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"...Do you think I'm a fool? What announcement required two people to leave together?"
The two women guarding the gate stopped, coughed, and said in defense, "This is to find Master Ishtar as soon as possible."
"One is going to find Ishtar, and the other is going to find your leader? Right?"
Su Qing shrugged and said, "Peripheral personnel like you can't take action against the union staff, but if you are the clan leader, you can ignore the pressure from the union?"
Su Qing put away the badge Uranus gave him.
"I regard this behavior as a declaration of war."
Su Qing had promised Uranus before that he would try not to make too much noise before the plan was completed.
So he took the badge given to him by Uranus and came to talk about the problem of a fox in the original book.
Originally, in his opinion... at least when it comes to the ownership of Haruhime, Ishtar will refuse.
Who would have thought that when he couldn't even get through the door, others planned to kidnap him, and it happened more than once.
...also drunk.
Chapter 20 Ishtar
Ista was lying lazily on the bed, alone, smoking a pipe.
Youyou blew out a smoke ring, and the goddess of beauty's face was full of satisfaction.
As the queen of Happy Street, she has no objection to the main services of Happy Street.
Even for some goddesses, this topic is often discussed at the God's meeting, especially the abilities of top adventurers in this regard.
After all, gods are creatures that love the unknown. In this regard, goddesses are more inclined to unfamiliar adventurers than male gods. Rather than real feelings, goddesses are more curious about psychological stimulation.
For example, collecting stamps and then showing off.
Who is a Tyrannosaurus Rex, who is an earthworm, who is good-looking but useless, etc., are all topics that some goddesses use to have fun at the divine meetings.
But now, Ista felt an unprecedented satisfaction, which made her heart surge more than all the desires she had ever had in her previous business.
That woman, Freya, was tied to the top floor of the Tower of Babel, humiliating herself.
Just for this matter, Ishtar would laugh at her for tens of thousands of years.
Not only that, after the meeting of gods, in the fight for the opportunity to enter the magic tower to adventure the next day as Uranus mentioned, she paid a high price without hesitation and won two places.
She assured that she had pure good intentions and that she had no ill intentions at all. She just wanted to save Freya.
She solemnly instructed her clan members that if they really succeeded in clearing the gap, they must not attack Freya.
If Freya, that pretentious woman, was really saved by her, wouldn't she commit suicide out of shame and return to heaven?
...However, returning to heaven might be a good thing for Freya?
Ishtar let out a long breath.
It was true that she hated Freya, and this feeling came completely from the bottom of her heart. Not only her, but many of the goddesses who could get along with her hated Freya, and even detested her.
——We are all not serious people, why are you pretending to be serious, Freya?
If you, Freya, are like Hestia, a virgin goddess who has never been involved in this matter, then there is no need for us to have any contact with each other.
If you are like Artemis, always looking for her destined 'Orion' and do not interact with other gods on weekdays, they will naturally understand.
But Freya...
On the one hand, she is at the center of all the male gods and seduces them as if nothing has happened, and on the other hand, she maintains her purity and says that she wants to find her soul mate - why is she pretending?
In the heavens, Freya did not have a good reputation, and Ishtar knew that it was because of Loki's rumors.
However, when in heaven, Ishtar simply looked down on Freya, and in his contempt there was a hint of pity.
Freyana's pretense was a complete joke in her eyes.
Not to mention Hestia and Artemis, the virgin goddesses would not easily have desires in that regard. Even if Artemis is waiting for her partner, that is mainly spiritual.
But Freya is different, Freya is the goddess of love and beauty.
She clearly has that desire, and it can even be said that that desire is completely part of her nature, but she chooses to suppress her nature.
Ishtar and Freya are both goddesses of beauty. She doesn't think it is necessary to adhere to any concept of love and just lay down from the very beginning.
Freya, on the other hand, maintains the same view on love as the virgin goddess Artemis, but she is not like the virgin goddess and is completely uninterested in any kind of desire.
For the gods in heaven, many of them have grown tired of experiencing things related to their priesthood and have become bored beyond that.
But Freya was different. She had been enduring, and that endurance had become a torture for her.
Ista did not sympathize with Freya. She just hated Freya and found her pretending to be serious entertaining, hoping that Freya would lose control and abandon her meaningless persistence.
That might be a relief for Freya, but Ista was just curious about what Freya's expression would be when she let go of her persistence.
It wasn't until a thousand years ago that Ishtar's dislike for Freya turned into disgust.
Even in the heaven today, it is probably still a joke that is being discussed.
The ages of the gods are measured in billions.
