Chapter 455: Getting Close to You Makes It Easy to Get Struck by Lightning

Everyone knows their own situation.

Ares knew better than anyone what kind of virtue his own old man possessed.

To put it without exaggeration, if you casually bumped into the bloodline of an Olympus deity outside, eight or nine times out of ten it had a blood relation with Zeus, and the remaining one or two couldn’t escape a relationship with Poseidon and that bunch of Greek gods.

The reputation of the gods of Olympus was completely ruined by these guys.

Ares was very disdainful of this, although his own reputation wasn’t much better.

Taking advantage of the gap where Barry Allen drew away all the thunder, Darian gripped the Spear of Longinus, his figure flashing to rush in front of Ares, raising the spear to fiercely thrust out.

Ares had just experienced the piercing characteristics of the Spear of Longinus and knew that any defense in front of it was merely nominal. Unwilling to take it head-on, he flew back to put distance between himself and Darian, while raising his arm to summon thunder once again.

The dark clouds in the sky surged in response, strong light flashed, dazzling thunder crossed the firmament, and rolling peals of thunder crashed down, targeting straight at Barry Allen… who was running wildly below.

Ares: “.”

Watching another large patch of thunder join the team hunting him down, Barry Allen’s face turned green.

“You guys fight your own fight, why keep targeting me!?”

Darian sneered and mocked: “To think you are a dignified God of War, yet you only know how to hide in the distance and cast lightning. If you have the guts, come over and engage in close combat with me for three hundred rounds!”

“Since you are courting death, I will grant your wish!”

Provoked by these words, Ares’s face darkened, and he grabbed a giant axe and lunged toward Darian.

“Well come!”

Darian gave a loud shout, bracing the Spear of Longinus as he met him head-on, looking like he was ready for a hard-hitting confrontation.

As a result, halfway through flying out, he suddenly raised his arm, and a strong light lit up on the palm of the ultron armor. A golden energy beam blasted out head-on, accurately hitting Ares’s chest and blasting him flying directly.

Ares: “???”

Didn’t we agree on close combat, why are you still bringing cannons into this!?

Before he could snap out of it, Darian had already closed in.

The Spear of Longinus tore through the air, its spear tip wrapped in golden light, instantly turning into a sky-filling shadow of spears pressing down overwhelmingly, crisscrossing tightly and sealing off all of Ares’s retreats.

Not only that, dozens of black tentacles drilled out from beneath Darian, resembling a Thousand-Handed Guanyin, holding various weapons—both cold weapons and hot weapons were present—all launching attacks against Ares.

Caught off guard, Ares didn’t have time to respond to such multi-angular attacks. Instantly, wounds of all sizes appeared on his massive body, and blood splattered everywhere.

“Despicable!”

Ares was so angry that he swore profusely, not knowing whether he was cursing Darian for launching a sneak attack or for saying it was a one-on-one, only to bring dozens of weapons to gang up on him alone.

Darian didn’t feel guilty at all.

He was a companion of justice after all, naturally standing on the high ground of morality. Dealing with crooked ways like Ares by using a tiny bit of tactics would only make everyone clap and cheer, giving a thumbs up to praise him as clever and flexible.

In contrast, Ares got anxious and started cursing after taking a couple of hits; it was simply the bearing of a petty person.

However, Ares was the God of War after all; having experienced wars big and small, he possessed incomparable combat experience.

After the initial messiness, he quickly stabilized his rhythm. With a roll of his blood qi, the wounds on his body healed rapidly, and the giant axe in his hand swung with a howling sound, resisting Darian’s onslaught and even beginning to counterattack step by step.

The spear tip and the giant axe collided, erupting into a deafening metallic clanging sound, even suppressing the thunder in the sky.

The speed of their exchange was extremely fast; one could only see two streaks of light, one golden and one red, colliding at high speeds in the air. Two distinct energies erupted frequently, impacting all directions and dyeing half the sky into a gold-and-red mixed color.

Everyone on the battlefield stopped their hands, tilting their heads up to watch the battle in the sky, feeling extremely shocked.

Unknowingly, the protagonists of this war had already swapped.

It was no longer Diana and Arthur, nor the Amazon and Atlantis, but the two deities Darian and Ares.

The human side looked at the heaven-destroying and earth-shattering commotion in the sky, feeling a bit desperate in their hearts.

Could it be that today this little broken sphere had to explode no matter what?

High in the air, Ares gathered strength for a heavy axe chop down. Darian horizontally braced his spear to block it, while his eyes suddenly burst out with golden electric light, shooting out along both sides of the axe blade and directly bombarding Ares’s face.

