Ch. 2211..2220
The Pinnacle of Life Chapter 2211
“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 fell down, clattering and turning into dust.
Alex and Neela glanced at each other. They now understood why Athena shed tears before this, it represented the fall of the deity Athena. However, at this moment, inside Sunset Shrine, the current Athena was covered in a divine light. Her purple hair fluttered even though there was no wind, and the olive crown sat atop her head. Wasn’t this the beginning of another glorious era?
Athena leaned over and picked up the golden shield that had fallen to the side, as well as the several meters tall scepter.
She was now the Athena who had been reborn.
“Committed to time, sanctioned through death!”
“Gods, guide me to the dawn of victory!”
“Awaken, my knights!”
She raised the golden scepter high into the air, and the place was bathed in dazzling, holy light, and the battle intent in the air was overwhelming. Suddenly, two beams of white light intertwined and shot out towards Alex and Neela.
The two of them were startled and subconsciously tried to avoid it.
However, it was just too fast. Both felt a surge of divine power enveloping their bodies.
It felt divine. It felt gentle.
But, it was also filled with fighting intent, harmonious yet powerful.
“What?!” Neela exclaimed loudly as layers of green and golden scales appeared on the surface of her body that was filled with power. The next second, something even more magical happened. She directly transformed into her original body.
There was a pair of golden wings on her body. With a blinding white light shining around it, it looked gorgeous.
“What is this?”
Alex looked at Neela in shock. However, he soon discovered that a pair of golden wings had also sprouted out his body. And from this pair of wings, he could feel that he had awakened a strange power. An infinite amount of divine power rushed into his body. His meridians exploded, and all ninety nine golden cores were filled with holy light.
‘This is… Just remarkable!’
Athena’s scepter paused a beat, and her purple hair danced wildly in the air, and her golden shield was held in front of her.
“Charge, my Holy Saints!”
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“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. We have two gold wings. If we were to cut it and sell it by the pound, we would be able to get a good price.”
Neela also looked at Alex’s wings. “My Lord, these wings tickle a little, and they’re strange. They seem to resonate with my body somehow, and it feels amazing. Selling these wings by the pound is just a waste.”
Bam!
Athena’s massive shield fell to the ground. She was at a loss for words. These two… Were the ones that wouldn’t hold up in the face of battle?
If that was the case, then it would be a huge cause for concern.
However… The battle song had already been sung. The radiant glory had descended onto the earth.
Once they stepped out, it would be impossible to turn back.
“Charge!”
“The True God awakens!”
She picked up her large shield, and her three meter tall golden scepter transformed into an incomparably sharp lance. Her body was covered in golden armor, and she stepped forward, charging in the direction of the bronze door.
When she was halfway through the area, the bronze door pushed open on its own.
The puppet immortals under Phaseless’ command rushed in viciously. Not every one of these puppets was handsome and beautiful. A large portion of them looked like they had been made of other materials. Some were made of stone, some covered in fire, and some ook the form of demonic beasts.
“Sovereign of Sanctuary, Spear of Divine Battle!” Athena rushed into the circle of battle, unleashing her full firepower.
In an instant, heads were sent rolling.
Alex and Neela’s jaws almost dropped to the ground from shock after seeing just a few seconds of the battle.
Athena was just too strong.
As expected from the goddess of war from the Greeks. As Athena fought on in, a feverish feeling coursed through Alex and Neela’s bodies. Athena’s insatiable lust for battle seemed to be affecting them.
In the next second, Alex grabbed the Reflective Eye and made seven mirror images of himself before plunging into the battle.
Roar!
Neela was Alex’s maid and contracted pet, so it was only natural that she needed to stay close to him. Athena spared a glance towards them, especially at Alex’s mysterious mirror image technique, before finally feeling a pang of relief. She was just a single commanding officer, and even if her true body was awakened, she wouldn’t have been able to hold back the attacks of so many puppets by herself.
“Sacred Battle Hymn, will of the Gods!”
Bam! Bam! Bam!
“Kill them all!”
