The Bride Of War God [English] HIATUS

Chapter 14 - Finding The Princess

It had been fifteen minutes since Ares left his residence to look for the princess. He rushed and forced herion to run faster.

The princess could die at any time, even a few seconds after the local earthquake occurred. But Ares knew that his new wife was still alive because the bracelet he gave her had a transmitter.

The transmitter indicated that she was still alive but did not knew what her condition was. She could be dying, or broken a few bones. He could have brought home a crippled girl who was no longer beautiful to look at. But Ares was not a heartless man. No matter how bad her condition is later, Ares will make sure she gets good care.

Worst case scenario, she could be dead by the time Ares found her. She was lost in the mountains of Olympus. A place where human-eating monsters roam freely. When the monsters met the smell of humans— they would act like sharks in the ocean when they smelled the blood of their prey.

If the Spartan princess was destined to die before she met Ares—her body would probably be sent back to Sparta. Ares knew that Princess Portia's current position was in Hades' territory. It was the worst place for humans. Because the monsters there are much more ferocious than other areas. In addition, Hades likes to experiment with humans in the name of science.

Herion's steps stopped for a moment and he panicked a little because the two of them met something that gave off an intimidating aura. A cyclops, sitting in the middle of the path while looking at them.

"Get out of the way!" Ares said.

He had to be a bit louder if he wanted to communicate with the cyclops. They were big, scary and so strong. They could uproot trees and their roots with their bare hands. But they were stupid.

The cyclops was male with one big eye on his forehead and wore buffalo skin to wrap around his lower body. Not many of their kind lived on Olympus. They may be monsters but had the intelligence equal to a stupid eleven year old boy.

They are solitary creatures who easily get angry. They do not like crowds so they choose to hide in caves in the highlands and stay away from humans. Sometimes there was a group of hungry cyclops who no longer felt full enough to eat livestock and try to prey on humans.

It was one of Ares' duties as a god. He had to prevent the monsters from running amok in human settlements. The monsters were kept by Olympus to repel and frighten humans. But there's always something out of control.

Humans remember the monsters in legend. Like the nine-headed serpent monster named Hydra who was fought by Hercules, or the Cyclops in the story of Jason and the Argonauts.

Cyclops before Ares did not budge. He seemed almost asleep. Then Ares saw something in his hand. There was a rope attached to something. At first Ares thought it was a wild boar or wolf who had the misfortune to become a cyclops toy. It turned out to be a Satyr, the half-human creature with goat legs.

The satyr looked desperate and pale. Looks like he's been the cyclops' toy for days.

Cyclops, different from the bull monster he met last time. They are much more powerful and troublesome. In addition they were rare species that were not easily reproduced. Hades is always angry and asks for compensation if Ares kills cyclops in his hunting activities.

But Ares couldn't force his horse to enter the dense Pine forest and walked around. The princess of Sparta could be dying. even one second means a lot right now.

Ares chose to leave Herion and continued his journey on foot. The over two thousand year old god was confident in his running speed. He walked through the remaining narrow gap.