The dark star swallowed all things like a black hole, instantly devouring the entire Parthenon Temple, even drawing Athens itself inside.
White lightning shot down from above toward Athena and Ryuga, but this time, even lightning's power was completely twisted in the dark star's force field and directly swallowed by the pitch-black star.
Even Heavenly Father Zeus's authorities instantly decomposed within this dark star, returning to their original forms.
"This is the Earth Mother Goddess's final power?"
Seeing this scene, Zeus became both shocked and furious, his gaze even more greedy.
Current him was only one step from true Only God. He need only use all power involving the Earth Mother Goddess to complete what he lacked, and he'd become a true Only God!
"Merely old era's legacy—how could it resist Heavenly Father God's power!"
He immediately went all out, mobilizing Mount Olympus's faith power to its limit. All Olympian gods also began providing him power, all deities together opposing the dark star before them.
Initially, the dark star's coverage was only several kilometers around, but as more and more earth was devoured, the dark star's gravitational pull grew stronger.
Like a black hole with continuously increasing mass, its suction also grew stronger.
Blindingly white lightning covered all Greek divine realm's sky, while dark star storms swept across all earth.
Before long, both powers had reached the stage where they could contend.
"Actually this powerful..."
Looking at the dark star she'd personally created, then at Ryuga's profile, Athena was somewhat dazed.
This power's source was extremely familiar to her—the final part of Earth Mother Goddess wisdom she possessed.
This technique called Black Blade, also known as Beginning and End Sword, Heaven and Earth Opening Ceremony. If manifested with ordinary Heretic God power, it could contend with the Divine Sword of Salvation—truly the Earth Mother Goddess lineage's ultimate secret technique.
But even so, this technique's power absolutely couldn't compare with current Only God Zeus.
After all, this ceremony was ultimately just Earth Mother Goddess Gaia's power fragment. Current Zeus had already surpassed Gaia, achieving existence transcending all previous Greek mythology deities.
Even just half-step Only God shouldn't be something Gaia's fragments could handle.
Yet now, after Ryuga's modifications, this technique's power could match Zeus who unified the entire pantheon, seemingly even exceeding Heavenly Father Zeus.
Even though Athena already knew Ryuga's special nature, she hadn't expected Ryuga could enhance her technique to this degree.
Probably even the ancient Mother of Gods reborn couldn't achieve what Ryuga had done!
After the excitement passed, remembering this technique was power Ryuga specifically developed for her, Athena's heart somehow surged with inexplicable joy.
"Master, what is this technique's name?"
She asked in an unprecedentedly submissive tone.
"Not yet named. Do you have a recommended name?"
Ryuga shook his head, asking casually.
Just as the second mythological arts [Sword of Origin] came from Steel Hero Gods' characteristics, his newly compiled fourth mythological arts came from Earth Mother Goddess characteristics.
As the Earth Mother Goddess representative, Athena indeed qualified to name it.
"Me?"
Hearing Ryuga's words, the slender goddess's mind wavered even more.
Her suspicions were completely verified—this truly was power created for her.
After swaying slightly in Ryuga's embrace, Athena lightly bit her lip, shook her head, carefully sensed the dark star's nature, then spoke:
"Then let's call it Creator Mother Goddess, to commemorate the Earth Mother Goddess source—Mother of Gods Gaia!"
"Good."
Ryuga nodded.
During their conversation, the dark star's power continuously expanded, even faintly trending to surpass the white thunderstorm.
"Impossible! Everyone attack with full power!"
Zeus's expression turned furious as he aimed blazing lightning at the Olympian gods.
He understood well that not all deities accepted his rule.
Once enemies showed power that could contend with him, his authority-based oppression might fail.
So before anyone betrayed, he had to give them maximum pressure.
Seeing lightning spears capable of slaying gods, Hestia and other goddesses were slightly stunned, immediately lowering their heads, not daring to resist.
But invisibly, the gods' efforts no longer increased, instead stabilizing at levels that wouldn't be questioned.
Plus Zeus had to divide attention threatening the gods, the white lightning star's power decreased rather than increased.
Noticing the resistance in everyone's hearts, Zeus's gaze became cruel as he prepared to kill as an example.
But just then, an ominous tremor came, darkness shrouding all earth.
Sensing the direction of the anomaly, Zeus suddenly showed great alarm.
