Chapter 3058: The Mercury Record (55)

When they heard the words "super weapon," Dick and Jason's eyes lit up.

Actually, sometimes they felt that the universe they lived in was more logical than other universes. In many cases, the development of things was a spiral upward, one step at a time, and there was almost nothing that shot up like a rocket. They didn't hold much hope for so-called "pies falling from the sky."

So, was the super weapon that could completely reverse the situation real? Wouldn't that mean they could hit whatever was wrong?

But soon, Apollo's words shattered their delusions. He shook his head and said, "Mastering this spear isn't difficult. The problem is that you have to have the strength to throw this spear out."

Dick and Jason hurriedly asked, and Apollo had to tell them that this so-called Spear of Sunrise was actually forged from the sun in the occult sense.

How to define the magic side and the science side was always a problem. Many people might feel that the fantasies of the magic side must also come from reality. For example, there is a sun in the sky, so people feel there should be a god managing the sun, and thus created the Sun God.

But in the DC universe, it wasn't like that. From the beginning, the science side and the magic side were two completely different worlds.

The appearance of the sun wasn't a question of "which came first, the chicken or the egg."

The Sun God didn't appear because there was a sun in the world, but it wasn't that the Sun God existed before the sun either. Instead, after fantasies about the sun similar to the Sun God appeared, there was another sun in the world. This sun was the sun in the occult sense.

Most ordinary people could only see the scorching star hanging above their heads, but they had endless romantic fantasies about the sun and had paid a lot of effort to explore the sun. All these fantasies, research, and mythological legends and fictional characters involved in literary and artistic creations related to this jointly constituted the occult sun.

This sun was the raw material for forging the Spear of Sunrise.

This spear only existed in the occult sense; it couldn't be seen or touched, and it had no physical form. In other words, it couldn't be launched using ordinary methods. "Brute force creates miracles" didn't work well in this regard.

After listening to Apollo's mysterious explanation, the group was stunned. They weren't good at this kind of thing at all.

Dick and Jason didn't need to be mentioned; they were still in the category of ordinary people and had no superpowers. Bruce, who taught them, although he was an angel himself, was more inclined toward agnosticism and didn't know much about occultism.

Raven, influenced by her father, was a natural mage from birth, but the teachers in her hometown weren't good, and the method they taught her to suppress power was to control emotions; they didn't teach her anything else.

Aisha was a light entity, and her memories from the light entity period were very chaotic. Even if she had some knowledge in this area before, she had forgotten most of it now.

None of them were professionally trained, their theoretical knowledge was weak, and their inspiration and imagination in occultism weren't enough. Asking them to get a machine that could throw a spear with brute force was still a bit of hope, but asking them to control a mysterious spear that couldn't be seen or touched was still a bit too difficult for them.

But they didn't intend to give up. Dick looked at Apollo and asked, "Since this spear was forged and proven to be so powerful, someone must have used it, right? How did they use it?"

Apollo nodded and said, "Indeed, this spear has been used three times in total. I was only present for the first time. At that time, this spear had just been completed and was still in the testing stage. The owner of the spear chose a direction and threw it out..."

"How did he throw it?"

"In which direction?"

Jason and Dick asked different questions, and Apollo had to answer them one by one. He said, "The power he used exceeded my knowledge in some parts. I can only tell you what I could see."

"First, there was no strong power fluctuation. I only saw a flash of light. Second, he didn't have a throwing motion, but he held a notebook in his hand, in which something seemed to be written. Finally, I don't know where the destination was. I only saw a piece of starlight."

This description was a bit too vague. Dick and Jason looked at each other. They felt that by this time, Apollo shouldn't be hiding anything; he might really not have seen anything.

"Where is the spear? Can we go see it?"

"It's at the very top of the realm of light. Follow me."

Apollo led them back to the center of his temple. A beam of light hit the group, and soon they drifted up along the speed of light, all the way up, until the scenery below became further and further away, and then they merged into a piece of light.

They came to a place where there was only light. Under Apollo's guidance, they walked toward the core where the light was dense. The further they went, the more they felt a sense of weirdness.

Their bodies didn't feel the temperature, but psychologically they felt it was getting hotter and hotter. Jason thought this might be the so-called occult concept, that is, it didn't exist in the real world, but it was a combination of people's spirit and impression.

Apollo stopped. He reached out and pointed forward. The group followed the direction he pointed and saw a strangely shaped rack.

If they had to say, they would feel it was a missile rack, but the problem was there was no warhead on it. The group circled around this strange rack a few times and saw nothing.

"I have a feeling of being pricked by thorns on my back," Raven said. She was the one with the highest inspiration here. Since approaching here, she had become very cautious. She said, "There must be something here; it's just that we can't see it."

"Can you feel it?"

