Chapter 17: Fooling the Ancients (2-in-1)

[What the hell is this...... What's going on?]

Unable to sleep, Arknadi's heart was in a mess, and he left his room and went to the windowsill to look at the full moon above the desert, but his heart could not be calmed in any way.

["Millennium Artifact", this is the secret treasure of this country, but not many people know how it was created......] The one-eyed Aknadi is the only first-generation priest who is still serving as a priest, and at that time, he also presided over the manufacture of the "Millennium Artifact".

["Millennium Artifact" is the artifact recorded in my country's secret "Encyclopedia of Magic", and it is the essence of the volume of "Dark Alchemy"......] Aknadi sat on a stone chair on the windowsill, the cold marble can make this old man with too many unbearable memories to recall his past a little calmer now, [Among the priests and soldiers who went to cast the artifact back then, it is clear that I should be the only one who has returned...... That step, obviously only I should know......]

The reason why Aknadi wanted to forge the "Millennium Artifact" was to deal with the attack of the Phoenicians. Back then, the Phoenicians who refused to serve the Pharaoh rebelled, because they didn't know that the Phoenicians had been preparing for so long, and the Egyptian army suffered a great loss: the Phoenician war elephant army was invincible, and the Egyptian army was beaten to the point that they lost their armor and armor at the most dangerous time, and they were only a short week away from the royal capital of Egypt.

Seeing that the country was about to be destroyed, the previous pharaoh Akkanan could only pin his hopes on his younger brother Aknadi, and Aknadi's method was to create a "thousand-year-old artifact".

......Touching the "Millennium Eye" on his face, Aknadi showed a self-deprecating smile No one knows better than him, what did he do to make these artifacts born, [If this is an artifact, then the god should be bloodthirsty, right?]

Because in order to forge a "thousand-year artifact", it is necessary to kill a large number of human beings, mix them together with their blood, oil and even souls and gold, as raw materials for dark alchemy, in order to summon the "thousand-year artifact" from the underworld.

Yes, "summon" a thousand-year-old artifact, not "cast"!

For so many years, only Aknadi knew that the "Millennium Artifact" was not cast at all, but summoned! When the blood of human beings mixed with the soul flowed into the magic circle, the door of the underworld opened, and what appeared in front of Aknadi was the stone tablet where the "Millennium Artifact" was placed...... And a powerful evil god behind the slate!

At that time, fortunately, the evil god seemed to be injured and had not fully recovered, so Aknadi installed himself with the "Millennium Eye" in time and used the power of the thousand-year artifact to drive away the evil god...... At that time, the evil god's sentence "I will come back" has been forgotten by him for so many years.

【Artifact...... Does this "god" refer to the evil god?] Even when the cold wind blows in the middle of the night, it can't blow away Aknadi's chaotic mood. He still remembered that back then, in order to complete the artifact that could reverse the victory, Aknadi led his army to a place called "Kreelna Village", [because some villagers there often assist tomb robbers to hide in the village, and even some villagers themselves are tomb robbers, which is an unforgivable sin in our country that values tombs, so I chose this place as the ...... to cast the "Millennium Artifact"]

That's what Aknadi has been saying to himself for so many years, but it was only today, when he saw the white-haired boy in the nightmare doing the exact same thing (formally), that Aknadi suddenly woke up.

These...... It's all a lie that he deceives himself! A massacre is a massacre, and even a sinner needs at least one trial before he can take his life! What's more, he not only killed the villagers for the sake of secrecy, but even pushed his own soldiers and followers into that mass grave......

Since then, I've ...... Can you still be considered a priest?] Looking at his hands, even if they are old, they look very clean, only Aknadi himself knows how much blood these hands are stained with......

A load-bearing wall in Aknadi's heart seems to have begun to crack today, and from behind the wall, Aknadi can see a hideous face laughing at himself!

【I ......】

When Aknadi was questioning his existence, suddenly, a violent energy began to erupt in the royal palace not far away!

"It's ...... What's going on?" Aknadi looked up, [That direction, it's the Pharaoh's Bedchamber!]

