Chapter 377: Crown of Ten vs. Twelve Avatars (4.5k)

It’s actually them!

Seeing the scene in front of her, Atalanta did not dare to hesitate, and hurriedly led the remaining soldiers behind her into the magic circle opened by the Delphic priests and nymphs, away from the battlefield.

As the last person disappeared in the shifting light curtain, Artemis, who was clearing the giants and monsters on the ground like a mobile turret, breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at the male and female Titans in the sky, her eyes full of gloom.

Although she had already learned about the revival of the Twelve Titans from Loen as early as the meeting at the God of War Mountain.

But when Artemis actually saw her two legendary grandparents appear on the battlefield and in front of her, it was still a little hard to believe.

All those ancient gods and those disappeared beings gathered under the banner of Kronos and jointly started this war of gods that subverted the world.

Grandpa, grandma, is this what you want?

Artemis took a look at the devastated earth and the forests littered with corpses, then looked up at the two Titans walking together in the dark sky, and murmured silently.

However, her confusion was destined to go unanswered.

This was because the eyes of the two Titan gods had long been filled with chaos, showing a cold and dead silence.

The next moment, the blood-red divine emblems above the male and female Titans' heads lit up, and a jewel-studded scepter and a bronze mirror engraved with star patterns appeared in the hands of the two Titans, respectively. In coordination with the rhythm of power, they pulled the stars and launched a massive bombardment towards Artemis and Apollo, the blood relatives.

At almost the same time, similar scenes appeared on different battlefields.

East of Thessaly.

The sky was as bright as day, and Hyperion, the god of light, and his wife Theia, the goddess of light and vision, descended from a dazzling array of colors.

The two Titans raised their greatswords and spears engraved with ancient patterns and brought down stellar-like heat, trying to melt the earth beneath them into a scorched earth.

Hephaestus, the god of craftsmanship, immediately summoned the power of fire to build a defense for himself and the goddess of love Aphrodite who was accompanying him to offset the terrifying heat.

The battle between fire and light begins here.

Northern Thessaly.

Tender green ears of rice break through the soil of the barren wasteland, grow wildly, and then quickly wither away, scattering the seeds they have nurtured back into the soil, giving it new life, and repeating the cycle of life.

As time passed and plants continued to grow and die, Rhea, the goddess of time and fertility, holding an hourglass, faced Demeter, the goddess of agriculture who came from the Eleusis region.

Life and life collide with each other.

Western Thessaly.

Dense Titan words fell from the sky like an extremely brilliant meteor shower, intercepting Mnemosyne, the goddess of memory who was rushing from Mount Ares.

Iapetus, the god of soul and speech among the twelve Titans, opened the parchment scroll in his hand, and ancient runes flew into the air and crashed into the target like living things.

Mnemosyne did not dare to be negligent. The book in her hand, representing knowledge and memory, flipped through it. Symbols of civilizations including Titan language, linear alphabet, Hermetic script, etc. flew out of it and combined themselves into different spells, constantly removing the curse and counterattacking.

A fierce battle between spells and curses took place.

South of Thessaly.

The sky was covered with dark clouds and the wind was howling. Helios, the god of weather, was swept by lightning and crashed into Hermes, the god of speed.

Hermes dodged hastily, intending to use the power of the winged flying shoes to speed up his escape, but the figure behind him approached like wind and thunder, and wouldn't let go.

Amid the falling lightning and strong winds, Hermes kept dodging with his outstanding speed and flexibility, while at the same time using all his strength to activate the Hermetic Code and alchemical rituals he was proficient in, creating trouble for the powerful enemy chasing him.

A chase of speed and passion begins.

In the offshore area, Hera and her companions had just connected with Nereus and other marine gods when they saw huge waves rising on the sea.

The river god Oceanus and the sea goddess Thesis drove tens of thousands of tons of sea water back toward the coastline of Thessaly.

Hera immediately drew the bow, drew the thunder into arrows, turned the thunderbolts into arrows, and smashed the huge waves approaching the shore.

At the call of the goddess Thetis, Nereus and other old marine gods desperately mobilized their powers to suppress the restless and surging divine power in the sea near Thessaly.

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At this moment, in the Great Temple of Thessaly.

Loen looked at the fierce and stalemate battle situation in the star disk and the constantly flickering battlefield projection, his eyes filled with gloom.

The nine gods who came from various city-states to join together were all intercepted by the revived Titan god. Moreover, the opponents chosen by each enemy were very targeted. It was difficult for their reinforcements to decide the outcome or withdraw from the battlefield in a short period of time.

Loen narrowed his pupils and looked at the sky around Thessaly, which was sometimes flashing with light, sometimes covered with dark clouds, and sometimes with falling stars, and muttered to himself.

It seems that Kronos came prepared.

Now that the reinforcements have been cut off, should we get straight to the point?