And then—Freya gave up pretending, tens of thousands of years ago.
If Freya really persevered to the end and endured until the moment she found a soul mate that she recognized, even Ishtar would have to admit that her persistence was meaningful, and not just a meaningless pretense that purely tortured herself.
But Freya gave up tens of thousands of years ago.
Before that, Freya's clothes were far from being as shameless as they are now. They were even more seductive than not wearing any.
Before that, Freya was wrapped up tightly.
Ista didn't know what Freya's private life was like now, but she didn't think it was important.
It is possible that Freya has not given up her first time in these tens of thousands of years. Tens of thousands of years is not a long time for the gods.
But from the moment Freya gave up, her persistence was meaningless.
If it had only come to this, the fact that Freya gave up her persistence would have been just a topic of conversation in heaven. Every now and then, a god in heaven would give up his so-called persistence.
However, most of them gave up the duties related to the priesthood. Not many of them gave up like Freya did, who imposed self-restraint on herself.
But it’s only a matter of tens of thousands of years...the gods have descended to the mortal world.
Freya couldn't find a soul mate that matched her in heaven. There were only a few of them in heaven, so what about the underworld?
Ista wasn't sure, but she felt that there was a high probability that Freya could be found.
Freya's selection criteria is the radiance of the soul. No matter how powerful the gods are, any god who gives up will inevitably have a filthy soul.
The souls of humans in the underworld are much purer.
If Freya had persisted for tens of thousands of years, she would have most likely found her ideal soul mate in the underworld.
Although most people in the lower world can’t do that—the one who can become Freya’s soul mate must at least not succumb to the gods.
Putting aside the charm of the goddess of beauty, if we take charm into account, there would be no one in the underworld who could resist it.
But the minimum requirement is to firmly believe that you are no inferior to the gods.
Children can respect gods, love gods, revere gods and fear gods. None of these will affect the radiance of the gods' souls.
But if you feel from the bottom of your heart that humans are just vassals of the gods and can only survive with the help of the gods, and that humans are inferior to the gods, then the light of your soul will dim.
——Although it is true that humans can only survive with the help of gods, humans in the underworld generally respect gods very much.
However, there are also some humans who simply regard it as a transaction. While being grateful for the help of the gods, they still regard themselves as equals to the gods. There will always be some such people in every era.
It might take a single era to search for someone who meets this condition, but if it takes thousands or tens of thousands of years, Ista doesn't believe that Freya will not be able to find a soul mate that satisfies her.
But Freya's persistence and her own wish were given up by her tens of thousands of years ago.
That's outrageous.
If the matter of going to the underworld had not happened, Freya would have given up her insistence, and the gods would have talked about it after dinner.
Once the gods sealed their power to the lower world, Freya became a complete clown.
After hundreds of millions of years of persistence, she gave up tens of thousands of years ago when her goal was about to be realized.
Ishtar was confused.
When in heaven, Ishtar's attitude towards Freya was just to laugh at her and he looked down on her for pretending to be serious.
If Freya had really persisted until now, Ista felt that she might have wished Freya happiness.
She and Freya didn't have any deep hatred.
If she had the same persistence as Freya, but chose to give up after a short while, while Freya persisted until she saw the light, she might have been jealous of Freya for being able to get what she wanted but couldn't.
But unlike Freya, Ishtar felt from the beginning that there was no need to insist on those trivial things.
Not limited to men and women, the communication between males and females can give birth to new life and make the world rich. This is not some shameful and dirty act, but rather a sacred thing - this is the value of Ishtar as a god.
Besides this, Ishtar could understand that gods or men would prefer pure goddesses to goddesses like her.
People like Astraea and Artemis are more popular in the heaven than her.
In this regard, Ishtar could only express regret and say that gods and their values cannot be generalized. God's XP system is free, and you can like whoever you like.
Anyway, in terms of beauty, they can't beat me. The gods who think that the virgin goddesses are more beautiful are just confusing their preferences with objective facts.
Otherwise, why are they not the goddess of beauty, but I am the goddess of beauty?
Ishtar didn't bother to compete with those virgin goddesses.
When they were in heaven, the gods thought that Freya was more beautiful than her, the goddess of beauty. Ishtar just smiled at the time and did not intend to argue.
In the final analysis, it's the same old saying: their values are different, so the gods are prejudiced against her.
Ishtar was not going to argue, and after Freya gave up her meaningless persistence and was taken advantage of by the other male gods, it would be necessary to consider the male gods' opinions on who was more beautiful between her and Freya.
She still has this confidence.
But now, she really couldn't bear it anymore.