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The duel agreement made Ovax panic. This was the second time in his life that his rational balance was overturned by anxiety since he climbed from an ordinary branch of the royal family to the captain of the guard, and then became king through a coup. on the ground.Thor was poisoned, but he is the strongest ancient god in Northern Europe, with the power to surpass the main god and penetrate the planet.Ovax knew that his son could not surrender in a duel, and he was as proud and unyielding as his predecessors.Saul's conditions have been very restrained, and it is impossible to give up at will.Ovax's brain was running fast, and he began to calculate whether to poison Sol again or ask Egil for help, which had a better chance of winning.

After Aum accepted Sol's challenge in the study, Sol said that he was going to remove his hair color and change his clothes. His body still had a lot of toxins, so he could only swim weakly to the door in a diving suit.

Aum stood behind him and asked almost gently: "Go to the infirmary, you still need to rest. If you can't perform at your best tomorrow, we can postpone the duel for a few days."

Sol stopped in his tracks and shook his head. No one else in the room dared to make a sound, and there was a dead silence in the space.Sol smiled lowly: "The tournament is to entertain your people, so I naturally have to present them with a gluttonous feast - just like you hoped. I don't think there are many opportunities for the seven seas to gather together?"

Aum categorically denied: "Our duel is not for entertainment."

"Really? Then I can't guess why you are so cruel to me." Sol's tone finally showed accusation: "Aum, you are cruel to yourself, and you are even more cruel to me. You let me see what you have done , don’t you just expect me to stop it?”

He suddenly turned around and flashed in front of Aum, making their noses almost touch: "What if I am not as compassionate as you think? Have you ever considered this possibility? Every moment, two thousand thunderstorms are raging on the earth, Since ancient times, mortals have been dying because of me, have I ever tried to stop?"

Thor's angry face was reflected in Orm's eyes, his pupils dilated with shock, and his chest heaved violently.

"And if," Saul said through gritted teeth, "I let those people be poisoned to death, and then take your father away directly, how about letting country S try it? Oh, I will give evidence. Country S doesn't Abolish the death penalty. After all, humanity has taught me that the best way to solve troubles is not to solve them over and over again, but to solve them once and for all.”

Aum finally couldn't maintain his calm expression, and said hastily: "I participated in the whole thing, if you take the father away, you should also judge me! But you didn't—you didn't do that."

"I didn't, because you have already arranged the best script." Sol's twisted mouth became sad, "You just want me to shoot you. You want to die but don't have the guts, and die under the sword of God, suffer Admired by all peoples, honored future generations..." Sol's voice choked up, "I should have known. Like countless people on Earth I have loved, you have never asked me what I think, how deeply I love you, I haven't asked, how will we get along in the future - will we always date at the bottom of the sea, or go to Asgard? Will the journey be too far? Can you adapt to the air there? Egil whispered in my ear, you heard , but pretended not to know. Because you, like them, never wanted to be with me for long. I don't want to know if you have any perverted desire for gods, or suicidal tendencies, I just know that you dated me, not because After removing my divinity, I have nothing left.”

His sadness has been vented completely, and only contempt and mockery are left in his eyes: "And I will definitely not let you down." He raised his hand to straighten Aum's slightly slanted shoulder armor, straightened it, and patted Aum on his chest. Pat: "I will beat you to pieces with one hammer, Aum, and I will tear you to shreds with my bare hands. You won't admit defeat, right? After all, only blood can make human sacrifice go up to the masses." God." He sneered because of the last sentence, turned and left.

"I love you, Saul," Orm said suddenly, before Saul swam out the gate. "Your accusations are all true, except that I do love you."

Saul looked back at him: "I finally believe that love is torture."

Owax was no longer in the mood to dispose of Red Parrot Mining. After Saul left, he asked the stunned David Hyde to put Muck off the wall to discuss the undercover plan by himself, and hurriedly dragged the silent Orm away. Hall, wave all the guards away.

Ovacs supported his waist with one hand and rubbed his forehead with the other, swimming back and forth in the room: "I will immediately surrender to the BREST people and tell them that I poisoned those seven people."

Orm shook his head. "What are you talking about, Father? They're not even dead."

Ovacs put down his hand: "Isn't that what you want?" He immediately controlled his tone and said with a little bit of gentleness: "I mean, if you hate me, it's normal, I don't blame you. I do by my own standards. You've worked with me all these years and never complained. I thought you approved of the tactic. But now I see, you don't like it, you hate it—that's okay, Art The day Lantis is yours, you can govern it your own way, maybe in Atlanna's self-destructive way. And I, sorry, I don't want to see—you know there are things that should not be done, Makes me OCD - so I'll step down and turn myself in, out of sight and out of the dark legacy of your political line, lest people wrongly judge you for what I went through."

