04:03What are you to question the gods?
04:06If the Lord of Light demands an entire city burn with him, that is the honor those insects should be
04:12grateful for.
04:13Your worthless bones paved the road into his throne. That is fate to give to you!
04:18Privilege?
04:19My only regret is I wasn't fast enough.
04:22Should have burned Apollo's eight and you withered, you deranged old hag.
04:25Heretic!
04:27Lord Poseidon, this creature's soul is rotted beyond salvation.
04:31As High Priestess of the Temple of Light, I invoke the Well of Truth, the mirror that reflects all cause
04:37and consequences.
04:38Let it end this farce once and for all!
04:43Truth? The Well of Truth?
04:47High Priestess, strip him of his demigod power.
04:51Banish him to the wastelands of Hades.
04:53That sentence is more than enough to pay for the Temple's losses.
04:58There's no need to invoke the Well.
05:00Lord Postein! He drowned Apollo's sacred flame in his own filthy blood!
05:04He fed the profited oracles to the vultures!
05:07And now he stands before the gods and spits on the glory of the sun!
05:11Mere exile! How does that cleanse sacrilege of this magnitude?
05:14Once the Well of Truth opens, it rips a soul's fate threads wide open by force.
05:21Unleashing a judgment of the Twelve upon a mere demigod, it's out of proportion.
05:26It breaks protocol.
05:28Protocol?
05:29Then explain this.
05:31How does a nobody from the Slim survive ten years fighting in the deepest pit of Tartus?
05:37How does a mortal ascend to demigod?
05:39Something is hiding behind him.
05:42Something heretical.
05:44What the hell is this hag getting at?
05:46Don't play hero.
05:48She wants the Well to expose whoever trained him, whoever's been protecting him,
05:53and nail them to this tribunal right next to him.
05:56Make no mistake.
05:58This is Apollo moving the pieces.
06:02Oh, this is rich.
06:04Can't crush one little mortal, so now they want to dig up whoever taught him and put them on trial
06:10too?
06:10Real classy move, Temple of Light.
06:13Lord Poseidon, the Temple of Light won't back down.
06:17Deny them this, and Apollo's fury will be difficult to contain.
06:22Perhaps it's wiser to let them see it through.
06:29The High Priestess insists.
06:31So be it.
06:33Granted.
06:34Well of Truth, descend!
06:39Bring it on!
06:41I stared down the monsters in the best.
06:43You think I'm scared of your little splash?
06:45Pour it all out!
06:45Let's see who really swirls when the truth hits the mirror!
06:52Absolute madman.
06:53That's what I wild wolf who doesn't know the rules and doesn't give a damn.
06:57Just goes for the throat and never lets go!
07:00Crazy?
07:01This kid's got nothing on you.
07:03Remember when you shot an arrow at the Sun God's chariot just across a damn sea?
07:07And then you beat Death himself into the dirt with your bare fists.
07:11Wrestled Alklektis' soul right out of his hands.
07:17Piss off!
07:18Stop bringing up my old crap.
07:22Back up, back up.
07:23That lunatic is fiercely protective.
07:26He once tied up Thanius and beat the living daylights out of him.
07:28Tell me about it.
07:30Not even Zeus can keep him on a sleash.
07:34Hercules!
07:35Please, stow your tavern-browl theastrix.
07:38This is the sacred tribunal!
07:40One more word out of you, you old shrick.
07:43And I'll rip what's left of your precious temple apart with my bare hands!
07:47Right now!
07:49All of you, shut up!
07:52Listen well, Theron.
07:54If the mirror proves your hands are clean, I'll grant you a quick death.
07:57But if that water shows you've been hiding behind justice for mortals while serving your own ends...
08:03I will drive this trident through your chest myself.
08:07And what's left of your soul, I'll carve into pieces and feed to Cerberus.
08:13Let the gods witness!
08:14Which wretched, suicidal hair attack dared raise a creature who desiccates the light?
08:28Theron!
08:29Keep that Belos going.
08:31If I'm not back by nightfall, you head north.
08:34Beg, Grohl, do whatever it takes.
08:36Just stay alive!
08:37Don't go!
08:38It's the Hydra in those swamps, it's blood through stone!
08:41That Demophord picked his own fight!
08:43Why should you die for it?
08:48Let go of me!
08:51Hercules went out there to protect us!
08:53He's pinned down by the venom now!
08:56No fire, no way out!
08:57He's dead for sure!
