The Infinite Dragon God Cannot Find Silence

At this moment, everyone realized that although the anomaly in the world had disappeared, Tiamat was still in that illusory form.

"Could it be that King Orpheus has truly banished Tiamat's true form to the world?"

Quetzal looked at Tiamat, who was walking on the moon in place, and stroked his chin as he spoke.

Then Orpheus slowly floated out of Tiamat's closed mouth.

"Ophis?"

At this moment, Ritsuka noticed that Orpheus's expression was a little strange. Although he was expressionless as usual, he seemed inexplicably tense.

His eyes seem a bit more lifeless?

Suddenly, Orpheus disappeared.

Before Ritsuka and the others could figure out what was going on, Roman's somewhat panicked voice suddenly rang out.

"The energy above Uruk is really strange."

"Ugh?"

At this moment, the Ouroboros spell on Uruk City twisted more and more severely, and then began to break... The next second, a massive amount of magic power, exceeding the total amount of magic power in the previous battle, erupted!

Half a second before the powerful energy wave reached Uruk directly below, Orpheus appeared at the epicenter of the explosion. The rampant energy was forcibly halted, then reversed and was absorbed into Orpheus's body.

"Hey, hey, what is this...?"

Ishtar looked at the vanished barrier and the various spells within the city, and frowned with some concern.

The energy burst forth continuously, and was then absorbed into Orpheus's body. It wasn't until nearly twenty minutes later that everything subsided.

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"So, the current situation is that Tiamat has been temporarily sealed by King Orpheus in the cracks of the world, and what remains now is just a remnant of information, right?"

The group returned to the temple, and through the communicator, Roman began to piece together the current situation based on Orpheus's fragmented words.

"Since Uruk is the center of Mesopotamia, the target of Tiamat, the beast of human evil, would presumably be Uruk. Then, it is estimated that Tiamat will be able to break the seal and head towards her target Uruk in two days, which is expected to take more than a day."

“That’s right. Before that, I will move the Underworld under the land of Uruk. Then, as long as I blast Tiamat into my domain, I will have enough chance of winning!”

In a mirror beside Orpheus, Ereshkigal puffed out his chest and spoke proudly.

"Then, let's take these three days to rest and recharge."

Only after everyone had left did a suppressed expression of pain appear on Orpheus's face.

She was still a bit careless.

Tiamat actually attacked her 'infinity' itself!

Originally, it wouldn't have been so easy, but in order to protect Uruk, she released the concept of infinity, which gave Tiamat the opportunity to attack directly.

The destruction of Infinity had a significant backlash on Orpheus.

In fact, if it weren't for this, Orpheus might have had the chance to push Tiamat out of the real world.

Moreover, the power that guy initially injected into her body also took the opportunity to begin eroding her body.

That beam of light seemed to have gone all out, probably Tiamat's original power. Even though Orpheus suppressed it with a large amount of energy, he was still unable to eliminate those alien magical powers.

So, does that mother goddess actually have intelligence...?

Enduring the mental anguish that was constantly assaulting him, Orpheus took a deep breath.

Just hold on for three more days...

Chapter 112 A Continued Vow

Beside Uruk, on the Hill of Heaven.

Orpheus held a shimmering golden sphere in his hand and slowly climbed to the top of the mountain.

"come yet?"

With his usual gentle smile, Enkidu's holy figure appeared before Orpheus.

Looking at the bloody hole in Enkidu's heart, Orpheus tilted his head, then smiled slightly and tossed the golden ball he was holding towards Enkidu.

"How embarrassing."

"There's nothing we can do about it. After all, the previous owner's operational awareness and level of vigilance weren't good enough."

Enkidu took the golden ball and shrugged.

"Fortunately, since my nature is that of a Servant, as long as I can receive magical energy from you, I can drive it even without a core... although it hurts a lot."

With that, Enkidu took a few steps forward and delivered a chop to Orpheus's head.

"Well?"

"I'm telling you, you're pushing yourself too hard. And what happened before? Even though it's the same body, the operators are different. Just blast it to smithereens. What's the point of holding back? To me, you are countless times more important than this body that only causes trouble."

"Hmm..."

Orpheus puffed out his cheeks.

Indeed, she was somewhat confused during her first battle with Kingo, wondering whether she should really take action against him. Then she began to think about whether she should oppose Enkidu and resist her predetermined fate.

As a result, she almost crashed and burned, nearly being killed by Jin Gu's full-force release of his true name.

It was at that time that she received the message from Enkidu inside Kingo's body.

—'Follow your heart and do it freely'

Therefore, Orpheus decided to fight against fate with all his might and confront the Mother Goddess who created the world.

