But at this moment, he felt even more angry towards the person who had dragged him into the unknown world without permission.
"Are you disgusted with the person just now? I think he should be a good person..."
"You can only be disrespectful once. If you do it a second time, it will be considered as 'doubting me'. Please be careful, okay?"
Ishtar gave a stern instruction with a smile, and Haruli shut her mouth as if frozen.
Why was Haruli appointed as the high priest?
The answer is very simple for the goddess. In the distant Uruk, there is a high priest who assists the hero king but is very devout in his faith in her. His name is somewhat similar to Haruli's.
But then, in the midst of fear, Haruli still said to the god who saved her life with a complex feeling of gratitude and awe:
"But, but, that person is really..."
Seeing this, Ishtar lowered her voice slightly and said:
"...This is the second time. Do you want to die? But since you choose to die, you might as well be happy."
After the goddess finished speaking, she grabbed Haruli's shoulders and hugged her trembling body. The dense magic power filled with divinity enveloped Haruli, making her feel like she was back in her childhood, being held in the arms of her now deceased mother.
In this wonderful tranquility, Ishtar's magic gradually invaded Haruli's whole body, and the divine power flowed into Haruli's magic circuits and painted them into other colors.
For Haruli, she had the illusion that her existence was valued by something grand, or even by the world itself. When she came to her senses, she was already in tears. However, although she did not feel disgusted, she still refused the goddess who "blessed" her:
"Please... don't do this..."
Even though, her breathing was twitching and she couldn't even speak clearly.
Following Haruli's refusal, Ishtar saw her memory, the memory just now on the coast.
Facing the sound of the waves, Haruli's unwilling past, the memory of her parents being killed by magicians, the brutal destruction and wailing, the situation where all her past happiness was shattered, unfolds on the other side of the sea.
"I want revenge... I don't care what the world will become... It doesn't matter whether there is mystery or not... I just want them to have the same feeling! Let them know that it is natural that the things they lose will never come back! Just like my family will never come back... Let them experience the feeling that the mystery will never come back after it disappears..."
Originally, Haruli thought that she was extremely lowly for acting so emotionally in front of this person, but——
"No matter what kind of pain you are in, I believe there will be someone to save you. All your pain and the revenge that comes from it are justified and never mean. So, after revenge, please be happy and live a long, long life."
The waves continue to extend to the other side of the sea, and the world tree at the end stretches out its lush branches, passing down the fallen leaves, illuminating the world.
"...Never mind. You no longer belong to me. It's up to you to make your choice. But no matter what the outcome is, I will bear witness to the end for you humans. Whether the end is a beautiful destruction or an ugly struggle, I will keep watching."
When she saw this scene from her memory, Ishtar closed her eyes and withdrew her magic power from Haruli.
She didn't want to say that on the coast, she subconsciously said that she wanted the believers to give her countless lapis lazuli.
Ishtar looked back at his past, sealed the passion under his eyelids, and said:
"And, despite this, I also allow you, Haruli, to enjoy life, celebrate happiness, and love this world. Use your hands to polish those joys and pains...'Give them all their value and then give them all to those who want to give them to', understand?"
Using a voice like a mother comforting her child, and saying things that a mother would never say to her child, Ishtar gently pushed Haruli away.
Despite this, Haruli continued to cry and even fell to her knees, curled up into a ball and cried.
Ishtar neither coaxed nor complained, but just watched silently, like a mother watching her child choose to leave.
"Just struggle as hard as you can, and dance your limbs in this world. Even if you dance ugly, as long as you haven't abandoned your humanity... No, you can't abandon it anymore, right? In this way, I can keep watching you with a smile. Although I can't teach you how to dance now... But at least I can give you a dance costume and shoes."
Then, after Haluri calmed down, Ishtar took her and Humbaba to the center of the city.
The proud goddess did not wait for the "pilgrimage" but chose to become the first "hero".
.......
Time goes back to the present, after being amazed.
In front of the miracle that came from the infinitely expanding possibilities, Ishtar placed a beautiful smile that could freeze the heart on the hearts of those who saw it, and said:
"Let me see if you can protect humans with my full attention..."
In an instant, as if enraged by her words, the entire thundercloud roared, and lightning flashed madly. Thunder with the power and penetrating power to pierce through the earth and destroy all enemies came straight down while piercing through everything.
"In front of the sky, there is no room for the gods to encroach upon the heavens."
