Chapter 649: The house was robbed?
The elder sister steals the younger sister's husband? Is that so exciting?
Gilgamesh, who accidentally ate the big melon, was surprised.
However, before he could find out what was going on, the body of consciousness was shattered by Ai Lei's slap, and the soul floated uncontrollably towards the earthly body.
Then, the goddess of the underworld blushed slightly and stammered to explain:
"It seems a rat has broken into the underworld. You rest here first, I'll take care of it."
After saying this, she hurried to the temple, feeling the shaking and roaring of the entire underworld becoming more and more intense.
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At the same time, at the intersection of the underground world.
Thousands of golden arrows of light pierced through the pervasive deathly aura like falling meteors from the sky, blasting hundreds of Garula spirit guards into drifting spiritual lights.
Ishtar was suspended in mid-air, threatening with gnashed teeth:
"Hey! If you don't want to die again, you better get out of the way. Otherwise, I will break the restrictions of the underworld and let all the evil spirits in the underground run away! If there is any trouble afterwards, that woman will be held accountable by the gods!"
The few Garula spirits that survived this round of bombing paused for a moment, then roared and rushed towards Ishtar in a more violent manner.
They are just underworld guards transformed from the dead. Although they have strong fighting instincts, their IQ is not high, and eliminating external enemies is the first code of conduct they follow.
You are asking for the life or death!
Ishtar was furious, and the skybow Maanna floating behind her automatically pulled the bowstring to its full extent, and the surging divine power gathered into a huge arrow of light the size of a javelin.
Just as she was about to kill all the Garula spirits, the road ahead shook violently, and seven gates formed naturally from blue-black boulders rose from the ground.
The door is engraved with complex patterns and cuneiform characters, and an obscure, majestic, and gloomy atmosphere permeates it.
"If you want to come in, then come in. Cross these seven doors, and I'll be waiting for you at the temple at the end!"
The door slowly opened, and a cold and gloomy voice came from the gray fog.
At the end of the path, Ishtar vaguely saw the spire-shaped temple that was emitting a faint red light.
Finally he came out!
Ishtar sneered, stopped ravaging the galula spirits, and rushed straight into the gate leading to the temple.
However, just after passing through the first door, a dull roar was heard behind him.
Ishtar looked back subconsciously, and immediately saw that the door behind her, which was originally open, had been tightly closed without leaving a gap.
“Boom!”
At the same time, a red lightning bolt as thick as a bucket fell from the surging gray fog above and struck her directly on the head.
Accompanied by a violent cough, Ishtar climbed out of the deep pit with black smoke billowing out of her eyes, and looked angrily at the temple at the end of the path:
"Ereshkigal, what do you mean?"
"This is the rule of the underworld. Only those who have passed the test of seven gates and put aside the burdens of life are qualified to see me."
A cold voice came from the end, and the second half of the sentence was a little more sarcastic.
"Of course, if you're not brave enough, you can just take a shortcut like a mouse, or just tuck your tail between your legs and go back to your own territory."
“I’m not brave enough? Fine, fine! Ereshkigal, just wait for me!”
Ishtar was so angry that she rushed into the second door without thinking.
Are you kidding? I am the goddess who rules the sky. What kind of thunder have I not seen?
As long as I'm fast enough, there's no way this thing will hit me...
"boom!"
The familiar roar and familiar black smoke appeared inside the second door.
Ishtar trembled and climbed out of the pit, her eyes full of anger and confusion.
This doesn't make sense. This thing isn't very fast, so why can't I dodge it?
"This is not a real thunderbolt, but a kind of restriction that is sure to hit you."
A faint voice sounded in her head, and Ishtar looked down at the amber gem necklace on her chest.
Under the hazy starlight, Siduri, the Babylonian goddess of wine, was hiding there.
It was naturally her credit that Ishtar was able to find the underworld from the human world.
Unable to bear the sight of his sister finding true love and spending the whole day with her lover, the sinister god of hell, Ereshkigal, was jealous and took advantage of his sister Ishtar's absence to lure the shepherd god Dumuzi into the underworld, breaking up the couple...
The above is the "fact" that Siduri conveyed to Ishtar through various hints.
Originally, they should have gotten straight to the point and formed a group to go to the underworld to find out what had happened to Ai Lei.
