An Impassable Wall [Fifth Update! 4.1K!] (Continued)

He still wanted Artemis to be with him.

A Machine God could not fall in love with a human.

If Moran wished to attain happiness, then from the very beginning, he was destined to stand against the Machine Gods.

"The most effective current method of curbing Gorgon's demonic transformation is to gather faith, making the divinity she gains exceed her demonic nature. But that will inevitably lead to the same ending as the previous simulation. And Artemis..."

Moran recalled the night before the decisive battle.

Artemis had wanted him to become hers.

Through that, she could preserve Moran's life.

"There's no way I can choose that either. Even if Artemis uses her authority as a chief god to protect Medusa and me, in the end, we'd only become caged birds completely cut off from every possibility, raised by the gods."

After the second simulation, Moran could not make that choice.

Even if it was merely a simulation.

He was still the king of the Pellasgi.

"Besides, only Artemis has expressed that stance. The gods do not treat Medusa well. If we truly submit to the gods and hand over the power of life and death to them, we'd have to be out of our minds. They can't even control themselves."

Only one path remained in Moran's mind.

It was the hardest path.

There was no way to avoid the gods. In the end, he and the women would all stand against the Olympian gods.

But that could not be a reason to shrink back.

"...Let's begin."

Moran's expression was calm.

No matter how towering the mountain before him was.

He would still try to climb over it.

Otherwise, he would not be able to bear Artemis's trust in him, nor the vows he had once made with the women.

