192, Garden of Eden
Peloponnus looked at Amon, her eyes sparkling, and she suddenly opened her arms. Amon smiled and opened his arms very calmly, giving the goddess a gentle hug. Peloponnus whispered: "Thank you for your advice, I am good at summoning the power of the living to awaken. The day and night you mentioned are the four seasons that I have experienced. I will go to Queen Kella now."
Amon advised again, "Why are you in such a hurry? It is midsummer now, you can wait until midwinter to go. In such a cycle, there will always be people who bear it, there will always be people who are free, there will always be hardships, and there will always be hope. "
Peloponnus raised her head and said: "I know what to do, but how can I thank you?" As she spoke, the roses on her corolla returned to their delicate color, revealing their tender stamens in the cold wind.
Amon patted her on the shoulder and said with a smile: "If you are willing, I would like to ask you a small favor. I heard that the Divine Palace of Ea is the most beautiful of all the palaces of the gods in Anunnaki, and it was you who helped Ea build it. I am thinking of building a Garden of Eden, and everything in the garden will be built by the disciples, but the spatial magic circle that is isolated from the world can only be set up by those who have reached the ninth level. Can you lend me a hand? "
Peloponnus smiled. "The boundary of the divine palace is a stable magical space that can operate on its own. In fact, ninth-level mages can also do this, as long as they are told the principles and mysteries. But ninth-level mages like you and me are more suitable, and this is what I am best at. You can go to your Garden of Eden for the next six months. I know that the location of the divine palace is the secret of every god. Don't worry, I will not tell it to others, especially not to Dumz. "
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Moses followed Amon's instructions to the 'Garden of Eden' and met up with Link and Medanzo. Gabriel, John, and Misphi were also there. Now that the affairs of Salem were taken care of by Aesop and George, and everything was in order, Amon ordered his disciples to go to the Garden of Eden, which was far away from human habitation, to concentrate on their training.
The so-called Garden of Eden did not exist at this time, and the address Amon chose was where Link's original caveman tribe was. It was located on a steep mountain in the valley of Euphrates, a good place for seclusion and cultivation. The cavemen had long since moved to the city of Salem, but the village houses and the caves on the cliffs were still there, and they could be temporarily settled in after a little cleaning.
Amon gave Moses a Terroculus, which recorded the blueprint of the Garden of Eden. The range was very wide. Not only did it include the original village of the caveman tribe, but the eastern boundary also included the pool where El Mar used to live outside the village. The farthest point in the west was actually connected to the mountain cave where Bair was last hiding. In other words, the Garden of Eden spanned two high mountains, with one in the middle being in the air, and one needed the ability to fly in order to traverse the entire divine palace.
There were water sources and even mines in the Garden of Eden, and there were four streams surrounding it. The residences of the disciples were scattered among these streams and mountains, and they could build the divine palace according to what they liked. The huge cave where Bair was last hiding was surrounded by white clouds, and could only be entered by stepping on clouds. It was a place for training that Amon had prepared for himself, and it could also be regarded as a remembrance of his past experiences.
If the Garden of Eden was to be completely built according to this blueprint, it would take many years, but Amon was not in a hurry. He would first let it take shape, and then let the disciples build it over the long years. This paradise on earth from which one could glimpse the divine kingdom was, for Moses, the home of his soul, and the blueprint given by Amon did not include every detail.
The first and most important step was to set up a spatial magic circle, using the natural elemental power between heaven and earth to make this space "disappear" from the world, beyond people's perception. First of all, there had to be such an outline, and then the various wonders of the Garden of Eden could be built, and this step would require a ninth-level divine emissary or a ninth-level mage.
Many of the landscapes in the Garden of Eden were also quite interesting, such as the cold spring that Amon had instructed Moses to build, in the mountains in the west of the Garden of Eden, exactly the same as the cold spring that Crazy 'Ole had laid in the Charcoal Forest, and this was also a kind of silent memorial.
Link and the others were a little worried when they heard that Dumz had gone to find trouble with Amon. It had been two days since Moses arrived in the Garden of Eden. If Amon and Dumz had a conflict, there should have been a result long ago. These disciples were thinking about going together to see what was going on, but they did not know where to find Amon.
At this moment, Mourin's elf maid, Shubra, came and told them not to worry, that Mourin had sent people to help Amon take down Dumz, and the disciples could just wait here. Even though they were mentally prepared, when the disciples saw Amon, they were so shocked that they were almost speechless. Especially Link, the more surprised he was, the wider his mouth opened, so wide that an egg could be stuffed in, making people worry whether his jaw would be dislocated.
Everyone knew that Dumz was Mourin's ex-husband, and there was a reason why Dumz had gone to find trouble with Amon. And when Amon came out of Mourin's palace, not only did he get rid of Dumz, but he also brought Dumz's sister, Peloponnus, to the Garden of Eden? Looking at the two, they seemed to have a good relationship. Although the disciples did not say anything, they could not help but speculate in their hearts. Did Amon use some trick to win Peloponnus's favor again? This was too amazing, even more amazing than the gods! Yes, as expected of Amun!
