To be king and magician

29. Ishtar descends to the Underworld

In front of him was a pure white temple.

Xia Chuanhu, who was staring at the building in front of him, knew where it was.

Endgame Singularity, crowned Temple of Time, Solomon.

In the future, he will definitely arrive at the decisive battle place.

——Why did you come here?

Such a question appeared in Xia Chuanhu's mind, and at the same time that such a question arose, on the seemingly innocent throne in the distance, an upright figure sitting there made Xia Chuanhu look slightly upright .

King Solomon.

Or Gaetia who occupied his remains.

Soon he will face the biggest enemy he has faced in the past 20 years.

The day of the decisive battle with it was about to be seen. After waiting for ten years for the second round of the battle, this time it must be completed no matter what. For him, it was the end of everything in the true sense.

"Keep waiting on that throne, Getia."

Facing the figure sitting on the throne, Xia Chuanhu stretched out his hand and gave it a firm grip.

"I... no, we're going to knock you down soon."

"Not long."

The moment after such a declaration ended, Xia Chuanhu's consciousness fell silent again.

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Inside an uninhabited house in Kusa City.

Opening his eyes under the radiance of the setting sun, Xia Chuanhu sat up from the dirt bed with his head supported: "This is..."

"Are you awake?"

Merlin, who was sitting by the window, turned his head and smiled, "You fell into a coma as soon as you got the Fate Clay Tablet. Did the [future] recorded on it affect your consciousness?"

Tablet of Destiny.

Xia Chuanhu looked at a clay tablet in his arms.

By the way, he remembered that after he separated from Merlin, he spent about two hours finding the Tablet of Destiny in Kusa City, and he seemed to pass out immediately after that.

What was written on the clay tablet was not something that Xia Chuanhu could understand. Even if he had already mastered three or four languages, it would be a bit superficial for him to understand the Sumerian script of this period.

"What is recorded on it is the future foreseen by Gilgamesh. Did I accidentally synchronize my consciousness with this?"

"Almost." Merlin nodded, "What did you see?"

"Getia, it is sitting on the Crown Time Temple triumphantly waiting for the success of its plan."

Xia Chuanhu said while throwing the Destiny Clay Tablet to Mei Lin and got out of bed: "You take this, it's getting late, I'll take you back to Uruk, and then I'll go to the underworld to see if I can Deal with the matter of Ereshkigal, and then go to the Persian Gulf to complete the task of water quality survey—you can report to Gilgamesh like this.”

"It's really busy. Although I really want to say whether you are taking too much work by yourself, but because I am happy to be free in this way, I will leave it to you."

Mei Lin who said this with a smile walked decisively into the space passage where Xia Chuan's tiger gear appeared. On the other side of the passage was the suburbs less than 300 meters away from the city wall of Uruk.Because Uruk has an enchantment and cannot be teleported directly, so it can only be teleported there.

The time given by Gilgamesh at the beginning was three days, but now it is the evening of the second day after the two set off, and almost one and a half days have passed.

"Is there one and a half days left? About half a day is enough on the Persian Gulf side, that is to say..."

One day was given to Xia Chuanhu to go to the underworld to deal with Ereshkigal's affairs.

(I remember that there is an underground passage leading to the underworld under a certain house in Kusa City... Or should we just learn from Ishtar and blast a big hole in the ground to go straight to the underworld?)

Xia Chuanhu, who came outside the house, looked at the ground under his feet with some hesitation.

And at this moment-

"Swish, swish, swish!"

A large number of piercing sounds came from the distant sky.

It was a magic shot from someone, and Xia Chuanhu could sense it.

Turning around to face the incoming magic bullets, raising his hand to cause a layer of ice to block them all, Xia Chuanhu's eyes fell on the person who attacked him: "Generally speaking, there are people who attack without saying a word. Is it?"

"Tch, did you fail..."

Ishtar, who was riding Maanna, landed in the air not high above Xia Chuanhu while muttering in a low voice: "It's just a simple greeting. For the rude people who broke into my territory without saying a word, I'm sorry. Punishment is necessary, right? What's more, the target is you anyway, so it doesn't matter if I hit you with all my strength, right?"

(If it wasn't for me, I would have died instantly.)

Xia Chuanhu complained silently in his heart.

"So, so you came down from Mount Abif just to say hello to me?"

"Why, I just saw you on the way back from a walk, and stopped by to say hello to you." Ishtar waved his hand indifferently, "It's you, who met the sun in the jungle a few days ago. The god fought hard, and now he came to my side again, could it be that he planned to fight with me?"

Because the battle between Xia Chuanhu and Quetzal was so loud, the goddesses in Mesopotamia were more or less aware of it, and they all realized one thing—there was a Enemies who can contend with them appear.

Xia Chuanhu smiled: "What if I say yes?"

"boom------!"

A beam of magical cannons shot out from Maanna's muzzle in an instant, and then was slapped by Xia Chuanhu and flew into the sky.

Ishtar sighed slightly: "I thought it would work, but your reaction is really outrageous. But now you know it too? If you really want to fight me, I won't look at you and This body has some fate, please be merciful."

(Win it brilliantly after that, and use the winner's rights to order him to write off all his debts!)

