279. The Battle of Zeus and Malduk
Surabaya asked Mu Yun rhetorically: "What about you? You are also an angel in heaven now, do you also need to refine such a pair of wings?"
Mu Yun smiled and didn't answer, only heard a bang, and a pair of white wings spread out behind her. The goddess had already known that there would be today, and had already refined the angel's wings, and then turned her head and asked Amun with a grin, "Am I so beautiful?"
Amon smiled, "Of course it's beautiful. Just like the beauty of angels...... Scorpion King, go back to the Syrian desert. Gabriel, seagulls, you are in heaven. ...... Mu Yun and I still have something to say, and then we will go to the world. ”
After speaking, Amon disappeared in front of the angels, and appeared with Mu Yun in her heavenly palace, which resembled the rose garden that Mu Yun had established on the Assyrian plateau on earth.
Mu Yun looked at the colorful flowers and plants on the plateau and asked faintly: "You have created such a kingdom of heaven, everything that the angels have created and built in the kingdom of heaven is your soul to see, this is a realm that ordinary gods can hardly imagine, why do you want to travel far away on earth? What questions do you want to pursue and what answers do you want to verify?"
Amon didn't answer directly, but said with a smile: "As far as I know, the achievements of Zeus, the lord of the Olympian heavenly kingdom, are no less than mine, and so is Malduk, although our vows are different and the direction of verification is also different, but after all, they are all existences beyond the creation god."
I was waiting for Darius in a tavern on the side of the road, but it turned out to be the embodiment of Marduk, and when I was talking to Marduk, another person appeared next to me, and it was Zeus. What are they still looking for in the human world? I know what Malduk wants to prove, and I can understand the world he wants to create, but what about Zeus?"
The communication of the gods was not just words, there was a message in the voice, and Amon had imprinted the scene of his encounter with Marduk and the middle-aged man in the roadside tavern into Mu Yun's soul. Mu Yun pouted slightly: "Do you want to learn from Zeus? People have said that you are going to pick up girls, do you also want to go to pick up girls?"
Mu Yun was obviously a little angry, Amon smiled and said again: "Don't think I don't know what you did in the underworld of Osiris, just to help your cat get angry." Let Osiris kill himself on the spot, have a good time, right?"
Amon still smiled and did not answer, and in the eyes of the gods, the cause and effect of this matter were naturally clear. Mu Yun said this just to squeeze Amon, and Amon listened with a smile, and his smile seemed very simple. At this moment, Mu Yun smiled again, her smile became very charming, and she glanced up at Amon: "It turns out that you also know how to make me happy?"
While Amun was smiling and silent, the high priest of the main temples of Eju received an oracle to build statues of Mu Yun in the temples of the city-states and to offer sacrifices to her.
Amun did not ask the Ejugivan to remove the original idol of Allah and re-carve his image, because the idol did not have to be rebuilt, and Amun is now Amun. However, after Tutankhamun ascended the throne, many new buildings were built in various parts of Eju, both civil and official, and according to tradition, important buildings were to be painted with statues of gods, and people still had to build new statues of gods in Amon.
And in the major temples, the statue of the archangel of Seth has collapsed, which angel should be erected in its original place? The solemn altar must not be left vacant, right? The people are also praying to Amun for the oracle's instructions. After Amon fused the Nine Divine Kingdom and the Anuna Qi God Kingdom, the original Nine Gods and Anuna Qi Gods became angels in the kingdom of heaven, and the first oracle he sent down was to build the statue of Mu Yun.
In fact, even if Amon did not send down the oracle, the Prime Minister of Eju, Rod Dick, planned to do so, because the temple of Salem City was dedicated to Amon and Mu Yun.
Amon originally had only one temple in the world, which was built by Link and the cavemen in the city of Salem, probably because he had no experience or no prejudices, it was very different from the style of the temples in various places in the Tianshu Continent, and Amon on the altar actually stood there with Mu Yun in his arms, although the carving was extremely expressive, but it was not solemn enough.
