Or, why don’t you find another savior?

The three goddesses saw the same thing.

However, as they came to within a hundred meters of Tiamat, the Primordial Mother Goddess simply opened her mouth and sang like a song, and the resulting storm almost made it impossible for the pterosaur to control its flying posture.

At this time, the god Tiamat suddenly raised his head and looked towards Xijian.

"She's... looking at me?" Xijian suddenly opened his eyes wide and muttered softly.

He unconsciously reached out his hand toward the goddess Tiamat.

Why reach out?

As a human being? Reaching out to the abandoned Mother of Origin?

Or... as a child, reach out to your mother?

"No, Master! Do not use your power!"

Altria was the first to notice something was wrong and immediately shouted to stop Shiomi's next move.

However, even so, it was still a beat late.

The red tide covering the Persian Gulf is the power of the goddess Tiamat, the primordial sea that gave birth to life.

In other words, the "Tide of Chaos" is something that can give birth to life.

The "tide of chaos" beneath Tiamat's feet changed, and what emerged from it was no longer Lahmu and the monsters, but dark green seaweed.

“Aaaa——————”

Once again, Tiamat spoke without words.

Standing on the pterosaur's back, Shiomi suddenly covered her heart. Her heart suddenly tightened and stopped beating instantly.

For him, the abnormal condition, which would not be a big deal under normal circumstances, now took away all the strength in his body.

His body fell forward uncontrollably, and Altria reached out and grabbed his wrist.

"Master..." Altria pulled hard.

There was a strong wind on the sea, and the pterosaur was like a small boat in a storm. It was hard for Altria to control the flying posture of the pterosaur, and she also had to free her hands to hold Shiomi from falling into the "Tide of Chaos".

Scathach made a prompt decision at this time: "Goddess Ereshkigal, can you use Ishtar's Noble Phantasm!"

In the current situation, neither magic, javelins, nor "gates" can effectively attack Tiamat.

Therefore, a Noble Phantasm is needed that can inflict huge damage from a distance in this state.

"Of course you can, but it's hard to say to what extent you can release your mother."

Ereshkigal was a little nervous. This was her first time using Ishtar's Noble Phantasm while out in the outside world.

"Use it."

A voice suddenly spoke to her.

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Chapter 59: Original Attraction

Ereshkigal's nervousness instantly disappeared, she opened her eyes wide, and activated her magic power to the maximum, turning her red eyes into gold.

She rose higher into the sky with Maanna, and slowly raised her hand tore through the dark clouds, opening the door to Venus.

"Be careful to avoid it!"

After giving this warning, Ereshkigal activated Ishtar's Noble Phantasm.

A Noble Phantasm that compresses the concept of a giant Venus into its hand and fires it as a bullet.

What may seem like an inconspicuous magic cannonball at first glance is actually a solid Venus concept.

Ishtar once ravaged Mount Ebifu, a sacred mountain feared by the kings of the gods, and killed all the people on the mountain just because she "just didn't like it".

This treasure was sublimated from that legend.

Ereshkigal, who now shares a body with Ishtar, has completely controlled the day and night of his body with the help of Shiomi and the others by restraining it.

Therefore, using a Noble Phantasm is not difficult; the problem is how powerful it can be.

After a brief moment of hesitation, Ereshkigal knew that he could now exert 100% of his strength.

Aiming at the goddess Tiamat floating in the sea, she knew that this was a reenactment of the behavior described in the myth, an act of killing the primordial mother.

But...it has to be done!

"With this strike, I bid farewell to our mother, the Great Demon of Origin! 'The Mountain-Shaking Firewood of Tomorrow'!"

Without dodging or evading, Ereshkigal did not expect that his attack could hit so easily.

The light shooting up into the sky, the storm tearing through the clouds, and the sight of the hole in the sea closing up again after being pierced by the explosion.

Tiamat was never found again on the sea.

The dazed Shiomi finally came to his senses and firmly grasped Altria's wrist, allowing her to pull him back onto the pterosaur's back steadily.

"Well--!"

Then, there was heart-piercing pain, and a mouthful of blood that almost spurted onto Altria.

He opened his mouth helplessly, and blood flowed from between his fingers and fell onto the pterosaur's back.

"Master!" Altria held Shiomi's shoulders.

"You were so careless that you actually exercised your power in front of the goddess Tiamat. I can only say that you are lucky to have such a backlash." Scathach frowned and said. Although her words sounded like a reproach, her inner worries were already evident. "Don't be so reckless again. Don't forget that your body has not recovered yet."

Shiomi looked at her palms stained red: "No...it's not that I'm reckless..."

"It's resonance." Quetzal saw the crux of the problem.

"Hmm..." Shiomi gasped heavily.

His heart stopped beating for more than a moment, and during the time he just lost consciousness, he had been in a state of suspended animation.

"Although you have the same power, you have only touched the edge of that power." Altria understood, "So when you meet her eyes, Tiamat, the mother of mankind, can easily synchronize with your spirit through the same power..."

Then, control Shiomi.

Even though he couldn't order Shiomi to attack his companions, he could still make him fall off the pterosaur's back and fall into the "Tide of Chaos".

If he were swallowed by the Chaos Tide...

"...Rest first. Tiamat's spiritual base has disappeared. All we have to do now is retrieve the Holy Grail."

Altria took off her armor and held Shiomi in her arms. His chin rested weakly on her shoulder, and the blood that had not been wiped off dyed the pure white cloak red.

