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Blaze scratched the back of his head, but his words only made Ishtar give him a weird look.

"That's the reason? Nothing else?"

"What else could there be?"

"...As expected of the people born under my rule, their thoughts are avant-garde and open-minded." Ishtar pinched her chin, very satisfied.

She subconsciously wanted to take a step forward, probably wanting to walk up to Blaze to express her praise, but as if she was hesitant, the step she took turned into a turn and leaning on the crack of the ancient Tree of Life.

"My actions were considered treasonous during the Age of Gods."

"Indeed, she is your sister after all."

"No, that doesn't matter. I heard that the king of the gods of Olympus had sex with his sister all the time, and his descendants also inherited this well." Ishtar waved her hand. "For gods, inbreeding is not a rare thing. We are all created by the original gods, and we are all relatives two or three generations ago."

"That's true." Blaze found himself speechless. After all, God could be said to be the original life. If he didn't have a relationship with the God who was created at the same time, what else could he look for?

"What's so outrageous about that?"

"Because I am a woman, and Ereshkigal is also a woman." Ishtar sighed regretfully, her fingers unconsciously twirling the ends of her black hair.

Perhaps the slight curls at the ends of her black hair were curled up unconsciously by the goddess herself.

"Only the union of a man and a woman can continue life, and as the god of life, I am in charge of the reproduction of living beings. If I try to unite with Ereshkigal, a woman, it means that the reproduction of living beings on earth will stop."

"Of course, there are also some anomalies that occur when the God of Life and the God of Death combine. You know, what happens when you put fire and water together."

Blaze's eyes twitched for the umpteenth time, but it never stopped after he saw Ishtar.

He learned about the influence of gods on the world from the words of Odin and Athena. For example, if the god of harvest was in a bad mood, the earth would be hit by famine, and even worse, it would cause a long winter.

Ishtar's behavior was even more serious, as it directly caused the extinction of all life on earth.

"This, this is indeed a bit...not good."

"It's not like there's no solution. Just give humans freedom." Ishtar rolled her eyes. "Look, the Age of Gods was turned upside down and destroyed. The gods disappeared one by one. My power and authority were dispersed to an inaudible level, but life is still alive and well."

"That's true, but I guess this is the real reason why those old guys you mentioned think it's a rebellion."

God did not create humans for fun. How many gods are like Quetzalcoatl, who created humans out of love for humans? I am afraid that there is only one reason for other gods to create humans, and that is slaves.

Humans who look similar to themselves believe in them, worship them, and occasionally have fun with them.

Give humans freedom? That's probably impossible. When humans choose not to be pious to the gods anymore, that's when the gods are ready to destroy humans.

To this day, Blaze occasionally feels a sense of crisis. As the upheavals continue, some gods will return one day.

It is unknown whether the gods will accept this age of humans or try to return the world to the age of the gods.

"Since you have told me your greatest secret, can you also explain to me the situation between you two? For example, why did the Tree of Life, the embodiment of your power and authority after its split, become Ereshkigal after its reversal?"

"I succeeded."

"Cough cough--" Blaze was choked by his own saliva and started coughing violently. This answer was unexpected.

"But it seems that I only got her body, not her heart."

"No need to add more!" Blaze covered his face with his hands in pain, wondering why things had developed to this point.

But since he has already heard it and can't forget it, he might as well understand the situation clearly.

"What happened between you to cause you to be in this entangled state now?"

"That was when the upheaval happened..."

Chapter 1441 Give Her Everything

The great mistress of the sky and the mistress of the earth enjoyed the praise and offerings of mankind on that ordinary day...

"Wait." Blaze raised his hand and interrupted Ishtar's narration. "Your subjectivity will affect the details of the story."

"I'm not subjective at all. Everything I said is an objective fact." Ishtar raised her eyebrows, but Blaze's expression showed complete disbelief.

"Okay, okay, then I will reluctantly use the third world to summarize it. The arrogant, annoying, yet favored goddess Ishtar continues to enjoy the prosperity brought by human hard work."

Blaze's face tightened. He didn't know what kind of god Ishtar was in the past. She must have been a very troublesome kind. He didn't expect that she actually knew it.

He couldn't help but said, "You know what others say about you, and you don't want to change at all. What should you do?"

"So what if they hate me?"

Ishtar shrugged her shoulders with a nonchalant look on her face. Just when Blaze thought Ishtar would say some standard lines like "It doesn't matter", she said something that made Blaze raise his eyebrows.

"As long as I want, there is no one in this world who won't like me. Because I will try my best to make my target like me, at all costs."

"Oh~ You should continue." Blaze nodded thoughtfully and raised his hands.

After being interrupted once by Blaze, Ishtar did not intersperse her thoughts praising herself during her story, and spoke rather casually.

