A Core Ship From The Start-Chapter 434 - 328 Setting Fire to the Mountain_1

Chapter 434: Chapter 328: Setting Fire to the Mountain_1

Chapter 434 -328: Setting Fire to the Mountain_1

“Come… warrior.”

Behind a sheer curtain, a gracefully poised woman sat on a bed, smiling at the heavily armored man before her and extending her smooth, flawless arm. Her soft call filled the room with a beguiling ripple of charm. The air was suffused with a pink tone, adding a tantalizing dimension to the room. The woman’s voice, full of enchanting allure, led the Steel Warrior to place his weapon down and step towards her.

Watching him, the woman grinned and sat up, letting the thin veil fall off her.

“Enjoy pleasure, brave warrior. Come, remove your armor and fully embrace this delightful time… with me…”

Her voice seemed to carry a charm that drew the warrior step by step towards the bed. He then reached out and gently removed his helmet.

“—————-!!”

However, as the Steel Warrior took off his helmet, the room’s pink atmosphere shattered abruptly. An overwhelming aura of dread and murderous intent enveloped the room, startling even the goddess to the point of trembling with her face gone pale. The confident demeanor from before vanished, replaced with fear of death and ruin.

Before she could utter a word, the Steel Warrior advanced another step, firmly grasping the goddess’s delicate neck and lifting her high from the bed!

“No————!!”

The scream abruptly ended. With a sudden force in his hands, the Steel Warrior effortlessly snapped the woman’s neck, letting her head hang down. He tossed her lifeless body onto the ground and stepped on her, trampling her underfoot. With a strong downward force, the woman’s body bloated and burst like a squashed bug, blood splattered everywhere, and divine power surged into Duanmu Huai.

“How boring…”

Examining the alert from his system, Duanmu Huai frowned and began to mutter to himself.

Ever since he fought his way to the top of Mount Olympus, Duanmu Huai had been battling constantly. The Greek Gods had their sturdy and reliable followers, even though the heroes found excuses not to intervene, so Duanmu naturally encountered attacks.

But that was not important. What mattered was that he gradually discovered the nature of the Greek Gods during these battles.

Strictly speaking, the Greek Gods — were not gods at all.

According to the definitions of Star Ocean Online, gods and their followers, faith made a divine trinity. But the Greek Gods were not like that. Every time Duanmu Huai killed them, he would gain some kind of divine position and skill, but upon close scrutiny, he discovered that these divine positions and skills were basically useless.

For instance, after he killed Poseidon, he naturally acquired the divine position of the Sea God.

And the power of the Sea God is “free manipulation of seawater”.

Okay, it can only control seawater, not freshwater, not mineral water, probably not even soda water.

If thrown into a desert, what’s the use of this?

Isn’t this a waste?

Who on earth has such a low-level god?

Later, as Duanmu Huai gradually collected more divine positions from the killings, he realized that the Greek Gods were more similar to some sort of elemental spirits like fire sprites or water sprites found in many video games. The abilities of these gods were also very niche.

This realization made Duanmu Huai understand why these gods treated their followers that way.

Ordinary gods needed faith to gather power, and the souls of deceased followers would belong to the gods.

So generally, a god and its followers are in a mutually supportive relationship.

However, the Greek Gods obviously did not operate in that fashion. Looking at their behavior, it was clear that they would get rid of even the most devout follower if he was disagreeable to them. In such a case, how many followers would provide faith to them? And if their powers were not derived from faith, then where do they originate from?

Now Duanmu Huai finally understood that the power of Greek Gods was not associated with faith at all. Their power originated from nature. It was a product of the condensed attributes of nature. Therefore, their fate was tied with the world. But whether it contained human beings or not, and whether these humans survived was irrelevant to the Greek Gods.

Even if all the humans of this world were dead, and they couldn’t receive a shred of faith, it won’t affect their power in any way.

However, conversely, they do not have any space for further advancement.

Even the most impressive natural lightning couldn’t naturally generate nuclear fusion. Similarly, as “nature spirits,” they have reached their limits.

What’s that song again?

The sky is still the sky, the rain is still the rain, you are no longer under my umbrella. I’m still me, you’re still you, only another winter has been added…

Yes, that’s the limit of the Greek Gods.

The real gods are not like this.

Take the Giant Horned Rat, for instance. As the deity of the ratmen that presides over plagues and schemes. If the Giant Horned Rat evolved from a god to a main god, then his faith area would expand. Maybe not just ratmen, all rodents could become followers of the Giant Horned Rat. Even human followers of the Giant Horned Rat might be directly transformed into ratmen.

This is how true gods proliferate their faith. As long as they are powerful enough, the domains encompassed by their divine position can be evolved and advanced.

Unlike the Greek Gods, take Poseidon for instance – to put it nicely, he was the Sea God, but to be blunt, he was just a god of saline water.

Perhaps even a saline drip bag is not under his control.

