The Light Screen's image shifted to the sky in an instant. Riding several enormous pterosaurs, Fujimaru Tachibana and the others flew directly to Eridu, which lay beneath the cover of a primordial jungle.
This was an ancient city in the southern Mesopotamian Plain, as well as a massive temple. It was said to have been the first city of the Sumerians, one of the five cities that existed before the great flood in Sumerian mythology.
By the twenty-first century, only ruins of this city remained, but now it had been preserved in its entirety.
Though mythology claimed that it had been founded by a water god of Sumerian myth, the Sumerian water god clearly could not manifest in this Singularity. As such, it had directly become Quetzalcoatl's temple city.
The city's facilities were all remarkably complete. Although the jungle covering it had affected it somewhat, the problems were not serious.
Even from the sky, they could see that there were quite a few humans inside the city.
Mash could not help asking curiously, "Are those Eridu's original residents? Hmm, that's strange. Why are they all men?"
As a Servant, Mash's powerful eyesight allowed her to clearly see the situation in the city. She found that every inhabitant was male, and they were all undergoing intense training. Some were even wrestling there bare-chested.
Fujimaru Tachibana, who was riding the same pterosaur as Mash, immediately denied it. "No. Eridu's original residents are all gone. Those are people from Ur City."
"The people taken from Ur City as 'sacrifices' are all there."
Upon hearing that, Mash immediately recalled their first visit. Back then, they had entered Ur City and discovered that virtually all its young and able-bodied men were gone. Other than those who had died in accidents, the rest had all been