Chapter 101 - 78: Mental Witchcraft

Chapter 101: Chapter 78: Mental Witchcraft

Translator: 549690339

“Stop, which deity are you from, and why are you attacking my friend?”

With the clear yet somewhat immature voice ringing out, an invisible fluctuation swept across the field. Instantly, the silver serpents in the sky seemed somewhat languid and listless.

Zeus’s spirit tensed. He looked intently, and there was a red-haired girl around fifteen or sixteen years old.

In her presence, Zeus did not feel intense fluctuations of divine power, but seeing how she could easily stop his attack and weaken the power of his thunder through some means, it was clear that she was no simple being.

However, Zeus had no intention of giving up. Who knew what secrets his identity held, or whether it would lead to big trouble.

“Who are you, and why do you interfere with my affair with this goddess?”

On guard, Zeus surreptitiously gathered strength. If he could not defeat the opponent head-on, a sneak attack might still be a good option.

As long as he could achieve his goal, he did not care what methods he used.

Alas, Zeus did not know that his tactics might be somewhat useful against other deities, but they were ineffective against the enemy before him.

“I am the Grand Sorceress Hecate, and I am also a friend of Selene. It is natural for me to stop you when you lay hands on my friend.”

Lifted into the air by the wind, Hecate watched Zeus’s futile efforts.

Before, when Selene missed their appointment, she thought that something might have come up at the last moment. But what she did not expect was that her friend was under attack by an unfamiliar deity.

And the adversary still showed no sign of stopping. Under her transcendent spiritual perception, Zeus’s rudimentary concealing tactics were meaningless; Hecate could see at a glance that he was gathering strength.

“So it’s you, still not planning to cease your attack, huh? In that case, I’ll discipline you first.”

The stone tablet had once taught her that the first to act had the advantage. Since the opponent was not playing fair, she might as well subdue him first!

Boom —!

Just as Hecate was about to make a move, she was taught a lesson. Clearly, she had not learned the essence of striking first from the stone tablet, as the true first strike does not involve exchanging pleasantries with the opponent.

Before her, Zeus had already decisively taken action upon realizing his plan was discovered. With a loud explosion, lightning struck straight through Hecate’s position.

To his surprise, his attack merely passed through without any feeling of hitting a target.

“That’s why I find these deities so annoying, especially such naturally powerful gods—though now that I think about it, with such a strong godhood, why is his divine power so weak?”

She pursed her lips, slightly puzzled. Hecate lightly flipped open the book she’d been holding in her left hand, turning to a page with a drawing of the stars and the sun.

That was the essence of a fragment of the sun she had picked up on her travels. Using that fragment as a core, Hecate recreated the ‘past’ scene through a ritual, then successfully sealed it into the Book of All Laws in her hand.

Thus, what should have been a complicated and lengthy ritual became a witchcraft spell ready to use at will, which was just a small clever use of the divine artifact in her hand.

The book pages ignited without fire, and the next moment, the sky lit up brightly. As if two suns had risen together, another illusory sun manifested above the ocean.

“Yesterday’s Sun·Setting of the Great Day”!

Across from Hecate, Zeus, who had transformed into thunder, felt an almost irresistible force, which was the echo of Hyperion’s, the God of Sun’s, power.

With one-third the strength of the God of Sun at his peak, borrowed from the ‘past’ by the power of the divine artifact and the ritual, this was not something the newly-born Zeus of mere decades could contend with.

“Out of options, huh? I hate you rash gods who resort to violence at the drop of a hat~”

With a slight smile, Hecate pointed a finger, and the illusory great sun immediately descended. The deity in front of her continued to release thunder, but it was futile in front of the illusory sun.

It seemed like a long time, but in reality, from the start of the fight until now, only a short while had passed. Just as Hecate was about to completely smash it down, Selene, who finally realized what was happening, urgently spoke out:

“Wait, Hecate, he’s Zeus!”

“Ah?”

Her right hand shook, and the illusory sun fell alongside Zeus into the ocean. Billions of tons of seawater were instantly evaporated, a vast number of dead sea creatures floated to the surface, and then the smell of charring arose.

But at this moment, Hecate couldn’t care less about these things. She looked at the deity in front of her and quickly asked:

“You’re Zeus?”

“I am. Is there a problem?”

Having been terrified by the narrowly missed sun, Zeus had thought this venture was bound to fail. But now, it seemed there might be a turn of events.

The formidable woman who had arrived later didn’t seem to dread his name as much as the Moon Goddess did.

“Hmm, no problem, or rather, this couldn’t be better,” she said with a strange smile, looking at Zeus and slowly speaking:

“I’ve had my eye on a certain someone for a long time. Running into you here seems to prove that my astrology is quite effective after all~”