Chapter 8: The Temple Massacre
Olympus, before sunset –
The gods, commanded by the great god Zeus, are gathering in the Nine Instruments of the Celestial Phenomena to witness the great moment that is coming.
Under the nine-ball instrument, Zeus, the god of all gods, and Athena, the goddess of war, stared at each other awe-inspiring at a distance of several meters, and at this moment, the two of them were the focus of attention of the audience.
"Athena, use all your power now, join forces with me to change the trajectory of the Nine-Ball Instrument, and start a new era in the universe!"
Zeus gave orders to Athena with a grim face, and while speaking, he was secretly observing every change in her expression.
Today, he must force her to comply.
Opposite Zeus, Athena's face was like a calm lake, and a pair of sharp eyes were aimed at Zeus's arrogant and strange face.
Zeus, what the hell is wrong with you?
Athena's heart was full of countless questions at this time, and her various questions were also questions that many gods in the audience did not dare to say.
They all wanted to figure out why today's great god had such a strange temperament and behavior, and the matter that had not been discussed by the council a few days ago had a result, but today it was immediately available.
Summoning the gods to the forbidden land, this is clearly to persecute Athena in public-
“...... I can't, Zeus. ”
After two seconds of silence, Athena looked away from Zeus and replied calmly.
"What did you say?"
Zeus's expression did not show the slightest hint of shock, more as if he had already expected the result at this time.
With a gloomy smile, he asked rhetorically: "Athena, it seems that you have also become obsessed with me!"
"Destruction, destruction, slaughter, this should not be the purpose of the Titans' rebirth!"
“......”
There was silence off the field.
None of the gods dared to say much, and some of the timid gods were so nervous that they had to breathe very lightly and carefully. They could hear the signs of discord from the conversation between the two gods on the field, so none of them wanted to touch the mold at this critical moment, for fear that they would become the fuse of the fight in a short time.
"Humph!"
Zeus clapped his hands twice, and the two attendants carried a pergola to the center of the field and stopped in front of Athena.
"What do you mean by that?"
Athena lowered her gaze, glanced at the white sheet covered by the pergola, and then looked at the silent waiters, and suddenly had a bad premonition in her heart.
"Send your surprise, uncover it!"
Zeus grinned wickedly, then held out a hand to gesture to Athena.
Athena frowned and steadied herself, then bowed slightly, carefully opened the white sheet on the pergola, and suddenly, as if frozen, she froze in place.
The gods in the audience looked at each other, and then there was an uproar.
Under the white sheet was nothing but the bodies of two women. I've been dead for a while, and the blood that has been dripping on the pergola has solidified and blackened.
The most terrifying part is their death, if they have been torn by some ferocious beast, half of their limbs have been mutilated, and bones can be seen at the edges.
Athena recognized the two female corpses, they were the lady-in-waiting of the head of the palace of Carret, and before the master fled, it was the two of them who took the place of the mistress and Jose, risking their lives to stay in the holy mountain to delay time.
The infinite killing machine swept in with lightning speed, and it was the metalworking god Hehuaitos who was in the field.
Seeing that the matter was revealed, in a hurry, he took the lead in summoning the metalworking axe and decided to preemptively attack Zeus.
Bright yellow light flew from behind Hevetos, and his axe leaped from the center of the light, straight to Zeus, and the sharp golden blade that spun like a disc tore through the air all the way, sparking clusters of sparks from time to time.
Zeus had built an offensive and defensive barrier a few meters in front of him, and when the axe hit the barrier, two different forces faced each other. In less than two seconds, there was a "boom" sound, and a powerful force rising from the ground turned into a swirl of red light, and the sharp axe of the metalworking god collapsed back.
Along with the axe, Athena, the goddess of war, was blown away by that power.
At this time, the golden axe was no longer at the disposal of the metalworking god, and no matter how he summoned it, it did not return to his palm, but flew in mid-air and injured several innocent gods, and then turned around and went straight to the servant.
"Husband, be careful—"
Venus sensed the danger and stepped in front of Hehuitos. Hevetos, on the other hand, was worried about his wife and tried to push her away.
The axe was already in front of them. After a perfect spin, the blade severed one of Venus's arms and plunged into Hevetos' throat.
The husband and wife fell in a pool of blood.
The gods let out a burst of exclamation and howl, and in the midst of the chaos, a fully armed holy legion rushed into the Nine Instruments of the Celestial Phenomena, enveloping the chaotic scene.
The sun god Apollo was the first among the gods to calm down, and looked intently at the commander who led the team outside the circle, which was the son of Hera, the queen of heaven, the god of war, Aras.
"Arras, what do you want to do!"
Apollo sensed something was wrong.
"By the order of the great god, I have come to kill the rebels. ”
Aras shook the chain of the Beast's Tooth Hammer and glanced at the Sun God with contempt, and replied simply and directly. He pursed his thin lips and let out a vicious sneer.
"Rebels?Who are the rebels......"
Apollo was terrified.
At this moment, he gradually understood that a conspiracy that had been deliberate for a long time had surfaced at this moment.
