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"Wow~ You already said that."

"Right, when you get back, you can proudly tell Mei how you solved the crisis with your invincible attitude."

"Ok."

This statement temporarily comforted Kiana.

Jiang Chen smiled lightly, as if he knew nothing, and calmly handed over the initiative to Artemis.

This development is in line with Artemis's wishes. She needs to know more about Jiang Chen.

So they chose a vast plain and began to prepare for rest at night.

Take a walk together, enjoy the breeze and the smell of the grassland, collect food, and set up a tent.

Artemis had started the conversation, but it had inexplicably turned into Jiang Chen recounting stories about a world that didn't exist. Then, the two of them listened quietly as Kiana vividly recounted the adventures of a creature called Hom.

This made Jiang Chen feel deeply desperate about the cultural industry in the collapsed world.

However, all three of them were very happy.

Until Kiana accidentally mentioned it and wanted to know the story of Artemis in the upper world.

When this question was raised, the air suddenly became heavy.

"Ah, when I was in the upper realm..."

Artemis forced a smile. "It was so long ago, I almost forgot about it. I saw a lake over there and wanted to wash myself, so I went over there first. If Kiana wants to take a bath too, you can come over later."

The transition is quite abrupt.

Artemis quickly took a few things out of her luggage and trotted towards the direction of the lake.

Kiana was stunned for a moment, glanced at Artemis's untouched dinner, and asked innocently, "Did I say something that made her unhappy?"

"No, I'm probably a little nervous because we have to defeat a powerful enemy tomorrow."

Jiang Chen acted as if nothing had happened and gave Baima Tuanzi another bowl of rice.

On the other side, Artemis ran to the lake panting and dived into the water. After a few seconds, she floated to the surface lying flat, and the complicated thoughts in her mind gradually dissipated.

"In the upper realm, before..."

It's not some taboo topic that's hard to talk about.

However, she is a body of longing, the remnant of a dead goddess.

Is it really necessary to look back at the past?

For a goddess who is about to enter reincarnation and is destined to be forgotten, the past and the future... Ten thousand years later, who will care about her past?

What was she like in the past?

He has a strict character, pays attention to discipline, and yearns for goodness and beauty. He came to the underworld to form a family, and cried and laughed with the children.

Those were beautiful memories, ones she treasured.

But it suddenly changed after I took on that commission.

Accepting the guild's commission, she led her clan to the Great Forest to investigate the cause of the monster uprising. During the investigation, they unexpectedly encountered the Scorpio Andaris, a monster sealed by ancient immortal spirits. With her clan in danger, she desperately wanted to save her children, even risking forced deportation to the upper realms, and wielding divine power to avert the tragedy.

However, it is ineffective.

The omnipotent divine power lost its effect in front of the ancient monster.

It is a special monster born to avenge the gods and has the power to restrain the gods.

Scorpio devoured her and wiped out all of Artemis's family in front of her.

The real Artemis had already died at that moment, but she knew the consequences of a god being devoured by a monster. The monster, having gained divine power, would use that power to destroy the underworld.

So she used the last of her strength to summon the Holy Spear (arrow) from the upper realm and returned to Orario to seek support.

She hated the upper world and the gods, but she loved the lower world and its people.

No matter what, he would never allow the netherworld he loved to be destroyed by his own arrows.

Therefore, she needs someone, someone with a pure soul, who can wield the Holy Spear (arrow). Before her arrow falls, she must use this spear (arrow) to kill herself. Undoubtedly, the chosen hero (the Godslayer) will commit a great sin. Furthermore, to unleash the Holy Spear's power, they must achieve a resonance of mind with her.

And the way to bring hearts closer together is...love.

In short, letting the "brave man" fall in love with himself and then kill his lover in the end is a doomed tragedy and a cruel truth.

She had to be, as the creator of the tragedy.

The only thing I can do...

"Kill me, Orion. Kill me as the monster I am, before you learn the truth. This tragedy no one knows about is not a tragedy, but a redemption that prevented me from committing a serious crime. It was just a love affair... that ended in nothing."

"So, you plan to keep it a secret forever, and then disappear without saying anything?"

"Who... Orion?!"

Artemis stood up suddenly and looked at Jiang Chen, who had appeared out of nowhere, leaning against a tree and staring at her.

"You heard it, since when?"

"I wanted to leave you alone to calm down, but Artemis, you probably didn't notice, but your expression after we set off was like you were crying for help. Even Kiana noticed. If I hadn't come, she would have been the one."

Jiang Chen sighed.

"No, I'm not..."

"Your heart, your soul, is crying out for help. Why not speak it out if you want to be saved?"

"..."

"Do you remember my promise? Let's begin, set off. This is a journey that will never stop. Artemis, I intended to save you from the beginning. So, now, are you willing to confide in me?"

"... Orion, if you'd like, I'd like to tell you about my past self."

Chapter 76 Scorpio.