09:05Hercules!
09:05I brought the fire!
09:08I brought the fire!
09:10I brought the fire!
09:10A mortal!
09:11Get out of here!
09:12The air is pure venom!
09:14You'll be dead before you reach me!
09:16Catch it!
09:16Burn the stumps!
09:18Cops got their eyes the next before they throw back!
09:40A
09:40Roots
09:42I
09:46Can
09:47Have you lost your mind?
09:50The Hydra's venom eats through bronze shields.
09:52Your hands are gone.
09:54Those smithing hands are gone!
09:56Ruined hands beat a whole village full of corpses.
10:00If that thing had snapped your neck out there,
10:03those people back home wouldn't have lived to see sunrise.
10:09Go to Delphi.
10:10Find the priests at Apollo's temple.
10:14They've got holy water that can slow the poison.
10:16It'll keep you alive.
10:21Those pristine marble steps of theirs
10:24aren't meant for the likes of a sod-covered blacksmith.
10:28Take my token.
10:30Drop my name.
10:31Tell them Hercules sent you.
10:34Once I finish these goddamn trials.
10:37I'm hauling a whole cart of gold to that city
10:40and dragging you out myself!
10:42Then I'll pray you.
10:43Make it through those trials alive, big fella.
10:47Don't let those high and mighty bastards on the mountain look down on you.
11:04Grandpa, I sold it!
11:07The forge!
11:08The last of the good iron!
11:09Even Mother's silver necklace!
11:11Sold it all to the trade caravan!
11:16The white-robed priests swore to me.
11:18If we offer everything to the temple of light,
11:21they'll grant us the holy water.
11:23They'll wash the venom right out of you.
11:26Grandpa, you'll be okay.
11:28We can go up those steps today.
11:30No!
11:31No!
11:32That's your money!
11:33It's everything you have left to survive on!
11:37The temple...
11:38The temple won't help us.
11:40The priests swore an oath in the name of the light!
11:44Grandpa, it's going to be all right.
11:45We're going up those steps today.
11:50The priests swore an oath in the name of the sky.
11:51Hercules, if you ever do become a god, look down just once.
11:56See what a mortal's life is really worth to that temple of yours.
12:03May Apollo's radiance forgive your ignorance.
12:06Old blacksmith, even if you dug up every grain of dirt in Sparta,
12:11it wouldn't buy you a single drop of Apollo's holy water.
12:15Every promise the gods made was a lie.
12:19I should have let the Hydra's venom melt that glorious hero into a puddle of rot.
12:26This is the price of meddling in the trials of Olympia.
12:30Fate has decreed that you rot where you stand.
12:33This is everything we have. We sold everything for this.
12:37Every last coin goes to the temple.
12:39Please, just one drop of holy water for my grandfather.
12:43The Temple of Light has no use for your peasant pocket change.
12:55Damn it. How can a lowly blacksmith's fate be woven this deeply into the affairs of Olympus?
13:02So that's what this is. The kid chained up on this rock today.
13:05He's the grandson of the blacksmith who saved the god of war.
13:08The same old man, these white rope worms, left to rot!
13:13That can't be right. The mirror must be wrong.
13:16Enough pretending you don't see it.
13:19That shaking little boy clutching copper coins in the mirror
13:22is the man in chains on this tribunal right now.
13:25He's not here to be judged.
13:27He's here to collect blood debt from all of Olympus.
13:35Open up! Give me the cure!
13:39I swear I'll skin every last one of you!
13:43Foolish little beast.
13:45You think mortal iron can cut through the radiance of the sun?
13:52Give him the antidote!
13:54My grandfather took that poison for your Olympian!
13:58This is the ending the mores have written.
14:01The old blacksmith tampered with a divine trial.
14:04This rotting flesh is the punishment he was meant to bear.
14:08Screw your bullshit, Oracle!
14:10You took our gold! Now give us the cure!
14:12Gold can only pave the road to the deepest pit of Hades.
14:16It can't buy you a second chance against divine will.
14:19Go kneel at the edge of the abyss and pray.
14:35Phyra, stay ready.
14:49Grandpa! Don't close your eyes!
14:52Look at me!
15:04Seventy years.
15:05That little boy in the blizzard who couldn't buy a single drop of holy water!
15:10That was you!
15:13I bet the Temple of Light was heartbroken when I didn't have the Dixancy to freeze to death out there.
15:19I told you, Apollo breeds nothing but bloodsuckers like here.