Alex found that with Athena’s blessing, his own combat power had multiplied by a few times. And even without using the Ten- Point Forbidden Spell, he could still easily beat the puppet immortals that he was fighting.
Courage, passion, protection. These feelings all rushed into his mind with a burst. It was as though he was being brainwashed.
Resonating with Athena.
It was a strange feeling, but it was very real. It was difficult to put in words to explain, but it was as if his body was being controlled, each thought and every single cell in his body.
Fight, fight, fight!
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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.
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“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 their injuries to recover. Then, they scoured the entire Infernal Realm to search for Alex and Neela’s whereabouts.
The last thing they expected was to find an incredibly majestic shrine and the huge battle that had broken out.
“It doesn’t matter. No matter whether they live or die inside there, it’s all a good thing. We’re just here to reap the benefits in the end. Once they’re done, that’s when we’ll come out… Hmph! Just the amount of Law Stones from these puppet immortals will rake in massive amounts of money.”
“In addition…”
Donovan paused and said, “Do you remember what Phaseless said before? The thing he wanted was called the Jade of Six Paths, right? Hmph… He takes me for a fool. He thought I didn’t know that the Brahman Sect used to exist here in ancient times, where a great emperor from the Stoermer sect sealed it away with three Jade of Six Paths fragments. Then, it became the place we know as the Infernal Realm.”
“The Six Eternities, the beginning of all heaven and earth and supreme spiritual tool of the prehistoric period. Just the fragments alone are a powerful magic weapon.”
“If I recall correctly, the fragment of the Six Eternities is inside this shrine.”
The face of the old lady who was beside him was filled with longing once she heard this.
Just then, a golden lance pierced through the bodies of countless puppets and broke through the air, plunging viciously into the ground. It also happened to be right near where Donovan and the others were hiding.
Clatter!
The bodies of the Puppet Immortals burst into pieces, and seven to eight pieces of different colored Law Stones clattered to the ground.
The eyes of Donovan and the others were fixed on the golden lance.
“This… This lance is swirling with divine light, and very strong divine power…”
“This… Could it be a divine weapon?”
Envy instantly filled Donovan’s eyes. He was sure that this lance was not just any ordinary divine weapon.
Looking around, he saw that no one was looking at this golden lance, and no one was coming to collect it either. So he immediately jumped out of the pit and rushed over as fast as he could. He grabbed the lance with one hand, intending to take it for himself.
However…
A voice rang out in Donovan’s heart. “Fight, my Holy Saints. Burn your little universe. The gods need you!” it said.
The compulsion of the goddess!
Donovan was instantly confused. There was a belief that he was willing to die for her, as well as the courage that suddenly surged up within him. He held the golden lance in one hand and grabbed the ancient bronze bell from his mind palace.
Ring!
The sound of the bell was vast and powerful, and the universe shone brilliantly. Heaven and earth seem to pale in comparison, and the universe seemed to sway. Infinite numbers of puppet immortals were suppressed by the sound of the bell.
As for Donovan, be rushed forward and handed back the golden lance to Athena.
“My Lord!”
“My Lord, what’s wrong?!”
“Has be gone nuts? Why would he run there now and return the lance?!”
Just as the old woman and the others were drowning in anxiety, not knowing what to do, a loud thump shook the ground.
Athena’s lance had once again taken away the lives of a dozen puppet immortals and had plunged into the ground by the old woman’s feet.
“This…”
“What’s going on?”
Some marveled at the sight, while some were at a loss for words. However, the old woman’s hand had already reached out and grabbed the lance.
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“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 provided Alex with an endless amount of fighting power. Donovan counted that there were eight shattered Chaos Beads.
He became thrilled beyond words.
‘This guy actually has four shattered Chaos Beads on him as well.’
‘Wait, no… What’s the vague shadow of a tree on his body? It has an intricate connection with the Chaos Beads? Maybe… Is that… Is that the Chaos Tree?’
‘Oh my goodness, that’s the number one prehistoric divine tree, the Chaos Tree! It’s actually in his mind palace?! That’s shocking! No wonder he can easily snatch my Chaos Beads.’
