My Two Status Windows-Chapter 216

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Chapter 216: Olympus Raid (4)

Thwack!

As I deflected Athena, her spear, which automatically returned to her, was summoned once more.

A clone caught the incoming spear again.

“Ugh... that’s pretty strong.”

The Soul Barrier held out for a bit but was eventually pierced.

The repeated attacks with the spear must’ve toughened the shield a bit—its maintenance time was getting longer.

The spear's power, which once tried to drain SP…

Now, I could block it easily.

Athena spoke.

“Soul God! You’re really annoying!”

That awkward Athena who used to sound like she was reading from a textbook was gone.

She clenched her teeth in genuine frustration.

At first, it was bad acting, but she had improved so quickly that now she seemed genuinely angry.

“She’s good at everything. She looks like she’s holding back so much rage... wait, that’s still acting, right?”

[You watched her whole process of improving her acting, so what are you saying now? I already told you—Athena doesn’t talk during battle. She’s the type to throw another punch instead.]

“Her main weapon is her fists?”

[She’s good with all weapons. She is a goddess of war, after all.]

“Well… considering all that, she’s still getting knocked back pretty easily.”

Except for the one clone that was pierced by the spear, the other clones focused the Sun God's power and Astrape onto Athena’s shield.

Each time, Athena couldn’t withstand the impact and was sent flying.

She didn’t have a scratch on her, but she was launched like a home run ball.

“Soul God… coward!”

She shouted "coward" as she flew through the air.

Though her acting skills had improved rapidly, that dramatic flight was so staged it was laughable.

“That forced knockback… Zeus would notice it right away. Why isn’t that guy interfering?”

[If he intended to interfere, would he have let Olympus get into this mess in the first place? For whatever reason, he seems to be busy.]

What the hell is that guy doing?

The question crossed my mind, but first came Athena’s pursuit.

Thwack!

The spear imbued with black thunder was summoned to Athena again and pierced a clone...

Boom! Boom!

The Aegis, cloaked in dark energy, was struck repeatedly and sent flying with Athena.

It was the same exchange as before.

After more than ten rounds of this, I started to see some unexpected side benefits.

“The barrier… it’s already stronger!?”

Athena threw her spear again, just like before.

But this time, it didn’t pierce the barrier so easily.

The power granted to her by Zeus—

My analysis of it was rapidly progressing.

Even faster than when my clones were massacred by Ares. freeweɓnovel.cѳm

The Soul Barrier had adapted to that power.

[You have gained resistance to the power of Chaos, ‘Erasure.’]

Erasure!

So that power really was one of the divine abilities hidden in the Chaos relic.

“Soul God, your growth is astounding!”

Despite the over-the-top talking, Athena’s tone now had genuine admiration, unlike her previous acting.

“But you won’t be able to pierce this shield!”

She proudly displayed the Aegis infused with dark energy.

It sounded like a challenge—go ahead and try.

“Astrape.”

This time, I excluded the Sun God’s power and focused entirely on Astrape.

There was a subtle reaction from her when I aimed it at her before.

I was ready to chase if she got blasted away again...

Zzzzt—

“Huh?”

Unlike before, where she was knocked back with a bang, this time the response was different.

The dark energy within the shield consumed Astrape.

No collision. It just got absorbed.

It was... eaten whole.

This is… different.

I thought all the black lightning and destructive energy were the same.

But this—could it be... one of the five different divine powers?

I almost grasped the clue, but it kept slipping away.

Athena glanced around at my clones.

Gone was the foolishness of her being knocked around—she now radiated an aura of majesty.

As she shook her head, her tied hair swayed along with the motion.

She looked at me and smirked on one side.

A condescending gaze, as if I was utterly beneath her.

“Is that all you’ve got?”

[That mocking smile… that’s her true nature.]

“Try using more strength. Are you just going to keep defending? Shouldn’t you be attacking?”

She twirled her shield provocatively.

She wasn’t wrong.

Even if I was gradually gaining resistance to Zeus’s destructive power...

In the end, to defeat her, I had to attack.

I needed information on these unusual divine powers.

If she was giving me an opening, I had to strike.

