The Final Battle of This World
Thus, Uruk began a general mobilization.
Under the guidance of the civil officials led by Siduri and the soldiers, two hundred thousand citizens began moving toward the shelters beneath the Divine Tower, doing so at the fastest possible speed.
To that end, the citizens were forbidden from bringing any belongings. Even food was limited to what they could carry on their persons, in order to avoid increasing the shelters' spatial burden.
Therefore, they could bring almost none of the valuables they had painstakingly worked for and preserved over the years. They could only take their entire families with them to the shelters, while everything else had to be abandoned in Uruk and left to go to waste.
After all, once Lahmu invaded Uruk and the Black Mud flooded into the city, everything here would surely be destroyed. It would probably be impossible to see any of it again.
Of course, no one complained.
By then, whether humanity could continue to exist would still be an open question.
If it couldn't, what good would bringing along more belongings do?
If it could, then simply surviving would already be an incredible stroke of luck. Who would care about a few worldly possessions?
That was what all the citizens of Uruk thought. Thus, they acted decisively, forming orderly lines along the streets. In the end, they entered the Divine Tower one long line after another, passing through the entrance at its base and entering the shelters.
This operation continued until nightfall.
By the time all the citizens had successfully evacuated, the barriers prepared within the shelters were also deployed.
At this point, only tens of thousands of Sumerians remained in Uruk.
They were all soldiers who had volunteered to stay behind and fight for Uruk and for