Journey to Salvation from Chaldea

After passing through the sixth gate, Ishtar became smaller than Fufu.She lay on Yue Ye's head and said very humblely: "Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh... I'm so ashamed that I can't even shed tears... In all the Sumerian gods, no, in the entire Mesopotamian world In the myth, I am not the only one who has such a tragic experience!"

Yue Ye said jokingly: "Why don't you take this opportunity to learn a little bit more virtuous?"

Ishtar actually gave an affirmative answer: "Yes... In short, let's get rid of the problem of waste first... and be more gentle with everyone... This incident made me understand a little bit the position of the weak ...and also know how happy it is to be guarded..."

Jeanne Alter's eyes widened: "Is it such a blow to her? Is the promised country easy to change and nature hard to change!?"

They chatted about the direction of Ishtar's character transformation, and walked to the seventh door.

"It's finally coming to an end... I guess after I pass through this door, I'll be only the size of my palm..." Ishtar said dejectedly, "Hey, big-breasted girl, can you lend me a little later? If I shrink to So small, I can't even sit on this guy's head."

"What does it mean to be useless!" Jeanne Alter retorted with a blushing face, "Doesn't that guy like it? The book clearly says that men have zero resistance to full breasts!"

"...Don't read those strange books." Yue Ye said with a dark face, "And, Ishtar, I remember you can fly, right?"

"Damn it, don't you even have a chance to be lazy? Hurry up and fight all the way in after flattery!" Ishtar muttered dissatisfied.

"Answer... answer..." said the seventh and last door, "Side-by-side comrades, goddesses trusted, loved, and worthy of victory, Ereshkigal and Ishtar, Which one is it?"

Yue Ye froze, then smiled wryly and took out Ajagawa: "Sorry, my answer is... Ishtar."

The flickering light on the door suddenly stopped, as if someone had suddenly pressed the pause button or unplugged the power.Ishtar froze for a moment, and then slammed Yue Yiye on the head: "Hey, hey, I was just talking! Although you chose me, I am really touched, but in this situation If we provoke Ereshkigal, we might be imprisoned here directly, right?"

"No, that guy is such a person." Jeanne Alter smiled dangerously, and pulled out the sword wrapped in black flames from her waist, "The previous question, because both you and the goddess can be the answer, he chose answer that would lead to a better result. And on such a question of right and wrong, he can't lie to himself, because you are indeed his fighting partner-oh, what a stupidity befitting his tenderness, that's why She deserves to be my lover, Jeanne Alter."

The seventh door was silent for a long time, then slowly opened.The voice behind the door was replaced by Ereshkigal's original voice echoing in the underworld: "Come in, Moonlight. I will wait for your arrival in my palace."

### Chapter [-] The Mistress of Hades###

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Although Ereshkigal said that they were waiting for them in the palace, the so-called "palace" is actually just a neat square paved with hexagonal floor tiles, and a one-meter-high hexagonal platform raised in the center of the square .Besides, Yueye didn't see anything that could be related to the word "palace".Although what he saw along the way made Yueye not have any expectations of luxury and magnificence for Ereshkigal's palace, but it was indeed beyond his expectations to be so desolate and poor.

Suspended between the pitch-black dome and the barren, hard stone slab was Ereshkigal.She was 20 meters tall and looked like a large skeleton cut off from the waist down, with a light gun about her height stuck beside her.The skull's head is covered with a long white veil, and a black metal crown is embedded in the forehead bone.Red energy surged inside the skeleton's skeleton, and a pair of eyes made of this energy were looking at the moonlit night through the hollow eye sockets of the skeleton.

"Hey! Moonlit night! It's so cold!" Joan of Arc Alter shook, "It's not so cold outside Chaldea, is it? Is this the inside of a high-power cold storage?"

"Is this caused by Ereshkigal? Luckily, I still have this." Yue Ye gently tapped the ground with myriad phenomena, and the dust-free land unfolded.In this hemispherical space with a radius of about five meters, the body temperature has returned to a normal level.

"That's right. Fear, pray, and despair, human beings!" The huge skeleton spoke, "I am the manager of death, the mistress of the underworld, and the one who tramples on Lingfeng. One of the three goddesses, Eresh Kigal."

"Death, maggots, mildew, and filth, as if the air in the coffin had a shape." Ishtar, who was caught in the ditch of Jeanne Alter, said, "That's her, Ereshkigal."

Hearing this, Ereshkigal immediately laughed and said, "Oh? I wonder why I heard the noise of fluttering wings. Isn't this the poor goddess? Just because you are smaller than my knuckles Your body shape, you can really call. Come on, let me crush you to death."

