Chapter 398: The world is dark, I will spread the fire!

After sorting out the whole story, Chiron frowned and asked:

"So, the one we have to deal with now is the Witch of Disaster?"

"No, Kronos just accepted Pandora's advice and used his spatial power to build this underground labyrinth surrounding the Titan Temple to protect his throne. As for the Witch of Disaster..."

Prometheus paused, then added sarcastically.

"Kronos doesn't even trust me, so how could he trust her? Therefore, that woman was expelled long ago."

Jason's eyes lit up when he heard this:

"In other words, as long as we can solve this space maze, we can find the way to the Titan Temple?"

"That's right in theory..."

"So what are you waiting for? Lead the way, Prometheus!"

The outgoing party girl stepped forward, patted Prometheus on the shoulder, and urged him excitedly.

Prometheus nodded, turned to look at the Argonauts in the corner, and asked in a deep voice:

"How are you guys recovering?"

"It's almost done." Everyone responded one after another.

Prometheus nodded slightly, raised his hand and injected divine power into the bronze module in his palm.

The space area where everyone was located was suddenly lit up, and the spatial structure and operation mode of the entire underground maze were projected by the bronze module and fully presented to everyone, which made the heroes whose muscles were better than their brains marvel and their confidence in getting out of the current predicament doubled.

Before setting off, Prometheus, who was in charge of leading the way, reminded them again:

"Everyone, the entire underground labyrinth has as many as 26 independent space units. The different light gates that appear in each space unit are the driving formulas that connect all the space units. Every time you pass through a space unit, the structure of the entire underground labyrinth will change, forming 432.5 trillion combinations.

Among the 432.5 trillion combinations of space, only when the different six colors are put back in place, the road to the Temple of Titan will be truly opened.

So, you must follow me closely! If you take a wrong step, all your efforts will be wasted!"

The Argonauts had already experienced the strangeness and horror of this underground maze, so they naturally did not dare to be negligent. They nodded seriously and maintained a tight formation, following Prometheus.

Everything was ready. Prometheus took a deep breath, raised his head and stepped into a line of light that appeared on the stone wall on the left.

The Argonauts grasped their weapons tightly, silently chanted the divine words, and then jumped in with the fish.

After a familiar feeling of weightlessness and spatial dislocation, the Seven Kingfisher Goddesses and the demonized golden apple tree that were encountered earlier did not appear, and were replaced by a barren open area.

A few scattered monsters and giants were patrolling lazily at several crossroads.

"Intruder! There's an intruder!"

At this moment, seeing dozens of Argonauts walking in one after another from the light patterns on the stone wall, the Warcraft and giants responsible for guarding the place woke up as if from a dream, and immediately launched a charge while shouting.

Looking at the hundreds of monsters and giants in front of them, the Argonauts couldn't help but smile grimly. They brandished their swords and shields without mercy and fought with these monsters who came to die.

Ever since they entered this underground palace, groups of monsters and giants have been following them and biting them like sharks smelling blood.

After finally finding a reliable guide and entering a space unit with relatively weak defense, they certainly wanted to take the opportunity to vent their anger.

Therefore, the Argonauts who rushed forward were more ruthless than the last.

Hercules, who had lost his adopted son and several companions along the way, was at the forefront.

For a moment, the entire independent space unit was filled with flying curse bullets and splattering blood. Dozens of monsters and giants were almost chopped into pieces as soon as they met each other.

Chiron saw this and immediately shouted: "Don't fight! Get through quickly!"

The bloodshot that almost filled Hercules' eyes gradually faded, and he returned to the expeditionary camp with the few people who had left the team.

Seeing that the gloom on Hercules' face had not dissipated much after the fierce battle, Chiron could not help but frown.

This prophesied child of destiny is strong enough, but not rational enough, and is too easily dominated by anger and emotion.

Today, the trajectory of the war against the giants has deviated too much. I wonder if this hero, who is highly expected by the gods, can shoulder his original responsibilities and mission.

"They are chasing us, hurry up and catch up!"

Prometheus looked at the dense light spots in the bronze module that were rapidly gathering here, and quickly increased his speed.

"The third light pattern in the front left!"

"30 meters to the right, go in from the second light pattern!"

"Go ahead, the road is there!"

“…”

Under the leadership of Prometheus, a professional insider, the group cleverly circumvented the main forces of monsters and giants that were chasing and blocking them in the underground maze, and by constantly activating the light patterns of each space unit, the structure of the entire underground maze gradually changed.

Once, twice, three times...

Five times, ten times, fifteen times...

Finally, the Argonauts dispersed the scattered monsters and giants along the way and completed twenty space shuttles without any danger.

And when they walked through the last light gate, the entire underground maze suddenly stopped as if a mechanical clock with stuck gears.

“Buzz!”

Then, the light patterns in each space cell hummed and flickered at the same time, and the silver-gray patterns instantly spread across the entire underground maze, dyeing the 26 different space cells a unified color.

“Boom~!”