Since Amun's existing temple was in such a form, Rod Dick would have taken a cue from it. It's just that its statue form is natural, and it will not be as frivolous as the temple of Salem City, Mu Yun looks dignified and majestic standing on the altar, next to Amun, in the original position of Seth.
Because of this oracle of Amon, in the myths and legends of the later generations of Eju, Mu Yun is called the wife of the god Amun. Folk oral transmission and the transcription of classics through the ages were accompanied by language changes, and then Mu Yun was called Mu Te, these are many years later.
Amon didn't speak but sent down such an oracle, so Mu Yun laughed at that time, and this smile dissipated like a cloud in the sky.
In fact, Amun himself didn't care whether his idol would be erected on the altar, because his understanding and verification of the realm of the source of divine power had gone beyond the concept of a certain kingdom or a certain god system. As long as there is a man in the world who accepts his guidance and has a firm faith, then the world is the realm of the source of his divine power.
But when he was the god Amun, after all, he was still the main god believed in by the Eju people, and he did not reject this way of sacrificing in the kingdom, it was just an option for the world to believe in him. As for Angel Mu Yun, she naturally preferred to absorb the power in the Divine Domain in this way, because after all, she was a "traditional" deity born from the Anunnaqi God System.
Mu Yun looked at Amon and smiled, but suddenly frowned slightly, and said worriedly: "During the period when you fused the Kingdom of God, you had no time to pay attention to the affairs of the world, and your prophecy back then has come true. Darius ascended to the throne of Potz and continued the expansion of the Cyrus era, and Eju remained a vassal state of Potz. If the situation continues to develop like this, sooner or later, your main divine position in Eju will be lost, and the realm of the source of divine power will gradually be lost. ”
Amon smiled and asked, "Who will annex it?"
Mu Yun muttered, "Either by Zeus or by Marduk, Darius's army has entered the United Kingdom of Heaton. ”
Amon asked, "So what? As I said a long time ago, I have no intention of becoming such a god, and the realm of my divine power source does not have to be that kind of divine power source domain. The Anunnaqi Divine Domain has been annexed by the Malduk, but what about the Anunnaqi Divine Kingdom and the gods?"
Mu Yun also smiled: "It doesn't seem to be a loss, because the Anuna Enlightenment God System no longer exists, and all the gods have become angels in the kingdom of heaven." Then he stretched out his hand and patted Amon's chest and said, "Marduk has expanded his territory in the human world and defeated the kingdom owned by Anunnaqi and the Nine Divine Systems. But you have sought verification in the immortal eternity, merging the Anunnaqi and the Nine Divine Kingdoms.
You are all victors. However, the drastic changes in human strife and the rise and fall of kingdoms have occurred many times over the millennia, but in the immortal eternity, there is no such meaningful struggle. The world that a god can open up is infinitely vast, depending on how vast his achievements and mana are. ”
Mu Yun's words are also a kind of commentary on the word "detachment", the concept of time and space in the immortal eternity is different from that of the human world, and the time and space that may be opened up are infinite, and how big the world created by the gods can be depends on the realm, knowledge and mana of the gods themselves, and there is no conflict and contention like the human world.
The expansion of the Poz Empire is a kind of human achievement, which allows Malduk to enjoy a wider realm of divine power, and naturally it is also of great benefit to the gods, and Amon deeply realized this when he became the main god of the Nine Divine Systems. But from another point of view, in the transcendent world, it doesn't matter what this kind of competition is, Amun created the kingdom of heaven and merged the kingdom of Anunnaqi and the Nine Gods, and in terms of gods, he achieved no less than Mardok did on earth.
Amon patted the back of Mu Yun's hand and said, "Since you understand this truth, why did you feel like that just now?"
Mu Yun replied: "It's because of this reason, you see how beautiful this kingdom of heaven is, you have already exceeded the end of the world, why do you want to go to the world in person and get involved in that unknowable dispute?"
