Many people thought of a frightening inside story. What kind of demon had forced Lady Maria, the Adoratrice, to unleash the Tiamat's Wrath in the Temple of Isis? Well, after thinking about it, there was only one possibility. It was not some demon that had descended to earth, but the Archangel Seth himself. No matter who it was, they could not help but shudder at the thought. They could only think about it, but absolutely could not say it out loud!
The Temple of Isis in Montefiore had now become the Shrine of Seth. This was the only shrine named after Seth among the main shrines of the cities, and it was also the most important shrine in Lower Eygut. Everyone thought that the "demon" would never let go of this shrine, so the "demon"'s next target must be Montefiore. Montefiore was not like other places. Not only was it guarded by the Empire's elite Legion of Isis, there were also six supreme mages and eleven supreme warriors in the city, as well as the largest team of priests in Lower Egypt. No matter how powerful Amon was, it was impossible for him to come and go freely when the Shrine of Seth was on guard. As long as the demon came, he must not be allowed to escape! "This is an order from the Pharaohs Of Eygut.
Just in case, the magic formation that enveloped the entire city of Montefiore was also activated. For the first time, this formation was not activated because of war, but because of one person. Although it did not fully display the offensive and defensive power of war, only the most powerful detection function was activated, but the number of parangons consumed every day was also astonishing. It also required a supreme mage and a dozen priests to take turns presiding over the formation.
As expected, Amon made his move again, but to the disappointment of all the guards, he did not go to Montefiore. Instead, he went south along the Nile River, crossed the river two hundred miles away to the west bank, and suddenly broke into the city of Herak. The "demon", rushed into the main shrine of the city and repeated the same trick, slashing at the statue of Seth with a sword, then rushed out of the encirclement and flew into the sky. The guards of the shrine in the city did not catch up, and a large number of masters from Montefiore did not find the "demon".
At this moment, some people recalled that Amon was once a general of the Empire. He was proficient in the art of war. Not only was he good at commanding troops, but he was also especially good at surprise attacks.
Could he be doing this to create a diversion and lure the tiger away from the mountain? Ambushing Herak City in a short period of time would attract the experts of Montefiore, allowing him to turn back and attack the Seth Temple. Therefore, Eygut hurriedly gathered his experts to prevent the Temple of Seth from falling into the devil's trap.
However, Amon's whereabouts were once again unexpected. In three days and three nights, he had traveled two thousand miles along the Nile River all the way south, successively attacking the main shrines of the city of Polis and the city of Pano. It seemed that he had already left the lower Eygut and went straight to the upper Eygut. People could not help but turn pale with fright again. Was the "demon" going to attack the shrine of the capital, Thebes?
Merneptah Pharaoh was building a new capital, Hilmore, six hundred miles south of Thebes, but Thebes was still the economic, political, and theocratic center of the upper Eygut, and its security was even tighter than that of Montefiore. Immediately, they also activated the magic formation to guard the entire city, and sent masters and a large number of elite guards to guard the main shrines of the nearby small cities.
However, after waiting for more than a month, there was still no movement from the "demon". That person seemed to have given up on continuous crazy actions, but the area around Thebes did not dare to relax their vigilance. At this moment, in the lower Eygut, six thousand miles away from Thebes, news came from the city of Butuo that the main shrine had been attacked by the "demon", and it was still the statue of Seth that had been destroyed.
The city of Butuo was north of Montefiore, and was already the northernmost border of the Empire. Amon actually turned back to the lower Eygut, and after such a big circle, he attacked a city that no one had expected. Before people could react, Amon suddenly went west along the coastline and attacked another coastal city, the city of Rosetta.
Amon rushed into the main shrine of Rosetta and slashed at the statue of Seth. As he flew away in the air, he was intercepted by a flying sword controlled by a supreme mage and a supreme warrior, and two other flying swords flanked him from the side. But before the army could form an encirclement, another "demon" stepped in to help Amon break out of the encirclement.
