269. The Prairie Fire
Amon bowed his head and replied: "I grieve for Maganlei. I witnessed the story between her and Faust, but I still let it happen. Her fate is not my fault, but I met her and did nothing. This is the regret of a god. I can understand Faust's grief. "
Gabriel turned around and said: "My God, what you saw was the world, and you could not make it the kingdom of heaven that you vowed, but I am also a little surprised that you have come to such an end after experiencing it. Although you were far away at that time, did you not hear Maganlei's call to the gods? "
Amon said sadly: "The god she called should be Enril, maybe also Faust. Enril has fallen, but his name is still a symbol, a hope of Maganlei. Gabriel, do you know where I went wrong? "
Amon actually asked Gabriel where he went wrong? The angel who had transcended eternal life replied, "My God, you are not wrong, but you are different from them. When you were only a child, I saw you. Although your experience was full of hardships and trials, Amon, who walked out of Duc, was born like a god.
Perhaps when you wielded that heavy hammer at a young age, you were forged with perseverance and calmness. The Ducians' thousand-year bloodline and the harsh and desolate environment have created a different kind of you. I only saw you lose your mind when Maria left. You felt weak and angry, impulsive regardless of the consequences, and helpless in the face of setbacks.
Apart from that, no matter how many difficulties you encountered, your footsteps were never disorderly. A young man who was banished to the mountains into a tribe of cavemen was worshipped as a god. This is something no one else can do. That is why you became the Amun of today. Although you passed the test of endless life and death in your early years, and the thousands of creatures could not shake your will, the people of this world, they are not you.
The people of this world are Faust, perhaps not as knowledgeable and accomplished as him. The people of this world are also Maganlei, perhaps not as humble and weak as her. You met Wendy in the Gate of God and brought her back to the Garden of Eden, but can your Garden of Eden accommodate so many Faust and Maganlei?
You gave Faust guidance and finally let him dominate the soul, but the other humble Maganlei has also been trying to dominate her own soul. She is not you, nor is she Faust, just a weak mortal, struggling in the face of fate. If you had not met her, I would have nothing to say. But you witnessed it, but you only focused on Faust and ignored her.
For you, witnessing a weak and humble person dominate her own soul may be more meaningful than paying attention to the assassination of Cyrus the Great. Empress Samir pointed her sword at you, not because you did something wrong, but because she felt resentful and helpless, just like her own life was full of helplessness. As a god, you will bear the questioning of the gods, as for how you look at it, it depends on what kind of god you want to be. "
When Gabriel finished speaking, Amon looked up at the sky and said: "In the human world, the so-called strong like Faust and the so-called weak like Maganlei may be the footprints that are missing from my experience, but they are the most common ones everywhere. When I left the human world to create a divine kingdom, I did not expect to complete my final quest here, and my own experience is also full of regrets. "
Samir, who was at the side, was deep in thought and had slowly sheathed her sword. Amon looked at her through Gabriel's shoulder and asked: "I have told you about Marduc. Although Cyrus is dead, I am afraid there are only a few years left for the Assyrian Empire, and Potts will soon make a comeback. What are your plans?"
Samir stared at the direction in which Faust disappeared and replied: "He is gone, and I understand that without him, I cannot control and govern this empire as I wish. After Sinnach's death, there have been people in the kingdom who have been trying to support his son to succeed the throne and restore the previous state policy. Now I might as well leave it to them and let these people get their wish. Before the Potts Empire makes a comeback, I hope they can be prepared, but I can already see the end. "
Rulio whispered: "Empress, are you going to retire? Why don't you go to the Garden of Eden and become an envoy of Amun? "
Samir shook her head, and suddenly a pair of white wings spread out behind her, and she flew south without saying a word. Rulio shouted: "Samir, where are you going?"
Samir's voice replied from afar: "I have to take care of the last things and hand over the throne to Sinnach's son, and I will go to the north of the Syah Plateau, where the Reis River originates, and live in seclusion. That is also where my people have lived for generations. What Faust could not find, I want to continue to search for. I wish you good luck in the Garden of Eden. "
Rulio watched Samir leave, and said to Amon with some regret: "My god, she refused the invitation of the Garden of Eden, but that pair of wings is like an angel in the Garden of Eden."
Amon narrowed his eyes and said: "Those are the wings of a white pigeon. It is said that when Samir was still a baby, a flock of white pigeons flew around her, and even used their wings to keep her warm. She was discovered by a couple and brought home. … She has already received guidance, and she has her own desire to seek confirmation. At this moment, she has spread her wings and is finally free from fate. You all go back to the Garden of Eden, I am going to open up our kingdom of heaven. "
After saying this, Amon turned around and stepped into the void, once again disappearing from the world.
… …
In the next few years, the things that happened on the continent were unimaginable, but they were all within Amon's expectations. Cyrus was suddenly assassinated, and the newly rising Potsdam Empire did indeed fall into internal strife. Cyrus' son, Cambyses, sent a high priest named Gomortar to secretly execute his younger brother, who might have competed with him for the throne, and then went on an expedition to succeed the throne.
