At first, Leiskkhut was worried that Amon's identity as a sorcerer would bring him trouble or danger, but now it seemed that the possibility was very small. Amon had worked side by side with Prince Benut and rescued Princess Sissila from the giants' tribe. He had connections with two of the most distinguished figures in the kingdom. Who would want to offend such a person for no reason? As long as Amon didn't say it himself, no one would question whether he was a sorcerer or not.
This young man is really something. He's involved in everything!
Medanzo learned about Amon's recent situation from Sio. He didn't expect that Amon's experience after he broke up with him would be so interesting. In Medanzo's mind, Amon was like a god. Even if he did something miraculous, it wouldn't be surprising. Now that he knew where Amon was, he made a request to Sio. He asked him to accompany his caravan back to Montefiore to find Amon as a bodyguard. Of course, Sio agreed.
Medanzo was a noble warrior in the capital of Bablon Kingdom. In order to see Amon, he was willing to lower himself to be Sio's bodyguard. This made Sio feel very flattered. When they arrived at Montefiore, Medanzo wanted to find an inn to stay in. However, how could the enthusiastic Sio let him go? He insisted that Medanzo stay at his home and treat him well.
As they talked, they arrived at Sio's mansion. Hearing the news, Sio hurried to the front hall and bowed, "Lord Amon, it's been a long time. Sio has been looking forward to your visit."
Amon quickly stopped him, "No need to be so polite. I haven't changed much in front of you. Don't call me Lord. I'm not a noble."
Sio said, "You are already the captain of the guards, the captain of the guards in the Temple of Isis. Your status is much more distinguished than that of the common nobles … You haven't come to my house for three months. Coincidentally, Lord Medanzo is also here. We must have a few drinks today."
Amon couldn't refuse, so he held a banquet at Sio's residence that very day. During the banquet, Sio was drunk, and he vented his dissatisfaction over Amon's identity. He held a glass of wine and said, "With your achievements, you should have become a lord long ago. It seems that you are the only one who became the captain of the Temple Guards as a commoner. I heard that the Saintess takes special care of you. Why didn't you make such a request? "
Amon explained with a bitter smile, "I've already received enough rewards for what I've done. As a commoner warrior, I've been promoted to a guard captain of the Archives. How could I ask for more? Furthermore, such a request is against the Empire's laws. "
Sio muttered drunkenly, "The laws of the Empire are really strict. No matter how much money you have, it's difficult to become a noble."
The noble status of the Empire of Eygut could only be obtained in two ways. One was hereditary, and the other was a special gift. The second way was very difficult. One had to make great contributions to the Empire, be specially recommended by the nobles above the castellan of the city-state, and be approved by the decree of the Pharaoh. This kind of contribution was mainly military exploits or merits praised by the people. Amon had only thrown a spear at the ceremony. He was loyal to his duty, but he hadn't reached that level yet.
If someone could become a supreme warrior, it wouldn't be difficult to obtain the status of a noble. But the hope of a commoner becoming a supreme warrior by learning body arts was too slim. Sio's dissatisfaction was also for himself to hear. He was a very rich businessman, but wealth alone couldn't change his identity as a commoner. He once said that if he could obtain the status of a noble lord, he would even give up half of his property. Unfortunately, he didn't have the chance.
