In Type-Moon, it all starts with adopting Sakura.

'This scene is somewhat similar to when I beat up the Lion King, but there are also many differences.'

The most significant difference is that Tiamat did not intentionally threaten him, and even looked forward to him reaching her side. These memories in the ocean were just like a mother and child chatting on the way to school. The other party did not mean to hurt him.

However, during his contact with the Sea of ​​Life, in addition to those fragments of memory, Luo Wei felt even more clearly certain extremely complex emotions within it: sadness, confusion, pity, anger, and self-blame.

It is a stagnant pool of water, yet it is a boundless ocean teeming with life.

That is also the mental landscape of Tiamat, the mother of creation.

Normally, people who bathe in the Sea of ​​Life will be corrupted by Tiamat's special abilities and the resentment she has accumulated, becoming evil servants who hate all humans, namely Amino Geass.

However, because he possesses his own divinity to counteract this, and also has the most fundamental godlike physique and abilities, he is unaffected by infection or transformation. Even Tiamat's primordial sea cannot affect his state. On the contrary, when he uses his third palm to counteract the sea of ​​life below, he can use his magic to deepen the connection between himself and Tiamat. The increasingly obvious feeling of the Voice of Heaven is the best proof of this.

Although his magic was indeed a drop in the ocean compared to the sheer size of the Sea of ​​Life, it was by no means completely ineffective. Perhaps—realizing this, a very bold idea came to Luo Wei's mind.

Without hesitation, he slashed his own body and prevented the wound from healing, letting his blood and magic flow into the black ocean below. The result was exactly as he expected: although the amount of blood and magic swallowed was negligible, it did subtly alter some of the characteristics of the Sea of ​​Life.

Now it's not just him unilaterally accepting the memories Tiamat conveys; his emotions and recollections will also be reflected in this way. The two can be said to be using this ocean as a bridge to slowly exchange their feelings.

If he could truly repeat this process of exchanging and passing on memories, then perhaps he could actually make some adjustments to Tiamat's existence itself, or even make a greater change.

Anyway, I don't have a better way now, and the concept of time and the concept of imaginary numbers in the sealed land are all distorted.

The concept of the passage of time has no effect on this forgotten, sealed prison.

Although his current actions are comparable to the embarrassing situation of being throttled when downloading study materials using Baidu Cloud because he didn't have a membership, and the progress is ridiculously slow, he is still genuinely downloading.

Even if the speed is ridiculously slow, it's enough as long as the process is confirmed to be meaningful.

He has plenty of blood to draw and his vitality is incredibly strong. As long as he keeps trying and failing, and as long as the final probability isn't zero, he has a chance to achieve 100%.

To speed up the transmission, Luo Wei ruthlessly deactivated the miracle of walking on the sea surface, and let deep red blood overflow from all the marks on his body, immersing his entire body in the ocean to continue moving forward.

More memories flooded his mind, and he reciprocated with his own emotions and memories.

Having witnessed Sumerian mythology firsthand from an outsider's perspective, from its origins to the betrayal by her child, the ensuing war within the mythology, her willing sealing away, her awakening by Goetia, her yearning to return, and then a special being arriving, connecting Tiamat to the Voice of Heaven's terminal, and telling her: "Soon, a child will come to save you. Please wait patiently, Mother of Sumer. Then you can communicate with that child using the Voice of Heaven."

Luo Wei realized that he had indeed been set up.

Moreover, it was personally arranged by the Holy Spirit, so it seems that this mission is—

Save Tiamat?

This is a task that sounds daunting just from hearing about it. It's not about defeating or sealing, but rather—saving?!

The word "salvation" is far too broad.

He didn't understand what salvation truly meant; was it simply about letting Tiamat rest in peace? Was it about sealing her away again?

Wouldn't that just mean sealing or defeating them?

If it were at the beginning, he would definitely have thought the same way, believing that sealing Tiamat or killing her beast form would be considered salvation. However, after reading the entire melodramatic history of Sumerian mythology and completing this emotional exchange with Tiamat, he felt that it was just a period of rest for Tiamat, and could not be considered salvation at all.

But what exactly constitutes salvation?

As Lowe continued to resonate with Tiamat, he also began to carefully consider the answer to this question.

Perhaps because of the heart-to-heart communication, during the process of emotional resonance, Tiamat no longer took the initiative to make a sound, but instead earnestly experienced Rowe's memories and emotions.

Time passed, I don't know how much time...

So long that even Lovi couldn't remember how long he had been wandering around here. Although he still hadn't figured out the real answer the Holy Spirit had given him this time, he understood that the Sea of ​​Life had indeed changed because of his blood flowing and his actions of conveying emotions. He was also getting deeper and deeper into Tiamat's inner feelings, and the same was true for her.

Finally, Luo Wei swam to an unknown distance from the shore in the Sea of ​​Life. As he pondered and resonated, he had long forgotten about time, although there was no concept of the passage of time here either; everything was frozen in time.

But the sea eventually has an end, even the sea of ​​life. Somewhere in the black ocean, he suddenly noticed something unusual.

Tiamat, who had been waiting for him as if in a deep sleep, had opened her eyes and was now tilting her head and staring straight at him, as if she were observing him.

Her hands, bound by chains, were placed in front of her chest, her legs were together, and she floated on the sea of ​​life. Her pupils, marked with a cross, stared blankly at herself, and her long hair, the color of the ocean, hung down in disarray.

"...Has it reached the end?"

