"Well done."
Damien and Testarossa stood side by side as Diablo rose from the floor. "Then I'll go prepare the new god's descent ritual."
As he left, Diablo shot an envious glance at Testarossa.
Sure enough, the cute white kitten was more to the master's liking than the loyal black dog.
"Go on."
This time Damien wasn't summoning one of his own followers but a genuine Heretic God.
According to the plan, the moment this Heretic God descended it would face a pincer attack from Testarossa and Diablo.
There was no Covenant Authority boost when Heretic Gods fought each other.
Two against one—the opponent would have almost no chance.
It didn't matter who delivered the final blow.
As long as the Heretic God fell and its Authorities were claimed, whether Little Black or Little White took them made no difference.
Greece was an excellent location.
It was packed with mythological legends—more than enough for Damien to use Violet's power to open a gate to the Realm of Immortality.
As long as the gods trapped there still wanted to break free from their myths, they would keep descending.
Yes—Damien wasn't planning to slay one or two gods.
He intended to slaughter an entire group.
No matter how many gods came down, he would kill every single one.
A low hum filled the air.
At that moment every person in Athens—whether Greek locals or tourists from other countries—clasped their hands together and began chanting hymns to the gods in unison.
The sudden, grand ritual instantly drew the attention of the entire mystery side.
The sheer scale made the purpose obvious: they were summoning a Heretic God.
"What a massive commotion!"
Marquis Voban, already on his way to Athens, sensed the towering divine presence from far away.
Ordinary people might not notice it.
But for a Campione, slaying gods was instinctive.
No Heretic God's aura could escape their perception.
Fate itself would guide Campiones and Heretic Gods together so the earthly Demon Lords could battle their natural enemies.
"Wow!"
Salvatore Doni reacted the same way.
The silver-haired young man in a casual T-shirt gazed toward Athens and whistled. "Did the first summoning fail? They're trying again already?"
A Heretic God summoning another Heretic God.
Most people wouldn't even dream of such a thing.
The descent ritual was extremely complex—far more difficult than it looked.
If summoning Heretic Gods were that easy, one could call down an entire pantheon and the world would have ended long ago.
So Doni could only assume the mysterious magician had failed once and was now attempting a second try.
"This disgusting aura…"
The same uneasy feeling reached a petite figure.
It was a girl of thirteen or fourteen with silver-white hair, wearing a cat-ear hat and accompanied by an owl.
"Athens?"
The girl was Athena—a trinity earth mother goddess who was also Medusa, Metis, and the goddess of the underworld.
She could sense someone performing a descent ritual in Athens.
But…
"Should I go take a look?"
Athena hesitated. Her wisdom warned her that traveling to Athens this time would bring unpredictable danger.
In the end she decided against investigating in person.
She concealed her presence and stepped straight into the Netherworld.
From there she could observe what was happening in Athens far more safely.
"Master."
In the Athens hotel, Testarossa watched Diablo conduct the ritual and seemed to sense something. She turned to Damien. "Two very powerful presences are heading our way."
"They reacted fast."
Damien knew Campiones were extremely sensitive to Heretic Gods, but this level of speed still surprised him.
"Looks like wiping out an entire pantheon in one go is off the table."
With the power Testarossa and Diablo could display, they could take down at most three Heretic Gods before the two Campiones arrived.
"Leave one for me."
"You two can split the other two!"
It didn't matter to Damien who finished off the Heretic Gods.
Once they returned, all the ultimate power would gather in his hands anyway.
"It's coming!"
Diablo's descent ritual was already reaching its climax.
Accompanied by earth-shaking thunder, the once sunny sky was instantly covered by rolling storm clouds.
Boom!
The next moment the world trembled. Terrifying lightning carved out a colossal, sky-piercing figure in the darkness.
The being was enormous, draped only in a white robe that left his muscular chest bare. His massive arms looked like pillars holding up the heavens, as if he could tear the entire sky apart.
"Success?"
Damien stared at the nearly hundred-meter-tall giant god. The moment he saw it, the information flooded into his mind: "Greece, king of the Olympian gods, the sky father—Zeus!"
Yes—the first Greek deity Diablo had summoned was the third-generation god-king Zeus.
In any other worldview Zeus would simply be Zeus, nothing more.
But this was the Campione universe!
The defining feature here was that a single god often wore multiple masks.
Zeus was no exception.
In this world, Greek myth wasn't native; it was a collection of stories compiled by Herodotus.
According to that theory, many of the gods in Greek mythology were pieced together from ancient cultures across Egypt, Libya, Babylonia, Syria, and elsewhere.
Around 1000 BCE they were merged in the Greek region into the current Greek mythological system.
It was similar to how, in Chinese myth, the Yellow Emperor and Fuxi had originally been tribal leaders of ancient human clans.
Later they were absorbed by pre-Qin thought, Taoism, and Confucianism, appearing in different forms.
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