However, Siduri overestimated Ishtar's intelligence in dealing with normal problems, and she had to argue with him for several months before she managed to get the correct information into his mind.
Just in case, she also secretly hid in the jewelry that Ishtar wore and traveled with her.
I’m asking just for my bestie, true love is invincible.
But this journey to the underworld to search for someone ran into trouble as soon as it began.
The seven gates to the underworld leading to the temple seem to contain some powerful restrictive power.
When entering the underworld from the present world, every time you go down a level or enter a door, your divinity will be weakened by a layer, and you will gradually lose your own power.
Once they pass through these seven gates and enter the temple where the goddess Ereshkigal resides, the audience's own strength will be suppressed to an extremely low level. Facing the Queen of the Underworld who is in full condition and has the home advantage, they will have no power to resist at all.
After listening to her friend's explanation, Ishtar, who realized it belatedly, could not help but curse:
"How insidious! No wonder that woman took the initiative to open the door and let me in. It turns out she had set a trap for me to fall into!"
But then, a sly look flashed in her eyes:
"Although she is cunning, we are not stupid and have made preparations in advance!"
As she spoke, Ishtar looked at the five strange life cards in her arms, which were engraved with rows of wedge-shaped divine patterns, and raised the corners of her lips with a proud look on her face.
After learning that her husband Dumuzi had been abducted into the underworld, she knew that there would be a fierce battle between her and her sister, who disliked each other.
In order to successfully defeat her sister and rescue her lover, she followed the advice of her good friend Siduri and went to Eridu before leaving. She easily got the earth god Enki drunk with the divine wine, and then "borrowed" something from his water temple - seven clay tablets of destiny.
This thing was born from the power of Apsu and is the same source as the remains of Apsu that gave birth to Hades. It can neutralize Hades' suppression of her and allow her to unleash her original power.
I thought that when I officially faced Ailei, I could use this thing as a trump card to catch the opponent by surprise.
Unexpectedly, the woman was so insidious. She set a trap for her in advance, forcing her to use up these seven cards.
However, it’s not my thing anyway, so I won’t feel bad if it breaks.
If I could use it to save the one I love, it would all be worth it.
Ishtar made up her mind, clutched the remaining five destiny clay cards in her arms, turned into a swift stream of light, and rushed through the remaining five gates of the underworld.
The cursed red thunder continued to fall, and the five destiny mud cards were destroyed one after another.
Finally, Ishtar, with her body covered in black from being struck by lightning, successfully reached the temple at the end.
She kicked the door open, rushed into the hall, and looked at her sister on the throne with gnashing teeth:
"Where's the Dumuzi? Hand him over!"
"As a living person, you have trespassed into the land of death without permission, Ishtar. You have violated a taboo. If you do not leave quickly, you will face my wrath here!"
Ai Lei answered the question irrelevantly, showing a businesslike attitude.
Ishtar was furious:
"Why are you pretending? You have the guts to steal a man, but don't you have the guts to admit it?"
"presumptuous!"
Ailei became furious and stood up from the throne immediately. A terrifying low pressure swept across the entire hall. The eerie divine power made the nearby dead souls and Garula spirits feel unprecedented fear and they fled in all directions.
Then, the deathly aura in the temple turned into a pale gauze, and the seventeen plagues that symbolized death materialized into red monsters composed of countless skeletons, wrapping Elle up like layers of flesh and blood armor.
"You asked for this!"
Under the cold and harsh rebuke, the red skeleton monster pulled up the temple on the ground and transformed it into a huge light-like gun wheel, sweeping forward with all its might. Sharp spikes spread out on the ground one after another, and a black tide of death fog mixed with seventeen kinds of curses swept over.
"I'm afraid of you!"
Ishtar was not willing to be outdone. She casually took out her second secret treasure from the magic circle diagram and threw it forward:
"Unit 2, get on!"
Suddenly, a small creature with horns on its head, black hair, golden stripes, and a pig-like and cow-like appearance, ran straight into the surging death fog and light guns.
As soon as it made contact, the chubby little guy was smashed into the ground like a ball, and a shrill scream came out of his mouth.
Seeing his beloved pet being so useless, the unscrupulous owner who first threw his beloved pet to block the bullet could not help but yelled in frustration:
"You useless thing, I have raised you for nothing. If you don't fight for me, I will stew you when I get home!"
