The liberation of Contract Victory Sword's real name bought precious time for Lu Xiao and others.
After Lakhmu is cleared within the city limits, subsequent enemy groups will need time to fill the vacancies left by them, and it will be difficult to organize a large-scale attack in a short period of time.
Tiamat, who was advancing alone, still had a lot of scars on her body. Most of her energy was focused on healing her wounds, and she was temporarily unable to launch another attack on Uruk.
But Tiamat's self-repair speed is astonishing, and bone-deep wounds can be restored to their original state in just a few seconds.
With anger in her eyes, Tiamat opened her mouth again and let out a sonic roar: "Ah!!"
"Ugh!"
Everyone was shocked by the sound waves at close range and could not move. Siduli, who had no fighting ability, simply rolled her eyes and fainted.
Being imprisoned by the enemy is not a good sign, and Tiamat's eyes once again flashed with an evil purple light.
Lu Xiao moved his fingers with difficulty and tried his best to write a set of original runes in the air.
The emerald green barrier appeared under the influence of rune magic, temporarily helping everyone at the top of the tower block Tiamat's sonic restraint.
"Whoa!"
The Eye Cannon of the Mother Earth fired again, and the barrier that Lu Xiao had arranged in a hurry might not be able to block these two highly compressed magic beams.
At this moment, several rows of golden chains suddenly appeared in the sky in front of the tower. Tiamat's attack hit the chains, causing violent magic shock in a small area, but in the end it failed to break through the defense line.
Fujimaru looked at the green-haired man in white robes suspended in mid-air in astonishment: "Kingu?"
Jin Gu turned around, and his purple eyes, which were different from Enkidu's green eyes, scanned the crowd.
His eyes were mainly focused on the pale Gilgamesh.
Lu Xiao thought there would be some communication between Jin Gu and Gilgamesh, but the two only looked at each other for a second before Jin Gu sped up and flew in the direction of Tiamat.
During the flight, Jin Gu put his left hand on his chest and felt the rhythm from the new core given to him by Gilgamesh.
When he raised his head to look at Tiamat again, Jin Gu's face was filled with sadness and apology at the same time.
"This body still remembers what it should do."
A gentle and farewell smile appeared on Jin Gu's face: "Farewell, mother, you chose the wrong 'child' template that was supposed to become a new human being."
"O cup of Uruk, please give me strength!"
"The son of Tiamat, Jin Gu will show his name as the Lock of Heaven here!"
As the core within the golden solid spewed out huge magic power, countless golden ripples appeared around Tiamat's body at the same time, which was very similar to the scene when Gilgamesh's King's Treasury was opened.
"Mother's anger has passed away, and now it is the breath of the stars that is awakened!"
Jin Gu accelerated again, his whole body emitting bright golden light, and his body gradually turned into a giant golden chain.
"O people, I hope to bind the gods! (enuma elish)"
Jin Gu completely released the power of the Heavenly Locks, and multiple thick golden chains protruded from the ripples, tightly binding Tiamat's body under Jin Gu's control.
Tiamat, who was chained all over, showed emotions other than anger and hatred for the first time. There was a moment of sadness in her eyes, and she spoke human words for the first time.
"Gold... solid..."
Jin Gu, who was trying his best to liberate the true name of the Heavenly Lock, could no longer hear his mother's call. His soul dissipated with the wind when his body transformed into its original form.
At the top of the sacred tower, Gilgamesh, who helped Siduri up, took a deep breath.
"Well done, my friend."
It was difficult for Lu Xiao to describe Gilgamesh's emotions at this time. His voice sounded calm, but everyone present could hear complex emotions in his words.
"Farewell, the orphan of heaven, your heavenly locks can finally restrain even the power of the God of Creation."
"I have witnessed the departure of my best friend twice. The first time was in helpless lamentation, but this time is different."
Gilgamesh looked at Tiamat who could not move and smiled happily: "Your admirable heroic figure has been engraved in my eyes forever."
"Done!"
At this moment, Ereshkigal, whom Lu Xiao had not met so far, shouted excitedly from the ground: "Fujimaru! The phase transfer is completed, you just need to make a hole in your head!"
"very good!"
Fujimaru Ritsuka raised his head and ordered Ishtar who was waiting in the air: "Ishtar, liberate the Noble Phantasm and knock Tiamat out of the underworld!"
"No problem, leave it to me!"
Ishtar was not a person who was good at waiting, so she suppressed her temper and reminisced about the past. She couldn't wait any longer.
After receiving Fujimaru's instructions, she immediately began to release the true name of the Noble Phantasm as if she was relieved.
"gate open!"
"Pray to the great heaven and the great earth!"
"Crush it, the mountains will shake tomorrow's wages! (an galkigal she)"
"boom!"
Ishtar's Noble Phantasm was shot through the giant bow and arrow formed by the sky boat Ma Anna, and hit Tiamat head-on who was trying to escape from the shackles of the Sky Lock.
The underground of Uruk City began to tremble violently. Fujimaru and Mashu were unsteady on their feet and supported each other to adjust their center of gravity.
"Our time has come."
Gilgamesh wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, then lifted Siduri up from the ground with difficulty, and put her down against the edge of the tower.
"Fujimaru, Mashu, and the two new guys."
"With all the power of this era, I, the King, can only maintain the situation so far."
"You are foreign objects that cannot be tolerated in this era. Precisely for this reason, the burden of Uruk's legacy will fall on your shoulders."
"Come on, manpower survival guarantee agency, Chaldea."
"yes!"
Fujimaru and Mashu had just firmly accepted the important task entrusted to them, when the ground beneath their feet suddenly cracked, and they both began to free fall downwards at the same time.
Lu Xiao glanced at Gilgamesh for the last time. In order to delay as much time as possible, Gilgamesh, who was seriously injured, over-squeezed his life force into magic power. Now he was in a state of exhaustion, and his life had entered the final countdown.
After watching Fujimaru and Mash leave, Gilgamesh leaned against Siduri without any help, quietly closing his eyes with a relieved smile on his lips.
'Farewell, Gilgamesh, King of Uruk.'
"Let's go."
Lu Xiao turned to Arturia beside him and said, "It's time for us to head to the final battlefield."
Under the bombardment of Ishtar's Noble Phantasm, with Tiamat's location as the center, a huge hole opened up in the city of Uruk, below which was the underworld that Airei had replaced.
The panting Ishtar also rushed to join Lu Xiao and Artoria who were on horseback.
She took one last look at Gilgamesh who passed away peacefully and Siduri who was unconscious, gritted her teeth, and rushed into the underworld following the heroic horse.
With the transfer of the center of the battlefield, the city of Uruk returned to calm. The black mud evaporated by Ishtar's Noble Phantasm temporarily stopped flowing in the city, and only the monotonous and desolate "whirring" sound of the wind could be heard in the night sky.
When Siduli woke up from a coma, this lonely and quiet scene appeared in front of her.
Seeing Gilgamesh lying next to her with his eyes closed and smiling, Siduli seemed to have guessed something.
"king?"
Gently pressing Gilgamesh's chest with a trembling hand, Siduri couldn't feel the beating of his heart, and tears quickly accumulated in her eyes.
"call!"
A sudden sound of wind blew over Uruk, and Siduli, immersed in sorrow, could only barely see a white robe flashing past her eyes.