The sea breeze from Paradise Island, carrying the fragrance of grass and trees, blew across the bluestone ground of the training field.

Diana Prince changed into a linen battle dress, wielding a training wooden sword, and engaged in combat with three Amazonian warriors.

The movements were incredibly swift, and the sound of the wooden sword cutting through the air was incessant.

Her eyes remained sharp, but there was a subtle, almost imperceptible daze in their depths.

His moves conveyed a sense of deliberate venting of frustration.

After more than ten rounds, Diana skillfully deflected two of the three opponents' wooden swords, while the remaining opponent's wooden sword was broken in two by Diana, who had not yet stopped her strength.

The female warrior whose wooden sword had been broken seemed to be frightened by Diana's imposing manner, took two steps back, and fell to the ground with a thud.

The other two quickly bent down and helped the slightly startled female warrior up from the ground. The three looked at Diana, who was breathing slightly, with concern, and without saying anything, they silently bowed and left one after another.

Diana paused for a moment, sheathed her sword and stood still, fine beads of sweat appearing on her forehead, her chest rising and falling slightly.

She is now a far cry from the naive girl who stood on the training field hundreds of years ago.

If she hadn't restrained herself from using her divine power, there wouldn't have been many people on Paradise Island who could have been her sparring partners.

Looking up at the boundless sea in the distance, the sea breeze lifted her long black hair, but the confusion deep in her eyes did not diminish in the slightest.

This was her third day on Paradise Island.

After her hasty departure from Boston, she plunged back into the land that had given her birth and nurtured her. During the day, she would either spar with her fellow tribesmen in the training field, pushing her physical limits, or sit alone on the edge of a cliff, gazing blankly at the sea.

"Diana".

A gentle yet authoritative voice came from behind.

Queen Hippolyta, dressed in the same linen-colored gown, approached slowly, her eyes filled with concern.

She had witnessed her daughter's restlessness these past few days and knew in her heart that Diana's distress was not simply due to homesickness or exhaustion.

Diana turned around, nodded slightly in greeting, sheathed her wooden sword, and spoke in a calm tone.

"Mother."

Hippolyta went to her side, and together they looked out to sea.

"You've been in human society for so long, I thought you had long since adapted to life there, and even found your own place to belong..."

Diana's thoughts were slightly disordered, but the coolness of the bracelet on her wrist helped calm her down.

"It's not a problem with human society."

Diana's voice was a little hoarse.

"I've encountered a problem I've never faced before, and I don't know how to choose."

"problem?"

Hippolyta pressed for an answer.

"Is the Justice League facing a crisis, or has someone harmed you?"

Diana shook her head, avoiding her mother's probing gaze.

"Mother, I'm fine. I just need some time to think things through and relax."

Hippolyta looked at Diana's profile and sighed helplessly.

She understands her daughter and knows that Diana is not only her daughter, but also a Wonder Woman who needs to stand on her own in certain areas.

"Whatever you can't figure out, you can tell me. I just want you to be happy, not like this."

The Queen's words were full of love, and Diana felt a warmth in her heart. She stepped forward and gently hugged her mother.

"I understand, Mother. I'm sorry to have worried you."

Hippolyta patted her on the back, turned and left, but before leaving, she looked back at her one last time, her eyes still full of worry.

Once her mother's figure disappeared from sight, Diana returned to the edge of the cliff. Just as she was trying to calm herself, the divine power within her suddenly began to fluctuate violently.

A strange sense of weakness welled up inside her, and she staggered to her feet, grabbing onto the stone sculpture by the campfire beside her, her face turning deathly pale.

Her divine power stems from her unwavering commitment to "justice," bound to her innate divine nature of justice.

"Shouldn't I be so harsh on a child who has no choice in the world?"

Just as Diana was becoming increasingly doubtful of herself, the Guardian Bracelet on her wrist suddenly emitted a rapid buzzing sound and its light intensified.

