“Lady Athena had warned us about a possible invasion that would take place on Pallas,” Nabu said while scratching his beard.
Menrva nodded.
“Master Athena had warned me beforehand,” she affirmed.
“Then how did you escape that invasion?” Tania asked, confused.
Nabu shook his head.
“I remained in Ibiza, exactly as I had promised you. In fact, Athena requested that I stay here during the battle,” the wise god replied.
Then the god turned to look at the table inside Tania’s room. On it, there was a crystal sphere.
“I watched the battle through a communication sphere that the goddess Athena had given me previously. She wanted me to be able to transmit to you what I saw,” the god said.
The god of Mesopotamia continued explaining.
“Athena ordered the gods without combat abilities to leave Pallas. However, Lel has taken it upon itself to search for the fugitives and imprison them; among them is Asclepius.”
“Have they not come for you as well?” Epona asked.
“Have you seen the leprosy epidemic those murderers caused?” Nabu replied. “Since they could not access my barrier, they have taken the path of blackmail.”
Tania gnashed her teeth furiously.
“Lel had an interest in kidnapping Asclepius and Erinle, the best doctors of Orniskem, to prevent them from coming here to heal the people of this town and to negotiate with you… possibly seeking to make you betray me,” Nabu added.
“I would never do something like that!” Tania replied, and then she remembered when she had attacked Rodrigo and blushed. “…At least, not anymore,” she added timidly.
Nabu then walked toward the communication crystal and turned it on.
“I recorded the video of the invasion as Athena requested, so you could learn the abilities of the invaders from Olympus,” the wise god said.
The goddesses then approached the communication crystal. Tul, seeing that Menrva’s hands were trembling, quickly squeezed them with her own and smiled at her. The Etruscan goddess thanked her for the gesture.
The video began with a view of Pallas’s dark purple sky. In it, the barrier Athena had raised over the planet using her Labrys could be seen.
On the surface, Athena and Horus could be seen, both wearing their respective fake totemas before a numerous army of gods and malakim who lived on the planet. Among the gods in the battalion, the goddesses identified Mithras, Sol, Ishtar and her assistant Ninshubur; Maahes, Montu, Al-Qaum, Zorya, and Khine were also there. There were several other gods within the group, but the goddesses did not know them, since they had not been present when they had stayed on the planet.
At that moment, as if lightning had fallen to the ground, a man with a wide-brimmed hat, wearing armor that looked almost like a silver leotard, winged boots, and a caduceus in his right hand, appeared, walking calmly.
The man was tall, with rosy skin, green eyes, and short hair somewhere between blond and chestnut. He had a kind of complacent smile and walked with arrogance.
“Sister, sister… I finally managed to cross your barrier,” the man said arrogantly.
The goddess Athena said nothing.
“Thanks to my ability, I was able to cross your labyrinth in an instant, testing millions and millions of alternatives in yoctoseconds,” the man continued saying.
“Even with your instant-speed ability, you would not have been able to cross my labyrinth, Hermes. I am certain you received outside information,” the goddess Athena replied defiantly.
Hermes smiled discreetly and made an indifferent gesture. Afterward, the god turned to look at the planet’s surroundings and saw the dark sky, the sulfurous fumes, the sterile ground, and smiled again.
“I am certain a cell in Olympus is better than this dump,” the god said. “I expected to find gods, not rats living in a den.”
“Watch your words, you damned effeminate bastard,” Horus said furiously, pointing his staff at the arrogant god.
Hermes once again made an indifferent gesture and pointed his caduceus at Athena.
“Sister, the army of Olympus is eager to enter and destroy this dump,” the Greek god said presumptuously. “But if you bow before me and beg me for mercy, I will speak well of you in court.”
Athena and Horus both spat on the ground at that moment.
“Not fucking happening!” both gods shouted.
Then Athena made her spear Erichthonius appear as she entered a combat stance. Horus then did the same.
“Pathetic,” Hermes said, and then snapped his fingers.
Pallas’s barrier fell to pieces at that moment, while thousands of men and women dressed in bronze-colored Mycenaean and hoplite armor began to fall from the sky like bolts of lightning.
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Then two warriors in golden armor and red capes, a man and a woman, bowed before Hermes.
“Great Hermes, grant us the opportunity to finish Athena and her men,” both said in unison.
“Is this how you repay everything I did for you, Theseus?” Athena asked sarcastically.
The man in golden Mycenaean armor stood and looked toward the Greek goddess, then removed his horned helmet with a horse-tail-shaped crest. He was a man with olive-colored eyes, tan skin, and curly black hair.
“I have no words or compassion for traitors, filth who fled to Persia and betrayed their people like Hippias,” the hero said sharply.
The Greek goddess then remembered how Theseus had been betrayed by his friends in Athens and murdered. The goddess understood that the man trusted no one, not even her, who had been his mentor.
“The goddess Athena is nothing but a filthy traitorous rat and a liar,” said the woman dressed in golden Mycenaean armor fitted for a woman’s body, while she also stood and made a golden spear appear.
Athena closed her eyes and breathed deeply. Then she turned to look at her army.
“Orniskem, remember, tonight we shall gladly dine in the underworld!” the goddess shouted at the top of her lungs, while everyone raised their weapons.
“Ridiculous,” Hermes said pompously and raised his caduceus.
“My proud warriors of Olympus! Do not fear Athena. She is only an old goddess of past triumphs, living in refuge like a cockroach! Crush them all!” the Greek god shouted, just as Theseus drew a curved sword from his back and the warrior woman spun her spear fiercely.
Orniskem and the warriors of Olympus immediately clashed, but the Greek warriors were much more powerful than Athena’s warriors, and they began to fall quickly.