‘I have to get it. I must get it!’
‘At all costs!’
Donovan’s heart was just about screaming in excitement. The journey this time was worth it and definitely the biggest opportunity in his life. As long as he could take this person, he was bound to have a more magnificent fortune. He would even be invincible in the entire world.
Of course, those were the thoughts in his mind.
Donovan, however, couldn’t control his battling boy as he held the Chaos Bell in his hands, desperately killing everything in his path.
At this point, it was useless even if he didn’t want to fight anymore. There were just too many puppet immortals.
Earlier, Neela’s information was a little inaccurate. It’s not that the Braham Sect’s Puppet Immortals were not successful. In fact, they had been. However, the plan had been found out by the higher-ups of the Undead Clan, and the Undead Queen, Juvia, went personally to the battlefield to deal with them, letting a kind of insect from the Abyss contaminate them.
The Braham Sect’s Puppet Immortals had almost no immunity to these kinds of demonic insects. Once they were infected, they would rebel and become the vanguard of the undead.
At this moment, Alex was fighting as he considered Donovan… And the Chaos Bell in his hand.
This guy really was a treasure child. The amount of treasure in him was endless. Even though he couldn’t see what the bell was, the fairy energy that surrounded it was unmistakable, as well as the Chaos energy mixed with it. It seemed inextricably related to the Chaos Tree in his mind palace.
Finally, because of the next wave of puppet immortals that rushed in, Alex and Donovan were brought closer together. The two were only two meters away from each other.
Boom, boom!
Several Puppet Immortals were knocked back.
Donovan looked at Alex and asked, “You have the Chaos Tree inside you?”
Alex was taken aback for a moment. He didn’t expect Donovan’s senses to be sharp enough to see it. In fact, this was only possible because of the Chaos Bell in Donovan’s hand.
Alex was unaware of this at this time. At this moment, Donovan was having a hard time controlling the Chaos Bell because it sensed the presence of the Chaos Tree and wanted to approach it.
Alex’s eyes flashed, and he laughed. “Not bad, that bell of yours. Want to give it to me too?”
“You have a death wish…”
The hostility in Donovan’s heart surged. Alex had yet to even return the four shattered Chaos Beads to him!
He really wanted to use the Chaos Bell in his hands to smash Alex to death, but the goddess conviction from Athena was simply too powerful. What she compelled was not the human heart but one’s behavior and movement. So, Donovan could only aim the Chaos Bell elsewhere in the end.
Ding, ding, ding!
Law Stones fell continuously. Alex occasionally waved his hand and grabbed a piece.
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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.
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 also receded like a flood.
“Ugh…”
Looking at the army of puppets that were still pouring in, Alex let loose his flying swords into a formation, circling forward to cut them down.
Unfortunately…
Without the boost of power from Athena, he found that his killing powers had reduced drastically. Before this, one slash from his sword would suffice to cut them down, but now it wouldn’t even cut through.
Only at this point did he realize one thing.
The puppet immortals he and Neela had encountered before were far stronger than the current ones. Before this, Alex could still cut them down with the little tricks he used, but it was now so much harder to do so.
The situation had changed.
Alex was now left in a precarious position. At this critical moment, Neela rushed over. She transformed into her dragon form and used her giant body to push the enemy back.
Roar!
She let out a mighty dragon roar that shook the ground. Then, she rushed back into Alex’s body. Just like before, she turned into the dragon armor that protected Alex.
This time, it was different. Alex could feel that it wasn’t as simple as Neela just curling around to cover his body. It was practically a fusion. His heart let out a rumbling sound. There was an old saying that two hearts beat as one, the very situation now. Neela and Alex’s hearts had somehow fused temporarily.
The heart was the essence of a person. It was the source of all power.
Now, Alex could feel a huge power bursting out from his heart.
Even without Athena’s divine power boost, Alex could still feel an endless stream of power and courage surging through him.
“Kill!”
The Seven Blades of Death flew outwards.
