Eris relished the chilly winds as they whipped through her dark hair and purple peploi. The chaotic beauty of the weather was a thrill for her senses. She followed her mortal guide, who was dressed in a heavy yellow snowsuit, up the snowy mountain trail. Eris, protected by her sandals, effortlessly navigated the rocky path while her guide used a metal walking stick to maintain his balance.
The guide never questioned Eris' lack of proper winter attire because she had placed a mind-controlling enchantment on him. This allowed her to easily control the actions of any mortal to perform her bidding.
The Himalayas, known to be higher than Mount Olympus, was a mystery to most mortals. Monks climbed the dangerous peaks to perform secret rituals, and others reported sightings of strange creatures lurking in the snow.
Eris, however, was only interested in one secret, one many believed to be fiction. The guide finally reached a tall stone door at the base of a mountain below the peak. Eris approached the door and saw strange, ancient writings in the language of the Great Old Ones, known as R'lyehian, etched into it.
She didn't need to read the inscription to open the door. Holding up both hands, Eris' palms began to glow a deep purple before she unleashed two energy orbs into the door, causing it to explode in a cloud of purple vapor. After the smoke cleared, Eris saw a dark tunnel within the exposed entrance. A chill ran down her spine as she heard a strange whisper escape from the darkness.
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Eris turned to her guide with a satisfied grin. "Wait out here," she commanded, before entering the tunnel.
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Eris walked through the dark, frozen cavern, her steps echoing in the quiet wind. As a daughter of Nyx, the goddess of night, she could see clearly in the dark without any light source. She descended stone steps into a chamber where a tall, grotesque statue of an octopus man stood in the center. It was covered in tentacles and rested on a stone tablet inscribed with R'lyehian words.
Eris approached the tablet and read the description in her mind. Suddenly, a vision flashed before her eyes, showing her a forgotten civilization ruled by a powerful god that was eventually destroyed by its own people. This was the city of R'lyeh, the city she was searching for to unleash her next weapon.
Eris had already freed monsters from the Underworld to cause chaos on Earth and had used Medusa as a pawn. However, she needed more chaos and madness to succeed in her plan to create her ideal world free from her parents' control. That was why she needed to find the sunken city of R'lyeh and unleash Cthulhu.
After finishing reading the tablet, Eris smiled in excitement. She had found the location of the lost city in the South Pacific, where no mortal had ever explored. Only gods and goddesses could survive the depths of the ocean to reach it.
Eris laughed with joy at the thought of Cthulhu rising again and the mortal world becoming her own to rule forever. However, the tablet did not clearly specify the exact location of the city in the South Pacific, but she was determined to find it.