While the wedding of Heracles and Hebe was being held on Olympus, humans on Earth were preparing for a final battle with a divine beast.
Because Oeneus, the king of Calydon, forgot to make sacrifices to Artemis, the goddess of the moon, the enraged Artemis sent her divine beast, a boar, to completely ruin Calydon's crops.
Squeal-!!!
"Aaargh! That crazy monster is destroying my vineyard!"
"Which god's wrath have we incurred? Did Your Majesty do something wrong?"
"Ugh... Our soldiers' spears and swords are useless. We have no options."
This boar was the offspring of Phaea, a female boar that lived between Megara and Corinth.
When Phaea was killed by the hero Theseus, Artemis had taken in her offspring and made it her divine beast.
People were helpless as the boar, with a body comparable to a bull and tusks as large as elephant ivory, rampaged.
Because it was under Artemis's protection... spears thrown by ordinary soldiers missed their mark, and arrows were ineffective...
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