Chapter 972: "challenge"

"If the devil is not evil, what is it?"
No one answered this question of Artemis, and no one could answer it.
Because this may be a question that even the Supreme God does not know the answer to.
What is the true aspect of the Demon King who can make the omniscient and omnipotent goddess helpless with her, and completely invalidate the power of the Supreme God, who can be lucky enough to see?
Demon?
Or the "she" mentioned in the slate record?
Everyone's mood became more and more complicated, and even a little irritable.
At this time, Sean glanced at Artemis and asked.
"Didn't you ever challenge the Demon King?" Sean asked straightforwardly: "As a person who has directly challenged the Demon King, like most brave men in the past, you should know what kind of existence it is?"
Sean's words made Artethemis startled.
In his mind, the memory that had been hidden for many years was finally dug out again.
......
----"justice".
----"order".
These are the two concepts that Artethemis carried when he was born in the world, and it is also something that must be implemented throughout his life.
The meaning of her existence is here.
The law of her life is here.
People who know her existence think that such harsh compliance with justice and maintenance of order is a defect of being a transcendent existence, and that this is the price she must pay after having too much power.
Just like her sister, the strongest evil of the Protoss, who has never been formally masked, but has always heard her name, she was destined to have abnormal parts in her spirit when she was born. Right.
But Artemis never thought that this was a bad thing.
She does regard justice and order as things that she must abide by in her life, but she has not been persecuted or dissatisfied with it. On the contrary, she has experienced a sense of fulfillment from the meaning of existence and a clear mission. .
Because justice can bring peace to people, and order can bring peace to people. People's smiles are basically maintained by these two things. If you lose them, the world will lose the thing called "happiness."
In view of this, Artemis has long been determined to exercise justice and establish order.
For justice, she can be transformed into a sword to cut through the world's injustice.
For the sake of order, she can turn into a shield to block all malice.
This is not only for the people of the world, but also for ourselves, for things called "principles" and "missions."
This is the goddess in charge of justice and order-Artemis.
Of course, in the eyes of this goddess, the devil is the greatest evil in the world.
It was the devil who caused many tragedies in this world.
It was the demon king who started the war, killed countless creatures, and raised the butcher knife to the Supreme God who created the world, intending to step on the Supreme God and occupy this world belonging to the Supreme God.
This is undoubtedly evil.
Since it is evil, it must be eliminated, must be eradicated.
Such thoughts have existed in Artethemis's mind for many years.
At the beginning, knowing the existence of the demon king and knowing what she was doing, Artemis didn't even think about it, so he wanted to come to the door and eradicate the greatest evil existence.
Unfortunately, the three goddesses stopped her.
"No, you can't go."
"That is the devil, not something you can deal with."
"You may be strong, but after all, it is a subordinate existence created by the mother god, and the opponent is a powerful demon that even the mother feels dangerous and fears for. You can't go to die."
Lidas, goddess of fate, Anima, goddess of life, Nadura, goddess of nature.
The apex of these three protoss, all the goddess' head boss-like figures, personally stopped Artemis.
"If you really want to defeat the demon king, go find the brave."
"The devil is our nemesis, and the brave is the devil's nemesis."
"Only the brave can surely defeat the Demon King."
This is the advice of the three goddesses, and it is also common sense that the entire Protoss knows.
Human beings from another world are called to save the world, a hero full of justice and a sense of mission-"Braves".
For their existence, Artemis had known for a long time, but he was still happy with their existence as if he had met a confidant.
They are human heroes who are like themselves, walking on the road of maintaining justice and order.
They are heroes with flawless spirit and heart, and Artemis always feels very happy when getting along with them.
It is said that the fundamental purpose of the Protoss being born in this world is to nurture the brave, assist the brave, so that the brave can grow up, and ultimately achieve the purpose of defeating the devil and saving the world.
Artemis has no complaints about this, even the goddess who is highly respected by the entire Protoss.
If the target is those brave men, she is willing to ask her to do anything for them.
Because she knows very well that the stronger the brave, the more help the world will receive.
The stronger they are, the more people will receive their help.
The stronger they are, the more people will get their salvation.
In this way, many tragedies and many tragedies can be eliminated.
Therefore, Artemis has no complaints about this, and even actively cooperates with the three goddesses, has been accompanying the brave, helping the brave, and letting them grow.
And I have to say that the braves are indeed worth looking forward to, not only are they amazingly talented, but they also grow at an extraordinary speed.
