The Holy Grail War of God's Blessing

Manshu didn't have any feelings about this place, although he could only look at it briefly before, but that was also a place he had seen a more magnificent sea.

The terrain here in the Persian Gulf looks a little small. It is more like a harbor than a sea.

The scale here is still not as large as the ocean Oceanus that only exists in mythology and once appeared behind the Tower of the End.

However, Manshu came here not to watch the sea, but to see the scenery under the ocean, so it didn't have much impact.

Manshu did not disturb anything here, but continued to chant Amon, hiding his body and climbed up the observation tower.

The soldiers on duty here didn't notice anything. They were just recording as usual. Manshu walked past them without even a gust of wind.

However, there seems to be nothing meaningful here. The recorded data cannot make out anything. What needs to be sent to Uruk is the sea water in containers every day.

But this is a high platform after all, and the view is still quite good. Manshu walked out, stood on the platform outside and looked into the distance.

Well, it seems that all I can see is the plain sea surface, and I can't see anything specific.

Manshu stroked his chest, and smoke like volcanic smoke came out of it. An obsidian mirror fell from the rising smoke, and the mirror surface began to reflect the light from the outside world, giving off a weird appearance.

Mansu looked at the vast waters of the Persian Gulf again, without looking down, but just continued to rely on the vast waters.

"It seems that this is all I can see. If I really look directly at Tiamat, it might wake her up from her slumber, and that would be more trouble than it's worth."

But I only saw some ripples on the water surface, and what was hidden beneath the water surface, and the primitive fear, but that was all. Nothing more existed.

After all, this sea is enough to explain everything. Life was born in the sea, and the goddess of origin is the ocean, the original sea, the original goddess, which is the manifestation of original sin.

This vast, calm, blue sea, now only has dark black and dark red hues to it.

I looked up at the cloudless sky again, but it was suddenly covered with dark clouds. Only a few spots of light shone through the edges of the clouds, which brought people an incomparable sense of depression.

Manshu did not continue to observe the scene here, but turned and left. At this time, no more information could be obtained from the Persian Gulf. Only when the illusion constructed by Merlin was shattered could he see it clearly.

After leaving the Persian Gulf and finding the mouth of the Tigris River, all we have to do is continue along the Tigris River.

Walking beside the Tigris River, one can indeed feel that this great river, which together with the Euphrates River gave birth to various civilizations in Mesopotamia, is showing its violence.

It seems that the Tigris River has a fast flow and is difficult to use, but this does not have much impact on Mansu.

The distance from the Persian Gulf to Kusa is not too far. It takes about the same time from Urumqi to the Persian Gulf and from Urjiruk to Linaibifu.

After all, Ishtar was the urban god of Uruk. She usually lived in the northeast of Uruk, and her residence was not too far from Uruk.

Of course, this is naturally calculated based on Ishtar's own ability to act. After all, as the goddess of the sky, Ishtar is also in charge of the sky of this earth quite comfortably.

Uncle Man spent almost another half a day following the Tigris River to a reed field, with the city of Kusa not far away.

It was not too early, and Mansu had no intention of going directly to Mount Abifu and climbing that mountain to meet Ishtar at night.

It just so happens that there are no living people living in the city of Kusa right now. Although there are some dangers, it won’t be a big deal to use it to rest for a night.

The city is close to Mount Aibifu, located in the northeast of Urumqi, and naturally falls under the jurisdiction of the goddess.

However, the girl who actually rules here is not Ishtar, but her sister Ereshkigal.

The reason why the city was deserted was that the entire city stopped functioning overnight and all the citizens living in the city died overnight.

Therefore, this city is now a very quiet city. No life can survive in this city. Even the monsters controlled by the Goddess of Warcraft avoid this city.

However, this city is not like those urban legends where all the residents disappeared overnight. The scene in the city still retains the appearance of life, as if nothing has changed.

Although the city is uninhabited and untouched by living creatures, the damage is quite severe.

Without the arrival of the monsters, it is not the monsters that destroyed the city. The thing that damaged the city should be the thing that brought the silence to the city.

It is indeed a very quiet city. From the outside, I didn't feel much. From a distance, I could only see a dilapidated city.

It looked like the abandoned cities and the destroyed cities in the north and south, except that they were probably not as dilapidated.

Only when I really walked into the city of Kusa, I could truly feel the incomparable silence, a silence that would terrify life, a silence that could be equated with death.

Normal people probably don't want to stay in this city for long. Even if the servants enter the city, they will feel inexplicable fear, but they will not be able to sense any threat.

Just be careful not to step into the truly deadly parts of the city.

That is the underground of this city, which is also the underworld of the Sumerian world.

As long as he does not enter the underworld, the master here will not be able to do anything to Manshu. However, if he enters the underworld below, even though Manshu also possesses the power of the underworld god, he may only be able to barely resist and perhaps escape.

Manshu found a relatively clean house that was not seriously damaged and spent the night there.

