Chapter 487: Zeus Dies, Hercules Dies
In the Void Space, a mournful wail echoed. Compared to Odin, who still possessed his old might, Zeus, who was addicted to wine and women, had spent most of his energy over the years on the bellies of those newly taken alien women.
When he once again faced the Goddess of Death Hela, he discovered with extreme horror that Hela, whose strength was originally slightly inferior to his, now actually far surpassed him.
The nature of that blood energy was even more bizarre and domineering than the thunder power he himself wielded. Facing the sword qi that fell like rain, for a time, Zeus was beaten without any ability to fight back.
With a loud boom, the The Void around Zeus, because it could not withstand the dense, rapid, and powerful energy impact of the countless blood-colored sword qi, was directly torn apart and shattered.
Against the pitch-black background, Hela summoned the Blood God Sword in her hand. The blood-red sword implement slashed across the sky, directly transforming into a blood river, which roared as it surged towards Zeus.
With a rumbling sound, the blood river churned, instantly drowning the entire The Void! The blood river rippled, with giant waves rolling, and within it, hundreds and thousands of blood god clones rushed towards Zeus one after another! Although Zeus struggled with all his might, the thunderbolt in his hand transformed into thick bolts of thunder. The pure yang and supreme thunder power was precisely the bane of evil techniques like the blood god clone.
Thunder as thick as mountains swept across the blood river, and large swathes of blood god clones were struck and dispersed into wisps of green smoke.
But that boundless blood river was simply too vast! Although Hela had not been cultivating the Blood Scripture for long, she couldn't help but have an immense killing intent!
Of the dozens of Habitable Planets occupied by Tang Group, at least two-thirds were conquered by her. Furthermore, she led the Army of the Dead to conquer those layers of the Abyss World, and the Demons who died by her hand were countless.
God knows how many living beings she had slaughtered! And the essence blood and soul of these living beings and devils all transformed into a part of her blood river.
In the Marvel World, there was no such thing as karma, nor heavenly retribution lightning. There was only survival of the fittest. This was undoubtedly Heaven for someone like Hela.
The essence blood and soul of countless living beings had forcefully pushed her Blood Scripture to a state nearing great completion.
The golden light that Zeus transformed into was in the boundless blood river, charging left and right, with thunder flashing constantly!
The blood river formed by countless blood drops covered the entire sky. Thick blood plasma churned incessantly, and from time to time, large chunks of blood plasma suddenly exploded in the golden lightning, and were turned into steam and dispersed by the powerful energy colliding within.
Blood shadows darted back and forth in the Blood Sea, stirring up rolling blood waves that continuously slammed towards Zeus. As the rolling waves splashed, every blood drop that splashed out was shockingly a ferocious face of a demon soul.
After a long while, a blood pillar shot out from the thick Blood Sea, thousands of miles high. The blood pillar dissipated, and the bruised and swollen Zeus revealed his figure, gasping for breath!
He had dozens of wounds crisscrossing his body. The areas around the wounds were shockingly shriveled, like mummies that had been sealed for thousands of years, looking incredibly bizarre.
Zeus hadn't even caught his breath properly! The surrounding blood waves, as if alive, surged towards him again from all directions.
Zeus wanted to shoot up into the sky, but a shadow suddenly appeared above his head. He only realized when he looked up that the rolling blood cloud had already covered the entire The Void above him.
He looked around. The surroundings were a deep red, where was there still a way out!
Zeus let out a helpless bellow. The thunderbolt in his hand burst forth with golden light, and he charged towards the surging blood waves that were rushing at him. His entire body was instantly submerged in the rolling giant waves within the blood river.
At the critical moment, not far away, Hercules, who was also fighting Kane within the range of the blood river, risking being smashed in the back by Kane's fist, forcefully charged towards Zeus's Direction, wanting to rescue his nominal Father.
Kane watched Hercules flying towards the blood river, but did not pursue him. Instead, he gave him a regretful look, then stopped his steps, put away the Five Dings Mountain-Splitting Axe, transformed into a divine wind, and flew towards the chariot in the Void Space.
Hercules discovered that he had greatly underestimated this bizarre and vicious blood river. As soon as he left the Battlefield with Kane, the surrounding blood waves seemed to break free from restraints and swept towards him.
In the blink of an eye, they closed in on Hercules. Hercules threw a fist, and the fierce fist wind directly rolled back the surging blood waves hundreds of meters, revealing the countless bloody phantoms beneath the blood waves.
The blood waves retreated, leaving the The Void misty. Hercules took a quick look, but it was like looking at flowers through fog. He only saw whooshing sounds in the distance, and countless bloody figures shaking.
A bloodlight flashed, coming like swift lightning. A tall blood god clone's body transformed into a bloodlight and directly pounced towards Hercules! Hercules swung the longsword in his hand and slashed down towards the bloodlight. A sword qi tore through the The Void, directly splitting the bloodlight Shuzhi into two halves.
