Volume 20, Chapter 64: Quietly Approaching
Volume 20 Chapter 64 Approaching quietly
"Why is no one talking? Don't you care about the current situation at all?". [ ] After asking the question, Zeus found that no one around him was saying anything, so he asked angrily.
Seeing that no one around him made a sound, a handsome god wearing a golden armor spoke and explained: "God King, it's not that we don't care, it's just that we don't know how to say it. Did Aphrodite come from Chaos?" Those who escaped from the Gods of Order were deliberately released after being bribed by them. We have no clue at all. Now we can only listen to Aphrodite's side of the story. What she said is what she said. We have no clue. With any other reference, it is impossible to make a judgment.”
Someone spoke first, and other gods also found the topic. One of the guys followed up and said, "Yes, what Apollo said is pretty much what we thought. It's hard to tell whether Aphrodite's situation is true or false, and the Twelve Star Gods may not necessarily be acting according to plan."
A female protoss also echoed at this time: "Yes, on the surface, the Twelve Star Gods are pretending to surrender according to your order to lure Zi Ri to come, but who can guarantee that they have no intention of really surrendering?"
With the words of the previous people as foreshadowing, the other protoss immediately started talking, and Zeus frowned more and more as he listened.
Speaking of which, the situation Zeus encountered was actually the same as the situation I encountered. Because neither of us is quite sure which side these guys caught in the middle are helping, no one knows what is going on and whose plan is moving forward. After all, the first half of both sides' plans were basically the same. Zeus wanted to lure me to Greece, and I wanted to pretend to make Zeus think I was lured. No matter whose plan succeeded, , the results are the same, so currently no one can figure out which plan is really successful.
Different from the first half of the plan, the second half of Zeus and I's plan is naturally completely opposite. But now because we can't figure out who the spies are helping, Zeus and I have encountered the same problem, that is, we don't know what to do. The plan should not be allowed to proceed. If the plan is running according to your own plan, then calling it a halt now will undoubtedly be shooting yourself in the foot. But if you let it continue, then if the plan is running according to the other party's plan, the trouble will only be greater.
Interests and crises coexist, and it is difficult for anyone to make a decision. But compared to Zeus's timidity, I made a quick decision. Helping Hephaestus to get the Golden Thread Flower is the result of my decision to execute the plan. Otherwise, I should take Hephaestus and the others to leave quickly now, or turn the plan into a strong attack. As for Zeus, the fact that he is still looking for someone to discuss it shows that he cannot make a decision at all.
Although I am more decisive than Zeus in making this matter, it does not mean that Zeus is a weak guy. Our different approaches to this matter were entirely due to our different circumstances.
For us, this operation is a windfall. If it succeeds, it will be an unexpected surprise. If it fails, it will be just a wasted effort. But it's different for Zeus. They are now fighting a last-ditch battle. If they succeed, they can completely recover and gain a firm foothold and regain development opportunities. If they fail, they will be completely ruined, and the Olympus Protoss will be reduced to a third-rate protoss from now on.
In addition, in addition to the issue of the cost of success or failure, another reason why Zeus has a harder time making a decision than me is strength.
Of course, this strength does not refer to the fighting ability of the two of us. Zeus would definitely be able to kill me in a one-on-one fight, but of course he would definitely have to be injured a little, and it wouldn't be too minor. However, the more serious problem is organizational.
The Chaos and Order Gods have a huge support point of the Frost Rose Alliance. Different from the Olympus Gods, the Chaos and Order Gods are the guild of our Frost Rose Alliance and our own Gods, and the Olympus Gods are against To the Greek people, he was just a higher being and was not recognized by them as one of their own. For example, the Chaos and Order Protoss means to our Frost Rose Alliance what the Chinese People's Liberation Army means to the Chinese people. It is our own team, while the Olympus Protoss means to the Greek people. Peacekeepers mean the same thing to people all over the world. Everyone may think that they are just and powerful, but they do not regard the peacekeeping forces as their own troops because the relationship is too far apart.
It is precisely because of this gap at the basic level that when the Olympus Protoss conflicts with our Chaos and Order Protoss, our Frost Rose Alliance will fully participate in the war to support the Chaos and Order Protoss, but the Greeks will not go to the Olympians. The Si Protoss are desperate, at least most of them will not do this.
