"It seems like I haven't seen you in a long time."

"The last time we saw each other was half a month ago."

"Half a month ago...... Yes, one of my dependents returned from a training experience in God's forsaken land and suffered some mental trauma. ”

"After this period of healing, he is now able to manifest his mythical biological form with ease."

"Okay, thank you."

Unlike the casual humor of the conversation with Amon and the real Creator, Thoth and Adam always had a businesslike flavor when he spoke, and after he had finished the business, he didn't know what to say—although Adam was gentle and reliable, and was not difficult to get along with, his eyes were too clear and calm, like a bottomless spring, and no matter how intense the feelings were, they could not ripple in it, so those words containing subjective colors and personal emotions were subconsciously swallowed back into his stomach.

Maybe it's time for me to say goodbye to Him. Thoth thought a little embarrassed, and continued to look for the little restaurant where the grilled oysters were so good.

"I'm afraid you'll not find anything." Adam had a subtle insight into his thoughts, "Solomon intended to stay here for a long time, and in order to better understand the divine will and gain an advantage, the courtiers were busy building their own dwellings nearby, and what belonged to the common people had long since become unrecognizable. ”

"I know." Thoth sighed, how could he not understand the urine nature of these nobles, "It's just trying his luck." ”

"You're late, don't you need to do some preparation?"

"How?" Amon laughed, "Do you want us to change our clothes or get our hair done?" ”

"It's not a big deal." The figure of the fantasy angel faded away until it was inseparable from the air, "Have a good time at the feast." ”

"The more He says that, the more I feel like something big is happening...... Are there any people and events that deserve to be choreographed into a drama lately? ”

Thoth didn't realize at this time that this statement was in some way a prophecy. After more than half an hour, the two angels, tired of seeing the civilians preparing to move away and the construction site piled up with sand and stone bricks, wandered to the obsidian palace - this palace was less cold and solemn than the royal palace at the source of the Honachis Mountains, and more complicated and gorgeous, those intricately carved flowers, leaves, vines, angels and other things were intoxicated by the light of the lanterns, and the guests were a little less restrained and more active than when they were in the royal capital, and Thoth could not help but relax when he heard the joyful laughter from afar— But upon actually stepping into the arch of classical female figures, he realized that the cheerful atmosphere was nothing more than a deliberately maintained illusion.

A few hidden sights came from the shadows, and then disappeared again into a torrent of intricate decorations before Thoth's voyeuristic eyes could see it, disappearing so quickly that it was almost like a hallucination—but as the top of a route characterized by "snooping", Thoth never doubted his own perception in this regard.

"Our beloved Emperor Majesty seems to be brewing something." Amon said in an interesting tone.

Thoth, who was told what he thought, smiled, "I'm looking forward to it." ”

He didn't think he needed to do anything that needed to be weak, and he really did his part in the previous war of gods, and no matter how clever he was in the lawyer's way, this hat was not so easy to buckle - eighty percent of the people who would suffer were others.

In the midst of a harmonious laughter, the Black Emperor appeared, perhaps because of the atmosphere, he didn't look so intimidating today, and after a few symbolic words, the dance music began - the moment he saw Solomon also walk off the dance floor, pairs of men and women gasped, and Thoth was no exception.

"What's the situation?" Through a psychic connection, Medici, who was holding his new love, was amazed in his mind half the dance floor.

"I don't know, but there's an old saying." Thoth's face was complicated, "If something goes wrong, there must be a demon." ”

Solomon's chosen dance partner was a young hunter girl, as a side branch of the Sauron family, her family background was not rich, and she could not be compared with the daughter of the angel family who was also present, so that when Solomon stretched out his hand to her, he showed a drunken confusion, but the high emperor forgave her for her faux pas, and gently wrapped his arms around his back, leading her onto the dance floor. Those who had been dancing were no longer on their partners, and the eyes that looked at His Majesty the Emperor gradually changed from disbelief to wonder and envy—no one knew that he could dance so well, and his dance steps were sonorous and powerful, like the heart-pounding drumbeat of the battlefield.

At the end of the dance, the audience applauded, and Thoth politely slapped his face, remembering that there is a skill in the lawyer's way called "charm" - giving actual or symbolic "bribes" to make the target feel strongly favored.

Bribe...... Thoth pondered in his heart, isn't everything that people enjoy in this palace connected to the emperor's name a bribe?

There were many opportunities to give such bribes, but in the past Solomon did not bother to reap such easy-to-receive affection, but had no qualms about exuding his majesty as the true God, so that the courtiers and their families buried their heads in the bow and dared to look only at the great mantle that slowly glided down the red carpet as he paced, instead of looking directly at his face with reverence, as he did now—the Black Emperor had twisted his own rules so that even the extraordinary of the lower rank could look upon him.

