The former high priest of the temple of Isis cleared his throat and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, since the gods can give instructions in the souls of all the believers, do you think that the gods cannot do it?

The priest sacrifices to the gods on behalf of the people, guides the people to pray to the gods, and also conveys oracles to the people on behalf of the gods and allows the people to accept the guidance of the gods, which is both glory and duty, and it is the fundamental meaning of existence. If this meaning is violated, the foundations of the temple will be shaken, and the priests will lose their seemingly divine aura.

Amun's vow that he did not want to be a god like that seen in the world, such as Enriel, such as Seth. If the temple is kept in the world, it will be kept, symbolizing the brilliance that people are looking for. The priests were only priests in the temple, and whether or not the temple they held lost this symbolism also depended on the choice of the priests.

Every person who receives the guidance of the gods with firm conviction will feel the radiance of the divine surname in his heart, not whether he has the status of a priest or not. The god I speak of is my only god, Amun!"

Yi Bin's forehead was sweating slightly, and a general at the table slapped the table and shouted, "Lord Priest, don't you still announce the oracle?"

Yi Bin turned to look at Rod Dick and said, "City Lord, this should be up to you. ”

Everyone also looked at the city lord, and Rod Dirk stood up and said loudly under the gaze of so many people: "The evil god Seth, who failed to murder Osiris and steal the throne of the god of Eju back then. A thousand years later, when the Uruk army was pressing the border, they forced Horus back and deceived the people of Egypt to sacrifice, and now they have been beheaded by the god Amun. At that time, Amon, the general of the empire, walked the world to achieve divine deeds, and was already the main god of the Nine Alliances. From now on, my glory and title will be to Amun, and Allah will be Amun's name. ”

When he had read it, he looked around and said, "This is the content of Allah's oracle, and I don't want to explain anything more, but when you hear it, you will understand why Pharaoh did not let it be made public." Then he bowed to Medanzo and said, "What is the second question of the god Amun?"

During the banquet, everyone didn't speak for a long time, all reminiscing about the meaning of the oracle, and even the generals who had almost drunk seemed to have sobered up. I heard Medanzo say unhurriedly: "Lord Rod Dirk, Lord of the City Lord of the Cape and the Commander of the An-La Legion, you are the proud son of the Heavenly Commander of the Cape City-State, and you inherited the position of the Lord of the City from your father at a young age, and you are praised and respected by all the people. In the eyes of the world, a life like yours is simply a perfect dream to pursue.

The god Amun just wants to ask you—do you sigh in the middle of the night? Do you feel emotion and regret when you face your heart, and feel that it is in vain to cherish the strange ambitions of the present and the past, and to do the blood boiling things? But do you also think that you can only sigh secretly, and will sigh until the end of your life?"

Rod Dick was stunned, his background, status, and achievements can be called the perfect dream in the minds of many people, what are the regrets about life like this? But the sentence that Amon asked Medanzo to ask in public just hit the secret point in Rod Dick's heart.

This proud son of the city-state of the headland, his regrets about life may be no different from those of all living beings, and he will also sigh in the long night, yearning to show his pride and ambition to the fullest, and become a legendary hero through the ages. The difference is that the vast majority of people in this world are just dreaming about it, and there is no condition to realize it, and Rod Dick is not impossible to do it.

But Rod Dick has all sorts of concerns, and those concerns are not unfounded. He was a very competent city lord, and people thought so, but in his own mind, was everything really like this?

The feast was no longer noisy, and everyone was silent, thinking about their own thoughts. Rod Dick suddenly turned to his attendant and said, "Fetch my sword!"

The squires brought Rod Dick's sword, which was wrapped in gold carvings and inlaid with a blue heart on the hilt. Rod Dick drew his sword and swung it forward, and the sword plunged into the table in front of him with a silver glow, reaching the hilt.

Even the generals of the An-La Legion had to exclaim: "Good swordsmanship, good strength!" The silver light on the sword's body flickered, containing an astonishing power that had exceeded the limit of ordinary people's reach, and it was difficult for the gentle Lord of Rhodes Dirk to see that his cultivation was only one step away from the great samurai.

Rod Dick stuck his sword on the table, and Zhou invisibly exuded an unprecedented arrogance from his body, looking around at the crowd: "Pass my order, ring the temple bell tomorrow, and I will read the oracle in public in the square!"

Yi Bin hurriedly said, "City Lord, you don't have to take this responsibility. I am the chief priest, and I will announce this oracle to the people tomorrow in my capacity as the chief priest of the city-state of the headland. ”

Rod Dick, who was still arrogant just now, suddenly smiled bitterly again: "I am the city lord and the commander of the legion, and everyone knows my status in the city-state of the headland. If you have decided to do this, why bother to cover it up like this? Thank you Amun God for asking, this is exactly what I want, and what I am doing now!"

George stood up with his cup and said in a loud voice: "We salute the city lord!" The generals also stood up to toast, and the other officials could only raise their glasses at this time, even if they had doubts.