As Darian’s line of sight turned, the golden electric light swept back and forth, burning Ares’s face and eyes with a wave of intense pain.

“Ah!!”

Ares let out a painful roar, instinctively closing his eyes tightly.

Taking this opportunity, Darian raised his spear and launched a flurry of fierce stabs at Ares, poking dozens of bloody holes in his body in the blink of an eye.

The weapons held by those tentacles also followed with a bout of indiscriminate hacking and shooting; although their power couldn’t compare to the Spear of Longinus, they couldn’t withstand the sheer quantity, instantly adding quite a few more injuries to Ares and making him look utterly wretched to the extreme.

Ares was both shocked and angry.

How many years had it been since he had ever been in such a wretched state.

If it were placed in a peaceful era, being beaten when his power was weak would be one thing.

But now he had instigated such a massive world War, gaining an unprecedented boost in power in recent years. If he were still beaten like this, wouldn’t his power have been boosted for nothing?

“Enough!”

Ares roared wildly, a pillar of blood qi bursting out from his body, mixing with telekinesis like a tsunami sweeping away in all directions, directly sending Darian flying.

At the same time, his body expanded rapidly once again. His height, which was already close to three meters, was forcefully elevated to five meters, muscles bulging like small hills, and his entire body exuding a suffocating sense of oppression.

The armor on his body also grew thicker and heavier, and the giant axe in his hand surged accordingly, a size larger than Darian’s entire person, with thick blood light coagulating on the axe blade as if blood could drip out at any moment.

Ares’s figure flickered, instantly appearing in front of Darian, snatching up the giant axe and smashing it down with a bang.

Before the axe blade even landed, the violent wind pressure rushed over first. The surrounding clouds were directly torn apart, and the entire sky looked as if it were about to be split in two by this single axe.

Boom!!

With a heaven-shaking loud bang, the blood qi suddenly exploded, dyeing the entire sky a dark red.

Within the blood-red light, a black shadow smashed diagonally toward the ground.

Darian was wrapped in a golden shield all over, crashing through building wreckage one after another like a cannonball, finally smashing heavily onto the ground, sliding over a hundred meters against the ground before stopping, plowing a deep ravine in the ruins with smoke and dust rolling up.

“Hiss… That packs a real punch.”

Darian propped himself up from the gravel pile using the Spear of Longinus, the effects of several layers of armor on his body completely shattered, and even his health dropped by a chunk.

As the God of War, the more intense the war was, the stronger Ares’s power became.

And the battle between them simply pulled the gold content of this war to its peak, equivalent to stacking a higher buff for Ares, pushing his power up another flight of stairs.

Before Darian could catch his breath, the top of his head suddenly darkened, and a huge shadow loomed over.

Ares, wrapped in blood qi, plummeted straight down from high altitude, his giant axe heading straight for the top of his head.

Darian instantly dodged to the side. The giant axe smashed heavily into the ground, instantly cracking dense fissures into the ground, and large chunks of rock churned up from underground.

Before these rocks could land, Ares’s eyes narrowed, urging telekinesis to control all the rocks, which then rapidly gathered towards Darian in the air, condensing into a round boulder over a dozen meters wide in the blink of an eye, sealing Darian tightly inside.

“Die!”

A ferocious light was completely revealed in Ares’s eyes. Holding the axe handle with both hands, he snatched the giant axe high up and chopped it right down the middle of the boulder, just like splitting a watermelon.

And Darian was the melon flesh inside.

The giant axe cleaved deeply into the rock, looking as if juices were about to splash everywhere.

Boom!!

With an extremely muffled loud bang.

The giant axe suddenly stopped mid-air, unable to chop down even a fraction further.

Ares’s pupils suddenly constricted.

Only to see a huge silver gauntlet reaching out from the rock crevice, its five fingers tightly gripping the axe blade, refusing to budge no matter how hard he exerted force.

In his shocked gaze, the entire boulder exploded with a boom.

Amidst the splashing gravel, a giant slightly smaller than him walked out, wearing a pair of heavy silver gauntlets on both hands. His whole body had an exaggerated amount of muscles, and even the ultron armor was stretched tight, making him look like a muscular freak.

The moment he was sealed inside the rock just now, Darian directly gave himself an injection of super steroid. His muscles instantly expanded, and all his physical attributes surged wildly.

Fortunately, his head didn’t become pointy.

“What?”

Ares was full of astonishment.

Darian grinned: “I already said I am the God of War, the more I fight, the stronger I get.”

