Morning.

When the first rays of sunlight shone into the temple, Zheng Shu, who was lying in the side hall of the temple, opened his eyes.

Stretching his waist, Zheng Shu took a deep breath of the air on the island that carried the thick mist in the morning, and couldn't help but sigh a little: "I haven't felt like this for a long time, and I still miss it a little." ”

After cleaning himself up with the water from outside the temple, Zheng Shu came to the main hall of the temple. In the middle, on a large soft-looking bed, lay two petite goddesses.

Zheng Shu first carefully checked the state of Steno and Yuri Ellie, and found that they were still in a deep slumber with no sign of waking up.

After confirming that Steno and Yuri Ellie's condition was stable, Zheng Shu sighed helplessly, and sat cross-legged in the temple looking at the two goddesses lying on the bed in front of him in a daze.

Three days had passed since he returned to the island, and the two goddesses had not woken up since they fell asleep that day.

After lifting the divine barrier that enveloped the entire island, the recovery power of the gods themselves was revealed, and the divine bodies on their bodies that had begun to collapse have stabilized, but it will take an extremely long time for the recovery of divinity.

Until the divinity is fully restored, Zheng Shu estimates that they will always fall into such a deep sleep.

After all, if you calculate it, from the death of Medusa to the present nearly a hundred years, the two goddesses are completely overdrawing their divinity, and now there is still a chance to recover.

To be honest, Zheng Shu can be said to be very confused now, he doesn't know what he is going to do next, and he doesn't know what he can do.

At first, he thought about avenging Medusa, but Perseus, the main culprit who killed Medusa, had been hunted to death by Theseus, Steno and Yuri Ellie.

As for the other one, it seems that in myths and legends it is the goddess Athena......

Zheng Shu scratched his head, if it was before he knew the state of Steno and Yuri Ellie, he would definitely think that Athena was also one of the enemies.

But after deducing Athena's support for Eury Allie and Steno, Zheng Shu seems a little confused again.

Zheng Shu had already understood before that the reason why the remaining two goddesses of Gorgon were able to support the divine enchantment for such a long time was because they had the support of some of Athena's believers.

Whenever they create art with a motif related to Medusa's head, part of their belief in the Gorgonne monster becomes nourishment that strengthens the divinity of Steno and Yuri Ellie.

The main reason why the people of Athens made such artistic creations was because Athena, after accepting the sacrifice of Perseus, inlaid the head of Medusa on her breastplate or shield.

Although there are different opinions about the specific mosaics, it did arouse the passion of the people of Athens for related artistic creation.

In a sense, because Medusa's head was considered part of the Athena's equipment, a small portion of all beliefs in Athena were given to the concept of the "Gorgon Monster".

And as the remaining Gorgonian monsters, Steno and Yuri Ellie can also use this part of their faith to transform into their own divinity.

If it were an ordinary person, they would probably think that the action of the goddess Athena inlaid Medusa's head on her equipment was "coincidental" to keep Steno and Yuri Allie alive, but Zheng Shu, who knew the weapons of the gods and Athena's strength very well, would not think so.

Whether it is Zheng Shu's existing god armament or Athena's Aegis, their method of defense is not to use their own materials to block external attacks, but their essence is actually a conceptual weapon with a divine enchantment.

To put it simply, it is not the armor itself that provides defense, but the divine enchantment formed by the armor.

Therefore, Zheng Shu's divine armament can defend the whole body without dead angles whether it is in the constricted state or the expanded state, but because the constricted state itself is a low-power consumption mode, the defense and transformation efficiency will be slightly lower than the unfolded state of the battle armor.

But to put it bluntly, the defensive power of the God's Weapon has nothing to do with its shape, for example, Athena's Aegis and Zheng Shu's God's Weapon are reversed, its unfolded state is in the shield form, and the closed state is in the warframe form.

Therefore, in the history of the Moon World, when Odysseus was able to wear Aegis because of Athena's gift, there was a relatively obvious gap between the defensive power he showed and Athena's personal use.

Based on this characteristic of the Divine Armament, Zheng Shu could clearly recognize that Medusa's head could not be embedded in Athena Aegis at all!

Because the so-called God's Weapon is essentially an enchantment generator, wantonly inlaid with something messy, not only will it not strengthen its combat effectiveness, but it may even weaken the protective ability of the God's Weapon.

What's more, with Athena's main god-level combat power, Medusa's head couldn't allow her to get any improvement in combat power at all.

Athena, an enemy who can be affected by Medusa's Petrified Eye, can be killed with a slap herself, while an enemy who can really compete with Athena, Medusa's Petrified Eye cannot break through their divine defenses at all.

So combined with all the previous information, Athena had no need to inlay Medusa's head in her own equipment at all.

The only explanation was that she already knew what the Steno sisters were doing, so she secretly helped them in this way.

After coming to this conclusion, Zheng Shu also felt helpless, in this way, there is no enemy alive in this world at all, and he can't find anyone to vent his anger at all.

