207. His name is Satan

An-la is the oldest of the nine gods, and in folk myths and legends, even the gods are described as his descendants. But long before the establishment of the Eju Empire, An-la had faded into the world almost never appeared, and for the Eju Empire, the most important gods had always been Isis, Osiris, Horus, and Seth.

In order to seize the position of the main god, Seth had Pharaoh Erakht worship the ancient An-la as the only god, while the other gods and messengers were called angels, and Seth became the archangel who ruled over all the angels, the de facto patron saint of the royal power, and the main god of the nine-link god system. In the name of monotheism, Elahet cooperated with centralized reforms, which had recently been very successful.

However, the religious and political reforms of Elahet have been carried out until now, only Seth has always been involved, and Allah himself has never issued any oracles. In fact, since the establishment of the Eju Empire for a thousand years, An-la has not sent down an oracle at all, as if he were a non-existent god. The appearance of the Oracle of An-la was the first in the history of the Eju Empire, and the pharaoh and the high priests of the empire were shocked.

The content of the oracle of An-la is simple, first telling the pharaoh and the high priests of the empire that their so-called "blasphemous demon" is the former imperial general Amun, confirming people's suspicions. Although An-la revealed Amon's identity, he did not indicate that he would perform a miracle to punish Amon, nor did he instruct the Eju Empire on how to deal with the matter in the name of the oracle, but the implication was that the people would take care of it.

The god told Pharaoh and the High Priests of the Empire that it was Amun and Seth's business, and that Seth would take matters into his own hands, and that he would recall all the angels in the Nine Divine Systems, and would no longer go to the Egü Nation to chase Amun. The Eju Empire can announce this in its own way and decide for itself what to do.

Elakht was overwhelmed by the oracle and wanted to ask the gods, but Allah stopped answering. So the pharaoh convened a small secret meeting to negotiate, and the participants were all clergy at the highest level of the Eju Empire, in addition to Pharaoh himself, the three high priests of the main temple of the empire, and all the elders of the Aegü Academy of Divine Arts.

The patriarchs of the Academy of Divine Arts analyzed the simple oracle of the god An-La. Amon rushed into the temple and beheaded the idol of Seth, who was next to the idol of An-La, who was supposed to be well aware of the matter, but did not want to meddle, and the oracle even implied dissatisfaction with Seth.

An-La's meaning is to let Seth solve the problem on his own, and if Seth is unwilling to face Amun, then he should bear the consequences of being cut off from the altar. The idea of the gods is indeed difficult for mortals to understand, but what should the Eju Empire do? First of all, the first question is how to declare the identity of the "demon".

After a whole night of deliberation, Pharaoh finally made a decision, since An-la did not order the Eju Empire what to do, there was no need for the Eju Empire to publish Amun's name in order to prevent unnecessary unrest among the people. Elahet's ruling authority, as well as Seth's divine prestige, are now seriously questioned. If the people were to know that the "demon" was Amun, who was revered by all the people, it would be difficult to explain why, because everyone would question one thing in their hearts—why did the god Amun do that?

Then Pharaoh decreed that a proclamation should be sent to all the land of Eju: "The great god An-Ra has sent down the oracle, and the name of the blasphemous demon is Satan. Satan is the same demon who descended on the temple of Isis a year ago in an attempt to bring disaster upon the people of Eju. Mary, the greatest virgin of all time, received an oracle from the archangel Seth, and did not hesitate to sacrifice herself to severely damage Satan with the power given by the gods.

After Satan fled, he no longer had the power to plague Eju, but he was both cowardly and insidious, and took revenge on the great archangel Seth by the most despicable means, and did not dare to fight against the heroes and angels of Eju, but only dared to secretly desecrate and destroy the archangel's idol. He disturbs people's hearts, shakes their faith, and sows the seeds of the devil. The great god An-Ra showed that as long as people were not tempted by the evil deeds of the devil, they could look to the light of the gods. ”

The name Satan means "antagonist" and symbolizes the temptation of people who are not firm in their faith to fight against the gods. With the release of this announcement, the Eju Empire finally ended the half-year-long martial law in the city-states, and the magic arrays of Dees City and Mengfeisi City also returned to their normal state, and the Eju Empire finally found a step down.

In this period of half a year, countless manpower, material resources, and financial resources were mobilized to protect the temple and hunt down demons, except that there were no casualties, it was no less than a large-scale war. If you can't catch Amon, you don't know how long it will last, and no one can stand it in the long run, so let's end it quickly!

If Amon still wants to cut down the statue of Seth, then go ahead and cut it, the statue of Seth in the twenty-four city-state main temples has already made him cut down twelve, and it is enough to achieve what he wants, and it doesn't matter whether the remaining half is cut down or not. The whole empire can't be left to work with Amon and those gods, and since the god A-la has made an edict, this should be the consequence of Seth's own responsibility, so let everyone else breathe.

