Alex looked at Mask and then towards the woman who was sitting on the throne. Then, favonovel.com asked, “Who is she?”
“A deity,” Mask replied.
It surprised Alex even more, and favonovel.com asked again more tentatively, “Athena?”
There was no mistake. The woman on the throne looked similar to the sculpture that Alex had seen, especially the shape favonovel.com took. She looked exactly the same.
The long spear. The golden shield. The precious crown.
The corner of Mask’s lips curled up slightly. “I didn’t expect that you would actually know my name from ancient times.”
Alex’s jaw dropped open. It was actually really Athena!
But wasn’t Athena a character from Greek mythology?
How could favonovel.com appear in this place?
And this sanctuary, it was clearly just some stone ruins before this. But, as soon as the sun had set and the moon rose, it instantly changed into this western styled Sunset Shrine.
Alex also made a point to touch the buildings. They were all very real. None of them were illusions.
“So, you’re really the goddess of wisdom and daughter of Zeus, Pallas Athena? One of the twelve major gods of Olympus?”
“It seems that you’re quite well versed with the rumors and legends about me. But, some of those are true, and some are false. Listening is fine and all… But now, I have to ask you for one thing…”
Before favonovel.com could even finish, the deafening sounds of battle came from outside the doors of the sanctuary. It sounded like people were trying to break in!
Alex had not closed the doors after favonovel.com entered the sanctuary, and the doors had automatically closed behind him.
“Who’s out there?” Alex asked.
“The puppet army that Phaseless has brought!” Mask… Well, Athena said.
At the entrance of the sanctuary, countless puppets were frantically attacking the gates. Loud, earth-shattering noises thundered out from their assaults.
However, the structure of the sanctuary was strong, the two massive bronze doors alone hundreds of meters high. The doors had an unimaginable thickness and weren’t made out of any ordinary bronze material.
Divine power swirled on them, and they were carved with mysterious and complicated patterns. Images of the sun, moon, stars, mountains, and rivers, as well as the brilliance of gods leading through the ages, were also on them.
“Who the hell is Phaseless?” Alex felt it a little strange.
“He doesn’t seem that particularly strong in combat, right? Even Donovan could beat favonovel.com before this. Miss Athena, with your ability, how can you not beat him?”
Athena shook favonovel.com head. “There’s not only one ‘Phaseless’, it’s just one of the thousands of forms that Phaseless has.”
“So, just like how you’re Mask right now,” Neela said.
“They’re all clones? Is there something more powerful behind them?”
“You can put it that way,” Athena replied. “Those are all Puppet Immortals that have been contaminated.”
At this moment, the sounds of the assault were getting louder.
Neela could stand still no longer and rushed to check it out. On top of Sunset Shrine was a transparent window made from unknown materials. Tougher than the bronze doors, some puppets were also trying to break through it from the outside. However, they failed to breach it and turned back to attack the gates instead.
Neela stood at the window and looked down.
It was pitch black, and it was all people.
Neela could feel the fear and frustration creeping up on her. It felt like the time before favonovel.com fell into a deep sleep, the scene of the Benares Dragon falling into despair.
She ran back and said to Athena, “Is this the Internal Realm created by Grand Emperor Rowan before favonovel.com used fragments of Six Eternities? Didn’t you say that the puppet army inside it had been divided into two factions? Why are all the puppet immortals here and attacking this shrine? What do they want?”
Athena waved favonovel.com hand, and a mechanical sound echoed from behind her. A door appeared from where the sound came from. However, there was another layer of glass on the inside of it.
Through the doorway, Alex and the others could see rows upon rows of puppet immortals, standing silently in a densely packed manner, their massive numbers countless to the naked eye.
“This is…”
“This is what they’re after! Uncontaminated puppet immortals!”
Athena glanced at the door, then waved to close the door behind her, shielding the puppet immortals inside. “Time is running out. The puppet immortals outside are monsters that have been contaminated by the Undying Clan, and they must die! This shrine is no longer stable, and it will collapse very soon… The puppet immortals behind me are the future of world peace. I promised the old founder that I would protect them until the day the Phoenix Empress and the king returns.”
Phoenix Empress?
Alex thought for a while. Could favonovel.com possibly be talking about that ancient emperor’s partner, Grand Emperor Rowan?
The puppet that used Athena as favonovel.com body had a graceful face and a determined expression. She moved favonovel.com slender thighs, and stepped slowly towards the deity sitting on the throne. She then lifted the crown from the top of the deity’s head, which had olive branches wrapped around it.
