"Wuuu~!"
Dozens of demonic dogs, their necks bristling with sharp bony spines and silver-grey fur as hard as metal, had somehow circled to the rear of the four deities. Seizing the moment of surprise from the shadows, they burst forth and leaped toward the three weaker Nymphs.
Hera’s eyes narrowed, and she instantly halted with a stomp, her fingers pulling back her bowstring, shooting down the dozen or so demonic dogs that had pounced.
Yet, even so, a few slipped through the barrage of Thunderbolt arrows, closing the distance to the group.
At such close quarters, using the powerful Heart-seeking Bow could inadvertently cause harm.
"Roar!"
The approaching demonic dogs leapt high, jaws aiming for their prey, eager to taste the delectable flesh of the deities.
However, beneath them, the ground suddenly bulged, and several earthen golems of brownish-yellow hue assembled from rubble burst from the soil.
They either swung their fists, smashing the approaching demonic dogs against the protruding rocks, pulverizing them into mush, or uprooted nearby trees, large enough to embrace a person, flinging the encroaching demonic dogs into the air amidst swirling branches and wood shavings.
"Boom!"
In the rising dust clouds, these robust giants stood amidst the splattered flesh and blood, like an indestructible wall, blocking successive waves of attacks from the magic beasts.
Huh—
Hera let out a long sigh of relief, slightly lifting her left hand from the ground.
Although she had lost the Golden Apple Tree and the Sacred Garden, her comprehension of Mother Earth’s Divine Authority had deepened further, even to the extent that she could easily summon Earth Guardians to fight for her.
It seems that losing something isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
Queen Hera, with an epiphany, tightened her grip on the somewhat trembling little hands of the three Nymphs, her bright eyes brimming with gentleness and encouragement.
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Hum!
The Earth Guardians, sensing something, raised their hands and clasped the air. Under the trembling of the Aether in the atmosphere, their hands gathered Volcanic Stone Spears, and their bodies exuded an even more intense essence and charm of the earth.
The nurturing Mother Earth needs a heart filled with compassion.
Boom!
But at that moment, a dark golden crescent arc slashed across the sky, ferociously piercing through several Earth Guardians like a heavy serpentine beast hunting its prey.
With the explosion of the dark golden arc of light, a strong sense of distortion shockwaved and spread around.
Crack!
Embedded with the grating sound of shattering, the immobilized Earth Guardians, from the waist up, slowly slid off and crashed to the ground with a heavy thud, raising a thick cloud of dust.
Whiz!
Simultaneously, a brilliantly shining silver light arrow, tearing through the air with a sharp sound, struck the ground before the Earth Guardians, rippling out tangible waves of light, melting the surrounding Earth Guardians along with the gathered magic beasts into floating ashes.
This is... the power of the Chief God!
Hera realized the Authority it contained, and looked up at the series of towering and fierce gigantic figures above the sea, her expression changing dramatically.
The Giant Spirit Clan...
More precisely, Giants who had inherited the Authority of the Titan Chief Gods!
From among several Giants bearing the Divine Emblem, Hera recognized the aura of the one who had just attacked, her eyes clouding over.
The God of Radiance, Hyperion, and...
"Finally, I have found you, my dear daughter."
A deep, chilling voice came through, as the King of the Giants, Alcyoneus, looked up towards Hera in the woods, a sinister sneer emanating from the crown-like Divine Emblem behind him.
Hearing that familiar title, nightmarish memories flooded her mind, turning Hera’s face deathly pale.
—The Divine King Kronos, he has returned!
"Boom!"
Just as Hera’s heart sank to the abyss, billions of lightning bolts brewed in the distant sky and exploded, their unrivaled power tearing a triple-headed Poison Dragon to shreds.
Fragmented scales and chunks of flesh, large and small, fell like raindrops into the sea.
The potent venom contained within spread out, dissolving hundreds of Sea Beasts and Divine Monsters into pools of pus and blood.
"We’ve... we’ve killed it..."
Within the lightning, the hundred-headed dragon Ladon lowered its head, gasping heavily, its body covered with rending wounds and its silver scales dimmed, clearly severely weakened.
After all, that was the Demon Ancestor Typhon, once a Divine King alongside Kronos and Zeus.
It took her a combination of fighting and consumption, and finally employing her most powerful Spells, to barely destroy the body of the triple-headed Poison Dragon.
