In the dark moonlit night, on the small island filled with a terrifying atmosphere, the creepy statues were all around Noah and his party at this time.
It is a petrified humanoid statue.
Some of the people in the statue are dressed in ragged cloth, some in armor, some fully armed, and some lightly outfitted in battle, but without exception, they all carry weapons, and their muscles are bulging one by one, and they have strong physiques. There seems to be an unusual force.
However, these strong physiques, armed with weapons, can tell at a glance that they are not simple figures. The expressions of the characters presented on the statues make the four girls of Erica, Yuri, Liliana and Megumi all behave. Involuntarily took a breath.
What kind of expression is that
-Panic.
-Howl.
-Appalled.
-despair.
The expressions and expressions presented on each of the humanoid statues all perfectly displayed these feelings, extremely vivid, just like real people.
And if they were real people, what did these people experience before they were petrified to show such expressions and performances
Including Noah, no one can imagine.
The only thing that can be determined is one point.
That is, if these stone statues are real people, they must have seen hell before being petrified.
"The stone statue on the island of snake monster..." Erica couldn't help but murmured.
"It's like an invisible island..."
-The invisible island.
In Greek mythology, the island where Medusa the Gorgon occupies.
In Greek mythology, Medusa, who was originally a goddess, was cursed by Athena and became a monster. She lived on an island called the Invisible Island. Together with her two sisters, she was called Ge by the world. The three sisters of Ergon.
While still in the world of Xingyue, Medusa, as Noah's Servant, said that no matter what era, there is never a shortage of heroes who want to defeat monsters and become famous.
Therefore, humans who are confident in their own abilities and want to be heroes continue to travel to the invisible island to challenge the banshees who live on the island.
However, in the end, these human dreams were cruelly shattered one after another.
Their stupid challenge, and finally ushered in, was turned into stone by the Gorgon named Medusa one by one.
Now, Athena is on this island.
And on this island, there are countless stone statues of people who are obviously warriors.
This scene is simply recreating the scene on the invisible island.
"So that's it..." Liliana said somewhat complicatedly.
"Did the goddess choose to use this method to face her enemies of fate?"
Regardless of the era, there is never a shortage of humans who want to defeat monsters and become famous, but because of their incompetence, they have become victims.
But, in the same way, no matter what era it is, the ultimate fate of monsters is to be conquered by real heroes and become dead souls under the sword of heroes.
Athena is also Medusa.
Therefore, Athena chose to reproduce the invisible island that once faced the challenge of a human warrior as Medusa.
The meaning is to express one's determination.
Is it to keep the past glory, to turn the challenger into a stone statue as always, and to bring death
Or is it ultimately defeated, crusade by real heroes, and become a stepping stone to the hero's fame
What Athena was expecting was one of these two results.
This reminded Noah involuntarily of Az Dakaha.
Known as the final trial of mankind, this evil god of Zoroastrianism, who claims to be absolutely evil, once roared at Noah like this.
—I am the absolute evil! Above my corpse is justice—
That's right.
Since Az Dakaha is absolutely evil, doesn't the human hero who defeated this dragon represent absolute justice
The center of Zoroastrianism is the dualism of good and evil.
However, evil exists only to demonstrate the importance of good.
After all, only if there is evil in this world, the human beings who resist this will become the real good.
If there is no evil, then the existence of good will also become dispensable.
Just like human beings only want light in the dark.
Only when there is evil, human beings will sincerely do good.
The three-headed dragon of Zoroastrianism defines its own existence as absolute evil, does not compromise with mankind, and spreads despair and hell as the ultimate test of mankind, so that true good will never disappear in the world.
This is the meaning of the evil of Zoroastrianism.
Only in troubled times, heroes will be born.
Only in the dark will light come.
Only in evil does justice appear.
Only in despair can hope exist.
Just as in the world of "Black Bullets", Noah was disappointed in the hatred of mankind and chose to give up to save mankind. In the end, he saw the only hope of mankind in disappointment.
Now, Athena has reproduced the island of the snake monster, reproduced the inheritance of the myth, in order to express her own consciousness.
She will not compromise with humans.
Only by defeating her can you become a true hero.
It's just that, now, this enlightenment is not directed at all mankind.
This time, recreating the legend of the invisible island, Athena is only for one person.
That is Noah.
It is not a challenge facing all mankind, but a confrontation with one person.
Here, the goddess named Athena shows the consciousness and spirit that is definitely not weaker than the final trial of mankind.
Understanding this, Noah's whole body and heart began to heat up, and explosive power gushed out of his back.
At this point, Noah finally burned a real war spirit.
In order to live up to Athena's expectations.
At this moment, the silence was broken.
"Kacha..."
Without any reason, a cracking sound suddenly sounded.
Noah and his party condensed one after another, turned their heads abruptly, and looked at the source of the sound.
There, there is a stone statue.
However, a crack suddenly appeared on the stone statue.
And this suddenly caused a chain reaction.
"Kakcha...Kakchakcha..."
Around the group of people, the stone statues suddenly cracked up without any warning, full of cracks.
At the same time, a wave of quite powerful curse power waved away from the stone statues and spread to the surroundings.
Erica, Liliana, and Keina did not hesitate to take out their weapons, and one jumped up, surrounded Noah and Yuri in a triangle shape, and became vigilant.
At almost the same time, the cracking sound stopped abruptly.
"Boom!"
A stone statue suddenly exploded, setting off a sky full of stone fragments.
"Boom boom boom boom boom!"
Accompanied by a burst of sound, the stone statues burst open one after another, raising waves of dust.
Immediately, a group of figures slowly appeared from the dust that filled the entire space.
"Ah..." Yuri couldn't help but let out a small exclamation.
It was not just Yuri, but Erica, Liliana, and Hui couldn't help but suddenly tighten the hands holding the weapon.
Noah frowned tightly, and his gaze swept around sharply.
I saw that in the bursts of dust appeared one by one.
All of them were formerly stone statues, but now they have turned into normal human warriors.
However, none of these warriors have pupils. A pair of eyes are full of hideous whites. The skin on their bodies is also in a state of dryness, and the body is standing swaying, like a bunch of corpses. .
Noah once saw the same scene.
In the battle with Woban, Woban used the power of the "Servant Cage of the Dead" to summon the dead who fought for him, in this state.
"Be careful!" Erica couldn't help shouting loudly.
"Athena is also the god of the underworld, able to endow humans with death, and can also manipulate the dead. These people are very likely to be reproduced by Athena, petrified by the snake-haired banshee Medusa, and challenged the human warriors who failed in the snake-monster. !"
Voice, a fall.
The dead who surrounded the group suddenly raised their heads, and their swaying bodies were suddenly stabilized.
The next moment, the dead one by one rushed over.
Seeing the scene where the dead holding weapons charged like crazy beasts, Noah slowly held his hand tightly.