"Huh? This is the truth, isn't it? It's outrageous!" Although his body became smaller and his position was a little ridiculous, these did not affect Ishtar's shouting, "Just because I am ugly, You want to tarnish something beautiful. Because no one came to see you, you put the throne on the top of the Lingfeng Peak. Blame it all on yourself! This kind of dare to be my half body is really embarrassing to the extreme!"

With a support of her hands, she flew out of the gully of Joan of Arc Alter, and stood in front of Yue Ye and Joan of Arc Alter: "Come on, kill or cut as you like! But after that, you will be selected The list of the ugliest women in Sumer!"

Big Skeleton actually frowned: "...It hasn't changed at all from before, she is still a goddess who can only show off her tongue. Well, you just said that I am ugly...Although I must be possessed by a demon, I will She decided to show her true colors in front of you, but it is a shame for a goddess to be willing to be insulted and not to resist. I will let you pay special attention to it!"

In the next second, the solemn voice of the big skull switched to a girlish voice similar to that of Ishtar.In other words, this is the voice of Ai Lei, who is very familiar to Yueye: "No, no... I have had enough of this way of speaking! I will let you guys experience it! Be surprised, this is my role as a goddess true colors!"

The huge skeleton turned into light, and then shrank back and forth along with the guns around it.In just a few breaths, the coercive 20-meter-old skeleton turned into a girl as tall as Ishtar—or in other words, she was the opposite of Ishtar in appearance. .Apart from the difference in clothing and hair color, the two look exactly the same.

"Ugh!?" It was Ishtar who was surprised.

"Huh?" This was Jeanne Alter who was stunned.

"Hmph. Are you scared? Looks like you're scared? You're scared, right? Of course the appearance of Galura Ling is just a fake!" Ereshkigal said triumphantly, "Take care of me this time. Shocked by the appearance that the Sumerian gods have never seen before!"

She looked at Yue Ye and said, "But you don't seem surprised at all. That's right, you knew it when you called me Ai Lei."

"Well, it's finally official, Ai Lei." Yue Ye smiled gently, "You know what I'm here for. In my opinion, you are the goddess who is most likely to join us in the Three Goddess Alliance. So, What is your answer?"

"Wow, this smile is too foul... But no! One thing is one thing!" Ereshkigal refused with a blushing face, "To capture Uruk and seize Gilgamesh's cup is not my plan No change! I want to imprison all human beings on the earth in the underworld and make them my private property. This is my choice, this is the choice of the goddess Ereshkigal, and it is the first time I have made it on my own will decision! Yue Ye, if you intend to hinder me, even you, I will not show mercy."

Yue Ye smiled and nodded, and said: "Well, I understand. I have also seen a character similar to you. She also wants to turn humans into her own property—no, to be precise, she wants to make humans Become a specimen under her own care. In the face of the crisis of the destruction of the human world, she is more ruthless and ruthless than you. She is more like a high god than you. Of course, her position is also the same as the current You, too, regard me as an enemy."

"...Since you can stand here, the result is self-evident, right?" Ereshkigal said.

"Well, but unlike what you imagined, she was not defeated by me, but by several humans and heroic spirits who were far different from her in strength." Yue Ye said, "The reason is very simple, her position is completely It's contrary to human beings, so I want her to know that even a high god can be pulled down from the throne by mere human beings. And you, Ereshkigal, are just quarreling, not a serious issue like a conflict of positions at all. So here I am. I respect your sacrifice as a god, but I don't agree with the position the gods have given you. I will keep the responsibility part of this position, and break the shackles part of this position."

Ereshkigal retorted: "There is no such thing as shackles! This is my destiny, and it is also the responsibility given to me by the gods, and it is the meaning of the existence of the goddess Ereshkigal!"

"Yes, the meaning of the existence of the goddess Ereshkigal is to manage the underworld, of course I know that." Yue Ye shrugged, "But you don't have the soul of a god, you are more like a standard lady. If you still don’t understand, let me explain it to you in another way.”

He pointed to Ishtar and said: "If I ask this mascot what it feels like to be a goddess, she will most likely answer such answers as 'too cool', 'very free' and 'very happy'. If I ask Would she be willing to throw away her identity as a god and become a human being..."

"I'm in trouble! I don't want to be a human being!" Ishtar gave the answer directly, "I'm small and powerless and will die for various reasons. I don't want to be that kind of humble creature!"

Yue Ye nodded and said, "Very good. Then, Ereshkigal, if I ask you the same two questions, how would you answer them?"