Looking at the expression on Ishtar's face that seemed to be planning something, Xia Chuanhu smiled: "I just came here to find something because of Gilgamesh's request, and I just found it and sent it I’m going back, and I’m planning to go to the underworld next.”

"Eh?"

Ishtar froze for a moment: "Are you going to the underworld?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?"

"What's the matter... why are you going to the underworld as a living person? Thinking about committing suicide? You are an elf and you can't die at all. After you die, a new you will appear immediately."

Xia Chuanhu smiled and said: "It's nothing, just to solve the matter of the Alliance of the Three Goddesses. For the time being, there is no need to worry about her attack on Quetzalcoatl, as long as Ereshkigal is also resolved , the two pillars of the Three Goddess Alliance don't have to worry about it anymore, they can fight against the Goddess of Warcraft wholeheartedly."

"Wait-wait wait! What did you just say?!"

Ishtar quickly flew in front of Xia Chuanhu, leaned close to his face and asked sharply, "Who did you say you were going to solve?! Who?!"

"Ereshkigal... Oh yes, you don't know yet, do you?"

Xia Chuanhu briefly explained the conclusions drawn by himself and Merlin to Ishtar.

The chain summoning of the goddess and the goddess, the same divinity of the two people...  

And after listening to it, Ishtar's face couldn't help turning blue for a while, purple for a while, then pale for a while, and then he sighed heavily as if he couldn't bear it: "Ha~~~~ Really, I didn't expect There will be such a situation... She was also summoned to manifest or something, and there is really no worse news than this."

"No, what's even worse is that she will actually become a member of the Three Goddess Alliance. What the hell is she thinking, that idiot—hey, Xia Chuan, if you're going to the underworld, I'll go with you too."

The sudden proposal made Xia Chuanhu slightly surprised: "You want to go to the underworld too? Why?"

"It's nothing, it's just a whim. Besides, if what you said is true, Ereshkigal is likely to borrow my physical activities from time to time, then I have to settle the score with her."

"If you dare to use my body casually, you can't do it without giving her a good lesson."

30. You can always trust Huzi’s aesthetics

As I have said many times before, in the Age of Gods, the underworld was actually located underground in the physical sense, and you only need to dig holes all the way down to reach the underworld.

In the city of Kusa, there is also a road that can lead to the underworld.

Originally, Xia Chuanhu wanted to go to the underworld through that passage, but because his colleague Ishtar thought it was too troublesome, in the end——

"I said you can't stop being so nonsense?"

In a dim space, riding the wind and slowly landing on the ground, Xia Chuanhu looked helplessly at Ishtar who also flew down.

Yes, as in the original situation, Ishtar directly opened a hole in the ground and forced Xia Chuanhu into the underworld with him.

"What's the matter, doesn't it come faster this way?" Ishtar smiled, "You are still quite strange, obviously strong and outrageous, but occasionally you do very well-behaved things."

"Because people have been telling me that I must not act foolishly. After all, if I act foolishly, the world order will be messed up."

For example, the moon is flying all over the sky, and the night walk of a hundred ghosts occurs anytime and anywhere... Such a situation is not impossible. Considering the concealment of the mystery and the stability of the world society, Xia Chuanhu has always been surrounded by his lovely step-sister I urged you not to mess around.

Gray is still very strict in this regard.

After landing, Xia Chuanhu looked at the underground space he was in: "Is this the underworld?"

Surrounded by rock walls.

The temperature is quite low.

There is no light around, only light sources like will-o'-the-wisps floating up and down.

And Xia Chuanhu was standing on the ground like a stone bridge, surrounded by cliffs on both sides, the bottom of the cliff was bottomless, and he couldn't see anything, but there was a chill that was different from ordinary people.

Not far away, there are countless stone pillars, which seem to be supporting the ground on the top, so as to create a space for the underworld so that it will not be submerged.

This is a bleak world of death.

After carefully feeling the atmosphere of the underworld, Xia Chuanhu said: "Ishtar, I understand why you said that I would commit suicide when I came down. The environment here is indeed quite unfriendly to the living."

The underworld is the domain of the dead, filled with an extremely strong breath of death, it can be said to be a deadly poison to the living, most people will die of weakness after coming here for a short time.

Only gods like Ishtar and elves like Xia Chuanhu can move freely in it.But speaking freely, Xia Chuanhu could indeed feel that his state had weakened, as if he had been put on a layer of weakness buff.

(Is the underworld itself oppressing the living?)

This is the iron rule of the underworld, even Xia Chuanhu cannot violate it.

"In that case..."

The clothes on Xia Chuanhu's body emitted bursts of gray light, and then directly transformed into a gorgeous dress with black as the main color, giving people the look of a crow.

Ishtar frowned: "This is?"

"It's a way of blinding the eyes. Since the underworld will suppress the living, it's enough to change the underworld's perception of me into a dead person. This clothes can exude the breath of the dead all the time, and disguise me as a real person. The dead, so the rules of the underworld will not take effect on me."

This is also an exercise in self-transformation.

However, this kind of blindness can only deal with the mechanism of the underworld itself, and it probably won't work for Ereshkigal. After all, the mechanism is dead, and the god is alive.