"Good, Artemis, you're safe!"
As soon as Charlie brought Artemis, still wrapped in a blanket, inside the barrier, Hestia imdiately approached her with an extraordinarily relieved expression. Without waiting long, she directly hugged her old friend tightly.
The two goddesses embraced in such a way that their bodies pressed against each other, creating an unavoidable fanservice scene for the n there.
The shy Bell imdiately turned his face aside with a reddening face, Welf secretly adjusted his pants' position due to sudden discomfort, and Hers didn't try at all to hide his interest toward Artemis, observing every curve of exposed skin from behind the blanket.
As for Charlie, he only glanced briefly with an unwavering stoic expression. He then turned around and approached Aishia who stood calmly on the side. Gently, he patted the spirit girl's head several tis.
Aishia, who had deactivated her barrier after Antares was helpless, closed her eyes, her porcelain doll-beautiful face showing a rare peaceful expression while enjoying that caress.
"How long will you keep looking, Hers? Don't make
gouge out your eyeballs."
A cold voice full of threat cut through the atmosphere. Artemis had released Hestia's embrace. Her face was still red from embarrassnt, but her eyes radiated dangerous light, staring sharply at Hers.
That threat wasn't a joke. Behind her incarnation that had appeared all this ti as a sweet and obedient girl obsessed with Orion, Artemis's true personality—the Virgin Goddess who rejected romance and fiercely guarded her purity—now surfaced.
"Good grief~ you're so heartless, Artemis~ I preferred your incarnation." Hers teased with an irresponsible smile.
"…"
Artemis's gaze grew colder.
"Hahahaha... I'm just joking."
Hers finally shrugged, yielding under that soul-freezing gaze. He then shifted his attention to Charlie, who was still comforting Aishia.
"I really underestimated you, Charlie. Each of your abilities clearly isn't sothing possessed by mortal beings, especially the last one."
What he ant was clear: Charlie's resurrection from death after his body was destroyed by Artemis's Divine Arrow.
"If other gods find out, I'm worried your life will never be peaceful because you'll be constantly bothered by them."
This wasn't just empty words. For gods thirsting for sensation and entertainnt in the lower world, a human who could 'co back to life' was an irresistible phenonon. They would consider him the most interesting new toy, or a challenge that must be solved.
"Again with ddleso gods?" Charlie let out a long sigh, sounding sowhat tired. "Honestly, can't these gods behave well just once?"
"Asking gods to behave well is worse than killing them." Hers answered honestly, without the slightest sha admitting his species' basic nature. "For them, boredom is the most deadly poison in this world. So to prevent themselves from dying from it, they'll always find sothing or soone to bother."
"Hers, Artemis, Hestia, and Hestia Familia mbers." Astraea's calm voice. She looked at them one by one with a serious expression. "Charlie isn't the type who seeks fa."
"Co on~ who in Orario doesn't know the renowned Solo Leveling?" Hers interrupted, his hand moving dramatically. "He broke the leveling record! It's impossible for him to keep a low profile even if he wants to! He's already the center of public attention! Moreover, other gods and goddesses surely already know he has Spirits at his side."
He pointed toward Aishia beside Charlie.
"This is no different from heroes in ancient tis. That alone is enough to attract attention."
"Okay. I'll be quiet."
Stared at sharply by Astraea who was starting to get annoyed, Hers finally smiled wryly. He raised both hands in surrender.
(You yourself might not realize it, Astraea. Your care for Charlie has exceeded the average Familia Main Deity. This is like Loki being protective of her Familia mbers. Very interesting.) Hers thought inwardly, his sharp eyes observing the Goddess of Justice's expression.
"Everyone. What Hers said is true." Astraea looked at Charlie with a sowhat helpless gaze. "Therefore, we should keep Charlie's abilities we saw today secret so his problems don't beco more complicated. Can you all promise not to tell anyone?"