Ereshkigal bowed his head and fell silent.Dangerous fluctuations of magic power emanated from her body, and a huge Galula spirit phantom gradually took shape behind her.Yue Ye finally added fuel to the flames: "Look, you don't like the identity of a goddess at all, you just passively accept this identity. If this is not a shackle, what is it? Alter sauce, protect that mascot .I have convinced Ereshkigal."

"Persuade the devil! No matter how you look at it, it looks like a fight is going to happen?" Joan of Arc Alter complained.

"Yes, of course we have to fight." Yue Ye nodded, "She has already accepted my words to a point, and now she just needs an excuse for her to convince herself. 'Since the battle is defeated, there is nothing I can do', not very Good excuse?"

"It's not good at all!" Jeanne Alter quickly started to back away, "You bastard, why do you make things so big every time!"

Before she could finish speaking, the voice of Ereshkigal, who had turned into a big skeleton, sounded: "Okay, I want to see how you will correct my so-called mistakes and break my shackles !"

###The [-]th chapter breaks the shackles, the underworld is born###

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Seeing the big skeleton waving a light gun rushing towards him, Yue Ye moved his joints lightly: "Oh, I haven't moved seriously for a long time, I don't know what is the difference between this big skeleton and Jin Gu, just take it as the same as Ti Let’s warm up before the final battle in Yamat.”

He stretched out his hand and said, "Then try the power of this thing. Don't let me down on something that took me a long time to build—expand, Aegis!"

Aegis, probably one of the most famous shields in the human world.Created by Hephaestus, the god of fire and craftsmen in ancient Greek mythology, it has the ability to exorcise all evil and disasters, and even the thunder of Zeus is helpless against it.Yueye is going to use it as Uruk's last line of defense.

A round piece of goatskin hung in front of Yueye's palm, and then it projected a huge and complicated magic circle.Seeing Yue Ye launched a defense she didn't recognize, Ereshkigal threw the light gun in this direction aggressively.The light gun like a missile touched the magic circle, causing ripples like waves.Under the surprised eyes of both sides, Ereshkigal's light gun was absorbed by Aegis' magic circle like a pebble thrown into the lake, without even a decent reaction.

"Eh?" Ereshkigal was stunned.

Moonlight was also a little dazed.Although he knew that this thing had a high probability of blocking Ereshkigal's attack, he didn't expect the result to be so easy.

After being stunned for a while, Ereshkigal immediately created another light gun.But this time she didn't throw the light gun recklessly, but used the light gun to control the ground under her feet.As the hexagonal prisms rose from the ground, Yue Ye realized that these were not floor tiles at all.

"Drink!" Ereshkigal shot the rising stone pillar at the moonlit night with a light gun like a baseball.Yue Ye jumped up while putting away Aegis, and stepped on the stone pillar with precision.As soon as he stretched out his hand, the star-penetrating nail appeared in his hand.Holding the shadow-like spear, he ran and jumped on the stone pillars.

"Hahahahahaha, hahahahahahaha!" Ereshkigal laughed wildly, stretched out his hand, and a large number of stone pillars rushed towards the moonlit night like stabbing at the ground.Yue Ye Hei frowned, kicked his feet, soared into the air, and swung a circle under his feet with the star-penetrating nail.The mechanism inside the gun was opened, and the tip of the gun instantly turned into a whip sword.With such a flick by Yue Ye, the whip sword whipped around on this pile of stone pillars.The star-penetrating nail is the top weapon in Yueye's hands, its sharpness and hardness far exceed most substances in the world.In this round of effort, the stone pillars were cut into two pieces one after another.A large number of stones have broken away from the stelae, leaving a smooth mirror-like cut.Immediately after Yueye landed, he kicked off, and he jumped into the air again.

"Come down!" Ereshkigal swung the blade.

"It's up to you!" Yue Ye greeted him with the star-penetrating nail without fear.In his impression, there really is no such thing as a star-penetrating nail.

Just as he expected, the blade of the gun that hit the Nail of the Star was like hitting the paper of a wallpaper knife, and it was cut without any suspense.The falling gun blade lost control of its owner because of the magic power in it, and exploded violently behind Yue Ye.Moonlight, who had been prepared for a long time, took advantage of the momentum of the explosion and suddenly shortened the distance between him and Ereshkigal.

"You bastard..." Ereshkigal roared, "why...why do you get in my way...! For a long time, I have been managing the souls of the dead here. Without my own happiness, joy, Sorrow, friends, etc., I can only look at my own half body flying freely in the sky...Isn’t anyone willing to praise my efforts to perform this job by myself all the time?”

