The foot-fetish fan service segment was coming to an end.
Li Lin looked up at his goddess, her face flushed red from the firelight, and felt a string in his mind about to snap. 'Our relationship has already progressed this far, so going a little further should be fine, right?' he thought to himself.
The next moment, before Eresh could react, he pounced like a hungry tiger and pulled her into a tight embrace.
"Wifey, I like you so much!!"
"Slurp~~, slurp~~."
Li Lin buried his head in Eresh's chest and began to inhale deeply. The unique tsundere scent of the blonde goddess filled him with motivation.
"Ngh~, d-don't sniff! I-it tickles—!" Ereshkigal's red lips parted, and a cry escaped her as she felt his presumptuous actions. She opened her small mouth, her warm breath puffing out. Her cute face was covered in a blush, and a mist formed in her red eyes, her expression becoming hazy.
"Mmph~~...!"
Ereshkigal bit her lip, her fleshy thighs pressed tightly together. She tried to push his head away, but as time passed, her arms grew weaker and weaker. Eventually, she could only lie on the grass, her hands wrapped around his head, letting out breathy moans as she allowed the man to do as he pleased.
[Several tens of thousands of words omitted here]............(⁄ ⁄•⁄ω⁄•⁄ ⁄)
While Li Lin and his goddess were engaged in some steamy flirting in the forest, in a celestial temple far above, Ishtar felt like her world was ending. She looked at the treasures Humbaba had returned to her and began to count.
"1, 2, 3, 3, 3..."
"Why are there only three left?!"
Ishtar clutched her head, feeling as if life had lost all meaning. Her big, watery eyes were starting to look like fried eggs. "Waaaaah, my money! Why, why are you doing this to me~~." [Kneeling and crying] o·( sobbing )·o
She completely ignored the fact that a certain divinity of harvest was also missing. While losing a piece of her divinity was painful, it was nothing compared to her jewels! Her main job was to be the personification of war and beauty; calling her a war goddess wasn't wrong at all. And harvest meant... farming. For someone who loved to run wild, that kind of thing was just collecting dust anyway. She just wished she had only lost the divinity and not her gems. Sobbing X﹏X~~.
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The sorrows and joys of individuals are not shared. The world would not stop turning just because Ishtar was crying.
Let's pull back and look at the entire Mesopotamian plain. On the lands of the Age of Gods, humanity had been born. The torch of [Civilization] was slowly taking shape as the population grew. From the Stone Age to tribal societies, and now to an agrarian civilization.
[Eridu]
The first truly large city on the Mesopotamian plain built by humans themselves. It was located at the mouth of the Euphrates River where it entered the Persian Gulf, the southernmost city of the entire plain. The god they worshipped was Enki, the god of water and wisdom.
With the appearance of the first human city-state, kingship descended from the heavens and fell upon Eridu. And thus, the first king of humanity was born.
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Some more time passed. We'll leave Li Lin and Eresh for now; their nights were just filled with lewd activities before sleeping, nothing much to say.
As for Ishtar, for some reason, she had gone mad. The woman suddenly announced that she was going to conquer the highest sacred mountain, Mount Ebih!
It's important to know that most of the Sumerian gods were personifications of nature. As a sacred mountain that had existed since ancient times, Mount Ebih naturally had its own divinity, though it had never been able to form a human body due to its special nature. In a sense, Ishtar's actions were equivalent to challenging another god to a duel to the death.
However, none of the other gods intervened. It was easy to understand why. Although Mount Ebih was ancient and many gods called it the great mother mountain, a title was just a title. A mountain that couldn't form a divine body was just a plaything in the eyes of the gods.
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BOOM BOOM BOOM—!!
Ishtar's feet stomped on the mountain, creating deafening roars. With every step she took, her divine power grew. By the time she reached the summit, a golden wave of magical energy was visibly surging around her.
Don't be fooled by her usual silly behavior and her fumbling against a single Humbaba. When she got serious, the authority of a chief god was not to be underestimated!
"I will prove my power to all living things!" she declared loudly.
"I'm not a clown, and I'm not poor!" she muttered under her breath.
A weapon appeared in Ishtar's hand. It looked like a staff with an intertwined grip, but its tip was sharp like a rapier. She threw it into the sky. Like an arrow piercing the clouds, it turned into a shooting star, soaring ninety thousand li into the heavens.
The next moment, as the clouds parted, a black curtain spread out in a circle, revealing the vast and profound expanse of space behind it.
"Open! The gate!" Ishtar shouted, summoning her sky-boat, Maanna. Then, following her senses, she raised a hand high.
A golden light gradually appeared above the curtain. It was a projection of the celestial body Venus, the second planet from the sun. Due to its proximity to the sun, its surface was perpetually hot and barren, like a pale yellow planet of death. The people of Earth had imbued it with the concepts of destruction and ruin.
And now, Ishtar would grasp this concept in her hand, turn it into an arrow of light, load it into Maanna, and fire it!
As for the resulting destruction... The spirit of Mount Ebih was instantly annihilated, and its body was used by Ishtar as the site for her own temple.
Because this one attack conquered the great sacred Mount Ebih, its release incantation was called: [An Galgalla Kîshar Galgalla!!]
P.S. Fun fact: Ishtar actually conquered Mount Ebih and descended to the Underworld after the Great Flood. I just wanted to intersperse it while writing about her and Eresh's cute interactions. Mwah mwah mwah mwah mwah (^o^)~
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