Apocalypse Forecast

And even earlier, Hercules had drawn his bow to full strength, solemnly declaring, "Praise the great sacred light!"

The sun flames gathered like arrows, breaking through the air.

At a great distance, it brought a Death Perception like thorns on the back. That terrifying majesty intimidated Huai Shi, making it impossible to dodge; he could only watch in astonishment as the fervent sun flames approached inch by inch.

Then, it illuminated... that skeleton silhouette blocking in the middle!

That fool!

Had already rushed up!

Doesn’t have a brain! No, that guy originally didn’t have a brain...

Huai Shi stared wide-eyed in astonishment, reaching out, but everything was already too late.

"Kill!!!"

Swinging the broken frying pan in its hand, the skeleton let out a shrill scream, mobilizing its little cart, charging toward the demigod in the distance...

Bang!

With a loud noise, the burst of sunlight stung Huai Shi’s eyes.

The fragments of the cart were ignited, instantly melting into scorched plastic, with only a few broken wheels rolling out from the flames, landing at Huai Shi’s feet.

In the deathly silence, Huai Shi dazedly looked at the charred wheels beside him.

He raised his eyes to look at Hercules. His eyes gradually reddened.

"You..."

Then, he heard a pop and a cry of ’Ouch!’.

A half-skeleton fell from the air, still clutching the now red-hot frying pan, half-blackened and awkwardly rolling on the ground.

As it scraped against the floor, the charred black flesh was scraped off, revealing the jade-like white bones beneath.

Took a direct hit from the demigod’s arrow... and didn’t even lose a rotor!

Absolutely unharmed!

"Why am I flying?"

The skeleton looked up in confusion, glancing around, bewildered, "Where’s my cart? Where’s my cart?"

Is this the terrifying strength of the comedic genre?!

In the silence, Huai Shi sucked in a breath, stunned in place.

Hercules was also stunned in place.

Seeing the two of them stunned, the skeleton was also stunned.

The three of them looked back and forth at each other.

Then Huai Shi glanced at the perfectly intact skeleton, and suddenly... started to smile at Hercules.

He suddenly had a bold idea.

Hercules’ expression changed dramatically.

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The dome flipped like the earth shaking.

At this moment, above Helios, an apocalyptic disaster on par with the creation and destruction overlapped erupted once more.

Gaia’s Seed had already taken the first step to sprout by assimilating the blood water of Leviathan’s Child, forming an ecosystem that gathered into a ring. As this God Core transformation circulated, it silently enveloped the entirety of Helios, contracting inward inch by inch.

A mighty whale song echoed from the void’s sea and Gaia’s clouds.

And at the core of Helios, amidst the brilliant light, Publius’ silhouette lowered his gaze.

It seemed to lightly raise a finger.

Making the void’s sun and moon orbit Helios in a sudden switch of positions, the earth trembled, the sun turned pitch black, like felt. And blood dripped within the moon.

The illusory stars seemed to drop inward, akin to a fig tree shaken by the great wind, dropping its unripe fruit.

Making Gaia’s Ring’s sky dome shift like a scroll rolling over, the sea swirling, losing its position.

There were hail and fire mixed with blood thrown to the earth, burning a third of the ground and trees, and all the green grass was burnt.

A flaming star emerged from the void, plunging into the blood-colored ocean within Gaia’s Ring, unleashing a massive shock and pollution from the disaster.

At this moment, every part of Helios seemed to become a tool for the confrontation between both sides, every screw and panel had its own will, mercilessly attacking each other.

"...Eh? Is that so?"

In the empty furnace core, Tong Ji leaned against the ’ventricle’ of Helios, looking down at the battle between her little fool and the demigod hero, snacking on sunflower seeds, nodding absentmindedly:

"You really have it tough."

Next to her, Xiao Bai waved its two front paws, chirping at Tong Ji, sometimes mimicking a fierce look, sometimes appearing pitiful, as if playing various roles, narrating its tragic experience, expressing the grievances in its heart to Tong Ji.

"Honestly speaking, you’re completely asking for it as a pure passer-by, aren’t you?"

Tong Ji shrugged mercilessly, "You dared to mooch off the Element of Destructive’s meal, even if you have no brain, it shouldn’t be to this extent...

No matter the reason, allowing the Piper’s infection and spread inevitably leads to collective madness and self-destruction. Even if you can’t stand those parasites who monopolized Helios as valuable curiosities, you don’t have to swap one for one with them, right?"

Xiao Bai whimpered twice, curling up, looking lonely, with tear-filled eyes.

Utterly pitiful.

Tong Ji smiled at it, observing its appearance, "So pitiful, would a punch make you cry for a long time?"

Xiao Bai shivered, curling up into a ball.

"From the Miracle Imprint of the dignified Sun Chariot to a little mouse, all while relying on the enemy’s brain cavity to hide and save your skin, you really have ideas."

Tong Ji spat out two sunflower seed shells, handing over the kernel, "Want some?"

Xiao Bai hesitated for a moment, tentatively moved forward.

Then the kernel was swiftly withdrawn.

Tong Ji mocked, "Not for you!"

Seeing Xiao Bai’s aggrieved eyes, she opened her mouth, tossing the kernel in, savoring the envy and fear, squinting with utmost delight.