Chapter 89 Athena, You Are Actually Pretty Big (6.3k)
Bang!
The burly hunter rushed forward, his body approaching the target dozens of steps away as fast as lightning, accompanied by flying dust and the sound of the ground cracking, and his two huge fists swung forward angrily.
Before the fist arrived, the sound of a tsunami was heard in the air, as if layers of waves were pushing and pressing towards the center.
Seeing his opponent still standing there stupidly, a hideous sneer appeared on Orion's face.
He inherited the traits of the Titans from his previous generation and possessed a strong body. His arm strength was even unmatched among demigods.
This pair of powerful arms, which made him proud, had easily strangled a lion and wrestled and defeated a subspecies of the hellhound Cerberus.
In the face of this pure violence, demons and monsters would flee in fear.
Any prey that dared to resist would unsurprisingly become a dead soul under his fist.
Today, I probably have to add one more living person's name to my hunting list.
With a mixture of anger and pleasure in his heart, the approaching Orion shouted fiercely.
“Go to hell!”
“Boom!”
The two fists that hit the target slapped forwards and pushed away the violent tide of magic. The ground under the force instantly sank several meters. At the same time, a fierce wind swept in all directions, and the grass and trees in the valley were instantly destroyed, revealing bare rocks.
Humph, who is the idiot? How dare you take my punch?
As the thick smoke gradually dissipated, Orion, who kept swinging his fist, gradually lost his smile and looked with an unpleasant expression at the figure standing more than ten meters away.
“What a great strength…”
The deep voice uttered a comment that was unclear whether it was praise or ridicule.
Loen, who was more than ten meters away, looked at the two deep grooves plowed under his feet, and pulled off the shattered coat on his upper body, revealing his streamlined and explosively well-proportioned muscles.
He shook his neck, lifted his sunken legs, and walked forward. His bones moved wildly, making crackling sounds.
This guy!
Orion looked at his opponent, who seemed thin but whose physique was no less than his own, and became more and more angry.
"You can resist, right? Then wait and see how I beat you up!"
The hunters, seeing this as a provocation, bumped their fists together and rushed forward. Their muscles bulged as if cast from steel, displaying explosive power, and their burly figures were like a giant bear running through the woods.
At the same time, the divine blood that was running rapidly in his body was almost boiling, and a deep blue light gushed out from his body, like an angry sea with heavy waves rolling forward.
"Divine protection?"
Loen felt the familiar smell of the sea, took a deep breath, and recalled the days when he was chased all over the world by the Atlantis guards on the Sea of Oceanus. A gloomy grin also appeared on his handsome face.
"What a coincidence, I have one too...!"
In an instant, sticky golden-red blood burst out from Loen's body, like a dancing flame, burning violently in the air, causing visible distortions in the surroundings.
A crazy, murderous, and cold atmosphere swept over, and Orion felt as if he was on a bloody battlefield.
And in a trance, I looked up.
The headless Titan, the mindless Nymph, the winged dragon, the roaring hero... each hideous figure, born in blood, embarked on the road to death, launching a desperate charge towards the target again and again.
The berserker god, wearing a bronze helmet with feathers on his head and leather sleeves on his arms, wielded a sword and a spear, and faced the waves of challengers, slashing, stabbing, and hacking again and again.
The blood and limbs scattered all around seemed to be composing a frenzied and bloody piece of killing music.
——The Divine Power of War!
Damn it! I never heard that Ares had such a powerful demigod offspring in the underworld!
Orion's face changed drastically, and he quickly bit his tongue to stabilize his mind which was eroded by fighting spirit and madness. At the same time, his divine blood boiled, and he raised the protection of the ocean god's power to the extreme. His fists were like evil dragons emerging from the sea, and he smashed forward with all his might.
No matter who he is, the arrow is on the string and it has to be shot!
“Just in time!”
Loen growled and raised his arm to meet the attack, using the Son of Poseidon in front of him to test the results of his studies over the past few months.
Bang bang bang bang!
The collision of fists created bursts of thunder-like explosions in the air.
They are the descendants of the giants, with the crazy blood of the Titans flowing in their bodies, and fighting is almost an innate talent.
