205 、 The Gods Whose Altar Has Fallen
The Plains of Duc was in a state of chaos, and Rod-dick was well aware that Sio and the others were transporting strategic supplies to the city of Salem through the border of Cape in the name of trade, and he turned a blind eye to it. Gabriel had asked him to inquire about Amon, and he was really concerned, but it was a pity that the well-informed governor had not received any news for more than half a year, and it was as if Amon had disappeared from the world.
Rod-dick also went to the shrine to pray as usual, and every time there was a ceremony in the city, he would also lead the people to hold a sacrificial ceremony. But the most important prayer in his heart was only one thing, and that was that the war in the Plains of Duc would not spread to the Eygut, otherwise the first to bear the brunt of the war would be the Cape States. He also hoped that the city of Salem would be able to gain a foothold, that Amon would be safe, and he was willing to provide any help that he could in private.
Rod-dick had been inquiring about Amon for so long to no avail, but he never expected that Amon would take the initiative to show up publicly in the Cape States. When he saw Amon, he was so surprised that he stepped on air and fell off the carriage, and when he turned around, not only did he order the entire city to arrest him, but he also wrote a letter of apology to the Pharaohs Of Eygut.
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The shrines of the cities of the Empire of Eygut held a sacrificial ceremony twice a month, and the people of the cities could come to the shrines at that time. There were also three grand ceremonies every year, which were equivalent to the most important festivals in the cities. That day happened to be the grand ceremony of sacrifice to the god Ra, and it was also the carnival of the citizens.
On this day, the officials of the various departments were all on holiday, and the people wore new clothes and shopped in the streets and alleys, a rare day of leisure and enjoyment. After noon, everyone gathered in the square of the shrine to chat and laugh, and many small merchants and peddlers also came to the square with their loads and carts.
The carriage of the governor of the city arrived, and Rod-dick lifted the curtain and was about to step down, while the supreme mage Ibin led the mages to line up on the long steps, and the atmosphere was cheerful and peaceful. The heavy door of the shrine was open at this time. From the front of the square, one could see the statue in the main shrine.
No one thought that at that moment, a figure suddenly flew out of the crowd, shot straight into the main shrine like a startled swan, swung his sword with a golden arc towards the statue of Seth next to the statue of Ra, and then smashed a big hole in the solid stone roof of the main shrine.
Tens of thousands of people exclaimed in unison, and then fell silent again. They all stared with their eyes wide open and mouths agape. Ibin, who was about to come over and greet Rod-dick, cried out in alarm. He waved his staff and rushed into the sky in pursuit. However, just as Yi Bin flew above the divine hall, another figure flew over from the side. The axe in his hand was like a silver blur as a curved blade cleaved at Yi Bin.
Yi Bin was so scared that his soul almost flew out of his body. Fortunately, he reacted quickly. He turned around in the air and went into the big hole in the main temple's roof. He then applied a thick layer of air elemental armor. The second person who suddenly flew out swung his axe to force Yi Bin back, and then flew away.
Then, everyone heard a very strange sound coming from the temple. Crack, crack, crack. After the time it took to finish a meal, there was another loud bang, as if something heavy had collapsed and fallen to the ground. The guards on duty had chased in the direction of the troublemaker's escape, and the priests rushed into the hall to see Ibin's situation.
Rod Drick was just about to get out of the car when this happened. He looked up at the sky in astonishment, lost his footing, and fell over. The governor fell when he got out of the carriage, and the guards who were supposed to support him also turned their heads to look at the sky, but they didn't manage to hold him! Rod-dick couldn't care less about this. He got up and hurriedly ordered martial law throughout the city to arrest the assassins.
Governor Dick called the two men "assassins", but they didn't assassinate anyone. If they did assassinate someone, it would only be the statue of Seth. After the first "assassin" rushed into the temple and swung his sword, he didn't stop at all. He broke through the roof and left. When the priests rushed into the temple, they saw Lord Ibin standing on the ground looking at the statue of Seth with a shocked expression.
A crack slowly appeared between the eyebrows of the tall and sturdy stone statue. Then, the crack spread and branched out more and more. There was a series of crackling sounds in the temple. Seth's statue was covered with cracks and gradually became like a spider's web. Then, it collapsed with a loud bang and shattered into pieces all over the ground.
Rod-dick ordered the arrest of the "assassin", but who was the assassin? No idea! What did he look like? No one could see clearly! How could they catch him? There was no way to find him! But Rod-dick had to make this gesture. The An-Ra Legion and the city's garrison were urgently dispatched. They searched for suspicious people day and night in all parts of the country. They caught a lot of robbers, and it was chaos!
This matter was quite serious. During the city's sacrificial ceremony, important military and political figures were present. Under the watchful eyes of the public, the statue of the Archangel was smashed with a sword! If it was pursued, everyone, including Rod-dick and Ibin, would be guilty. Knowing that he couldn't catch the "assassin", Rod-dick had to do his best to hunt them down. At the same time, he had written a letter of apology and was preparing to send a detailed report of the incident to the capital of Eygut.
