Saori Kido had returned to the Sanctuary, and this time, she had brought a captive with her.
"Say, what is actually going on here?"
Shin looked at Saori Kido, who had just returned to the Sanctuary, with a face full of confusion: "Haven't you been at the Graad Foundation all this time? How did you encounter a Mariner?"
Wasn't the woman in front of them, wearing red scales and looking full of indignation, Thetis, the Mariner of the Mermaid Scale?
Saori Kido wore a helpless expression, "A few days ago, I went to attend a business banquet. I ended up seeing her dragging one of my business partners into the sea—there is a legend that mermaids lure sailors into the depths of the sea. At the time, I thought she wanted to drown my business partner, so I just grabbed her."
"I originally wanted to save that business partner. Unexpectedly, a powerful Cosmo suddenly erupted from my business partner, and there were two Mariner Generals there to meet him, so in the end, I could only bring this Mariner here."
Oh, Shin nodded, thinking to himself that this was his fault again. Precisely because Saori Kido was already a super powerhouse who had awakened the Eighth Sense, the meager Cosmo of Thetis, who had come to guide Julian Solo, naturally could not be concealed in front of Saori Kido.
Although the Goddess's Cosmo was powerful, it was relatively inert when Saori Kido wasn't actively using it. The Cosmo she cultivated herself didn't have this problem; that was the reason why Saori Kido had easily caught the gold cloth arrow back then.
"So? This matter sounds like there's more to it; she probably didn't intend to harm anyone. Then why did you bring her here?" Shin asked next.
Saori Kido sighed, "The situation is much worse than a Mariner wanting to harm someone—if my estimation is correct, Poseidon must have awakened, and that business partner of mine is likely the human vessel for Poseidon."
"Poseidon has been sealed by me for so many years, I don't know if his temper has changed. If he is still like he was before, he might unleash floods and submerge the earth."
"What is there to fear? Soldiers are resisted by generals, and water is blocked by earth," Shin said, secretly pleased to hear that Poseidon had finally appeared. "You don't think that bunch of stinking fish and rotten shrimp from the sea are stronger than us, do you?"
Having experienced training with Shin, the inheritance of the gold cloth, and having fought through the Twelve Zodiac Temples, Saori Kido's personality had changed quite a bit. She had shed her originally somewhat timid, naive personality and instead developed a bit of a warlike, courageous heart.
"That's true... The Mariners from before were nothing more than appetizers that the Sanctuary dealt with while cleaning up the Specters. If Poseidon really dares to come and cause trouble, it will serve as a warm-up before the Holy War," Saori Kido said nonchalantly yet with great dominance.
"Nonsense, Lord Julian Solo will never let you off. Our seven Mariner Generals will definitely break through the Sanctuary, submerge the earth, and let this world be shrouded in the glory of the Poseidon once again!" At this moment, Thetis, the Mariner of the Mermaid Scale, shouted angrily.
"Is Julian Solo that business partner of yours?" Shin ignored the Mariner's trash talk, looked at Saori Kido, and asked.
After talking about "business partner" for so long, only now was this poor young master's name truly known to everyone.
In the original work, that young master even proposed to Saori Kido... Come to think of it, this young master was only 16, right? Yet on his birthday, he proposed to the 13-year-old Saori Kido... Shin could only say, typical of the Olympian Pantheon; if this were in our country, the police would have already taken you in for a pork chop rice meal!
Saori Kido nodded. "I didn't expect it either; he is the current reincarnation of the Poseidon... It seems that too much time has passed, and my seal has lost its effect."
The seal hadn't lost its effect; it had been lifted by a traitor. Shin muttered to himself, though in reality, the seal had indeed reached its time limit; otherwise, it wouldn't have been so easily lifted by Kanon.
"Lady Goddess! Something is wrong!"
Just then, Seiya ran over in a rush, looking out of breath.
Saori Kido frowned slightly. Of course, she wasn't angry because something was wrong with the "Lady Goddess," she just felt that it was probably Poseidon who had made a move.
"Speak slowly, Seiya, what exactly is going on?"
A powerful barrier had been placed within the Sanctuary, so abilities like flight, space-time teleportation, and light-speed movement could not be used. Therefore, to get to the Pope's Palace, one could only run up slowly.
"The God Warriors of the North have declared war on us! And now the ice in the Arctic Ocean is melting. Just now, they even sent a God Warrior to attack us, but fortunately, Aldebaran beat them back!"
In reality, of course, it wasn't just "beat back"; if there hadn't been someone to meet them, that God Warrior should have been kept there on the spot by Aldebaran.
God Warriors? Weren't those from the anime? Shin muttered to himself, but he wasn't very surprised. He had seen plenty of such things in that mixed world of american comics.
In the original work, that God Warrior seemed to be a pair of twins who had easily ambushed the unlucky Taurus Gold Saint, Aldebaran.
Come to think of it, Aldebaran was unlucky to a certain degree; apart from Pisces and Cancer duo, he was probably the weakest among the 12 Gold Saint.
When the God Warriors came, he was ambushed; when the Mariners came, he was ambushed; when the Specters came, this guy was also ambushed. He was simply a notoriously perennial loser!
Although people often said that this guy performed so poorly because he was only good at frontal combat, in reality, battles between Saints were battles of Cosmo. Aldebaran performing so clumsily only meant that his own Cosmo wasn't that strong to begin with.
Otherwise, wouldn't Saga of Gemini and Aiolia of Leo, who were also good at frontal combat, have been ambushed? And yet, you never saw them getting ambushed.
Fortunately, this time the old bull finally upheld his reputation. It could only be said that so many battles hadn't been fought in vain. Taurus, having learned the Titan's Nova and having significantly increased his Cosmo, was finally much stronger than in the original work.
Although he didn't keep that pair of God Warrior twins, he didn't continue his legend of never winning either. He finally won a battle.
"The Arctic Ocean... Has the entire North Pole started to melt?" Saori Kido frowned deeply after hearing Seiya's words. "Why does it have to be at this time?"
"Don't even think about it, this definitely has to do with Poseidon," Shin rolled his eyes and said, "A pantheon like the Norse Pantheon, which has long been outdated, wouldn't have the guts to do such a thing."
Unlike the Olympian Pantheon, the Norse Pantheon had long been close to complete withering due to the myth of Ragnarok.
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