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Shortcuts are of course still available.

It's even quite convenient.

In Ishtar's words, she had to take a shortcut to the city of Kusa, where the underworld was located.

But because Ereshkigal and Uruk don't deal with each other, since she came to this world, she has been extending the concept of the underworld to Uruk-

This is also the reason why Uruk has seen a surge in unnatural deaths in recent times, and even Gilgamesh has been hit.

Now as long as you go outside Uruk, you can take a shortcut.

However, the only person who will go to the underworld to find the soul of Gilgamesh is Ishtar, who can take shortcuts and has been to that place before and has some experience in going to that place, only Si Chen, who took the initiative to speak.

Among the rest.

In view of the fact that the goddess of the underworld suddenly dealt a heavy hand to Uruk, she directly took away the soul of King Uruk.

Worried that something would happen to Quetzalcoatl's side, Rika Fujimaru decided to immediately set off with Matthew and Anna to the jungle city of Eride.

Merlin and Artoria stayed with Uruk, with the former helping with magic until Gilgamesh returned, such as securing the Great Barrier that engulfed Uruk, and the latter fighting Uruk in the event of an attack.

After Ishtar took control of the great bow she called Maana, and fired a magic cannon into the ground.

One man and one god followed the open path to the underworld.

......

The underworld.

An underground world where there is no natural light source, only the blue light of the souls locked in a long cage illuminates it.

On a seat made of several stones.

The blonde and red-eyed king slowly opened his eyes, and after a brief period of confusion, he realized his situation.

"The king woke up from a nap and found himself in the depths of Hades......"

He rests his chin on one hand and raises his forehead with the other.

“...... So he decided to use the fact that he was dead to escape by the way?"

A voice suddenly sounded not far away, giving the king the second half of the sentence.

"I thought that even if someone came to the underworld, it would be someone from the Chaldean side who came to look for this king, but I didn't expect it to be you. "

Gilgamesh looked up and saw Si Chen watching him a few meters in front of him, and there was an Ishtar floating next to him.

"Doesn't I feel that someone wants to escape with their deaths and come to collect debts. "

Si Chen said half-jokingly.

"This king doesn't think that an existence like you wants 053 to recover debts, and just death can hinder it. If you come a little later, this king may already be waiting for you in your shop. "

Gilgamesh shook his head and raised a hand, and golden ripples slowly appeared, sending a card to his hand.

That's the keycard to the mystery shop.

Go to the secret shop, use it as a transit point, and ask Si Chen to bring his current soul state back to Uruk, this is the way he thought of getting out of the underworld after sorting out the current situation.

"Are you really a businessman?"

Hearing the exchange between the two, Ishtar on the side thought of the conversation between Fujimaru Rika and Matthew not long ago, and looked at Si Chen curiously: "What are you selling?"

"That's a lot, I can't finish talking about it for a while, anyway, I just sell a little bit of everything. "

Si Chen gave a relatively "conservative" reply.

"Where's the gem?"

Ishtar asked directly what she was most interested in.

"Like?"

As soon as Si Chen raised his hand, a brilliant diamond several meters high smashed to the ground.

Seeing that Ishtar was unmoved, he nodded in understanding, and exchanged for a native ruby of the same size and containing high-purity energy.

“！！！！"

Ishtar's eyes were fixed directly on the gem, and for a moment the pupils even changed to the shape of a heart: "This, this, this ......"

"Don't do this, no matter how good the gems are, can you afford them?"

Gilgamesh tugged at the corners of his mouth: "Not counting the Fujimaru Rika sent by this king, do you remember the last time someone offered you an offering?"

"Long-winded, can't I look happy, and no one has made offerings to me, and it's not because you and the people of Uruk have squeezed me out together, so I can only go to Mount Abbif to build a temple!"

Ishtar glared at Gilgamesh, came to the giant ruby and touched it, making sure it was not his hallucination, and looked at Si Chen obediently: "Can this gem be borrowed from me for a while......?"