The city of Rosetta was the base of the Osiris Legion that guarded the northern sea of the Empire, so its defense was not weak. Gabriel, who had secretly assisted Amon, struck again.
In four months, Amon had attacked the main shrines of twelve cities in succession. As a top ninth-level supreme warrior or ninth-level mage, his "battle record" was actually insignificant. After such a long time and such exquisite surprise attack tactics, he had not killed a single enemy and had only destroyed twelve statues.
But the shock this incident caused to the Empire of Eygut was indescribable. It could be said that Amon had dealt the heaviest blow to the Empire of Eygut with the smallest cost. Every sword swing at the statue was equivalent to cutting a fatal weakness, and even the foundation of the Empire State Building was invisibly shaken.
This was a battle between Amon and a huge empire. If he was still a Supreme General, this mortise and tenon tactic would have been too despicable. It was so despicable that it made one's hair stand on end, but it was also so terrifying that it made one tremble!
This was a country where divine power and royal power were combined. The Pharaoh who ruled the empire symbolised the incarnation of the gods on earth, and the shrines of the cities were also the spiritual pillars of the people. The sacrificial ceremonies held in the shrines were the most important spiritual, entertainment, and political life of each city. Such a crazy move by Amon caused the cities to impose martial law around the main shrine for several months in a row. The normal sacrificial activities were completely stopped, and the authority of the gods and the empire was attacked and questioned.
Although it was only the statues that were destroyed, this was no longer a sudden incident, but it was constantly happening all over the Empire of Eygut. People could not help but ask, where was the Archangel Seth? The statues in the shrines of the cities were continuously cut down like vegetables. Why couldn't the Pharaohs Of Eygut, who represented the incarnation of the gods on earth, stop it?
Seth, known as the Archangel Leader, now left the impression on the people that he was timid, incompetent, and cowardly. If Seth could not perform his miracle to punish the "devil", then who would sincerely offer sacrifices to him? The "great Archangel" Seth did not stop the devil's behavior. His image in the hearts of the people of Eygut had been collapsing with the collapse of the statues. Amon could not force Seth to show up, so he did not fight him face to face. Instead, he used this method to knock him down from the altar one sword after another.
Amon's approach was also a great risk. If he was not careful, he could be smashed to pieces. No matter how strong he was, it was impossible for him to fight against the army of Eygut and the many masters. Once he was blocked, even with Gabriel's help, it would be impossible for him to escape. But on the other hand, the Pharaohs Of Eygut, the elders of the Academy of Magic of Eygut, and the senior officials of the Imperial Army had a bigger headache at this moment.
They were not facing an army, nor were they facing an enemy head-on. The devil was more like a roving bandit who came and went like the wind, and he was the craziest madman in the history of the continent! This person did not care about life and death, and was not even afraid of the gods, but his actions were extremely strange and cautious. He wandered all over the vast territory of Eygut, never leaving a trace, and no one knew where he would be and when he would appear.
At first, except for a few who had guessed Amon's identity, most people did not even understand what the purpose of this "devil" was. But later, many people gradually realized that this "devil" was probably really a god. Either it was the revenge of Horus, an evil god from a foreign world, or Amon who had ascended the altar in the distant Plains of Duc.
No one knew when or where it started, but there was a rumor that this series of events was Amon challenging the Archangel Seth. What's more, some people said that Amun had already killed Seth. But no one could be sure what the truth was, and probably only the real gods themselves knew.
Seth had his own problems, Eygut had its own problems, and Pharaoh had his own problems with Pharaoh. Don't forget that the meaning of the name "Merneptah" of Pharaoh was "The Light of An-Yira, the Guardian of Seth".
