In the first Temple there is a tight breeze.
"Seiya's body, disappeared!" ascertain Death Mask amazed, given that it was Mur himself who killed Seiya, apparentely.
"It's as if a black hole sucked everything here into it!" adds Aphrodite advancing toward Mur.
"Mu, the power of your Starlight Extinction has not changed. But, you can't fool me." observe the hooded man "Where did you send Pegasus?".
Mur does not reply and stands still. Death Mask and Aphrodite are worried for this discovery: it means that Seiya is still alive.
"What do you mean by where? One who succumbs to Starlight Extinction can go nowhere but the World of the Dead." lies Mur.
"So be it. Bronze child, it won't make much difference whether he lives or dies." the man doesn't let Mur deveice him but he doesn't reproach him because he's not interested in Seiya's life; his mission is another: ""Death Mask, Aphrodite! Go get Athena's head! Mu cannot disobey me."
"As you wish." replies Death Mask, tired after the previous battle.
"It shall be done." says Aphrodite walking toward the exit of the first temple.

Mur that up to now has been idle and silent leaps back and suddenly attack the two former gold saints that fall to the ground. Aphrodite's helmet is broken.
"Mu, you still don't understand? Rebelling against those two means that you are rebelling against me." says the man.
"I've said that before. If doing this is a revolt against you, I will pay for it with my life. But, Death Mask and Aphrodite, I can never forgive you!" at the end Mur decides to rebel against the man he must obbey to fight in the name of Athena. Hover is strange that he gets angry only with the two saints.
Mur's face is full of hate and expands his cosmo while Death Mask and Aphrodite got up ready to fight.
"I will send them back to the Underworld with my own hands!" exclaims Mur.
"For the first time, Mu, who always had a graceful smile like the sheep that run through the heavens, is going to bare his fangs." reflects the man.
"Former saints of Athena, being revived by pledging allegiance to Hades and coming to kill Athena...!!" continues Mur slowly opening his arms I will never let those with tainted souls pass!!! Those guys were saints of Athena. I, Mu, will take you down by myself!!"
"Take this, Mu! Sekishiki Meikaiha!!" rebuts Death Mask annoyed.
"I'll pierce your heart! Bloody Rose!!" says Aphrodite.
The two strokes combine themself and dash toward Mur.
"Go back to the Underworld!"
"Run away." suggest them the man, but it's too late.
"Starlight Extinction!!!" Mur creates a powerful light beam.
"What!?" they whispers while they disappear in the light.

Meanwhile at the five peaks, Libra is sit in from of the waterfall when Shunrei arrives sad and worried.
"Teacher..."
"Oh, Shunrei."
"You're leaving? Where are you doing?"
"That is... nah, Shunrei, you don't need to know." replies kindly the man.
"Then, when will you come back?"
"Hmm, when will I return... Maybe I'll never return."
"Why, what happened?"
"Listen, Shunrei. Even if I don't return, you have Shiryu."
Shunrey doesn't reply but her face is petrified.
"Never let go of that kind man whom you love, Shiryu." says Libra pacefully.
Libra rise his look up to the sky where appears the images of bronze saints and thinks to himself:
"Shiryu, Seiya, Hyoga, Shun, Ikki... Sorry... For making you fight for so long. I want you live peacefully as normal boys from now on. And that is Athena's wish as well."
Shunrei is looking at the sky too when Libra gets up, ready to leave.
"Promise me: live happily with Shiryu."
These are the last word from him before he jumps over the waterfall and disappear.
"Teacher, teacher"!" cryes Shunrei streching out from the rock, but is too late.
While she's still looking at the waterfall a man with a dark cloack appears behind her and walk slowly toward her.

At the same time in the first temple a slight trail of light is rising to the sky, fading.
"Death Mask and Aphrodite have completely disappeared from this world and retreated into the World of the Dead. Yes, true for only you two..." ascertains Mur taking again his usual tone of voice.
"Mu, you are the foolish one. Killing those two does not stop this battle." says the man who is now alone.
"Even if you say that, I cannot leave. Until I eradicate Hades and his 108 Spectres."
"I am not talking about the 108 Spectres."
Mur's pupils gets small for fear.
"Death Mask and Aphrodite aren't the only ones who came to kill Athena." continues the man.
"Wh, what!?" exclaim Mur looking around without noticing anyone "There are still some others near his highness... No, I have met them, with these Cosmos..."
The man smiles while some whirls start to appear around the columns.
"Ca, Can it be..." whispers Mur while three more hooded men appear around him. Mur draws back, worried "Yo, you guys too...!! You guys gave in to Hades and came to kill Athena too!?"

