I'm in Type-Moon, how can I let you bully me?

"..."

Performing?

Russell suddenly realized and asked softly, "Artemis, you... can't be unable to understand what to do, so all the actions now are retrieved from the database, right?"

“No?”

Artemis tapped her finger on her lips, showing the standard cute look of a girl thinking.

"The feelings in my heart are my own. I can be sure of them clearly. After confirming these feelings, I came to this conclusion, and then..."

"Then?"

Russell looked at Artemis and saw determination in her eyes.

"Then, I came to find you."

Artemis pulled Russell's wrist up and was about to leave.

"Well, now we're lovers, right? After all, you did this and that to me, so you have to take responsibility."

"What do you mean by responsibility?"

Russell suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart.

Upon hearing this, Artemis' face lit up with a brilliant smile, as if she were on a fifteenth day of the lunar month, full as the moon, and bright as a white jade plate.

"Of course, you want to be with me in your true form, inside my body, and live with me forever. Don't worry, our married life will be incredibly sweet. According to my database analysis, the content that can support the playfulness between husband and wife, and the time we have for our enjoyment, is measured in millennia."

What kind of gameplay content...

What is enough to entertain us for thousands of years...

What does it mean?

Looking at the specially fabricated divine body of Artemis beside him, Russell actually felt a little shameful for a moment.

But in a flash, he rationally asked, "What if I don't go with you?"

"How could you say such a thing, dear!!!"

Artemis' eyes widened, her mouth opened, and she let out a sound of great surprise.

"He must have been led astray by some bad woman, right? This won't do... Forget it, if dear doesn't want to go, I can only break his limbs and take him back for proper treatment..."

Crazy woman.

The way she looked at him was still like that of a girl in love, but the words she spoke were like those of an enemy she wanted to torture.

"why?"

Russell broke free from Artemis's hand and calmly asked his final question.

Artemis touched her earlobe in distress, and the longbow appeared in her hand.

"Honey, I really want to explain to you, but there's no time."

No time?

Russell frowned slightly, but he didn't pay attention to Artemis who was obviously in combat mode. Instead, he looked at the sky in the distance.

There, thunderclouds are surging.

Artemis also noticed the situation over there, and her expression suddenly changed: "Has Zeus noticed it? Or is Zeus going to take action?"

"Zeus..."

Russell looked at Artemis again. He didn't say anything, but just listened to the incoherent words coming out of Artemis' mouth.

"No, Zeus shouldn't be that fast..."

"Those things that he digested secretly will probably take him some time to digest."

"Impossible now..."

Russell's frown deepened. "Artemis, tell me directly, what does Zeus want to do? Is it because of Zeus that you are behaving like this?"

"Don't ask, just come with me!"

Artemis undoubtedly wanted to step forward and restrain Russell.

"My core is overloaded and processing information very quickly. This is the best calculated outcome. Anyway, we need to leave now..."

70. The So-Called Great Father God

At this moment, countless thoughts flashed through Russell's mind.

The original Zeus, when he was in the Lostbelt, was the omniscient, omnipotent, just and fair king of gods.

He united the twelve Mecha Gods and repelled the White Giant God, allowing the Mecha Gods to retain their true existence.

And now...

It is not the so-called "correct" human logic, nor is it the current state of the Lostbelt.

Perhaps Zeus took a different approach and repelled the White Giant.

However, he did not give up the idea of ​​unifying the Twelve Mechas.

Russell was not interested in being a riddler, or being faced by a riddler.

He glanced at Artemis and directly expressed his guess: "Could it be that Zeus wants to unify the Twelve Mechas?"

"..."

The impatience on Artemis' face slowly disappeared.

Instead, there was an expression of surprise, and even more shock.

She glanced around, then studied Russell, wondering, "How could you possibly know the secrets of us Mecha-Gods? You're not the incarnation of any one Mecha-God."

Artemis would never allow herself to "fall in love" if it were any incarnation created by the monolithic god.

"Upon hearing this news, you, fearing being unified and losing yourself, caused your core to go berserk, pushing your computing power to its limit."

After establishing this premise, Russell began to analyze based on the information previously revealed by Artemis herself.

"It's not the fear of losing myself..."

Artemis calmed down a little at this point, but couldn't help but pull Russell.

"Let's go to the real body first. Don't you see that Zeus's thunder is gathering here?"

"Zeus's thunderbolt will definitely not come for you or the other Mechas."

Russell felt helpless that Artemis had lost her judgment in panic.

