Chapter 247: Hestia: He is My Treasure
Afterward, these monsters all turned into magic stones and dissipated.
After this wave of monsters, there were still hundreds more monsters appearing continuously.
And in front of them, they were chasing a mother and daughter.
And so Liam raised the long spear and threw it behind the mother and daughter.
Because this mother and daughter had just been cleared a path by Liam's Meteor Fall, there was still a hollow area between them and the monsters.
"Let me see it. Releasing Meteor Fall could only kill over a hundred monsters. Just how powerful is this long spear!"
Liam just used the strength of his arm, without any attribute enhancement.
Then the long spear kicked up a violent storm. Two faint green magic rings appeared on the spear shaft.
And at the tip of the spear, a green light cluster that could break the sound barrier condensed.
The long spear directly brought up a series of exaggeratedly wide-ranged sonic booms, kicking up countless soil and grass clippings from the ground, and a large amount of smoke and dust on the ground.
"BOOM!"
A huge crater like a meteorite hitting the Earth appeared on the ground. Flames and airwaves mercilessly spread towards the surroundings.
Dense and mysterious runes appeared and flowed on the spear shaft. As the magic runes on the long spear dissipated, the magic rings and the surrounding flames also extinguished at the same time.
All the monsters in the crater turned into magic stones, and the aftershocks of the attack, such as the airwaves and flames, just happened to stop near the mother and daughter.
The power of such a long spear was truly too exaggerated.
Although after using all his strength, he could also throw a projectile at supersonic speed.
However, it was completely incomparable to the exaggerated destructive effect before his eyes.
It was really too exaggerated.
Wien and the others' eyes widened, looking at this scene in disbelief.
Haruhime covered her mouth in surprise, "What a powerful weapon! Is this divine power?"
Hermes came over and put his arm around Liam's shoulder with deep meaning, "Liam, this spear is too dangerous. How about we don't use it for now?"
Liam nodded. The main purpose of using it this time was to see if he could activate the power within.
If he found out that he couldn't use the long spear only when he met the BOSS, that would be too disgusting.
"The power contained in this spear should be used as a trump card to be more reasonable!"
This was Liam's current thought.
Artemis proactively came to the side of the mother and daughter and asked, "What's going on?"
"It's monsters! These monsters were attacking the nearby villages before. I didn't expect them to find us recently..."
The middle-aged woman had a sad look on her face, "The fields are destroyed, and the village is gone. But we are safe. At least there is still hope for the future.
Thank you so much!"
After the mother and daughter finished speaking, they directly kowtowed to everyone present.
Artemis hurriedly pulled the two up and handed them their food.
Liam sighed, "Just give them half of the food. The most important thing is money.
Food is just for emergencies. Money is the guarantee for future life."
Liam gave the mother and daughter some Valis, as well as a mundane iron dagger. "When you spend money, spend it one note at a time. Put the rest of the money in the sole of your shoe or sew it in the gap of your clothes. Don't let people see your money pouch.
If there's a robbery, you can hand over the money. If there's really no other way, then fight with the dagger."
The middle-aged woman was about to kneel on the ground again, but was then helped up by Liam.
Seeing the mother and daughter leave, Artemis came over.
"Liam, you know so much."
Liam's hand was placed on Artemis's head, "I think your common sense is too little.
For an ordinary person to live in this world, food, money, and power are all very necessary."
Hermes smiled, "Goddess Artemis, if you keep this up, we'll go hungry. Fortunately for Liam's foresight."
Liam looked around, "Even so, we still have half of our food left. We still need to search around.
See if there are any edible ingredients."
Afterward was to search in the woods, and then they found a red spherical fruit.
Its size was about ten centimeters in diameter.
Liam placed the fruit in a pre-prepared fire and waited patiently.
Then he cut it open with a blade. The fruit shell was the best bowl.
After cutting open the fruit shell, what was presented was a transparent juice and pulp.
The pulp inside, after being roasted at high temperature, immediately became sweet and delicious.
Under the night, the group soaked the remaining half of their ration bread in it. Eaten with the bread, it was very filling.
Everyone was holding a fruit shell in their hands.
"So it's the fruit of Massala! Once heated, the pulp inside will melt and turn into a fragrant and rich fruit juice.