It takes ordinary people a lifetime to complete the journey, and they only need to spend about a few years to complete it. This kind of thing, in other races, is simply whimsical.
Even the weakest brave can finally reach the legendary rank, with the holy sword, even can fight the extreme rank, and the time required to reach such a realm is so short a few years.
Artemis also witnessed a small group of brave men breaking through themselves, achieving detachment, and eventually becoming a presence on par with her.
They are so good, so powerful, so satisfying. If the three goddesses would not be willing to give them blessings, Artemis would definitely turn all the brave men into their own blessers, paving the way for their lives. .
However, it was such an excellent and powerful existence, but in the end, one after another, after challenging the demon lord... they fell.
The brave who reached the legendary level fell on the road to growth.
The brave who reached the limit level fell before detachment.
But the brave who reached the transcendent level all fell under the feet of the demon king.
None of them can succeed.
None of them can defeat the devil.
One...two...three...four...a dozen or dozens of brave men fell.
Of course, every time a brave fell, Artemis' heart would ache once, pain once, and then wait for the next brave to be called.
But the frequency with which the brave are called is probably only once in hundreds of years.
In these hundreds of years, the people of the world have suffered from wars and demons, and have been struggling to survive in the smoke and blood of gunpowder, never ending, and never being freed.
Under such circumstances, every time a brave man fell, Artemis had to watch the world suffer hundreds of years of suffering in addition to heartache and sorrow.
Pure evil is still spreading on the ground.
How can she bear it?
How does this make her restrain?
So, after not knowing which brave fell, Artemis finally stopped being patient.
"Stop! Artemis!"
"do not go!"
"You will die!"
The panicked shouts of the goddess of fate, the goddess of life, and the goddess of nature sounded behind them.
But Artemis didn't stop this time, let alone turn his head, directly deviated from his superiors and headed to the enemy's base camp.
Countless demons appeared to stop her, but their heads were chopped off by the silver-white swords in her hands.
The powerful demons also came to stop her one by one, but she was finally thrown away with difficulty.
Among them, not only the factors of strength, but also good luck, have just created this result.
Artemis realized that there would never be a second time like this, and there would never be a second time like this opportunity, so he decided to gamble on everything, slash the greatest evil in the world under the sword, and return the world to peace. .
With such determination, Artemis entered the castle of the demon king.
Then, Artemis met the Demon King smoothly.
It was at that moment that Artemis finally understood.
Understand, what is
Magic
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"...Aren't you a brave man?"
When this overly pleasing sound came into Artethemis's ears, Artethemis could not give a response in the first place.
She was stiff and unable to move.
Her face was pale and her heart shook wildly.
She stared closely at the existence that was sitting on the throne and bathed in the only light shining from the skylight on the ceiling. She only felt a deadly chill crawling on her body and wandering all over her body.
The hands holding the sword were already trembling, unable to lift it at all.
Obviously, that existence is just sitting there quietly.
Obviously, there was no aura from the body of that existence.
But the instinct of being a goddess was telling Artemis that the existence in front of her could not be defeated at all.
Do not.
It should be said that it is an existence that can unilaterally swallow her, gnaw her, bite her, and firmly press everything about her under her feet.
That is not the enemy.
That is a natural enemy.
If you can't defeat it, you must turn around and flee when you encounter it, otherwise you will definitely become the opponent's prey and the opponent's food natural enemy.
"Ah..."
The determination to win in Artemis's heart has collapsed, and only a deep despair is left.
However, the existence sitting on the throne, as if not seeing her expression, whispered softly.
"Not a brave...not a brave..."
That whisper, full of fatigue, full of sorrow.
It's a pity that Artemis at the time couldn't understand the emotion in this voice at all.
She could only vaguely hear such words.
"Why didn't the brave come here?"
"When will the next brave come?"
"How long do I... have to wait... to..."
These words were not directed at Artemis, but the other party's self-talk.
However, the exhaustion and sadness in the other party's words became more and more intense.
It wasn't until a certain moment that the devil spoke.
"...I don't have any interest in beings who are not brave, you can go."
When this sentence came to Artethemis's ears, Artethemis actually felt like an amnesty.
This feeling made her feel humiliated and desperate.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...!"
Later, Artethemis still left, or ran away.
The panic at the time and the shouting at the time were probably the gaffe and insult that Artemis could not forget in his life.
But this is the ultimate fate of the only person in the world who has directly challenged the demon king besides the brave.