"Sorry..." Shiomi whispered.

"Don't worry about it." Altria hugged Shiomi tightly.

It is not so much about preventing him from falling, but rather preventing him from having any more abnormalities.

"So, the Holy Grail is in--" Quetzal was about to look for it.

Xi Jian was startled. He grabbed Altria's shoulders and warned her with all his strength: "Retreat quickly! Something is coming out from under the sea! Fly to the land!"

Following his reminder, the others immediately noticed that there was a magical reaction on the same scale as Tiamat on the seabed, and immediately controlled the pterosaurs to leave the place where Tiamat disappeared.

Shiomi answered the call from Chaldea: "Romani, what's the situation..."

"It has been confirmed that the spiritual base has been reconstructed..." Romani was shocked. "Could it be that what was destroyed just now was only the head?"

Not only that, the water level in the Persian Gulf rose rapidly, and the erosion speed of the "Chaos Tide" suddenly accelerated.

The pterosaur immediately raised its flying altitude. If it had been any slower, it would have been swept away by the waves of the "Chaos Tide".

The spot where Tiamat disappeared, over the sea from which they were rapidly retreating.

The huge body that blocked out the sun and sky slowly emerged from the bottom of the sea. Unlike her previous girl-like posture, Tiamat displayed her overwhelming figure as the original mother goddess.

Tiamat slowly opened her starry eyes, looked towards Uruk, the last human bastion in Mesopotamia, and uttered a long and distant wordless chant.

"...I said that the attack just now was too easy to deal with..." Scathach wiped the cold sweat from her cheek.

This was a god that she couldn't kill easily.

Not to mention whether she can cause damage, even if her attack can cause damage, before the damage she causes accumulates to be enough to affect Tiamat, she will lose her combat ability in the battle.

After all, Tiamat doesn't look like a goddess who would sit there and take a beating, and there are countless monsters and Lahmu's army that can attack at any time.

"Let's go back to Uruk first, meet up with the others, and discuss what to do next." Artoria said, "Fighting at sea right now is not in our favor."

Her proposal was unanimously agreed to.

Because of the unilateral synchronization of power with Tiamat, the burden on his body had made Shiomi almost speechless. He just nodded slightly in agreement.

Afterwards, the group retreated towards Uruk on pterosaurs.

Shiomi leaned weakly on Altria's shoulder and looked at Tiamat's true form.

For a moment, he seemed to hear the voice in his dream again.

"...Don't go...Don't leave me..."

The pair of star-like eyes that were looking at Uruk seemed to glance at Shiomi, almost making him think it was an illusion.

"Since... all humans are your children, then—"

Xijian muttered to himself, recalling the answer he had not finished in his dream.

"--Mother……"

"Please cheer up, Master." Artoria said in his ear, "The same power will make you feel closer to the goddess Tiamat than humans and gods... the same feeling of closeness that a child feels to his mother—"

She sighed inaudibly: "Even if you want to communicate with her as a human being and as a child... at least it's impossible now."

"I see……"

"If you understand, please rest. We still have some time to return to Uruk."

Altria pulled the cloak over and wrapped Shiomi's body to protect her from the wind in the sky.

Chapter 60 A Moment of Tenderness

"Too bad..."

Less than half a day later, Shiomi lay back on the bed, and after waking up, she let out a distressed sigh.

"I'm lucky enough. I was attracted by Tiamat and synchronized with her power. If it were anyone else, they would have collapsed because their bodies couldn't bear it."

Scathach was half lying on the bed with her hands on his chest, using magic to help Shiomi eliminate the burden on his body.

"In short, it's a blessing that the Master is not seriously injured." Altria sat on the other side. She looked at Shiomi seriously, "Whether it's the companions here or Chaldea, we can't lose you."

"...Yeah." Shiomi responded, "Thank you."

"At that time, if it were Scathach or Morgan, they would do the same thing." said Altria.

She thought Shiomi was thanking him for trying hard to hold him on the pterosaur's back and preventing him from falling into the "Tide of Chaos".

"No, I meant you take care of me on the way back." Shiomi held her hand.

"Then there's no need to thank me. I just did what I wanted to do and what I should do." Altria smiled and shook her head.

Shiomi slowly supported his body with his arms and tried to get up, and Scathach reached out and helped him sit up.

"What is the situation in Uruk?"

He was unconscious for a while after he came back. Judging from the light coming in from outside the bedroom, it was already evening.

So much happened that day.

When he woke up during the day and rushed to the battlefield of the Warcraft front without stopping, he never expected that the situation would turn out to this point.

The speed of deterioration exceeded everyone's expectations.

"We were attacked by the Rahmu Cluster, resulting in the deaths of some civilians. Fortunately, Morgan used the water mirror to transfer the fighters on the front line and launched a defensive battle in time. With everyone's efforts, the invading Rahmu Cluster was eliminated before the damage was further expanded." Altria informed the result truthfully.

"Now, Ba Gozen and Leonidas I are escorting the soldiers and civilians of Uruk who are unwilling or unable to fight to the northern front to join the garrison there in accordance with the orders of the Moon King." Scathach added.

Tiamat appears in the southern Persian Gulf. Now that other cities have been basically destroyed, Tiamat will surge onto the land with the "Tide of Chaos" and move towards Uruk.

The city was about to become the front line, and the northern city wall, which had originally served as the front line, had now become the new rear area.

"That's a correct decision." Shiomi could understand this approach. "What about the casualties?"