Chapter 32: Open Sesame

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"Sam Ahhoku ......"

There was silence.

"Joule in ......"

The lake began to shake.

The whole space was like a cup filled with water, and now the cup was being shaken.

On the surface of the lake, some powerful force is setting up huge waves, and in the underwater space, the moonlight is swaying due to refraction, and the floor is falling.

Right in front of the two of them, the floor parted, and the full moon at the zenith became extraordinarily huge.

When all change ceased, the temple fell silent, and an empty altar was in front of them.

A vertical round well carved out of sandstone with a hemispherical lake edge on top. The walls are inlaid with silver and various precious stones to form frescoes, and on the ground is a ring of moon phases, and in the center of the ring is an empty circular stone platform, which is an altar.

"It's ......"

The two of them raised their heads and looked up at the heights, and involuntarily let out an exclamation.

"Could that be true?"

At the highest point of this space, through the lake, you can see the towering statue of the goddess in the moonlight on the lake, the simple sandstone is carved into soft lines, the wings are spread out, and the slight leaning forward, draped in a layer of silver veil in the moonlight.

"This is the Lake of Cranes......" Magellan smiled, "the territory of the goddess Nephthys." ā€

"But there is no right hand of Thoth. ā€

"Meow. ā€

Miss Betty seemed to enjoy interrupting Magellan's smile, and she leapt from the countess's shoulder to the altar and let out a mocking cry in Magellan's face.

"If the goddess is hiding something, it's hard for anyone else to have a chance to find it. ā€

The countess stretched out her right hand, and something invisible gathered in the air, flowing, like a nimble little snake, weaving between Helen's fingers.

"We are not powerless, but magic is always complex and dangerous. ā€

Magellan looked up at the unusually large moon and sighed: "I'm afraid the goddess won't allow the priest to open her treasury. ā€

"Anyone can open the vault as long as they find the key. ā€

"Do the gods use keys, too?"

The countess laughed.

"The gods will also want to open the treasure trove of another god, and it will usually be a battle of wits beyond the comprehension of mortals, and countless magic will be created in the process. ā€

"I don't know anything about magic......

"To put it simply, because the goddess is dead, I can open this treasure trove. ā€

Magellan smiled: "Great. ā€

"It's going to take a long time. ā€

"Just when I needed to find something. ā€

"Good luck. ā€

......

The walls of the temple are covered with frescoes, each one telling a story about the goddess, who is small and humble compared to the tall gods, and the priests, dressed in ornate garments, standing behind the goddess every time the other gods appear.

The fresco depicts all the events that took place between the goddess's first visit to the Lake of Cranes and her last departure from the Lake of Cranes to Alexandria, the royal capital of the new dynasty. The goddess was friends with all the gods of Eimenchet, but eventually the end of the gods came, and she disappeared silently like all the gods.

From the top, Magellan searched the frescoes one by one, until the last one, but still did not find the famous conspiracy - the seven gods planned the murder of Thoth.

But he didn't find nothing, the story of ancient Emenchet was originally a blank slate, but after the King of the World funded Professor Alexander to decipher Thoth's stele turned into a broken cobweb, and countless people have since filled in the gaps with the clues they have obtained, and now, Magellan has many clues.

There's a lot of information coming out of this web.

Countless messages flowed through his mind, and in the legends of the gods, many missing parts could be filled.

The goddess was a friend of many gods, having served as a magistrate in the sacred court where Horus had accused Seth, blessed Osiris by the Nile when he was resurrected, and guarded Isis when she despaired.

Here, the countless major events in which Nephthys was involved are recorded, and for a long millennium, the gods held the fate of Emanchet in their hands, and each meeting between them decided the fate of countless mortals, which became history after a thousand years.

Magellan felt the feeling that everything was clearly visible in his mind before he lost his talent, and he completed the patchwork.

Then he stood up and saw the countess next to him.

There was something subtle flowing in the air, and it seemed to be the divine power of the goddess, but the power of Yuanbet was even weaker and thinner.

"What did you find?"

"A lot. ā€

The countess nodded, then raised her right hand.

A cloud of silver moonlight gathered on her hand like a small moon, but it quickly dissipated.

"I have rarely seen magic that does not involve sand and sun, and even the power of the underworld does not appear at all......" the countess sighed, "Is the god of the moon Nephthys?"

"No, in fact, when the gods were still around, Baboon Thot was the moon god in the eyes of more people. ā€

"What is the relict that represents the moon?"

"Cats, the pupils of this animal are capable of changing, and the Emenkai people believe that this is mysteriously linked to the change in the phases of the moon. ā€

"Which eye of Horus is the moon?"

No, actually, it should have been the lost left eye, and later, Horus was forced to admit that the sun was not his eye. ā€

"So, what kind of god does Nephthys hold?"

"Fertility. ā€

"And what does she have to do with the moon?"

"Cycle, negative. ā€

"So her temple is to be built underwater......"

The countess smiled, "Your work is truly impressive, Professor Magellan. ā€

"I don't understand, what does knowing this have to do with opening the treasury?"

"The goddess used her divine power to create a treasure trove, sealed it, and now that the goddess is dead and her divine power has dissipated, what sustains the treasury to continue to exist, and what power continues to seal it?"

"The moon?"

Magellan looked up at the huge moon disk in the sky, looking incomprehensible.

"The goddess is dead, but the moon is still there, and here, instead of the goddess, it has become the object of worship, unconsciously maintaining everything while the goddess is still alive with the stolen divine power. ā€

"So how?"

"You can use some kind of spell to drive that power to open the door to the treasury, or use some magic to consume the power that sustains the treasury. ā€

"It's going to sound complicated. ā€

"It does, but now I've finished the spell. ā€

"What?"

The countess raised her right hand and pronounced a series of words of unknown significance.

Then the moonlight disappeared.