Chapter 276
——Recite my name.
——Asclepius 『Ασκληπιοc』.
When Pegasus was helplessly trying to save the life of the Saint Candidate who was on the verge of death after blocking Leo's attack for him, a small universe as cold and hard as a snake invaded his consciousness - when Lancer Mello cooperated with Sage, Bai Li, Sasha and Shion more than 200 years ago, the scope of direct intervention was limited to those who mastered the small universe in the Sanctuary.
——Candidates who have not mastered their microcosm are not within the scope of direct intervention.
——However, if the other party actively prays to the God of Medicine for help, it will not be considered a violation of the law of mysterious disappearance.
Yes, in a sense, this world also abides by the law of mysterious fading - although Athena, Hades and Poseidon are still reincarnated, and even this generation of Athena has organized a Saint Gladiator competition for the whole world... but it still abides by the rule that gods cannot interfere with humans within a certain range.
More than two hundred years ago, when Lancermello discussed with the Sanctuary about the reserve forces to deal with the holy war, she formulated this contract that "can directly interfere with all life forms that control the microcosm under the Sanctuary" - it was indeed to make subsequent preparations for the holy war; but before that, the saints of that generation had just witnessed her single-handedly solving the entire Pluto's army and taking care of an ancient god who had lost his divinity.
No one knows why she wants to retain human combat power - although the more combat power the better, with the power of Lancer Melo that is enough to crush the gods, other levels of combat power may not be necessary in the future holy war - it is just that for the Sanctuary, it is also necessary to have strong power, so they chose not to get to the bottom of this issue.
But later, Sasha, who returned to the Sanctuary several times, confirmed the answer to Lansemello with her wisdom as a contemporary Athena - gods need a lot of pure faith and a real body to interfere with reality.
Although Asclepius and Ereshkigal had entities that they could use, in reality, these two gods did not have enough believers at that time or in the future to support them in using their divine power. Therefore, in order to ensure the smooth operation more than two hundred years later, Lansemello prepared this plan after obtaining the permission of the two Athenas.
——She just waited until the end of the holy war to propose this plan.
With this contract, Lansemello forcibly brought the entire Sanctuary under the protection of Asklepios and Ereshkigal - therefore, these "all life forms that control the microcosm under the Sanctuary" automatically became believers of these two gods without knowing it - the purer their belief in Athena, the purer their belief in Asklepios and Ereshkigal.
Relying on this contract, Lancesmero guaranteed that she would be able to use the powers of the two gods freely until 1987, more than two hundred years later. However, the decline in the Sanctuary's faith in Athena over the past thirteen years was an unshakable fact, so Lancesmero, who could have slightly overstepped the line and directly rescued Cassios, had to temporarily copy the power of a certain god to interfere with Seiya's thinking and force him to ask for help from another god other than Athena in the most direct way.
Asclepius "Ασκληπιοc" - the simplest literal translation is to cut, and as the real name of the god of medicine, this is also the shortest and most effective "spell" to cure all injuries and diseases.
——Just like how Lancermello used the true name of the god of sleep to mobilize the power of God to hypnotize King Solomon.
The "Spirit Intelligence Infusion" copied from the many powers of the Goddess of Self-Love and Beauty is the simplest means of attack in the Spirit Intelligence War. It is a technology that has already had its prototype in this era. The simplest way to use it is to fill the opponent's head with a large amount of invalid intelligence, which is to fill the mailbox with spam.
——In short, Lancesmero has now filled Seiya's brain with the word Asclepius.
"As..."
In front of Aries, Athena's Cosmo rose, trying to expel the forced interference of outsiders for her guardian - at this time, the contract and promise left by Sasha and Athena of Heroes to Lancelomero two hundred years ago came into play - Athena's Cosmo in the unconscious Kido Saori acted completely on instinct, and after searching the sanctuary, she could not find any hostile reaction that forced interference with Pegasus, so she could only calm down and protect this human body again.
How could there be a hostile reaction? Lancermello was classified as a member of the Sanctuary by both Sasha and Athena more than 200 years ago. No matter how hard Athena searched, she would never find any hostile reactions. But if it was a screening of members of the Sanctuary with non-hostile reactions...
——Athena's microcosm, which currently only acts on instinct, is not capable of doing this.
"Asclepius 'Ασκληπιοc'."
As a result, Lancermello successfully forced Seiya to utter the real name of the God of Medicine before Cassios died. Lancermello performed a miracle and saved the dying Cassios. At the same time, he also healed Eoleya who was unconscious after being punched, and Seiya who was still able to force himself to move forward but had been mentally overloaded by himself.