With a dull roar, the stone wall in front of the crowd cracked open, and a cliff extended downward, as if leading directly to a dark abyss like the mouth of an animal.

However, the Argonauts vaguely saw those familiar scarlet light patterns flickering faintly at the end of the abyss.

——The Emblem of God!

——Titan Temple!

Everyone realized that was exactly the purpose of their trip. Their brains were instantly filled with intense excitement, and they all looked excitedly at the fire thief at the front of the team who led them from darkness to light.

Success!

At the same time, on the battlefield in Thessaly.

"Prometheus!"

The roar that usually sounds like thunder resounds through the sky.

"boom!"

The next moment, brilliant light burst out, and thousands of radial chasms stretched for thousands of miles in the sky.

Pieces of metal fragments, like stars, fell onto the battlefield that had turned into a scorched earth with their light gradually fading.

The originally magnificent palaces and dreamy kingdom in the clouds shattered like bubbles.

A towering giant with his armor torn and half of his flesh disintegrated, revealing the eerie white bones inside, was like a meteorite streaking across the sky, smashing heavily into the earth, stirring up several feet of smoke and dust and a hoarse roar in the second half of the sentence.

"How dare you betray this king!"

Kronos staggered to his feet from the pit, his face filled with shock and anger, his eyes red.

As the builder of the space maze, he has clearly sensed that the barrier he built with great effort has been disintegrated from within by a traitor, and the Titan Temple hidden deep in the core has been completely opened to foreign enemies.

From this moment on, his [Crown] and [Throne] are no longer safe.

The one who caused all this was actually the scum who betrayed the Titans twice!

"Betrayal?" Loen wiped the golden blood from the corner of his mouth, sneered and shook his head at the furious Titan God King, "Prometheus has never sworn allegiance to you, how can there be any betrayal?"

Upon hearing this, Kronos laughed in anger:

"Good! Very good! He actually disregarded my trust and would rather die than fight for these reptiles on the ground. I will grant his wish!"

Wait, one death?!

Luo En's heart shuddered and his face changed drastically.

But before he could react, Kronos raised one hand, grinned and crushed a ball of golden fire in his palm.

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Meanwhile, in the underground maze.

“Crack~~”

A crisp cracking sound came from Prometheus' chest.

The fire thief in front of the team stopped, looked back at the Argonauts behind him, and said with a helpless smile:

"It seems that I can only send you here."

Under everyone's confused gaze, Prometheus casually tore off the tattered robe on his body, revealing his empty chest.

The flesh and blood there had dried up, and the place where his divine core should have been was empty. Strands of golden-red light like stardust were flowing out of the hole.

Chiron was the first to react and his face changed drastically.

"Kronos stripped you of your godhood?!"

"No, I offered the sacrifice on my own initiative."

Prometheus chuckled and shook his head, answering frankly.

"Your father is too suspicious. It's not easy to fool him. You have to pay a price."

Jason's heart trembled when he thought of what had happened before.

"Bring us in, will you die?"

"That's right in theory."

Prometheus nodded slightly, looked at the restored bronze module in his hand, and answered helplessly.

"Until the end, Kronos did not completely trust me. He just asked me to stay in the space maze and not get close to the Titan Temple. If I break the space spell here without authorization and walk out of this area, His Majesty the God King will discover my little trick."

After getting the complete answer from Prometheus, Jason, who was the first to make the invitation, found it difficult to accept.

"You knew you would die if you did this, but you still brought us in?"

"Who said there is no fire underground?"

Prometheus smiled, and his gentle gaze passed over the figures of the Argonauts and looked towards the vast darkness underground.

“Since you want to move forward, someone must be the light to illuminate the way ahead for you.”

That light statement sounded heavier than a thousand pounds to the ears of the Argonauts.

In the first age of gods, although some gods showed closeness to humans, they mostly looked down on them from a superior position.

Even in the eyes of some ancient and arrogant gods, humans are not even qualified to live under the same sky as the gods.

It was the original Titans who created Greece.

Human beings, parasitic ants on the earth, are nothing but floating creatures that live and die in the long river of fate. Even if they can dance on the crest of the wave and roll with the waves, they are not worth a sneer at all.

But the fire thief in front of them gave them life and human dignity.

Once, when there was no fire on earth, he used fennel branches as a guide to bring the holy flames of the gods to mankind;

Now, there is no light underground, so he uses himself as a torch to illuminate the way forward for mankind at night...

From beginning to end, this fire thief who stole from the gods never changed.

"Well, they are almost here, so let's say goodbye here. Although the road ahead is open, it may not be easy to walk on, so be careful."

Prometheus took a last look at the heroes born from these human groups, and turned around without hesitation to face the darkness behind them.

Golden flames instantly ignited on his body, stinging the giants and monsters that were rushing over and causing them to scream and retreat.

In this dark underground, the divine emblem of the Titan Temple is like the sun of the giants, shining brightly and majestically.

But at this moment, the light from the fire thief was brighter than the sun!

(End of this chapter)