Chapter 249: Antares, the God's Assassin
"The Hermes Familia will be responsible for luring the enemy. There is no need for a frontal battle. As long as you can attract the enemy and hold them back, it will be enough. Do not force yourselves."
Of course, just this level of operation could very likely result in casualties.
No one present was clear about the number and strength of the enemy.
The scale of the monsters bred and reproduced by the God's Assassin, Antares, they only knew was very large.
And the distribution range was very wide, so the Hermes squad had to attract a part of these monsters on the premise of preserving themselves.
Thus creating an opportunity for Liam and the others to approach Antares.
"Falgar, the command of the Hermes Familia will be handed over to you for now. After I leave the base, you will arrange the real-time tactics!"
"Yes!"
Falgar, from his appearance, was a Lion Man, a branch of the beast race.
This race was born of outstanding warriors, and the Lion Men were among them, biased towards strength, a frontal assault type of warrior.
Artemis continued to issue orders, "While you are all holding back the enemy, we will break into the interior and directly target Antares.
That door can only be opened under my divine will, so I will also go."
Although this would increase the danger for Artemis, she herself did not have much time left.
Liam now had a way, but he was not clear about the specific success rate.
After all, the other party was a god. Whether his plan could succeed was still an unknown.
Upon hearing that Artemis was going to the front line personally, Hestia also volunteered.
"I'm going too!"
She, who already knew the whole situation, now had only one thought, and that was to help her best friend as much as possible.
Even if it was very likely to put her in a dangerous situation as well.
Hermes also came over, "This kind of thing can't be without me. No matter what, I have to join in the fun."
This battle commission was originally commissioned by Artemis. Therefore, both Liam's and Hermes's adventurer teams would receive a good reward for this.
Currently, the participation mood of the people here was very high. Artemis looked at everyone seriously:
"May your fortunes of war prosper!"
The adventurers shouted excitedly. It seemed that because of this reason, the distant monsters approached and raided this place.
Liam soared into the air, and hundreds of armaments instantly appeared, and then fell towards the position of these monsters.
After Liam had cleared a hollow area for everyone present, he also led Artemis and the others to leave quickly.
Currently, the place everyone was heading to was the castle in the lake in the center of the forest.
This place was originally an island in a lake in the forest. Afterward, it became a castle in the lake and shouldered the responsibility of being a place of sealing.
And this castle could only be passed through at the gate. A relatively narrow stone road for a castle connected the castle gate and the forest.
At this time, the lake had already turned an ominous dark red, and the air was filled with a pungent smell.
Liam and the others followed the stone road and arrived inside the castle, seeing a tall giant tree.
The appearance of this giant tree looked as if it were constructed of countless vines, and the canopy had also turned red.
Perhaps if it continued to develop, this giant tree might also become a monster.
Liam and the others continued to advance. Not far away, there was a high tower.
Looking at its shape, it was somewhat similar to Babel, but not as tall and magnificent as Babel.
"This is an ancient temple forgotten by history."
Liam didn't know how long this temple had existed, but at least it should have a history of several hundred or even a thousand years.
The group entered through the entrance and exit of the high tower in single file. In this passage, on the gaps of the bricks, there was a faint blue light.
It seemed as if there were a large number of blue crystals inside the bricks.
Or for other reasons. In short, on the gaps of the walls in the passage, the faint blue light was not dense.
Liam looked at Artemis, "These lights are?"
"This is the light from the seal!"
Artemis explained to Liam, "This is a seal that only an elf like me can make."
Liam's gaze sized up the wall. He saw a relief on the wall.
The content of the relief was a woman with a bow and arrow. In front of her was the moon, and in the distance was a huge scorpion.
Above this were clouds with a curve, and below were burning flames.
At least in Liam's speculation, it should be flames.
Liam observed the relief as he walked. He saw behind the first woman who was drawing her bow and shooting an arrow at the giant scorpion, there were two more female archers.
Behind them was the image of a high tower.
"My most ancient Familia members, the deeds they once experienced were carved on this wall by others."
Before long, the group came before a massive stone gate.
A stream of light flickered on Liam's body. Now he had activated all the state abilities except for the Thunderflame Qi Sea and the Selfless Markings.
