"Diana, this guy is actually your dad!?"
Arthur wore a look of shock, never expecting that this suddenly appearing fellow was actually his former father-in-law.
Diana: "..."
She naturally wouldn't be like the idiot Arthur and actually believe Darian's nonsense.
Others might not be clear about her background, but could she herself not know?
Hippolyta molded her body out of clay, and she was granted life and power by the gods, allowing her to be born. She had no so-called biological father at all.
It has to be said that Hippolyta's craftsmanship was indeed quite good.
If it were someone clumsy with their hands, Diana would probably have ended up as that woman, and she wouldn't have infatuated the scumbag Arthur into temporary amnesia, making him forget even that he was engaged.
Diana only took Darian to be putting up a stubborn front.
She immediately increased her strength, and the golden light on the surface of the Lasso of Truth grew even brighter as she stared at Darian and continued to press him.
"Tell me! What is your true identity!?"
Darian's voice was intermittent: "My true identity… is actually Arthur's biological father."
"What!?"
Arthur was originally just watching the commotion, who would have known that the melon would suddenly smash onto his own head.
As Diana's ex-husband, he knew the effect of the Lasso of Truth; this thing had never made a mistake before, and everyone would only speak the truth, so…
Arthur was struck as if by lightning, his lips trembling, his face full of disbelief.
"Could my biological father not be that landdweller, but this guy?"
He paused for a moment, suddenly thinking of an even more terrifying matter, his face turning pale.
"Wait, since this guy is Diana's father, and also my father, wouldn't Diana and I be… siblings!?"
Rumble—!
A dull clap of thunder exploded in the sky, and a fine drizzle closely followed, drifting down.
It was a thunderstorm.
Diana looked at Arthur, who had already begun to doubt life itself, the veins on her forehead throbbing violently.
He was probably a fool, to actually believe this kind of nonsense.
Diana secretly rejoiced in her heart that she hadn't continued things with Arthur back then; otherwise, if the next generation inherited Arthur's intelligence, Atlantis and Amazon would probably both have become historical civilizations.
But what concerned her even more was another matter.
"You can actually be immune to the Lasso of Truth."
The look in Diana's eyes as she gazed at Darian was incomparably shocked.
At this moment, how could she still not react; Darian hadn't been affected by the Lasso of Truth at all.
You must know that the Lasso of Truth was a divine artifact forged by the fire god Hephaestus, and no one could resist its power, not even gods being an exception.
Yet the guy in front of her could spout nonsense with a straight face, showing that the Lasso of Truth had completely failed against him.
Darian said earnestly: "No, I really am your dad, and the two of you are biological siblings. You cannot be together, but fortunately you pulled back from the brink and didn't let such a treasonous thing happen."
"Daring to humiliate the queen of the Amazon, it is simply unforgivable!"
Diana was furious, instantly flushing red.
She suddenly tugged on the Lasso of Truth, attempting to fling Darian directly away.
But Darian's feet were as if rooted, firmly planted in place without his body shaking even a bit.
He grabbed the lasso with a backhand, wrapped it twice around his hand, and then yanked it hard.
Diana only felt a huge force transmitted along the Lasso of Truth, her entire body uncontrollably leaving the ground, tracing a semi-arc in the air, and smashing heavily onto the ground.
Boom!
The ground was smashed into a shallow pit, with gravel splashing everywhere.
Diana propped herself up with her arms and crawled out of the pit, covered in dust, her hair disheveled, looking quite disheveled.
"Bastard!"
Diana was exasperated, continuously flicking the Lasso of Truth and whipping it toward Darian like a whip.
Darian cast the Protection Spell, shielding Arthur in front of him, working with one heart and mind to jointly fend off Diana's attacks.
In the blink of an eye, over a dozen whip marks appeared on Arthur's body.
Arthur roared: "Stop whipping! They're all hitting me!"
Hearing this, Diana's movements paused slightly, but she had no intention of stopping, instead whipping even more gleefully.
Arthur: "???"
On purpose!
This crazy woman was definitely doing it on purpose!
Darian, loving to watch the chaos, said disdainfully: "The queen of the Amazon is just this?"
Arthur widened his eyes: "Wait…"
Before he could finish his sentence, the fierce light in Diana's eyes grew intensely bright, her arms slammed together, and her Guardian Silver Bracelets crashed fiercely into each other.
In an instant, a violent energy wave erupted from the point of collision, sweeping toward Darian. The already dilapidated surrounding buildings collapsed in pieces within this energy wave, and gravel was whipped into the air flying everywhere, with quite astonishing power.
Seeing this scene, Darian didn't even think, protecting Arthur tightly in front of him.
Arthur: "???"
Boom!!
The terrifying energy wave crashed into Arthur, instantly blasting him along with Darian flying away, sending the two directly flying dozens of meters out.
