Chapter 244 I have never seen such a request in my life (5.1k)
"Go to hell, adulterer!"
With a sinister roar, the conspiracy goddess Melinoe held two daggers in her hands and rushed towards the pretty boy who was destroying the harmony of the underworld family. The gray-black death energy and the twisted vitality swirled and blended around her and attached to the daggers, like two angry dragons, one black and one white.
Loen narrowed his eyes, and the golden wheel behind him turned to the fifth grid, and a [Warrior] emitting a strong bloody light appeared.
Then, he casually broke off a golden branch from the garden and used it as a sword. He unconsciously imitated the tone that Athena had used to abuse him in the past, and spoke leisurely.
"That's it? Let me teach you how to use a sword!"
As soon as he finished speaking, the scarlet blood stirred up the violent ether tide, surging like a whirlwind. The dazzling sword light was emitted from the tip of the golden branch in Loen's hand, and with overwhelming force, it swept away the two daggers and went straight to Melinoe's throat.
Before the sword arrived, the cutting wind pressure made Melinoe's skin hurt.
Realizing the terrible destructive power contained therein, the goddess of conspiracy in front did not dare to take it head-on, and quickly lowered her head and turned sideways, trying to avoid the sudden sword.
“Too slow!”
In a flash, the light wheel behind Loen turned, and the iron-blooded [warrior] turned into a swift [goat]. He thrust the sword in front of Melinoe at lightning speed, and then dropped it heavily.
“Bang!”
“Ah~”
The crisp sound of beating echoed in the woods. Melinoe covered his buttocks which felt burning with pain and glared fiercely at the pretty boy opposite him.
"Well, the eyes are good, but unfortunately you can't kill people with eyes alone."
Lorne tapped the garden golden branch in his hand gently on the palm of his other hand and teased with a smile.
Melinoe, who could not bear the provocation, became furious upon hearing this, and stimulated the two divine powers of life and death in his body to the extreme. Like a ferocious wolf cub, he once again bared his fangs at the unknown opponent in front of him.
The two intertwined daggers were like a night shower of meteors, each one faster than the last, like an artificially created sword storm. The fierce sword light kept attacking Loen's throat, lower abdomen, heart, genitals and other vital parts, with no intention of showing any mercy.
He is so young, but he is quite ruthless.
Loen, who was in the center of the storm, raised his eyebrows, took small steps, and used the branches in his hands to block, cut off, and break the branches again and again... With such precision that not a single bit of energy was wasted, he easily isolated Melinoe's violent and continuous attacks.
After a full quarter of an hour, Melinoe slowed down his attack, breathing heavily, feeling indignant at some kind of humiliation.
"Coward, all you can do is defend? Do you look down on me?!"
Hearing this, Luo En waved the golden branch to slash away the dagger that was stabbing in front of him, and shook his head with emotion.
"You haven't even grown all your baby teeth yet, and you're already thinking about this. You're even more ruthless than I was back then..."
"What's the meaning?"
Just as Melinoe looked confused, Lorne opposite him showed an unusually bright smile.
"Well, this is what you asked for."
Before the conspiracy goddess on the opposite side could react, Loen's aura rose steadily, and the power of the god of war gushing out of his body formed a sticky blood-red flame. The phantom of the [Warrior] merged with him, and a violent, domineering, bloodthirsty aura surged and boiled, as if a sleeping dragon was awakened.
The suffocating feeling that came over him made Melinoe instantly realize the difference between the opponent's "teasing" and "seriousness". His face changed and he quickly retreated.
"Want to run? Too late!"
Luo En sneered, waved the golden branch in his hand, and rushed forward like lightning.
There was no time to dodge, and Melinoe's scalp was numb. He had to hold the dagger in his hand in reverse and swing it quickly, using the surging ether to weave a dense sword net and defend with all his strength.
However, the skills and strength of the two sides are not at the same level at all.
The waving golden branch sometimes looked like a razor that stabbed viciously, sometimes like a heavy sword that chopped with great force, and sometimes like a short sword that was good at changing and flexibly...
