Chapter 1234 – Silent Stubbornness
As that divine ruin covered every corner of the King’s Treasure Trove, the earth underneath everyone’s feet suddenly trembled violently!
The Puppet Hero King in the sky, holding the [Scepter] in one hand and the other hand in the air, as if grasping some kind of unseen authority, suddenly clenched tightly!
Boom-!
Explosive sounds exploded from the air.
Lin Qiye only felt a tremor in his chest as a box suddenly broke through his collar and flew rapidly towards the Puppet Hero King in the air.
”Crystal ball?” Lin Qiye attempted to reach out and grab the box, but it was simply too fast and instantly came out of his hand.
This box contained the crystal ball of the divine artifact that was gifted to him by the old city lord of Wu City not long ago, and at this moment, with the puppet hero king’s movements, it seemed like it received some sort of guidance and broke out of the air.
Not only this crystal ball, one after another stream of light rose from the ruins of Wu City and the desert, rushing up into the clouds!
”It’s the [Thunder Suppressing Hammer]? I saw the [Thunder Suppressing Hammer]!”
”My bracelet!”
”Granny Wind’s bell flew away too!”
”The artifacts …… artifacts have all flown away! What’s going on?!”
”……”
The survivors standing on the city walls exclaimed in shock.
The divine artifacts that the residents of Wu City had been guarding and maintaining for generations flew up into the sky one after another from the ruins, and there were also a large number of black dots rapidly approaching within the yellow sandy desert.Lin Qiye squinted his eyes, and even saw the Wine God Pot, the long boots with wings, and the long spear with the silver flying bird.
All of the divine artifacts stored within the King’s Treasure Trove were actively flying towards the puppet hero king in the air.
Under the control of Moon God Nanna, the Puppet Hero King activated the [King’s] Laws and once again awakened this [King’s Treasure Trove] that had been sleeping for thousands of years!
Numerous artifacts flew up to the clouds and hung behind the Golem Hero King, gradually interweaving into a wall of artifacts, brilliantly illuminating the dim sky with a brilliant divine radiance.
At the same time, the crowd only felt their bodies sink, and the black wall under their feet similarly rose up, carrying their bodies and flying towards the clouds.
The survivors who had lost their center of gravity fell off the city wall one after another in a burst of terrified cries, plummeting downwards from the heights.
Seeing this, Lin Qiye took the initiative to leap down from the city wall and recited aloud:
”The roc rises with the wind in a single day, lifting itself up 90,000 miles!”
The whistling whirlwind lifted everyone’s bodies and placed them firmly on the ground, and the stunned residents’ faces turned white as they realized that there had been a stranger hiding near them all along.
Lin Qiye didn’t have time to say anything more to these residents, and his face was frozen.
The palm of his hand that clutched the King’s [Star Coin] suddenly exerted force, imprisoning it between his palms, but the terrifying power coming from the [Star Coin] almost carried his entire body into the sky!
The “Absolute Submission” attribute of the King’s Treasure Trove can forcibly control all the artifacts that have been taken in,……, even the other four artifacts that are also of the “supreme” level, are no exception. I can’t do that.
No, if this continues, he will also fall into the hands of the Puppet Hero King!
Lin Qiye’s eyes flashed with a flash of brilliance, and after a moment, he took the initiative to let go of the [Star Coin] in his hand.
The [Star Coin] turned into a stream of light, cutting through the sky and falling back around the Puppet Hero King, and together with the [Sword], [Holy Grail] and [Scepter], it surrounded him like a multitude of stars.
Losing the shelter of the city walls, the figures of the survivors and Lin Qiye were completely exposed in the ruins.
The three gods in the sky glanced down at them and
Nanner spoke faintly:
”There are still leaks …… all of them as sacrifices to the [Holy Grail].”
The Goddess of Love, Lust, and War, Inanna, nodded her head, and with a shake of her body, she flashed to the sky above the ruins of the City of Wu.
