Chapter 245: Stinky sister, these are all my leftovers (3.3k, 8.4k a day to complete)
Seeing his teammates being killed in one round and continuing to suffer eternal divine punishment, Ixion pulled the bowstring in panic and retreated repeatedly in horror.
"Don't, don't come over here! You devil!"
Hearing the slightly out-of-tune voice and seeing Ixion's reaction, which was like that of a little girl being bullied by a strong man, Loen shook his head speechlessly.
As expected, in the Greek world, if you are vicious and evil enough, even ghosts will be afraid of you and stay away from you.
The golden branches in the garden were wrapped in a rich bloody light and swept forward, lightly shooting down several arrows condensed from the death energy of the underworld.
As the ancestor of the Centaurs, Ixion naturally possesses a talent for archery.
But his level was far beyond that of the goddess of hunting Artemis and the god of light Apollo, and even that of another Centaur sage Chiron.
Therefore, Loen had no pressure to deal with it. He easily rushed to Ixion's front, chopped down with a sword, and cut the unfortunate thing in half, sending him to see his cellmate Tantalus cleanly.
At the same time, Melinoe, who had repeatedly thrown out soldiers to buy time, finally stumbled to the edge of the garden and looked excitedly at the high wall of light hidden in the gray fog of the underworld.
"The barrier array base has been found!"
Then, the goddess of conspiracy quickly raised the cursed knife in her right hand and inserted the curved purple blade into the "maze wall" built out of thin air in front of her.
Instantly, there was a buzzing sound of ether dissociation in the air, and the originally indestructible "maze wall" was instantly covered with purple-red spider-web-like cracks, and then collapsed in an instant.
An indescribable divine shock came over him, and Loen's body trembled, with a fishy and sweet taste of blood rising in his throat.
At this moment, he finally figured out what the cursed knife in Melinoe's hand was, and his eyes fixed on it.
"The Talisman of Destruction of All Laws? Are you a disciple of Hecate?!"
According to what Circe said in class, Hecate, as the goddess who controls sorcery, witchcraft, and magic, is proficient in all kinds of skills and powers in casting and breaking spells.
In the hands of her incarnations facing three directions, she holds a staff of the underworld to represent casting spells, a dagger to break curses, and a torch to guide the way.
The dagger was endowed with some of Hecate's powers. It could not only destroy all barriers and anomalies constructed by magic, but was also powerful enough to directly destroy all life forms created by the use of magic, resetting them to the state before the magic was used and separating them into basic etheric factors.
So, that thing got the alias of [Talisman that can destroy all things].
However, since the lineage on the island of Aiyu mainly studied witchcraft and magic spells, and generally used the Pluto Staff, they were not familiar with the dagger in Hecate's hand that was good at breaking curses. They only vaguely mentioned it to Loen when they were free.
When he heard the person behind him calling out the real name of the artifact in his hand, Melinoe turned back in surprise, his expression becoming even more alert.
"Do you know that old witch? Did she come to capture me?"
As soon as these impolite words were spoken, and considering that Hecate's authentic artifact was now in Melinoe's hands, Loen immediately realized that this goddess of conspiracy was most likely another disciple of Hecate, that is, his - master?
Tsk, the family relationships are so messy.
Luo En secretly complained, his eyes flickering faintly.
The godmother of Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, who was most likely responsible for the birth of Zagreus, the son of the Queen of the Underworld.
Thanatos, the god of death, Hypnos, the god of sleep, and Charon, the god of the river Styx, who were born from the remaining divinity of the goddess of night Nyx, obey her orders.
The three goddesses of vengeance and the three judges of the underworld were all employees she captured;
Circe, the witch who leads the dead at sea, is her apprentice, and Medea, who will be promoted to the queen of Elysium in a future version, is her granddaughter.
Even Melinoe, the daughter of Hades and Hades, is her disciple...
My goodness, what’s the difference between this underworld and the one she runs at home?
However, as Loen recalled some content about Hecate that he had looked up in the Temple of Memory, he couldn't help but become speechless.
"...she is the famous and irresistible god of the dead, the queen who cannot be defeated or surpassed, the creator or administrator of the underworld and the goddess of witchcraft, enchantments, spells and sorcery..."
The founder and manager of the underworld, it seems that this place is really run by her...
No wonder Hades stays at home all day, obsessed with gardening and licking the Queen of Hell, and has almost no presence in major events.
Given the leaky nature of the underworld, even if the King of Hell wants to rise up and seize power, he has to command the group of underworld gods labeled "Hekate".
Moreover, based on Loen's own understanding of the Dark Moon Goddess, she would never do anything meaningless.
Apparently, taking Pluto's daughter Melinoe as his apprentice was not simply to show goodwill to the powerless Lord of the Underworld.
The most likely reason for Hecate's move was to let Melinoe, the princess of the underworld, act as a medium and hostage for the two sides to live in peace, so as to make the Queen of the Underworld and her husband behave themselves and not affect her plan.
At this moment, after sorting out a burst of information in his mind, Loen narrowed his eyes slightly and looked far ahead at Melinoe.
"So, you sneaked out when Hecate wasn't paying attention? You stole the golden bough from the Hades' garden in order to sneak back to the human world using Charon's ferry?"
"……?"