Meanwhile some more tombs have been uncovered.
"Too late... We can't do anything now... They were once the strongest in the Gold. Now they have been revived as our enemy. The Sanctuary still surely crumble from looks of it!" reflects Shaina.

At the five peaks Shunrei is scared and withdraws:
"Who are you people?"
There are three hooded men in front of her, they're just like the man in the sanctuary.
"Where are the Teacher and Shiryu?" they ask.
"Why do I need to answer you?" replies Shunrei with some courage.
"Are you not going to tell us? Not telling us isn't in your best interest."
A man suddenly jumps to her, catches her wirst and raises her up so they can talk face to face:
"So would you tell us or let us force you to say?"
"No" shouts Shunrei.
"What are you doing!" exlaims a voice in the shadow.
Shiryu come out, he is without cloth and his eyes are blindfold.
"Let go of Shunrei! You have something for me, don't you?"
Shunrei, now free, puts herself aside.
"Shiryu..." she whispers while the other laugh.
"That voice!" reflects Shiryu that seems to recognize someone.
"If you can't remember, we'll tell you."

The three men take off the cloath, they are former silver saint, now with a black cloth.
"Argor of Perseus!" exlaim the chief of the group.
"Capella of Auriga!" on the left.
"Dante of Cerberus!" on the right.
"Those voices are the Silver Saints! But, what happened to cause those cosmos to become evil? What happened!"
"What happened?" replies Argor laughing.
"We were revived by King Hades's power!" says Capella.
"Hades!?" Shiryu is stunned.
"And..." the third saint, Dante, lets a nailed ball fall.
"Shiryu!!!" Shunrei is scared.
Dante rushes to Shiryu and hits hime with the nailed ball. Shiryu falls badly.
"Shiryu, we have come to kill you and your teacher!" exclaims Dante, arrogantly.
"Wh, What!?" whispers Shiryu while he has a vision of Libra "Then is it Hades's fault that the Teacher's sign disappeared? The cosmos of the Teacher, who in the rain or wind always sat in front of the waterfall, has completely disappeared!"
"We don't know where the Teacher went. But, Shiryu, you are going to die here!" exclaims Capella while he launch two discs that hit Shiryu in the stomach.
"Stop it!!!" shouts a disperate Shunrei.
"Die, Shiryu!" Argor expands his cosmo and hits Shiryu with an incredible fist, letting him fall many meters behind.
Argor laugh but he suddenly change his expression when he notices that Shiryu is still alive.
"He can still move?"
Shiryu expands his cosmo and rises up.
"Teacher! Get out of there. I will go after the Teacher!"
"What can you do with that body!?" exclaim the three angry men.
"Even if my eyes cannot see, my path still leads to the Teacher!"
"Impertinent!" Capella runs toward him followed by the others.
"Did you forget you have a replacement body! The Cosmos is a burning heart!" Shiryu concentrates and launch his stroke "Rozan Shoryu Ha!"
A water dragon sweeps away the saints, when the reach the ground they're death. Shiryu gasps while Shunrei looks vacant at him.

At the sanctuary, in the first temple, some cracks are developing on the floor because of the cosmos.
"You guys too...!" Mur is stunned while an hooded man takes off the cloath "Shura of Capricorn."
Some ice crystals floats on the air near to Mur and when they touch the ground the floor became ice.
"Camus of Aquarius" Mur recognizes him.
The last man emanates a galaxy cosmo in his hood and acts openly.
"And... Saga of Gemini!" concludes Mur "You guys surrendered to Hades and came to kill Athena too!?"
"Yes, that's right. Get out of my way, Mu!" replies Shura gesticulating with his arm.
"Shura..." strangely Mur is not angry.
"If you don't, I'll kill you." orders Shura while he walks closer, then suddenly "Excalibur!"
Mur is too close to Shura and is soon reached by his arm; he's able to shift just loosing some hair.
"Think you evaded it by teleporting? I won't just hit you hair next time."
"Shura, don't let Mu bleed to death. I'll do it." says Camus getting in front of him.
"Camus!"
"This freeze... Diamond Dust!!" an ice sphere grows in Camus's hand, then it hits Mur letting him knok on a column.
"I can't allow those who have surrendered to Hades pass!" swears Mur clenching his teeth.
"Are you still going to fight with that injury?" replies Shura with indifference.
"Nobody can break the will of a Gold Saint!"
"Yes, Mu will not move... The best thing I can do for you now is to kill you with one blow." says Saga.
"Saga..."

At the five peaks Shunrei is still worried.
"What happened to make the Teacher leave the Five Sacred Mountains?" asks Shiryu.
Shunrei runs toward Shiryu to embrace him, almost crying. Shiryu touches her hand, Shunrei smiles but the she changes expression because Shiryu moves her away.
"Sorry... Shunrei..."
Shunrei slumps to the ground crying.

