Chapter 832: This Punch, Five Months of Cultivation

The massive explosion triggered by the collision of magic arrows and divine power arrows quickly attracted the people in the Corrupted Forest.

"Lord Hermes!"

The Omnipotent Asfi led her forces rushing over to this side to investigate the situation; upon seeing her own Main God, she rushed over with a face full of anger.

As it turned out, the Hermes Familia had taken on a quest to investigate the Corrupted Forest some time ago, but midway through the investigation, Hermes dumped all the leader's duties onto this Miss Omnipotent and ran back to Orario by himself.

"Do you know how exhausted I've been these days leading people to intercept monsters here and stop them from spreading outward? I haven't bathed in several days, and I haven't even gotten six hours of sleep a day!"

"Asfi, calm down. Didn't I go back to Orario to find helpers to come assist?"

In reality, he took Artemis's arrow back to Orario, touched base with the Guild's Main God Uranus, explained the situation at the Elos Ruins, and then, as it happened to be the Goddess Festival, staged a spear-pulling event during the celebration to select someone capable of pulling out the Moon God's Arrow.

The reason for using such a strange method to choose someone was because both Uranus and Hermes knew just how strong the God of Assassins monster Andarisi — who had devoured a god — was, and what enormous influence it would have on this world after completely devouring Artemis. They worried that Orario, which had just stabilized, would once again fall into turmoil and panic.

Fortunately, Hermes's luck was good — or rather, one could say Broly's luck was good. He just happened to be dragged out of the house by Hestia to tour the Goddess Festival, and ran into Bell who was also out touring the festival. Then, pulled along by the boy who was having a bit of trouble dealing with his jealous girlfriend, he joined the lively event Hermes had set up and went on stage to pull the Moon God's Arrow.

"Lady Hestia, Miss Ais, Lady Riveria, and Mr. Broly————"

Asfi greeted Broly and the others, only then collecting the angry expression on her face.

"Lord Hermes, considering you actually went back to invite strong people to come support this time, I won't hold it against you. But after this matter is over, you'd better give me a long vacation!"

Asfi nagged on and on, her face just short of writing the three big characters "Pure Workhorse." Hermes truly deserves to be the capitalist among Orario's Main Gods, exploiting his own Familia's captain's labor to the death.

"Hooray, it's actually Mr. Broly coming to support. Looks like this commission, we can just lie down and win again————"

The Hermes Familia members, upon seeing the supporter was Broly, all became high-spirited one by one.

Yet their words caused Artemis some doubt. When did the Sword Princess and the Nine Magic Princesses lose so much face? Clearly also supporters, yet the Hermes Familia people didn't mention them at all, as if as long as Broly came, everyone else could be omitted.

Everyone held an attitude of trust toward the boy, which also made Artemis look at the Saiyan boy with curious eyes.

Although the boy was the Orion she had found, there had been no time to properly get along with him on the journey. The only way to understand Broly was through Hestia's accounts.

And the pure Moon Goddess was also unfamiliar with interactions with the opposite sex. She basically listened to whatever Hestia was willing to tell her about Broly, and had never proactively learned about Broly's situation.

"How is the situation here?"

"The Andarisi sealed in the ruins is continuously accumulating power, giving birth to a large swarm of scorpion monsters. The monsters wandering in this Corrupted Forest are only a very small portion; the vast majority are all gathered around the Elos Ruins, faintly forming a guarding posture. If we want to enter the ruins, we must first deal with the external monster swarm."

Asfi answered her own Main God's question. Their mission in this Corrupted Forest was to delay the forest's spread as much as possible, eliminating monster swarms trying to escape. Those monsters would inject special toxins into the trees, accelerating the forest's corruption — or rather, the extraction of life energy.

"Since support has arrived, then, no time to lose. Let's head straight to the ruins."

"Ah, Lord Hermes, what about the strategy?"

"Hah, do we need that kind of thing? A mere monster swarm — could it compare to the Forty Thousand Adventurer Coalition?"

"Uh, that's true too."

Asfi slapped her head, feeling she had been a bit foolish. But it was all her own Main God Lord Hermes's fault, dumping a pile of work on her, causing her current mental fatigue and slow thinking.

"Then I'll lead the way!"

A cat-person burly man walked at the front and started leading the way.

As for the flying dragon, it was left in place, watched over by the Hermes Familia people.

"Lady Artemis, do you distrust my strength?"

Broly, following along, slowed his pace to come beside the Moon Goddess, and asked right away.

"Ah, I didn't————"

Artemis subconsciously wanted to deny it, but was directly interrupted by Broly.

"It's fine. It's normal that you don't understand me. I only hope that after I save you this time, you'll be willing to continue getting to know me."

