Chapter 492: Fear
Where was this? The Pantheon!
There were at least eight thousand, if not ten thousand, Gods in this palace. Even within the entire Universe, they were a formidable force.
Uh, in the eyes of the Gods, the reason they were blocked at the Gate by a Hell Demon Dragon was entirely due to the Pantheon's cumbersome meeting procedure. Otherwise, two and a half years ago, if these God had joined forces, each spitting a mouthful of saliva would have been enough to drown that arrogant Demonic Dragon.
Beneath Anubis's jackal head, his eyes were deep, like two vortexes. Just meeting his gaze gave one the illusion that their soul was being devoured.
His wolf pupils stared intently at Kane, trying to see through his illusion and reality.
Besides Zeus, the King of Olympus, were there other God Kings from different Divine Pantheons in the Pantheon?
The answer was yes, but the War for Faith that erupted among the Gods back then caused many Divine Pantheons to lose their talent, and some Divine Pantheons were directly destroyed as a result. Just like Beelzebub, the God worshipped by the Phoenicians, after being taken over by the Heavenly God System, the former God of the Sky completely degenerated into a Hell Devil.
Anubis's lineage within the Ancient Greek God System also suffered heavy losses in that war. Moses parting the Red Sea was the result of two Sky Father level existences contending against each other—
Sun God Ra, who was equivalent in position/status to Zeus, suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of God and fell into eternal slumber.
Later, the Crusades erupted, and the powerful Heavenly God System almost swept away many Western Divine Pantheons. Besides Allah and Asgard, who could barely contend against Yahweh, He almost became the only God in the West.
However, while the snipe and clam fought, the fisherman benefited. Even the Heavenly God System did not expect that there were still others like the Sorcerer Supreme on Earth. She united with Allfather Odin, the God King of Asgard, and taking advantage of the fact that the primordial qi of many Divine Pantheons had not yet recovered, they cleared out the Gods from Earth in one fell swoop.
Even the Heavenly God System was forced to leave the Reality Dimension.
The reason Zeus could become the God King of the Pantheon was, firstly, because when facing Asgard's Forces, the Gods of Olympus ran the fastest, and their strength was preserved the most completely.
At the same time, Zeus was also one of the few Sky Fathers who did not fall into slumber at that time, and it was he who took the lead in establishing the Pantheon!
The original Pantheon was actually an Organization where Earth Deities who wanted to return to their Homeland huddled together for warmth.
But as time passed, thousands of years went by, and the Pantheon's Territory became increasingly vast. The larger the influence, the more Savage God it absorbed—
The inside of the Pantheon also became less harmonious. Compared to the small and unbearable Earth, the Pantheon now ruled nearly a thousand Habitable Planets.
Its influence had expanded more than a hundredfold—
So, the Gods led by Zeus also began to forget their original intention, vividly staging a God version of "enjoying the present so much they forgot their homeland"!
Authority (Power) intoxicates people; even God cannot bear this temptation.
Therefore, even though they clearly knew there was a powerful Demonic Dragon blocking the gate outside, those powerful Gods still spent over two years holding meetings.
After two and a half years of the Gods' meeting, and after exchanging interests with a group of allies and gaining their support, Anubis successfully achieved victory in the competition with Queen Hera, ascending to the Throne of the God King of the Pantheon with an advantage of two votes.
Just like how he replaced his own father, Osiris, to become the controller of the Underworld back then.
"Ha, haha, hahaha!"
Anubis stared at Kane with a cold and sinister gaze. The Judgment Scepter in his hand slightly emitted golden light, and a phantom faintly flickered at the top of the scepter:
"Interesting, truly interesting. Unknown God, do you think you can contend against us Gods with just your strength alone? Or do you have something to rely on?"
"Lord Anubis! I think that Demonic Dragon outside might be what he relies on! I strongly suspect this sneaky fellow is in collusion with that Old Demon Dragon outside!" At this moment, a delicate voice rang out from the middle position of the Pantheon.
Kane looked towards the sound and saw a woman dressed in plain white kneeling on the Tatami Mat-like seating. Beside her was another Goddess whose face was smeared with white powder, whispering softly in her ear, occasionally looking towards him with eyes full of ill intent.
Kane had gained some understanding of the many Gods within the Pantheon during this time. The woman wearing plain white clothes was Kushinadahime, a God from the Takamagahara God System.
Her strength wasn't particularly strong, but she had a husband, Susanoo, whose strength could rank among the top in the Pantheon. This God, who slew Yamata no Orochi in Japanese myths and legends, although his strength did not reach the Sky Father level.
But gathering some God from Takamagahara, they were considered a not small influence within the Pantheon.
As for the fellow beside Kushinadahime who kept whispering about him, she was also a God from the Takamagahara lineage—
Upon hearing Kushinadahime say that he was in collusion with the Old Demon Dragon outside, Kane did not overly explain. He just coldly glanced at her, let go, and immediately released King Ghidorah from his hand.