Si Chen: "......"

Before making this kind of promise that you may not dare to believe, you should put away that Yan Yi's expression first!

"Shall I send you back first?"

Without paying attention to Ishtar, Sichen looked at Gilgamesh.

"Aren't you together?"

"Well, I've found something interesting, so I'll help you deal with this pillar goddess of the underworld by the way. "

Si Chen looked in a certain direction, and after a few breaths, he looked in another direction, and finally spoke.

"Then please. "

Gilgamesh nodded, not asking any more questions.

Stretching out a hand and putting it on Gilgamesh's shoulder, Si Chen directly took his soul back to the Uruk Palace with a "mind transmission", and when Gilgamesh's soul returned to his own body, he nodded to Siduli who came in a hurry, and then used his mind to return to the underworld.

"Damn, it seems to be ......"

As soon as he returned, the fragmented thoughts of Ishtar, who was floating in mid-air and staring at the ruby with his knees crossed, reached his ears.

"As for it?"

Si Chen shook his head and walked over to put away the gem in Ishtar's eyes with three points of unwillingness, three points of nostalgia, three points of covetousness, and ninety-one points of longing.

Then, noticing Ishtar's lost expression, Si Chen thought about it and released the gem again.

Ishtar's pupils instantly "transformed" into the shape of a gem.

When she put the gem away, her expression changed back to loss.

Released, salivating, put away, full of loss, let out......

"Can you interview you about how much she was affected by her when you were on this body now?"

Si Chen looked at Ishtar in surprise.

After coming to this era, in the interval between Tiamat's understanding of the true meaning of the origin of life, he also learned some myths about Mesopotamia.

Of course, the myths of another world or later generations cannot be fully applied to the real gods, for example, although Ishtar of this god generation also had a conflict with Gilgamesh, and also released the bull of heaven that she obtained from her father, but the bull of heaven was not directly killed by Gilgamesh and Enki as in the myth, but was repelled by the two, and the cause of the conflict was not Ishtar's proposal to Gilgamesh, but purely because these two guys were too low, and it was difficult to avoid conflict when they met.

However, some framework information can still be used as a reference.

Again, the example above.

Although the bull of the sky was not killed, the gods who saw the confluence of Gilgamesh and Enkidu still took Enkidu's life, and as a result, Gilgamesh searched for the elixir of immortality, and after finding the medicine, he wanted to bring it back to Uruk to share with the people, but was stolen by a snake on the way, and then completely enlightened, and changed from a tyrant in his youth to a virtuous king today.

Refer to Gilgamesh's "Childhood-Youth-Present" three stages and the epic's "virtuous-violent-virtuous" character transformation.

It can be assumed that Ishtar's completely non-resistant character of the gem comes from the girl who fused with her.

In addition, she is different from the willfulness of the myth, even if she stays alone with the gem, she just watches and drools, instead of taking the opportunity to make small moves......

"The ratio is about seven to three, I account for seventy, and she accounts for thirty percent. Ishtar gave him a strange look: "What are you asking for?"

"Curiosity, I guess it?"

Si Chen thought for a while and said, "I remember the principle of mimicking a servant (cgeh), which is the fusion of the spiritual base and the physical body, and there is no distinction between the two sides, nor is it simply borrowing the body, but similar to being turned into a new servant by an individual...... Like the new Ishtar?" (If you read a violent novel, you can go to the Feilu Novel Network!)

"Almost, I can be the dominant because the person of the gods is superior to humans, but even so, she is still talking to you as me. "

Ishtar nodded.

It was precisely because of this that every time the giant ruby appeared, even though she knew that Si Chen was teasing herself, her gaze was still involuntarily attracted.

"So I was curious, and you said if I used this gem...... No, it's a hundred times more gems of the same quality, do you want you to do anything?"

Putting away the gem for the last time, Si Chen didn't continue to release it, but asked. []

"Of course... No way!"

Ishtar snorted heavily: "Let's not say that I am the leader, her consciousness cannot surface, even if she is in the lead, I still have confidence in my vision of choosing people!"