The atmosphere grew more and more enthusiastic, and in addition to the archdukes of the angel family, who often dealt with the emperor, many nobles who were not very illustrious also plucked up their courage to toast the Black Emperor and kiss the obsidian ring on his finger reverently—the harmony of the monarch and the courtiers continued for a long time, until a half-white-haired marquis came with his eldest son, and Thoth thought the young man was a little familiar, when the Duke of Abraham happened to come over and said in a cold tone, "He could have been a part of our family." ”

Thoth's mind spun around, and he remembered that this man was very good with one of Bethel's favorite descendants, and that lovers in love were always inseparable, and that Thoth had bumped into them holding hands in the garden before—but strangely enough, on such a grand occasion today, the little girl with blue eyes similar to Bethel had not even seen a shadow.

Listening to this tone, is it a breakup? Thoth thought to himself, is it because of the family disparity? But he was under the impression that Bethel's requirements for the "right of the household" were very lenient compared to those of other nobles...... Although this was largely due to the fact that he was confident enough in his family that he did not need to grow through means such as marriage, nor did he feel that marrying a person of humble status would tarnish the glory of the family.

So they separated because of their incompatible personalities? Thoth speculated, while keeping an eye on Solomon's movements, Solomon asked the marquis how the obsidian ring on his hand was, and after hearing the expected compliment, Solomon smiled meaningfully, and sighed: "If you replace it with Nengeizhe redstone, it will be even more dazzling." ”

The atmosphere froze for a moment, the smiles of the Marquis and his eldest son stiffened like condensed wax, the warmth of the light dispelled by the shadows of order—they spread from under the table, under the skirt, from the feet of the human sculptures, from places where every human eye would not pay much attention, and in this dreadful darkness, cold metal masks emerged.

Thoth understood the origin of the gaze when he stepped into the palace - they came from a team that belonged directly to the emperor, from hair to life, and everyone in the team wore metal masks, and under the masks, they could be the maids who served plates, they could be the gardeners who trimmed the branches, they might be the tailors in reading glasses, many of them passed by without knowing it, and they were inadvertently seized by them, and the nobles who did not have enough weight did not even know about their existence, and the nobles who were aware of them used "shadows" The term refers to them.

The sharp blade was unsheathed, the flesh fell to the ground with a muffled sound, and the woman's scream exploded in the darkness without light, and then it turned into a whimper as if she had been pinched by the neck, and when the light came on again, a puddle of blood spread, and the marquis and his eldest son in front of Solomon were gone, replaced by two extraordinary properties that glowed with ghostly light.

The music still flowed slowly through the hall, but the crowd stopped laughing and remained dead silent, and the servants rushed in, scrubbing the blood from the ground and throwing their still open-eyed heads into the hemp bags like garbage. Abraham turned the blue opal ring on his thumb with a nonchalant expression, and Thoth knew that he had expected it.

Although the Duke of Abraham usually gave his offspring full freedom in the choice of mates out of respect for the nature of his apprentices, this freedom was only provided that the family would not be exposed to the blood, and Abraham, who had a deep bond with the executed, was probably at his behest not to attend today's occasion.

As for the redstone of Ezer that Solomon just mentioned......

Thinking of this, Thoth sighed silently, the previous divine war seemed to be a complete victory, but in fact, it exposed many problems, such as the six gods are deeply rooted among the ordinary people, so that when the gods fight in the sky, the riots on the ground are also triggered at the same time, if they are not suppressed in time, the anchor point of the Black Emperor will be shaken; Another example is the leakage of occult resources, and the discovery of a large number of Eiger redstone in the core of the Bronze Horseman who caused heavy damage to the western frontier of the empire - this magnificent mineral is more important to create an amplification device than to make an inflated ornament.

If it weren't for the fact that the Lie Sun Cultists had discovered a vein of ore on their own, it would have been someone in the empire who had eaten inside and out.

Since the end of the God War, the seemingly arrogant and arrogant public opinion of "His Majesty the Emperor is invincible" and "the empire will never fade" has actually made those weak-hearted guys relax their vigilance, so that the "shadows" can collect their criminal evidence one by one.

The emperor waited, waited...... Wait until the celebratory atmosphere reaches its peak, when everyone is drunk with alcohol and dance music, and then drag them into the abyss of death and despair.

"Isn't it just trying to get a people's mentality?"

That's Thoth's only comment on this.