I'm tied to Athena.

"No need. The underworld still has a lot of things to prepare. If you hadn't informed Athena in advance that there was danger, I wouldn't have used her body to escape." Flying back into the sky, Ai Lei said softly, "I'll go back to work first."

"Oh, yes, it doesn't matter if you say you don't obey Ishtar. I don't need her help. It's best to let her stay alone on Mount Abif until she dies."

After that, she flew back to Mount Ebifu on Maana.

"It's really a rush..." Li Yun smiled helplessly and shook his head. But speaking of it, what are they preparing? Even if the underworld is the final main battlefield, it doesn't need any special buildings, right? Even if it is necessary, Ai Lei can control the underworld to change the terrain, so there is no need to do it herself.

Li Yun, who couldn't figure out what Athena and the others were doing, stopped thinking about it. He skillfully set up the tent and said, "Go and have a rest, Anna. We shouldn't encounter any more enemies today."

However, Anna stood still.

"what happened?"

"I'll come later in the night." The girl's eyes came from under her robe, "You are injured."

"Ah...well, it's okay, it's healed now." Looking at the arm covered in blood, Li Yun smiled nonchalantly. He sat on the chair he took out from the shadow, picked up the bottle of water beside him and poured it on his arm.

You have to wash them thoroughly. If your hands are covered in blood, the smell will be too strong.

"No." The purple-haired girl stood firmly beside him, her pupils hidden under the black robe very serious, as if she said that you have to take a rest.

"Okay, okay." Being looked at by Anna like this, what else could Li Yun say? He could only raise his hands in surrender, "Then let's keep watch together."

"Eh?"

"Anna, you'll be bored alone. Since we don't want to sleep anyway, we'll keep watch with you."

"I'm not that..." Anna said, and then slowly lowered her head, "...I mean..."

Under the quiet night sky, Li Yun and Anna sat face to face. Perhaps in order to make the time less boring, Li Yun began to tell his own story... Ah, it was the story of the time in the dungeon. Of course, the enemies and the worldview were changed by him, and it became a story that this world could accept.

Anna listened quietly. Occasionally, when she heard something interesting or surprising, she would reveal a hint of curiosity, as if she was thinking about the scenes that Li Yun described in her mind.

The two of them spent the quiet night like this, one talking and the other listening.

Just as Li Yun said before, they haven't encountered any other enemies since leaving Jingu.

In fact, if they wanted to defeat the enemy, now was probably the best time. After all, the goddess of magic beasts, Gorgon, had not yet bred the magic beasts, and the alliance of the three goddesses had not yet appeared, so they could go straight to Huanglong.

But after the death of the Gorgons, they had to face Tiamat, who was like a mountain pressing down on them and making them unable to move.

Soon, the night passed quietly, and when the first ray of sun shone on the Mesopotamian plain, Li Yun also extinguished the bonfire on the ground.

"Let's go, we'll be at Mount Ebifu soon."

It's a little embarrassing to say. If I had known, I should have asked Ailei to take them for a trip last night. Not to mention spending a night in the temple, it would have been fine to take them to the foot of Mount Ebifu. At least it would have saved them the time of traveling.

Of course, Li Yun would never say such things. With a gentle smile, he and Anna, who was ready to go, set out again for Mount Ebifu.

The journey was smooth and there were no unexpected situations except for a few magical beasts occasionally jumping out from the side.

About half a day later, when the sun was completely in the middle of the sky, Li Yun and Anna finally arrived at the legendary Mount Ebifu.

Chapter 168 Ishtar

Mount Ebifu, a mountain feared by the gods in Sumerian mythology, is the highest magic mirror, not only in terms of height, but also in terms of depth.

Ishtar's father An once told Ishtar that it was a foolish act to rebel against Mount Ebif, and it was this advice that made Ishtar determined to conquer this sacred mountain.

She took her seven artifacts and headed towards Mount Ebifu, ravaging the mountain from outside to inside, and finally reaching the top of the mountain.

