Chapter 361 |
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The once calm sea surface, under Hilda’s prayers, suddenly stirred into towering waves surging wildly toward the platform where Hilda stood.
In Josh’s view, caught off guard, Hilda was swept into the endless towering waves.
Seeing this, Josh immediately understood—this was Poseidon making a move against Hilda—and he furrowed his brows again.
He wondered if Hilda, once controlled, could still trade with him.
Or rather, the next one to trade with him—would it be Hilda’s true self, or the evil personality born after wearing the Nibelungen Ring?
Josh had never encountered such a situation before.
He didn’t wait long before the tidal waves sweeping Hilda receded, leaving Hilda unconscious on the altar.
Compared to before, Josh noticed Hilda now wore a golden ring on her hand.
While Josh pondered how to deal with this new trading partner, three Asgardian guards hurriedly rushed along the cliff path toward Hilda’s location, led by a dignified young white man.
Hilda awakened just as they arrived
But unlike before, when Hilda’s eyes were full of emotion, her awakened gaze was cold and icy.
To Josh’s surprise, the awakened Hilda seemed completely unaware of the trading system and ignored Josh’s signals.
Just as Josh was confused, Hilda acted however her target was not Josh, but the three guards who had just arrived.
Having just woken, Hilda had not yet fully controlled her power, so the three who arrived instantly sensed the abnormality in her, their eyes filled with worry and caution.
Before any action could be taken, Hilda raised her left hand wearing the Nibelungen Ring.
A dark light flashed, and the three Asgardian guards were immediately blasted away by an invisible force.
Except for the young man, the other two guards were ordinary soldiers and both died on the spot from this strike.
The young white man was badly injured and collapsed, unable to rise.
Seeing this, Josh’s mind immediately recalled a story he had seen.
This should be Sigmund, the older brother of Siegfried, the strongest of the first generation of God Warriors, and originally the first alternate for the God Warriors.
He did not become a first-generation God Warrior because during this rescue of Hilda, he discovered her abnormality and was stripped of his alternate status and imprisoned by Hilda.
Only then did his younger brother Siegfried become the first generation God Warrior instead.
However, this plot was not from the original Saint Seiya but from the spin-off anime produced by Toei—Saint Seiya: Soul of Gold.
But judging from the current situation, the Saint Seiya world Josh was linked to clearly contained this plot.
If so, this was quite interesting.
Because Soul of Gold included many interesting elements: the World Tree, the evil god Loki, the Eternal Spear, Odin’s Armor, and so forth.
There were also two series of God Cloths.
Very interesting indeed.
While Josh recalled the related plot, the trading device’s screen before him suddenly split into two.
The left screen still displayed all behavior data of the darkened Hilda, while on the right screen appeared another Hilda.
Josh immediately understood—the Hilda on the right was the true original, or rather, Hilda’s original soul.
Because the Nibelungen Ring wrapped around her was far too conspicuous.
“What’s wrong with me? Why can’t I control my body? That ring, and this evil little cosmos… Sigmund… No! Mr. Kane, is this your doing?” Hilda’s original soul realized she could sense everything happening outside but could not control her body. Seeing “herself” kill two guards and severely injure Sigmund made her extremely anxious.
But she soon found she could still communicate with Josh.
In her panic, she even pinned the blame on Josh.
“Hey, hey, don’t accuse me falsely. This has nothing to do with me, and I can’t directly interfere in your world. See that ring beside you? That’s your world’s cursed artifact, the Nibelungen Ring. It sealed your soul and gave birth to an evil personality controlling your body. It has nothing to do with me!” Josh rolled his eyes and said.
“…Nibelungen Ring? I see… Who would want to harm me?” Hilda, flustered by the sudden events, was not foolish.
After all, she was Odin’s representative on Earth in the Saint Seiya world.
Once Josh explained clearly, she quickly understood her situation.
“It’s simple, think about where the attack just came from,” Josh reminded her.
“The ocean? Poseidon, the Sea Emperor!” Hilda’s expression changed drastically. “What does he want?”
“What else? Another Holy War! Isn’t it the tradition in your world for these gods to play this game every few hundred years? Don’t tell me you didn’t know!” Josh said matter-of-factly.
“But that’s the Holy War of the Olympian gods, what does it have to do with us Asgardians? Why involve us?” Hilda was very angry.
She of course knew what the Holy War was but past Holy Wars were struggles between the Olympian gods, having nothing to do with Asgard.
Because this world was ruled by the Olympian gods, Asgard’s strength was far weaker, and Odin would have to be crazy to get involved, so Asgard stayed neutral in past Holy Wars.
And since Odin’s own strength was not much weaker than the twelve Olympian gods, they would not have offended him severely.
But Poseidon’s current actions clearly broke the unspoken rules that had lasted for thousands of years.
“Heh, why you’re involved, I don’t know, but I do know you’re in big trouble now!” Josh said with a smile. “So, how about it? Want me to help?”
“Help me? Do you have a way to break the Nibelungen Ring’s seal?” Hilda, originally angry and panicked, asked excitedly at Josh’s words.
“A simple little thing…But you didn’t seem too keen to trade with me earlier!” Josh said with a sly smile.
‘Trying to hang up on me earlier, serves her right to be handled!’