And so it is.

After experiencing the rebellion of Ozmandis, the death of King Ehnatun, and the kidnapping of Ivan, Elu Lome will never allow a second Ozmandis to appear in the current empire. The Order, which is semi-independent of the royal court, is like a tumor parasitic on the rule of the dynasty, which seems to be in little danger on weekdays, but at a critical time, it can kill this declining empire.

In order to reduce the resistance of the priests and strengthen the connection between the Order and the royal court as much as possible, she even moved Evan out.

Now Evan is a very different puppet from the original puppet.

He annulled the missionary treaties that destroyed the Order, and saved the lives of most of the High Priests from Ozmandis, and had a decisive influence on the entire Order.

And he also has the 'jade seal of the country' - Yiwen is in charge of religious affairs, and the sacrifices really have no reason to refuse.

"At Your Majesty's command. ”

"We have no problem at the Temple of Tephnut. ”

"Since His Majesty Evan is willing to deign to condescend to the Governor-General's internal affairs, of course we will fully cooperate. ”

The priests really had no reason to refuse, and they didn't want to refuse—after so many years of opposing the royal court, they had already suffered enough, and now they were bent on stability, and they just wanted to live honestly on their own turf.

"Evan. ”

Eru Romei glanced at Evan, her pupils flashed like dragonflies, and she looked like a little girl who had just received her beloved gift, and reminded with a smile:

"I'll leave the people here to you, and you'll take care of them for me, you know?"

"I understand. ”

He maintained a calm expression and nodded his head.

Although Evan didn't say anything on the surface, and everything was only for his cousin, he had already turned the river and the sea in his heart - let an empty shell of the Hades Temple go to the head of religious affairs, and it was a shame that she could come up with such a lack of morality.

It is really a great arrangement to put yourself in such a pivotal position, where resources are poor, and where you need to develop for a long time. She doesn't have to bear the resistance of the Order, but she can use the identity of Hades's wife to exert influence, and when the time is ripe, she can take the Victory Fruit Sect in advance, which is really the best of both worlds.

"But...... Even if it's a chore, it's a bit of a real right...... There's nothing better than that. Ivan scanned the submissive priests around the long table, thinking comfortingly.

After appointing her husband Hades and giving him authority to manage religious affairs, Eru Lomme pursued her victory and announced a more comprehensive plan of religious reform. These included restrictions on the right to further sacrifices, confiscation of improper religious property, levies on the collection of taxes for worship, and the prohibition of all members of the Order from doing business.

This set of combination punches down, and the Order was directly beaten back to the prototype before Ozmandis. It also means that the rebellious and disobedient Atum Order has officially become a thing of the past, and the Menes Empire has an additional loyal and patriotic religious group, which is gratifying.

......

Situated on a hill on the edge of the Mirror Lake, the Temple of Hades is cut off from the outside world by a shrubland, and the ground has been artificially reclaimed into a terraced terrace of grapes, with a downward slope planned into six wide terraces.

The building is purely made of volcanic rock, the middle of the main hall is a square conical vault, the two wings are long conical ridge buildings, and the center of the hall is a round hall. In front of the entrance hall, there are twelve bundle pillars, half-embedded carved with twelve servant gods of different shapes, standing silently on the square in front of the temple.

The entire shape of the stone gate resembles a beast's mouth, and the load-bearing pillars are also designed as canine teeth, which from a distance looks like a demonic beast devouring the earth.

The black limousine stopped next to the square in front of the temple, and Evan stepped out of the car, stared at the temple in front of him, turned around and waved his hand to the coachman, signaling that he could send it here and go back to rest.

He walked alone through the square in front of the temple, due to the lack of repair for a long time, the statues of the gods on the stone pillars have long been weathered and blurred, leaving only the outlines of different postures, which really makes people unable to see the divine majesty.

“......”

Ivan walked over to the stone door of the beast's mouth, pulled out a key the size of a short sword, embedded it in the keyhole, and then rotated it counterclockwise with all the strength of his body.

Rumble——!

With the tooth-aching sound of the door, the stone door slowly parted to the sides, and a strong air current suddenly rolled up dust and slapped on his face.

In the abandoned palace, sunlight streams down obliquely through the broken windows, and dust flies in the pillars of light. The space in the antechamber is very large, and the lattice stone slabs are paved all the way into the darkness in the distance, and there is no end in sight.

Semi-recessed columns protrude from the façade, and statues of beautiful women of various postures are attached to them. Each statue has at least one hand in the posture of propping up the dome, and the lower half of the body is a skirt with clear lines, which evolves into a broken shape and gradually disappears, with a sense of power, movement and fantasy.

"Although there is no furniture, this house is okay, at least it is big enough and magnificent!"

Evan walked to the wall, raised his head, looked at the statue of a maid who was three meters tall enough, and nodded frequently in satisfaction.

He walked around the antechamber and found that the space was enclosed, with no exit to connect to the outside world. There is a bronze mural in the center of the wall directly opposite the stone gate, with a scales slightly protruding from the center of the mural, and next to it are esoteric and obscure line paintings.

"Is there any mechanism?"

Evan muttered as he walked over to the bronze mural and looked at the scale, feeling that the object was slightly convex and had a faint gap in the edge outline, as if it could be removed.

As the owner of the Hades Temple, he naturally had no taboos, and since he felt that he could take it, he naturally reached out and tried it. As a result, I grabbed the balance and pulled it gently, and it really ripped it off, and there was a long bronze chain attached to the balance bar of the scale.

Rumble——!

As he tugged hard, the temple of Hades vibrated up and down, as if it had awakened some kind of long-dormant troll, and an indescribable sense of intimidation radiated from the bronze walls.

Knock Knock Ding Ding——!

Then came the strange sound of the brass bell and the silver bell shaking, and the two voices mixed together like an alarm bell.

"What the hell is this! I've been hiding for so long, just to plot against my boss!?"

While secretly hating his cheapness, Ivan instantly withdrew more than ten meters away, and kept a high speed away from the mural, instinctively feeling that there was something hidden in this strange and ancient building that could not be woken up.

“......”

At the same time as he withdrew from the distance like lightning, the bronze mural twisted like a ripple, highlighting the outline of a jackal's head, and a pair of dark yellow eyes with vertical pupils examined the visitor vigilantly, and his voice was hoarse like a night owl:

"I am the guardian of the underworld, the demon god of the temple, who is so bold to trespass into the realm of the Hades!?"