At this moment, people in the real world deeply felt the malice of the world.
Or rather, the world's malice toward Honkai and Herrschers was beyond imagination.
The manifestation of the Herrscher of Sentience had directly caused a being like Ishtar to undergo "primordial regression." In an environment where gods should have had no way to descend in their true divine forms, a phenomenon of massive divinity returning had actually appeared.
And compared to Archer Rin's simple state, Ishtar's divine side was truly overflowing with malice, carrying the air of that most willful goddess of Mesopotamia from the myths and legends.
She could also be called a goddess whose evil deeds ran rampant!
If this were Eastern mythology, Ishtar would be a textbook heretical demon.
Now, Ishtar was transforming into the sort of figure humanity hated and feared most. Though she had not yet fully reached that point, she was not far from it.
The malice-manifested Ishtar looked at Fujimaru Tachibana and the others with utter disdain and disgust. Her lofty arrogance practically overflowed from her, making her hard to look at directly.
Fujimaru Tachibana knew that this was no longer the Archer Ishtar they knew, but the true goddess Ishtar—the goddess above gods who ran amok in Sumerian mythology, more vile than many evil gods.
Mash raised her shield and asked nervously, "S-Senpai, what should we do?"
Fujimaru Tachibana looked at Merlin. "Merlin, at a time like this, do you have any good ideas?"
Merlin sighed. "Please, my eyes only see the 'present.' I never imagined Ishtar would undergo such a change when I came here before, so I'm at a loss too..."
"Anyway, let me ask King Gilgamesh what we should do first."
After grumbling like that, Merlin prepared once more to conduct a cross-temporal exchange with Gilgamesh