Chapter 833

"Hey, Broli's Brother, take it easy — Artemis's main body is still inside that monster!"

Broly knocking Andarisi down with one punch was certainly impressive, but Hermes felt his heart skip a beat on his end and hurriedly shouted a reminder to the Saiyan youth over there.

Upon hearing those words, Broly, who had been standing in a powerful pose, went *thud* and knelt before Andarisi, whose body would not stop convulsing.

"Divine power is fragrant sustenance————"

Just as he prepared to cast healing magic on Andarisi to save the other's precarious life, the flesh tendrils clinging to the walls of the ruins' core area like vines pulsed, delivering life energy to the dying giant scorpion monster.

On the ground, Andarisi's horrific shattered wounds began to mend at a speed visible to the naked eye, and Broly, too, acted like nothing had happened, dusted off his knees, and stood up again.

"Have you changed your mind or not? I'm asking you, have you changed your mind or not?"

Broly hoisted his fist again and pummeled the healing Andarisi, but this time he held back the vast majority of his strength, merely preventing Andarisi's wounds from closing; yet faced with this forceful physical persuasion, the ancient monster Andarisi showed not the slightest intention of submitting.

It possessed intelligence, yet was more like a Hakimi — following underlying logic code; when confronting a recognized enemy, it adopted a completely fearless, death-defying stance, and even when beaten by Broly until it had not a shred of resistance left, it still had to huff a few times on the ground.

"Lord Hermes, do you have any good ideas? Or, Lady Artemis, can you sense where in this guy's body your main body is located?"

Faced with Andarisi's refusal to submit dead or alive, Broly also found it somewhat tricky; he wanted to dissect the other, but worried he might accidentally harm Artemis inside its body.

If a god is accidentally killed, no corpse will be left behind, nor will there be any chance for Broly to artificially resurrect them.

"Sorry, I can only sense that my main body is inside Andarisi; as for exactly which position, I cannot sense that."

Artemis shook her head; although the situation before her was very optimistic, rescuing her main body still presented difficulty.

"Broly, you're pinning Andarisi down and beating it right now, so we can't tell where Artemis's main body is; perhaps you could ease up on your suppression a little, lure Andarisi into using Artemis's Arcanum technique — as long as divine power is employed, clues will surely be detectable."

Hermes proposed a method.

"Fine, but you lot prepare some defensive measures first; this guy's attacks are still somewhat dangerous."

Although Andarisi was currently being pressed into the ground and rubbed by him, that didn't mean the other's strength was weak; just now the magic power light beam condensed on its tail — even though it was interrupted by a punch before it could fire — gave Broly a feeling already not weaker than the breath of the Floor Lord Cannon Dragon on the 58th floor Labyrinth.

"Dance, aerial spirits, Light's Master, I contract with the Forest's Guardian Deity, pray resound the earth's song, become a forest-light giant wall, envelop us, protect us, my name is Alfr!"

Hearing Broly's words, Riveria stepped forward on her own and unleashed her strongest defensive magic, raising a huge magic shield before everyone.

After she had readied her defenses, Broly also released his suppression of Andarisi, letting the giant scorpion's wounds recover.

"Hiss~"

Upon recovery, a terrifying magic power light beam stream condensed and shot from the tip of Andarisi's tail, twisting the air itself.

Broly did not block the magic power light beam stream head-on; instead he ran, dodging, while Andarisi's fired beam chased right behind his butt, leaving obvious melting traces on the ruins' floors and walls.

"Good thing this place is originally the ruin-land sealing Andarisi, the architecture sturdy enough and carrying strong magic resistance; if it were outside, that thing's released magic power light beam would probably carve a bottomless gully directly into the ground."

Hiding behind the magic shield, watching the magic power light beam streams occasionally graze the magic shield Riveria had erected, causing cracks to appear on the shield while Riveria swiftly replenished magic power to repair it, Hermes exhaled and said.

"This guy might be even stronger than Balor in the deep floors."

Riveria said with a grave expression; the Balor she spoke of was actually the Floor Lord of the 49th floor of the Dungeon Labyrinth.

To subjugate that one, for the previous Loki Familia, that also required concentrating the combat power of the entire Familia's First String.

And even then, serious casualties might still occur; of course, nowadays, Ais alone might be able to attempt a solo fight against it.

