Quick Transmigration Cannon Fodder's Record of Counterattacks

Chapter 3545: Medusa (11)

Poseidon was utterly struck with amazement. Looking at the calm waves, he frantically waved his trident, but instead of raising a storm or a tsunami, he only succeeded in making the water-people on the surface dance even more joyously.

“I am the sea god! I am the sea god!” Consumed by a surge of fury, Poseidon kept waving his trident, but it didn’t do a damn thing. His eyes were crimson—so red that his pupils were no longer visible.

“What have you done to me?” Poseidon screamed, completely losing his cool.

Ning Shu spread her hands. “I didn’t do anything.”

Poseidon was now as frantic as a dog trying to bite its own tail. Since this involved the domain he controlled, the loss of that control meant his power would be cut by more than half. From this day forward, the ‘big three’ of Olympus would be nothing more than a title without substance.

Athena’s brows were knit tight. Why hadn’t her curse taken effect yet? The woman didn’t even show a hint of a pained expression.

The black smoke of the curse drifted out of Ning Shu’s body. Since it could do nothing to her, the smoke drifted back toward Athena. Because it had failed to find a victim, the curse was now returning to its caster.

With a wave of her hand, Athena dispelled the black smoke. She was astonished by her own power—or rather, the fact that it couldn’t curse Ning Shu.

Ning Shu smiled faintly. It seemed her purchase of the faith halo hadn’t been in vain. The faith halo could resist any curse.

She remembered buying that halo a long time ago, but it had never found a use until today, when it repelled Athena’s curse. Back then, when Zhang Jiasen’s curse had made her life a living hell, she had resolved to buy a faith halo. This was the first time it had truly proven its worth.

From now on, she should buy more items to protect herself whenever she had the chance. One never knew when an item might come in handy.

Neither Poseidon nor Athena had any way to deal with Ning Shu for the moment, unless they used raw divine power to suppress her. What rankled Athena most was the realization that she had no way to curse the girl.

“With whom did you trade for your power? Are you a servant of an evil god?” Athena stood tall as she questioned Ning Shu. She knew very well that her priestess had been an ordinary human without power, so this sudden acquisition of strength definitely had a cause.

Ning Shu shrugged and said nothing.

She felt a bit of regret that she hadn’t studied the art of cursing herself, otherwise she could have paid Athena back in kind. To curse someone, one usually had to pay a corresponding price—an equivalent exchange.

It was better to just beat someone down with raw strength rather than sacrificing her own things to exchange for a curse. Still, it was something worth learning.

Ning Shu asked Athena with a smile, “Tell me, what is the underlying principle behind this curse magic?”

Even the dignified and elegant Athena couldn’t help but let out a cold sneer. Her willow-like brows stood on end, and her clear eyes grew exceptionally sharp. To ask about curse magic now—did she intend to turn it back on the goddess? What made her think the goddess would ever tell her? The girl was truly too arrogant.

Ning Shu hadn’t actually expected Athena to explain the art of cursing to her. Their relationship was already as incompatible as fire and water.

A giant dragon rose behind Ning Shu’s back. Standing atop the dragon’s head, she looked down at the two of them. “Goodbye then. I’m leaving. Until we meet again.”

She would retreat for now, cultivate for a while longer, and then she wouldn’t have to fear Poseidon and Athena when she ran into them again.

“You want to leave? In your dreams!” The raging Poseidon lunged directly at Ning Shu with his trident, looking as if he had a blood feud and wanted to chew her into pieces.

Ning Shu smiled faintly and opened her hand. Her energy transformed into an identical trident. She gripped the weapon and, instead of retreating, charged straight at Poseidon.

The real and fake tridents collided, triggering an earth-shattering boom. Powerful ripples of energy surged in all directions. The buildings caught in the shockwave were turned to dust, and even Athena’s temple trembled, appearing on the verge of collapse.

Upon contact, both Ning Shu and Poseidon were sent flying by the opposing force.

The energy trident in Ning Shu’s hand dissolved back into spiritual energy and flowed into her internal core. She shook her hand, feeling it go numb.

Poseidon was simple-minded but possessed a sturdy physique and infinite strength. The impact had numbed Ning Shu’s arm, leaving it with a faint ache, and it felt as though her internal organs had been shifted out of place.

What a brute!

Ning Shu cursed Poseidon in her heart. Poseidon was also stunned. His crimson eyes kept scanning her. How could such a delicate-looking body explode with such immense power? Even he had found it difficult to withstand.

Poseidon felt that when he had tried to force himself on this woman earlier, she must have been laughing at him in her heart!

A god’s dignity must not be insulted. His pride as a man and his majesty as a god drove the blood in his eyes to turn even redder, and the violent impulses in his blood began to boil.

Poseidon let out a roar, and the dancing water-people on the sea collapsed, turning into individual droplets that fell back into the ocean. He was the sea god, after all, and still possessed some control over the waters. This roar of fury caused the entire ocean to surge.

The sirens in the depths felt like they were going to vomit. This endless, repetitive tossing and turning was never-going to end.

Poseidon’s emotions were currently spiraling out of control. His eyes were like those of a mad bull that saw only the red cloth that was Ning Shu, swearing to tear her to shreds.

Athena, seeing her city-state and temple falling into ruin, turned pale with rage. The armor on her body crackled with the power of lightning. She gripped her scepter so tightly that her knuckles turned white, and the veins on the back of her bronzed hands bulged.

These two were treating her city and temple as a battlefield, doing whatever they pleased without a shred of concern.

Poseidon raised his trident high, and the weapon exploded with immense power. However, this time, the one Poseidon faced was Athena.

Athena used her scepter to block Poseidon’s trident. The aftershocks from a battle between two principal gods were far greater than those from the fight between Poseidon and Ning Shu.

The massive ripples of power shook one of the temple’s walls until it collapsed. That wall fell toward Athena’s golden statue. The massive statue swayed a couple of times, though fortunately, it didn’t topple over.

If even the temple fortified by divine power was collapsing, the rest of Athens fared even worse. Earthquakes caused fissure after fissure to open in the ground. Some people even fell into the cracks, only saved because those nearby were quick enough to grab them.

Cries of grief were everywhere. The people of Athens kept praying and pleading with Athena, hoping the Goddess would withdraw her punishment.

Ning Shu thought about it and decided to set up a massive barrier—a water barrier—to protect the city from the shockwaves of power.

The humans of Athens had no direct conflict with her. She was here for a counterattack, to help one person achieve their revenge, and didn’t want to drag everyone else into it. After all, the original Medusa had also been a weak human.

“What are you doing?” Poseidon yelled in a fury. He was incensed that Athena had actually dared to stop him.