Chapter 13: The Dilemma (1)

Ozmandis picked up the flute-shaped wine glass in front of him, stood up and looked around, the wine glass followed his gaze to everyone in the seat, then raised his chin, and sighed in a reminiscent tone:

"I haven't had a meeting like this in years...... First of all, thank you for taking the time to be here in such a chaotic situation. Let's toast to the Menes Empire, to the Order of Atum, and to this rare moment!"

“......”

The elders all nodded slightly, raised their glasses and took a shallow sip to express their respect.

The high priest craned his neck, drank the wine from the cup, and the old man's face flushed with a hint of redness, then bent his back and raised his hands to meet Evan at his side:

"Next, let us meet His Majesty Evan, the noble son of the god Atum, the Sun King of the Menes Empire, and the holy defender. ”

“......”

Ivan bowed his head lightly, keeping an expressionless expression, not hitting him in the face or echoing him. The line of sight circled, and on the third seat on his right, he found Xia Li's figure.

At this time, the young priestess was sitting beside an elderly priestess, with a small face and a sacrosanct appearance. When he saw him looking at him, his frost-masked face suddenly thawed, and he playfully stuck out his tongue, and then as if his face had changed, he instantly returned to serious indifference.

"Praise be to Amun!"

The priest elders stood up at the same time, pressed their hands to their chests, and lowered their heads.

"Polite words don't need to be repeated. ”

A cold, majestic voice came from the north of the round table:

"The reason why we are here is only because Your Majesty is here and has nothing to do with you. For us, whoever can stand up for the dignity of God Atum in the most critical time of the Order deserves our respect. But Lord Ozmandis, you don't have that respect in your eyes, and, as far as I can see...... Your Majesty doesn't like you. In that case, what qualifications do you have to claim that you can unite the entire Order?"

The person who spoke was a tall, burly old priest, who sat there like a thick wall. Under the light, his old hands covered with mysterious symbols kept changing color, and it looked like these powerful symbols were writhing, like trapped dragons and snakes.

“......”

After hearing the old priest's words, Evan moved in his heart, and after a careful look, he found that at least half of the high-ranking priests present had dissatisfaction on their faces.

It seems that these people attending the banquet are not the subordinates and supporters of the old fox - perhaps...... Just explain the situation to them, and you can get out of this prison.

Thinking of this, Evan's heart became hot, and just as he was about to lift the table, the corner of his eye happened to sweep to Ozmandis, and found that his face was still calm and calm, and the hot blood was suddenly cold to freezing point.

Wrong...... Wrong!

All this is so strange, this old fox arranged this dinner in my name, and pushed me to the forefront, is it just so that I can expose him to my face?

Definitely not!

Since this old guy doesn't care if I expose him, it means that he doesn't care what these high-ranking priests think of him—in that case, I'm just a bait to get out, and the fish has already taken the bait.

No matter how you look at it, it's all a Hongmen banquet situation.

“......”

Ivan quickly turned his head to look around, stimulated by the killing intent, the golden flames in his pupils were blazing like torches, and everything in the restaurant, from the whole to the part, was broken down into a vertical and horizontal anatomy map.

The wind blows the long hanging white curtains, the shadows of the trees sway on the glazed windows, and the various furnishings leave a constant shadow on the surface of the floor—everything in the dining room has no sense of disobedience on the surface.

"Your Majesty?"

The priests were wary of Evan's sudden move, and involuntarily sat up straight and looked at him in surprise.

“......”

The scene is still the same, the shadows of the trees on the parquet glass window are swaying, the wind blows the white gauze curtain up and down, he sits quietly in place, bowing his head and contemplating, like a sculpture.

"Look out the window!"

Ivan turned his head, his pupils spitting golden flames.

"Your Majesty, what did you say!?"

The old priest who had just questioned Ozmandis suddenly sank his face, and a pair of large hands clasped his knees violently, and the trapped dragon snake-like runes suddenly broke free from the shackles, and instantly spread all over his body, enveloping him like an iron statue.

“......”

The high priest's calm expression suddenly froze, and the cloudy eyeballs that were sunken under the sockets of the eyes shot out of fine light, staring at the young Sun King with a fierce gaze.

"I'll tell you to pay attention to ...... outside the window"

Evan raised his head, silently straightened his back, and the faces of everyone were reflected in the eyes of the burning flames, and suddenly looked at the ceiling and fell to the ground:

"And the floor!"

As soon as the words fell, the priests present immediately got up and left their seats, like the stars and the moon, gathered around Evan, and their shocked eyes brushed towards Ozmandis. At first, there was a somewhat harmonious atmosphere, but suddenly it became a rivalry, and the smell of gunpowder in the air became more and more intense, and it seemed that it might go off and explode at any time.

After a long silence, the high priest was the first to break the silence.

"I didn't expect it...... I really didn't expect it......"

He let out a long sigh, lifted his face, and let his countenance meet the light, and the old wrinkles stretched into a smile in the light, and said in an affirmative tone:

"In just a few minutes, His Majesty saw through the killing situation, if you were born a hundred years earlier, you must be a generation of heroes. ”

Speaking of this, his tone changed suddenly, and at the same time he turned his gaze to everyone, his eyes were like a pool of stagnant water but flashing with a blazing light at the bottom of the water:

"It's a pity that times have changed, and the only person who can reverse the fate of this country will be me! Old bones like you who can't adapt to the new world, time is running out, it's better to entrust your lives to me while you still have breath, and help me create miracles!"

"Ridiculous!"

"Ozmandis, you're crazy, do you know what you're talking about!?"

"Now there are strong enemies from another world outside, and there are blood witches inside, but you set up a situation to kill us at this time? Do you think you didn't die fast enough, or do you think that the infighting in the Atum Order is not fierce enough?"

Not all of these priests had their hearts set on the Sun King, but at this moment the butcher's knife seemed to have reached their necks, whether their lips were cold or their teeth were cold, or their rabbits and foxes were sad, they were both in a heavy mood, panicked, and furious.

"I knew exactly what I was going to do. ”

The high priest stood calmly in place, although he seemed to be alone on the surface, he had a calmness in grasping the overall situation:

"You haven't faced an enemy from beyond the sky, you don't know anything about them, you don't know how powerful these guys are—a force we can't match anyway. This near-zero probability can only be magnified to the point of possibility unless it is based on infinite time. ”