Amun smiled, "Because I still have vows that have not been verified, why are Anu and An-la leaving, and why are Marduk and Zeus appearing again? ”
Mu Yun pointed to a certain void and said, "Is that the Zeus you met?" He is now a king and is fighting against Maldok on the battlefield. ”
Amon also saw somewhere in the human world, where a fierce war was taking place. Darius the Great, with his invincible 10,000-strong army, was attacking a pass. And the commander who defended the pass was the middle-aged man Amon had met in the tavern, and his name was not Zeus, but Leoni.
...... The United Kingdom of Heaton is not a unified nation, but more akin to the concept of a kingdom that worships the same gods, and its structure is looser than the original Barron Kingdom, with dozens of kingdoms, large and small.
The so-called king is actually equivalent to the lord of a city-state, except that he enjoys the power of a king-like in this city-state. Some kingdoms are even the size of ordinary towns, and the rulers of territories the size of villages and towns call themselves kings.
Many kings have no lineage, and the nobles or generals who hold military power have taken turns to ascend the throne in history, and the throne has changed many times, and such rulers are also called tyrants in the mouth of the sages. There is currently no unified monarch in the United Kingdom of Heaton, but a form similar to that of a city-state council negotiates important matters in the United Kingdom, forming a de facto tyrant co-rule. But this form of co-governance is very loose, and internal conflicts often erupt.
Among these kingdoms, large and small, there was a very powerful military kingdom called Kibada, and Leoni is now the king of Kibada.
The Kingdom of Kibada pursued a very brutal militaristic policy, and the citizens of Kibada were born to fight, and babies who were weak or not strong enough were discarded even at birth. They undergo rigorous military training from an early age, and at the age of twenty they must become full-fledged legionnaires, stay in the legion until they are thirty years old before they get married, and after marriage, they have to participate in military training every day until they are sixty years old, but most soldiers do not have a chance to live to be sixty years old.
On the Tianshu Continent, the official legionnaires are at least first-level warriors who awaken the power of the bloodline, which means that the citizens with the male surname of Kibada are all warriors who cultivate physical arts, except for a few magicians. What happens if someone doesn't become a samurai? He is eliminated before the age of twenty, and he dies in a cruel selection or a brutal training.
The men of Kibada were not prolific, and all the Kibadans were convinced that they had the noblest bloodline, and that their only vocation was to fight, and to live by enslaving the conquered. This system was even harsher than the national policy implemented by Sinach the Great, but they also formed a strong military force for a time, conquering and ruling a large area of surrounding territories and tribes with a small population.
It seems that it has not been a long time for Amon to fuse Anunnaqi and the Nine Divine Kingdoms in the Kingdom of Heaven, but more than ten years have passed on earth. Darius ascended the throne to quell the civil strife, Assyria and Barron destroyed the kingdom one after another, and he followed the route of Cyrus's expedition that year, crossed the headland from Hatties, destroyed Tuaqi, established a new province, and attacked the United Kingdom of Heaton from both the sea and land. Darius also sent emissaries to the kingdoms of Heaton to demand their submission, and quite a few smaller kingdoms were ready to surrender.
But the kingdom of Aaron, the most powerful and wealthy city-state in the entire United Kingdom of Heaton, called on the city-states to unite against the invasion of Potts. Many of the city-states of the United Kingdom of Heaton were located along the coastline as well as on larger islands, and seafaring and trade were the mainstay of their economy, so the Kingdom of Aaron organized a powerful navy and defeated Potz in naval battles.
Potz incorporated the Hatian navy and warships, and requisitioned the soldiers of the former Barron's navy, but the attack from the sea did not achieve the expected results, so Darius launched a large army by land and personally led a force of 10,000 men.
At this time, the kingdoms of Heaton wanted the Kibadan warriors to fight, and they were the most powerful land force in Heaton. In previous naval battles, the Kibadans did not take part in the war. The reason why Kibada did not go to war was simple: they did not produce or engage in trade or commerce, they lived only on conquest and enslavement of the vanquished, and although they had a strong military force, they did not care much about other things.
