A fierce wind whipped up the cloaks of No. 03 and No. 04, revealing two stern, impassive divine faces.
No. 03 was tall and slender, gripping a golden staff entwined with two serpents. He pointed it toward the King Turtle below, and several dazzling Golden Pillars of Light descended from the sky, pinning the King Turtle to the surface of the sea.
No. 04 reached out and clenched his hand in empty air. A massive hammer over three meters tall fell into his grasp. His flame-like beard streamed through the air as his figure flashed, transforming into a streak of light that appeared directly above the King Turtle!
Locked in place by the Golden Pillars of Light, the King Turtle struggled violently. Churning seawater rolled up waves over a hundred meters high, while countless vines seemed to come alive and shot rapidly toward the sky!
No. 04 snorted coldly and raised his enormous hammer. Blazing flames wrapped around its head like a fiercely burning sun, and with a swing, he smashed it into the vines that filled the sky!
Boom—!!
No. 04 shot like a meteor through the encircling vines and crashed down upon the turtle shell.
Witnessing the pressure of two gods attacking at full force firsthand, the faces of the twenty-odd agents turned utterly grim.
Back at Notre Dame Cathedral, all of them had fought with everything they had, only to be defeated by No. 04 in a few hammer blows. Now, seeing the momentum of two gods joining forces filled the agents with even greater despair.
"They're gods of Olympus." No. 22 stood among the crowd and spoke hoarsely. "Hermes, god of travel and theft; Hephaestus, god of fire and forging... Damn it, I never should have gotten involved in this mess!"
No. 22's face was filled