But that streak of light was split into two, and surprisingly formed two blood shadows, which pounced directly towards Hercules.
Hercules's expression sank. The treasured sword in his hand slashed out again, but no matter how many times he slashed, those bloodlights remained undead. Instead, one became two, two became four, and they grew more and more numerous.
After Hercules delivered dozens of slashes, the bloody phantoms in front of him had already reached several hundred. Moreover, the blood river not far away churned towards him again, and within the blood waves, the indistinct blood god clones were even more numerous, their count unknown.
Seeing that slashing was ineffective against these ghostly things, Hercules took a few steps back and reached for his bow and arrow!
As he drew his bow and nocked an arrow, that divine bow which had slain a hundred heads was drawn taut again, and streaks of blazing arrows shot out from his palm —
The whistling arrows, under the empowerment of his divine power, transformed into over a hundred flame divine bulls and charged towards the rolling blood mist.
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle, sizzle, sizzle —
The rolling blood mist, the moment it came into contact with the over a hundred flame divine bulls, immediately shrank back in fear into a streak of bloody light, retreating far away! At the peak of the blood river, Hela saw this scene. Her small face furrowed its eyebrows. Although the blood god clones she refined were formidable, anyone who was passed through by a phantom would instantly be sucked dry into an empty shell.
But this Blood Scripture, after all, was just an upper-level magic art of the Asura Magic created by Daoist Styx. It was far inferior to the blood god clones that Daoist Styx had nurtured together within the Netherworld Blood Sea.
There were quite a few shortcomings. Towards pure yang thunder fire power, these blood god clones still instinctively feared it! To refine these blood god clones to a level where they were taboo-free, still required feeding them with a massive amount of living souls and essence blood!
Hela subconsciously looked up towards the Direction of the Canopy Cloud Fragrance Chariot high in the The Void. Her small face wrinkled. If that guy wasn't watching so closely, she could have refined a few more formless blood demons.
Hercules also saw that these blood god clones feared the power of flames. He simply put away his treasured sword, drew his bow and nocked an arrow. Accompanied by the dense humming of the bowstring, streaks of fiery arrows flew out from him, transforming into various forms such as fire cow, fire bird, fire dragon, etc., and continuously shot towards the Direction where Zeus had been swallowed by the blood river.
The arrow rain shot by Hercules landed in the blood river. The powers of flames and bloodlight, two completely different attributes, collided, and the blood river in front of him constantly sizzled, like a boiling kettle.
Many remnant souls in the blood river were struck by the flaming bulls transformed by the arrow rain, and were immediately roasted by the scorching divine fire, turning into wisps of green smoke.
While drawing his bow and nocking an arrow, Hercules also accelerated towards Zeus's Direction. Hercules's speed in drawing the bowstring was very fast, and arrows flew out from his hand like rain. Moreover, the arrows for the divine bow in his hand, forged by the God of Fire Hephaestus, seemed endless.
Every time he drew the bow, on the bow itself, a fiery arrow would automatically condense! But even though Hercules held the divine bow, no matter how fast his speed in drawing the bow and nocking an arrow was, no matter how many blood shadows and remnant souls he killed, he couldn't withstand the fact that the surrounding blood river was simply too vast.
Rolling blood waves churned, countless blood god clones drove hundreds, even thousands of times the number of blood shadows and remnant souls, summoning boundless blood waves that pressed towards him from all directions.
Although Hercules had already drawn sparks from the divine bow in his hand, how could he possibly withstand such a frenzied attack!
Suddenly, over a dozen blood shadows broke through the firepower of the arrow rain and fiercely pounced close to Hercules.
Bang, bang, bang, bang.
In his helplessness, Hercules could only abandon the arrow he was about to shoot, clench his sandbag-sized fist, and at the same time, transform his divine power into flames, covering his entire body.
When those blood shadows pounced close, he threw punches. Flaming fist winds shot out from his hands. In an instant, hundreds of consecutive punches solidly hit the heads of those blood shadows, beating those blood shadows until they directly turned into bloody steam! But in just these few short breaths of time, those blood shadows had already crossed Hercules's arrow Defense Line and reached his side.
In helplessness, Hercules could only put away his divine bow, his fists burning with flames, and fought fiercely in the Blood Sea. Every punch he threw could shatter dozens of blood shadows into broken blood mist.
But for every blood shadow he blew apart, hundreds and thousands of blood shadows would fill in and pounce towards him densely again.
Hercules threw a punch, and the blood river was blasted with a hundreds-meter-wide hole by the fist wind, but the evaporated blood water was immediately filled up again by even thicker blood plasma.
Layers upon layers of blood shadows and blood plasma wrapped around him. Gradually, Hercules was directly enveloped by a sheet of bloodlight.
