Chapter 128: Echoes of the Saint Seiya World
"No, you are not him." Lin You discovered the problem the moment he exclaimed, "You are just a consciousness, the remaining shadow of Asclepius."

"You guessed right. It seems that you have integrated well with the Ophiuchus microcosm, and your divinity has been stimulated." said the afterimage of Asclepius.

"But I was still scared by you; when you first appeared, I thought I had completely fallen into Asclepius's conspiracy trap!" The new Ophiuchus Saint was still in shock; the strength, paranoia and madness of that predecessor really left him with a deep psychological shadow.

"Even if you don't have confidence in yourself, you should have some confidence in Chronos. If he is not really dead, he will definitely not be able to hide it from his eyes."

Even though it was just an afterimage, Asclepius still retained some of his crazy temperament, and there was no emotional fluctuation when he talked about his own death.

Lin You stood still, subconsciously wanting to stay away from him, and asked from a distance: "Is your consciousness kept in the Well of Tartarus? Is it waiting for me?"

"Of course. If it weren't for this well, my consciousness wouldn't have been preserved until now. If it weren't for the Ophiuchus Cosmos and the Cloth on you, this consciousness wouldn't have been awakened."

Asclepius's consciousness body is not attached with the image of the holy cloth, but the energy that maintains the consciousness body can sense the strong breath of the Ophiuchus microcosm, echoing with the energy emitted by the "Holy Cloth Stone", and can even use the "Holy Cloth Stone" to make the image of the consciousness body clearer.

After all, he is the original owner of the Ophiuchus Cloth.

"In that case, shouldn't you start explaining why you left this consciousness behind? Since you came here specially to wait for me, you should at least let me know the ins and outs, right?" Lin You didn't care about the other party borrowing the energy of the holy clothes, but went straight to the point and asked about the other party's purpose.

"Well, it's a long story; it all began when Jupiter came to see me."

"It doesn't matter. There's no need to be brief. I have plenty of time. The more detailed you are, the better." The writer immediately became excited when he heard that it was related to Jupiter.

This old guy Jupiter is as slippery as a loach. He stirs up trouble but no one can catch him. If I had a chance to know some of his little secrets, I could at least make him cautious and not jump out to cause trouble when the worlds are merging.

"You have time, but I don't. Let me keep it simple." The afterimage of Asclepius laughed at himself. "You should have known that it was Jupiter who woke me up. He originally wanted to invite me to join his camp and fight against Olympus together. But I didn't agree. I chose to destroy the Saint Seiya world and get revenge by dying together. But you ruined it."

Lin You smiled awkwardly, thinking back to the original situation, he was still worried; the scene of being grabbed by the collar and taught a lesson by Asclepius himself was still vivid in his mind, the anger shown by the former Ophiuchus Saint was really not fake.

"What can I say? I just want to make a living..." The writer hesitated for a while, and still said the same meaningless nonsense as before.

"The point of me saying this is not to bring up old grudges. Haven't you ever doubted why Jupiter thought he could convince me to join his side? A declining Pantheon, even with me and at most some marginal gods from the story world, can fight against the Olympian pantheon, or even the entire Great World Plan? Where does he get the confidence from?"

The writer felt a chill in his heart; in fact, he had always felt that Jupiter's actions were unreasonable; those acts of sabotage seemed to be happening one after another, but in essence they were still just small-scale pranks, and apart from venting emotions, it was impossible to achieve any substantial results.

But Jupiter did just that. Looking back on it, it was full of the recklessness and hysteria of a child playing rogue.

Does this still look like a god-king of a pantheon?
"Then are you willing to tell me what Jupiter said to convince you?" Lin You did not hesitate to use a respectful title for a residual image. "Why else? Why would I leave behind such a residual image of my consciousness?"

Lin You was greatly encouraged: "I am all ears and would like to hear the details."

"Jupiter didn't reveal the details. He's not that stupid." Residual Shadow sneered, "But from what he said, I could tell that he was very sure that he could replace the Olympian gods with his own people."

"What? What do you mean by 'change'?" The writer was surprised and kept asking. He subconsciously took a few steps closer to the other party, not even bothering to keep a distance from "Asclepius".

Afterimage shook his head with regret: "He didn't say the specific situation. But I was deeply impressed by one of Jupiter's words. He said: If the gods on Mount Olympus are on our side, what are the gods in the Saint Seiya world?"

Lin You thought for a moment, "That is to say, no matter what Jupiter meant by 'change', his target is the entire Olympian pantheon, not just a certain main god on Mount Olympus?"

"Maybe!" The afterimage smiled nonchalantly, and the figure began to dim.

"Since Jupiter said it so seriously, why didn't you agree to it at the beginning?" the writer asked.

"Haha, I don't want to bow to the Olympian gods, so how can I be a pawn for Jupiter, or even be his knife?"

At this time, the afterimage of Asclepius was full of vigor and vitality, and even revealed about 70% of the rebelliousness that could only be seen in the original body.

"Revenge against the gods is my business. I don't need anyone to teach me how to take revenge, even if He is Jupiter, the king of gods."

Lin You asked again: "Then why did you deliberately leave a consciousness to tell me this?"

“Hahaha, since you ruined my revenge plan, how could I let you stay out of it?” Afterimage said with a smile, “After you saved the Saint Seiya world with your quill pen, I knew that you had been completely dragged into the battle between Mount Olympus and the Pantheon; otherwise, why would I give you Cosmo Ophiuchus in the first place?”

"Then you could have told me the news at that time, why go around in this roundabout way?" Seeing that the afterimage was getting dimmer and dimmer, Lin You couldn't help but speed up his speech.

"I can tell you, but I won't tell Chronos. Otherwise, wouldn't that be helping the enemy? Then people would think that I was trying to show my good will to the Olympian gods before I died!" The shadow laughed louder, but his figure became dimmer. "As for you, as the heir of Ophiuchus, you are already feared by Zeus and the Olympian gods. It's up to you whether you want to use this news to flatter them!"

"Hey, I have another question..." Lin You asked hurriedly, "Did you know that Moirai from the Saint Seiya world didn't die at that time?"

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