The city-states of Ejugo have returned to their normal lives, but some changes have taken place forever. The envoys of the gods in the Nine Divine Beings also returned to the Nine Divine Palace under the summons of the An-La Heavenly God, and they were all relieved. In fact, the gods knew the cause and effect of the matter, and from the perspective of selfishness, they could actually understand why Amun did that.

Many of them had fought against Amon at Seth's behest, and in various ways prevented Moses from leading his people out of Eju. Some of the oracs who had personally experienced that incident were also very sympathetic to the people of Duke Town, and even had to admire Amun. Especially when Moses walked across the Red Sea, the goddess Best suddenly appeared, and the gods later learned that the cat beside General Amon was Best, who had fallen in the "examination of fate and the judgment of the end".

Amon can be said to have saved and treated a fallen divine envoy in the Nine Divine Systems, if you look at it purely from a personal point of view, the divine envoys have more good feelings towards Amun, and as for being an enemy with him, it is just to complete the mission. When Amon rushed out of the Nine Divine Palace, many divine envoys only symbolized the surname, and did not do their best to surround and intercept them. Because those people didn't receive Seth's orders at that time, it was just a matter of dealing with it.

Amon trespassed into the Nine Divine Palaces and destroyed Seth's palace, which was also an offense to the Nine Divine Systems, and then his crazy actions in the main temples of the city-states of Eju once angered many oracles. However, the gods gave up cultivating in the comfort of the shrine and went to do the thankless task of guarding the temples of the lords of the city-states in various places, and they also complained in their hearts.

These complaints are not primarily directed at Amun, as long as you are not a fool to understand why Amon did this, but Seth's performance is deeply dissatisfied. The entire Nine Divine Palace and the Eju Empire are about to be turned upside down, and Seth just can't shrink back! This archangel should have the courage and responsibility to face the consequences of his actions, instead of hiding and making everyone else uneasy.

The angels of the gods complained about Seth only in their hearts, and no one would say it publicly. The long-gone, almost forgotten god An-Ra finally spoke, and his oracle was exactly what the messengers wanted.

Interestingly, when the announcement of the Eju Empire was announced, the demon Satan never appeared again. People poured into the temple to pray and offer sacrifices to Allah, and the god restored the entire empire to its usual peaceful life with a single word, and as for the idol of Seth next to it, it was cut to pieces, and Allah's prestige reached its peak in the thousand-year history of the empire.

The priests took the opportunity to proclaim that the majesty of the one true god, An-La, was so majestic that even the demon Satan would not dare to offend. With just one oracle, An-la restored the peace and tranquility of the entire Eju Empire from the chaos that lasted for half a year.

...... Amun, who was given the title of "Satan" by the Eju Empire, did not receive the oracle from Allah, but when An-la sent the oracle to the Eju Empire, he saw another god on the distant island, and it was the former main god of the Nine Divine System, the winged Horus, who came to him.

It was early one morning, the glow rose over the sea, the clouds that had been rolling for half a day were coated with a layer of golden light, the breeze blew through the waves, and the light flashed at the tip of the waves. Amon got up and walked out of the mountains and forests in his sitting, and came to the beach to watch the rising sun. The sunlight left a turbulent and narrow band of light on the surface of the sea, and a few crabs crawled over the shallows not far away, leaving shallow footprints on the sand, and then the waves gently rolled in, and the trail disappeared again.

Amon watched from the seashore, while Gabriel looked at Amun's back from the top of the highest hill on the island, looking thoughtful.

Gabriel had been following Amon for half a year, and she was only a watcher and guardian, and she did not appear openly unless necessary. So far, she has only shot twice, once in the original city-state of the headland, and once in the last city-state of Rosetta, both in response to Amon's escape.

In fact, Gabriel didn't expect Amon to do that, in her opinion, when he was first in the city-state of the headland, Amon may have vented his anger out of a moment, and the impact of doing so continuously was too serious and the situation was too dangerous. But Amun later beheaded the statue of Seth in the main temple in the city-states, apparently with a clear plan, but crazy and incredible.

If Mary could have foreseen what Amun was doing, she would have been very worried, and there would have been relief in her worry, but in any case, Amun should not lose his mind. He was in a seemingly calm impulsive state, which was tantamount to creating a great earthquake from above in the Eju Empire, and this act also involved himself and Gabriel who followed him in danger.

Gabriel's duty is to protect him from allowing Amon to continue his madness in a seemingly calm state. After passing through the seven city-states on the east bank of the Lower Aegilloni, if Amon was to enter the city of Memphels to die, Gabriel would have stopped him. But it was at that time that Gabriel finally breathed a sigh of relief, for Amon did not go to Monfils, but swooped down the Ronnie River south to Eju, catching all those who were waiting for him by surprise.

Gabriel could see that as the statues of Nasset were cut down one after another, bringing more and more shock to the Eju Empire, Amon regained his true composure, or rather a seemingly impulsive calm. He did not stop his crazy behavior, but on the other hand, he regained his wisdom and calmness, although he was only alone in fighting thousands of swords, but still seemed to be commanding thousands of troops to fight against an empire.

