I, the leader of the esoteric sect, am doing great things in the infinite world!

“Probably a tool.” Kusanagi Godou shook his head. “Just half a month ago, I was an ordinary person who knew nothing about this, so no matter how precious it was, it was just a tool in my eyes, regardless of whether it was related to power.”

"You mentioned power. That's good. So, what is power in your eyes?"

"Power?" Kusanagi Godou's heart tightened. He knew very well that the divine power of Athena resided on the Prometheus Slab on his chest, but in order to buy time, he pretended to be thinking with his head down.

"Power belonged to the gods, and later to the demon king. You once ruled over humanity. But just as the gods returned to history and the fairies retreated to the Astral Realm, your rule also receded into the background. Times have changed, Kamisama."

“A correct answer enough,” Hades chuckled softly, “but even the correct answer is meaningless. You are talking about the history of power, not the essence of power. You are now holding the authority of God in your hands, a glory that mortals can hardly attain, but you are completely wasting this rare opportunity.”

"Have you had any special experiences? What are your thoughts on 'power'? Do you feel like a king or a god walking among humans right now?"

“Forget it,” John Prutto concluded with a shake of his head. “You know nothing about ‘power’.”

For a moment, Kusanagi Godou felt that the battle was about to begin, but then Hades' voice rang out again.

"I'll ask you again, what is your understanding of a god-slayer?"

"You are demon lords, tyrants, fools who slay gods." Kusanagi Godou took a deep breath. "You call yourselves rulers of the present world, but in my previous life, I knew absolutely nothing about you..."

“That’s because we rule over irrational things, beyond the time and space of your deepest imagination,” Hades replied. “Our domain is not limited to this world.”

"Xingyou Realm?"

Hades nodded: "Since you have only a superficial understanding of the Star Realm, know nothing about power, and have only a superficial understanding of god-slayers... yet you dare to stand before the king and display those meager powers obtained with the help of external objects."

John Prutto sighed in disappointment: "You even think you can conquer the whole world?"

Black flames rose from the air, piercing the void like lightning, leaving a dark scar on the deathly silent bridge.

In the blink of an eye, the Great Mage's lightning arrived.

The tip of Hades' raised index finger seemed to harbor flowing thunder and fire, the black light flowing with a slight hissing sound, piercing the gaps between syllables.

With Kusanagi Godou's eyesight now enhanced by divine power, even the fastest baseball flying through the air moves as slowly as bullet time in The Matrix, but the lightning spewed from Hades' fingertips is still too fast to catch.

Even with extremely enhanced eyesight, one could only barely make out those faint lines in the air, like traces of rainwater washing away.

The dazzling impact was fleeting, and Kusanagi Godou, who was trying to adopt a defensive stance, felt as if he had been run over head-on by a road roller.

It was the kind of road roller that flew down from the sky towards people with precision guidance, and even had Han Hong sitting on it.

"Cough—"

The scene before Kusanagi Godou was instantly upside down. It took him a full ten seconds to realize that he had not died from being crushed by the road roller, but had been struck head-on in the chest by a bolt of lightning as thick as a chopstick, and rolled more than twenty meters away on the ground.

After being modified by Athena, the Prometheus Slabs were indeed the best cover.

Bunkers don't need to be reassuringly thick or completely cover a person. If the bunker itself is sturdy enough, its thickness can be ignored; and if the user is fast enough, its size can be ignored.

Therefore, the Prometheus Tablet, which contained the power of Athena, became the best shield against the power of the god-killer.

As the one who launched that black lightning, Hades noticed the problem immediately—he had originally aimed at Kusanagi Godou's forehead, but it deflected as it passed through that pure starlight.

Based on this, Kusanagi Godou desperately dodged, causing the lightning to strike not his brow, but the Prometheus Tablet on his chest.

"Is this the Godslayer... the Demon King who stands at the pinnacle of seven billion beings?"

Kusanagi Godou struggled to get up from the ground.

"This is quite unusual, and it makes me even more curious about rebels like you." Hades nodded. "Foolish yet courageous one, although you are neither a god nor a king, your wisdom makes me decide to give you respect."

He extended his second finger, and what pierced the air was not only lightning, but also annihilating black flames.

A dim, intense heat engulfed Kusanagi Godou's vision.

"Hey, hey, hey, that's absolutely foul!"

Kusanagi Godou hastily rolled on the ground and, following the pre-rehearsed plan, unleashed Athena's powers hidden within the stone slab.

—Power and the Serpent.

Then the sturdy bridge began to bulge, and the bluish-gray ground cracked as if it were parched—no, it wasn't cracked, but rather covered in grayish-white scales!

The flames landed on the scales, leaving a burn mark.

The 2,600-meter-long Jingmen Bridge has been transformed into a 2,600-meter-long giant snake.

And it wasn't just any ordinary snake.

