Anime Crossover: Master is Not Here Today

Kingu's indifferent tone carried a hint of doubt. According to the information he found in Enkidu's memories, there was indeed a god among the gods who controlled thunder and rain, named Adad.

However, the other party is Ishtar's brother, so he should be a male god.

But he remembered that the girl was clearly a young girl...

"……never mind."

Jingu stopped dwelling on the issue; he only needed to understand one thing.

"This guy is quite an obstacle."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 434 The Chaldea group returns, Ishtar joins the party.

"My king, we've returned!"

"We've successfully completed the mission, just as you expected!"

Several days later, Gudao and the others returned safely and successfully brought back the goddess Ishtar as planned.

At this moment, on his throne, Gilgamesh looked down at Ishtar, who had turned her head away from him, and his lips curled up in a wild smile. Finally, he couldn't help but burst into unrestrained laughter:

"Haha ...

"Welcome back, valiant warriors!"

"And that shameless goddess who ran away from home and then came back, give us a proper explanation of your feelings about joining my ranks!"

"Who said they wanted to join your ranks!"

Being called out by name almost explicitly, Ishtar could no longer pretend to be a bystander and retorted defiantly:

"I signed a contract with Fujimaru Ritsuka as a business partner, the visionary goddess Ishtar!"

"Just you wait! Before I become a powerful Master, whether he dies or is blown to pieces, I will revive him!"

"And then you'll say this—"

'Oh, Ishtar truly is the goddess of victory! I'm so unwilling to accept this! Fine, I'll die now!'—Such words!

"I won't die, you stupid goddess!"

"I even opened my dorm room (Ianna's) to you, and you don't even show the slightest remorse!"

"Who's going to reflect on their actions? Ianna was mine to begin with!..."

"Gentlemen, please stop here."

Seeing that the argument between the two was escalating, Siduri sighed helplessly and stopped them:

"Regardless of the reasons, the fact that the city god could descend here is an honor that no one in charge of the sacrifices could have greater than this."

"【The Ranch Master's Loss Report】Let's let bygones be bygones and celebrate the return of the goddess Ishtar."

"...Hmph." ×2

The two exchanged a glance, gave each other a disdainful snort, and finally stopped arguing in tacit agreement.

Seeing this, Mashu laughed:

"Not only King Gilgamesh, but even Miss Ishtar couldn't be tough on Miss Siduri."

Ishtar explained somewhat awkwardly:

“After all, Siduri is the most devout priestess in Uruk, a model priestess. So I can’t really complain…”

"Yo, Fujimaru, Mashu, you're back!"

Just then, a familiar and cheerful voice came from outside the hall. Gudao and Mashu turned around in surprise and saw Fujimaru Ritsuka walking towards them with a smile.

"Gudako-san!"

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Fujimaru Ritsuka responded with a smile, then looked at Ishtar beside her and greeted her with a smile:

"Lady Ishtar, now that we've become companions, I look forward to your guidance."

"Your name is Gudako, right? Nice to meet you."

Ishtar still remembered her, and after subconsciously responding, she seemed to remember something and couldn't help but frown and say:

"I mean, it seems like it was the first time we met too. I'm supposed to be a respected goddess, you know. Aren't you being a little too casual with me?"

"Have it?"

Fujimaru Ritsuka was somewhat surprised, then smiled a little embarrassedly:

"I'm sorry, perhaps it was because you seemed so approachable that I subconsciously treated you like a friend?"

"Hey, is that so?"

Ishtar paused for a moment, then became somewhat hesitant and said:

"Well... if that's the case, then there's no problem... just pretend I didn't say anything before."

"After all, I am Ishtar, the goddess of victory!"

Seeing Ishtar becoming somewhat smug, everyone thought to themselves:

You're completely under my control, my goddess.

After easily dealing with Ishtar, Fujimaru Ritsuka looked at Anna and Merlin and nodded to them.

Aside from the night the monsters launched their all-out attack, she maintained contact with Merlin and kept track of the Chaldea group's situation through him, which is why she knew they had returned today.