When Amon came to the Garden of Eden, he didn't say too much nonsense. He directly told the disciples that from now on, they would build their own divine palaces. According to the blueprint, they would first build the outer magic circle and listen to the instructions of the goddess Geshtinanna. Then he went to the mountain with the huge hollow in the belly of the mountain to train behind closed doors. Unless there was an emergency, no one was to disturb him.
Before Amon arrived, the disciples had already cleaned up the hollow in the belly of the mountain. Although they had not yet carried out careful construction, the environment was very peaceful.
Medanzo accompanied Amon into the hermitage. When there was no one else around, he winked and asked, "Oh, Amun, you are a god! Everyone says that Dumz's ex-wife, Mourin, abandoned Dumz for you. Now, you have even abducted Dumz's sister. Aren't you afraid that Mourin will be jealous? "
Amon punched him. "What nonsense are you talking about? It's not what you think. My relationship with Mourin is not what people think! "
Under the command of Peloponnus, the disciples began to build the divine space of the Garden of Eden, similar to the construction of courtyard walls in a garden on earth. Gabriel's status here was very special. She was not Amon's disciple, and was still Amon's prisoner of war. But everyone treated her as a guest in the Garden of Eden, and Gabriel also helped build the divine palace.
Ten days later, El Mar also brought Raphael, so there was another guest in the Garden of Eden. Amon had accepted a private request from Goliath and had long had the intention to guide Raphael, but in such an indirect way, he made him learn on his own.
Why did Amon want to train in seclusion? He needed such a period of undisturbed peace too much. Over the years, his power had grown stronger and stronger, and his achievements had grown higher and higher, but he had encountered one thing after another. People can grow through experience, but they must also mature through reflection.
After the completion of the shrine in the city of Salem, Amon had not had time to carefully experience the subtle mysteries of the divine realm. Any other god, after having such a divine realm for the first time, would have spent many years in seclusion to consolidate the realm and feel the gains, but Amon had been busy all this time.
With Amon's achievements today, he could already be called a god on earth, and he had to seek the meaning of this god and comprehend the seemingly endless life from the endless power that could repair the soul. In fact, at this level of training, there were many things that no longer needed to be rushed or even cared about. When Amon calmed down and immersed himself in the spiritual world, he had a new feeling that was different from before.
When the form of your existence changes, your understanding of life will also change. When death was no longer an urgent threat for decades, people were not willing to experience the dangers of the world for no reason, and only wanted to live a leisurely and comfortable life, such as Peloponnus had spent hundreds of years like this.
Of course, in their hearts, they were not willing to fight mortals to the death. Although they had great power, if they encountered great achievers on earth, they would still be hurt, and it was not worth it. People may die with another warrior on the battlefield, but no warrior would be willing to fight a rat in the forest. The metaphor may not be appropriate, but the mentality of the reaction was true.
When the gods heard the prayers and petitions in the shrine and sent emissaries to assist the believers in carrying out their tasks, those emissaries often assisted in secret, striking at critical moments, and would not directly charge forward unless it was necessary. The emissaries sent by Seth, such as Heqet, only used various means to stop the footsteps of Moses and the others, and did not directly fight with Link or Medanzo. After all, there were not many emissaries like Bastet who often killed demons, and Bastet's power was second only to the gods who had truly transcended eternal life in the Ennead.
When Amon trained in the Garden of Eden, he needed to integrate all his previous experiences and everything he had learned, calmly reflect on the gains and losses, and consider the new meaning of existence as life changed. Although he was far away in the Garden of Eden, he was well aware of what was happening in the city of Salem. What he focused on training was the incarnation on the altar, where he could clearly hear the prayers of people, and through the prayers, he could also find out the true emotions in people's hearts.
As long as he was willing, he could learn about the situation in the city of Salem from the altar, and if he was unwilling, he would not be disturbed.
The gods could indeed hear the prayers of the believers, but sometimes they did not listen or did not bother to pay attention. For example, when neighbors quarreled, someone came to pray for Amun to make his neighbor sick; or when a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law did not get along, a wife came to pray for Amun to make her husband "stronger" and not be so "weak" at the mercy of her mother-in-law.
Amon pretended not to hear these prayers, and after listening to them for a long time, he could only smile bitterly, and then he simply stopped listening. But the thoughts of the people on earth were indeed a kind of power, and when you could listen and feel it, it was as if your own soul contained countless souls, making the soul stronger and able to continuously repair itself when it was injured.
Amon's current status was equivalent to that of the main god of the city alongside Mourrin in the city of Salem, a position that other divine emissaries and even some gods did not enjoy, and many divine emissaries envied him!
Amon had turned into two faces and four arms in the battle against Dumz and Bright Moon Night, but he was not proficient in using it at the time, and now that he had a clear understanding of it in training, he had completely mastered this method. This kind of training could be long relative to the time on earth, and if there was no particularly urgent matter, people might not see Amon for many years.