It is not possible for Manshu himself to miss a step and fall inexplicably into the underground of the city and into the underworld.

When Ereshkigal is not in the underworld, he is not so scary.

The night was quite peaceful, without any disturbances and no one visited here.

After all, Kusa City, with the underground underworld below, is generally quite dangerous at night. It is possible that the souls of the dead will crawl out at night, and the number of souls that can crawl out is definitely not small, after all, there is the underworld below.

Manshu had no intention of doing anything else, so he set off in the morning, leaving the quiet city of Kusa and heading towards Mount Aibi.

It doesn't even take half a day to get to Mount Aibi from here. Not far ahead, you can see groups of foothills. Among those peaks, you can see the most steep one, which has extremely rich aura and magic.

From this point, we can judge that it should be the sacred peak Mount Ebifu, and the goddess Ishtar is on that mountain.

It seems that Ishtar has not gone out to beg for money today. She has gone to other places and played in the pastures near the city of Uruk.

Manshu sensed an extremely strong divinity, which meant that the goddess was indeed still on this mountain. This was quite easy to judge.

Mount Ebif is the most sacred peak in Sumer that was conquered by Ishtar. Even An, the supreme god of Sumer, fears this mountain.

An's daughter Ishtar was very obsessed with this mountain. An told Ishtar, "Mount Ebif is extremely rich, its grace is like this, and its depth is also like this. It is the act of a fool to resist Mount Ebif."

However, this advice only ignited Ishtar's anger. She took all the weapons she could carry and headed towards Mount Ebif while a storm was blowing.

Of course, Mount Ebifu would not accept it quietly, and all kinds of wild beasts, storms, rivers, and cold air on the mountain attacked Ishtar.

Whenever she was attacked, Ishtar would complain, "Snake poison, rain of falling rocks, scorching lava! I can't believe I'm being treated like this!"

It was clearly because she broke in that she was complaining, which was just like the thief crying "stop thief". However, these disasters inspired Ishtar's fighting spirit. She stepped on all obstacles and was determined to reach the top.

Finally, Ishtar reached the top of the mountain, grabbed Mount Ebifu by the neck, and stabbed the blade deep into its body.

Mount Ebif collapsed because it could not bear the weight, and Ishtar thus proved to the world that she was the goddess of war.

Ishtar built her own temple here and usually lived here.

Climbing this rather steep mountain is not as difficult as it seems.

Manshu experienced the feeling of mountain climbing, but soon found it boring. He used magic power to quickly climb the mountain and came to the temple of Ishtar.

Although climbing a mountain is not a boring thing, you can still have fun, especially when you reach the top.

But the thrill of reaching the summit of this mountain is probably not very strong, or even hard to say it exists.

It was for this reason that Manshu used his magic power to quickly climb to the top of the mountain. Then the scene on the top of the mountain came into Manshu's eyes. It was a temple that made people unable to complain at all and could only shake their heads and sigh.

In various ways, the aesthetics of Ishtar here are a bit problematic, at least for now.

In fact, the temple building itself is quite magnificent and looks very majestic, as long as you can ignore the golden fortune cats on both sides of the stairs.

Those two lucky cat statues simply ruined the style of the entire temple.

"What a poor-taste goddess! Although your power as the goddess of beauty has declined, it shouldn't be reduced to such a low level."

Mansu could not help but comment on this temple. He shook his head and complained as he prepared to walk up the stairs to enter the temple.

"You are so shameless to comment on others' affairs in front of their temple. Should I say that you are extremely bold or that you don't know how to live or die?"

There was nothing else superfluous on the top of Mount Aibifu. It seemed that Mansu had fallen into the ears of the owner here. The shining goddess Venus appeared above the temple, and the light of Venus shot out from her fingertips.

"Unfortunately, neither."

Manshu shook his head and released lightning from his hands to knock down the magic bullet shot by Ishtar.

"Hadad's lightning, is this what gives you the confidence to be disrespectful in front of my temple? You have quite the courage. Okay, I'll play with you for a bit."

Ishtar said with a gloomy face, the magic power has been gathering in her hands, and the light of Venus was shot out one after another, bombarding in front of the goddess's temple.

"Well, I commend you for getting straight to the point. Show me your power, Ishtar!"

Manshu was unceremoniously taking the place of host, as if he was the master here and Ishtar was the guest visiting this temple.

"Stop looking down on me, or I'll crush you to pieces!"

Ishtar grabbed a few gems in her hands, injected her spirit and magic power into the gems, and fired them out.

However, this was just a prelude, and was supposed to be a test, but the enraged goddess skipped this stage and picked up her bow as an Archer - Tianzhou Maanna.

Maanna, who had become a bow, was equipped with an arrow of light. The magic power gathered into arrows as long as a person, and several arrows appeared at once and were shot out at once, bombarding Manshu.

The goddess of heaven began to show her firepower to the fullest, and the bombardment of magic directly engulfed all the land in front of the temple.