King Ghidorah, who had transformed into a golden three-headed lizard, had long been impatient. Following Kane's command, its entire body instantly expanded, transforming into a giant creature three to four hundred meters in body size. As its dragon wings spread, several gales thousands of meters high instantly stirred up within the Pantheon—
Some Gods sitting steadily on their divine thrones were directly blown scattered in disarray by this evil wind, falling off their divine thrones.
Gales howled, thunderclouds rolled. King Ghidorah's three ferocious dragon heads appeared and disappeared within the thundercloud, spitting blazing white lightning from their mouths, biting directly towards Kushinadahime!
Kushinadahime looked at the ferocious three-headed evil dragon pouncing towards her. At that instant, she seemed to return to the time she directly faced Yamata no Orochi—
Under her great shock, feeling the terrifying power from King Ghidorah's mouth that was enough to turn her into dust, her complexion suddenly changed. While rapidly retreating, she shouted loudly towards not far away, "Susanoo, save me!"
"Beast! Seeking death!"
A short figure appeared in front of Kushinadahime, holding a katana horizontally with both hands. Countless sword light shot out from his hand, chopping directly towards King Ghidorah's head.
King Ghidorah flapped its wings. The surrounding storm and thunder and lightning were condensed by it into clusters of blazing white divine thunder the size of large baskets, instantly blasting towards that figure.
Before being subdued by Tang Song, King Ghidorah's sonic boom stirred up just by flying could destroy a city. When he flew at super speed, he could even change the entire Earth's stratosphere environment.
To put it bluntly, in terms of destructive power, King Ghidorah was far above Godzilla. Its strength was completely not inferior to these Deities present who possessed powerful divine power.
After following Boss Tang, King Ghidorah's strength advanced by leaps and bounds, especially after being taught the Orthodox Thunder Technique by Boss Tang, its mastery of thunder and lightning reached a state of perfection.
Seeing that Kushinadahime wanted to escape!
King Ghidorah's three dragon heads roared towards the sky. Under the sounds of dragon's roar, those large thunder and lightning balls transformed into chains, instantly and impenetrably surrounded the space within a thousand zhang around Kushinadahime. The chains formed by thunder and lightning hissed and crackled, their sound strong and muffled—The Goddess beside Kushinadahime whose face was covered in white powder also turned to escape when King Ghidorah pounced.
But in an instant, King Ghidorah immediately controlled the Orthodox Thunder Technique, constructing a Heavenly Thunder God Slaying Formation. The thunder/lightning chains directly encircled over twenty God.
Thunderstorm like rain, King Ghidorah controlled the Lightning Technique. Inside the formation, lightning intertwined, a blinding brightness. Rolling thunder rumbled, and under the crackling sounds, those over twenty God were directly struck by lightning until their divine souls were completely extinguished.
Facing that blinding lightning, the Goddess whose face was covered in white powder took out a lantern emitting green light. It should have been some kind of divine artifact. The green light from the lantern protected her entire body, wanting to resist the divine thunder crashing down.
However, under that sky full of lightning, after several divine thunderbolts struck down, that Goddess, along with her lantern, turned into a pile of ash.
This scene also made the many Gods of the Pantheon who wanted to step forward stop their steps, with various expressions on their faces, not knowing what they were all calculating.
Some God even secretly slipped towards outside the hall!
Susanoo, holding that katana, had just charged near King Ghidorah when he was blocked by chains of thunder and lightning. Lightning exploded on his body, bursting out blinding light, and his entire body was scorched black by thunder and lightning. However, Susanoo was indeed a God from the Takamagahara God System whose combat strength ranked among the top five. Although his strength did not reach the Sky Father level, he endured King Ghidorah's lightning and charged towards it! He wanted to slay this three-headed evil dragon, just like he slew Yamata no Orochi back then!
But King Ghidorah simply did not engage him in a head-on fight. It just summoned thunder/lightning chains to trap Susanoo, its three dragon heads roaring as they continued to charge towards Kushinadahime!
If one were to say that the Titan King Ghidorah was just an evil relying solely on brute strength, like an innately born Deity, whether it was the Titans on Earth or King Ghidorah, they all acted based on instinct.
But after being incorporated by Boss Tang, these Titans, after being taught the technique from Boss Tang, have already transformed from savage beasts with powerful physical bodies into Demons! The difference between the two, besides being able to continuously absorb the essence of heaven and earth and improve themselves, is more importantly the improvement of wisdom.
If it were before, facing Susanoo's provocation, King Ghidorah only had one word: Fight!
The struggle between Titans was originally simple: just charge forward directly, everyone fights each other to the death, the victor is king, nothing more to say.
