"Five more minutes. I'll find you a helper before I leave."
Today, Adam chose Pope Shion as his subject of study. Within five minutes before the template finished loading, he had already initially mastered Shion's ultimate techniques. The rest was for him to spend time practicing slowly.
However, at this moment, he suddenly thought of a rather powerful Silver Saint, so he instantly teleported away from his original spot.
Germany, above the city of Heinstain.
Adam looked at the disappeared Castle and the passage below that led to the Underworld. Without much hesitation, he directly rushed in.
Passing through the long passage, he quickly entered a boundless, dark, and deep World. It was the Underworld created by Hades, King of the Underworld.
"The power of the Cosmo is suppressed."
The moment he landed in the Underworld, Adam felt that the power of his Cosmo was suppressed by Hades's laws in the Underworld, leaving less than one-tenth of its original strength.
He inherited Seiya's Cosmo and had only recently comprehended the Seventh Sense, far from reaching the Eighth Sense, so he naturally couldn't be immune to the laws of the Underworld.
However, his most important power now was not the Cosmo, and even if it was suppressed, the impact was not significant.
"Hell's Gate."
Looking forward, a huge stone gate stood ahead, with a despairing inscription written on it.
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
The entrance to the Underworld was Hell's Gate. Beyond Hell's Gate was the Sanzu River, followed by the Eight Prisons, Three Valleys, Ten Trenches, and Four Circles. The Four Circles were Hades's residence in the Underworld.
Adam was headed to the Second Prison among the Eight Prisons. There resided Orpheus, the strongest Silver Saint of this era, whose strength was comparable to that of a top Gold Saint. His Piano Sound could put the Underworld Three Giants into a simultaneous slumber.
Orpheus's lover, Eurydice, died unexpectedly. To revive his beloved, he ventured alone into the Underworld to implore Hades, King of the Underworld. Hades, King of the Underworld was moved by Orpheus's beautiful music and granted his request.
However, Pandora, wishing to keep Orpheus to play music for Hades forever, instructed Pharaoh of the Heavenly Beast Star to trick Eurydice, turning her lower body into stone and leaving her in the Second Prison.
To guard his beloved, Orpheus had since remained in the Second Prison's flower garden, accompanying Eurydice.
"Can't I fly?"
After passing through Hell's Gate and arriving at the Sanzu River, he didn't see the Specters responsible for ferrying across. He guessed they had also been taken to the human World to fight in the Holy War. Adam intended to fly directly across but found that there was a no-flying law over the Sanzu River.
If he forced himself to fly, it would be equivalent to contending with the entire power of the Underworld and would also alert Hades outside, which was clearly unwise. However, this didn't stump Adam.
"Wood Release, Wood Bridge Jutsu!"
Adam clapped his hands together, and a super-large wooden bridge extended directly from this side of the Sanzu River to the opposite bank.
Passing over the wooden bridge, he arrived at the First Prison's Court, where souls were judged for their sins committed in life. Based on the judgment, they would be sent to various Hells for punishment.
The supreme ruler here was Minos, one of the Underworld Three Giants, but usually, the Underworld High Judge Rune exercised power on his behalf. Neither of them was present at this time.
Currently, the ones operating here were some low-ranking miscellaneous soldiers and undead creatures like demons and skeletons born in the Underworld.
Adam could kill them with a puff of breath, so he easily passed through and arrived at the Second Prison.
The Second Prison punished the souls of the greedy. Souls arriving here would be continuously lashed by heavy and cold rain and also had a high chance of being eaten by Cerberus, the three-headed dog of Hell guarding the Second Prison.
"It's quite big. Stupefy!"
Compared to the magical creature Cerberus in the Harry Potter World, this true Cerberus was more than ten times larger. When it discovered Adam's appearance, it immediately pounced.
However, Adam stunned it with a Stupefy in mid-air.
"Where did this living person come from, daring to intrude into the Underworld!"
Just then, a Specter dressed like an Egyptian Pharaoh, holding a magic harp, quickly rushed over and arrogantly blocked Adam's path.
Adam scrutinized the Specter up and down:
"Are you Pharaoh of the Heavenly Beast Star?"
He thought all the Specters had followed Hades to the Holy War, but he didn't expect one to be left behind.
However, he thought it must have been left to monitor Orpheus.
"You know me. It seems you are not an ordinary mortal. Are you Athena's Saint!"
Pharaoh was first stunned that Adam recognized him, then immediately reacted. Anyone who could break into the Underworld and recognize him was most likely a Saint from the Sanctuary.
"Hahaha, my biggest regret is not being able to follow Lord Hades to participate in the Holy War outside.
But I didn't expect you, Athena's Saint, to deliver yourself to my doorstep. Let me deal with you here; Lord Hades will surely reward me when he returns."
Picking up the magic harp in his hand, Pharaoh immediately launched a sound wave attack at Adam:
"Balance Curse!"
This was an attack that used magic sound to extract the enemy's heart and place it on a scale for measurement. If the scale could not balance, the opponent's body and soul would turn to dust.
Adam, seeing this, merely smiled. Such a sound wave attack was indeed troublesome for others, but it was useless against him. He simply raised his hand, and a magic array formed.
"Silence!"
Instantly, all the sound waves emitted by Pharaoh's magic harp disappeared. The entire Second Prison became so quiet you could hear a pin drop, and even the wailing sounds of the souls vanished.
This was a magic created by Adam after studying the clow cards' "Silent" card, capable of stilling all sound transmission within a certain range.
"How can this be?"
Pharaoh was shocked when he found his attack completely nullified. If the magic harp couldn't produce sound, all his techniques would be useless.
Before he could even consider whether to retreat or engage in close combat, his glabella was pierced by a beam of light.
"Dodompa!"
It was the fatal blow Adam delivered after silencing him.
He had no time to waste with Pharaoh; his time was almost up in two minutes.
After killing Pharaoh, he passed through the temple of the Second Prison, and a beautiful flower garden appeared before his eyes.
In the center of the flower garden was a beautiful young woman, half of whose body had turned to stone, and accompanying her was a Silver Saint playing a lyre.
"Orpheus, you should return to the Sanctuary. Athena needs you."
Adam flashed and appeared before Orpheus.
Orpheus stopped playing and looked at Adam with some surprise:
"No matter who you are or why you appeared in the Underworld, I apologize, but I cannot follow you back to the Sanctuary."
"ophiuchus gold cloth."
Adam said no more, directly donned the ophiuchus gold cloth, and lightly touched Eurydice, who had been cursed into stone, with his serpent staff.
Under the serpent staff's dispelling power, Eurydice's body quickly returned to its normal state.
"Alright, now you can return to the Sanctuary, can't you?"