XVIII. The Sun God King
Xi Tai looked at the Ember Watcher, who was clearly in his last years, and said, "You are dying. β
The old man said, "Yes." β
Xitai: "How long have you been here?" β
Old man: "According to your calendar, 300,000 years." β
Xitai: "You are respected, you have guarded two worlds. β
Old Man: "If the dark creatures encroach on your world beyond the boundaries, the Creator will once again rain down the light of mutation and destroy all things. β
Xitai: "I want to help you!" I want to help you stop this! I want to take over from you! β
Ember Warden: "Your strength is too weak to fight the darkness." β
Xitai: "Then give me your power." β
The Ember Warden said, "Although I am the creator of the world, the source of my power comes from darkness, are you willing to bear such a price?" β
Hee Tai hesitated, he closed his eyes and pondered for a long time, I could feel the muscles on his face quivering.
Finally, he said, "I love the creatures of the world, I love everything about the Sun King, and I am willing to bear the price." β
Seeing this scene, I can't help but wonder: he doesn't look like such a great, such a loving person, judging by his words and deeds, he is just a jealous and ambitious prince, is it true that deep down, he is actually kind and noble?
Willing to fall into darkness to save the world? Xitai has such a mind?
The Ember Warden motioned for Xi Tai to step forward, and his head turned into a black snake, which bit Xi Tai, and in an instant, black streaks penetrated Xi Tai's brown skin like ink, making his eyes look like black water. Hee Tai fell to her knees in agony, convulsing, wailing, crushing her own skin, blood rolling down her face.
By the time he stood, the power of darkness had filled his body, and the Ember Warden had crumbled and disappeared with the wind.
I don't know why the Ember Warden trusts Xitai, perhaps he has already decided to make Xitai his successor.
He uses the power of darkness against the dark creatures, and he stays in the empty city, unleashing the magic that tears the sky and destroys the dark creatures one after another.
At the other end of the rift, his hometown, to the people there, Xitai seemed to be in seclusion. He rarely appears, often only once a month, and each time he appears, people easily notice the change in her - he exudes an ominous aura that makes him seem so dangerous, as if he has been soaked in venom for a long time, spreading a deadly plague.
Xitai told everyone: "I have discovered the truth of the world, I am guarding you, if it were not for me, the world would have suffered." On that side, there are terrible monsters, dark demons, destroyers of worlds, and I, in the world reduced to embers, have become the shield of the world. β
No one has been able to confirm this, and no one has been able to pass through the rift and reach the debris space within the First Continent. And here, Xi Tai is unable to show the dark power he has obtained, and it seems that he cannot bring the dark power back from the fragmented space.
He just seemed vicious, mean, weird, and murderous.
In the eyes of the world, he ignores the government and politics, does not do his job, eats vegetarian food, is insidious and lazy, and is full of lies. He led traitors to power, wicked people to run rampant, natural disasters to spread, and the people to live in poverty.
People hate Xitai.
And Xitai felt strength from this hatred.
If angels and demons derive faith from positive human feelings, then dark creatures can gain strength through hatred.
So, whenever Xitai was tired, he returned to his hometown, openly committed evil deeds, reaped hatred, and then returned to the other side to deal with those crises.
One day ten years later, Xitai was summoned by the sun god to go to the temple to meet the sun god again, and this time the meeting was very grand. At the temple, all the retainers of Osiris's family were present, and Xitai was surrounded by his own advisers and soldiers who had long held grudges against him.
Xitai learned that this time, the sun god would choose a god-king from between Osiris and him to rule the entire continent, and the god-king had supreme power and was the only spokesman of the sun god.
Osiris knelt on the ground and said to the sun god, "Great grandfather god, in the past ten years each of the eight cities I have ruled has been prosperous, pious and respectful, and the common people have worshiped you and trusted me, and they have not only built magnificent temples, but have also lived in abundance and left no stone unturned. You see, the ministers I have chosen are all men of noble character. My wife and son are even more beautiful and kind under your care.
We bask in the sun and become more upright as a result. β
At this point, everyone turned their eyes on Xitai, who looked like a demon fished up from the river of hell compared to the upright Osiris.
One can't help but think that the sun god had prophesied that Xitai would hide in the dark.
The sun god asked Xitai, "What do you say?" β
Xi Tai stood with his head held high, his expression solemn and proud: "Actually, Sun God, I am the real hero, I entered the rift, arrived at the First Continent, and saw the space of fragments. I gained the power of the embers and learned the truth about the sun. β
Suddenly, there was silence in the temple, and there was no sound from what Xi Tai was saying, and no one could hear it.
