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Chapter 66 Athena's Shield

Acrisios, king of Argos, learned from an oracle that he would be killed by the son born to his daughter Danae, so he imprisoned his daughter in a copper tower.

Zeus turned into golden rain and met Danae, and gave birth to a word, he was Perseus.

After Perseus was born, Acrisios put Perseus and his mother Danae in a chest and threw them into the sea.Zeus blessed the mother and child drifting in the sea, and guided the box through the wind and waves, and finally the box floated to the island of Serifos, near the coast.

There were two brothers on the island, Dictes and Polydectes, who ruled the island of Serifos.Dictes was fishing by the sea, when he saw a wooden box floating in the water, he quickly pulled it ashore.Back home, the two brothers sympathized with the abandoned refugees and took them in.

Dictes' elder brother Polydectes fell in love with his mother, the beautiful Danae, and he wanted to send Perseus away, lest he ruin the good things between himself and his mother.Perseus has already seen through his face. At the banquet hosted by Polydectes, he offered to give Polydectes a gift, but Polydectes maliciously asked The younger sister of the three Gorgon sisters, the head of Medusa known as the "Gorgon".

Medusa was once a beautiful goddess. After being cursed by Athena, she became a body with rattlesnakes, her hair was a group of poisonous snakes, her skin was bronze scales, and she had golden wings on her back. Anyone who peeped into her eyes would be instantly turned into a stone sculpture. The "ugly" monsters in the book - just defined as "ugly", but anyone who has seen the image of Medusa knows that although she is a half-wife, she is actually quite beautiful, whether it is a portrait sculpture or a card face set by Xingyue. (Those who are interested may wish to take a look at the sculptures that have been handed down to this day. They are really beautiful.)
The young, resolute and courageous Perseus is not afraid of challenges, he packs his bags and embarks on a journey.

The gods blessed this brave young man (Athena planned to kill Medusa once and for all).

Hades lent his cloak, Athena lent his shield, Hephaestus lent his flying shoes and snake scythe.Relying on these treasures and his wit and strength, Perseus successfully cut off Medusa's head.

After Medusa's death, her head still retains the terrifying ability to petrify.In order to avoid being petrified, Perseus put Medusa's head in the pouch he carried and dedicated the head to Athena.

After Perseus died, Zeus raised him into the sky and became the "Perseus Constellation". This well-known legend was sublimated into a powerful treasure.

What Shinji used to slay Zouken and the monsters summoned by Caster was the "Medusa Scythe Scythe" made by Hephaestus;
It is part of Medusa's head that petrifies the imprint of the swarm - the petrified magic eye "Cybele".

Most of the souls that absorb the seal inkstone are "bags for placing monster heads".

What carried him to fly under the night was the "feather shoes for walking through the air" lent by Hephaestus.

It was the cloak lent by Hades that changed the shape and concealed the figure.

It was a shield lent by Athena to resist the tentacle whip.Like Iskandar's chariot, it is a combined Noble Phantasm, and it is the only chance for victory that Shinji finds.

According to legend, after Perseus returned the shield and offered Medusa's head, Athena fixed Medusa's head in the center of the shield, turning the purely defensive shield into a treasure that combines offense and defense. "aegis" changed from "Aegis of Aegis" to "Aegis of Athena".

Because the inlaying of Medusa's head was done by Athena herself, it does not belong to the legend of Perseus, so Perseus's treasure is still separated from the head and shield.

Petrification is a gradual process from the outside to the inside. Even the highest-level petrified magic eye like Medusa needs about ten seconds to petrify a huge tentacle.

The Eye of Medusa is the most expensive one among the treasures listed. It requires Shen Er to concentrate all the magic power in his body. At this time, he cannot use the magic that strengthens the body functions. Ten seconds is enough time for the tentacles to partially petrify him. Shoot to death.

In order to win, Shen Er intentionally let the tentacles wrap around his body, regardless of the consumption of magic power, he manifested the shield first.Under the protection of the shield, Shen Er bought enough time to successfully reproduce the legend of "Athena's Shield".

Now, the shield belonging to Athena, the goddess of wisdom and war, is complete.

Gorgon's monster queen, Medusa the Gorgon, open your eyes!
The underground water channel illuminated by the golden radiance from the shield instantly dimmed, just like the shadow cast in the center of the shield. Everything seen by those golden snake eyes was covered in cyan and gray, accompanied by a slight "click" "Voice.

Under the magic eye of petrification "Kubler", it unconditionally petrifies objects with magic power level C and below, regardless of organic life or inorganic non-life.

The tentacle monster that bore the brunt began to turn into stone from its skin, and the signs of petrification soon spread to its mouthparts and stones.

At this time, the tentacle monster hadn't realized the danger, and was still tightening. The petrified part, which was not very hard, rubbed and squeezed against the god-made shield, and there was only one consequence-it collapsed and turned into stone chips and scattered on the ground.

A few seconds later, the tentacles in front of the shield were completely destroyed.Winding is the most important persistence of this skill, if one of them is out of control, the winding will be released naturally.

The crisis is over, and it's Shinji's turn to fight back.

He didn't care about checking his body's injuries, and immediately put away the "Athena's Shield", backhanding a set of sickle combos.

Now that he has obtained Perseus's treasure, he must use it well. Half of the martial arts that Shinji learns are related to the sickle blade.

The long years have allowed Scathach to master the usage of all weapons in the world, including the sickle blade. Under her teaching, Shen Er has made great progress in the use of the sickle blade.

He no longer only knows how to swing wildly with strength and the special effects of the treasure like when he killed Zou Yan. He knows how to hook, how to pull, how to flirt, how to cut, how to combine all kinds of basic movements into a chain. hit.

This set of combos first uses the outer edge of the "Snake Hunting Sickle" to slash from the upper right to the lower left, and then uses the inner edge to hook and pull the backhand, and finally ends with a horizontal cut.

In the blink of an eye, the tentacle monster that ravaged and destroyed a large underground water network was torn apart, and the special effect of "bending life" deprived the tentacle of its ability to regenerate, and there was only one end for it—destruction.

PS: To reiterate, Heroic Spirits don’t have job titles. Perseus can only use one treasure at a time, which is the limit of Rider’s job title. What Shinji gets is all the treasures that Perseus has sublimated from the legend, as long as his magic power lasts It is not impossible to live fully armed.

PS2: The best example of the petrified magic eye targeting inorganic matter is FGOChapter 7. Leonidas used a shield to resist the demon king Medusa's magic eye, and was petrified with a human and a shield.

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