The encounter in the city-state of Rosetta was already dangerous, and Gabriel struck a second shot. If Amon still wants to continue, in fact, there is no point in forcing Seth to appear, what he has done is enough, and even the gods in the Nine Divine Palace are alarmed. Amun had to think about one thing, he was doing all this for Mary, not Seth, and if he stubbornly deviated from one starting point to another, he would not be able to get rid of it, but it would go against the original intention, and it was not what Mary wanted to see.

There are some things that cannot be forgotten, and people have to do something, but it does not mean that they should go further and further in the way of venting. Now, if you continue to go to Eju to attack the temple, it will no longer make sense for Mary and Seth, and it will become a self-entanglement in Amun's soul.

At first, Gabriel herself was in a state of rage, but following Amun's journey gradually calmed her soul. Now she looked at Amun's back looking out to sea, and he seemed to be thinking, is he getting farther and farther away from the true god stream, or is it getting closer? maybe just a thought.

Amon stretched out his arms towards the sea, as if taking a deep breath and embracing something. At this moment, his movements suddenly paused, and he lowered his arm and looked up in the direction of the voice, and the sound of the waves around him seemed to be silent for a moment. In the glow of the day, on the golden sea, there was a man walking slowly on the waves.

This person appeared out of thin air, and Amon's detection magic did not sense his presence at all. When he saw him, the figure of this person was in a trance, and at an incredible speed he had already stepped onto the beach, standing quietly dozens of steps away.

Looking at his appearance in his early twenties, his face was very handsome, but his face was a little pale. He was dressed in a golden robe, wearing a high white crown, red feathers adorning the sides of the crown and hat hanging down from his shoulders, one sleeve fluttering in the sea breeze, apparently missing an arm.

As soon as the man stood still on the beach, Amon secretly stopped Gabriel, who was about to arrive with a battle axe, with a wave of his right hand, and then looked at him and asked in a deep voice, "Horus?"

It was none other than Horus, and the town of Durk used to have a temple of Horus, and Amon had seen his idol since he was a child. There are usually two kinds of statues of Horus, one is the statue in the center of the temple of the lord of the city-state, which is depicted as a eagle-headed man with wings on his back, and the other is a statue that shows people in their normal face on other occasions, which is basically the same as the god in front of him, except that the body is more slender and there is no missing arm.

Amon was not surprised that Horus could recognize him, and nodded slightly: "Yes, I am Horus, I have seen you in the crowd of the temple, and I have seen you on the battlefield of fierce fighting, but I never thought that I would meet in such a way today." Don't be afraid, I have no ill intentions, I'm here to guide and help you. God Amun of the city of Salem, you really have the temperament of a god, and you can be so calm in front of me, I admire you!"

As he spoke, Horus smiled solemnly and kindly, and his figure was gradually shrouded in golden round light in the morning light, looking mysterious and noble. Amon frowned and said, "Horus, the fallen god." If you have something to do with me, put away the ways of the gods, for you do not need and need not be before me. ”

Horus just secretly unfolded the coercion of the gods, normally, the creatures who have not yet transcended the immortal will be involuntarily shocked before this coercion, this is also a kind of magic that affects the mind, only the gods can cast. But Amon had seen more than one transcendent deity, the first being Yin Nanna, a girl from the grassland, and now even the idol of Seth dared to be cut down, so he didn't eat this set at all.

Horus was slightly stunned, his smile was a little stiff, but he still smiled and asked, "Wouldn't you welcome a god who came with good intentions and was willing to help and guide you?"

Amon said lightly: "I just want to ask you to speak well, since you are here, you can say anything about it." ”

With a wave of his hand, two large chairs appeared on the beach, behind which was a large umbrella, and he made an elegant gesture for Amon to sit down. Amon sat down, and Horus asked, "Don't you want to ask me where I'm from?"

Amon replied: "Actually, I want to know where you went after losing the main god position, I still know too little about the affairs of the Nine Heavenly Gods, and there are indeed many things that need to be asked from you. If you can tell me how I can find Seth, I will express my sincerest gratitude!"

Horus's expression finally couldn't help but feel a little gloomy, and he looked down at a crab crawling at his feet and said, "I went to the kingdom of God in Allah, and I came from there. Some time ago, I had been healing in the kingdom of God, until Seth also entered the kingdom of God, and I returned to the earth. I know what happened, and I know what you've done, and I've wanted to talk to you about it, but I'm not willing to go back to the Nine Divine Domains and wait until today to have a chance to meet. ”

Amon couldn't help but straighten up with the back of his chair: "The kingdom of Allah, what is that place? Seth also went there, why did you leave again, did you have another fight there?"

Horus shook his head helplessly, stretched out his hand and stroked the empty sleeve and said: "In the kingdom of Allah, you must obey the will of Allah, and Allah will not allow the gods to fight there, but I don't want to see Seth, so I refused to be retained by Allah, and I can only return to the world to heal." ...... You can tell that my injuries haven't recovered. If we were the enemy, if you didn't fight with all your might regardless of life or death, I would have to flee back into the endless void. ”

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(To be continued)