At this moment, shatter the dimensional barrier

"Yes! It's definitely a test, absolutely a test! Humans only won one round by luck!"

"Heh." Brunhilde's lips curled up in a smile: "This is the aftereffect of the first defeat. The gods' confidence has been completely shattered. They will immediately start to doubt themselves whenever they fall into a disadvantageous position."

"Wow, sister! Humans are even stronger than gods!" Gray asked, his eyes sparkling as he looked at the arena. "But sister, if humans are stronger than gods, what reason do gods have to rule over humans? That's so strange."

“Yes, that’s strange, so that’s the crux of the matter. One of us must be wrong.” Brunhilde was pleased to see her youngest sister asking such a question: “Grey, I didn’t expect you to have grown up so much.”

"Eh, really? Hehe, I just find it strange." Gray chuckled and scratched the back of his head, amused by the compliment.

[Wow, that's amazing! Zeus was knocked away by the King of Heroes in the blink of an eye! Was this Zeus testing the King of Heroes' fighting style, or was it the King of Heroes' second victory in rebuilding humanity?!] Wendy's passionate commentary.

The human side cheered with excitement.

【Ooooooooooooooooooooo——】

That was Zeus, the king of the gods in the Greek pantheon, and he was sent flying by the King of Heroes in an instant. It was truly astonishing.

The expressions of the pantheon's chief gods in the VIP seats remained unchanged; they were well aware of Zeus's power.

"Ha, what a commotion. It was just a punch from Dad to warm up. How naive." Ares, the God of War, sipped his tea leisurely, his face calm, completely devoid of his previous cowardly demeanor.

"Humans are such inferior creatures, so stupid they're beyond redemption, don't you think, Hermes?"

Hermes' cheek twitched slightly, but he still smiled because the other person was his brother: "Yes, that's right, brother Ares."

"After all, no one knows Dad's capabilities better than us."

In the arena, Zeus had already stood up, stretching his arms and grinning maliciously: "Very good, human brat, then I won't hold back and will unleash a series of attacks."

After saying this, Zeus disappeared, only to reappear in front of Gilgamesh in the next instant, his right fist clenched and thrusting out punch after punch.

"Ha!" Gilgamesh scoffed. With his omniscient and omnipotent star and all-seeing eye, he had already foreseen all of Zeus's future attack trajectories. He dodged constantly, each jab grazing his golden armor.

At the same time, his right hand, adorned with the Ring of the Nibelungs, and his left hand, holding the Spear of Longinus, drew their bows and attacked Zeus.

He didn't do nothing for the past two hundred years. He constantly made up for his shortcomings and even humbled himself to learn the martial arts of Jacob, known as the 'Angel of Destruction,' from Solomon.

This is a divine-level martial skill, definitely no weaker than the war gods in various mythologies.

Zeus, despite his seemingly massive, rock-like body, possessed incredible agility and nimbleness, dodging all incoming attacks while simultaneously launching his own.

The two men attacked each other like masters of human outline drawing, but were perfectly dodged. Their speed increased, and almost every few dozen punches, the speed of their punches would increase exponentially.

The two figures turned into phantoms and intertwined.

Punch speed 0.0001 seconds → 0.00001 seconds → 0.0000001 seconds → 0.0000000001 seconds...

Humans could no longer see clearly; they could only see countless phantoms appearing on the field, something even ordinary gods couldn't discern.

The only ones who could still catch a glimpse of the afterimages were the chief gods of the various pantheons, but they all frowned slightly.

"This is not good. Could it be that the human's speed is comparable to Zeus's?" Shiva frowned deeply.

Zeus has already used most of his normal strength, while that human is still able to catch up.

This was just a brutal, hand-to-hand combat; the human's trump card was those weapons.

Shiva raised his head to look at the golden canopy that enveloped the entire arena, where countless conceptual weapons were swaying, freely aiming at Zeus's position.

"Very good, very good, arrogant human brat, you're not bad, really not bad, but this is already the limit of your speed, isn't it?" Zeus, his fighting spirit high, continued to increase the speed of his punches, reaching a speed of one hundred billionth of a second, which is already the speed of light.

"Your body is telling me that you've reached your speed limit!"

"But you are really great. I haven't been this happy in tens of thousands of years."

"Is that so? My fragile human body has indeed reached its limit! But this is just the beginning, you mongrel!" Gilgamesh was also excited, and his body was emitting cries of pain.

Absolute speed of light is an insurmountable barrier that the human body can never reach. It can be approached infinitely, but it can never be achieved. The moment it is reached, the human body will be annihilated. This is a forbidden realm for the material body, unless the body itself is a replica of a high-ranking god above the God-King level.