A puppet immortal’s head launched high in the sky, its neck spewing a pillar of blood at least half a meter into the sky.
“What the f*ck..!”
Donovan was dumbfounded, and his eyes were filled with envy and jealousy.
Having a Benares Dragon as a pet there was actually such a wonderful use!
Such a divine beast saw favor in the eyes of both heaven and earth. How could some cheapass person like Alex have it? It should belong to him!
Alex was confident once more.
He was about to unleash another ultimate move and continue attacking the puppet immortals when Athena suddenly flashed forward and grabbed him. “Retreat!”
“Ugh?! But…”
Athena did not explain but dragged him directly inside. Then, she waved her hands, intending to close the shrine doors.
But at this moment, the bronze doors vibrated violently, and a woman’s voice echoed out, “Athena, my sister. Are you dead?”
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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 the flesh was a female puppet immortal.
However, the most eye-catching part of this woman in blue was her surroundings, where a silver, crescent moon was suspended mid-air. This caused her to radiate with a divine aura that wasn’t of this earth.
“So beautiful!”
“I have a feeling that I have found true love!” Donovan murmured, completely forgetting the current situation.
Hallucinations oozed out of his mind, and his eyes gave a deadly stare at the visitor. He did not move at all.
“Is that so?”
The woman who entered gently glanced at Donovan and casually struck him.
A loud sound could be heard. It had struck Donovan’s Chaos Bell.
Although the Chaos Bell blocked the woman’s blow, the surging divine power, like a tsunami, swept through Donovan’s body, sending him flying high. He crashed hard into one of the Sunset Shrine’s massive pillars.
That pillar, surprisingly, was all broken off by the impact. The thick one, almost three or four meters in diameter, broke off from the middle and smashed down.
Even at the top of this shrine, broken stones were falling. A hole was opened above.
The woman lifted her head to see.
“Sister, your broken temple seems to be falling!” she giggled. “You still dare to live in such a temple? Maybe one day it will collapse… Or else you can give this temple to me first. I’m better at repairing it. I’ll help you fix it.”
Athena seemed utterly devoid of strength.
As channels of divine power leaked out, perhaps that physical body of hers was finding it rather challenging to withstand Athena‘s original divine power. Her body seemed to be unable to support it. She was finding it difficult to use the scepter for support. But, she tried desperately to endure through the expression on her face. “No, I can handle a few tiny problems!”
Alex, however, saw that Donovan’s Chaos Bell had fallen to the side.
This must be something good!
He ran over while saying to Donovan, “Brother, are you okay? Look, the weapon is knocked off. It seems to have broken a bit. But it’s fine. I’ll take it back and fix it for you.”
He rushed over and tried to put the Chaos Bell away.
Donovan’s eyes were red with desire, and he was close to breaking out with curses.
“You son of a bitch, you stole my Chaos Pearl, and now you want to steal my Chaos Bell? Do you think I’m a fool?”
He shot out his true essence and attempted to take back the Chaos Bell.
Unexpectedly, a huge force swept over.
It was the woman in blue. She instantly wrapped herself around the Chaos Bell and quickly grabbed it, “This bell is a bit special…”
The next second, however, she threw it away. “Unfortunately, it‘s broken.”
She had thrown it in the direction of Alex. Not to mention its terrifying speed, it also contained boundless divine power
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This time, she was ready to kill Alex with this Chaos Bell. When Alex saw this scene, he was ecstatic. God had really helped him.
He didn’t even dodge, directly catching it with his hand.
Boom…
The moment Alex’s hands embraced the Chaos Bell, a huge force was transmitted to his body. Almost like a meteor had struck it, his entire body was sent flying.
A large hole was knocked into the wall of the Sunset Shrine.
Alex and the Chaos Bell crashed out and disappeared. Fortunately, the woman had fused herself into Alex’s body. Moreover, thanks to Alex’s impenetrable defense and Genbu’s Mystic Armor, he was not easily killed. But he also saw that the woman was quite sophisticated, thus he simply played dead.
