——BC.2655——

Ryunosuke listened to Yard continue to explain the relevant common sense while taking Mathew into Kuta City.

He could see for himself that the black mist that caused illness and death had been sucked clean by Ishtar, but the staggering patients in the city made Matthew nervously hold his shield, as if it would keep the germs out, huh...... Considering the effect of this precious device, maybe it really can.

In most of Sumer's city kingdoms, the royal palace and the temple were often next to each other, because the oracle of the city's patron saint often required the king to send someone to carry it out, even Uruk, who did not treat Ishtar as a patron god, the two were not too far apart, with the exception of Kuta.

The royal palace of Kuta – called the Consulate after its annexation to Uruk – was located a short distance from the gates, surrounded by various functional facilities, while the temple was located far beyond the three walls of the city, adjacent to the cemetery and the residential quarters of the commoners.

After all, the patron saints who hold the priesthood of wealth, love, and abundance can know exactly what the consequences will be if they favor him or provoke him, but "death"?

Who knows if she will be given the glory of welcoming people into Hades because she sees them, or if she will be deprived of her life because she is provoked? As for the possibility of "being hated by the goddess so much that she is given a curse of immortality", whoever wants to try it can try it for themselves.

In general, those who pray to the goddess of death are basically civilians who want to die in peace at home, or warriors who want to die in a glorious battle rather than a vile sneak attack, and those who have wealth and power, only hope that the goddess will treat them as air.

However, now that the entire Sumerian civilization is under attack, the prayer that the goddess can give death to those enemies should increase a lot, but since all parties are goddesses, it should be impossible to directly use the priesthood of death to clean up the enemy on a large scale, and similarly, the hostile goddess wants to kill the people of Kuta City with the natural suppression of people by the gods, and there is no hope of success, and this should be the reason why they dare to refuse Uruk's support and guard a section of the "upper eyelid" wall alone.

At this time, "Ishtar" traveled all the way, and the inhabitants of Kuta City fell like harvested wheat, which may have caused a little panic at first, but then those who did not fall found that these people were just sleeping, and the original illness had disappeared, so they called for people to carry them away and take their place, and at the same time, the news of the temporary arrival of the goddess of death through the hated "Ishtar" also spread in the city.

When Ryunosuke and Mathew tracked along the way to the temple of Kuta City, they saw the little goddess sitting on the shrine's throne, with one hand on her cheek and the other on the armrest of the shrine, tilting her head as if in a daze, but in Ryunosuke's field of vision, countless black mist was converging towards the temple from the entire Kuta City and merging into the "Death Vortex" around her.

Outside the temple, many civilians were probing their brains for unknown reasons, and the priests inside the temple were hesitant to recognize the goddess.

After all, her appearance is undoubtedly "Ishtar", if she were sacrificed, which goddess would be counted on it?

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[Ryunosuke, Matthew.] 】”

"Ishtar" suddenly spoke, making Ryunosuke, who was originally looking for the surrounding residents to talk about it, instantly become the focus of the audience.

"What does the goddess command?" Ryunosuke didn't talk nonsense either, and responded directly.

He has now basically determined that this is the "goddess of death" of "Pingyi" Lin Hao, and the nature is similar to the "Ishtar" and "Parvati" of Xiaorin in Fuyuki and Sakura, but there is just one more ability to temporarily replace the appearance of a little girl by sneezing.

"[As Tosaka said, I was fooled,] she raised her hand and pressed the corner of her forehead, "No, whoever comes will step into this trap: if 'Ishtar' comes, he will release 'that fellow' when she clashes with Kuta City, and if it is me, he will do it now when I am unable to get out of my sickness and death. 】”

That guy? Is it really the [Bull of the Sky]?

"[The opponent is a guy who can roughly control the creation of the gods,] the goddess continued, "[Immediately rush to the city and try to prevent the 'mad cow disease-stricken bull' from trampling too many of the inhabitants of Kuta, and if necessary, kill it.] 】”

"Okay." Ryunosuke nodded, didn't ask much, and turned around and left with Matthew.

