Chapter 226 : Chapter 226
Chapter 226. Hypnos’s Death Shocks Olympus
Above the mountains of Olympus.
On a divine mountain surrounded by green forests, where a hundred flowers bloomed and birds flew through the woods.
“God of Light, Hypnos is dead. He died at the hands of the Child of Fate.”
Inside a palace on the divine mountain, the woman standing in the middle of three towering figures let out a sigh.
The moment these words were spoken,
The palace fell into deathly silence.
Apollo, the Sun God, whose head radiated the brilliance of the sun, had an expression of disbelief in his eyes.
“Clotho, are you deceiving me? The Child of Fate in your prophecy is nothing more than a mortal. How could he possibly have killed Hypnos!”
Anger appeared on his face as he loudly questioned the Three Fates before him.
Lachesis, one of the Three Fates and a middle-aged woman in a long dress, saw Apollo shouting at her younger sister, Clotho, and her expression instantly turned cold.
“Before the Child of Fate appeared, we wove the threads of fate and peered into the future countless times. The Child of Fate is a mortal. There is absolutely no mistake!”
“As for why he was able to kill Hypnos, we are also puzzled and shocked.”
Among the three goddesses, Atropos, the elderly woman, pressed her hand down, signaling Lachesis not to argue.
Leaning on a cane made of peachwood, she rose and said, “Apollo, our prophecy cannot be wrong. The only possibility is…”
“The Child of Fate slew a god with the strength of a mortal. This place called Huaxia remains as mysterious and powerful as it was a hundred years ago!”
“Sigh!”
She let out a heavy sigh and looked at the ceiling of the palace, filled with astonishment.
Apollo’s pupils trembled slightly. He recalled how, a hundred years ago, his father had joined forces with the gods of the Four Great Divine Kingdoms, yet they had still failed to annihilate all of Huaxia’s gods.
Instead, Huaxia had relied on its own strength to defeat the gods of the Five Divine Kingdoms.
Huaxia’s gods were already absurd to such a degree. Now, after a hundred years had passed, even Huaxia’s mortals possessed the ability to slay gods!
The difference between gods and humans was an incomparably vast gulf. It was absolutely impossible to cross.
Yet according to the Three Fates’ prediction regarding Hypnos’s death, he had actually been slain by a mortal!
Apollo took a deep breath and sat down somewhat weakly on a peachwood chair, his face filled with worry.
If even Huaxia’s mortals possessed the ability to slay gods, then when Ragnarok began, it would not be them hunting Huaxia. Instead, it would be Huaxia releasing the vengeance it had accumulated for a hundred years.
“God of Light, you need not worry. Someone chosen by fate is naturally extraordinary.”
The young and breathtakingly beautiful Clotho slowly spoke. “Even if Hypnos had not been slain by the Child of Fate, Huaxia’s gods would not have allowed him to leave Huaxia alive.”
Apollo’s brows furrowed slightly. “You mean that the Child of Fate’s ability to slay a god is only a special exception and does not represent other Huaxia mortals?”
Clotho nodded. “Moreover, when I was weaving the threads of fate just now, I glimpsed that a Huaxia god who fell in Japan is about to revive. The Child of Fate will also appear there.”
“We can borrow the hands of Japan’s Takamagahara gods to eliminate the Child of Fate.”
When Apollo heard this, he fell into thought.
A hundred years ago, as the place closest to Huaxia, Takamagahara had been the first battlefield of the Divine War. Japan’s gods had nearly been annihilated by Huaxia’s gods, but quite a few Huaxia gods had also fallen in the human realm beneath Takamagahara.
What made others envious, however, was that the human realm of Japan was almost fanatical toward gods. Every Divine Contract Holder chosen by a god worked hard to complete the resurrection mission.
Among the Five Divine Kingdoms, the gods of Takamagahara had returned the fastest. Aside from Amaterasu Omikami, who had not yet revived, almost all the other gods had returned to the Divine Kingdom.