Under the control of madness, the two figures wrapped in the ether tide and thick smoke and dust, like two monsters colliding in the mountains, started a savage and violent fight.
At first, Orion relied on his ancestral giant qualities and his physique to gain a slight advantage.
But the more he fought, the more frightened he became.
The guy on the opposite side seemed like a natural fighting machine. He constantly adapted to and broke through his opponent's fighting rhythm. Soon he forced Orion, who only had brute force, to be unable to resist and retreat repeatedly.
Seeing that he was in danger under the fierce attack from the opposite side, Orion simply made up his mind, raised his arms to protect his upper body, and used the force of Loen's punch to quickly distance himself. At the same time, he grabbed the hunting bow at his waist with his left hand, pulled the arrows from the pot with his right hand, and shot six arrows in succession at lightning speed.
Faced with this sudden attack, a hint of mockery appeared in Loen's eyes.
He is just like his father, easy to play with.
At this moment, as the crisis approached, the boiling fighting spirit further pushed the fighting talent of [Infinite Martial Arts] in his body to the extreme.
In Loen's eyes, the archery skills that Orion was proud of were not only traceable, but also full of loopholes.
With his thoughts and perceptions becoming extremely clear, Loen moved three inches to the right and seven points back, then bent his left finger and tapped the center of an arrow. The sudden force caused it to immediately spin off its trajectory, and it hit the two weak points of the arrows on the left side of the fan in succession, and shot into the soil by a millimeter.
At the same time, Loen's free right hand pulled out the bronze sword he carried with him. With a flick of his wrist, the sword flew up and down like a butterfly flying through flowers, and split the three arrows on the fan on the right one after another.
From complexity to simplicity, Orion's tried and tested killing move when hunting was easily resolved.
But, this is enough!
Orion, who had retreated to ten steps away from Loen, suddenly had a flash of deep blue light on his legs and unexpectedly accelerated forward again, instantly stepping into the dangerous area one step away from his opponent.
The hunter sneered and swung out his wrapped right fist, hitting Loen's now defenseless abdomen.
Compared to tricky archery skills, he trusts his own physique more!
Therefore, the retreat just now was just to regain the rhythm of the battle.
Facing this fierce punch, Loen's indifferent expression did not fluctuate at all. He leaped back slightly and pushed up his right knee. The hardest part of his knee hit the inner joint of Orion's elbow accurately, almost dislocating half of the arm of the son of the sea god.
He still didn't dare to confront him head-on. It seemed that strength was indeed this guy's weakness.
If you defend for too long, you will lose. So use speed to attack slow and force him to reveal his weakness!
After his attack failed, Orion was not discouraged. Instead, he showed a pleased expression as if he had found the opponent's fatal flaw. At the same time, he increased his speed and strength to the peak, and attacked with a torrential rain. Each move of his was blessed by the ocean and had the power to split mountains and shatter rocks.
Under such a powerful attack, Loen dodged left and right, like a small boat being ravaged by the stormy waves. It seemed that it might capsize at any time, but it always managed to ride the wind and waves with a hair's breadth of difference.
Soon, Orion's powerful attack, which lasted for more than ten breaths, was gradually worn away by the opponent's dodging like floating catkins in the wind.
Even the rhythm of his attacks was disrupted by his anxiety, and he could no longer sustain his physical strength, so he began to curse and gasp.
"Asshole, is all you can do about it is hide?"
What Orion had not expected was that in the face of this deliberate provocation, Lorne, who had previously been mainly on the defensive and evasive, smiled sinisterly, and his bloodshot eyes revealed the ferocity of a lone wolf, and even his style and moves changed, all of which were extremely sharp and killing moves.
"Bang!"
Orion's expression changed, and he retreated three steps in succession. His right arm, which was used to block the blow, was nearly smashed into his chest by Lorne's rough punch. The strange force in the punch was like a landslide or tsunami, and almost broke his arm bones.
As the son of the sea god retreated, Loen stepped forward and struck out quickly with his right fist.
Orion immediately raised his arms, ready to block the attacks in front of his chest. However, he found that this strange and changeable attack was impossible to defend against.
