Chapter 266 - 134: Breaking Through the Barriers, Pandora’s Past! (Part 1)

Chapter 266: Chapter 134: Breaking Through the Barriers, Pandora’s Past! (Part 1)

"Let’s attack together!" Seiya clenched the gauntlets of his Pegasus Cloth, his eyes brimming with fighting spirit as he took the lead and charged toward the barrier.

Shiryu, Hyoga, Shun, and Ikki followed closely behind. Under the sunlight, their five Cloths gleamed brilliantly, piercing through the aura of death like five sharp swords.

The moment they stepped into the Death Forest Barrier, all five of them felt their bodies grow heavy, as if countless icy hands were dragging down their limbs.

The flow of their Cosmo became sluggish, as if bogged down in thick mud, while their life force was greedily siphoned away by the barrier’s power.

The air reeked with the foul stench of rotting leaves and corpses, making their stomachs churn.

"This barrier is devouring our power!" Shiryu frowned. The radiance of his Dragon Cloth had noticeably dimmed, and the dragon crest on his arm had lost its usual luster.

"Hmph. You think a mere barrier can trap us?" Ikki scoffed coldly. His Phoenix Cloth erupted in scorching flames. His Cosmo manifested as a phoenix bathing in fire, attempting to ignite the miasma within the barrier.

"Phoenix’s Wings Rise!"

The flames spread through the air, but the moment they touched the edge of the barrier, they were suddenly extinguished, swallowed up by an invisible force.

Immediately after, a rustling sound echoed from beneath the ground. Countless dark shadows crawled out of the soil, coalescing into the forms of Underworld skeleton soldiers.

They wore black Surplices, and the weapons in their hands gleamed with a cold light.

"Hehehe, more humans coming to throw away their lives!" A skeleton soldier cackled, swinging a massive axe as he charged at Seiya.

"Even if you are Athena’s Saints, wandering into the Death Forest means you will lose all your power and be left at our mercy!"

The five Bronze Saints exchanged a glance, a hint of amusement simultaneously flashing in their eyes.

"You’re exactly who we’ve been waiting for!"

Shun raised his hand, and his Nebula Chain shot out like a spirit snake. The golden chains wove through the barrier, instantly entangling the Specters at the very front of the charge.

"Nebula Storm!"

The chains abruptly tightened. A massive force shredded the Underworld soldiers to pieces, scattering fragments of black Surplices and flesh across the ground.

But in the very next second, those fragments actually reformed amidst the miasma, and the figures of the soldiers materialized once again.

"No wonder we need people to keep them engaged! These Specters are actually immortal!" Seiya gritted his teeth, throwing a punch at a respawned soldier, but he was unable to kill it completely.

"If we can’t kill them in one strike, then we’ll do it ten times, a hundred times!" A flash of absolute resolve appeared in Hyoga’s eyes as he gathered an intensely cold Cosmo in his hands.

"Diamond Dust!"

Blue shards of ice howled forth, freezing the Specters into solid blocks of ice. But it wasn’t long before the ice melted within the miasma, and the Specters resurrected once more.

Shiryu’s Rozan Sho Ryu Ha and Ikki’s Phoenix Illusion Demon Fist bombarded them in turn, yet they still could not wipe out the enemy completely.

The battle fell into a stalemate as the Underworld soldiers within the Death Forest Barrier continued to surge forward like a tidal wave.

The miasma in the Death Forest Barrier was dyed a dark purple by blood, and the Cosmos of the five Bronze Saints burned fiercely.

Seiya’s Pegasus Meteor Fist shattered the bodies of a group of soldiers, Shiryu’s Dragon Shield blocked a lethal sneak attack, Hyoga’s Diamond Dust froze the spreading miasma, Shun’s Nebula Chain wove a protective net, and Ikki’s Phoenix flames illuminated the path toward the inner barrier.

Relying on their hot blood, they forcefully carved a bloody path through the fog of death. The crushed gravel beneath their feet was littered with the wreckage of Underworld soldiers, and the air was thick with the pungent stench of mixed blood and flesh.

"It’s our turn!"

Aiolia’s voice boomed like thunder. His Leo Gold Cloth erupted with a scorching red light under the sun. With his Cosmo erupting like an active volcano around him, he took the lead and charged toward the Dream Barrier.

The Goddess’s blessing was only valid for three hours. If they couldn’t destroy the energy nodes of Hades Castle within the time limit, not only would the operation fail, but it would also be completely unknown whether they could even make it out of the barrier alive.

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