Chapter 67: SS 67: Shattering the Sea Realm, Poseidon’s Reincarnation
"They're hiding, waiting for me to show a weakness?"
"Then let's end this quickly!"
The ice plain trembled under Kaiser's boiling killing intent.
Kaiser lightly tapped the ice with his toes, the golden light from his Cloth dyeing the blizzard gold.
A grating sound of bone friction came from beneath the sea. The Kraken's tentacles pierced the ice, wrapping around Kaiser's ankles, while spikes of ice and seawater stabbed at the Cloth's seams.
"Child's play."
Starlight flowed in Kaiser's divine vision, his Cosmo forming a radiant galaxy behind him.
Golden runes glowed on the surface of his Cloth, Cosmo surging like molten lava along the patterns.
The tentacles around him burned to ash in the divine blaze. Kaiser crossed his fists and struck the sea: "Stardust Revolution!"
A shockwave like falling stars overturned the entire sea.
The Kraken's tentacles were obliterated!
Medusa's serpent tail emerged ghost-like from the shattered ice, her three thousand snake-hairs dancing in sonic booms, each strand gleaming with cursed venom.
Kaiser leaned back, dodging a venomous fang that grazed his face. The ice plain beneath him collapsed.
The Kraken's suction-cupped maw opened from the abyss, a foul wind laced with Poseidon's divine power rushing forth.
"Sekishiki Konso Ha!"
Kaiser struck both targets. His left palm unleashed ghostly blue flames that coiled around the Kraken's throat, while his right fist released a dark purple vortex that devoured the snake-hairs.
Space warped under the attacks. Medusa's petrifying gaze was redirected by the underworld passage, striking her own chest.
She let out a heart-wrenching scream, her scales peeling under petrification and curse, revealing raw, crimson flesh.
The Kraken suddenly lifted an entire ice floe overhead.
Poseidon's trident phantom appeared in the clouds, the seawater, saturated with the Kraken's blood, forming thousands of ice spears.
Kaiser leaped upward along the falling ice shards, his Golden Cloth unfurling like a blazing sun wheel behind him.
Medusa seized the moment, coiling atop an ice peak. Her severed snake-hairs transformed into a toxic dragon whirlwind, surging toward Kaiser.
"Hundred Weapons Arsenal: Golden Shield!"
A golden shield materialized, its spinning surface deflecting the toxic mist.
Kaiser's fingertip traced the void, unfolding the Twelve Zodiac Star Chart beneath his feet.
His thought-form and Cloth appeared beside him.
The thought-form unleashed a Diamond Stardust, while the Cloth autonomously fired a Starlight Extinction.
Aquarius's ice crystals and Aries's falling stars pierced the Kraken's eyes simultaneously.
Kaiser's main body summoned the Libra Holy Sword, pinning Medusa to the void.
Kaiser pushed his Cosmo to its limit, turning the darkened northern ice plain into daylight.
"Athena Exclamation!"
Three figures combined to unleash a single Athena's Exclamation.
In the light, Medusa's human face briefly appeared, a tear falling before she turned to stone.
The Kraken's wail shattered glaciers for a hundred miles.
Poseidon's phantom emerged behind the Kraken, his trident gleaming with frigid light.
"Poseidon!"
Athena's furious cry rang out, shattering Poseidon's phantom.
As the light faded, Kaiser knelt on a floating iceberg, golden-red blood seeping from his Cloth's cracks.
"Athena's Cosmo stored within you?"
"You've forced out one of my trump cards."
Beneath the sea, the trident's cold light flickered and vanished.
Poseidon didn't care about his destroyed phantom.
Kaiser was gravely wounded by Poseidon's distant Cosmo strike.
The sea turned crimson-gold with divine blood, floating ice crystals mingling with the boiling waves.
Kaiser wiped blood from his mouth.
"As expected of a main god."
"Sea King Poseidon, I'll remember this strike."
A mere graze from the trident's light, even with Athena's Cosmo, had pierced his shoulder.
Athena's divinity and Poseidon's authority clashed invisibly across the sea.
Kaiser pressed his palm to the ice, his Cosmo spreading like a web. "Think you can control the battle from the deep sea?"
"Domain Unleashed! Weapon Sanctuary!"
Golden runes blazed beneath the ice, a massive array forming.
An open domain.
Cosmo-forged weapons gleamed coldly.
They sliced through the dark seawater, surging to the ocean floor.
The Kraken, attempting to dive, roared deafeningly, its mountain-like back pierced by countless weapons.
Poseidon's healing seawater was blocked by the zodiac's power, blue-black venomous blood seeping from the wounds.
