Tiamat Sings So Beautifully (Continued)

After completely discarding the teleportation Magecraft he possessed, Rovey began to work even harder to leave.

However--

[Aaaaaa, aaaaaa...?]

As he prepared to quickly climb out of there, the melodious song that had been silent in the wasteland for a long time rang in his ears once again, and the intense pain that acted on his soul made his scalp tingle again.

Although the voice is quite pleasant to listen to, and seems to be dubbed by a familiar voice actor, its direct impact on the soul level is comparable to a high-pitched duet between Nero and Elizabeth, making it the most destructive soul-targeting skill in the world.

"You want me to go down and see you?"

Rovey quickly understood the meaning behind the urgent voice.

[Aaaaaa.]

In response to Rovey, the melodious voice soon came from below again, and the tone revealed the speaker's urgency and certainty.

"So this teleportation was really your doing..."

Hearing the voice's owner's concerned and sincere affirmation, Rovey immediately realized that it wasn't a problem with his Magecraft; it was indeed that "Mother" who had guided him here.

And indeed, the location he was in was exactly as he had expected—the very place where the Sumerian gods had sealed Tiamat. However, he was at the top, while Tiamat was located somewhere directly below him, and that terrifying aura emanated from Tiamat.

Only--

"Go see Tiamat?"

"Should we take the initiative to meet with that mother?"

These two questions made Rovey hesitate.

If it were Tiamat in her Servant form, he would definitely love to meet her. After all, who wouldn't love a small, maternal, and adorable Tiamat? But this is Tiamat in her Beast form. Wouldn't there be any problems if he actually went to meet her?

It shouldn't be... right?

After all, she was still a long way from returning, and judging from the fact that she was using her [Voice of Heaven] communication channel, it was clear from her voice that Tiamat was still communicable, and she seemed genuinely...

Lonely?

Yes, Rovey had already sensed that feeling of loneliness and sorrow. The Voice of Heaven's active ability was to receive divine revelation and listen to the emotions of all things. So even though the channel to contact Heaven was occupied, he could still feel the sorrow that belonged to Tiamat.

Does she really want to see me?

Are you too lonely and want someone to come and keep you company?

It is indeed pitiful and sad that a mother is betrayed and hurt by her child; such a thing is very distressing.

But shouldn't you at least find a child from your own pantheon to keep you company? Ishtar, Gilgamesh, Kingu, they're all good. What's with them staring at me like that?

Why would someone from the Bible pantheon go to your Sumerian pantheon to claim kinship?

That irresponsible father adopted him here?

Even though Rovey expressed sympathy and pity for Tiamat's plight, it didn't mean he would go down to accompany her, since he might not be able to come out again if he did.

The spirit of "cutting flesh to feed the eagle, if I don't go to hell, who will?" and the grand ambition to seek out the Buddha are things one cannot achieve without the enlightenment to do so.

[Aaaaa, aaaa! aaaa!!]

The calls grew more urgent, showing no sign of stopping.

As Rovey continued to climb faster, Tiamat clearly realized that Rovey, the only child she had been able to communicate with for countless years, was unwilling to return to her side, or even come down to look at her. As a result, the sadness in her heart became even more intense, and her singing even became tearful.

Boom—!

Rumble—!!

Accompanied by Tiamat's cries, a deafening sound echoed through his soul. Then, the surrounding cliffs began to shake violently. Although he still couldn't see what was below, he could still hear the roaring waves. Rovey covered his ears, trying to ignore it and leave, but—

[Aaa-aaaa-aa!!]

The weeping that filled the air didn't stop; instead, it intensified. In an instant, the concert, which had been a duet between Nero and Elizabeth, transformed into a grand chorus of all the Nero and Elizabeth races in Chaldea. It was equivalent to the voices of a dozen Nero and a dozen Elizabeth merging together, a sound that would shake the soul for a hundred years. Even when his soul was plunged into hell, Rovey had never experienced such a treatment.

Not only that, as Tiamat's emotions drastically changed, she cried even louder, causing the entire cliff face to collapse continuously. The ocean below, which was previously invisible, was now...

The sound of the surging waves was getting closer and closer!

Above him was pitch blackness, with no end in sight; below him was the ever-rising primeval ocean; in his hands he gripped a fragile cliff that was constantly collapsing; he couldn't use the teleportation Magecraft he had on hand, because who knew where he would be teleported to this time?

He was still being treated like Sun Wukong listening to the magic spell, and his fragile soul was trembling violently every second.

