Ishtar looked at the situation in front of him seriously and waved his hand gently.
In an instant—the air and walls around Ishtar, which had charmed the space itself, were twisted, and the stone steps above the goddess's head began to bloom like soft petals.
"Wait a moment, I'll go play with this rude assassin."
"Lord Ishtar!?"
Facing her believers, the goddess always wore a fearless smile and told a ridiculous piece of information.
"That's right. You have to be careful too. If you touch that shadow, I will die too!"
"Well……"
"This forest has been surrounded by shadows..."
Then, the shadow began to eat the light of the world.
The noise in the forest surrounding the temple disappeared, and silence and darkness seeped into the world.
From under the shade of the tree, from the back of the rolled bark, from under the droplets of the black turbid current, from the gaps in the sand that Ishtar has been charming and controlling before—
It seems that the 'shadow' everywhere is increasing, as if that is the correct look.
But the shadow with the color of death did not even take away the life of a single clinging insect.
The 'shadow' of the earth illuminated by the sky has only one thing it denies.
Because there is only one mistress of the sky, and she seeks to cover the earth with false light.
"Going to fuck, Myanna!"
Ishtar shouted, and he jumped from the open roof into the looming sky.
As a result, the lapis lazuli and gold decorations that made up the temple moved together, floated in the air, and gathered towards the goddess.
Those treasures turned into a bow-shaped boat depicting two beautiful arcs, carrying Ishtar's body high into the sky.
However, 'Shadow' did not sit idly by.
As if shadows exist wherever there is light, they appear in the world and chase the cluster of radiant "shadows" called Ishtar that dazzles all living things.
Rather than saying that something black was pouring into the sky, it was more like darkness eroding the sky, chasing Ishtar flying in all directions.
The surrounding space and terrain, even the flow of the wind and the density of the air are all charmed and controlled by the goddess. She constantly avoids clusters of 'shadows' that cannot penetrate the power of God with just a hair's breadth.
Elegantly, gorgeously, and boldly.
However, this chase cannot last forever.
Maanna was originally a celestial ship that could fly around the world as she pleased.
However, because it has not yet completed its transformation into the Age of Gods, the range where it can maintain its maximum speed is limited to temples and forests.
On the contrary, the shadow is an existence that competes with that new world, and the 'shadow' will always exist until the end of the world.
If the shadow persists in pursuing and fighting, it is self-evident that Ishtar, who has exhausted his spirit and magic power, will be caught up sooner or later.
However, this assumes that Ishtar does not fight.
"Oh, I'm in a hurry!"
Seeing the giant snake entwining Gugalana below, Ishtar stretched out his hand, like a primary school student trying to pick up a stick that fit in his hand and waved it back and forth.
"Come on, Sita!"
It was the cursed giant snake shot by those who challenged the gods, the incarnation of Hydra.
However, somehow, the reverberation of the goddess who gradually regained all her power even charmed the giant snake's existence, turning it into a completely different existence.
The aura that imitated the venomous snake gathered in one place, reversing all the curses, and transformed into the form of a small snake.
Ishtar, who was driving Maanna speeding through the sky as if avoiding a 'shadow', stretched out his hand, and seven snakes wrapped around his fingers, intertwining with each other to form a 'sacrifice'.
It is a stone mace imitating the seven snakes.
Ishtar gently held this vicious-looking weapon with one hand.
"Nibble!"
Before she finished speaking, Ishtar drove Ma Anna high into the sky.
The Sky Boat keeps rising, seemingly pointing directly at the sea of stars and Venus.
Then, the 'shadow' also extends.
I don’t know if it’s true or not, but the shadow of Ishtar himself said, “If you touch it, you will die if you touch it.”
Like the Tower of Babel, a tall, dark tower rises from the ground just to reach the gods in the sky.
Maanna, who was turning rapidly on a roller coaster-like track, began to dive towards the top of the shadow tower in the blink of an eye.
The goddess Ishtar is one of the gods and is not allowed to approach the tower in the realm of gods.
No, that's not the case.
Not the gods.
To let the world understand that the sky is its own and Ishtar’s domain——
Ishtar just followed Ma Anna's momentum and smashed down.
‘Seven-Headed Warhammer Sita’.
It is said that Ishtar has held a war hammer imitating the Seven Serpents since she was born.
It is said that the war hammer can destroy enemies as long as it exists. The goddess Ishtar poured all her strength and divine energy into it and smashed it against the top of the Tower of Shadows.
What a dazzling light, at that moment, the observer looking up at the sky from a specific area murmured.
Venus increased to two.
Leaving a moment of light, Maanna and Warhammer Sita defeated the shadow and pressed it to the ground.
When the goddess landed on the temple again, she tried her best to dissipate the shadow together with the assassin's spiritual base.
Ishtar forgot one thing.
That is definitely not the Tower of Babel.
Since it is Hassan Sabah, it is impossible to build such a tower.
The so-called Tower of Shadows is nothing more than an expression of the height of arrogance generated by Ishtar's own brilliance.
Therefore, the brilliance cannot be eliminated.
"...Really, the things in the underworld are so incompatible with each other!"
As the goddess said this, she pinched the 'shadow' and looked up. Her attention turned to the mythical beast in the sky.
To completely eliminate this shadow, I'm afraid it will take all the power of the temple.
In order to deal with this matter, we must first resolve the instability factors.
"Gugalana!"
The goddess told the Bull of Heaven, who had been protecting the temple from the swarm of giant snakes, just this.
"While I'm suppressing this guy - destroy the source of the 'chain'!"
This is not a forced order.
His tone was very relaxed, as if he was instructing his beloved dog to ‘pick up the thrown ball’.
However, this is the truth of the new world spoken from the mouth of the goddess.