Just as Loen was lost in thought, the earth roared.

The plain area directly in front of the Thessaly defense line was cracked into bottomless gullies, and thousands of giants, led by the Titan Atlas and the Fire Thief Prometheus, rushed to the surface like a black wave.

"Immortality! Immortality!"

Amid their unanimous praises, Kronos, the Titan King who had melted ten divine emblems into a [Crown], proudly walked out of the abyss, grabbed the heavy black sickle made of volcanic stone in his hand, and slashed at the high walls of Thessaly.

Buzz!

In the solemn and eerie resonance, a crescent-shaped black edge slashed out from the sickle blade, severing time and space, splitting dimensions, and destroying chaos and nothingness. Chaos was created wherever it passed, as if it had shattered all the laws and order in the world and was about to reshape the heaven and earth.

Faced with that subversive force, the heroes and gods who climbed onto the Thessaly defense line all felt a deep sense of powerlessness and a tremor in their souls.

Even though the fortress beneath them was made of solid mountain copper and protected by many gods, they could not draw the slightest sense of security from it.

Therefore, after only half a second, most of the defensive spells on the outer perimeter of the Thessaly defense line were eliminated.

"The darkness is roaring, and all things are annihilated!"

Surrounded by giants, Kronos lowered his arms covered with ferocious divine armor, clenched his five fingers forward, and shouted coldly.

The crown on his head, which was woven from ten divine emblems, vibrated and hummed, and the composite power after the integration of divinity vibrated.

Suddenly, the dark edge of the sickle continued to advance, and the darkness after the world was shattered rolled in from wherever the blade passed, as if it was molten iron, pouring on the sky, corroding through the dome, and dragging the entire world into the abyss called [Destruction].

In the pitch darkness, the gods and heroes in the fortress felt their souls and bodies falling, and their consciousness gradually became blurred.

Until the song-like and poetic chanting echoed in their ears.

"I destroy, and I also create.

I hurt, and I also help.

No one can escape from my hand, and no one is out of my sight.

Glory, majesty, power, and authority all belong to me!

My will will be carried out in the sky and on the earth. I will forgive your sins and leave a mark on you. The kingdom of purity will be born here—Dionysus Cosmos [a small world wrapped in the sky]..."

"Bang!" accompanied by a sharp and piercing sound of impact, the people in the fortress came back to their senses and saw a heavy, huge, finely crafted divine shield across the city wall, blocking the huge black sickle that was swinging in the air.

In the midst of chaos and ruin, the patterns of the earth, sky, ocean, the tireless sun, the full and round moon, and the numerous stars carved on the surface of the shield, like garlands that graced the sky, flashed with dazzling light and reconstructed the outline of the world.

At the same time, the shadows of the two cities of Athens and Thebes rose from the ground, and the "residents" of the city, young or old, male or female, also appeared, filling in the details of the "world" and giving that world life and activity.

Seeing this, Kronos' eyes darkened, and he snorted coldly and swung the giant scythe in his hand repeatedly. A series of dark blades of light slashed towards the pale blue shield.

At the moment the attack came, the people carved on the shield seemed to sense the danger, and they put down their work and prayed devoutly.

The voices of people rising one after another chanted the name of "God of Wine Loen" together, and their unanimous faith condensed into a blue sky above the [Small World].

“Dangdangdang!”

The pitch-black blades of light were successively submerged in the hazy green light rising from the surface of the shield, and were never able to reach the Thessaly Fortress behind the [small world].

The aftermath of the power collision spread in all directions, bringing disaster to the defenseless giants on the battlefield.

Dozens of Titans that were too close exploded in the shock and turned into a cloud of bloody mist; the Titans that were further away had their armor shattered and their skin torn, revealing jagged white bones and scarlet organs; the monsters with the weakest resistance were the most miserable, and thousands of them were killed by the shock without even being able to utter a moan.

What a tough nut to crack!

After a long period of unsuccessful siege, Kronos, with a gloomy face, grabbed the giant sickle in his hand, stepped out of the camp regardless of anything, and was ready to crush this human anthill with his strength as the King of Gods.

“It ends here, this is the temple of God, this is the gate of heaven!”

At the same time, a spear shaped like a dead branch, accompanied by solemn words from God, flew out from the Great Temple in Thessaly and pierced in front of Kronos.

As soon as the spear landed on the ground, it turned into a huge palm tree that grew wildly. Its branches and leaves then ignited into golden-red flames hundreds of feet high, illuminating the entire sky.

Along with the overlapping and interlacing of light patterns, seven doors stood up, and the magnificent and elegant heavenly palace emerged in the sea of clouds in the sky, reflecting the [small world] constructed by the dark green shield.

The earthly shepherd with golden wings on his back and a body as beautiful as a gem, holding a gun in one hand and a shield in the other, guards the gate to the sky leading to the [small world].