Of course, while the human body cannot reach the speed of light, technological devices can. In the main universe, superhumans who reach the fifth level can use light-speed jump suits. Mortals can use technology to reach a realm that only gods can enter.

If even extraordinary beings are this strong, then the gods are naturally even stronger in their skills. Becoming stronger is like an arms race; there is no strongest, only stronger.

"Then keep going! You arrogant human brat! Hahahaha, I'm so happy I can't stand it!!!" Zeus instantly escaped Gilgamesh's attack range, his body making strange movements in the time it takes to travel at the speed of light, his feet stomping back and forth on the ground.

In an instant, a superluminal attack that surpasses the speed of light.

"Divine Axe—" Zeus circled Gilgamesh at faster-than-light speed, concentrating all his speed and power into his leg, and swung it down towards Gilgamesh's waist.

If hit, even a peak-level god would be cut in half. If this move were to strike the moon, it could cut off a third of the moon.

Gilgamesh was completely unable to react to the attack that had exceeded the speed of light. He had not seen the future with the omniscient and omnipotent star. Seeing and being able to react are two different things.

But he wasn't worried at all. Even if he got hit, it wouldn't matter. The Thorn Crown had a one-third chance of blocking all the damage, and even if it didn't block, it could reduce more than 90% of the damage. In addition, the golden armor he was wearing was a defensive artifact, so it could completely block the remaining damage.

boom------

Zeus's strike landed on Gilgamesh, and the terrifying force split the entire arena in two, creating a bottomless chasm with a deafening roar.

The arena fell silent, with countless eyes fixed intently on the scene.

"Huh?" Zeus looked at Gilgamesh in disbelief, who had taken his full-force attack, but whose attack had been completely dodged.

No, to be precise, the attack slid off his body.

"Is this all you've got? You bastard—hahaha!" Gilgamesh seized the moment Zeus was stunned and thrust the Spear of Longinus at near-light speed, piercing straight into Zeus's abdomen.

*Pfft*—Red divine blood spurted out instantly.

Gilgamesh then unleashed his other hand with 200% full power, blasting it towards Zeus's face.

boom------

Zeus was smashed and hurled towards the edge of the arena, the ground being blasted into a deep, broken trench. He finally crashed into the wall at the edge, the entire god sinking into it. This time, red blood gushed from his mouth and nostrils, the spearhead of the Spear of Longinus was halfway into his abdomen, and his abdominal body was covered with dense cracks, like porcelain.

"Oh oh oh oh oh oh————" The audience on one side of the gods exclaimed in surprise.

[He was knocked down... he's bleeding, and he was pierced through by a weapon!]

[The Great Father God of Heaven, the God of Gods, Zeus, has been defeated once again!!!]

Chapter 347 Strike Beyond Time: Am I About to Mess Down?

"How could this be! Even Lord Zeus has been defeated?" Frey, the Norse god of peace, bit his lip, his eyes bloodshot, his voice choked with emotion. "No! How could humans be so strong! How can we avenge Lord Thor like this!"

He was now filled with fear and resentment. He feared that humanity's victory over the gods was not a fluke, and he resented that he could not avenge the death of Lord Thor, whom he admired.

If we win seven matches, we can wipe out humanity and avenge Lord Thor! If humanity wins, not only will we fail to avenge our fallen gods, but all the gods will also die!

How could this be... Even Lord Zeus... Waaaaaah...

[No, Lord Zeus! This must be fake, right? You're still warming up, aren't you!]

The audience on the gods' side were mostly devastated. They thought Zeus being knocked away was just a test since he didn't bleed, but once a god bleeds, the situation changes. For a god to bleed means he has been truly hurt.

"Shut up, all of you, it's so noisy!" Poseidon said coldly, looking at the noisy audience, and then exuded a profound divine power.

A soft hum filled the air as the audience seats on the side facing the deity turned a deep gray. The previously noisy crowd fell silent, their expressions as still as if frozen in time.

“Foolish… Zeus will not be defeated by an attack of this magnitude. This is only the beginning,” Hades, the god of the underworld, said coldly.

“Indeed… this is just the beginning. Zeus is, after all, the strongest god of Olympus.” Shakya chewed his gum listlessly and calmly blew out a bubble. “However, Gilgamesh also has many trump cards up his sleeve. It seems he hasn’t revealed anything yet.”