The current King Ghidorah, in its three dragon heads and six dragon eyes, besides cruelty, also carried deep cunning. Its three dragon heads lowered, biting Kushinadahime, letting this Goddess continuously let out wailing, stimulating Susanoo.
Susanoo, however, could do nothing. The thunder/lightning chains condensed by King Ghidorah were tough and dense. He charged the formation several times and was electrocuted to the point of wishing for death! But Kushinadahime's wailing continuously stimulated him.
How could Susanoo have endured such humiliation? He attacked the thunder/lightning chains in front of King Ghidorah repeatedly, and the wounds on his body also became more and more.
Just as Susanoo was gasping for air, his eyes turned red, staring with eyes about to burst at this three-headed evil dragon tormenting his wife in front of him.
King Ghidorah's enormous body, circling in mid-air, its dragon tail hidden within the storm and lightning, suddenly swung. In the storm, a chilling cold light directly pierced Susanoo.
That was a pale green, almost transparent spike, hidden in the storm, silently and without a trace, but astonishingly fast.
It was precisely the Hundred Poisons Cold Light Thorn refined by King Ghidorah. This sinister Magic Treasure also came from Boss Tang's hand.
This Magic Treasure was made from the corpse of an ancient ice giant dragon offered as tribute from Jotunheim. According to Loki, this dragon corpse was discovered in an underground Ice Cave in Jotunheim.
This ancient ice giant dragon had good strength during its life and was also a powerful entity nearly at the Sky Father level!
So Tang Song opened the furnace for weapon refining, taking this dragon corpse and refining it into several Magic Treasures. Among them, the giant dragon's tailbone was refined by him into a Hundred Poisons Cold Light Thorn and granted to King Ghidorah.
Struck by this thing, even a physique like the Hulk's would be frozen into an ice sculpture on the spot.
However, the reason this Magic Treasure is called sinister and poisonous is because this thing is equivalent to a poisoned dagger.
On this Magic Treasure, those people from Heavenly Soldier Valley took it for reference and added into it the venom of seven Titans, including Yamata no Orochi, and over twenty kinds of top-tier biochemical composite toxin—
The instant this cold light came into contact with Susanoo's body, his entire body completely froze into a piece of ice cube.
Before Susanoo's frozen head had any reaction, dozens of potent poisons instantly invaded all parts of his entire body—
Entire body paralyzed, qi and blood surged, physical body decayed, blood vessels burst. Dozens of potent poisons severely made this ice sculpture instantly turn into a colorful mess.
However, fortunately, Susanoo was quickly freed!
Boom—
King Ghidorah's dragon mouth opened, and a blazing white thunderball smashed down, directly smashing Susanoo into dust.
"Suck!"
King Ghidorah's middle dragon head opened, and a vortex appeared in its mouth. That boundless cold air, along with Susanoo's soul fragments and the barely alive Kushinadahime whom he had tormented, were directly swallowed by him in one gulp.
After continuously devouring over twenty God, King Ghidorah let out a satisfied burp, its body size shrank back to the size of a palm, becoming a golden three-headed lizard. Flapping its wings, it flew to Kane and landed on his shoulder.
As the sky full of lightning dissipated and the storm disappeared, all around was completely silent. All the God stared blankly at Kane and his inconspicuous pet on his shoulder.
In the Pantheon, this fellow actually really killed Susanoo? That was a God possessing powerful divine power? Was he not afraid of their retaliation? He truly had guts! Kane's Right Hand's five fingers spread open, holding a head the size of a water vat. This strange head had one body and two sides, growing two faces.
The owner of this head was also a member of Takamagahara, named Two-Faced Thunder God. He had just wanted to use his ability to control thunder and lightning to help Susanoo, but was directly twisted off his head by him.
Kane gently shook his head, his lips pursed into a line opened and closed slightly. Crack! Kane casually took the head in his hand and smashed it, saying with extreme coldness, "The Old Demon Dragon blocking the gate was just to attract you guys to come here, to make it convenient for me to catch you all in one go. A bunch of mediocre fools, if Boss hadn't kept you useful, do you think you could have lived for over two and a half years?"
Hearing Kane admit with their own ears that he was in collusion with the Hell Demon Dragon outside, the Gods inside the Pantheon, after a moment of shock, immediately exploded into chaos.
Several God immediately excitedly wanted to capture Kane—
"Silence!" Looking at the Pantheon that had suddenly become chaotic, Anubis let out a sharp shout, and the entire Pantheon instantly became quiet again.
"Strange God, I want to know your true intention. Our Pantheon has no intention of opposing any Organization, but also does not fear any provocation!"
Anubis's gaze turned towards Kane again, but this time his gaze, besides scrutiny, was more fear, as well as a trace of deeply hidden fear.
Just now, when Susanoo fell into a disadvantage, he had once wanted to step in to help, but his Scales of Judgment could not lock onto the man in front of him no matter what.
(end of chapter)