Chapter 311 Chapter The "missing" Ares

Lin You has improved many magics, and the magic of extracting and viewing memories in front of him is no exception. It comes from the story of Harry Potter, but the difference is that wizards need to use a pensieve to view memories, while Lin You can use divine power to create real-time 3D images.

The Ares in the picture has a mustache and deep eyes. Compared with the Ares in the big world Olympus, this branch god of unknown origin is less vicious and violent, but more frivolous and sees through human nature and the world.

God looked at it carefully for a moment and sighed softly: "It is indeed Him."

Lin You immediately pricked up his ears: "Who is it? Do you know which story this Ares came from?"

"Of course I know." God's eyes were fixed on the screen. "He did hide his strength. With His true level, even if He is not your opponent, He will not lose to you. He will not be easily fooled by your tricks of showing weakness. But I didn't expect that He could actually find a way to escape from under my nose."

"Where did he come from?" Lin You asked.

God retracted his gaze, looked at the writer, and answered seriously: "DC World."

"DC?" Lin You was stunned for a moment, "Are you talking about the story of Wonder Woman?"

God nodded slightly. "After I took over the position of Supreme God of DC stories, the originally broken DC world was almost integrated, except for the fragments of Wonder Woman's story. On the one hand, it was because this story had been infiltrated by the big world, and on the other hand, it was because the story itself was missing an irreplaceable piece of the puzzle, which led to serious logical errors."

"That piece of the puzzle is Ares?"

"Yes." God nodded first, and then further explained, "When the DC world was broken, most of the content about the myths and legends of the earth was preserved by me in the Wonder Woman story - including several versions of comics before and after, as well as early film and television dramas. In order to protect the stability of the fragments to the greatest extent, I chose the most influential new version of the movie as the main body."

The writer asked, "Is that the one starring Gal Gadot?"

"Of course. Any comic or TV series earlier than this one have not been able to achieve real global influence. At least, there weren't so many movie theaters in early China, and there weren't so many American programs on TV, right?" God answered as a matter of course.

"and after?"

"Then I discovered a serious problem: Ares in the movie version of the story was gone. No matter how hard I looked, I couldn't find him. I thought that this part of the information was lost because the world was broken, so I didn't pay much attention to it. When integrating the DC story, I remixed the character information of Ares in the comic version and replaced it. But I didn't expect..."

God's eyes fell on the magic picture again, looking at the face inside that was calm yet somewhat eager.

"Ares in the DC story, in addition to being the God of War and a symbol of war, violence and killing, is also described as a strategist who is good at plotting and scheming." Lin You recalled the contents of the comics and movies, and his headache increased the more he talked.

"That's why I reminded you not to be careless when facing Ares. You are not dealing with a hot-tempered and reckless god of war, but a conspirator beside him." Lin You asked, "How long do you think these two Ares have known each other and how long have they cooperated?"

"Since the failure of the first Grand World Project, I couldn't find Ares when I was picking up the broken pieces of the DC story world; I'm not even sure when He left." God pondered, "He and Ares of the Grand World knew each other at the beginning of the first Grand World Project, but their cooperation should not have lasted long."

"why?"

"If they had cooperated earlier, the turmoil in the God of War world would not have been resolved so easily."

Lin You couldn't help but frown: "You think highly of Ares in this DC world!"

"Because this Ares is a character reshaped from the perspective of the 21st century; whether in terms of the complexity of the character's personality, the meticulousness of his thinking, or the breadth of his vision, it is far superior to the simple image of his early years. He can be said to be the Ares with the most profound thoughts in history."

God's answer made the author suddenly realize that the characters in the imaginary dimension were ultimately created by humans in the real dimension; even if the gods see through the truth of the dimension and awaken, their words, deeds and ways of thinking will still be affected by human cognition.

But when it comes to human cognition of the world, of course, it becomes more complex as time goes by. Just like when Wu Chengen wrote about Sun Wukong, his golden hoop weighed 13,500 kilograms, equivalent to more than six tons; when modern writers or screenwriters write fantasy stories, weapons of this weight are only used by extras.

Is Wu Chengen's creativity or "courage" inferior to that of modern people? Of course not! What he lacked was not his personal IQ, but the cognitive level of the entire society. When Wu Chengen wrote Journey to the West, 13,500 kilograms of copper and iron was already an astonishing number; how did he know that this was just the load capacity of a medium-sized truck in later generations?

The same logic applies to Ares. The Ares in classical mythology was a creation of humans in the classical era; the character structure of Ares in comics, movies and TV series in the 1970s and 1980s also had to conform to the thinking of the last century. In that era, being able to break doors and windows with bare hands was considered a strongman in the audience's perception, and being able to lift a car was considered a superhero.

Lin You even vaguely remembered that there was a Hercules movie starring Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1980s. The way to show Hercules' power in the movie was to have him fight with an ordinary grizzly bear, and it took him quite a while to drive the bear away...

If it were put into a superhero movie of the 21st century, let alone the protagonist, if any villain relied on defeating an ordinary grizzly bear to show his strength, the audience would probably simply regard him as a passerby.

So what God said was right. This "DC World Ares" is indeed the Ares with the most complex personality and character in history. He is also likely to be the God of War with the most vision and the deepest understanding of human civilization and human nature. Although his hard power is not very strong, when he cooperates with the original Ares of the big world, the threat he brings may not be less than that of the original Ares.

The author regretted not having thought of this earlier; after staying in the virtual dimension for too long and interacting more with local gods and humans, he actually forgot the essence of this world.

“Damn, those people in the real dimension are always thinking about creating villains with depth and three-dimensionality, but they never thought about how much trouble it will cause to me as the writer, and how much of an obstacle it will cause to the big world plan?” Lin You couldn’t help but curse.

God's face was calm, and his tone was deep: "I am very worried now. Is the real purpose of the two Ares to take away the Sands of Time just to facilitate their escape?"

(End of this chapter)