He would seize happiness, even at the very end.

``` Blessing of the Harvest God (B): A blessing bestowed by the goddess who governs the abundance of the earth. She once regarded you as a child who existed only in her ideals. Under this skill's blessing, you possess extremely powerful immortality. Attacks launched by enemies aligned with the earth will be nullified according to the skill's level.

Forced Seal. Temple of All Evils (A+): A form manifested from Medusa's demonic side. You, who also possess demonic blood, can reproduce it. By transforming into a demonic monster, you can dissolve all life within a designated area. Humans will immediately lose their lives, and even gods will be affected.

Territory Creation (B): Ideal City. Pellasgi, built by the people under your guidance. You can establish territories more efficiently.

Skill selection complete.

Greek Heroic Age simulation begins—

You were born upon the sea.

The process unfolded just as it had in the previous simulations.

Moran drifted with the currents onto The Invisible Island, and after spending time together, he became family with the Gorgon Sisters.

With the experience of the first two simulations, your actions became more decisive.

You knew that your enemies in the future would be the gods.

Thus, you made plans for the future very early on.

At the age of twelve, you had already become a renowned hero of The Invisible Island. The news also drew in new Pellasgi people, who, just as in the second simulation, revered Medusa as the Mother Goddess.

At fifteen, you consolidated the worship of Divine Authority on The Invisible Island, established the respective duties of the priests, and gradually completed the construction of the Pellasgi settlements according to your plans.

The faith of the people became highly concentrated.

After ensuring that The Invisible Island could sustain itself, you ultimately chose to leave the island at the age of sixteen.

To oppose the Olympian gods.

You had to leave The Invisible Island to seek a solution. Time was not abundant for you.

After leaving, you chose to travel through Greece.

During your travels, you met the huntress Atalanta. As expected, the two of you became lovers.

Afterward, you also journeyed to Colchis.

There, you likewise fell in love with Medea.

This time, although you had gained considerable fame throughout Greece, the King of Colchis was still not very friendly toward you.

However, his hostility was far less severe than last time.

You understood that he simply could not bear to let his daughter go.

This was the twenty-fifth year since you had been born into this world. While studying magecraft alongside Medea, you seemed to have found a way for the Pellasgi to fight against the gods.

That was the Titans, who had once opposed the Greek gods.

The Olympus Fleet and the Titan Fleet had once fought a war in Greece, and the former ultimately emerged victorious.

Since both sides were Machine Gods.

They should be useful.

Machine Gods should be defeated with Machine Gods.

Moran tried to make that possibility a reality.

His travels through Greece were also meant to find a way to defeat the Machine Gods.

This was indeed the most reliable option available.

Medea's teacher was Hecate.

She had once been a member of the Titan Fleet, but after the Greek gods destroyed her body, the goddess transformed from a Machine God into a Conceptual God and submitted to the Olympus Fleet.

Through her own connections.

Medea introduced you to this former Titan.

Hecate rejected the idea without surprise.

"Even the Titan Fleet, descendants of Chaos like Olympus, could not oppose Olympus. How can a mere human stand against them?!"

"The happiness you desire is too distant, human. You pursue something beyond your grasp. Only by exhausting everything upon this planet might you perhaps defeat Olympus!"

Although Hecate was harsh and cold.

You could see that a fire still burned in her heart.

She had once been a member of the Titan Fleet and had been defeated, forced to submit to the rule of the Olympus Fleet like this.

Perhaps that meant nothing to her when she had been a Machine God.

However, after becoming a Conceptual God, she had gained many emotions and was no longer bound by her body's commands.

In the end, you showed this Titan the will of a hero.

She read the memories you provided.

She witnessed how Zeus's divine body had been defeated by you.

As well as the gods' fate before destiny.

Having once possessed a body, she knew how tragic that was. Her long-cooled desire for revenge ignited once more.

"If you are a hero who refuses to yield like this."

"I am willing to help you. After our brethren were defeated by the Olympus Fleet, fragments of their true bodies scattered throughout Olympus. As one of the Titans, I can guide you to find them."

You successfully gained Hecate's assistance.

Moran's plan proceeded steadily.

You, Medea, and Atalante set out on a long journey.

Using the coordinates of Titan body ruins provided by Hecate, you searched throughout Greece.

Ten years passed. Whenever you found scattered Machine God parts during that time, you ordered the Pellasgi people to transport them back to the kingdom and used Titan authority to block the Olympian gods' scans.

Thus, even if you removed the parts of Titan Machine Gods, the Olympian gods would not notice.

Everything seemed to be progressing steadily.

Because of the Machine God parts you brought back, Pellasgi's overall national strength rapidly improved in secret.

Just as in the second simulation, the kingdom marched toward prosperity.

"At least with the remaining authority and technology of the Titan gods, my people have the strength to fight the gods..."

Moran ran the kingdom according to this principle.

It had been Pellasgi's founding ideal from the very beginning.

They were determined to overcome the war of extinction that would inevitably arrive.

Thirty or forty years had passed since Pellasgi's founding, and you had reached the age of sixty.

Although that already counted as old among humans.

The dense divinity and demonic nature within your body coexisted. Even at fifty, you had remained youthful.

Now, the gods came again.

Drawing on the experience of fighting the coalition armies of four nations last time, you crushed the enemy soldiers with absolute leadership.

Pellasgi displayed overwhelming strength.

Even the gods seated quietly within Olympus's divine temple could not understand why reality differed so greatly from their predictions.

However, they felt that it was still insignificant.

Zeus, the great chief god, descended once more.

Against this enemy who sought to exterminate you, the Pellasgi people had prepared for this decisive battle for decades.

You led this army that defied the gods.

Before the Olympian gods could react, you used the technology and authority of the Titan gods to contend against Zeus's divine body.

"This is the second time I've slain a god..."

Moran flicked the Divine Blood from the Golden Sword.

Behind him followed soldiers clad in mechanical armor.

The suddenly revealed Titan technology.

Caught Zeus's divine body completely off guard.

They had no idea that you had obtained Titan technology, nor that you could actually control it.

Before the dispersal of Zeus's divine body had even ended.

Zeus's own body emerged above the sea.

He wielded lightning to suppress the Pellasgi people clad in Titan armor, and everything seemed futile.

"They are merely Titans whom we once defeated. Even if you humans make use of our brethren, you cannot threaten Olympus!"

Zeus's true body unleashed Divine Might upon the Pellasgi people.

Compared to their earlier annihilation last time.

Pellasgi was more resilient this time, enduring longer before Zeus's true body.

However, that was not your only trump card.

No matter what world it was, as long as you lived in the era where the Moon God existed, she would come to your side.

From the very beginning, Artemis had fought for you.

The sense of déjà vu etched into her heart, along with the memories from the second simulation obtained through memory reading.

Made her realize that she could not suppress her feelings.

Simply seeing the version of herself in those memories alter her authority, wanting only for you to attain happiness, made her envy herself from the bottom of her heart. She accepted those feelings. She deeply loved you.

It was so in every world.

As one of your trump cards, Artemis raised the banner of rebellion and, just as in the previous simulation, pulled the trigger on Zeus.