Originally it was a fist, but when it was blocked, it immediately changed into a palm. Once it came into close contact, it changed into a claw, breaking the joints, and even became a finger cone to pierce the heart and lungs. Moreover, this change was arbitrarily transformed without any pattern at all.
The attack was sometimes a small and insidious joint technique, sometimes a heavy and powerful blunt shock, occasionally mixed with the use of complex Hermetic texts and spells...
For a moment, the head, throat, heart, genitals and other vital parts became the key targets. Even though Orion chose to defend with all his strength, he was hit continuously. In the end, with miserable injuries, he temporarily escaped from Lorne's close-range attack range.
Three ribs were broken, the bridge of the nose was smashed by a punch, and the three bloody marks between the eyebrows almost injured the cornea...
This guy is both cunning and ferocious, and is more difficult to deal with than any other monster he has encountered!
Orion cursed inwardly with lingering fear in his heart. As the dull pain in his body spread, he had to consider his own recovery first.
Then, the son of the sea god, who possessed the blessing of the ocean, immediately rushed to the stream beside him, apparently trying to use the water to heal his injuries.
However, thanks to his understanding of the marine demigod, Loen had anticipated this.
Want to heal yourself? It’s not that easy!
A fierce look flashed in Loen's eyes, and he immediately stepped forward, ready to interrupt Orion's rush to the water source to heal himself.
However, there was also a glint of cunning and coldness in the eyes of the Son of the Sea God.
Got fooled!
The moment Lorne stepped into his estimated range, Orion suddenly twisted his body and swept his right leg across the air with the momentum ready.
Loen's eyelids jumped, and he leaned back and fell backwards actively. As his body fell, his right hand hit the ground, and he used the recoil force to flip in the air.
However, as he was falling, six sounds of breaking through the air were heard, and six arrows shot from Orion's hands arrived in an instant.
With nowhere to gain leverage, the prey in mid-air was met with a rain of arrows that blocked all its landing and take-off spaces.
“Dangdangdang!”
Amidst a flash of lightning and the sound of metal clashing, Loen's right hand holding the bronze sword that was originally inserted at his waist fell to the ground safely.
Through slight adjustments of the body, the sword blade moved in an arc-shaped trajectory, instantly knocking away six arrows that arrived almost simultaneously!
Faced with this unexpected reaction, Orion, who thought he had it all figured out, was stunned and felt a chill in his heart. For the first time, he felt the fear that penetrated deep into his bones.
The opponent in front of him has a keen intuition that surpasses that of wild beasts and vast and complex fighting skills. His body is full of weapons and every move he makes can be turned into a deadly move. He is simply a monster born for battle!
This is indeed the case.
Loen has not received any systematic training in any school, but thanks to the blessing of the godhood of war, he has melted any experience and skills he has come across into this body during constant challenges and practice, turning it into an instinctive cognition that serves combat.
This is [Infinite Martial Arts]!
“Woo~~!”
Just as Lorne and Orion were facing each other from a distance, a loud and powerful horn sounded from the coast, echoing throughout the island of Crete.
"roar……"
What followed was the wailing that sounded like that of a fish or a snake.
At the same time, on the sea.
The only remaining Minoan warships and Divine Blood Guards, led by a monster with the head of a minotaur and the body of a human, were like a sharp sword, cutting through the waves in the tide of beasts, successfully pushing the battle line to the front of the Mother of Monsters, and shooting javelins and bows and arrows.
Pieces of lifeless flesh peeled off from the mother of all monsters and fell into the water.
In pain, Keto swung his tail angrily, creating huge waves and ether tides, trying to drown all threats and resistance.
However, the pair of pale yellow wings spread out in front of the fleet, blocking the dying struggle of the mother of all monsters.
As the golden wings slowly spread, the hundred-meter-long Gorgon, who had become one through the fusion of the divinity of the three sisters, displayed the ferocious posture of the Snake Goddess on the sea and uttered a cold and murderous declaration.
"Keto, you have no right to set foot on this land, let alone to harm the people here. End it!"
As he chanted in a low voice, the Gorgon's rectangular pupils, which contained the divinity of the snake, shone brightly, and the heavy and sticky divine power spread out again.
