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Fourth instance: 124. Embrace the glory of battle (4k+)

Obviously, no matter which world it is, powerful force is always more convincing than simple language.

Even a god who has lived for a long time is no exception.

If it were someone else, even if the facts were laid out before Artemis, the goddess would never agree to unlock the seal beneath the ruins of Elsos.

When Xia Yan used the [Immobilization Technique] and presented the word "Immobilization" outlined by golden light on his palm to Artemis.

Even though her divine power was sealed and her physical fitness was only at the level of an ordinary person, Artemis could still clearly sense the magic that was different from the conventional magic in the lower world, and could deeply sense the special power of the laws governing the operation of a certain world. The vision and knowledge accumulated over a long period of time also allowed her to quickly make a judgment that she believed was correct.

Although Xia Yan did not admit it verbally.

But Artemis almost certainly believed that he was a LV10 adventurer in the [God's Grace] system.

"I understand."

Then, the goddess took a deep breath, looked back at the family members who were still controlled by Irena's magic, and said:

"I'll help you break the seal... but can you please let my Familia go first?!"

Xia Yan gave Irena a look, and the latter casually waved her wand, contacting the magic cast on the members of Artemis's family.

"Lady Artemis..."

After the control magic was lifted, all the members of Artemis' family ran to the side of their family's main god. Some even ignored the huge difference in strength and stood in front of Artemis. All of them looked like they were willing to sacrifice themselves for Artemis.

But this touching scene did not stir much in Xia Yan's heart.

"Goddess, you don't want any of your family members to encounter any misfortune, do you?"

Then, under the strange look from Irena and Asthesia's gaze which seemed to become a little heavy, Xia Yan reminded Artemis.

Artemis pursed her lips.

"I, I understand."

After saying this, he turned around and gave a few words of advice to Letesa, the leader of the clan who was holding him, asking his friend to take the other girls of the clan as far away from the Elsos ruins as possible, and to wait until she came back to talk to Yunyun.

Wait until everything is explained.

"Come with me~!"

Artemis came to Xia Yan, stared at him deeply for a few seconds, then walked past him and entered the temple ruins and opened the door.

"You stay here."

After Xia Yan casually said something to the three girls from Loki's clan, he turned around and followed Artemis's back into the dim, deserted ruins.

Seeing this, Irena and Astesia hurriedly followed. Under the gaze of the members of Artemis' family and the three girls of Loki's family, the man and three women disappeared from the end of their sight soon.

"Why do I feel weird?"

Tiona, the younger Amazon sister, scratched her cheek, feeling an indescribable strangeness, as if something was wrong, but she couldn't tell why.

But after looking at Sword Lady with a silly look on her face, her sister Dione with her arms crossed and nothing to do with it, and the members of Artemis' family with worried faces, he finally thought it was just his own illusion.

And in the ruins.

Following the corridor with blue fluorescence glowing between the cracks in the wall tiles, Xia Yan, Irena and Asthesia walked straight to the deepest part of this abandoned ancient temple under the guidance of Artemis.

Along the way, Xia Yan sighed as he felt the inexplicable gazes of Irena and Asthesia cast at him from both sides.

"If you have the wrong idea, don't blame me for the yellow waste."

"Don't you think that what you just said is hard not to let people imagine it?"

Irena complained with disdain:

"If someone didn't know, they would think you were planning to 'coerce' the goddess into doing something bad in this deserted temple."

"I feel the same way, dear."

Asthesia also said in a quiet voice:

"Although I said before that I don't mind sharing you with other girls, I will not allow another goddess to take my 'share' and 'position' beside you."

"...That's enough, you two."

Xia Yan glanced at the two of them speechlessly.

After hearing this conversation, Artemis was stunned for a long time before she reacted. She didn't know whether it was because of embarrassment or anger. Her face flushed and she turned to Asthesia and said:

"Astesia, I am the goddess of chastity and one of the virgin goddesses of Heaven. Don't try to frame me with your impure thoughts!"

"I'm sorry, Artemis... I simply wanted to eliminate any competitors on the same path."

Asthesia replied indifferently:

"Beside Xia Yan, I'm the only goddess who's enough. I don't want to see another 'goddess' approaching... I also sincerely hope you don't come over, otherwise I'll regretfully chop you off later."

