This truly is strange.
Seiya slightly lowered his head, checking his current condition. His body was completely unharmed; he could even feel that he had been diligently cared for during this time. But as he reached for his neck, a purple collar quietly appeared.
Someone cared for him diligently, yet also tried to control him. Seiya couldn't figure out who it was.
But compared to the physical restraint, the real problem was that his Sea of Consciousness was utterly riddled with holes, almost shattered, or rather, it was incredible that he could still retain his sanity.
Even for him, to fully recover, it would probably take… six or seven days, wouldn't it?
Due to his intrinsically strong soul and the restorative effect of the Covenant of Decay and Revival, many fatal wounds were nothing to him. Even for the current Covenant of Decay and Revival, not even death was an insurmountable chasm.
A portion of the Death God's Authority was already permanently under his control through the Covenant of Decay and Revival. As Seiya pointed his finger lightly at the purple ring around his neck, a small Death Pentagram instantly destroyed the thing restraining him.
Just as the restraint was broken, a familiar figure appeared within the chamber, calling out, "Pegasus, please wait! I am not your enemy! In fact, Athena is the culprit behind us fighting each other!"
It was Pandora? Seiya was a little surprised, but the current situation was not suitable for a confrontation. Looking at Pandora's anxious expression, Seiya simply smiled calmly and traversed worlds.
Gazing at the empty chamber, Pandora's rage completely reached its peak!
"Athena! It wasn't enough that your subordinate gods stole Hades! You shameless, despicable hag goddess even tried to steal my Pegasus! Unforgivable! Truly unforgivable! You've gone too far!"
At this moment, new grudges and old hatred surged forth. Pandora remembered how Partita, whom she considered a close friend, had stolen Hades' soul, and now Pegasus was once again beguiled by Athena's reincarnation, Sasha.
This hatred, this usurpation, could only be cleansed with Athena's blood!
As the de facto head of Sanctuary, Pope Sage sat behind this seat almost every day, awaiting the appearance of Saints. He dictated dozens of letters daily, signed hundreds of documents, managing the lives of tens of thousands radiating from Sanctuary worldwide without leaving his post.
He had thought his duty would conclude this time, and then his elder brother would take over his responsibilities, along with an unfulfilled mission.
However, the one thing Sage didn't expect was that it wasn't he who would die.
Even though he had survived, he felt an unprecedented weariness spreading throughout his body like moss. Yet currently...
"So this is the implement forged by Asmita burning his Cosmo to its limits." Sasha carefully took the rosary of 108 beads before her.
"Although we successfully obtained the weapon to end the Specters, we also lost Asmita and Manigoldo."
Sasha's face held an enduring sorrow. "Is this really alright?"
"Compared to the continuous damage that might be caused by the Specters' erosion, this is already the minimal sacrifice." Pope Sage looked directly into the Goddess's eyes. "Furthermore, Thanatos, the God of Death, at least cannot appear again in this Holy War."
"What about Pegasus?" Sasha couldn't help but ask the question that had been buried in her heart.
Pope Sage fell silent, for he too could not answer the Goddess's question. "At least in the end, Thanatos, the God of Death's soul, attempted to possess Pegasus, and all I saw was a streak of azure wind carrying Pegasus away."
Pope Sage instinctively shielded Sasha, but from within that azure wind, a familiar figure emerged.
Sasha suddenly stood up from her seat. Including Pope Sage, everyone looked in disbelief at the Saint before them.
"Pegasus! I knew you were still alive!" Sasha suppressed the urge to rush to him.
Seiya nodded towards Pope Sage, then reported the results of his recent battles to Goddess Sasha.
First, the soul body of Thanatos, the God of Death, had been annihilated by him.
As for whether he would revive, Seiya couldn't be certain, because his true body was still in the Temple of the God of Death in Elysian Fields.
However, it was highly probable that even if he did revive, it would be a long time from now. And any consciousness born anew from that body might only share the name of the current Thanatos.
This news, for Pope Sage, was the best possible news.
Because the previous Holy War was when the Twin Gods ultimately killed his companions, forcing Sage, who was then a young Cancer Saint, to become an avenger solely against the Twin Gods. For these past two hundred years, how to deal with them had occupied most of his thoughts.
And now Thanatos, the God of Death, had fallen, leaving only Hypnos, the God of Sleep.
However, compared to his brother, the God of Death with severe character flaws, the even more powerful Hypnos, God of Sleep, would be much harder to deal with.
Seiya also noticed the rosary in Sasha's hand.
"Yes, Lord Asmita elevated his Cosmo to the ultimate realm," replied Yato, kneeling beside them.
"Using his full Eighth Sense Cosmo combined with the Mokurenji Fruit, he created rosary beads capable of sealing the Specters' immortality. From now on, Specters can no longer revive through Hades' protection, and Saints can fight Specters on equal footing!"
Seiya fell silent; for a moment, he didn't know what to say.
In truth, his injuries at the consciousness level had not yet fully healed, because the power he now possessed could completely grant true death to Specters, and he had the strength to contend for the title of strongest of this generation.
Then his gaze fell upon Yato, the Unicorn Saint clothed in plain cloth. It was he who was ordered to bring the fruit back.
However, his Cloth had also been damaged during this mission.
"Come here, Yato." Seiya beckoned to him.
Before Yato could react, with Seiya's beckoning, his damaged Unicorn Cloth spontaneously reassembled into the form of a Unicorn, appearing before Seiya.
"This is the ability to repair Cloths!" Pope Sage was the first to recognize the essence of this ability that could summon the Unicorn Cloth.
Historically, the Jamir Clan has always borne the core responsibility of Cloth repair, and the Saints who could master the art of Cloth repair were... But the Pegasus's Cloth repair before them seemed different from that of the Jamir Clan.
As Seiya pricked his index finger and let his blood drip onto the Unicorn's horn, the entire Cloth transformed in a brilliant radiance.
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