"Ang!" The crimson dragon god leaped up and hovered in the sky, and at this moment, another ice-possessed dinosaur raised its head from the ground, and in the face of the legendary lord of the underworld, it dared to raise its head and roar?!

Maybe it's because he's already frozen stupid?

"What a powerful elf...... It's the pharaoh's phantom!" Aknadi watched the scene in shock, "And what is that? Why haven't you seen it before?!"

The more he looked at it, the more he felt that he had to get the news as soon as possible, so he whistled into the sky, and then a shadowy figure suddenly knelt behind him, and he knelt motionless on the ground like a statue.

"Has anyone been to the Pharaoh's chamber tonight?" asked Akhnadi solemnly, it was evident that he had access to the Pharaoh's life at any time, and judging by his skill, it was clear that this information channel had been in operation for a long time.

"Back to Lord Aknadi, tonight, only Lord Seth went to the palace to meet the Pharaoh. ”

The man in black replied calmly, but Aknadi, who usually remained calm no matter what the situation, was stunned when he heard the news.

"My lord, my lord?" Seeing that Arknadi had never given instructions, the man in black began to take the initiative to speak: "Is there anything that needs to be done by the villain?"

He already sensed that the current situation didn't seem right, and he was going to get a mission and hurry away, he didn't want to suddenly hear something he shouldn't have heard today and be killed.

"It's okay, you go down......" Arknadi waved his hand, and soon the man in black left, he was a smart man, and knew what he saw and what he didn't see tonight.

【Set...... Shouldn't it?]

"Aang!" "Roar!"

At this time, the "Sky Dragon of Osiris" in the sky had already begun to attack: the "Summoning Thunder Bullet" in its mouth shot out and hit the body of the "Frost Brachiosaurus" standing on the ground. And although the "Frost Brachiosaurus" has rough skin and thick flesh, there is no way not to care about this blow at all, it was crumbling, but it was not passively beaten, but gathered the cold power of the whole body and spit out an ice ball, which was returned to the Lord of the Hades!

[Is that Seth's elf? It's powerful...... But it's too early to take it out now!] When the "Frost Brachiosaurus" was attacked, Aknadi felt even more distressed than if he had played on himself, [If you hide this card, you can ...... Huh?】

But just when Aknadi thought they were going to fight to the death, the Frost Bracher suddenly wailed and vanished, and the Lord of Hades returned to his kingdom as if the two were just out to play......

This kind of unfolding makes Arcadi even more strange.

The Great Plague of the Evil Gods

The next morning, when the Pharaoh came to the main hall to face all the courtiers and priests, everyone noticed that there were now only five people standing where the six great priests had stood, and the most striking of them all, the young priest, had suddenly disappeared this morning!

However, the game's expression was very calm, as if he had known about it for a long time, and it was not until the game sat on the throne and Simon announced that everyone would start speaking, that the high priest Aknadi asked with some confusion, "Great Pharaoh, what was the situation of the battle that took place in your dormitory last night?"

Not only is Seth the owner of the thousand-year-old artifact "Millennium Tin Staff", which is widely known as the main killer, but he is also an excellent general, leading one of Egypt's most elite troops, and his sudden disappearance often means a lot of things.

Among them, Aknadi is the most nervous of all people, and what others don't know is that Seth is his biological son, and Akhnadi is also the younger brother of the previous pharaoh Akkanan, and theoretically, Seth is also qualified to inherit the throne of the pharaoh.

After years of operation and Seth's own talent, Acadi finally made his son the holder of the most powerful thousand-year-old artifact on the surface, the "Millennium Tin Staff", and at the same time, he also let Seth control the military power.

But the next morning he disappeared after Seth had suddenly gone alone to find the Pharaoh, and the news was undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for Aknadi, and the flight of the great priest on the second day of the Pharaoh's succession to the throne made Aknadi's heart, which had been hanging on him, begin to tighten violently.

[Could it be that Setha has already ...... with the Pharaoh]

In order to avoid the fact that the previous pharaoh, Akkanan, the elder brother of Akkatan, had eliminated Seth, a threat to his son's succession, Aknadi never claimed to have descendants, and Seth had always been considered a representative of the plebeian priesthood, and Seth had always believed that his father had died honorably on the battlefield for the country.

