Enki roared angrily, Nanshe closed her eyes, and Ishtar looked up to the sky and sighed. The moment the sky completely closed, their figures gradually blurred.
What Gilgamesh used the key to seal was the concept of "god" in Mesopotamia. The gods in the sky and the gods on the earth would all be included in this seal.
This is a method that Ananu and Enkidu cannot use when they are alive, because when they are still alive, if they enter the state of lock and key, it will eventually trigger an extremely terrifying situation that will even bring the entire world to an end. possibility.
Therefore, this is an absolute seal that can only be used by the hands of Gilgamesh, a close friend, after they die.
At this point, for Mesopotamia, although the mystery still exists and the era is still in the age of the gods, the rule of the gods is over.
This is real, human time.
A new era opened by Gilgamesh, Ananu, and Enkidu————
...
So, who is Ananu?
He is one of the "strongest men" in the words of King Gilgamesh, a messenger of the sky, but a hero who ultimately stands on the opposite side of the sky.
Of course, his ending is also very consistent with the hero. He died in the conspiracy of the gods, together with his brother Enkidu.
But he established the first recorded "army" in human history for Uruk. It was not a militia, but a completely professional "army" with the duty of protecting the city-state. Although the use of the "army" later was mostly yes......
He and Enkidu, one gave Uruk courage, and the other gave Uruk wisdom. Their names are still sung even thousands of years later, until the civilization of Mesopotamia. completely disappeared into the waves of human civilization.
...
Ereshkigal's tears have dried up.
The last flower of Ananu died.
She once promised to plant the flowers of Ananu throughout the underworld, but before she could do it, the flowers of Ananu began to wither.
Until now, the underworld is filled with dead flowers of Ananu.
The dead flowers go well with the gloomy underworld.
If only the mistress of the underworld wouldn't be so sad.
She was not sealed. The seal Gilgamesh activated with the key was aimed at the ground. Ereshkigal escaped because he was in the underworld, and the world cannot lose the underworld for the time being, but If you go to the gods without losing the mystery, there will be big problems in the underworld.
But Ereshkigal didn't like this ending.
Dislike very much.
"Why, Ananu."
She was holding a dead flower, blood flowing from her eyes.
"Will the hope I gained from you still have to be lost in the end?"
"Why should I get such an ending..."
the queen cried.
She will eventually go to the other side of the world one day in the future with the sadness she knows nothing about.
But before that, she still had to guard this underworld.
This - the underworld full of dead flowers.
...
When Enlil woke up, an unknown amount of time had passed.
But the moment he opened his eyes, he fell into panic.
Where is this place?
This is undoubtedly the Great Temple.
But, why don’t the Anunnaki have the aura of other gods?
He pushed open the door of the great temple and walked out.
The Anunnaki Divine Realm has become extremely desolate.
and--
He actually saw the dead body of God.
He frowned and walked over.
To be precise, this is the death of a god.
He finally noticed something strange here.
"Wait, this feeling-"
"Is this a seal!?"
Enlil was horrified.
He was sealed in his sleep! ?
Why didn't anyone wake me up? ?
He turned and looked.
Countless corpses of gods were floating in the air. They gathered in front of the door of the Great Temple at the last moment of their lives, but even if they starved to death, they did not dare to knock on the door of the Great Temple.
Perhaps more than being starved to death, they were more afraid of... the storm that Enlil would stir up when he got up.
But Enlil did not know this, he had no consciousness.
He looked at the remains of the god and felt anger building up in his chest.
He locked a name in his memory.
"No - Ishtar, you cursed me!!!"
Veins popped up on the top of his head and he roared loudly.
A storm roared in the sealed sky.
The storm seemed to destroy everything, sweeping outward crazily and expanding.
but......
Nothing will happen.
Apart from destroying the already dilapidated Anunnaki temple even more thoroughly and mincing the corpses of the gods floating around in the God Realm even more - it will not have any effect.
It is common sense that the seal cannot be broken from the inside.
Moreover, Enlil's mood became even worse after he discovered something.
His tablet of destiny was missing.
Within the seal, the strong wind howled.
But in the end it was of no use.
What awaits the Great God in the end may be what he loves most after all, an extremely long sleep.
