"… Where did you hide our ruins …"
Sandora spoke condescendingly to the stunned middle-aged man with a voice that sounded like burning flames and an electromagnetic effect. Her words contained endless majesty and almost cruel disregard for all life. At this moment, the Schilling Queen who had destroyed countless worlds and burned countless lives with the flames of war had finally descended once again.
If only this girl didn't secretly make a "V" sign at me behind my back …
Sandora was indeed a majestic queen, but her two-sided personality that bordered on having a split personality really made me feel like I was about to explode.
"You're not human!!"
The middle-aged man was indeed one of the leaders of Olympus. Even though he was sweating profusely under Sandora's mental pressure and the threat of Abyssal Flames, he quickly calmed down and suddenly realized something. "You just said … your ruins!?"
"Useless nonsense."
Sandora snorted coldly and then unceremoniously stabbed her sharp claws into his shoulder. Even though it was only a small wound, the middle-aged man's face instantly paled, and his entire face twisted into a strange pattern.
The power of Abyssal Flames wasn't something that ordinary humans could withstand.
"That's enough, Sandora." I took a few steps forward and gently patted the blonde girl's shoulder, stopping her from continuing to torture him. In her Abyssal form, Sandora's personality was more or less cold-blooded. Even though she was able to maintain her rationality most of the time, a human's fragile body might not be able to last until she regained her rationality.
I stood in front of the middle-aged man, who had forced himself to calm down but was already drenched in sweat. I smiled to make him relax. "Alright, I'm a human, so you can relax a little …"
What greeted me was an expression of "Who are you trying to fool?"
Appearing together with Sandora, I was actually so easily excluded from the category of humans by my own kind …
However, I couldn't blame him for having such an expression of distrust. He had obviously defined Sandora as a "demon" just now, and I could so easily make a "demon" listen to me. Of course, if I said that I was a human, I would definitely attract such a doubtful expression.
Why can't this uncle think that I'm a Warlock with a bit of demonic talent?
"Tell me your name. Of course, it's your code name in Olympus. I'm not interested in your real name."
I asked calmly. I was really curious about the identity of this bearded uncle, who looked as if he had just lost his last pair of underwear at the mahjong table and was chased by his wife with a rolling pin. I had seen a few members of Olympus. Some were arrogant, some were idiots, and some were so egotistical that they became neurotic. However, it was rare to see such a depressed uncle.
Beside me, Sandora started grinding her claws … Cough cough, that part just now was just my imagination, so please ignore it … Sandora's abyssal claws were just too powerful.
Uncle Melancholy laughed bitterly and said dejectedly, "If you're really interested in that ridiculous name … just call me Zeus."
I was stunned. "Eh … You aren't the supreme leader of Olympus, are you?"
"It seems like you guys have quite a lot of information."
"It can't be?" I looked at the depressed uncle in front of me in disbelief. My gossipy soul was burning. "How did you end up like this before we took action? This is really a good … Cough cough, a regrettable ending. "
The uncle with the shiny title of Zeus in front of me became even more depressed.
"I told you, it was because of the rebellion. I never thought that my ten years of hard work would be torn apart like a joke. Poseidon and Hades, who I thought would at least be able to escape unscathed, were easily killed by you guys. In the end, I still have to face the betrayal. How could I forget? I should know the nature of humans the best … "
I scratched my head awkwardly and pointed at Sandora, who was grinding her claws (…). "If you want to talk about rebellion, it was this girl who did it. So, you don't have to be depressed. You're making my balls hurt."
"Of course, I know that those believers were controlled by external forces." Zeus rolled his eyes at me. "I was injured by another Olympian God."
I muttered, "You still have the face to say the word God? You've really hypnotized yourself to a certain extent … So, you guys are like dogs fighting each other?"
Zeus was stunned. He shook his head and smiled bitterly. "I never thought that we would be defeated by such an enemy."
"How can you say that?"
"After ten years of planning and paying such a huge price, all we got was the one and only spot." Zeus didn't care about my attitude at all. Instead, he sank into some kind of sadness. "When Poseidon and Hades were in charge of stopping you, we finally solved the final mystery of the Grand Temple. However, we discovered that only one person could obtain the right to enter the Realm of Gods. My closest comrade didn't even hesitate for a second before he attacked me. How laughable. I actually fantasized about creating a new era of Gods to eliminate humanity's sins, but I forgot the most fatal weakness of humans — greedy scoundrels. Even if they obtained the power of God, they are still scoundrels. No, they are even more dangerous than scoundrels …"
"Let me give you a suggestion." I bent down and patted the uncle's shoulder, right on the wound that had just been burned by the flames of the Abyss. He immediately shivered violently. "When you go out, be a good person. Strive to become an artist, or at least a philosopher. That is much more reliable than being a deity. Also, I will confiscate your superpower for now. Perhaps I can return it to you in the future, depending on my mood."
