Aslan looked up at the sky. It had to be said, the battles and clashes between the gods, no matter how many times he saw them, were always a sight to behold. At the same time, because the gods of this world had problems with their minds, the sight of them clashing with each other and then losing their lives was, of course, very enjoyable.
In terms of pure combat power, Artemis might not have been able to defeat Ares. However, just as Ares got close to Artemis, a ray with the power of the sun was fired from a distance. Clearly, because the goddess of the crescent moon had entered the battle, Apollo had naturally also joined in. Who told them to be brother and sister?
With the joint cooperation of the sun and moon siblings, Ares naturally could not defeat these two main gods so easily. But Ares was, after all, the God of War among the 12 Olympians. Faced with the joint attack of two main gods, he still fought with a good back-and-forth.
After all, for the main gods whose bodies had been damaged, the sun and moon twins were only left with their main cannon firing ports. And that Ares's main issue was a general decline in his body's functions and the complete destruction of his main combat weapons. With the destruction of his external auxiliary weapons, Ares, who existed as a primary combat machine god, could naturally be considered incomplete.
Powerful rays of light continuously clashed in the sky. Finally, a large number of mecha fragments fell from the sky. Aslan even saw a portion of Apollo's firing muzzle fall directly from the sky. And Melusine, holding her spatial box, quickly flew past in the air, collecting all those falling muzzles into the box. A portion of these muzzles was to be left for Aslan as weapons, while another portion was to be modified and tried to be installed on Melusine's body. You must know, Melusine had been wanting to modify her own body for too long. It was also thanks to Aslan's breakthroughs on some basic principles over these years; otherwise, there really was no guarantee that a perfect modification could be carried out.
The reason Melusine was willing to go out and collect these falling objects was, of course, also due to her eager desire to modify her own body and take herself a step further.
Originally, Aslan had thought that this battle would end with the victory of the sun and moon twins. But he had not expected that the final outcome would actually be Ares directly defeating them. Of course, the main reason was that in the process of the sun and moon twins firing their cannons, Ares had, for a rare moment, used a stratagem. He found an angle that caused the fire coverage of the twins to include the other. After all, the state of the machine gods now had serious problems. After discovering that Ares had dodged and their own attack was now aimed at their sibling, it was already too late to forcibly stop the attack.
But the sun and moon twins would naturally not let Ares have an easy time when they were destined to be defeated. As the machine god body of the crescent moon goddess, Artemis, began to fall towards the earth—that is, at the same time as her demise—Apollo controlled his own machine body and directly crashed into Ares. At the same time, that body, which was constantly emitting flames, was basically preparing to self-destruct.
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Faced with such a situation, Zeus should have been very happy. Poseidon and Hades had both been seriously injured under his scheme, and had finally been completely destroyed under the siege of the other gods. And the other gods had been sneak-attacked by him and completely finished off. Even Hera had participated in this chaotic battle of the gods. Of course, what made Zeus a little disheartened was that Hera had actually wanted to take his life. This led to his queen actually dying under his thunder.
Now, the sons in the prophecy he had been so worried about, who would take his divine throne, had finally all fallen. Now he could finally rest easy... my ass!
Zeus turned his gaze to the earth. The human who had been capable of taking care of a Divine Messenger before, his whereabouts were still unknown. The attrition of so many gods had already made the humans, who had originally existed as slaves and playthings, begin to stir restlessly. This was not a good sign... Zeus did not want to let humanity break free from the gods and live freely. After all, the weak succumbing to the strong—this was the truth of the natural world, was it not?
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And for Aslan and the others, it was, of course, a matter of opening their notebooks and once again completely crossing out three names from them. Now, the originally numerous gods had been completely crossed out, leaving only the last two: the God-King, Zeus, and the Goddess of Love and Beauty, Aphrodite.
The reason Zeus had not made a move on this goddess of love and beauty was probably just because the abilities that this machine god possessed had no effect on him at all. Because too many gods had disappeared, this goddess of beauty had now been sent by him to guard the gate. After all, no matter what, this divine realm still needed someone to stop external invasions and prevent internal escapes. And although the power of the goddess of love and beauty had been damaged and affected in the process of fighting the White Titan in the distant past, her suggestion and control over humans were still very strong.
During this period, Zeus had naturally also collected many other gods' machine body fragments. It was just a pity that the brain of the God of Fire and Forge had been forcibly destroyed by him. With the divine body of a god that was now just a forge, wanting to repair his own body would probably take a long time. During this period of his body's repair, Zeus did indeed need someone to help him guard the gate. As long as his own body's functions could recover to 50%, there would be nothing on this Western continent that could pose a danger to him.
Of course, there was one thing that was very regrettable. That was, because his own machine body was damaged, when the other gods fell, he had no way to recover their abilities. Otherwise, why would he need to wait for his body's functions to recover by half?
Aslan and Heracles had been wandering the earth all this time, and also had another purpose: to gather as many people who wanted to resist the gods as possible. It was not to have these ordinary people fight against the gods, but when they were fighting against the gods, these people were needed to bring others out of the divine realm as much as possible.
Currently, there were only two gods left. The goddess of love and beauty did not seem to be a god who would continue to fight against Zeus. Rather than continuing to lurk and wait for an opportunity, it was better to rise up in rebellion now. After all, the time they were resting was also the time the god was recovering, right? They couldn't possibly wait until they were ready and the god had recovered before fighting. Waiting until the god had recovered and then launching a battle would only lead to more sacrifices, and there would be no better outcome.
Aslan was, after all, a blacksmith, and also the creator of a man-made machine god. He naturally had a tally of the machine god fragments he had collected and those scattered on the earth. A portion of the fragments was outside his tally. If there were no surprises, they should all be in Zeus's hands. In that case, they could not wait any longer.