Originally, Mount Ebi could have brought about natural disasters such as storms, lava, and frozen snow in an instant to drive Ishtar away, but Lingfeng believed that a small-scale storm was enough to bring the girl back. However, the girl was the kind of person who would show more perseverance the more difficult the situation was. While muttering to herself why she was treated like this, she moved forward towards the destruction of Mount Ebi.

The girl advanced through difficulties with increasing divine power with each step, and finally she reached the top of the sacred mountain, grabbed the top of the mountain with all her might, and stabbed the spear into the heart of the sacred mountain, ultimately causing the complete collapse of the Ebifu Mountains.

Because of this story, Ishtar's side as the goddess of war became known to everyone.

"The oldest burglar." Anna gave this nickname to the protagonist of this story.

"He is indeed the oldest burglar." Li Yun smiled. She thought that the resistance Ishtar encountered when she destroyed Lingfeng was 'wrong', and she did not realize that she was 'breaking and killing'.

"But Mount Aibi is surprisingly easy to walk on. It's not as steep as it looks." Li Yun had originally prepared to carry Anna up the sacred peak, but he didn't expect there was a safe road on the sacred peak. What a pity.

Li Yun and Anna headed towards the top of Mount Aibi. When they were about to reach the top, Li Yun sensed three powerful magical reactions.

Rumbling--

A loud noise came from the road above, and then a three-headed stone monster appeared before them.

These are Ishtar's guards, used to protect Mount Ebifu and her palace. In the words of the doctor, 'Each guard has the magic power of an A-rank Servant! '

"Anna, be careful." Li Yun took out a sickle and warned Anna.

"Ah."

Two against three, although there is a difference in numbers, but in terms of pure strength, Li Yun and Anna are still superior to these stone monsters. After all, they can only passively attack the enemy and cannot think for themselves.

As long as you simply think of a way to avoid a head-on confrontation with them, you can easily defeat them.

For example, using the power of the Gorgon Stone to grind them into powder.

"But... King of Beauty, King of Beautiful Skin... These stone statues have such names..." Li Yun looked at the names carved on the broken stone statues and couldn't help but feel a little anxious for Ishtar's aesthetic taste - you'd better not let Ailei's aesthetic taste go astray.

"We're here." When Li Yun sighed, Anna pointed to a higher place.

After penetrating the clouds, they saw an extremely huge ancient palace. In front of the door of this palace, which exuded an ancient atmosphere, were two statues of mythical beasts. And under the stairs leading down from the door, there were two... fortune cats! ?

"Lucky cat..." As expected of a careless young lady, she even came up with the idea of ​​putting two lucky cats at the door.

But it’s better this way. If Li Yun wasn’t greedy for money, how would he have been able to get this goddess?

After exchanging a glance with Anna, the two of them stepped onto the stairs and entered the temple.

This was no different from an ordinary temple. The torches hanging on the walls illuminated the entire room. Deep in the temple, above an altar, a scantily clad goddess was sitting there, her red jewel pupils reflecting the two outlaws who had broken into her temple.

"You are brave enough to break into my temple with two of yourselves." Ishtar slowly stood up and crossed her arms. "I give you a special commendation for defeating my guards. Well done, mortals."

"But..." Ishtar's tone changed again, "How audacious, really audacious. Not only did you enter Mount Ebifu without my permission, you also fought off the guards and entered my temple. You should know that your actions have provoked me, the mistress of the sky."

Tianzhou Maana appeared beside Ishtar at some point, and her red pupils turned golden, a sign of entering a fighting stance.

"Don't worry, I will beat you back to Uruk, I won't kill you."

"Wait a minute, before that I have some good news to tell you." Although he didn't know what the situation was in Uruk, Li Yun hurriedly raised his hand to stop the goddess from attacking.

"There is no point in saying more. Let me show you the strength of the goddess of Venus and the goddess of war!" Ishtar suddenly crossed the distance between her and Li Yun, raised her slender long legs high, and chopped down fiercely like a battle axe.

"I have two warehouses of gems here!"

The violent storm subsided all of a sudden. The flames that had been swaying because of Ishtar's attack gradually calmed down. The Mistress of the Sky stopped her attack, turned her head over her long legs and looked at Li Yun, "Two warehouses of gems?"