She created brilliance in the midst of countless thunders by means of negation.
It was a clear blue light. The sky was born from the surface of the earth. The light was as light as a star, yet dazzling, illuminating everything around it.
At the same time, before Novia could make a move, the Pale Knight reacted and roared at the goddess without any emotion.
"I am a sword, I am a beast, I am thirst, I am hunger, I am a being that carries death, I am a being that plays death, I am death - death."
The same goes for Youyi Hassan.
"The fading star in the foreign sky, if you dare to do this, then I will send you the evening bell on behalf of my ancestor's original blade."
But Finbaba, who followed Ishtar, was not to be outdone and began to make a mechanical roar for the goddess.
Then, in front of everyone's eyes, Novia smiled happily, waved his hand to let the Pale Knight and Youyi Hassan retreat, and stretched out his free hand to shake hands.
"The age of the gods has long ended, Ishtar."
The moment the words fell, Ishtar felt that the surroundings were instantly filled with the ether of the Age of Gods. No, it was as if the Age of Gods had instantly revived here.
And it is for this reason that the current Ishtar is no longer the remnant of the past. In the place where the Age of Gods already exists, she is undoubtedly the goddess of Venus and the most favored goddess by the gods.
At this moment, beyond the thunder that was echoing in the surroundings, there was a roar. It was a giant beast approaching with the same scale as a typhoon.
The enormous divine magic power that gushed out from the depths of the horns directly destroyed concepts such as distance and direction in order to support the goddess.
This is the sacred beast belonging to the goddess - the Bull of Heaven.
Ishtar has now recovered the full strength of a god, and even the Bull of Heaven has arrived. From an outsider's perspective, the combined strength of the two has basically surpassed the framework of a Servant. In this Holy Grail War, she is now truly the strongest... or is she?
The goddess did not think so. She understood that this environment, which was like the reappearance of the Age of Gods, was created by the man in front of her. In other words, how could a being with such ability be easily solved? It was absolutely impossible.
Indeed, in her sight, a crack appeared on the man's hand that was not holding the gun, and a sword mixed with white, red and black was slowly emerging from it. The reappearance of the Age of Gods was spreading from this sword, as if it was going to drill into countless thunderstorms and surround the entire body.
For a moment, Ishtar felt that the sword looked familiar, but she didn't think much of it. Soon, a confident smile without hesitation appeared on the corner of her mouth.
"Maana!"
Ishtar shouted, and instantly in the empty space, lapis lazuli and gold began to move and float, gathering around her.
It transformed into a bow-shaped boat with two graceful arcs, carrying Ishtar into the sky. Taking this opportunity, the goddess Ishtar used her charm to control the surrounding space, terrain, airflow and even divine thunder, gathering them behind her.
With the confidence she had since birth, the goddess continued to rise into the air. The wind and thunder around her approached her, but they seemed to be followers, following behind her as smoothly as flowing water.
In a blink of an eye, Ishtar had driven her boat high into the sky, so high that it seemed as if she was flying towards the sea of stars and Venus.
Maanna is a sky ship that can travel freely around the world, and it is capable of maintaining the top speed in the endless thunder that has been restored in the Age of Gods.
It is also an interstellar transfer gate connecting the Earth and Venus.
"Open the gate!"
Having regained her full power as a god, Ishtar is now an undisputed god. It does not matter whether the words she speaks are ideal for humans or other animals and plants. Her words are the decree of the surface of the planet.
As long as the goddess Ishtar says "crows are white" and "crows will disappear from this world", even if the result is that the crow species disappears from the earth, no one will notice.
"Haha, smash everything, the mountain-shaking star's salary!"
What the goddess wielded was not the "Eight Desolations Kneeling in Worship of the Sky" that was supposed to appear, but an energy that imitated the light of Venus, bringing destruction and doomsday to the world.
It is a more terrifying move than the normal Mountain Shocking Star Salary. Although the name is the same, it not only takes the concept of Venus into its hands and stuffs it into Ma Anna's magazine as a conceptual planet for launch, but an illusory shadow of equal mass is born.
In response to the request of its master, the mythical beast was created based on the concept of the brutality of the sky and embodied the ravages of the gods. It lit up the sky with thousands, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of millions of lightning bolts, shocking the world like the thunder at the beginning of the world or the end of the world, and spit out a torrent of death with thunder and heavy rain.
This is the power of the divine beast, this is the great work of the sky, and it is a terrifying power that arrives in just one second.