The pattern of the sword marks began to appear on his body. This刺痛感 (stinging pain) of the blood vessels being continuously cut raised Liam's perception to its limit.
Artemis glanced at Liam with surprise, and then hurriedly placed her palm on the stone gate in front of her.
When the goddess's hand was placed on the moon carving in the center of the stone gate, her entire body was covered in a golden flowing light.
And the mechanism of that moon carving also began to rotate at this time. The moon and the arrow next to the moon rotated in sync.
Subsequently, the stone gate opened to both sides along its tracks, and then slowly drilled into the walls on both sides.
The heavy stone gate made a dull rumbling sound as it moved, and the surrounding ground also showed an obvious tremor because of this.
What appeared in front of Liam and the others was a large number of insect eggs.
The overall look was like red blood vessels forming the shape of vines, and then occupying the walls, ceiling, and ground of the passage.
Afterward, on top of it, tumor-like insect egg breeding pods were formed. The stone gate behind Liam and the others was covered by the proliferating tumors.
Afterward, a large number of insect eggs opened their cracks, and scorpion-type monsters fell to the ground from the insect egg breeding pods.
A transparent juice dripped onto the ground along the shell of the newly born monster.
Liam frowned. Then eight sword aura flying swords condensed and appeared, obeying Liam's will, and launched an attack on all the surrounding monsters and breeding pods.
If he were to attack with a physical blade, Liam still felt it was a bit disgusting.
「Exp +766」
He didn't expect to gain experience by destroying monsters and breeding pods!
Tsubaki frowned and followed behind Hestia and the others. These insect eggs and insects were really too disgusting.
Her strength was the lowest apart from the three gods, so she had to avoid combat as much as possible.
"Self-proliferation! Self-evolution!"
Hermes frowned and looked at these monsters. He had discovered a situation.
And that was that these monsters were becoming more and more difficult to kill.
The monsters just now, before they died, their wounds were very neat.
And now, while Liam was continuing to use his sword aura flying swords to attack, the defense of the monsters was also visibly increasing.
For example, their outer shells were visibly changing shape, and the wounds that were cut open were also gradually becoming smaller.
Liam glanced at it and knew where the problem was, "That's right, these monsters are adapting to my attacks.
But it doesn't matter. As long as the efficiency of destruction is faster than their proliferation and evolution, it's fine."
Ryuu glanced at Ais, "Ais, protect the goddesses."
Ais nodded. Her speed was very fast. It was very suitable for protecting the goddesses.
Afterward, Ryuu began to chant, and then a large number of green wind clusters appeared.
In coordination with the weapon in her hand, Ryuu covered the insect eggs in the passage with these wind clusters.
"Rumble..."
A large number of breeding pods turned into minced meat and fell in this attack, and the monsters inside were also all eliminated.
It was just that the attack just now had clearly only destroyed a small part. Compared to the dense breeding pods in the entire tunnel, it was far too little.
Ryuu Lion looked back at Liam, "Liam, the current situation is very bad. According to this situation.
If this continues, this place will become even more troublesome than the Dungeon of Orario!"
The current Dungeon of Orario was being suppressed by Ouranos. If this place became even more troublesome than the Dungeon.
Then which god would be able to suppress this place?
A god stronger than Ouranos, did such an existence exist in this world?
Liam was not too clear about the specific strength of these gods. The gods of this world and the gods of Norse mythology almost only had the same name.
At most, they also had the same position. And the things they had experienced in mythology could not be rigidly applied to this world.
Liam controlled his flying swords to attack. Ryuu had originally wanted to continue attacking but was stopped by Liam.
"These monsters and embryo-like things, leave them all to me. You all should try to preserve your strength!"
Actually, it was purely because Liam wanted to hog all this experience.
Eight flying swords flew at the same time. At the same time as the monsters approached, they were slain by the flying swords.
And the breeding pods, in the process of Liam and the others advancing, were also destroyed one by one.
Although the breeding pods in the entire ancient ruin were numerous, and the number of these meat walls and monsters was also ridiculously large.
But he would clear as many as he could.
Seeing the constantly increasing experience value on the Sword Soul template, the corners of Liam's mouth couldn't help but lift.