Amon and Medanzo listened to Sio's complaints for the whole night. It wasn't until the night that they had a chance to talk alone. Medanzo was already a fifth-level warrior and mage. He said to Amon with emotion, "The determination of faith and the temptation of the devil may be difficult to face. But after I recovered from the pain, my life seemed to have changed. My faith became clearer and I passed the test quickly. Amon, I don't know how to express my gratitude. You are the god who guides me. "
Amon also said with emotion, "Faith comes from your heart. I didn't force you to do anything. There are some things that I don't want to be like that. With your character, it's not easy for you to not make a promise to the princess. No wonder you passed the test of the devil's temptation. Of course, I'm not saying that the princess is a devil, nor am I saying that the title of a noble is a devil. You should understand. Now that you have achieved the fifth-level, have you ever stopped practicing? "
Medanzo grinned, "Amun, you know my ambition and pursuit. I used to want to restore my noble status and the glory of my ancestors. But when I became a noble again, I realized that what I really want is another kind of transcendence, to walk on the path you have pointed out. Except for a few days when I was traveling with you, I have been practicing the power of two sides. It has become my life. "
Amon nodded thoughtfully. "The cultivation of the power of two sides, it obtains a kind of power, but at the same time, it is also a kind of consciousness that one takes for granted. Forgetting it but possessing it naturally may be the true pursuit. Medanzo, since you have embarked on this path, I hope you will remember this. "
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Medanzo temporarily stayed in the city of Montefiore. Amon gave him a task: to buy a house in the city as a temporary residence. He was also given a document to prove his identity. On it was written the name Allaha. Of course, it was convenient to have subordinates. But there were some things that could not be left to the subordinates. Medanzo came at the right time.
Amon was rich enough to buy the most suitable place. On the west side of the city, Medanzo bought a large house. It was the manor of a fallen noble. Not only did it have a front yard and a backyard, but there was also a small independent garden. There was even a fountain in the spacious front hall. There was also a small private shrine in the backyard, used for worship and meditation. It seemed that the owner of the manor had been a mage many years ago.
Now it had become Amon's house. Medanzo took care of everything. He also hired a group of servants, such as gatekeepers and grooms. Medanzo became the housekeeper. The real Allaha rarely showed up. It was said that he was very busy.
Amon also brought Schrödinger into the house. Medanzo knew the cat and told everyone to be respectful to Schrödinger. It was the cat that Amon kept. But Schrödinger did not like living here. Most of the time, it was still hanging out with the idle cats outside the Temple of Isis. Amon could not find it, so he could only wait for it to jump out.
In order to make Schrödinger like it, Amon ordered people to replace the statue of the god in the shrine in the backyard with the Eygut cat goddess Bastet. Every day, the best wine and fresh and delicious grilled fish were served. Whether Schrödinger came or not, the food was prepared for it. In this way, Schrödinger would come every day and sneak away after eating and drinking. It seemed that he was very satisfied with this arrangement.
Maria persuaded Amon to stay in the Temple of Isis and become an honorable warrior in public. The main purpose was to protect him. In fact, the Temple of Isis did not lack a warrior. Maria also promised that she would not stop him from returning to his hometown. If Amon had something to do, she would send him to Duc to carry out a mission.
There were still several months left before the original agreement of one year. Medanzo himself had also come to Montefiore, so Amon was not in a hurry. Whether it was magic or body arts, the higher the level of practice, the more profound and complicated it became. For the first time in his life, Amon suffered a failure. He wanted to process the snake tendon he obtained on the Bablon River into a magic artifact, but he did not control it well enough. He watched the precious snake tendon break in his hands and become useless waste.
But he also had another unexpected gain, which was from Schrödinger.
It was not surprising that Amon bought a private house in the city. With his status and salary, it would be strange if he did not buy another house in the city. Amon only left the temple when he was not on duty. Once he came to the back of the house and walked into the small shrine dedicated to the goddess Bastet. He found Schrödinger drinking and eating meat on the altar.
Amon smiled and stood there quietly, not disturbing the cat's good mood. Schrödinger did not look back, but he knew that Amon had come. After eating and drinking, he jumped off the altar, stretched out his paw and waved like a human, and then ran into the yard.
When Amon chased after him, Schrödinger was already gone, but he left two lines of words on the ground, which were not written in hieroglyphs. It was the first time the cat had written secular words, and Amon was a little surprised. Others would not be able to understand what was written on the ground, but Amon recognized it at a glance. It was the serial number of the archives of the Temple of Isis.
