Diana left the building, turned through two or three intersections downstairs, and soon arrived at a retro-style café not far from home.
It was around dinnertime, so there were not many people in the café. Diana spotted the person she had arranged to meet at a glance.
In a quiet corner by the café window sat a middle-aged woman in her early forties, with long, slightly curled hair and sunglasses.
"Ma'am, what would you like?"
Tall and fashionable, Diana immediately became the center of attention in the café. Even the young female server found her striking, politely approaching with a notepad in her arms.
"A cup of hot coffee will do." Diana smiled in reply and gracefully took the seat across from the woman in sunglasses.
"Diana Prince, it has been a long time." The middle-aged woman removed her sunglasses, her eyes colder than winter itself.
Diana nodded lightly. "It really has been a long time, Barbara Minerva." Seeing this former colleague, friend, and enemy again left her with complicated feelings.
"More than twenty years have passed, yet you still look exactly the same. You haven't aged at all. Is that what one should expect from a god's descendant?" Barbara gave a faint laugh, gazing at Diana's perfect, familiar face before mocking herself. "Ever since I lost Cheetah's abilities and got older, crow's feet have inevitably appeared on my face. My body has sagged and gone out of shape day by day, and my skin is no longer as tough and elastic as it used to be."
"You still can't let go of what happened back then?"
Diana frowned slightly and asked bluntly, "So that was why you secretly slipped those old photos of me into my house?"
Barbara leaned back and could not help laughing. "We haven't even caught up, and you're getting right to the point already? It seems you care a great deal about that child."
Diana neither confirmed nor denied it, saying seriously, "He is just an ordinary person."
"Exactly. That is why I put those photos there."
A trace of mockery appeared on Barbara's face. "You are a goddess standing above all others, capable of flying through the skies and burrowing into the earth, immortal and ageless. Yet after all these years, you adopted an ordinary human child? What are you doing, trying to completely integrate into our human world? Don't make me laugh!!"
By the end, she had slammed both hands onto the table and risen to her feet, glaring at Diana with boundless resentment and fury.
Diana remained composed, her long legs tilted and pressed together. Even seated quietly in her chair, Barbara could not shake her commanding presence in the slightest.
She fell silent for a moment before speaking softly. "I had once been utterly disappointed in humanity. I held no hope for them."
"What are you talking about?" Barbara's face was full of confusion, but she ultimately sat back down.
Diana glanced at the snow-covered street outside the window and continued, "Until that Christmas night sixteen years ago..."
"What's wrong with me?"
Xi Nian stared at his hands in disbelief. He tried stabbing his arm with a metal knife and fork, only to find his skin unbelievably tough. Even when he exerted force, he felt only the faintest trace of pain, while the sharp tips of the utensils bent before his skin did!
He suddenly remembered that his aunt had never been injured in all the years he had known her.
"No way."
Xi Nian seemed to understand everything in an instant. As if sensing something, he looked up, and naturally saw the ceiling of his own living room.
Yet the ceiling, which had always been simple and empty in his memory, now had several impossible objects hanging prominently in its center: a Silver Longsword, a Dark Gold Round Shield, and a set of women's armor brimming with a wild aura.
All of these mysterious objects that should not have existed were strung together by a Golden Rope that flickered in and out of sight. At either end were tied an unusual and luxurious crown, silver bracelets, and golden greaves!
"It isn't that they never existed," Xi Nian murmured.
Perhaps they had always been there. He simply could not see them before, while now he could.
Xi Nian subconsciously reached upward. The instant his fingertips touched the Golden Rope hanging in midair, the rope immediately shifted from solid to intangible until it vanished completely.
"Hm?"
Xi Nian suddenly realized something was wrong. The sword and shield that had been suspended by the rope, along with the armor, all began falling freely the moment the Golden Rope disappeared into nothingness!
Xi Nian was a little dumbfounded, but his reflexes and speed had already become extraordinary. He immediately reached out to catch them, his movements nearly turning into afterimages.
What caught him even more off guard and drove him crazy was that the moment his hands caught the crown and silver bracelets, they seemed to merge directly into his body, fastening themselves onto his forehead and wrists respectively.
???
Xi Nian's mind went blank as he looked at the women's armor already in his grasp. He could foresee what was about to happen—
Not this. Please, not this!!
No matter how strongly Xi Nian resisted inwardly.
The next instant.
Xi Nian still inevitably changed into the armor's top and short skirt. The clothes he had been wearing vanished without a trace, leaving his arms and thighs exposed where the armor did not cover them.
That outfit would be freezing in winter, yet perhaps due to his unusual physique, Xi Nian did not feel cold at all. Instead, after putting on the wild, primitive-looking armor, the blood in his body boiled like magma, and he was overwhelmed by the urge to throw back his head, let out a shout, raise his sword, and charge into battle!
Thump! Thump! Thump!
Xi Nian vaguely heard the sound of drums from some distant ancient age, his blood surging with fervor.
Who was beating drums?
No, Xi Nian suddenly came to his senses. What drums? It was clearly the powerful sound of his own heart beating!
"So hot!"
Xi Nian could not help crying out. Dressed in this armor unique to the Amazons, the abilities in his bloodline also began undergoing a complete awakening.
He felt that inside his body was an indescribable force—or rather, energy—circulating beneath his skin so intensely it was nearly tangible!
Naturally, Xi Nian did not know that what he possessed now was the power of a Demigod!
Sizzle!
The surging, immense Divine Power in his body could not be controlled and had nowhere to vent itself. In the end, it all rushed upward at once.
In the living room, Xi Nian could be seen gritting his teeth, a round shield on his back and a longsword in his hand, while destructive white light seeped from the roots of his jet-black hair.
The white light escaping from only a few strands of hair shattered the nearby lampshades into powder! The Divine Power, nearly condensed into manifest energy, drove his short hair to grow at an incredible speed, turning from black to white as it fell wildly over Xi Nian's lower back, shoulders, and face.
With silver hair draped around him.
Xi Nian was completely stunned. He hurriedly reached for the hem of his skirt, then quickly sighed in relief. Thankfully, his male characteristics were still there.
But his terrible situation had not been resolved. It was still spiraling out of control!
An ordinary person had suddenly gained the power of a Demigod. It was like giving a child the button that launched nuclear missiles!
His first experience with the extraordinary was a steadily worsening collapse!
"I can't stay here any longer. If this continues, I'll destroy everything here!"
Realizing this, Xi Nian lifted a foot to move forward, but his strength was already nothing like before. It was as though he had once pressed down on a bicycle pedal, only for it to be replaced with the pedal of a top-tier sports car. With one careless step, his entire body became an afterimage as he shot forward!
In an instant.
Inside the living room, everything standing in Xi Nian's path—the table, chairs, lamp stands, and more—was smashed to pieces!
His speed did not diminish. Turning into a streak of human-shaped light, he slammed headfirst into the floor-to-ceiling window of the balcony!
Bang!
The window glass shattered at once!!
With no warning whatsoever, Xi Nian flew out of his home on the sixteenth floor!!!
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