Dane retracted the lantern ring at the opportune moment. Parallax felt somewhat unsatisfied and even let out a displeased roar at him.
Am I giving you too much leeway?
Dane shot a bolt of lightning into him, electrifying Parallax, who twitched and rolled in the lantern ring's space.
At the same time, Dane extracted the energy he had just consumed and stored it in another lantern battery.
This was tantamount to making him work for nothing.
When raising this thing, you can't spoil it too much; you have to constantly let it know its place.
As expected, after this bit of training, Parallax became much more obedient.
Calypso and Ladon, meanwhile, seized the opportunity to quickly hide in the God Realm.
Dane repaired the inter-realm portal before stepping through.
The first thing that came into view was a labyrinth. The location where this inter-realm portal was set wasn't very good; it was actually a toilet door.
Yes, can you believe that even goddesses have to relieve themselves here?
However, due to Ladon's destruction, most of the labyrinth here had already been crushed by that dragon.
Dane didn't rush to find Calypso but first sealed the inter-realm portal before moving on.
But his target was the wizard Shazam.
Relying on the tracking spell, he quickly discovered the wizard's location, finding him in a prison filled with feudal-era architecture.
He pulled the iron door with one hand, tearing it off. It was just an ordinary iron door, only capable of holding ordinary people without magic.
The wizard Shazam was awakened by the loud noise. He opened his eyes and was stunned.
Then he rubbed his eyes hard, only to confirm that the person standing before him was indeed Dane.
"Why are you here?"
Dane smiled and retorted, "That's also what I want to ask you. Even if you wanted to come to the God Realm, you wouldn't really come without any magic, would you?"
But upon hearing this, the wizard's expression suddenly became a little strange, and his gaze at Dane turned peculiar:
"I had originally made some preparations, until I discovered that the word Shazam had a protective spell placed on it, so I couldn't use my powers..."
Ah, this... Could it be that Dane locking the word caused the wizard to be powerless against the Three Goddesses?
This might indeed be his fault.
Realizing this, Dane subtly changed the subject.
"What did you come here to do?"
The wizard said gloomily, "I originally wanted to check on the status of the Tree of Life, to see if it was possible to go to the New God Realm through it."
Dane looked at him in surprise. Good heavens, you're truly brave. Don't you know there are many of your enemies there?
Aren't you afraid of being ganged up on and beaten to Death by a group of gods?
Oh, he almost forgot, the wizard had already died once.
Now that he could exist in physical form, it meant he might have already become an undead in some way.
Dane thought for a moment. He remembered that in the movie, the Tree of Life here should have already withered, right?
"You guessed right, the Tree of Life here has withered, and this World is gradually heading towards Death because of it..."
At this point, the wizard looked a little embarrassed.
"Actually, I sealed this place back then because I thought Atlas's three daughters would also quickly follow in the footsteps of the gods to the New God Realm."
"But I didn't expect them to stay."
Hespera and Calypso stayed because they were unwilling—unwilling to fail, and unwilling to simply hand over the World to humans like that.
Because it would make them feel like they were being driven out.
As for Anthea, she stayed purely because she wanted to accompany her sisters.
But they hadn't anticipated that as the Tree of Life withered, the God Realm's fortune would also rapidly decline.
By the time they began to regret, they could no longer go to the New God Realm by their own power.
Aging and loneliness tormented them simultaneously, which led to their current extreme hatred of humanity.
"But restoring the Tree of Life's vitality is actually very simple..." The wizard Shazam seemed to want to give Dane a lesson.
But Dane announced the answer before he could speak.
"Open the barrier between the human and God Realms, let the vitality of the human realm enter the God Realm, and with the power of the Scepter and the Divine Spark, the Tree of Life can be revived."
The wizard nodded in satisfaction: "It seems you've been diligently studying magic.
No wonder you were able to lock Shazam's spell at the first opportunity..."
The wizard still spoke with resentment at this point.
He had been imprisoned here for nearly ten years!
Almost every other day, he would be tormented in various ways by that crazy woman, Calypso.
Dane reminded him, "You're being tormented because you owe them."
