Chapter 402 Giant Root Hunter
At the same time, at the top of Ares Mountain.
Winged nymphs, headless gods, armless heroes, half-rotten monsters, shattered humans... layers of corpses piled on top of each other were crushed under the ruins.
The ruined and collapsed temple was burning fiercely, with blazing flames rising up. Broken arms, legs and organs were scattered all around, and the smell of burnt flesh was nauseating. This battlefield filled with blood and deathly silence seemed to have no breath of life at all, and it was so tragic that it seemed like the Tartarus hell in the deepest part of the underworld.
Hades, the god of the underworld, and Persephone, the queen of the underworld, were all moved when they saw this scene.
What kind of belief and power can make these lives rush towards death one after another?
"Is it worth doing this?" Hades couldn't help but murmur.
"Even if the chance of winning is only one in ten thousand, we are willing to give our all to seize this opportunity!"
Amidst solemn silence, Athena pushed away the huge rock that was pressing on her and stood up shakily.
Even though her face was as pale as paper and golden red divine blood was flowing from her forehead, she still tightly grasped the Spear of Victory and the Aegis Shield in her hands, and stood straight, like a swan that would never bow its head, raised her slender neck, and answered proudly:
"Athens, either die gloriously or live magnificently!"
"Alright, alright! I will crush you bugs to death right now, and see how great and glorious you are!!"
The demon ancestor Typhon, with his flesh and blood wriggling all over, raised his not-yet-fully-grown dragon head from the deep pit, stared forward with his empty eye sockets, grinned with his gums sticking together, and let out a sinister roar.
Accidents happen again and again!
Blocked again and again!
Failure again and again!
It clearly had the power to crush this group of ants, but it crashed its head and was bleeding on such a small War God Mountain, completely losing all its face.
In the end, even the gods of the underworld gave up their destiny of guarding Tartarus and came to Athens to help.
In that case, then let them all die!
"The beasts of God, the mortal enemies of man, gather here, and hunt here!"
Typhon roared and swung his huge black dragon claws forward. The dark red flesh and golden-black divine blood on his body splashed to the ground like rain, turning into subspecies of Typhon's descendants, such as Sphinx, Cerberus, Hydra, and Chimaera.
"roar!"
These gods and monsters, which were born from the flesh and blood of the Demon Ancestor and the power of beasts, swarmed towards the holy fire on the altar of the great temple, which was like a candle in the wind, as soon as they appeared in the world, like activated killing machines.
Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!
However, just as thousands of Typhon descendants were about to rush into the ruined temple, sharp sounds of breaking through the air came one after another, divine patterns floated, and the ether factor-driven javelins, arrows, and cursed bullets whistling in, like a meteor shower passing through the sky, hitting the positions ahead one after another.
Boom boom boom boom!
For a moment, thunder-like explosions came one after another, the earth shook violently, and hundreds of meters of dust were stirred up.
"The Athenians are still alive, and a bunch of beasts want to extinguish our sacred fire?"
The new king, Theseus, who had a broken arm, spat out a mouthful of saliva mixed with blood, twisted his facial features, and revealed a hideous look on his face. He shouted an almost broken roar towards the burning battlefield and thousands of Typhon descendants.
"Form a battle array and meet the enemy!"
"Fight! Fight! Fight!"
The wild shouts gathered into the roar of a lion pack, the earth and rocks were blown away, and dozens of remaining Athenian God's Blood Guards either threw away their deformed helmets and drew out their daggers, or dropped their broken spears and pulled out another spare one, and raised their deformed or broken shields, gathered together with their king, and steadily set up a shield wall.
“Woo~~!”
At the same time, a girl with delicate cheeks stained with black and gray by the war flapped her tattered golden wings, circled in the air, and blew a desolate horn, bringing infinite courage to the living.
——Niki, the goddess of victory.
That is Athena's servant god, and also Athena's will!
At the sound of the horn, one figure after another crawled out from under the bricks and stones, stood up from the corpses, crawled out from behind the ruins, ran out from the deep pits, and regrouped on the ruins of the great temple.
Some of them are gods, some are gods and monsters, some are heroes, and some are humans… their bloodlines are different;
Some of them were kings, some were nobles, some were citizens, some were servants… their identities varied widely;
Some of them came from Sparta, some from Corinth, some from Calydon, some from Arcadia... from all over the world;
But at this moment, because of their common purpose, they gathered under the same flag and were given the same name - Athens!
As long as they are alive, their fight will not stop.
“BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM!”
The descendants of Typhon who were at the forefront were torn into pieces, green blood and broken limbs flew everywhere, and their bodies with holes all over them fell to the ground with a bang.
But compared with the remnants of the Athenian side, the beasts maintained a clear advantage in quantity and quality.
Even if the survivors were stronger than steel, they were doomed to be unable to make up for the gap.
Looking at the beast tide that was about to flood into the Great Temple, Athena took a deep breath, took out the bronze emblem soaked in divine blood from her arms, and turned to look at Hades and Persephone.
"This thing, is this how it's used, right?"
Then, the goddess of wisdom raised her hand slightly, and the bronze emblem was thrown into the burning sacred fire, merging with the light of faith of Athens.
“Buzz~!”
Suddenly, a strong vibration came from deep in the earth, and densely packed distorted light patterns spread and floated on the ground, connecting and gathering into a large magic array covering hundreds of miles.
Then, columns of gray-black smoke rose from the cracks in the ground, and thick deathly gray fog spread, completely enveloping Athens and Mount Ares, turning this land that originally belonged to the living into a dark land for the dead to live in.
And when all the changes were complete, Athena raised her hand to catch the spear of victory that Nikki had transformed into, and slammed it heavily on the ground, letting out a loud cry.
"The battle is not over yet, and victory is not yet achieved!"
"Those who are going to die, pick up your heads and fight for me!"
In an instant, the broken corpses on the battlefield struggled to climb out of the ruins, picked up the heads and placed them on the broken necks, picked up the broken arms and inserted them on the shoulder blades, or dragged half of the body, grasped the weapons, and looked fanatically and awe-inspiringly at the goddess who was destined to bring them victory and glory.
"For Athena!"
"For Athena!"
"For Athena!"
Amid the roar of landslides and tsunamis, they carried with them their obsessions and unfinished courage, stepped over the rubble, crossed the flames, and rushed towards the densely packed Typhon subspecies in front of the temple amid the intense burning of their flesh and bones.
"Attack! Attack! Attack!"
The new king, Theseus, used his remaining arm to draw the dagger from his waist and roared.
The gods, monsters, heroes and warriors behind him, supporting their exhausted bodies, launched the attack. The fierce ether tide rolled towards the battlefield, like the scythe wielded by the god of death, following the footsteps of the forerunners.
At this moment, the living and the dead stand side by side;
At this moment, the living and the rotten share the glory;
At this moment, life has already transcended life!
Seeing the whole of Athens being transformed into the underworld and Hades and Persephone's fully released underworld power crushing towards him, the Demon Ancestor Typhon actually looked at Athena in shock and anger.
"You are crazy! You are crazy! You actually mobilized the power of the entire underworld to suppress me? Even if you win, what does it matter? No one is restraining Kronos. He is simply not something those little brats from Olympus can contend with. They will definitely massacre Thessaly!"
"It doesn't matter. As long as we get rid of you as quickly as possible, we can spare some troops to support Thessaly."
Athena wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth and spoke calmly, looking coldly at the demon ancestor Typhon, whose body's self-healing was stagnant under the suppression of the power of the underworld.
Persephone, the Queen of the Underworld, gently shook the golden branch in her hand, and the thick deathly aura around her miraculously transformed into a rich breath of life, which flowed into Athena and the bodies of the surrounding gods and monsters.
Looking at the figures surrounding him one after another, Typhon shook his head and roared.
"Get rid of me? What a joke! My soul has long been immortal. Even if you destroy this body, you can't completely wipe me out!"
But having said that, his body was unconsciously retreating.
Obviously, this Demon Ancestor was afraid.
But Hades, the god of the underworld, and Persephone, the queen of the underworld, had already dispersed and formed a triangle formation with Athena, surrounding Typhon tightly in the center. The power of the underworld and the power of the labyrinth blended with each other, turning this area into a sealed prison.
"This king is immortal!"
Typhon raised his only remaining head and roared ferociously, while his own power surged wildly in all directions.
Athena raised the spear of victory, Hades waved the fork, and Persephone swept the golden branches of the garden. The three powerful divine powers defeated the ink-like disaster divinity, revealing Typhon's scarred body.
The only head on the neck did not proliferate, and the various wounds and defects on the body were not repaired.
Obviously, in this brutal and long battle, Typhon's own divinity and power were almost exhausted.
Suddenly, hundreds of streams of light broke through the air and moved forward.
Hestia pulled the trigger, and the Gorgon opened his magic eye...
