206. The battle of a man against an empire
Many people have thought of a heart-wrenching inside story, what kind of demon is persecuted by the Holy Maiden Mary who launched a storm of destruction in the temple of Isis. Thinking about it, there is only one biggest possibility, and that is not some demon that came to the world, it is the archangel Seth himself. No matter who it is, I can't help but shudder at the thought of this, I can only think about it, but I definitely can't say it!
The temple of Isis in the city of Monfil has now become the temple of Seth, which is the only temple named after Seth among the main temples of the city-states, and it is also the most important temple in Lower Eju, everyone thinks that the "demon" will never let go of this temple, so the next target of the "demon" must be Monfeth.
The city of Memphels is not like any other place, it is not only garrisoned by the elite army of Isis of the Empire, but also has six great magicians and eleven great warriors, as well as the largest army of priests in Lower Egypt. No matter how powerful Amon is, it is impossible for him to come and go freely when the Temple of Seth is on guard. As long as the demon comes, he must not be allowed to escape—— this is the order of Pharaoh Eju.
Just in case, the Divine Magic Array that enveloped the entire Mengfeisi City was also activated. For the first time, this large array was activated not because of war but because of one person, although it did not fully develop the offensive and defensive power of war, but only launched the most powerful detection function, but the number of divine stones consumed every day was also amazing, and it was also necessary for a great magician to take turns to preside over the large array with a dozen divine officers.
Amon struck again, but to the disappointment of all the watchers, he did not go to Monfils, but went south along the Roni River, crossed the river two hundred miles away to the west bank, and suddenly broke into the city of Herac. The "demon" rushed into the temple of the city-state lord and repeated the old trick, slashed at the statue of Seth with a sword, and then rushed out of the siege and flew away. The temple guards of the city-state did not catch up, and the large number of masters who rushed from Mengfeisi did not find the "demon".
At this time, some people remembered that Amon was a general of the empire, he was proficient in the art of war, not only commanding the army to fight tough battles, but also being particularly good at surprise attacks. Could it be that he did this as a ploy to attack the north and divert the tiger from the mountain? Raiding the city-state of Herrac in a short period of time will attract the masters of Memphit, so that he can turn back and attack the temple of Seth. So Xia Eju hurriedly gathered his masters to prevent the tricks of the "demons" in the Temple of Seth.
However, Amon's whereabouts were once again unexpected, and he traveled 2,000 miles in three days, three nights, and went south along the Ronnie River, and successively attacked the main temples of the city-states of Polis and Pano City-states. People couldn't help but be shocked again, could it be that the "demons" were going to attack the temple of the city of Wangdudes?
Pharaoh Elahet is building a new capital, Hilmore, six hundred miles south of the city of Dees, but the city of Dees is still the economic, political, and theocratic center of Upper Ethi, and the guard force is even tighter than that of Monfils.
However, after waiting for more than a month, there was still no movement of the "demon", and the man seemed to have given up the continuous crazy action, but the area around Dees City did not dare to relax its vigilance. At this moment, the city-state of Lower Egübhutto, six thousand miles away from the city of Dees, received news that the main temple had been attacked by "demons", and that the statue of the god Seth had been destroyed.
The city-state of Bhutto was north of Monfils, the northernmost border of the empire bordering the sea. Amon actually turned back to Lower Eju and went around in such a big circle, attacking a city-state that no one could have imagined, and before people could react, Amon suddenly went west along the coastline and attacked another seaside city-state, Rosetta.
Amon rushed into the temple of the city-state of Rosetta and slashed at the statue of Seth, where he was intercepted by a great magician with a samurai and two other shuttles from the side. But before the army could form a siege, another "demon" came to Amun's breakthrough to break through.
The city-state of Rosetta was home to the Osiris legion guarding the northern seas of the empire, so its defense was not weak, and Gabriel, who secretly assisted Amun, struck again.
Over the course of four months, Amon attacked the main temples of twelve city-states in succession. As a top ninth-level great warrior or ninth-level magician, his "battle record" is actually insignificant, and he has spent so long and such a subtle surprise attack tactic that he has traveled thousands of miles without killing a single enemy, just destroying twelve god statues.
But the shock caused by this incident to the Eju Empire is indescribable, and Amon can be said to have dealt the heaviest blow to the Eju Empire at the lowest cost. Every sword that swung at the idol was tantamount to a fatal weakness, and even the foundations of the Empire State Building were somewhat loosened invisibly.
This is a battle between Amon alone and a vast empire, and if he were still a great general, this tactic is just too bad, vile and outrageous, but terrifying and terrifying!
It was a kingdom of divine and royal power, the pharaoh who ruled the empire symbolized the incarnation of the gods on earth, and the temples of the city-states were also the spiritual pillars of the people. The sacrificial rites held in the temple were the most important spiritual, recreational, and political life in the region. Amun's crazy actions caused the city-states to be under martial law around the main temple for several months, and the normal sacrificial activities were completely stopped, and the authority of the gods and the empire was attacked and questioned.