It's simply a forest restaurant!"
Hermes also had some knowledge of this fruit. Paired with bread, the taste was indeed not bad.
Liam looked at Artemis, "You're not eating? Artemis."
"I'm not hungry right now."
"I see."
Liam already had an answer in his heart. It seemed that it was indeed because the current Artemis was just a thought-form.
In this state, she shouldn't need food to maintain her own energy.
Or rather, after eating food, she would need to consume extra energy to break down the food.
Upon seeing Artemis proactively feeding Liam food, Hestia hurriedly came over.
"No! Liam must eat the food I feed him!"
Next, Ryuu and Ais also came over, striving to also let Liam taste their food.
After eating, the group gathered around the fire and began to discuss the situation just now.
Ryuu asked the doubt in her heart, "So what on earth was that monster today?"
They had also seen scorpion monsters in the Dungeon, but that special shape was still a bit strange.
Hermes was poking the bonfire with a tree branch, "The cause was the abnormal reproduction of monsters.
To investigate the reason, many Familias were sent. However, all the Familias lost contact because of this.
The location is Elsos, which is also our destination this time."
Liam and the others listened attentively.
And so Hermes continued to explain: "There is a seal in the ruins there.
A foul river, an eroding sea, a killing forest, a power that takes all life.
That is the monster sealed by the ancient great spirits: Antares!"
According to Liam's memory, Antares was the legendary monster specialized in attacking gods.
In the face of this monster, the divine power and authority of the gods were restrained. Even the power of forced repatriation could not be successfully activated.
The God's Assassin, Antares.
This was the monster that Liam and the others would face next.
Fighting with such a monster, there was no need to talk about any righteousness or morality. As long as you could kill the other party, it was fine.
Artemis's face became grave, "Although that creature was sealed, it has quietly accumulated power over the long years.
Then, with this power, it broke the seal."
Hermes followed up, "The higher-ups of the Guild attach great importance to this matter, so they have sent my Familia to deal with this.
Of course, just my own Familia's power is still too weak.
However, on my way to investigate, I happened to run into Artemis.
To seek support, we then returned to Orario."
Ryuu suddenly stood up, her face serious: "If it's really so urgent, then at least you should have brought the core members of Loki or Freya!"
"No! If you don't use this long spear, you can't kill Antares!
And as a result, this long spear has chosen you, Liam."
Liam's gaze looked at this long spear. Its overall color was blue-gray.
The tip of the spear was a slender triangle, with a blue crystal in the center of the main spear tip.
On each of the main side wings was a smaller spear tip, forming a trident structure.
The laziness from the feeling of fullness after eating had dissipated a lot. The others had collected a part of these fruits.
Each flying dragon had about one cubic meter of carrying space, so it naturally had to be put to good use.
Afterward was to wash up and rest.
This open space in the forest, because of the bonfire, had already become dry enough.
Then was to set up tents under the cover of night and firelight, and rest.
In his spare time, Liam would study Sword Control Art, Secret Sword Art, and Extreme Ghost Sword Art.
And now, as he was about to fall asleep, he held the long spear in his hand and lay down.
He had tried to take it into his Selfless Sword Domain, and was completely able to do so.
It was just that if it wasn't thrown by his own hand, it seemed he couldn't activate the energy circuit on the long spear.
Hermes and Liam were in one tent, and Hestia and Artemis were in another.
Hermes looked at Liam curiously, "Liam, you're not sleeping?"
"Closing my eyes and resting my mind is enough. And even if I sleep, I can fully recover after just sleeping for one or two hours."
Liam glanced at Hermes, and then continued to sit cross-legged in meditation, his two hands pressing on the long spear above his knees.
Before the great battle, Liam indeed needed to improve his own strength as much as possible.
Meditation, cultivating sword intent, and comprehending more profound swordsmanship were also important parts.
On the other side.
Hestia and Artemis had both changed into their pajamas. The two goddesses, who had not seen each other for a long time in the tent.
Therefore, they had a lot of secret words they wanted to chat with each other about.
Hestia was telling Artemis about her experience when she had just descended to the lower world.
