Three days later, Mu finally returned.
Aiolia was not someone easy to talk to. This brave lion would not retreat just because the opponent had two people, unlike the Cancer Gold Saint.
"So what if there are two Gold Saint? My Leo is fearless; today I'm going to fight two!"
The most crucial thing was that Mu knew that this younger brother of Aiolos would absolutely not collude with the Fake Pope. Therefore, to some extent, this Leo Gold Saint was still on their side.
Under these circumstances, Mu naturally couldn't go all out. However, their Cosmo levels were similar. While Mu might have a greater variety of techniques and slightly exceeded Aiolia in strength, there was no substantial gap. The result of holding back was that Mu was almost beaten to the ground by Aiolia.
Fortunately, Dohko, who had been "playing dead" on Mount Lu, couldn't just watch his old friend's disciple get beaten to death right in front of him. In the end, he remotely mobilized the Libra gold cloth's golden shield and gave it to Mu. With a weapon in hand, Mu finally reversed the decline and repelled Aiolia.
Of course, Mu would certainly not talk about such embarrassing things; it was all seen by Shin using Super Vision.
After a quick calculation, they now had four Gold Saint on their side, plus a Sagittarius Gold Cloth.
The Libra Gold Saint didn't need to be counted now, which meant there were only six Gold Saint on the opposite side, and it was hard to say which side these Gold Saint were actually on.
Leo's Aiolia, needless to say, would definitely be on their side once he knew the truth. As for the others? It was very likely they would adopt an attitude of neither hindering nor helping, or perhaps they would use their so-called duties as an excuse to let them pass by slacking off.
It could be said that the current Pope, despite appearing to have immense power on the surface, had actually reached the end of his rope.
After gathering the group of Saint, Mu checked everyone's cloth one last time, and the group set off for the Sanctuary in Greece, eager for battle.
No one felt they could lose. Several Gold Saint were already completely convinced by Saori Kido and Shin. Even if all the other Gold Saint rebelled together, this lineup was absolutely enough to wipe them out.
Shin had absorbed the Cosmo imprints from three gold cloths, and his own cloth now possessed Eighth Sense-level Cosmo. During this time, he had been closing his eyes, constantly savoring the combat techniques now preserved within the gold cloth.
"So, Pisces doesn't actually have something like the Golden Destruction Rose! But Cancer's Praesepe Spirits and Corpse Spiraling Flame are all there."
"Also, these Pisces secret techniques are almost all related to his special constitution. No wonder Aphrodite was so weak; his constitution possesses poison resistance, not toxicity. Although a toxic constitution has many inconveniences, it is indeed a perfect match for Pisces' ultimate techniques."
"As for Capricorn... every generation of Capricorn must be an incomparably outstanding swordsman, combining their swordsmanship with the Excalibur to exert its most complete power... So this guy Shura's strength is not that great. Waving the Excalibur out of thin air is too monotonous. I guess it's also the result of having no inheritance."
This generation of Gold Saint, compared to the previous generation's collective failure, was largely because Saga killed the old Pope, causing many skills and secrets to lose their inheritance directly.
In the memories Shin obtained from the gold cloth, every generation of Capricorn had that kind of aloof, lonely personality, leaving no way out for enemies and no way out for themselves—closer to the swordsmen in wuxia novels, a big difference from the current Shura.
For Capricorn's Excalibur, Shin only learned it a little bit, but he truly poured his heart and soul into the swordsmanship of the past generations of Capricorns.
For one thing, unlike Capricorn's Excalibur—frankly, Excalibur is just a way of using Cosmo, and it has a certain relationship with the Capricorn cloth, so it didn't help Shin that much.
For another, Shin didn't start with Cosmo anyway. Whether it was Chakra or his Superman-like strength, if it could be combined with extremely brilliant swordsmanship, the effect would be far stronger than Cosmo combined with swordsmanship.
Cosmo is fierce and explosive, only suitable for some explosive swordsmanship like quick-draw techniques; many real skills cannot be fully utilized.
Slowly opening his eyes, Shin waved his hand gently, and a sizzling sound came from the air. That was the tiny air blade, or it could be directly called sword qi, produced by his fingers slicing through the air.
At this moment, he used neither Cosmo nor Chakra, and his speed and strength were controlled within the scope of an ordinary person. Being able to easily slash out sword qi with bare hands with such power and speed, if he were in the Pirate World, he could completely compete for the title of the World's Greatest Swordsman.
A slight smile appeared on Shin's face. For a long time, Shin's combat skills could only be said to be decent; frankly, they were combat skills forcibly supported by the bio-chip and Super Brain. He was still a long way from the realm of combat through instinct.
"Unexpectedly, there was such an unexpected gain. The inheritance of Cosmo is much stronger than absorbing memories and the like. This ability engraved in the depths of the soul is almost a direct communication of the soul, and even things like artistic conception, which can only be understood but not described, can be completely transmitted."
Shin was quite happy with his unexpected gain and kept practicing along the way until the plane arrived in Greece, when he finally came back to his senses.
According to the group of Saint, although the Sanctuary was not in some different dimension, there was still a barrier set up around it, circling an area the size of a town.
On the outskirts of the barrier, there were some villages and towns, which was the territory of the Sanctuary. Saga kept shouting about ruling the earth, but in fact, he only ruled this little bit of territory. It was no different from an ordinary third-tier city, and because of the vast land and sparse population, and primitive technology, the number of people was even smaller.
I don't know what the point of Saga ruling such a broken place is...
Of course, this was not a problem for Shin to consider. Although the entire Sanctuary had long been disconnected from the outside world, maybe they just liked this kind of life?
The barriers on the outskirts of the Sanctuary could deceive ordinary people, but they couldn't deceive the group who possessed Cosmo. Not to mention that the vast majority of Saint came from the Sanctuary, and the group soon walked into the barrier.
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