I really didn't want to burn it.

Ritsuka had to shut her mouth as soon as she uttered a word, because DD was already controlling the Ark to head towards the Abyss at an extremely fast speed, and if she said another word, there was a very high chance that she would bite her tongue.

Li Ang held a battle axe in one hand and slowly twirled it with the other.

The gale-force winds swept the floodwaters into the pit, creating a waterway for the ark.

"Everyone, we're going down to the underworld!"

Amidst the laughter of most of the Heroic Spirits and Ritsuka's exclamation, the Ark surged into the Underworld with the current.

Throughout the process, Ritsuka only felt her body moving forward rapidly, while her consciousness was constantly retreating—this is an illusion that occurs when moving at high speed.

Then everything went black before her eyes, and she knew nothing more.

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P.S.: The Uruk arc is finally almost over, and Mi-chan will try to start a new arc this week. _(:з」∠)_

Chapter 243 War in the Underworld

"Senior! Senior!"

When Ritsuka woke up, she found herself lying on the deck.

Ma Xiu shook himself vigorously, trying to wake her up.

“Mashu…”

Ritsuka sat up, clutching her head. She discovered that the chains that had been binding her were gone.

"Yo, Fujimaru-kun. It's been a few hours~?"

"Merlin!!"

Hearing that familiar, irritating voice, Ritsuka immediately snapped out of it.

Haha, it's me!

Merlin laughed heartily.

"What are you doing here?! No! How did you get here?"

Ritsuka practically crawled to Merlin's side and questioned him.

"Of course I ran here on foot~??" Merlin's face immediately fell as he said this. "Because I arrived too late, Artoria said I was too inactive and made me run 20 kilometers every day from now on..."

"Forehead……"

Ritsuka's lips twitched; there were too many things to criticize in those words, and she didn't even know where to begin.

"Oh, right. How's the situation now?!"

Ritsuka only remembers the ark rushing into the underworld along the route before she fainted.

"How is Tiamat? What about Ishtar and Quetzal?"

"Well...you'll see for yourself~?"

As he spoke, Merlin stepped aside.

Ritsuka peeked out from under the railing and realized that they had already arrived in the underworld.

But unlike the desolate Mesopotamian underworld he had imagined, the ground of the underworld was not covered with hard rocks, but with a beautiful sea of ​​flowers.

“After entering the Underworld, Tiamat kept trying to erode the Underworld with the Chaos Tide in order to maintain her immortality. So I simply transformed that black mud into a harmless sea of ​​flowers.”

“Natiamat…”

boom!

Before Ritsuka could even ask a question, the roar of an explosion echoed from afar.

"■■■■■■————!!"

Tiamat roared and unleashed a beam of light toward the Ark.

"Don't think about it!"

To Ritsuka's astonishment, a purple-haired serpent demon, roughly half the size of Tiamat, stood in front of the ark.

All the snakes on her head shot towards Tiamat, and at the same time she opened her mouth—

boom! boom!

Purple and blue rays of light converged in mid-air, and the explosion destroyed a large area of ​​flowers.

"Anna?!"

Ritsuka exclaimed in surprise.

"Senior, lie down."

Several fireballs bounced onto the deck with the force of the explosion, and Mash quickly pulled Ritsuka down to lie down.

"Wow...that's amazing."

Despite being pinned down by Mash, Ritsuka still raised her head to look at the battlefield in Tiamat.

In the firelight, Ritsuka also saw the Knights of the Round Table and her Servants fighting against several Rahmu.

"How terrifying!" Merlin explained softly, "Those are the eleven most special newborn magical beasts born from Tiamat. Each one has reached the level of a god, and their individual strength is comparable to a Demon God Pillar!"

"Merlin, you don't seem nervous at all."

Merlin just chuckled at Ritsuka's complaints.

Boom!

There was another loud noise.

But this time it wasn't a clash of light against light, but rather Leon's axe striking Tiamat.

"call…………"

Li Ang let out a long breath, and steam rose from his body as if he were in a sauna.

That was the heat emanating from his body, caused by overheating of his muscles due to excessive use of the enhancement runes.

“It’s really infuriating.”

Leon was so angry that he stomped his feet when he realized he had hit Tiamat in the cheek with his axe again.