"That is the duty of the goddess Ereshkigal, it is her duty, and I will not praise it!" The wings of light made of magic power spread behind the moonlight night, "However, for Eresh who endured all this tenaciously, I am willing to offer any compliment!"

"You... idiot..." Ereshkigal raised his hand, "Ereshkigal is Ereshkigal, Ereshkigal is Ereshkigal...why don't you understand...no The sky of light, the land without light, the soil without flowers, there is nothing here, I can't even understand what those souls are saying... Even so, I want to create, create a kingdom of death that is not inferior to any world ! This is the choice of me, the goddess Ereshkigal!"

A huge light gun took shape in the palm of her raised skeleton.This red light gun carried a suffocating coercion that far surpassed the previous two light guns, and was held by Ereshkigal.

"Then I'll come and fulfill your wish!" Yue Ye raised the star-penetrating nail and made a throwing gesture, "The light of mankind must last forever. The fire of civilization must be passed on. Change everything and conquer everything , until human beings stand on the earth! After destruction, there must be new life!"

As he recited, countless thorns protruded from the gun shaft of the Star-penetrating Nail, piercing Yueye's palm.His blood flowed down the barrel of the gun, and finally pooled at the tip of the gun.

"Namu, Abzu, Gugalana!

"Collapse! The star-penetrating nail!"

Ereshkigal's spear blade stabbed straight at Yue Ye, and the star-penetrating nail was thrown by Yue Ye to the ground under her feet.Yue Ye didn't make any defenses, and looked directly at the eyes of the skeleton of Ereshkigal's incarnation.

"you……"

"Boom!"

The black hemispherical energy cover rapidly expands around the star-penetrating nail as the center.It doesn't have a huge momentum, but it turns all non-living things it encounters into nothingness.Neither the huge square of stone pillars nor the spear blade released by Ereshkigal's real name could escape its divine punishment-like power.In silence, the power of the star-penetrating nail wiped out all the buildings and gun cages in the entire underworld.

It wasn't until not long ago that Yue Ye understood the nature of the Nail Through the Stars.It represents the expansion and plunder of civilization, and it also has the effect of eliminating "wrong civilization".When the real name is liberated, it will extract the blood and civilization crystals from Yueye's body that are of the same origin as the civilization to be eliminated, and eliminate the wrong civilization in a way that cancels each other out.However, that's only half of it...

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Ereshkigal yelled and regained her goddess appearance.Looking at the souls flying in the sky and the empty underworld, she wanted to cry without tears: "My underworld, my gun cage..."

Yue Ye gently landed beside her, smiled and snapped her fingers.In an instant, flowers and grass grew on the ground, and forests and rivers gradually took shape.

"This is the other half of its effect." Yue Ye said, "After eradicating the wrong civilization, you can't leave a barrenness that can't even develop a new civilization for future generations."

The souls danced happily in the newborn underworld.Ereshkigal opened his eyes wide and murmured:

"My underworld... is full of flowers..."

###The [-]th chapter is Ereshkigal, also Irene###

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"Great, I'm back to the original!" Ishtar gradually grew bigger, and finally fixed at the normal size, "You did beautifully, Moon Night! You actually completely changed the underworld, what kind of monster are you?"

"Are you praising me or hurting me..." Yue Ye rolled her eyes, "Ereshkigal, you lost?"

"...That's right, I was defeated by you. The goddess Ereshkigal was defeated by Moonlight." Ereshkigal said, "So, as the winner, how do you deal with the loser? me?"

Yue Ye shrugged: "I have already cut off your shackles, and this is one of the purposes of my coming here. As for the other purpose... don't you know it very well, Ai Lei?"

"Yes, you want to recruit me!" Ereshkigal stammered, "No matter how you think about it, it's impossible! As a goddess who has captured many souls, I will fall down here."

"But, I won't kill you?" Yue Ye said with a smile, "Didn't I promise you. 'Even if I don't like Ereshkigal, I won't hate Eilei', remember?"

"Woo..." Ereshkigal blushed and fell silent.

"Besides, I don't hate Ereshkigal either." Yue Ye said, "Although I don't know why, she lied to me. Your intention is not to kill and dominate the human beings on the ground, but to contain and Protecting the human beings on the ground. The gods who were abandoned by the human beings still can’t be cruel enough to fight against the human beings. Instead, they are still trying to save the human beings from other goddesses as much as possible... So I say, you are so gentle .”

"But, there is still the constraint of the covenant... Eh? Wait, the feeling of the covenant... disappeared?" Ereshkigal touched his body several times as if confirming something.

