They laughed as they leaped forward and charged, using their superb martial skill to leave wounds across the four warhorses. As the horses roared in fury, they nimbly weaved around them, clearing the obstacles from their king's path.
Berserker drew his longbow expressionlessly. Bronze arrows transformed into monstrous birds that, in myth, laid waste to everything around them, attacking man and beast alike. They had bronze claws and beaks, and their hard bronze feathers shook loose in the sky like sharp swords.
The sword-like feathers fell from the sky, tearing apart several unprepared warriors. The monstrous birds circled overhead with bloodcurdling cries. As pets of the war god Ares, they instinctively thirsted for blood.
Among the crowd opposite, a handsome youth drew his bowstring. A silver-white streak traced a perfect arc through the sky, piercing the lead monstrous bird through the heart before continuing onward to impale another behind it.
Enraged by the sudden attack, the monstrous birds spread their wings and beat them wildly. One sharp feather after another rained down upon the bow-wielding youth, intending to crush him to pieces.
Dozens of warriors raised their shields together, forming an impregnable wall before the youth. Many feathers tore through the shields and embedded themselves in the warriors' bodies. Yet they did not move, as if the shafts lodged in their flesh were merely acupuncture needles.
The King of the Underworld's three-headed hound roared forward. It had three heads and a serpent's tail, while the fur on its heads and back consisted entirely of coiled venomous snakes. Wherever the venom it spat from its mouths landed, poisonous grass sprouted. Unlike the previous monsters, Cerberus was the offspring of Typhon, progenitor of monsters, and the serpent-bodied Echidna. It was a true Divine Beast, a servant of Hades, the King of the