Supported by the general, Hippolyta rose to her feet and looked at Leon with a complicated expression.
"Do you know who they are?"
Leon nodded and pointed at the pilot JARVIS was holding. "They're German soldiers, here to hunt down this spy."
"Soldiers..." Hippolyta frowned.
These waters had been peaceful for thousands of years.
Now, the peace of this secluded paradise had been shattered.
Perhaps it signaled that a crisis was about to descend upon Themyscira.
That crisis might come from Ares, the God of War, or perhaps from the Mother Box Zeus had left behind...
Or perhaps from the young man standing before her.
"Soldiers! They're soldiers? Does that mean war has broken out in the outside world again?" Diana suddenly cried out.
She was still standing beside Leon, her arms crossed.
Diana had only awakened her divine power today.
Even she had yet to figure out what was happening.
But if Leon had not intervened just now...
Then, driven by the shock of her companion's death, Diana would certainly have unleashed tremendous divine power and stopped the shell.
Yet now, she was merely holding an odd pose, her face full of stern seriousness.
"That's right. A world war is being fought outside, and the death toll has already approached ten million."
Leon raised the notebook he had searched from the pilot.
"The poison gas recorded in this notebook is a weapon of war that one of the nations intends to use. It will slaughter civilians and soldiers indiscriminately."
At Leon's description, Diana's brows immediately shot up.
"Massacring humans? Ares must be behind this!" she declared with certainty.
Then she turned and looked resolutely at Hippolyta. "Mother, Ares has definitely appeared!"
"After hiding for so long since Zeus defeated him, he has finally shown his claws again."
"Only he