After solving the siege of Memphis City, Evan was worried that the monster would have a future move, so he was not in a hurry to leave here.

Then he sent an order to the space fortress, asking them to use satellites to scan the cities and deserts around the mountain fortress and find monsters and rewards.

After careful investigation, sure enough, two branches of the demon tide were discovered. They seem intent on taking advantage of the main force and the human defenders to fight their way over the mountains to Memphis City—a guerrilla war that doesn't need supplies.

It took a little more time to wipe out all the Dreadbeast Legions, and the demon tide in the Memphis region was finally quelled. Since then, all the monsters in the empire have been wiped out, and all the summoning towers have been removed, leaving only a few mobs waiting to be cleared by the demon hunters.

After this thorough sweep, the demonic plague that had plagued the Menes Empire for a long time finally fell into a low ebb.

This is also the limit of what Ivan can do, he can capture the nightmare breath, it does not mean that he can predict the prophet, he can only destroy the dreadbeast that has appeared for a long time, and he cannot prevent the birth of the dreadbeast in advance.

Also thanks to the Demon Calamity, the dark energy that Ivan accumulated by collecting nightmare breath has also reached an astonishing value.

This value is several times the tipping point, and like light energy, it has reached the level where it should have been broken through long ago but did not break through. Things developed just as he expected, and after the balance of light and dark, the body finally stopped its lesions - it seems that when he continues to study the two holy texts in the future, he will have to strictly maintain a balanced progress.

One-one-one-one-one-one

Due to its proximity to the desert, the nights in Memphis are exceptionally humid and cold. On weekdays, as soon as the sun goes down, the city's residents close their doors, light the stove, and sleep at home until dawn.

But they were still busy tonight, and most of the people who did not participate in the battle were cleaning up the corpses on the frontier of the fortress. The climate close to the desert is cold at night and hot at night, and these corpses are likely to breed plague when they are roasted by the sun during the day, so they can only be cleaned up as soon as possible at night.

The Menes' conception of the dead is similar to that of the porcelain kingdom when it was not influenced by Buddhism. They all regard death as life, how to live before life and how to live after death, so they must accompany the collection and the tomb. And they all pay attention to the integrity of the body, believing that the body is the container of the soul - although the soul goes to the underworld/Yin Mountain, it will return one day.

Therefore, it is very important for them to put the body of their loved one together and bury them according to a specific ceremony. This is related to whether the deceased can get rid of the nuisance of demons and successfully reach the underworld to unite with the gods.

Incidentally, in the Menes worldview, when they die, they enter a land known as Duat. Only the Holy River in the world can transcend the isolation of life and death into the underworld, and reach this plain surrounded by mountains. The desert sand on both sides of the river is dotted with small lakes, and mounds rise and fall on the sand. Geographically, it can be said to be a replica of the earth, with the plains and deserts familiar to the Menes, but it is full of dangers for the souls of the newcomers.

Along the way, the soul is hindered by demons, who are called "evil obstacles from the abyss". In some malevolent lakes and mounds, demons will use sticks, spears, nets and even mousetraps to capture and hunt souls, and only by knowing the demons' true names can they defeat them, so be sure to carry a burial map of Duoat and a spell to overcome disaster before the soul goes on its way.

Menes know they are prepared to prepare their loved ones before they hit the road. Normally, the burial items include not only the scarab amulet, but also a large number of spells, a list of god names, and prayers such as "How to keep the Underworld from rotting" and "Advice on Avoiding Servitude in the Underworld".

With these funerary goods, they were able to pass through the narrow valley at the western end of Hades, and together with the sun god who sank into Hades at dusk, they reached the location of Osiris, the king of Hades, until the moment of resurrection.

Therefore, the people of Memphis must brave the bitter cold and do everything in their power to gather the bodies of their loved ones so that they will not be able to live in the afterlife—the broken ones can be replaced with gold, silver, or special cedar wood.

......

After a busy night, the corpses in the field were cleaned up, but the families of the soldiers who had no bones left wanted to cry without tears. According to the Menes concept of life and death, the absence of a body is real death, and it is impossible to reach Hades at all, which means that there will be no transcendence in eternity.

After learning about this situation, Evan also had a headache, changing customs is not something that can be done in a short time, and now the feelings of the deceased's family must be considered. In order to take care of their feelings, he ordered a batch of special fir trees blessed by the priests to be transported from Wangcheng and distributed to the families of the martyrs free of charge.

