Chapter 237

The sea water connected to the training ground was dyed black the moment Lancelmero finished speaking, and turned into the Sea of ​​Life belonging to the Mother Goddess of Creation. Laments filled with madness and sorrow came into the minds of the Saints from afar. On the black mud-like sea surface, a woman with huge animal horns was slowly moving towards the direction of the sanctuary.

"Since you have already defeated Ereshkigal, you can seek our help in this trial." Athena gave additional explanations to the Saints while holding the golden scepter, "However, I suggest that you do not expect us to be the main force in this battle - after all, the person who will cooperate with you will still be Sasha, so I will return the control of my body to her; and as for Alice..."

"I will take over the explanation before the battle—" Lansemello watched Athena hand over the control of her body to the girl who belonged to this world and was Athena, and explained the enemy situation of this trial to everyone, "Tiamat, the goddess of creation in Sumerian mythology, the mother of all life."

"I won't explain the details to you - but if you want to kill her, it's impossible unless all life in the world dies." Lansemero put on Ereshkigal's airs, crossing his arms. "But you should thank me - because the Tiamat here is not the original, but a copy based on my memory, so most of her abilities have been weakened, including her immortality that she should have originally possessed."

"Tiamat is the ocean itself that breeds life. She has the power to randomly design life and forcibly transform all creatures trapped in the 'Sea of ​​Life'." Lansemero watched countless Lahmu emerge from the black mud and explained the power that Tiamat holds to everyone. "Although you may not understand my detailed explanation, you just need to know -"

"From the moment you fell into the black mud, the only way to return to the surface was to complete the contract with Tiamat to transform yourself. The moment you returned to the shore, you automatically became an enemy of humanity."

"This trial is a battle to defend the city. Once the Chaos Tide floods the Temple of Athena, all of you will die." Lansemello, who had already completed the synchronization with Ereshkigal, announced the official start of the trial when the first group of Lahmu spread their wings and flew into the sky. "In addition, Lahmu, born of Tiamat, can also exert special attack capabilities against everything born from the Sea of ​​Origin, just like Tiamat herself - whether it is human or god."

"Also, although Tiamat's essence is the ocean, so she cannot walk on land - as long as the sea water floods the land, she can complete the landing."

——Although this replica of Tiamat and the Lahmu group can only be seen within the Sanctuary and will only attack members participating in the trial, on the basis of appropriate weakening, Lancermello completely replicated the movement trajectory of Beast II in the seventh anomaly when it invaded the city of Uruk.

The black tide surged onto the land and began to devour the land under the feet of the Saints. The Saints who had listened carefully to the pre-war explanation quickly avoided the black mud and protected Sasha. They moved to the 12 zodiac signs where she would not be swallowed by the black mud in the short term and began to study ways to deal with Tiamat.

Then, as Lancermello had expected, Sasha, who is also the goddess of wisdom, mentioned the underworld of Ereshkigal - just as Gilgamesh had said in the meeting before the final battle in the seventh anomaly - since Tiamat cannot be defeated in a place with life, let her go to the underworld without life.

——Similarly, fighting in a place without life will naturally weaken Tiamat's power.

"I understand. The Underworld can be used as a battlefield for you to fight Tiamat." Lansemero leaned against the pillar at the entrance of Aries Palace and agreed to Sasha's proposal. "But it is your job to send Tiamat down. And I want to remind you that because Tiamat is the goddess of creation, she can suppress the power of the Underworld."

"Ereshkigal's underworld is beneath the Sanctuary..." Dietel, who took on the role of commander from the first gate, glanced at his companions gathered in Aries Palace and began to plan a battle against Tiamat. "So we need to take good protection and punch Tiamat into the ground without coming into contact with the black mud."

According to legend, the fists of the Saints can tear the sky apart and tear the earth apart. The Saints, who specialize in the power of destroying matter, naturally had no objection to the arrangement of using their fists to send Tiamat directly into the underworld.

"But how do we isolate the black mud?"

"All the abilities of that ocean are based on the fact that it never remains still." Dieter pushed his glasses and made his decision. "Since we can't interfere with the state of the liquid, let's just freeze it. Freezing the entire ocean is also a solution, isn't it?"

After using his Cosmo to protect his warriors, Sasha looked at their backs as he walked towards Tiamat and asked Lancermello, "Is Detel's method useful?"

"I don't know if it will work, but I can tell you what happened in the battle I witnessed." Lansemero looked at Tiamat approaching the Sanctuary and recalled the battle on the Chaos Tide. "In order to stop or delay Tiamat's advance, we burned all the black mud under her feet."