Even when it was extended, it was a spear move, and when it was retracted, it became a sword move...
In short, the changes are endless and hard to guard against.
If Athena was present, she would naturally recognize that this was the fighting style that Loen formed with his own [Infinite Martial Arts].
——As long as it is beneficial to the battle situation, he will not be restricted by the form of tactics, and all methods in the world can be used.
According to the evaluation of the goddess of wisdom, this fancy system can work well against opponents of the same or lower level, but it may not be effective against masters who are truly proficient in one thing.
At worst, you can respond to all changes with the same unchanging approach and break all methods with one method.
Loen has fought against Athena so many times. Although the goddess of wisdom said that in order not to bully the weak, she always lowered her strength to the same level as Loen with the mentality of a sparring partner.
But basically in the end, it was Ron who got beaten every time, which is very telling.
But it's a pity that the opponent is not Athena, the powerful hacker...
Moreover, he is weaker than him...
Therefore, Loen's [Infinite Martial Arts] played to its greatest advantage. With endless changes in moves, he easily broke through Melinoe's defense and hit the arms, back and buttocks of the goddess of conspiracy again and again.
“Pah pah pah pah!”
The crisp sound of whipping was endless, interweaving into a cheerful melody in the forest. Melinoe, who was beaten bloody, finally couldn't bear it anymore in extreme grief and humiliation.
"I'll fight you!"
With a loud shout, Melinoe, who was completely at a disadvantage, decisively swung out the two daggers in his hands. Loen immediately and carefully turned the sword's momentum and deflected the sword that was attacking his face.
However, when Loen switched from offense to defense, the goddess of conspiracy who was so powerful just now retreated instead of advancing, and decisively rushed out of the garden.
A little clever, but not much.
Lorne sneered and snapped his fingers.
In an instant, Melinoe found that the rocks and trees under his feet became hazy, and the road in front of him twisted and turned, and it seemed that there would never be an end.
"Guess we've been fighting for so long and making quite a lot of noise, why haven't the guards from the underworld come over?"
Loen spoke softly, holding the golden branch in his hand, and walked slowly towards the goddess of conspiracy who was still wandering in the dense forest and couldn't find a way out.
At the same time, the shadows of the [Goat] and the [Bull] floated and flickered behind him.
Whether it is the [goat] brought by Pan or the [bull] brought from Crete, both have the characteristics of a [labyrinth], and one is more natural while the other is more artificial.
Combining the two, plus the bloody abuse of Athena, the Lady of the Labyrinth, Loen can more or less imitate a similar closed venue and beat the dog behind closed doors.
Otherwise, he wouldn't dare to train the princess of the underworld openly in the land of the underworld.
Seeing that there was no hope of escape, Melinoe acted decisively and took out a lavender blade with a curved shape from the magic circle. The end of the handle was engraved with dense spells. He suddenly cut his palm with it, dripping golden divine blood into the ground of the underworld, while chanting solemnly.
"I call out to you here: You are imprisoned in darkness, and I am the one who holds the chains. Forgiveness is now, and breaking the commandments must be answered. I command you to be my guide!"
Suddenly, a purple-black magic array appeared. After absorbing the golden blood shed by Melinoe, the sound of broken chains came from inside.
Then, a giant over ten meters tall and with a burly body crawled out of the magic circle with a low roar.
His skin was as dark as rock, rough and hard, and his face looked ferocious. His torn abdomen revealed that most of his liver, heart and lungs were missing, and his messy intestines were dragged on the ground.
This monster is already dead, but because of the sins he committed in his lifetime, his soul is still suffering in the underworld and undergoing eternal punishment.
"Tityos, kill him!"
Melinoe raised the cursed knife with a purple curved blade in his hand and pointed it forward with a cold snort.
A light pattern like a chain lit up on the giant's neck. When the monster heard the order, it roared, jumped high, and waved its hands to grab the target's head and legs, wanting to tear it apart brutally and vent the brutality and depression in its heart.