The problem actually goes far beyond that. In addition to having relatively little basic support, the Olympus Protoss also had internal problems. The reason why Zeus is hesitant now is that he does not believe in Aphrodite or the Twelve Star Gods. He now even distrusts all the Olympus gods except the guys he is discussing with him. same. Zeus does not trust these members of the Olympus Protoss, then they will not trust Zeus, at least they will not fight desperately. Just the opposite of them. Although the cohesion of the Chaos and Order Protoss cannot be said to be high, at least we don’t have to worry about the loyalty of our companions, so our combat effectiveness is one plus one equal to two, or even greater than two, while the combat effectiveness of the Olympus Protoss is one plus One is less than two, even less than one. In this way, even if the Olympus Protoss is a strong fighting race, it has no deterrent effect at all. What's more, the most powerful Pluto family of the Olympus Protoss has just rebelled, and other members of the Protoss are also mentally unstable because of this incident. What kind of fighting ability can you expect from them in this state?
In addition to the above problems, the problems of the Olympus Protoss are not over yet. In addition to what was mentioned before, the Olympus Protoss also has huge problems in the external environment. Before Hades and the others were abducted by me, the Olympus Protoss was expanding externally. Although the war was temporarily stopped due to the collective job-hopping of the Hades system, the state of war has not been lifted, which means that the Olympus Protoss is currently expanding. It is in a state of war with the two major temples of light and darkness and the Holy See of Jehovah. On the contrary, because of my relationship, the Chaos and Order Protoss can not only get support from the two major temples of light and darkness, but also get a lot of implicit support from other protoss forces. This kind of support can be sending one or two powerful personnel to directly participate in the battle, or it can be supporting one or two special items of little value but great use, or even providing a little intelligence information or containment, which can influence the situation of the battle. matter.
Faced with so many problems and troubles, if the Olympus Protoss didn't really need a victory to stabilize people's hearts, Zeus would never provoke existences like us at this time. But he has no choice now, because we have poached all the gods of Hades' Hades series. If he does not fight back, the Olympus Protoss will inevitably collapse completely. Gods with a little ability will definitely collapse. He must be trying his best to find his next job and prepare to change jobs. By then, not to mention that the Olympus Protoss will be surrounded by powerful enemies, even if there is no external pressure, they themselves will collapse.
In such an unstable situation, all Zeus could do was gamble. Bet that everything would go according to his plan, bet that those Olympus protoss didn't really have any different intentions.
Zeus, who finally figured out the relationship, suddenly slammed the table hard and shocked the others amidst the clamor of the gods. "We have all been quarreled. In this situation, we can only believe in the loyalty of the Twelve Star Gods. In the face of a powerful enemy, we cannot mess up our position first. You all return to your respective posts as soon as possible. No matter which direction things develop, Zi The day will definitely come, so we must remain unchanged to cope with the changes and do our own thing well. The rest will depend on how the wheel of fate turns."
Just when Zeus made up his mind and started preparing, I finally made up my mind and started preparing to approach the Olympus Temple from the Holy Fire Tower. At this time, I was struggling to climb the cliff. Mount Olympus is full of high-level gods. I dare not fly up directly. That would be like standing at the foot of the mountain and shouting that I am coming. It is purely an act of seeking death. If you want to get close to the Olympus Temple without being discovered, you can only climb up the cliff on the side of the Holy Fire Tower. Fortunately, the cliff is not too smooth, and you can still find a few footholds.
Climbing a cliff is a cliff climb. I have no intention of climbing up with my own hands and feet. We have so many advantages, so what if we don't make good use of them?
Sticking to the cliff, I first asked Xiao Longnu to perform a reverse gravity spell on me. After feeling that my body became much lighter, I started to jump up on the rocks protruding from the mountain. Because the power output is very large and my weight is very light, I can jump up to ten or twenty meters high with every step. Moreover, because I have wings, I don’t have to worry about using too much force to escape from the cliff and not being able to find my way back. It’s a matter of finding the foothold, so I don’t need to carefully find the foothold step by step like ordinary rock climbing enthusiasts. I basically jump up like running, and the speed is as fast as climbing. There is no difference on the ground.
