The former commander of the Isis Legion was the eighth-level great samurai Long Teng, who was born in a military aristocratic family, and Huan Zhang was the son of Long Teng, and now he is also a great samurai. Long Teng is almost seventy years old this year, and has been promoted to the minister of the Eju military department, and is currently in the royal capital.

It is not easy for Elahet to move the dragon father and son, they have deep roots in the army, Huanzhang has heavy troops, and if they don't get it, they will provoke a mutiny. Pharaoh planned to recruit Long Teng into the palace to put him under house arrest first, and then force Long Teng to write a letter to deceive Huan Zhang to the royal capital and dispose of him together.

Then unfavorable news reached the Pharaoh's ears, and it was said that the actions of the city-states of Cape and Methfil were secretly supported by the chief patriarch of the Aegus Academy of Divine Arts, the Great Magician of Wald, and then caused the other city-states to follow suit.

Pharaoh Elakht felt a deep fear that there were representatives of the bureaucracy, the military, and the clergy who had rebelled against him, and that if he had not been quickly suppressed by thunderous means, his true end would soon be approaching.

Burke, the great sorcerer who had a grudge with Amon back then, has now been promoted to the high priest of the temple of the Lord of Aeg. Frightened and angry, Pharaoh sent someone to Burke to make secret deals, and made many promises in private, hoping that Burke would play a vital role in this extraordinary time and do a few things for him.

...... After meeting the pharaoh, Burke returned to the temple from the palace with a gloomy face. The confidant asked him what he had talked about with the Pharaoh? Burke was silent for a long time before replying, "Your Majesty is crazy!"

The henchman, who had followed Burke for many years and was an absolutely trustworthy follower, said with a frown: "The situation is now clear, more than a dozen city-states have issued the oracle of Allah, but everyone has saved face for the monarch, and has not said anything about the fact that the pharaoh had ordered the destruction of the oracle records. If Your Majesty is wise, he should have acknowledged this oracle, officially promulgated it in the form of a kingdom decree, and then announced the abdication of the throne, and perhaps there was another way out. ”

Burke smiled bitterly: "Admit that the oracle is unstoppable, but you want the Pharaoh to take the initiative to abdicate? Do you think this is the only way for the Pharaoh to retreat, but Your Majesty himself will not think so, even if he really does this, will there be a good end after the abdication? Your Majesty wants to make a dying struggle, even if his surname is not in danger and he is cursed by the gods, he will take the rebels to be buried with him! Not to mention that he is still thinking about how to save the situation, and plotting with me how to suppress it. ”

The henchman gasped and said, "Your Majesty is really crazy! Is he going to dispose of the Dragon Teng father and son, Rod Dick, and even the Great Warlord Wald? If it is up to you to plan and carry out this matter, it is not them who will bury the Pharaoh, but you!"

Burke sighed, "Of course I understand, so it's time to make a decision. ”

The henchman reminded him worriedly: "I think that when you were the high priest of the Temple of Isis, Amun had just come to Eju, and the great sorcerer Julian had sent people to hunt him down, and a secret letter to you later fell into the hands of Maria. You have an old grudge against Amun, what if you don't support Pharaoh at this time?"

Burke narrowed his eyes: "I don't really feel sorry for Amun, if he can't let go of this little bit of the festival, how can he be called a god? One thing you must be clear, Allah did issue an oracle, I am a priest, I can only do what I have to do, not to mention that Elakht is at the end of his life? ”

The henchman asked again, "My lord, what do you need me to do for you?"

Burke muttered, "You immediately go to Monfilth to meet the Lord of Tuyang City and General Huanzhang, and at the same time intercept Rod Dick halfway and relay my message. Rod Dick should have already set off for the royal capital, and General Huanzhang will be here soon. The Pharaoh still controls the Praetorian Guard in the royal capital, and there are some things that cannot be done lightly. For the time being, I will go to the Minister of War, Long Teng, according to Pharaoh's wishes, put him under house arrest and write a letter to Huanzhang. ”

...... Rod Dick received an order to report to the city of Otdudes and to the palace to meet Pharaoh. The main priest Yi Bin's guess was indeed correct, Elahet wanted to trick Rod Dick into controlling the royal capital and then deal with it. The consequences of this trip were unpredictable, with some suggesting that Rod Dick feign illness, while others suggested that he simply take the Allah Legion with him.

