pertwk Chapter 830 The Moon Goddess Who Wanted to Commit Suicide
Chapter 830 The Moon Goddess Who Wanted to Commit Suicide
Chapter 830 The Moon Goddess Who Wanted to Commit Suicide
As night fell, the rescued caravan, grateful for their life-saving grace, offered Broly and the others the food from their caravan.
"Are you deities and adventurers preparing to head further south into the Rotten Forest?"
"Does this team leader know about the situation over there?"
"I don't know the specifics, but in the past few months, several adventurers have gone there to investigate. Apparently, something happened there, and large areas of the forest suddenly withered and died, giving birth to the terrifying monster that attacked us just now, which destroyed all the villages near the forest."
The caravan leader sighed. As an ordinary person, he didn't know what had happened, but he was well aware that this familiar trade route might no longer be able to be used.
"That area is already a dead zone, and people in the nearby villages have started to move away with their families. Many people in our team are preparing to stay away from the gradually spreading decaying forest."
Broly summoned some people who were preparing to move out to ask them questions, but as ordinary people, they were only forced to leave because of the monster invasion and knew nothing more.
Hermes glanced at the playboy heartthrob who was arranging for beautiful women in the caravan by the campfire. After noticing her gaze, Hermes simply smiled at her, knowing that Broly wouldn't say anything, and then walked towards Artemis.
"Would you like to sit here?"
Artemis noticed him approaching and shifted her position slightly.
"Thank you," Broly said, sitting down next to Artemis and asking, "What are you and Lady Hestia talking about? You two seem to be having a very pleasant conversation."
"We were talking about things after we went down to the Nether, about the people and things we experienced together."
The moon goddess answered.
"Well, we're mainly talking about her now, Broly. Let me tell you, Artemis's children are all pure and beautiful girls. Maybe if you go and play the hero this time, you might even win the hearts of some of them~"
Hestia said in a slightly seductive tone.
"Then I'll really look forward to it."
Broly responded somewhat helplessly.
"If your goal is to win the heart of a beauty, then you might be disappointed—"
At that moment, Artemis suddenly spoke.
"Um?"
Broly and Hestia instinctively looked at her.
"My child is already—"
Just as a somber atmosphere was about to rise, Hestia slapped her thigh and interrupted.
"Oh dear, I had already guessed that."
However, Artemis, it's alright, you probably don't know much about my child.
My Broly, he's someone who has mastered 100% resurrection magic.
Even if your clan's child has died so badly that there is no physical body left, he can still bring your deceased child back to life.
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"I don't know if you know about Astrea's family, but her child was resurrected by my child even though there was no trace of her body."
Artemis: "————"
She really didn't know about resurrection magic. After returning to Orario, she was so focused on the urgent situation at the ruins that she didn't bother to find out about the changes in Orario while she was away.
Orion————
"What is it, Lady Artemis?"
"I have a very important matter to ask you!"
"Just tell me what's wrong, you don't need to hold my hand."
The moon goddess took his hand and brought her face close, almost touching his.
"I want to beg you to resurrect my dead children."
"No problem, this is not a difficult thing for me."
"Hestia————"
The moon goddess released Broly's hand and turned to her divine friend.
"Um, Artemis, is there something you'd like to ask me for a favor?"
"Yes, Hestia, I hope you can take good care of my children for me in the future."
The moon goddess nodded earnestly, as if entrusting her orphan to someone.
"That's natural. What kind of relationship do we have? My children are just like your children, and I will treat your children as my own. I won't treat them differently from others."
"That's good, thank you, Hestia, and also, Ori—no, I should say Broly."
When the Moon Goddess expressed her gratitude, it felt as if she had let go of a heavy burden and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
Distracted by Artemis, Broly put aside his inquiries about the ruins and sat down to nibble on the fresh magic stone Ais handed him, while listening to Artemis talk about her adopted daughter from fifteen years ago, a half-elf girl named Lanti.
"I found that child in the mountains. She was still too young to be breastfed, but I had no milk and couldn't find anyone who could. Luckily, I found a pregnant mother bear."
