Satan smiled again: "Faust, do you want to have everything in **?well, I am willing to help you, you go back to the temple quickly, there are two messengers waiting for you at the door, they will help you and Semir to assassinate Cyrus, as for whether you can succeed, it depends on your strength and wisdom." ”

Unbeknownst to Faust, just after he had left the palace, Semir closed his eyes and cried out in his soul, "Amon, why do you want me to ask Faust such a question?"

Amon's voice rang out in her soul: "Isn't that exactly what you want to ask, is it? He didn't make a choice, but you got the answer you wanted, and he will go with you to assassinate Cyrus." ”

Samir: "God Amun, do you think I will succeed?"

Amon: "I don't know if you'll make it, but your idea is not unreasonable. The kingdom of Poz was originally founded by the union of six farming tribes and four nomadic tribes, and Cyrus was the leader of the most powerful of them, the Ahmenides, and under his leadership the kingdom rose rapidly, as you have seen.

However, such a rapid expansion, such a vast territory has been opened up in a short period of time, and the ethnic composition of this kingdom is complex, and the development of various regions is very uneven, which is an unprecedented challenge to the governance of the Potz Kingdom. If Cyrus died, the provinces would have struggled for power, and without a powerful ruler like him, the provinces would have fallen apart.

In this way, the assassination of Cyrus was a means of saving the fortunes of Assyria. In the event of civil strife in Poz, Assyria would have a respite, and the newly occupied provinces might be able to recover. But despite this, the Assyrians also needed to know how to run their own country, otherwise it would be difficult to avoid decline even if there were no strong enemies outside. ”

With that, Amon's voice was gone, and Semir opened his eyes, and a man entered the inner sanctum, who was none other than the disciple of the Garden of Eden, the seductive mermaid-born Rio. "Your Majesty, are you ready?" asked Leo, "and you will be leaving this afternoon." ”

Semir turned around and said, "I'm glad that God Amun can send you to help me, although I am not from the Seductive Mermaid background, but my people are quite related to the ancient Seductive Mermaid King, and the power guidance I have received comes from this." When I saw you, I realized that the Merfolk Clan was not extinct, and I thought that you had helped Goret assassinate Sinach at the beginning, but I didn't expect to come to assist me in assassinating Cyrus today. ”

Leo replied, "That's why the god Amun has sent me here." But I will not help you to assassinate Cyrus, but only to help you get out after the assassination, and the god Amun does not want you to die. He had said at the beginning that the Assyrian problem could not be solved by simply assassinating a Sinakh, and that you were a more suitable monarch than Sinakh, but unfortunately, no one expected the situation to change today. ”

Semir smiled a little sadly: "Get out, even if the assassination is successful, I may not come back alive, but I hope Faust will live, he will be more useful to this country than I am." If you really have a way to save a person, please save him, this is my prayer to the gods. ”

Leo: "There is already another messenger to help Faust, otherwise your assassination plan will not succeed, and as for me, I will be by your side." ”

...... Faust returned to the main temple of the empire, and sure enough, there were two people waiting for him in front of the door, and a powerful aura suddenly appeared, as if it came out of the darkness directly. The guards were startled, and hurried forward to reprimand them, and heard Faust say in the carriage: "Don't be rude, these two are my honored guests, and invite them over." ”

One of the people who came was the Bright Moon Night, the king of killers among the angels of the Anunnaqi gods, who not only wielded the power of rage, but was also a master of lurking, assassinating, ambushing, tracking, and fleeing. The other is an oracle of Eah, the god of wisdom, and Dumz, the younger brother of Spring and the goddess of life, Perrin Rose.

Dumuz once set up an ambush with Bright Moon Night to deal with Amon, but Amon did not kill him, but only captured him and sent him to the Hades to exchange for Peranrose, and made an agreement with Peranrose to let the two sisters and brothers take turns to serve in the Hades. Later, Amon led the army to attack Hades, and Domuz also participated in that operation, and Peranrose happened to pass the test to become a transcendent deity.

