For over 6 months, all the media outlets kept playing the same videos and showed the same pictures over and over again.

The most prominent ones were the reprints of Jasmine's photo from the tower, in her full scary insect form.

Then it was interspliced with videos of her killing the many B Rank Olympians, ripping their heads off, chopping them in two with her sharp fingertips, impaling them with her tail or spider legs.

Then there was her carrying the screaming Apollo by his cock with her pussy, then ripping him in two with her hands.

They really pointed to a savage monster, then it showed multiple beams hitting her from all angles.

"Monster finally put down"

"Heroic Olympians Who Have Up Their Lives To Fight Monster"

"Heracles Injured While Defeating Monster"

There were also multiple wanted posters and video ads offering a large 20 million dollar reward for information that leads to the capture of Anna Winehart, a 10 million dollar reward for Marisa Trech, and 5 million each for Phoebe Rattinger, Mona Ardun or Teddy Bumbly.

--

"You don't think she's dead, do you?" Mona asked, hiding in the sewers

"No. But I don't doubt she is made to suffer every second she is incarcerated. How are the others?" Anna asked

"Phoebe is..well, she's alive. The stumps of her arms were turning septic and I had to amputate up to the shoulder socket and cauterize the wound with magic. As for Arag.. I mean Teddy... he... when he got hit in the groin, not only is he no longer able to function as a man... his pelvis is useless with a hole blasted there. 

His legs are hanging limply and his waste has to be extracted directly from his body as he no longer has a bladder, lower intestine...all of it! I have to constantly keep him in a state of sleep, but I don't know how long..." Marisa said, starting to tear. 

One could see the stress she is under. Mona sat silently as Anna closed her eyes. 

Phoebe and Teddy were not the only ones physically and mentally injured. 

Anna had to have a self induced abortion after getting pregnant by on of the Olympian elite when they gangbanged her.  

As a mid level xiantian, she could control every cell in her body. Thus she expelled the fetus at 8 weeks when she discovered she was pregnant. 

All the Olympus elite raped her. She couldn't be sure if her pregnancy was by Heracles, Ares, Apollo, Arrow, Shaft or even Dionysus who suddenly appeared.  

However, after the abortion, it took her months to get back to normal, because the changes in hormones disrupted her normal energy flow. 

The energy kept being directed to her empty womb to feed the baby that had already been taken out, and she had to struggle to force it back to her normal flow. 

Only now, after 4 months of messed up energy flow, could she channel her energy the way she used to consistently. 

"Come out soon Lex.. please..." she prayed, holding her belly

--

10 Months and 3 days. Lex finally stood on the 99th Floor again for the 4th time. 

He quickly killed the few angels that served the god on this floor, and turned them into shadow clones. 

Emptying the treasure boxes as usual, he walked to the area where the god should have been. 

[Tower defeated. Survivors will be released]

"Finally. Now for the final round" Lex said as his body started shimmering. 

He had completely cleared all the floors from the 26th to the 99th floor, turning every creature to shadow clones, and then leaving behind plenty of shadow clones for the next round. He especially made sure to leave one shadow clone next to the exit.  

Besides collecting all the weapons and treasures from all the treasure boxes, he had found a total of 9 "Easter eggs", one randomly for every 10 floors. He didn't use them yet, as he didn't know if it will have adverse effects with the one he's eaten on the 9th floor, but he kept them all the same in his many storage rings.

--

 There were 1300 people that exited the tower for the 4th round. 

They were decent, not not overly powerful since nobody found any magic weapons or items beyond level 26!

Not many people even reached that far, numbering only 27. But once they arrived on level 26 onwards, they found that there were no enemies. 

Well, there were, but they were all shadowy versions that were incredibly hard to kill. And even so, they never fought back and only stood still like statues. 

After having a hard time killing just one or two, they all gave up, scared that they may suddenly come to life and went directly to the next floor unmolested. 

From then on, they found no treasures, and every floor had these shadow creatures which they ignored out of fear. But the sheer distance from entrance to exit made them take 7 to 15 days per floor, so by the time Lex finished the tower, the highest floor the furthest team reached was the 42nd floor!

However, just as all the survivors started reappearing all over LA, the Olympus guild instantly swept in. 

All of them were captured and had slave collars placed on them, ensuring their loyalty to the guild they have been enslaved to. 

--

"The 4th group is out!" Mona said, holding onto a discarded newspaper. 

"Is Lex out?" Anna asked

"No. I don't know. You see, they were all captured and enslaved by the Olympians. Even if Lex is out... I fear..." Mona said

"No... Lex won't be enslaved. Not Lex.... never" Anna said. 

"How are they so powerful anyway? What do they have on the government?" Marisa asked

"Oh... right. You guys came out two years later...You see, there are rumors that the A Rank Dionysus.

Before he became a Hunter, he was the useless son of one of the supposed families that control the country from the shadows, the Goldchilds.

When the Gates awakened his powers to control minds, he suddenly showed that he wasn't incompetent after all and easily took over his family, slowly spreading his influence in politics and the economy. 

He linked up with his hero Heracles and joined the Olympus guild. However, I don't really know if Heracles is really the boss of Olympus or Dionysus is. 

With his far reach in both politics and the economy, nobody knows who is under him, but their connection with the military now cannot be denied as a mere conspiracy" Anna explained

"Then are you sure Lex can withstand this Dionysus?" Mona asked

"If Lex can't, nobody can" Anna said.