050, the world under the sun
After breakfast, Miyali enthusiastically persuaded Amon to go out to play, and asked Fusha to accompany him, and gave Fusha a lot of pocket money. She said to Amun, "Why did you buy things so politely yesterday, and if you need anything, tell Fisha about it." β
Fusha held Amon's arm tightly, her body was almost close to his side, and said with a smile: "The royal capital is very large, many gardens are also open to commoners, there are all kinds of small traders and jugglers, but it is lively, I will accompany you to take a good look today." β
Amon smiled and nodded: "Okay, thank you!"
Amon spent another day in the city, and the royal capital did dazzle the children of the mountains, and he asked Fusha with great interest all sorts of interesting things, and inquired about things he had not seen before. On the way, he said to Fersa: "This place is really prosperous, my eyes are almost flowered, and when I arrived in the royal capital, I felt that there are so many beautiful things in the world." Here everyone can see what they want, but under the gaze of the gods, they must also know what they are doing. β
As he said this, he was carrying Fusha through the square in front of the temple of Malduk, and he didn't know if Fusha understood.
After dinner that day, Miyali quietly called Fusha into her room and asked, "Is there anything new to discover today?"
Frasa thought for a moment and replied, "While walking around the temple square and watching the jugglers, I pressed my body against him and felt a long, hard thing under my clothes......"
Miyali blushed slightly and spat at her, "How can you touch him in the square?" I let you tempt him, but you can't...... Even if you can't wait to go home, even if you're in the carriage...... Can't you?"
Fusha's face also turned red, and she quickly explained: "Master, you misunderstood, it's not the man's place, it's his long, hard thing hidden under his ribs. So if you keep it close and careful, it must be very precious!"
Miyali looked curious and nodded slightly: "Oh, good job...... But why did you let Amon go back to his room to rest alone and not accompany him?"
Fusha lowered her head a little aggrieved and said, "It was Amon who refused my request to make his bed and serve him to wash, and he said that he didn't like to be disturbed when he was resting. ...... Mistress, is it because I am not attractive enough?"
If Fusha knew that Yin Nanna had also seduced Amon, the goddess's temptation would be much more clever than the tricks of her little maid, and Amon didn't think that she should have any thoughts at all, she didn't know how she would feel, and whether she would feel wronged? β
The next day, she continued to go out to play, and before leaving the house in the morning, Miyali said to Amon in private: "Fusha admires and admires you very much, if you don't dislike it, just let her serve you, and ask for anything." β
Amon smiled politely, nodded and replied, "Thank you, I know! Actually, I am already very happy that she accompanied me to visit the royal capital like this, how can I ask for more?...... When we look intently, we need to know what we are thinking, what we want to get, and what we deserve, just as we should take the consequences of everything we do. β
I don't know how much Miyari understood, but Amon didn't take Fusha into his room when he returned home that day. On the third day, Gilgamesh was leaving the royal capital, and a grand parade had finally arrived. Gilgamesh's stay in Barron City this time was not short, and some people even privately discussed whether he had taken the opportunity to marry Princess Xiaoqian, but Princess Xiaoqian never returned to the royal capital, and this speculation was self-defeating.
Gilgamesh sat under a Chinese umbrella on the carriage, and left in the middle of the crowd cheering all over the city, and the king sent the royal palace guard to send Gilgamesh all the way out of the city gate ten miles away, which was simply a supreme honor, and only a hero like him deserved this honor! The people who worshiped the hero sent Gilgamesh farther away, and the procession stretched for thirty miles, and today the king ordered that there would be no curfew at the city gate at night, and everyone could enjoy the revelry.
Amon also went out of the city in the carriage of the Medanzo family, driven by Miyali's brother Enoch, which was a visit and a farewell, and Amon took everything with him and was about to embark on his way home. The car was loaded with wine and food, and Fusha snuggled up to Amun's arm, and lifted the curtain with the other hand to introduce the scenery along the way from time to time.
Ten miles out of the city, the carriage left the official road and turned onto another wild road between the hills. The weather in early winter is a little cool, but today's sun is good for outings, and wearing a warm fur coat to sip fine wine and grilled meat steaks is a rare leisure time for people living in the metropolis.
In winter, the grass and trees withered, and the withered yellow color in the mountains and wilderness has a unique charm in the bright sunshine, the sky is very blue, and the wind is very soft. The carriage stopped at a lake surrounded by hills, and the yellow grass was softer and more comfortable to sit on than it was in the summer. Today was a trip to the wilderness, so Enoch dressed as a warrior and wore a short sword around his waist, which could not only defend himself but also cut meat during meals.
The carriage stopped on a sunny meadow on the hilly slope, you can enjoy the lake and mountains and shelter from the wind, the surroundings are very quiet, three sides are mountains and forests and one side is the lake, you can't see a person in all directions, it's really a good place!