Rod Dick shook his head and said: "Since I have decided, I will face it, everyone knows that I have just been promoted to the rank of great samurai, so why should I pretend to be sick? I just go, I just issued an oracle, and I have not committed treason, how can I transfer the garrison without authorization? You don't have to worry about me, I have contacted many officials in the city-states and the royal capital, so I know what to do." ”

Medanzo asked him, "Lord of the city, have you decided to go to the royal capital?"

Rod Dick nodded, "Yes, we'll leave tomorrow!"

George smiled and said, "I will accompany you with Medanzo, and the An-La army is naturally difficult to mobilize, but the city lord cannot go without him." ”

Rod Dick left the city-state with a dozen of his entourage, walked along the official road, and received hospitality from the officials of the city-states along the way, discussing many things, both publicly and privately, and Medanzo and George accompanied him all the way. Rod Dick meets the lord of Daya Tuyan and General Huanzhang in the city-state of Monfils, and receives a secret message from Burke.

Huanzhang had just received a letter from his father, Long Teng, asking him to meet him in the royal capital, so he traveled with Rod Dick and took a boat ride from the city of Dreamfilth along the Ronnie Divine River. Officials like them naturally have all kinds of officialdom entertainment receptions along the way, and now that these are extraordinary times, this kind of reception has added a lot of subtle meanings.

On the surface, the two adults were calm as usual, that is, they were going to the royal capital for official and private matters respectively, but they came along the Ronnie River, but they drove the entire Eju undercurrent surged.

...... His Majesty the Pharaoh sent the High Priest Burke to lead the Praetorian Guard to "meet", and Rod Dick and Huanzhang were placed under house arrest as soon as they entered the city, and according to Burke, His Majesty kept the two lords in the royal capital to discuss important matters.

One of the three most important annual sacrificial ceremonies of Eju was to arrive, and it was customary for the high priest to convene important officials and the elders of the Academy of Divine Arts to discuss the ceremony and report the results to Pharaoh, some important arrangements to be decided by Pharaoh himself.

There were three high priests in the temple of the Lord of Eju, and the most important sacrifice ceremonies of the year were also three times, each time by the pharaoh leading the courtiers, and the three high priests took turns to preside over the ceremony, and this time it happened to be Burke's turn. Pharaoh put one of the most elite palace guards under Burke's command, and gave Burke a list, intending to take advantage of the opportunity to gather all the officials and the elders of the Academy of Divine Arts to discuss the ceremony, the most important of which was Wald.

The Pharaoh had received the news of Rod Dick's unauthorized oracle and hurried back to the city of Dees from the new capital, nominally for the sacrificial ceremony, but secretly had already laid a net and was waiting to be closed. His reaction was not unpleasant, his methods were not ruthless, and he had even figured out different ways to deal with various rebels.

The father and son of Longteng cannot be killed for the time being, and they must be knighted, find an excuse to bring them to Xindu under house arrest, promote the generals of other families to become the commanders of the Isis Legion and the An-La Legion, and appoint a new emperor [***] minister. Wald, who was old, announced that the great magician had been summoned by the gods, had completed the course of his life, and held the highest level of memorial ceremony. As for Rod Dick is a nuisance and must be executed on a proper charge!

...... On this day was the day when Burke summoned the people to discuss the matters of the ceremony, and Pharaoh received secret reports in the palace that they had arrived at the place where Burke was discussing in the temple. The people who should go have gone have been done, the arrangements that should have been made have been done, and there is no unusual movement outside. No movement is the best movement, which means that everything is going well.