“It doesn’t matter, Shakyamuni. You can go next. As the enlightened one of mankind, Buddha, your presence will surely demoralize humanity,” Odin said with a gloomy expression.

He initially suspected that Shakyamuni was a traitor, since Shakyamuni was a human who became a god, but from the beginning Shakyamuni had been honest and had not given any help to mankind.

It now seems that Shakyamuni also understands the seriousness of the matter: if the gods lose to humans, Shakyamuni, as a god, will also disappear.

"Really? My strength is much weaker than Zeus-chan's. What if I lose?" Shakya picked his nose. Should he play in the next match? Maybe not.

"I think it's better for me to play in the last game, since by then humanity's aces will have already been used, so it's safer."

Hehe, when the time comes, I will represent the human side, and the gods will have played all their cards. I will then completely liberate Ragnarok and send you into the cycle of reincarnation. Oh... there is no more reincarnation.

“Hmm…indeed…” Odin paused for a moment, then sighed.

Are we about to win? Are we about to win the second game?

[Great! Gods aren't so great after all!]

[That's right, that's right, we humans are so powerful.]

At this moment, the human side felt incredibly proud, and their faith in the gods had completely disappeared. What use is faith in a god who is not even as good as humans?

Only now do humans truly realize that they are now standing at the same table as the gods.

"It's unbelievable! Gilgamesh once again sent Zeus, the king of the gods, flying, and pierced his abdomen with his god-slaying spear!" Wendy exclaimed passionately.

"But, was Zeus really defeated just like that? He was the most powerful god in the Olympian pantheon! Could it really be that simple?"

Before Wendy could finish speaking, a hearty laugh echoed throughout the arena.

"Hehehe, hahahahaha—" Zeus pushed away the mud and stones on his body, his muscles bulging, and a divine aura, silver-gray with a hint of blood, was released from his body. He stood up and gripped the Spear of Longinus that had pierced his abdomen.

"Hmm..." Zeus pulled out his spear with a twitching motion. With a soft "plop," red divine blood gushed out as the spear was pulled out, but the muscles in his abdomen twitched and blocked the bleeding wound.

The wound pierced by the Spear of Longinus cannot heal. Such wounds are permanent. Even if it takes tens of thousands of years, the wound will only appear to heal. In reality, any exertion will cause the wound to reopen.

"This spear is actually made from the spearhead of the original Spear of Longinus, and it incorporates many fragments... Hah, hah, hah..." Zeus breathed heavily, his muscular arm clenched, and the Spear of Longinus began to shatter from the point where it was held, then with a crack, it turned into fragments that fell to the ground.

"It can actually stop the wound?" Gilgamesh frowned slightly, but he didn't expect the Spear of Longinus to seriously injure Zeus.

His aim was to leave the power of the Spear of Longinus within Zeus's body as a beacon.

As part of his collection, the Spear of Longinus was among the other weapons in the treasure that could track the beacon left by the Spear of Longinus.

In other words, Zeus would have no way to escape the bombardment of the Treasury of Kings.

The weapons in the Royal Treasury are indeed nearly limitless, but the speed at which they are fired is definitely fast enough for Zeus to dodge. That's why he chose to engage in close combat just now to prepare for his all-out attack later.

"I knew it! Dad was just testing us. Now Dad's serious! Hahahaha! Dad! Crush that arrogant human's bones! If possible, keep his head; it'll be valuable as a wine glass!" Ares, the God of War, crossed his arms, his face flushed with excitement.

“But… that god-slaying spear did indeed harm Father.” Hermes couldn’t smile; his brows furrowed slightly.

"Heh, you mongrel, are you finally getting serious? Let me see just how much skill this so-called King of Olympus really has." Gilgamesh sneered, raising his hand. Golden ripples appeared, and a strange weapon emerged with a red cylindrical blade and a golden hilt.

Ea, whose real name is Ia, is the embodiment of all the divinity and creation deeds of the 'Great God Ia' who separated the freshwater Absu and the saltwater Tiamat in the Babylonian mythology of Mesopotamia.

The sword is divided into three sections, representing the three realms of heaven, earth, and the underworld in the Babylonian worldview. It is the prototype of the Babylonian cosmology and an indisputable 'simulated cosmology'.

Of course, the concept of Ea was also elevated after it came to the main universe.

The Ea is no longer just an Anti-World Noble Phantasm, but a 'Cosmic View Divine Tool'. Even if it is only a prototype of a cosmology, the moment it is activated, it is undoubtedly colliding with the Babylonian cosmology.

Could Zeus, a mere peak-level god, possibly survive the violent collision of a nascent cosmology?