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Chapter 346 The Strength of the Bronze Saints (Third Update)

Standing directly above the main square was a man wearing a golden helmet and a white robe, who was none other than the current Pope of the Holy Land.

Of course, if he remembered correctly, the current Pope was an imposter, Saga, in disguise. The real Pope, Aries Shion, was killed by Saga in a sneak attack thirteen years ago.

Combining Carrot's and his own memories, Li Chuan recalled the general plot of this world.

The most supreme being in this world is Zeus, the king of the gods, and below Zeus are various other gods.

Among these gods, Athena, representing justice, reincarnates in the human world every so often to help humanity resist Hades, the god of the underworld, who wants to invade the human world.

Because Athena was not good at fighting, she used divine copper, gamma ore, and stardust to create eighty-eight sets of Saint Cloths corresponding to the eighty-eight constellations.

He then selected eighty-eight of the most talented humans and taught them the methods of divine cultivation, namely the microcosmic cultivation method created by Zeus in imitation of the Big Bang.

The battle between Athena and eighty-eight Saints against Hades, the god of the underworld, is known as the Holy War.

Even if the Holy War is won, Athena's divine power can only seal Hades for 250 years, so the time interval between Athena's reincarnations on earth is also about 250 years.

The last Holy War took place in 1743. Although Hades was successfully sealed away, only two Saints survived: Aries Shion and Libra Dohko.

Shion took over the position of Pope, managed the Sanctuary, and nurtured new generations of Saints, preparing for Athena's arrival and the next Holy War.

Meanwhile, Dohko went to the Five Old Peaks to monitor the Demon Star, which had sealed the souls of 108 Specters from the Underworld.

In 1973, sensing that Hades was about to break the seal, the goddess of wisdom, Athena, was born in the Greek sanctuary, and a new holy war was imminent.

In preparation for the new Holy War, Pope Shion summoned all the Gold Saints to the Sanctuary and appointed Sagittarius Aiolos, the strongest, oldest, and most courageous and benevolent warrior, as the next Pope, with Gemini Saga as his assistant.

He himself prepared to focus on cultivating Athena's awakened divine power.

However, Saga's evil side prevailed. Jealous of Aiolos becoming the next pope, he climbed Mount Astrologer at night to ambush and kill the former pope Shion, and even tried to kill the infant Athena.

Fortunately, Aiolos arrived in time and saved Athena.

But at this moment, Saga impersonated the Pope and accused Aiolos of killing Athena and defecting, and sent other Gold Saints to hunt him down.

Aiolos, mortally wounded, fled from Sanctuary to Northern Europe, entrusting Athena and the Sagittarius Gold Cloth to Mitsumasa Kido, the world's richest man, who was traveling in Northern Europe, before passing away.

In order to defeat Hades, the god of the underworld who is about to awaken, Mitsumasa Kido adopts Athena and renames her Saori Kido.

They adopted over a hundred orphans and, after training them, forcibly sent them to various parts of the world to compete for Saint Cloths, hoping to cultivate a group of loyal Saints to protect Athena.

The protagonist Seiya is one of them; he is sent to the Sanctuary in Greece to retrieve the Pegasus Bronze Cloth.

In September 1986, which is now, the Sanctuary held a five-day competition to select the Pegasus Bronze Cloth.

The two people standing on the field now, Seiya and Cassio, are the two Bronze Saint candidates who have made it to the end over the past five days, while Carrot, who was replaced by Li Chuan, was severely injured and defeated on the first day.

"Huh, is this the power of the cosmos?"

Just as Li Chuan was recalling the background setting of the original plot, the match officially began.

It started when Cassio took advantage of Seiya being distracted by the Pegasus Cloth to launch a sneak attack, using his tall and strong physique to grab Seiya and attempt to snap his neck.

However, Seiya easily broke free and cut off one of his ears with his bare hands.

Cassio, unconvinced, got up and attacked Seiya, at which point Seiya also began to use the power of his cosmos.

At that moment, Li Chuan clearly sensed a powerful special force being drawn into Seiya's body.

"Sixty punches per second, the amplification of the cosmos is actually this great."

Seeing Seiya unleash sixty punches in a single second, sending Casio flying, Li Chuan's face showed surprise.

According to Carrot's memory, during previous training, everyone's strength was generally around eleven or twelve punches per second, a punching speed close to the human limit.

Even Casio, who performed the best, could only throw 15 or 16 punches per second. However, Casio's physique was different from that of ordinary people, so his punches were particularly powerful.

It can punch a marble floor and create a huge crater.

Even if Seiya is slightly stronger than Cassio, he can only manage about twenty punches per second at most.

However, after unleashing his cosmos, Seiya was able to deliver sixty punches per second, which means he improved at least threefold.

Since his own physical strength is already supersonic, capable of delivering over a hundred punches per second, if he were to create a miniature universe, wouldn't he be able to deliver over three hundred punches per second, reaching three times the speed of sound?

Even if it's not three times stronger, but two times stronger, that's still equivalent to doubling the base strength. Add to that Sage Mode and Eight Gates, and it seems like even a Gold Saint isn't someone you can't mess with.

"Pegasus Meteor Fist!"

Casio's physical body was incredibly strong. After being sent flying by Seiya's sixty punches in one second, he spat out a mouthful of blood but continued to charge forward.

This time, Seiya also used the Pegasus Meteor Fist, which he modified based on his master Marin's signature move, the Meteor Fist, and completely defeated Cassio in one fell swoop.

"Eighty-five punches per second."

Li Chuan clearly saw the number of punches Seiya threw, which was twenty-five more than before.

"With a pure physical body, it can deliver 20 punches per second; with a burst of cosmos, it can deliver 60 punches per second; and with a user's ultimate move, it can deliver 85 punches per second. If it wears the Bronze Saint Cloth, it can probably deliver more than 100 punches per second, exceeding the speed of sound."

"It seems this is the basic strength of a Bronze Saint."

Seeing Seiya step forward to receive the Pegasus Cloth, Li Chuan stroked his chin, having a general idea of ​​what was going on.

He had no interest in Seiya's Pegasus Bronze Cloth. Although Seiya's Cloth was eventually upgraded to the level of a God Cloth, it was essentially just an ordinary Bronze Cloth now.

To upgrade to a God Cloth, one must first bathe in the blood of a Gold Saint to become a Gold Cloth, and then bathe in the divine blood of Athena, raising one's cosmos to its peak before transforming into a God Cloth.

So if possible, of course we should just go and get the Gold Cloth.

"Isn't this Carrot? I thought you were too crippled to get out of bed after that kick I gave you, but I didn't expect you to be here watching the finals all alive and kicking."

Just as Li Chuan turned around to go to his stone house to try to construct a miniature universe, a figure suddenly blocked his way.

That was a bald, muscular man nearly two meters tall. He was a disciple of Hellingus of Canis Major, just like Carrot, and was considered his senior brother. He was also the guy who severely injured Carrot in the first match.

(Saint Seiya is based on the anime setting, so in this story, Mitsumasa Kido adopts one hundred orphans, not finds one hundred illegitimate children.)

(End of this chapter)