Meeting Up with Athena

By the time Yota and the others arrived at the Wailing Wall, less than half an hour had actually passed since they entered the Underworld.

Meanwhile, over in the Pure Land, the two sides were engaged in a fierce battle.

Although the Death God and Sleep God had found a way to separate the twelve Gold Saints, they were still no match for Athena, who had three Bronze Saints with her.

The Bronze Saints were one thing. Without going through countless near-death battles, Seiya and the others were merely Saints at the peak of the Seventh Sense. Since they had never faced enough pressure, they had no way to break through into the Eighth Sense.

But this Athena was simply too fierce! A casual swing of her staff had nearly sent the Twin Gods of Death and Sleep straight to their graves. In the end, the two had only barely managed to stand back up through sheer willpower and loyalty to Hades.

Ever since the Holy War against Sanctuary began, the Twin Gods of Death and Sleep had always faced the Saints as supreme demon kings. This time, they finally understood how those Saints who faced them had felt.

Fortunately, Pandora moved quickly on the other side. She swiftly awakened Hades's divine soul within Andromeda Shun, allowing the leader of their side to finally join the battle.

Then Hades, borrowing Shun's body and changing into a Divine Cloth, was about to fight when he put on a performance for Athena and the others of what it meant to fight himself.

Normally, with Hades's power, merging with or erasing an ordinary person's divine soul would not have been difficult. But if that person was a Saint at the peak of the Seventh Sense, or even a Saint who could enter the