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By this time, most of the people at the banquet had already left.
Only General Rudolf, the leader of the Ottoman Empire's war effort, sat on a luxurious armchair, filled with resentment, anger, and annoyance, slurping down his drink in a very dejected manner.
"Rudolf, where is Ares?"
After defeating the vast majority of the resistance forces, Diana quickly arrived before Rudolf.
Rudolph took another swig of his drink and looked up at Diana.
A short while later.
Rudolph chuckled mockingly, "Wonder Woman? Ares? That's ridiculous. Do you think this war was started by some so-called god?"
"I have lived my whole life on thin ice, but I never expected that I would be defeated by a religious madman."
"You don't actually think that killing Ares will end the war, do you?"
"Hahahaha, everyone says I'm crazy, that I single-handedly started a world war, but I never expected you to be even crazier than me, hahahaha..."
boom!
Diana, naturally, wouldn't give Rudolf the slightest bit of a friendly look after being mocked.
A brutal knee strike.
Rudolf was sent flying dozens of meters like a tattered sack, crashing into the wall and slid down, spitting out blood.
No ordinary person could withstand a knee strike from Diana.
Even so, Rudolf collapsed to the ground, blood gushing from his mouth like a fountain, but his face still wore an extremely maniacal and ferocious smile.
"Wow, Wonder Woman is amazing! Did she find Ares? Haha, pfft..."
"War is an inevitable part of social development. With the end of the Age of Exploration, the world's interests have been divided up. If war is not waged, the newly emerging interests will dump their goods there."
"Are those old empires, nobles, and merchants necessarily innocent?"
"In this world, everyone is fighting for their own interests, and war has never stopped."
"Your efforts are doomed to failure, haha, we're all crazy, haha, we're all crazy."
After uttering a long string of words as if in a final burst of energy, he seemed to be in a state of near-death experience.
Rudolf soon vomited blood and died.
But after Rudolf's death, Diana fell into a state of confusion.
Diana did not detect Ares's presence on Rudolf.
Furthermore, Rudolf's words caused a great upheaval in Diana's mind.
clap clap clap!
Just as Diana was becoming increasingly confused, a series of crisp claps came from a strange woman wearing a mask in the corner.
Diana felt confused, but she reacted quickly and looked sharply at the other person.
The masked woman, her body hunched over, wore a sinister smile as she said, "Princess Diana from Paradise Island, please allow me to introduce myself."
“Isa Maru, you can also call me Dr. Maru, a follower of the great Hades, the god of the underworld, and a messenger of death on earth.”
Diana raised an eyebrow and said, "Hades, the god of the underworld?"
Dr. Maru smiled shyly and said, "Yes, under His Majesty Hades' guidance, I have developed something called mustard gas, which can easily harvest a person's soul in less than ten minutes."
"Speaking of which, I have to thank Her Highness the Princess. If it weren't for Her Highness's pressure, General Rudolf probably wouldn't have agreed to let me release mustard gas on the battlefield..."
Just as Dr. Naru was speaking.
Diana had already keenly noticed that a yellow poisonous fog was beginning to spread throughout the castle and even in places like the village of Vede and the no-man's-land outside the castle.
"Mustard gas? Do you know what you're doing?"
boom!
Diana moved with lightning speed, grabbing Dr. Naruko by the neck and lifting him into the air.
"Cough cough!" Dr. Maru struggled twice in Diana's grasp before quickly giving up. His smile grew increasingly wicked and eerie as he said, "Of course I know what I'm doing?"
"Everything in this world, everything, eventually leads to death, doesn't it?"
"What a beautiful death."
"Only death is the true meaning of everything."
"Doesn't Your Highness want to end the war? Death—as long as all those greedy and sinful people die, the war will end quickly, won't it?"
Compared to Rudolf, Dr. Maru is the truly evil and insane one.
Diana, deeply disturbed by Dr. Maru's words, felt a chill run through her and threw Dr. Maru's corpse aside.
At that moment, the impact that Rudolf and Dr. Maru had on Diana was immense.
Ryan also stepped out of the shadows at the right time and came to Diana's side.
"Raine, are humans not worth saving?"
"of course not."
"But those people are so greedy; they wage wars and even develop poison gas solely for profit..."
"But even so, there are still many people who deserve to be saved, aren't there?"
Ryan gently embraced Diana, and his tender words quickly brought back some beautiful memories for Diana.
3.1 Diana, whose beliefs had been crumbling, gradually calmed down.
And at this time.
A shadow carrying the aura of death from the underworld rose from the body of the already dead Dr. Maru, and in the blink of an eye, it had transformed into a ferocious human figure more than ten meters tall.
"What an enviable love story, wow!"
"Diana, my dear niece, aren't you going to thank your uncle?"
"Your first lesson after leaving Paradise Island, the gift your uncle prepared for you, do you like it?"
When the avatar of Hades, the god of the underworld, appeared.
The souls of Adolf, Dr. Maru, and others who were already dead also appeared one after another. Along with the poisonous gas that spread for dozens of miles, countless soul figures, all bewildered and lifeless, gathered behind Hades, the god of the underworld.
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If it were just Ares threatening him alone, Hades could completely disregard it.
For a seasoned schemer, plotting against others from behind the scenes is instinctive.
Hades never imagined that becoming a 'villain' and appearing in front of everyone would expose all his ulterior motives.
But when Ares, imbued with the aura of the twelve Olympian gods, forced his way in.
Hades had no choice but to reluctantly agree to Ares's request.
In the trial of the god-slaying weapon, there must ultimately be a significant figure to serve as cannon fodder.
Especially Ares, who inexplicably grew a brain.
This greatly troubled Hades, who had no choice but to send out an avatar, who appeared mentally challenged, to provoke Diana.
And then Hades appeared.
Diana quickly broke free from Raine's embrace, holding a shield in one hand and a sword in the other, her gaze sharp as she looked at Hades.
"So you orchestrated all of this? To collect souls and instigate the war?"
"No, no, no, my dear 15th niece, greed and war are inherent human vices, not worth saving. Besides, what evil thoughts could I, a King of the Underworld, possibly have..."
Whether humanity is worth saving is not for you to decide; only they themselves can decide.
"So, my dear niece, are you going to stop your uncle?"
"That's right, Hades, you should go back to your hell."
Diana's understanding and self-regulation abilities were quite remarkable.
After a brief period of confusion and vulnerability, the sight of Hades quickly ignited his fighting spirit, and he launched a fierce attack on Hades.
The two figures, one large and one small, quickly entered into a fierce, bloody battle.
Meanwhile, in a mirrored space...
Raine and Ares stood side by side, watching the battle between Diana and Hades in the castle.
It took quite a while.
Renn spoke up, "Brother-in-law, do all the Olympian gods undergo such trials after reaching adulthood? Isn't it too cruel to destroy and rebuild a person's beliefs through war, death, and battle?"
This kind of trial, which comes as a bolt from the blue, is very useful, but it is also very inhumane.
The shock of shattered beliefs is something not everyone can withstand.
If you can get through this trial and shock, it can rebuild your beliefs and make you more courageous and determined.
But if you can't get through it, it will leave a shadow in your heart, or even form a mental demon.
Especially for the Olympian gods, who are long-lived beings with great power, once they develop inner demons, the torment over a long period of time could very likely lead to the emergence of various abnormalities and madmen.