Horus, illuminating his staff with light, hurled himself toward Hermes, but as if he had struck an illusion, the attack passed through him as though it were nothing.
“You are far too slow, Egyptian god,” Hermes said.
Before Horus could realize it, the Greek god had buried the caduceus in his abdomen.
Meanwhile, Athena, using the movement of her spear, hurled several warriors away. However, Theseus, accompanied by six other soldiers, was unmoved by the Greek goddess’s attack.
Theseus then raised his arm to stop his companions.
“She is mine,” he said. “Continue with the others according to the guidelines we were given.”
The men nodded and blended in among the other soldiers of Olympus.
“Do you think you can defeat me alone, Theseus?” Athena asked with a confident look.
“With your false totema, you will be no challenge,” the Greek hero replied. “It would even be abuse for my men to face you.”
Athena lowered her head and smiled.
“I appreciate the consideration, little one,” she said.
But immediately, the goddess appeared before the Greek hero and impaled him in the chest with her spear.
“But you underestimate me if you think you can defeat me that easily,” she said.
But Theseus quickly cut the tendons of the hand with which Athena held her spear. By reflex, the goddess released the spear, grimacing in pain.
The Greek hero quickly tore the spear out of his chestplate and drove the weapon into the ground.
“It did not even hurt!” Theseus said confidently as he raised his sword and pointed it at the Greek goddess.
“Taurokólpe (Bull Thrust),” the Greek hero said calmly, and with a leap, he drove his sword into the Greek goddess’s chest. However, Aegis stopped the attack. Nevertheless, that did not prevent the goddess from being thrown several meters toward where the fight between the other gods was taking place.
Elsewhere, Ishtar clashed her sword against the spear of the warrior woman in golden Mycenaean armor, who avoided her attacks without any difficulty.
“Ancient queen of Uruk, you are no match for me, the Amazon queen Hippolyta,” the armored woman said, just as she pushed Ishtar to the ground with her spear.
Ninshubur quickly went to assist the Sumerian goddess, who was struggling to rise.
Mithras, Sol, together with Maahes and Montu, had also fallen before the five warriors accompanying Theseus. The situation was very similar for the other gods and malakim who protected Pallas.
Athena fell onto her back near her comrades-in-arms, yet she quickly got to her knees.
“Lady Athena, they are extremely powerful!” Mithras said, worried.
However, Athena then smiled.
“Use all your power from now on!” Athena shouted at the top of her lungs.
But the warriors of Olympus began to laugh.
“With your dead totemas, you are no match for us,” Theseus said mockingly.
At that moment, Athena began to emanate a gigantic power that caused all of Pallas to tremble. Like a ray of light, the goddess flew toward Theseus, and using her spear, attacked the Greek hero with a cutting strike. He lost his helmet from the blow.
Theseus tried to cut Athena with his sword, but the goddess avoided the attack with a somersault, and using her legs in the movement, kicked the afflicted Greek hero in the face.
Afterward, the Greek goddess landed on the ground on all fours, supporting herself with her left hand while holding her spear in her right. At that moment, the goddess became enveloped in bluish energy that looked like flames.
“Sophòs glaûx tês nyktós (Wise Night Owl),” the Greek goddess shouted, just as the fire took the shape of an owl and flew toward Theseus, who was still somewhat disoriented from the previous attack. A muffled explosion erupted in the middle of the battlefield.
“Our lady is fighting at her maximum power! We cannot fail her!” Mithras shouted with all his strength, and all the other gods shouted as well.
Horus then removed the patch from his left eye, revealing his Wadjet eye to Hermes. The Greek god smiled, believing that action would have no effect on him. However, when Horus attacked Hermes again, he struck him in the face with his staff.
“How the hell were you able to hit me with my speed?” Hermes asked furiously, as blood came from his mouth and the Greek god staggered backward in disorientation.
“With my Wadjet eye, I can see your movements without difficulty,” Horus said proudly. “Your problem is that not even you are capable of seeing your movements at that speed, so you are easy to catch or predict.”
“Tákhiston plêxis (Swift Blow)!” Hermes shouted, at the moment when the god, with his great speed, struck Horus in the abdomen with his caduceus. But this time, the Egyptian god took no damage.
Horus immediately grabbed Hermes’s caduceus and hurled the god to the ground. There, he tried to strike the Greek god with his staff, but Hermes immediately disappeared from there.
But Horus, extending his hand, seized the Greek god’s ankle. Quickly, he slammed him against the ground several times without mercy.
Elsewhere, Ishtar shouted:
“Nin An (Queen of the Heavens),”
transforming into her sacred transformation. When Hippolyta saw this, she tried to impale the Sumerian goddess, but her attacks had no effect, since Ishtar healed herself in instants.
Immediately, Ishtar raised her right hand and said:
“Aratta Anzakár (Tower of Aratta),”
creating a white and golden ziggurat that trapped Hippolyta inside.
“This is the tower of Aratta. You will never be able to escape from here,” Ishtar said, while Hippolyta, trapped in one of the enormous walls of the structure, tried to free herself but could not.
On the other side, Al-Qaum invoked his gigantic sand monster and mercilessly swept away the enemy malakim. Sol, Mithras, Maahes, Montu, and the other gods quickly began to gain the advantage over the Athenian gods.
“This is ridiculous. How is it possible that you are gaining the advantage with your dead totemas?” Hermes asked, frustrated, while lying faceup on the ground.
Horus then placed his foot on his abdomen.
“It is because we train every day to overcome our weaknesses,” the Egyptian god said with great calm.
Hermes smiled and opened his left hand. Inside it, he had a golden sphere that shone with full intensity.
“It is time to use the maximum power of our Hikaptha!” Hermes shouted, just as he destroyed the artifact with his hand.