On the other hand, Alex felt no regrets. He had managed to gather many rewards from this place, after all.This was especially for the four shattered Chaos Beads, which was practically a dream come through.“What was it that cut you up this badly? Was it a Puppet Immortal?” Alex asked.“They… they were ghosts... ghosts! There are ghosts here!” Hermione Yggdrasil seemed distracted and incoherent.Alex bristled, wondering if he should just leave her here to fend for herself.Just then, among the ruins, a slender-looking woman walked out.“Puppet Immortal!”Alex had killed hundreds of such puppets on the way here and was naturally no stranger to them.Every puppet looked exactly the same.Alex drew his Dragon Bone Sword and waited for the Puppet Immortal to approach them.Strangely, this female puppet did not immediately rush up to fight and kill them, unlike the others that Alex had decimated before her.‘Alright, I’ll make a move first. I can save some energy by doing so an
Alex looked at Mask and then towards the woman who was sitting on the throne. Then, he asked, “Who is she?”“A deity,” Mask replied.It surprised Alex even more, and he asked again more tentatively, “Athena?” There was no mistake. The woman on the throne looked similar to the sculpture that Alex had seen, especially the shape she took. She looked exactly the same.The long spear.The golden shield.The precious crown.The corner of Mask’s lips curled up slightly. “I didn’t expect that you would actually know my name from ancient times.”Alex’s jaw dropped open.It was actually really Athena.But wasn’t Athena a character from Greek mythology? How could she appear in this place?And this sanctuary, it was clearly just some stone ruins before this. But, as soon as the sun had set and the moon rose, it instantly changed into this western-styled Sunset Shrine.Alex also made a point to touch the buildings. They were all very real. None of them were illusions.“So, you’re real
“For one to don the crown, one must also bear the weight of it!”Athena looked at the silent deity of herself that sat on the throne. The look on her face was determined, but underneath it was also a hint of sadness.Finally, Athena closed her eyes, and crystal drops of tears slid down her ears.Slowly, she placed the crown on top of her head.Woosh!A surge of divine power rippled through the air.It rushed out from Athena’s body on the throne, and with the crown on her head as the medium, the power entered her current body.In the next instance, the hair on the puppet’s body that Athena was in gradually changed. It first turned purple before growing out quickly. The aura her body exuded kept changing constantly, rippling with divine power, which was both ancient and holy.Athena’s puppet body seemed to have changed in just a single moment.She… had turned into the real Athena.After a beat, the deity Athena which sat on the throne, seemed to have lost all support. She f
“H-Holy Saints?” Alex’s eyes trembled. Why did the name sound so familiar?Didn’t that mean that particular Japanese anime was adapted from actual events? Could the author of those anime actually know Athena?But after he thought about it, he determined it impossible.The Athena that stood in front of him... who knew how many years she had been in the Infernal Realm?However, right now…The bronze door was still tightly closed, and the puppet immortals led by Phaseless couldn’t break through the defense of the door. There was no one inside Sunset Shrine, so what was the point of Athena asking them to charge?Alex and Neela glanced at each other and suspected that this new Athena was still being influenced by her original deity body and that perhaps her slightly fragmented memories were stuck in her old body.“Neela, are those real wings?”“There’s some real texture to it. It’s not pure gold, right? Gold is very expensive now, and I heard its price has gone up to record highs.
The puppet immortals fell to the ground one after another. Many of them didn’t even leave corpses behind. Often sporting an overbearing attack style, Athena would cause the puppet’s body to explode directly, leaving behind only the Law Stone in its place.Thus, more and more Law Stones started to accumulate on the ground.Countless puppet immortals had already flooded into Sunset Shrine.Inside the temple, sights of battle, as well as flesh and blood, could be seen everywhere.***“My Lord!“What on earth is inside this shrine?!”Outside Sunset Shrine, in a random tunnel, Donovan Orlando and his remaining men were hiding quietly. Densely packed, almost like a swarm of ants, there were simply far too many puppet immortals in front of the shrine.They couldn’t really see what was happening inside.Donovan had lost his four shattered Chaos Beads, so of course, he refused to retreat just like that. That would just be too big of a loss for him. They hid and adjusted and tended to
“Don’t grab the lance!”“That lance is weird!”A few people tried to warn the old woman.However, it was too late.The old woman drew the golden lance and also charged towards the battlefield, shouting as she went. “For victory, for the goddess!”Forget about how the remaining Sun Shrine disciples were dumbfounded—even Donovan and the old woman were baffled. Even though they had charged in, their sense of self hadn't all been lost yet. However, they didn’t expect that they would be completely swayed by the fervent impulse that roared within them and that they could hardly control themselves.“What am I doing?”“Why have I become like this?”“I… I can’t control my body anymore!”As the two of them fought, they doubted their own mortality.Donovan saw Alex with wings on his back and hundreds of swords swirled around his body like some kind of meat grinder, fighting courageously to kill. He even saw the shattered Chaos Beads entering and exiting the surface of his body. It provi
Athena’s combat power was, without a doubt, the strongest there was.The golden lance, the invincible scepter that would transform from time to time, let out a chant of incantations.She was a dual practitioner of martial arts.“Retreat!”Suddenly, Athena rushed back from the circle of battle, her golden armor covered in blood.Neela was not too far from Alex, and she resumed her human form for the time being and stood by his side. “The enemy has not been defeated completely. Why are we retreating?” Alex asked, curious Although the battle looked difficult, the fight was, in fact, exceptionally easy. He felt that they would be able to wipe out the puppet immortals completely in another hour or two.Athena gasped, her breathing shallow. “It’s dissipating.”The instant the words left her mouth, the holy feathers on Alex and Neela suddenly dissipated, like a soap bubble that had burst.The continuous stream of courage, strength, and divine powers that washed over their nerves als
In front of the Sunset Shrine's door, thousands of puppet immortals arranged themselves in two columns neatly, giving way to a passage.The ground, chaotic and filled with blood and corpses, including Law Stones of all manner, were cleared by a mysterious power to create a spotless path.A woman wearing a thin blue shirt walked in with bare feet.She had a tall and chiseled figure, and her cloud-like golden hair floated gently in the wind.Her skin was like snow, her body graceful, and her two long, straight jade legs were incomparably attractive under the thin shroud. The blue tulle skirt split a long slit with the pace of her walking. Her long glistening white legs were perfectly exposed from the toes to the thighs. The image was so beautiful it caused palpitations in the heart.Presently, Athena was considered the most beautiful of her generation.But compared with this one who came in, one would feel she was a bit less attractive…Perhaps, this Athena was a newborn, while th