"Tartarus?!"
Hearing this, most Olympian gods showed horrified expressions and looked in the same direction as Zeus.
As the dark star continuously expanded, earth began shaking, mountains becoming ravines.
At the Greek divine realm's border region, Lydia's volcanic plains, with earth's disappearance, a massive volcanic cave appeared.
For Olympian gods, this was an extremely familiar yet terrifying place—the abyss Tartarus.
Though not hell, it surpassed hell—the prison Zeus used to confine enemies.
The defeated Titans from the Titanomachy were imprisoned in this abyss purgatory, including second-generation God-King Cronus.
Besides these, various demons were also imprisoned here.
All confined here opposed Zeus.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Massive sounds emerged, like a giant bear pounding doors.
Tartarus was wrapped in triple black curtains and triple bronze walls. Now the triple black curtains were torn by the dark star, and the internal Titan gods seemed to discover external changes, beginning to continuously pound the gates, trying to break this prison.
Even more terrifying, violent tremors also occurred beneath Sicily's Mount Etna, as if something was breaking free from its seal.
"Gaia's youngest son—Typhon!"
All gods changed color, even Zeus's expression grew grave.
As Greek mythology's strongest monster, Typhon's strength could be said to be second only to Heavenly Father Zeus.
In mythology, even Zeus wasn't his opponent when losing his lightning staff.
Other Olympian gods needn't be mentioned—almost all deities had experiences of being chased and fleeing by Typhon. This monster's strength similarly transcended all gods.
If Athena released all these opponents of Zeus, even current Heavenly Father Zeus absolutely couldn't handle it.
Under Zeus's furious gaze, Athena mercilessly tore apart both prisons.
Zeus's opponents swarmed out, immediately targeting the enemy in the sky.
Especially Titan King Cronus, overthrown by Zeus—he wouldn't miss such an opportunity.
However, these Titans didn't immediately attack Zeus. Some even targeted Athena.
They were Zeus's enemies, but that didn't make them Athena's allies.
But Athena also never truly considered them allies.
"Descendant of Mother of Gods, surrender your—what are you doing?!"
"Wait, wait! I can allow you to ally!"
"We're allies! Zeus is our enemy! You can't—"
Except for a small number of Earth Mother Goddess allies, Athena completely absorbed all other Titan gods into the dark star, utterly reducing them to nothingness.
As a war goddess, she clearly understood one point—war needed no rabble.
All demons were ground down, even including Gaia's youngest son Typhon.
Those Earth Mother Goddess-incarnated dragon-serpent monsters had their power completely absorbed by Athena, finally becoming the dark star's nourishment.
Finally, the dark star's power transformed into a massive dragon-serpent phantom—the Earth Mother Goddess's primordial form.
"Zeus, your era has ended! By Master's grace, now is the era of we Earth Mother Goddesses."
Athena didn't speak, but the dragon-serpent phantom coiled on earth issued an earth-rumbling voice.
Having unified the Greek divine realm's earth, she now faced Zeus without disadvantage, even faintly holding superiority.
"Impossible! The Only God's era won't end!"
Zeus naturally wouldn't accept this outcome.
However, when he prepared to use all his power for decisive battle with Athena, his internal power suddenly stopped halfway.
Looking down, Mount Olympus's sacred fire had only one small flame remaining. Only one person had authority to control the sacred fire.
Zeus looked down in shock, discovering his eldest sister Hestia had stopped assisting.
"Sorry, Zeus. I'd rather support Athena!"
Hestia apologized once, her attitude extremely resolute.
Equally resolute were moon goddess Artemis, underworld queen Persephone and other deities. After hesitation, Aphrodite and others also stood on Athena's side.
Previously when Athena couldn't fight, they dared not take sides. Now that Athena could fight, they naturally supported her.
After all, as Earth Mother Goddesses, they all had similar experiences.
Before new challengers, authority-built rule crumbled at first touch.
The critical moment's chain-dropping made Zeus's lightning extremely vulnerable.
Athena didn't miss this opportunity. Instantly, the dark star completely devoured Zeus's lightning, reducing it to primordial chaos.
With the final decisive strike, so-called Heavenly Father Zeus and other Olympian gods were completely absorbed into the dark star, losing their lives.
Heavenly Father Zeus and the Olympian gods officially declared defeat!
To be continued...
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