That night, Pharaoh sent all his chamberlains out, and waited for something in the chamber, and his mood was restless, and Burke should have sent someone to report the results. But there was no latest news until nightfall, and Pharaoh couldn't sit still, and was about to send someone to inquire when he suddenly heard the footsteps of a group of people outside the palace!

What kind of person broke into the palace at night? The chamberlain would never make such a sound, and it would be impossible for the guards patrolling the palace to arrive here in formation! Elahet hurriedly shouted left and right, but no one answered, and even the two great sorcerers of the court who were in charge of protecting him seemed to disappear silently.

At this moment, Pharaoh heard High Priest Burke shouting loudly outside the door of the dormitory: "Wald, the chief patriarch of the Eju Academy of Divine Arts, lead all the high priests and the elders of the Academy of Divine Arts, the Minister of Military Affairs Long Teng, and the two legion leaders of Huanzhang and Dick to meet Your Majesty, and have important matters to discuss with Your Majesty!"

As soon as he heard this, Pharaoh Elahet only felt cold in his hands and feet, buzzing in his mind, and numb all over his body, as if something was going away, draining all his strength. What kind of audience is this, the rebel who originally thought he had become a prisoner was brought to the door of the dormitory by Burke at this moment.

...... A bloodless palace coup d'état was masterminded by Burke, one of the kingdom's three high priests, who abdicated in the middle of the night and became the new pharaoh with his nephew and son-in-law, the underage Tutankhat.

The name Tutanhat was given by Elahet, meaning "heir to the glory of Seth", and the Eju royal family has a tradition of intermarriage since ancient times, and Tutanhat was both Elahet's own nephew and his daughter. When Tutanhat succeeded to the throne, he changed his name to Tutankhamun, which means "Guardian of Amun's Glory."

The name of the new pharaoh was naturally intended to echo the oracle of Allah, symbolizing the recognition of the status of the presiding god of the kingdom of Amun, who had inherited and replaced Allah in his human sacrifices. Immediately after the sacrificial ceremony, the ministers of Eju "reported" all this to the gods at the ceremony, and Tutankhamun officially succeeded to the throne.

There was also a major change at the top of Eju, with Rod Dick promoted to prime minister and auxiliary minister next to the young new pharaoh. Rod Dick wanted to excuse himself, but George told him, "Humility is one virtue, and willingness to take responsibility is another, and responsibility is often more difficult than humility." Rod Dick thought about it and happily accepted the new position.

Long Tengyin returned to his hometown, Huanzhang was promoted to Minister of War, and Burke remained the high priest of the kingdom, and was promoted to the rank of chief high priest. Yi Bin, the former chief priest of the city-state of the headland, was promoted to the chief priest of the Temple of Amun in the city of Mengfeisi, and still served as the chief priest of the An-la legion. The Temple of Seth is history, and the Temple of Isis is now known as the Temple of Amun.

Amun and Allah are seen as the same deity and called him "Amun-La", and some priests have removed the connector from the title of Amun-la and written it as "Allah". At the official sacrificial ceremony of Eju, the priests henceforth called the name of the main god Amun!

Rod Dick and Burke and others did not kill the king on the spot, and Elaher lived a solitary life in the deep palace, and finally died of depression. His soul was also summoned to Hades, but Hades was the hell created by Amun.

...... On the day when the sacrificial ceremony was held in the city of Dees and the new pharaoh Tutankhamun officially announced his succession, Amun, who had just been worshipped as the main god of the kingdom in the coup d'état, was walking on the outskirts of the city of Memfils. The water is rippling and the breeze is blowing, the boats sailing around are constantly shuttling, and the smoke of cooking rises over the Grange in the distance.

Amon looked like he was on an outing, but he was stepping on the waves of the Ronnie River, and the boatmen were passing by, but the boatmen could not see the god walking on the waves.

Amun had another deity by his side, and he walked arm in arm with Artemis. The wind caressed Artemis's silver-gauze robes, depicting her handsome figure, and her green shawl rose in the wind, gently teasing Amun's cheeks from time to time.