Tiamat, who had already fallen into the underworld, could theoretically have been killed, but this woman was far more cunning than Leon had imagined.

To kill Tiamat completely with Marduk's battle axe, Leon must make Tiamat open her mouth and then cleave her in two through her mouth.

So Tiamat has learned her lesson; she'll use rays in battle, but as soon as Leon raises his axe, she'll shut up immediately.

"Old hag! Don't make me look down on you! When it's time to die, you'd better just obediently die!"

Tiamat was covered in wounds. She squinted slightly and glanced at Li Ang, who was cursing her again.

"■■■——!"

Leon's pupils contracted as black mud emerged from Tiamat's body once again, but this mud was not flowing towards him.

Instead, it spreads across the ground!

"Tsk, deliberately burning the flowers to create an open space, so they can create their own home ground—"

Li Ang knew very well that Tiamat standing on the black mud and Tiamat without the support of the black mud were two completely different concepts.

How big is the gap?

The latter is like a champion in League of Legends who stands within the fountain's range.

"Don't even think about it!"

Without hesitation, Li Ang raised his axe and chopped downwards with force.

boom!

The ground of the underworld was cleaved open, and the ground between the two suddenly collapsed—Li Ang smashed a hole in the ground, letting the black mud flow into the abyss of the underworld.

Rumble…

As the black mud flowed in, the ground began to collapse a second time, even affecting the nearby mountain peaks. Various boulders slid down the hillside like rain around Li Ang.

Neither Leon nor Tiamat made a move; they simply stared at each other through the scattered rubble.

Click.

Li Ang and Tiamat's eyes narrowed simultaneously as they charged at their opponent, colliding with each other.

Bah!

The claws and the axe struck and collided once again.

Li Ang hadn't expected Tiamat to be so troublesome.

Of all the Beasts in the original game, aside from the two Beast IIIs which have been officially nerfed, Tiamat, the Beast II, is the easiest to defeat.

As a result, after fighting fiercely since morning until now, almost to the point of collapse, the opponent still had such strong strength.

Tiamat, on the other hand, never expected that Utnabistim, this guy who rose from man to god, would actually push her to this point.

What were the people of Mesopotamia?

Those are servants created by the gods for their own convenience.

This is why the gods severely punish those who disobey them, because slaves dare to rebel against their masters!

"■■■■■■————!! (Mere human beings—!)"

Bah!

Bah!

Bah!

Each collision between the two produced bursts of black mud, sonic booms, and flying sand and stones.

The scale of the fight between the two sides exceeded everyone's expectations. The violent aura was so intense that even Anna in her Gorgon form could not get close.

"Senior, are you okay?"

On the deck of the Ark, when Mash saw Ritsuka unable to straighten up due to the blast's force, she rushed over anxiously.

Ritsuka shook her head, "I'm fine, it's just..."

She looked up at the person still fighting Tiamat, listening to the sounds of impact and watching the bursts of sparks.

Ritsuka was filled with apprehension and looked shocked.

She knew that this was the final battle between Leon and Tiamat, and the outcome of this battle would determine the future of humanity.

"We must win, Li Ang!"

Ritsuka let out a shout.

"Impossible, don't waste your energy."

A calm female voice spoke up.

Ritsuka was startled. She turned her head sharply and saw that Siduri was sitting on the deck.

"Miss Siduri!"

Although she was tightly bound by chains, Mashu remained vigilant, slightly adopting a fighting stance.

"Don't be nervous, I won't do anything."

Siduri spoke the truth.

Her body was never that of a powerful warrior to begin with, and even after Tiamat's modifications, she could not become a warrior as powerful as Cú Chulainn.

After the previous battles, Siduri was exhausted, and even without the chains on her body, she had no strength to continue fighting.

Even so, Siduri still smiled and said softly, "Mashu, the people who can guide the outcome of this war are no longer you and me. Our fate is now entirely in the hands of those two. Although, I don't think anyone can defeat Mother."

"..."

Mashu stared at Siduri, her face full of conflict. Of course, she hoped that Li Ang could win this battle, but when she thought about Li Ang's previous actions, she felt somewhat reluctant to cheer for him.

Siduri shifted her body slightly to get a better view of the battle.