15:25Say the word, big man.
15:26I can have a raiding party at Delphi's Gates by sundown.
15:29Leave nothing but ash.
15:31Ha ha ha!
15:35Achilles, stand down!
15:37Hercules, look where you are!
15:39Reign in your power.
15:41Now!
15:42The craft of the forge, I gave that to mankind with my own hands.
15:46That old blacksmith was my disciple among mortals.
15:50Pythria, your precious temple.
15:52Let him die like a dog in the snow.
15:56The Temple of Light thought it was putting a mortal on trial.
15:59In reality, you've been poking a demigannon Braserta into drawing his weapon.
16:09The Temple of Light thought it was putting a lot on trial.
16:11You Temple of Light!
16:15Oh!
16:16Oh!
16:16Oh!
16:17Oh!
16:18Oh!
16:23Oh!
16:29Oh!
16:31Oh!
16:32Oh!
16:33The ills of fate do not turn backward.
16:36For some gutter-born nobody.
16:41To hell with Fakite!
16:46I bled out in those 12 trials.
16:49So you could sit pretty in your temple.
16:52That old blacksmith caught the hydra's venom for me.
16:57And your people ground him into dust.
17:10If this mirror shows me the old man's kin suffered even one more indignity, I will snap
17:16every pillar on this tribunal and shove them down your throats!
17:22Lord Apollo, send the sun chariot!
17:26This mad beast will tear Olympus apart.
17:30Hi, priestess.
17:32You unchained this beast.
17:35Now, do you still dare look deeper into that well?
17:39Tear it open!
17:41Tear it open!
17:41Rip his soul bare!
17:42I want every god here to see exactly who gave this monster the power to slay the divine!
17:50Oh, this is getting good.
17:53Athena, 10 gold coins says the sun god himself shows up before the hour's out.
18:00Achilles, reign in your bloodlust.
18:03Sheath the sword.
18:08Perseus, put down that rusty pig-stipper of yours.
18:11Grab the Medusa shield and get to the tribunal.
18:15Things are about to get... divine.
18:30Hold on!
18:31That rusty blade in his hands!
18:33That's the old blacksmith's craft!
18:35No doubt about it!
18:36But who took that scrap metal and honed it into a weapon that can kill gods?!
18:43Which means whoever reforged his mortal bones...
18:47is someone else entirely.
18:49Hercules!
18:50You killed the Hydra barely 70 years ago.
18:5570 years isn't nearly enough for a half-frozen mortal runt to become a monster who carves through high priests
19:01like lambs.
19:03Who did he meet down in that abyss?
19:0670 years to cross the line between mortal and divine.
19:10That's open defiance of the loom of fate.
19:13Ha ha ha!
19:14Drop the act!
19:16That move he pulled just now?
19:17It's a dead ringer for you ripping the Nemean lion apart bare-handed.
19:21Come on, fess up.
19:22He's your secret apprentice, isn't he?
19:25You taught him how to put gods under his boot.
19:28Shut it!
19:28I don't even know his name!
19:35Fythia, this mortal has already cracked open the laws of Olympus.
19:39You keep pulling on that thread, tracing his power back to its source, and you might just drag the sun
19:44god himself off his high horse.
19:46I don't care!
19:48Fate's judgment cannot be halted!
19:51I want every god here to see who's been pulling the strings!
19:55Who gave wretch wretch the nerve to kill god?
19:58Well of truth, accelerate the trace, now!
20:09Stop!
20:10Pythias, the presence inside the mirror has changed!
20:13This is not the power of Olympus!
20:25Don't think you can hide behind illusions!
20:28Trace the source off!
20:30I want every god here to see who gave this mortal the power to slaughter the anointed!
20:41Well, well, a little beggar.
20:43Hercules, if this kid were really your apprentice, you'd have slapped him into paste by now, wouldn't you?
20:52Shut your mouth!
20:53If I'd trained him, every last one of these temple rats would have had their necks snapped already!
20:58They wouldn't still be standing here, flapping their lips!
21:01They wouldn't be standing here flapping their lips!
21:25You and your Hydra poison filth, don't you dare defile Apollo's holy ground!
21:31Please, sir! My grandfather took that poison, saving Hercules! We gave everything we had, please! Just one drop of holy
21:39water! Does the God of Light only save the rich?
21:45Your handful of scrap copper wouldn't buy a single brick of this temple! He got poisoned because he deserved it.