Cambyses replaced his father, Cyrus, and arrived at the border of Eygut, receiving the worship of the Pharaohs Of Eygut, Merneptah. But just as Cambyses was heading to the border of Eygut, the high priest Gomortar seized the opportunity to seize power in the name of the executed younger brother.
Cambyses heard the news and hurried back to Potsdam with his army, but he died on the way. Some said he contracted an illness, some said he was injured in battle, and some said he was assassinated. Gomortar seized the throne, but he was unable to convince the masses. The Potsdam Empire fell into internal strife, and the conquered Elam Kingdom took the opportunity to become independent. The remaining provinces also showed signs of falling apart.
A few years later, the great general Darius, who was from the Neanderthal tribe, launched a coup, killed Gomortar, and ascended the throne. Then, he spent another two years to pacify the internal divisions and the various regions. Not only did he restore the prosperity of Cyrus, but the Potsdam Empire also continued to expand. Only then did Eygut truly submit to Potsdam, and Assyr and Bablon were destroyed one after another.
From the assassination of Cyrus to the ascension of Darius, a total of eight years had passed. From the ascension of Darius to the conquest of Assyr, it took him another two years. In other words, the assassination of Cyrus by Faust and Samir gave the Assyr Empire a total of ten years of breathing space. Unfortunately, this empire was already in its twilight, and had not yet recovered its former glory. In front of the powerful Potsdam, it was still vulnerable.
Amon once said that it would take at least two to three years for Darius to take control of the situation, but in fact, Darius spent even more time. He was not in a hurry. Instead, he waited for the signs of internal strife to appear, and then suddenly launched an attack to eliminate all the hidden dangers and stabilize the rule of the Potsdam Empire.
Darius led his army to the border, and the battle at the frontline collapsed as soon as he touched it. The son of Sinach and the ministers of Assyr immediately decided to surrender. Darius only fought a hard battle, and then immediately annexed the Assyr Empire. If the Potsdam Empire had a battle to conquer Assyr, then the conquest of Bablon was almost effortless.
When the Potsdam Empire conquered Assyr and sent its army south, Marduc had already sent down an oracle, ordering the Kingdom of Bablon not to resist. King Benut wanted to fight, but unfortunately, he had lost the support of the group of priests. When the army arrived, the priests guarding the capital took the initiative to stop the magic formation of the city of Bablon and opened the city gates.
Darius largely inherited the national policy of Cyrus. Because the empire was expanding too fast and its territory was too vast, the development of the various regions was very uneven. He still adopted the strategy of local governance, not only retaining the interests of the original nobles, but also allowing them to worship their own gods.
The Potsdam Empire allowed the people of the new provinces to worship the original gods, but as a conqueror, it also required the construction of shrines for the main gods of the Potsdam Empire. This scene was a bit like the town of Duc in the past, the town where Amon lived as a child. At the same time, there were shrines for the local patron goddess Mourin and the god of Eygut, Horus. But the situation of the Potsdam Empire today was different from that of Duc. The Potsdam Empire was a real conqueror, and its shrines were burning all over the continent, accepting real sacrifices.
The current Emperor of Potsdam, Darius, was actually the incarnation of Marduc. Would this Emperor kneel to his own statue during the sacrifice ceremony? If that was the case, what a ridiculous scene it would be!
But in fact, this scene did not happen. In the main shrine of the Potsdam Empire, in the center of the altar was a blazing flame, not a statue of a certain god. The Bakri that Amon knew was the title of a certain god, and Marduc also had an unknown name called Poxun. But the state religion of the Potsdam Empire was called the Great Light Church, and it was worshiped by a holy flame. The god symbolized by this flame was called Mazda.
The people of Potsdam worshiped the Great Light God Mazda, and the state religion was called the Great Light Church. Later generations also called it the Sect of Fire. Its branches spread far and wide and gradually mutated, and it was also called the Sect of Fire or the Sect of Fire. But that was a matter of a long time later. In short, Marduc was ever-changing, and no one knew that the holy flame named Mazda was also the symbol of this god.
This scene reminded people of the cavemen tribe that Link was in a long time ago. Those cavemen lit a flame that never went out in a large cave all year round, and they worshiped the flame that brought warmth and light as a god. It was the prototype of a primitive religion. Until the arrival of Amon, who inherited and replaced the position of the flame and became the god in their hearts.
If Amon had higher achievements at that time and had a clearer purpose to become the god that people sacrificed, he could have adopted another approach and directly sent down an oracle to give guidance. Then the flame would have been deified, and its name might have been Amon, becoming the symbol of the god that brought warmth and light.
Marduc may have done this in the past. Potsdam was first formed from the fusion of many primitive tribes, and it was normal for the origin of the Sect of Fire to have such traces. In a sense, he may have had similar experiences as Amon, but whether this was the case or not, Amon had not been able to verify.
