Chapter Ninety-Seven: Riddles
The countess wanted to ask something, but she couldn't understand what a memory could be that was "too clear" and "not blurry". Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
But the goddess could no longer answer her.
Isis is weathering.
It's a strange but real sight, the tall god is turning into a statue, and then, as if weathered over tens of thousands of years, peeling, shattering, and turning into dust.
"Mortal, to me, your quest is meaningless, but you are interesting. ”
Isis had a beautiful smile on his face, and then that face dissipated in the wind.
"This is the eternal sleep of the gods, the gift brought to us by the birth of the old gods. ”
Thoth stretched out his hand and watched as the divine power flowed away in the wind, leaving only vague legends and collapsed ruins belonging to Isis, the god of Emenkai.
"I hope you're not too disappointed, you see, you're one step closer to what you want to know. ”
The countess was a little surprised, she didn't know why the baboon suddenly said that.
"My time is finally over," Thoth held out a hand, something was changing in his body, and the countess instinctively sensed danger, "I'm sorry I couldn't give you the answer you wanted." ”
"I don't understand ......"
"I have planned a metamorphosis," said the baboon, leaning over the countess, like a teacher anxious to explain the problem to his students, "it was only one step in my plan for wisdom, and it is no different." But Osiris, the king of the underworld strong enough to stand against the influence of the old gods, wanted a little more. So my death became a complex magic, in a language that you humans can understand, that is, metamorphosis. ”
"But I failed. ”
Then the death of the gods is at hand.
The countess was a bit surprised, as a true master of magic, she had a transcendent intuition for divine powers, and in her senses, Thoth was much more powerful than all the remaining gods.
But if he is not strong enough to stand up to the forces that make the gods die, the end that awaits the baboon is predictable.
"Thoth!"
A furious voice suddenly broke into the peace.
The beast's roar was interrupted and turned into a scream.
"I'm sorry. ”
Magellan was standing on the sand dunes, one hand resting on Amon's shoulder and the other holding a long sword.
"Please don't interrupt this conversation, it's going to be over soon. ”
The sword crossed the long distance and came to rest on the throat of the aerial beast, the salty smell of sea water in the air.
The beast flapped its wings and flew through the air like lightning, but the blade never left its throat.
"Mortal!"
Amon's eyes followed the sharp blade beside him, watching the giant beast dance gracefully in the sky, and a thought flashed through his heart: "Interesting." ”
......
Thoth was turning into a statue, but very slowly, and that caused him great pain.
"No, there's still a chance. ”
The countess suddenly remembered the conversation between the gods.
"I can be your believer. ”
Thoth struggled to raise his hand, which had been reduced to stone, the stone chips peeling off from his arm, but no blood was flowing from the wound.
"Look, it's not easy to be a believer in a god. ”
"Didn't you accept it?"
"No, the gods can't refuse a mortal to become his follower, but you don't want to be my follower. ”
The countess frowned, and she found it an unsolvable problem.
"Converting is always a hard thing to do, and it looks like you've never tried it. ”
"I believe in truth, I believe in wisdom, I think ......"
"I am not wisdom, or rather, not wisdom as you think it is," said Thoth, half of his face turned to stone, and he spoke with increasing difficulty, "I don't feel like a god of wisdom, only the old gods can." ”
The countess shook her head and began to retreat.
The baboon kept smashing his broken arm to the ground, and he finally walked unstoppably to the end.
"Do you think it's strange? Isis and I both gave up our secret to answer your question when the deadline was approaching......"
The countess shook her head in silence with a wry smile on her face.
"This is something I have never noticed before, you see, the instinct of the guardian of secrets should include one of them, that is, not to let the secret disappear, and the one who records the knowledge will also have an instinct, which is to spread knowledge. Thoth squeezed a shriveled smile out of his stone-carved face, and from his stone-carved chest a wind-blown voice, "What a subtle discovery, isn't it......"
Then the god died with such a smile on his face.
The huge statue fell to the ground in all parts, causing an earthquake.
"Thoth ......"
The beast let out a long howl, and it was hard to say what emotions were hidden in it, but Magellan was completely unaffected.
"So this meeting is finally over," the sound of the tide brought by the sword became clear, "I'm sorry something went wrong. ”
The Sphinx instinctively sensed the danger, it had rushed towards Thoth countless times, each time it was blocked by the longsword, it didn't know what would happen if it was slashed, it didn't want to know.
But now, the Behemoth's patience is gone.
For the first time, the blade of the longsword left its throat, and the Sphinx didn't want to pass up the opportunity.
The graceful monster flapped its wings and turned in the sky with a graceful agility as it rushed towards Thoth's corpse.
Then the sword flashed, and the golden blood rained down.
It was a downpour, and the golden blood belonging to the gods splattered everywhere, and then with a thunderclap, the beast fell to the ground.
That flawless face was right in front of Magellan.
The giant beast tried to prop up its upper body, but it couldn't, the pain came from the wound in its wings, and its muscles twitched from the sharp pain, without the slightest strength.
Magellan placed the sword on top of the monster's head.
"I'm sorry, I just don't want to make the environment like this when we meet. ”
The Sphinx felt the chill of death.
"There is one thing ......"
Magellan was surprised to find that he could not let the sword fall.
"There's one thing,
No one has seen it, but all believe it exists,
Every day it becomes something else, but it never goes away,
What is it?"
The sword still couldn't fall, and Magellan felt a terrifying transcendent power latching on him, and if he didn't give the right answer, the power would kill him.
"Tomorrow. ”
"There's one thing,
You can see it, but you can't touch it,
The more powerful it is, the stronger its opposite,
What is it?"
The beast spoke hurriedly, in the same beastly voice.
"Light. ”
Magellan coldly uttered the correct answer, then pressed the blade down.