21:53The God of Light never shelters beggars! Enough!
22:03The gods are merciful.
22:06Please save my grandfather! I'll do anything!
22:15Dead men have no value, but you...
22:19You can still be useful as livestock.
22:38Not even the sacred waters of Castipia can scrub the stench off this gutter rat!
22:45Then stop wasting it. Hand him a blade and send him to the bone pit on the back hill. That's
22:51where something like him belongs.
22:57Who said you could sleep? Tonight is the night of omens.
23:05Kneel before the sacred flame and hold this coin in your mouth. Three days. If the coin drops, or if
23:13you so much as close your eyes, I'll gouge them out and offer them to the sun god myself.
23:24The long night has passed. Did the great Apollo, Dean, to send you even a whisper of prophecy?
23:38The God bestowed his grace, and you have nothing to show for it!
23:44You shoved a coin in my mouth! How was I supposed to talk?
23:49Talking back now? You think you deserve to speak with the gods?
23:53Get out there and live every pedestal of every column in this courtyard, all 100 of them clean!
24:03This is what you call divine mercy? Making a seven-year-old kid lick stone pillars?
24:08Silence! Mortals are born with sin! The Temple of Light was cleansing his corruption! This is a divine trial!
24:15A trial? Why doesn't Apollo go try it himself? That old blacksmith was my disciple! And you lot trampled his
24:26grandson like this?
24:31How delightful! Priests who preach divine oracles by day and play demons by night!
24:36Tell me, Pythia, any guesses how this kid survived all that?
24:40How he survived doesn't matter! Those who defile the gods belong in Taurasus!
25:06A filthy pig wants to eat meat? Where is your reverence for the gods?
25:13...
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25:46who said you could sleep copy the divine scriptures 100 times miss a single word
25:55and i break a rib your grandfather took that poison for the gods why wouldn't they even give him a
26:05scrap of bread
26:07a common blacksmith dying for the gods that's more glory than scub like him ever deserved
26:16now write
26:29glory he didn't deserve that's the doctrine of your precious temple of light
26:37this is merely the necessary trial to purge mortal weakness he refused to be civilized
26:45oh shit make him sleep in a cellar and dousing him with ice water you're worse than the demons in
26:56tados riveting stuff high priestess the mirror's not done yet care to wager what other heartwarming
27:04mercies are coming next priestess pythera the code of olympius is clear unprovoked abuse of a minor
27:12under temple sanctuary is a capital offense perseus watch your tongue abuse this was an internal ruling
27:20of the temple want the broth then say it loud admit that your village was cursed because your parents
27:29were greedy tried to hoard her offerings meant for the gods admit that your grandfather was gnawed by
27:36wild dogs because he was arrogant enough to think a mortal's iron could beat fate lies my grandfather
27:43was a hero
27:46a hero a stinking blacksmith take your tainted bloodline and go lap up the mud where you belong
28:07unforgivable that old blacksmith took poison for the gods and you wouldn't even give him a burial mat
28:16apollo show yourself now scarding broth poured over a child's head is this your idea of glorious divine
28:27scripture
28:31my arrows have pierced every manner of beast but i've never seen anything more vile than the creatures in
28:56my fellow gods mortals are born in sin without the crucible of suffering how can they be worthy to gaze
29:05upon
29:05the light this is education
29:16education that old man saved my life and you you sanctonious animals enough both of you
29:26are apollo the web of lies your servants wove in the mortal world you'd better start explaining
29:34zeus calm yourself strictly treaking apollo was mere enforcing the iron law that fate cannot be reversed
29:40using scalding broth to demonstrate divine authority that is the absolute power olympus granted them
29:49so the iron law of the temple of light comes down to hiding behind temple walls and tormenting a child
29:55someone should drag these noble priests to the front lines see how much of troy their precious broth can sculpt
30:01silence the well of truth hasn't finished its trace keep watching
30:11still bitter about your pathetic bloodline the more eyes cursed you and your kind the day you were born
30:18before sundown fill the olive kiln on the hill to the brim miss a single log
30:24and i'll skin you alive and leave you for the wolves
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31:17jesus
31:18I'm going to burn the Temple of Light to the ground!
31:22Rage alone won't even ruffle Apollo's cloak.
31:25If you truly want to make a god bleed,
31:27find the centaur Kidron on Mount Pelion.
31:31He'll point you toward the Echo Rift,
31:33at the edge of the world where Tartarus whispers back.