"Well, it disappeared." Yue Ye nodded, "Since it is to break the shackles, it must be thorough. There is no covenant constraint, and the underworld does not require you to take care of it all the time. And, as you have seen, there is I am here, and I will not let the human beings on the ground suffer any harm. Now, you can make a choice according to your inner thoughts. Do you want to come? Let me tell you in advance that the enemies we will face in the future are quite dangerous, okay? "

"...This kind of straightforward invitation is really destructive." Ereshkigal was silent for a long time, and replied timidly, "Then there is no way. I am also a goddess anyway, always... You have to... take responsibility."

"...So, you will swear that you will never attack Uruk again? By the way, you will also sign a contract with this guy?" Ishtar asked.

Ereshkigal replied: "I will not attack Uruk again, but I cannot make a contract with Chaldea either. I have pride too, Ishtar. I have to sell it enough to repay the debt." The favor of kindness can only be given to Yue Ye. If I can't do this, I have no face to propose to sign a contract. I am the mistress of the underworld, so I don't owe people a debt like you. A contract is based on the premise of equality and fairness between the two parties. What was signed..."

"I want to show up to repay my favor at a critical moment on a moonlit night, so now I have to wait for that critical moment to come." Jeanne Alter rolled her eyes, "Is that what you mean, Ereshkigal?"

"As expected, Tsundere and Tsundere are connected, thank you for your explanation, Alter-chan."

"It's so noisy! I'm not arrogant!" Joan of Arc Alter kicked Yue Ye's calf, and then looked at Ereshkigal, "It's a good thing to have such thoughts, but I advise you to give up .First of all, this guy doesn’t seem to have the mindset of repaying favors. Secondly, for this guy, there is basically no critical moment. Even if it does happen, it is not something you can solve.”

"Is...is that so..." Ereshkigal seemed a little lost.

"There's nothing to be depressed about." Joan of Arc Alter said with a smile, "There is no need to force things that you can't do. Doing the best within your ability is already very powerful. This is my When he has been his assistant for so long, he realized the truth."

"Well, Alter-chan has always done a good job in providing visual appreciation." Yue Ye nodded seriously.

"Look, that's it..." Jeanne Alter nodded foolishly, then reacted, and kicked Yue Ye's calf again, "Hey, what you said is like a vase! How bad , or burn you?"

"Hahaha, it's just a joke, Alter-chan is still very reliable." Yue Ye said with a smile, "But she is right, Ereshkigal, I really don't need you to return my favor. Help the girl break free from the shackles, let Others gain happiness. This result is the best reward for my efforts."

"..." Ishtar felt a little ashamed.

"..." Ereshkigal's eyes seemed to be shooting out little stars.

"So, do you want to come?" Yue Ye stretched out his hand towards Ereshkigal, "Of course, you don't have to go with us. You can stay here and take care of the new underworld. It won't be long before I will come to you."

"Little girl Ereshkigal... Please... please give me more advice...Mr. Yueye..." Ereshkigal put her hand on Yueye's hand with a blushing face.

"..." Jeanne Alter's eyes widened.

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"By the way, Ishtar, why did you go to the underworld?" Yue Ye asked casually on the way out of the underworld. "Could it be that getting into trouble on the ground is no longer enough for you?"

"That's not it!" Ishtar retorted, "If you have to talk about the reason... there is no reason, it's just because you can't get used to it. I was ordered by the gods to be unable to leave the underworld. I can’t sit idly by and ignore things I hate. I think it’s just a mere underworld, as long as I leave it alone and don’t care if I come out. I ran to see Ereshkigal just to say this.”

"If it could be done, who would work so hard!" Joan of Arc Alter showed a smile of "French disgust".

"However, the two of you really look alike, you both like to hide your tenderness under the edges and corners." Yue Ye said, "Sometimes, it's better to be frank?"

Ishtar rolled his eyes: "You don't have the right to blame me, do you? I know that plants cannot grow in the underworld at all. Yours is not an environmental modification at all, but something to cover it?"

Yue Ye scratched her cheek with her index finger, and said embarrassingly: "You saw it. Yes, I didn't tell her what I did in order to prevent Ai Lei from feeling indebted to me. I heard that Overbreeding soil? I put a piece down."

"What's that?" Ishtar heard the name for the first time.

"That's something from our ancient Chinese legend. I just condensed it last night." Yue Ye explained, "Yu used the soil to flood the flood. Simply put, it is a piece of living soil that can keep expanding As the foundation of life in the underworld, it is still very suitable, right?"