276 、 The Cat That Vented
Typhon looked at Artemis with his mouth wide open, and after a long time, he exclaimed: "Bastet, it's you! Didn't you already perish? … How did you become a goddess again, this is impossible! "
Bastet did not explain much, and directly imprinted a message into Typhon's soul, explaining the cause and effect of the matter. Typhon said in an incredulous tone: "So you have long been the goddess Artemis of the Olympian divine clan? But you have verified the achievements of the Creator by returning to the human world? Lord Osiris has been practicing hard for many years and has not broken through this realm, he must be very eager to see you! "
Artemis sneered: "He is not practicing hard, he is running away! Does he think that by hiding in the Underworld, he is the god who owns this world? Typhon, you said that Osiris must want to see me, is this an excuse to open the door to the Underworld for me? "
Typhon smiled bitterly. "Even if Lord Osiris does not want to see you, can I stop him with the Lord Amon here?" After speaking, he turned around and waved his hand, opening a mysterious portal, and Amon and Artemis walked in side by side.
Osiris was a god guided by the Ennead, and he created the Underworld to receive the undead who believed in the gods of the Ennead, and also to show the existence of the gods to the undead in some way. Upon entering the Underworld, a message would be imprinted into the soul: "The horizon that can only be looked at forever is finally under your feet."
Amon had been here before, just before he ushered in the "test of fate, the judgment of the end of days", he looked at a gushing red sun in the darkness, in which a cat was fighting with a snake, symbolizing the creation of An-Ra and the establishment of the divine realm of the Ennead. The two stepped into the red sun, and another world unfolded in front of them, demonstrating the various scenes of the birth of the Ennead divine clan.
Through the many portals, at the end of this road, another sentence could be heard in the soul: "To enter the world of Osiris, please offer your eyes and heart!" At this moment, everything that the undead had done in their lives was clearly replayed in their souls like a flowing river. No one could deceive themselves, let alone the God of the Underworld.
Next, the undead would walk onto a huge scale, and on the other side would walk another version of himself, symbolizing all the impressions the world had of him, and also symbolizing all the traces he had left for the world he had left behind.
This scale was actually made of a divine artifact and was also the center of the entire Osiris Underworld, supporting the Underworld's enchanted space. When Amon and Artemis stepped onto the scale, what appeared in front of them was not two other gods of the same kind, but Osiris, the god of the underworld with a staff in his hand.
The God of the Underworld's appearance had not changed much. He still wore a white crown and had a long, wavy beard. He did not salute Amon, but nodded slightly and said, "We meet again. Congratulations on your achievement!"
Amon asked: "How do you know about my achievement?"
Osiris replied: "The statues of Seth throughout the realm of Eygut collapsed, and the various cities issued such an oracle, and the deceased spirits brought the news to the Underworld, so it's not difficult for me to guess what happened. There's just one thing I want to confirm, why did the oracle say that An-Ra was the name of Amon? And was it really you who killed Seth? "
Artemis suddenly interjected: "Osiris, no wonder you came here to greet us, it turns out that you have questions to ask. You still put on such airs when you see the Lord of the Underworld, how dare you not salute! "
Osiris replied: "Goddess, are you a new god who has entered the divine realm? I have been away from the divine realm for too long, please forgive me for not knowing you. I used to be the Lord of the Ennead, so why should I salute this new Lord of the Underworld? "
Amon chuckled. "You're right, I have just killed Seth and become the Lord of the Ennead a few days ago, and you have been the Lord of the Ennead since a thousand years ago. From this experience, it should be me who salutes you. How is the Lord of the Underworld? "
With that, Amon bowed to Osiris. Osiris, on the other hand, knelt down and prostrated himself on the ground in a very grand salute. Artemis asked again: "Lord of the Underworld, why are you bowing so solemnly at this moment?"
Osiris stood up and replied: "Because Amon killed Seth, and he has just confirmed the news himself, and Seth is my enemy." Then he turned to Amon and said: "Lord, why have you come to the Underworld?"
Amon smiled again. "You hide in here and don't come out, so if I want to see you, I have to come in myself."
Artemis seemed to have come to pick a fight today, and suddenly interjected: "Osiris, you are really pathetic! You still remember that you were the Lord of the Ennead a thousand years ago, and don't salute the Lord of the present day. And you are very pitiful, bowing down because Amon killed Seth, and you have no choice but to thank him for the gift he brought you. There is only hatred for Seth in your heart, and even if Isis defeats Seth, you will not be free, which shows that you will never be as good as Seth! "
Osiris said angrily: "Goddess, I don't know you, and I'm not interested in your identity. But please be careful when you speak in front of me, and say that I will never be as good as Seth! "
Artemis curled her lips. "Am I wrong? I used to think that you were a high and mysterious Lord of the Underworld, but now it is clear that you are just a sad and pitiful guy! Seth may not be a good thing, but he is at least better than you in one way, and he will work hard for his vow. He is a tragedy, and what about you?
