Afterward, Quetzalcoatl honored her promise and formed a temporary contract with Luo Zhen, formally leaving the Three Goddess Alliance and joining humanity's side.
The addition of a divine being on the level of a chief god was no small matter to everyone. Even Mashu and the others were greatly encouraged.
Quetzalcoatl had especially brought them some good news.
"The humans from the several cities swallowed up by this jungle are still alive. The Uruk soldiers who entered here before, as well as the soldiers I killed at the South Gate, are all still alive too, you know?"
That was exactly what had happened.
This tropical jungle had originally been summoned by Quetzalcoatl using her own authority. It had been silently expanding all this time, invading the land around it.
There had originally been several cities in the south. They had all been swallowed by this tropical jungle, after which all news of them had been lost.
The people of Uruk had assumed that everyone in those cities had perished. According to Quetzalcoatl, however, they were all alive and well. Not a single one had been sacrificed.
What was more, even the Uruk soldiers Gilgamesh had sent to investigate in the past were still alive. The same was true of those Quetzalcoatl had killed at the South Gate.
When Quetzalcoatl delivered attacks powerful enough to kill, she had simultaneously implanted instant-acting resurrection in their bodies, allowing every one of them to revive afterward.
In other words, since manifesting in this world, Quetzalcoatl had given humanity plenty of trials and threats, but she had never actually endangered a single human life. Compared to Ereshkigal, who also sought to protect humanity yet had to kill humans and take their souls away, Quetzalcoatl had gone even further.
Now, as long as those people were