——By the way, it also erased Seiya's memory of being forced to learn the name of Asclepius by Lancermello.
Lancermello looked at the three people who fell to the ground and fell asleep due to the effect of healing magic, adjusted the huge bird-beak mask on his face, left the Bronze Saint who intended to challenge the Twelve Zodiacs behind, walked through the unguarded Lion Palace, and headed towards the last three palaces that would soon end with no one surviving.
"You don't seem to be interested in the development of the Virgin Palace." After Lansemello passed through the Virgin Palace, Asclepius paid special attention to the Virgin Palace, which was almost free of microcosmic fluctuations compared to other palaces. "Is there anything special here?"
"The challenger of Virgo is the immortal phoenix." Lansemero glanced back at the Virgo Palace that he had thrown behind him, and answered Asclepius' question, "It's the one you and I both know, the Phoenix 'Phenex' who now only exists as a stress relief doll for Chaldea employees."
"The challenger will not die, and the challenged will not die easily either - in fact, if the previous generation of Virgo had not made the rosary to seal the Hades' army, I would not have had to break into the underworld to rob people. He did not enter the underworld because of death - but he died in the underworld."
"It's not that easy for a Virgo Gold Saint to die. After all, he is nominally the successor of the enlightened 'Savior', isn't he?"
"If it's the 'savior', then there's really no need to pay attention to this place." Asclepius quickly retracted his gaze from the Virgin Palace, but noticed that Lansemello stopped on the steps leading to the Libra Palace. "Is there any problem ahead?"
"Camus is still fighting with Aristotle in Libra." Lansermelo took in the scene in Libra and began to check the records from earlier. "Aristotle just woke up - no wonder they are still fighting. But those Bronze Saints will be here soon..."
"Then let's give Aquarius a little extra protection temporarily."
The cold breath belonging to the Eighth Hell of Hades quietly invaded Libra. Camus, who was taught by Lancer Mello himself, was much more sensitive than most Saints in these aspects. He immediately realized the changes in Libra and the necessity to speed up the end of this battle.
The disciples can put their will, faith and determination in the face of battle and even bet on their own death, but the only thing this battle does not allow is errors in time - fate is magnanimous and strict, they can allow humans to struggle wantonly, but they will never allow humans to deviate from the track woven by the threads.
——Therefore, before Athena truly returns to the Sanctuary, the fate of Pegasus and those Bronze Saints must not deviate beyond the scope.
For example, Pegasus saw this battle in Libra.
Therefore, with the help of the little protection given by Lancermello, Camus quickly knocked Hyoga unconscious and froze him into an ice coffin - just like how he had dealt with the giant bear in the forest in East Siberia in the past - but this time, the frozen White Bird was more like a princess in a fairy tale who was waiting for a prince to come and save her than a bear.
However, Camus did not have much time to stay in Libra - the small universe of Pegasus in front of Leo became vigorous again, and it was obviously recovered from the coma. This meant that they would soon pass through Virgo and come to Libra, and after passing the unguarded Libra, they would go straight to Scorpio.
After finishing the production of the ice coffin, Camus straightened his cloak, turned around and walked upwards as if he had not noticed anything unusual - passing Lancermello who was watching the entire production process of the frozen glacier beside him, and left Libra Palace where the frost had not yet completely dissipated.
"The last three palaces are a fight to the death." Lansemero caught a hexagonal snowflake that had not yet melted, and sighed softly to Asclepius, "Although I am not very familiar with El Cid, and I am not very familiar with Shura - but it is indeed derived from the curse named "Excalibur", right?"
"Broken Steel Sword——The guys associated with this name, whether in our world, pan-human history, or other parallel worlds..." Asclepius certainly understood what Lancermero was talking about, "The final outcome is consistent with Merlin's advice——The scabbard is important, not the sword itself."
"Well, everyone associated with this name is 'broken'." Lansemero walked on the pure white stairs and passed through the palace guarded by Scorpio. "El Cid would not be an exception - it is better to say that his original ending was 'broken', and Shura's ending was also this."
"As for Aquarius and Pisces...Dieter's original destiny was to use his life to freeze the raging sea water and sacrifice his life to save the world; and Aphrodite was willing to pull the Sanctuary's defense line outside of Rodrio Village for an insignificant promise, even sacrificing his own life—"
"Of course, we both knew it wasn't just some insignificant promise - like Fujimaru said she wanted to save people, it was something that had to be done."
"But I just want to say that even though the camp attributes are completely different, they are still the same stubborn idiots as their predecessors."