I don’t know whether it was Ishtar’s threat that worked, or whether it was because his dignity as a top-level divine beast could not stand being insulted.
"Moo!!!"
A dull and powerful roar spread out, and the body of the small thing that was smashed into the deep pit expanded rapidly, turning into a giant longicorn that was over ten thousand feet tall and covered in golden light.
The monster that looked like it was cast in steel raised its head, and a towering temple condensed with lightning appeared behind it.
At the same time, it stomped its giant hooves hard, carrying with it the storm of lightning and fire that had condensed into substance, and crashed into the red skull in front of it.
——Thunder and flames in the sky, Tianming Temple!
"Bang!"
The dark green lightning broke through the death fog in front of the red skeleton and hit the falling light-shaped gun wheel directly. With the force of thunder, it pushed forward the goddess of the underworld, Elle.
"Well done, Unit 2!"
Ishtar was overjoyed upon seeing this, and immediately seized the opportunity, preparing for her strongest attack:
"Load the divine power and grant the skyless land the light of heaven!"
Countless starlight gathered into a golden torrent, filling the magazine of Tianzhou Maana, and forming a huge star arrow at the fully drawn bowstring.
Danger!
Ai Lei felt a strong sense of warning in her heart, and without thinking, she decisively used all her strength.
The huge red skeleton stomped the ground hard, causing a violent scarlet ether storm, and the Bull of Heaven, Gugalana, who was running wildly, was stopped abruptly.
Then, the earth cracked and mountains like javelins shot out from the abyss and pierced into the body of the Bull of Heaven.
Suddenly, the top-level divine beast let out a wail, and its body shrank rapidly like a deflated ball, no longer able to stop the progress of the goddess of the underworld.
Without Gugalana's obstruction, the two sisters who were facing each other looked at each other, called out the true name of the artifact at the same time, and revealed their killer moves:
"The mountains are shaking, the star's salary - Maanna!"
"There is a vast sea in the sky, and a prison on earth - Meslamthea!"
The gun wheel collided with the light arrow, and the rumbling vibration lasted for thousands of miles. Mountains collapsed, the earth cracked, sand and rocks flew, and a huge mushroom cloud rose up.
After an unknown amount of time, the smoke and dust from the center of the battle spread out, and a conical pit with a diameter of tens of kilometers almost penetrated the entire underworld and connected to the bottomless abyss. The gloomy and corrupt breath of death continued to seep out of the deep pit.
The two parties who caused all this were on both sides of the deep pit.
One stood there calmly, while the other slumped over on the ground, panting.
It is obvious who is strong and who is weak.
"You can't defeat me in my territory. Leave here before I get really angry, otherwise..."
Ai Lei raised the gun in her hand, which was flashing with arcs of lightning, and snorted coldly, pointing it at her sister who was already at the end of her strength.
However, faced with this outcome, the proud Ishtar did not get angry but laughed:
"Do you think you won? I didn't come to the underworld to fight with you."
Hearing the mockery in Ishtar's voice, Elle felt a strong sense of foreboding.
At the same time, a familiar aura passed through the barrier she set up and broke into her secret garden - Eden.
Siduri?
not good!
Ai Lei's face changed drastically, and she immediately turned into red lightning, wanting to rush to the Garden of Eden as soon as possible to take back her forbidden fruit.
However, several light arrows shot out and forced her to stop.
"What's the hurry? Isn't our fight not over yet?"
Ishtar rose into the air again, and with a smile on her face, she pulled the bowstring to its full extent, pouring down dense rain of light arrows onto the ground.
Before officially entering the temple to challenge her sister, she threw away the amber necklace on her body.
This was the agreement between her and Siduri.
She was responsible for directly restraining Ailei, while Sidulli was responsible for helping her snatch the person.
Calculating the time, Sidulli should have succeeded by now, right?
So in the end, I win!
Ishtar's face was full of pride, and she didn't notice that Elle's face below was gradually turning ashen and cold.
"You forced me to do this!"
The goddess of the underworld, whose anger had reached its peak, gritted her teeth and roared, venting her fierce murderous aura in all directions, causing the temperature of the entire underworld to drop sharply, as if sinking into a prehistoric icy hell.
(End of this chapter)
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