And comforted them, even if there are no bones of their relatives, as long as their real names are still there, they can live smoothly in the underworld by relying on the body of cedar.

As the god of the world in the minds of the Menes, and having witnessed his divine power to quell the demonic calamity, these words he made up are still very useful. With the arrival of cedar in batches, the turbulent hearts of the people also settled down.

One by one, one by one

After Evan promoted Khafre, the commander-in-chief, to the rank of regional military governor, he made more than 300 large and small officers and more than 60 nobles in one go. The priests and the demon hunters also received different degrees of rewards, the former was promoted to a high level of money, and the latter was directly awarded to the nobles.

However, these nobles he sealed were different from before, in the past, the old nobles needed fiefs and lords, and the new nobles were fictitious.

To put it simply, it is to assign a piece of land to you as a nominal fief, and the land is still under the administration of the empire. A portion of the tax went to the lord personally, who supervised, criticized, and co-administered the locality, but the fief was not hereditary.

This meant that the new aristocracy was separated from the land and became 'office workers' who received wages, which increased the centralization of power to a certain extent.

After doing this, Evan immediately returned to the demon hunting army stranded in the Miren region, and prepared to be stationed for a period of time without ordering the return of the capital. Nominally, he continued to clear out the monsters that might exist, but in fact, he was preparing to advance thoroughly.

With the help of the Sun Gold Sutra Active Power Furnace, the gathering of light energy is as fast as flying, as long as the realm is upgraded, it is not a problem at all. The Holy Book of Hades dragged on for a while, almost crushing his body, but through this battle, he finally collected several times the storage of the critical point.

One by one, one by one

A makeshift camp for the Demon Hunters, the Oasis of Mirren.

Ordering the army to camp around the oasis, Ivan went to the forest deep in the oasis alone, slowly adjusting his mentality.

This advancement was very important to him, because each time he advanced in the past, the two holy texts were upgraded in stages. But the advancement of the fourth stage, he intends to carry out at the same time, and initially try to truly integrate light and dark.

......

In the dense oasis forest, sunlight shines through the gaps in the branches and leaves of the trees, forming wrist-sized columns of light that fall to the ground. However, this light is not enough to change the environment, and hiding the dampness is the main theme here.

The place was remarkably quiet, with the occasional sound of insects, and Ivan made his way through the forest to a more desolate meadow. He waved his hand to kill the poisonous insects within a radius of 100 meters, and then sat cross-legged on the ground, closed his eyes and meditated deeply.

Giggle——!

On the soft grass, Ivan swelled his muscles and bones in an instant, his musculoskeletal joints and ligaments stretched and lengthened, and his skin revealed a tough texture like an alloy, and in a blink of an eye, he turned into a giant form more than two meters tall. Neck, back, arms, thighs...... All over the body, including the face, there are clear metal pits on all skin.

Streams of silvery light flowed rapidly along the lines of the metal pits, converging into the spiral hollow in the heart of the chest. It seems to be a sophisticated machine, with intricate lines, distributed throughout Ivan's body. The silver coil on his chest was like a powerful heart, bubbling and beating, and the silver flashes that flowed through his body were constantly circulating through it.

“......”

Ivan closed his eyes slightly, and felt like his whole body was wrapped in a warm ocean, as if he was sunbathing, and as if he was soaking in the hot spring water.

Buzz——!

It was as if a grain of rain was falling on the surface of a calm lake, and the ripples spread out layer by layer. He sat in a cylindrical curtain of light, and saw that wisps of golden electric light filled the inside of the light curtain that seemed to be made of a clean spring. Slowly converging, solidifying, and thickening, flowing like liquid, quickly filling the originally hollow pillar of light into a solid column.

"Very good, my accumulation is really strong, and the light that does not fall can be said to be a matter of course!" Seeing that the Sun Golden Sutra was almost complete, Ivan hurriedly divided his mind into two uses, trying to synchronize the Holy Book of the Underworld, and gradually condense the Flawless Disk.

The golden pillar of light that penetrated the heavens and the earth changed suddenly, and one after another black 'fire dragons' spiraled upward, with the pillar of light as the center, forming a circle of dark light wheels faintly showing complex patterns. Under Ivan's control, light and darkness are intertwined, and although they collide and annihilate each other, they always maintain a balanced situation.

