The aliens who were picked up by Superman at the beginning

Chapter 229 provided you with a match.

To Li Zhen's surprise, Eris actually withdrew her hand.

However, he soon realized what was happening.

"You should know that it was Prince who brought her here. If Diana had known that Zeus simply wanted her to hand over the golden apple and the goddess of discord, she would never have personally sent him into this tiger's den."

After figuring out the key to this, Li Zhen looked at Eris and Zeus with a somewhat helpless expression.

"At the very least, could you explain my current situation?"

Li Zhen raised his hand and pressed it against his chest. Only then did he clearly realize that he no longer had the normal heartbeat and blood flow sounds that a normal person should have.

Without the physical strength of the body, one feels light and airy, as if a gust of wind could sweep them away at any moment.

Seeing that Li Zhen hadn't been frightened by her earlier outburst, Eris pouted in disappointment and retreated back behind Zeus.

Zeus, of course, couldn't afford to waste so much time arguing with Lee Jung, so the task of explaining ultimately fell to Diana.

Diana's meaning was concise and to the point.

"You are dead."

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"Isn't it a bit too simple, teacher?"

"—Through a series of coincidences, you have now become a demigod in the Olympian pantheon. And for any Olympian god, whether or not they truly die requires Zeus's approval."

"Oh~"

Li Zhen pinched her chin with her right hand.

"But how could I die? This doesn't make sense. How could the Amozzo virus have a structure that could kill me instantly?"

There was one more thing Li Zhen kept to herself.

Even if the Amozzo virus happened to find the only way to synthesize the Cataclysmic Virus that could possibly kill him, it shouldn't be working this quickly.

Even the most ordinary Witrum people, after being infected with the Cataclysmic Virus, go through a painful struggle before finally dying.

Li Zhen remembered that before she transformed, the bat monster had indeed slashed her waist with a vicious claw, but she had immediately summoned the Six Gods' Blessing.

The feeling of lightness and increased power after the transformation made Li Zhen mistakenly believe that Zeus's magical lightning had cleansed the virus from her body.

Seeing Li Zhen's confused expression, Zeus, who had been silent all along, finally spoke.

"The Eternal Council's magical ritual will not permanently change you, but will temporarily replace your physical body with a magical one."

"Like that kid Billy Batson, if he got injured before becoming Shazam, then when he was de-injured, the injuries that belonged to a normal person would still return to him."

"But the damage Shazam suffered during this time will not be reflected in the child—except for death."

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"Because magic distinguishes between the concepts of reality and spirit, the death of the concept of reality is not the same as the death of the concept of magic, but the death of the concept of magic will overshadow the life of the concept of reality."

"That's how it is for you. Your reality is dead, but your magic is alive, because I believe you are still alive."

Li Zhen seemed to have some thoughts now; perhaps this was some kind of underlying logic of this world.

But he still couldn't understand why he could die so quickly.

Zeus saw that Li Zhen was still preoccupied with something that was insignificant compared to the present moment, sighed, and gave Diana a wink.

Diana coughed softly, drawing Li Zhen's attention.

"The Olympian gods once tried to bring you into the fold as one of the gods through a heroic epic ceremony, but you refused."

"The convergence of three or more Olympian powers within you has inadvertently imbued you with divine attributes."

The same expression that Diana had when she was being dragged around—wanting to laugh but not daring to—appeared again.

"If you still firmly refuse, Zeus will immediately reduce you from a demigod to a mortal, because Olympus will not allow a demigod of the same lineage to exist while he is out of power."

Li Zhen blinked, then stared blankly at Zeus.

The white-bearded old man moved incredibly fast, his large hand sweeping towards Li Zhen's head.

"I was deeply impressed by your persistence back then, and I admire your integrity. Now I will grant your wish to remain a mortal."

Li Zhen took a step back and slipped more than ten meters away, her face full of embarrassment.

"Wait a minute, damn it! Things are different now. I think we can talk about this again."

What kind of outrageous joke is this?

Although her intuition told Li Zhen that Zeus, that old fogey, must have brought her here because he wanted to talk some more.

But the implied meanings in his previous words all clearly pointed to one answer.

