Hades's arrival was silent, yet heavy as a thousand pounds. The Chariot of Hades, drawn by four steeds of night, shattered the void, and the cold breath of death, like a substantive wave, collided with the mad pink divine power of Eros emanating from Cronus, emitting a piercing hiss, like an iceberg scraping across magma.
Cronus sharply turned his head, his eyes full of madness and eros, staring at Hades, especially at the dark gray chain in his hand, which radiated a pulsating aura that made him feel a wildly beating palpitation.
An instinct stemming from the God-King told him of mortal danger!
"You again! Evil seed! You bring your ridiculous toy from the Underworld to witness the end?!"
Cronus roared, abandoning his suppression of the other Titans. The pink erotic divine power, mixed with the fierce storm of time and space, transformed into a giant palm covering the sky, a palm seemingly filled with countless whirlpools of desire, striking towards Hades and his chariot!
This strike, containing the authority of his great divine power and the twisted nature of Eros, was enough to cause any god below great divine power to perish forever.
"Now!" Hades's voice was like the cold wind of the Underworld, piercing the battlefield.
He had not come alone. Behind the Chariot of Hades, the figures of Thanatos and Hypnos quietly appeared, and the laws of death and sleep unfurled like wings. Though they could not confront Cronus head-on, they greatly hindered the erosion of consciousness by the divine power of Eros.
At the same time, the Titans, heeding Hades's call, suppressed their instinctive discomfort with the chains and their fear of the divine-killing aura radiating from the giant scythe in Cronus's hand, and erupted in a final synergy!
"For a future free from being devoured!" Hyperion roared, and his radiant light was no longer an attack, but transformed into countless shackles of light, coiling around Cronus's arm, trying to slow the swing of his scythe.
"World-encircling currents, bind!" Oceanus and Tethys summoned massive water veins, like hundreds of millions of blue chains, seeping from the void, binding Cronus's legs, the majestic water pressure even distorting the spacetime beneath his feet.
The golden vines created by Koios no longer tried to absorb power, but frantically wrapped around Cronus's waist and other arm, firmly fixing them.
Koios (the messenger) reinforced the spatial dimension around Cronus with the power of the celestial body, and Themis's scales radiated an absolute 'just' verdict, judging Cronus's behavior as 'unbalanced,' exerting an invisible suppressive force that caused traces of excessive stagnation in the operation of his divine power.
Even Rhea, having sacrificed her 'resolve,' her eyes empty, but she firmly summoned her last divine power and raised the steps from under Cronus's feet!
At this moment, all grievances, calculations, and ambitions were temporarily set aside under the threat of Cronus's annihilation.
The Titans knew that if Cronus were allowed to break free, all the gods present, and even the entire world, would be doomed!
"Get off! You traitors! Ants!" Cronus was furious. The God-King's scythe swung wildly, gray cutting blades flashing. Hyperion's light shackles broke, Oceanus's water chains evaporated, and Koios's vines shattered...
The Titans' divine power seemed so fragile before the scythe, and divine blood continuously spilled into the sky, but they followed one after another, desperately trying to maintain the brief binding!
And it was this fleeting moment in the struggle that arrived!
Hades moved!
The Chariot of Hades transformed into a shadow that tore through space, ignoring distance, and charged straight towards the front of Cronus!
The four steeds of night neighed silently, and from their hooves burst not flames, but absolute darkness that absorbed light, forcibly opening a path within the pink field of Eros!
Cronus's hand holding the scythe was temporarily locked by the gods, and he suddenly opened his mouth, his breath mixed with the destruction of time and space and the sinking of eros, like a stream of destruction spraying towards Hades, who was now close!
Hades's eyes were filled with violet light. He did not dodge, and suddenly threw the dark gray 'Chains of Resolve' from his hand!
The chain silently stretched in the air, not emitting a world-shattering impact, but one felt the end of all sounds.
Cronus's destructive breath struck the chains, like ice and snow meeting the sun, quietly melting and collapsing, unable to stop them!
The chains, like a living snake, precisely wrapped around the enormous God-King Cronus! First his hand holding the scythe, then his neck, torso, legs...
"What is this?! Get off!" Cronus was terrified, discovering that wherever the chains entangled him, his majestic divine power was like a frozen river, instantly losing its flow!
The pink essence of Eros let out a sharp cry, as if touched by its source, writhing wildly, but unable to break free from Rhea's 'resolve' on the chains and the 'isolation' of the Styx!
