"Lord Bashim." The red dragon bowed its head at the middle-aged man.

"Let's go guard the door." Basium said.

"Yes."

The red dragon flapped its wings again and flew to the place where it had just come.

Basium.

According to Akkadian, the name should mean "poisonous serpent".

Char has been researching stories about Sumerian mythology these days, and he's really heard the name.

As the gods prepared to rebel against Tiamat, Tiamat gave birth to eleven demonic beasts to use against the gods.

One of them is Bashim, who is transformed into a good-doing monster after being defeated by Marduk or Ninurtar in the Babylonian creation epic Ennuma Eilish, which he guards the portal.

It first appeared on the roller seals of Gudea in the 22nd century BC. In the Mesopotamian poem Angim (or "The Return of Ninurtha to Nipur"), it is one of the eleven "warriors" who were defeated by Ninurta.

According to a fragmented Assyrian mythology, Bashim was born in the sea, devouring fish, birds, wild asses, and some humans, and fearing the gods, sent Nergal to kill him.

In the true story, he may have been exiled to this world with Tiamat.

Basium looked at Hypnos and grinned slowly, "Today is a strange time, when the Dragon Realm can still welcome the arrival of a god."

"One of you has taken my things." "I have only come to get my things back, where is your king?" ”

Basium narrowed his eyes slightly, but at that moment, a voice came from a palace behind them.

"Let them in."

Basium glanced at Hypnos, but took a step back and gave up a spot for them to enter the palace.

Hypnos and Char looked at each other, and then walked slowly towards the palace.

The road to the palace is paved with bluestone bricks, and there are buildings on both sides, but it seems to have gone through a long time, the bluestone bricks are covered with moss, and the buildings on one side are also covered with many ancient vines.

There were many vertical pupils in the building staring at them silently, like hunters staring at their prey.

Dragons have a unique dragon power on their bodies, and they have an absolute suppressive power over subordinate creatures.

Being stared at by so many dragons, there is a feeling of being stared at by dozens of tigers in the forest of ordinary people, and it is a sense of urgency that seems to be swimming on the edge of death.

If Char was just an ordinary person, he probably wouldn't dare to move at this moment.

Nowadays, in the human world, no magician can show a calm expression in such an environment.

They walked up the stairs in front of the palace, which was very long, about ninety steps, but they did not teleport up directly, but walked step by step as a sign of respect.

The palace has obvious traces of age, and I don't know if the dragons did it on purpose or if they didn't have the ability to maintain the palace.

Many of the walls of the palace were covered with moss and some climbing plants.

Even the branches of the old trees planted on one side burrowed into the windows and grew indoors.

The architectural style of this palace is also very different from the palace style of the world, there is no sense of grandeur, the use of large stone buildings, some quaint strokes and textures, with a kind of heaviness of the years.

It was more like a temple than a palace, reminding Char of how he felt inside the Egyptian pyramids.

Behind the vestibule is the garden belonging to the atrium, where the flowers and trees also grow wildly, without any pruning, many vines climb up the corridor, and some of the dense shrubs that only survive in this world struggle to burrow, leaving only a road in the middle that is often walked.

Following this path, Char and Hypnos continued forward, and the palace was built on a hill, with a large difference in the height of the buildings, and many steps had to be taken.

Although the building looks like it has gone through a long time, the quality is unusually good, and although it has been eroded by many vines and tree roots, the overall appearance is actually much more decent than the collapsed dream palace in Hypnos.

They walked up a curvature, unfenced suspended staircase into a tower, and into the rotunda of the tower.

There were a number of humanoid creatures standing inside the main hall, but it was clear that neither Char nor Hypnos would think that these were humans.

They were of all ages and dressed in different clothes, some were men and women, some were three or four meters tall, while others were only the height of ordinary people, and there were six people in total.

All of their eyes were focused on the white-robed man standing by a huge open window, looking out at the sea of clouds and stars in the distance.

He had waist-length hair as long as silk, and the sun shone through the clouds on his blonde hair, glowing like gold.

He wore a linen robe as white as a cloud, and two gold rings hung from his earlobes.

In the short silence, he turned around slowly, his appearance was also very exquisite, his facial features were as if carved by the gods themselves, and the golden vertical pupils of his eyes showed nobility.

He had a lot of gold ornaments on his body, including gold ornaments on his neck, wrists, and even his feet, in addition to the rings.

Char and Hypnos were looking at him, and he was looking at them.

"Hello, it's been a long time since outsiders have come in the Dragon Realm." He said slowly, his voice was also very crisp, and it was difficult to distinguish between male and female, "I didn't expect that I would be such a distinguished guest." ”

He looked at Hypnos and smiled.

"Since the gods fell into an unknown sleep, you and your brother should be the most powerful gods in the main realm."

Hypnos stared at the young man, he was not familiar with Sumerian mythology, so he was not very familiar with the person in front of him, so he asked directly.

"You are."

"I have many names." The young man said, "Outside, however, the name that is more often called is Jingu." ”

Char also knew the name, and Jingu was the son of Abzu and Tiamat in Sumerian mythology.

After Abozu's death, he led Tiamat's army against Marduk, who was later killed by Marduk along with Tiamat. Marduk took the blood of the golden solids and mixed it with the clay to make the first humans.

So according to Sumerian mythology, the person in front of him should be the ancestor of mankind.

Of course, according to Char's understanding, he was only the ancestor of the human race in the birthplace of Sumerian mythology.

The reason why there are different races and nations in this world is because these races were created by gods of different gods.

Creationism is an indisputable fact in this space-time, confirmed in Char's many studies.

Of course, no matter which god system the gods all coincidentally created human beings, a kind of intelligent life that walks on the earth, which is a very worthy of study.

Char speculated that this may also be one of the reasons for the birth of the gods, who were born to sort out the rules, and the creation of humans is also one of their missions.

And who this mission comes from, Char guessed that it may be the instinctive consciousness of this world, or it may come from fate

(End of chapter)