The two ends of the giant snake, hanging in the sea, split open rapidly, like a soaked crab stick. The sky quickly darkened, forming cumulonimbus clouds that had accumulated lightning.

The eight-headed, eight-tailed serpent swam in the sea, roaring angrily at Hades, who was standing on it.

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"Great opportunity, the advantage is in my hands!"

Athena said confidently.

"But...why is using my powers so tiring—"

Kusanagi Godou had never used his powers before, and now he felt as exhausted as if he had been tied up and humiliated in the Amazon rainforest by four big guys for three months.

“Of course.” Athena’s voice was icy. “You’re neither a god nor a god-slayer, so how could you possibly use your powers without paying a price?”

Kusanagi Godou gasped, "You lied to me!"

"How could I have lied to you?" Athena said with a smile. "You are my Saint, even if you have no more Cosmo to burn..."

The goddess revealed her sharp teeth and hissed with laughter.

"Don't you still have your life?"

In the next instant, a third kind of light rose up, in addition to lightning and fire.

That was moonlight.

"Power is illogical and unrealistic." Hades walked step by step on the serpent's body, his body growing larger with each step, until he had transformed into a fifteen-meter-tall obsidian giant.

The large snake let out a sharp, painful hiss.

“Athena’s host, you previously regarded power as a tool, which is a realistic way of thinking. But now you want to use realistic hands to wield unreal swords. But this is too mechanical. As soon as I find the loophole, it will malfunction like a broken machine.”

The magic bullet of moonlight shot out, grazing the serpent's neck and instantly severing all eight heads.

"While you can adapt to the situation by making changes, I will no longer give you time to adapt."

The second Moonlight Demon Bullet had already been fired, hitting the helpless Kusanagi Godou and tearing most of his body apart in an instant.

Amidst the blood-soaked rain at the "Kusanagi Godo," a gleaming stone slab fell from the sky and was caught by a slightly ethereal hand.

Upon closer inspection, the palm was not entirely empty; it was covered with a thin layer of human skin.

Athena, draped in human skin, raised the stone slab and took a deep breath.

"Donghuang, save me!"

417 Pure white, wolf eyes, black sun, and flock of crows

Li Lin emerged from the golden-purple twilight, grasping the Prometheus Tablet, which could steal the power of the gods.

Athena nodded slightly to him, then merged into the molten gold and purple.

Deprived of the power supply, the 2,600-meter-long serpent collapsed again, its cracked scales melting into the patterns on the ground, and it transformed once more into the battered cross-sea bridge.

“You’ve arrived, Mr. Abraham Leigh.”

Hades John Pluto dusted off his cloak, then gripped his gun, pulled the trigger, and after that, the pure white and azure moonlight shone brightly.

The magazine rotates, and power is loaded into it.

Click, click, click, click, click.

--boom!

The remaining five Moonlight Demon Bullets were fired simultaneously, and at the same time, Hades pressed his hand to the ground, regarding the entire cross-sea bridge as his sacrifice. In an instant, the pitch-black calamity fire covered the Jingmen Bridge.

"It's good to see you again, Your Majesty the Eastern Emperor," John Prutto's calm voice rang out.

His body melted into the black flames, and then a black giant hundreds of meters tall rose from the tide of flames.

"Gnawing on the flesh of the sacrificial animals, on the most delicious parts... Now I am a god!"

The moment the black giant rose, an unprecedented tremor rose from the ground—John Prutto had lost the power to summon earthquakes and tsunamis, and the earthquake now was not caused by him.

The tide was still surging upwards, as if something was rising from the seabed.

"The moonlight pointed to the sea foam, drawing the curtain to the end of this wild hunt." Amidst the rising sea and flames, Hades raised his hands and spoke in an operatic voice from his chest, "Now the chains have been reversed, and where the sea embraces the land, I see the Emperor's blood glorifying the crown."

"The time has come." The black doors swung open with a bang, and Marquis Voban's somber voice came from within, followed by the emergence of a huge, hollow wolf head.

The pale skull swept across the surging waves, and the wind swept through the wolf's bite, creating a hollow whistling sound.

"Your twilight has arrived, Donghuang."

That is the skull of Fenrir, the wolf who devoured Odin, the king of the gods, and is the power known as the "Wolf of Ragnarok".

His offspring devoured the sun and moon in Norse mythology, so Fenrir, as the progenitor of the demon wolf, naturally has a restraining effect on the powers of the sun and moon.

—When Li Lin subdued Vereslana in Milan, Italy, he called himself the Sun Forger, so he must have had an inseparable relationship with the sun.

They didn't come here to pursue Athena, but rather to use her as bait to set up a deadly ambush for Li Lin!

In order to eliminate Donghuang Li Lin once and for all, the two proud monarchs even went so far as to join forces to ambush him.

But there is still one question: now that the Black Prince has been defeated, who has the wisdom to guarantee that all the Godslayers can put aside their pride and fighting spirit and fight against Li Lin together?