With the Poseidon's soul gone, what remained was Julian Solo's pure physical body. However, after being pierced by Shin's Trident and losing the Poseidon's powerful Cosmo, Julian Solo was now on his last breath.
Shin, being very kind, took him into the Dark Dimension and gave him some treatment—of course, the Sea god cloth was definitely kept.
Saori Kido hesitated to speak, while the Bronze Saints pretended not to see anything—trophies, after all, are not embarrassing.
Anyway, this Poseidon wanted to turn all of humanity into seafood, so he wasn't a good person. What's wrong with taking one of his god cloth?
In fact, if it were Shin, he would have to collect the opponents' cloth after every Holy War—Saints are easier to find, but if the Atlantis and the Underworld no longer had battle clothes, then there would be no need for Holy Wars.
Athena sealed Poseidon and still left the battle clothes belonging to the Atlantis in Poseidon's temple; one can only say she was too generous.
Although the Atlantis was not in danger of collapsing, Julian Solo, being an ordinary person, obviously couldn't return to the land. Shin simply let him stay in the Dark Dimension and would release him back to the land once he woke up.
The Poseidon's god cloth was invaluable. Shin had already planned to absorb all the Cosmo experience from it and then completely remake it, integrating it into his own cloth.
"Who are you people?"
Just then, several Mariners broke into the Poseidon's temple. Shin recognized them with a glance; these guys were precisely the Mariner Generals.
The battle just now was grand, and the group didn't hide their Cosmo. When the seven Mariner Generals felt their old lair being attacked, how could they not rush back like crazy?
Unfortunately, just as Athena's Sanctuary was designed with a barrier, preventing teleportation, flying, or Light Speed Punch, the Poseidon's Atlantis evidently followed the same principle. The Mariner Generals rushed back on foot, but they still missed the tail end of the battle.
"Athena? Where is Lord Poseidon?" The Sea Siren, at the center, looked around. Besides a pool of blood, she saw nothing, oh, and Shin holding the blood-dripping trident.
However, for some unknown reason, the trident had turned black, so the Sea Siren didn't recognize it at first. Even now, she didn't know if that thing was truly the trident that Poseidon used daily.
Saori Kido held up the Athena's Amphora in her hand, the meaning naturally self-evident.
"Damn it, quickly release Lord Poseidon!" Several Mariner Generals were filled with righteous indignation. They only knew that the Athena's Amphora could seal Poseidon, but they weren't entirely clear on how it sealed him, thinking that Poseidon's body had been absorbed into the amphora as well!
As they spoke, these Mariner Generals charged forward but were quickly intercepted by Seiya and the others.
Seiya and the others couldn't intervene in the battle with Poseidon, but they couldn't let Athena handle these Mariner Generals as well, could they? That would make them utterly derelict in their duties as guards.
"Get lost, Bronze Saints!" Several Mariner Generals were furious. In the Atlantis, they were the equivalents of the Sanctuary's Gold Saint. Did a few Bronze Saints really think they could stop them?
However, as soon as they started fighting, everyone was greatly surprised—the strength of these Bronze Saints was in no way inferior to that of the Mariner Generals!
Baian of the Seahorse faced Pegasus Seiya, Io of Scylla faced Andromeda Shun, Isaac of the Kraken faced Cygnus Hyoga, and Kanon of Sea Dragon faced dragon Shiryu.
The remaining Chrysaor Krishna, Sea Siren Sorrento, and Lyumnades Caça were stopped by Shin.
The more the Mariners looked at the Trident in Shin's hand, the more they felt something was wrong. The Sea Siren finally couldn't help but ask, "Where did you get that Trident in your hand?"
"This? You should ask your boss, Poseidon," Shin said with a smile, casually sticking the Trident into the ground. As the Armament Haki receded, the entire Trident returned to its original color.
"Bastard, that's His Majesty's Trident!" The three Mariners immediately became enraged and attacked simultaneously.
Lyumnades Caça was the first to attack, using his telepathy. However, Shin merely glanced at him, and the incredibly powerful Yin Release Chakra instantly crushed his spirit. Casa spat out a mouthful of blood and collapsed, unconscious.
Afterward, the golden spear in the Chrysaor's hand was easily caught by Shin. With a slight shake, it instantly shattered into pieces.
Finally, the Sea Siren launched a sound wave attack through his flute. In reality, this wasn't truly a sound wave, but an attack entirely based on the Cosmo she emitted.
Otherwise, at the speed of sound, it would be impossible to catch up to a Seventh Sense Saints capable of Light Speed Punch.
"The flute sounds quite nice," Shin smiled, casually throwing a Light Speed Punch that sent the Sea Siren flying backward, shattering even the flute in his hand.
The three were defeated in an instant: the Lyumnades lay unconscious, and the Sea Siren, without his flute, lost his most important means of attack.
Only the Chrysaor, though his spear was utterly crushed, floated up, sitting cross-legged with knees together.
"Feel the power of Chakra! Great Light!"
Shin's mouth twitched. "Chakra? You're not joking, are you?"
However, in reality, Chakra is just a word from ancient India, representing energy. This Chrysaor was born in India, and his Cosmo cultivation followed the Indian path of three wheels and seven channels, meditation, and asceticism. Hence, it was called Chakra Cosmo and had no significant relation to the Chakra in the Naruto world.
After the Great Light shone, it revealed an unharmed Shin. The Chrysaor gasped, changed his hand signs, and seemed to want to try again.
"Lightning Speed Punch!" Shin, however, had run out of patience. Countless thin beams of light emanated from his fists. The Chrysaor's face changed drastically, and his Cosmo condensed into a defensive wall: "Chakra Defense Wall!"
Cracking sounds echoed. For ordinary Seventh Sense Saints, the Chakra Defense Wall would require finding weak points, but in Shin's eyes, it wasn't exactly as fragile as paper, but not much stronger either. Even the Lightning Speed Punch, unleashed with a peak Eighth Sense Cosmo, instantly shattered the entire Chakra Defense Wall.
As the defense wall completely crumbled, the power of the Light Speed Punch remained undiminished. Under the attack of the Lightning Speed Punch, the Chrysaor's bones were broken and his tendons snapped, his Scale Cloth torn to shreds. He flew backward, spitting blood, and fell completely unconscious.
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