Donovan jumped wildly as he looked on. That was his Chaos Bell!
He climbed up, attempting to grab the Chaos Bell.
The woman in blue, however, seeing him like an undefeatable little strong man, seemed a little angry. She then said to Athena, “Sister, it seems that you still have a good eye. The saints you chose all had some kind of ability… But, this is the end.”
This time, the blue crescent moon around her suddenly popped out violently.
Boom!
It struck Donovan.
As a result, a massive gaping pit had opened on the shrine’s grounds.
Donovan was gone. It was as if he had vaporized.
The blonde woman retracted the curved blue moon.
With a strange smile at the corner of her month, she said to Athena, “My dear sister, you and I were supposed to be the closest of sisters. We should be on the same side but look at us now. For a dead man, we sisters fought for thousands of years. Was he worth it?”
“Artemis, I did it for you,” Athena replied.
It turned out that the woman in front of her was Athena’s own sister, Artemis.
“For my sake? Then, give me the remaining puppet immortals of the Brahman Sect, and I can lead you to the glory of the ages!” Artemis proclaimed with a smile.
Athena, however, had her lips sealed tight.
After a while, she spoke as if finally releasing a breath. “Forget it, Artemis. My physical body has been destroyed. The body of the puppet immortal simply can’t fuse with my divine power. After fighting for so long, I have to rest. I should return to the sanctuary.”
“It’s been two thousand years, and now I have finally fulfilled my promise to him.”
“Artemis, my sister. Since you want the rest of the puppet immortals, take them all then!”
In Athena’s hand came a crystal key that shone with the glow of the stars and the moon. Artemis was overjoyed and immediately walked over to it.
She was a little confused at first. ‘Is this all going too smoothly?’
It was then that Athena’s body seemed to be in a horrible state. Divine power leaked out from what seemed a pocket with holes. Even her body seemed to crack as blood quickly seeped out from the cracked skin and stained her clothes red.
Athena fell to her knees.
Artemis looked at her as if thinking deeply about something.
The next second, Athena could not hold the crystal key, and it fell to the ground.
This time, Artemis was the first to pick it up. “Sister, thank you for giving me the key.”
Suddenly, the crystal key burst out a golden cloud of light, instantly enveloping Artemis. At the floor of the Sunset Shrine where Artemis stood, divine steel came rushing out, completely imprisoning Artemis.
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“This is…”
“Rashomon sanctuary!”
Artemis was imprisoned by the divine steel. She struggled desperately, using all her strength to blast away the divine steel cage. Unfortunately, although sweeping everything in its way, her power had no effect on these divine steel.
In fact, she also turned the water blue curved moon around her into a scimitar and slashed fiercely at the divine steel. All her attacks seemed to hit the void, however. Not even a sound could be made, as though this divine steel was non-existent.
However, it managed to imprison her body.
At this moment, Artemis finally understood. Her sister, Athena, pretended to lead her into the Sunset Shrine. She wanted to stand in this position, to get the crystal key.
“Damn..! Damn, Athena, you’re still as cunning as a fox!”
Hence, she gave up on cutting the divine steel.
By this point, she knew very well that she was unable to open the Rashomon sanctuary with her ability. It was a spatial cage between the real and the unreal. Unfortunately, Artemis was not good at the spatial domain. Using brute force was simply ineffective.
Athena coughed a few times and vomited a mouthful of blood.
Holding her scepter, she stood up. ”Artemis, you will understand me.”
“You are crazy. You must be crazy,” screamed Artemis.
“You actually destroyed the flesh of my father to capture me and put on a show? This body of a female puppet immortal can’t withstand your divine power. You won’t be living long.”
Athena laughed. “As long as you’re safe, it doesn’t matter what happens to me.”
“Crazy, insane, psycho!” Artemis shouted frantically.
Athena was known as the goddess of wisdom, and her methods were boundless. So, for the two thousand years she was trapped in this infernal realm, Artemis was very careful with this sister. This time, seeing that she was about to die, with her physical body destroyed and perished, the tight strings in her heart finally loosened, and she picked up the crystal key.
