Type-Moon Demon King exploded Elle's gold coins at the beginning!

"I... I didn't take anything."

Even though Li Lin's face was hidden by his black robe and she couldn't see it clearly, Ishtar still felt an indescribable sense of oppression.

As a proud goddess, this was the first time she had felt such a strong masculine presence, which made her heart beat faster and a lovely blush slowly spread across her face.

Li Lin: ".............."

Why are you blushing like a teapot?!

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Chapter 16, The Flying Goddess Takes the Blame.

"I only found a regular key; I didn't touch anything else."

"The key?" Li Lin frowned.

"Yes, it's just a regular key."

As if afraid that Li Lin wouldn't believe her, Ishtar slowly moved away from under the tree and then began to explain with exaggerated gestures.

“I happened to be passing by there, and guess what? There was just an ordinary key lying on the ground surrounded by dead wood.”

Ishtar spread her hands and pointed to the ground, saying.

“I thought the key was well-made, so I picked it up. I was thinking of taking it back and asking if someone had accidentally lost it, so I could return it as a favor.”

"As you know, I was hung up by the suddenly crazed Humbaba and falsely accused of stealing from it."

At this point, Ishtar glanced at Li Lin subtly, then turned away, licked her fingers twice, dabbed them under her eyes, and feigned a pitiful expression before continuing.

"Waaaaah, this is such a misunderstanding! I haven't even entered the gates of the Golden City yet, how could I possibly steal anything?"

"As a righteous god, you surely believe in me, right?"

After saying that, Ishtar leaned forward and looked at Li Lin with teary eyes.

Li Lin: "......."

Guess whether I believe your nonsense?

Li Lin couldn't help but roll his eyes. This good-for-nothing could just spout lies so easily.

Did you just pick it up and plan to return it later?

Do you even believe what you're saying?

Li Lin grabbed Ishtar's forehead with his hand, pushed the goddess away, and then said.

"Alright, enough talk, let me see the thing first."

"Uh, well, there's no need to look at it. It's just a small, insignificant gadget, nothing special."

Upon hearing this, Ishtar's expression froze, and she couldn't help but tap her fingers together in front of her chest, intending to play dumb and act cute.

"Fine, if you don't want to, then forget it."

Unexpectedly, Li Lin didn't pressure her; instead, he calmly shrugged. This made Ishtar's expression brighten, but before she could be happy for long, Li Lin's next words completely stunned her.

"Since you're unwilling, I'll just have to throw you back to Finbaba."

"Anyway, the wronged have their culprits and the debtors have their debtors. You'll just be hung up a little longer, it's no big deal."

With that, Li Lin turned around and was about to leave Ishtar behind.

“Qiu, Qiu Duoma must—!!”

"I'll take it, I'll take it, okay?"

When Ishtar saw that Li Lin was about to leave, she could no longer control her expression and immediately revealed a stern face.

"Hmph, that's more like it. Why do I have to use my ultimate move?"

Upon hearing this, Li Lin smiled smugly, crossed his arms, and looked quite confident.

"Waaah, I don't know what bad luck I had to meet you."

Seeing this, Ishtar knew exactly what Li Lin was planning.

But since her secrets were in someone else's hands, she had no choice but to reluctantly take out the so-called "found key" from her bosom for the sake of her freedom.

“This is…!”

Upon seeing the key, Li Lin frowned.

He took it, examined it carefully, and immediately noticed its key feature.

Good grief, this is what you called "just an ordinary key"?

This is clearly the silver key to unlock the gates of the Golden City!

Li Lin felt that he had underestimated Ishtar's madness.

It should be noted that, under normal circumstances, the capital of gold does not prohibit gods from entering.

After all, it contains the treasures of the gods. When Li Lin was the God of Light, he also put some things in there. If needed, he can retrieve his treasures from the Golden City.

But the silver key before us is different.

Its function is described as a key, but more accurately, it is actually the Golden City itself.

According to legend, possessing it is equivalent to possessing the key item of the entire treasure trove of the gods!

"Good heavens, I thought you only stole a few things from inside, but it turns out you were planning to take the whole treasure vault with you!"

"No wonder Finchbah is clinging to you so tightly. If you let go, wouldn't it be skinned alive by the gods?"

Li Lin looked at Ishtar speechlessly, his tone full of sarcasm.

"Hehe~".

Faced with Li Lin's accusations, Ishtar stuck out her little tongue and then tapped her head with her fist, looking like she was trying to get away with it.

Li Lin “.......”

Hey, you big dummy!

Let's get down to business! Baba... oops, Ishtar!!

"Alright, now that we know the reason, the solution is quite simple."

