Where's the promised harem of Heroic Spirits? Why is it all just me?

It was not until I came to my senses that I realized that the thick fog and darkness had dissipated.

The sun hung high in the blue sky, radiating the usual heat. The carriage had stopped and the two horses were grazing with their heads down as if nothing had happened.

Everyone in the car except Mordred and Bree looked terrified.

"What happened just now? That wasn't an illusion, was it?" Fujimaru Ritsuka said, swallowing his saliva.

"It seems we almost can't come back." Bree rubbed his head. "Just now, we may have accidentally entered the underworld."

Normally, Ereshkigal was in the underworld, so Bree's entry into the underworld to find her should be exactly what she wanted.

But the feeling just now was so weird. If the carriage had continued running normally, Bree didn't think it would have brought her to Eileen.

"...Anyway, we've reached Mount Ebifu, right?" Fujimaru Ritsuka raised his head and looked at the towering mountains in front of him.

Anna gripped the reins tightly, looking as if she was still a little frightened by the strange scene just now.

"Let's go up... I guess we don't have to climb too high, the goddess will come out to pick us up." Bree said.

After so many encounters with Ishtar, Bree had a rough idea of ​​her speed and temperament.

41. Ishtar

After recovering from the strange incident, the carriage continued to move forward shakily.

The two horses seemed unaware of what had just happened. They walked at a leisurely pace, slowly pulling a cart of gems and people up the hillside.

Just now I felt like I was heading towards hell, but now I’m climbing up again. Today I really experienced a roller coaster in the literal sense.

The carriage was still moving normally, but Anna in the driver's seat suddenly straightened up. She smelled an unusual smell.

"Something is burnt." She suddenly turned around and said.

Bree pressed his nose, but neither he nor Xiao Mo beside him could smell anything.

Fujimaru Ritsuka stood up and put her palms over her eyes: "Look at that!"

As she spoke, she pointed to a black mark on the cliff ahead.

It looked like it happened during this time, and although there were scorch marks on the rocks, the fire had been extinguished.

The carriage stopped at the scorch mark and Bree got out first. He squatted down and examined the mess on the ground.

There were clearly animal fragments. Bree picked one up, crushed it, and it crumbled into a handful of ashes.

"It seems that the goddess is in a bad mood recently." Bree stood up and turned to say to the few people.

At this moment, the surrounding grass swayed, and the sound of fur rubbing against leaves and branches was heard.

Obviously, something was surrounding them.

Bree turned to look at Anna, only to see that she had stood up from the carriage, holding the sickle in her hand.

"Come over here," she said, looking at Bree.

Modred also stood up, and with a wave of her hand, a heavy sword fell into her hand.

Even if the Heroic Spirit clone's performance is less than 1%, it still has physical fitness that surpasses that of ordinary people, not to mention Mordred, a Saber who is extremely outstanding even among Heroic Spirits.

She jumped to the ground to cover her main body as he got into the car.

Bree's strategy for impersonating Mordred is not complicated. After all, she is a battle maniac, and participating in more battles will make her stronger.

Mashu also got off the carriage, and several heroic spirits stood at three different positions on the carriage, warily watching the magical beasts that were surrounding them from all directions.

Those monsters had lion fur, sturdy eagle legs, and seemed to be breathing out steam from their nostrils. From a distance, they smelled foul.

The patterns on the heads of some monsters are in the shape of letters, and their saliva drips onto the ground, corroding the earth and emitting green smoke.

These monsters look like chimeras, but they are obviously different.

"This kind of magical beast... is said to have appeared in large numbers since the Gorgon's defeat. They are more crazy than ordinary magical beasts. It is said that some of them can even release petrifying eyes." Ritsuka Fujimaru analyzed while staring at the magical beasts.

Bree probably understood that the sudden appearance of her second sister in the previous battle had thrown the Gorgon into chaos, which had also affected these monsters.

Mordred gripped the hilt of his sword tightly. With his current level of playability, it was quite stressful to deal with so many monsters at the same time.

