Chapter 4 – The Crescent Moon And The Goddess Of The Hunt, Artemis
Perhaps not only for but for anyone, if an arrow flew out of nowhere and threatened their life, they would be quite furious, right?
But, what if the one who shot that arrow was an incredibly beautiful girl?
More beautiful than any celebrity you have ever seen, even more beautiful than the most beautiful in the Central Plains?
How long would that anger last?
“Wow….”
No other exclamation was needed.
Just wow.
A single word that summarized the beauty of the woman glaring at fiercely.
Her white skin was so radiant that it made the beautiful moon in the sky lose its light.
Her glossy black hair sparkled mysteriously under the scattered moonlight from the sky.
Her black eyes glead with a strange light in them, exuding mystery, and her body, sowhere between a girl and a woman, was so fresh that it could almost be felt.
And the vitality and liveliness overflowing from her whole body. At a glance, she was a girl with natural strength and muscles.
If this were the Murim world, I would have imdiately taken her in, fed her good food, dressed her in fine clothes, and taught her all kinds of martial arts.
She seed a bit old to start learning martial arts, but that would naturally be resolved through so rolling and getting hit, so it wasn’t a problem at all.
However, recalling the fierce aura of the North Sea Ice Palace Lord I encountered in the frozen Great Snow Mountains…
It seed unlikely that the situation would end well.
“This arrow, you shot it…”
“Arrogant one, how dare a man hold my moonlight in his hand and touch my divine power?”
“Wow…”
The sa exclamation flowed from my mouth at that venomous voice I heard.
No way, she even says the sa things as the North Sea Palace Lord?
The chilling déjà vu was enough to make my skin crawl.
The Palace Lord of the North Sea Ice Palace, Snow Flower Goddess, Baek So-sul.
She, with her na and epithet, always beca the talk of the martial world whenever there was a contest of beauty.
The geographically isolated environnt of the North Sea Ice Palace inevitably stimulated the poets’ imaginations.
Among them, the Snow Flower Goddess, who had appeared a few tis at the events of the Murim Alliance, was the subject of many poems and anecdotes due to her snowflake-like beauty.
Moreover, the mystical power of the North Sea Ice Palace, which wielded the force of the thousand-year-old ice spirit from ancient tis, was so profound that even high-level warriors couldn’t easily surpass it.
Gwi Hyun-sa often cited the Palace Lord of the North Sea Ice Palace as the biggest variable in the Great Demon War.
And that variable appeared before , leaving an indelible scar.
The beginning was an incident where the demonic army, advancing through the Qinghai region and Sichuan, collided with the delegation sent from the Ice Palace to the Murim Alliance due to the Murim Alliance’s sche.
In response, the people of the North Sea, incited by the Murim Alliance’s one-sided dia play, beca extrely angry and invaded the Great Snow Mountain Range in Sichuan, where I was residing.
‘It was really a ss back then.’
What happened at that ti was that the frontline with the Murim Alliance was steadily pushed back, and Qinghai and Sichuan completely fell into my hands.
The poisoners of the Sichuan Tang Family, one of the Five Great Clans, were purified by fire; most of the malcontents of the Qingcheng Sect were annihilated and sealed; and the Ei Sect was divided by the sches of Gwi Hyun-sa, leading to their self-destruction as they fought among themselves.
From the perspective of and the Demonic Cult, it was an unbelievably favorable situation.
While waiting for reinforcents from the cult, I was completely imrsed in paperwork to implent various civil policies and recruit small and dium sects to make Sichuan and Qinghai the lands of the Heavenly Demon Divine Cult.
Suddenly, a cold wave hit Sichuan on a scorching sumr day.
At that ti, I had occupied the Tang family’s main residence in the Great Snow Mountain Range and was using the head of the family’s office as my temporary office.
The office of the family head, which was the highest and had the best view, offered a refreshing sight of the beautiful mountain range through its large window opposite the desk.
I was arduously handling the attack of black letters and white papers, drawing strength from the comfort of the Great Snow Mountain Range.
Then.
Amidst two weeks of overnight work, with frustration and annoyance rising within , even Gwi Hyun-sa seed to be wary of .
As the struggle between white paper and black ink was nearing its end, imagine the approval docunts getting all distorted before your eyes.
Seeing the docunts, which I had slaved over for a whopping two weeks, getting soaked and disappearing far away made feel like I was about to lose my mind.
I even had the silly thought that the Zhuge family might have learned so ancestral weather manipulation technique to assassinate .
No more words were necessary.
Anyway, as I was frantically running around trying to save the docunts distorted by the snow while screaming like a girl.
The shut-in from the North Sea Ice Palace, who had brought the blizzard, boldly entered through the window and said to .