"It seems that Hecate gave you the position of the goddess of conspiracy, right? Is she planning to train you to be her subordinate god? Conspiracies are born in the dark and dare not be carried out openly. Therefore, conspiracy should be part of her power. I wonder why that woman is so calculating."
“……!”
Hearing the other party's extremely precise assertion, Melinoe suddenly felt as if he was a stripped little white sheep, being seen through inside and out by the even more scheming big bad wolf in front of him.
Instinctively frightened and alarmed, the princess of the underworld turned around and rushed to the outside of the garden where the barrier had been broken.
Without thinking, Loen activated [Goat] and quickly chased after him.
She is an important tool to maintain the delicate balance between the Queen of the Underworld, Hades, and Hecate. It's rare to come across her. If you don't catch her and use her as a palu to squeeze out her value, it would be a waste of such a good opportunity.
However, when Loen took advantage of his speed and rushed three steps behind Melinoe, the goddess of conspiracy suddenly turned around with a smug sneer on her face.
"You've been fooled!"
At the same time, a familiar magic summoning array lit up under Melinoe's feet, and colorful bands of light appeared behind her, like a peacock's tail feathers, and hundreds of eye-shaped spots of light suddenly flashed violently.
The sudden appearance of the aurora makes the dark underworld as bright as day, producing a strong blinding effect.
Seeing the opponent who had been beating her up, Melinoe closed her eyes in pain, her body paused, and a look of deep satisfaction appeared on her face.
In fact, she used the [Talisman of Breaking All Laws] to tear open the restriction, and the number of underworld undead summoned was not three, but four!
The first three were just cannon fodder to delay time and bait to lower the opponent's vigilance. The last one was her reliance for turning defeat into victory.
——【Eye of Argos】, power taken from the hundred-eyed giant Argos.
Legend has it that this ancient giant had a hundred eyes on his head, which he would not close even when he slept. He was a loyal servant of Hera, who had single-handedly completed the feat of hunting down the snake mother Echidna, and was later sent to monitor Zeus's lover Io.
At this time, Io had turned into a cow. In order to save Io, the messenger Hermes played a melodious shepherd's flute for the giant and told him a long and boring story to coax him to sleep. After successfully making the giant fall asleep, Hermes chopped off the giant's head with a scimitar, thus rescuing Io and completing the task entrusted by Zeus.
This monster, which even Hermes had to be careful about, its strength should not be underestimated. After Argus died, his eyes were taken away by Hera and decorated on the peacock's tail, and his soul sank to the bottom of the underworld.
Melinoe used the boundary-breaking property of the [Talisman of All Destruction] to barely summon the remaining soul of Argos and make it attach to herself. At the critical moment, she unexpectedly showed the killing move of [Eye of Argos] and successfully controlled the guy who beat her over and over again.
After such a great humiliation, do you really think I would just let it go?! Idiot!
Melinoe sneered and waved the [Talisman of Destruction of All Laws] in his hand, stabbing the person behind him in the abdomen without any hesitation.
There's no rush to kill him. First, seal this guy's spellcasting ability, then capture him and deal with him slowly.
The goddess of conspiracy, who thought she had won the battle, had a smug smile on her face and was excitedly looking forward to the future she had envisioned.
“Bang!”
However, the outstretched arm was followed by a sharp pain of a broken bone, and the [Talisman of Destroying All Laws] that was supposed to pierce the target's lower abdomen actually fell into the opponent's hands.
Faced with the situation that was taking a sharp turn for the worse, Melinoe's face changed drastically, his eyes full of disbelief.
"How did you..."
"I've calculated your speed. It's not easy to catch up. Your intentions are too obvious, little sister."
While playing with the [Talisman of Destroying All Laws] in his hand, Loen continued to explain with a smile, as if he was looking at a silly roe deer.
"Why don't you just run away? Why are you thinking of killing me at this time? You're using the same trick I'm tired of. You're so silly and cute..."
One of the four major illusions in life, I can fight back.
This illusion has really caused a lot of harm to people. I don't know how many people have lost their lives in a certain canyon and turned their lives into 300 yuan in the hands of the other party.
When I was at low health, I didn't think about how to save my life, but about how to counterattack. So I looked at my mana or energy or skill CD, well, I can still use these skills. I also roughly looked at the opponent's health bar. The opponent was not at full health either. Well, I can definitely kill him. So with murderous intent, I rushed towards the opponent like a fool.
But the problem is, when you are at full health, you can't even beat the opponent, and when you are at low health, you still dream of turning defeat into victory. Do you really think that a so-called miracle will happen?
Unfortunately, reality is often cruel.
Seeing that his last support was shattered, sweat broke out on Melinoe's forehead.
Suddenly she seemed to see something and her face changed drastically.
"Perse..."
"Bang!"
However, before she could finish her words, a knife struck the back of the neck of the princess of the underworld hard, and the strong divine power shock knocked her unconscious instantly.
"You want to deceive me with your IQ? These are all my leftovers."
Loen cast a disdainful look at the dead body of Melinoe lying on the ground, reached out and picked her up, ready to use her as his trump card for this trip to the underworld.
But as soon as he turned around, Loen froze in place, looking at the graceful figure in the dense forest behind him, swallowing his saliva dryly.
"You, why are you back?"
(End of this chapter)
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