pertwk Chapter 832 Saving the Moon Goddess
Chapter 832 Saving the Moon Goddess
Chapter 832 Saving the Moon Goddess
"Hey, Broly, take it easy. Artemis's true form is still inside that monster!"
Broly's punch that knocked Andaris down was indeed impressive, but Hermes' heart skipped a beat, and he quickly called out to warn the Saiyan boy over there.
Upon hearing this, Broly, who had been standing with the air of a strongman, suddenly knelt down in front of Andaris, whose body was convulsing.
"Divine power is the finest food —"
Just as he was about to cast a healing spell on Andaris to save his life, the fleshy tentacles clinging to the walls of the core area of the ruins, like vines, were stirring up life energy to send to the dying giant scorpion monster.
On the ground, Andaris's horrific lacerations began to heal at a visible speed, and Broly, as if nothing had happened, patted his knees and stood up again.
"Have you changed your mind? I'm asking you, have you changed your mind?"
Broly raised his fist again and punched Andaris, who was repairing his injuries. This time, he held back most of his strength, only preventing Andaris's injuries from healing. But faced with this powerful physical persuasion, Andaris, the ancient monster, showed no sign of yielding.
It is intelligent, but more like Hakimi, it follows the underlying logic code. When facing a perceived enemy, it is completely fearless. Even when Broly beats it to the point of having no power to resist, it still has to breathe a few breaths on the ground.
"Lord Hermes, do you have any good ideas? Or, Lady Artemis, can you sense where your true form is inside this creature?"
Broly found it difficult to deal with Andaris's stubborn refusal to submit. He wanted to dissect Andaris, but was worried about accidentally harming Artemis inside Andaris's body.
If a god is accidentally killed, he will not leave behind any corpse, and there will be no chance for Broly to resurrect him artificially.
"I'm sorry, I can only sense that the main body is inside Andaris's body, but I can't sense its exact location."
Artemis shook her head. Although the current situation was very optimistic, rescuing her original body would still be difficult.
"Broly, you're currently dominating Andaris, so we can't see where Artemis's true form is. Perhaps you could slow down your pressure a bit and lure Andaris into using Artemis's Arcana technique. As long as he uses his divine power, we'll definitely be able to catch a clue."
Hermes then proposed a solution.
"Okay, but you need to prepare some defensive measures first, because this guy's attacks are still a bit dangerous."
Although Andaris is currently being thoroughly humiliated by him, it doesn't mean that the opponent is weak. Just now, the magical beam that this guy gathered on his tail, even though it was interrupted by a punch before it could be launched, gave Broly the feeling that it was no weaker than the breath of the boss cannon dragon in the 58th floor of the dungeon.
"Dance, spirits of the air, masters of light! I have made a pact with the guardian of the forest, and I beseech the earth to sing a song, to transform into a colossal wall of forest light, to envelop us, to protect us! My name is Alfre!"
Upon hearing Broly's words, Riveria stepped forward and unleashed her strongest defensive magic, erecting a massive magical shield in front of everyone.
After Broly finished preparing her defenses, she released her pressure on Andaris, allowing the giant scorpion in front of her to recover from its injuries.
"Sizzle~"
After recovering, a terrifying beam of magical energy condensed and shot out from the tip of Andaris's tail, distorting the air.
Broly didn't try to block the magic beams head-on, but instead ran to dodge them. Andaris's magic beams chased after him, leaving obvious melting marks on the ground and walls of the ruins.
"Thankfully, this place is the site where Andaris's ruins were sealed, so the buildings are sturdy enough and have strong magic resistance. If it were outside, the magic beams released by that thing would probably have carved a bottomless trench in the ground."
Hiding behind the magic shield, watching the beams of magic that occasionally grazed Riveria's shield, causing cracks to appear, and Riveria quickly replenishing the shield with magic, Hermes exhaled and said.
"This guy might be even stronger than Barol from the Deep Zone."
Riveria said with a serious expression, and the Balor she mentioned was actually the floor master of the 49th floor of the dungeon labyrinth.
To defeat the enemy, the Loki Familia would have needed to concentrate the entire first echelon of its forces.