Unexpectedly, it was actually still a checkmate, a situation laid by Athena at the cost of her own life.
“Why can’t you understand? Why can‘t you understand me?”
“The previous world is doomed to perish. The undead queen is the future of the earth. The reopening of the Sanctuary is just around the corner. Don’t you want to save your brother?”
“Athena, let go of me. I have a way to make you live again.”
Athena merely shook her head. “At a time like this, even reopening the sanctuary would be pointless.”
She took a deep breath. Slowly, she stood up.
Her purple hair danced gently. The cracked skin on her body quickly healed up, and her bloody appearance suddenly turned to the original flawless purple haired beauty she was as if some self-cleaning supernatural ability had been used.
“You… Cheated again?!”
“Athena, you are but a drama queen. I really doubt anything real is left in that body of yours.”
After seeing this, Artemis was about to explode in a fury.
“Liar, big liar!”
With her intelligence, how could she never keep up with this sister?
Abominable, too abominable.
Athena laughed as she heaved the golden scepter in her hand. A wave of golden divine power swept out, and she opened her mouth, screaming, “Come back my sacred earth!”
Outside the shrine was Alex, who was playing dead. He had long ago taken the Chaos Bell into the mind palace, or rather, the Chaos Bell failed to Withstand the temptation of the Chaos Tree. It then ran away to the mind palace itself.
As for the soul connection between Donovan and the Chaos Bell, it was automatically severed.
What?
As a magic weapon, how could one cut the connection with the master alone? Wasn’t this a rebellion?
But, the Chaos Bell was a super powerful existence with self-awareness.
And Artemis was right about one thing, the Chaos Bell was indeed broken. There were several cracks on it, and not only was it now less effective, but its lifespan was also failing.
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If it did not get effective repairs, it might completely collapse one day.
So, the appearance of the Chaos Tree was its savior!
Naturally, it couldn’t miss the opportunity, or there might not be the next time. Under such circumstances, it was only normal that the Chaos Bell directly gave up on Donovan.
Meanwhile, Donovan was actually not dead yet. He had the Five Elements Flag in his hand. This innate spiritual treasure was stronger than a divine weapon. Not only did it have the ability to shatter the void, but also had the magical ability to be invisible. It even allowed Donovan to hide in it, avoiding the pursuit.
Therefore, when Artemis struck him with the Blue Moon, it could not kill Donovan. Now, he used the ability of the Five Elements Flag to slowly move to the outside of the temple.
He wanted to take the Chaos Bell back.
He felt that Alex might already be dead at this time. So, he planned to take the Chaos Bell together with the Chaos Pearls and the Chaos Tree.
What a great opportunity!
As a result, just when Donovan found Alex and was about to make his move, Athena’s voice came in the middle of the divine hall.
Along with it, a golden divine power rushed into the two people’s bodies. Unlike the previous holy wings, it was even more powerful this time, able to control the bodies directly.
They couldn’t even move.
“Your grandfather…”
Donovan almost broke into a cuss.
‘Do you think it was easy for me?’
‘I just wanted to get back what belongs to me. Why is it so hard?’
Unfortunately, even if it was a curse, he could only think about it and couldn’t curse out.
Presently, the two of them were not only Athena’s saints but also her puppets. And she could do whatever she wanted.
“Damn it, what is this Athena trying to do again?”
Alex was also annoyed and helpless.
Anyone who came across such a thing would surely be unhappy, even if Athena had shown friendliness to him at first. In the eyes of these high and mighty gods, however, someone like him was all but a tiny mole.
However, just at this moment, the ninety nine golden cores in his body all detached from their acupuncture points with a rumble.
A furnace of forbidden spells was formed in his body. The operation of the furnace was also affected by Athena’s divine power, but the Ten-Point Forbidden Spell was born to break the rules of the taboo. Although Alex’s Ten-Point Forbidden Spell was not yet in place, breaking Athena’s confinement should only be a matter of time.