The primordial runes on the chains lit up one after another, and the gray light was not dazzling, but made all the gods, including Nyx and Gaia watching the battle from afar, feel a chill from the depths of their divinities.
"Seal!" Hades stood on the chariot, empty-handed, like a judge in charge of the law, and coldly spat out the final verdict.
Buzz——!
A dull shock spread, as if the heartbeat of the world had stopped.
The dark gray chain suddenly tightened! Countless runes symbolizing 'silence,' 'isolation,' and 'the end' seemed to come alive, deeply imprinting themselves on Cronus's divine body and divinity!
His majestic body trembled violently, and the pink divine power of Eros was like a venomous snake with its neck strangled; after a desperate struggle, it quickly dimmed, shrank, and was finally forcibly suppressed back into the depths of his body!
And his originally immense and boundless silver-gray spacetime divine power receded like a tide, sealed by the chain's power, completely severing contact with his will!
The terrifying divine-killing scythe suddenly fell to the ground and disappeared without a trace.
The madness and violence in Cronus's eyes receded like a tide, replaced by a dazed and stunned expression... one whose power was completely drained, whose divinity was 'silenced'! Feeble!
His enormous body trembled slightly, as if it had become extremely difficult even to maintain the true form of this God-King.
"Now! Zeus! Poseidon!" Hades's voice was like thunder, reminding his younger brothers, stunned by this turn of events.
Zeus and Poseidon, who were already prepared to strike, immediately seized this unique opportunity!
"In the name of thunder! End your tyranny!" Zeus roared, pouring all the power of his body, along with his newborn desire for the throne of the God-King, into the Thunderbolt!
The thunderbolt forged by Hades, containing the source of destruction and life force, exploded with unprecedented fierce light, like lightning breaking through chaos, striking Cronus's defenseless chest!
"For countless years of being devoured by you! Repent!" Poseidon roared, the trident summoning the fury of the seas and the trembling of the earth. The dark blue divine light condensed into a stream that could pierce stars, accompanied by the roar of tsunamis and earthquakes, directly piercing Cronus's back from the other side!
Boom!!
Thunder and great waves struck simultaneously!
Cronus, having lost his divine power and with his divinity temporarily 'silenced,' firmly withstood this strike, which contained the full force of two powerful gods and the response of fate!
He let out the most miserable howl since the war began, a howl most truly his own!
The true form of the enormous God-King was thrown forward and staggered. His chest was torn open by the thunder, a large black hole ripped open; his back was torn by the trident with a huge crack, and golden divine blood spurted like a waterfall, mixed with disturbing pink hues!
However, this was not enough to make the former God-King fall completely!
A flash of ruthlessness appeared in his eyes, and he tried to burn the sealed origin of his divinity to launch a final counterattack!
At this moment, the gates of Hades rumbled open behind Hades!
"For His Majesty the King of Hades!" The roar of the giants was like a landslide!
The Hundred-Handed Giants—Briareos, Cottus, and Gyges—their three hundred muscular arms, like three hundred majestic mountains, swung simultaneously!
They used no fancy divine power, just pure physical strength, pure to the extreme, enough to shake the foundations of the world!
Three hundred fists, like a meteor shower, smashed into the already wounded enormous body of Cronus from all sides!
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang——!!!
The dull impacts were endless, as if the whole world was drumming for this! Space was crushed by pure force, emitting an overwhelming wail.
The true form of the God-King Cronus, under this unparalleled brutal crushing, finally let out a piercing sound of shattering bones!
The spine he tried to straighten was broken and bent; the giant legs supporting his body twisted and snapped under the terrifying force!
Whoosh——!!
Cronus, the cruel God-King who once looked down upon the universe and devoured his children, finally fell to his knees, humiliated and completely broken under the destructive alliance of the Hundred-Handed Giants!
He knelt on the peak of Olympus, which he himself had destroyed, before his children, brothers, and sisters, whom he once considered ants!
He tried to raise his gaze, his eyes full of grievance and unwillingness, but the seal of the chains and the terrifying force continuously exerted by the giants prevented him from even doing this, forcing him to lower his head that once symbolized supreme authority.
The battlefield at this moment sank into deathly silence.
Only the heavy, pained gasps of Cronus and the cold sound of the chains rubbing against the god's body.
It was over.
The era of Cronus, with this kneeling, had completely ended.