Obviously, the main messenger behind the scenes is planning to confirm the fact that "Ishtar released the bull of heaven to wreak havoc".

Gilgamesh was supposed to happen because he killed the bull of the sky and Ishtar, the patron god of Uruk, which was meant to happen, so he could easily achieve his goal with a little guidance, but at this critical moment when Uruk was attacked by the Goddess Alliance, the king of Uruk turned against the patronus of Uruk, but it was the worst time.

Moo——! 】”

As soon as Ryunosuke arrived in the center of Kuta, he heard an unusually loud cow bark, and then saw an extremely large monster cow appear in mid-air.

It had a golden skeleton of a cow, its body was made of translucent blue crystals, its horns, shoulders, hooves, tail, and saddle on its back were all decorated with gold and red striped fabric, and its huge bull's eyes were extremely red, and its eyes seemed to have a hatred for the city in front of it.

And the most vicious thing is that it does not come from outside the wall, but emerges from within the wall, which is simply due to the "Ishtar".

Moo!! The Heavenly Bull roared again, and a pair of front hooves stepped down fiercely with the sound of wind and thunder, and the target was the Consulate Hall very close to the front door, at this distance, Ryunosuke and Matthew couldn't catch up, after all, Matthew's "city-level treasure" was just a defense in place, and it couldn't be thrown out to protect others.

At this moment, countless golden points of light suddenly flew from the direction of Uruk City, like a sharp pouring rain.

However, this "heavy rain" is like a tracking guide, the latter hit the "Heavenly Bull" who was about to step on the cow's hooves, and its movements were interrupted and stunned in mid-air, and then the next moment, a red and black mixed light struck again from the same direction, and its name looked like a pillar of light, but at the same time as the hit, the Heavenly Bull was directly knocked on its back, causing it to fall outside Kuta City and roll several times in succession, and it was disgraced for a while.

Yard said quickly: "It should be the attack of the two 'Servant Gilgamesh' Noble Phantasms, which successfully stopped the trampling of the cow, but in this way, their Noble Phantasm will be temporarily unusable, and it is likely to be -]"

"Roar, roar——!! 】”

While the "Heavenly Bull" was still rolling on the ground, the roar of countless demonic beasts when they launched an attack was already heard from the northwest.

“【…… Give the dummy. Yard stumbled to complete his previous words.

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Moo——! The bull let out an angry and frantic roar, and then fell to the ground, still struggling tenaciously, but could do nothing with all four hooves firmly tied.

"I mean, even if that stupid woman in Ishtar doesn't believe in this king, you two have to believe it, right?" Young Gilgamesh pulled the lock of heaven in his hand with a relaxed face: "When you know that you have to face such a strong divine guy, you still don't call this king?" ”

"But Mr. Tosaka didn't say anything?" In the face of doubt, Matthew weakly responded.

"His words, on the contrary, trust this king too much," young Jill scratched his head: "Anyway, this king is just a child now, and occasionally he wants to leave his work to play, but he just firmly believes that this king will appear in time for every place that must appear, and if he does this again, this king will really skip work next time." ”

Yes, it's really timely, Ryunosuke silently turned the emerald on the golden sword, and hid the sword body before scolding.

Before, with the appearance of the "Heavenly Bull", the demonic beasts outside the city wall also organized a large-scale attack, and the main direction of attack is the section of the city wall where Kuta is located, although the residents of Kuta have inexplicably fallen into some kind of plague, but with the help of "Ishtar", most of them have been healed, enough to resist the arrival of reinforcements sent by Gilgamesh, but the problem is the giant bull on the inside of the city wall.

Obviously, as long as the Kuta people dare to divide their troops, they will inevitably be defeated, and if they concentrate their superior forces to defeat the Heavenly Bull, the city wall will be broken, and victory will be meaningless, and in the end, only the only option left to defend the city wall with all their strength and hand over the bull to the warrior appointed by the goddess - that is, Ryunosuke to deal with this option.