The golden fighting pupils slowly turned red. "In that case, let me first listen to what you have to say. I have already said that the gems in these two warehouses are offerings to the gods."

Slowly lowering her long legs, Ishtar took two steps back and said, "Tell me why you are here. I am so kind that I will temporarily forgive your rudeness."

"......." Li Yun didn't know why, but he wanted to laugh.

I don't know if this situation occurred after Ishtar became attached to Rin or if Ishtar has always been like this. In any case, Ishtar has no resistance to gems. If Gudako half a year later can bribe Ishtar with gems, then he should be able to do it too.

Although he doesn't have Gilgamesh, who has three layers of mineral resources in the world, as support, he should be able to get the help of Ishtar.

It's not bribery, but assistance, such as paying Ishtar to go with them to Quetzal.

Fortunately, he took all the gems he had saved with him when he left Orario. Because the matter between the dark faction and Dionysus was resolved, Uranus gave Li Yun another ten warehouses of gems, and now Li Yun had a total of twelve warehouses of gems.

Warehouse Two asked Ishtar to stop and listen to the explanation, and Warehouse Ten asked Ishtar to take action once.

Ishtar will definitely not refuse such a price.

Chapter 169 Let's hear what the victims say

"In other words, you want me to accompany you as a bodyguard to meet the goddess summoned by the Holy Grail?" After a brief explanation, Ishtar immediately laughed and showed an angry expression, "What do you think of the goddess? You dare to let the goddess be your bodyguard without a sacrifice?"

So all we need is a sacrifice?

"We have five warehouses of gems." Perhaps to increase his persuasiveness, the shadow under Li Yun's feet produced many precious gems.

These gems are unique to the dungeon and have never been seen in this world. Although it is not known whether these gems are in Jin Shanshan’s treasure house, at least Li Yun can be sure that Ishtar has definitely never seen these gems.

"The Five Warehouses want to bribe the goddess...wait!?" Ishtar originally wanted to refuse righteously, but when she saw the gem appearing at Li Yun's feet, her eyes widened.

"Why haven't I seen such a gem? This is... a gem better than lapis lazuli and the Crown of Seven Stones!" Ishtar pointed at the gem under Li Yun's feet and swallowed her saliva. Although she had never actually seen this kind of gem, Ishtar, the goddess of beauty, had seen countless gems and could tell the quality at a glance.

"This is a fire stone. It naturally contains powerful fire magic. It can be detonated with just a little stimulation. No extra magic is needed."

"This is obsidian. The hardness of this gem is no different from that of ordinary stones, but it is highly resistant to magic. It is perfect for practicing gem magic."

Li Yun explained to Ishtar one by one the uses of these gems. In addition, Li Yun suddenly thought of something and took out some crystal lamps.

"This is a lamp made of crystal, and it changes with time. It is a bright light during the day and a dim light at night. Although it looks useless, it should be enough for decoration."

That's right, the lamp in Li Yun's hand was made of the big crystal on the 18th floor. He had considered various things when he came to the seventh singularity, and he brought out the crystal lamp just in case.

There are two reasons why Ishtar likes gems. One is because it is possessed by Rin, and the other is because she is in charge of beauty and is the goddess of beauty.

In this case, the gem has two functions for Ishtar. One is to satisfy her need for gem magic, and the other is to satisfy her inner pursuit of beauty.

Not to mention the Age of Gods, even in modern times, there is no such gem that can transform itself over time. Such a lamp is absolutely an irresistible temptation for Ishtar.

In addition, rare things are valuable, and these gems that Ishtar has never seen before should have no problem impressing Ishtar.

"Gurgle..." The sound of swallowing saliva was heard. Ishtar glanced at the pile of gems beside Li Yun and said stubbornly: "Impossible! Even if you use gems, don't think it's so easy to wipe out the account between this goddess and Uruk."

"Uruk?" Hearing this place name again, Li Yun felt that Ishtar must have misunderstood something. However, before he began to explain, Ishtar started complaining again.

