The roars coming from deep within Tartarus and the powerful pressure that was almost condensing into something tangible were growing increasingly violent. The oppressive force was so intense that even Hao Ren and Hassu could not help being moved. Lily reacted when she heard the name, then remembered who Cronus meant. "You mean Zeus's old man?"
"Who else could it be?" Hassu's face remained expressionless, but the emotion in his single eye was clearly terrible. "The depths of Tartarus are one enormous prison. After it was confirmed that this space couldn't serve any further purpose, Zeus locked his mad giant father in here... That guy is an absolute disaster!"
As if echoing Hassu's words, another roar suddenly exploded from deep underground. Immediately afterward, a powerful energy fluctuation burst from somewhere beneath the surface. A dark-red bolt of lightning shot out from the collapsed ruins somewhere in the Bronze Palace, instantly smashing a towering spire in half. The falling debris weathered into ash in midair!
Hao Ren was stunned. He looked at Hassu in disbelief. "Why is this giant still alive? When your Holy Church army left this place, how did you leave this menace behind?"
Hassu's tone was utterly helpless. "Because killing him would have been an unnecessary expenditure. Cronus was imprisoned in the deepest cell of the Underworld. He couldn't get out, and even if we wanted to kill him, we would first have had to spend enormous effort dismantling the cell. That would have seriously disrupted the rhythm of the entire assault. Our original plan was simply to kill Hades. Then, after destroying the Olympus Control Center, the entire otherworldly structure—including Olympus and the Underworld—would be torn apart by the spacetime storm. Cronus would naturally die in his cage at that point. You have to understand, in the