You closed yourself in the Underworld to escape the outside world, and absorbed the power of the undead to heal your wounds. Do you think that's all right? You don't even want to go out of the Underworld to face Seth, you don't even know what happened in the divine realm, and everything can only be obtained from the undead in the Underworld. "
Osiris shouted angrily: "Back then, Ra made a request that if there was a duel between Seth and me, the loser would not be allowed to return to the divine realm to heal, so I have been staying in the Underworld. The gods in the divine realm of Ennead, they also do not set foot in the human world, and only stay in the eternal world of the divine realm. But I have been perceiving the spiritual imprints of all the people in the world, is this also a tragedy? "
The sneer on Artemis' face grew wider: "Lord of the Underworld, are you angry or defending yourself? There are indeed gods in the divine realm of Ennead who no longer set foot in the human world, but their wish is to enjoy eternal life. And you? You want to become the Creator, you want to defeat Seth again, and you hide in the Underworld as if you have been working hard, but in fact, this so-called effort has no hope, and you know it best! If this is not a tragedy, then what is? "
Osiris pointed his staff at Artemis and said to Amon: "Who is she? Why did you bring her here and talk to me like this? I don't know this goddess, and I'm not interested in what she has to say! "
Amon smiled bitterly and said: "You don't recognize her? Since she doesn't say it herself, it's not good for me to tell you, otherwise it will make her unhappy. In fact, why do you care who she is, just listen to whether what she says makes sense? "
Amon did not tell Osiris who Artemis was, and why she came to the Underworld and scolded the god of the Underworld like this. He didn't want to make her unhappy, so the implication was that he didn't care whether Osiris was happy or not.
The sarcasm in Artemis' eyes grew, and she pointed at Osiris and asked: "Does it make any difference to you who I am? Do you feel very relaxed now? Do you feel like you're finally free? Because Seth has fallen, and the main god of the Ennead has been replaced. The shadow that has been pressing on your heart for a thousand years has disappeared, and you can finally come out of the Underworld to meet people. But I would like to ask, you have become the god of the Underworld and trained hard for a thousand years, you should know what it is for. Don't you think all this is ridiculous now, what is the point of your existence? "
Osiris shouted angrily: "I am still the god of the Ennead, I don't need you to tell me what to do here!"
Artemis suddenly laughed out loud, and a message was imprinted into Osiris' soul. She did not say who she was, but introduced a series of changes that happened between the gods after Amon left the Underworld last time, focusing on Amon's achievements and An-Ra's request to Amon, which could be considered as an answer to the question that Osiris raised when they first met.
Her laughter was like a sharp blade, piercing into Osiris' soul, and she asked coldly: "The god of the Ennead? You still don't know the situation, don't you know that the Ennead is about to cease to exist? An-Ra is the name of Amon, and the divine kingdom of the Ennead will be integrated into Amon's divine kingdom, where will you go? "
Osiris was shocked on the spot, and after a long time, he bowed to Amon and said: "What I did not do, you did; the realm that An-Ra did not break through, you broke through; the achievements that Isis did not seek to prove, you sought to prove them. All of this happened after you left the Underworld, and when we meet again, you will have inherited the promise of the God of Creation to the gods of the Ennead. "
The purpose of Amon's visit was to persuade Osiris to accept his guidance and become an angel in the divine kingdom. This was not the submission and allegiance between mortals, it required a real vow in the soul, which could not be forced or falsified. And listening to Osiris' words, he seemed to have been moved, and it was up to Amon to give him new guidance.
Artemis, however, interrupted him and shouted: "Osiris, what kind of guidance do you want to accept? Your soul is at a loss in this Underworld, and what are your years of so-called penance in seeking to prove, do you understand? It was in this Underworld that Amon faced his final test, and it was you who used your great magic to send him out of the Underworld, and then do you know what happened? "
Seth came and stood guard at the mouth of the Nile River, waiting for the opportunity for Amon to return to earth to slay him. And Enril of the Anunnaki divine clan also came, in cahoots with Seth. What were you doing at the time? They were just outside your Underworld, but you closed yourself up in this so-called world of the Underworld and turned a blind eye to them.
I sensed that something was wrong and found Amon in the eternal realm, guarding him as he healed, while Mourin tried to summon Amon to the Plains of Duc. You holed up in the Underworld, absorbing the spiritual imprints of the undead, thinking that you were training, thinking that you had everything under control, but in fact, you were running away from everything.
Now that Amon has slain Seth, is that really your release? An-Ra asked Amon to fuse with the divine kingdom of Aeru, but it also requires the gods to be able and willing to accept Amon's guidance. Seth has been slain, but the only obstacle has become you, because you are hiding in this Underworld, unaware of it. All living beings in the world may have their own meaning of existence, but you, who have transcended eternal life, have become a superfluous god! "
Osiris finally couldn't help but ask directly: "Who exactly are you?"
Amon, however, unhurriedly interjected with an inexplicable remark: "God of the Underworld, what kind of god we will become depends on how we view living beings."
