Chapter 883 – 883. God’S Atlantis
‘…Gotten? What do you mean?’
I frowned at the incomprehensible words, trying to gauge their meaning. What did the Master of the Sky mean by that?
「It sounds like I hear the sound of a beating somewhere.」
Even if I tried to ask the Master of the Sky for more details, he was busy educating his child. Since there was plenty of time, I decided to think about it on my own.
A little while later.
Rustle, rustle.
I sensed a presence a little ways off. I quietly turned my gaze to confirm. There were two men. One was holding a spear, and the other was carrying a large backpack. The clothes the hunter was wearing were extravagant. It was obvious at a glance that he was a noble.
They seemed to be participants in the hunting competition and their attendant. They hadn’t noticed me and were cautiously approaching their prey.
‘The prey is one of Artemis’s hunting dogs.’
The hunter with the spear ran haphazardly toward the hunting dog. His movements were clumsy. The hunting dog growled and charged at the hunter.
‘The hunting dog is going to hunt the hunter.’
I was watching with a bored expression, predicting the outcome, when suddenly the hunting dog’s movements slowed, and the hunter’s spear pierced the dog’s neck. The hunting dog died without even managing a proper scream. It was far too weak for one of Artemis’s hunting dogs.
“Hahaha! I’ve succeeded in hunting again! My hunting skills are truly something!”
“You’re amazing, young master!”
I realized.
It was the attendant.
The attendant had used a skill to weaken the hunting dog. The hunter hadn’t noticed it at all. He had probably been hunting like this all along.
‘……The attendant’s interference in the hunt is cheating. But why isn’t the system imposing any sanctions?’
It was strange.
Was it because the hunter didn’t know about the attendant’s interference? No, there was no way the system would be that sloppy.
Something suddenly occurred to me.
If attendants aren’t allowed to interfere with the hunt, why would there be any need to bring them to the hunting competition?
「1st place. Gidin Yustia
2nd place. Ojam Stinger
3rd place. Kang Myungjin
4th place. Stefan Ansho
5th place. Sung Yujin」
‘…….’
5th place.
I was in 5th place.
I had killed fish in the underwater hunting competition against Artemis, but fish weren’t included in the hunting competition’s prey. And I hadn’t hunted at all since last night. It was strange that I was maintaining 5th place.
‘…It can only be Elena. If Elena is killing prey and the points are going to me?’
If the notification window doesn’t pop up when the attendant kills prey, then there’s no way to find out. There’s no way to know the total score in this hunting competition. The only information related to scores is the ranking of the top 1 to 5.
I thought of Gidin Yustia, who was in 1st place. Yesterday, he looked so clean that he couldn’t be mistaken for a hunter. He was leading the nobles and hunting. I couldn’t imagine him desperately hunting.
What if. His attendant wasn’t his bodyguard? What if his mysterious attendant was hunting on his behalf?
‘There’s no way the system would allow such a trick… or is there?’
There was something I was overlooking.
The organizer of this hunting competition wasn’t the system. The system was merely acting as a referee. The real organizer of the hunting competition was the Imperial Family. It wasn’t the system that was announcing the rules of the hunting competition, but the Imperial Family.
The Imperial Family must have spent a huge amount of AP to bring in the system. And they must have asked the system to referee the competition.
‘With completely different rules than the hunting competition rules announced to the world.’
It wasn’t that the system was deceiving the participants. The system was simply managing the hunting competition according to the rules it had contracted with the Imperial Family.
‘The Imperial Family. Those bastards….’
I shook my head. The Imperial Family had said that each hunting competition participant was limited to one attendant, but the truth was that there might be no limit to the number of attendants.
‘Anyway. There’s no one to trust in this world.’
My mind raced.
I understood the meaning of the Master of the Sky’s words, ‘Gotten’.
‘The hunting dogs that Artemis summoned were ridiculously weak. So weak that it’s hard to believe they were summoned by a god. Artemis summoned weak hunting dogs from the start.’
There was only one reason.
To conserve her strength.
Artemis had given up on the fifth match. She had allowed her attendant to be violated by me. It meant that she was in such a corner that she was willing to abandon her attendant.
Artemis was planning to focus on the sixth match, where her purity was at stake.
‘Extending the time limit of the tag game from 1 hour to 3 hours must have been to buy herself recovery time.’
I could guess where Artemis was right now.
Artemis’s bathhouse. She was probably using that mysterious bathhouse to relieve her fatigue and recover her stamina.
‘Should I go interfere?’
No.
I didn’t know what kind of traps she might have set in that bathhouse. Even though she seemed like that, she was the goddess of the hunt, so she would be skilled at setting traps.
It was better to safely secure victory in the fifth match than to needlessly put myself in danger. Half of the time limit had already passed to interfere.
‘I should go take the fifth nymph.’
I looked up at the sky. The night sky had already turned dark. Artemis would recover quickly with the power of the moon.
‘Artemis chooses the sixth match.’
I could guess what kind of match she would choose. What I had to do was to set conditions that were favorable to me. But I wasn’t very confident. Artemis, who had experienced five defeats, would abandon her petty pride to win.
‘Seira should be in the bathhouse… Did Seira run away?’
I wasn’t worried about Seira’s safety. Seira wasn’t a child, and she wasn’t weak enough to be taken hostage by the current Artemis.
•••
「You have won the match.」
“Haa, hic, ahhh….”
Face-to-face. The nymph, who was sitting on the floor in my arms, was sobbing and shaking. I bit her breast and moved my hips little by little. I liked the nymph’s reaction.