Their Divine Kingdom was powerful, and they would be on their own territory…
A delighted look appeared in Apollo’s eyes. “Good. I will personally go to Takamagahara and have Tsukuyomi take action to eliminate the Child of Fate.”
“We absolutely cannot allow the Child of Fate to affect Ragnarok.”
Clotho nodded slightly and reminded him, “After the Divine War a hundred years ago, the gods of Takamagahara, who have always bullied the weak and feared the strong, may be difficult to persuade if you ask them to deal with Huaxia again.”
Apollo snorted coldly. “I naturally have a way to make Tsukuyomi obey my command.”
…
On Huaxia’s eastern border.
“Vice Cult Leader, this is bad. Hypnos’s Divine Power fluctuations have disappeared.”
On a sand dune, a follower dressed in church robes ran over anxiously to report.
Luca looked at the crystal ball in his palm and ignored the follower’s words.
“Luca, Hypnos has been slain by the Child of Fate. Notify all followers to withdraw from Huaxia.”
Luca’s eyes trembled. He stood there in a daze for quite a while before slowly nodding.
“Mm. In addition, the Goddess of Fate has issued another Oracle. We are to go to the human realm beneath Japan’s Takamagahara and find the Divine Contract Holder who has contracted with a Huaxia god.”
“Yes, Cult Leader.”
His lips trembled slightly as he lowered his head and replied.
The light flashing inside the crystal ball in his palm disappeared, and it returned to its usual color.
Luca slowly lowered his hand. The crystal ball fell into the sand, and his eyes were filled with shock.
What shocked him was not the new mission issued by the Cult Leader, but the fact that the Child of Fate had slain Hypnos.
In the Oracle, the Child of Fate was merely a mortal from Huaxia.
How could he possibly slay a god?
For the first time, Luca felt that his understanding was being overturned. In the past, he had believed that gods were lofty and unreachable existences, beings that could not be blasphemed and could not be defeated.
Yet the Child of Fate, who was only a mortal, had completely shattered his understanding.
Just how powerful did a person have to be to stand shoulder to shoulder with gods?
Luca fell silent. Yellow sand brushed against his church robes. Only after a long while did he speak.
“Have all followers withdraw from Huaxia.”
“Yes!”
At the same time, on the other side, along the rocky wasteland border of the Ninth Military District.
Zhou Qingcang looked toward the Guankou Divine Ruins and fell into a long silence.
White, threadlike Laws flowed in his palm, and threads of fate were reflected in his eyes.
He was peering into the result of fate.
But this result made him find it hard to believe. It also gave him a sense of powerlessness.
Jiang Yichen had killed Hypnos, the ancient Greek God of Sleep. A new recruit, a human, had slain a god!
As Zhou Qingcang thought about it, even he felt that it was absurd to the extreme.
It was as if such a thing should never have appeared in this world, yet it had appeared regardless.
He had originally thought that the SS-Rank Beast Tide had failed to kill Jiang Yichen because of the Jiang Family’s deep foundation, which had given him Ninth-Rank Talismans.
As for Jiang Yichen’s own strength, it might not even have matched a Level-Nine Preacher from the God-Revival Church.
But now… he had been wrong. Completely wrong.
Zhou Qingcang took a deep breath. “Even I cannot slay a god, yet Jiang Yichen, a junior who has only just graduated from martial arts academy not long ago, actually managed to do it!”
He let out another long sigh, and the threads of fate in his palm pulsed. “Frigg, I’m afraid I cannot complete the task you gave me.”
His voice pierced through the void and echoed within the threads of fate.
“No matter. Olympus will not let him go. As long as you complete my resurrection mission, I will naturally have a way to deal with him.”
The echo of fate lingered by his ears. Zhou Qingcang looked toward Guankou.
He saw a dazzling beam of cold light soaring into the sky. Even from afar, the sight made his entire body tremble.
His expression filled with awe.
“Jiang Yichen, just how powerful have you become?”