“Astrape.”

I slowly increased my SP output.

Until now, it was more like a navigation system to guide me toward my destination—but now, it was time to pierce the impenetrable shield.

I used Astrape, not just to attack, but to analyze Zeus’s power.

“My power is… vanishing?”

It wasn’t a clash of strength versus strength—it just disappeared.

There was no resistance.

No matter how much SP I poured in, Astrape simply vanished mid-air.

Instead of focusing on attacking, I concentrated on tracking where my lightning was going.

As soon as it touched the black lightning—it vanished.

Even when I coated it with soul energy, the SP was instantly dismantled and vanished.

“Was that it? Really?”

Despite such a powerful strike, Aegis didn’t have a single crack.

Athena looked at me with a bored expression and suddenly lay down sideways in midair.

Resting her head on her left arm, she lay on her side and stared at me.

Her shield remained strapped to her right arm, which she lazily waved around.

“Try a little harder. Yaaawn… I’m getting bored.”

Athena let out a huge yawn.

Even though I had summoned my spear, I didn’t throw it, and she just kept lazily shaking her shield.

Uh… something started to boil inside me.

To be honest, Athena’s beauty was stunning enough to make anyone’s eyes widen, so up until now, her provocations hadn’t really bothered me.

But as she yawned and rubbed her eyes, I suddenly wanted to attack with everything I had.

[Ha. That woman’s gone mad. Soul God, what were you doing? Could you really stand to watch that disgrace? Strike now. Don’t just attack the shield—rain down attacks from all directions!]

Ares was more agitated than I was.

Don’t attack the shield?

Right.

Up until now, Athena had just stood and easily blocked everything naturally…

But lying down like that, it wouldn’t be so easy.

I had been attacking only the shield to gather information about Zeus’s authority, but maybe changing the angle of attack wouldn’t be so bad.

If things got urgent, she’d have no choice but to get up and defend herself.

“Astrape.”

I scattered my clones and struck with lightning from every direction.

Astrape flew in from all sides at once.

There was no way she could block that while lying down so nonchalantly.

“Yaaawn. It’s still an attack I can block while lying down.”

But when Athena raised her shield, the incoming Astrape vanished midair.

Not just in the direction her shield was facing—but in all directions.

Still, it wasn’t a total loss.

By firing from other angles, I felt I understood her authority better than when I had just attacked the shield directly.

If I kept this up, I might be able to figure it out.

Good.

Time to shoot more.

I unleashed Astrape wildly, like a storm—but every last one disappeared before impact.

Even as I charged SP and kept attacking, Athena’s shield didn’t falter in the slightest.

Still, just when I started to feel like I was onto something…

Athena’s eyes changed.

She stopped yawning and slowly rose to her feet.

She spoke in a serious tone.

“You have five minutes left.”

Five minutes?

So in five minutes, she wouldn’t keep playing defense like this.

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Knowing there was a time limit made me feel pressured.

I focused more and launched a fierce assault, trying to analyze her defenses.

Not just Astrape—I also hurled the powers of the Sun God and tendrils, trying to break down her ironclad defense.

As I poured SP into my attacks, Athena’s figure disappeared in the blinding flashes of light and lightning bursting from all directions.

[Soul God. Are you pushing too hard? With that much power, you could’ve destroyed Olympus a hundred times over.]

“The analysis of her power is more important than SP.”

I kept funneling SP into my clones as they relentlessly attacked.

Each strike carried tens to hundreds of billions of SP.

“Charge. Charge.”

I kept injecting SP into my clone, which had a cap of one trillion SP…

And finally, something changed.

[You have developed resistance to the Chaos Authority: ‘Banishment.’]

A single message appeared.

Banishment…

So this power wasn’t just erasing the attacks—they were being banished from this world?

Either way, with resistance gained, my attacks stopped disappearing.

About 1%, anyway.

Roughly 99% of the attacks still vanished before landing, but now 1% made it through and struck the shield.

Boom! Boom!

“You overwhelmed me not with quality, but with sheer quantity… impressive, Soul God.”

Athena, watching Astrape collide with Aegis, gave a satisfied smile.