Hee Tai realizes that the sun god is preventing him from revealing the truth.
When the silence ended, the sun god said, "Xitai has fallen into the path of evil, and Osiris will be the king of the continent." β
Xi Tai's angry gaze was like burning magma, and he said loudly, "Why do you ignore the truly meritorious people? Why do you favor the inactive? My strength is far greater than Osiris! You know that! β
Ra said, "That's enough! Xitai, I once prophesied your downfall, and now it has come true. Needless to say! Osiris is king, and Xitai will be stripped of his identity and wealth, and you will be imprisoned until the evil thoughts in your heart are purified! β
Xitai: "You know I'm right, you know my merits!" β
Ra: "You have been bewitched by the devil, you have been deceived without knowing it, your stupidity is simply incomprehensible. β
Unable to resist, he was struck by the Sun King's divine light, and he fell, and then the soldiers tied him up and imprisoned him.
Osiris, his brother, became king of the continent.
He did not kill Xitai, but banished Xitai from the mainland.
Xi Tai cursed, "Without me, darkness will devour your country and destroy everything you love!" β
Osiris smiled: "I am already a god-king, brother, I have been blessed by the sun god, even if there really are so-called dark creatures, I am enough to protect the safety of this country." β
Xitai: "If you have blind eyes and blindly listen to the lies of the Creator, I will return and give you a taste of pain." β
Osiris: "If you come back, I'll kill you." β
Xi Tai is branded, the sun god takes back the divine power that had been given to Xi Tai, and Xi Tai begins his exile.
During his travels, he heard of a kingdom, a kingdom of darkness, a kingdom ruled by blood.
He traveled there, met Cain, and learned the art of darkness from Cain. He had the magic of a dark creature in his veins, and although he couldn't use it in this world, it still gave him a perception beyond common sense, and he was able to quickly learn what Cain had imparted.
Cain put his trust in Xitai and had his heirs convert Xitai into a blood family.
When the Bloodline's empire collapsed, Xitai, who had gained great power, remembered his past in Egypt and remembered the rift.
Was that a dream? In fact, he was just obsessed with his own hallucinations, there were no dark creatures, no First Continent, and no fragmented space. At that time, Xitai was just in a daze, and he didn't know what to do, and he had a dream that lasted for ten years.
In the dream, he was lazy, desolate, languid and gloomy, and finally betrayed his relatives?
Xi Tai fell into a long thought again.
I suddenly realized that something was wrongβthe muscles in his face trembled as he thought, and his expression was painful, like he was having a nightmare.
At this time, I can't probe his mind.
The long exam is over.
Sitai decided to return to Egypt, and he made an agreement with Morqavi and Salot to explore the mysteries of the soul, and he felt that the answer might be in Egypt, or part of the answer might be in Egypt.
But once discovered by Osiris, he was finished.
Osiris is the god-king, the spokesman of the sun god, the creator of the world, and his power is even greater than that of Xitai, who is a third-generation bloodline.
Xitai needs to become stronger.
He must return to the Rift, and if that world is not an illusion of Xitai, but really exists, then Xitai will manage to bring the power of that world back to the present world.
No matter what the cost.
Osiris is known to be omniscient and omnipotent, but when Xitai stepped into Egypt, Osiris did not notice it.
For decades, the city that Xitai once ruled was unrecognizable, and all the people he once knew were dead, whether it was Osiris's execution or the passage of time.
He went back to the buried tunnel, dug it up, and went deep into the ground.
There, that rift remains.
Xi Tai entered the rift and reached the shattered space, which had been completely destroyed, and the ruins that Xi Tai once guarded were gone. This time, he felt the power of the Ember Warden again, and the power of darkness was made even stronger by his Cain bloodline.
The Bloodline is a curse of God, a seal of darkness that resonates with the power of dark creatures.
There are no dark creatures, at least not in Xitai, do they really exist?
Suddenly, Xitai saw a black snake that reached through the sky.
It was about five hundred meters tall, and it seemed to be made up of dark lightning and storms, its scales rattling, black light flowing around its body, and the chill in its eyes could freeze its soul.
Xitai realized that the dark creatures did not disappear, but that they had all gathered together and become part of the black snake.
Egypt was not destroyed because this fragmented space was pregnant with black serpents.
A word flashed through his mind, it was Ember Watcher, and he was telling Xitai the name of the black snake.
Apepe.
The Serpent of the World.
Xi Tai faced the black snake, let out a desperate roar, he knew that he could not win, and he could not escape, the black snake would devour Xi Tai, absorb the power of darkness, and then, it would go out and challenge Osiris.