"So I can only say that Aquarius's thinking is correct - if it can be burned, it can certainly be frozen."

Dietel condensed a layer of ice for his companions that was strong enough to support them standing steadily on the black mud. The other saints scattered to deal with the monster Lahmu who launched the attack on behalf of Tiamat. Dietel, the only one who remained on the shore, increased his microcosm and aimed at the black mud that was constantly surging under Tiamat's feet.

"The forgiveness of the Dawn Goddess!!!"

The pure white ice and snow quickly engulfed the entire ocean, turning the black sea of ​​life into an extremely cold ice field where everything stopped moving.

"Well, what a pity - if he had divine nature, they might have won directly." Lanser-Mero looked at Tiamat, who was frozen in a thick layer of ice at the center of the Chaos Tide, and commented on the situation on the battlefield in a pleasant tone, "But not only does he not have divine nature, he is also a human born from the 'womb' of the Sea of ​​Origin..."

"Ah, see, they have fully awakened Mother Tiamat."

The ice shell that had frozen the Mother Goddess of Creation began to crack, and Tiamat's original form of the Daughter of Demon collapsed without the support of the black mud. However, magic power began to gather in Tiamat's body, and the Saints felt a small universe more terrifying than Hades appeared in front of them.

The ancient mother goddess of creation finally revealed her terrifying dragon form in front of her children. The beautiful and sad female body that originally stood on the black mud was transformed into a huge and terrifying dragon. She kept uttering wailing sounds that humans could not understand, and for the first time, she made an active attack on her past children.

"Now! Send Tiamat to the underworld!! Otherwise there will be no chance later!!!"

Shion and Dohko, who were already preparing for defense, decisively joined other members to deal with Lahmu after hearing Dietel's voice, while gathering their strength and aiming at the ground under Tiamat's feet - as long as they created a hole deep enough, they could pull Tiamat into the underworld and further weaken her.

"Pegasus Comet Fist!"

Led by the fist of the Pegasus Saint who had once been able to injure Hades, the true body of the underworld god, the fists of many Saints continued to fall at the feet of the Mother Goddess of Creation, shattering the ground deeper into the Sea of ​​Life that had already frozen into ice, and opening up a path to the underworld.

Everyone followed Tiamat into the underworld, and then witnessed Tiamat bringing black mud and beginning to assimilate and erode the underworld.

"You guys are really slow to react."

The waves of the Sea of ​​Life that were about to hit everyone turned into a sea of ​​flowers and flying petals in an instant. The Chaos Tide that was originally produced continuously by Lahmu no longer had the power to breed ferocious monsters. Lancermelo and Athena entered the underworld together to witness the final stage of the trial, and used a simple little magic to replicate Merlin's performance of turning the Chaos Tide into a sea of ​​flowers.

"Since this is an ocean that breeds life, then this power can be used to breed tiny and harmless life." Lansemero conjured a Flower of Avalon in his palm and calmly looked at Tiamat, who had already begun to open the inherent barrier of Anti-Genesis. "Okay, this is the last one--"

After all, although the opponents this time have miraculous powers, they are not the miracle "Servants" themselves, but humans who are still alive in this world. Although Tiamat cannot be killed in a world where life still exists, the only ones who can kill Tiamat are those who are still alive.

It doesn't take much strength, even an ordinary person can kill Tiamat - representing the entire human race to say farewell to the mother who deeply loves her children.

The fists of the Saints finally touched the dragon-like body of the Mother Goddess of Creation - that was the power of "those who live in the present moment".

——Mother, we humans will eventually bid farewell to the gods.

Finally, under Sasha's protection, everyone returned to the ground safely - the buildings in some areas of the sanctuary that were destroyed in the trial were quickly rebuilt under Lancelmero's magic; and the Saints also had a rare breathing time, and were being pressed by the old man Pope Sage, who had been excluded from the trial from the beginning, to review the battle situation.

"By the way, can you give the answer to the second door now?" Lanser-Melo repaired the big hole in the ground made by the Saints and collected the final answer from the Saints lying in all directions on the training ground. "After all, the battle is over. Regardless of whether your answer is correct or not, the trial of the second door is over - but the question must have an answer."

——If the world is destroyed and reborn at the same time, are you willing to embrace the mother's love, the "Sea of ​​Life"?

“Forget it then.” Having tried his best to freeze the weakened Chaos Tide and the replica of Tiamat, Dietel sat among the Golden Saints and smiled vainly, bringing the trial of the second gate to an end. “We are who we are because we have never become anything else - we are only who we really are when we exist as our original selves.”