Now that the Anuna God system has lost its divine domain in the human world, all the gods have understood the decision of the creator god Anu, and in the future Amun will replace the creator god. The god of wisdom is also wise, and orders all the messengers in the world to obey Amun's orders, and Amun sent Bright Moon Night to assist Faust this time, and Dummz took the initiative to ask for help.

On the one hand, he has a good personal relationship with Bright Moon Night, and on the other hand, he also needs to do something at this time. The green bamboo snake staff in Dumuz's hand is an artifact left by Armat , and his own strength is not weak, except for the fallen wind god Prully, Dumuz's speed is the fastest among the Anunnaqi gods. So his mission this time is mainly to attract pursuers to cover the others to get out.

Semir had planned to assassinate Cyrus in the city of Nippur, as the king of Potz was going to hold a grand ceremony in the city-state to celebrate the establishment of a new province of the kingdom. On the occasion of a major ceremony, the public would watch the ceremony in the square, and it was relatively easy to blend in, and Cyrus would definitely appear in public, which was a good opportunity to assassinate him.

But Moonlit Night reworked a plan that was more risky and more likely to succeed than Sémir's original plan, and he suggested that Faust leave it to Samir for discussion.

Since it was a temporary decision, Faust only hurriedly explained the normal affairs of the temple, packed up his belongings, and the day was already bright, and he needed to go to the palace again to attend the court meeting. Empress Sémir, in the presence of her courtiers, unexpectedly reversed the decision she had made last night, and she was to inspect the border with Lord Faustus, leaving Sinaher's son in charge of the kingdom and the Minister of the Interior Loward as his auxiliary.

In the afternoon the Empress departed, and although the order to leave the Imperial Capital had been given only the previous evening, Semir had apparently been prepared for a long time, and everything seemed to be in order. Loward led his courtiers out of the city, and Faust went with the royal guard to the southern border.

While resting in the palace that night, Empress Sémir summoned Faust again. When Faust met the Empress, he found His Majesty standing beside a sword-armed guard, none other than Rio, who had participated in the assassination of Sinaher. Semir told Faust his plan for the assassination, first inspecting the border garrison as planned, and everything went normally so that the outside world would not see anything unusual.

Semir had sent people to keep a close eye on Cyrus's movements, and when Cyrus was about to reach the city-state of Nipur, Semir also left one city-state to inspect another, quietly left halfway, and infiltrated the province of the Kingdom of Potz in disguise. Whether this assassination operation succeeds or fails, neither she nor Faust can reveal their identities, and if they are besieged by each other and cannot escape, then they can't even leave their own corpses.

If the assassination is successful, it will certainly cause civil strife in the various parts of the Pozzi, but if the murderer is exposed, I am afraid that it will immediately cause a big report from the Poz Kingdom, but it will backfire, and the Assyrian Empire will not have a chance to breathe. Faust took the opportunity to hand over the assassination plan on a moonlit night to Semir.

Bright Moon Night and Dummz did not follow the Empress's chauffeur with them, they had already rushed to the city-state of Nipur to make arrangements. Bright Moon Night is the best messenger at setting traps, a clever trap he set back then, even Amon almost caught the way, Enriel was finally cut down by Malduk because of that trap, and now he has to deal with a human king.

When Semir saw this plan, he decided to do it.

Her Majesty the Empress was in person, and the sage and the national teacher also followed, and the morale of the legions stationed on the border was naturally greatly boosted, and there was a rare sign of rejuvenating after the defeat. The empress appeased the soldiers, Faust straightened out military and political affairs, and no one could see any unusual behavior from them.

After about ten days, Cyrus was finally about to arrive in the city of Nipur, and Semir left the city-state he had just inspected for another city-state. The Empress traveled with a large guard of honour, and it was impossible to travel on a fast horse, so it was not very fast, and it took seven or eight days to reach her next destination, which was enough time to sneak into the territory of Porz to carry out the assassination.

