034, Wrath of Horus (II)

The high deity may be watching the world, how people express their devotion and how they choose their destiny. I have gained the power of the gods, and this power is meant to protect the dignity of the gods and the Eju Empire, and I think this is my destiny. God, I have not turned my back on you!

But gods are not the only ones in this world who have wills, and I am amazed at where Bell's strength and courage come from, and I persuaded him to return to the temple as he passed through the city-state of the headland, but I did not leave him behind. Bell told me that mortals can also be gods, and at this point, gods deceive everyone, and we are all deceived.

Great Horus, I confess I was curious! I said to Bell, 'Don't tempt me,' and I have long since rejected the temptation of the devil. But is the temptation to become a god really the devil in people's hearts? I hope to get the answer, even at the last moment of life. - Did Bell destroy himself because of this temptation?

I wanted to see Bell confirm the answer, so I let him and Lenny leave the Eju border, and although I couldn't stop him alone, I didn't do my best to stop him. He was my clan and my benefactor, and I couldn't make up my mind to challenge him with all my courage.

But today I heard the voice of the gods, and the royal capital and the team of Memphis also came with a decree, ordering me to hunt down Bell, and I knew that I could not escape the arrangement of fate. My information magic came from Bell's guidance, and I left a mark on the verdant ornaments. - Why am I doing this, is it God's will?

I set out in secret, too late to say goodbye to everyone, knowing that I could not return, whether it was because of the gods or because of Bell.

My staff is the object of the temple of the headland, and I hope you can help me return it, and I don't want to owe it to the gods in my life. You can read the message I left behind, it must be a magician, then I also left three scrolls right next to the staff, which I am a gift to you in return for all you have done.

I also left a ring, a relic of my family, and I ask you to send it to my family in the city-state of the headland, and you will be rewarded in another way. There is my will in the ring, telling my descendants how to repay you. When you return your staff to the Cape Temple, find Master Dick and ask him to ask a great magician who is proficient in high-level spatial magic to take out the will from the ring and read it and notarize it. Mistress Dick is trustworthy. ”

This is the end of Nero's message, and it sounds real, as if he was talking in front of his eyes before his death, which is information that cannot be faked. At the same time, there was another piece of information that naturally came into Amon's mind, introducing the three scrolls mentioned in his last words, which turned out to be the three that Amon could not identify.

The silvery-white axis, the slender one is called "Spatial Turbulence", which can break the closure of the spatial barrier, and is the best means of escape when trapped by the magic space. However, casting Spatial Turbulence will generate countless spatial rifts, which may injure the caster himself, so it is a very dangerous high-level divine art. You don't need to spend your own mana to cast it with a scroll, and you can also use space artifacts to cover yourself.

Another golden shaft core, a relatively short scroll called "Information Annihilation", which can disrupt the sealed divine information, belongs to a kind of divine art that destroys the surname. The combination of the clever information magic and the space magic can not only be used to preserve and transmit information, but also to create various camouflage and traps, and "information annihilation" is used to destroy these traps and camouflage.

It seems that this great magician is prepared, he knows very well that Bell is good at space magic and information magic, so he brought a handmade scroll for the surname, but for some reason he didn't use it in battle, maybe it was too late or didn't need to use it anymore.

These two are high-level magic scrolls, although theoretically they don't need to consume the corresponding mana, but they also have requirements for the user, and they can use mana to expand the scroll to control the casting of magic spells, so at least mid-level magic masters can use them. As for the last gray scroll, Nero did not explain what it was, only that if he returned the staff and ring to the city-state of Cape as his last words, he could look up the records of his production of the scroll in the temple, and his will would explain it.

However, Nero emphasized that the gray scroll was so precious that it was worth more than a staff or ring, and that it should never be used lightly without his instructions on how to make it.

Amon blinked his eyes and thought for a long time after reading it, this magician not only left a last word in the staff, but also left a will in the ring, it seems that the ring is also a space magic weapon, which can be used to collect things. And Nero specially confessed, when he sent the staff back to the Cape Temple, he asked the chief officer, Lord Dick, to ask a great magician who was proficient in space magic to open the ring and read the will.

This shows that it is very difficult to open the ring, and at the same time, it is necessary to have a credible Master Dick notarize it to ensure that his will can be executed and his family will not default on the debt. Nero had already left three scrolls as a reward for returning the staff, so what would be the reward in the will for the return ring? Amon was curious, but unfortunately he couldn't see it.

