Chapter 485
C485
Bang, boom!
A deafening noise echoed in YuWon's ears.
As he slowly opened his eyes, the first thing that came into YuWon's view was Pandora's face.
She opened her mouth to ask something. But YuWon's ears felt as if they had been filled with water, and everything sounded muffled.
As the blurry vision slowly returned, beyond Pandora's shoulder, a purple sky appeared.
It was evident that she was inside Ubbo-Sathla.
YuWon had no idea how much time had passed.
"Are you okay?"
It was at that moment that Pandora's faint voice began to become audible.
Somehow, her way of speaking had been the same for a while.
She seemed to be continuously concerned about his condition.
"What about Hercules?"
Judging by the fact that her voice didn't tremble, she seemed to be in good physical condition.
Well, why would her body be tired after such an intense fight? The problem was the mind, not the body.
"Hercules is..."
"I'm here."
Whizz-.
Something flew over YuWon's head.
It wasn't just one. YuWon quickly extended both hands to catch it.
Two slabs.
Out of the three slabs of Ubbo-Sathla, two gathered here.
"You'd better hurry. It seems it won't stop until we break it."
Thud-!
Boom-.
Son OhGong, and the copies of Son OhGong, pushed the enormous whale flying in the sky with the Ru Yi Bang.
Perhaps because its path was interrupted, the whale in the sky, Ubbo-Sathla, opened a large mouth and emitted a lament.
-Woahhh-!
It was a roar so loud that it echoed in the sky and shook eardrums.
Some Rankers, already weakened by the injuries caused by the sound, even lost consciousness.
Ubbo-Sathla.
It was moving to retrieve the slabs that YuWon held in his hands, ignoring external impacts.
'Can it not be killed by external impact?'
Whether it was an immortal entity or not didn't matter. The only sure way to kill Ubbo-Sathla was to destroy the slabs, that was clear.
But with the possibility that there were secrets about the Outers written on the slabs, and moreover, YuWon's instinct insisted that he should never break the slabs.
'The other...'
While YuWon searched for the last slab wandering with his head...
Swoosh-.
Pandora handed him another slab.
The first one she had obtained.
It was the first time that all three slabs gathered in one place. Since the slabs had irregular shapes, they formed a quite regular and circular shape.
"You really got them all."
YuWon looked at Hercules with surprise.
Although he had some burns and wounds like Pandora's hands all over, he seemed quite unharmed after the fierce battle.
When YuWon's eyes met Hercules's, the corners of his mouth lifted.
Although he seemed tired, Hercules, sweating, responded to YuWon's question.
"You more or less told me the location. Thank Pandora. Because she carried you the whole time."
"Really?"
YuWon looked at Pandora. Tipping his head in gratitude, he thanked her.
'It couldn't have been easy.'
Although Hercules said she only carried him, it probably wasn't that simple.
Inside Ubbo-Sathla's body, many Outers lived as parasites. Even if Hercules was a great fighter, he couldn't deal with all of them while searching for the slabs.
Probably, Pandora's role was to block them and protect him.
And probably, it was Hercules who gathered the three slabs.
The raid on Ubbo-Sathla was carried out in teams. Fortunately, now they knew the location of the slabs, which were considered Ubbo-Sathla's body, but it wasn't a raid that could be done alone.
Still, Hercules succeeded in protecting himself and retrieving the three slabs while YuWon 'slept'.
While he had felt it before.
'It would have been better if Zeus had returned.'
Looking at Hercules's strength, that thought became even stronger.
If Zeus were alive in his future.
And if, instead of him, Zeus had come to the past, it probably would have been a little easier.
Since YuWon learned of Hercules's strength, he started to think about it even more.
Hercules looked at him with slightly strange eyes.
When their eyes met, he asked with a somewhat strange expression.
"Are you okay now?"
He must be worried after suddenly passing out.
If he couldn't bear Zeus's death, he wouldn't know.
The Hercules YuWon knows has as much love as hatred for Zeus.
The Hercules from the future regretted several times for expelling Zeus with his own hands and vowed that he would make the same choice even if he returned to the past.
Hercules could never be indifferent to Zeus's death.
And even more so because the current Zeus was different from the Zeus the future Hercules knew.
Kwak-.
Strength transmitted to his hands.
He wasn't aware of it.
On the contrary, his heart became calmer.
It was then that the lightning bolt exploded.
Crack-!
Bam-!
The lightning bolt that rose into the sky instantly caused a gust of wind.
Although it was the same lightning bolt, it was different in scale.
Hercules slowly stepped back, protecting his body from Zeus's lightning bolt by crossing his arms.
What could be happening at the center of that lightning bolt?
'Father...?'
Is he alive?
Plop-.
Hercules walked slowly toward the center of the lightning bolt.
Unintentionally, with eyes that flashed in gold, Hercules looked toward where Zeus was.
Crack, crack-.
Where the lightning bolt had struck...
Gradually, amid the golden light, the figure of Zeus standing in the middle of it was revealed.
There was no movement.
With one hand outstretched forward, he stood there with no expression on his face.
Where is his opponent?
"...."
Hercules approached Zeus.
Given his large size, Hercules's steps were quite noisy. Therefore, he usually worried about walking with quieter steps.
But not this time.
As if saying "please, listen and look in this direction."
Hercules approached Zeus with louder steps than usual.
"Too late."
A voice that sounded a bit tired.
It wasn't Zeus's voice.
"Way too late."
Hercules paid no attention to that voice.
Instead, he stood in front of Zeus and looked at him.
His eyes, which once shone in gold, had become opaque gray. Although Hercules's body blocked his view, Zeus didn't move.
'Was his stature always this small?'
Somehow, his father felt small today.
His height, his back.
Although Hercules knew he was taller than him in both aspects, he always felt like he was looking up whenever they met.
'I hate my father.'
Looking at Zeus, whose breath had ceased with a calm expression, Hercules almost felt sorry for him.
"Are you angry?"
The one who had killed Zeus, Foolish Chaos, asked.
"... No."
Hercules shook his head.
Zeus was the one who ordered Ares to kill his own mother.
Therefore, he wasn't sad about his death, even after he was dead.
Not a bit.
Not even a bit.
"Then why did you come running?"
"I didn't come running."
Hercules definitely walked.
Surely, his steps were not rushed at all. Therefore, he didn't care at all about Zeus's life.
There was only one reason he came this far.
"Why did you come?"
Crack, crack-.
The Golden Lightning Bolt flowing from Hercules's body.
With his club in hand, he shouted at Foolish Chaos.
"I came to fight, you damn bastard!"
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