Your temple? Your door?

In an era when Titans rule the world, you don’t even know which woman’s belly you are in!

Kronos snorted coldly, grasped the handle of the scythe with both hands, and swept his arms forward.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"

The pitch-black blade shattered four rays of light from the Heavenly Gate in succession. The large palm tree supporting the [Small World] wailed, and its branches and leaves shook.

"You think you can stop me? Crown of Ten!"

Kronos roared in a deep voice, and the ten divine emblems on the crown on his head shone together.

“Bang, bang, bang!”

The triple doors leading to the [Small World] at the rear were shattered in an instant, and the pitch-black scythe tore through the palm tree branches and collided with the dead branch spear that served as the main body.

"boom!"

A huge cross-star-shaped band of light exploded, and its power swept away all the clouds, split the mountains and peaks, and even the several main gods who were fighting fiercely on the various battlefields were attracted by the huge roar and looked towards the main battlefield under the city of Thessaly.

However, at this time, there was only a charred crater left, and the two gods disappeared.

To be more precise, they were transferred to another battlefield by some kind of power.

As the main gods of both sides started fighting each other, a dynamic balance was restored on the battlefield of Thessaly.

Led by the Titan Atlas and several Guigantes leaders, the giants and monsters formed a formation and rushed towards the extremely sturdy fortress, vowing to bite off this hard bone before the Titans returned.

The defending gods and heroes also rose up in resistance. Relying on the city fortresses and the coordination of arms, they repelled the attacks of the giants time and time again and firmly defended Thessaly and the great temple in the city.

As long as the sacred fire is not extinguished and the sacrifices continue, the Olympian gods can come again and again to fight for humanity and faith until the last moment when the city is destroyed.

The giants and humans, with their own goals in mind, engaged in a bloody tug-of-war on the Thessaly defense line.

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At the same time, in the [Small World].

A burning dead branch spear pierced out from the chaos, slashing across Kronos' cheek, leaving a streak of flying golden-red blood.

"Get out of here!"

Kronos was furious, and the Crown of Ten on his head suddenly lit up. He clenched his fingers around the huge black sickle and swept it across the sky.

The surrounding space twisted and shattered, and Loen's figure holding a gun and shield was exposed.

"Found you!" The Titan God King who had successfully locked onto the target snorted coldly, then stretched out his five fingers and muttered solemnly, "Koos Stars!"

As Kronos chanted the divine words, the sky of the small world shook violently. Thousands of stars emerged from the sea of clouds, dragging long flame tails and falling straight towards Lorne.

Able to mobilize the power of the other nine Titan gods through the words of God, he has indeed devoured the divine power of his brothers and sisters!

Loen's eyes focused, and a halo like a crown appeared behind him. The pointer turned into a scarlet area, and the shadow of the "Warrior" merged with it.

With powerful fighting instincts and rich combat experience surging in his heart, the God of Dionysus who was locked by the "stars" instantly transformed into a sophisticated fighting machine. The spear in his hand sometimes chopped down and raised up, and sometimes made a circle and swept across. The golden wings behind him blocked left and right, like a shield and a sword, integrating offense and defense. With the power of the spear, he smashed the falling stars in the sky one by one.

"Iapetus Incantation!"

Seeing that the attack failed, Kronos raised his hand again and clenched it. The power from the soul and prophecy Titan was activated. One after another, the Titan divine texts appeared in the air and shot towards Lorne like a meteor rain.

Brilliant flames rose and exploded, but a golden-black figure broke through the web woven by the Titan's divine text and went upstream in the chaotic ether tide!

At this moment, the emblems of [Goat] and [Eagle] lit up in the halo behind Loen.

Stars falling from the sea of clouds and Titan divine symbols flying across the sky continuously concentrated their fire on the targets on the field, and the offensive was as dense as heavy rain.

Loen used the dual speeds of [Goat] and [Eagle] to raise his divine will and perception to the limit. The golden wings behind him fluttered rapidly, and his state changed accordingly. Sometimes he turned sideways, sometimes bent his knees sideways, and his body turned into rainbow light, almost brushing past the criss-crossing runes and densely packed stars, and flexibly shuttled through the gaps in the sky's offensive.

When he successfully advanced to within ten feet of Kronos, the golden wings behind him suddenly folded and accelerated, and the spear in his hand stabbed fiercely at Kronos' raised arm, breaking through the hard outer layer of divine armor and tearing a hideous bloody hole in the black body that looked like volcanic rock.

But before Loen had the time to expand his victory, he found that the tip of the spear in his hand had stagnated and was wrapped tightly by Kronos' muscles as if it was stuck in a quagmire.

"Thea Glory!"

As the Titan God King grinned, dazzling light bloomed from the crown on his head. Loen's vision and perception were instantly deprived, and he seemed to fall into darkness and silence.

(End of this chapter)