"Saga, you guys really sold your souls?"
"It's not that... We just saw an offer we couldn't refuse." replies Saga giving him to understand that there his a valid reason because he accepted to be resuscitated.
"Are you saying that betraying Athena makes sense for a Gold Saint!?" Mur is indignant.
"Yes." Saga doesn't reveal more.
"I have misjudged you, Saga!" Mur launch a beam of light against Saga that stops it easily with his hand.
"Mu, is that all you got? It seems like I have overstimated you." Saga says an equivocal phrase: does he refers to the poor stroke of Mur or to the fact that he didn't understand everything?
"What!?"
"Feel within your body, your immense weakness!!"
Saga launch an energy stroke against Mur but he teleports himself and appears on air. Camus precedes him and hits him on the stomach.
"Too slow!"
Mur lands slipping on the back but Shura flies toward him and hits him over the chin.
"You thought you could evade me with that?"
Mur falls badly.
"Do you undestand, Mu? Your vocation is totally useless." explains Saga.
"I don't... why!?"

Mur,still on the ground, scans the other saints and with his heart's look he sees that Saga is crying blood."Can it be... Saga... He's crying... Daga, Saga's heart is crying. Not just Saga. Camus, Shura also is. I feel that their souls are in sorrow and crying with tears of blood!" thinks Mur while he rises up.
In reality Saga gets close to Mur with a cruel face, hiding his state of mind.
"Mu..."
"So that's it, that was why." Mur understood something.
"Prepare yourself!"
Saga is about to rush to Mur when someone else stop his enemy.
"My, my body!"
"Saga, stop it. I have paralyzed Mu." orders the hooded men, the chief "I will finish Mu off. You guys hurry and get Athena's head."
A falling star crosses the sky.
"I won't say this again, you have twelve hours! Get Athena's head before twelve hours or else... Do you understand?" says the man while the other are donw on their knees.
"Yes." they reply in chorus, they rise up and run away.
"W, wait!" exclaim Mur on the ground while the other look at him and then go out from the temple.

At the five peaks Shunrei is alone and is crying.
"Gone. Yes, I can't just cry." she rises up and rubs her eyes "Until those two come back safely..."
 
 
 
 

The hooded man walks toward Mur.
"Mu, are you prepared to pay for your treachery... Did you wake up? But... I still like you. So I will make your death painless. So long, Mu!!"
Mur can't oppose, because he is on the ground, paralyzed. The man expands his cosmo, rises his arm to hit Mur but the sundial's fires lits, one by one. The man is vacant and takes back his arm.
"What!? Who lit the fire?"
"I did." Libra arrives with the stick in his hand.
"T, Teacher..." he is the salvation for him.
"Long time no see, my friend." greets Libra talking to the man.
"Da, Dauko!"
"Has it been 243 years since the last time we met? But, I couldn't ever imagine seeing you in a situation like this. Why don't you show your face now, my friend?"
Mur nods his head.
"And Pope who died in the Saga's War. Once one of the Gold Saints, Shion of Aries!!" reveals Libra.
The man takes off the cloath and shows his face. His cloth is similar as Mur's one, but black.
"My teacher, Shion of Aries... what that appearence of yours..." notices Mur.
"Wow... should be the same as me, 261 old... You look exactly like you did 243 years ago during the Holy War!" also observes Libra.
"Are you surprised, Dauko? This is the power of King of the Underworld, Hades." explains Shion, happy.
"What!?"
"After swearing allegiance to King Hades, I was granted this life and I have the body of an 18 years old, the age when humans are in their prime! In comparison, Dauko, you have aged."
"It's an illusion." interrupts Libra.
"What?"
"Your young looks and lives are mere illusion. Why do you think I lit the clock tower? Your lives are but an illusion that only lasts until those fires go out. Shion, you at least should know this."
Shion does not reply.

"Mu. Immediately go after Shura and the others. And, cooperate with Aioria and do not let them near Athena!" orders Libra to Mur "There are twelve hours until the clock tower's flames extinguish. Until then, defend Athena at any cost!"
Some electrical sparks burst out on Mur's body.
"You should be able to move, now."
"Yes" says Mur looking at his hands.
"I will fight. Go, Mu!"
"Yes."
Mur rises up and runs away, passing in front of Shion.
"Wait, Mu!"
"Do not move! Shion, I will be your opponent." Libra stops him pointing the stick to him "It has been 243 years since the last time we fought, so let's take out time."
"If we fight, it may start another One Thousand Years War. Dauko, can it be that you..." replies Shion.
"As you wish."