Aum was forced to shake his head by this passage, with tears in his eyes: "I didn't hate you, father. I didn't expect this matter to affect your safety. After the duel, I believe Sol will leave Atlanta completely." Tees, Egil is bound by a spell and cannot invade our territory, your rule will continue normally... I have always chosen you, father."

Ovacs looked at his choked up son in frustration: "Why is that?" He repeated, his thoughts swirled, and once he used his control over people's hearts to his relatives, he suddenly realized: "You hate yourself? Because back then..."

"I'm going to choose a weapon and prepare for the battle." Aum was unable to speak any more and interrupted him weakly.

"I made the sentence of exiling the queen back then, and I also announced the execution. I know that it has caused indelible damage to you..."

"Don't say it! Don't forget, on the way my mother took me, I called you with my spinal cord." Aum pointed fiercely at the soft depression in the middle of his collarbone. "The trial results were approved by the whole people. Executed." Tears slipped from the corners of his eyes, and he immediately covered them.

Ovacs approached him, heartbroken: "You should hate me for this matter, and you can only hate me. The country is my card table, and I don't care what the people of Atlantis think, but I know You care about them, so you shouldn't blame any of the citizens. It's all because of my ambition and... well-mannered... But at least, I left the throne to her child, so I guess, I'm not too guilty. "

Aum held Ovax's side face and pressed against his forehead: "I am your child. I am your hope, and you are also my pride. This duel is what I want, please don't be afraid ——When the time is right, I will admit defeat. According to the rules, Sol is not allowed to continue. You don’t need to be intimidated by his words, father, he is not a bloodthirsty person. You should also have more confidence in my strength.”

"I can't take that risk!"

"Fighting against God is indeed my childhood dream. My reasons are not what you said. Let me finish it, please." Aum hugged his father tightly, then backed away, "I Really need to prepare."

Ovacs gritted his teeth and made a difficult decision: "Okay, I respect your choice, don't let me send a white-haired person to a black-haired person."

Saul is in the infirmary, with his wetsuit off.His short hair was washed out of silver and gray, and restored to the brilliance of gold, and his handsome eyebrows and eyes were no longer mean. He heard in despair that the news that Thor was about to compete with the Crown Prince of Atlantis was being broadcast in the arena, because Thor must carry a weapon, and they will have a match in the Ring of Fire.The huge cheers shook the sea water.

"Why are you crying?" The fisherman's nurse asked naively, "Are you afraid of fighting Prince Aum?"

Sol laughed and said, "How can there be tears on the bottom of the sea? You are wrong."

The nurse scraped the corner of Sol's eye with a finger covered with blue fish scales: "Why can't you see it? People on land just don't look carefully. Tears are clearer and lighter than sea water. When they drift away from the corner of the eye, they will reflect finely Light."

"Really?" Saul wiped his eyes vigorously: "I will pay attention next time."

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Orm held the dark iron-colored trident tightly in his right hand, and swung it mechanically in circles, gradually accelerating. The water flow from the strike built a high wall above his head and around his side, and no one could approach him.Then, he trained the warriors made of manganese steel. He slashed at the first one with the trident and knocked it flying from the base. Fly up, round kick to the third samurai.

If you want to defeat Thor, the conventional method will not work. Sol needs to use Mjolnir to move in the water, so let his hammer go.In their past fights, once Orm was caught by Sol, he couldn't break free, so there was no physical contact.

The night passed quickly during the training, when the first ray of sunlight hit the sea from the east coast of the Atlantic Ocean, Orm was wearing black armor, standing in the center of the ring of fire, above the breastplate clinging to the curve of the muscles, cast into a shirt-like shirt. Standing collar, on the cloak floating behind, silver silk threads and ink colors are intertwined.

Sol on the opposite side put on his helmet for the first time on the bottom of the sea. Silver wings like dove wings stood up from both sides of the helmet, showing that he did not belong to the ocean.

The host's excited voice resounded throughout the venue, but neither of them paid attention to what he was yelling until "The competition begins!"

Sol took the lead, and Mjolnir led him toward Orm, who slashed sideways at Sol's legs with his feet off the ground as he got very close.Sol was cut away by a huge force for more than ten meters before he stopped. Mjolnir flew him to Orm again, but was dealt with by the opponent in the same way.

So Sol threw the hammer at Orm, and Orm bent over on his back, and the planet's heart flew close by, and the jet of water rubbed his cheekbones sorely.Mjolnir quickly returned to Sol's palm, Sol bent his body, and Mjolnir spun in his hands at an inhuman speed, shattering the ground of the Ring of Fire, and numerous rock fragments were lifted up, shooting towards Ol' Nir like a bullet. m.The seabed shook, and orange-red magma sprayed into the air.

Orm dodges on his side, and suddenly lunges at Thor, thrusting his trident at him.Sol stretched out his hand to pick it up, and let out a painful grunt. The tip of the halberd was embedded in Thor's palm. Orm paused for half a second, gathering strength to pierce his palm forward.Sol took the opportunity to throw Mjolnir with his right hand, aiming straight at Orm's head, and Orm turned his head to avoid it.