What’s the use of such divine positions and skills?

Even some psychics are more powerful than that.

Upon these thoughts, Duanmu Huai took a deep breath, then lifted his hammer and shattered the massive door before him.

“Bang!!!”

With the iron gate broken open, Duanmu Huai strode in.

What welcomed him was a magnificent garden bustling with lush trees and flowers. However, compared to Duanmu Huai, covered in blood and reeking of murder, that was a different story.

“I guess I should be there soon.”

Duanmu Huai raised his head and looked at the sky. The palace at the top of Mount Olympus was within sight. All he needed to do was cross this garden, and he would be able to slay that old prick, Zeus, chopping him into eight pieces. To be honest, after figuring out the true nature of the Greek Gods, Zeus held no threat to Duanmu Huai anymore. Other than being able to control lightning and transform himself into smooth operators, what else could that old bastard do?

He probably can’t even produce AC or DC current.

“I can’t believe it…You really made it here.”

Just then, a voice echoed. Duanmu Huai looked up in the direction from which it came. Before his eyes stood a woman emerging from the depths of the garden, holding twin swords and having the look of a warrior. Her face was firm and her eyes sparkled with wisdom. Duanmu Huai raised his eyebrows at her.

“You are…”

“Athena.”

“Oh…”

The Goddess of War and Wisdom, no wonder she’s so ugly.

Duanmu Huai scanned her from head to toe, smacked his lips disappointingly. Now he finally understood why Athena was jealous of Medusa.

Typical case of an ugly woman getting jealous.

With looks like that, it’s no wonder she was so temperamentally.

No wonder Zeus didn’t fancy her.

If the Athena from Saint Fighter looked like this, I doubt any readers would care about her wellbeing.

“I can’t believe that you actually managed to break through the obstruction of the gods and reach here…”

“You mean those so-called gods are those apparent amateurs?”

Duanmu Huai sneered, interrupting Athena’s speech. He had thought it would be hard to ascend Mount Olympus, but rather there were just a few who dared to intercept him aside from some minor monsters.

Firstly Apollo, relying on his ability to fly with his chariot, kept taunting Duanmu in the sky. Duanmu dragged him down directly with his gravity gloves and beat him into a pulp.

Then Hermes, with his speed, kept pulling taunts, before becoming the second victim under Duanmu Huai’s gravity gloves.

Next were the three Furies. They came to revenge their husband Ares. Duanmu didn’t hesitate, smashing them all with his war hammer.

The last one he met was Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Surprisingly, she’s more interested in getting cozy rather than having a fight. She even suggested to Duanmu that they should battle it out, but considering her promiscuity, Duanmu turned down her offer. He showed no mercy for her, who’s always flirting, and killed her directly.

Her little charm was no match in front of his Deathly Aura.

That’s it, just these few.

Didn’t see other Greek gods. He didn’t know whether they were hiding or ran away.

“………”

Upon hearing Duanmu Huai’s reply, Athena’s face stiffened. She, of course, understood the reality of the situation. Duanmu Huai had killed Ares, Hades, and Poseidon, which terrified the other gods. Above all, after he killed them, he absorbed all their divine powers and roles. This scared the shit out of the Greek gods. They didn’t want someone else to benefit from their hard-earned power, so besides a few easily fooled or arrogant ones, others used this as an excuse to flee faster than rabbits. After all, Zeus would hold the sky from falling.

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“I am here to negotiate with you, stranger.”

Athena gently coughed, changing the topic, but Duanmu Huai simply lifted his war hammer.

“I have no intention to negotiate with you. My stance has been quite clear. Mount Olympus must be destroyed, that old bastard Zeus must die. The power you are so proud of is worthless in front of me, and poses no threat.”

“In that case, there is no use talking anymore.”

Seeing Duanmu Huai’s action, Athena’s face paled slightly. She then elegantly stepped back like a ghost.

“Then die here forever!”

“Don’t be ridiculous!”

Before Athena’s words could finish, Duanmu Huai’s jetpack sputtered into life. With a thunderous roar, he blasted through the garden, swinging the Thunder Warhammer straight at Athena. However, the grass walls around him suddenly rose, blocking his path. As he crashed his hammer into the grass wall in front of him, Athena’s figure vanished. All that was left in front of him was the towering grass maze obstructing his path.

Looking back – well, his way back had disappeared too.

“Well, well, well, this is the Goddess of Wisdom, huh?”

Duanmu Huai spat, tightening his grip on his war hammer. Soon, black flames erupted from it.

“Since you won’t let me pass, I’ll burn this mountain down! Let’s see if you’ll come out then!”

With a roar, Duanmu Huai lifted his war hammer high and struck it on the ground!

“Boom!!!”

The next moment, with a heavy rumble, the black flames erupted, sweeping through everything in its path.

In just a blink of an eye, an incomparable sea of fire spread across the maze!