Chapter 169: Moving Sun
"An outsider?"
Medusa was secretly startled to see Orin Vale appear out of nowhere. Even with her reaction speed, she couldn't discern where he had come from.
For this reason, she held back for the moment, observing him cautiously.
"I can handle this myself." Diana refused the offer of help, stubbornly getting to her feet.
"Yeah, I know you can. But there's no need for us to make things so complicated," Orin Vale said with a smile.
Anyway, based on his experience from the comics and anime, Orin Vale had no doubt that the Princess could always win with a power burst. The only problem was that after fighting the gorgon, Diana would inevitably go through the process of blinding herself. In the comics, she remained blind for quite some time.
So, even though he knew Diana could win, it wasn't necessary.
With a move of his feet, Orin Vale's mobile armor radiated a burst of light energy. A gentle, holy white light enveloped his entire body, and the instant he moved, it was simulated to resemble an electric current.
He kept facing Diana, moving backward without turning his head. In a flicker, with his back to the enemy, he appeared before Medusa, then spun around and delivered a fierce elbow strike to the gorgon's face.
Medusa's head was immediately knocked to the side. From her mouth, distorted by the impact, she spat a mouthful of green venom. The sheer force of the blow sent it flying sideways, and it hissed as it corroded the boulders and trees it landed on.
Medusa's pupils contracted.
So fast!
She had no time to mind the venom trickling from the corner of her mouth. With a furious hiss, she swept her sword out, only to pierce an afterimage. The man was already gone from his original spot.
Medusa was terrified, knowing she had encountered a rather troublesome opponent. But she was no mere mortal. Empowered by her magic, she fully opened her senses and quickly locked onto the blurry afterimage in its high-speed movement.
All the small snakes on her head activated, a venomous, vicious light glinting in each of their eyes. Countless snake heads opened their mouths, shooting out streams of venom like an overwhelming barrage of hidden projectiles!
This was the gorgon's most powerful skill aside from petrification. Her venom was said to be capable of corroding anything.
Of course, that was provided it could hit its target.
She enhanced her perception, trying desperately to lock onto her opponent, but she could only ever catch the afterimage left by his extreme speed. His figure weaved left and right, like an electric arc zipping through her dense blanket of venom. He moved with the ease of a leisurely stroll; such dense, high-speed covering fire couldn't even graze him.
The afterimage zigzagged forward. When it was less than a few meters away, it suddenly lifted off the ground, flying in an S-shaped curve through the sky full of venom before shooting over and landing a fierce punch on Medusa's cheek.
He flew past Medusa's side like a gale, but in almost the same instant, he rushed back from the opposite direction, unleashing another devastating hook punch.
Naturally, the two punches from opposite directions were thrown one after the other. But he was so fast that it felt like he had created a clone. To Medusa's senses, it was as if she was being attacked from both front and back. Before she could even register the first hit, the second one followed. Two immense forces collided inside her body, threatening to crush her.
She knew clearly that this was because her opponent was simply too fast.
But how could he possibly be this fast?
It wasn't just his speed; his power was also absurd.
The impact of that fist on her face felt no weaker than a member of the Olympian gods. Even her demonic body felt like it couldn't take it.
*No, if this continues, I'll definitely die!*
Medusa stumbled back, her bluish-green face swollen, and cast a look of despair toward her older sister, pleading for help.
But she found her older sister seemingly frozen in a daze.
Just floating there watching, with no intention of making a move.
Medusa almost roared in her heart.
*Older Sister, why are you just watching! Have you betrayed me?*
Seeing the monster of steel turn around to charge at her again, Medusa could only grit her teeth. With a loud roar, every snake on her head shot out like coiling tentacles, forming a Python Array to intercept the afterimage!
It seemed impenetrable, but from Orin Vale's slow-motion perspective, it was full of loopholes. He easily dodged the snake heads, nimbly weaving through the gaps. He drove his light energy, concentrating it in his right palm, where an azure electric arc coalesced into the form of a light wheel.