It seemed that the cat was in a good mood. After drinking, he pointed Amon to find two documents in the Archives. What did Schrödinger want to show him? Amon was also very curious.
Although he was the guard captain of the Archives, he could not read the books in the collection at will. He could only try to arrange for himself to guard the corresponding reading room alone, and only when there was a chance that he could take out the files and read them carefully. The first document was found very quickly. It was placed at the bottom of a shelf protected by a detection magic circle in a high-standard document collection room. Fortunately, Amon's detection magic had been practiced to the highest level, and he could take out the document without sounding the alarm.
The result surprised and delighted him. The name of the document was "The Land of Marduc", and the content of the document was the legend about the town of Duc mentioned by Maria. Amon had spent more than half a year searching for it, and if it had not been for Schrödinger's guidance, he did not know when he would have found it. It seemed that the cat also knew what he was thinking.
Amon never thought that the name of the town of Duc was related to the main god of the Kingdom of Bablon, Marduc. It was the place where Marduc became famous, and it was the battle of the gods of the Anunnaki long ago.
In the myths and legends of the Anunnaki, the first to become gods were the male god Apsu and the goddess Tiamat, and they gave birth to the male god Lahaim and the goddess Laham, and the female Laham gave birth to the god Anu. The Anunnaki divine clan was named after the god Anu, and it was said that he was the supreme god with the highest status. But what was going on? It involved a very long battle.
The god Anu had two sons, Enril and Ea, and Ea was the legendary god of wisdom. He had a son named Marduc. Enril gave birth to the god of the moon Nannar and the god of the sun Utu, and the god of the moon Nannar gave birth to Mourrin, known as the goddess of Venus. These gods did not necessarily represent the sun, the moon, and the stars, but they were just their names in the human world.
Mourin had once told Amon that the relationship between the gods was not the kind of blood relationship that mortals understood, but she did not explain much about it. But in the ancient books and legends that Amon had seen, it was still recorded according to blood relationship.
It was said that when the gods divided the divine realm, there was a conflict, and Ea attacked and killed Apsu. In order to retaliate, Tiamat created nine kinds of monsters, namely the nine-headed snake monster, the swamp snake, the scorpion-tailed dragon, the sea monster, the giant lion, the three-headed dog, the scorpion, the mermaid, and the wild bull. He also gave his other son, Kingu, the sacred object that represented the supreme god when he founded the divine clan, the "Book of Destiny", and asked him to take revenge.
The gods were divided into two factions, one headed by Tiamat and commanded by Kingu, and the other headed by Enril and commanded by Marduc. A battle of the gods broke out in the center of the continent, and no one knew how many gods fell at that time. The result was that Marduc won, killing Tiamat and Kingu and seizing the Book of Destiny, so the battlefield was also known as the "Land of Marduc".
However, there was friction on the side of the victors. As the leader of the gods, Enril should have obtained the Book of Destiny, but Marduc gave it directly to the god Anu, so that Enril did not become the supreme god who controlled the Anunnaki divine clan. Anu and Ea had no intention of continuing to participate in the struggle between the gods, and from then on retired to the legendary divine realm of Anunnaki.
A conflict broke out between the two great gods, Enril and Marduc, and the result was the division of the divine realm, with the rest of the gods attached to the two great gods' divine realms and enjoyed their own divine realms according to their contributions in the battle of the gods.
Legend has it that the blood of the fallen gods condensed into the Flame Sprite, the muscles and muscles condensed into the Terroculus, the breath condensed into the Enchantress of the Wind, the sweat condensed into the Aquaticore, and the crystallization of the bones into ordinary parangons. And the Gods' Tear was condensed from the tears shed by the gods. The town of Duc was not the only place on the continent that produced parangons, but the production was very high, which naturally had something to do with the ancient war.