It is precisely for this reason that Aknatti has been walking on thin ice when making his own plans, and the person he has always worried about the most is actually Seth himself! Acadetti is very worried that Seth will swear allegiance to the current Pharaoh because of the preferential treatment of the Pharaoh Akkanan's family.

In this case, your plan is complete.

And this morning's disappearance of Seth, combined with his secret visit to the Pharaoh last night, and the strange elven battle, whether the young Pharaoh found something and used the elven duel to dispose of Seth in advance, or whether Seth had already sworn allegiance to the Pharaoh last night and sparred with each other's elves, and today he went on a secret mission, all of which were not good for Aknadi.

[I hope it's just that I lost my spirits or was sick because of last night's battle......] Aknadi prayed in his heart as he looked intently at the Pharaoh on the throne with his own one-eyed.

"......" was silent for a while in the face of Aknadi's inquiry and the countless pairs of eyes that appeared in the main hall, and then sighed and said, "Priest Seth, you have been tormented by the temptation of evil spirits in the darkness. Last night, Priest Set couldn't stand the torture of the demon's whispers and came to me to find a way to crack it, but when I couldn't crack it with the 'Millennium Bricks', Priest Set suddenly attacked me in a frenzy...... Of course, in the end, after regaining a little of his consciousness, he chose to go into self-exile. ”

"What...... Self-exile?!" When they heard the news, both the members of the Divine Officials and the ordinary ministers and nobles were surprised, and they had long heard that the "Millennium Tin Staff" was easy to drive the wielder crazy because of the main attack and killing, but no one could have imagined that such a strong Seth would also suffer from this!

"......" Aknadi said without saying a word, and in silence pulled his collar at what the pharaoh said, which he actually did not fully believe.

"So, that strange demon from last night was the source of the temptation for Priest Seth's depravity?" said Isis with a look of incredulity, "This ...... How could Seth ...... He's so strong......"

"No one can predict their future, Isis. Mahad on the side closed his eyes in some pain, and then said, "Even if you see the future of your 'Millennium Jewelry', it is not entirely correct, is it......? Seth is afraid that it will be more auspicious than ......"

Elsis stopped talking, and she prayed earnestly with the other priests that Seth would find himself in this self-exile.

And seeing this scene in front of him, the game actually felt a little sorry for these priests in his heart.

Because he remembered the conversation between the seahorse and himself last night:

The swing of memories

[So, the game, this not only gives me the opportunity to act alone, but also makes the army and priests of the royal city nervous, so that it can be transferred later, and even if I am lucky, I can also make the time bomb in the priesthood jump out on its own, which is a plan to kill three birds with one stone. ”】

["The idea is very good, but how do you convince everyone that you are controlled by a 'demon'?"]

["Replace it with a more powerful dueling elf, let it fight with your Osiris, brush its majesty value, make people think it is powerful, and then it can take on the role of 'demon'."] ”】

["I see, use the "Summoning Thunder Bomb" to reduce attack power to prevent Osiris's from really being damaged in this scene? However, we don't have this level of demon monsters now?"]

["Who said that it must be a demon clan? It's not simple to fool the ancients three thousand years ago? Aren't the mechanical people, dinosaurs, and thunder clans all the same in their eyes? Anyway, they are all incomprehensible appearances~"]

["(Forehead) Seahorse...... I've noticed that you've been getting a lot worse lately, have you been infected by anyone?"]

(A certain witch who is watching a play in the outside world: Ahem!)

The swing of memories

"He should have arrived in the Valley of the Kings by now. After recalling the game, he couldn't help laughing, and said seriously: "I asked Manna to accompany him, if the ancestors and gods of the Valley of the Kings can forgive Seth, then he can come back, if not, then ...... Tonight, Manna will bring back the 'Millennial Tin Staff', please ...... Everyone prepares for the funeral rites. ”

Hearing the last words of the Pharaoh, the atmosphere dropped to freezing point for a while......

At this time, Aknadi's body trembled, as if he was desperately enduring something......