Before he knew it, he had reached the finish line. Because he was so engrossed in the emotions and the exchange of memories, Luo Wei didn't notice it until he was less than a kilometer away.

At this moment, Tiamat, who had been waiting for her for a long time and whose eyes were filled with curiosity, was quietly watching the only human who had come close to her in the long years, a child whom the gods of a foreign land called salvation.

After noticing this, Luo Wei used his third red hand to redirect the target back to the ocean, helping himself to stand on the black sea again and meet the gaze of those huge starry eyes.

"……Well."

Although I already knew Tiamat's exact appearance, I was still shocked when I saw her in person, after all...

"This is way too big!"

His gaze involuntarily fell upon Tiamat's enormous heart, which was absolutely of a different level, perhaps the only one of its kind in the world. Even the well-informed Lovi couldn't help but be shocked by it.

It wasn't that he deliberately wanted to see it; it was mainly because he... had never seen such a scene before.

Luo Wei: "..."

Tiamat: [——]

However, despite having communicated beforehand, when they met in person, they still didn't know what to say and could only stare at each other.

So--

Should I say something to get their attention in this situation? Or maybe call them "Mom" or something...?

Although she wasn't his mother in the strict sense, she was definitely much better than his father, at least in terms of looks, wasn't she?

However, just as Lovi was pondering how to start a conversation, Tiamat, standing on the ocean of life, slightly opened her mouth.

'This is……'

"--not good!!"

Upon seeing this, Luo Wei's expression changed drastically, and his body began to tremble at that moment.

However, there was no time to stop it; the sound waves, comparable to the breath of a dragon king, had already echoed across the entire dark ocean of life.

“Aaaaaaaaaa——!!!”

And this time, it wasn't through the sound of the heavens, but a direct sonic shock at the physical level. Luo Wei's tiny body was immediately thrown away by the sound waves and sank into the Sea of ​​Life, some distance away.

When a woman sings, a man collapses.

However, at the last moment, Luo Wei didn't feel that much pain, since he could accept anything as long as it wasn't performed on a spiritual level, and besides...

"Ti-ma sings quite well, and it's confirmed, it seems to be... Yuuki Aoi voiced the character?"

Glug glug glug...

Before drinking countless amounts of black seawater, Luo Wei thought to himself.

Then--

"Mom, we're family, don't say anything, listen to me first!!"

……

……

On the other side—

Not long ago, in faraway Uruk.

Because he maintained his energy by taking drugs, he completed the unparalleled feat of working continuously for 996 hours, and thus fainted directly above the throne. Gilgamesh, who had just finished dancing in front of the goddess of the underworld, slowly opened his eyes.

Although his red eyes were filled with weariness, they still seemed to see through time and space. He whispered, "So it has finally come, the one foretold."

"It seems that the younger version of me from another world still knows how to do things that make me happy, haha ​​...

As if he had witnessed something good that hadn't happened in a long time, Gilgamesh, who hadn't been so happy in a long time due to the immense pressure on the front lines, burst into laughter. His loud laughter immediately echoed throughout the Uruk palace, attracting the attention of some of his assistants who were working outside.

"That's the king's laughter! It's been so long since I've heard the king laugh so heartily..."

"Yes, after all, the burden on the king's shoulders is too heavy. Since Lord Enkidu passed away, he has never laughed so freely again."

Two older guards who had watched Gilgamesh grow up began to talk outside the palace, both curious about the changes in Gilgamesh today.

"However, it seems the King of Heroes is quite alert today!!"

One of the guards remarked, and the other immediately responded, "Yes."

"That's amazing! To still have so much energy after working non-stop for over a month, he's practically a superman!!"

"Lord Siduri."

Just as the two began chatting and discussing things at the door, they heard Gilgamesh's loud laughter and a woman dressed in green priestly robes walked in from outside. The two guards immediately responded politely.

"Yes, you've worked hard. Keep up the good work."

"Yes!"

"As ordered!"

After giving instructions to the two guards, Siduri did not linger but went directly into the palace and looked up at Gilgamesh, who looked particularly alert today, above the throne.

"Your Majesty, what good news has happened? You're smiling so happily..."

"Oh, it's Siduri."

Upon seeing the woman enter, Gilgamesh on the throne stopped his unrestrained laughter and picked up the piled-up clay tablets again to resume his work.

“Indeed, some good things have happened, and they were even unexpected,” Gilgamesh replied casually.

"Could it be that Merlin has found the lost Tablets of Destiny?"

Siduri immediately thought of this when she heard that something good was going to happen.

"Pretty much. The clay tablet has indeed been found, but something even more interesting happened... Well, you don't need to know too much about the specifics. Without the ability to see a thousand miles, you wouldn't be able to understand what I saw."

Gilgamesh answered calmly.

"Merlin and his female counterpart have already gone to retrieve the clay tablets, and they've headed in that direction now. They should be able to bring him back soon, but..."

But Gilgamesh didn't know how to comment when he thought of Lovi's outrageous behavior.

This was completely unexpected; we've actually entered Tiamat's sealed territory and even established some strange connection...

Whether this is good or bad, even he cannot guarantee it at this point.

"What's wrong, Your Majesty?"

Seeing Gilgamesh hesitate to speak, Siduri couldn't help but feel a little worried.

"It's nothing, it's just that things have taken an interesting turn. Perhaps it will really produce results that I didn't expect. Hmph, what an interesting monstrous cultivator."