Osiris, however, seemed to be enlightened, and looked at Artemis in amazement. "Bastet, you are Bastet!"
Artemis imprinted another message into Osiris' soul, explaining everything, and at the same time glared at him. "I am Bastet, what can you do? Don't look at me like that, please look at Amon and then look at yourself. In the beginning, there was a mortal who challenged Seth on earth and came here on the Boat of the Underworld.
He went out from here, and now he is back, and what are you doing? Your existence is meaningless at all, and today you are even more superfluous. The illusory vow you made to establish the Underworld has come to an end, do you want to know how all this happened? Then please think carefully, what did Amon say to you in the Underworld! "
Amon asked Osiris why he treated Bastet like that in the Underworld back then, and he said something to the god of the Underworld –
"Osiris, I can't blame you, and Schrödinger can't complain, she did make her own choice. In fact, I also know some gods who have truly transcended eternal life, they only enjoy eternal life in their divine kingdoms and don't force themselves to do anything more, while you are still working hard in the Underworld.
I have also been to the Underworld of Anunnaki, and it is indeed not as good as your Ennead, and the Underworld King Kella is not as good as you. But I want to say that your training may not be as good as the choice made by Bastet, and even less than the wish of Isis. Although Bastet is not a god who has transcended eternal life, I think her final choice may be more meaningful than the choice you made at the beginning.
If, as you said, a new life exists, why not choose a new life? The most valuable thing to increase one's knowledge of the world is one's own personal experience and confirmation. Although doing so may make you lost forever, it seems like a kind of fall, as if giving up eternal life, and the god named Osiris may also never exist, but perhaps it is closer to the true source of divinity. "
At the time, Osiris asked Amon contemptuously: "You actually want to guide a god in his training?"
Now this dialogue sounded in his soul again, as if it was the voice just now, but the situation had changed. Amon had beheaded Seth, and Osiris had become a superfluous existence in the Ennead, and needed to accept Amon's guidance. And what kind of guidance Amon could give him, in fact, had already been said at the time, it all depended on whether Osiris complied, and how could he comply?
Artemis came to the Underworld and did not fight with Osiris, but the question just now was tantamount to forcing the existence of a god into a situation where he had to be questioned again. Osiris let out a long sigh, and his figure turned into a cloud of black smoke that dissipated in all directions, and the invisible black smoke also passed through the figures of Amon and Artemis.
Amon swayed before he could stand firm, and he felt Osiris's spiritual imprint, including all the confirmations of Osiris's training before and after he became a god of the underworld, as well as all the thoughts of his life. He heard Osiris's last words: "I don't know where I will go, and my spiritual imprint will dissipate, leaving only this last state of mind. I don't want to go to your divine realm, and I don't want to become a superfluous existence among the gods of the Ennead. If there is still the possibility of becoming an unknown, I don't even want to see you again. "
Osiris left just like that, and the result may be stunning. He was the god of the underworld, and the god who understood the soul the best among the gods of the Ennead, and his last words expressed a very complicated meaning –
The death of mortals may also lead to the rebirth of souls, and when a new being is fortunate enough to pass the test of endless life and death, it may also glimpse the spiritual imprint of the past and feel all kinds of mysterious causes and effects. But the gods were different, because they had already transcended eternal life, and once they fell, there would no longer be such a god in the world.
There may be a new being born in the world, or there may never be one, but in any case, the spiritual imprint of the god no longer existed. If a new being were to appear, it may only vaguely feel the state of mind at the time of its fall. Even if this being could once again achieve transcendence and eternal life, it would already be a completely different god.
Osiris's situation was different from Artemis's. Artemis did not fall back then, she just came to earth as a cat in the form of a new soul, and when her verification was complete or the life of the cat ended, Artemis would return to the Olympian divine realm. Osiris, on the other hand, was gone, and the god no longer existed.
Amon turned his head to look at Artemis and asked: "Have you vented your anger?"
In the eyes of the world, Osiris, the god of the underworld, was actually "killed" by Artemis's scolding, which was simply unimaginable. Artemis's expression at the moment was a bit like Schrödinger's back then, and she replied with puffed cheeks: "That was his own choice, and when he faced my questioning, he was in the same situation as I was back then. I was just giving him a result, I didn't mean to force him! "
Amon sighed: "I didn't intend to force Osiris, I just persuaded him to accept another kind of guidance and get true liberation. And you were powerful enough to make him kill himself with just a few words. But from the source of the grudge, it's not really clear who was right and who was wrong. "
Artemis shrunk her shoulders and half-turned to bury her face in Amon's chest. "How could Schrödinger be so powerful? It's only because you're around that he seems powerful. You came to solve the problem, and didn't Osiris kill himself solve it all the same? Now that the god of the underworld has fallen, what do you plan to do with this Underworld? "
Amon stretched out his right hand and patted her on the back. "You were so focused on venting your anger that you didn't notice the changes around you."
: Cat finally vented her anger:)
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