When the two great gods divided the divine realms, the land of Marduc was drawn to the edge of Enril's divine realm. Enril did not want his own divine realm to have the name of Marduc, so the place where people lived was shortened to the town of Duc. There was no record of this legend in the local shrine, but it was recorded in the documents of the Temple of Isis far away in Eygut.
The land of Marduc was once very fertile, but because of the battle of the gods, it became desolate and devastated. That was the place where the gods had fallen, where they had been rejected by the gods, and where they had been exiled. The miners who lived there for generations to mine parangons for the people who worshipped the gods, and they were not allowed to leave their hometown. This was a kind of punishment, and it was said that their ancestors had supported Tiamat and Kingu in the battle of the gods.
Legends were just legends, and no one could say for sure whether this was the truth or not. Amon grew up in the town of Duc, and he knew that the patron of the town was Mourin. How Mourin became the patron of Duc was not mentioned in the document, but it did mention two other things that caught Amon's attention.
One was that the miners of Duc were cursed by the gods, and they had to do heavy labor for generations. The skills of the miners of Duc were also taught by the gods, including the awakening ceremony of power, and even the most basic magic skills. It was similar to the second awakening of power, but there was no real breakthrough. The purpose of the gods teaching the skills of the miners was to make them work for generations until they were redeemed and forgiven.
No wonder Maria once said that Amon was a miner of Duc, and it was not difficult for him to pass the second awakening of power. She was the Adoratrice of the goddess Isis, and she did not care much about the legend of the Anunnaki divine clan. The truth of the legend was unknown, but the skills of the miners of Duc were true. The last step of mining parangons was done by mages, and only in Duc was it done by the miners.
The second was a prophecy passed down from an unknown era. When the land of Marduc became fertile again, there would be a new god of the gods. Another was that there would be a new war of the gods. These legends could not be verified, but in the main shrines of Hittite and Assyr, Enril's oracle was clearly recorded. He would make the land fertile again, and he would become the true god of the gods.
After reading the myths and legends recorded in the document, Amon gasped. These should be legends from a long time ago, and no one knew whether they were true or not. But Duc was indeed a very special place. He could not meddle in the affairs of the gods, but the land around Duc was about to become fertile again. If he wanted to guide his people back to their homeland, the road would be full of thorns and blood.
Then he thought of another thing. Finding the way to become a god was the task given to him by Crazy 'Ole. Was it also related to the ancient legend and prophecy? Bair had been here before, and he had a connection with Crazy 'Ole. Crazy' Ole should also know the records in the ancient book.
Amon turned to the last page of the document, and his guess was confirmed. Someone had left two marks in the blank space. They were very vague, but the lines looked very much like the two sides of the token that Crazy 'Ole gave him.
That token used to be Bair's token, so why did he leave the marks here? Was he waiting for someone else to read the document? Or was he hinting at something? Amon subconsciously wanted to take out the token and compare it, but then he remembered that he did not have it with him.
It was not difficult to find the first volume, but it was not easy to find the second volume that Schrödinger had pointed out. According to the index number, the second volume was locked in a cabinet with many other important books. The key was in the hands of the senior priest in charge of the archives. The cabinet and the lock were enchanted with magic. Amon could not open it without leaving a trace, so he had to wait for an opportunity.
Before Amon could wait for a suitable opportunity, he was summoned by the Adoratrice. It was still Gabriel who delivered the message in person. The place where the Adoratrice summoned him was the study where she dealt with official documents. It was very spacious, like a small palace. The Adoratrice gave him enough courtesy and allowed him to sit. The seat was far away from him, and there was a blanket in front of him. Amon could only salute on the blanket and then sit down to talk.
Maria sat behind the desk. This was a private meeting. There was no one else in the study. Maria had asked Gabriel to leave. The distance didn't affect anything. Amon could still see her very clearly, even the curve of her eyelashes was incomparably clear.
According to common sense, Maria should first praise Amon for his behavior at the Blessing Ceremony, but she did not say so. She just looked at him and asked, "Amon, how are you?"
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