The sea beasts that looked at him had no time to wail before they turned into stone sculptures and sank to the bottom of the sea.
"roar……!"
The first to be hit, Ketuo, the mother of all monsters, was also not spared. The gray-white color that eroded the vitality on her body could no longer be suppressed and spread throughout her body. Only half of her head was left that could move, and it was still struggling desperately.
But obviously, it was all in vain.
The Snake Goddess raised her hand slightly, and hundreds of giant snakes made of purple hair appeared behind her. They raised their heads and hissed, madly swallowing up the magic power and divinity that escaped into the air, outlining a huge purple-red halo in front of them.
——Forced seal, everything dissolves!
“Buzz!”
The next moment, accompanied by the vibration of the air, a strange purple-red light band shot out from the light wheel and crossed the sea.
The power to dissolve everything instantly penetrated Keto's body and extinguished the last bit of life in the body of the mother of all monsters.
“Crack…!”
The huge gray-white stone sculpture of half snake and half fish that stretched for hundreds of miles was shattered into pieces.
As the haze that weighed on the hearts of every Minoan was completely swept away, thunderous shouts suddenly came from the coastal defense lines.
"θνη (Athena)!"
"θνη (Athena)!"
"θνη (Athena)!"
No matter whether they were soldiers, priests, civilians, or divine-blood nobles, they all looked with fanatical and reverent eyes at the snake goddess with the body of a demon and the wings of gods on the sea.
They believed that the Cretan goddess had a two-faced incarnation.
A bird goddess who lived in Olympus for a long time and was good at fighting...
A vengeful snake goddess who roams the island of Crete...
And now, their goddess is responding to this belief, fighting for them, winning for them, and seeking the right for them to survive and prosper!
The vast and pure faith gathered into an invisible golden river, soaking the land of Crete, allowing this belief to take deep root in every inch of soil and in the hearts of every Minoan.
~~
At this moment, on the island of Crete, in a hidden valley.
When the dying cry of the mother of all monsters reached his ears, Orion realized that something was wrong and felt like he was falling into an icy cave.
How is it possible? Keto actually lost!
Hearing the cheers that the dust had settled, Loen's heart finally settled down. He stretched his limbs comfortably and showed a brilliant smile to Orion opposite him.
"Then, the game is over..."
Orion looked at the figure in front of him, his momentum rising steadily, walking towards him, his eyes full of disbelief.
He hasn't even tried his best yet!
--run!
Almost in an instant, Orion made the decision, turned around and rushed out of the valley and headed straight for the sea.
Only by entering the territory of the ocean can you have a chance of winning!
However, before he had taken a few steps, a sharp sound of breaking air came from both sides.
Orion felt a sense of alarm and subconsciously tensed his muscles, rolling on the ground in embarrassment.
“Puff, puff, puff!”
Suddenly, a white javelin and two bone arrows narrowly grazed Orion's skin and penetrated into the rock behind him.
Then, there was a teeth-grinding sound of bones rubbing against each other, and two swords and two spears stabbed towards Orion's head, neck and heart.
"roll!"
The Son of Poseidon, who was in crisis, immediately erupted the ocean divinity in his body, stirring up a deep blue halo around his body, which shook away the swords and spears falling from both sides.
But at this moment, the three monsters in the back row made of white bones have already changed into melee bone weapons and are rushing forward alternately.
"Dragon Tooth Soldiers!"
Orion looked around and saw seven white bone monsters with snake-like appearance that seemed to have been lying in ambush here long ago. He could not help but curse inwardly with gritted teeth.
Under normal circumstances, I would not be afraid of these gold-level summons. At most, it would only take some effort to deal with them.
But now, he was on the run, and any delay for a second would be almost fatal.
"Get out of here!"
Orion once again angrily stirred up his divine power, trying to break through the blockade of the seven Dragon Fang Soldiers regardless of the consequences.
However, a golden shadow flashed by, and his right leg felt a pain, and he staggered and fell to the ground.
"Woof! Woof!"