On the night after their departure, Faust, Semir, and Lyon quietly departed, and before leaving, they gave strict orders that their henchmen should wear the clothes of the empress and the high priest, and sit in the carriage during the day, and stay in the tent at night, but no one should be seen.

...... Faust and others infiltrated the territory of Pozzi and disappeared into the world as if without a sound.

Three days later, one morning, in the territory of the city-state of Kish in the province of Rees of the Kingdom of Potts, the smoke and dust of the official road were seen from afar, and the army in bright armor stretched out, crossing the Eudi River and heading in the direction of the city of Kish. At the head of the line was a group of guards, surrounded by Darius, the general of Poz.

Looking at the level of training of an army, you can know that this army of about 1,000 men, with 300 cavalry and 700 infantry, marched in four columns, and the long line was very neat on the official road, and it was not scattered at all. This is the elite of Darius's "Ten Thousand Immortal Squad", who came to be inspected by Cyrus the Great and escorted Cyrus to the borders of the Eju Empire.

Of course, the upheavals of the nations of the Tianshu continent were not limited to Assyria. Darius led his army to defeat Goret and destroy Hati, and Cyrus immediately sent officials to divide Hati into three and establish three new provinces. Darius incorporated the Hattian navy and moved south along the coastline, approaching the cape city-states of the Eju Empire by land and water.

The main naval force of the Hati was originally owned by the Nannar Legion, and almost all the warships were well preserved in the war, because the decisive battle was fought on land, and the naval warships could not go ashore. After the surrender and annexation of the Hati, the original naval forces were absorbed by Darius and became the force to continue the attack on Eju.

However, the navy of the former Nannar Corps was not the main offensive force, but played more of a role in transporting logistical baggage and flank cover. The main force commanded by Darius was the "10,000-strong immortal squad" that he personally formed and practiced. This legion numbered 10,000 people, twice as many as the regular legions of the continental nations, and in folklore, their warriors were unkillable.

The legend naturally cannot be true, in fact, this is the elite of the Pozzi army, once someone is killed, the shortage of personnel will be replenished immediately, always maintain a complete formation, accept a unified battle formation training, and become stronger and stronger in the battle, almost invincible.

Darius took the power of annexing the Hattits, incorporated the Hattian navy, led a 10,000-strong immortal squad to approach Eju, and sent a messenger to send a message asking the Eju Empire to surrender voluntarily in order to avoid the prolongation of the war.

The Eju Empire was greatly shaken, and the domestic magnates were also divided into two factions: the main battle and the main peace. The main battle faction hoped to rely on the Red Headland defense line on the border to repel Darius's army in the same way that they had stopped the Uruk Legion's advance. The Lords and Peacers believed that the Eju Empire could not be the opponent of the Poz army, and that useless resistance could only lead to heavier losses, and suggested that they should take the initiative to submit to avoid the fate of destroying the country.

In fact, the lord and faction in the country of Eju also have their own selfish intentions, and if it is really a decisive battle, it is no longer the era when Amon led a large army to fight against the Uruk legion. The last war caused the Eju Empire to lose the subject country of Hati, and the national strength has weakened, and then the new pharaoh Elakht implemented monotheistic reforms, and the various factions in the country have come to a new round of reshuffle, although the internal political situation has stabilized, but there is also huge internal friction in this process, and the recovery of national strength has not improved much.

In addition, Elahet built a new capital in the southern part of the empire, and requisitioned a large number of people, and this magnificent new capital city has begun to take shape, but in Elahet's plan, the blueprint is only half completed. The construction of a new capital on such a large scale was also a waste of money and money, and the financial burden of the empire was very large, and the taxes of the city-states became heavier. In short, the Eju Empire is no longer in its glory days, and it is difficult to resist the Poz army, not to mention that there is no genius commander like General Amon in the country.