Only one thing that worried him a little, would he be discovered by Athena once he broke the confinement, thus discovering his bigger secret?!
“How about.. We wait and see what happens?”
“Only when we’ve really run out of options can we forcibly break the confinement!”
And just like that, Alex and Donovan, both like two real puppets, were summoned by Athena to go inside. When they went in… Goodness!
Inside the shrine was a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.
All the puppet immortals who had rushed in previously were all dead. A golden formation was opened in the temple with 9,999 divine steel, forming a strange cage and imprisoning Artemis inside. The chains were made of divine steel. They bound her hands and feet, as well as her curvy body. She hung in a large zigzag posture. The thin blue shirt, bounded by divine steel, clung to her body, and it even had a bit of ragging.
Both of Artemis’ beautiful jade legs were exposed. Moreover, the outline of her upper body would arouse and excite any man.
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“Ugh… I will go. That’s a dashing femme!”
Even Alex, a man used to beautiful women, couldn’t fight the urge to steal several glances at her. However, he was soon attracted by other images.
The golden formation on the ground looked uncomplicated. With strange energy that not only killed all those puppet immortals in a short period of time, it also collected flesh and blood of these puppet immortals. The energy contained within replenished the formation diagram inside the Rashomon sanctuary.
“Deathly Qi?!”
Alex could keenly feel an extremely evil substance within these energies.
Before this, when it was attached to the puppet immortal’s body, it was not very apparent.
Under the effect of Athena‘s formation, however, these substances were separated and purified by the original, and it showed its nature. Alex suddenly remembered that Athena had said that Brahman Sect’s puppet immortals were contaminated by some kind of demon worms of the undead clan, so… This evil deadly Qi was probably coming from inside these Abyssal Demon Bugs.
This was a substance several times stronger than the undead clan’s deadly Qi.
“Abyssal Demon Bugs from the abyss.”
“What kind of terrifying place could this Abyss be?” Alex did not dare to imagine.
At this moment, both he and Donovan were like puppets on strings, controlled by Athena, reentering the shrine and coming to the side of the formation.
Athena did not speak With just an intention, Alex and Donovan extended their hands at the same time. After that, Athena took her scepter and golden shield and threw them out.
Alex got the scepter, while Donovan got the shield.
“Artemis, you have been brainwashed by the undead.”
“In your soul, there is already an imprint of the undead queen, and you have become her follower.”
“What I’m going to do now is to purify you so that you can be reborn and regain your freedom!”
Athena’s voice rang out. She then looked towards Alex and Donovan. “Next, I will be relying on you, my fighters!”
Alex’s heart was filled with sorrow.
He was now completely bewildered. This golden scepter was bizarrely tall, possibly over three meters tall. It was heavy, and when he held it in his hand, he could feel massive divine power drilling towards his body, one that made him stronger.
Nonetheless, it was not of his own making. He had wholly become Athena’ s instrument.
The golden scepter, and the big golden shield, were activated at the same time. Two golden lights shone into the Rashomon cage. Artemis‘ body trembled, and she immediately let out a miserable scream.
“Wow!”
Behind Athena’s back, a pair of immaculate white huge feathered wings appeared.
A holy white light rippled on them and finally turned into countless white light shadows, thousands of them, like sword light, shooting at Artemis.
“Committed to time, sanctioned by death!”
“I, for one, will never decay in the abyss.”
“Ah..!”
It was the last scream from Artemis.
She struggled violently, her thin blue shirt almost bursting into pieces. Her perfect body became even more alluring, but on the surface, something evil and full of death seeped out.
It was the Abyssal Demon Bugs. It was a dense group of Abyssal Demon Bugs.
They were like ashes from the dead.
If one had said that Artemis was filled with a woman’s seductiveness, a rare gem of a stunning beauty that caused a person’s heart to produce a strong desire to possess, she only raised a creepy sense of terror now.
A trypophobic person could definitely not stand it.
Artemis was unable to convince Athena to change her mind. She finally placed her eyes on Alex and Donovan. ”Are you guys really willing to be used by Athena?”