Hao Ren had anticipated this situation long before Athena asked the question. After all, the issue was obvious—Demon Hunters covered the mountains outside, and even a mosquito that had drunk Olympus blood would be shot down and hacked into pieces. Under a lockdown this insane, three people who did not look particularly powerful (?) had swaggered all the way from the Human world to the very center of the encirclement, then spent ages tearing down the wall at the temple's back entrance. Without an explanation, it was practically a fantasy story...
Though a bunch of people who had lived in the Mythical Era were already pretty fantastical themselves.
For Hao Ren, answering the question was not difficult either—he could just bluff his way through it. After all, everyone before him was visibly doomed to die (and had already died in history), so he did not need to worry about them investigating anything afterward...
"We came here through the Underworld," Hao Ren began with the complete truth, but what followed was only half true. "Demon Hunters lose interest in places they have already swept through, so there were no enemies along the route from the Underworld to Hades's temple. We also broke Cronus's seal in the Underworld and somehow lured him into the Demon Hunters' position, which caused tremendous chaos. In addition, we have some special abilities that can affect the Demon Hunters' senses to a certain degree. That was how we managed to cross the entire battlefield in the confusion..."
"Cronus..." Poseidon's expression changed the moment he heard that name. Clearly, he had remembered some terrifying incident from many years ago. "No wonder. No wonder the Demon Hunters were acting so strangely... Cough, cough..."
Hao Ren looked strangely at the "God of the Sea and Storms," who appeared extremely imposing