Immediately after, the light wheel split into two, connected by a chain of light, and spun nimbly in his hand.
Eight-Split Light Wheel Chain Blade!
The early Wonder Woman's body wasn't completely invulnerable. According to the lore, her body, under the protection of magic, could resist the impact of explosions and blunt force trauma, even withstanding Superman's fists, but it couldn't block bullets or sharp weapons. This is why she needed her bracelets to block bullets.
Later, perhaps some writer thought this setting was too unscientific, so they simply changed Wonder Woman to be invulnerable like Superman. So, the reason Wonder Woman used her bracelets to block bullets during that period, instead of just tanking them with her body like Superman, was probably to avoid getting staggered too much when hit by a rain of bullets.
Therefore, Orin Vale guessed that against attacks of an equivalent energy level, cutting techniques might still have a special attack bonus against the Olympian gods.
The electric arc shot forward unstoppably, the chain blade spinning in his hand. As Medusa's head of snakes came into contact with the azure radiance, they were severed one after another, and the gorgon let out a pained, miserable groan.
When the electric arc finally stopped, the afterimage of the mobile armor, trailing an electric current, braked behind Medusa. The light wheel spun twice in his hand before dissipating into light particles amidst a cluster of electric arcs.
As for Medusa... let's just put it this way.
She went bald, and she also cracked apart.
Every snake on her head had been sliced in two. The bald Medusa stared wide-eyed, frozen in a stiff posture, until thin cracks began to appear on her body one after another, growing wider and longer...
Then she broke into seven or eight pieces.
"That was truly impressive." Diana sheathed her longsword behind her back. "I feel like you've gotten even faster. How did you do it?"
Orin Vale smiled.
"Just as I said. Science."
Diana frowned slightly, her expression a mixture of belief and doubt.
Was science really that magical?
"It's not over yet. Just a moment."
Orin Vale's figure blurred and flashed out, reaching a hand straight for Euryale, who had been watching from the side.
Bang.
He passed right through the gorgon's body, which then crumbled to the ground with a clatter.
A stone sculpture.
"Substitute magic," Diana said, flying over with a frown. "She ran away a long time ago."
The very first moment she saw her sister getting beaten, Euryale had made her decision.
She was already a dead woman, beyond saving. Time to leave.
On the surface, she was as steady as a mountain, looking confident and in control while spectating from the side. In reality, she was panicking internally, leaving a substitute behind as she turned and fled.
Even after running a great distance, she still had lingering fears.
Where did that Amazon summon such a terrifying helper from?
Looking across all of Olympus, you could count the number of gods who could fight like that on one hand, right?
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but wonder if she had run far enough, terrified that the monster would catch up to her in the next second.
Just as she was thinking this, a shadow flashed in front of her.
"Ahhh!"
Euryale shrieked.
"What the hell? What are you doing?"
An impatient voice sounded. Euryale, who was about to turn and continue fleeing, looked back to see it was her own eldest sister, Stheno.
Seeing her relative, Euryale was suddenly overcome with grief. "Sis! Medusa... Medusa's been killed!"
"What?" Stheno's expression changed drastically.
The three Gorgon Sisters shared life and death. Upon hearing the news, Stheno instantly erupted in a furious wrath.
"Calm down. Explain what happened in detail."
The witch Circe floated over. It seemed she had already rendezvoused with the eldest sister, Stheno, in the secret realm.
"We encountered Wonder Woman, and Medusa was about to take her down... but that damned Amazon actually called for a helper! That guy was absurdly strong; Medusa didn't stand a chance..."
"A helper? Who was it?" Stheno asked.
"I don't know. I only know he was fast... oh, right! During the fight, I could sense immense energy from him, some kind of light magic, like the sun."
"Yes, it felt as if he were a small, moving sun!"
Hearing this, Stheno and Circe looked at each other.
A moving sun?
(end of chapter)