His implication was that it had nothing to do with him.
The wizard glanced at him sideways. This shameless demeanor had a hint of his own style from back then.
Suddenly, the wizard seemed to remember something.
"Wait, you're here, could it be..."
Dane nodded, "Atlas's daughters escaped the God Realm and came to the human realm."
"How is that possible? Unless the Scepter is damaged."
"Don't worry, the Scepter is fine. It's just that the seven deadly sins escaped and joined forces with them."
Wizard: ???
How the hell am I supposed to be reassured by that?
But then he felt something was off: "With your abilities, it's impossible for you not to keep the seven deadly sins contained, right?"
Dane nodded again, "I need to use them for an experiment."
He didn't specify what kind of experiment, and the wizard didn't ask further, only warning:
"You must be careful. The longer the seven deadly sins stay in the human realm, the stronger their power will become."
"You'd best deal with the seven sins separately. That way, they won't be able to form a unified entity, and their individual power will also be greatly weakened."
As expected of the old schemer, this idea of divide and conquer was identical to Dane's.
"I've already done that. lust is currently with Anthea; she's been captured by me. jealousy is with Calypso; she escaped in here."
This didn't surprise the wizard. He simply said, "That's good."
"Do you still want to go to the New God Realm?" Dane suddenly asked.
The wizard seemed to know what he was going to do and nodded silently.
"Then we first need to solve Calypso's problem."
Saying that, Dane's body suddenly shot up, directly piercing through the prison ceiling, and at the same time, piercing through dozens of floors, until he broke through the temple's dome and arrived in the sky.
Atlas Mountains was an isolated peak, with a temple dedicated to Atlas built on its summit.
Below the temple was a long stone staircase. Halfway up the mountain, two colossal humanoid stone statues stood holding swords.
Numerous goddess statues also stood on the surrounding stone pillars, facing the temple in a posture of praise.
Honestly, the artistic style was quite good.
Above the temple, Ladon hovered, he and Calypso both watching Dane with wary expressions.
"Shazam, must you really exterminate us?"
Ladon let out a dragon's roar at Dane, but compared to just now in the Rock of Eternity, it seemed to lack a bit of imposing presence.
"Calypso, link my power with Ladon's, use the power of the Trinity!"
"jealousy" suggested from within Calypso's mind.
The "Trinity" was an incredibly powerful magic, even Hell used it, and the gods of Olympus preferred to gather the number "three" when creating avatars, because it could significantly enhance the power of magic.
Calypso complied, and with the help of "jealousy," quickly formed a Trinity magic array. Ladon instantly felt his power ascend to another level.
"Come on, let me witness the power of the Elder Gods."
Dane beckoned to Ladon and Calypso.
Ladon roared and charged forward, opening his gaping maw to spew blue dragon Fire, a flame capable of burning souls.
Dane waved his large hand, his palm directly fanning out a storm that extinguished the dragon Fire.
Ladon's huge dragon claws swept down towards Dane's head. Despite his massive size, his movements were not slow at all.
However, compared to Dane, who possessed divine speed, he was still too slow.
Dane sidestepped, avoiding the claw, then he flew behind Ladon, directly grabbing his tail.
As his divine power was activated, Ladon's huge body was immediately pulled into a spin, and at a very high speed!
Calypso desperately clung to the horns on Ladon's body to prevent herself from being flung off, but the wind blowing in her face and the intense sensation of weightlessness constantly tormented her.
Dane suddenly let go, and Ladon's colossal body flew out, smashing into Atlas's temple and destroying it.
Ladon poked his dragon head out from the rubble, his tail coiling around the surrounding stones to attack Dane, while not forgetting to breathe dragon Fire to enchant those stones.
He still believed that if his flames could hit Dane, they would surely cause him harm.
"Honestly, I'm starting to find you a little cute."
Dane shattered the incoming stones with his fist, letting the blue dragon Fire burn on him.
Perhaps the Shazam in the movie might have been harmed by dragon Fire, but the current Dane was absolutely impervious.
The God of Death's divinity made his soul as solid as gold.
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