Under the nine-ball instrument, all the concentration of Zeus was on Athena, and he couldn't believe that the goddess of war, whose strength was on par with himself, would not be able to withstand his own small test just now.
When the goddess who fell into the dust showed a rickety old state, Zeus suddenly realized. It turned out that the illusion of her youthful appearance all along was just a disguise made by her hands. And the only deity in the whole clan who can make such a clever decoration is Venus, the goddess of love and beauty.
"Damn! you ...... How dare you come and deceive me—"
Zeus gritted his teeth with hatred, thinking of the metalworking god and his wife who had been hit hard just now, it was not an exaggeration to break their bodies into thousands of pieces.
"Have you passed on your source of divine power to Karete?
Zeus approached the dying Athena step by step, and turned his face fiercely. was about to use tricks to force her to tell the truth, but in vain she sensed a change behind her.
The moment he turned around, he saw his ambassador Hermis holding a snake staff, his body had risen to the same height as the Nine Globes, and he opened his mouth and recited a series of prayers, and his voice was subdued, like a torrent of waves floating in the four desolations of the Nine Instruments.
"O God of Mercy and Wisdom of Creation, my mother Maya, please have mercy on all living beings of the earth and grant me great strength——!
Caught off guard, a sharp white light pierced Hermes's heart, interrupting the most crucial prayer.
"Poof......" Hemis spewed out a mouthful of blood, and the stars splattered onto the nine balls.
The god who attacked Hermes was none other than Zeus below.
The white light froze indifferently, and gradually turned into a shiny two-winged scepter, which coldly pierced through Hermes's heart.
Below him, Zeus was furious to the point of madness.
"I should have thought it was you, Hermis, as the only god guarding the fortress of the Holy Mountain, if it wasn't for your betrayal, how could Athena guard herself steal and take the gem out of Olympus—"
Hemis made no arguments.
"Hermes, Emissary—"
Athena, who was in the distance, saw this scene and struggled a few times but was powerless to help.
"Hermis!"
"Hermes!"
Off the field, the encirclement of the Holy Legion was even more chaotic.
Most of the gods were in disbelief, and Hermes, the ambassador and god of medicine who was deeply favored by the gods, finally chose to betray, and for a time everyone was panicked.
In the midst of the tumult, only the goddess of fate, Croto, had a particularly frank expression.
The changes in front of her were already in her expectations. As a visionary and prophetic deity, she was prepared to sacrifice herself from the moment she foresaw the world's crisis.
On the other side of the chaos, at the same time as Hermes was attacked, Athena's close attendant Camad stepped up to the field and walked steadily to his master's side.
Athena didn't think about anything else, and she didn't notice the looming murder hidden beneath Kamod's calm expression.
"Kamod...... Karmod, you're here! quick! go and help the Hermes!"
With a numb face, Kamod pulled out the "mango stone", raised it, and poured all his strength into the knife towards the waiter.
The old Athena didn't have time to let out a moan, and she fell sideways, and the shocking expression on her wrinkled face became a permanent freeze.
"Athena—"
"Goddess Athena! Kamod actually wielded a sword to kill the Lord—"
"We are against the destruction of the world! we need the world now!"
The gods began to flock to the encirclement like a rising tide, and some of them had already gathered their origin power and were ready to fight angrily.
The face of the god of war, Arras, raised a perfect but cold arc.
"Do it!"
He gave an order to the Holy Legion, and as a result, the scarlet demon light and the holy light condensed by various source forces fought, and with the strong smell of blood rushing to the sky, the entire temple turned into a hell of slaughter.
At the other end, the brutal slaughter had just begun, and a ferocious light spread across the sky, dazzling the Holy Legion and the gods.
The light flashed from the eyes of a pair of jeweled snakes on Hermes's snake staff.
In the light, Hermes used his last strength and let out a poignant shout:
"Ultimate, ban-"
Before the sound could dissipate, the nine spheres of the nine-sphere instrument were hit by the inexplicable cyan current, and the various fluorescences that had been stored in the sphere were brightened several times at the same time.
In the next second, those fluorescent lights disappeared, and the nine balls were still running, but they didn't look as full of spiritual power as before.
Zeus, of course, understood what his ambassadors had done to the instrument.
"Hemes, I'll kill you—"
The red blood pupils condensed in extreme rage swelled with anger, and Zeus waved his ten fingers like sharp claws in the air, but he could not recall his scepter in any way. It still sits straight into Hermes's heart, refusing to leave his body.
"You are not really a god of all gods at all...... In the future, it will no longer be ......"
Hemis turned his head to look at Zeus below, grinning miserably, and his sharp eyes seemed to suddenly pass through his skin, directly seeing through his primordial spirit deity.
"You...... What nonsense ......"
Zeus clenched his flamboyant claws tightly, as if his heart was empty.
"You are not the leader of the Protoss, this brand new world must not be handed over to you!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a white light pulled out of Hermes's body, and rushed to the high semi-dome with a "whoosh" to extinguish the trace.
Hermes's body slammed to the ground, and he was no longer alive. Zeus was horrified to find that the scepter that had been inserted in Hermes's body had also disappeared.