Dear Broom Knight.

Chapter 767 Breaking Through the Blockade

Even if Armes and his parents say a lot, the world is about to reopen its doors, and the limits of humanity will inevitably rise rapidly. Those who cannot keep up with the pace will likely be abandoned, and it will be of no use.

Although Ezra and his wife were extremely open-minded in their approach to their children and spoiled them terribly, they were, after all, used to their parents' high-handed attitude.

Although they are not the most outstanding figures, they are still strong individuals standing at the peak!

Even if one has already begun to mentally prepare for the idea that their children are reincarnations of gods, it is still impossible to quickly change one's attitude in just a few days.

No normal person could do that.

Armies' parents, on the other hand, were the most normal kind.

He couldn't possibly have experienced the beauty of life because of his parents' normalcy, and then demand that they display abnormal ruthlessness and decisiveness... Someone who can treat enemies and family members the same way is really not normal.

But a normal person would be motivated to fight when faced with the threat of an enemy and with their own son standing in front of them.

Even though his parents knew he was a god in the past and would be a god in the future, they still wanted to protect him from behind rather than... stand behind him.

Even without any movement, Armes could sense those two, well... three surging fighting spirits.

After confirming that Ezra was preparing to enter the battlefield once again, Uncle Bowen immediately caught up with the pace, completely abandoning any fatigue or slackness in his heart.

To be honest, he has always been somewhat confused about the follower system in this world.

Armies truly couldn't understand how someone could love another person forever simply because they've been with them since childhood.

For Bowen, everything he had was worth sacrificing for Ezra.

But on what grounds?
It's one thing for him to sacrifice himself, but how can his wife and children have to follow in his footsteps?
Armies didn't understand, but only reluctantly respected.

This may explain why, although Carlo and Casimir were very loyal to him, they were not particularly close to him.

However, these two were already the closest outsiders to Armies... Even the high priest of Hermes, and his attendants, had never been this close to him.

Armies never imagined that one day he would trust outsiders to the point of letting them know what he liked to eat and drink.

They even knew exactly what kind of personal items their children liked to use.

He only understood the difference between subordinates and confidants after becoming Armies.

He used to think of himself as Zeus's confidant, but now it seems he was just a relatively loyal subordinate.

Even whether he can remain loyal depends on whether Zeus crosses his bottom line.

Therefore, Almes was able to devise the plan of leaving only a little bit of his previous memories and himself to accompany Zeus in his eternal sleep, without feeling any guilt towards Zeus.

If it were someone who couldn't distinguish these things before, probably...

He will definitely regret it later.

The most perfect ending is to give away only the part that you won't regret, or even the part that you will simply dissipate if you do regret it.

This also gave him the opportunity to reignite his parents' fighting spirit... Armies was extremely satisfied.

Having gone through so much preparation, the most important thing now is to avoid any mishaps.

Braving the barrage of attacks from bandits and robbers at the entrance to the sealed tunnel, rushing in and immediately leaping a long distance to the warehouse linked to the key... It sounds easy, but only one in ten adventurers can pass this test.

Even demigods would be seriously injured at this stage!
Of course, if what rushed in was genuine, powerful divine force, then these bandits would have lost all the resources they had previously earned.

Therefore, apart from a small number of multiverse-level wanted criminals who need external resources to survive because they can only hide in the enclosed tunnels, there are not many people here with great strength.

As for those who weren't strong to begin with but 'accidentally' made a fortune, they basically won't come back a second time, unless they've exhausted all those resources and still haven't found a suitable place to settle down.

These kinds of guys are basically just fools trying to take advantage of the situation; there's no need to pay them too much attention.

All of Armes's anxiety stemmed from his fear that he might fail to protect his parents properly and cause them accidental harm.

Curses targeting the soul, some unsolvable causal attacks... even if the chances are slim, he will never tolerate any 'what if' happening.

Fortunately, the one in charge of traversing space was Katarina, the incredibly lucky Swift Wolf who could move freely in the noisy space tunnel.

If it were him, Armies would probably be even more nervous.

After glancing again at the sheer number of halos around Katarina that even Hermes would envy, Armies pursed his lips and said firmly, "Please, Katarina!"
Let's go!

"Heave-ho~ Heave-ho~" The Gale Wolf let out a series of cheerful shouts and plunged headfirst into the vortex-like Gate of Wind ahead.
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"boom!"

Out of the corner of his eye, Almes only saw a spectacular explosion and people rushing into the center of the explosion without hesitation after the smoke and dust had cleared.