“How dare you invade my sanctuary with your filthy hands? Do you wish to taste my wrath?!”
“…Oh, you startled . You barged in right during my reminiscence.”
Without missing a single word, in the sa composition, and with the sa gaze, the words of the goddess shooting at made suddenly wake up.
“No, but isn’t this infuriating?”
The frozen snow-white goddess of the Ice Palace and the female hunter who shot the arrow—I was the unilateral victim of their actions.
But how could those who silently launched a near-ambush attack on be so confident?
“Hey, first, let’s calmly sort out the situation. This arrow… it was aid at , right?”
“Is that your complaint? How dare a filthy man…!”
“Second, there’s no particular reason for you to be shooting the arrow at , right?”
“No reason! I was wandering the forest, which I consider my hunting ground, for my old friend, and how dare a man appear before ? This is clearly…”
“Third, you’re a god, aren’t you?”
“…Ha! Is your foolishness born from ignorance?”
It had been several years since we first t, yet she still boasted the innocence of a fifteen-year-old girl.
Looking at the Nereid nymph Nesneria, who displayed all sorts of abilities through the sea and songs, I knew this was the Greece of the mythical era I rembered.
In such a mythical era of Greece, there was only one being who could proudly assert such unique sovereignty and childlike obstinacy.
“Kneel and worship. The guide of wanderers, the protector of maidens, the eternal huntress. I am the lady of the crescent moon, Artemis, who sits on the holy throne of Olympus!”
“….”
Why does a sad premonition never miss my thoughts?
I thought it would be a bigger deal than I imagined, but suddenly a world boss popped out.
The beautiful goddess sneered at with a face that said, “I am this big of a deal.”
However, her arrogance and mockery were justified because she was beautiful and exalted.
“Wow… I get to see the goddess I only read about in comics and books in person?”
Artemis, the goddess of the crescent moon.
She was the goddess of hunting, greatly revered by virgins, huntresses, and n with a preference for virgins.
However, among the Greek gods, she was notorious for her psychopathic tendencies.
To make matters worse, her primary targets were unlucky n or her own followers who had been harassed by other gods.
And I, too, almost beca a victim of her madness, nearly losing my head to an arrow.
In short, I was screwed.
“Now, do you understand the gravity of the sin you have committed?”
“…”
“If you kneel and admit your sins now and beg for rcy, I will spare you from turning into a deer and becoming prey to my beautiful hunters. So, what will you do…?”
With a swift motion, the beautiful silver arrow in her hand spun and darted through the air like a swallow without making a sound.
-Swoosh!
“Huh?!”
The tip of that arrow was, of course, aid at the beautiful forehead of the moon goddess, who was babbling nonsense.
It was a situation completely opposite to when the arrow had flown at earlier.
However, I have lived a much harsher life than a god born arrogant and powerful.
Unlike a foolish goddess, I would not waste the elent of surprise on a cheap provocation.
“As death whispers, I do not choose the ti.”
Imperius Soul Arts-Imperius Soul Martial Kick.
In place of Artemis’s silver divine power, the silver arrow imbued with my Martial Spirits Cultivation qi twisted its trajectory as I flipped my hand.
The sharp moonlight tore through the pure white shoulder of its own master.
-Pwak!
“Kyahhh!”
They say the blood of gods is golden.
The blood of immortals, called ichor, is the divine power and the essence of immortality itself.
I pierced through the golden blood, reminiscent of molten gold, and dug into her periter.
“Making a fuss over just one arrow!”
“You… you worm-like creature!!”
But my opponent was the goddess of hunting, who had lived for thousands of years.
Even as she staggered in pain, the powerful qi resembling moonlight targeted and rushed at .
“Right, you didn’t just spend those thousands of years idly, did you?”
That form, just as the Snow Flower Goddess had shown in the past, displayed powerful destructive strength, but since it was rely qi, it just looked like a delicious piece of at to .
“Well then, shall we see how delicious the divine power of a goddess who has maintained her virginity is?”
Already tired of this small, fragile body, this beautiful goddess offered a feast.
Of course, it was only proper to eat it deliciously.
Even the fierce blizzard of the goddess of the North Sea, the Snow Flower Goddess, was nothing more than a refreshing bowl of shaved ice in front of . The sun of the Solar Palace was also swallowed like hot soup and digested in my dantian.
People feared that in the right arm of the Heavenly Demon, a mythical beast that devours everything, a rival to the Buddha, was sleeping.
“Five Whole Defeating Arts.”
-Shwaaaaaak!
From the tips of my fingers, a gigantic maw of gluttony blood and voraciously devoured the silver divine power.
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