Zeus' face revealed a look of shock. I had sealed all of his Esper abilities with that one slap just now. But soon, he sighed in relief. "Perhaps this is a good ending … May I know your identities? At least, I want to know who destroyed Olympus. Your power has far surpassed any human organization. It could even be said that you don't belong to humanity … "
"We have already discussed this earlier." I stood up and turned to leave. "The God's ruins that you are studying are our construction waste."
Zeus' expression stiffened for a moment, then he calmed down. I had no idea what he was thinking.
I led Sandora and the others forward. After walking for a dozen meters, I suddenly turned back and asked Zeus, who was daydreaming, "Hey, where do we go?"
Zeus was speechless.
It was a little troublesome to talk to the people of Olympus. Although they were talking about things that we were already familiar with, I had to translate them in my head for a long time before I could understand what they were saying. Just like this time, it took me a few minutes to translate Zeus' words into Chinese that I could understand. They had finally found a way to activate the ancient Mother Nest, but due to a lack of energy, the power of the Mother Nest Crystal could only allow one person to become a god. So, at this critical juncture, a dog-eat-dog incident broke out between their leaders. But what did they mean by "entering the God's Realm"?
As for the depressed version of Zeus, I decided to let him live. From their short conversation, I could already guess some of the truth. Zeus was most likely another pitiful fellow who wanted to be the savior of the world because of his delusions. His motive was good, but unfortunately, he wasn't smart enough. In terms of his nature, he couldn't be considered a bad person. Now that he had become an ordinary person, I had no intentions of killing him. It would be better to let him live to atone for his crimes.
Following the route that Zeus had pointed out, we entered the depths of the base through a hidden emergency passage. As the base was closely connected to the ruins of the Schilling Mother Nest, we had actually entered the interior of the ancient Mother Nest. Although we were in the middle of a super-advanced Schilling building, this passage was obviously different from the high-tech corridor that we had come through. Instead of saying that this was an emergency passage in a high-tech base, it was more like a hidden corridor in an ancient temple. Whether it was the stone walls around us, the obsidian bricks with strange patterns under our feet, or the mysterious murals that could be seen everywhere, this place reflected a mix of various religious worship and idealism. After seeing it, I could not help but sigh. This was indeed the headquarters of a cult. Although there were many images of legendary magical beasts and demons on these strange murals, the only thing missing was the image of the gods. Needless to say, this was the embodiment of the Olympian ideology of "I am God."
When we were about to reach the end of the passage, Pandora suddenly stopped. She turned around and pointed to a mural next to her. "High energy reaction."
"Don't —"
* Boom! *
I was completely speechless at the way Pandora opened the door. This girl was not afraid of collapsing at all!
"Accurately calculated attack power," Pandora said in a mechanical voice as she retracted her hand cannon. "Energy spread is zero."
Alright, I'll take it that Pandora knows the severity of the situation.
Pandora blasted a huge hole in the wall, revealing a huge stone hall. With a certain loli's loud attack that could even scare away mummies, there was no point in sneaking in. Alright, we didn't have any intention of sneaking in from the start. We just swaggered into this dark hall that reeked of the 'Evil Camp'.
"Based on the coordinates, this should be the location of the Mother Nest's engine room," Shadora muttered to herself next to me. "The core of Olympus must be here."
After blasting open the secret door, Visca and Pandora switched to battle mode. The two little girls wore identical silver-white battle robes and walked in front of us like shadows. Their alloy boots made rhythmic clacking sounds as they walked, echoing in the spacious stone hall.
This dark hall was called the "Discussion Hall of Gods" by Zeus. Although it had such a glorious title, this place had nothing to do with holiness. There were only blurry red religious reliefs on the walls and strange characters carved on the large stone bricks. If you were to say that this was a demon-summoning experiment, I would believe it more.
Just as I was curiously studying the twisted hieroglyphics on the ground, Weska suddenly called out from the front, "Two people have been found. They're dead!"