This moon goddess, through her natural affinity with nature and wild animals, managed to get a pregnant bear to help nurse the baby girl she had found.
The evening was spent introducing one child after another of her own kind to Artemis, and anyone could tell that this goddess cherished her children very much.
. . . .
The next day, Broly and his companions bid farewell to the caravan they had just met and boarded a dragon to continue their journey toward the Rotten Forest.
After flying in the sky for only half a day, a dark purple sea of trees and forests that seemed to stretch endlessly appeared before the people in the sky.
"This forest, rather than being rotten, is more like it has had its life energy drained by something—"
Broly frowned.
The reason he could tell the situation here at a glance was because he had also tried to extract the life energy of the plants.
Plants drained of their life energy will also exhibit the same lifeless atmosphere as the dark purple forest below.
"That's right, the special monster [Andaris] sealed in the ruins extracted the energy of this forest and used it to give birth to the scorpion monster we saw before."
Hermes confirmed his statement.
"Be careful. Once we enter the airspace of this decaying forest, we've entered that monster's surveillance range. Its attack could come at any moment."
"Lord Hermes, please do not worry. If it is those scorpion monsters from yesterday, no matter how many come, I can kill them all."
"Miss Ais is really reliable. However, if it's just an attack of the level of a scorpion monster, there's no need to rush over here."
As soon as Hermes finished speaking, as if to verify his words, a strong energy fluctuation came from the distant horizon.
"Something's coming down from above!"
Riveria gave an early warning.
Even faster than her warning was Broly's release of the short-spell magic arrow belonging to Lefia.
The magic arrow, destined to hit its mark, collided with the arrow of light that suddenly shot from the horizon. In an instant, a series of terrifying explosions erupted in the sky above the lifeless, dark purple forest. The heat waves from the explosions hit us, but they were merely a few hot air currents.
Seeing this, Hermes whistled and couldn't help but praise, "Broly, the precision with which you turned offensive magic into defensive magic, intercepting every attack, truly lives up to your title of Demon King!"
"Basic procedures, don't overdo it."
Broly replied.
"What exactly was that attack?"
Ais frowned.
"It doesn't seem like magic—"
Riveria frowned as well.
"Artemis, is that your Arcana (moonlight arrow)?"
Hestia recognized the arrow of light from before as her best friend's signature move and couldn't help but turn around to ask him about it.
"That's right, those are my arrows."
"But why are your arrows attacking us?"
"It must be because they were attracted by this spear."
Hestia, let's go down first; it's too easy to be spotted in the sky.
I'll explain later.
The arrow of light struck again, but this time Broly didn't make a move.
Because Riveria had already erected her defensive magic, the dimensional barrier blocked all the light arrows.
The three-headed dragon descended rapidly, and only after landing in the forest did the attack of the arrows of light cease.
"Tell me, Artemis, what exactly is going on?"
Hestia, hands on her hips, asked her best friend.
"Hestia, you already have the answer in your heart, don't you?"
Hermes stepped forward and interjected.
"Lord Hermes, now that we're here, I hope you can explain things to us."
Otherwise, I might actually hit you.
"Ah, I'll tell you, Broly, put your fist down first."
The male god raised his hands, making a gesture of refusal to be violent, and looked to Artemis for help.
"Well, let me explain. Here's the situation: this forest has become rotten and infested with monsters. The guild sent adventurers to investigate, and they discovered the ruins of Elsos. These ruins were built by one of my earliest followers from ancient times. Other adventurers simply couldn't open the ruins, so the guild entrusted me and my familia to come here and take over the follow-up investigation."
"We opened the ruins and discovered the ancient monster [Andaris] sealed within. It was sealed here by the great elves in the distant past, but it did not die after the passage of time. Instead, it has gathered power again and begun to break through the seal —"
"We intended to deal with it, but we underestimated its strength. When my child faced death, I tried to use divine power against the rules to destroy this ancient monster and save my child. However, I did not expect that it was an assassin created by the dungeon specifically to deal with the gods. My body was devoured by it, and my child was also killed by it, using my techniques—"
Artemis's voice trailed off, and Hermes took over.