Ryunosuke didn't have a problem with this, because the goddess's mission was to "save people" rather than "protect the city", and with a bulky thing like the Heavenly Bull, it was almost impossible to accurately hit him with his hooves.

He grabbed Matthew, who wanted to repeat the same tactics against Finbaba - just kidding, are they of the same level? Let her protect the inhabitants of Kuta City, and let her attract the attention of the Heavenly Bull herself, and if she does not seek to kill the enemy, she can attract it away from Kuta City.

Eventually, the Bull of the Sky is enraged by Ryunosuke, who frequently cuts his tendons - though it doesn't have that kind - and leaves Kuta alone and stomps on Ryunosuke all the way.

Just as Ryunosuke was thinking about how to get rid of it and join the goddess, the blond-haired and red-eyed boy flew all the way on a hoverboard, and with a wave of his hand, he tied up the giant bull with the Heavenly Lock.

Immediately, it gave Ryunosuke the feeling that he was busy like a fool before.

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"If you come along, it's Uruk who will be raided by the bulls. 】”

Before Ryunosuke could say anything, the voice of "Ishtar" came from the direction of Kuta City, and when he turned his head to look, he saw that she was sitting on the golden and blue giant bow floating far away.

The little goddess's face and voice were very normal, but there was a little tiredness in her eyes.

Eyes? Ryunosuke was stunned for a moment, only then did she notice that the "Death Vortex" that had been surrounding her had disappeared, and only a faint black mist was left around her body, and if you looked closely, you could find that she was constantly "absorbing" the black fog from the direction of Kuta, and after "transiting" on her body, she turned to "flow" underground.

This means...... Is she going to change back soon?

"Ha, you say this idiot dares to attack Uruk?" Young Jill tugged at the Heavenly Lock on his hand: "If you want to intercede for it, such a statement will not achieve the goal. ”

"Why should I intercede for it? The little goddess tilted her head: "[This half-hung god-made thing may be controlled by people at any time, so it is better to completely erase it.] 】”

"Jokes, you are willing to ...... Feed! Before he could say anything, Ishtar drew his bow and arrows, and was about to shoot a destructive bolt of light at the cow, and hurriedly swung his chains to move the cow out of its original position.

Boom!!

Without hesitation, the light arrow left the string, and directly punched a huge hole in the place where the "Heavenly Bull" was located before, and the hole was not so deep that it was impossible to see the bottom at a glance.

"Moo! Moo! The bull of the sky screamed in horror, and under all his struggle, even his originally red and crazy eyes changed back.

"You don't know how you got crazy? Isn't that a guarantee that you won't go crazy next time? Ishtar looked at the cow as if he were talking to it, and at the same time put a new bolt of light on the bowstring: "[Immune after being controlled once?] I don't believe it, so let's kill it. 】”

"Moo~" The huge size of the bull of the sky suddenly shrank, and finally became only the size of an ordinary calf, it ignored the chains tied to its hooves, and jumped up and hid behind the young Jill, and the blonde boy subconsciously reached out to block the predetermined trajectory of the light arrow.

"[Tsk,]" the little goddess sighed and put away the light arrow: "[Now that the 'gods' want to destroy Uruk, you still have to keep the 'god-made things' that can't be called life, and I am also very busy, and it is impossible to save the scene in time every time.] 】”

"Huh?" Youngster seemed to realize that something was wrong: "You are not Ishtar, who are you?" ”

"[Ah......h Do not give consent to those who are pleasing to their hearts; Do not praise those who are suffering in their hearts. 】”

What the...... Meaning?

"Ahh Before Ryunosuke could understand the meaning of these words, he saw that the black mist that stretched out suddenly stopped, and those surrounding Ishtar instantly galloped downwards and disappeared, these two actions caused the little goddess to be excited, and then directly sneezed out.

The next moment, a familiar shout came out of the little girl's mouth:

"Damn Gilgamesh! Let go of my cows! ”