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Chapter 75 Hey, Old Deng!
Chapter 75 Hey, Old Deng!
Almost as soon as one of them opened his mouth to take a bite, Connors pulled out some sunflower seeds.
It's one thing for him to meddle in other people's business, but when someone wants to have a gossip session, why should he interfere...?
Connors pulled out some sunflower seeds, ready to watch the action scene. But besides the three hidden Connors, Hippolyta, and Hades, there was one other person present.
If I had witnessed what happened next, I might have lost my life—
Faust hurried over and, steeling himself, interrupted Hades:
"My Lord, I have done what I should do, setting you free and bringing you the Queen of the Amazons."
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"Now I need your promise, the one you promised me."
Hades straightened up again, his face showing no displeasure at being interrupted, but rather unusually cheerful as he said:
"Oh, of course, I promise you boundless knowledge about magic, the 'ultimate truth,' the ultimate—."
Hades extended a finger, its tip burning with a scarlet flame, and touched Faust's forehead under his expectant gaze.
"Pain and torment that humans can never know," Hades said after touching the spot with his fingertip.
Visibly, the black magician Faust's skin dried rapidly, his hair turned gray, his eyes became bloodshot, and his back arched.
Accompanied by Faust's painful lament, he transformed into a thin, frail old man and crashed heavily to the ground.
Hades smiled as he looked at Faust lying on the ground:
"You will live on forever, and this decaying body will always be with you. You will forever suffer torment that is unimaginable to humans."
What a pitiful old man! Connors met Faust in the temple with neither arrogance nor servility, so he probably had some backup plan, but now it seems there's nothing he can do.
Indene —
Diana, the "Wonder Woman" who had just been sent flying and caught by Connors, slowly pulled a greatsword from her magic pocket. She wanted to take this opportunity to save her mother, Hippolyta.
Faust turned into a little old man, unable to maintain the black magic of the chains, and the chains binding Queen Hippolyta naturally broke.
Diana rushed over, grabbed her mother, and ran away.
"Hurry up, Mom."
Hades watched helplessly as the two women turned and fled, his voice as calm and undispleased as when he spoke to Faust:
"Hippocrat—you didn't tell me you had a daughter."
After saying that, he opened his mouth, and crimson flames shot out, exploding near Diana.
"I wonder if she's as loving as her mother?"
As Hades spoke, he strode toward the direction Diana had fled, and opened his arms.
The underground of Paradise Island, which had been calm for only a short time, trembled once again, and one after another, rotting corpses emerged from the ground.
Meanwhile, far from the Gates of Hell, countless skeletons rose up on the ancient battlefield that remained, gathering towards this place.
Hades remained unhurried, as if victory was assured, enjoying the thrill of trapping his prey in a cage.
Wonder Woman Diana and Hippolyta watched as they were gradually surrounded by resurrected corpses. One grabbed a greatsword, and the other snatched a weapon from Hippolyta's hand, and they began to fight.
Do you have a knife on you?
Connors asked Zatanna.
He reached behind him several times to check again that he still couldn't pull out the props anytime, anywhere.
"No, the only things I carry with me besides magic items are my magic wand," Zatanna shook her head.
Connors sighed:
"Hey, then just break off my left little finger."
Zatanna looked curiously at Connors's outstretched left hand, touched her little finger, and after confirming it several times, said:
"There are no knives here."
"—I mean, just cut it off, I'm conducting an experiment." Connors suspected that Zatanna had caught the lapse in judgment from Diana earlier.
Although Zatanna really wanted to ask "What kind of experiment are you doing?", seeing more and more undead gathering here, she stretched out her hands and forcefully severed Connors' little finger.
Having been punched several times by General Zod and possessing the limits of human endurance, Connors was unconcerned about this level of pain. Instead, he looked at Hades from his hiding place.
The old man is perfectly fine.
The reversed "healing magic" had no effect on the deity and did not break the deity's little finger.
"I wonder if the conceptual 'lock-picking' technique can lock up all of Hades' abilities," Connors muttered to himself, before emerging from his hiding place.
"Hey, old Deng!"
Hades didn't understand what "Old Deng" meant, especially Connors, who had no idea how to translate the word.
Therefore, they were speaking the language of the Celestial Empire, which Hades couldn't understand at all.
"Who are you? Does Hippolyta have a son besides her daughter?" Hades asked Connors.
Emerging from his hiding place, Connors looked at the tall, refined-looking, long-haired middle-aged man not far away and said:
"I don't mean any harm, it's just—your scene isn't finished yet, could we do it again?"
He pointed to his mouth, referring to Hades' earlier attempt to nibble on Hippolyta.
Hades paused, then asked, "What do you mean by that?"
Connors, fearing he might misunderstand, quickly explained:
"Well, I prefer to watch the drama unfold. I think it's not easy to see a kiss scene between a god and a human, so it's a bit of a shame that it didn't happen."
"You human are quite interesting," Hades laughed heartily. "Then go and bring Hippolyta to my side with the undead."
"I've waited for over three thousand years, so I don't mind you watching from the sidelines."
At the siege of the undead, Hippolyta looked at her daughter:
"You brought outsiders to Paradise Island?"
When Wonder Woman Diana heard Connors and Hades' conversation, her expression turned sad.
She thought she had found a helper, but it turned out to be an accomplice. When her mother questioned her, she replied in a low voice:
"Mother, you're right. Leaving Paradise Island might have been a mistake."
On the other side, Zatanna looked at Connors curiously. She hadn't even understood what the man had just said about "doing experiments," and she was completely bewildered about running out to talk to Hades now.
But her gaze wasn't just fixed on Connors; the undead around her were being controlled by Hades, and she was quickly learning and memorizing the magical knowledge hidden within them.
Ignoring how Diana, Zatanna, and the others viewed him, Connors shook his head at Hades, the god of the underworld:
"You misunderstood. What I meant was that you and he should recreate the kissing scene."
Hades looked in the direction Connors was pointing, and his usually refined face twisted into rage.
Connors was not referring to Hippolyta, but rather to Faust, who had transformed into a withered old man.