After the Potsdam Empire annexed Bablon, the divine realm of the original Mazda divine clan of the Potsdam Empire and the divine realm of the Anunnaki divine clan of the heaven's center had merged into one, and with the submission of the Empire of Eygut, it also extended into the divine realm of the Ennead divine clan. Darius then led his army westward, crossed the straits, defeated the former Kingdom of Turquia to the west of Hittite, captured its capital city of Damascus, and established a new province.
The Kingdom of Turquia was already on the edge of the Olympian divine clan, and after Potsdam annexed it, they pressed into the United Kingdom of Sidon by land and water, which was the place where the people on earth believed in the Olympian gods. The Potsdam army encountered the most tenacious resistance in history, and the repeated tug-of-war lasted for a long time.
Amon did not witness Darius' great achievements on earth, and as Marduc cut off his avatar to verify the oath was close to completion, Amon also created his own vow of heaven in the immortal eternity.
… …
Faust turned into smoke and dissipated, Samir spread his wings and flew away, and Amon stepped into the immortal eternity. His figure with a faint golden light appeared in the boundless loneliness, waved his hand forward, and saw a golden river, at the end of which was a Lotus of the First holding a gushing red sun.
Then the river surged and swept him into the source, swallowed up by the red sun, and Amon entered the Ennead divine realm for the second time. As soon as he appeared in the divine realm, he heard Ra's voice: "Why are you only now coming?"
Standing over a desert, Amon said to the Lotus of the First at the source of the divine river in the distance: "Ra, when do you think I should come?"
The petals opened, and Ra stood up and sighed: "I didn't expect that Marduc would actually defeat the entire Anunnaki divine clan. He attacked from the human world, and the divine realm of the Ennead is also in the process of imperceptibly merging, and Potsdam's fire is really fierce. Our original agreement was that after you had the achievements of the Creator, you would kill Seth and become the main god of the Ennead divine realm, but now … "
Amon interrupted him and said: "Now I still abide by the agreement, no matter what the situation is in the Ennead divine realm."
Ra actually bowed to Amon and said: "Amun, your aura is both familiar and unfamiliar to me, as if it contains a realm that I have not yet sought. Can you please tell me, have you seen Anu? What happened to the Anunnaki divine realm? The answer that Anu and I are seeking, can you give us some pointers? "
Amon raised his hand, and a golden light imprinted itself between Ra's eyebrows.
Ra stood in the heart of the flower, stunned, and the Lotus of the First at his feet was gradually stained with a faint golden glow. After a while, he looked up and said, "Things on earth have exceeded my expectations. Even if the divine realm of the Ennead no longer exists, there is still this divine kingdom in the eternal and inextinguishable. This is my promise as the God of Creation. Now that I want to make the same choice as Anu, can I ask you to replace me and integrate it into your divine realm? "
Amon replied: "I had expected you to make such a request. If the divine realm of the Ennead is no longer there, or even if the Empire of Eygut disappears, I don't care if I replace Seth as the main god, but you want me to replace you in fulfilling the promise of the god of creation and pursue another realm of transcendence?"
Ra showed a very faint smile: "Like Anu, I have reached the end of my path to become such a god of creation. I can only let go of the end of my desire to transcend the mortal world, but to let go, I can only ask for your help. "
Amon asked again: "Do you know what you will face? It may be the same fate as Isis. "
Ra shook his head: "I don't know, but I will seek confirmation, and the vow in my heart has been made."
Amon nodded lightly: "Well, I agree to your request. But to integrate this divine realm, I must first create my divine realm. And to create my divine realm, I must complete the unfulfilled vow. This is not a matter between you and me, but also requires the gods of the Ennead to be willing to accept my guidance and become angels in the divine realm. If I don't kill Seth, there is no way to talk about it. "
Ra waved his hand and said: "Go, this is between you and Seth, the gods of the Ennead will not intervene!"
The mountains and rivers in front of him swirled away and turned into the shape of a lotus flower, and Amon stood outside the divine realm again, looking at the outline of the divine realm. On one petal of the Lotus of the Beginning, there was a dew-like light, and the 'dewdrop' reflected a scene of heaven and earth, which was the world created by Seth, the Creator, and belonged only to him.
Seth was hiding in that dewdrop-like world, which was attached to and integrated with the divine realm of the Ennead. Others could not enter, but Ra could cast a spell to make it appear. If Amon wanted to kill Seth and Seth did not fight, he could only attack from the outside and destroy the world.
Amon stood in the void and raised his arm, and the golden light in his palm turned into a silver glow, which extended into the shape of the Blade of Order! This was a transformation of Amon's great magical power out of nothing. It had the same power and use as the Blade of Order. With the Blade of Order in his hand, Amon condensed all his magical power and flew it out.
After the silver glow flew out, it rapidly shrank and eventually fell on the 'dewdrop' and disappeared. A crack appeared on the 'dewdrop', and there was a faint sound of a landslide, and the petals of the lotus flower trembled slightly. – What Amon used at the moment was no longer a mortal technique.
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