This is a warning of foreign invasion!

"Who?"

Diana snapped back to reality and turned her head sharply. She saw a familiar figure slowly walking out from under the shade of a tree not far away.

It was a man dressed in black armor, the armor engraved with ferocious thorn patterns, gleaming with a cold metallic luster.

In the blink of an eye, the man's armor vanished without a trace, leaving behind only a blond man in a gray suit.

"This outfit is still the most comfortable."

The man stretched, pulling one hand back to his lower back and using his other hand to rub his golden mustache, which was curled upwards.

Diana recognized who it was, but she didn't expect the person to dare to show up directly on Amazonian territory!

"Ares! How dare you break the promise and step into the mortal realm once more!"

Diana swung the Lasso of Truth from her waist, binding the Vulcan sword that she had unloaded under a tree before entering the training ground, and flew back.

Diana's fear subsided only slightly when she grasped the Vulcan sword.

He had clearly forced Ares to swear an oath never to interfere with human affairs, so why would Ares suddenly do something that violated the divine oath?

Ares lowered his arm from his beard and chuckled.

"Breach of agreement? I never break agreements; it's Zeus's command!"

"The mandate of Zeus?"

Diana frowned, puzzled.

"Why did he send you here? Although there are conflicts in the human world now, there is no need for the gods to intervene."

Suddenly, Diana remembered that Li Zhen had killed the mortal body of the Goddess of Strife.

"Is it because of the Goddess of Conflict? Although her divine body is destroyed, she has not completely perished. Do you intend to use this to incite war?"

"Goddess of Conflict?"

Ares waved his hand, looking with interest at his half-sister who was on high alert.

"Eris is still asleep and has not yet fully risen from the dead, and besides, she is not worth Zeus sending me here."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ares took a small step forward, and the sea breeze, which had been carrying the fragrance of grass and trees and a hint of saltiness, instantly stopped.

"The golden apple that Eris lost not only carried the divine power and magic of the gods, but also a portion of the power of conflict that Zeus himself had bestowed upon it."

"Yet a mortal not only usurped the divine power and magic of the Golden Apple, but also, by some unknown method, firmly imprisoned Quan Bin, who was involved in the conflict—this is blasphemy against the gods!"

Upon hearing this, Diana instinctively wanted to refute the other party.

In the past, there have been instances of divine artifacts being left behind in the mortal realm, but with just a thought from Zeus, the power contained within the artifacts could return to the divine realm at any time.

How exactly did Lee Jung manage to do that...?

"Even so, Zeus shouldn't have sent you to interfere in human society!"

"put one's oar in?"

Ares seemed to have heard a joke.

"The gods never break their oaths. We have no intention of interfering in the human world. We simply want to reclaim what belongs to the gods and punish the mortal who blasphemed them."

He slowly extended his right hand, and a string of golden runes appeared in his palm, exuding a sacred and majestic aura as they flowed.

"And this kind of thing can be done entirely in the realm of the gods."

Diana didn't recognize the runes at first. She was only a demigod and had grown up on Paradise Island since childhood, so she didn't know much about the common knowledge of the gods.

But the moment the golden runes suddenly flew out and wrapped around Diana like chains...

The oppressive feeling emanating from her bloodline immediately made Diana realize the truth about the runes.

"An oracle from Zeus?!"

Diana tried to sever the divine power within her by swinging her sword, but found that it was suppressed by the divine oracle and she could not mobilize it at all.

Immediately afterwards, the Mantra Lasso at her waist suddenly flew out on its own and, under the control of the oracle, bound her tightly, while the Fire God Sword fell to the ground.

"No!"

Diana struggled desperately, but to no avail.

Ares stepped forward, grabbed her arm, and was surrounded by a black aura.

As the light faded, the two figures disappeared together at the edge of the cliff, leaving only the Vulcan Sword on the ground and a piece of parchment that slowly drifted down in the air with the rising sea breeze.

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