This experience of high-speed improvement was really too great.
Of course, if the final BOSS could be easily killed by him, it would be even better!
Liam took the time to glance at Artemis. As they gradually approached the God's Assassin, her state was also getting worse and worse.
Liam frowned, and then accelerated the efficiency of clearing the surroundings.
The potion supplies brought this time were still sufficient. Taking advantage of the fact that he had not yet seen that creature, he also immediately began to replenish his own state while fighting.
This place was also like the Dungeon. As they went deeper underground, the surrounding environment also became more and more open.
The blood vessel vines covering the walls, Liam had no energy to destroy. He could only, within his attack range, clear the monsters and tumor-like flower bud breeding pods as much as possible.
Under Artemis's leadership, Liam and the others were like moving in the heart of some giant creature.
The walls, ceiling, and floor were completely covered by crimson blood vessels.
If you cut it with a blade, it would even flow out a red liquid from the wound.
And they were stepping on these blood vessels to advance, as if they were moving inside the heart of some giant.
After some more time passed, Liam and the others discovered the subjugation target this time—the God's Assassin, Antares.
There were black blood vessels on its body connecting the crimson walls to itself. Some unknown liquid was flowing from the blood vessels on the wall into the black blood vessels.
And finally, it flowed into Antares's body.
These black blood vessels were like the blood vessels of a heart, constantly expanding and contracting in a regular manner.
And Antares's main body was like a combination of a spider and a scorpion, and its entire body had a large number of exoskeleton arms, as well as a long and slender scorpion tail.
Antares was lying on the ground. The position of its back was like a spider was stuck to it.
Like a chimera of a spider and a scorpion.
After seeing Liam and the others, Antares let out a roar, and then its entire body gushed out a black and purple light, and it flew towards the hollow area above its head.
At the same time as the black and purple light was released from Antares's body, Artemis clutched her heart and half-knelt on the ground.
Subsequently, the spider's torso position opened towards the surroundings, revealing a transparent crystal from within.
And inside the crystal was a sleeping Artemis.
That is to say, that was the real remains of Artemis.
The Artemis by Liam's side now was precisely Artemis's thought-form, and it seemed she was about to not be able to hold on.
Liam frowned and looked at this scene. A stream of light quickly flashed on his body, and lightning and flames were applied to his entire body.
The Selfless Sword Aura continuously cut his blood vessels from within. On his face and body, the Selfless Markings condensed from the slash marks began to appear.
A black and purple light erupted from Antares's body and shot up into the sky.
Afterward, this power reached the huge crescent moon high in the sky.
And that huge crescent moon, if you observed carefully, you could see that it was condensed from countless magic circles.
Then a dazzling stream of light erupted from the huge crescent moon. A large number of white rays descended from the sky.
These beams of light fell to the ground and continuously bombarded the forest near the Elsos Ruins.
Each beam of light could cause the full-power blow of a Lv5 or even Lv6 swordsman, and this was just the lower limit of its power.
It seemed that because of the inability to control it precisely, of the light rays falling from a high altitude, only a small part of them landed near Liam and the others.
The entire Elsos Ruins and the surrounding forest were all subjected to a terrifying tremor, as if they had been hit by a terrifying high-level earthquake.
Rubble, shockwaves, smoke, earthquakes, and so on filled the interior of the ruins.
The area where Liam and the others were staying also experienced a large-scale collapse because of this...
...
Orario surface.
Eina, who was in the Guild, was attracted by her colleague's voice. Following their reminder, she looked up at the sky.
Then she looked at the sky blankly, "Why is there a moon in the broad daylight?"
Yes, a white crescent moon had appeared in the clear sky above Orario.
This abnormal phenomenon made the staff in the Guild start to talk. After all, it was too special and too rare. Plus, it was relatively quiet now, so they began to discuss with each other.
"What on earth is going on?"
"Eina? I was about to ask what this is."
Bors and the others ran over from a distance in a sorry state, their heads covered in sweat and their expressions extremely panicked.
"Miss Eina! There's a monster riot in the Dungeon! The strength of those monsters is already far beyond our ability!
Please dispatch first-class adventurers, at least Lv5 adventurers are needed!"
(End of this chapter)
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