Chapter 339: 339: The Underworld (2)

Chapter 339: 339: The Underworld (2)

Chapter 339: The Underworld (2)

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Spiraling paths that led from the top to the bottom of this terrain, as if stairs, they rolled down in a circular motion. Each circle stretched for hundreds of meters and there were dozens of those circles.

However, the paths weren't plain and clear. It was wet to the feet, and it didn't seem like normal water. There was a smell, a stench in the air that made even Neji uncomfortable.

On either side of the bridge-like road, there were cages. The cages all had a round blue light shining within them.

This was Babylon's Underworld, [Kur].

"Whoa..."

"Don't touch it."

Jaguarman was about to touch one of the cages, but Neji slapped her hand away.

"How clumsy, despite being a Goddess."

Neji shook his head while the Goddess' eyes went teary and withdrew her hand away. She didn't say anything in retort. Visitt novelbin(.)co/m for the latest updates

Neji turned to look at Fujimaru and Mash who just landed; he gave both of them a nod.

"Ereshkigal likes to keep the soul she takes a liking to, close to herself. In the past, there used to be a few. However, it seems she changed after allying herself with the two Goddesses. There are thousands of souls. They can't pass onto peace, and are just stuck here."

They needed to stop Ereshkigal. A battle head-on wasn't impossible to break out. They had to be prepared to risk their lives; because dying in the Underworld meant that even Neji wouldn't be able to revive them. Dying here would kill their soul, and so Tenseigan wouldn't help.

"If we bought Ishtar, she would have been as useful as an ant by the time we reached the end of this path. However, that doesn't imply we are well off now. An underworld is a place where Divine Spirits and Heroic Spirits lose a lot of their powers, so they are unable to flee once they get here. Though the nerf is weaker than the one placed upon Ishtar."

Neji explained, and everyone listened attentively.

"Let's move a bit forward; it'll be easier to explain the next part there."

Neji led the group forward, stopping Fujimaru who was about to ask why he did what he did back then. The group walked for quite a few minutes, before coming across a large stone gate. The gate was unique and had two animal engraving on each side of it.

Neji took two jewels out of his inventory and threw them forward. It was a sort of ritual. The two jewels banged against a barrier around the gate that stretched infinitely on all sides of the gate, so someone couldn't just fly around it.

– Boom!

With a loud boom, the two jewels exploded in the group's faces. The energy of the loud explosion traveled to the four animal signs on the gate and started to glow.



Neji said, ready to launch into his full dragon form if she attacked.

"However, that is not the case here. I am here to speak. Can we?"

There was silence. Nearly a minute later, the ethereal voice replied.

`"You came just for a talk? Even though a Divine Spirit, two servants, and a strong battle-mage are accompanying you?"

The four girls behind him flinched in uncomfortableness. Though Fujimaru looked greatly delighted hearing the term 'Battle-Mage'. That was a title she never expected to see herself attached with.

Neji shrugged his shoulders; he had a chance to easily turn this around since she hadn't yet attacked.

"What can I say? I haven't seen my cute older sis in ages, and she seems to have changed a lot in that time. I had to be a bit more cautious, in case my lovely sis was being mentally manipulated by the other Goddesses."

Neji bootlicked her well; after all, Gilgamesh and she weren't close enough to call each other like this. They did call one another brother and sister, but it was more on a respectable tone than the one Neji was using.

`"...You too, have changed." The voice said. "Are you still the same Gilgamesh? Your hair is different, and I sense dragon energy within you."

"About that—I was hoping to meet face to face before we talk. Will that be possible?"

Neji tried asking her again. There must be a chance since she was yet to attack.

Unfortunately, that hope of Neji's was deemed false.

`"I don't think we can work with that. I am sorry, brother. I promise your soul will be all right... you and I will live eons together... but your body needs to die. I cannot trust you at all, with Humanity's Last Master by your side."

Danger.

Neji's senses flared up and he shouted for the girls to run—but it was too late.

With a loud earthquake, the road trembled greatly, before the small part beneath their feet crumbled down. Falling right towards the tall spiky rocks on the floor. As if to block his flight and stop him from trying to save anyone, the spiky rocks beneath them shot up—so did the spiky rocks in all the walls.

Suddenly, death was approaching from six directions. Neji's sixth sense flared in a great alert.

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