Enoch brought down the wine and meat from the wagon, as well as the table and stove, and Amon also reached out to help, Miari cleaned up the dishes, and the maid Fusha carried the jar to the lake to fetch water. After putting everything in place, Amon looked at the blue lake and sighed: "What a clear lake, the air is so fresh, under this sun, it seems that the soul can be purified." β
Enoch frowned slightly dissatisfied: "Fusha went to fetch water, why did it take so long? Did you go to the woods to pick wild fruits to eat?
From the hillside to the shore of the nearest lake, she had to go down through a small forest, where there was no place for Fusha to draw water, and she had been there for a long time, no wonder Enoch was in a hurry. Amon said: "Maybe the jug is too heavy, the hillside is too steep, she shouldn't fall on the road, you prepare the cutlery, I'll go and take a look." β
Amon walked down the hill through the grove to the lake, and when he was far away, Miyali lowered her voice and said to Enoch, "My brother, have you thought about what to do?"
Enoch squinted his eyes and whispered: "Wait for Fussa to come back, let her take Amon to the fireside to see if the meat is roasted or not, you hold his other hand on the other side, and I will solve it with a sword from behind." ...... If you're afraid, you pretend you're smoked and close your eyes and don't have to see anything. As he spoke, he drew his sword and placed it beside the roasting stove.
"You don't have to see anything, do you? Poor me, but after seeing all this, you didn't give up after all!"
A cold voice suddenly sounded behind them, and the souls of both men were almost scared away, and Enoch turned around and stood still. I saw Medanzo come out of the woods, holding a long sword unsheathed, and there was a faint trace of blood on the sword that had not yet coagulated.
Medanzo didn't walk fast with a calm face, and slowly approached step by step. After a brief moment of surprise, Miyali's back was quietly pinched by Enoch, and she suddenly came back to her senses, and opened her arms and squeezed out a smile to greet her: "You are at last back, my dear husband, how I miss you, did you see our carriage coming with you in the procession? β
Seeing Medanzo's expression as if he wanted to laugh but couldn't, he nodded and said, "Yes, I know everything, you guys are very hospitable." I had already asked Frosa not only what I wanted to know, but also many things that I had not known before, and that had brought shame to me and my family! I felt disgusted and did not want to repeat it. β
As soon as Enoch heard this, he saw the blood stains on Medanzo's sword and realized that something was wrong, and without saying a word, he suddenly rushed towards Medanzo, who was already approaching, and the short sword in his hand stabbed him in the chest coldly. Medanzo seemed to be on guard, and he dodged the sinister stab with a very light side, when he heard a scream, his sword pierced into Enoch's side, and then Miari let out a scream of terror.
...... Amon stood by the lake with his hands behind him, the grove behind him blocking his view of the hillside, and he heard Miyali's scream, but the screaming stopped abruptly, like a chicken suddenly having its neck broken. Amon closed his eyes, and after a while they opened them again, staring intently at the beautiful lake in the sun, not knowing what he saw.
After a long time, there was a noise in the woods, and Medanzo walked to the lake, his sword in its sheath, and a sad look on his face. He came behind Amun and saluted, "My God, I don't know how to express my shame to you!"
Amon did not look back, and said in the same mournful tone, "I didn't let you kill them. β
Medanzo bit his lip: "I pointed my sword at Fusha and interrogated, not only asking about their plans for you, but also about some things that made me ashamed and unspeakable. ...... None of them understood your hints and exhortations, and did not give up until the last moment, let the blood be my sacrifice to the gods! Amon, you are my only god, and if it were not for your coming, I would have been blinded forever and lived in unknown shame. β
Amon didn't ask what else happened to Medanzo, he turned to look at him with sympathetic eyes and said, "These three people are gone, what are you going to do, just go home?"
Medanzo replied, "It's so quiet, no one else knows they've come and stayed forever, it's their own choice, isn't it?...... God Amun, I have no love left in the city of Barron, please allow me to follow you on a journey across the continent and be your servant!"
Amon thought for a while, and finally nodded: "That's fine, I'm really afraid that you will do something again, but your home is still there, go back and settle down, I will wait for you for three days." β
...... After four months away, Medanzo, a commoner warrior who had lost his aristocratic status, finally returned home, but his young and beautiful wife, Miyali, was not at home to greet her husband. Miyali went out of town yesterday with a maid to accompany a young man, and did not return all night. The man had been living in his house for a month, and he was very generous, he should have been a young and wealthy businessman who had come to the royal capital to visit, and his gains in the royal capital were really not smallβthe neighbors all talked about it.
Naturally, Medanzo faintly heard these gossips, and sat at home with a gloomy face and waited, but Miyali did not return after another day and a night. The neighbors are talking again, did Miyali elope with the man?
It is better to follow a rich businessman who has money and leisure to play around than to guard the empty house for many months a year and follow the unreliable Medanzo! In order to tie the man's heart, Miyali even put the beautiful maid Fusha in it. I wonder how Medanzo would feel when she heard such rumors?
