Hydra
The Hydra may have spread fear and nervousness again, but just as before, in the blink of an eye, its heads were cut off, blood spewing, painting the sky red, and once again, the Hydra's body fell to the ground.
However, the Hydra still didn't give up, and once again, the healing factor kicked in. Now it had 60 heads and even more rage. However, this time, it couldn't even roar. Its heads flew once more, separated from its body.
This repeated many times. Midas, who was initially happy to see a glimmer of hope, began to grow desperate as time passed. Sweat trickled down his forehead, and his heart raced like a drum. He could feel his own blood coursing through his body.
An interesting fact about this Hydra was that after it reached three hundred heads, they weren't multiplying when severed. Instead, it was regrowing the heads and getting larger. By now, it must have been around 200 meters tall.
The soldiers, who should have been rejoicing in their victory, were now unable to even feel their legs. Some had fallen. It was impossible for a human to face a monster like this.
Inmo twirled his lance between his fingers as he waited for the Hydra to recover. He wanted to see how far this would go. When he noticed that the heads were back to normal, his right arm, which held the lance, blurred, and once again, the Hydra's heads were severed.
But the harsh truth was that after the hundredth time, Inmo was already bored. The Hydra seemed tired too, as it had been attempting to escape for the last forty beheadings. However, it couldn't fly more than a few meters off the ground before its lifeless body crashed, causing tremors.
During this, Inmo had another idea. Seeing the monster recover and try to flee, he didn't attack, but he accelerated. In seconds, he found himself on one of the Hydra's heads. The handle of his lance rested against the Hydra's head without causing any harm. However, for the monster, it felt like an electric shock running through its head, spreading through its entire body. Its muscles tensed in anticipation of the pain that would follow. However, this time, Inmo didn't sever its heads, much to the Hydra's relief.
Soon, a voice communicated with the Hydra, offering it a chance to live. Inmo thought that his Empire still lacked a Guardian, and what could be better than a hundreds-of-meters-tall Hydra with three hundred heads?
Inmo made the proposal to spare the monster's life in exchange for servitude. The Hydra agreed, so he used his divine powers to create a seal for control and prevent it from harming his people when he wasn't around. Afterward, he provided the Hydra with directions on where to go.
Then he reappeared on the wall next to Franky, explaining what had happened. He instructed Franky to relay this information to the Council of Observers. Meanwhile, everyone watched as the Hydra rapidly disappeared into the horizon.
Finally, the war had ended. It took a while for the soldiers to realize what had happened, and they breathed sighs of relief. Undoubtedly, this would be an event remembered for the rest of their lives.
But for the quartet, things weren't over; they were just beginning.
With the war over, the kingdom had to deal with the bodies and the destruction. Some days later, the quartet managed to meet Midas, who had been captured. Inmo had touched him, turning his skin to gold, but his body had soon adapted, ignoring the magic and returning to normal. He imprisoned Midas, leaving him in the castle's dungeons.
When they met Midas, Diana wasted no time using her Lasso of Truth to extract the information she wanted from him. Now, with his mind affected by the visions of what had happened in the war, Midas was easily influenced by the Lasso's magic and offered no resistance.
He revealed everything he knew about the gods. Midas had gained his powers thanks to Dionysus. In exchange, the god wanted Midas to kill as many humans as possible and bring calamity to the human race. Over time, Midas learned that a war was raging in the underworld. Hades was at war with other deities, and Dionysus wanted to increase Hades' powers because, with so many souls in the underworld, Hades' power would grow stronger.
For some reason, Dionysus couldn't attack humans personally, but he never revealed the reason to Midas.
Inmo thought it might be fear of getting caught by him. Life has its own jokes.
Everything was going well, according to plan. Midas's hordes were only taking a portion of the souls of the dead to turn them into the undead, while the rest went to the underworld. Until recently, when the souls began to escape and return to the world of the living, Midas couldn't reach Dionysus and grew fearful. He decided to use the escaping souls to bolster his army until Dionysus appeared.
And all of this had brought him to this point, where his entire army was wiped out, and he was captured. In the end, Diana managed to extract important information, a clue to the entrance of the underworld. So they concluded the interrogation and withdrew to discuss it.
Midas's fate would be decided by the King, and they wouldn't interfere. They had what they had come for. After a discussion, the group decided to pursue the entrance to the underworld in a few days.
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