Even though the nymph was being violated by me, Artemis didn’t appear. She was focused on recovering her stamina.
I knew it was stupid to give Artemis time. I knew it in my head, but I couldn’t stop my hips. Unlike the other four nymphs, the fifth nymph was reacting to my movements.
‘She’s shaking her hips like a whore to please me. It’s probably Artemis’s instruction.’
It was effective. I couldn’t easily pull away from the nymph’s body.
As I had done with the other nymphs, I violated the nymph for an hour before getting up. I wanted to have sex a little more, but I endured it with superhuman patience.
‘I have to take Artemis too.’
I called the system.
“System. Let’s start the sixth match. Where is Artemis?”
「Moving for the final match between god and human.」
I moved to the top of the mountain. Artemis was there too. She must have just moved as well, as her body was soaking wet and warm steam was rising from her.
I smacked my lips as I looked at her. She was much more beautiful than the nymphs. Wet black hair and white skin. The shape of her nipples was prominent at the tips of her plump breasts. My lower body was already throbbing at the thought of taking the goddess.
“Hehe. Did you take a bath to offer your purity to me?”
“Don’t talk nonsense. The sixth match is a hunting match.”
It was the match I had expected. The thing Artemis was most confident in. That was hunting, no matter what. She had chosen hunting in the 4th match, but it had turned into underwater hunting because of me. That was definitely not what Artemis had wanted.
“Hunting is too disadvantageous for me. We’ve already had a hunting match… Let’s do something else.”
“I refuse. This is the last match. If it’s not hunting, I won’t do it.”
Artemis was firm. It meant that she valued her purity more than her pride. If she came out like this, the hunting match was confirmed. I couldn’t give up on her after coming this far.
“…Then how about underwater hunting again?”
“Ha. I’ve accepted most of the conditions you’ve proposed so far. Don’t forget that it was my consideration and mercy.”
She was right, so I had nothing to say. I scratched my head. I was very anxious inside. I had to set conditions that were favorable to me, even if just a little.
At that moment, a faintly glowing blue butterfly came into my view. Artemis didn’t react at all, even though the butterfly was in her view. She hadn’t noticed the butterfly’s presence.
‘…It’s Elena.’
Elena had figured out where I was. She might have even figured out the situation I was in now. The butterfly fluttered in my view.
‘…Maybe….’
No.
I stopped thinking.
I shouldn’t ask Elena for help. That was cheating. It was different from the Sun’s Song helping Artemis in the 4th match. Artemis had never asked for help, and the Sun’s Song had interfered on its own.
The system had judged it as a kind of natural phenomenon. Of course, the system had sanctioned the Sun’s Song.
“Hah. Okay. Let’s hear the details of the match first. It can’t just be a simple hunt, right?”
“The point of this hunting match is who hunts better.”
“…Who hunts better? It’s not a point system. Who’s the judge?”
“The judges are the divine seats watching us.”
“The divine seats’ judgment must be absolutely fair.”
“Only the divine seats who have sworn fairness can judge. Is that enough?”
If the divine seats swore, I could trust their fairness. What was important to the divine seats was their authority, and breaking an oath was an act of throwing their authority to the ground. And since the system was there, there would be no cheating related to the judging.
Artemis raised her hand. Her elegant finger pointed to a certain spot. There was a huge boar that hadn’t been there until just now.
“That’s the basic prey. You have to hunt that Calydonian boar to be recognized as a hunt. If you can’t hunt the Calydonian boar… you’ll lose without even needing to be judged.”
“That applies to you too, right?”
“Hmph. Do you think I can’t hunt the Calydonian boar? Of course. And I’ll tell you in advance. It’s forbidden to interfere with the other person.”
Seeing Artemis so full of confidence made my heart pound. I wanted to knock her down and take her right away.
“I’ll accept your hunting proposal without any conditions. Instead, I demand additional compensation.”
“Additional compensation?”
Artemis frowned.
What was at stake in this match was me and her. If I lost, I would die at Artemis’s hands and suffer even after death. I didn’t know how she would torment me after I died.
Instead, I would have Artemis’s purity. The goddess of purity would no longer be pure. It was something more important to her than her life.
“If I win, you will be my slave for a day, in addition to your purity.”
“How dare you try to enslave a goddess? You don’t know your place!”
Artemis shouted angrily.
“I accepted the hunting match you proposed without any conditions. If the risk has increased, then the compensation should naturally increase in proportion. If you don’t like it, I’ll refuse the hunting match.”
“Kuh….”
Artemis bit her lip. She couldn’t immediately ignore my words. The added condition didn’t affect the match itself. It was still the same that Artemis had the advantage in the match.
From Artemis’s point of view, she just had to win. If she won, she wouldn’t have to give me her purity or become my slave.
“…Okay. If you win, you can enslave me and do whatever you want. That won’t happen anyway.”
“Is that so? We’ll have to see about that.”
「The final match between god and human has been established.」
“Are you going first?”
Artemis asked. I shook my head.
“You go first.”
I would watch how Artemis did it. That alone could give me a slight advantage.
“I can see right through your thoughts. But you won’t win.”
Artemis said coldly and picked up her bow. Her fingers gripped the bowstring and pulled it back smoothly. An arrow made of moonlight appeared.
I looked up at the night sky.
Moonlight came out of the crescent moon and enveloped Artemis’s body. The moonlight that had been flirting with Artemis then gathered into a moonlight arrow. All of Artemis’s strength, mana, and power permeated the single moonlight arrow.
I let out a small groan. The divinity and power I felt from Artemis were extraordinary.
And then Artemis released the bowstring.
