Kurgalu held a kettle in his hand. The kettle was filled with clean water and was tied with a golden iron chain. The handle looked like a square key.
He used the kettle as a bolas.
Adkart held the spear that was much larger than himself, but he acted like an arm commanding him, and his eyes were sharp. Even when he fought with half of the "Human Shield", he didn't seem to be at a disadvantage in a short period of time.
"Drink——!"
The bone spear thrust forward suddenly, with an extremely sharp force that made Adkart's eyes glow slightly, as he was about to stab Kurgalu.
However, the kettle happened to appear in the path of the spear and caught the spear with the mouth of the pot, restricting Adkart's movement.
Adkart gritted his teeth and swung the spear violently, trying to get the kettle out of Kurgalu's hand. However, the golden chain grew longer in an instant, making a "clattering" sound.
Instead, it entangled Adkart's spear.
Seizing this opportunity, Kurgalu kicked Adkart in the head.
Adkart remained calm in the face of danger, his eyes widened, and he gave a low drink.
"Hey-!"
The body suddenly sank, and the waist drove the entire upper limb to exert force, forcibly dislocating the entangled right hand, and then——
Twisting the spear—!
Driven by the body, twist the spear tail back, and thrust forward——!
"Poof!" Kurgalu was stabbed in the abdomen by the tail of the spear and flew backwards. The chain surrounding the spear also relaxed involuntarily.
"Hahaha, thank you for helping me fix my spear when my arm was dislocated." Adkart smiled and put his arm back on, and then picked up the spear that fell on the ground.
"Pfft--isn't the intensity not enough..." Kurgalu stood up with a bit of despair in his expression.
Although he did not suffer any injuries, as a divine creature, he lost to humans in the duel...
Galatulu's eyes are not good-looking either. As his younger brother, although the weapons he uses are different from those of Kurgalu, their strength is not higher than Galatulu's.
"Don't be discouraged. I feel like I won't be afraid of a few Bashumu now." Adkart pierced the spear into the ground and walked over with a smile. "The spear given by the king will make me happy."
The strength has increased too much."
This is the truth.
If Adkart hadn't been really strong, Gilgamesh would not have given him the spear. Not everyone can use the weapons in the King's Treasure House.
Because of this relationship, Gilgamesh had already begun to make a magical fort called the "Divine Seal" not long ago, just to see if the unused weapons in the King's Treasure House could be fired as cannonballs.
To strengthen the city defense of Uruk.
But now that I have to go to Eridu non-stop, the production of the divine seal has stopped again.
Put it aside for now.
"General, please don't comfort us." Kurgalu shook his head calmly, "The two of us together are a human shield as a whole. It is normal for the strength to be insufficient when separated."
Adkart hesitated to speak.
"Please don't worry that we will have any words of resentment." Kurgalu seemed to realize what Adkart wanted to say, and smiled, "We naturally know that we, who originally did not have any self-thought, will be destroyed, and in
On this basis the fact that the three people who re-established our personalities have done their best.”
Adkart opened his mouth. Everything he wanted to say had been said in advance, so what else could he do?
But...he still has a question.
"The meaning of your life is given by others. Is this really okay?"
It took him decades to find the one that belonged to him among all the roads, and the two existences in front of him... let's call them "people" for the time being, were just born, and they were already...
Being "set" with the purpose and meaning of life.
Kurgalu and Galatulu looked at each other with incomprehensible expressions.
After a long time, Kurgalu, as his elder brother, spoke up and sighed softly.
"I don't know, but..."
"At least it's better than the old days of having no desires and no demands."
The three Nanshes did not destroy their previous records and personalities. The records of their previous lives still existed in the souls of Kurgalu and Galatulu.
Except for the first deep dive into the underworld, the remaining hundreds of years are so...the same.
As a creation of God Enki, the possibly infinite clay figurine actually does some things in the temple that even the goddess would not do, and simply uses his physical strength to contribute to the gods.
Now Kurgalu and Galatulu don't want to go back to that state no matter what.
There are some things that once you taste them once, you can never go back to them again. Intelligence is such a thing.
"Is this so... It doesn't matter. You guys should work hard under Lord Shamhat's instructions to maintain the operation of this city-state. It's time for me to return to the army." Adkart stood up and walked towards the barracks.
go in the direction.
King Gilgamesh left him a task before leaving.
The army has maintained a strength of more than ten people for such a long time. In the face of this coming storm, it is time to expand again.
Adkart is confident.
...
Enlil looked gloomy, sitting on a high throne, looking down at the goddess sitting next to him.
Ishtar had stopped crying and did not dare to raise her head to look at Enlil.
Although she is also one of the seven gods of destiny, if you want Ishtar to be compared with Enlil, you still think too highly of her.
Even if ten Ishtars were tied together, it would not be enough for Enlil to defeat him. He was a great god who could make the strong wind roar throughout Sopotamia.
"Just because of - this kind of thing?" His voice was as loud as a bell, with a hint of sullenness that could not be ignored.
"Just because of something like this - you dare to wake me - up from my sleep!?"
He looked at Ishtar, and what he said made Ishtar tremble.
"Besides - don't you feel that what you have done has brought shame to the gods - Ishtar!?"
Ishtar's head lowered even lower.
If there is anything in this world that makes her dare not disobey, it is only this one, her king, the great god Enlil.