Upon seeing the purple light pillars piercing the sky and crushing down on him, Perseus didn't hesitate. He immediately activated his incomplete magic array and soared into the air, dodging the three terrifying beams.
The purple light pillars plowed through the earth, and after the beams disappeared into the sea, a portion of Invisible Island's beach was permanently gone. Seawater rushed in, transforming the former beach into a bay.
However, at this moment, several spells set by Perseus were successfully activated. After Medusa's emitted purple magical light beams vanished, several huge cracks suddenly appeared on the petrified ground of Invisible Island. From these cracks, the death qi from the depths of Hades surged out. Countless specters submerged in the Styx River were awakened by Perseus using fragments of Hades's authority, rushing out from underground with shrill screams, transforming into wisps of mist, and charging towards the distant Demon Queen.
Considering Medusa's now fully unleashed and even second-evolution highest-grade petrifying demonic eyes, any substance, if its inherent mystery doesn't reach the highest level, will be forcibly transformed into stone by Medusa's magic. However, the specters in Hades do not possess a material basis, so from this perspective, the specters should be able to nullify Medusa's most terrifying petrification ability.
Perseus mercilessly manipulated these specters to attack the demonized Medusa. He held nothing back; at this moment, he intended to exert all the combat power this physical body could muster against Medusa.
The potion he concocted was still continuously taking effect within Medusa's body. These medicinal effects had not been fully digested by Medusa; otherwise, her divinity should have been repelled by now. To increase Medusa's absorption rate of the potion, the fastest way was to stimulate her externally, for example, by injuring her physical body, prompting her body to actively absorb the potion during the healing process.
Medusa had not yet reached her strongest state, so Perseus planned to use this gap to inflict as much damage as possible on Medusa.
As the rampaging specters from the Styx River approached, Medusa, following her instincts, actively used her most powerful weapon against these unwelcome intruders. She opened her petrifying demonic eyes, hidden beneath a head of snakes, and bright purple light shot out from them. However, just as Perseus had surmised, the specters, which inherently lacked material form and existed only in the spiritual world, directly ignored Medusa's world-transforming demonic eyes, breaking through to her front. Perseus then mercilessly manipulated the specters to extend their sharp claws and directly seize Medusa's demonic eyes.
Anyway, the current Medusa could no longer be considered Medusa. During the process of her divinity re-coalescing and resurrecting, this monster could only be regarded as a rampaging demon Gorgon. Moreover, showing mercy to Medusa now was playing with his own life. Perseus's identity was extremely important for the upcoming plan; Ares couldn't let him fall here.
The specters of the Styx River could even seize power and divinity from the gods. As the specters' sharp claws raked across Medusa's face, the demonized queen let out a terrifying shriek. Only two dark, empty sockets remained where her eyes had been, while a pair of purple eyes were held in the specters' palms.
Was it a success?
Before Perseus could rejoice, he saw Medusa's eyes suddenly close, and her body underwent another transformation.
The potion within her body was rapidly absorbed once more, and her entire physique changed again. Her neck swelled, slowly approaching the width of her body, and her entire body gradually transformed into a true giant snake. Simultaneously, a slit suddenly appeared at the back of her head, and a new demonic eye abruptly emerged there, spinning around a few times before suddenly shooting a purple laser beam at the specter holding her eyes.
When this laser hit the specter's body, it didn't pass through directly as before. Instead, it slowly enveloped the specter's entire body like a membrane. What was horrifying was that under the cover of this light membrane, the specter, which had no material body, was slowly petrifying, transforming from a non-corporeal specter into a stone statue.
"Can it even bestow concepts now?" Seeing this scene, Perseus's face darkened. It was clear that Medusa, after being harmed by the specters, had directly evolved her demonic eyes again. Her current demonic eyes were no longer something these specters could withstand.
Just as that specter was petrified, Medusa's body surface suddenly simultaneously cracked open in at least dozens of places. New petrifying demonic eyes appeared in these openings, and then the same purple beams as before shot out from the demonic eyes. These beams, like sniper rifles, accurately hit all the specters scattered in the sky, then solidified them into stone statues in mid-air.
Several beams also flew towards Perseus, but he dodged them all. One beam grazed the shield Athena had bestowed upon him. Instantly, this shield, which could be used as a searchlight, lost all its effects. Its color became dull and dark, and then it slowly turned into stone.
Perseus decisively discarded the damaged shield, then increased his distance, simultaneously activating the spell on his helmet. He abruptly entered an invisible state, temporarily causing Medusa to lose sight of him.
At the same time, Perseus also activated the second layer of magic he had left on the ground.
By this time, the few cracks in the earth leading to the underworld had also been filled in by the earth and stones manipulated by Medusa's demonic eyes. However, under his control, after a subtle shimmer, the ground surged again.
Several tall stone Giants emerged from the ground, then lumbered towards Medusa. They swarmed her, surrounding the tall Demon Queen.
These stone Giants were inherently stone, so Medusa's demonic eyes naturally had no effect on them. However, the heavy punches and kicks of these stone men severely wounded Medusa.
Many of her scales were broken, and purple blood flowed from these fractured wounds, dripping onto the ground to form large and small pools of blood. Even the two snake heads growing on her arms were brutally torn off by the stone men and thrown at her feet.
But in her wounded fury, the Demon Queen absorbed the potion within her body again. Her demonization deepened even further. Within a few breaths, her wounds healed as good as new. Not only that, her scales became even tougher and thicker, and her muscle tissue grew stronger. Where her arms had been torn off, new limbs grew back, but these were powerful claws.
With these claws and her snake tail, Medusa, with even more brutal brute force, directly shattered the stone Giants surrounding her, repelling Perseus's second wave of attacks.