Type-Moon, joins the Lion King at the beginning

Chapter 174: Journey to the Underworld
Li Ye is dead.

Or--

'Fell into the underworld?'

Li Ye, lying on the ground in a big letter shape, looked at the huge hole above. Ishtar used the last gem to release magic power, which shattered the earth on Li Ye and made him fall from the world of the living into the underworld.

In this age when gods and humans had not yet been separated, even the underworld and the heaven and earth were still one and had never been separated.

All you have to do is dig down into the earth to enter the afterlife.

It sounds strange, but Li Ye did enter the underworld.

Without anyone telling him, the moment he came into contact with the underworld, Li Ye understood the truth of this place.

Liye, who was completely unprepared, was forcibly sent to the underworld by Ishtar in an unfriendly manner, to face the goddess of the underworld, Ereshkigal.

At this time, Li Ye was not panicked, or it could be said that Li Ye did not have any emotional fluctuations about falling into the underworld.

He was completely attracted by the changes in his body, and that was why Li Ye was blasted into the underworld by Ishtar without even resisting.

Divine energy is a symbol of the power of the gods, and can be understood as the magic power of gods.

Ishtar, the mistress of the sky in Sumerian mythology, is omnipotent and exercises many powers and mysteries. She is the true power of God.

At this moment, Li Ye could feel the dark magic power pumped out by the dragon's heart. There was a divine aura in it, the divine aura that belonged only to Ishtar.

It is not a one-time usurpation, nor is it a divine occupation.

But [mapping]

At the moment when Liye blasphemed Ishtar, her soul, which Quetzalcoatl called the pure white soul, appeared.

There was a [reflection] of Ishtar, and what was left behind was this so-called divine aura.

The spirit of the goddess Venus, which belongs only to Liye, is derived from Ishtar.

The appearance of Shenqi had a huge impact on Li Ye.

Li Ye could clearly feel that in this world after death, his own [non-human] was growing rapidly. His body, which had been growing stronger under the nourishment of the ether of the Age of Gods, seemed to be ignited.

Increasing at an alarming rate.

The changes brought about by the spirit's aura not only made his body stronger, Li Ye also noticed the deterioration of his magic power.

With the addition of mysterious dark magic, it can be released and controlled more freely, and the power and mystery it contains are also greatly increased.

The spirit reflected by this also turned into food for its own growth, taking it one step closer to the metamorphosis that the Lion King had once hoped for.

After a long time, Li Ye finally got up from the ground.

stab.

The dark magic power burst out from the fingertips and gradually turned into a familiar black holy sword under Li Ye's gaze.

[Projection-Shining Sword of the End]

The fake holy sword created by projection magic should have been a mere appearance, but under the effect of that divine aura, its toughness increased.

"It seems to be of no use."

After a preliminary test of the magic power that had absorbed the divine energy, Li Ye only found that the quality had increased.

Using Professor Da Vinci's projection magic as a basis and applying strengthening magic, all that was obtained was a slightly hard empty shell.

It is impossible to recreate the Shining Sword of the End with projection magic alone.

Li Ye casually dispersed the projection magic and turned his head to look around.

Being in the underground underworld of Mesopotamia is like being in a dark abyss without sunlight. There are only eternally burning lamps emitting cold light scattered throughout the steep mountains.

It was also the quiet light that accompanied the only goddess. Feeling the breath of death in the atmosphere, Li Ye seemed to have returned to the Azrael Temple and faced the old man in the mountain again.

Although the locations are different, the fragrance of death is the same.

It was precisely because of this fragrance of death that Li Ye was able to determine that he had arrived in the underworld.

This kind of death is absolutely impossible to happen in the earthly world.

“Let’s go back. Now is not the time to confront Ereshkigal head-on—”

Li Ye stretched his body and was about to recall Tianzhou to return to the earth.

As his intuition activated and his dragon heart beat, Li Ye suddenly turned his head and looked into the depths of the underworld, meeting the gaze cast at him from afar.

With a slightly curious look, the source is naturally the flower of the underworld - Ereshkigal!
'You noticed me?'

Li Ye raised his hand to cover his chest and quickly understood the source of Long Xin's abnormal movement.

It is precisely because of that "reflected" aura that Ereshkigal and Ishtar can be regarded as the same god in a certain sense.

And Li Ye was like a third person who came in unexpectedly, and through his aura, he established some connection with Ereshkigal.

'No hostility - can we try to make contact?'

Li Ye never felt any hostility, and the intuition he had was only due to the connection created by the spirit.

Seeing that Ereshkigal had noticed his arrival and was looking at him curiously, Li Ye immediately changed his plan.

Instead of leaving the underworld, he plans to head deeper into the underworld and try to make his first contact with Ereshkigal, the goddess of the underworld!
Without staying there for long, Li Ye headed towards the depths of the underworld along the road that continued to extend in front of him.

Li Ye, who was completely unfamiliar with this underground underworld, discovered a broken pile of earth when passing by a certain place.

Or a grave mound.

"Something is crawling out from inside—"

Looking at the broken grave in front of him, Li Ye realized that the buried objects had been left.

Li Ye thought that anything that could be buried in the underworld was not a simple person, but at this moment, Li Ye had no intention of tracking down what the thing that left was.

Just as Li Ye turned around and continued on his way forward, his body suddenly stopped.

Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of an old man appearing in a dark corner. It was a deathly darkness that even the light of the soul could not reach.

Although his appearance had changed and his aura was completely different, Li Ye still recognized the old man's identity at a glance -

"Hmm? Old Man of the Mountain, I didn't expect to see you here!"

Hassan al-Sabah, the Old Man of the Mountain.

The origin of the assassination cult in the Middle East, the legendary assassin, and a person with a close connection to the Angel of Death.

Only when facing the old man in the mountains did Li Ye feel the omnipresent death, as if a big sword was placed on his neck, ready to behead Li Ye at any time.

Li Ye didn't expect to see the old man from the mountains here again. It was a kind of nostalgic beauty.

"........."

The old man in the mountain never spoke a word, he just stared at Li Ye now.

After experiencing the destruction of the singularity, Liye now has a completely different appearance from the sixth singularity.

An unspeakable miracle was brewing in Li Ye's body and soul. When the dragon broke out of its shell and began to emerge -

Li Ye, who didn't know what the old man in the mountain was thinking, still had a smile on his face: "Why are you here? It can't be my fate, so it must be Fujimaru Ritsuka——

Will the disasters he encounters in this singularity in the future be of a level that you can intervene in?"

(End of this chapter)