The terrifying magic power light beam stream fired out, yet could only eat dust behind Broly's butt, making Andarisi increasingly irritable.

"Wuu~"

With another wail, Andarisi's upper-body single eye split open directly, and a huge divine power crystal was squeezed out from its body.

That representing the Arcanum (Moon God's Arrow), dense sacred text array patterns, directly covered the entire ruin space O

Andarisi seemed to want to carry out an all-direction, no-dead-angle divine power arrow bombardment inside the ruins; facing this scene, Broly was not surprised but delighted, precisely because he had finally discovered the location of Artemis's main body inside the other — right inside that divine power crystal that Andarisi had squeezed out, its tip exposed.

"Bang~"

The wall Broly stepped on instantly shattered; in others' eyes his figure nearly became a line, and in an instant he appeared before Andarisi, using his hand as a sword to slash out a sword qi over ten meters long — the repaired, evolved, hardened Andarisi main body was still sliced open as easily as tofu.

The upper-half torso wrapping the divine power crystal, its severed end just extending fine tentacles preparing to mend the wound; the Saiyan youth who landed, stomped the ground again, and stomped out another concave meteor crater, plunged his whole body directly into Andarisi's upper-half torso, forcibly squeezing out and carrying away the divine power crystal inside.

"Crack, crack————"

Broly, stained all over with Andarisi's blood, after snatching the divine power crystal wrapping Artemis's main body from Andarisi's torso, the divine power crystal he touched exhibited a shattering phenomenon — just like pulling the long spear before, barely gripping the spear without exerting force, the divine power crystal seemed to stage a scam, directly crumbling apart.

Except, the previous spear-pulling prize was the Moon God's Arrow, while this time, the prize Broly obtained was the Moon Goddess's main body.

The Pure Goddess's main body, stark naked, fell into the youth's embrace; long lashes trembled, she gradually woke, and the first thing she saw upon opening her eyes was the opposite-sex youth gazing at her with concern.

Broly also did not wait for this main-body goddess to possibly emit a sharp sound; he took off his own clothes and wrapped them around Artemis's stark-naked main body.

"You stay here, don't move; I'll go finish off the ancient monster that swallowed you, be back soon."

Broly instructed the Moon Goddess's main body in his arms with a single sentence, set her down, then turned and rushed toward Andarisi, which still wanted to continue repairing its damaged torso.

He plunged straight into the still-unhealed severed opening, ignoring the sticky sensation of Andarisi's flesh and blood, and unleashed Absorption Touch without the slightest reservation.

With no hostages now, Andarisi was just a large experience package; Broly directly plundered the massive life energy this guy had accumulated from plundering outward.

It was precisely this massive life energy that let Andarisi's main body resemble an unkillable cockroach, and even evolve to become stronger during his pummeling.

Naturally, all this life energy now belonged to him; and as massive amounts of life energy were plundered away by Broly, Andarisi's main body also collapsed.

Outside the ruins, the scorpion monsters that had strayed out of the Corrupted Forest and were attacking a villager who had not yet evacuated the village, at the moment they were about to kill the villager before them, suddenly turned to ash and dissipated.

"Burp~"

After sucking Andarisi's life energy completely dry, the reappeared Broly couldn't help but let out a satisfied burp.

Cultivation, sure enough, still requires finding guys with abundant life energy, huge and dark and thick — cultivating on them feels good.

【Real men should forcefully enter big black thick monsters!】

Suppressing the strange thought surfacing in his mind, feeling his whole body brimming with power, Broly lifted his foot and walked toward Artemis's direction.

During the period he devoured Andarisi's life energy, Hestia and the others had also rushed over and joined up with Artemis's main body.

And the originally thought-form Artemis had already vanished — clearly she had returned into her own main body.

"Ah, Or-Orion, don't come over."

Just, as Broly approached, Artemis raised a hand to stop his further approach, a panicked expression appearing on her lovely face.

"Uh————"

Broly stopped, scratched his head, and suspected he might have been crossed the river and demolished the bridge by the other party.

【The rabbit dead, the dog cooked; the birds gone, the bow hidden————】

Just as this information surfaced in Broly's mind, Hestia took the initiative to speak up.

"Broly, don't blame Artemis for stopping you from coming over; with her overly pure nature, she simply can't handle you having such a big thing right now."

