Chapter 331 - 167: The Greatest Eclipse Initiated, Former Gold Saints vs. Current Gold Saints! (Part 1)

Chapter 331: Chapter 167: The Greatest Eclipse Initiated, Former Gold Saints vs. Current Gold Saints! (Part 1)

As soon as the words fell, a cold, gloomy will descended from the sky like a tangible substance, enveloping the entire temple.

Hades’ mocking laughter echoed through the hall. "Do you actually believe such lies?"

The Twin Gods of Death and Sleep exchanged a glance and shook their heads in unison, though the corners of their mouths twitched upward slightly.

They naturally knew of the Saints’ absolute loyalty; they simply did not wish to spoil the King of the Underworld’s mood.

Hades’ voice reached their ears once more. "No matter. Grant them twenty-four hours of life and dispatch the Four Dream Gods to monitor them. I want to see exactly what tricks Athena is playing this time."

He paused, his tone abruptly turning freezing cold. "Remember, without my explicit command, no other Specters are allowed to venture into the human realm unauthorized. Violators will have their souls completely obliterated!"

"Yes, my Lord!" the Twin Gods answered in unison.

"Then, initiate the Greatest Eclipse!"

In the next second, the statue of Hades shattered with a resounding boom. Black, divine power of death surged out like an erupting volcano. Originating from his divine kingdom on Pluto, it pierced straight through the entire firmament.

Within the solar system, the trajectories of the nine planets, which originally operated in a systematic order, were forcibly rewritten by this supreme divine power.

The nine planets broke free from their established orbits. As if pulled by invisible threads, they slowly aligned into a cold, straight line that spanned the cosmos.

The Great Alignment! The shadow of Pluto began to spread like a massive ink stain, slowly covering the other eight planets and completely severing the sun’s light.

This was the moment when the King of the Underworld’s divine power was at its absolute peak. The mighty force of celestial mechanics was distorted, and the balance of the universe was thoroughly profaned.

Icy starlight plummeted from the void, resembling chains lowered from the Underworld, dragging the entire earth toward an endless abyss.

Immediately following this, Thanatos, the God of Death, and Hypnos, the God of Sleep, rose simultaneously, pushing their divine authorities to the absolute limit.

Thanatos spread his arms, and the dead, silent winds of the Underworld swept in from its deepest reaches. Hypnos waved his scepter, and the mists of deep slumber spread outward like a tidal wave.

The Underworld winds and the mists intertwined, transforming into a pitch-black divine veil that blotted out the sky and sun, crashing down to shroud the sun completely.

The Greatest Eclipse had descended!

The glorious light of the sun was snuffed out in an instant, like a burnt-out candle.

Warmth and light were instantly stripped away from the earth, plunging the entire world into absolute, pitch-black darkness where one couldn’t even see their own hands.

This was not the tranquility of night; it was the prelude to the end of all things, the final judgment passed down by the King of the Underworld upon the living.

A bone-piercing chill, accompanied by the aura of death, permeated the air. Plants in the fields withered instantly; their leaves lost their luster and turned into brittle ash that crumbled at the slightest touch.

The surfaces of rivers, lakes, and seas froze at a visible rate, quickly turning into inky-black, solid ice. The fish and shrimp beneath the ice layers were frozen solid, becoming stiff specimens!

The living creatures of the earth cowered in corners, their souls shivering under the crushing weight of the darkness, letting out silent wails.

Even the Sanctuary, the sacred domain of Athena, was not spared from this disaster.

The divine radiance that had historically bathed the Twelve Temples was completely devoured. The magnificent palaces were reduced to sinister silhouettes, immersed in a suffocating darkness and dead silence.

Only in the direction of the Temple of Athena did a faint yet stubborn light of Cosmo flicker in the darkness. It was Athena, desperately resisting the Greatest Eclipse’s erosion of the earth’s vitality—like a flickering candle in a torrential storm, liable to be extinguished at any moment.

However, the true, lethal crisis did not come from the sky, but from the mountain behind the Sanctuary—the Saints’ Graveyard that connected to the departed souls.

In the burial grounds of past generations of Saints, the earth suddenly and silently split open with countless fissures. A dense aura of death surged from the cracks, permeating the area like a tangible substance, carrying the stench of sulfur and decay.

Following this, figure after figure slowly rose from the defiled earth. They were clad in pitch-black Surplices that flickered with a cold, eerie light, the patterns on the armor gleaming with the luster of death.

The faces of these figures were no longer those of decaying corpses, but had been restored to the youthful appearances of their absolute prime.

Their muscles were full and their lines smooth. Their gazes were as sharp as blades, and they were wreathed in terrifying Cosmos that were far stronger than when they were alive, yet thoroughly saturated with the dead aura of the Underworld.

Leading them was none other than the previous generation’s Aries Gold Saint—the former Pope Shion, who had once guarded the Sanctuary and guided the young Saints!

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