The wind howled in Perseus's ears, and large fireballs formed by divine power continuously fell from the sky, attempting to catch up with his speed. However, because Perseus himself was also in a state of free fall and was actively accelerating, these fireballs could not catch up with him no matter what, only chasing him from behind at a slightly slower speed.
During his descent, Perseus also noticed the Invisible Island below. This island was constantly shrouded in a thick mist, making it indeed difficult to discover. The reason Perseus saw it from high in the sky was the sudden burst of purple magic power from the island.
The impact of this magic power dispersed the mist lingering around the island and caused the entire island to enter a petrified state.
Has it been completely demonized…
Seeing this scene, Perseus began to constantly estimate Medusa's current strength and state.
The potion given to Medusa was personally concocted by him based on the information obtained after analyzing her body. This potion could not only accelerate Medusa's demonization to an extremely fast speed but also had another effect. This effect was also Ares's entry point for saving Medusa.
Even after Medusa was completely demonized, this potion would not stop its effects; it would continuously increase Medusa's degree of demonization. Even if she had completely fallen into the demonic path, such an effect would continuously amplify Medusa's strength after demonization. When her strength reached its peak, it could even ascend to the level of powerful gods.
However, things taken to an extreme will inevitably revert; once this critical point of demonization is breached, Medusa's original divinity and other properties within her body will be expelled by her demonized body, forming a new physical body outside her demonized form. Medusa's own consciousness will also be transferred to this pure goddess body. At this moment, if Perseus uses the Slaughter of the Undead Blade in his hand to kill the demonized Medusa, then the deified Medusa will survive and be reborn into the world as a new goddess.
However, the key issue is whether Perseus can withstand the period of Medusa's continuous demonization. During this time, Medusa's strength will continuously increase, and coupled with her possessing the highest-level Demonic Eyes, in reality, the threat level of Medusa during this period is no lower than that of a main god.
Furthermore, Perseus's body had been weakened by Ares himself, and Medusa, a monster queen whose anti-magic power continuously increases during demonization, happens to restrain a Magician like Perseus, whose primary combat strength lies in magic. Therefore, this period is the greatest test for Perseus.
If he can successfully endure until Medusa's critical point is reached and her goddess body is fully formed, then kill the demonized Gorgon, Medusa can be saved. If he cannot endure, then Athena, to protect her 'pawn,' might directly intervene and obliterate the demonized Medusa, which would naturally lead to Medusa's death.
"Next is the moment to test my execution."
Perseus took a deep breath, then adjusted his posture from head-down-feet-up to the correct feet-down-head-up position, and used the flying shoes on his feet to buffer, starting to continuously decelerate dozens of meters above the Invisible Island.
His feet constantly rubbed against the air, creating a visible red fire ring in front of his toes. The distance of dozens of meters was covered in an instant, and Perseus's toes finally lightly touched the ground of the Invisible Island. However, at that instant, only a visible strong wind blew across the Invisible Island, and it did not suffer the impact of the gravitational acceleration generated by his rapid descent from the sky.
In this short distance of dozens of meters, Perseus had already used his flying shoes to counteract his initial landing speed in reverse.
And those large fire masses above his head, chasing him, also dispersed on their own after approaching the Invisible Island, falling into the sea near the Invisible Island.
Ares's purpose is, after all, to protect this place, not to destroy everything in this sea area. Therefore, these fire masses will automatically deviate after reaching a certain distance from the Invisible Island, to prevent accidentally harming the Gorgon Sisters living on the Invisible Island.
As Perseus successfully landed on the island, Medusa, who was entrenched in the center of the island, seemed to have also captured his aura. In the original mythology, Perseus's combat ability was far inferior to Medusa's. He achieved final victory by stealthily approaching the sleeping Medusa and severing her head with a blade. However, the Medusa here, even after her body was completely demonized, was still receiving continuous enhancements from the potion. This potion unearthed the latent demonization factors within her, inherited from Phorcys, the Father of Monsters, and Ceto, the Queen of Sea Monsters, and transformed them into combat power, adding them to the current demonized Medusa.
This led to the current situation where the demonized Medusa not only comprehensively surpassed the Medusa of the original myth in terms of physical quality, anti-magic power, and total magic power but also gained unimaginable sensory abilities. This sensory ability permeated the entire Invisible Island; even a small insect on the island could not escape the perception of the current demonized Medusa.
Therefore, upon sensing Perseus, an intruder of considerable strength and bearing delicious divine blood, the demonized Medusa immediately began to sway her serpentine tail, swimming towards the shore of the Invisible Island. Her massive body crushed everything in her path, whether petrified animals and plants or large rocks that originally existed on the island; all were ground into dust beneath her serpentine tail.
Accompanied by the rumbling tremors of the entire island, Perseus, who was setting up a magic formation on the beach of the Invisible Island, also witnessed the appearance of the completely demonized Medusa. At this moment, her height was at least fifteen meters, her arms had transformed into enormous snake heads, and there were even very obvious bulges on these snake heads. Her body was completely covered in golden scales, and her entire being had transformed into a massive serpentine body, with several pairs of wings on her snake body, large enough to obscure the sky.
Her countless snake-like hairs danced, continuously spewing dangerous petrifying gas. On the current Medusa, the only place where one could still discern that she was once a beautiful and lovely goddess was her face, which still retained some human facial contours.
However, on her face, her mouth had also completely transformed into a terrifying maw, densely packed with sharp, knife-like teeth, a sight that filled one with dread.
As Perseus sighted Medusa, Medusa, with her height advantage, also caught sight of Perseus on the island's beach. The instant she saw the intruder, she directly opened her enormous mouth, and simultaneously, the two snake heads on her arms also opened their mouths. From all three mouths, a thick purple beam of light, entirely condensed from magic power, simultaneously shot out, crushing towards Perseus on the beach.