Billions of Meteors

Within the billowing dust, the Flame Demon Sword pulled from the rock crevice rang out in exhilaration. A figure with short black hair and Cross Star Pupils stepped across the battlefield reduced to scorched earth, drifting gracefully toward them.

"Sorry I was late..."

"Not early, not late. Just in time."

Leonidas laughed heartily amid the ruins. He immediately raised his hand and tightly clasped the outstretched one, knocking aside two incoming arrows with his shield before bumping shoulders and embracing the comrade he had reunited with across time and space.

"Haha, what luck. If I'm going to die alongside this muscle-bound man, I should at least find a proper beauty."

Caesar slapped at his clothes, now reduced to strips of cloth, and leaped nimbly from the rubble with his golden sword in hand. Dodging the incoming spell projectiles, he delivered his cheerful complaint in an upbeat tone.

However, when the Roman Emperor waved away the dust before him and saw that solitary figure, his smug smile froze.

"Uh, King Theseus, where is Athens's army?"

"They're still in the Chaos Sea, held up by the Persian fleet. I was worried, so I came ahead on my own."

"Venus, spare me. After waiting all this time, I still have to go meet Pluto with you two sweaty men."

"Not necessarily! As long as we hold Hot Spring Pass and wait for the Greek fleet to encircle them from the sea, then who is the prey and who is the hunter remains to be seen. The Persians should be the ones feeling nervous!"

Samael answered thoughtfully, his expression calm. His Cross Star Pupils opened, taking in the entire battlefield. With a nimble turn of his wrist, the Flame Demon Sword in his palm swept out in an arcing path wrapped in an Aether