Even so, there may be serious casualties. Of course, nowadays, Ais can probably try to take on the opponent by herself.
The terrifying beam of magic was unleashed, but it could only follow Broly around in the dust, making Andaris even more furious.
"Waaah~"
With another whooshing sound, Andaris's single eye on the upper part of his body cracked open, and a huge divine crystal was squeezed out of his body.
That represented Arcana (the Arrow of the Moon), a dense array of sacred runes that completely covered the entire ruin space.
Andaris seemed to want to launch a full-scale, all-encompassing bombardment of divine arrows inside the ruins. But Broly was not surprised but delighted by this, because he had finally discovered the location of Artemis's true form within Andaris's body—in the divine crystal that Andaris had squeezed out and was now peeking out.
"Bang!"
The wall that Broly stepped on instantly shattered, and his figure almost became a line in the eyes of others. In an instant, he appeared in front of Andaris and used his hand as a sword to slash out a sword aura that was more than ten meters long. Andaris's mother body, which had been repaired and evolved to become stronger, was still easily cut open like tofu.
The Saiyan boy, whose upper body was encased in the divine crystal, had just begun to repair his injuries by extending fine tentacles from the broken end. He landed and stomped on the ground, creating a crater, before plunging directly into Andaris's upper body, forcibly squeezing out and carrying away the divine crystal.
"Click, click—"
Broly, whose body was stained with Andaris's blood, snatched the divine crystal that contained Artemis's body from Andaris's body. The divine crystal that he touched shattered, just like when he pulled out the spear. As soon as he grasped the spear, before he even exerted any force, the divine crystal shattered as if it had been hit by a plagiarism.
However, the prize for pulling out the spear before was the Moon Goddess's arrow, but this time, Broly's prize is the Moon Goddess herself.
The goddess of purity, completely naked, fell into the boy's arms. Her long eyelashes trembled as she gradually awoke. The first thing she saw when she opened her eyes was a boy of the opposite sex looking at her with concern.
Without waiting for the goddess in her true form to utter a shrill sound, Broly took off his own clothes and wrapped them around Artemis's naked body.
"Stay here and don't move. I'm going to kill the ancient monster that's devouring you. I'll be right back."
Broly gave the moon goddess in his arms a word, put her down, and turned to rush towards Andaris, who was still trying to repair his damaged body.
He burrowed straight into the still-unrepaired wound, ignoring the sticky feeling of Andaris's flesh, and used the Absorbing Touch without restraint.
With no hostages around, Andaris is essentially a giant experience pack, and Broly is directly plundering the enormous life energy that this guy has accumulated through his plundering.
It was this immense life energy that made Andaris's mother like an unkillable cockroach, and she could even evolve to become stronger as she was beaten by him.
Of course, all this life energy now belongs to him, and as Broly plundered a large amount of life energy, the Andaris Matrix also collapsed.
Outside the ruins, a scorpion monster that had roamed out of the decaying forest and was attacking a villager who had not yet moved away from the village suddenly turned to ash and vanished just as it was about to kill the villager in front of it.
"Burp~"
After absorbing all of Andaris's life energy, Broly, who had reappeared, couldn't help but let out a burp.
Cultivation is indeed best done with guys who have abundant life energy, are big, dark, and thick; that's the most enjoyable way to cultivate.
A real man should force himself on a big, dark, and muscular monster!
Suppressing the strange thoughts that surfaced in his mind, Broly, feeling full of power, lifted his foot and walked towards Artemis.
While he was absorbing Andaris's life energy, Hestia and the others had already rushed over to reunite with Artemis's true form.
Artemis, who was originally a thought entity, has disappeared and has obviously returned to her original body.
"Ah, Orion, don't come any closer."
However, as Broly approached, Artemis raised her hand to stop him from getting any closer, a look of panic appearing on her pretty face.
"Well----"
Broly stopped, scratched his head, and wondered if he might have been betrayed.
[The rabbit is caught in a trap, the dog is cooked, and the birds are gone; the slingshot is put away.]
Just as this information surfaced in Broly's mind, Hestia took the initiative to speak up for him.
"Broly, don't blame Artemis for stopping you from coming. It's just that with her overly innocent nature, she's not quite up to the task at hand.