Amon held the gray nameless scroll in his hand and played with it for a long time, Nero actually said that this scroll was more precious than a staff and a ring, but if he did not carry out his last words, he would not get instructions for making it, and no matter how precious it was, it would only be an unusable and unrecognizable thing. Amon was skeptical, and he suddenly thought of a possibility that the great magician was worried that the person who got the relic would not do what he said.

Amon had guessed right! The gray scroll was absolutely unusable, and if someone got it but didn't fulfill Nero's last wish, left everything behind without permission, and ended up using or selling the scroll without permission, the result would probably be a dead end. It was the most precious scroll Nero had ever made in his life, the culmination of his work and skill, but its value could not be measured by wealth, because its usefulness was so special.

Amon had not heard of the great name of Nero, who had grown up in the city-state of the headland and later became the chief priest of the temple of the headland. In his early twenties, he became a great magician and was known as the "Nero of Genius". He is also the most brilliant master of the magic scroll maker in the entire Eju Empire, obsessed with making various scrolls, and has spent countless efforts and energy. Perhaps because of this, for more than forty years after that, Nero never became an eighth-level magician.

The city-state of Cape Eju is the same as the city-state of Syasia in Hati, which is at a strategic point at the junction of various countries, and the city-state of Syria today has an eighth-level great magician Ge Lie in charge, and the headland city-state in the past also has a great magician, that is, Nero.

The power of the Cape Temple suffered the heaviest losses in the pursuit of Bell, as it was the closest to Bell's final escape route, and the largest number of people were drawn, including the main priest Nero, many of whom did not return. At that time, the Eju Empire was already very powerful, and the Hati Kingdom was subjugated through conquest, and the border had never been threatened, and no great magician with a transcendent status was willing to stay in this remote city-state, so there was no great magician in the city of Cape for thirty years.

Now the prefect of the city-state, Rod Dick, is not a great magician, but he is also a very talented magistrate. As for the Lord Dick that Nero mentioned in his last words, it was not Rod Dick, but Rod Dick's father. Although the governor of the city-state formally required the appointment of the Eju pharaoh, in many places it was a hereditary position.

Amon couldn't understand the Grey Scroll anyway, and it seemed that the staff couldn't be handed over to Link, and whether or not he returned the staff to the city-state of Cape as Nero had said, it would always be useful to keep it. He withdrew the scroll and staff into the bones, shook the bones and took out another ring.

This ring has a very ordinary appearance, it is a simple ring, which looks similar to the color of bronze, and it is carved with a five-pointed magic array pattern, and there are no other inlays. Amon didn't pay much attention to it when he ingested it into the bone, anyway, it was a complete little thing, and it was easily received in the invisible space, and at this moment, when he took it out alone, he felt that this small ring was very heavy, almost as heavy as a thick horse leather steel shield.

Amon had experience with space artifacts, and knew that there was something in this ring, and it was more than just a will. It's funny to say, there are actually three spatial artifacts in the hands of a mere third-level magician, there are things in the ring that he can't see, and the Wind Charm Dance can't use it, but that bone he can barely excite, but it can't play a real role.

These are the treasures that the magicians dream of, and it is a waste to fall into the hands of Amon, and if the news spreads, I don't know how many people will envy and hate!

The accident didn't make Amon forget his original intentions, and after putting everything away, he finally picked another staff for Link. This staff is not inlaid with special divine stones, but it is inlaid with seven ordinary divine stones in a spiral shape, and the material is very special, and Amon can't tell what it is.

Inlaying the magic stone on the staff is not to embed as many as you want, nor is it necessarily as much as possible, its production process is quite complicated, and it is necessary to bridge the effect of stimulating the divine arts. The more complex the staff, the more demanding the material and the more difficult it is to make. This staff must be the work of a master craftsman, Amon tried it, and it can significantly enhance the effect of casting divine magic, especially the speed of activating divine magic.

Amon didn't think of it as anything too good, after all, it was far worse than that bone, and it was obviously not as magical as the other staff in his hand, but it was just suitable for Link. Now Amon is quite a bit of a "rich as a floating cloud" mentality, he has seen and owned too many divine stones, and none of the things in his hands are not treasures, and he has inadvertently become accustomed to it.

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Introduction to the characters in this chapter -

Nero: Thirty years ago, the chief priest of the city-state of the Cape and the seventh-level great magician, he was obsessed with the research and production of magic scrolls all his life, and died in the decisive battle to hunt down Bell.

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