Although she was badly hurt in the process, Hera had won in the end.
Having dealt with the main culprit, the riffraff blocking the way around should quiet down, shouldn’t they?
No! The Magic Beasts did not flee or evacuate!
In the rustling sound of friction, Hera looked at the still-emerging groups of Sea Monsters and Magic Beasts, and, disregarding her perilous situation, turned her head and shouted up at Ladon in midair.
"Be careful! It’s still alive!"
"Buzz!"
But as soon as the words fell, a crimson blood light shot up from the sea where the three-headed Poison Dragon lay dead, casting itself onto Ladon in midair with the speed of lightning.
Not good!
Ladon realized the danger and tried to shake off the eerie blood color.
However, it was too late, and a violent, sinister, insane consciousness, along with the envelopment of blood light, surged into her brain, rapidly eroding her entire mental world.
"Hahahaha! Perfect Divine Power, complete Divinity, back, everything is back!"
In the midst of wild laughter, dazzling blood light emerged from Ladon’s body, the silver scales were tinted black inch by inch, her originally delicate and slender figure gradually became tense and ferocious, and the spirit in her vertical pupils was swallowed one by one by that mad and domineering consciousness.
The Giants succeeded!
Seeing this scene, the Giants could not help but cheer and jump for joy, then excitedly looked toward Hera, who had become cornered like a trapped animal in the forest.
By capturing this Queen of Olympus and sacrificing her to the Divine King Kronos, further releasing the Divinity and Authority of the Titan Gods, the military might of the Giant Spirit Clan would be unstoppable, collectively restoring the glory of the Old Gods!
Imagining that glorious future, the Giants propelled the Magic Beasts toward Hera and her three companions in the forest.
At this moment, a terrifying Aether Storm blew from the ocean, flinging the Magic Beasts and Giants approaching Hera and her group several kilometers away.
A hundred-headed dragon, with red and black aura swirling around it, smashed into the ranks of the Giants like Meteorites, forcefully blasting a path.
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"Go! Hurry... go!"
Among the hundred heads, the only silver head left twisted backwards, growling at Hera and the three Nymphs through clenched teeth.
Hera understood that this was the will left by Ladon, and also the last thing she could do for them right now.
The once exalted Queen, deeply looked one last time at the silver dragon head that was gradually being tainted black, her tightly clenched teeth drawing blood, dragged the three Nymphs and turned around, rushing toward the vast Sea of Chaos.
"Pff!"
However, before taking a few steps, a brutal sound of flesh tearing came from behind; a delicate silver-white dragon head was bitten off brutally from the neck by the rest of the black heads, and was thrown to the ground.
"You wish to die, I will fulfill you, abomination!"
Typhon lifted his giant claw and mercilessly stomped toward the head containing Ladon’s consciousness.
A figure, faster than him, swept away the head like lightning.
"Very well, very well, daring to come back!"
At this time, a towering, fierce figure blocked Queen Hera’s path.
In the crest resembling a crown, the phantom of Divine King Kronos fused with the body of Giant Spirit King Alcyoneus, bursting out with a sinister laugh.
"Thinking of escaping? Can you escape? Let me, as your father, love you dearly!"
As he spoke, a scythe made from Volcanic Stone emerged in the palm of the Giant Spirit King Alcyoneus, chopping toward Hera, while the now gradually controlled new body of Demon Ancestor Typhon also took flight, sinisterly looking at the head belonging to Ladon in Hera’s arms.
In the pincer attack of the two ghostly fathers, the two daughters had nowhere to escape, the end of the road in sight.
Was it all... over?
Hera tightened her hold on Ladon’s head in her arms and pursed her lips.
The daughter of the Titans, the Queen of Olympus, was not yet reduced to begging others for mercy to survive.
She clearly was not afraid of death, but why was there a sense of unease and fear in her heart?
"Swoosh!"
A spear as withered as a branch, gleaming with a hundred zhang of prodigious light, shot through the boundless sea fog, piercing and nailing the Giant Spirit King Alcyoneus with its shoulder to the stone wall behind.
A figure as dazzling as a gem, lightly stepped forward, spreading golden wings to shield in front of Hera.
Steady as a rock, firm as a mountain.
The Queen looked at the figure before her, the answer to her doubts seemingly found, her face blooming with a radiant smile.
Her hero, had truly come.