Medusa's petrified body suddenly shattered, thousands of serpentine shadows bursting from the stone debris.
Compared to the Kraken, Medusa was clearly at her limit.
Struck directly by Kaiser's Athena Exclamation, she was near death.
Her already chaotic Cosmo couldn't withstand it.
These cursed shadows devoured light, darkening the sky visibly.
"Lady Athena… even my hatred must you take away?"
Countless overlapping female voices echoed from the shadows, each serpent bearing Medusa's face from different eras.
From temple priestess to monster, her resentment from the Mythological Era formed a sky-shrouding serpent tide.
Kaiser's pupils narrowed. Where the shadows passed, glaciers grew backward, and petrified seawater formed inverted spikes.
This curse transcended physical laws, Medusa burning her life to drag the battlefield into a mythological dimension.
Cracks sounded as the Golden Cloth groaned under the strain, Kaiser's Cosmo burning at its limit.
"Another Dimension!"
Kaiser's hands traced a galactic arc, but the moment the technique formed, the shadows entwined it.
Upon contact with his Cosmo, the shadows turned into a viscous, tar-like substance, corroding the fabric of spacetime.
The Kraken broke free of the barrier, its pierced eye leaking Poseidon's divine blue light. Its tentacles sprouted countless eyes.
But the next second, Kaiser summoned more weapons, pinning the Kraken to the ocean floor. A massive hexagram appeared beneath it.
The weapons formed chains, binding the Kraken tightly.
Unable to move.
"Looks like it's time to play my trump card."
"Let's see if your curse and this beast can withstand the light of the mythical sun!"
Kaiser's divine blood began to boil, his divinity flowing.
The Zodiac Star Chart materialized behind him.
Kaiser stood at its center, like a sun encircled by constellations.
A low hum reverberated.
"What's that?"
Far in the Sanctuary, the Gold Saints stared in shock at their glowing Golden Cloths.
"The resonance of the Golden Cloths?"
"What kind of opponent is Kaiser facing?!"
"To push him to this extent."
The twelve Golden Cloths radiated the sun's brilliance.
Beams of light shot skyward, converging on the northern ice plain.
"What's that?"
"The Sanctuary's light?"
The God Warriors in Asgard saw the radiant streaks crossing the sky.
The battle's intensity surpassed imagination.
A mythical battlefield.
As the beams infused the star chart, phantoms of the Golden Cloths appeared.
"So warm…"
Medusa's fading consciousness gazed at the sky.
She hadn't felt such warmth in ages.
"Roar!"
The Deep Sea Kraken, bound by Kaiser's Cosmo-forged chains, was dragged from the sea.
It could only roar helplessly on the array, unable to resist.
Medusa's dark matter blotted out the sky.
But under the Zodiac's radiant light, it began to dissipate.
"Zodiac Radiance!!"
The twelve star charts behind Kaiser exploded.
The Golden Cloth phantoms shattered.
A mythical sun hung high in the sky.
Its warm light was lethal to Medusa's curse and the Kraken.
"Ah!!!"
Medusa screamed, dissolving into black motes of light under the sun's warmth.
In a fleeting moment, Kaiser glimpsed a beautiful girl smiling at him.
Then she gently closed her eyes.
"She's free…"
Kaiser murmured.
The Kraken's massive form was incinerated by the mythical sun, crumbling into charred fragments.
"That was unexpectedly tough."
Kaiser glanced at his shoulder.
Injured by Poseidon's Cosmo, even with divinity and divine blood, recovery would take time.
He'd barely stopped the bleeding.
Without Poseidon's interference, the fight wouldn't have lasted so long.
Even so, Kaiser defeated two mythical creatures at the cost of minor injuries.
Without Poseidon's meddling, he'd have won faster.
"Still not making a move?"
"Looks like I won't bait them out this time."
During the battle, Kaiser sensed a fleeting divinity.
A god was watching him.
Uncertain if it was a third-tier or second-tier god.
They'd nearly acted.
"Was it Athena's Cosmo that scared them off?"
Kaiser quickly pieced it together.
The clash of Athena and Poseidon's Cosmos must have intimidated them.
A main god-level collision, even with one sealed and the other channeled through Kaiser, was a significant deterrent to lesser evil gods.
"He won?"
"He won."
"The two powerful Cosmos from the deep sea are gone."
"Kaiser's strength is terrifying."
Siegfried looked into the distance.
His tone was full of awe.
Kaiser's power in this battle rivaled a god's.
Kaiser stood at the boundary of the ice plain and sea.