"A little bit," Raven shook her head in confusion and said, "The distance to truly touching it is still very far. I... don't know what to do."

The clues were broken again. This thing clearly exceeded their understanding and wasn't something they could control now. Forcibly researching it here would just be a waste of time.

The dream of controlling a super weapon to speed-run was shattered. Although the group was a bit disappointed, they were used to it and immediately began to calculate other things.

"I knew it wouldn't be that simple. If lethal force can't be controlled, then the person who guided us here should feel there are other ways to eliminate Hecate..." Dick thought and said.

"I think we are still thinking too much," Aisha said. "Our main purpose in coming here is to collect Diana's criminal evidence. As for finding a way to eliminate Hecate, it should just be incidental."

"I think we can compromise," Jason said. "With our abilities, completely eliminating the Goddess of Magic is unlikely. Even if the Justice League controls her, they won't rely entirely on us to kill her. Do you think it's possible that the Justice League hopes we can kill one of her faces?"

"One face?" Dick felt his point was valid. He thought carefully and then said, "Assuming Diana was reshaped by the 'Mother' aspect, she plays the most important role in this whole plan. The one standing behind her must be the Mother, and the one the Justice League wants to deal with is also the Mother aspect."

"Are there any news about the other two faces?"

"I guess not. But if the Mother is trapped, the Maiden and the Crone will definitely show up." Dick said.

"Do you think the Justice League wants to trap the Mother to let the other two faces show up, or do they want to kill one of the faces directly to weaken the strength of the Triple Goddess?"

"Fishing or eating directly? That's a good question." Aisha thought for a moment and said, "I think it should be biased toward the latter."

"How do you say that?" Dick asked curiously.

"The Justice League wouldn't use the students to take risks," Aisha said very affirmatively. "If they wanted to use the Mother to fish and attract the other two faces, that would be skipping the link of defeating them one by one and going straight to a big decisive battle. Then what about the students on Mercury?"

"Besides, Bruce doesn't advocate for quick victory. Although he pretends to be young, he isn't really a hot-headed youth. He understands that the consequence of wanting everything is getting nothing. For the sake of stability, he would also choose to break one of the opponent's arms first, cutting meat with a soft knife, rather than forcing the opponent to fight to the death with him. That holds no benefit for him."

Jason and Dick also recalled Bruce's way of handling things and felt Aisha's point was quite reasonable. Bruce didn't need to take risks and deal with all three at once.

"If he chooses to break one of Hecate's arms first, then he must kill the Mother in one fell swoop, not giving the other two faces a chance to rescue her. I think this is another purpose for him to let us come here. But if that mysterious spear can't be used, what else is here that can be used to kill the Mother?"

The discussion reached a stalemate again, but everyone understood that since they came here, it proved that there must be an answer here. There must be some details they hadn't discovered.

Just then, Hermes appeared again. He bowed to Apollo and said to the others, "The Queen of Gods wants to summon you. Please follow me."

The group looked at each other, not understanding why Hera wanted to find them again, but they followed Hermes and left Apollo's temple, walking toward the Queen of Gods' bedroom.

Seeing Hera again, she wasn't dressed in grand attire, but was wearing only the casual clothes of a Greek woman, with a bronze-colored branch crown on her head, standing on the balcony halfway up the mountain.

The group walked to the spacious terrace and saw that this majestic and noble Queen of Gods was full of exhaustion, and her eyebrows were full of compassion.

"You are looking for a way to deal with Hecate." Hera used an affirmative sentence, and Dick and the others didn't deny it, nodding.

Aisha understood Hera's subtext and said, "Do you have a way? Queen of Gods?"

Seeing the cute Aisha, Hera's tense expression finally relaxed a bit. She beckoned to Aisha. Aisha walked over, and Hera bent down to touch her head, saying, "Yes, I asked you to come here precisely for this matter."

"Please forgive me for not being able to summon you in the main hall, because the King of Gods does not wish for Hecate to die; he needs Hecate to maintain the barrier against darkness." Hera straightened her body and lowered her head, no longer able to hide the sadness in her eyes. She said, "I cannot disobey him, but I cannot sit by and watch my children die."

"Please accept my condolences." Besides this, Jason didn't know what to say. He knew that no matter what kind of person the God of War was before he died, he was Hera's child. Standing in front of them was a mother who had lost her child and was heartbroken.

"I think you should have heard such a legend: in ancient times, a group of mages imprisoned Hecate. Do you know how they did it?"

Aisha was slightly stunned, but suddenly realized. That's right, in ancient times, someone successfully trapped the complete Triple Goddess. In other words, there had long been a way to defeat Hecate; it was just that no one had done it.

Before they could ask, Hera continued, "The ancient wizards who trapped Hecate are collectively referred to as the Lords of Order, and the most powerful one among them is called—Nabu." ===== CHAPTER 3059 =====