"You summoned me to deal with the monster crisis and worshipped me in a rude way, but that bastard Gimpika even said that I was not needed, saying, 'It doesn't matter whether this useless goddess exists or not, I don't need her help.'"

"To be honest, I didn't say anything when you summoned me from heaven, but you complained about me first. Uruk is my city, and I am the patron saint of Uruk. You should listen to me, but you listened to that bastard Gimpika and stood opposite me!"

Well, there is nothing wrong with what Ishtar said. After all, Ishtar is also a victim to some extent.

Now the gods have disappeared, and the passage between the heaven and the human world has also disappeared. Ishtar, who was summoned to this world, doesn't know how to go back. Before she could adapt to the current situation of this world, she was so angry at Gilgamesh's words that she left without saying anything.

She is probably in a lonely state now.

"No, the more I think about this, the angrier I get." Ishtar's eyes turned golden again. "Just stand there and don't move. Let me cool down a little! Otherwise, I won't be able to listen to you anymore."

"Actually, I'm not from Uruk...why do you think we are from Uruk?" Li Yun didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Ishtar had indeed mistaken their identities.

"My name is Liyun, this child is Anna, and we are not here on behalf of Uruk."

"Huh? Not from Uruk?" The Heavenly Lady's expression changed. She frowned and looked at the two of them. Then she seemed to realize something. "Are you that guy's men?"

"Okay, you actually want to bribe the guardian of Uruk to join your side! Do you think it's possible?"

"No... We are not on the side of the Goddess of Warcraft. You should have seen that Anna is her restraining force, and was created to destroy the Goddess of Warcraft."

"Then how do you explain it! I just realized that the aura on you is exactly the same as hers!" Ishtar had already retreated, and Tianzhou Maanna appeared from the golden space ripples. "In consideration of the gems you presented, I can refrain from attacking you, but go back and tell Gorgon that I will not be on her side!"

Although the gems are very tempting to Ishtar, Ishtar is definitely not someone who can be bought by just gems.

If Li Yun and the others hadn't appeared, Ishtar would have chosen to stay alone on Mount Ebifu, looking for the Bull of Heaven when she had nothing to do, and helping the people to expel the monsters... Although Ishtar's way of expelling the monsters was a bit violent, and she even forcibly demanded payment after the end...

But this did not prevent Ishtar from insisting on her identity as the patron saint of Uruk.

She just had a problem with Gilgamesh. If anything bad really happened in Uruk, she would definitely support Uruk with all kinds of reasons.

"Have you met the Goddess of Warcraft?" Without rushing to explain his identity, Li Yun got a new message from Ishtar's words - the goddesses have already met!

"Don't you know? Just yesterday, your goddess contacted me and the guy in the jungle, saying that she wanted to form an alliance, but I directly rejected it, and the guy in the jungle seems to be still waiting and watching."

Confused by Li Yun's question, Ishtar narrowed her eyes and released herself from the battle state, "You really don't know what happened yesterday?"

"We are not the people of the Warcraft Goddess. If we were, we would not have offered tribute to you and asked you to protect us to meet the Goddess of the Jungle." Li Yun suddenly felt a little nervous and had to hurry up.

Chapter 170 Congratulations on recruiting the goddess Ishtar

The atmosphere now became a little tense. Although Ishtar believed that Li Yun and Anna were not on the side of the Warcraft Goddess, she could not give them enough trust.

To put it simply, I don’t know who you are, so I can’t just run away with you.

"....." Li Yun felt a little confused. Why was it so easy to convince Gudako when she came, but it was so difficult for her...

Is it because he doesn’t have the halo of the protagonist?

"Okay, I'll confess." Li Yun raised his arms. Although he wanted to wait until they met Athena and have Athena explain it herself, after all, hiding things from the gods would require the gods to do it. If Li Yun forced himself to explain, Ishtar or Anna would most likely see through it.

But in the current situation he had no choice but to reveal his identity.

"Actually, I was born because of Athena. Because of this chaotic era, Athena was also summoned here, and I was born due to some uncontrollable factors when Athena was summoned."

"Just like Anna."