The Aries Golden Cloth still gleamed.
He didn't rush to leave, gazing at the sea.
"Should I storm the sea realm?"
Kaiser wrestled with the decision.
After their clash, Poseidon and Athena's Cosmos had fallen dormant again.
Poseidon posed no threat to him now.
A splash sounded.
Kaiser's feet sank into the water.
"Hey, hey, hey…"
"What's he doing?"
The watching God Warriors stammered.
"He's not planning to invade the sea realm, is he?"
"Clearly, he's charging in."
"Is he aiming to end this Holy War for good?"
"Has the Sanctuary grown this powerful?"
The Norse queen, standing atop Asgard, marveled.
"Let's test them first."
Kaiser's Cosmo surged again.
A holy sword formed from his Cosmo.
He swung it down.
The sea parted.
A deafening boom echoed.
The sword's radiance struck the sea realm's barrier.
A massive collision resounded underwater.
The sea realm's land tore apart.
The pillars supporting the seven oceans flickered, straining to hold the barrier.
"That guy!"
"Is he insane?!"
"He's attacking the underwater temple directly!"
The Sea Dragon and the Seven Generals unleashed their Cosmos to reinforce the pillars.
Kaiser's figure flashed.
He appeared above the sea temple's barrier.
His cold gaze fixed on the temple and the seven ocean pillars below.
A sharp sound cut through.
Another divine weapon formed from his Cosmo.
It struck the sea temple's barrier again.
The collision roared once more.
The barrier twisted violently.
"Without Poseidon's Cosmo, your sea realm's barrier is this weak?"
"I'm curious how you dared to challenge the Sanctuary."
Kaiser sneered at the Seven Generals below.
"Mortal!"
"Don't go too far."
Poseidon's voice rang out again.
His Cosmo was unstable.
Clearly, he was struggling against Athena's seal.
"You haven't fought in three Holy Wars."
"Has Athena's seal weakened this much?"
"You think you can just emerge whenever you want?"
Kaiser frowned at Poseidon's phantom before him.
The sea realm had become a ticking time bomb.
If Poseidon reincarnated for the next Holy War, the Sanctuary would face simultaneous assaults from both the sea realm and the underworld.
Though the sea realm wouldn't aid the underworld, it could easily take advantage of the Sanctuary's weakened state post-war.
Poseidon had the strength to do so.
"Poseidon!"
Athena's phantom materialized behind Kaiser.
She sensed Poseidon's Cosmo fluctuations.
"Athena."
"You value a mere human so highly."
"That piques my curiosity."
Poseidon glanced at Athena, then at Kaiser.
He couldn't discern what made Kaiser special.
But Athena's regard suggested immense potential.
As for strength, Poseidon had already witnessed it.
"Mortal, I'll remember you."
Poseidon hadn't expected to clash with Athena in this era, especially over a human.
"Poseidon, do you really think I won't destroy your sea realm and reinforce the seal now?"
Kaiser's eyes narrowed.
He hadn't forgotten Poseidon's trident strike.
"Ignorant."
"Once I reincarnate, I can rebuild as many sea realms as I wish."
Poseidon said coldly.
"Athena, your Sanctuary is too strong."
"In the next Holy War, the sea realm will join, no matter what."
"As for this underwater temple."
"Do as you please."
With that, Poseidon's Cosmo surged wildly.
The main god's Cosmo erupted.
The vessel sealing Poseidon shattered.
His Cosmo shot skyward, vanishing into the horizon.
Kaiser and Athena couldn't stop it.
It was a main god's soul.
Without Athena, Poseidon's soul could easily crush Kaiser.
"This is trouble."
Kaiser and Athena exchanged a glance, sighing.
The next Holy War might pit them against two main gods.
"As long as you can successfully harness the God-Slaying Power, it could be an opportunity."
Athena wasn't overly worried.
She had confidence in victory.
"Then let's start with the sea realm!"
"Final Justice!"
Kaiser summoned the twelve zodiac weapons.
They struck the sea temple's barrier.
A cracking sound echoed.
Without Poseidon's Cosmo, the barrier faltered.
The Seven Generals couldn't withstand Kaiser.
A shattering sound rang out, like breaking glass.
The sea temple's barrier collapsed.
The seven ocean pillars, along with the Seven Generals, were engulfed by Kaiser's strike.
They turned to cosmic dust without even a scream.
The sea closed.
Poseidon had officially reincarnated.
"Kaiser, you destroyed the sea realm single-handedly?"
The watching Asgard God Warriors felt like fools.
What was their role in this?
Kaiser alone had crushed the crisis.
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