31:45That kid from the slums,
31:46he actually jumped into the Echo Rift of Tartarus.
31:49Is he the one, the last disciple Chaos ever took?
31:56My sun chariot patrols every inch of the earth.
32:00There's no rift beyond my sight.
32:02The deepest floor of Tartarus devours even a god's divine sense.
32:06A mere mortal jumping in should have been reduced to as ash.
32:10The Echo Rift,
32:11a domain the Mori's queen has never touched.
32:14It exists beyond the jurisdiction of Olympus entirely.
32:18An absolute void.
32:20Quiet!
32:21Beyond the dominion of sky and sea,
32:23there lies a chaos more ancient than any of us.
32:26The Well of Truth does not lie.
32:29Keep watching,
32:29and see what this munal dragged out of the abyss.
32:32The Casterian Spring.
32:35Corrupted?
32:36What force on this earth
32:38dares blind the gaze of the sun god?
32:41This isn't a veil, Apollo.
32:42The well draws its power from the Mori,
32:45and their reach cannot penetrate this form.
32:47A corner where even fate cannot leave.
32:50What lies buried there is an atrocity so ancient
32:52that even Zeus refuses to speak its name.
32:57The things that were cracking to Mother Gaia's belly
32:59before the War of Titans?
33:01The primordial horrors?
33:06A mortal insect.
33:09Three winters have shredded your skin and bone,
33:13yet failed to freeze your arrogance.
33:16The abyss does not harbor vermin.
33:19Take this.
33:21A drop of crystallized titan blood.
33:24Enough to make your husk hard as bronze.
33:27Go play tyrant in the mortal world for a few centuries.
33:31Bask in their growling and stop disturbing my sleep.
33:35I crawled here over a mountain of corpses,
33:37not to become another one of your divine puppets.
33:40I want the forbidden knowledge.
33:42I want the kind of power that can drag the thrones of Olympias
33:46straight into the pit.
33:48Ten years.
33:49The toxic breath of the abyss should have ground your bones to dust.
33:53And instead it forged you into a vessel for chaos.
33:59The blade that truly pierces a god's throne
34:02is forged from mortal despair and mortal curses.
34:06The mortal called Theron is dead.
34:08Now take this cursed shell of yours,
34:11crawl back into the abyss,
34:12and sharpen your fangs.
34:20As you wish, master.
34:24And when I climb back out,
34:26I'm taking the sun god's head with me.
34:35The well of truth can't even identify that black fog?
34:39Nothing in existence should be able to hide from the mirror!
34:42My light was obliterated in that domain.
34:45The shadow in the mirror doesn't even exist within the laws of this world.
34:49It was born before light and order themselves,
34:51the primordial chaos.
34:52Naturally, the mirror cannot reflect what predates reflection itself.
34:57Chaos?
34:58The origin of all things?
35:00This mere mortal knocked on the door of the primordial void itself?
35:06Ha ha ha ha ha!
35:07What a beast!
35:09A mortal body!
35:10And he clawed his way into the school of chaos itself!
35:12So tell me, Apollo,
35:13do you finally realize what kind of monster you created?
35:16Shut your mouth!
35:17A herrick tainted by the forbidden chaos!
35:20Olympus cannot allow him to breathe!
35:31Put away your fire, Apollo.
35:34He's not some mortal you can torch on a whim anymore.
35:37Inside that body flows blood older than Olympus itself,
35:41the blood of the primordial.
35:43Lord Poseidon is right.
35:45The moray cannot interfere with the shadow primordial chaos left behind.
35:49My lords,
35:51we may have stumbled upon a tumor we cannot cut out.
35:58The Temple of Light will never tolerate defiling of authority!
36:02Cast him down to the deepest pit of Tartarus immediately!
36:09Olympus is stiff of that old thing in the void.
36:11Fine, I get it.
36:12But you're a disciple of chaos too,
36:14so why are you sitting there like a log?
36:17You actually bear the signal.
36:19I do.
36:20But Heracles,
36:21this mortal shell of mine,
36:22can't hold the chaos flame much longer.
36:25Swallow your despair and choke on it!
36:27You and I are of the same bloodline,
36:29chaos' own.
36:30I will not let you die on these hypocrites' stage!
36:33If Apollo drops the blade today,
36:35I'll flip this entire mountain before I let it fall!
36:39Deal.
36:41Enough!
36:41The well of truth ends here!
36:44You
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