Amon looked at the crowds on both sides of the strait and asked Artemis, "Revisiting the old place, Goddess Best, how do you feel?"

Artemis hid her smile and said, "You call me Best again at this time?"

Amon: "If it weren't for Best, why would we go to Hades?"

Artemis tightened his arm: "For the sake of Amun, if Osiris does not accept your guidance, how will you merge with the kingdom of Allah? Oh, I almost forgot, Allah is about to be your name." ”

Amon diverted the topic and said: "I am still the main god of the Nine Divine Systems, and I can allow you to enter the Nine Divine Domains, but according to the oath of joining the Divine Domain, when the gods outside the Divine System challenge the gods of the same divine system as me, such as you challenge Osiris, I can't help you." What if you went to Hades to settle accounts with Osiris?"

Artemis turned his head to glance at him, "Are you worried that I am no match for Osiris?"

Amon: "If you talk about mana, I can't tell who is strong and who is weak, and if you talk about achievement, you are above Osiris." If you play in a different place, you must win. But if in Hades, he has much more power than you, and although you are the Creator, there are some means that cannot be used by the human world. As long as he stands on the scales that the artifact has turned into, you must not be an opponent. The former goddess of Best should be very aware of this. ”

Artemis smiled and said, "That's why I'm bringing you along, according to the oath of the gods, if I challenge Osiris, you can't help me." But if you challenge Osiris, I can help you! I think this oath is the funniest pact between the gods. ”

Amon also laughed: "Funny is funny, but it's not unreasonable. The problems of a god system must start from within, otherwise how can you find a god to strike first?"

Artemis winked mischievously: "I found it, or the main god!"

Amon turned his head to look at her: "It's not you who found it, it's you who met it." ”

Artemis: "If you and Osiris are in Hades and you can't beat him......"

Amon interrupted her and said, "You underestimate me too much!"

Artemis smiled again, rubbed his cheek against Amon's shoulder, and said, "Then I'm here to see the fun." ”

Amon couldn't help but rub her hair with his cheek: "Just like Schrödinger used to, I fight, you help watch the fun?

Artemis smiled and asked, "Will you shout?"

Amun replied, "I have not gone to Hades to fight a duel with Osiris, but to confirm an achievement. I will merge the kingdom of An-la and Anu with my heavenly kingdom, and before that, I will merge the underworld of Osiris with heaven and hell. If you can do this on earth, you can do another thing in the eternal immortality. ”

Artemis was surprised: "Heaven and hell?"

Amon smiled: "Don't you want to see the excitement?

As they spoke, they had come to the lower delta of the Ronnie River, where the rushing water was fanned out, and it was not the season of flooding, but the estuary had exposed a large area of tidal flats, dividing the Ronny River into many complex tributaries. There is a tributary with steep tidal flats on both sides, and the water is very deep, and the flow is extremely fast but almost silent.

Amon and Artemis no longer walked, but stood quietly on the water and went with the current, suddenly disappearing into the sunlight. They entered the spatial barrier of Hades, and the river was still this river, but the river seemed to flow backwards, and the heavens and the earth were greeted like a silent picture, and the river branched off in front of it, with a land in the center.

Amon took Artemis' hand and lifted his foot, as if touching the silent world, and the two of them seemed to jump out of the painting and onto the riverbank. At the sound of a roar, a tall three-headed dog appeared before the two gods, and as soon as it saw Amun, it immediately fell to the ground and rolled into the form of a young man, dressed in golden armor and holding a long whip with spikes.

He put away his long whip and saluted, "Lord God, are you here to find the god of the underworld?"

Artemis stood beside Amun, raised his hand and pointed at him, "Typhon, do you still recognize me?"

Typhon was stunned: "This goddess, who are you?"

Artemis replied, "Once upon a time, I stood in your place to guard the gateway to Hades and to draw in the spirits of the gods, and my name was Best at that time. ”

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(To be continued)