Umbrella, The Light of Humanity

among the trees.

"Sa~sa~"

The sea breeze caresses the leaves and branches, making a comfortable sound, and the morning light passes through the gaps between the leaves, like beams of light into the forest.

Seeing this, Artemis, who was in charge of leading the way, felt complicated.

If it is before falling asleep, after seeing this morning scene of the island that makes it happy, you will be very interested in riding the Cerune doe, holding its hunting bow, and laughing at a group of fairies. Accompanied, enjoy swimming in the woods.

but…

Artemis with a melancholy face thought of this, and couldn't help but look behind him out of the corner of his eye, and saw the hunting bow that originally belonged to it, now hanging on Sanguinius' waist.

Even though he was wearing a Primarch Power Armor helmet, which prevented him from seeing Sanguinius's expression clearly, Artemis remembered that Sui Bian personally handed over the hunting bow to Sanguinius in front of it. superior.

It can understand the kind of joy that can't be concealed by being affirmed by his father and receiving awards from his father.

Although its father, Zeus, had a messy relationship history, he took great care of his daughter. Unfortunately, he had no way of knowing where his father and the other gods went.

Artemis has learned from Sui Bian that its elder brother Ares has fallen, and calculated according to the human time unit, it has been asleep for at least ten thousand years.

From waking up in the early morning of July 22 to today's July 30, Artemis made up for the past of the past ten thousand years.

Understand that the real master of the earth is human beings, the age of the gods including Olympus has long been history, and even the existence of their gods has been questioned.

In addition to these, it learned that there are ten Primarchs such as Leon and Sanguinius.

Even though Sui Bian made it clear that he, the Primarch, and the Astartes were human beings, it still gave Artemis the feeling that a "new god" was rising.

As for the hunting bow...

Although Artemis was upset, he knew that it could no longer use it after it had lost its divine power, so it didn't worry about it anymore.

What it needs to consider now is to cooperate with Sui Bian and Umbrella as much as possible, and focus on finding its other brother, Hephaestus, the god of fire and craftsman.

After all, if it actively cooperates, it still has a certain degree of freedom, and the servant fairies and the pet Kerune doe are also free.

soon.

Artemis led the two Primarchs and eight Astartes out of the woods to the foot of the mountain east of the Santorini volcano.

Here are all cooled and solidified volcanic rocks.

On the bare rock walls, there are still tenacious weeds growing between the gaps, and there are also a large number of ancient ruins.

Collapsed houses, damaged statues, and buried squares all represent that this place has experienced a devastating catastrophe.

Walking into the ruins and looking at the surrounding scene, Artemis couldn't help feeling pity in his heart.

It has seen the prosperity here, as well as the devout, simple and enthusiastic residents, but now it has disappeared and become a memory.

Not long after, a group of people passed through the ruins, headed south along the foot of the mountain, and finally came to the cliff at the southern end.

Below the cliff is the rocky shore that has been beaten by the waves, and there is a collapsed temple on the flat ground on the cliff where the group stands, and at the foot of the mountain.

Due to the difficulty of the road and the complete lack of appreciation value, the temple has not been developed into a tourist attraction by the island residents.

But it is not the collapsed temple that can really lead to the interior of the volcano, but the rocky shore below the cliff.

I saw Artemis walking towards the edge of the cliff, jumping forward, and lightly landed on a larger reef.

On the other hand, the Primarch and the Astartes...

"Boom! Boom!"

They were extremely heavy, and they fell down in free fall one after another, directly stepping on the "smooth" landing on the rocks.

"..." Artemis was quite speechless.

But it didn't express any opinions, it just continued to lead the crowd to the bottom of the cliff, entered the crack similar to the underground garden, went deep into the cliff, and headed towards the interior of the Santorini volcano.

The crack was narrow at first and then wide, but there was no luminescent moss growing here, only a red light spot at the end of the crack.

Darkness, no obstacle to Primarchs and Astartes.

The same is true for Artemis. Losing divine power does not mean that it becomes a mortal. It does not need any night vision equipment and can see its surroundings clearly.

After walking forward for about ten minutes, the "red dot" became more and more clear, and the surrounding gradually became brighter.

Finally out of the crack, arrived in the equally spacious, but man-made tunnel filled with red light.

After a little observation, I found that the light source here comes from the gap on the right hand side of the tunnel.

A dark angel stepped to the edge of the gap and looked down, and saw a hot "magma river" at the bottom.

And Artemis kept frowning, as if he hated it.

Due to the magma, the entire tunnel is filled with a pungent smell of rotten eggs, which is also highly poisonous to humans.

Artemis does not need to breathe, but it can smell. If it is not forced to, it will never come to Hephaestus who lives here.

On the contrary, the power armor of the two Primarchs and the dark and holy angels can automatically filter the air without having to bear the unbearable smell.

move on.

Not far away, Artemis' expression was no longer disgusted, but dignified.

Because a large number of "human stone statues" are scattered throughout the tunnel.

The facial expressions of the "stone statues" are lifelike, and the clothes, hairstyles and postures are extremely realistic, except that they are all male.

After careful observation, I saw that the "stone statues" were all frightened, and they wanted to turn around and run away.

"Attention everyone." At this time, Artemis reminded everyone in a somewhat unfamiliar modern language:

"Medusa seems to be around here. You are all men. If you look directly at it, you will become a lifeless stone statue."

In fact, when they saw the stone statue, the Primarch and the Astartes guessed that it was Medusa from the myth.

Therefore, the display of the helmet screen is directly switched, and the surrounding environment is scanned by pulses, so that the outline of the object is presented on the screen, so as to avoid observing things other than the helmet with the naked eye.

"Thank you for the reminder." But the polite Sanguinius still thanked him habitually.

Get ready and go deeper, the more Artemis feels wrong.

Even Leon and Sanguinius are very familiar, and they always feel that they are similar to the blood demons they dealt with back then.

When everyone passed the right corner of the tunnel, they saw a group of...

That's right, a group of gorgons.

Their lower body is a snake body with purple scales, and their upper body is similar to that of a human female. Their skin is also lavender, and their appearance is coquettish. There are dense living thin snakes growing on their heads to act as their hair.

The banshees were originally "playing" with each other, or using the stone statues for "pastime".

However, the current banshees are very interested in Leon, Sanguinius and Astartes.

"Hiss~."

With their purple tongues sticking out, they wriggled and attacked quickly with their enchanting figures.