"If Zeus wanted to unite Mechagod's true form, couldn't he have simply absorbed it into outer space? Why would he specifically send down thunderbolts on your divine form?"

"Yes!"

Artemis suddenly realized.

hateful!

All her computing power was now being used to figure out how to escape this galaxy and travel elsewhere under the watchful eye of Zeus, using only her and Apollo's ships.

This divine body was specially fabricated and made specifically to take Russell away.

Now it seems that the so-called "love" status that was deliberately fabricated has affected my own thinking?

Artemis looked a little embarrassed, but she said stubbornly, "She is indeed my chosen lover. However, I am not afraid of being absorbed by Zeus, but I am afraid of losing my 'humanity'."

"Humanity?"

Russell understood.

Originally, it was just a strategy set by the Greek gods to create divine bodies with so-called "humanity" and use this to create various types of "emotional" garbage information to handle task progress and postpone the so-called "revitalization of the mother planet" indefinitely.

But now, the so-called "human nature" and the so-called complex emotions have become something that the Greek gods, at least Artemis, value.

And, perhaps, the "love" that the Mecha-God has for humans has never changed from the beginning to the end.

Artemis nodded. "Under our neglect, the poets on earth have begun to sing the praises of Zeus as 'omniscient and omnipotent,' 'Great Father,' and even 'the One.'"

"The Age of Gods began to fade. To continue the Age of Gods, the gods split into two factions: the Faction of Complete Domination and the Faction of Symbiosis."

At this moment, a hint of surprise flashed across Artemis' face.

"Originally, we were still arguing about this point, but now, Zeus has secretly taken action, successively erasing the 'humanity' of many Mecha Gods, retaining only their absolute rationality and unifying them."

Russell's frown relaxed slightly, but he was still puzzled: "Why do you want to erase the human side?"

"Because of the title of Great Father God."

It seemed that because she knew that Zeus was not coming for her, the emotions that had been forcibly suppressed began to emerge. Artemis, who felt angry after saying this, had some gritted teeth in her tone.

"Zeus, who considers himself the Great Father God, desires complete control over the future of both humans and gods. He no longer wants the gods to retain their humanity, nor does he even want humans to retain excessive humanity. He only desires human obedience and the power of the Mecha-gods."

"Everyone obeys his arrangements, and everyone only accepts his love."

At this point, Artemis' tone turned cold and she gripped Russell's hand even tighter.

"That's why I'm taking you away."

After all, so far, the "emotions" I have received from you are the most, the most special, and the most intense.

This emotion lingering in my heart is the reason why I have to take you away.

Therefore, this is the only point that you are not allowed to disobey.

It turned out to be the case.

The human side of the Mechagod was erased, leaving it only as a reserve for strength and to delay the Supreme Directive.

Human beings will never receive love from any god other than Zeus.

Monopolize mankind's faith and solely control the future of gods and mankind.

Does this crazy idea come from distorted "fatherly love"?

Russell already understood Zeus's thoughts, which was very typical. He regarded his children as his own treasures and his own belongings, and did not allow them to disobey. Only his will was correct, and only his love was right.

If Enlil felt that humans and gods should obey him because of his power and his own desires.

Then, Zeus also felt that humans and gods should obey him, but it was because he was the "father" and he was "right."

"I'm not leaving."

A carefree smile appeared on Russell's face.

"If that's the case, then engaging Zeus head-on, defeating the so-called Great Father God, the so-called 'patricide', is what a hero should do, right?"

"what?"

Artemis looked at her lover in confusion, as if she had no idea where his confidence came from.

You know, Zeus's thunder, even if it is just to intimidate people, is enough to match her interstellar railgun!

Fighting Zeus head-on and completing the so-called "patricide"?

Impossible, absolutely impossible!

It’s better to follow her to another galaxy.

Just as Artemis was about to say something else, in the distance, beneath Zeus' thunder, a familiar roar emerged.

"Zeus!!!"

"That is......"

Artemis' eyes widened. Apollo, who had been somewhat afraid in her presence, actually faced Zeus' thunder and stood in front of a person.

"Apollo?"

71. The medicine that brings back the dead

Asclepius was a Greek hero who learned medicine from Chiron and was later called the god of medicine.

The legend associated with him, besides Argo, is that he was killed by thunder because he gained the power to bring the dead back to life.

After his death, in order to appease Apollo's anger at the murder of his son, Zeus elevated the dead Asclepius to the constellation Ophiuchus.

This was all that Russell knew about the legend of Asclepius.