Sandora and I immediately rushed over and found the corpses of two men in black robes at Visca's feet. One was a skinny black old man with strange golden symbols carved on his face, and the other was a slightly chubby European man. From the pieces of masks scattered around them, these two should be the leaders of Olympus.
According to the information provided by Medusa, there were a total of six supreme leaders in Olympus. So far, we had already confirmed five of them. Excluding Poseidon, who was inexplicably trying to make a flashy entrance but was accidentally blasted to death by Pandora's cannon, and Poseidon, who was so arrogant and self-hypnotized to the point that he was a little crazy but ended up being hit by Veska's Seductress … cough cough, fantasy killer … cough cough, in short, Hades, who was completely suppressed by his Esper ability nullification and ended up being shot in the head by a psionic sniper rifle, and the melancholy middle-aged version of Zeus that we met earlier, there were two other people who had fallen here. After eliminating them and according to the information provided by Zeus, we could already confirm who the final winner was: Artemis.
This was within my expectations. Although this was the first time I had heard of the name "Artemis," when Zeus confessed to us, this person was already on my high-risk list.
This person with the title of Moon Goddess could be said to be the most mysterious person in the entire Olympus organization. Even Zeus didn't know where she came from. The only thing we knew was that she was a woman. As for her age, appearance, ability, and origin, they were all unknown. According to Zeus, this woman wasn't a member of Olympus when it was first established. She first appeared about two years ago. At that time, Olympus was just an ordinary organization dedicated to studying the ancient Schilling ruins and trying to improve the power of its metahumans. Although they also had superhuman strength as their goal, Olympus wasn't fantasizing about becoming a god. It wasn't until the mysterious woman arrived that Olympus underwent earth-shattering changes.
To be honest, at first, I thought Zeus was lying through his teeth. Would an organization like Olympus allow a suspicious person of unknown origin and appearance to become the leader of their organization?
But in the end, there were many contradictions in Zeus's description that made me dispel my doubts.
Because even he couldn't remember what he had experienced in the past two years after Artemis' arrival. Although he felt that there was nothing wrong with his memory, when it came to the details, those memory fragments would become blurred and gradually dissipate from his mind in a way that would never arouse suspicion. It made people think, "Oh, it's normal that I can't remember that, right?" This was absolutely wrong. Even when he told us these things, Zeus maintained a matter-of-fact expression on his face.
Needless to say, this was some kind of psychic ability at work. It seemed that the entire Olympus was being used as a tool. The one who really wanted to obtain Schilling's power to become a god should be Artemis.
Not far from the two fallen Olympian leaders, we found a silver hexagram engraved on the ground. The concave lines seemed to be infused with some kind of energy sensing substance, and now it was constantly pulsing with a white halo. Silver-white spots of light wandered on the main lines of the hexagram according to a certain pattern. I didn't know if there was any special meaning to it. In the eleven blank areas inside the hexagram, there was a constellation-like pattern painted with golden paint. According to my observation, it should be … Anyway, you wouldn't understand …
Except for this glowing hexagram, there was nothing noteworthy in the entire hall. After killing the last two companions, Artemis obviously did not stay here. But according to Zeus, there shouldn't be any other entrances and exits in this place, right? Where did she go?
Could this be the legendary murder in the secret chamber … Uh, it doesn't seem to be related to that.
"Maybe there's another exit, and it's this scribbled plate?"
Sandora frowned and lifted her chin to point at the glowing hexagram on the ground. This mysterious pattern, which carried the dreams of many fantasy legends and humans, was like the Eight Trigrams in the East in the Western fantasy system. But in the eyes of our proud Schilling Queen, it was just a plate …
Should I say that Sandora's obsession with plates and chopsticks was too strong?
Through our shared senses, Silvers helped me analyze the situation. "This pattern itself doesn't have any spatial energy fluctuations, and the lines on the surface don't have the structure to connect into an energy circuit. Aside from a shaft with a 3D imaging system, there are no hidden passages within the effective range of the radar. I'm sorry, sir, we can't analyze the possibility of this pattern being a portal."
"Big Brother …"
Just as I was wondering if Artemis had ascended and shattered the void, or if she had simply failed her tribulation and was blasted into dust by high-voltage electricity, Visca suddenly spoke up. She gently tugged at the corner of my clothes and pointed at the silver hexagram on the ground. "These constellations … Can you get Silvers to look for them in the database?"
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