Merneptah and Pharaoh held an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures. Someone came up with a stupid idea. In the city-states that had not yet been "visited", they sent a supreme mage and two supreme warriors to guard the main shrine. In particular, the two supreme warriors had to carry weapons, and they took turns to guard the statue of Seth day and night. If the "devil" rushed into the shrine, they could at least block a blow so that he could not destroy the statue, and the others could take the opportunity to hold him back, even if it was to figure out the identity of this "devil".
This was a very effective and stupid idea, but it was rejected by most people. First, it was because it was difficult to gather so many masters, and second, even if it was barely possible, it was impossible to disperse all the masters to do this kind of thing. If this was the case, many of the important daily political and military affairs of the Empire of Eygut would not be able to function normally, and the gains would not make up for the losses.
On the other hand, Pharaoh and the priests of the Empire were constantly praying to the gods, asking the gods to send down an oracle to punish the devil, and they did receive an oracle. It was said that the angels had come to earth and were searching for the devil everywhere. The devil was too cunning, his whereabouts were uncertain, and he was extremely good at hiding, so he had not been caught yet, but the angels would eventually capture him and hand him over to the Empire of Eygut.
There were dozens of divine emissaries in the Ennead divine clan, and they were the most dangerous force Amon had to face. According to the situation learned from Schrödinger's spiritual imprint, more than a dozen of these dozens of divine emissaries were good at fighting, and Amon had already personally experienced it in Aeru, and he absolutely did not want to experience that again.
Amon himself also had the ninth level of the power of origin, and he knew the habits of those divine emissaries very well, and they would not be willing to take the risk themselves unless they had no other choice. The divine emissaries in Aeru did not react at first, and when they realized the seriousness of the situation and mobilized on a large scale, they found that Amon's whereabouts were difficult to find.
At first, the divine emissaries decided to concentrate their forces in a few important cities and wait for him, but as a result, Amon did not come, and the situation became more and more out of control. Thus, they made a decision to send an emissary to the main shrine of each city to keep an eye on them. These emissaries may not be a match for Amon, but they had a very special way of communicating with each other, and once they found traces of Amon, they would immediately summon the emissaries of the nearby cities to outflank them.
In the case of not being able to find traces of Amon, this was the best arrangement, and it really worked.
Amon was briefly intercepted when he raided the Rosetta Shrine, and at that time, the insect god Khepri of the Ennead divine clan happened to arrive at the city of Rosetta, but he did not attack immediately, and instead immediately sent a message to the other divine emissaries who were rushing to the nearby cities. The snake god Edjo, who had originally planned to go to the city of Scheis, was the first to arrive.
Khepri intercepted Amon halfway, and Khepri then attacked in an attempt to entangle Amon while waiting for the other divine emissaries to arrive one after another. Amon saw the danger of the situation, and together with Gabriel, he repelled the other divine emissaries and immediately fled far away, leaving the borders of Eygut and the Ennead divine realm to the north, flying far above the vast sea.
The process of their escape was thrilling, but in the end they were not caught. For a long time after that, the divine emissaries were still waiting bitterly in the shrines of the cities of Eygut, but Amon did not appear again.
Li had already figured out what countermeasures the divine emissaries of the Ennead divine clan had taken. The city of Rosetta happened to be located on the northern border of the Ennead divine realm, so when he attacked the insect god Khepri, he could still get away with ease, but if he continued to go deep into the hinterland of Eygut to attack the shrines of the other cities, he would probably be walking into a trap, so he fled far away and disappeared.
Amon was active, while the divine emissaries of the Ennead divine clan were passive. Amon could choose the right time and place to strike again, but how long could the divine emissaries wait? Amon finally determined one thing, Seth was absolutely unwilling to see him. The situation had reached this point, and the Archangel had not yet appeared, so even if Amon cut down all the statues of Seth in the main shrines of the twenty-four cities of Eygut, Seth would not appear.
This at least showed one thing. For Seth, there were more important issues to consider than the status of the Lord God. Compared to the meaning of the existence of the gods, Seth valued the existence of the gods more. He had transcended eternal life and was a near-eternal existence. He was not willing to fight with Amon, which was something that could lead to his downfall. Even if his position in the hearts of the people of Eygut collapsed, Seth had to bear it.