She looked down indifferently at the dozen or so figures at her feet, stepped forward in the air, and slowly raised the lance in her hand ……
”Great God of Love and Beauty!” Among the terrified survivors, a woman hastily pushed her way through the crowd and looked up at the figure, almost pleading:
”Let us go …… You have already killed so many people, isn’t it enough? Please, for the sake of My King, let us go ……”
”My King?” Inanna said with some amusement, “You mean Gilgamesh? You don’t think, until now, that we are really gods under his command, do you?
As for …… sparing you?
Even your king has become a dog at our mercy, what are you mortals …… for?
Uruk, which has lost Gilgamesh, is nothing more than a bunch of rabble, and it is an honor for you mortals to be the sacrifice to restore Sumerian glory!”
Inanna’s voice was like thunder, rumbling in the ears of the many residents of Uruk City as she raised her lance and raging divine might poured down!
These ordinary people, under the pressure of the Lord God’s might, had no room for resistance at all, only feeling a mountain suddenly pressing down on their shoulders, holding them down hard.
They were forced to kneel and crouch on top of the ruins, bean-sized beads of sweat sliding down from their cheeks, their eyes filled with fear and despair.
Tali’s forehead was pressed against the uneven corners of the broken stone slabs, and the sharp stone tips pierced through her skin, with blood flowing down her forehead and staining the earth beneath her feet.
She clenched her teeth, used all her strength to stand up, but her body was like lead, not moving …… She whimpered, tears mixed with blood, penetrating the broken slate, flowing toward the gap below.
She did not understand, what exactly did they do wrong?
They had only followed the instructions of their ancestors, living in this Wu City for generations, maintaining, and taking care of these artifacts …… They hadn t messed with anyone, but calamities came one after another.
Father died, the city lord and other uncles also died, the invaders coveted their divine weapons, the three gods that they had always believed in used them as sacrifices, the hero king that their ancestors had once sworn to uphold was made into a puppet, even the divine weapons that they had guarded for generations fell into the hands of the gods.
In front of the Calamity, they were like lambs to the slaughter, and anyone seemed to be able to easily slaughter their lives.
No one was on their side.
Tears of resignation continued to well up in Tali’s eyes as she slowly closed them, preparing to meet her own death.
Just then, her afterglow saw that beside her, a piece of stamp that was charred black by the flames was lying quietly among the ruins.
That was a wedge stamp …… of Uruk.
Every household in the city of Uruk had this kind of wedge badge hanging.
This is a symbol and a legacy, their ancestors passed down this kind of wedge stamp, in order to let the descendants remember that they are the descendants of the Uruk Kingdom, and in their bodies, the blood of Uruk flows!
The city of Wu, will always be the city of Uruk.
Seeing the crowd kneeling in front of her like ants, the corner of Inanna’s mouth rose slightly:
”That’s right …… Kneeling to your hero king is better than kneeling to me.”
Hearing these words, Tali, who was staring blankly at the wedge chapter, had her heart tremble.
Her near-exhausted body began to tremble uncontrollably, an unprecedented conviction surged to her heart, and her eyes burst out with amazing perseverance.
Her entire body lay on the ground, sideways with force, like a turtle, and with great difficulty, she rolled over on the ground, and her original kneeling body, unexpectedly rolled into a supine upward position.
She stretched out a hand and clutched the wedge chapter beside her in a death grip, those stubborn eyes staring at Inanna in the sky above, the corners of her pale mouth hooked into a smile.
She did not speak, but the gaze seemed to say:
See, I didn’t kneel you!
I know I’ll die, I know I can’t resist you, but so what?
Even if I roll …… on the ground, I will definitely not kneel you!
The afterglow saw Tali’s movements, and those old people who were also kneeling and crouching on the ground, began to slowly follow suit.
Their hunched bodies rolled on the ground in an ugly half-circle, like turned over dead fish, facing Inanna in the sky.
This was a kind of silent stubbornness, and a kind of silent perseverance.
Under the surging divine might, in the middle of the dead and lonely city
A group of abandoned people, pitiful and ridiculous, guarding the last salary flame belonging to Uruk.