Ereshkigal, the lord of the underworld in Sumerian mythology, the mistress of the earth, the goddess of death and the undead, and the guardian of the city of Kuta.

Because Kuta is hostile to Uruk, she is also hostile to Uruk's guardian, Iluk's Mistress of the Sky and Goddess of Beauty and War.

According to the myth, the death of Ishtar's husband, the god of harvest and grain, Tamuz, caused a great famine, so she went to the underworld to try to bring back his soul, and after passing through the seven gates of divinity, she was reduced from a god to a human.

In another story, Ereshkigal was pursued by the [God of Plagues] [Nergale] to succeed, but Nergale pursued her only to prove her charm, and had no intention of staying in the barren underworld at all, and left her to escape from the underworld after seven days of marriage, Ereshkigal chased all the way to the surface, and as a result, all the undead in the underworld were brought up, causing serious chaos, and finally the couple who looked like each other were beaten back to the underworld by Ishtar together.

In the Moon Universe, when none of these myths and legends have been overthrown, Ishtar and Elle have been added to the relationship of "sisters with two sides of the same body", which directly leads to the above myths being filled with the atmosphere of green grasslands.

However, because Elle is still a cute Lori, Ishtar should be the same, so those bullshit things have nothing to do with her now.

"So, you mean it was Ishtar who was supposed to be here?" Not knowing where Elle was, I asked in a random direction.

"Hmm...... She promised to give me an avatar," Elle's voice was still coming from all directions, erratic: "[Because I don't have a body, these 'undead' are almost out of control. 】”

Not a creature is an undead? I glanced up at the black mist that was still strangling each other in the air.

Sneering –

I glanced at it, and all the black fog in my eyes froze, even if it was bitten by the other "black fog snakes" behind me, it didn't move, and when I followed the movement, the ones behind also froze.

After looking around like this, the original turbulence instantly turned into a static abstract painting.

Very well, I was a little worried about whether my personality would decline when I possessed another ordinary self, but now it seems that maybe it will be in the mortal world, but in the underworld, I am in full state.

Tentatively stretched out his hand, and a double-headed spear with gold and black ends appeared in his hand.

Noble Phantasm Fever Temple [Meslamtaea].

Hey, wait, if I make Elle's Noble Phantasm now-

"So you were sent by Ishtar to help! Elle's tone was full of surprise: "[Then the authority of the underworld will be handed over to you-]"

Halfway through this sentence, her voice began to shrink rapidly, like a child who ran out to play when she learned that she had no homework today, and she didn't hear the last few words at all.

But it's the class next door to you that doesn't have homework......

"Hey! Wait, Ellay? I screamed a few times, but the little girl's voice never came again.

Unlike Ishtar, Elle, in addition to being a goddess, is the underworld and death itself, and for her, condensing a godhead to do things is likely to be as painful as having to do homework for a child.

All right...... I have memorized this "pain", and I simply cannot be more familiar with the priesthood of "death".

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I spent a bit of effort building a temporary Sumerian-style "Yama Temple" in the underworld.

The biggest problem in this mythological system, which has the concept of the underworld but does not have the concept of reincarnation, is that the underworld is often full, and judging from the process of my fall, the scattered undead have drifted to a position only two layers from the surface.

And on the surface at this time, if nothing else, it is the plot of the Three Goddesses Alliance who wants to destroy Uruk, even if the virtuous king works with the momentum of overwork, the sacrifice of Uruk's soldiers and civilians will not be less, so if it continues only to enter and not leave, the undead will really overflow to the surface.

Because of the different cultural systems, there is no market and no time to engage in the six realms of reincarnation here, so there is only one conclusion - no matter what kind of people these undead were in life, they will all be thrown back to Uruk to give Gilgamesh a headache.

However, it is not possible to simply and rudely throw the undead back and be reborn, the breath of the underworld is so heavy, and it is probably not possible to die before he or her parents were born.

Thanks to Monali...... Well, if you cross the world, thank you for the wisdom of Leonardo da Vinci, I used the authority of the underworld to create a lot of "Spirit Child Transfer Device Pseudo" that looks like cages according to the structure of the [basket], which can send the undead back to the surface after draining them from the underworld.

Because the natural depth of the serious crime is deep, the breath of the underworld is naturally stronger than that of ordinary people, so they will be locked up for a longer time, because the cage is not comfortable at all, but it is also implicitly to punish the sinner.

How do you do that...... I raised my hand to catch a thin wisp of black mist, stuffed it into the cage, and asked, "What's your name?" How did he die? ”

"I, I went to the river to fetch water for the temple and accidentally drowned ......" sounds like a little girl.

"Who cares most about the mortal world?" I continued.

"King!" The little girl seemed quite excited.

"If you had a choice, what would you want to be?"

"I want to be the king's handmaiden!"

...... "Well, I shouldn't have asked."

While most of the undead should be more complicated than her, this is a matter of reincarnating into a family that has served King Uruk for generations.

I patted the cage to activate its "Spirit Shift: Pseudo", only to see the wisp of black mist slowly drift to me, and then, a thin white light at the top of the cage rushed to the sky, and a little girl with a vague appearance could be seen inside.

"All the undead do the same, and if the cage is not enough, I will rebuild it." I said to the void.

Can't copy homework?

Whew-

Before the words fell, the black mist snakes in all directions were thrown into different soul cages, some trembled and reincarnated directly, but more were trapped inside, constantly extracting black mist, and these black mists representing death converged towards me like iron powder attracted by magnets.

Well, anyway, the highest person here is me, it doesn't matter if there is more or less death aura on my body, I don't have to worry about more debts.

Seeing that the cage was soon full, but the black mist snake in mid-air was not much less, and the underworld itself revealed a pitiful aura to me, so I had to shake my head and start building the cage.