153 The Birth of a Monotheistic Religion
Amon replied: "I have experienced a brand new power, which is completely different from pure body arts and magic arts. It is like a newborn baby growing up, and the power is inseparable in the process of growth. This requires a stable environment to experience and nurture, and I'd better stay in the territory to train so that I can unlock the seal for you as soon as possible. "
Schrödinger: "In that case, I'm too embarrassed to urge you to do anything. The nurturing of power cannot be rushed, I'll stay here with you."
If other factors were not taken into account, the best time for Amon to leave the Empire of Eygut was after Moses reached the Plains of Duc. Based on the speed at which the clansmen walked through the wilderness, it would take at least half a year. Amon did his best to arrange everything, but he was not fearlessly anxious. Except for being a little worried about Maria's situation, the Supreme General was calm.
According to Schrödinger, Amon's breakthrough to the eighth level of the power of two sides would be completely different from other training methods in the world, like a brand new beginning. Amon did not quite understand at first, but when he recovered the power of the bloodline in his body little by little, he realized what was going on.
In the silence of the night, Amon closed his eyes and meditated as usual, but what he recovered was the power of the bloodline in his body, merging it with his magic power to grow together. A bow floated quietly in front of him, it was the divine bow that had once shocked the world. The bowstring was pulled silently, and an invisible arrow of energy condensed. But Amon did not shoot the arrow, otherwise the house would collapse. He was just demonstrating.
Then the bowstring was put back, and the invisible arrow disappeared. The divine bow spun, as if caught by an invisible hand, and gently floated back to Amon's leg. Amon opened his eyes in the darkness and sighed. "So that's how it is. I should have known."
He took out a dagger from thin air. It was one of the most common weapons in Amon's collection. It was the one Mayor Dusti gave him when he left Duc. The saber flew through the air like a fish, emitting a dazzling light. It slashed out a cross-shaped arc of light in the air, which then spun rapidly to form a circular shield. Next, the saber slashed out and quickly retracted, flying back into Amon's hand.
He muttered to himself in the darkness, "This is the last sword attack that Enkidu used against me. However, that sword attack was much stronger. Before it could reach me, he had already died."
Amon used to practice the power of two sides, but in truth, he was still just a warrior and a sorcerer at the same time. He could only use magic in combat or pick up a weapon at the same time while casting magic. But at this moment, the situation had changed. He was clearly using a weapon to cast magic, and at the same time, he was also using magic to control the weapon. The two powers were no longer distinguishable.
Gilgamesh's bow could not be drawn at all unless one was born with divine strength or had the power of a supreme warrior. But Amon did not hold it in his hand. He simply used spatial magic and energy magic to draw the bow. At the same time, if one was not a supreme mage, one would not be able to condense the arrow. Amon did not combine these two powers together, but used one power naturally.
This was different from pure magic and body arts. It was not simply a combination of both. This made Amon's methods much more refined than before. In the future, there would no longer be a distinction between body arts and magic arts. Instead, there would only be emphasis on what he was good at. Amon recalled Enkidu's last battle against the black vortex and lightning in the sky. The broken broadsword in his hand turned into a misty golden light, not because it was too fast and dazzling.
Enkidu was a pure warrior. He only practiced body arts. When he reached the peak of the ninth level and was about to break through, he experienced the fusion of power. It was difficult to say whether it was body arts or magic. This kind of power existed from the very beginning. Body arts and magic were just two sides of the same body. To be more precise, it should be called two sides as one. "One" was its core. All kinds of magic and body arts in the world were just a thousand sides of this one body.
Amon thought that his practice of the power of two sides was the right path. Now he finally understood why Schrödinger kept saying that it was the so-called "power of two sides". In fact, Amon had taken a long detour. Even Bair, who had guided him, had only explored the middle of the path. This detour was not in terms of cultivation. His efforts were not in vain. Instead, it was in terms of understanding. He had finally reached the end of the path.
If Amon had not practiced the so-called power of two sides, he might have had to wait until the last moment of Enkidu's life to suddenly understand it.
He closed his eyes again and fell into a deep meditation, completely forgetting everything outside his body and immersing himself in the world of his mind. If he had understood it from the beginning, he would have had more means. But Amon's knowledge and experience could not have come out of thin air. What he learned was the body arts and magic of this world. Of course, he was influenced by everyone's established ideas. It was only today that he fully understood it.
Amon recalled the skills of the miners in Duc. In fact, it was the power taught by the gods, and there was no distinction between the so-called body arts and magic. He carefully reflected on the path he had walked step by step. Starting from the simplest first achievement, how to directly practice the power of one side, without the concept of magic or body arts, but only according to the individual's talent.
His path of practice was finally clear. The understanding was subversive, and even overturned all previous conclusions. It was a kind of negation. He also found one thing: to awaken this power was much more difficult than to awaken the power of magic and body arts, and even more difficult than to awaken the power of two sides of one body.
Who could awaken this power? There was one situation that did not need to be judged, and that was those who had already achieved high achievements. Whether it was a supreme mage or a supreme warrior, they had this aptitude to achieve what they had already achieved. It was nothing more than the difference in the path they had taken. To re-embark on this path, one only needed to understand and confirm and complete the missing practice.
Crazy 'Ole could also embark on this path. Although he still had to pass all kinds of tests and there was almost no hope of success, at least he could understand the goal he had been pursuing all his life. Amon thought of Goliath again. Goliath once said that he and Enkidu were separately trying two other paths, and Amon was confirming the power of two sides of one body. Perhaps they could both solve the secret of becoming gods. This was not entirely unreasonable.