Arthur took the full brunt of the damage head-on, suffering not minor internal injuries and spitting out a mouthful of blood on the spot.
As for Darian, who was hiding behind him, he didn't bear much damage at all.
Darian steadied his footing, looking at Arthur spitting blood in front of him with a moved expression: "Good child, you are still the most filial, knowing to block damage for your dad."
Hearing Darian's words, Arthur spat out another mouthful of old blood.
This time it was purely from being angered.
After unleashing this ultimate move, Diana didn't stop, wielding the sword of the fire god, her figure darting like lightning toward Darian.
"Look at hidden weapons!"
Darian grabbed Arthur, who was still cursing, and after a brief power-up, hurled him fiercely toward Diana.
Diana watched the human-shaped hidden weapon flying at extreme speed without a trace of hesitation, directly flicking the Lasso of Truth and with a snap, whipping Arthur flying to the side.
Arthur let out a miserable scream, smashing directly into a pile of gravel, with only his two legs exposed outside.
Diana's speed did not decrease, her entire person sprinting closely along the ground, the sword of the fire god trailing at her side, the tip of the sword dragging out a spark on the ground.
The moment she approached Darian, she raised her sword to slash horizontally, the divine power hidden within her erupting fiercely, actually shattering all of Darian's outer layer defenses directly.
The sword edge didn't stop, piercing straight toward Darian's heart position.
Puchi!
The sound of the blade entering flesh rang out, and the sword of the fire god successfully pierced into Darian's chest, penetrating out from his back.
Got him!
Diana felt a flash of joy in her heart, just wanting to say something.
As a result, before her words could even leave her mouth, she suddenly sensed something was wrong.
Darian raised his hand, tightly grasping Diana's wrist, the runes inside his hood converging into a bizarre smiling face.
"It's useless, because the moment before you stabbed in, my heart had already leaped up into my throat."
Diana: "???"
What the heck?
This was Darian's skill, which he hadn't found a chance to practice yet, so he just happened to use Diana to test it out.
Not to mention, this skill was quite practical, directly catching the enemy off guard.
Before Diana could react, several black tentacles drilled out from the ground, firmly wrapping around her hands.
Diana tried to exert force, but found that her hands couldn't move at all. With a fierce expression, she unhesitatingly leaned her head back and smashed her forehead with all her might toward Darian's face.
Clang!!
A huge impact sound exploded across the battlefield.
Diana: (☆—@)
She felt as if she had crashed into a hard piece of metal, her vision turning black, and her head buzzing.
On the other hand, Darian looked completely fine, still standing in place as steady as Mount Tai.
In reality, he had activated Super Armor in time just now to hard-tank this blow, but he was also terribly dizzy, just without showing it.
He mentally muttered: "Good grief, this Diana's head is truly iron, not a bit inferior to Captain Marvel."
However, Darian quickly recovered.
Taking advantage of Diana still being in a dazed state, numerous black tentacles surged out simultaneously, rapidly wrapping around her body.
These tentacles were thick and large, crawling all over Diana's body and continuously tightening, with extremely powerful strength that made Diana unable to help letting out a few painful groans.
Don't look at Diana as a warrior on the surface; in essence, she was also a magical girl.
For magical girls, things like tentacles naturally carried a certain special bonus, making them hard to resist.
Seeing that Diana was still trying to resist, Darian immediately flicked out a large swath of holy white light, casting over a dozen layers of blessing magic on Diana.
Paralysis, trance, dehydration, immobility…
Don't misunderstand, these were all very proper black magic spells.
Darian didn't forget his side job of photography, stealthily recording a short video in the background and conveniently labeling the file as Goddess + Tentacles + Humiliation.mp4.
Swish swish swish—!
Suddenly, several arrows came piercing through the air.
The Protection Spell that had just shattered re-condensed, blocking these arrows for Darian.
Darian turned his head to look, and countless Amazon female warriors had already surrounded the area, all drawing their bows and nocking arrows, with arrowheads aimed right at him and faces full of anger.
"Release Queen Diana!"
Besides the Amazon warriors, the Atlantis soldiers who had just been fighting to the death with them also stopped, holding the energy firearms in their hands and likewise aiming their muzzles at Darian.
Their complexions weren't looking any better either.
Just now, Darian had used their own king as a human shield and a hidden weapon, practically rubbing the dignity of the Atlantis royal family into the ground.
As soldiers who swore to protect the royal family to the death, they naturally could not tolerate this.
Thus, the two countries that had originally fought to the death miraculously stood on the same side, facing the outside world together.
Darian was dressed in yellow clothes, with tentacles dancing around his body, surrounded in the middle by the Atlantis soldiers and Amazon warriors.
At first glance, it actually gave off a strong sense of a righteous coalition forces encircling and suppressing an evil great demon king.