The nobles of Kibada were opposed to the expedition, and in their opinion, they did not bother as long as the army of Potts did not attack the kingdom of Kibada, and although they had killed the messengers sent by Darius, they were not interested in protecting the other city-states of the United Kingdom of Heaton. The Kibadan warriors had always fought only for their own conquest and did not intend to join the coalition forces of the United Kingdom of Heaton.
Many of the Kibada nobles believed that if the Potz army attacked the United Kingdom of Heaton by land, it would be far from the Kingdom of Kibada, and that the Potts would not be able to conquer the Kingdom of Kibada. The loss of Heaton's strength is a good opportunity for Kibada to carry out a new round of conquest and expansion. It was up to the Council of Elders of the Kibada nobility to make a decision that rejected the proposal to send a large army into battle, as had always been the case.
But now there is a king Leoni in Kibada, and he obviously thinks differently. Without the support of the noble group in the kingdom, he could not mobilize a large army, but the king had the right to lead the guards when he traveled, so Leoni claimed to have been guided by the oracle and led three hundred guards to the front.
The Heaton coalition forces were stationed at a place called Hot Springs, which was a dangerous pass. In addition to Lenio and his three hundred guards, the allied forces of the city-states of the United Kingdom of Heaton numbered more than 7,000 men. Leoni led 300 of his most elite guards to guard the Thermosena Pass, while the others fought together on the flanks to cover the pass.
In later Heaton legend, Darius launched an attack with an army of five million. This is obviously impossible, and the combined strength of all the countries in the entire Tianshu Continent at that time could not support an army of this size, let alone the organization and transportation of military logistics.
There are also people who know that this so-called history is rambling nonsense, and revise the legendary number to 500,000 or 200,000 troops. The main force led by Darius was a force of 10,000 men, as well as a reserve army in the new province, facing 7,000 Heaton allied soldiers.
The 10,000-strong army was the main force of the cross-border expedition, and Darius needed more than 100,000 troops for logistics, military supplies, and reserves. Darius was attacking from afar, while the Heaton coalition forces were in a natural position to wait for work, and the battle situation was unfavorable for Potts. At the dangerous Hot Springs Pass, there was no room for a large army on the frontal battlefield, so they could only launch a strong attack and charge, and the Potts army was repulsed by the Heaton coalition army after repeated charges.
Darius also saw Leony, who was defending the pass, from a distance on the battlefield, and the two of them showed expressions that only their own could understand. Darius had seen him in a roadside tavern and knew what kind of opponent he had met this time. Since Malduk can behead the incarnation and become the Great of Potts in the human world, Zeus can also come to the human world to become the king of Kibada.
The Battle of Thermopylae was not only a war between the Potts Empire and the United Kingdom of Heaton, but also a direct confrontation between the two lords of the kingdom of God.
The attack on Thermopographical Pass by the Boz army was frustrated, and Marduk did not want to retreat in the face of Zeus, so he mobilized the reserve corps of the imperial provinces to attack the Thermothermal Pass in turn, although there were heavy casualties, but the main purpose was to attract the attention of the Heaton coalition army and consume the opponent's combat effectiveness, so that they could not spare their forces to take care of the weak points in the overall defensive line.
Darius secretly mobilized the most elite forces of the 10,000-strong team, climbed over the cliff, bypassed the pass in front of him, and launched a surprise attack behind the Hot Spring Pass. The Heaton coalition was eventually routed, and Leoni and his 300 guards were all killed.
The price paid by the Poz army was not small, and after capturing Thermopylae, it went straight to the most important city of the United Kingdom of Heaton, the city of Aaron. Lenio's blockade at Thermopylae bought time for the city-states, and by the time the Pozzi army reached Aaron, all the populace had evacuated, leaving only an empty city with flames.
Amon and Mu Yun looked at the world from afar in the kingdom of heaven, witnessed the battle of Hot Springs, and recognized who Leoni was. When a fire broke out in the city of Yalun, Mu Yun frowned and said, "Did Marduk defeat Zeus again?"
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(To be continued)