Finishing speaking, Broly didn't wait for Artemis to reply, but quickened his pace to walk to Ais's side, and said to the Sword Princess girl: "Ais, just let me make a move later."

"Hm?"

"Lady Artemis isn't too at ease. I need to give her a reassurance pill.

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"Hm.

""

Ais's personality was still somewhat a dull gourd, but in terms of understanding Broly's meaning, she was still quite fast.

【Continue getting to know me, huh. If there really is a chance————】

Artemis looked at the back of the Saiyan boy walking ahead, and thought silently in her heart.

"Artemis, what's wrong?"

Seeing her steps suddenly stop, Hestia walking beside her also stopped and asked.

"Hestia, I don't know what's going on either. I just feel my heart rate has sped up a bit."

Looking at the faint blush rising on Artemis's face, Hestia opened her mouth, but for a moment didn't know what to say. As a fellow Virgin Goddess, Hestia, as a senior god, understood Artemis's current situation better than anyone.

After thinking a bit, Hestia spoke: "Artemis, your current situation should be that you're heart-moved by my kid."

"A racing heart, is that the feeling of being heart-moved?"

"Of course. When in adversity, having someone extend a helping hand — I can still remember the feeling of my heart racing when I couldn't recruit any Familia members, and that kid Broly actively approached me and took my hand."

"This feeling seems not as hard to accept as I previously imagined."

Artemis touched her chest, feeling the racing heart sensation wasn't bad.

"Good that you know. So, after my kid goes and saves your main body, you mustn't do something like burning the bridge after crossing the river, regretting him being your Orion. Otherwise, even if you're my close friend Artemis, I absolutely won't forgive you."

Hestia reminded her.

"I naturally won't go back on my word. But, Orion — can he really save my main body?"

"If he says he can, then he definitely can. That kid is very powerful — beyond your imagination powerful!"

"Hestia————"

"Hm?

"Here, you hold this for me."

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Looking at the Moon Goddess Arrow that Artemis handed over, Hestia couldn't help but cast a doubtful gaze at this close friend of hers.

"I'll leave it to you to keep safe. Just like you believe he can save me, I also want to believe that he can save me in this matter."

"Fine, then I'll hold onto this thing for you. Anyway, it definitely won't be used."

The group's marching speed was very fast. Not long after, they arrived near the Elos Ruins, and an astonishing quantity of scorpion monsters densely surrounded the ruins.

Looking at the massive monster horde, Artemis felt it was thorny. Just as she was preparing to propose having Broly use his arrows to clear the monsters around the ruins, she saw the Saiyan boy not stop his steps, walking directly toward the direction of the monster horde.

", you're just letting him walk through the front alone like this?"

Artemis had just wanted to ask this when, on that side, the scorpion monsters that had spotted Broly's figure and were already rushing toward him, with the one at the very front leading the charge, seemed to suddenly suffer some inexplicable force attack. Its body directly exploded into pieces. With the first one, came the second, then the third, the fourth——

The scorpion monsters looked just like moths flying into a flame. One by one, they all died at a distance fifty meters away from Broly.

"What on earth is this?"

"Gravity Magic. Those monsters can't withstand the terrifying gravity around Broly. After rushing to a certain distance, they get directly crushed to death."

Riveria answered Artemis's doubt. And however fast the brainless monsters ran over, that was how fast they died.

By the time Broly walked unobstructed to the ruins' entrance, the originally astonishingly numerous scorpion monster horde had also all turned into ashes.

Even the dropped magic stones were passed by the Saiyan, who used Absorption Touch to absorb the energy inside them completely, turning them into a pile of gray ash that would scatter with a single blow.

The ruins' gate was violently blasted open with a single punch.

"Broly went in. Let's follow too.

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Riveria took the lead walking in front.

"Is this reasonable?"

Looking at the completely shattered ruins' main gate, Artemis didn't even know what to say.

Normal procedure, shouldn't it be this Moon Goddess here coming to help open the door?

A group of people followed inside. Inside the ruins, everywhere were ashes currently dissipating.

Obviously, there were also a large number of monsters in here. It was even a monster hatchery — one could see many shattered eggshells currently dissipating.

Jogging all the way, they only caught up to the Saiyan boy walking at the front.

"What's wrong, Broly?"

Seeing the other party stop their steps, and a pile of scorpion monsters pressed on the ground unable to climb up ahead, Riveria couldn't help but ask.

"These monsters seem to have adaptability. After I crushed some to death with pressure, these newly born monsters gradually became able to withstand the heavy pressure I bring."

"So, Mr. Broly, does that mean gravity magic alone can't crush these monsters to death?"