“My power… has reached its limit.”

The black lightning that had gathered around both of Athena’s arms visibly diminished.

Then her divine form began to fall.

In moments, her soul body slammed into the ground.

Boom!

Just her body hitting the ground triggered a quake that split the earth like an earthquake.

“What is this place? What was it originally used for?”

[This land… I remember it now. It’s Hades’s domain. There used to be a path to the underworld here.]

Hades’s domain?

So this was the place Athena had chosen to guard so stubbornly.

I had focused on this location only because her shield wouldn’t break…

But from the start, her goal had been to bring us here.

Rumble…

The ground split wide open and began collapsing.

What emerged below was a massive underground space.

A violet vortex swirled from the ground, and four pillars of black lightning shot upward.

And above the black lightning floated a sealing stone.

About the same size as Ares’s—one of the gods’ sealing stones.

[That… looks like one of the Twelve Gods’ Sealing Stones.]

“So this is where it was hidden?”

Time to grab it.

I sent a clone to retrieve the stone…

Crackle!

The black lightning resisted fiercely.

As if determined not to let go, it pushed back with overwhelming force.

“I felt both the authority of destruction and banishment.”

But unlike earlier, when I had been completely helpless, I now had resistance.

As the clone unleashed its attacks, the Black Thunder’s momentum gradually weakened.

“Now’s my chance!”

Seizing the opportunity as its grip loosened, I grabbed the four sealing stones.

This felt way too easy.

But…

“They’re black.”

The sealing stones were pitch black, just like the Black Thunder.

Unlike Ares’s sealing stone, I could barely sense any soul energy from them.

“Soul God… Aegis.”

Athena, who had crashed into the ground, opened a hidden space and then floated back into the air.

By now, her soul form had faded, and she deliberately approached my clone to summon Aegis.

Hmm.

Summoning Aegis at this timing…

Could it be?

“Aegis.”

I summoned Aegis as well, and a message appeared.

[Retreat now. Zeus will return. Please seal me as well.]

There was no time.

“Astrape.”

Without drawing out soul energy, I attacked Athena with Astrape.

When the Black Thunder vanished into Aegis, her defenses collapsed.

“May fortune…”

Struck directly by Astrape, Athena was sealed away, disappearing with those final words.

That made five sealing stones of the Twelve Gods in my possession. Including Ares’s, that made six.

And with Artemis and Apollo on my side...

I could count it as eight.

Only four remained.

Among them, Hermes had already perished, and Poseidon was sealed...

So only two were left.

One had to be Zeus.

The other...

I couldn’t be sure yet, but I suspected it was Hera.

“There’s nothing more to collect here.”

[Indeed.]

Time to return.

Just as I was about to command the clone to retreat—

The purple vortex at the bottom began to tremble.

[What… is this.]

A voice rose from the abyss.

It lacked pitch, emotion—no joy, anger, sorrow, or pleasure—but carried an overwhelming sense of fury.

Even the voice alone began cracking the Soul Barriers of my clones.

“Retreat!”

I had what I came for.

It was time to run.

All seven clones activated Heimdall’s Return.

[Soul God…!]

Bzzzzzt!

The Black Thunder tried to follow the trail of the retreating light.

This… we couldn’t all escape.

“If you don’t have a sealing stone, self-destruct!”

Each clone held one of the five sealing stones—including Athena’s.

I would’ve liked to hand them all to one and have them escape, but…

There was no time.

The clones without sealing stones blocked the Black Thunder and triggered self-destruction.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

[Insignificant.]

Was it because Zeus was acting directly?

Even after releasing massive SP, the Black Thunder hadn’t budged an inch.

Still… it had been stalled—just for a moment.

We had bought one second.

[Struggle all you want, Soul God. Your end is near…]

The end?

But I heard no more, as the retreat cut off the voice.

The screen faded to black with Zeus’s final words.

Whish. Whish. Whish.

The clones returned to my main body on Earth.

Each approached and handed over a sealing stone.

Four blackened sealing stones.

And one blue one—Athena’s.

Now, only two of the Twelve Gods remained.

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