She had already made an appointment with Merlin in her dream about improving the magic on the cloak, and they could start it after returning to the Chaldea Embassy.

Today, she made a special trip here not only to welcome Gudao and the others, but also for another important matter—

Fujimaru Ritsuka approached Gudao and asked in a low voice:

"How about it?"

Gudao replied in a low voice as well:

"Twenty percent."

"Ah."

Upon hearing the number, Fujimaru Ritsuka nodded in satisfaction and quietly gave him a thumbs-up.

Gilgamesh agreed to offer 30% of the minerals from the Gate of Babylon as a bargaining chip to win over Ishtar.

In this negotiation, with her prior advice, Gudao started the price at 10% and successfully reduced it to 20%!

In other words, the remaining 10% belongs to them!

After the two of them split it equally, she would only get 0.5% left. But even so, 0.5% of the minerals in the Gate of Babylon was still an astronomical sum!

Now my little savings are much fuller, that's great.

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Mashu, standing to the side, looked at the two with some confusion, feeling that her senior and Gudako seemed to be doing something shady.

Speaking of which, she always felt a little awkward or uncomfortable when she saw her seniors being intimate with other women.

But seeing her senior and Gudako together, she felt a strange sense of harmony.

Is it because they are all modern people?

Back to the point.

In addition to recruiting Ishtar, Gudao and his companions also successfully brought back the Tablets of Destiny that Gilgamesh had been searching for.

During this process, Gudao accidentally fell into the underworld, where he unexpectedly encountered an old man named Jusurad.

Jusurad, in Sumerian legend, is the name of the only human who survived the Great Flood that wiped out humanity, equivalent to Noah in the Old Testament and Utnabisiddim in the Epic of Gilgamesh.

He is the one who witnesses the end of the world and becomes the guardian of the abyss; he can be described as "the one who sounded the alarm for the end of the world" or "the one who witnessed the death of all things."

Whether the other party is truly the person in question or is using the name fraudulently, it is a question worth investigating further.

However, because they had too few clues, guessing would take too much effort, and compared to thinking about this problem, they had more important things to deal with right now.

"Now that we have successfully subdued Ishtar, it is time to officially begin our challenge to the Three Goddess Alliance!"

Ignoring Ishtar's shouts of "That's not how you subdue someone!" and "Bastard Gilgamesh!", Gilgamesh addressed the crowd:

"Although they are called the 'Three Goddess Alliance,' from my observations so far, they don't seem to have any intention of uniting. Otherwise, Uruk would have been destroyed long ago."

Currently, the main force launching attacks on Uruk is the Beast Goddess, namely Medusa, and her Beast Legion.

After taking over the forest area near Ur, the Forest Goddess Quetzal Koyatl remained quiet and has not expanded since, and they know nothing about her.

Meanwhile, Ereshkigal, the goddess of the underworld, has not made any significant moves so far.

"Since that's the case, it gives us the opportunity to take them down one by one. As for the first target—"

Gilgamesh did not hesitate for a moment and decisively said:

"Ereshkigal!"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 435 A Method to Deal with the Goddess of the Underworld, The Gathering

The Warcraft goddess Medusa, for some unknown reason, gained the power of Tiamat and was blessed by the Holy Grail, making her undoubtedly a final boss-like figure.

Quetzal Coyatt, the goddess of the forest, is the supreme god in South American mythology. Little is known about her, but judging from her ability to easily eliminate the two Servants sent by Gilgamesh, she is definitely not an easy goddess to deal with.

As for Ereshkigal—

As the native goddess of Sumer and the sister goddess of Ishtar, she was extremely familiar to Gilgamesh and the others. In fact, they knew each other well, and while they might not know her perfectly, they knew at least eight or nine tenths of her.

"However, if you were to ask who among those present was most familiar with that gloomy goddess, the answer would be self-evident—"

Gilgamesh looked at Ishtar with interest and said jokingly:

"Does this goddess, who has been thoroughly humiliated by the other party, have nothing to say at this moment?"

In fact, Ishtar and Ereshkigal are not simply sister goddesses; more accurately, they are twin goddesses.