Due to my fast speed and the fact that Mount Olympus is not very high, it didn’t take long for me to reach the top of the mountain. The last section of the road was already close to the top of the mountain and there was a possibility of being discovered, so I didn’t dare to use my wings to fly anymore. I could only climb at full speed and carefully. Fortunately, I still had the Dragon Tendon Rope in case a skateboarder could still use it. The dragon's tendons fixed the rock and pulled him back.
Snapped. On the edge of the cliff where the Holy Fire Tower is located on the right side of the Olympus Temple, a hand suddenly touched the edge of the cliff, and then a head carefully popped out. Because Hades' transformation into the underworld caused two extra long red feathers to appear on the helmet of the original dragon suit, so now I only wear armor without a helmet. For a mission like this, if wearing that helmet is like planting a flag on your head for a stealth approach mission, then what's the point of stealth approach?
After sticking out my head and looking left and right to make sure no one was there, I pressed down on the ground on the edge of the cliff and jumped up in a somersault. After landing, I instantly rolled forward to the base of the sacred fire platform wall on the edge of the cliff, and then stuck to it.
The Holy Fire Tower is not a place for people to stay, so its structure is quite special. From a distance, it may look a bit like an enlarged pavilion. Its bottom is basically a solid circular base, almost four or five meters high, and may be more than ten meters in diameter. The top of this base is not a wall, but a circle of gorgeous golden columns. However, the top of this circle of standing branches is not a roof, but a circular ring. This ring is exactly the same diameter as the base below and sits at the top of the circle of posts. Although the ring itself does not obscure the top of the pavilion, it actually has a powerful shielding effect because it is a magical device. The inner and outer circles of the entire ring are carved with mysterious magic symbols, and the colorful light flowing on it clearly shows its powerful energy reserve. However, I am not afraid of this thing, because this kind of thing is probably not offensive, otherwise it would not wait for me to get close to this distance without reacting.
After looking around to confirm that no one was around, I first released a group of ghost beetles, and then let them move separately. One of them leaves clockwise along the base, and the other leaves counterclockwise, and at the same time detours along the base to the opposite side. The remaining ghost beetles began to climb up the wall of the base. When they reached the top of the base, two climbed directly up to observe the situation inside the cauldron, while the remaining two started to climb along a pillar to the top. Go ahead.
With the help of the sight of several ghost beetles, I quickly took in everything near the torch.
On the side of the Holy Fire Platform facing away from the cliff, there is a fairly wide staircase extending from the ground to the top of the base. Two Holy Mountain guards stand at the top of the staircase, facing the bottom of the staircase. There is nothing extra inside the cauldron. There is only a golden mechanical body placed at the center of the building on the smooth and flat ground. This golden mechanical body is basically composed of a metal frame and some lenses. It looks a bit like an astronomical instrument, but nothing similar can be found.
There is a strange energy body floating on the top of this golden instrument. It looks like a golden mist, but if you look closely, you will find that there are many bright spots of light flowing around.
Although I don’t know what this energy group is, I can roughly guess that this should be the Holy Fire of Olympus, because it is the only thing in the Holy Fire Platform that can be associated with the Holy Fire.
Except for this holy fire and the metal machine under the holy fire, there is nothing else in the entire holy fire platform. With the sight of the two ghost beetles that climbed to the top, I scanned the entire vicinity, and there was nothing noteworthy at all. s things.
After making sure there was no danger here, I carefully climbed onto the base and hid behind one of the pillars. The support pillars on the base are said to be in a circle, but in fact there are only a dozen in total, each with a diameter of more than one meter. Blocking someone is not a problem at all.
With the help of this pillar, I carefully confirmed the relative positions of the two guards and me. After all, there is still a gap between the picture seen from the beetle's sight and my own first-person perspective, so I usually use my own eyes to confirm it if conditions permit.
After determining the relative position of the target and myself, I started to move along the circle of pillars one by one towards the two guys. Of course, I would not be stupid enough to move directly to the two pillars next to them. After all, that place was already standing to their side, and they could see me from the corner of their eyes. So I used a little strategy, that is, I summoned the dart, and then asked him to go around the outer circle of the torch platform to the other side of the two guards to stand by.
