Chapter 1 I Am Who Again?

If he hadn’t known that Vivian’s mental state was truly terrible, Hao Ren would have sincerely believed that this vampire ancestress was targeting him on purpose—she didn't bother teasing the crowd of people around her, but instead kept chasing after him, asking "Who are you?" over and over again, and each time she had to get a clear answer. It wouldn’t be so bad if she just forgot right after… what was the point of going through this again and again!

"I'm Hao Ren, your long-lost second cousin…" Hao Ren had completely given up on explaining the details. Anyway, no matter what he said, she would definitely forget everything after three minutes, so this time he simply made something up. But as soon as he finished, he regretted it: because Hesperides next to him almost immediately glared at him. The little bat spirit bared her two small fangs, looking ready to bite.

"Don't look at me like that, it's not like I wanted this," Hao Ren spread his hands helplessly. "If you're so capable, why don't you heal her?"

Hesperides snorted and turned her head away, ignoring Hao Ren.

On the other side, Hesperides, like her fellow compatriots, was worried about what was to come. She looked at these suddenly appearing "allies," her heart full of astonishment. She could hardly believe that anyone could be so carefree and joking around in this place already facing imminent destruction, to the point of even doubting the true purpose and identity of Hao Ren's group—if Vivian didn't have such a huge and profound reputation on Mount Olympus, perhaps these ten escaped Olympus "gods" would be unable to control themselves.

There's a saying that goes—we're escaping here, can you be serious?

"Speaking of which, Hasu should be here by now," Lily leaned close to Hao Ren and asked in a low voice, "We sent him a message as soon as we got out."

"He might be a little delayed," Hao Ren guessed. "After all, he's deep in enemy territory. He can't move around as freely as we can. As one of the highest commanders of the Holy Order, he'd have to make up an excuse to sneak out..."

As he was whispering to Lily, a sudden low rumble came from the distance.

The rumble came from underground, continuous and obviously spreading in all directions. As the rumble grew, a series of earthquake-like tremors came from beneath their feet, growing stronger and stronger.

The crowd exchanged astonished glances, and then unanimously rushed to the nearest windows.

Hao Ren was already sitting close to the window, so he was the first to arrive, and he saw what was happening outside at first glance: he saw an unprecedented light suddenly erupt from the direction of the Poseidon Temple, the light piercing through the great barrier above the temple and piercing into the radiation clouds above Mount Olympus. Behind the thick radiation clouds, he could vaguely see many beams of light lighting up simultaneously. These beams of light crisscrossed behind the sea of clouds, connecting every peak within the vast Olympus Secret Realm. They were arranged in an orderly manner, interwoven with each other, forming a magnificent network.

And now, this network was overloading. Powerful energy was being released from the Poseidon Temple and injected into this light network.

The great barrier above the Poseidon Temple dimmed at a visible rate—but not because of the demon hunters' attacks. It was because the people inside the Poseidon Temple were pulling off a big event.

"Boom—crack!"

A loud crash suddenly came from the distance. Hao Ren saw that one of the veins of the light network in the sky suddenly became unusually bright, and the mountain peak connected to the end of that vein suddenly shattered into pieces in the loud crash. Endless smoke and dust rose up with the exploding mountain, soon obscuring most of the sky in that direction. Even from a distance, Hao Ren could sense from this scene how earth-shattering the explosion of the entire mountain must have been.

One of the Olympus "gods" said in a low voice, "That's the Temple of Apollo…"

Hao Ren had already realized what the increasingly bright "light network" in the sky was: it was the light path traffic network covering the entire sky of the Olympus Secret Realm! This thing actually had this function?

Almost in an instant, he thought of all the causes and consequences: after the last batch of "fire seeds" with hope of breaking through left, Poseidon and the remaining Olympus gods knew they were doomed to die, so they chose to detonate the entire "Divine Kingdom." They overloaded all the light paths, injecting powerful energy into every main god temple. Since the temples of the twelve main gods were themselves the power furnaces of the Olympus Secret Realm, this overload was the best means of detonation!

Moreover, these explosions were also buying time and opening up a path for Hao Ren's group—after the Temple of Athena also exploded, Hao Ren noticed that these explosions were attracting the attention of the Holy Order. The demon hunters' first thought in this situation must be that the Olympus gods were trying to drag the Holy Order down with them, so they would inevitably retreat from this place quickly. Even if they didn't retreat for a while, they wouldn't have time to pay attention to a small group of "remnants" breaking through from the battlefield.

The light paths became brighter and brighter, and more and more uncontrolled energy was injected into this network. Within the range covered by the light paths, countless palaces and towers, large and small—as long as they were connected to the Olympus energy system—all began a grand chain reaction of explosions.

What the crowd didn't know was that what was happening here was also affecting the human world.

