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Aplistos To Test And Punish Mankind's Jealousness
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Zeus created Aplistos to test and punish mankind’s jealousness and greediness. Aplistos means greedy in Greek. Aplistos usually lives around forests in the mountains, but appears in the cities too. It also has an ability to move quickly so that no humans can see, and travel everywhere.

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Aplistos has oval, egg-like shape body with no face and arms; it only has two legs and either one eye or a mouth. No one can tell whether it has an eye or a mouth because they do not open it unless someone tries to harm them, or commit crime due to the jealousness or greediness - and whoever looks at it’s eye or a mouth, they never come back. A person turns into Aplistos when he/she looks at the one with an eye, and he/she gets devoured

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