"Artemis, did you know? When I just arrived in Orario, I was very poor. Fortunately, I had Hephaestus and the others to help me.
Then I found a job at a fried potato ball stall, and barely managed to make a living.
Even so, I still found a dependant willing to follow me! And that is Liam!
That my dependant can be so strong now can be said to be entirely due to Liam's credit!"
"Is Liam that amazing?"
"Yes! Very amazing! He can be said to be a real super genius! The fastest to advance to Lv2, Lv3, Lv4, Lv5, and even Lv6 in history!"
The two were sleeping together, and could feel each other's breath.
"But, I really didn't expect that a goddess who was so lazy in the heavens would actually have her own Familia in the mortal world.
So, what are your thoughts on Liam?"
"Thoughts?"
Hestia's cheeks immediately turned red. Because of shyness, she even clenched her toes.
"I just think he's a cute dependant, and an indispensable existence, right?"
Goddess Hestia covered her head with the quilt. After struggling for a while, she said in a small voice, "He is my treasure."
"I see."
Hearing Hestia's reply, Artemis also gave her own answer.
"When I'm with him, I'm very happy, and I also have a feeling of my heart fluttering."
"No! You can't think like that! Where did the you who opposed love before go!"
Hestia was both shy and angry and very flustered.
What on earth should she do!
Did her competitor have to add another goddess?
Now in The Hearthfire Manor, there were already two goddesses. It wouldn't add another one, would it?
To divert the other's attention, Hestia began to look for a new topic: "Artemis, where is your Familia now?"
"They are not here, but are waiting for me to go back."
The sky cleared up. Liam and the others rode the flying dragons through the canyon, and then arrived in a purple forest.
Six flying swords surrounded the three flying dragons in the sky.
The original green of the forest had completely disappeared. The interior of the forest had completely fallen silent.
There were no insects, mosquitoes, or birds chirping, only a dead silence.
Liam and Artemis sat on the flying shuttle, "We're almost there, right?"
"Mmm, the ruins of Elsos are just ahead."
A sharp pain in Artemis's chest, "They're coming! Attack!"
Liam immediately looked up and saw a large number of light beams, "Dodge quickly!"
The Selfless Sword Domain was instantly released. The 384 weapons in Meteor Fall were all released.
Afterward, the Selfless Sword Domain instantly condensed into the Extreme Ghost Sword Art - Tempest Style.
Space was frozen by the Selfless Sword Aura. The nearly four hundred armaments that made up the sword domain were bombarded by the dense light beams.
In less than half a second, the entire sword domain was shattered.
Seeing that it was about to not hold, Liam immediately used the impact of the attack to push everyone away.
A large number of blades in the Selfless Sword Domain were scattered and sent flying, and a large amount of airflow impact sent Liam and the others flying in all directions.
Afterward, the group fell towards the ground. With the help of the flying dragons' air control ability, they barely landed smoothly.
Liam landed on the ground with Artemis, his gaze looking around. "So many monsters? Just what I wanted!"
He quickly spread his perception, and while looking for his teammates, he was also calculating the number of enemies.
These scorpion-like monsters were very suitable for actual combat.
At the same time as the scorpion monsters swarmed up, Liam also directly began to charge up and release Drawing Sword!
...
In Orario.
Finn and the others, after returning from their expedition with Liam, received an order from the Guild.
Loki came to Finn's office, "Finn, what's going on? Why can't I leave Orario?"
"This is an order from the Guild! It strictly forbids all gods from leaving Orario. The key is, I need to go to the port to do business."
It wasn't just the Loki Familia's side. Even Ottar had run into Fels.
The Hearthfire Manor.
Ottar was practicing his swordsmanship outside The Hearthfire Manor, and Fels came to find him.
"Ottar, Miss Syr cannot leave Orario. During this period, all gods are strictly forbidden from leaving Orario."
"Is something serious going to happen again?"
"It's not convenient to disclose."
Watching Fels leave, Ottar just continued to practice his swordsmanship.
His strength was still not enough. If he stood in front of the black dragon now, he would definitely die!
So, if the black dragon really came.
Even if it meant running away, he had to train to the speed and strength to be able to take the goddess and escape from the black dragon's clutches.
(End of this chapter)
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