Once the dart was in place, I used telepathic contact to start counting down with him. "Three, two, one, action." The moment I shouted action in the spiritual contact, Fei Dart deliberately hit the ground hard with his little paws. With a crisp impact, the two guards immediately He raised the spear that was still on the ground just now and turned around, but when they saw the dart at the same time, the dart had already jumped up from where it was, and then it pounced on the face of the guy closest to him and started to fire again. Scratching and scratching. The guy immediately threw away his spear and reached out to pull the dart off his face, while the guard near me quickly ran towards him to help. Of course, I was faster than him, and I had already caught up with him the moment he started. She put her left hand directly around his head and covered his mouth to prevent him from shouting. At the same time, he held the eternal dagger in his right hand and quickly wiped his throat. The guy's struggle immediately became fierce, but it gradually softened in just three to five seconds. .
Look, I killed the guard and let him go. The dart over there also jumped off the guy. The guard saw the dart running away and was about to step on him, but a long sword immediately penetrated his armor from behind and pierced his heart. After the tip of the sword pierced the heart, the blade suddenly changed. Like a hedgehog, many spikes popped out in an instant, completely piercing this guy's heart into a sieve.
Such serious damage only caused the guy to kick his legs twice before falling down, without even making a cry.
After confirming that both guards were dead, I immediately took off their equipment, then summoned two unicorn warriors, put on their armors and weapons and stood at the door to pretend to be guards. Anyway, the guards here wear armor that covers their bodies very tightly, and even their heads are covered by helmets and masks, so as long as their bodies are not much different, it's easy to impersonate them. As for the armors of the two of them, there were no flaws at all. The first person's neck was wiped by me, and there was no damage to the armor at all. Although the second man's breastplate had a hole, the hole was in the back and the front was not damaged. There are not many people in the Holy Fire Tower. Even if someone comes, they will come in from the outside and will not see the hole behind them at all, so they can fool most people.
I cleaned up the blood on the ground, cleaned up the scene a little, and threw the two corpses off the cliff. After confirming that there were no traces, I took back the darts and ghost bugs and started heading towards the Olympus Temple.
Hephaestus told me before coming here that there is a large anti-magic circle in the square in front of the Temple of Olympus, so the magic will fail when entering here. But I didn't expect the range to be so large. I just walked out of the range of the Holy Fire Platform and felt a different kind of energy fluctuation within ten meters. This kind of fluctuation is not only very powerful, but also very uncomfortable.
I knew that the source of this discomfort came from the magic circle suppressing my magic power, so I didn't pay much attention to it. I just speeded up and carefully approached the square in front of the Olympus Temple.
It is said to be a square, but it should actually be a natural rock platform. In front of this square there is a paved path down the mountain, from which you can reach the Priest College. Behind the square is naturally the Temple of Olympus, and there are cliffs on the left and right sides of the square. The Holy Fire Tower and the Celestial Palace where I came are located in a straight line with the Olympus Temple, slightly behind the square, and the Holy Fire Tower may be slightly in front.
I carefully moved to the corner between the Olympus Temple and the Square. There was a huge stone statue standing here, but I couldn't tell who it was. There is also such a stone statue at the opposite corner, but it is a female stone statue, opposite to the one on my side.
Because this stone statue is relatively large, it can be used as a cover for me. I can completely block myself behind it by hiding under its feet. Unless someone comes from the direction of the Holy Fire Tower, it is impossible to find me. However, even with this thing blocking me, I am still very depressed.
What I want to do is not to arrive here safely and wait, but to pick golden thread flowers, but the flower garden where the thing is located is actually located at the front of the square, close to both sides of the mountain road leading to the Priest College, from me The straight-line distance from here to there is more than a thousand meters. Even if I rush over at the fastest speed, I will definitely be discovered. After all, the square is not empty. In addition to the four guards standing at the corners of the square, there are also guards on the path down the mountain and at the entrance to the Temple of Olympus.
There is a holy mountain guard wearing golden armor at each of the four corners of the square, and there is also one on each side of the staircase. At the gate of the Olympus Temple nearest to me, there was a row of Holy Mountain guards standing, including two mid-level protoss, who looked like they were not easy to deal with. Moreover, there is a very bad situation here, that is, the damn magic suppression circle is only effective for me, and is invalid for the Olympus Protoss with permission. Therefore, not only can I not use magic here, but once discovered, I will have to rely on close combat, because my magic cannot be used at all, and because of the suppression of the magic circle, even the space channel cannot be opened. In other words, unless I release all my demon pets in advance, if a fight breaks out, I won't be able to count on them at all.