Even if the general Amun was still there, what could he do? With the power of Goret, he could defeat the army of Eju back then, and the strength of the Hatti nation did not decline, and he was not defeated by Poz? Goret was martyred, and Asher, the king of Hatie, surrendered. Moreover, according to the policy pursued by Cyrus, after the establishment of the new provinces, the original nobles would not lose their privileged position, and would still become the local rulers on behalf of the new king, so why should they risk their deaths?

Therefore, the voice of the Lord and the faction became the mainstream in the Eju Dynasty, but the ministers could surrender, but the pharaoh Elakht could not surrender on his own initiative. The surrender of Asher, the king of Hati, was forced to be, because the last resistance had been defeated, and although he was still alive, how could his status be compared to that of the king, who was nothing more than an ordinary lord, and would be under the watchful eye of the Kingdom of Potts, and perhaps one day he would be cleaned up with an excuse.

Elakht could not afford to lose his empire, but he did not have the confidence to defeat the Potz army, fearing that he would suffer the same fate as Asher, and had to rely on the strength of the main battle faction.

The pharaoh prayed to the gods for guidance, but Seth, the chief of the angels, did not respond, and Allah sent down an inscrutable oracle. The High Priests of the Empire's Main Temple and the elders of the Aeju Academy of Divine Arts could not guess the exact meaning of this oracle, it only had one sentence: "Wait for Amun." ”

Amun was worshipped as a god in the city of Salem, and in the folklore of Eju, Amun was considered a god who had come to earth. Now that the army is pressing, many people are beginning to miss General Amun, who led the Eju army and civilians to repel the Uruk legion. The people also knew that the situation of Eju was critical, and even many ordinary people even called out to Amun when praying, hoping that this god would come to the world again to save Eju.

Could it be that Allah meant to wait for the arrival of Amun and save the empire as he did last time? But where to find Amun, this god may have returned to the kingdom of God in heaven after completing his mission?

In the end, the Eju Empire made the decision to submit, which was subtly different from surrender, and was borrowed from the practice of the Hati Kingdom in surrendering to Eju. They proclaimed Cyrus, king of Poz, as Poz the Great, and Eju became a vassal of Poz, willing to build a temple for the gods of Poz and pay tribute to the Poz Empire.

The Eju Empire became the Eju Kingdom, and the Poz Kingdom became the Poz Empire. Although this is also surrendered without a fight, at least it retains the throne of the pharaoh in the country, and also preserves a complete country, and still maintains the rule of the current aristocratic group, so it has the support of the majority of the courtiers in the court, and the only worry is that the Kingdom of Poz will not agree.

But such a decision is already Elahet's bottom line, if it is not possible to surrender to Nagon, he can only fight, even if he surrenders completely, it will wait until after defeat.

On the march, Darius received a letter from Eju that he was willing to submit, and hurriedly sent someone to deliver it to King Cyrus. Cyrus analyzed the current situation: many new provinces had just been established, the situation was still unstable, and the next strategic goal was to annex Barun and Assyria, and it was not yet his turn to make a move against Eju, so he agreed to the request of the Eju Empire.

From this day on, Cyrus was officially called Poz the Great, and Poz became a true great empire. Cyrus the Great accepted Eju's request for submission, but put forward a condition that he had Pharaoh Elacht himself come to the border to bow down to him and perform a ceremony of submission.

Therefore, this time Cyrus rushed to the border of Ethiopia to accept the submission of Erahet, inspected the newly established province by the way, in order to show off his exploits to the whole continent, and held a celebration ceremony on the way, which gave Semir and others the opportunity to assassinate.

According to the plan, after the celebration of the city-state of Nipur, Cyrus would continue westward across the Eudes River into the territory of the former Hati, and then follow the coastline south to the border of the city-state of Cape Eju.

General Darius had come to pick him up, and he led a thousand of the 10,000 elite of the 10,000-strong immortal squad to greet Cyrus the Great in the city-state of Kish, and crossed the river with him to Eju.

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(To be continued)