Facing the encirclement of the two armies, Darian did not panic at all, instead letting out a hearty laugh full of righteousness.
"Jiejiejie, just relying on you ants, you also want to stop me?"
While speaking, the shadow beneath his feet began to rapidly expand, spreading in all directions, and soon covered the entire palace within it, turning into a domain of black.
The battlefield, originally illuminated by firelight, instantly darkened, and the atmosphere became eerie and oppressive.
"Stand up!"
Following Darian's voice falling, the shadows around began to twist and crawl, surging endlessly.
Immediately following, countless Shadow Soldiers crawled out from the shadows, wielding all sorts of weapons, with two points of crimson, terrifying light glowing at their eyes.
They continuously gushed out from the ground, walls, and crevices of the ruins, filling every corner of the palace in the blink of an eye. Shadows were visible everywhere, countless red lights lit up in the darkness, staring fixedly at everyone present, making one's scalp tingle.
Looking out into the distance, the number had already exceeded the total sum of the Atlantis soldiers and Amazon warriors.
"All armies attack."
Darian gently waved his hand, and the Shadow Soldiers moved simultaneously, a pitch-black mass rushing toward the two countries' armies like a tidal wave.
Although the Atlantis soldiers and Amazon warriors were startled by this array, they were elite veterans after all, and quickly reacted, launching an offensive against the shadow legion almost at the same time.
Countless shells and arrows intertwined, instantly devouring a large batch of Shadow Soldiers, tearing their figures to pieces and turning them into scattered clusters of shadows.
However, those scattered shadows did not disappear; they quickly crawled and writhed, re-condensing back into the appearance of Shadow Soldiers in the blink of an eye.
After recovering, these Shadow Soldiers didn't pause in the slightest, continuing to charge forward, rushing directly into the central zone of the two armies, and engaging in a crazy melee with the Atlantis soldiers and Amazon warriors.
The three sides instantly clashed into a ball, the scene incomparably fierce.
Whoosh!
A sound of breaking air suddenly came from the side.
Darian turned his head and saw a large piece of building wreckage smashing toward him, moving quite fast.
He once again cast the Protection Spell, shielding Diana in front of him.
Bang!
The building wreckage smashed onto Diana, shattering into several pieces as dust flew everywhere.
Diana spat out the gravel slag in her mouth, her eyes breathing fire, glaring fiercely at Arthur the attacker, suspecting this was deliberate retaliation by the scumbag, and heavily adding another tally against the scumbag in her heart.
Arthur still maintained the throwing posture, his arm stiff in mid-air, the expression on his face somewhat awkward.
He really hadn't meant to smash Diana; what he aimed at was Darian.
Arthur dry-coughed, retracted his hand pretending nothing happened, and then pointed at Darian: "If you have the guts, don't hide behind a woman; come out and duel one-on-one!"
"Alright."
Darian readily agreed, casting aside Diana, stamping his foot against the ground, dragging dense black tentacles behind him, and rushing in the blink of an eye to Arthur's front, throwing out a punch.
Arthur was instantly struck with alarm.
No, he was just casually talking, you're actually doing it for real!
He panicked, raising the holy trident and holding it horizontally in front of him.
Clang!
The sound of metal oscillation numbed the web of Arthur's thumb.
His entire body slid backward for dozens of meters, his feet gouging two deep scratches on the ground before he barely managed to steady his footing.
Before Arthur could recover his senses, Darian had already appeared in front of him again, raising his hand to grab the shaft of the holy trident and kicking Arthur in the chest.
Arthur let out a muffled groan, his entire body flying backward and heavily smashing into the ruins.
"Hah!"
An explosive shout came from behind.
Diana had already rushed to Darian's rear, swinging her sword to slash at the back of his neck.
Without even turning his head, Darian waved the holy trident he had just snatched, used a backhand to block the blade, and then swept with great force, flinging Diana away.
Diana twisted her body in the air to discharge the force, and the moment her feet touched the ground, she pushed off hard, advancing to attack with her sword once more.
She held nothing back, the divine power within her erupting forth, her offensive growing increasingly fierce, with every single move aiming at Darian's vital spots.
Darian used the holy trident to parry, while simultaneously controlling the black tentacles to surge toward Diana.
Having witnessed the power of these black tentacles—once deeply trapped within them, one couldn't extricate oneself—Diana didn't dare to be careless, frantically hacking and slashing at the incoming black tentacles.
Yet Darian's tentacles were truly disgusting; broken ones grew back, and grown ones wrapped around again, endlessly.
Finally, Diana seized an opportunity, stabbing a sword directly into Darian's throat.
Yet Darian still did not fall.
He chuckled cheerfully: "It's useless, just a moment ago, my heart had already been put back into my stomach."
Diana: "???"
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