That means he's only alive now because of his status as an Olympian god. Once he becomes a mortal, death, which is some bullshit concept of magic, is real death. He'll probably kick the bucket instantly.

Previously, in Gotham, knowingly venturing into dangerous territory, Li Zhen now recalls that she herself doesn't know why her mind seemed to be completely out of control.

First, he was deeply saddened by Lilith's death prophecy, and then he witnessed the horror of the Armadzo virus in Gotham.

In the end, he actually jumped out like a superhero.

Although Li Zhen couldn't say for sure whether she was just feeling incredibly bold and wanted to challenge the death prophecy, or whether she was genuinely prepared to die.

But now, Li Zhen knows that she still doesn't want to die.

Seeing Zeus's ambiguous smile, Li Zhen clenched her fists, feeling her light and airy body, and decided to swallow her anger for the time being.

"Professor Prince, is there really no other way but to accept this deity's identity?"

Zeus's expression quickly turned cold; Li Zhen's words almost made his beard bristle with anger.

Diana's smile became even stranger.

"Of course there is. There is another way. You can retain your mortal identity. Olympus will protect your spirit and body until you are fully resurrected. After that, you can return to reality without worrying about having any future entanglements with Olympus."

After listening, Li Zhen narrowed her eyes slightly.

He pondered for a moment.

"That's it?"

Diana shrugged.

"Or you can go even further, not become a demigod, but a complete god. There are only these three ways."

Li Zhen took a deep breath, then made a resolute decision.

"Then I'll just be a demigod."

A very crisp hissing sound came from Eris's side.

Zeus, however, seemed quite interested.

"Why didn't you even listen to the condition that would allow you to retain your mortal purity?"

"Because that sounds terrifying. I've never believed in anything in this world that doesn't ask for anything in return. And you allowed me to become a mortal and return to reality, and you're so kind as to protect my spirit and body until I'm resurrected?"

Li Zhen looked utterly unconvinced.

"Where in the world is there such a thing as considering others?"

Zeus nodded slightly, then waved his hand, and Eris, who had been making a funny face behind him, lowered her head and stepped back. A few steps later, the figure of the goddess of discord was shrouded in white mist and disappeared.

Zeus lowered his hand, looking at Li Zhen with a mixture of helplessness and admiration, his beard twitching a few times.

"Take him to rest, Diana."

Only when Zeus's figure disappeared amidst the faint rumble of thunder did Li Zhen finally relax.

He finally had time to be curious.

"So, teacher, what exactly is the condition that allows me to return to being a mortal?"

Diana's shoulders began to tremble violently; she finally couldn't hold on any longer.

"You can be Eris's husband for a time, so that you can return the Apple of Gold and the divine status to her in that way, and you will not die immediately from losing them, because this is in accordance with part of the epic ritual—the union of a mortal and a god, and your offspring will become the demigod protagonists in the next epic."

Perhaps because this was, after all, the realm of the gods, Zeus's territory, Diana simply covered her mouth and laughed, but the tears in the corners of her eyes showed that she was laughing so hard she was on the verge of collapse.

"Even if you die, it doesn't matter. As a supporting character in a heroic epic, it will add some twists and turns to the real epic story, hahaha, for example, your demigod son grows up and goes to the underworld to save you again."

Li Zhen was speechless. No wonder Eris hadn't shown that murderous look on his face from beginning to end.

Only after Li Zhen finally chose to become a demigod did Eris's expression turn somewhat sour.

So she was just waiting for me to become her husband?!

Damn it, thank goodness I didn't fall for their sweet talk, otherwise, if I were just a mortal and became Eris's husband, Eris wouldn't be in such a hurry to take revenge.

There will be plenty of time and opportunities to take revenge on me in the future. It's hard to imagine how miserable I will be with a goddess body and a mortal husband.

"Do you guys really enjoy watching demigods perform heroic epics?"

Li Zhen frowned as if she had suddenly remembered something.

"So, if I choose to become a demigod, am I still stuck in some kind of Olympian hero's script?"

As soon as the question was asked, Diana's smile quickly vanished.

She shook her head seriously and looked at Li Zhen.

"You saved a world from a crisis, so the moment you chose to become a demigod, you completed your epic heroism."

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