However, a golden arrow pierced through the sky, accompanied by a dull tearing sound, penetrated his shoulder, dragging him across the ground and finally nailing him firmly to the trunk of a sturdy tree.
Caught off guard, Orion let out a piercing scream of agony as blood spurted from his wound.
And those pained cries, like a curse, seeped into Artemis's mind, constantly tempting her to look back and show mercy.
With the sound of metal clashing, Artemis dropped her golden longbow, knelt on the ground, clutching her head and growling through gritted teeth towards what was ahead.
Just as the Hunting Goddess spoke, Luo En's figure had already crossed beside her, charging towards the riverbank opposite like an arrow loosed from its string, his right hand tightly grasping Orion's sturdy neck, forcibly silencing his ceaseless wails inside his throat.
As the grip on his throat tightened, the affixed Orion struggled frantically, and in his labored breathing, emitted a terrified growl.
"You... you can't... kill me, Father God he..."
However, before Orion could finish, the vise-like arm suddenly erupted with a crimson light of war divinity, breaking through the last thin layer of the sea's blessing around the God of the Sea's son, and directly twisting his sturdy neck.
An eyeball protruded, and the large head full of resentment and fear weakly drooped down.
The next moment, the sanguine light in Luo En's hand transformed into a blazing red flame that set Orion completely aflame.
In the blink of an eye, the twisted, cracking corpse, along with the charred trunk, turned into flaky ashes, drifting away with the wind.
After disposing of the body with practiced ease, Luo En finally relaxed his tense nerves, and the suppressed inner injuries from facing Artemis now erupted, as pain from bones, organs, and muscles flooded over him like a tidal wave.
This time, Orion should have no way to come back to life, right?
Gazing at the small pile of ashes before him, Luo En, likewise at his limit, confirmed repeatedly before collapsing to the ground in relief.
If with just these remains, Poseidon could pull his precious son back from the Netherworld, then he shouldn't be called the God of the Sea, but rather be renamed as the Underworld King.
As the last bit of concern dissipated, Luo En was just about to let go of all his guards and lie down to rest.
However, a hot current entered his ears, the scent of musk and flowers lingering behind him in the air.
Instantly, Luo En's neck, like a rusted spring, twisted awkwardly by half a turn.
His purple eyes instantly met a pair of silver eyes flickering with fervent flames.
Primitive bestiality and a desire nearly tangible were burning wildly within them.
In an instant, a tingling sensation covered Luo En's scalp, and he realized a problem he had overlooked.
Although one source of contamination, Orion, was dead, he was still alive.
Moreover, if he remembered correctly, "Aphrodite's Favor" lasted... a week?
Luo En swallowed, trying to moisten his dry throat, as he watched a top predator of the forest curling her tongue and licking her lips a short distance away, squeezing out a crooked smile on his rigid face.
"Hungry? Maybe you should eat first..."
Before Luo En could finish, a pair of slender yet powerful arms grabbed at his quietly retreating legs and effortlessly pulled him down.
Thrown into disarray, Luo En hadn't recovered his senses when his body was quickly dragged towards a small grove ahead, his head banging against the stones along the way, leaving his thoughts blank.
The sensation was like a little rabbit being savagely pulled out of its hole by a leopardess and crushed under her paws.
"Don't tear my clothes!"
"Stop it, I'm innocent..."
"Ow, ow, ow! My wound is tearing open!"
Soon, under the absolute suppression of the leopardess, the helpless cries of the rabbit were completely drowned out by the shadows overlapping and blending in the forest.
The greedy beast reveled in its hunting grounds, savoring its prey that belonged to it alone!