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"I know where they went," Diana said, holding out a hand and taking the palm Connors had caressed on her shoulder. She took Connors's teasing behavior as him comforting her.
"I know it too," Connors said.
Diana wondered, "How did you know?"
Connors sighed. What's so strange about this? "Wasn't Faust asking you to bring back the key just to open the gates of hell? You also said that the gates of hell are under Paradise Island. Aside from there, where else can Faust go?"
Diana: "You're right." She really had ignored that.
The passage to the gates of hell was in the middle of the temple. Diana went to a corner and pressed down on a raised stone. As the stone bricks moved on the ground, a dark tunnel with a cold air appeared in front of them.
Diana and Connors, who had "Athena's Vision," could almost ignore the darkness and entered one after another. But Zatanna did not have this ability, and she did not know the magic used for lighting for the time being. She bumped into Connors on the back as soon as she entered, and her chest once again turned into a snow cake.
"It's too dark. I guess you can't see underfoot. Pull my clothes and walk slowly," Connors said. After entering the tunnel, he waited for Zatanna for a while.
The long tunnel was at least a few hundred meters long, and the slope was extremely steep. It was not a big problem for Connors, but Zatanna walked carefully. In order to catch up with Diana, the "Wonder Woman" in front, Connors simply turned around, held Zatanna in his arms, and jumped straight down.
Stepping out of the tunnel, what appeared in front of them was a post-war ruin. Various temples, stone pillars, and buildings collapsed everywhere, as if this was an ancient battlefield and Paradise Island was built on the battlefield. Not far from the tunnel, Faust had already inserted the key into a round hole in front of the gates of Hell and then screwed the handle.
"I only know one of the reverse magics you taught me, and I can't use it on this thing. And you?" Connors, playing with the petrified charm, asked Zatanna.
"I can try." Zatanna took the charm and targeted a stone statue not far from the exit of the tunnel—Diana's mother, Hippolyta.
"What are you going to do?" Diana asked.
Before Connors could answer, he put his palm on Diana's forehead and tried it, wondering, "I don't have a fever. Why are you talking nonsense? Faust opened the door to hell and first restored my mother-in-law to her body to increase her ability to protect herself. What if she was broken?" The stone, though solid, was not so robust that Connors thought it could withstand the impact of Faust after he opened the gates of Hell.
"You're right. I was affected by my emotions," Diana whispered. Her mother was the Queen of the Amazons, and her force might not be as great as today's Diana, but she was many times stronger than ordinary people. It was indeed better for her self-preservation to bring her back than to keep the stone statue in its appearance.
Zatanna carefully looked at the petrified charm in her hand, and her extremely high magical talent allowed her to quickly grasp the key. "Etafyh ppoliyh!"
Connors could not understand the magic spells, but it did not prevent him from seeing the effects performed by Zatanna: the Queen Mother was alive.
Hippolyta quickly recovered from her status as a stone statue, now wearing a white robe, a narrow gold belt around her waist, and a crown similar to a hoop. Although she had just recovered from the stone statue and did not understand what was going on, she had seen Faust twisting the key and eagerly opened her mouth and shouted, "Don't! You don't know what you're doing, and once you open that door, it's all irreversible!"
Is it so serious? Connors almost suspected that "The Flash" Barry's unseen future was caused by this! A glance at the Melon-eating System, since the melon-eating incident was ongoing, was already being recorded by the system at this time.
[Eat Melon Today: Once Upon a Time on Paradise Island][Is it submitted?]
After the "Laughing Man" incident, the Melon-eating System had received a small upgrade, and the daily melon-eating system would be automatically submitted. But manual submission still existed, though it was generally not necessary. Through the name of the incident in the Melon-eating System, even if the Queen Mother's words were "irreparable," Connors still stood still.
Hippolyta rushed forward to stop Faust, but the black magician grabbed the key with one hand and released purple-black chains with the other, tying Hippolyta to a stone pillar that had fallen to the ground.
"Hera, help us—"
Diana, the "Wonder Woman," rushed over, but Faust also turned the key's final turn at this point. With a violent tremor, the gates of hell, so simple as a rural wooden door, were slowly opened, and scarlet flames gushed out.
Diana, who had just rushed out, was hit by the force of the opening and flew back upside down. When she flew over Connors, she was caught by him and let go.
The flames formed the appearance of a huge demon head as seen in the temple. Amid the violent and arrogant roar and laughter, a dark shadow came out of the flames.
"Finally free." The black shadow stepped out of the flames, showing a pair of silver-gray armor, with a helmet as tall as a sheep's horn, and a height of more than three meters.
Faust left the key, fell on one knee, put his left hand on his heart, lowered his head, and said respectfully, "Welcome, Lord Hades." Then Faust looked up at Hades. "I brought a gift in your honor." He pointed his finger towards Hippolyta, bound by chains.
"Let me see," Hades's voice was not as violent as in the flames, but very calm. "Is it my dearest Hippolyta?"
"A great god is coming back, Hippolyta. Do you know where I went?" As Hades spoke, he took off his helmet, revealing the appearance of a middle-aged man with long black curly hair and a goatee.
Connors and Zatanna whispered, "Didn't he just come out of the gates of hell?"
"Yeah."
After eating melons and eating Greek gods, Connors was more surprised than others. After whispering to Zatanna, he continued to turn his attention to Hades. This time was no ordinary "battle" type melon. According to Diana, Hippolyta had been in love with Hades for a while. This was still a melon with a slightly "bloody" nature.
"There's not a day that goes by that I don't think about your betrayal," Hippolyta, bound in chains and fearless in the face of Hades, spoke in a tough tone.
"There is not a day when I do not long for this wonderful feeling," Hades said, bending down and reaching up to Hippolyta's chin. "To feel again the sweet touch of the living flesh." As he spoke, he leaned forward and bit her.
Zatanna seemed to trigger the keyword. She turned her head, covered her face, and blushed with shame.
Diana opened her mouth slightly, as if she was being shocked.
Connors: "…" Careless. Not only is there blood, but there is even action drama?
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