The three Graces scattered petals, and the nine Muses struck chords...
Circe held high her staff, and the snake mother chanted divine words...
All the gods, monsters, and heroes present launched an attack on the Demon Ancestor Typhon without exception.
Scorching bullets, surging magic beams, swinging spears and sharp blades rained down on Typhon. The already broken dragon body exploded into a cloud of blood mist, and pieces of flesh and bones were peeled off from the body.
“Ah~!”
Typhon couldn't help but let out a miserable scream, his eyes filled with shock and anger.
Because he suddenly realized that what fell off was not only his flesh and blood, but also part of the soul that resided in it.
The foundations that maintained their immortality were also torn apart by the gods' continuous bombardment, and scattered along with the separated flesh and blood fragments.
They are actually trying to divide my soul!
Typhon's heart trembled, and he hurriedly released his power, trying to recall the torn soul fragments.
However, just as he reacted, several nimble figures floated over, like a group of hyenas snatching food, picked up the divine flesh and blood that fell from his body, and swallowed it whole.
When Typhon took a closer look, he was almost furious.
Because the group of hyenas who blatantly robbed him of his divine flesh and blood were actually his own unfilial sons and daughters.
The nine-headed Hydra, the hundred-headed dragon Ladon, the Nemean Lion, the three-headed king of monsters Chimaera, the Sphinx, the Harpy... and other descendants of Typhon who have joined the Ares system, devoured the divine flesh and blood that exploded from their father Typhon without any hesitation, performing the classic Greek drama of fatherly love and filial piety.
"Damn you bastard! Give it back to me!"
In a rage, Typhon raised his head and spewed out poisonous flames, trying to regain his deprived divinity and soul.
However, Athena's Spear of Victory, Hades's Pitchfork, and the Queen of Hell's Golden Branch all fell down at the same time, not only shattering the power that Typhon had barely gathered, but also each cutting off a large piece of divine flesh and blood from the Demon Ancestor.
The two giant purple snakes behind the hellhound Cerberus and Gorgon opened their mouths at the same time and snatched up the three large portions of divine flesh and blood one after another.
Such a behavior of eating alone made the other descendants of Typhon growl in dissatisfaction. The more clever ones were no longer satisfied with picking up leftovers on the outside, and took the initiative to drill into the barrier and eat the body of their biological father Typhon.
"Get out! Get out!"
Typhon, who was forcibly suppressed by Athena and Hades, screamed and struggled desperately, looking at those unfilial children who were rushing towards him with eyes full of shock and anger.
Because he discovered that due to the compatibility of blood and divinity, the divine flesh and blood and soul fragments that were stripped away from him were actually swallowed up by these evil creatures and quickly digested!
If he were to be chopped into pieces and turned into bait to feed these evil creatures, his ego would most likely be destroyed.
The so-called immortality will no longer exist!
"Give them all to this king..."
Just as Typhon was about to use his power as the ancestor of demons and the father god to order these evil creatures who wanted to team up with him to steal his gold coins to get out of here, he suddenly felt a chill in his crotch, and a sharp pain that penetrated deep into his soul.
“…Ahhh!!!”
Typhon let out a shrill cry and looked with red eyes at a golden retriever whose head popped out from under his crotch.
As if it had sensed the hatred and murderous gaze of the Demon Ancestor, the hound let out a low whine, quickly tucked its tail between its legs, and nimbly picked up a purple-black stick-like object that was dozens of meters long and as thick as a tree trunk, and quickly rushed out of the barrier that surrounded Typhon.
It seems that he is a repeat offender.
When did the dog sneak in?
Moreover, the thing in its mouth seems to be...
Faintly, the gods in charge of the siege and dismemberment seemed to understand something, and they all looked at Typhon with strange eyes, whose crotch was bleeding.
"Die! All of you die!"
An intense feeling of humiliation instantly surged into the Demon Ancestor's heart, and the violent beast power gushed out from him, shaking the entire War God Mountain violently, and the deathly gray mist carrying the power of the underworld rolled over.
"puff!"
The Spear of Victory pierced through the air and smashed Typhon's head, causing the Demon Ancestor to become obedient again, and he could only silently endure the sadness.
“Speed up!”
While Athena was throwing large pieces of bones and minced meat to the descendants of Typhon behind her, she turned her head and looked at the battlefield in Thessaly where the spirit was rising continuously, and gave a solemn warning.
"We... don't have much time!"
(End of this chapter)
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