If you cause trouble at the entrance of a sealed tunnel, whether you succeed or not, everyone only has 10 seconds to clean up the mess.

Then, the sealed tunnel will trigger a massive storm of wind-elemental power due to the intense elemental fluctuations. But for the bandits, 10 seconds is enough time for them to assess the level of the treasure, grab it, and then use a jumping item like a Thief's Stone to escape.

Those who don't even have that can only rush straight to the explosion's epicenter and swipe around randomly, relying entirely on luck to collect any resources that fall from the dimensional space caused by their master's death or powerful destruction.

Then, rush into the sealed tunnel entrance as quickly as possible to enter the maze area on the next level.

This, of course, also carries risks.

All the entrances and exits of the bustling tunnel will move randomly, but because they are very obvious in appearance, they are easy for long-time residents to find.

Because most of the sealed tunnels on the fourth level are enclosed dimensional spaces, even though the entrances are constantly moving, there are only a few places that can be opened.

Of course, there are also lucky people who happen to enter a gate that is completely unguarded by thieves when the entrance moves randomly... but this requires too much luck, and Armies certainly doesn't have that kind of confidence.

But the other floors are not so easy to deal with.

Especially after the explosion, the exit to the third level is very likely to change location.

That's the plane where the labyrinth is located.

If you're unlucky, you might fall right into the outer edge of the maze and never be able to get out again.

If you have absolutely no luck... then you might fall directly into the City of Slaughter and become a puppet under the God of Slaughter, someone who knows everything but can only watch his own body fight desperately with a knife.

These desperate people are truly gambling with their lives.

but……

After confirming that the swan ship had landed inside the vault bound to the mithril key, Almos's first reaction was not to examine the contents of the vault or check the spiderwebs on the swan ship, but to ask in astonishment, "Katarina, did you... throw something else out as well?"

He was certain that nothing had come out of the swan boat.

Katarina gave a lazy hum: "So what? Is it not allowed?"

"What you released... won't last long, will it?" Armes asked with some concern. "We still need to go back!"

Based on his understanding of Green Maple Territory, Mage Lowry enjoyed playing some tricky little games.

The first requirement is lethality, but if you can't kill the enemy, you'll just annoy and disgust them to death.

Armies could understand why Lowry was acting this way.

After all, this kid has never had a few days of truly enjoying himself. Whether it's friends or enemies, they are all people much stronger than him.

Although he survived thanks to strong backing, a clever mind, and skillful tactics, he still had to endure some pointless attempts and tests that weren't meant to kill him.

Therefore, Lowry quickly learned to take advantage of his small size.

However, when these things are used on other people, onlookers will find it quite amusing.

It's a bit... when I encounter it myself.

“Don’t worry about that.” Katarina gave him a disdainful look. “What are you thinking? Lowry would never do anything that would hurt his own people.”

Even if I forget to bring the antidote, I still have a way to get out of that smoke.

That's right, it's just illusionary smoke and dust.

In a fraction of a second, what could I possibly do? I still had to activate the key!
It's just an illusion ball hanging from its tail.

Armos nodded in confusion, then suddenly remembered something and couldn't help but ask the Swift Wolf, who was calmly perched in mid-air, "Katarina, what's inside that illusion sphere... It's not, it's Silvermoon's, is it?"

“No!” Katarina replied impatiently. “Do you really think Lori has that many Silvermoon Shards to squander?”
If there were really that many, the Goddess of Night would have rushed down and snatched them long ago!
The timing was all calculated; it was all part of the Silver Moon illusion.

What I have here is the Ascension from the Demon Tomb of the Mechanical Realm.

Armies was startled: "Huh?"

He certainly knew that a singularity in the Mechanical Realm had died in that war.

However, as the representative of the mechanical realm's will, a pseudo-powerful divine force that would be replaced if it had its own thoughts, not many gods would take the singularity, which had left the mechanical realm, seriously.

But Armies would never doubt how terrifying the illusion of ascending from the Demon Tomb could be if it were to become so real.

Lori, who could make the Silver Moon Illusion and the Scroll Illusion so realistic, would certainly be able to do the same if he really had the Mechanical Realm Fragment.

If it weren't for Lori's illusions reaching the point of creating the real from the fake, even if High Priest Schröder dared not take another step, he wouldn't have been so afraid to even expel the false images at the Storm Gate.

If it were really that easy to cause 'misunderstandings' between the gods, I wonder how many cultists would be showing movies in front of churches every day!

(End of this chapter)