Chapter 1243
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Chapter 1243 Escape
Gilgamesh glanced at the corpse of the moon god Nanna, then turned to look at another battlefield.
A golden-red staff struck down like lightning, raising countless grains of sand. When the dust settled, the fire god Bilgi’s body lay mangled in a deep crevice in the ground.
Sun Wukong, holding his golden cudgel, slowly walked out from the dust, his expression somewhat displeased.
“This time…” Gilgamesh calmly began.
“You won,” Sun Wukong glanced at Nanna’s corpse and said flatly, “It seems you were indeed formidable at your peak… Recover soon, and we’ll have a proper face-to-face match.”
With that, he shouldered his golden cudgel and turned to walk in another direction.
Gilgamesh watched Sun Wukong’s departing figure and suddenly called out:
“Sun Wukong.”
Sun Wukong stopped and looked back:
“Speak.”
Gilgamesh was silent for a moment, “Thank you.”
Sun Wukong didn’t respond, his eyes slightly narrowed.
“If not for you, my people would have been slaughtered,” Gilgamesh paused, “Thank you for saving my Uruk, and for saving me.”
“Hmph,” Sun Wukong shouldered his golden cudgel and continued walking away.
“It was nothing, no need for thanks.”
After taking just a few steps, he seemed to sense something and looked up at the gap in the treasury in the sky.
“Divine power fluctuations… are there more gods outside?” Gilgamesh also keenly noticed the anomaly outside, his brow slightly furrowing, “And more than one.”
“Six divine auras in total,” Sun Wukong’s eyes flashed with golden light, “It seems someone wants to play the opportunist.”
“Six?”
Lin Qiye, who had just arrived, heard this and frowned in confusion, “Numbers 03 and 04 should only be two people, where did the other four come from?”
Sun Wukong gripped his golden cudgel, his golden eyes narrowing. He turned to look at Lin Qiye:
“Lin Qiye, what do you think? Should we fight or leave?”
Lin Qiye glanced at the [Star Coin] that was about to stop spinning, and fell into deep thought.
If Sun Wukong and Gilgamesh were both at their peak, breaking through the encirclement wouldn’t be difficult, but now it’s different. Even if Gilgamesh understood his past self well and could maintain his memories for a long time, once the [Star Coin] stopped, he would still be forced to return to his soul state.
And no matter how strong Sun Wukong was, he couldn’t fight six opponents alone.
Fighting was definitely not an option, and even how to escape from here needed careful planning.
After thinking for a moment, Lin Qiye said, “I have an idea…”
…
In the mist.
The surging divine power gradually subsided, dense water droplets fell from the sky, and a long sword was already at Number 03’s throat.
The one-armed war god Tyr narrowed his eyes at Number 03, whose face had turned pale. Beside him, Number 04 was already being held by the throat by the blind god Höðr.
Against four with just two, Numbers 03 and 04 had no chance of winning and could only be easily subdued by the Norse gods, becoming prisoners.
“There’s movement inside the shell. The King’s Treasury must be about to emerge,” the forest god Vidar said solemnly, staring at the trembling king turtle.
Thor walked up to Number 22, his deep blue eyes seeming to pierce through his thoughts, “You said earlier that there are Sumerian deities inside?”
“That’s right,” Number 22, having witnessed the power of the Norse gods, had no intention of resisting and nodded, “They resurrected Gilgamesh to control this treasury.”
When Number 22 fled the battlefield, the three Sumerian deities had just resurrected Gilgamesh’s corpse. He knew nothing about Sun Wukong’s emergence or the appearance of the second Hero King, only that there were several terrifying divine powers clashing, suggesting a great battle had taken place.
Gilgamesh?
Hearing this name, Thor’s eyes showed surprise.
Just then, the king turtle shook again, its enormous body creating a tsunami on the sea surface, with the surrounding water churning violently like boiling water.
The four Norse gods simultaneously looked toward the crevice in the king turtle’s shell.
A purple light flew into the sky, transforming into a figure wearing a gray-gold royal robe and crown.
The terrifying [King] law descended upon the world. In his hand, a miniaturized broken treasury silently rotated.
“The King’s Treasury?”
“Gilgamesh?”
The four Norse gods and the two captured Olympian deities exclaimed in surprise at this sight.
“The ancient Hero King has truly been resurrected?” Thor sensed the aura of the [King] law, his brow tightly furrowed.
The King’s Treasury was originally the Hero King’s divine artifact. Now that Hero King Gilgamesh had been resurrected, the treasury naturally returned to his hands, and only the [King] law could activate it.
Gilgamesh, holding the King’s Treasury, turned to look at the six deities, his purple eyes narrowing slightly:
“What… do you intend to do?”
After a moment of silence, Thor spoke up:
“May I ask, are you the Hero King Gilgamesh?”
“I am indeed,” Gilgamesh’s deep voice echoed in the air.
“I heard that three Sumerian deities wanted to seize the King’s Treasury?” Thor continued probing, “Where are they?”
“Dead,” Gilgamesh said flatly, “They tried to control my body… I used the treasury to kill them all.”
War god Tyr raised an eyebrow upon hearing this, glanced at the damaged treasury in Gilgamesh’s hand, and gave Thor a look.
The implication was clear: Gilgamesh was alone, so they might as well attack directly and seize the treasury from him.
Thor didn’t respond to him. After pondering for a long time, he nodded to Gilgamesh and said:
“The four of us were just passing by. We apologize for the disturbance.”
This statement startled the other three Norse gods. Before they could react, Thor had already transformed into a bolt of lightning and swiftly flew away.
After a moment of hesitation, they followed, taking the captured Numbers 03 and 04 with them.
Watching these figures disappear on the horizon, Gilgamesh’s face showed surprise.
“They just left like that?” Lin Qiye, who had secretly slipped into the water from the other side of the king turtle, asked in confusion.
In his expectation, once Gilgamesh appeared, those deities would try to seize the King’s Treasury, and meanwhile, he and Sun Wukong could secretly escape. When the [Star Coin]’s maintenance time ended, Gilgamesh could escape the battle by returning to his soul state and go back to the Divine Mental Hospital.
But he never expected that the Norse gods would merely exchange a few words with Gilgamesh and then leave.
Was Gilgamesh’s deterrence that strong?
Or did they have other plans?
While Lin Qiye was puzzled, the counterclockwise rotating [Star Coin] slowly stopped and began to rotate clockwise.
The time for memory recreation ended. Gilgamesh in the sky dissolved into points of light and disappeared, his soul returning directly to the Divine Mental Hospital in Lin Qiye’s mind.
Lin Qiye took one last look in the direction the four Norse gods had departed, then mounted the somersault cloud and sped away in the opposite direction with Sun Wukong!
