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"The totem is the source of power for the gods... Then all we have to do is split Hermanubis' totem into Anubis and Hermes. Wouldn't that mean we have defeated Hermanubis?"

Blaze closed his eyes and threw Gungnir at Hermanubis, interrupting Hermanubis's passing away ceremony.

Even though these foreigners were all top-notch, it was impossible for them to fight for a long time without making any mistakes, and Hermanubis was an enemy that would not tolerate any mistakes.

They didn't have much time.

"It's a good idea, but the problem is that it can't be done. You can't cause a huge uproar just to defeat Hermanubis. Even if you are determined, we don't have the chance." There was a hint of anxiety in the chicken's voice.

"It doesn't necessarily have to be a complete upheaval. We have to find a way to make the god Hermanubis contradict himself and collapse on his own!"

The solution Blaze came up with was to make the existence of Hermanubis contradict itself and cause it to collapse on its own.

As of now, Hermanubis is a god with Anubis as the main body. If we find the part about Hermes, we may be able to conquer it.

Blaze stepped onto the stairs and rejoined the battle, giving the strangers a chance to catch their breath.

Seeing that the dog-headed god showed no sign of fatigue at all, Blaze could only bite the bullet and use his mouth to attack.

"you liar."

Blaze remembered Chicken saying that Hermes was a trickster god.

If these words were turned into a real attack, it would be no less than a soft child's punch, but Hermanubis's eyes bulged out and were filled with bloodshot.

This look is like being hit in the vitals.

“Aaaaa——”

Hermanubis suddenly put his hand into his own heart and took out his heart. This action shocked everyone, but what happened next made them feel cold behind their backs.

A name appeared in that heart.

【Heart of the Thief】

[It is the most cunning, stupid, stubborn, vain and self-inflicted of all the gods.]

The heart instantly opened a hundred eyes, scanning all the enemies around it without blind spots, and then the eyes curved. Even if no sound was heard, everyone could see the snickering in those eyes.

Hermanubis's expression was extremely hideous and painful. It glared at Blaze and smashed the heart in its hand to the ground, but the heart bounced back and stretched out its tentacles to entangle with Hermanubis's body.

"In the totems of the gods, the story of defeating monsters is of paramount importance, so it will be presented in the form of abilities, artifacts, etc." Amaterasu leaned over to Blaze's ear and whispered softly.

"It seems that Anubis possessed part of Hermes' totem concerning the heart, and it contained the content that Hermes defeated the monster with his heart."

"That's it! Destroy that heart!"

Blaze raised [Misttin] and fired continuously at the heart. The stranger launched the attack without Blaze's reminder.

As long as the part of Hermes is removed from Hermanubis, only Anubis will be left, and Hermanubis will perish on its own.

But this is quite difficult, because Hermanubis has a hundred more eyes and his vision is impeccable. The attack of the transparent arm that can only remove the heart becomes extremely strange and hard to defend against.

It was extremely difficult for the stranger to defend himself, and no matter how hard he fought, Hermanubis would regenerate. There was an unconscious hint of decadence in his offensive, and his expression became soft.

"I got a double yolk egg!"

Blaze shouted out the legendary words that could cheer up the strangers. Although he didn't know how much the strangers liked to eat eggs with two yolks, this sentence always made the strangers excited and bloodthirsty.

But the stranger didn't react at all. It wasn't his mind that had problems, but his body. His body was being forced to sleep.

Blaze was startled. They had only been fighting with Hermanubis for a few dozen minutes. How could the stranger relax? You have to know that the stranger had fought for several hours on the eve of the Nemean Giant Battle and his morale was high.

There is weirdness.

Blaze looked at the blessing, [Transformation Z] took effect at some point, and [Sleep Resistance LV1] appeared.

"Sleep?" Blaze looked at Hermanubis, or to be more precise, its heart. A strange feeling was constantly emanating from the heart.

The one hundred eyes were closing one by one, and each time one eye closed, the sleep resistance experience value increased by one point. If all the one hundred eyes were closed, perhaps everyone would be forced to sleep.

He had to interrupt Hermanubis and his heart, and even if he couldn't interrupt them, he couldn't let them get close to the stranger whose movements had become slow.