Following Hestia's gaze, Broly lowered his head and saw the place on himself that had become somewhat overly prominent due to his body being full of energy.

Looking again at the females in the group ahead, their faces all showed some unnatural flushes, averting their gazes yet stealing glances from time to time, and the male members revealing complex and self-sighing-not-as-good expressions, Broly immediately put his mind at ease — as long as Artemis wasn't trying to cross the river and demolish the bridge, letting his efforts this trip go to waste.

Artemis's main body had already been saved; this trip's main quest counted as complete, but there were still some side quests that needed resolving.

Under Artemis's guidance, Broly and the others found the Artemis Familia members previously killed by Andarisi inside the ruins.

"They should have been dead for a not short time, right? Unexpectedly, looking at them, it's just like they only died a moment ago."

Gazing at the ten-odd female corpses before him, Broly was somewhat surprised by the completeness of the corpses' preservation, and their freshness.

"This should be due to the Elos Ruins, which kept my children's corpses from showing any decay until now————"

"I see. That makes it convenient for me to resurrect them."

With intact bodies, resurrection is the simplest.

"Orion, can you really resurrect Lante and the others?"

Things having come to this, Artemis instead felt some trepidation.

"Of course I can."

Broly did not give such a reply, but directly chanted the resurrection magic spell, using resurrection magic on the corpses before him.

The Gate of the Underworld opened; a sky-piercing light pillar enveloped the corpses, and after the light pillar dissipated, the pure maidens of the Artemis Familia on the ground continuously opened their eyes.

"Lady Artemis, have we met in the afterlife?"

"No, Lante, this is still the mortal world; it's just that you've returned to the mortal world from the Underworld————"

Artemis embraced her adopted daughter; happy tears couldn't help but flow from the corners of her eyes.

After understanding the situation, her children embraced together with her, their Main God.

At this moment, nothing is more moving than a reunion after resurrection from death.

"Alright, Lady Artemis, we should leave here too."

"Thank you, Orion."

Artemis, immersed in emotion, let go of her children, came before the Saiyan youth, stood on tiptoe, and publicly kissed Broly.

Although she didn't extend her tongue, for a Pure Goddess this was already a very bold behavior, as could be seen from the stunned expressions of that group of pure maidens just resurrected behind Artemis.

Leaving the ruins, learning the Saiyan youth was their own Main God's chosen Orion, and had saved their Main God in a non-tragic ending way, saved their group — the Artemis Familia maidens' gazes toward Broly underwent some change; it was an indescribable affection.

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"Lady Hestia, you all leave this area first."

"Broly, you don't plan to go with us?"

"Leaving now would be a bit inconvenient; I'd poke Hermes."

"Hey hey hey, Broly, don't say something that gives me chills; worst case I just won't ride the flying dragon."

"Hmm, that works too, but worrying about poking you is just incidental; I have two reasons for staying here: one is to burn off some excess energy, two is to help this place recover its original ecology a bit."

"Orion, besides reviving people, can you even revive the forest?"

Artemis was somewhat curious.

"This, the current me (in Overloaded Training State) probably can't resurrect a dead forest, but I can use another method to accelerate this region's ecological recovery speed."

"How to do it?"

"No breaking no establishing; break then establish."

After the group had distanced themselves from the Corrupted Forest, Riveria's Ultra-Wide Annihilation Magic was used by Broly.

In an instant the Corrupted Forest turned into a sea of fire, immediately followed by terrifying heavy pressure pressing down from above, crushing all the corrupted trees into slag.

Finally, a holy torrent falling from the sky washed the ground of the burned, crushed Corrupted Forest area one time.

"After this operation of yours, that corrupted forest area should soon regain new life————"

Evening, Broly having rejoined the group, while eating he received the notification that Artemis's Happiness Value had risen again.

Through Hestia's explanation, Broly learned Artemis was actually a deity who revered nature.

Although the time known was very brief, after a series of events — main body saved, children resurrected, Corrupted Forest revived————

This Moon Goddess's Happiness Value actually faintly showed a latecomer-surpassing-the-predecessors posture; in a short time she caught up to the tail of the Encounter Target First Encounter Vanguard in this world's Crystal Palace.

And for this situation, Broly was naturally very happy; his attitude toward this newly encountered Goddess Artemis also gradually became more intimate.