Chapter 19: The Ladder to the Cold Sky (2)
Time passed in a minute, a second passed -
On the ground, the last slight aftershocks have also stopped. In winter, the sun sets earlier than usual, and the bleak night falls on the huge city after the disaster, like a nightmare, endless......
It's on fire!
Sparks from the falling power lines ignited the natural gas leaking from the broken pipes, and the flames spread rapidly between the collapsed buildings.
The red firelight rolled with dark gray smoke everywhere, and the pungent smell of burning was all over the sky, and it was difficult to hide. In the smoke and firelight, the distant stretch of the ladder stood majestically in the sky, a section of the clouds hidden in the dirt, from time to time refracting the still hard and cold luster.
Kareta couldn't do anything about the one hundred and eight knots of the cold ladder in front of her, but what really worried her was the mess around her.
With the oracle scepter in her hand, Kareta turned her eyes to look at the ruined city, and thought that this place had once been the home of Jose's parents for most of their lives, and her eyes were filled with tears.
There was a sharp sting in her heart, Kareta had never tasted such a deep hatred, she hated the "annihilation" operation that destroyed thousands of years of human civilization, and she hated the entire Titans even more!
Hera was in the air, and when she saw Kareta on the ground summon the oracle scepter, she didn't take any further action. After another moment of waiting, she just looked around, and Hera finally became impatient.
"Hey, what's the matter with you!" she shouted at her:
"Karet, do you not understand the command of the great god, or do you feel too scared to climb up the ladder?
Carette did not reply, and decisively threw off her two soft leather boots and withdrew two cotton socks with her scepter.
"God, do you see ......that? This damn girl...... I've stripped off my shoes!"
When she saw Kareta standing in the ruins with her two fair, slightly swollen feet from pregnancy, Hera couldn't help but be overjoyed, and her breathing was a little uneven with excitement, and her happy appearance was almost sickly.
Zeus smiled silently, his gloomy eyes suddenly murderous, and quietly resorted to more vicious methods.
Kareta had already walked barefoot to the first ice ladder.
At this moment, the staircase turned in front of her eyes, and the surface had grown about five centimeters taller in vain, and the ladder was sharp, like a sharp blade erected.
Karete's face changed dramatically, and she quickly raised her head to look into the air, as did the other steps.
Now, a whole section of the ladder has become a mountain of knives, and if you climb it barefoot, you can't stand for the time being, it is undoubtedly equivalent to walking on the blade!
"Zeus ......"
Kareta whispered his name, trembling profusely.
God of God, what the hell is wrong with you, why have you become so vicious......
Karete's heart was in doubt and pain.
She had the impression that Zeus was indeed a cold-blooded and cold-spirited god, but even if his temperament was extremely cold, he would definitely not use such a vicious method......
"Kareta, don't go up-"
The moon god Artemis shouted frantically through the ball of light:
"Don't fall into the trap, you are pregnant, everything is focused on the child, don't go up!"
"Karetta, don't force it! there must be another way-"
"Did you hear that, Karete!"
Pacieu and Jose also began to shout incessantly. Suddenly, there was another burst of electric shock in the three balls of light.
Zeus laughed slyly, as if he had deliberately mentioned something to Carret:
"Come up, let me see how strong your divine power source is now!"
As soon as his voice fell, the flame on his right hand grew heavier. Between his fingers, the little red devil danced even more rampantly.
Kareta unleashed a source of power, and her whole body was immediately protected by the light gold brilliance. She stepped forward and took the first step, which immediately touched the hearts of her three companions.
"Carrete! be careful—"
"Stand firm!
They kept yelling at her outside the ball of light, despite the pain of the electric current, but they couldn't stop her determination to move forward.
Carette's bare right foot landed on the first ice step, and at this moment, the edge of the first ice she stepped on quickly melted, becoming as flat as a normal step.
Kareta climbed the steps with her left foot, and for a second she was silent before moving towards the higher ice ladder.
Inside the ball of light, the three companions turned pale with fright, and they didn't dare to take a deep breath. It wasn't until I saw that she was safe and sound, and after she got up the first ice ladder steadily, that the heart hanging in her throat slowly fell back into place.
As soon as their bodies slipped, they sat down in the ball of light, as if their strength had been drained out of thin air the moment Carreta walked up the first ice ladder, and they were no longer able to struggle in vain in the ball of light.
Seeing that Kareta had successfully solved the first problem and had not fallen down the smooth stairs as she had imagined, Herapi made a "tsk" sound without smiling, and then sank his face in dissatisfaction.
Zeus narrowed his eyes silently, watching intently as Kareta stepped on the sharp ice ladder and transformed them into Pingchuan one by one, and slowly walked towards him.
