Chapter 256: Fight, fight! I want to see a river of blood!
After an unknown amount of time, a slight pain at the back of his neck awakened Melinoe from his chaos.
"Where is this?"
She shook her aching head and looked blankly at the unfamiliar stone wall above her head.
"Still in the Crypt of Arima, but we have emerged from the underworld."
A low voice was heard, and Loen, who was sitting at the entrance of the cave and chewing a wild fruit, turned his head to look at his godsister who had woken up leisurely on the straw mat with a look of contempt.
"After removing the suppression spell, you were able to remain unconscious for two hours. Aren't you too weak?"
Fragmented memories flooded into his mind, gradually piecing together a complete picture. Melinoe glared hatefully at the shameless person who was making sarcastic remarks, and couldn't help but feel so angry that his teeth itched.
"It was you who attacked me! How can you be so confident? Shameless!"
“Same here.”
Loen rolled his eyes at Melinoe and snorted in annoyance.
"I just tried on you what you wanted to do to me the night before."
Melinoe was speechless when his little trick in the dark was exposed.
But then, the princess of the underworld stiffened her neck and said in defense: "Didn't I just not do it?"
"So, you just fell asleep." Luo En threw down the fruit core in his hand and stood up, with the contempt in his eyes deepening a little, "Otherwise, I would have beaten you up long ago!"
Realizing that he was no match for the sinister guardian in front of him, Melinoe could only shut his mouth in disappointment.
Seeing that he had successfully diverted the topic and at the same time shocked the restless goddess of conspiracy, Loen took out a leaf wrapped in wild fruit and handed it over.
"Eat something so you can get going."
Melinoe took the fruit and subconsciously tasted a few. The sour and sweet taste made her eyes light up and she quickly quickened her eating pace.
After finishing all the human food in no time, Melinoe's gloomy expression looked much better and he asked casually.
"Where are you going?"
Lorne smiled and did not answer directly, but asked with interest.
"After being beaten by me so many times, are you depressed now?"
"No! Isn't this all for my own good?"
A trace of vigilance appeared on Melinoe's face. She smiled stiffly and shook her head to deny it, fearing that this was another trick of some bastard to frame her.
Seeing the other party's reaction, Luo En jokingly mocked: "You don't even dare to admit that you have been wronged. Can you, the conspiracy goddess, have some backbone?"
Melinoe, who was already in his rebellious period, naturally could not stand any provocation. His face turned red and he looked like he was going to give up everything.
"Yeah, I'm depressed, so what?"
"Are you not willing to be suppressed by me all the time?"
"yes!"
"You really want to beat someone up?"
"That's right! I can't wait to give you two punches!"
Looking at that smiling face, Melinoe clenched his fists and asked impatiently.
"What do you want to say? If you want to do it, do it quickly! Don't think I'm afraid of you!"
"How about I take you out to vent your anger?"
Under Melinoe's half-surprised and half-suspicious gaze, Lorne took out the scale given to him by the snake mother Echidna with a smile.
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A few days later, east of the Arcadia Mountains.
"roar!"
Violent roars echoed across the vast Nemean wilderness. A gigantic lion with brown and yellow hair and a body length of dozens of meters, dragging a suppression spell all over its body, pounced towards the shadowy bushes.
"Still not behaving? Beat it!"
With an order, several figures of different shapes jumped out from the grass and surrounded the charging lion.
A snow-white fox, more than half a person's height and as fast as lightning, took the lead and swung its claws to hit the lion's forehead.
However, when the two came into contact, a sharp sound of metal clashing was heard instantly, and the huge white fox flew backwards wailing, holding its broken paw.
Not only did the lion's charging speed not slow down at all, but not even a single hair fell off.
Obviously, the fur is tougher than gold and iron.
Seeing the enraged lion rushing towards the fallen white fox, a strange monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a python's tail rushed out from the side and pushed the lion away.
The two powerful forces collided with each other, making a thunderous roar.
The strange monster with three monster heads was no match for the lion's tremendous strength and defense and was thrown far away.
"Hiss, this big fool is still so tough." The snake head acting as the tail hissed and complained.
"He's stronger than me." The lion head in the front was a little indignant.
"However, he is still so brainless in his actions, what an idiot! Could it be that all the food he has eaten over the years has been used to grow muscles?" The sheep's head on his back made malicious speculations.
"It must be!" The three heads seemed to have reached a consensus and nodded in unison, looking jokingly at the lion in the wilderness that was shaking its head and crawling up from the ground.
"Bang!"
At the same time, a monster with a sphinx body, wings on its back and disheveled hair rushed up and knocked the lion down again without waiting for the lion to stand firm. The face that looked like a sad woman came close to the lion's eyes and muttered something in a mysterious way.
“What has feet but no one knows about it, is taller than trees, and reaches up to the sky but never grows taller?”
"It will devour everything, fish, insects, birds, beasts, flowers, plants, and trees; it will chew through iron and corrode diamond; it will turn rocks into ashes; it will kill kings and destroy towns; it will turn the sea into mulberry fields and the mountains into plains."
"The answer, what is the answer?"
The lion felt dizzy and bared his teeth and roared at the somewhat neurotic monster.
"roar!"
"Oh, wrong answer! Wrong answer!"
The female monster with a sphinx's body and a human face cheered excitedly, then raised her claws and hit the lion's head wildly.
"The mad woman Sphinx has gone mad again."
"Fight, fight!"
