Chapter 591

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Together with the golems Shirou and Ishtar had made, their numbers had grown from fewer than ten to over fifty. All of them were stationed around Uruk and along the key routes through the Persian Gulf.

As for the goddess Ishtar, her progress spoke for itself.

Though the reason was unclear, her divinity had risen even further.

“How does that even work?”

When Shirou asked, the goddess gave him a mysterious smile.

“It’s nothing unusual. This is a perfectly natural result. My confidence as a goddess has simply reached a higher level.”

The current Ishtar might well have surpassed the great goddess she had been in life.

She had not merely “regained her power,” but “surpassed her prime.”

Although possessing a human body still imposed considerable limitations, the scale and reach of her Authorities were already on the level of a chief deity.

Ishtar had always been a goddess of the highest rank. The name “Inanna” itself meant the supreme female deity of heaven.

She had always possessed terrifying power. She had simply almost never managed to unleash it in full.

Now, however, her state of mind had undergone a transformation, and her Spirit Origin had reached a higher level.

In her own words, she could now rewrite the firmament of the planet through her will alone, if she so desired.

And her strength was not the only thing that had grown. Her conceit had, too—

“Heh heh! Whether I face that Venus goddess from South America or that gloomy, introverted woman in the underworld...

“No matter who my opponent is, there’s absolutely no way I’ll lose!”

Please, just don’t go picking another fight in the underworld, Shirou prayed silently.

Still, to think that divinity