"Stay here and don't move. I'll go buy you an orange."

After saying that, Li Lin ignored Ishtar and turned to walk into the forest.

On the way, Li Lin looked at the keys in his hand, and suddenly a flash of inspiration struck him.

"Speaking of which, now that the items are in my hands, wouldn't it be a bit of a loss to just return them like this?"

Li Lin stopped, his gaze deep, and began to ponder.

"As everyone knows, Ishtar stole the key, and she's also the one who arrested the criminals in Humbaba. So it's not surprising that something is inexplicably missing from the Golden City, is it?"

Thinking of this, Li Lin couldn't help but let out a sinister smile.

"Besides, I haven't even had a chance to ask for payment for saving her yet, so this just cancels it out."

After saying that, Li Lin no longer hesitated and activated a wisp of divine power within his body into the key, opening the gate to the Golden City a crack in the door before him.

"First and foremost, we need to select something that can endure in the underworld. Hmm, this is... Ishtar's confiscated divinity?"

Li Lin raised an eyebrow, his sharp eyes spotting a cluster of green light floating quietly in the corner.

"Speaking of which, that guy also controls a portion of the power over the harvest."

"Ha, as the goddess of war, all she does is run wild all day. It's a waste to leave her with this power. I might as well take it and plant it in the underworld."

Thinking of this, Li Lin put away the green light without hesitation.

Next, Li Lin looted some insignificant items in the City of Gold.

Most of them are decorations and clothes.

As for those important treasures and powers, he didn't touch any of them.

After all, one should know one's limits. Taking certain things carelessly can have serious consequences. He's not like Ishtar, who has almost the entire Sumerian mythology as her backing. If he takes those things, who knows what trouble it might cause.

And so, Li Lin packed up almost all of Ishtar's treasures in the Golden City and took them back to give to Ereshkigal.

After all, in Li Lin's eyes, the two of them were twin goddesses. Ishtar's things belonged to my Ereshkigal, which was like transferring something from one hand to the other, so it didn't matter, haha.

Ishtar: You're talking nonsense!

Ps..........

This is why Ishtar gets poorer and poorer later on, and why she can't resist buying gems. Funny, haha ​​:-D.

Chapter 17, Dedicated to the Underworld, a Gift of Harvest to You.

After returning the key to the Golden City, Li Lin did not go to see Ishtar again, but left the Cedar Forest and returned to the Underworld.

After all, things have come to this point, and he has done what he was supposed to do. If he were to go back now, wouldn't he be asking for more trouble than he already has?

So Li Lin stopped paying attention to Ishtar, who was still in a daze.

Instead, they took the spoils they had plundered, commonly known as rewards, and returned to the underworld.

...

At the very bottom of the underworld, Li Lin arrived at the open space where he usually worked.

Although he said he wanted to grow flowers in the underworld, he couldn't guarantee that he would succeed 100% despite the difficulties involved.

It should be understood that the underworld is the end of death and reincarnation, a dark place that rejects all living beings.

Even if Li Lin has gained some of the power to reap the harvest, whether or not the harvest will actually come to fruition is another matter entirely.

However, despite knowing this, Li Lin did not give up.

He wanted to try it.

Because in his memory, he vaguely remembered a white-haired online scammer who once caused a large number of flowers to bloom on the land of the underworld.

Although it was merely a pretty face.

But it cannot be denied that the flowers...did indeed flutter in the underworld.

...

"Simply integrating power like this won't work. After all, a harvest isn't growth; there must first be the initial stirrings of life."

Looking at the black underworld land around him, Li Lin understood what was hidden beneath it at a glance.

That was the filth that the underworld had contained for countless years.

It is the sins and obsessions left behind when countless lives die.

In a sense, the evil of the underworld cannot even compare to the evil of this world in the Fourth Holy Grail War.

But the underworld is still the underworld, and the reason it can contain so much evil is not simply because it is special.

Where there is life, there is death.

The cycle of birth and death is an ironclad law of the world!

Even in this filthy underworld, there are still pure and flawless white marks.

Li Lin firmly believes this.

Therefore, he did not integrate the power he held into the earth.

Instead, they used a different approach, integrating it into the countless gun cages around it.

“The dead things of the past can no longer sprout new buds, and the land of the underworld is no longer suitable for nurturing new life.”

"But these gun cages are different."

"They contain the soul and maintain vitality, just like the flowers that emerge from the mud, remaining unstained by it."

"And what I need to do now is to make this vitality even more dazzling and [abundant]."

A smile appeared on Li Lin's lips.

Then I saw that he was looking in the direction he was looking.