He wasn't surprised how her source of divine power had been able to rise to the point of perfection in such a short period of time.
After all, Demos, the god of darkness, and Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war, are both gods with unfathomable power in the Titans, and Kareta has inherited the powerful sources of their two gods!
She is the god of harmony, the legendary supreme god who can use her power to save the world!
Thinking of the peerless secret he had spied out from the mind of Croto, the goddess of fate, Zeus was furious, and his internal organs seemed to be inexplicably ignited, and the pain and anxiety were mixed together.
Such a powerful ...... It should belong to himself, to the god of all gods who is unique in the world today, isn't it-
There seemed to be another voice in the heart bewitching Zeus's ears:
There is no need for a god of harmony in this world, as long as you have the power of Karetta, you, Zeus, are the only supreme of the Titans!
In the midst of the aftermath, Zeus focused on Karete, his eyes wide to the limit, full of greedy light......
Kareta had already walked forty ice ladders, holding her body in mid-air with the height of the ladder. This is the most critical moment!
In the process of walking, flattening the sharp surface of the staircase requires Kareta to constantly deplete her own source force.
And she was pregnant, and she had already consumed a lot of energy when she was rushing to make the Heavenly Diagram, casting countless magic energies to save the world, and feeding the increasing number of human beings with blood, but now when she used her source power to hike on the ladder again, she realized that her physical strength was gradually declining.
As she climbed the ice ladder, her legs became heavier, and her bare feet became more and more unconscious.
The abnormal feeling in the stomach swept over again, and the little life that had just fallen asleep suddenly woke up at this juncture, sensing the crisis of the mother's body, kept kicking, and even made extreme moves to tear the uterine body.
She was just scared so much that she wanted her mother to stop moving forward—
Kareta was stumbling over a bout of abdominal pain, and unconsciously stopped halfway, holding her scepter in one hand and her high abdomen in the other.
We must not admit defeat! Patience, patience a little longer! We are coming to the end soon! Absolutely not...... Fall here......
Carette gritted her teeth and stared straight at the unfinished steps ahead, silently praying and praying.
Jose, Percius, and Artimis kept an eye on Carette's every move, and the sudden anomaly brought their newly laid down hearts high again.
"Karete, what's wrong with you!"
"Don't scare us—"
Seeing that Karet's expression was unbearable, she was about to collapse on the ice ladder with her hands on her abdomen, and the moon god Artemis was so anxious that she was about to cry.
"Kareta, I'm going to rush out and get to your side!
José wanted to break free from his restraints and fly to Karete's side, but in desperation, he disregarded his own safety and began to use his source power to launch a frantic attack on the purple and blue light balls that imprisoned his body.
After all, the space of the ball of light was small and limited, and many of the attack waves emitted with all their strength hit the solid interior of the sphere, and many of them bounced back and shot directly at Jose.
Despite this, Jose still did not give up and continued to attack until he was tired and sweaty, wet ~ hot ~ drenched ~ dripping.
At this time, he only had one belief in his heart:
Harder! Soon, just attack again! Just one attack, it's time to shatter the cage and save Karetta.
His unremitting persistence led to Bai Xiu and Artimis, and the two of them also began to attack violently in the ball of light that trapped them, even though the source of divine power.
"They're crazy......"
Hera stared at the three balls of light floating in the air for a moment, and after whispering to herself coldly, she turned her head to Zeus and flattered:
"Great God, you can rest assured! Those three balls of light are a special kind of enchantment, also known as 'Prison Realm', the most impregnable cage. No matter how they toss, even if the source power is exhausted, don't think about getting out of it easily!"
"Hmm!" Zeus nodded perfunctorily, his face expressionless, and his expression was very far-fetched.
Kareta had already walked the fifty-first ice ladder.
As her vision blurred, she struggled to support herself, holding her upright oracle scepter in both hands, hunched over and panting.
As soon as she climbed the fifty-second ice ladder, she couldn't hold on any longer, and fell sideways onto the cold steps.
At this time, compared to José's hot sweat all over her body, every inch of Carette's skin from head to toe was frozen, and she sat on the steps, her body shaking violently and uncontrollably.
She felt that her chest was suffocating like a boulder, and she only opened her mouth to breathe heavily, and from time to time there was a clear and white freezing breath on the top of her head and in her mouth.
"Look, she's gone......! Oh hehe......"
Hera laughed hysterically at the thrilling scene from above, and her dark, twisted mind blossomed with joy at the sight of Karete's misery.
"Great God, let's take back your scepter now and destroy the Heavenly Diagram directly, okay?"
"Don't worry, the show is still to come......!
When Zeus said this to Hera, his eyes fell directly on the side of Carret, who was lying on the ground. A fierce glint flashed through his cloudy pupils, and the first ice ladder shattered.