Following Hestia's self-illumination, Broly looked down and saw the parts of himself that were somewhat overly flamboyant due to his abundant physical energy.
Looking at the women in the group ahead, whose faces were flushed with an unnatural blush, and who kept glancing away but then stealing glances, as well as the complex and self-deprecating expressions on the faces of the male members, Broly immediately felt relieved. As long as Artemis wasn't trying to kick him while he was away and make all his efforts on this journey go to waste, he was fine.
Artemis's true form has been rescued, and the main quest for this trip is considered complete, but there are still some side quests to be completed.
Guided by Artemis, Broly and the others found members of Artemis's Familia who had been killed by Andaris in the ruins.
"They must have been dead for quite some time, but they look like they just died."
Looking at the dozen or so female corpses in front of him, Broly was somewhat surprised by the completeness of their preservation and their freshness.
"This must be due to the ruins of Elsos, which is why the bodies of my children have not decomposed until now."
"I see, this makes it easier for me to revive them."
If the remains are intact, resurrecting them is the simplest option.
"Orion, can you really resurrect Lethesa and the others?"
Now that things have come to this, Artemis is actually a little uneasy.
. . . . .
"Of course."
Broly did not give such an answer, but instead chanted the incantation for resurrection magic and used the magic on the corpse in front of him.
The gates of the underworld opened, and a towering pillar of light enveloped the remains. After the pillar of light dissipated, the pure maidens of Artemis's Familia on the ground opened their eyes one after another.
"Lady Artemis, are we meeting in the afterlife?"
"No, Lanti, this is still the human world. You've simply returned from the underworld to the human world—"
Artemis embraced her adopted daughter, tears of joy streaming down her face.
After learning the situation, her children embraced her, their Goddess.
At this moment, nothing is more moving than a reunion after death.
"Alright, Lady Artemis, it's time for us to leave."
"Thank you, Orion."
Overwhelmed with emotion, Artemis released her child, came to the Saiyan boy, stood on tiptoe, and kissed Broly in front of everyone.
Although she didn't stick out her tongue, this was still a very bold act for a goddess of purity, as evidenced by the stunned expressions of the group of newly resurrected pure maidens behind Artemis.
After leaving the ruins and learning that the Saiyan boy was Orion chosen by their own god and had saved their own god and their group of people in a way that was not tragic, the Artemis Familia girls looked at Broly with a change in their gaze, a feeling that was hard to describe.
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"Lady Hestia, you should leave this area first."
"Broly, aren't you coming with us?"
"It's not very convenient to leave now; we might bump into Lord Hermes."
"Hey, Broly, don't say things that send chills down my spine. I'll just not ride the dragon."
"Hmm, that works too. However, my concern about bumping into you is just a side effect. I have two reasons for staying here: first, to burn off some excess energy, and second, to help restore the original ecosystem of this place."
"Orion, besides resurrecting people, can you also resurrect the forest?"
Artemis was somewhat curious.
"In my current state (under the super-burden training state), I probably can't revive the dead forest, but I can use another method to speed up the recovery of the ecosystem in this area."
"How do I do this?"
"No destruction, no construction; destruction precedes construction."
. . .
After a group of people left the decaying forest, Broly used Riveria's wide-area annihilation magic.
In an instant, the decaying forest turned into a sea of fire, followed by a terrifying pressure that crushed all the decaying trees into dust.
Finally, a sacred torrent descended from the sky, washing over the burned and rotten forest grounds.
"After what you've done, that decaying forest area should soon be able to be reborn—"
That evening, Broly, who had rejoined the team, received a message while having dinner that Artemis's happiness level had increased again.
After Hestia's explanation, Broly learned that Artemis was actually a goddess who revered nature.
Although their acquaintance was brief, after a series of events including the rescue of the original body, the resurrection of the child, and the restoration of the decaying forest—
The happiness stat of this moon goddess is showing signs of catching up, and in a short period of time, she has caught up with the tail end of the first wave of people to meet in the Crystal Palace of this world.
Broly was naturally delighted with this situation and gradually became more affectionate towards Artemis, the goddess he had just met.