# 1238
Chapter 1239: King and King
After hearing Gilgamesh's description, Lin Qiye was filled with lingering fear.
If he thought about it carefully, the reason he had survived the side effects of the 【Star Coin】 was indeed due to sheer luck—and not just any luck, but the kind found in the Asylum of the Gods. If it weren't for this hospital, and Sun Wukong who had been discharged at just the right moment, even if he had survived the earlier lightning strikes and the flowing sand, the final moment of getting lost and sending himself back to the feet of the three gods would have been enough to kill him!
"You said that misfortune is just one of the side effects? What are the other side effects?" Lin Qiye asked, puzzled.
Gilgamesh stared at him for a moment.
"I ask you—after using the 【Star Coin】, what did you recreate?"
Lin Qiye froze. He opened his mouth to answer naturally, "I first recreated... recreated... wait, what did I recreate?"
Lin Qiye's expression gradually shifted from confusion to, ultimately, bewilderment.
"I... don't remember?"
Lin Qiye clearly remembered escaping from the fire god Vili, and even injuring him... but how had he done it? What had he recreated that could wound a god?
Lin Qiye racked his brain, but this memory was like a blank space—no matter how hard he tried to recall, he couldn't remember a single detail.
Seeing this, Gilgamesh was not surprised. He continued:
"The other side effect of the 【Star Coin】 is 'forgetting.'
When an object or person is recreated from memory using the 【Star Coin】, all of the user's memories related to that thing or person are erased... This is also why the 【Star Coin】 can only recreate a memory once."
"Forgetting..." Lin Qiye murmured to himself.
"Then what about you? Which memory do you want to recreate with the 【Star Coin】?"
Gilgamesh held the 【Star Coin】 in his palm, his gaze fixed on the puppet Hero King in the distance as he said calmly:
"Right now, I am nothing but a soul—no combat ability, unable to control this treasury... To break this deadlock, another Gilgamesh must appear. A true... Hero King."
Gilgamesh placed the 【Star Coin】 against his fingertip and flicked it.
Ding—!!
With a clear, crisp sound, the 【Star Coin】 was launched high from his palm, falling among the ruins and immediately beginning to spin counterclockwise!
Pale blue light reflected from the coin's surface, illuminating Gilgamesh's face. Countless memories surged forth, and faintly, a figure emerged from his recollections.
"Another Gilgamesh?" Lin Qiye stared blankly for a long moment, then, as if realizing something, exclaimed:
"You want to recreate your past self?!"
Gilgamesh said nothing. He simply gazed at the continuously spinning 【Star Coin】 and slowly closed his eyes.
A fierce wind rose from nowhere, lifting the dust and debris from the ground into the sky. A terrifying divine pressure of immense oppression suddenly erupted from the void before the 【Star Coin】!
A tall, majestic silhouette was gradually outlined by the pale blue light. A young emperor with a stern, dignified face stepped out onto the ruins.
He held his head high, brilliant golden radiance burst forth from his flawless crown, and magnificent gray-gold royal robes fluttered in the howling wind, radiating the intent of a fearsome tyrant!
His face was nearly identical to the Gilgamesh in the hospital, with only one difference: this face appeared even younger, and the light blazing in his eyes was sharp and fierce, like an supreme blade that had slain countless lives—anyone who glimpsed it would feel their heart fill with dread.
He was also Gilgamesh.
He was the Hero King at his peak—from the Kingdom of Uruk, countless ages past!
The soul-state Gilgamesh, upon seeing that familiar royal silhouette, had a look of nostalgia flicker across his features.
The Hero King who had emerged from memory first surveyed his surroundings, confusion clouding his eyes, then as if remembering something: "The 【Star Coin】... Who used the 【Star Coin】 to summon me from memory?"
"It was me." Gilgamesh—
The Hero King turned to look.
Upon the ruins of Wu City, tattered gray robes and magnificent royal robes fluttered in the wind. The two Hero Kings, past and present, stood facing each other across the gulf of time.
"Future me..." The Hero King examined the Gilgamesh before him, reduced to nothing but a soul, his brow furrowing deeply. "Gilgamesh, you look pathetic."
"Even in this state, I am still you," Gilgamesh replied calmly. "If circumstances weren't so dire, why would I use the 【Star Coin】 to recreate you?"
The Hero King regarded him silently for a moment, then glanced at the 【Star Coin】 spinning counterclockwise nearby:
"I cannot maintain this form for long. Make haste."
Gilgamesh stepped forward. As his soul and the Hero King gradually merged, the old gray robes and the gray-gold royal robes completely intertwining, those deep eyes suddenly blazed with brilliant purple light!
A pillar of purple divine power shot skyward!
"The 【Sovereign】 Divine Rule?!" The moment the three gods in the sky sensed that purple radiance, their pupils constricted. They turned sharply toward where Gilgamesh stood, their faces full of shock.
"Gilgamesh isn't in our hands? How is there a second 【Sovereign】 Divine Rule?!"
"Gilgamesh... it's the young Gilgamesh! How is this possible??"
At the same time,
Sun Wukong, who was fighting the puppet Hero King using purely his physical body, glanced back.
A faint smile curved his lips.
"Now this is how a king should be..." he murmured to himself.
As that pillar of purple light continued to ripple outward, a purple-gold figure cloaked in royal robes and crowned emerged from the swirling dust.
The Hero King Gilgamesh raised his gaze to the shocked faces of the three gods above and spoke calmly:
"Three rats who hide and skulk... How dare you use my treasury?"
He raised his hand and grasped toward the heavens, as if to seize the very sky itself:
"【Final Royal Decree】!"
An invisible God's Ruins rapidly expanded, overlaying the puppet Hero King's God's Ruins, instantly covering the entire King's Treasury!
The countless divine artifacts suspended in the air began to tremble and shake violently, falling from the heavens one after another like a meteor shower, hurtling toward the gray-gold robes!
"He's trying to seize control of the King's Treasury from us!" Vili's expression turned grim.
"Then we fight him for it!" Nanna's surrounding moonlight flared as that aged face twisted with狠意,
"He has the 【Sovereign】 Divine Rule—so do we! I refuse to believe he can outcompete all three of us!"
In the Vast Desert, the puppet Hero King seemed to receive some kind of directive. He too extended his hand, grasping toward the sky!