The path explored by Crazy 'Ole, Bair and Amon could be said to be unique. They were constantly approaching the secret of becoming gods, and today they finally understood the origin.
In the darkness, Amon forgot the outside world, even his own existence. But tears silently welled up in his eyes. He silently prayed to Nietzsche and Bair, with gratitude and blessings. The hard work of three generations of geniuses and the summary of research on the basis of the experience of countless geniuses had finally solved the mystery, and the answer had always existed in the world.
In the following days, Supreme General Amon closed himself off from visitors. Even the servants around him could not see him. Only John knew where he was. He lived in the village built by Moses and the others. He began to train his power again from the lowest level. It was not so much training, but rather experience and mastery, because he had already broken through to the next level.
He only had one disciple, John, by his side, so he called John over and said, "I once taught you the mining skills of Duc and the most basic magic meditation. Because of this, you integrated the restless power and became a supreme warrior. Later, I taught you the power of two sides and let you practice magic and body arts separately. But today, I want to show you the real path. Abandon all prejudices and follow my instructions. Practice all the powers you have learned in this way. "
John was surprised and said, "Amun, are you going to awaken another power for me?"
Amon shook his head and said, "This is not another power, it is what you have been training in the past, but it points to the true origin. It is very difficult to awaken this power, but for those who have already become supreme mages or supreme warriors, they only need to comprehend and experience it again. "
Amon passed on his latest understanding to John, and John asked another thing, "Amun, Misphi is an advanced warrior, can she also practice this power?"
Amon smiled and replied, "Not everyone can succeed. She has two choices. One is to continue practicing body arts, and after she becomes a supreme warrior, I will guide her to practice this power. The other is to hold the awakening ceremony for her now, and if she succeeds, she will start training from the beginning."
John was surprised and overjoyed. "Amun, you agree?"
Amon nodded. "Yes, but I will not teach her directly. You will teach her what you have verified. I need someone to help me conduct the power awakening ritual, and this person must be able to verify this body's power to the seventh level before I can do it. " Go and practice by yourself first, you will personally awaken Misphi's power. "
… …
The latest decree of the Empire's Pharaoh Merneptah was quickly passed down to the various cities according to an oracle. After all, there were only a few people like Amon who knew what was going on, and the oracle announced by His Majesty Pharaoh shocked the whole country –
"The great king of Eygut, Horus, was injured in the battle against the evil foreign gods in order to protect the Empire and has returned to heaven to recuperate. Ra, the father of the gods, who was born in the Lotus of the Beginning and lives above the source of the Nile River, has blessed Eygut with glory, and Seth has become the new guardian of the king. "
It was not easy to change the beliefs of people for thousands of years, but Pharaoh ordered that Ra be promoted to the chief god of the various shrines, and Ra was the father of the gods in the myth of Eygut. If Pharaoh wanted to change the beliefs of the shrines, and it was logical to do so, there was no other choice. In the myth of Eygut, when the Empire was founded, Seth was also the guardian of the king.
This did not immediately change people's habits, but it clearly defined the change of the main god through the laws of the world. Another decree issued by Pharaoh Merneptah according to the oracle surprised Amon.
The decree clearly declared that Ra was the "one and only god" in the world, while the original gods were uniformly referred to as "angels". Seth's identity was "the head of the angels, the guardian of Ejypt for the gods". The ordinary people could not react for a while, but they could not understand what this meant. Pharaoh not only gave Ra the status of the supreme god, but also became the only god by law, and changed the names of the other gods to angels. Among them, Seth became the most important angel, and actually had the status of the original Horus.
Schrödinger was also one of the "gods" belonging to the Ennead, and she had never even seen Ra. The ancient father of the gods had long since retired. The status of the gods in the Ennead had changed subtly, with Ra becoming the only supreme god, and the rest of the gods, regardless of age, were all under Seth, and Seth became the king of the Ennead.
Not only that, but since the decree of Eygut only recognized Ra as the "only god", the gods of the other pantheons had also become "false gods". The other gods in the Ennead, except for Ra, had also lost the title of gods and had changed their title.
Amon had another way of thinking about this matter, and he even thought of his disciples calling him Amun, and Moses and others also seeing him as the only god, Allaha. If one day he became a god beyond the realm of immortality, then his disciples who followed him on this path could also become gods, and this would be a new pantheon.
So how to maintain the faith of this pantheon without the collapse of conflict like the Anunnaki pantheon or the Ennead pantheon? The decree of "one god" issued by Pharaoh Merneptah did provide a solution. This should not have been entirely thought up by Pharaoh out of thin air, he must have received the guidance of some oracle, and at the same time, there must be a very clear practical motive.
If it really had something to do with the oracle, the gods would not do inexplicable things, so it must have symbolized something. Unfortunately, this was not something that Amon could understand at the moment, and even Schrödinger could not explain it.
The new Pharaoh succeeded the throne, in addition to issuing the oracle and the latest national decree, the first specific message turned out to be directed at the Supreme General of the Empire, Amon, who lived in seclusion in his fief. Amon inexplicably received another "reward", and to the west of his existing territory, Pharaoh gave him another fief.
This kind of reward did not make much sense. The Empire of Eygut had a vast territory, and many of the unirrigated wilderness was not suitable for people to live in, nor was it worth using a large population to develop. West of Amon's territory, beyond the river valley, was an uninhabited wilderness since ancient times, and beyond Mount Horeb was the desert.
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