"Of course, gods are not so easy to devour. In the last moment before being imprisoned, Artemis used her divine power to summon her weapon in the heavens, which looks like a spear but is actually an arrow. She attached her will to it and made her way to me to ask for help."
"So, Lady Artemis, what is the purpose of our visit?"
Ais asked.
"I will finish it off with my arrows before Andaris completely devours my body and obtains my full divine power."
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The moon goddess answered.
"And after you've dealt with it, Artemis?"
"The divine assassin monster that devoured Artemis's true form is now extremely powerful, and Artemis's true form, which has not yet been completely devoured, is its greatest weakness."
Artemis believed that if she didn't deal with herself first, probably no one in the world could deal with Andaris. Therefore, the arrows she summoned from the lower realms were the weapons she used to end her own life.
And Hestia, your son Broly is the Orion chosen by Artemis, the one who could kill her with her arrows.
Broly: "————"
"Hestia, I know you are kind, and you might try to stop me, your best friend. So, I asked Hermes to keep this a secret for me."
"Is there no other way to deal with that divine assassin who devoured your body, besides killing you?"
"It's no use, Hestia. You should know just how strong a god is who can use his divine power without any restraint."
As long as Andaris completely devours me, this world will suffer. Even if the other gods reach a consensus and lift the restrictions on using divine power in the lower realm, this world will still be reduced to ruins in the battle of divine power.
The only way to prevent all this tragedy is to eliminate Andaris before he completely consumes me.
That is, kill me and send me back to Heaven.
"Can----"
"Hestia, don't look so sad. Gods are immortal. Even if they are killed, they will be resurrected one day."
Artemis reached out and wiped away Hestia's tears, comforting her dearest friend.
"Indeed, you will be resurrected, but will you, once resurrected, still be the same person changed by the children of the lower realm?"
"In the past, gods were unchanging. Even if they died and were resurrected, they were still the same gods who hadn't changed much. But after descending to the mortal realm, gods who had changed because of the mortal realm would become the same gods who hadn't changed if they died and were resurrected."
Hermes provided an explanation from the side.
"Simply put, Lady Artemis will revert to her original form as the moon goddess, instead of the one we know today."
Lady Artemis, the one who underwent changes in the lower realm, right?
Riveria made a summary.
"That's right."
Hermes nodded.
"However, for those of you outside of Hestia, you are not very familiar with Artemis, so this change should be inconsequential to you. What is truly difficult to accept is Hestia, who knew the Artemis of the past and accepted the Artemis of the present who has changed."
"Lord Hermes, given that Lady Artemis's true form has been devoured by a demon, is there no other way besides killing her?"
This question was no longer asked by Hestia, but by Broly.
Upon hearing this question, Hermes smiled and said, "Yes, there is a way."
"?!"
Everyone looked at him.
"However, achieving this will be quite demanding."
"Please speak."
"It's very simple, Broly. Instead of using Artemis's arrows, defeat Andaris, who is devouring Artemis's true form, head-on and separate Artemis's true form from his body."
Well, if it were someone else, I definitely wouldn't think it's possible, but if it were you, I think there's a certain possibility it could happen.
"Yes, there is such a way."
Hestia looked at her child with hopeful eyes, as if she had found a savior.
"How is this possible? Even Andaris, who has not completely devoured my body, possesses strength that surpasses that of any adventurer in the human world."
However, Artemis held a pessimistic view, believing that even the strongest mortal in the history of the mortal realm, if they could use their divine power, would be no match for the weakest god.
Even though the Andaris she was dealing with was just a monster that hadn't completely devoured her body yet.
"Well, Artemis, on this point, I think you can trust your Orion a little more. After all, the Orion you chose is far stronger than other mortals, even ancient heroes."
As Hermes spoke, his mind drifted back to his contact with his old friend in the Underworld some time ago. Erebus had said that Broly's performance in the Underworld was even more outrageously better than that of his great god.
This is also why Hermes, after discovering that the spear-puller was Broly, did not deliberately let Broly and Artemis ride a dragon when he rushed to the ruins, because he believed that Broly might not need the weapon used by the god of destruction.
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