"Forget it, anyway, I just said it casually......"

Si Chen shrugged.

With that free contract, if you really have this mind, when he can take Ishtar only depends on when he thinks.

"Let's go, meet that sister of yours. "

Glancing at a certain corner, Si Chen gestured in the direction of the depths of the underworld, and said: "I have come to the underworld, and I feel that I will lose this trip if I don't take anything with me." "

"Clams, see her?"

Ishtar rubbed the ground and flew back more than ten meters: "What are you kidding!"

"Scared?"

Thinking of the mythical description of Ishtar's underworld, Si Chen looked at the few fabrics on the goddess's body: "Don't worry, I'm actually blind and can't see anything." "

"You guy...... What do you think?"

Ishtar's forehead tightened a few green tendons: "Although I have a body to rely on, I am still a follower now, even if there are really those seven realms, it will be my spiritual base that will be affected!"

"Okay, I'm not blind. "

Si Chen retracted his previous words: "In addition, the first gate has arrived. "

There are two long boulders on the left and right, and a boulder of the same size is capped on the top, which seems simple, but unless they choose to break the level in a violent way of "breaking the rules of the entire underworld", they can only pass its test and continue to present the portal in front of them.

"Answer—

"Answer—

"O living who have fallen into the underworld—

"Answer the way its soul exists—"

This is a just and rational gateway to the underworld that questions the good and evil of the soul. Seeing this thing that reminded him of some unpleasant experience, Ishtar pursed his lips in disgust, but still introduced Si Chen:

"Since good and evil are equal, only the value of human beings who make choices will change, so there is no absolutely correct answer to the question of the gate of the underworld, you can just choose one that is pleasing to your eyes. "

In the final analysis, when there is a person behind this kind of theoretically fair test question, and there is a person who does not deal with the guy who answered the question, and the person who asked the question is responsible for scoring in the end, the result is completely dependent on the will of the other party.

"So, ask the companions of the sinful goddess Ishtar—"

In Ishtar's slightly surprised reaction, the Gate of the Underworld asked, "Although the benchmarks of beauty seem to be diverse, there are still absolutes. Black can overcome white, and the earth can overcome the sky. That being the case—

"Ereshkigal or Ishtar, who is the most beautiful?"

"Hey, hey, you're too much, aren't you?" Ishtar's face darkened, and he raised his arms directly, one hand stretched out to the front, the palm of his hand gestured to shoot, and the other hand held the upper arm of the hand in front of him, and the magic condensed in his hand: "Believe it or not, I will smash the door for you directly?"

“......"

The Gates of the Underworld did not respond to Ishtar's frieze, only repeating the previous question.

"Then I'll choose Ishtar. "

Si Chen thought for a while and said, "After all, I haven't even seen Ereshki Cale's face, so if you have to let me admit that she is beautiful, isn't that a lie to God?"

"Even though you say that, thank you anyway~"

Ishtar reined in his magic and crossed his hands on his hips: "After all, it's strange to ask such a question, isn't it?, one is the goddess of plants and corruption, and the other is the goddess of beauty and harvest...... Is there really a need for a contest about beauty?"

“......"

The Gate of the Underworld still didn't respond to Ishtar, but Si Chen could feel a rule from the underworld binding him and Ishtar.

Even if the seventh-sense universe in his body was only maintaining normalcy and not burning, the rules of the underworld would collapse the moment it touched his body.

Ishtar, on the other hand, was happily ready to be punished.

After a few breaths, she looked at Si Chen, who didn't seem to have changed much: "Did that guy make you smaller too?"

“...... It's that you're not getting smaller. "

Si Chen shook his head slightly.

"And how do I ......?"

Just as she was wondering, under the reminder of Si Chen's eyes, she realized that the long middle finger glove that she was originally wearing on her left arm had been deprived under the influence of the rules of the underworld, exposing her slender jade arm.

Ishtar fell silent.