Tityos was the son of Zeus and the mortal woman Elara. He was born after his mother's womb was torn apart due to his rapid growth. When he grew up, he developed a strong desire for Leto, one of Zeus' wives, and attempted to rape her. In the end, he was shot to death by Artemis and Apollo, the twin siblings born to Leto. After his death, he was constantly eaten by two giant eagles in the underworld as punishment.
So this is the kind of person he is. He even has a grudge against his own little moon...
According to the name index, relevant information flashed through Loen's mind. He didn't even look at the dark giant undead who was flying towards him with a grin. The white horse behind him neighed, and the golden branch in his hand ignited with a blazing white flame and swept forward.
"puff!"
In an instant, the aggressive Tityos was cut in half, and the blazing white flames burned violently along the wound, spreading to the giant's entire body in a blink of an eye.
Apollo's divinity that dispels filth and the Sun's characteristic of burning darkness caused Tityos, a dead spirit, to howl in pain.
Soon, the monster that only grew in body but not in brain turned into specks of light dust in the blazing white flames, shattered into pieces, and flowed back into the magic array to continue enjoying his eternal divine punishment.
"waste!"
Seeing the giant he had high hopes for was killed in the second after a confrontation, Melinoe, who had just turned around and ran a few steps, cursed in his heart, and immediately cut his hands twice with pain, shedding the divine blood again.
Suddenly, two new magic arrays were formed, and two dark figures emerged from them with the sound of chains breaking. One held a sword and shield, and the other held a longbow, standing in front of the princess of the underworld, like two vicious dogs that had broken free from their chains and bared their teeth at outsiders.
"Ixion, Tantalus, both of you, come together! Stop that guy!"
Upon hearing their owner's order, the two vicious dogs immediately rushed forward to perform.
They would rather fight to the death with a powerful enemy than stay in the execution ground in Tartarus for a moment longer.
Even if they died fighting for the princess of the underworld, as long as they behaved well, they might be able to get a respite from their endless pain and torture.
Seeing two ghosts from the underworld rushing towards him, Loen stroked his forehead and shook his head, secretly complaining in his heart.
Why are there two scumbags again...
Ixion, the former king of Thessaly, was handsome, strong, and had a good appearance.
After hearing that there was a beautiful princess in a neighboring country, he asked King Dionysus to marry his daughter to him. Dionysus was forced to agree to the marriage due to his power, but he did not want to ruin his daughter's life. So he asked Ixion for a large sum of money.
Ixion verbally agreed to give the bride price. He also pretended to invite Dionis to a banquet. Then he planned to push Dionis into a fire pit and burn him to death. Ixion's crime angered everyone in the country, and he was eventually expelled by the citizens. He had nowhere else to go, so he fled to Zeus and begged the father of the gods to forgive his dishonesty.
Because of his natural good looks, his request was granted by Zeus, and he stayed on the holy mountain of Olympus to avoid being hunted down by his enemies. But this guy with a hard-to-change nature did not stay quiet for long, and his old ways returned, and his lustful eyes stared at Hera.
He was so infatuated with the glamorous queen that he was bold enough to flirt with Hera directly, hoping that the queen would elope with him.
After being teased, Hera immediately told her husband Zeus what Ixion had done.
Zeus, who has always been a cuckold, naturally doesn't believe that anyone would dare to cuckold him, especially since the other person is a poor creature who can only survive under his protection.
But in the face of his wife's accusation, Zeus, out of caution, sent a cloud in the shape of Hera to Ixion. The impious king did not suspect anything and actually made love with the cloud in the garden, causing her to give birth to a centaur.
This is the origin of the Centaurs. These four-legged beasts are savage and brutal by nature, and love to rape women just like their ancestors. Lorne and Artemis once carried out artificial family planning for the overcrowded Centaurs in Arcadia.
After seeing that he was almost cheated on, Zeus was furious and sent Ixion to the underworld. He tied him to a constantly spinning wheel of fire, which tortured and tore his body forever.