Next to them, a golden retriever that had successfully hunted let out a happy bark, wagged its tail, and came up to its owner, rubbing his trouser leg to seek credit.
Looking at the clever golden retriever and Lorne who lowered his hand to stroke the dog's head as a reward, Orion's eyes almost burst into tears.
These should have belonged to him!
It's all the fault of that stubborn old man! It's all the fault of this stranger who came out of nowhere!
Seeing that there was nowhere to escape, Orion made up his mind, quickly pulled out the last three arrows in the pot with his right hand, and put the bowstring on it.
"puff!"
However, a bronze sword was thrown out, and the cold edge not only cut off the bowstring, but also cut off his right arm.
Suddenly, warm divine blood gushed out and splashed all over Orion's face.
After a brief period of numbness, intense pain came over him, causing the son of the sea god to cover his broken arm and let out a shrill wail.
"Ahh! Hand! My hand!"
"Don't worry, you will be relieved soon..."
The gentle voice seemed to be comforting, but it made people feel chilling fear.
Loen pulled out the bronze sword from the ground and walked forward with a smile.
Orion, who was struggling to retreat while holding his broken arm, saw that the demon behind him had caught up with him and was raising the sword in his hand mercilessly. He could not help but let out a terrified cry towards the sky.
"Father God, save me!"
In an instant, the cloudless sky rolled up water vapor from all directions, forming a deep blue vortex, like a water tornado, covering Orion in the open space.
Sensing the terrifying ocean divinity contained therein, Loen's face changed drastically.
Poseidon!
He did not even appear on the front line of the battlefield. He would rather abandon the ancient god Keto, the mother of all monsters, to save his demigod son!
However, facing the intervention of the sea god, a fierce look flashed in Loen's eyes, and he became even colder.
Since he is so valued, this son cannot be kept!
“Buzz!”
The cold determination drove the bronze sword forward.
"father……!"
At this moment, seeing that he had hope of escape, Orion, who was ecstatic under the water-blue halo, did not have time to be happy for a moment before his cheering stopped abruptly. His body trembled violently, and a ball of blood mist burst out, and the life in his eyes quickly disappeared.
Seeing this, an angry roar was heard from the sky, and the hanging water-blue vortex turned into a giant palm holding up the sky, and slapped the ants on the ground who dared to offend the divine power.
"Asshole, you're looking for death!"
In an instant, Loen seemed to be in the deep sea ten thousand meters below. Every cell and every inch of muscle in his body was under the crazy squeezing from all directions.
Faintly, he could even hear the wail of his own bones breaking and flesh disintegrating.
God’s grace is like the sea, and God’s power is like prison.
Don't look directly, don't touch!
Because they are the order between heaven and earth, and the masters of the world!
“Hmph~!”
Just as the giant palm falling from the sky was about to crush the ants on the ground who had offended the divine power, a murderous cold snort echoed in the air, and a golden spear fell, with a crescent-like edge cutting through the ocean that was submerging the world.
"puff!"
Along with the dull sound of flesh tearing, the giant palm in the sky was cut off by the golden spear tip, and golden-blue blood rain poured down with a muffled groan.
Loen, who was the first to be hit, was drenched all over by this sudden divine liquid.
The twelve-sided dice on the altar inside the skull rolled around, and an invisible resonant rhythm began to vibrate.
In an instant, the heavy pressure from the deep sea on all sides dissipated, and was replaced by the blood in the body surging like a roaring tide.
From bones to meridians, from flesh to soul, everything seems to be being washed and baptized by the sea again and again.
Seize Poseidon's power over the sea?
So, this is what I chose... [by chance]?
As if realizing something, Loen murmured as he relaxed his mind, actively accepting this hard-earned [Gift from Fate]. His consciousness was gradually drowned out by the surging sound of the tide.
The body that lost control also fell forward.
However, the drooping head finally fell into the gently open arms, and soft whispers sounded in Lorne's ears, brewing sincere praise and endless complexity.
"Thanks a lot……"
Hearing that familiar voice, the last bit of clarity in Loen's mind was broken. His entire head, without support, was buried in softness and warmth, leaving a final sigh in his heart.
Athena is actually quite big...
(End of this chapter)
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