The two Goddess of Fate, watching everything through the water pool in Athena's divine palace, showed shock the moment they witnessed the enormous sea monster.
Kroto, the younger and more irritable of the two, immediately cursed:
"Damn Poseidon! Has that person's brain been kicked by a donkey?!"
At the same time, Athena, high above the clouds, also changed her expression due to this sudden turn of events. Of course, she wasn't angry because of Poseidon's interference, but rather because Poseidon's sneak attack had put Perseus in danger.
Fortunately, Perseus was also a seasoned warrior. Upon sensing the giant sea monster's sneak attack, he immediately changed his attack posture, shifting the target of his "Slaughter of the Undead Blade" to the suddenly appearing sea monster that was ambushing him.
His scythe blade swept across, and with the blessing of "Fate," he fortunately struck the weakest part of the sea monster's massive tail, actually splitting the huge tail that was smashing towards him directly in two.
After cutting off the tail, Perseus didn't hesitate, immediately using the winged sandals on his feet to ascend, increasing the distance from the sea monster. As expected, the next moment, countless purple rays shot from Medusa behind towards where Perseus had originally been, but because Perseus had dodged the attack a step ahead, all these petrifying rays landed on the sea monster, and with cracking sounds, a large section of the whale-like sea monster's body was instantly petrified.
However, this sea monster clearly possessed considerable intelligence. Upon noticing the threat of Medusa's petrifying gaze to itself, it immediately and proactively abandoned the petrified part of its body. Several high-pressure water blades shot from its single horn, actively cutting off that part of its body tissue, and then it sank into the sea. The remaining petrifying rays fell into the sea and were quickly dissolved by the power of the ocean, having no effect whatsoever.
After hiding in Poseidon's embrace, the sea monster also used the Sea God's power to quickly repair its body, then lurked in the seawater, a pair of crimson eyes malevolently watching Perseus in the sky through the surface of the sea.
This sea monster was not in a hurry. Medusa was on the beach, and Perseus in the sky would have to launch a diving charge with the Slaughter of the Undead Blade to kill her. At this moment, the sea monster lurking in the seawater by the beach could directly act, ambushing Perseus from the side and hindering his actions.
If Perseus chose not to charge, he would only be able to passively endure attacks in the sky. With Medusa's current magic resistance after demonization, perhaps no one in the world, apart from Hecate, could defeat her with magic, not even Perseus himself.
Athena in the sky almost instantly grasped the current situation. Without a word, she directly condensed a light spear forged from divine power in her palm, then cast it down from the sky towards the sea monster in the water.
But soon, her light spear was struck by a water column shooting out from the seawater. The two collided in mid-air, causing a violent explosion, and then dissipated into nothingness.
The Sea God Poseidon appeared on the surface of the sea, looking up at his niece with a look of satisfaction on his face:
"Athena, if you want to save your hero, you'll have to get past me first."
Athena temporarily ignored him. She turned her head and carefully sensed, indeed perceiving several gazes from the direction of Olympus. Those were from the main gods on Olympus, certainly including Zeus and Ares. As for how these main gods knew about the matters on Invisible Island, it goes without saying that Ares, the "bigmouth," must have spread the news.
The gods clearly did not want to interfere in the conflict between Athena and Poseidon; they also wanted to know what level Athena, hailed as the "strongest fourth-generation god," had reached in terms of strength. Poseidon was undoubtedly the best touchstone.
Athena's eyes flickered, and after a brief deliberation, she had made her decision.
Poseidon, I'll play with you a little this time…
As the Goddess of Wisdom thought, she put on her helmet, tying her long golden hair back behind her head. Then, leaning on her spear, she commanded Perseus:
"Perseus."
"Yes, Goddess."
"You must win."
"Yes."
Perseus accepted Athena's command, and then saw the goddess's body transform into a golden light, soaring away into the distance. Poseidon, on the ocean, also let out a sneer, sinking into the sea and transforming into a giant wave, chasing after Athena's golden light.
Clearly, these two powerful deities had an agreed battle, and the location of the fight was not here.
And after watching Athena depart, Ares, who was controlling Perseus, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, then turned his head to look at Medusa's abdomen.
His gaze penetrated the body of the demonized Medusa, successfully seeing the new things being nurtured there: a Medusa with the appearance of a little girl, a pure white winged Pegasus, and a tall giant.
The purple-haired little girl was naturally Medusa herself; this physical body was entirely condensed from her divinity, a pure goddess body like her sisters. As for the Pegasus and the giant, they were products of the combination of divine fragments and demonic nature from her body; divine because they possessed divinity, and inhuman because they possessed demonic nature.
It should be about time.
Seeing these three things being nurtured, Perseus withdrew his gaze, silently calculating in his mind.
The potion he gave also accounted for the possibility of interference from Poseidon, preventing the successful killing of the demonized Medusa. Therefore, he deliberately mixed some other ingredients into the potion. The moment Medusa completely absorbed the potion's effects, expelled the divinity within her, and re-condensed her physical body, this "ingredient" would take effect. It would cause Medusa's demonization to rapidly advance another significant step. The effect of this was that Medusa's physical body would probably no longer be able to maintain a form comprehensible to humans. Under the stimulation of the demonic growth, her demonized body would instantly unleash terrifying power, but then, her physical body would fall into an extremely weakened state, collapsing into an immobile mass of flesh.
And this burst and this moment of weakness were Perseus's best opportunity to slay Medusa.
Thus, when Perseus in mid-air realized the time had come, he unhesitatingly charged towards Medusa on the ground, and at this moment, the giant beast lurking in the seawater also leaped high, opening a terrifying maw, and fiercely bit at the descending Perseus.