Blaze pulled out Gungnir from behind and threw it towards Hermanubis. Although Gungnir had already hit Hermanubis once, it had lost its ability to hit him, but Gungnir itself was still a meteor gun with unparalleled impact force.

Hermanubis was blown away by the blow, but at the same time, the hundred eyes on the heart of Hermanubis shot out beams of light.

Blaze was caught off guard and was knocked out, hitting the face of the Sphinx. This attack directly destroyed most of Blaze's health, but under the Moon God Curse activated by Amaterasu, he recovered in a breath.

"A hidden attack mode appears at this time?" Blaze patted the gravel on his body and looked around. He was suddenly blasted into the face of the Sphinx and accidentally broke the nose of the Sphinx.

"Sorry, man."

"Is an apology all you need?" The Sphinx slowly opened one eye.

……

[Thief's Heart LV100]

[Legend has it that Hermes used stories and the sound of a shepherd's flute to make the hundred-eyed giant Argus fall asleep, and when all of Argus' hundred eyes closed, he cut off Argus' head.]

The heart's 100 eyes will close times upon appearance, adding a sleeping state to all surrounding objects. When all eyes are closed, a lethal amount of sleeping state will be imparted to all objects.

This process cannot be stopped or dispelled.

Chapter 611 It’s obvious that he is here to cause trouble!

Blaze was extremely embarrassed and apologized to the Sphinx whose nose was broken. He just thought this was cool, but he didn't expect the Sphinx to actually open its eyes and attack him.

In fact, Blaze was not surprised that the Sphinx was alive. After all, the end of the entire three-dimensional maze was in front of the Sphinx. Who knows what was special about this Sphinx.

The next step is awkward. Should I stay in front of the Sphinx and struggle with it, or go deal with Hermanubis over there?

They must be going to deal with Hermanubis, but the Sphinx was placed together with the body of Hermanubis and the dog statue, so it might know something related. If they just left like that, the Sphinx might get angry.

Fortunately, the Sphinx was very considerate and saw Blaze's dilemma, so he spoke very considerately.

"I might know how to help you defeat Hermanubis, so you'd better give priority to my feelings, otherwise..."

The Sphinx has one eye closed and the corner of its mouth is raised.

"Anyway, you should kneel respectfully in front of me. Considering your status, you only need to kneel on one knee."

For some reason, the usually polite Blaze could only utter one sentence when he looked at the Sphinx's noseless face.

This guy is really cheap.

"I see." Blaze nodded, turned around and exchanged places with the stranger.

This is also a very normal operation. Now the stranger is affected by the heart of Hermanubis and is forced to sleep. It is he who should fight against Hermanubis as he possesses [Transformation Z].

The stranger has experience in dealing with all kinds of difficulties, and he will definitely be able to torture the Sphinx's mouth faster than him who is not good at talking... Please find the answer.

After exchanging positions, all players came to the front of the Sphinx.

Their situation is not optimistic.

There are constantly more and more mocking eye icons in the status bar. With each increase, the delay between the body and consciousness will increase a little.

When the number increases to 100, the person will fall directly into death sleep, which means instant death.

It's not surprising that a god-level BOSS has an instant-kill mechanism. What's more troublesome than this instant death is that the eye symbol takes up the gain state.

[Buff] is a necessary element in any game, and it is something that must be learned. A player's combat effectiveness is directly linked to the buff, apart from the skill. Many wheelchair combinations or large-scale nuclear explosions also require the buff state brought by skills.

Godlock is very generous, allowing players to impose a maximum of one hundred buff states on themselves. Some players often appreciate the buff icons in the status bar in order to feel satisfied.

But now Hermanubis' countdown to kill can just eat up a hundred gain positions, so they are not only facing the countdown to death, but also feeling their attributes weakening little by little.

Everyone here can use their skills to kill the BOSS even if they have no first-level attributes, so having their gains swallowed up is not a big problem.

But if the gain bar is occupied and combined with the countdown to kill, it will be fatal.

Even though they were experienced in battle, they still felt a little impatient and angry.

However, the Sphinx did not notice any of this, but turned a blind eye to it leisurely, and its tone was still quite unfriendly.

"Humans from another world, if you want to get what you want to know from me, you will have to pay a price. One of them is your dignity. Come, kneel down before me."