However, just when the two came together, the concept that seemed powerful enough to destroy everything was about to attack Novia.
The sword was held in his hand.
"What........ "
Cold sweat ran down Ishtar's back, and an inexplicable breath seemed to slowly penetrate into the strong wind of the cumulonimbus cloud.
Indeed, that was the original holy sword that he had felt.
However, there was something decisively different about the sword.
In order to confirm the true nature of that sense of disharmony, at that moment - "time" completely stopped.
In the golden light that lightly surpassed tens of thousands of lightning bolts, only the huge World Tree was left, thickly covering everything.
Moreover, she realized belatedly that Venus actually abandoned her as her manager. Her full-strength attack had no effect on her.
So the thunder behind him should form a cross symbolizing sin.
"Goddess, and Xiao Niu, you should go back."
Soon, in the form of an echo of the sound, the 'moon' was born in the sky. It passed by the sound transmitted to the sky, and a 'moon phantom' of equal mass was born at a faster speed.
In that instant, the goddess saw the moment when the 'moon' was born in the golden sky blocked by the World Tree.
Far above the head, in the sealed uppermost part, countless phantoms of the moon shone.
The goddess Ishtar and the Bull of Heaven already knew what that meant.
It is because I saw this in this world of "Trial" that I realized that this is the light of judgment that brings despair.
With a delay of a few seconds, countless phantoms of the moon fell, like a waterfall of light, and the light of death was sprinkled here.
"This is nothing... This question is too big. How can human rituals provide so much magic power..."
Ishtar cursed indignantly and had to change her direction to the orbit of Venus which was approaching from high in the sky.
Countless moons collided with only one Venus, and countless starlight burst out.
But she understood that this was also a matter of time... No, it was entirely a matter of the other party's mood. Her power was denied by so many powers on the other side, and she was even rejected by Venus. She was beaten up for no reason.
Moreover, even with the protection of the powerful, there was no way to do anything. The man in front of him, named Novia, was emitting the breath of death, which was enough to drag him into the underworld of death at the moment of contact.
The next moment, Novia, who had taken up the Spear of Albion and merged it with the Demon Sword True World, spoke slowly—
"Let me end you here."
Facing Novia who was merely swinging his sword, he seemed to be waving it as if it was a joke from a distance.
But Ishtar's divine eyes saw it.
That small space of air was filled with concepts that could cause the goddess Ishtar to fall from the sky and die.
It is no exaggeration to say that this is a blow designed to kill everything.
Why does he have such a strange holy sword? How could it be possible? Even in the Uruk era, there was no such thing -
Strong doubts surged up in her mind before her fear and anger, and she couldn't help but want to risk everything she had to destroy this attack.
But it was too late. The blow hit the goddess' heart silently and spread to her whole body at a rapid speed.
"You are very strong, I admit, but why doesn't Venus work on you? I am obviously the real manager..."
After a pretentious smile, the body of the goddess Ishtar began to fall. Wind accompanied by distant thunder blew from afar, but to Ishtar, whose five senses were gradually numb, it felt like something was happening in another world.
".....That's all, human, remember what you said, take good care of this child and countless children like her..."
After that, silence came.
After nodding to the goddess's last words, Novia looked at the extremely loyal Bull of Heaven who had gone mad because of the goddess' death, summoned Typhon's body and devoured it. As for Humbaba, he had already been destroyed by the Pale Knight and Hassan the Dark earlier.
Just like that, the first group to withdraw from this Holy Grail War was the True Berserker Group, as well as the Goddess and her pet Bull of Heaven who originally wanted to take revenge on the Hero King and the Chain of Heaven.
178: Typhon is the mother? (4k5)
On the top floor of the building that served as the challenge, after the True Berserker Team and the incarnation of the goddess Ishtar left the stage, endless thunder still surrounded them, declaring war on all the Servants of this Holy Grail War.
Presumably, the remaining servants have already known from the strength displayed by Ishtar and the Bull of Heaven that as long as they survive the Thunder, Novia, who is in the middle of it, will go to war with them when both sides can exert their perfect strength.
In Novia's opinion, the remaining servants should also arrive clearly, perhaps forming an alliance to challenge.
"Wow, you're really good, Novia."
The blonde girl who witnessed the whole process quickly picked up Novia's waist without her consent as before, and said this to Novia with a bright smile on her face, as if she was emitting the brightness of a flower and the brilliance of a fairy.