The first person to respond was Artemis.
"Charlie saved . Since he desires it, and if that's best for him, I don't mind." Her voice was firm, still with traces of embarrassnt, but colored with genuine gratitude.
Hestia, Bell, Welf, and Lili also quickly nodded in agreent.
"Of course!"
"We won't talk!"
"We owe him!"
After all, in this incident, their role was mostly just as spectators. Keeping secrets was the smallest thing they could do.
"What about you, Hers?" Astraea asked the unreliable god.
"Fine, fine, I'll keep it secret. Satisfied? Haaah..." Hers let out a long sigh once again, pretending to be very burdened, but finally yielded.
anwhile, Charlie, who was the core of the discussion, hadn't said a single word since the discussion about him began. He just listened with a neutral expression, as if they were talking about soone else.
"Before we leave, I must end Antares."
"Oh, right! That monster isn't dead yet!"
After Charlie's reminder, Hers and the others just realized. They turned toward Antares. Though lying helpless and cursed, the giant scorpion monster still showed signs of life.
Anyway, it was an ancient monster. Its vitality was very strong. Even without Artemis's Arcanum support, Antares wouldn't die easily.
*TAP-TAP-TAP!*
Charlie walked closer with calm steps, stopping about twenty ters in front of Antares.
"To honor your achievent of devouring a goddess, I will give you a spectacular end."
After saying that, he raised the Holy Sword before his chest vertically, both hands holding its hilt reverently. Then, he began chanting an incantation.
"Through The Cycle Of Rebirth And A Parting Gift…"
*ZING!*
The Holy Sword answered his call. Dazzling bright light, pure white and golden, radiated from its blade. Anyone who saw it could feel how sacred and pure it was, as if untouched by the slightest stain.
"I Bring The Ultimate End With Transformation Of Clear Sky..."
*BUZZ!*
Wind began blowing around Charlie, spinning and strengthening, bringing terrifying roaring pressure.
Hestia Familia watching from afar felt breathless; cold sweat poured as if death was whispering in their ears.
"I Deal The Ultimate Strike."
"That Which Can Cleave Even Dragons..."
At that mont, the entire world seed to lose its color. The Elsos Ruins, sky, people, everything turned into shades of black, white, and gray. Only Charlie's Holy Sword still radiated bright light, becoming the only source of color in the suddenly monochro universe.
"Tensei (Sky Clear)."
That was Wezaemon's Ultimate Attack, imitated and perfected by Charlie in his hands, becoming far stronger than the original. A vertical slash that ignored the concept of defense, an inevitable 'end'.
*SWOOSH!*
There was no trendous explosion initially. Only a thin white light line that shot vertically from the Holy Sword, extending upward until disappearing from view, and downward penetrating the ground.
That line passed through Antares's body.
And then, only then did its effect beco visible.
Antares was split perfectly into two symtrical parts from head to tail. But that wasn't the end. That dividing line continued extending, crossing the entire Elsos Ruins. Walls, pillars, floors, ceilings—everything was split with perfect and smooth cuts.
A giant chasm, only a few centiters wide but unfathomably deep, stretched for almost one kiloter before them, splitting the ancient ruins in two.
*RUMBLE!*
A trendous tremor only then struck. The ground shook violently as if hit by a full-strength earthquake. Small cracks spread from the main chasm. The rumbling sound of collapsing stones began to be heard from all directions.
"Oh no! This place will collapse!" Hers shouted, coming back to his senses from his awe.
"Quick! We must leave!" Hestia hugged Bell's arm in panic as the ceiling began falling.
Charlie turned toward them, his Holy Sword already lowered. "Let's return to Orario."
Before the Elsos Ruins truly collapsed and buried them all, Charlie triggered Hundred Gauntlets. He manipulated spatial causality to produce a mass teleportation effect.
Before the ruins rained down on where they stood, they had all vanished from that place, safely teleported back to Orario.
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