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Artemis...
Hearing this name, Su Qing was a little curious.
Among all the gods Su Qing had come into contact with, most of them had a very high opinion of Artemis, but Su Qing's impression of Artemis in the original work was only average.
In the original book, the story is about Artemis dying at the hands of Warcraft, who borrowed Artemis's power and was about to destroy the underworld, but was finally stopped by Bell using a magic weapon.
Just from the perspective of watching anime and reading novels, Su Qing also thinks Artemis is quite cute.
But some things are completely different when viewed indirectly and directly. Artemis looked for an 'Orion' that could be recognized by her artifact, and finally chose Bell...
This smells a bit strange. Is the virgin goddess throwing out a ball of embroidery to look for a husband?
Selecting someone with certain qualities to complete the mission was still within Su Qing's normal understanding, but selecting someone with certain qualities and then falling in love with him?
It is not that feelings are born from spending time together and then treating the other person as your destined other half, but that you first choose the other person as your destined other half and then feelings are born from spending time together.
If you get serious about this, the person involved is probably quite philanthropic.
As long as the person is chosen by Orion's arrow, she will do it. She doesn't care who is chosen specifically?
If Artemis discovered Orion's arrow and chose someone, and after spending some time together she felt that the other person was suitable for her in every aspect, then Su Qing could still understand it. Meeting, getting to know each other, and then falling in love is a very normal process.
But after discovering that someone is recognized by Orion's Arrow, do you directly regard that person as your destined partner, and then gradually improve the relationship between the two?
Can this be called love?
It's all well and good for a hero to fall in love at first sight after saving a beauty, but can you win the love of a virgin goddess just by pulling out Orion's arrow?
But what if Orion's Arrow approves multiple candidates?
In the wrong world on Earth, Orion's Arrow only recognized Bell. This happened only once in hundreds of millions of years, but it was accidental, not inevitable that it happened only once in hundreds of millions of years.
This kind of thing sounds very contradictory. Artemis is a virgin goddess who has been single in heaven for hundreds of millions of years. All impure relationships are prohibited in heaven. Anyway, the gods that Su Qing met all thought that she was the kind of person who would remain faithful to someone once she fell in love with him.
But pursuing true love and finding a husband through a talent show are two completely different things at heart.
At least in Su Qing's opinion, there are two unnatural points between Artemis and Bell in the original work.
First, hundreds of millions of years have passed, and Orion's arrow has only chosen Bell.
Artemis said that Orion's arrows favor pure children.
Su Qing did not deny that Bell was really pure, but it was sheer nonsense to say that among all the lives Artemis had encountered over hundreds of millions of years, no other life could compare to Bell in purity.
The second point is that after Bell was chosen, Artemis treated Bell as her other half without any hesitation.
This really does not fit the definition of love and virgin goddess.
Even if you hesitated for a moment, were you attracted by the small thing of Bell helping the old lady cross the road?
Artemis is the goddess of the moon, the goddess of virgins, and the goddess of unmarried girls, but not the goddess of fate. It doesn't make sense that she wouldn't make decisions based on her own considerations, but instead rely entirely on the artifact, Orion's Arrow.
The Arrow of Orion is Artemis's artifact, not Artemis herself.
If this kind of thing only happened in anime, Su Qing would not bother to think about it. It's just anime, there are not so many reasons behind it. It may be because the screenwriter is too lazy to think about it.
The virgin goddess who forbids all impure relationships fell in love with the 'protagonist' just because she was chosen by the artifact.
Don’t worry about whether this is reasonable or not, just say whether it looks cool or not!
Cool? That's enough, isn't it?
Su Qing even felt that if he had originally traveled through another world instead of the box garden, he would not have cared about such trivial details.
But if you want to survive in the little garden, it’s not about whether you should care about such trivial matters, but about analyzing the problem in your mind the moment you see such things.
The sandbox is a world that values intelligence. Under the module of the gift game, being able to discover that what seems unreasonable is just one of the simplest requirements for the game participants.
There is no need to go into details about novels and animations, because it may just be the screenwriter's sudden inspiration that made him think it was interesting.
What the screenwriter wants is a wonderful story and he wants more people to buy into his story. The screenwriter doesn’t really care whether the specific setting of the story is completely reasonable.
But Su Qing is not reading comics, but he is now in this world...
It's impossible that all of this happened because 'the screenwriter thought so'. Everything that happened in this world should always have a reasonable explanation in this world.
……
In the reception room, Artemis looked a little conflicted.
If he wanted to stop Su Qing from attacking the gods, he would have to make enemies with them openly, rather than lowering the reputation of the gods in the eyes of the people on the surface in this way.
In the eyes of the gods, Artemis is a more reliable type, but she is not the type who cannot tolerate killing.
She is not only the goddess of justice, but also the goddess of the moon. She is also the goddess of hunting, and she even has a side as a female war goddess.
Competition, survival, the law of the jungle, etc., Artemis at least has a tolerant attitude.
For her, as the Moon Goddess, it was normal to kill prey in order to survive, but she could not tolerate people playing with the beasts trapped in a trap instead of doing it for the purpose of survival.