"..."

Artemis was immediately silenced by these heavy words. She could only turn around and look at Xia Yan in confusion. The goddess, who had never had any physical or spiritual love, really couldn't understand what kind of mental state Asthesia's "possessiveness" towards Xia Yan was.

"Don't look at me. There are quite a few psychopaths among the gods in your [Heaven]—not to mention, if I hadn't come here earlier and indirectly changed your 'fate' two years later, you would have fallen in love too."

"Ok?"

"Yes, Xia Yan said that in your original 'future', after you were devoured by Scorpio Andaris, you used your thought body to travel to Orario and found someone who could wield a spear called the Arrow of Orion. In just a few days of spending time together, you instantly fell in love with him."

Irena interrupted:

"And then, they said that before you died, you would confess your love to your loved one and agree to meet again after your resurrection ten thousand years later, and to be in love for ten thousand years... After you were resurrected, the reincarnation of that person would be brought to you by Hermes and Hestia."

"Grr, that's not me."

Artemis retorted, refusing to admit that she would do something that sounded very love-brained.

What about letting the person you love kill you with his own hands, and then reuniting with the reincarnation of the person you love ten thousand years later, and really having a ten thousand year love relationship as promised... It sounds very female-oriented, very romantic literature, but Artemis couldn't imagine that specific picture at all.

"I absolutely do not believe that such love affairs can be connected with a virgin goddess like me who is in charge of chastity."

"Then do you want to give it a try?"

Xia Yan suggested:

"Go to Orario in two years to meet your 'destined lover.' I can tell you where your 'lover' is, what he or she looks like, and how many other girls are around him or her, competing with you for men."

"Hmmmm?"

Artemis' eyes widened in disbelief.

"What did you say? Other girls? Stealing men? Me?"

"Yup!"

Xia Yan nodded calmly.

"You're one of his concubines... Oh, and although you were the first to die according to your original 'fate', and you won't be the first to win the resurrection match, but on the bright side, you'll have 10,000 years to resurrect after death, and you can still eat the leftovers from the past 10,000 years, and use the leftovers from who knows how many reincarnations you've had. That's pretty good already."

"..."

Artemis trembled slightly.

"Let me add something."

Asthesia suddenly smiled and spoke, giving her 'old friend' and 'best friend' another stab in the back.

"Since I've already given you the spoiler, I'll just be clear—poor Artemis, in your original 'fate', not only would you be stuck eating other people's leftovers ten thousand years from now, you wouldn't even be considered the 'first wife' or 'first wife'."

"Your 'dear lover' has quite a few mortal wives and concubines. Even if we only count the goddesses who are in love with your 'dear lover', you are at most the fourth mistress. Yes, you are not even the third mistress. You actively pay for them. Among the goddesses, you are ranked fourth at best. If you include the mortal girls, you can't even make it into the top five."

"Ah ...

After being bullied by Xia Yan, Irena, and Asthesia, Artemis yelled madly with a dark face:

"...I won't compete with a bunch of shameless women and goddesses, nor will I fall in love with a playboy for no apparent reason. Never!"

"Haha." X3

Xia Yan, Irena, and Asthesia all laughed playfully at the same time.

"Here we are."

Artemis suddenly stopped and stood in front of a tightly closed stone door at the end of the corridor. She turned around and glared at the man and three women behind her, saying unhappily:

"I will open the entrance sealed by Scorpio Andaris later. I hope you can truly defeat that monster and completely eliminate it, instead of just talking about it."

"So, do you want to know who your destined 'Sweetheart' is, and who are the women and goddesses who will compete with you for men in the future?"

"I don't want to know! And I refuse to admit it!"

Artemis gritted her teeth, stepped forward and reached out to press the stone door. There was her family's emblem, or in other words, the symbol of her faith from thousands of years ago, an image consisting of a crescent and an arrow, and a faint white moonlight shone on the door.

Then, as Artemis actively released a weak divine power, the stone door slowly opened with vibrations.

Then, Artemis, who was originally still angry, saw the stone door open and the scene inside. She no longer cared about the topic of being squeezed out and fell into shock and fear on the spot.

Behind the open stone door, the interior of the building ruins was no longer the passage they had walked through before, but had become a devil's cave covered with a carpet of blood, flesh and fungi.