The entire Mediterranean region was shrouded in an apocalyptic and terrifying scene. Terrible roars constantly came from the sky, and monstrous waves surged over every port and dam, pouring backwards onto the land. The Temple of Poseidon was destroyed by the waves, and the Temple of Athena also crumbled in the earthquake. Huge rocks fell from the sky, pierced the Hall of Zeus, and smashed the magnificent statue of the King of the Gods into pieces. Minutes later, an exceptionally terrifying thunderclap tore through the sky. The sound of thunder could be heard from Rome all the way to Athens. People looked up at the sky in horror, and saw that the sky had really cracked open, and a realm shrouded in light and mist was exposed to the eyes of "mortals" for the first time.

Mount Olympus hung upside down in the sky. After the gods detonated most of the power furnaces in the Divine Kingdom, it finally lost the power to support itself and began to slowly fall towards the human world. It broke away from the large crack above Rome and slid towards the island of Crete.

In the Mediterranean region, the age of the gods came to an end.

In the real history that had already happened, this scene only lasted for a few minutes: the fall of Mount Olympus actually took place within another dimension. What humans could see was only the image of this scene passing through the spatial curtain and projecting into the main material world. In the short few minutes that the Divine Kingdom was connected to the main material world, humans witnessed a terrifying scene, but before people could flee in terror, this connection ended, and all the celestial phenomena also came to an abrupt end—of course, someone recorded this sensational doomsday scene, but under the deliberate interference of certain organizations, these records were eventually lost to history.

Beside Hao Ren, one of the Olympus "gods" finally reacted. He exclaimed, "The great Poseidon is buying us time!"

Hesperides couldn't sit still either. She looked at Hao Ren: "We must leave immediately. The Divine Kingdom is about to collapse. This is our last chance to break through—your friend hasn't appeared yet. Maybe he's already encountered an accident."

Hao Ren took a step forward, but just as he was about to say something, a familiar signal suddenly appeared in his mental perception.

In the next second, without him saying anything, the Olympus "gods" present had already reacted.

A sense of trembling that was difficult to describe in words suddenly struck their hearts. Before reason could react, their subconscious had already entered a combat state. Even though their conventional weapons had been taken away by Hao Ren, they still quickly pulled out various short swords and daggers from all corners of their bodies, and looked at the direction of the temple gate with expressions as if facing a great enemy.

Hasu rushed in at this moment in a flurry: "I'm here, I'm here! I ran into some trouble earlier, but luckily Poseidon exploded…"

The old demon hunter's words came to an abrupt halt. He and a large group of Olympus descendants with red eyes stared at each other.

"Kill!!"

It was unknown which brave fellow shouted first, and then a group of Olympus gods and descendants rushed towards Hasu waving their self-defense weapons. Immediately, ball lightning and fire arrows flew across the temple, and the light of swords and daggers formed a continuous web. Hasu's elusive figure darted around the entire hall: "Hao Ren! Start quickly! I can't hold on for long if I'm just getting beaten without fighting back!"

Hao Ren had already practiced this scene in his mind countless times. He immediately took out a stun grenade and threw it at a large group of pursuers behind Hasu: "Except for Hesperides, everyone else can be killed!"

As the stun grenade exploded, he immediately rushed towards Vivian's direction: Fortunately, due to her mental confusion, Vivian did not immediately rush up to fight after seeing Hasu, but subconsciously grabbed the two Heisenas, big and small, and retreated to a corner of the temple. At this time, she was hugging the confused little Hesperides and muttering something, but the bad news was…

Hao Ren noticed that Vivian's eyes were rapidly turning a bloody red, and her expression was gradually becoming ferocious.

The negative stimuli had finally accumulated to a critical point, and this countess was preparing to perform a demonstration of sweeping away thousands of troops on the spot.

She raised one hand, pointed in Hasu's direction, and the expression on her face lost its warmth: "Enemy…"

Without thinking, Lily raised her alloy giant giant giant giant giant sword and rushed to Vivian's side, flattening the sword and slapping it against the latter's arm.

In the moment that Vivian was stunned by this unexpected attack, Hao Ren had already rushed in front of her and sent the key connecting her memory bonds in front of her: "Vivian! Wake up!"

Vivian's expression became confused the moment she saw the key, but correspondingly, the ferocious expression that had just appeared on her face quickly subsided.

She seemed to be mumbling instinctively as she looked at Hao Ren: "Who are you?"

Hao Ren: "...This is no time for you to say something else!!"

Vivian blinked blankly, and then a smile suddenly appeared on her face: "I can't help it, I only had this sentence in my head just now—I just feel like you're familiar, but I can't remember."

Hao Ren stared at the smiling vampire girl, and then smiled: "Oh, you're awake."