The monsters approached with strange steps, and the heroic spirits grasped their Noble Phantasms tightly. A battle was almost imminent.

At this moment, several meteors fell from the sky and crashed into the group of monsters with a sound of breaking through the air.

Flames rose up, and most of the monsters that were directly hit by the meteors were shattered into pieces.

"What's going on?" Mordred deliberately made a dissatisfied sound.

Bree turned around and looked at the cliff behind him.

Ishtar floated in front of Maana, the Sky Boat, with a smug smile on her face.

"The free assistance has ended. If you want me to continue helping you, please ask me respectfully!" Ishtar's loud voice penetrated into the ears of several people.

"Wow..." Fujimaru Ritsuka exclaimed, but no one knew what she was exclaiming about.

Bree looked up. "We can talk this over closer... You should come down first."

As she spoke, Modred, who was originally standing next to the carriage, had already rushed towards the group of monsters that had been bombed with a heavy sword. She swung the sword excitedly to chop down the monsters that were still alive on the ground.

Bree can now dual-thread very naturally, thanks to Mordred's mode of action which does not require him to think too much.

Just as she chopped, a claw suddenly flew over from the side and hit Mordred's armor like a cannonball.

She turned around and nailed the claw to the ground with a knife. She frowned and looked up, only to find that the organs of the monsters around her that were shattered were still moving.

On the cliff, Ishtar elegantly crossed her legs. "Someone needs my help, but doesn't have the right attitude."

"..." Bree couldn't say anything, he looked at Fujimaru Ritsuka.

The red-haired girl stood up decisively and bowed to Ishtar on the cliff: "Please, Goddess! We need your help!"

"Hmph! You know what's going on!"

With that, Ishtar leaped down from the sky, stars lighting up around her. "Little knight over there! Don't waste your energy. These monsters need fire to be completely destroyed!"

As he spoke, several lasers shot out, igniting flames on the ground and covering the remains of the monsters.

Mordred moved back and forth among the limbs twisted by the flames, searching for enemies with his sword to execute.

The increase in role-playing ability is limited, perhaps because the killing is not fair, but it is better than nothing.

Bree inexplicably felt like he was playing an RPG game, where he could gain experience points to become stronger just by killing people.

"I remember you, the man who followed Faker." Ishtar stared at Bree and said with her hands on her hips.

"Faker..." Perhaps this is what Ishtar calls Kama.

To be honest, the era we are in now is earlier than the birth of the entire Western civilization. It is quite unexpected to suddenly hear such a "future" word here.

It probably came from Rin's theoretically hidden memories. Although Ishtar didn't know it, she understood that this word could be used to describe an imposter.

"The assassin has betrayed Uruk, and we need your help," Bree said.

"...Oh, ho, ho!" Ishtar suddenly laughed exaggeratedly. "Uruk betrayed me and found a new god, and now you've been abandoned by the new god? This is truly... retribution? Retribution!"

She smiled for a long time, then suddenly restrained her expression and turned back without hesitation.

"Goddess Ishtar?" Mash wanted to call her.

"Do you think this goddess is so cheap? Kick me out if you want, and invite me back if you want?" Ishtar said in a cold tone without even turning her head.

Bree roughly understood Ishtar's thoughts and sighed: "That's not the case. You just misunderstood."

42. Philanthropy

"You misunderstood. The people of Uruk rely on you very much, and no one has driven you away."

It was really just a misunderstanding, Bree thought, and it could be explained away.

"What's the point of you telling me all this now? Uruk no longer needs me, so it's useless for you to beg me."

Ishtar hugged her chest, turned around and floated up.

Bree turned her head and exchanged glances with Fujimaru Ritsuka.

It seemed that she had no intention of listening to anyone's explanation and was completely immersed in her own grievances.

After all, Bree had played so many gal games in his previous life that he knew very well that he couldn't reason with a girl who was in a bad mood. It was useless to explain the situation to her, after all, she was still angry.