The audience exclaimed. When Mjolnir was very close to the temple, he bent the flight path at a [-]-degree angle, and barely brushed Aum's skin. From a distance, it would be thought that the head was not accurate enough.

Orm failed to pierce Thor's palm, and pulled out the halberd point suddenly. The barb opened a hole in Thor's hand, and the blood flew, but Thor didn't make any sound.

Orm yelled, spun his body in the water, and slashed at Thor's neck with momentum.As soon as Sol's Mjolnir returned to his palm, he was thrown again. Orm's trident was caught by Sol. Sol smiled evilly, holding the body of the halberd in his left hand, and spread five fingers in his right hand. Hook the tips of the two halberds with your fingertips in the center, make a fist and bend the two halberds together, and then push them towards the first one. The tip of the trident is gripped into a thorn. Also flew back to Thor's right hand.

Orm had no choice but to give up his weapon. He rushed to the referee's seat, and the referee hurriedly swam away. Orm raised the long stone table with a history of thousands of years as a shield, resisting the underwater debris hit by Mjolnir, and approached Sol step by step. .

Sol threw the hammer, and the heavy stone table cracked, and Mjolnir penetrated the obstacle without slowing down, and continued to hit Orm's chest.But again, it changed direction and flew vertically upwards in the crack, and Orm threw up his neck, Mjolnir brushed his chest, and flew back to Thor's palm.Aum was pushed back a few meters by the huge force, throwing away the two halves of the stone table.

"You let the water go, Sol!" he roared, rushing straight at the opponent, his cloak flying behind him.He pinned Saul to the ground and punched him on the right cheek, then the left.Sol lay on the ground and laughed: "Let me tell you a secret, my eyes are not as strong as other places, your trident also has a point, stick it into my head along the eye frame, if you control it well , I won't even die."

Panting, Orm straddled Sol and punched the ground hard: "Any action is allowed in ancient Greek fighting, with only two points: no eyes inserted, no teeth used. The game must continue."

He stood up, stretched out his hand to pull Sol up, stood a few meters away, and signaled to start over.Thor held Thor's hammer tightly, looked at Orm with heavy eyes, and suddenly raised the hammer towards the sky.The audience is full, and if Sol attracts lightning, it will destroy the entire venue.

"No!!" Orm shouted, he exploded the Poseidon's potential, rushed towards Sol like an arrow from the string, hugged the opponent's body, and smashed into the magma lake surrounding the ring of fire.

The red light exploded around the two of them, and the temperature rose steadily, until he sank into the high-temperature purgatory with Sol.Orm didn't have time to pay attention to whether he was on the verge of death, and led the other party all the way to the depths of the lava, and then felt Thor's body lighten, and realized that he had let go of the hammer.Orm turned around Sol and rushed out of the lake, rising above the ring of fire. The dazzling magma scattered from them, like a cloak bestowed by the sun god, and deafening shouts swept through the crowd.

Sol's face was stained with blood, and Orm didn't know if it belonged to him or himself.Sol supported Orm's forearm, knelt down in mid-air, and put his hand on his shoulder: "I admit defeat."

Aum burst out a sentence from his teeth: "You didn't lose!"

"Thor's Hammer flew towards you three times, and missed its intended target three times. This is God's will. You have heard the voice of the audience, and we have presented a satisfactory tribute. You are the winner in their hearts."

Orm took a deep breath, and finally raised his right fist high.The referee issued a confirmation, and the audience applauded thunderously.

"What are you asking of me?" Saul raised his head and asked.

Aum looked down at him, then bent his knees, half-kneeled down and looked parallel to Saul: "I want you to continue to love me, Saul. Erase the memory of a thousand years for me, and give up your endless future. I never I asked you if you would stay with me for the rest of my life, because my life is just a vacation to you, and it made me mad with jealousy. I know why people on earth leave you one by one, because they are as afraid of themselves as I am The most primitive possessive desire - I want to pull you down from the altar, because I love me and no longer love the world, I want your eternity, and will be destroyed with my death. I want to enjoy you who have lost your divinity and have nothing. Everything." A light slid out of the corner of Aum's eyes, and Sol reached out to touch it, and found that it was not only clearer than sea water, lighter than sea water, but also warmer than sea water.

"But they don't want to destroy your justice, and they don't want you to give up the eternal life that everyone envies. They don't even dare to let you understand this contradictory feeling, because you are so gentle, breaking my belief that gods are superior to the world and look down on everything. So I decided to leave a scar in your heart that won't heal long after we parted—but you didn't give me the chance, so I can only ask you, sacrifice yourself to me."

"Your selfishness is exactly the destination I long for." Sol stroked Aum's blood-stained face, closed his eyes and kissed him.

The author has something to say: did Saul release the water?