Chapter 138: Qimingzhu

Although Ishtar behaves like a comedian, her essence as a deity has not changed. She is still a brutal goddess of war.

Burned by the rage she provoked, she will naturally reveal her devilish cruelty, bringing battle and destruction from the sky to the earth.

On the sacred mountain of Mount Ebifu, Ishtar's destructive power fell once again on this mountain.

Although it is not as good as Ishtar in the past, who stepped onto the top of Mount Ebifu and stabbed the mountain with a spear into the heart of the earth vein to kill the mountain.

As an Archer, Ishtar can now use a gun, but since she is an Archer, she must naturally follow her class. Ishtar uses the huge bow beside her that is taller than herself to scatter the dazzling magic light wantonly.

The mountain was once again devastated, but this time Mount Ebifu had no ability to resist. The rocks on the top of the mountain were constantly being shaved away, and the land in front of the temple began to turn into pits.

"You can't just keep bombing, Ishtar. If this is your power as a goddess, it's too inappropriate."

In Manshu's hand, lightning turned into a torrential rain of long spears and was thrown out, which actually suppressed the light arrows shot by Ishtar.

More powerful lightning and magic power, under the influence of the gods, gathered in Manshu's hands, reshaping the double hammers in the hands of the God King of Canaan.

"Before I came to Mount Ebifu, I first went to the Blood Temple of the Goddess of Warcraft, and then traveled to Eridu, the first city on this land.

I came here after visiting the other two goddesses who appeared on this land. Compared with those two goddesses, you, as the god of war and the goddess of Venus, are disappointing.

Manshu was still not satisfied with Ishtar, because this guy was not the type to go all out and completely crush Manshu or even destroy him.

The Warcraft Goddess Gorgon holds an endless hatred for humans in her heart. She will naturally tear apart any human that appears before her without mercy.

The Gorgon would use her serpentine body to grind people into rotten meat, or use her petrifying magic eyes to turn people into stone statues.

Quetzalcoatl threw herself into the fight of her equals, using her powers without restraint, not worrying about who she might kill.

As the pinnacle of good gods, Quetzalcoatl holds the power of wind and water. She can kill people, but those killed by her will will not die. She will make the death caused by this cease to exist.

But Ishtar was different. She did not have too deep hatred for humans. As the native god of this land, she naturally regarded the city of Uruk and its residents as her own property.

If it were the real Ishtar, she would indeed show her violence and cruelty to the challenger without mercy, but the Ishtar in front of her was not the real Ishtar, but a pseudo-Servant.

Unlike Quetzalcoatl, Ishtar was summoned by the locals.

When the goddess of beasts Gorgon had already appeared on this land, and the beasts appeared in the north of Mesopotamia.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when Gilgamesh left Uruk to build a fortress in the north to resist monsters, the priestesses of Uruk secretly performed a ritual without the king's knowledge.

After all, in such an ancient society, theocracy and royal power could never coexist in harmony, and the struggle for power always occurred between them.

The early Sumerian society was undoubtedly a theocratic society, which can be seen from the construction of Sumerian cities. The cities were initially built around temples and expanded outward.

The concept of the king did not appear in Sumer until the Early Dynastic Period, which can be seen from the layout of the city, because the king's palace was not in the center of the city, but on the edge of the city.

Obviously, the king's rule was added to the city system during the development of the city. The Sumerian king evolved from a military leader.

Before the Early Dynastic Period, there is no evidence of large-scale warfare between Sumerian city-states.

The foundation of the Sumerian city-state was the irrigation unit. Agricultural production was not possible outside the irrigation system, which means that the land between city-states was wasteland.

That is, before the Early Royal Dynasty, when the population of each city was still quite sparse, the land within the city was sufficient for use and there was no ability to reclaim wasteland outside.

But as the population grew, the city-state began to organize and expand its own irrigation system, gradually developing towards the edges of the city-state and turning wasteland into arable land.

As cities expand, territorial disputes between different cities naturally arise, and the scale of disputes and conflicts will inevitably become more and more intense.

The struggles between city-states in ancient times lasted for a considerable period of time. The inscription on the Vulture Stele of Lagash records the war between Lagash and Umma. Lagash and its neighbor Umma fought a war for a hundred years for a piece of land.

In order to cope with the growing scale of conflicts in such a society, a military leader to deal with wars came into being.

Of course there must be another factor, that is another group of people who also lived in Mesopotamia, the Semites.

Unlike Sumerian cities, which were centered on temples, Semitic cities in the Levant were centered on palaces.

This also shows that the Semites themselves may have had the concept of kings, and the northern cities of Sumer themselves had close contacts with the Semites, and there were many Semites living in the cities. These people are what we often call Akkadians.

In the case of exchanges between the two peoples, it was quite normal for some concepts and cultures of the Semites to be introduced into the Sumerian region.

When another ruler appears, it will inevitably have an impact on the original rule, and the struggle between theocracy and royal power is inevitable.