Rod-dick couldn't say anything. In fact, he knew who the two men were. The first one to rush into the temple and swing his sword was Amon. Although no one saw his face, Rod-dick was familiar with his figure and momentum. He could recognize him at a glance. The second one who swung his axe in the air to repel Ibin was, of course, Gabriel. It seemed that the supreme warrior had found Amon and followed Amon to do such an absurd thing. Instead, it caused Rod-dick to suffer an undeserved disaster.
After the confession was written, Rod-dick called his confidant and privately told him who he should greet in the capital and what kind of gifts he should give so that he could help him. He was unlucky in this matter. Pharaoh would definitely order a reprimand. A reprimand was fine as long as there was no substantial punishment. Before he finished speaking, he heard another piece of news, which made Rod-dick breathe a big sigh of relief.
It turned out that just three days after the statue of Seth in the main temple of the Cape States was smashed by a sword, the same thing happened in the city of Dannis, which was closest to the Cape States. There was no sacrificial ceremony in the city of Dannis that day. Everything was very calm, but suddenly someone flew into the air and smashed a big hole in the roof of the main temple. After slashing the statue of Seth with a sword, he flew away through the big hole. No one could react. The priests watched the statue crack into pieces and collapse.
When the mayor of Dannis received the urgent report, he had just finished eating and was going downstairs. His legs went soft and he rolled down the stairs, breaking an arm. The personal guard standing beside him was severely punished, so how could he not support the City Lord?
The mayor of Dannis was not as calm as Rod-dick. He was probably scared out of his wits. On the other hand, Rod-dick was relieved. Although he did not know why Amon and Gabriel did that, he understood what they were doing. They were not deliberately causing trouble for the Cape States and making him a scapegoat. There would definitely be a reprimand from Pharaoh, but there would not be any substantial punishment. Maybe there would be a few private words of comfort.
Rod-dick quietly let his men go to the capital according to the original plan. There were also a lot of gifts and letters of apology. At the same time, he paid close attention to the movements of the other cities. Just as the shrewd mayor expected, seven days later, the same thing happened in the city of Bushiri to the west of Dannis. Another half a month later, an "assassin" broke into the main temple of the city of Bubas to the south of Dannis and smashed the statue of Seth with a sword.
In the next month or so, earth-shattering "events" happened one after another in the city of Atri, Rokai, and Heliopolis on the east bank of the Nile River. The content was the same, just that the time and location were different. A crazy 'assassin' suddenly rushed into the main temple of the city, and without doing anything else, he slashed at the statue of Seth, then flew into the sky.
When they were in the Cape States, Gabriel appeared with Amon, but later, when these cities were in trouble, Gabriel did not show up at all.
This person must be crazy, a lunatic among lunatics. He did such a crazy thing that was beyond the imagination of the world! But he was so powerful, so powerful that it was terrifying! People were talking about him as a crazy archmage, and he was at least a level eight archmage. Because he could fly, and the power of the sword in his hand had a dazzling and shocking divine effect. As for what kind of divine spell it was, the ordinary people did not know.
What kind of strange and terrifying existence was a Great Sorcerer who used a sword instead of a magic staff? The temple was such a dignified and noble place, but the man rushed in like he was seeking revenge. It was not like he was a desperado. This man did not hurt anyone, he just attacked the statue of Seth. There were countless statues of Seth, large and small, all over Eygut, but this man was looking for the one in the main temple of each city.
So far, in more than two months, the man had smashed the statue of Seth in the main temple of the seven cities east of the Nile River in Eygut. The impact and shock of this matter was so great that the whole Empire of Eygut was about to be turned upside down. Garrisons everywhere were dispatched to search, and the Magic Academy of Eygut and the imperial department also sent a large number of masters to hunt him down.
As for the other cities that the assassin had not yet visited, they were all on guard, guarding their main temples airtight. They must not let this "blasphemous devil" succeed again. Amon's title had now risen from "assassin" to "blasphemous devil". His purpose was not to fight with the army, but to destroy a statue that could not be moved. He would leave with one blow without delay, and he might appear in another city at any time.
The cities of Eygut could not move the statue of Seth from the main temple, dig a hole and hide it, could they? In fact, when Amon destroyed the statues of Seth in the four cities, the nearby cities were already on guard, but he still succeeded. The small cities in the hinterland of Eygut, which were not in strategic locations, could not have too many masters on guard. Even if a group of priests and warriors were sent to guard the door of the temple, they might not be able to stop Amon's sudden attack.
The city of Heliopolis also specially gathered the mages to set up a magic formation in the temple, but the mages could not set up the formation day and night. After waiting for a month, there was no movement. When everyone relaxed, Amon suddenly smashed the door open and rushed into the temple one morning. Before the priests could activate the magic formation, Amon had already waved his sword and left.
So far, no one had seen the madman's face. Although Rod-dick knew, he did not tell anyone, so everyone did not know that the "blasphemous devil" was Amon. Later, all kinds of rumors spread like a plague in the Empire of Eygut, and some people even said that the man was not a devil, but a god who had a grudge against Seth!