In the blurred dark light wheel, the light that never falls is consumed layer by layer, and then replenished layer by layer. A huge shield of light that obscured everything emerged from it, and ripples of energy that could distort space were born in it one after another. The blurred black light wheel also became clearer and clearer with the collision consumption, but because too many fluctuations obscured the details of the lines, only a general blur could be seen.

As time passed, the collision of light and darkness became more and more violent, and the devastating fluctuations spread around Ivan as the center. Cracks erupted in the void as if they were some kind of bottomless pitch-black ravine, twisting and vibrating with the frequency of the fluctuations.

“......”

Ivan closed his eyes and opened them suddenly, and the pupils of his eyes were pure black, like a starless and moonless night. And in the next moment, a strong molten golden light appeared in the darkness, and this light exploded several times in an instant, bright as two small golden suns.

At the same time, countless pictures followed, the details of the dragon killing fist, the perception of observing the divine skills, and the specific data of the body apostle...... With the clash of light and darkness, it poured into his consciousness like an imprint.

One by one, one by one

"What does it feel like? The dying marquee, or ...... A sublimation from the level of consciousness?"

In this clear and clear state, Ivan tried his best to maintain the balance of light and dark, and the power consumed was enough to advance several times, but now he could only resist the conflict and slowly improve the quality.

If he could still maintain his sober will now, he could feel that both the Immortal Light and the Infinite Disk were stuck in the process of advancement—because the power of light and darkness continued to produce qualitative changes in the collision, and the accumulation of quantity was stopped, so that it was impossible to take the last step.

The river of time is flowing slowly with its eternal justice and patience, but the beings who are bathed in it can no longer endure the eternal immutability. In order to maintain the balance of light and darkness, Ivan even rushed to full power to launch his fist intent, which could still be supported by his strong reserves, but the increasingly intense conflict made him have a headache.

But it didn't take long for him to notice something different—the light and darkness in his body began to leave his body, and it became faster and faster, surging towards the unformed light and the infinite disk.

In the process, the messages left to him by the two holy texts were dismantled and recombined with each other, quickly synthesizing into a way of advancement that had never been seen before.

"Could it be that this is the true way to study the two holy texts!......? It's more than any mechanic in the same class...... No, not only to this extent, but even to the point of being an apostle!"

Ivan sat with his hands on his knees and sat at the center of the pillar of light and the wheel of light with his eyes closed, and the void around him was like ripples on the surface of the water, and even the light came with it.

Running down in a new advanced way, an extremely stable power module instantly covers the clash of light and dark. I don't know where the roar of the gears rotated, with an inexplicable rhythm, one by one became more and more magnificent and vast, like the melody played by nature.

Click——!

Evan's back, as if it had been suddenly split, bloomed with several narrow pieces of golden light, which swirled and expanded. Eventually, a circle of dark gold disc light wheels engraved with the lines of the holy book unfolded behind him, slowly spinning - the praise and chanting of wind, water, fire, thunder, and other natural rhythms sounded, as if the gods had descended.

The massive golden wheel of light swirled slowly and heavily in mid-air, and streams of pure light radiated from it, enveloping Evan's entire body from back to front. Although it is only a thin layer, it is several times more condensed than the simple light that does not fall, and it can already be said to be the strength of all evils.

"It's not a simple transformation...... Rather, it is a one-time consumption of two powers to advance to the fourth level, completely stripping the power of light and darkness from the body. It is called the Wheel of Judgment, which can be said to be equivalent to the king bomb of the divine skill. After exiting this state, I still have two forms of transformation, light and dark, but the quality is definitely a little stronger than my cousin. ”

Ivan manipulated the power of the light wheel, causing himself to levitate from the ground, slowly feeling the state of his body at this time:

"It's just its most basic defensive form now, and its attack form is not even inferior to my mechanized output. What's more, in this state, although I have been completely stripped of my light and dark energy, I can still perform a mechanical transformation in the form of an apostle. The two forces work together...... Don't say it's Eru Lomei, even if you meet a inheritance-level mechanic...... There is also a chance to escape. ”

This state can be said to be extremely strong, and the consumption is also unprecedentedly huge, and after a few seconds, he feels tired - it is estimated that with full output, it is enough to fight a blitzkrieg within three minutes.