So Bree simply followed her lead: "Lady Goddess, Uruk never intended to abandon you, but King Gilgamesh and his men fully understand your dissatisfaction, so they sent us here with a sincere apology."

"Sincerity?" Ishtar sneered. "At this point, what sincerity do you still have?"

After saying that, she leaned over and glared at them: "Now, get out of my territory, or don't blame me for being rude!"

After that, Tianzhou Ma Anna appeared behind her, seemingly ready for battle.

"Are you going to fight?"

Mordred's clone immediately jumped to Bree's side and faithfully played the role of the bad guy.

Bree pretended to hold herself down: "Don't be impulsive, Saber."

The acting didn't improve much, and Bree felt a little regretful for going through the trouble of acting out this scene. He simply pushed Mordred to sit on the car, and then squatted down.

"I've already warned you to get out of here. Don't you take me seriously?" Ishtar was enraged. She turned into a gust of wind, broke through the air, and flew in front of Bree.

Ishtar had originally thought of him as just a lackey of the silver-haired god of love and had not taken him seriously at all, but this guy actually looked like he didn't care about her threat at all.

Ishtar felt that she really had to take some practical action to scare away these people, but just as she was about to take action, Bree raised her waist at the right time.

The red light reflecting the sunlight pierced Ishtar's eyes. At that moment, all the grievances, resentment, and unhappiness were frozen in an instant.

Her mind seemed to go blank, and Ishtar's eyes followed Bree's hand, like a cat seeing infrared light.

Seeing this, Fujimaru Ritsuka on the side immediately cooperated and lifted the cloth covering the carriage, revealing a large area of ​​sparkling gems.

“This is…” Ishtar covered her face, quite shocked.

"Uruk needs you, so Gilgamesh is willing to give you 10% of his gems."

Fujimaru Ritsuka announced, raising a hand.

"One... one percent?" Ishtar exclaimed, then realized that she was a little too shaken. She coughed, "Hmph, do you think I'm that kind of casual goddess?"

"Then... well, what about 20%?"

As they talked, the two began to bargain on the spot. The scene was inexplicably harmonious, with no trace of the tense atmosphere just now.

Bree sat quietly next to Mordred and watched them negotiate. To be honest, he had seen this scene before, and it was being played out vividly in front of him, which made him feel inexplicably emotional.

Ritsuka Fujimaru looked very reluctant, scratched his head and said, "This is really a headache... King Gilgamesh might be willing to hand over 30% of his gems? As long as you go to Uruk and talk to him in person."

This was actually the bottom line that Gilgamesh proposed at the beginning. He wanted to bribe Ishtar with 30% of the gems.

"Hmm..." Ishtar looked hesitant, but finally nodded with her eyes closed. "Deal! Since Gilgamesh is willing to pay such a high price, this goddess will let bygones be bygones!"

"That's great!" As he said that, Ritsuka Fujimaru jumped off the carriage and gave up his seat.

Ishtar immediately pounced on him like a giant cockroach and jumped into the carriage filled with gems.

Like a rich person enjoying her own swimming pool, she immersed herself in the gems, her face full of happiness.

Bree was also very tactful and took Mordred out of the car. He raised his head and looked at the sky which was gradually turning red.

"We can't go back today, so let's stay here for one night." He said to them.

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In the Blood Temple of Gorgon, Kama sat on the shore of the Primordial Sea. She sat on a stone, stretched out her jade feet wrapped in ribbons, and swayed them in the pool.

Ishtar's side has settled down, they have set up camp to recuperate, and Bree finally has time to think about last night.

She looked down at the palm of her hand. There was no strange smell on her fair and delicate skin.

Last night, she had used this hand to do something she had done countless times before.

Theoretically there shouldn't be much difference, but that feeling is deeply engraved in my heart.

She felt like there was a wall in her heart, and after what happened last night, a piece of brick was gently knocked off.

Although it hasn't really crossed the line, it's the beginning of collapse.

"You seem to be in a bad mood. Is there something you don't understand?"

The sound of maturity echoed in the cave, and Kama raised his head and saw Gorgon not far away.