5 days and 21 hours remained until Tiamat/Abzu's originally projected arrival at Uruk.
"Any progress on the investigation into Tiamat?"
Ushiwakamaru and Zi Juan returned to Uruk, and King Gilgamesh immediately asked.
During the day, Zi Juan had escorted Chaldea's Master, Fujimaru Ritsuka, back to Uruk. Then, without stopping to rest, she and Ushiwakamaru had left Uruk once more to investigate Tiamat's condition.
"The situation doesn't look good."
Ushiwakamaru's expression was grave.
"Something has begun to take shape within the black mud around Tiamat's body." Zi Juan frowned tightly, looking troubled.
"Demonic beasts? Hmph, just as I expected." Gilgamesh smiled and snorted from his throne. "In the end, these are the only tricks Tiamat has."
"Though, in a sense, that is only natural. From the moment those filthy gods made her their enemy, she ceased to be the Mother of the Gods and became merely the 'Mother of Demonic Beasts.'"
"The gods personally denied their own origins?" Liao Ye scratched his head.
He might not have been particularly clever, but he could clearly tell that the thought processes of Mesopotamia's gods were not those of normal people either.
"Hmph. Gods." Lemoni stood in the corner with her Golden Spear in her arms, her expression icy enough to make even Stheno, sitting on her shoulder, feel somewhat uncomfortable.
Tiamat was undoubtedly a Creator God, the founder of a civilization, but she was also a mother.
A mother abandoned by her own children, killed by her own children, her corpse even divided apart and transformed into the purest magical energy, merging with the sky and earth.
Sure enough, no matter where they came from or what pantheon they belonged to, there was nothing good about gods as a whole.
Stheno's expression became a little awkward.
"Oh, you don't count. What's