If two human countries were at war and the two sides were fighting to the death, Artemis would only think that was reasonable and would not take any action.
Artemis could just watch as the victors occupied the defeated country, but she would not be able to tolerate it if the victors sold the defeated as slaves.
Artemis's deity is quite complex.
Leaving aside the most well-known moon goddess, besides the moon goddess, Artemis is both the goddess of virginity and the goddess of midwifery, both the goddess of hunting and the goddess of nature, the patron saint of fish and beasts in nature, both the goddess of plague and the goddess of recovery who can drive away the plague.
But to sum it up in one sentence, these divinities actually all revolve around one thing... survival.
There are many things you can do, but don't overdo it.
It is not bound by justice. In nature, it is normal for humans to fight against wild beasts. The first humans could survive and eat meat by hunting wild beasts.
While teaching humans hunting techniques, Artemis was also the patron saint of wild animals and prohibited hunting other than for the purpose of survival.
Compared to the goddess of justice who is an idealist pursuing justice, Artemis is more like an idealist based on the framework of reality.
Humans hunt wild animals for the right reason of race survival; it is the reason humans can survive, but indiscriminate killing of wild animals is not the right thing to do.
The war between countries, no matter what the reason, is right and will definitely happen. It is a historical inevitability that strong countries will annex weak countries.
But it is not right for the victor to insult the loser wantonly. That is only out of the victor's selfish desire, which the Moon Goddess cannot tolerate.
Plague and recovery, virginity and midwifery...similar divine powers were entangled with Artemis.
The goddess of justice pursues justice because she is dissatisfied with the framework of reality and feels that there are too many "always like this" things in it, but that is not right.
Artemis is completely different. She is not dissatisfied with the status quo that has always been the case. Instead, she realizes that it is the common sense of the world and she just does things in her own way within the established framework.
So Artemis is the goddess who protects pure girls and hates impure relationships with the opposite sex, but she has never thought of prohibiting all relationships between men and women.
In addition to being a virgin goddess, she also has the duty of midwifery, and understands that communication between men and women is necessary for the survival of all races.
Artemis only protects pure girls, but she understands the necessity of communication between men and women, so she does not prohibit other men and women from communicating, because there is nothing she can do about it.
But she is a virgin goddess, and she does not forbid other men and women from interacting with her. She should have the right to control herself, right?
This was Artemis' idea, and after she descended to the mortal world, this idea expanded to her followers.
I know that communication between men and women is necessary, but I, Artemis, don't like it. If I can't control others, then I will control myself and my family. My family has received the favor of the gods, so it is necessary for them to act according to the gods' requirements.
Anyway, it is the rule of Artemis' family to prohibit impure relationships between men and women. Those who don't want to abide by it don't have to come.
Artemis knows herself well. Unlike those pure idealists, she is the type who accepts reality while trying to appear as noble as possible.
Artemis glanced at Astraea secretly and then looked away.
The Moon Goddess felt a little guilty.
For Orario today, her bottom line is actually not high.
She did want to save these gods, but she took action only after careful consideration and felt that her goal was achievable.
Although many gods have done evil in the heavens, their deeds in the past thousand years in the lower world can be said to have done more good than evil.
Artemis' bottom line is to at least give these gods a decent death.
The gods who gave power to the people of the underworld and helped them fight off monsters from underground and gain peace, would be content as long as she was not hated by the people of the underworld before she died.
——Just as she would venture outside of Orario and ignore fighting between nations, but would intervene when the losers had no dignity and were sold as slaves.
Facing an outsider who is far stronger than the gods, if she really has no confidence and still insists on confronting him, then she can only say that she is just having a brain attack.
but……
Artemis was actually a little worried about Astraea.
That's different from her, the imposter. A goddess who truly pursues justice cannot sit idly by and watch the gods die for such a reason.
——When facing guilty people, punishing them according to their crimes is justice.
Protecting the rights of criminals is also part of justice.
Artemis sighed internally.
Therefore, she didn't actually confess her bottom line to Astraea, she just said that she couldn't accept the death of the gods because of this.
She felt that what she said was Astraea's bottom line.
I'm really worried that Astraea will be too stubborn and would rather die than accept the death of the gods.
……
Astraea turned her head away, feeling doubtful.
Why is Artemis looking at me? Did she realize that I was fooling her?
Astraea was completely confused, not knowing that Artemis regarded her as a pure idealized example of justice.
She had talked to Artemis before.
It was impossible to ask Su Qing not to attack the gods by presenting facts and reasoning - Astraea made up some reasons.
Su Qing takes the position of an ordinary person as the starting point to talk about the various behaviors of the gods in the lower world.
Acting recklessly, persecuting ordinary people, not abiding by urban order, and so on.
Too many to read.
As the goddess of justice, Astraea has something in mind. When she was in Orario, she could naturally discover some illegal activities of her clansmen.
She told everyone about the illegal deeds she knew about, many of which... were beyond human imagination.
You know, the Loki Family, one of the two largest families in the city, can almost be regarded as the moral benchmark of Orario.