The only thing he could do now was probably to find a way to wake up Steno and Yuri Ellie, and of course, it would be better if he could find a way to bring Medusa back to life.

……

……

It was another morning, and Zheng Shu checked the status of the two goddesses as usual after waking up.

After discovering that they were still sleeping peacefully, he used the rudimentary magical knowledge he had learned from Charon to lay a simple guard barrier to ensure that they would be able to return as soon as they woke up.

After that, Zheng Shu left the temple and wandered around the island.

The reason why he chose to leave the temple this time was because the food stored in the temple had been depleted. This time, I wanted to go to the beach to catch some catch for food for the next few days, and look around the island to see if anything that didn't have a long time to break into.

Although the nameless island is covered in storms and fog all year round, it is impossible for humans to break into it without the blessing of the gods.

However, some of the demonic beasts that inhabit the ocean are sometimes blown ashore due to storms, and at this time, Zheng Shu has to dispose of them in time, in addition to being able to harvest a large amount of food, but also to prevent these demonic beasts from evolving into more terrifying disasters after absorbing the overflowing divine aura.

It has been more than a month since Zheng Shu returned to the island, and he has basically become accustomed to this kind of life.

For Zheng Shu, the main purpose of the previous efforts to improve himself was to protect his "family" in the war with Tagantes.

That's right, the three Gorgons have long been regarded as family members by Zheng Shu.

After all, he has lived on the island for more than ten years, and when he didn't have any ability to act in the early stage, it was the three sisters who raised him, although Zheng Shu suffered a lot in his childhood because of his lack of common sense, but they did their best to raise Zheng Shu.

It is no exaggeration to say that compared with the two "parents" in the dragon world who did not make him suffer physically, but always ignored him, the three Gorgons paid more to raise Zheng Shu, so Zheng Shu felt so angry after learning the news of Medusa's death.

After Zheng Shu left the temple, he first ran to the beach to check if the trap he had set earlier had caught any prey, and then collected some wild fruits as side dishes.

After all the gains on my body were brought back to the temple and sorted out little by little, the time had come to the afternoon.

Zheng Shu glanced at the sun, which had already begun to set in the west, and unfolded the armor form of the god's armament to patrol along the coastline of the island.

In addition to making the protective stance stronger, the Divine Weapon in the Warframe form also comes with some small functions, such as it can make Zheng Shu more sensitive to the surrounding environment, and the perception range can also be greatly improved.

Silently turning around the edge of the island, Zheng Shu was not only searching for demonic beasts that might have washed ashore, but also exercising his perception ability.

Suddenly, Zheng Shu was stunned for a moment, and the perception strengthened by the battle armor seemed to sense some special object, and he immediately took a step forward and ran in one direction of the jungle on the island.

Roar!

While running, a demonic beast that looked like the size of an elephant sprang out of the nearby woods and swooped down on Zheng Shu.

The beast's body is covered in slippery scales, and the upper half of its body looks like a shark, but the lower half of its body is covered with pincers and shells that resemble crabs.

In addition, the back of what was supposed to be a fin has several wriggling tentacles on its back, and the tentacles also have very long cilia, which looks quite disgusting.

It is clear that this monster was blown to the island by a storm from the sea.

It should have absorbed a certain amount of divine residue, so the body is in a period of high-speed mutation, which makes its image look so unstable.

Zheng Shu watched the demonic beast with a mouth full of sharp teeth rushing towards him violently, and stretched out a hand expressionlessly.

Bang!

An explosion-like muffled sound exploded from the point where Zheng Shu's fist and the demonic beast's head came into contact, and the translucent shockwave mixed with flesh and blood fragments scattered in all directions.

After receiving such a heavy blow, this demonic beast directly lay on the ground and lost its breath of life after a few convulsions.

Although it looked like it was just a fist-sized blood hole on the outside, in fact, the internal organs of this demonic beast had been completely shattered by Zheng Shu's power, and even the large muscles on its body had been shaken apart.

Glancing at his palm, if it was before, he might have to fight a few more punches when facing this demonic beast, but after strengthening the strengthening template of Hercules, who had completed the twelve trials, Zheng Shu's strength had exceeded a certain limit, except for the main god-level enemy, all the creatures in this world were basically a matter of one fist to him.

It's a pity that the enhancement template produced by the same creature can only cover and not stack after being strengthened, otherwise Zheng Shu would like to strengthen the power of Hercules a few more times.

Shaking the blood on his fist, Zheng Shu was about to step forward to move the body of this demonic beast to the temple when he suddenly sensed something.

With a frown, he looked up in a certain direction, it stands to reason that it should be the location of the temple, but according to the induction of the magic enchantment he had set up, Zheng Shu found that it was actually a little far behind.

It stands to reason that it is impossible for him to make such a basic mistake after living on this island for more than ten years, so the only possibility is that there is something more in this journey.

Zheng Shu simply threw down the corpse of the demonic beast, activated the protection of the divine weapon with all his might, and walked towards the location where he had misperceived.