He looked around. The surroundings were a dense, dark red, even making this fearless god of strength feel a sense of powerlessness.
Countless blood shadows wrapped in thick bloodlight continuously pounced on him, colliding with the flames around his entire body, causing them to shake non-stop. The blood god clones mixed within even directly tore through Hercules's protective flames.
The lion skin cloak on his body, which was impervious to saber and spear and fire and water, seemed to have no effect whatsoever before the tangible yet formless blood god clones.
Seeing that the blood god clones were about to pounce onto his body, Hercules let out a bellow, and intense golden flames erupted from his entire body. In an instant, he released half of the divine power within his body.
It exploded like a giant nuclear bomb. This divine power transformed into layers of golden flames, burning outwards in all directions —
The few blood god clones that had just pounced onto Hercules' body were like snowmen jumping into a pot of hot oil. Amidst sharp hissing sounds, they directly turned into nothingness.
And the boundless blood river, under the divine power unleashed by Hercules, the blood river within hundreds of miles around was instantly evaporated clean by the golden flames.
Hercules, whose divine power had exploded, at the moment the blood river dried up, also saw Zeus, surrounded by hundreds and thousands of blood god clones.
Zeus was enveloped by battlegear condensed from lightning and thunder light. However, under the continuous pounding of the blood river, the thunder and lightning divine power within his body was also completely worn away. Right before Hercules' eyes, Zeus's divine body could no longer hold on. As over a dozen blood god clones pounced over, Zeus's entire body transformed into a ball of blood mist and exploded.
Only a thin human skin was left, drifting down into the blood river, and was quickly swallowed by the blood water.
"No!"
Hercules roared and charged towards Zeus's Direction. The next moment, his entire body was once again enveloped by countless blood shadows.
"I am the Underworld King Hades! I am a God, you cannot do this to me!"
Upon the Canopy Cloud Fragrance Chariot, a ball of black mist charged left and right within Tang Song's palm, trying to break free. But he seemed to have fallen into a boundless World. No matter how much force he exerted, no matter which Direction he tried, he could not break through those five towering cloud peaks.
Those white mist-covered mountain peaks were like a barrier that could not be broken through. After Hades tried dozens of times consecutively, he could only let out a sharp bellow towards the Sky.
"A God! Heh heh!" Tang Song's face revealed a strange smile. He casually squeezed this God into a black mist pellet the size of a longan and casually tossed it to Kane at the side.
"Kane! I have a use for those Gods in the Pantheon. Hela's killing intent is too great, I'm not at ease. You'll have to work hard for a while. Take Hades and go take over the Pantheon!"
To take over the Pantheon, it would actually be best to keep Zeus alive. However, firstly, Tang Song didn't like Zeus as a person, and secondly, keeping him alive would do more harm than good! It was better to feed him to Hela's blood god clones instead.
Kane grabbed the constantly clamoring black mist pellet in his hand. His blade-like lips pursed, and he nodded steadily. "Yes, Boss!"
Speak of the Devil, and he shall appear. Before Tang Song finished speaking, a bloodlight landed in front of the Canopy Cloud Fragrance Chariot!
Hela, who heard Tang Song speaking ill of her, puffed up her cheeks and directly lifted the curtain to walk in. "What's wrong with my killing intent being great? That's not what you said when you asked me to conquer those Hell Abyss for you back then!"
As Hela spoke, she handed the longbow in her hand, which was taller than herself, to Kane at the side. "Here, Kane, I think this bow is pretty good, it's for you!"
Kane took the longbow from Hela's hand, the one that had once slain a hundred heads and was famous in mythology. Holding the bow in his left hand and nocking the string with his Right Hand, as the muscle in his arm bulged slightly, that longbow was also drawn into a full moon by him, and an illusory energy arrow also appeared on the bow.
"Good bow!" After Kane praised it, he did not shoot the arrow. Instead, he slowly released the force in his hand.
"This bow should be from the God of Fire Hephaestus. He is the God of Fire of Olympus, the God of Forging and Masonry, the God of Carving Art! He's a talent!" Tang Song said, glancing at the longbow in Kane's hand.
Kane nodded upon hearing this. "I understand, Boss. I will bring the person back!"
"I want to go too!" Hela interjected defiantly.
"You shouldn't go. I have a more important mission for you!" Tang Song patted Hela's head and smoothed her hair.
"What mission?" Hela turned her head to shake off Tang Song's palm.
"In that Universe over there, Blood Daoist is present. Those Abyssal Lords can't stir up any trouble anymore. I've brought a hundred thousand Yellow Turban Warriors. They are all handed over to you to command. The matters of conquering mountains and destroying temples will be left to Kane. You will plow through the Abyss World of this Universe for me again! How can we allow others to An!"
(End of chapter)