Maybe this god was seriously injured and had not recovered so far, so he was not an opponent of Amon, or he was afraid of the power of Tiamon's Wrath.
The world knew that Nero had successfully made a Tiamon's Wrath, and Amon had obtained something suitable for Nero, which was why many powerful gods were unwilling to provoke Amon head-on. Seth was not on guard against Maria at first, and he never expected that Maria would launch a real Tiamon's Wrath.
Some people guessed that it was Amon who gave it to Maria, but no one dared to be completely sure.
The Temple of Isis had gathered scroll masters and tried to make Tiamon's Wrath, but they did not succeed, but the real situation was probably only known to Goddess Isis and the previous Saintesses. What if the Tiamon's Wrath in Maria's hands did not come from Amon? What if Nero made not one but two Tiamon's Wrath, and Amon gave one to Maria and kept one in his own hand?
This possibility was very small, but Seth did not dare to gamble. If he made a wrong judgment, his eternal life would really disappear. So no matter what Ah Lu did, Seth was determined not to appear.
But it was intriguing that Maria once said, "When I hear your voice, I seem to see your fall." Seth escaped because he did not want to lose his eternal life. Was it because of this that Maria foresaw the fall of this god?
Amon took Gabriel away from the pursuit of the Insect God Kebli and the Snake God Edjoe, and flew towards the vast sea in the north, far away from the scope of the Ennead's divine realm. Shortly after they escaped, the other dozen divine emissaries also rushed to the sea border of the city of Rosetta, but in the end, they did not chase into the sea to search for Amon.
The sea was vast, and it would be difficult to be found if they found a place to hide. Moreover, it was not appropriate for the divine emissaries to go far away from the divine realm to search for one person aimlessly, leaving the territory of Ennead and the Empire of Eygut empty. So after a short discussion, they returned to the main shrine of the city they were guarding.
Amon and Gabriel flew at a low altitude, almost sticking to the top of the waves on the sea. The surging waves and turbulent brilliance on the sea were also conducive to performing stealth magic to cover their tracks. After flying like this for a few days and nights, when Amon was sure that there could be no more pursuers, they finally stopped on a lonely island.
The island was about five miles long and three miles wide, with two mountains, one high and one short, on the island. Halfway up the higher mountain, there was actually a pool formed by rainwater accumulated in a natural rock mortar, a place where people could live. But its location was thousands of miles away from the mainland, and there were no other islands within a thousand miles, so it was rarely visited.
The island was covered with lush jungles, and the shallow waters and beaches surrounding the island were inhabited by a large number of marine animals. Amon also found a dilapidated house halfway between the two mountains, which was built by cutting down the trees on the island. It was left behind a long time ago, indicating that someone had been here. It may have been a place where pirates had stayed, or it may have been a temporary stop for a fleet crossing the sea to resupply, but now there was no trace of people.
Amon decided to stay here for a while, the environment was very good, just right for seclusion and training. For the time being, he would not disturb the shrine of the city of Eygut, and let Pharaoh and the divine emissaries of the Ennead wait bitterly.
Amon was far away from Eygut, training in the blue sky and blue sea, silently accumulating strength, but the troubles of the Empire of Eygut did not end immediately with Amon's departure. According to previous experience, no one could tell where the "devil" would appear after disappearing for a while. The cities were still facing a great enemy, and the divine emissaries were still on guard around the shrines. The daily operations of the entire Empire were seriously disrupted and were in an abnormal state.
Although the divine emissaries did not intercept Amon in the city of Rosetta, it was not without gain. They finally confirmed the identity of the "blasphemous devil", and it was "Amun" from the Plains of Duc. The Pharaohs Of Eygut and the high priests of the Empire who prayed to the gods every day finally heard the latest oracle.
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