"The upheaval was so sudden that even the wisest water god did not foresee this moment. Before the world was torn apart, the gods had already been affected."

"I used to be the mistress of the sky, and because I play an important role in the reproduction of life on earth, even if the world turns upside down, it can't do anything to me. It can only cause this much damage to me."

Ishtar gestured with two fingers, and Blaze was sure that Ishtar must have been in bad luck at that time, but she was just being stubborn and insisting that nothing was wrong.

"However, the destruction caused by the upheaval has already doomed the end of Ragnarok. The gods are deeply bound to this world. The birth of a god can bring vitality to the world, and the death of a god can also cause turmoil in the world."

"That was the building that collapsed from the inside. For some reason, the first pillar that collapsed destroyed the entire magnificent temple. The god died in the midst of the upheaval, and the death of the god caused another upheaval."

"For God, countless years are like the blink of an eye. We can only see those special nodes, such as destruction. When the earth-shaking began, the destruction of life had already appeared in the future. For God, that life had already been destroyed, and I, the God of Life, was not far from disappearing."

"So you thought of transforming into the Tree of Life?" Blaze asked.

"No." Ishtar spread her hands and said casually, "I'm going to die soon, so why not find Ereshkigal and express my passionate love for her? I invite her to leave the underworld, Kul, and embrace me in the destruction of the world."

"You really are such a guy!"

"Of course she rejected me again, but that last time she told me the reason why she would never accept me." Ishtar walked around the crack of the ancient Tree of Life calmly.

"She said that I was born with everything, noble and beautiful, luxurious but incorruptible. She was jealous of everything I had, but I didn't cherish it. As long as I was still so shining, she would always be jealous."

"She roared like that and attacked again, even rushing out of the underworld, Kul. She stabbed me with her gun, but I will not die outside the underworld."

“So I gave it all to her.”

"All?" Blaze was stunned.

"All of it. My body, my strength, my power, everything I was born with." Ishtar spoke casually, but her words were full of sense of rightness.

"I said I would do anything to win the love of one person. If I can win the love of Ereshkigal by giving up everything, then I will give it up. But unfortunately, it is not something that can be given easily. She and I will soon disappear from this shattered earth."

"I have to say, if she hadn't left the Underworld, Kuhl, she might not have been affected. She is invincible in the Underworld."

Blaze reminded, but Ishtar rolled her eyes at him.

"Why do you think the giant snake swallowed Helheim into its belly when the world turned upside down? The entire mythological totem collapsed in the upheaval, and the underworld will be no exception. If she continues to stay in the underworld, she will only seek her own death."

So that is the real doomsday. Life will eventually die, and the only destination of life - death will also collapse, and everything will return to nothingness.

She held her in her arms and walked through this destroying world, with the spear of hatred stuck in her chest.

If there were still someone who could come to save them, she would kneel down and beg without hesitation, but this world had been destroyed. Sadly, the person in her arms who looked like her was being destroyed. Death had to die before life because it had no destination.

If life can return to death after death, then where should death go after death?

Finally, she stopped in front of a dying life, with a seed in the hand of that life.

Then maybe her constant prayers were answered and she knew how to give everything she had.

Plants can reproduce themselves and are a symbol of life, carrying its power. Plants can also absorb the bodies of the dead and become the destination of death.

So she used her own strength and power to build a new [Underworld] for her, and the beautiful Tree of Life would become the abode of the God of Death.

The god of death fell into a deep sleep, wrapped in the power of life, and turned into a sapling growing out of the mud. From that moment on, she guarded the sapling and waited.

"So, the consciousness of the Tree of Life and even the Golden Sea of ​​Trees is actually Ereshkigal?"

“Yes, you mentioned the fallen god of death Scorpio before. She is now fallen and in some hazy and beautiful dream, and the familiar pain will wake her up.” Ishtar sighed, and for the first time, a sad look appeared on her face.

"I originally thought that only by returning the first seven constellations could the instinct of Scorpio, the god of death, awaken her. I didn't expect it was because of [jealousy]. I think it was the Peace Olive Tree and the Sea of ​​Golden Apple Trees that made her mistakenly think it was [me], so she woke up."

Chapter 1442: It's simple, right?

"This is the birth of the golden sea of ​​trees that you want to know about. Although there are many descriptions of my heroic spirit missing in the middle, you should be able to understand it."

"I understand, but..." Blaze held his chin and looked at Ishtar with a complicated expression.

"It's not nice to say this, but is she worth it?"

Although he did not know Ishtar, nor did he know what the mythological totem to which Ishtar belonged looked like, judging from what Ishtar called herself, she should be quite noble and great, like the center of everything.

She was definitely not the type of person who didn't care about anything because she had everything. On the contrary, she cared a lot about what she had, whether it was her wealth or the creatures living under her rule. She was even proud of it.

But she gave up easily, giving up everything just to get the love of God.