There were many officials who asked about the content of Yi Bin's oracle just now, but they just wanted to inquire privately about what was going on, and they would not necessarily force Rod Dick to disobey Pharaoh's orders, but Rod Dick made this decision on his own, which was beyond many people's expectations. This is really not quite like the city lord in Pingyue, especially when he drew his sword and slashed, people couldn't help but feel shocked and amazed.

Medanzo whispered to George in his soul: "God Amon is really amazing, how did he know that by sending the two of us here, he would be able to make Rod Dick, who has always been impermeable, make such an astonishing decision?"

George smiled slightly and replied quietly: "I have also been in officialdom for many years, and I know the mind of people like Rod Dick. If he had nothing to ask for, if his will was not strong, how could he have insisted on cultivating arduous martial arts for many years with such a noble background and had not achieved high-level achievements?

It's a pity that his background is too good, his situation is too superior, and he is too smart and capable, and when facing various things, there are always too many options to avoid conflicts, and there is always too much room for maneuver. He will prepare for what he really wants to do, but he may not do it, because he has a way to avoid trouble, and over time it becomes a habit. But in his own mind, there's another Rod Dick, the Rod Dick he really wants to be!"

Medanzo sighed: "Isn't this the case for the vast majority of people in this world? People often have another self in their minds—the person they dream of becoming. Such dreams are often unrealistic, and the reality of life eventually makes people's vows disappear.

And Rod Dick was lucky, at least he had that opportunity. You said that he would make all kinds of preparations for what he wanted to do, so the decision he made just now to draw his sword generously was actually one of the preparations he had made a long time ago?"

George nodded secretly: "Yes, such a scene may have been imagined many times in his silent night reverie, and today it was finally done." ”

At this moment, the voice of the Great Divine Wizard Yi Bin drowned out all the noise in the banquet: "Lord City, if you do this, the Pharaoh will definitely punish you, how will you face it?"

Rod Dick gently pulled his saber out of the hard wooden table, put it back in its sheath and handed it to his attendant, and replied with a sneer: "Punish me? How to punish it? Has Pharaoh's order been made public? Does His Majesty dare to announce to the people that he has given such an order? Just like when General Amon killed Prince Snake and left Eju, Pharaoh could only send two great adults, George and Gabriel, to secretly pursue and kill, but did not openly convict the general!"

Yi Bin reminded again: "That being said, Pharaoh has other ways to punish you, and the city lord must be prepared." ”

Rod Dick smiled again: "I have already made the so-called preparations, and I have exchanged private messages with the main governors of the various city-states for a while. Everyone was dissatisfied with Pharaoh's two orders, and they did not dare to destroy the oracle like this, and they were all waiting for someone to lead the disobedience. In particular, the Lord of Tuyang City of Mengfeisi and General Huanzhang, the commander of Isis's legion, have the same thoughts as me, and they have written to persuade them that if they disobey the order and issue an oracle, they still hope to get the support and response of my side. ”

Medanzo glanced at George, showing admiration, the former high priest of the Temple of Isis had guessed correctly, Rod Dick had indeed been making this kind of preparation for a long time, like many other things he had planned in his life, but at this moment he had finally made up his mind to make a move.

The main priest Yi Bin nodded: "It turns out that the city lord has been prepared for a long time, but I am too worried." But I would also like to remind you that if His Majesty Pharaoh wants to punish you, according to the practice of officialdom, he will find an excuse to order you to go to the royal capital. As long as you leave the city-state of the headland and go to the palace, he has his own means to get rid of you. And if Pharaoh summons you to him, you can't help but go. ”

Then George spoke again: "God Amun has sent me and Medanzo to protect the safety of Lord Dick. ”

...... At noon the next day, when the sun was at its highest, Rod Dick ordered the temple bell to be runged, which was the signal to summon the people to the square to listen to the oracle. The lord of the castle, dressed in military uniform with a sword, stood on the long steps of the temple and read the oracle of Allah aloud, surrounded by priests and guards.

The people in the square were stunned at first, but they didn't react for a long time, and everyone pondered the meaning of the oracle there. Suddenly, a man shouted, "Great God Amun!"

Rod Dick entered the temple amid the call and worship of the people of the city-state to Amun, and whispered to George, "The idol of Seth has collapsed, so there is no need to build it anymore." But according to the oracle that "An-la is the name of Amun", is it necessary to replace the image of the main deity in the temple with the idol of Amun?"

George's smile was a little unfathomable, and he pointed to the statue of An-la in the center of the main hall and asked, "Of course there is no need for this, Lord of the City, you have been offering sacrifices to this idol for so many years, and you have not noticed the appearance of the god?"