Asfi asked, simultaneously pulling out an Explosive Item from her pocket, preparing to help out.

"It's not that bad. It's just that if I strengthen the gravity magic further, I'm afraid this ruins building itself won't be able to withstand it."

Broly waved his hand, pointed at the places where cracks had appeared on the walls within the gravity magic's effective range, and briefly explained the situation.

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", the ruins sealing the ancient monster Andarisi are so incredibly hard. But now, before even seeing the sealed main body, they're about to be broken by the gravity magic Orion casually released.

"Andarisi is a terrifying monster with extremely strong adaptability. It possesses the ability to self-proliferate, split, and self-evolve. According to Ancient Document records, the ancient high elves were unable to kill this guy, so they chose to construct this ruins to weaken and seal it. I originally thought this was just an exaggerated saying, but looking at these monsters adapting to Broly's gravity magic in such a short time, this record may not be exaggerated, but realistic."

Pausing, Hermes turned his head to look at the Saiyan boy and said seriously: "Anything that fails to kill Andarisi will only make it even more terrifying.

Broly, if you can't deal with the Andarisi main body later, you may have to prepare for the worst."

Broly glanced at Hermes. He expressed no opinion on this deity's words. He simply dispelled the gravity magic's effect. As a group of scorpion monsters on the ground ahead quickly repaired their damaged bodies, climbed up from the ground, and rushed toward him, he raised his hand and gave these monsters a slap each.

And the scorpion monsters that had adapted to twenty-plus times gravity obviously had not adapted to Broly's simple physical attacks. They were directly slapped into monster fragments.

Broly continued advancing unobstructed through the ruins. When he entered the ruins' center, those scorpion monsters' carapaces had become somewhat thicker, but they still could not withstand his physical attacks.

"Wuu~"

The Andarisi main body was a magnified scorpion monster. Just its physique was at the Labyrinth Lone King level. After Broly and the others arrived at the ruins' center, it roared toward Broly's direction. The sound was like the mournful cry produced by wind blowing through a cave.

"Is Andarisi an intelligent monster?"

Broly frowned. Perhaps because he had a Demon King Crystal Core in his body, he could hear the doubtful information inside the sound that giant monster emitted.

"A guy of this level is already close to those monsters in the Adventurers' Three Great Subjugation Quests. It definitely possesses intelligence exceeding normal monsters."

Hermes said.

"Does this guy's roar have some special meaning?"

Asfi was somewhat confused.

"It should be questioning us few: why are we accompanying a god."

Riveria answered. She, who likewise possessed a Demon King Crystal Core in her body, could also hear the abnormality in Andarisi's roar.

Upon discovering Andarisi was an existence with intelligence, Broly dispelled the idea of directly taking action. He stepped forward and began negotiating with this ancient ruins' sealing target: "I think we can talk!"

Andarisi did not refuse. Because from Broly's body, it sensed the aura of a fellow high-level Dungeon retinue (Labyrinth Lone King).

"Wuu~"

Like a whale's call, it was as if asking 【What do you want to talk about】.

"You swallowed a goddess. She is my important Encounter Target. I hope you can spit her out and give her to me. As repayment, I will help you lift this ruins' seal on you. As long as you submit under my command from now on, listen to my words, I can shelter you, for a life on the surface from now on.

"Wuu?"

The giant scorpion tilted its head, just like asking 【Do you also want to swallow the goddess I swallowed into my body?】.

"Not swallow her, but save her out————"

Watching Broly and Andarisi's negotiation situation, Artemis only felt somewhat unreal.

So, saving her main body out could actually be done by talking with the ancient monster Andarisi.

"Wuu!"

Alright, once Andarisi understood Broly's purpose — not to devour a god, but to save the god inside its body — this gigantic scorpion flew into a rage, facing Broly's direction and entering a battle posture, its tail condensing an energy beam——

"Hey, weren't we talking nicely? What's going on now?"

Asfi looked a bit puzzled.

"This guy seems to have treated us as traitors of the Dungeon."

Riveria gave an explanation.

"Sigh~"

Broly sighed; the Ancient Monster devouring Artemis had wisdom, and he had thought he could solve the problem through mediation.

"Since speaking nicely won't work, then I'll switch to a different way of putting it——"

Broly's figure disappeared from its original place.

The next moment, a booming roar rang out.

The front half of this Ancient Monster Andarisi's body was directly blasted into the ruins' ground by a simple punch swung by the Saiyan who had lunged before it.

"Heard your adaptability is strong, so I wonder if you can adapt to this punch of mine with nearly a hundred S-Stats?"

Andarisi, blasted into the ground, twitched uncontrollably, its carapace shattered completely.

Just taking one punch, it looked like it was about to die.