As the words fell, he grabbed the giant axe and gave it a fierce tug. Unprepared, Ares lost control of his whole body and tumbled forward.

Darian’s left hand hidden at his waist had already accumulated strength. Taking advantage of the opponent’s forward-leaning momentum, he smashed out a fierce elbow strike.

Muay Thai Warning!

Bang!!

The elbow smashed heavily onto Ares’s face, his entire face being smashed deeply inward, his facial features squeezed into a bunch under the immense force.

The next moment, a white air wave exploded from the impact point, and Ares instantly flew backward, crossing more than half of the battlefield.

He crashed and collapsed countless ruin debris all the way, finally smashing heavily into half a building. Broken bricks and steel bars collapsed clatteringly, burying his entire person inside.

Pushing away the debris on his body, Ares had just stood up when he saw Darian flying over in the air, dragging a golden long rope in his hand. At the other end of the rope was half a building wrapped in the power of fear.

Before Ares could react, Darian yanked the golden long rope fiercely. That half of the building, wrapped in howling wind, smashed down head-on.

Boom!!

Half a building slammed onto Ares, and the entire ground shook along with it.

Even with Ares’s strong physical fitness, he was smashed until his vision went black and his brain buzzed.

Having just struggled to stick half his body out of the ruins, Darian had already landed in front of him, smashing him down to the ground again with a heavy punch.

Following closely, Darian flipped over and straddled him, his twin fists falling down right after.

“Ora ora ora ora——!”

Darian’s twin fists were like a pile driver, launching a wild bombardment against Ares’s head.

Every punch that smashed down made the ground shake, cracks crazily spreading outward along Ares’s back, and the entire ruins were vibrating madly, resembling an earthquake.

Ares was beaten until his head buzzed and golden stars danced before his eyes. Just as he wanted to fight back, his four limbs were tightly fixed to the ground by shackles condensed from the power of fear.

He tried to urge telekinesis to bounce Darian away, but every time he gathered just a bit of power, it was forcibly interrupted by the oncoming heavy punch.

Ares knew that continuing like this was not a solution.

Cruel in his heart, he simply gave up defense and concentrated all his energy to summon thunder.

Rumble!!

Dark clouds surged, lightning flashed nine times, and a few falling lightning bolts with dazzling white light chopped down, heading straight for Darian’s back.

As a result, the lightning had just fallen halfway when it suddenly made a big turn in the air, flying toward the other end of the battlefield and disappearing without a trace.

Ares: “….”

Damn it, they actually remembered this matter!

“Bastard!!”

Ares roared angrily, no longer caring about any rules.

He desperately urged the power within his body, blood qi surging crazily, his whole body muscles bulging to the limit, and with a struggle of his limbs, he broke free from Darian’s suppression.

Taking advantage of that moment when Darian’s center of gravity was slightly skewed, he fiercely thrust his waist and kicked hard on Darian’s chest, pulling open the distance between the two sides.

Taking momentum, Ares rolled and climbed up, half-kneeling on the ground, covered in blood, swollen like a pig’s head, his facial features no longer clearly visible.

Let alone bystanders, even if Zeus came, he probably wouldn’t recognize this son.

“New God, I will fight you to the death!”

Ares roared, his expression frantic, determined to seek revenge on Darian.

But when he saw clearly, he found that Darian was standing over a hundred meters away, with his arms folded across his chest, looking like he was watching a show.

“New God, are you scared!?”

Darian said cheerfully: “No, I’m just afraid that getting close to you makes it easy to get struck by lightning.”

“What the hell, Zeus isn’t even here, how could lightning strike me.”

Ares dismissed it disdainfully.

As soon as his voice fell, a yellow-and-red mixed lightning flash suddenly flashed past his side.

“This relay baton is handed over to you.”

Before Ares had time to react, he only felt something being stuffed into his hand, and that streak of lightning disappeared.

Ares lowered his head to look, and found that there was suddenly an extra slender needle on his body.

“What is this?”

Just at this moment, he heard a strange sound coming from above his head.

Ares looked over, but saw that the entire field of vision was filled with dazzling white light, and countless thunders were surging towards him.

Ares: “..”

Zizhi!!

Countless lightning bolts bombarded down simultaneously, and the dazzling electric light instantly swallowed Ares whole.

The scene was extremely magnificent, lasting for more than a dozen seconds.

When the electric light dispersed, arcs of electricity were jumping all within dozens of meters around, and the ground was struck charred and cracked.

And in the central area of the thunderstorm, a charred figure lay in place, exuding a faint charcoal smell all over