The ceiling, walls and ground that came into view were all covered with blood-red biomass, and insect eggs were wrapped in fungal mats and embedded in the ceiling and walls.

After seeing this scene, Artemis no longer had any extra thoughts about the topics of female competition and stealing men.

Thousands of years before she descended to the mortal world, her former clan, whose name had disappeared in the history of the underworld, and the unknown great immortal and her former believers paid a terrible price to seal the monster, which was as famous as Behemoth, Leviathan and the one-eyed black dragon. Just as Xia Yan had said, it began to disintegrate the original seal from the inside.

If Xia Yan had not previously revealed the "future", Artemis believed that after seeing the scene before her, she would definitely rush into the deepest part of the seal and reinforce the seal before Scorpio Andaris completely broke out of it.

If she fails, she will definitely release the seal of her divine power and try to die together with Scorpio Andaris.

"So, in the original 'future' you knew, I would be eaten by Scorpio Andaris?"

Artemis turned to look at Xia Yan, and said in a trembling voice:

"Will it also cause Letesha and the others to die here in their efforts to save me?"

"In fact, if Scorpio Andaris wasn't a 'God's Assassin' monster, and was gifted by the will of the dungeon labyrinth at birth with immunity to the meager divine power your gods can exert in the netherworld, they wouldn't have died."

Xia Yan stretched out his hand and summoned the Sword of Promised Victory into his palm. Holding the sword, he passed Artemis and walked into the devil's cave covered with blood, flesh and fungus.

"But in that 'future', you weren't entirely clear on this. You didn't anticipate that the divine power you activated would be completely ineffective against Scorpio Andaris. Instead, you were devoured and fused with his flesh, usurping his divine power and authority. You nearly unleashed Artemis's Arrow to destroy the entire underworld."

Irena retracted her wand and summoned the sapphire staff belonging to the female Merlin from the information within her spiritual base.

Asthesia, holding the Originium Sword in one hand and the celestial globe in the other, actively activated the spell unit component in the 'staff' and began to use the spell of the intelligent NPC Xingji.

Then, the two of them followed Xia Yan in.

When Artemis saw this, she quickly drew her sword and followed.

Immediately afterwards, just after the man and three women stepped through the stone gate, the flesh and blood fungal carpet on the ground seemed to sense something and suddenly began to proliferate and grow wildly along the stone gate, gradually blocking the entire entrance.

"The entrance is...something is controlling these flesh and blood fungus carpets. It's that monster, Scorpio Andaris..."

Before Artemis could finish her words, her voice came to an abrupt end, because just as the proliferating and growing flesh and blood fungus carpet blocked the entrance, the insect eggs originally distributed on the ceiling and walls cracked one after another, and giant black scorpions the size of calves, covered in translucent mucus, fell to the ground and pounced on them in groups.

But just as Artemis was about to engage in battle.

Om-!

In a blood-red devil's cave, countless tiny lights like fireflies appeared out of thin air and rushed towards Xia Yan.

At this moment, Xia Yan also raised the sword in his hand. The blade turned into the Sword of Promise of Victory, which looked like a condensed golden light, and faced the dense swarm of insects that was rushing forward and had no end in sight.

With one sword, he swung down.

The true name of the Noble Phantasm is liberated.

EX curry sticks.

boom--!

The next moment, a torrent of light roared out from the front of the golden sword of light, drowning the incoming swarm of insects and engulfing the entire demon cave covered with blood, flesh and fungal carpets.

(PS: Today's update was a little better, not so gloomy, but I haven't been able to make up for the number of words I owed before orz——last night there was only one chapter of 2k5, so I still owe 1k5...emmmm)

Fourth instance: 125. Bell Rabbit ~ Danger (4k+)

A brilliant golden light swept before my eyes.

Wherever it passed, it burned filth and purified evil... No matter if it was the bloody fungal carpet covering the ceiling, walls and ground, or the giant black scorpions that had just hatched from insect eggs, they were all instantly reduced to ashes in the dazzling light.

Then, the roar finally sounded, followed by strong vibrations and shaking under the feet.

When the light faded, the bloody cave in front of him was completely wiped out, leaving only a burnt passage.