So what kind of sins have I committed?

[Aa——]

"Master, please stop chanting! I know I was wrong, I'll go down, I'll go down, is that alright?!"

After experiencing this hellish ordeal for a few minutes while hanging on the cliff, and realizing that climbing out was almost impossible, Rovey finally gave in and told Tiamat to stop, preventing her from continuing to play heavenly music in his ear.

[Aaaa?]

"Really, if you said it, then it must be true. After all, I can't escape it, can I?"

[Aaaa, aaa!!]

"Yes, yes, I'm a good child, Mom. I don't lie, really."

[Aaaaa, aaaa...]

"Don't get agitated, shut up, and stop this cliff from swaying here any longer."

[——]

After a complex exchange, the sound from the darkness finally subsided.

Now Tiamat has not only stopped crying, but she is also conveying a kind and happy mood to Rovey, and it seems that she is in a very happy state at the moment.

She's so easy to coax...

Tiamat would be very happy if she simply complied with her requests.

That maternal instinct as the Primordial Mother Goddess, and her own loving-kindness, have already overflowed.

However, the love she spoke of was merely what she perceived as love. As the Mother of Creation, her love was beyond human endurance and even reached a level that gods could not comprehend.

Just like humans trying to cherish ants, even if you try to cherish them, the insurmountable gap between their size and life level can easily bring irreparable disaster to the ants in the process of loving them.

Tiamat, as the Beast of "Return" among Evils of Humanity, undoubtedly returns for love. However, the return she speaks of is not walking but eternal sleep for humanity, as humanity has not yet grown to the point of accepting her love.

[Aaaa...aaa...?]

"Have some decency!"

Seeing Rovey hesitate in mid-air, Tiamat's voice rang out again. Just as she thought she had been deceived by the child again and was about to start crying and making a fuss, Rovey stopped her and had to start moving.

It's unlikely we can climb out now; we'd be knocked down by Tiamat halfway there, which would be pointless. We need to stabilize her first, and then think of another way.

With a silent sigh, Rovey controlled his third outstretched hand to slowly release the cliff face, placed his palm on the rock in front of him, and began to slowly slide down.

After descending several hundred meters, Rovey released his grip, grabbed a crack in the rock, and began to carefully continue exploring downwards, moving slowly and steadily.

Finally, urged on by that voice, about half an hour later, my feet finally touched the ground again.

"This really is the abyss from Sumerian Mythology— "

Rovey stood on the dark rock wall, looking helplessly at the dark and deep rocks in front of him and the endless primeval ocean. The black seawater accumulated in front of him was the purest Primordial Sea.

I looked up and saw a rock face that was thousands or even tens of thousands of meters high.

He knew that this place was deeper than the Underworld, more silent than any dead zone, a place deliberately forgotten, a place that even the Sumerian gods would not reach.

Their purpose in creating this space was to seal away a special being that should never be allowed to return. That being was Tiamat, the mother of the gods, the origin of everything in Sumerian Mythology, and the enormous figure standing in the Sea of Life.

Even from a distance, one could feel the terrifying power and pressure emanating from the other party, which was far more powerful than Goetia was unable to use his full strength because of his playful antics.

Do we really want to go and see?

Rovey couldn't help but hesitate.

[Aaaaaa——!!]

However, just as he hesitated, the loud and cheerful voice rang in his ears again. It was clearly Tiamat welcoming him and eagerly inviting him to her side.

Listening to the other person's cheerful voice and feeling the special magic that filled the entire space, Rovey experienced the true meaning of the idiom "a mother's love is as solid as a mountain" for the first time.

Although I didn't really want to go, since I'm already here, I should definitely go and see it.

While searching for an exit, let's also check on the status of Tiamat, the Singularity, for King Gilgamesh, since returning the way we came is definitely out of the question.

So, I guess I'm just destined to be a workaholic...

He stepped into the Sea of Life, and then took a step. Rovey stood firmly on the sea surface, but his feet were still swallowed by the blackness.

Instantly, a strange, indescribable feeling surged into my mind, but then vanished just as quickly.

[Aaaa...]

He heard a mournful sound, and strange images suddenly flashed before his eyes. They were the origin paintings of the Sumerian pantheon, blurry images from an unknown time ago.

"Hmm, is this... a memory belonging to Tiamat?"

Rovey covered his head and carefully recalled the few moments he had just witnessed.

That was the original state, before the Sumerian gods were born.