Of course, there were many masters in the Empire of Eygut, and the Academy of Eygut also sent people to the cities to investigate the statues that had been smashed by the devil. Several elders of the academy had seen the remains of the statue and listened to the detailed descriptions of the scene at the time. They all agreed that the man was at least an eighth-level supreme warrior, or even a ninth-level supreme warrior.
A supreme warrior who could fly freely was shocking! In the traditional view, this was the divine power that only gods or messengers of the gods had. A powerful warrior could also rush into the temple and smash the statue like the devil, or break through the roof and escape, but it was impossible to fly straight into the sky and disappear without a trace.
The messengers of the gods were usually called gods on earth, such as the cat goddess Bastet, the frog goddess Heqet, the crocodile god Sobek, and others. There were a total of ten gods in the Ennead divine clan, including Horus, and the rest of the gods were regarded as messengers of the gods. Nowadays, the Empire of Eygut believed in Allah as the only god, so the rest of the gods and messengers were called angels, and Seth was the leader of the angels.
If they were facing such an "angel", then the situation would be even more serious!
Some supreme mages whispered that this might be the revenge of the former king of the empire, Horus. One of the elders of the Academy of Eygut, the high priest of the former Temple of Isis and now the Temple of Seth, Bourque, after inspecting the two destroyed statues, secretly reported to the Pharaoh Merneptah that the method of destroying the statues was similar to the mining techniques of Duc, so he guessed that the man was probably Amon.
What Bourque said was right, and his guess was well-founded. Because after Supreme General Amon left Eygut, he was worshiped as Amun in the city of Salem on the Plains of Duc, and perhaps he really did possess the means of the gods.
Could it be that Amon was really a god who had come to earth, or was he an emissary sent to earth by a certain divine clan? Otherwise, how could a miner from a small town of Duc miraculously achieve such feats that shook the continent? Those who saw Bourque's secret report could not help but think so, but no one could say it publicly.
Although Amon had been away from Eygut for a year, the reputation of the Supreme General of the Empire had not diminished, and he was worshipped and revered by many people, and poems praising him were still sung everywhere. The Pharaohs Of Eygut sending people to hunt down and kill Amon was a secret order that was not made public, and on the surface, General Amon did not violate any of the laws of Eygut. As for the killing of Prince Snek, it was later left unsettled, and no one in the court was willing to mention his name, but Amon's influence among the people was growing.
As a matter of fact, Amon only went to the territory of the Plains of Duc, which was also his hometown, and it was publicly awarded to Amon by the late Pharaoh Lasith Ii. So the Supreme General's behavior was not a defection, but rather a return to his hometown to build the city-state of his dreams with the reward of the late Pharaoh Lasith Ii. On his way back to his hometown, Amon also defeated the supreme mage Celia of Hittite and the beautiful invincible princess, thereby gaining the support of the Hittite Empire for him to build a city-state.
This was how the story of Amon was told among the people, and it was also a fact that not only did Amon's reputation not diminish in the minds of the people of Eygut, his legend instead made more people yearn for and revere him, and his influence had even surpassed that of any famous hero in history.
Amon was worshipped as a god in the city of Salem, and after many people heard about it, they worshipped him even more from the bottom of their hearts. — — If a god really descended to the human world and experienced everything as a mortal, then he should be like Amon. This was the god that people dreamed of.
Why did Amon have such a great influence? Many people probably did not expect it, but when you think about it, it makes sense. In this hierarchical society, Amon's experiences broke through too many shackles and obstacles, and he was the dream of the vast majority of ordinary people.
He was born as the son of a lowly miner in the town of Duc. When he was a teenager, his home was destroyed and he wandered around, but he made great contributions that shook the continent, and then built a miraculous city-state in his hometown, and was eventually worshipped as a god. His story was more inspiring than the deeds of any high and mighty emperor.
Many people worshipped Amon, to put it bluntly, out of a mentality of self-replacement and compensation. The vast majority of people in the world could not have a noble birth, but Amon was once like them. Even if they could not do what they could not do, they could still dream about it, and the achievements that Amon achieved seemed to be like their own achievements in their dreams.
Even if Merneptah, Pharaoh, and a few of the Empire's higher-ups, even if they agreed with Bourque's speculation, it would not be good to say it publicly. If the Empire of Eygut really caught the blasphemous "demon" and found out that he was Amon, it would not be announced that he was Amon, but would instead give him another name or a demon title.
But it was not easy to catch the "demon". Even if he was not an "angel", a ninth-level supreme warrior who appeared and disappeared mysteriously, and it took him more than two months just to destroy seven statues. If they could not find his exact whereabouts, they could not even talk about mobilizing masters to pursue him.
After the seven city-states were attacked one after another, the erratic whereabouts of the "demon" finally became clear, and the seven city-states east of the Nile River in Eygut were all in trouble. Judging from the route he had taken, he should have entered the territory of Eygut from the Cape States, and from east to west and then south, the next step should be to cross the Nile River and reach the city of Montefiore.
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