"Pfft... Ugh."

Frustrated by Enkidu's finger poking her and having her biting teeth avoided, Orpheus pouted in dissatisfaction—only in front of Enkidu would she act in such a way befitting her age, right?

Incidentally, the first hundred years of a dragon's life are considered infancy, so Orpheus, who is only a little over a hundred years old, can probably be considered to be in his juvenile stage.

Seeing the pain flash across Enkidu's face from his earlier actions, Orpheus reluctantly gave up the pursuit.

"If Enkidu hadn't been summoned so easily and was hiding inside that imposter's body, I wouldn't have made that mistake... But since Enkidu has said so, then Enkidu will assist me in achieving my goal, is that alright?"

Enkidu responded to Orpheus with a smile as pure as ever, placing the golden orb of light into the hollow of his chest. With a burst of golden light, Enkidu's body was restored to its original state.

"That's beyond our control. The world doesn't allow two identical beings to exist in the same spacetime. If the timelines were different, there would be room for manipulation (Red A: ???). But we are essentially 'Enkidu in his prime before he died'. Under these circumstances, it's already quite fortunate that I wasn't directly assimilated... This is probably because the other operator and I are too different in thought and personality."

Then, she solemnly knelt down.

"As for your so-called assistance... that is only natural, Master. Your seventh Servant—Lancer, Enkidu—was activated by your call. My only Master, past, present, and future, please feel free to command me without any mercy!"

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"Your Majesty, please enjoy."

Standing beside Orpheus, Sidduri respectfully served tea.

Her king has been sitting here for almost two days.

Although in the past Orpheus could sit like this for more than two months, let alone two days, through the connection of blood, Siduri always felt that Orpheus now was less unwilling to move and more unable to move.

Unaware of the situation, she could only serve her king even more diligently.

Orpheus nodded and took the items.

After calculating the time, it was about time for Tiamat to break free from her seal.

Two days ago, Orpheus forcibly sealed Tiamat into a spacetime rift using the unparalleled spatial abilities of the Ouroboros. The essence of this move was to take Tiamat out of this world with him. When activated, both he and Tiamat would inevitably remain in the same spacetime plane. It was because of this that Orpheus could only take Tiamat's sniper attack head-on and suffered his current injuries.

Ultimately, this was because it was a skill that had only been completed after half a year in order to deal with Tiamat, and it had not yet been mastered.

This also resulted in the seal being extremely incomplete. In order to suppress the uncontrollable Infinity, Orpheus could only throw the opponent out of the world at will and then immediately return to this spacetime to retrieve the damaged Infinity.

After being severely injured, Orpheus was unable to continue the unfinished seal, so he could only use the last resort: to defeat Tiamat by relying on the Underworld!

Whether it's the evil nature of humanity, the nature of the creator god, or a mixture of both, Tiamat seems to possess the ability to survive as long as humans are alive. In other words, only the underworld, devoid of living beings, can restrain her... Of course, anything outside the world would work, but unfortunately, Orpheus doesn't have the power to do so.

I can help suppress your injuries, but that will leave me with no energy to defend myself from the mastermind's gaze. You'd better be a little more vigilant.

Orpheus nodded, then looked at Siduri.

"What about the survivor statistics?"

Hiduri trembled and lowered his head.

"Of the original two hundred men in your cavalry unit, only fifty-three remain. As per your orders, they were sent to guard the north wall. Although they wished to return and fight alongside Uruk, they were stopped by force."

"The first unit to return to defend has 79 men remaining, plus 202 men who returned later, for a total of 281 men. These are your elite troops, and they are on standby in Uruk."

"The city guard originally numbered 500, but now only 106 remain, and they are stationed at the north wall."

"The ordinary troops were almost completely wiped out in the final battle against the monsters. Now, there are 272 people left, who are also staying in the North Wall."

"Finally, there are eight temple guards, which covers the entire army's situation."

"What about the common people?"

"...Those monsters, which the king eventually named 'Raham' (is there no consistent translation for this?), seemed to be quite hostile to human life. They went so far as to bypass Uruk and harass the evacuating civilians, causing considerable casualties."

So, how many people are left?

Orpheus pinched the bridge of his nose.

"The final survivors... 693 people..."

"It's no longer a number that can support a civilization."

Hiduri lowered his head even further.

Are you grieving, Siddhartha?

"This……"

"This is nothing to mourn."

Boom!!!

Orpheus took a sip of tea and was about to continue speaking when a sudden, violent tremor struck.

"Your Majesty, Tiamat, the goddess Tiamat has appeared!"

Orpheus spat out all the tea he was drinking.