"…Because she is the only one in this world who doesn't love me and will never love me. So I think she loves me. You know, if the whole world likes you, in the end you will only care about that one special person."

"Then your hobby is really quite bizarre." Blaze looked at the letter sent by the chicken in his hand, which contained a picture of a sea of ​​black and gold trees taken with a handmade camera.

It could only be described as hideous and terrifying. The earth had lost its vitality, and the wild beasts were hung upside down on the trees, appearing dry and withered as if they had experienced countless years of wind and sun.

Considering that Ishtar was tied up like a hedgehog and hung upside down because she offended Ereshkigal, this was most likely the work of Ereshkigal.

Now Ereshkigal has both the power of the God of Death and part of Ishtar as the God of Life, and she can constantly create the underworld Kur.

When she was the Tree of Life, Ereshkigal was indeed pure, but once she awakened, she completely returned to the appearance of a God of Death.

Blaze flipped through the pictures one by one. Even the blurry images fully demonstrated the cruelty and indifference of the black-gold forest. They were like the embodiment of killing, constantly harvesting lives to expand.

"She seems to have lost control, or rather returned to normal. I have to say, is it true that you love Ereshkigal for reasons other than 'you don't love me'?"

"Do you think so too? If you knew her true face, what she did, and that she is the embodiment of death, you would not love her." Ishtar sighed softly, with her hands behind her back. The sunlight shone through the pink flowers of the Tree of Life and enveloped her.

"Do you expect a god who has never been loved, who is in the underworld and is forever surrounded by wailing and coldness, to be gentle and kind? I won't ask you to love her. Even I know that this is too much to ask. But I want to tell you that I love her."

"If I, as a living being, do not love her as a dead being, then who else will love her? She will always only have the cold and gloomy underworld of Kul."

"That doesn't sound like love. It sounds more like some kind of responsibility." Blaze touched the back of his head. He never expected that one day he would be talking about love with a god who was dressed gorgeously and revealingly.

However, Ishtar claims to be the god of love and has great authority over love.

"No wonder you haven't mated yet. Passion is vigorous and vigorous, while love is dull, long and boring."

“Look at this beautiful flower.”

Ishtar's tone changed, becoming somewhat lighthearted and casual, she looked at the pink and white clusters of flowers blooming on the Tree of Life and spoke proudly.

"She's very cute, isn't she? Just give her a little love, and she'll respond with even stronger love. It's not that she doesn't know love, but she's a flower in the underworld. Ordinary love can't be transmitted to the underworld at all, and I brought her out."

"I don't want to spoil your fun, but the cute girl you mentioned is only her when she's asleep. She's not that cute after she wakes up." Blaze stood up and walked in front of Ishtar. The sunlight shone from behind him, and his face was pitch black, with only a pair of golden eyes shining.

"You know, some old guys gave me a suggestion not long ago. They suggested that I destroy the black golden forest. They said that it was only a small part of the golden forest, and destroying it would not have any effect on the main body of the golden forest."

"After listening to you, I think this suggestion might be a good one."

"In the future, the foreigners will continue to love and protect the Tree of Life. She will receive chocolates every year and gifts on every holiday. How about this, next Christmas we will treat the Tree of Life as a Christmas tree, and everyone will spend Christmas Eve around her."

"Let's just think of the Black Gold Sea of ​​Trees as a nightmare of Ereshkigal's. Let's destroy it and let her continue to dream of being loved by all living beings. Let her keep blooming this beautiful flower."

“It sounds beautiful, but the one you love is still Ishtar.” Ishtar shook her head.

"She who is surrounded by love is clothed in my strength and power. The love she feels is ultimately because she is now me. Everyone always loves Ishtar, the symbol of life and harvest, not Ereshkigal, the god of death."

"No one loves her, and the nightmare continues and will never end."

"I know, so I'm not going to listen to those old guys. Those guys really don't know that I like to take the most troublesome route." Blaze shifted his body slightly, letting the sunlight cover his face, and he showed a smile brighter than the sunlight.

"If there is such a hidden danger, I won't be able to eat well or sleep well. It's better to solve her problem in one go."

"So what do I do?"

"It's simple. Just fight your way in, then walk up to her and yell "I love you". Remember to be sincere." Ishtar said it lightly, but it sounded like a bolt from the blue to Blaze.

Seeing Blaze was stunned, she raised an eyebrow.

"You don't think this is a simple matter, do you?"

On the contrary, I don’t think I can do it.

Blaze's expression was a little stiff. Going through fire and water was easier than shouting "I love you". Oh, Ishtar asked him to fight first, so he would have to go through fire and water before shouting "I love you".

"I felt that if I did this, she would think I was trying to trick her, which would backfire and make her even more upset."

"That's why you have to return the first seven constellations before you can face Scorpio, the god of death." Ishtar explained patiently.