The corner of Dali Feizhuan's eye twitched. Even Amaterasu's attitude was not so arrogant and bad. He looked around and found that the people around him were communicating with their eyes.

This is a free world, your sincere efforts can be exchanged for sincerity, and even miracles... In short, if you treat NPCs as living people, give them respect and love, you will be rewarded by skipping all task processes.

Conversely, using violence can also skip the process, but it usually leads to very bad consequences.

Under normal circumstances, Dali Feibrick would never use this trick under any circumstances. That is the style of the murderous players next to him. Only a real man can stick to his bottom line in special times.

"Alas—" Dali Feizhuan sighed deeply and turned his back. Then several others followed suit and turned their backs.

If the righteous turn around, just like a statue turning its back, then the demons and monsters will have no taboos.

"Hey, Sphinx, are you going to surrender?" The lion orc Huo Luo crossed his arms across his chest, looking intimidating without even getting angry.

"What can you do to me? Do you still want to hit me?" The Sphinx was complacent and provocative.

"Okay, hit me!"

The members of Azazel rushed forward, changed their weapons to hammers and swung them directly. The Sphinx could no longer turn a blind eye, because there was a person who was very unhappy with this wasteful behavior of turning a blind eye, and directly knocked out the closed eyes.

"My eyes! You fools—my hands!"

"Smash it! Turn it into a lucky cat!"

"Ahhh-"

Blaze's ears pricked up as he heard the Sphinx's rather shrill screams behind him. It was obvious that the strangers had begun to resort to violence.

But Blaze did not intend to stop it. It was not that he did not sympathize with the Sphinx that was subjected to inhuman violence, but the screams did not sound like pain, but more like a cat screaming while being forced to take a bath.

Judging from the sound, the Sphinx will probably confess honestly in a while.

"Recruit or not!"

"I admit it!"

The lion beastman Huo Luo raised his hand in satisfaction, signaling everyone to stop.

"If you had confessed earlier, you wouldn't have to suffer all this physical pain!"

Huo Luo, the lion beastman, was very proud because he had pried open the mouth of the Sphinx. People around him who knew his true identity were whispering to each other, wondering if this guy also investigated cases in the real world in this way.

The Sphinx, whose appearance has been drastically changed into a muscular-armed lucky cat, is in tears. It has never seen such a gangster. If it continues to be stubborn, it will definitely be treated inhumanely.

To be honest, it has already become a wimp.

But it still gritted its teeth and said the next words.

"As long as you answer my questions, I will tell you what you want to know!"

"Hey! What a tough nut!" The lion beastman glared, picked up the sledgehammer and wanted to continue making changes.

"I will transform you into an Armstrong Spinning Armstrong Cannon!"

"Wait, it has already made concessions!" Dali Feizhuan quickly reached out to stop the lion beastman Huo Luo.

"Tell me your puzzle."

"Please prove that for every positive integer, if it is an odd number, multiply it by 3 and add 1; if it is an even number, divide it by 2, and repeat this cycle, and you will eventually get 1."

"It's obvious that he's here to cause trouble!"

Chapter 612: Soft persimmon, hard stubble

【The Sphinx】

[The huge living stone statue in the center of the three-dimensional maze. Walk solemnly in front of it and accept its test. Those who pass it will have hope of survival.]

[The difficulty of the puzzle will fluctuate according to the number of steps the testee walks. The more steps the testee walks, the easier the puzzle will be.]

"When I see each of your faces, a question will appear in my mind. Only when you solve this question will the solution appear in my mind."

The Sphinx tried hard to explain, hoping to gain the understanding of these hooligans.

"It's no use for you to hit me. This is the ability I was given. It's not up to me to decide."

Dali Feizhuan was now completely out of temper. He, a man who had walked honestly for a while, was facing problems that were as difficult as those that were deliberately looking for trouble, not to mention the others who flew directly over.

According to the normal process, they should first get the information about Hermanubis from the Sphinx, and then attack Hermanubis.

As a result, they were attracted by the dog-beast statue and skipped all the steps and the Sphinx to pull out the statue, awakening Hermanubis.

In this situation, it is simply a brainless decision to [SKIP], and the highest difficulty is selected by default.

It’s an old trick, but I still repeat it every time.