"Damn it, there are so many guards." After scanning the situation here, I gave up the plan of running across the square. If I dared to show my face now, I would definitely be killed before I could reach the flower garden. Surrounded. So this plan is totally hopeless.
After thinking for a while, I suddenly turned around and ran back to the Holy Fire Tower, then released a group of ghost beetles outside the magic suppression area, and then took them with me and ran back to the foot of the stone statue where I was hiding before.
After hiding it again, I looked at the flower bed where the goldenrod was, and then released the ghost beetle. These little guys, like most insects, have the ability to hang themselves on any surface, even vertical glass, where they can stand steadily. What I need now is their ability, because I plan to let them pick flowers for me.
Except for the Temple of Olympus at the back, this square is almost surrounded by cliffs in front and on the left and right sides, and the guards will not look under the cliffs at all. Besides, given the size and color of the ghost beetle, even if a guard looked down, they might not be able to actually see it.
After receiving the instructions, the ghost beetles quickly climbed down from the cliff next to me, and then approached the flower garden along the cliff. Soon they arrived around the flower garden.
Under my command, the ghost beetles that arrived around the flower garden immediately climbed from the side of the cliff to the edge of the square, and then quickly moved towards the flower garden.
Due to its small size and almost transparent body, the first ghost beetle easily climbed to the side of the flower bed and quickly got in. In order not to attract attention, I only sent this one ghost beetle to approach. The other ghost beetles hid on the side of the cliff and did not show up.
Just like Hephaestus said, the golden thread flower does not grow alone. There are a large number of flame sunflowers around it that accompany it. The ghost insect that entered the flower bed quickly passed through the flame sunflower and climbed to the side of the golden thread flower. Unlike the flame sunflower, the golden thread flower is not only slightly taller than the flame sunflower, but the color and shape of its petals are also different from the flame sunflower, so I found the golden thread flower easily.
Under my command, the ghost bug easily climbed to the path of the golden thread flower, and then started to chew on the flower path. The predecessor of the ghost bug is a species known for being good at devouring, so their big teeth are very destructive. What's more, the golden thread flower is just a plant, and I don't expect it to have any hardness at all. However, things are often very different from ideas. The moment the ghost bug bit the golden thread flower, a sudden change occurred.
The moment the golden thread flower was bitten, the entire surface of the golden thread flower instantly lit up with bright golden light, and then a golden light beam as thick as an arm shot out from the center of the golden thread flower, reaching into the sky . The only person who couldn't see something so obvious was the blind. Anyway, all the guards saw it.
The ones who reacted fastest were naturally the two Holy Mountain guards guarding the path down the mountain who were closest to the flower garden. However, when they ran towards the light pillar, I encountered other problems.
Originally, with my strength, I didn't have to climb over those guys from the Olympus Protoss. As long as I got the Golden Thread Flower, it didn't matter even if I was discovered. Anyway, I could run away and they couldn't stop me at all. However, just when I was about to turn my covert steal into an open one, I was surprised to find that the pliers the ghost beetle had just left only two very shallow cuts on the stems of the golden thread flower. At this speed, the ghost beetle would at least It took several hours to chew through the stem.
"I am x, right? Is this flower made of iron?"
In fact, to say it is made of iron is to insult it. You must know that ghost bugs can easily chew off even steel. Our guild relies on ghost bugs in the steel forest over there in the steel city to knock down the big steel trees one by one for smelting. Think about it, these ghost bugs can even eat big trees made of pure steel. However, it can only leave a small cut on the stem of the golden thread flower. So how hard should the stem be?
I now understand why Hephaestus was so surprised when I asked for a few flowers. With the hardness of this thing, coupled with its habit of emitting light beams when injured, and the strength of the surrounding guards, this thing really cannot be stolen. However, now is not the time to lament this, because after the guards arrived at the flower garden and found no enemies, they started calling for reinforcements. A large group of guards ran out of the surrounding area, and then began to search everywhere. I was so scared that I hurried Turn around and run towards the torch tower. I must not be discovered before I get the Golden Thread Flower, otherwise it will be difficult to do it again.
Volume 20 Chapter 64 Approaching quietly
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