Although it was only the idol that was destroyed, this was no longer an emergency, but a constant revolving throughout the Eju Empire. People can't help but ask, where is the archangel Seth? The statues of the gods in the temples of the lords of the city-states have been cut down to the altar like chopping melons and vegetables, so why can't the Eju Pharaoh, who represents the human incarnation of the gods, stop it?
Seth, known as the chief of the angels, now leaves the impression of cowardice, incompetence and cowardice. If Seth could not perform his miracles to punish the "demon", then who would have sacrificed to him? The "Great Archangel" Seth had not stopped the demon's actions for a long time, and his image in the minds of the people of Egypt had gradually collapsed with the collapse of the statue.
Amon could not force Seth to show up, and did not fight him face to face, but in such a way, he picked him off the altar with one sword after another.
Amon's approach is also a great risk, if he is not careful, he will be crushed, no matter how great his ability is, it is impossible to fight against the army of Eju and many masters, once blocked, even if Gabriel responds, it is impossible to get out. But on the other hand, the Elju Pharaoh, the elders of the Eju Divine Art Academy, and the high-level officials of the Emperor [***] Department are even more troubled at the moment.
They weren't facing a large army, nor were they facing a frontal enemy, the demon was more like a rogue who came and went like the wind, and he was the craziest madman in the history of the Tianshu Continent! This man put life and death aside, and even the gods were not afraid, but he acted extremely strangely and cautiously, wandering all over the vast Eju territory, never leaving a trace, not knowing where and when he would appear?
At first, except for a few people who had already guessed Amon's identity, most people didn't even understand what the purpose of the "demon" was. But later, many people gradually reacted, this "demon" may really be a god, either Horus revenge, or an evil god from a foreign land, or Amon who has ascended the altar in the distant Duk Plain.
I don't know when or where a rumor spread that this series of events was that the god Amun was challenging the archangel Seth. What's more, there are also people who say that the god Amun has killed Seth. But what the truth is, no one can be sure, and I am afraid that only the true gods themselves know.
Seth had the trouble of Seth, Eju had the trouble of Eju, and Pharaoh had the trouble of Pharaoh. Don't forget that the name "Elakht" of the pharaoh means "the light of Allah, the guardian of Seth".
Elakht Pharaoh convened an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures. Someone came up with a stupid way to send a great sorcerer and two great samurai to sit in the main temple in the city-states that had not yet been "patronized" in the country. In particular, the two great samurai were required to wear weapons, and they took turns guarding in front of the statue of the god Seth every night. If the "demon" rushes into the temple, he can at least block the blow so that he can't destroy the idol, and others can take the opportunity to entangle him, even if it is to find out the identity of the "demon".
It's a stupid idea that works, but it's rejected by most people. One is that it is difficult to gather so many masters, and the second is that even if you can barely get them together, you can't scatter all the masters to do this kind of thing. If this is the case, many important government and military affairs of the Eju Empire will not be able to operate normally, and the gains will outweigh the losses.
On the other hand, Pharaoh Ellakht and the priests of the empire also prayed to the gods, asking them to send an oracle to punish the demon, and they did receive the oracle. It is said that angels have come to earth and are hunting down the demon in various places. The demon is too cunning, unpredictable, and very good at hiding, and has not been caught until now, but the angels will eventually capture it and hand it over to the Eju Empire.
...... There are dozens of divine envoys in the Nine Divine Systems, and they are the most dangerous force Amon has ever faced. According to what he knew from Schrödinger's soul imprints, more than ten of these dozens of divine envoys were good at fighting, and Amon had already personally experienced it in the Nine Divine Palaces, and he definitely didn't want to have that experience again.
Amon himself possessed the ninth-level achievement of Origin Power, and he knew the habits of those divine envoys very well, and those people would never want to take risks unless they had to. The envoys of the gods in the Nine Divine Palaces did not react at first, but when they realized that the situation was serious, they found that Amon's whereabouts were difficult to find.
The angels of the gods initially decided to concentrate on a few important city-states, but Amon did not come, and the situation became more and more out of control. So they made another decision, to send an envoy to the main temple of each city-state to keep an eye on them. These oracies may not be Amon's opponents, but they have a very special way of communicating with each other, once they find Amon's traces, they immediately summon the oracles of nearby city-states to outflank them.
In the absence of any trace of Amon, this was already the best arrangement, and it really worked.
Amon was briefly intercepted during the surprise attack on the Rosetta Temple, when the insect god Kebri in the Nine Gods happened to arrive in the Rosetta city-state, but he did not make a move at the first time, but immediately sent a message to other oracles who rushed to the nearby city-states. Edjo, the serpent god who had planned to go to the city-state of Sheis, was the first to arrive.
Edjo intercepted Amon halfway, and Kebri then tried to entangle Amon while the other oracles arrived. Amon saw the danger of the situation, and joined forces with Gabriel to repel the two divine envoys, and immediately fled away without any entanglement, leaving the border of the Eju country and the Nine Divine Realms to the north, and flying far into the vast sea.