While walking, Zheng Shu silently calculated the distance in his heart, and when he was about to step out of the forest, Zheng Shu stopped, looked at the area in front of him that suddenly turned black, and frowned.

If he was not mistaken, this was supposed to be the treasury area behind the temple, but now it doesn't seem to be able to connect this with the treasury.

After taking a closer look, Zheng Shu found that the reason why the area in front of him suddenly turned black was because it was covered with a layer of enchantment that looked relatively thin, which should be the center of the divine enchantment that Steno and the two had unfolded on the island before.

After looking at the patterns carved on the ground next to it, it was probably because of these symbols engraved on the periphery that this barrier could last longer.

However, because of the long loss of energy supply after Steno and Yuri Ellie fell asleep, this barrier was on the verge of limit, and even escaped from the original other dimension, so Zheng Shu was able to detect that something was wrong.

Looking at the already very transparent barrier in front of him, Zheng Shu hesitated for a moment, and touched his hand in battle armor upward.

Bang!

A crisp explosion sounded coming, centered on the point that Zheng Shu touched, and a large number of cracks quickly appeared in the entire enchantment, and finally exploded into points of light scattered in the sky.

After the enchantment disappeared, this alien space was finally completely embedded in the island, and Zheng Shu also found that the things here looked extremely strange, whether it was the ground or the plants, they all looked like they were made of stone.

Stone?!

Zheng Shu was startled, didn't care what to think, and walked quickly into this area made entirely of stones.

With Zheng Shu's foot strength and deliberately moving fast, it didn't take long to reach the center of this area. Here, Zheng Shu saw something that made him breathe.

The corpse as huge as a mountain fell to the ground, purple scales wrapped around the body, and it should be obvious from the figure that this should be the body of a woman, although I don't know how long it has been dead, but the skin still looks ruddy and white.

What seemed particularly frightening was that the corpse's head had completely vanished, leaving only a large headless corpse lying on the ground.

"Medusa......" Zheng Shu muttered unconsciously.

From the surrounding environment and the memories of his previous life, he could basically judge that the corpse in front of him should be the remains left by Medusa after she became a monster in Gorgon.

Although the corpse looks lifelike, it is true that it has completely lost its breath of life.

Zheng Shu stood in place for a moment, and finally stepped forward slowly. Gorgon's monstrous Medusa is extremely huge, and Zheng Shu's height is only the size of Medusa's palm.

Reaching out to touch the corpse that was already completely cold, Zheng Shu's eyes were scattered, and his thoughts didn't know where to drift.

……

……

Night.

Back in the side hall of the temple, Zheng Shu lay on the bed and looked at the starry sky in the sky.

Although he had long accepted the fact of Medusa's death, when he saw Medusa's severed body appear in front of him, Zheng Shu still felt a huge impact.

Reminiscent of the Athenians who created the symbol of Medusa's head, Zheng Shu was almost carried away by the anger and flew to Athens to carry out a retaliatory massacre.

At the same time, Zheng Shu finally understands why Yuri Allie and Steno would choose such an extreme way to "resurrect" Medusa.

He was already so angry just by seeing the corpse that he couldn't imagine how sad the two goddesses were when they saw their sister beheaded.

But now Zheng Shu found that he couldn't do anything, and the power in his body had no effect at all in such a situation.

The anger made the green tendons on Zheng Shu's head burst, but he felt extremely powerless while lying on the bed. He simply can't do anything but be incompetent and furious!

As if provoked by Zheng Shu's furious emotions, the light blue panel actively jumped out from the depths of consciousness.

[The world consciousness is trying to make contact, is it connected?] 】

"What?"

The sudden change made Zheng Shu, who was already slow to think because of anger, a little stunned, and he was silent for a long time before he could barely suppress his anger, sat up from the bed and looked at the information on the panel.

"World consciousness? Inhibition? What are they looking for me for? After thinking about it for a while, Zheng Shu decided to try to make contact with the inhibition force, "Panel, connect the contact." ”

[Instruction received.] 】

[After receiving the world consciousness information, it will be synchronously formed on the panel to form a readable information, please pay attention to check it.] 】

【……】

There was a sudden silence on the panel after this information popped up, and just when Zheng Shu began to wonder if the world consciousness had left, new information finally popped out on the panel.

[We have a way for you to see Medusa again.] 】

Zheng Shu's eyes flashed with a glimmer of light after seeing this message, the "tone" of this message was completely different from the previous mechanical sense of the panel, and it was obvious that the willpower of the Moon World was talking directly to him.

"What method? At what cost? Zheng Shu didn't have any thoughts about beating around the bush, and asked his own questions very simply.

[We can elevate you as a living person to a Heroic Spirit, and then you can participate in a battle as a Heroic Spirit, and someone will summon Medusa in that city.] 】

[The price is change, and we need enough change from you.] 】

“！”

The light in Zheng Shu's eyes was even better, and he immediately thought of the most famous thing in the Moon World: the Holy Grail War.

(PS: Feature film begins.) ）

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