Rod Dick looked up at the majestic statue, it was so tall that it was not easy for ordinary people to see the face of the god when standing in the temple, and if it was outside the temple gate, it could only see a majestic outline. What's more, when people make sacrifices to the gods, they are worshipping and saluting, and it is impossible to look at the gods like sons-in-law. It was the first time that Rod Dick had looked so intently at the facial features of this statue of An-La, and he couldn't help but open his mouth wide in surprise.

The craftsmen carved a handsome and mighty man, with a resolute aura in his facial features, and the more he looked at it, the more he looked like Amon.

What do the gods look like, and how can the craftsmen of the world know what they look like? This is a very interesting question. As far as the gods Amun saw were concerned, their faces were similar to the statues in the temple, indicating that the craftsmen did not carve them randomly. This situation is also understandable, some gods have appeared in the human world, and people can build them according to the descriptions passed down by word of mouth and refer to the relics that have existed in history.

On the other hand, the gods also have divine envoys in the human world, and his first temple was often built by the people under the guidance of these divine envoys, and some craftsmen have even seen the gods with their own eyes, so they can shape the gods into similar shapes.

It may be difficult for those who lack a spiritual surname to understand that when craftsmen who believe in a god decorate a deity, they are not just completing a work or a piece of work, but pouring their souls, and the image of the deity contains their belief in the deity and their understanding of the deity's surname. This is the most essential difference between the real works of art that have been handed down since ancient times and the pure crafts of the world.

When craftsmen shape idols, their souls are also guided intentionally or unintentionally. This guidance may come from the gods themselves or from the oracles left by the gods on earth, or they may be the understanding or imagination of the gods in the souls of the craftsmen.

Am-la is the oldest deity in the nine-link god lineage, and was a near-forgotten god before Pharaoh Ellaht instituted monotheistic reforms. Long before Osiris founded the Empire of Aegus, Allah had never left the kingdom of God and came to earth, and the oracles he had guided had either become gods or were long gone.

In other words, no one knows what An-La's appearance looks like in Eju today, and the craftsmen can only shape the idol of the god by imagination, but they cannot mold him into the appearance of other gods. But how could this statue have the shadow of Amun on its closer look? It may be an illusion or a coincidence, or it may have a mystery that is difficult for the world to understand.

It was normal that Rod Dick hadn't noticed it before, because he hadn't thought about it at all, just like Amon had left the mountains and saw Yin Nanna for the first time, and he didn't think that the girl was the goddess Mu Yun at all, although he had been used to seeing the statue of Mu Yun in Duk Town since he was a child.

George also looked at the statue of Naandra and muttered to himself, "Who created the gods, and why are the gods?"

Medanzo looked at Rod Dick and whispered, "Congratulations, City Lord, you have finally broken through the high-level achievements!"

Why did Medanzo say this? At this moment, Rod Dick, who looked up to the gods, stood there, as if the power in his blood had been integrated into his soul, an aura that only a great samurai could have.

It had been thirty years since Rod Dick became a sixth-level warrior, and after so many years, he had not been able to break through the high-level achievements, and there were too many people in the world who had been blocked from this threshold for life. He was not a sorcerer, and at the age of fifty-six, although he was still physically fit, his hopes of becoming a great samurai were slim. And he did! It's a miracle, it happened overnight.

...... According to the tradition of the city-states of Eju, when a samurai was promoted to the rank of seventh-rank Grand Samurai, the lord of the city would gather all the officials to hold a ceremony to congratulate him. When Amon was in the city of Monfils, he also received this kind of congratulations. Although Rod Dick violated the Pharaoh's secret decree and issued an oracle, he still did things in a proper manner, and he himself was the lord of the city, so he entrusted the chief priest Yi Bin to convene a ceremony for all the officials to celebrate his promotion to the rank of great warrior.

At the same time, Rod Dick sent an urgent messenger to inform the governors of the city-states with whom he had issued an oracle. In fact, there was no need for him to inform him, and the news spread immediately, and various people sent letters to various places for various purposes, and Pharaoh Elakht learned of it a few days later.

Elahet was furious and immediately wanted to cure Rod Dick for his crimes, but he calmed down under the persuasion of his henchmen, he couldn't punish Rod Dick like this, he had to take into account the consequences of the incident. So Pharaoh sent messengers to the city-state of the headland, ordering Rod Dick to rush to the royal capital to report and meet the king. Let's get this person under control first, this is also Liwei, let everyone see what happens to Rod Dick.

Although the city-state of Cape had already issued an oracle, if the other city-states could carry out the Pharaoh's secret decree, then the Pharaoh could have issued the proclamation - it was Rod Dick who forged the oracle and issued it without authorization. This is a capital crime! This is the best for Erahet.

But Pharaoh's wishful thinking failed, and no sooner had the messengers sent to the city-state than urgent reports flew in one after another. Fourteen of the twenty-eight city-states in Eju issued the oracle of Allah one after another. The first to respond to Rod Dick was Monfis, the most important city-state in Eju outside of the royal capital, and the person in charge was Huanzhang, the commander of the Isis Legion.

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(To be continued)