But Amon also had many urgent matters at the moment, such as the completion of the construction of the divine space in the Garden of Eden as soon as possible. According to Amon's speculation, the disciples of Medanzo, Link, and John would soon face the test of losing their power, and they would need to spend it in the Garden of Eden.
Peloponnus lived in the Garden of Eden for half a year, from midsummer to midwinter. In this half a year, she had basically completed the outline of the spatial magic formation, and the space above the mountains of the Euphrate River disappeared from the world, and people could no longer see it. But this spatial magic formation still needed to be strengthened to protect the Garden of Eden from the outside world, and it could only be built slowly in the coming years.
Eight years later, Peloponnus left the Garden of Eden for the Underworld of the Anunnaki divine clan and exchanged Dumz. She made an agreement with Kella that they would exchange once every six months, and she and Dumz would take turns to serve in the Underworld. As Amon said, the suffering in the Underworld was not endless, and the joy in the sun was not eternal. There was always relief in the darkness, and one had to learn to cherish the sunshine.
Many years later, there was a legend in the world that the alternation of spring, summer, autumn, and winter was a symbol of the two gods taking turns to come to the world. That was something that would happen a long time later.
Peloponnus did not see Amon when she left the Garden of Eden, and at that time the war between the city of Salem and the city of Enril had already begun. At this time, except for Moses, all the disciples of Amon had left the Garden of Eden, and even Mourin and her divine emissaries had left the palace of Mourin, and everyone was looking for Amon all over the continent.
Why did Amon disappear? Why were people anxiously searching everywhere? It all started with a battle on the Plains of Duc.
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If nothing unexpected happened, Amon would also have meditated in seclusion for a hundred years like the legendary gods. After all, there were still many things to worry about in this world, but he would not leave the Garden of Eden for at least several years. But it was a pity that the wind would not stop. After only a month of training in the mountains, Amon, who was immersed in the spiritual world, suddenly had a faint feeling, as if there was a voice calling him, praying to him and asking for help.
This kind of prayer was not something that Amon did not want to ignore, and what was more surprising was that the prayer did not come from the shrine in the city of Salem. The prayer was calling the name of Allaha, and it should be that Joshua and the others were in trouble. If Amon had not cultivated into the incarnation of Amun and Allaha at the same time, he would not have been able to hear this kind of prayer, and even if he could hear it now, the perception was very weak and could not be clearly understood.
The people of the town of Duc were still on the way, and they took the golden plate left by Moses with them, and when they set up camp, they placed the golden plate with the ten covenants written on it in the big tent, using it as a mobile shrine. Since Allaha forbade them to build statues, they wanted to pray to the golden plate, and it was this prayer that Amon sensed.
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After Moses left, the people, led by Joshua, passed through the city of Marduc and entered the Plains of Duc. They could not walk very fast on foot, and it would take them another month to reach the city of Salem. With the twelve Judges in the group, walking along the paths trodden by the caravans in the wilderness, the bandits and beasts that might appear would not pose a threat.
Just as they were about to reach the city of Salem, the governor of Aesop sent a small group of soldiers to meet them. The captain told Joshua that the city of Salem was only two days away, but the situation had not been peaceful recently, and the governor of Aesop was afraid of accidents, so he sent people to escort them.
There was a new friction between the city of Salem and the city of Enril, and the signs were not right. According to the previous agreement between Aesop and the city of Enril, the mines at the foot of the Assyrian Plateau were owned by the people of the town of Duc, but Enril was allowed to send highlanders to mine iron ore and parangons, with half of the harvest as their reward, and the two sides were at peace for a while.
But as a steady stream of people from Enril gathered across the plateau, they sent someone to the city of Salem to make two new requests. The first was to buy daily necessities from the city of Salem, because many of their supplies still needed to be transported across the plateau, and it was obviously easier to buy them here in Salem.
The city of Salem was founded earlier, and the surrounding land had already been reclaimed, sown, and harvested for two seasons, and there were also many handicraft workshops in the city, and its products were much richer than those of Enril. But of course, Aesop was unwilling, because the supplies that Enril wanted to buy were exactly what Salem lacked, and they also had to replenish their supplies from the outside world through the trade routes that they had painstakingly opened, so this time the negotiations fell through.
Immediately after that, Enril made a second request, that since their people were mining the mines, then the mines should belong to Enril, and they would no longer hand over half of the fine iron and parangons. The reason was simple, the people of Duc were all dead long ago, and it was a land without an owner, and it was the gods who guided them to occupy it.
Aesop told the other party very clearly that the people of Duc were still there, and they had the legal right to inherit it. Enril, on the other hand, gave a deadline of one month, and if they did not see the people of Duc within a month, they would completely occupy the mines. Aesop realized that a real conflict would be inevitable, and stepped up the training of the city's army to set up defenses in various positions.
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