"Yeah, that's it, beat it!"
In the tall grass nearby, the sheep's head was licking its lips and laughing, the snake's head was swimming and sticking out its tongue, the lion's head was roaring excitedly, and the three-headed monster was watching the show with great interest, while at the same time making a fuss as if he was afraid that the world would not be in chaos, and he had no intention of stepping forward to help.
Soon, the lion reacted and used his extraordinary strength to swat the sphinx that was scratching and clawing at it away with one claw, then rushed towards the silver-haired young man in the bushes with great momentum.
Its animal instinct told it that this guy seemed to be the biggest threat.
According to the rules of gods and monsters, once the strongest [king] is defeated, the rest of the vassals will scatter like birds and beasts.
"Hehe, the big fool is in trouble!"
In the sky, four humanoid monsters with the heads and bodies of young women, long hair, bird wings and bronze bird claws were circling and dancing near the battlefield, making gloating laughs.
Harpies, also known as Harpies, are the general name for the four daughters of Typhon and Echidna, Aello (rainstorm), Celaeno (black storm), Okypete (flying), and Podarge (running). They are wind spirits, sometimes acting as messengers of Hades, the god of the underworld, on the sea, responsible for sending the souls of the dead to the underworld.
However, the nature of gods and monsters makes them appear overly lively and noisy.
At the same time, Loen in the grass looked at the lion running towards him with a smile, stood still without dodging, and slowly raised his right hand.
Then, smash it down hard.
"boom!"
Accompanied by a faint roar of a bull, the lion whose head was hit was like being struck by lightning. Its head buried deep in the ground and its limbs twitched unconsciously.
As soon as it fell to the ground, a petite black-haired girl exuding a strong aura of death jumped out from behind the silver-haired man, jumped excitedly onto its back, raised her gloved hands, and punched its head wildly.
"You're called the Nemean Lion, right? Fierce ass!"
"roar!"
"You still dare to yell at me? I'll beat you until you admit defeat!"
Melinoe raised his fist and beat the brown-yellow lion lying on the ground like a violent storm. The gloom and resentment that had accumulated on his face disappeared, replaced by a hearty excitement.
Cool! So cool!
Thinking of her experiences over the past few days, the eyes of the princess of the underworld narrowed into crescents.
After coming out of the Alima Crypt, she thought she would be escorted to some secluded place, where she would have to live a cautious life with her tail between her legs. Maybe someone would boss her around all day in the name of "protection".
Unexpectedly, the first stop after leaving the house was that guy took her to fight.
Moreover, the target is a group of gods and monsters who look powerful but also seem to deserve a beating.
I heard that they seem to be the descendants of the former Demon Ancestor Typhon, and each of them dominates one side and acts tyrannically.
But those reputations are only for ordinary humans, demigods, and gods. When they meet the combination of her and that guy, they have to coil up like a dragon, lie down like a lion, and even an eagle flying over their heads has to leave three feathers as tolls.
So, the two of them went along, beating people as they went, dealing with all kinds of disobedience, and made all the descendants of Typhon that they met obedient.
The evil fox Tomethus, the Chimaera, the three-headed king of monsters, the Sphinx, the harpy... these descendants of Typhon who surrounded them and acted as their lackeys were the fruits of their journey.
And now, they are dealing with a descendant of Typhon named the Nemean Lion.
I have to say that this tough-skinned and thick-fleshed guy is not only very resistant to beatings, but he is also a fool whose animality outweighs his intelligence. Even simple communication with him is difficult, so we can only beat him down first and then consider the issue of taming him.
Melinoe thought about the falling fist and increased his divine power, trying to take the lion head by himself.
However, the Nemean lion, with its amazing defensive power, was not knocked down. Instead, it was completely aroused to its ferocity due to the continuous beatings.
The Nemean Lion struggled to pull out its head, shook its body up and down, threw the unsuspecting Melinoe out, and then roared in protest to the surroundings.
Seeing the angry look of the lion, the intelligent and wise descendants of Typhon nearby stopped in their tracks.
Lorne yawned lazily and spoke calmly.
"Come on, it's getting dark, hurry up and clean it up. Whoever keeps paddling won't have any food tonight."
Hearing this, the nearby descendants of Typhon were suddenly startled, and then they moved forward together and greeted the Nemean Lion on the ground.
The three-headed monster king Chimera spewed flames, four harpies flapped their wings together to stir up a fierce ether storm, the sphinx murmured drowsy divine words, and the evil fox Tomethos opened his eyes wide with flickering lights to release mental interference, and the princess of the underworld Melinoe took out two poisoned daggers to launch a shameless sneak attack...
Soon, the majestic Nemean lion fell to the ground with a roar of grief and anger in this inhumane gang fight.
Upon seeing this, Melinoe stepped forward immediately and cast more than a dozen spells of suppression, stun, and restraint on the unconscious Nemean lion. Only then did he feel relieved. He took out a few cursed ropes woven from the tendons of two-legged flying dragons and tied up the hapless big orange cat on the ground three times inside and three times outside. Only then did he clapped his hands with a sense of satisfaction and called it a day.
“Done!”
Loen felt deeply gratified when he saw Melinoe's textbook-level operation.
This child is teachable!
Then he took out the parchment, crossed out the name of the Nemean Lion on it, and took the descendants of Typhon with him, and went into the vast mountains of Arcadia to rest under the cover of night.
(End of this chapter)
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