The sea breeze caresses the leaves and branches, making a comfortable sound, and the morning light passes through the gaps between the leaves, shining into the forest like a beam of light.
Seeing this, Artemis, who was responsible for leading the way, felt complicated.
If before falling into sleep, after seeing this kind of pleasant morning scene of the island, he will be very interested in riding the Cerunni deer, taking his hunting bow, and enjoying the laughter of a group of fairies.
Accompanied by you, enjoy swimming among the woods.
But...
Artemis, who looked melancholy, thought of this and couldn't help but look behind her with her peripheral vision, and saw that the hunting bow that originally belonged to her was hanging on Sanguinius's waist.
Although wearing the helmet of the original power armor, it could not clearly see Sanguinius' current expression, but Artemis remembered that Sui Bian personally handed the hunting bow into Sanguinius's hand in front of it.
Up.
It can best understand the kind of joy that can't be concealed by being recognized by one's father, accepting rewards from one's father.
Although its father, Zeus, had a very troubled relationship history, he took great care of his daughter. Unfortunately, he had no way of knowing where his father and the other gods had gone.
Artemis has learned from Sui Bian that her brother Ares has died, and according to human time units, he has been sleeping for at least ten thousand years.
From waking up in the early morning of July 22 to today, July 30, Artemis made up for the past ten thousand years.
Understand that the current real masters of the earth are humans. The age of 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 were ten Primarchs like Leon and Sanguinius.
Even though Sui Bian made it clear that he, the Primarch, and the Astartes were humans, he still gave Artemis the feeling that a "new god" was rising.
As for the hunting bow...
Although Artemis was unhappy, she knew that she could no longer use her divine power after losing it, so she stopped worrying about it.
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 craftsmanship.
After all, if it actively cooperates, it still has a certain degree of freedom, and the slave fairies and the pet Kerunir deer are also unimpeded.
Soon.
Artemis led the two primarchs and eight Astartes out of the woods to the foot of the eastern side of the Santorini volcano.
These are all cooled and solidified volcanic rocks.
On the bare rock walls, there are still tenacious weeds growing in 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 scenes, Artemis couldn't help but feel pity.
It has seen the prosperity here, as well as the residents who are pious to God, simple and enthusiastic, but now they have all disappeared and become memories.
Not long after, the group passed through the ruins, walked south along the foot of the mountain, and finally came to the cliff at the southern end.
Below the cliff is a rocky shore that is beaten by waves, and there is a collapsed temple on the flat ground on the cliff where the group of people are standing and at the foot of the mountain.
Because the road is difficult to navigate and has no appreciation value at all, this temple has not been developed as a tourist attraction by the island residents.
But what really leads to the interior of the volcano is not the collapsed temple, but the rocky shore below the cliff.
I saw Artemis walking towards the edge of the cliff, jumping forward, and landing lightly on a larger rock.
Looking back at the Primarchs and Astartes...
"Boom! Boom!"
They were extremely heavy, and they all fell downwards in free fall, directly stepping on the rocks and landing "smoothly".
"..." Artemis was quite speechless.
But it didn't express any opinion, and just continued to lead everyone to the bottom of the cliff, entered a crack similar to the one leading 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 widened, but there was no luminous moss growing here. There were only faintly flashing red light spots at the end of the crack.
The darkness presents no hindrance to the Primarchs and Astartes.
The same is true for Artemis. Losing its divine power does not mean 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 clearer and clearer, and the surrounding area gradually became brighter.
Finally, we walked out of the crack and arrived at a man-made tunnel that was equally spacious but 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 scalding "magma river" at the bottom.
And Artemis has been frowning, as if she hates this place.
Due to the magma, the entire tunnel is filled with a pungent smell of rotten eggs, which is highly toxic to humans.
Artemis does not need to breathe, but she can smell it. If it were not forced to do so, it would never come to Hephaestus who lives here.
On the other hand, the power armor of the two Primarchs and Dark and Holy Angels can automatically filter the air, so they don't have to endure the unbearable smell.
Keep moving.
After not walking far, Artemis's expression was no longer disgusted, but solemn.
Because there are a large number of "human stone statues" scattered throughout the tunnel.
The "stone statue" has a vivid facial expression, and its clothing, hairstyle and posture are extremely realistic, but its gender is male.
Observing carefully, I saw that each of the "stone statues" looked frightened and made movements like turning around and running away.
"Everyone, pay attention." At this time, Artemis reminded everyone in some unfamiliar modern language:
"Medusa seems to be nearby. You are all men. If you look directly into her eyes, you will turn into a lifeless stone statue."
In fact, when they saw the stone statue, the Primarch and the Astartes guessed that it was the mythical Medusa.
Therefore, the display of the helmet screen is directly switched, and the surrounding environment is pulse-scanned, so that the outline of the object is presented on the screen, thereby avoiding observing things other than the helmet with the naked eye.
"Thank you for reminding me." But the polite Sanguinius still said thank you out of habit.
Be prepared and go deeper, the more Artemis feels something is wrong.
Even Leon and Sanguinius felt very familiar. They always felt that they were similar to the blood demons they had dealt with before.
When everyone passed the right corner of the tunnel, they saw a group of...
That's right, it's 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 woman. Their skin is also lavender, their appearance is charming, and their heads have dense living snakes that serve as their hair.
The banshees were "playing" with each other, or using the stone statues to "entertain".
However, the current banshees are very interested in Leon, Sanguinius and the Astartes.
"Hiss~."
They stuck out their purple tongues, twisted their enchanting figures and attacked quickly.