Tiamat, this lonely mother, stands on the sea, gazing at an endless ocean, a world where nothing exists, and the only thing that echoes in this world is Tiamat's endless loneliness.

"——"

As his thoughts gradually returned, Rovey still stood on the sea, at the edge of the Sea of Life, gazing in one direction, where he could still see the Beast II.

At this moment, he roughly understood what had just happened.

Is Tiamat telling me her story in this way? And conveying her feelings to me in this manner...?

'This scene is somewhat similar to when I beat up the Lion King, but there are also many differences.'

The most significant difference is that Tiamat did not intentionally threaten him, and even looked forward to him reaching her side. These memories in the ocean were just like a mother and child chatting on the way to school. The other party did not mean to hurt him.

However, during his contact with the Sea of Life, in addition to those fragments of memory, Rovey felt even more clearly certain extremely complex emotions within it: sadness, confusion, pity, anger, and self-blame.

It is a stagnant pool of water, yet it is a boundless ocean teeming with life.

That is also the mental landscape of Tiamat, the Mother of Creation.

Normally, people who bathe in the Sea of Life will be corrupted by Tiamat's special abilities and the resentment she has accumulated, becoming evil servants who hate all humans, namely Amino Geass.

However, because he possesses his own divinity to counteract this, and also has the most fundamental godlike physique and abilities, he is unaffected by infection or transformation. Even Tiamat's Primordial Sea cannot affect his state. On the contrary, when he uses his third palm to counteract the Sea of Life below, he can use his magic to deepen the connection between himself and Tiamat. The increasingly obvious feeling of the Voice of Heaven is the best proof of this.

Although his magic was indeed a drop in the ocean compared to the sheer size of the Sea of Life, it was by no means completely ineffective. Perhaps—realizing this, a very bold idea came to Rovey's mind.

Without hesitation, he slashed his own body and prevented the wound from healing, letting his blood and magic flow into the black ocean below. The result was exactly as he expected: although the amount of blood and magic swallowed was negligible, it did subtly alter some of the characteristics of the Sea of Life.

Now it's not just him unilaterally accepting the memories Tiamat conveys; his emotions and recollections will also be reflected in this way. The two can be said to be using this ocean as a bridge to slowly exchange their feelings.

If he could truly repeat this process of exchanging and passing on memories, then perhaps he could actually make some adjustments to Tiamat's existence itself, or even make a greater change.

Anyway, I don't have a better way now, and the concept of time and the concept of Imaginary Number Space are all distorted.

The concept of the passage of time has no effect on this forgotten, sealed prison.

Although his current actions are comparable to the embarrassing situation of being throttled when downloading study materials using Baidu Cloud because he didn't have a membership, and the progress is ridiculously slow, he is still genuinely downloading.

Even if the speed is ridiculously slow, it's enough as long as the process is confirmed to be meaningful.

He has plenty of blood to draw and his vitality is incredibly strong. As long as he keeps trying and failing, and as long as the final probability isn't zero, he has a chance to achieve 100%.

To speed up the transmission, Rovey ruthlessly deactivated the miracle of walking on the sea surface, and let deep red blood overflow from all the Command Spells on his body, immersing his entire body in the ocean to continue moving forward.

More memories flooded his mind, and he reciprocated with his own emotions and memories.

Having witnessed Sumerian Mythology firsthand from an outsider's perspective, from its origins to the betrayal by her child, the ensuing war within the mythology, her willing sealing away, her awakening by Goetia, her yearning to return, and then a special being arriving, connecting Tiamat to the Voice of Heaven's terminal, and telling her, "Soon, a child will come to save you. Please wait patiently, Mother of Creation of Sumerian. Then you can communicate with that child using the Voice of Heaven."

Rovey realized that he had indeed been set up.

Moreover, it was personally arranged by the Holy Spirit, so it seems that this mission is—

Save Tiamat?

This is a task that sounds daunting just from hearing about it. It's not about defeating or sealing, but rather—saving?!

The word "salvation" is far too broad.

He didn't understand what salvation truly meant; was it simply about letting Tiamat rest in peace? Was it about sealing her away again?

Wouldn't that just mean sealing or defeating them?

If it were at the beginning, he would definitely have thought the same way, believing that sealing Tiamat or killing Tiamat beast form would be considered salvation. However, after reading the entire Sumerian Mythology and completing this emotional exchange with Tiamat, he felt that it was just a period of rest for Tiamat, and could not be considered salvation at all.