The guy in front of him, holding a bow and arrow, with a charred face and marks of being burned by flames and torn by huge forces all over his body, was obviously Ixion himself.
As for Tantalus, who followed with a sword and shield on the other side, he was even more brutal.
He was an early ruler of Mycenae, the noble son of Zeus. He could dine at the same table with the God-King and did not have to avoid conversations with the gods.
However, he was insatiable and had no reverence for the gods' kindness. Not only did he reveal the secrets of the gods' lives in public, he also stole mead and elixirs from their tables and distributed them to his mortal friends.
In addition, he took the sacrifices to the gods for himself and stole the pet hound from the temple of Zeus. His crimes were numerous.
What's even more outrageous is that in order to test whether the gods knew everything, he invited the gods to his palace as guests, and secretly had his son Pelops killed, and then fried, roasted, and cooked him to make a table of dishes to entertain the gods.
During the banquet, because her daughter Persephone was abducted by Hades, the absent-minded goddess of agriculture Demeter did not pay attention and accidentally ate a piece.
The other gods who sensed something was wrong saw through Tantalus's trick, and threw the torn and cooked human limbs into the basin, and asked the goddess of fate, Clotho, to take the poor child out of the basin and bring him back to life.
Because Demeter ate a piece of meat, the child had a defect on his shoulder, which was later filled by the gods with ivory.
Afterwards, the gods who had been mocked unanimously decided to torture Tantalus, the beast, with the most severe punishment.
As a result, this cruel and arrogant king was thrown into hell by the gods, where he received eternal punishment.
The specific situation is: he stood in the middle of a deep pool of water, and the waves rolled under his chin. But he was suffering from a burning thirst and could not drink a drop of cold water, although the water was right at his lips. As soon as he bent down and tried to drink water with his mouth, the water immediately flowed away from him, leaving him alone on a flat ground, as if a demon had drained the water out of the pool. At the same time, he was extremely hungry. Behind him was the shore of the lake, and on the shore grew a row of fruit trees, which were so laden with fruits that their branches were bent by the fruits and hung in front of his forehead. If he raised his head and looked up, he could see the juicy pears, bright red apples, fiery pomegranates, fragrant figs and green olives on the trees. These fruits seemed to be smiling and greeting him, but when he stood on tiptoe to pick them, a strong wind would blow the branches into the air. In addition to enduring these tortures, the most terrible pain was the constant fear of death, because there was a huge rock hanging above his head, which could fall at any time and crush him to pieces.
Under severe torture, the once handsome and tall Mycenaean king now had his skin cracked, revealing the purple rotting flesh and white bones inside. The dead air in his mouth escaped, emitting a strong corpse stench. Even his eyeballs melted in his eye sockets, revealing the empty and gloomy soul fire, like a walking zombie.
I think they should now know how precious food is and that not everyone can be cheated on, right?
Loen sneered and raised the golden branch of the garden in his hand, and flames of gold and white intertwined burned fiercely.
Tantalus, who was holding a sword and shield in front, didn't take it seriously at first. However, as Ron shook his wrist and swung the golden branch, golden and white flames fell forward like rain, sticking to Tantalus's weapon, skin, rotten flesh and internal organs.
Immediately afterwards, a bright and blazing flame ignited, burning his soul and consciousness inch by inch, and severe pain followed.
“Ahhhhh! How could this happen? Lord Melinoe…save me…save me…”
The screams stopped abruptly. Tantalus was wrapped in flames and didn't even have time to scream. His limbs twisted and disintegrated like burnt firewood, turning into ashes bit by bit and drifting away.
Looking at the golden spots of light flowing back into the magic circle, Loen shook his head regretfully.
The prohibitions and eternal punishments of the gods were indeed powerful, and actually gave Tantalus a hint of [immortality]. Even if he used Hestia's [Flame] and Apollo's [White Horse] to jointly create the holy fire that purifies filth and burns evil, it only destroyed Tantalus's physical container and sent it back to the cell to continue being punished.
However, this result is more terrifying to the two scumbags than eternal death.
(End of this chapter)
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