He waited at home for another day, and at last he could not bear it any longer, dismissed the porter, groom, and other servants, entrusted the ancestral house to the care of a distant relative, and left the city of Barron with his sword and bag on his back. People are talking in private again that Medanzo has gone to find Miyali, that he may have to fight the young rich merchant, and I wonder if he will be able to come back?
...... On an official road in the city-state of Kish in the Kingdom of Barron, a solemn-looking Medanzo drove a carriage drawn by two horses, his eyes looking ahead but he didn't know where to look, only letting the horses run at will, and it seemed that he was distracted again. The carriage had been lent to Amon by Lescott Lee, who had not been able to drive it when he had entered the city, so he left it in an inn in one of the towns, and paid the men enough money to take care of the two horses. On the way back, he retrieved the car, only to replace it with Medanzo.
The curtain was not lowered, and Amon was sitting in the middle of the car, studying the snake tendon, wondering what kind of utensils he could make it into. The processing of magic artifacts is not always successful, and even the materials will be damaged if you are not careful, although Amon has been taught by the best craftsmen on the mainland, he has never processed the utensils by himself, and there is only one snake tendon, of course, you should be cautious.
The carriage suddenly jolted a little, and Amon knew that Medanzo was distracted again. Medanzo has been very melancholy all this way, much more melancholy than the cat at the beginning, and he is often silent for most of the day. At this time, Medanzo was already a third-level magician, and his firm mind would not be easily disturbed, but no one would feel good about this kind of thing, and his feelings would not change because of the firmness of his beliefs.
As Amon understood, any kind of test encountered in the cultivation of divine arts did not only mean that pass, but actually ran throughout.
Amon didn't want to see Medanzo so depressed, so he tried to find some light topics to distract him, put down his snake tendons and asked, "Medanzo, what are you thinking?"
Medanzo's shoulders shook slightly, and with a whip, the two horses ran smoothly again, and he replied with a cry: "No, I didn't think about anything, I was just in a daze." β
Amon asked, "There are guards at the gates of Barron, but you can pass through every time you carry the forbidden materials, how did you manage it?
Medanzo smiled slightly: "My god Amun, there is no trick. There were so many people coming in and out of the king every day that it was impossible for everyone to be interrogated, and the guards would only stop those they thought were suspicious. I have been back and forth many times, and I am a permanent resident of the royal capital, and they all know each other. And I'm a mid-level samurai, and many of the soldiers of the Ximen Guard used to practice physical skills with me, and the captain has a good relationship with me, so how can you check me?"
Amon nodded and said, "Oh, I see!"
As he continued to speak, Medanzo's mood seemed to be a little more cheerful, but he always had a melancholy look. They went west, and the city-state of Kish was located northwest of the Kingdom of Baron, near the edge of the Assyrian Plateau, with a series of majestic peaks to the north, and the Assyrian Kingdom over the plateau, and the Eudi Valley in the mountains to the west.
Geographically, it is closer to the dwarven tribe of Link, on the other side of the Youngbottom River. Medanzo was not afraid to cross the mountains, and the most troublesome thing in the past was to cross the river, and there was a section of the river in the mountains where the water flow was relatively gentle, and the valleys on both sides were relatively open, which could have been used as a ferry.
No one had crossed the river from there, because that was where Humbaba's lair was. Now the situation was different, Humbaba had been slain by Enqidu, and the city-state of Kish had taken the opportunity to set up a ferry on that section of the river and garrison it, although crossing the river from that crossing the river required a mountain road, but it was much shorter than the detour from the city-state of Uruk.
Amun's original plan was to let Medanzo follow him for a while, crossing the river through that crossing, and then having Medanzo go north to Link's tribe, while he himself went south to the city-states of the Cape of the Eju Empire to return Nero's relics.
Mei Danzuo's third-level divine power has been cultivated to the peak, and according to the cultivation method of one body and two sides taught by Amon, the next thing he has to face is the physical test "Purity of Bloodline". Medanzo was already a fourth-level samurai, and he had inadvertently passed such a test, and it would be much easier to start all over again, but it still needed a quiet and undisturbed environment to be more secure.
In his current state, he needs to be quiet, so Amon wants him to temporarily go to the savage tribe until he passes the "devil's temptation" and becomes a fifth-level magician before thinking about anything else. Medanzo's experience is different from Amon's, he is not lacking in human experience, and as for the true face of the so-called devil, he has seen it clearly enough.
Of course, they were not afraid of the cold of winter and the dangers of the wilderness, and they lived in the wilderness after missing the lodging, and rested in the mountains and forests that night. Amon found a secluded place to practice the Divine Fundamentals Meditation, a practice he never stopped no matter what he was experiencing.
Amon was in deep contemplation, but he heard Medanzo, who was sleeping in the carriage, shouting Miyali's name, and his voice was painfulβhe was having nightmares again.
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(To be continued)