The next day, the journey continued.

"You two, did something happen behind my back last night?"

Kiana looked suspicious, her eyes wandering between Jiang Chen and Artemis.

After dinner yesterday, Jiang Chen said he was going to take a look, and he never came back. She tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep. Every time she wanted to check on him, she was afraid she might see something she shouldn't. It wasn't until this morning, just before departure time, that the two of them emerged from the woods, hand in hand.

Little woods!

All night long!

Based on the theory of human origins that Baimaotuanzi learned from novels and comics, he can conclude that these two people must have stayed up all night just like him.

The key point is the indescribable atmosphere between the two of them at this moment...

If, before last night, Jiang Chen and Artemis had been like elementary school students, clearly expressing their affection and wanting to be together constantly, then from a third-party perspective, it would seem safe to let them stay together. As everyone knows, that kind of explicit affection often appears between couples who haven't yet confirmed their relationship.

but now……

Jiang Chen and Artemis's eyes met in the air for a moment, then quickly moved away, each looking at a different scenery, but always watching each other out of the corner of their eyes.

Their postures were also off when they rode, their backs held straight, and Artemis, who was in the front, seemed to be leaning forward. But a closer look revealed that they were actually very close together, their arms brushing against their waists or cheeks lightly touching as they swayed, and they both blushed and pretended to be calm.

"Something's wrong! Nothing's right!"

Kiana's eyes were filled with resentment, and her anticipation for adventure was gone.

"Ahem, you misunderstood, Kiana. Artemis and I just discussed tactics all night last night."

"No, no, that's right! Jiang... ahem, and Orion and I were just having a normal conversation. Nothing really happened. Could you... please stop looking at us like that?"

Artemis' voice trailed off, her head hanging low.

Last night, she really just expressed her emotions under Jiang Chen's guidance.

About the fact that I actually don’t want to reincarnate, I want to continue living in the lower world, I want to save the children of my clan, and... my first love, I hope to experience it well.

We looked up at the stars together and talked about our aspirations, and didn't notice anything unusual at the time.

Yet, after leaving today, for some reason, my heartbeat suddenly and uncontrollably accelerated. I wanted to see her, but I was afraid of being discovered. I felt inexplicably happy and excited. I wanted to know what she thought of me, to hear her praise, to have her keep her eyes on me, and to do so many more things together.

"I have a feeling you two are... Wait! Look ahead, what's that?"

Kiana paused and pointed forward.

Before they knew it, the three of them had approached the sea of trees.

The originally blue sky turned gray and covered with dark clouds.

The air was filled with an ominous magical element, and the entire space seemed to be demonized. The forest below was polluted by a purple-black color, and the trees seemed to have lost their lives. There was no trace of animals in the forest anymore.

Countless black spots began to surge from afar, converging into a pitch-black river, flowing towards the three people.

"That's the monster from the Elsos ruins!"

Artemis was startled, her expression becoming serious. "They have broken through the blockade of the ruins. If they are not cleared out, they... will destroy this world."

Kiana looked carefully and found that the black river was made up of countless black scorpion-shaped monsters.

Each scorpion monster is the size of a medium-sized dog. The strength of the monster can be roughly judged by the damage it causes to the environment during its march.

"Destroy the world, no? There are just more of them. The individual strength of those monsters is something that ordinary adventurers can handle."

Kiana doesn't think that thing can destroy the world.

These are Scorpios, too weak.

Soon, her perspective will change.

"Woo——"

Artemis suddenly clutched her chest, a sharp pain surging through her.

"It's coming, it's coming...be careful!"

"Om-!"

Suddenly, the atmosphere began to vibrate violently under the influence of a huge invisible force.

A flash of silver-white light, twinkling like stars.

Then, the split.

In an instant, thousands of dense raindrops of light suddenly fell from the sky.

"Fix the form, transfer the Houkai energy, forge, begin!"

Jiang Chen raised his right arm.

Layer upon layer of huge translucent shields quickly condensed with the support of Honkai energy, blocking the three people.

In a hurry, without time for further forging, I only raised the shield's defense to the strength of first-level equipment. Ten shields in total should be able to barely defend against it. If we seriously supply energy continuously, unless we have a Sub-Sky Spear with space-penetrating properties like Xilin, we can withstand any attack from the level of a Herrscher.

That was originally the case, but...

"Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!"

The moment of encounter, the energy shield rippled and quickly shattered layer by layer.

The ten layers of shields only blocked the attack for three seconds.

"Hold on tight!"

Jiang Chen immediately controlled the flying dragon, dodging left and right in the gaps between the dense rain of light.

Kiana also reacted and used the Space Law ability together with Jiang Chen to quickly transfer the Loss of Light around them.

"That is... my power."

Artemis recovered from the severe pain.

"I'll just say it."

If it was just pure divine power, Jiang Chen's defense would not have been broken so quickly.

If it is power, it is completely different.