The process of getting out was thrilling, but in the end they were not caught. For a long time after that, the angels of the gods continued to wait in the temples of the city-states of Eju, but Amun did not appear.
Amon had already thought of what countermeasures the gods of the Nine Divine Beings had taken, and the Rosetta city-state happened to be located on the northern border of the Nine Divine Domains, so he could still calmly get out when he encountered the insect god Kebley, but if he continued to go deep into the hinterland of Eju to attack the temples of other city-states, he was afraid that he would be caught in the net, so he fled away and was silent.
Amon is active, while the gods of the Nine Divine System are passive, Amon can choose the right time and place to make a move, and when can those gods wait? Amon finally determined one thing, Seth definitely did not want to see him. The situation has reached this point, and the archangel has not yet appeared, so even if Amon cuts down all the statues of the god Seth in the twenty-four main temples of the city-states in the whole territory of Eju, Seth will not appear.
This at least shows that there are more important issues to consider for Seth than the status of the main god, and that Seth values the existence of the gods themselves more than the meaning of the existence of the gods. He has transcended immortality, is a near-eternal being, and is unwilling to fight with Amun, which is something that could lead to his fall. Even if his status in the eyes of the Egyptian residents collapsed, Seth had to bear it.
Perhaps the god was so badly wounded that he had not yet recovered, and that he was no match for Amun, or that he was afraid of the power of the Storm of Destruction.
It is known that Nero succeeded in crafting a Storm of Destruction, and Amon obtained Nero's relics, which is why many powerful gods are reluctant to provoke Amon head-on. Seth was initially unprepared for Mary, never expecting her to launch a true storm of destruction. Some speculate that it was given to Mary by Amun, but no one is fully sure.
The Temple of Isis had gathered master scroll makers to try to make Storm of Destruction without success, but the true situation was probably only known to the goddess Isis and the saints of the ages. What if the Storm of Destruction in Mary's hands did not come from Amun? What if Nero made not one but two, and Amun gave it to Mary and kept one in his own possession?
It's a very small possibility, but Seth doesn't dare to bet that if he misjudges, his eternal life will really die. So no matter what Amon did, Seth just didn't show up.
Interestingly, Mary once said, "When I hear your voice, I see your fall." Seth fled because he didn't want to lose the life of his eternal existence, and was it because of this that Mary foresaw the fall of the deity?
Amon took Gabriel to escape from the tracking of the insect god Kebrie and the snake god Edjo, and flew towards the vast sea in the north, already far away from the scope of the Nine Divine Domains. Soon after they escaped, the remaining dozen or so oracles also rushed to the sea border of the city-state of Rosetta, but they did not chase into the sea to search for Amun.
The sea is vast, and it is difficult to find a random place to hide. Moreover, it is also inappropriate for all the gods to leave the Divine Domain together and search for a person aimlessly, and the Nine Divine Palace and the territory of the Eju Empire are empty. So after a short consultation, they returned to the main temple of the city-state that they were guarding.
Amon and Gabriel flew at low altitudes almost close to the crest of the waves on the sea, and the waves and turbulent light and shadow on the sea were also conducive to using stealth magic to hide their tracks. They flew for several days and nights, and when Amon was sure that there were no more pursuers, they finally stopped on a lonely island.
The island is about five miles long and three miles wide, and there are two mountains on the island, one high and one low. Halfway up the mountain, there is a pool of rainwater deposited in a natural mortar, which is a place where people can live. But its location is thousands of miles away from the mainland, and there are no other islands within thousands of miles around, so it is inaccessible.
The island is covered with lush jungle, and the shallow waters and beaches that surround the island are home to an abundance of marine life. Amun also found dilapidated houses on the halfway slope between the two mountains, which were built by cutting down trees on the island, which were left over a long time ago, indicating that people had been here before. It may have been a place where pirates once stayed, or it could have been a temporary stop for supplies by fleets crossing the sea, but it is no longer there.
Amon decided to stay here for a while, the environment is very good, it is suitable for seclusion and cultivation, and for the time being, he will not attack the temple of the Eju city-state, so let the pharaoh and the gods of the Nine Divine System wait for it.
...... Amon stayed away from Eju, cultivating between the blue sky and the blue sea, silently accumulating strength, but the troubles of the Eju Empire did not end immediately because of Amun's departure. Based on previous experience, no one can tell where the "demon" will appear after disappearing for a while. The city-states were still facing the enemy, the angels of the gods were still on guard around the temples, and the operation of the entire empire was seriously disturbed and in an abnormal state.
Although the messengers of the gods did not intercept Amun in the city-state of Rosetta, it was not for nothing, and they finally determined the identity of the "blasphemous demon" as the "god Amun" from the city of Salem on the plain of Duk. Pharaoh Eju, who prayed to the gods every day, and the high priests of the empire finally heard the latest oracle.
What is extremely surprising is that this time it was not an angel who sent down the oracle, but it was the father of the gods of the Nine Divine System and the "only god" believed in by the Eju Empire today - An-La!
(To be continued)