Pivot of the Sky

Chapter 217: A battle of one man and one empire

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Many people have thought of a frightening inside story, what kind of demons forced the Virgin Mary to launch a storm of destruction in the Temple of Isis. After much deliberation, there is only one possibility, and that is not some demon that descended on the world, but the Archangel Seth himself. No matter who it is, they can't help but shudder at the thought of this, they can only think about it but never say it!

The Temple of Isis in Memphis City has now become the Temple of Seth. This is the only temple named after Seth among the main temples of the city-states, and it is also the most important temple in the Lower Ecu. Everyone thinks that the "demon" is He will never let this temple go, so the next target of the "demon" must be Mengfeisi.

Memphis City is not like other places. Not only is it guarded by the elite Isis Legion of the Empire, but there are six great magicians and eleven great warriors in the city, as well as the largest contingent of priests in Lower Egypt. No matter how powerful Amon is, he cannot come and go freely when the Temple of Seth is on guard. As long as the devil comes, he must not be allowed to escape! — This is an order from Pharaoh Ecu.

Just in case, the magical formation covering the entire Memphis City was also activated. For the first time, this large formation was activated not because of a war but because of a single person. Although it did not have the full offensive and defensive power during a war, it only launched the most powerful detection function, but the amount of divine stones consumed every day is also amazing. It is necessary for a great magician to lead a dozen priests to preside over the formation in turn.

Sure enough, Amon made another attack, but to the disappointment of all the watchers, he did not go to Mengfeisi, but went down the Roni River, crossed the river two hundred miles away to the west bank, and suddenly broke into the city of Herac. The "devil" rushed into the main temple of the city-state and repeated the old trick. He slashed at the statue of Seth with a sword, and then rushed out of the encirclement and flew into the sky. The city-state's temple guards did not catch up, and a large number of masters rushed from Memphis did not find this "demon".

At this time, someone remembered that Amon was once a great general of the empire. He was proficient in the art of war. He not only commanded the army to fight tough battles, but was also particularly good at surprise attacks. Could he do this as a plan to attack the north and divert the tiger away from the mountain? Raid the city-state of Herac in a short time, attracting the masters of Memphis, so that he can turn around and attack the Temple of Seth. So Xia Eju hurriedly recruited experts to guard against the tricks of the "demon" in the temple of Seth.

But Amon's whereabouts were unexpected again. He ran for two thousand miles in three days and three nights, all the way south along the Ronnie River, and successively attacked the main temples of the Polis city-state and the Pano city-state. Ecu on ecu. People couldn't help but turn pale with fright again. Could it be that the "devil" is going to attack the temple of the king's capital city of Des

Pharaoh Eraht is building a new capital, Shermo, 600 miles south of the city of Thes, but the city of Thess is still the economic, political, and theocratic center of Upper Eju, and its guards are even stricter than that of Memphis. Immediately, the magic formation guarding the whole city was activated, and masters and a large number of elite guards were dispatched to guard the main temples of several small city-states nearby.

But after waiting for more than a month, there was still no movement from the "demon". The man seemed to have given up his continuous crazy actions, but he did not dare to relax his vigilance in the area around the city of Des. At this time, the city-state of Lower Ejubuto, six thousand miles away from the city of Des, heard the news that the main temple was attacked by "demons", and the statue of Seth was still destroyed.

The city-state of Butuo is to the north of Memphis, and it is already the northernmost boundary of the empire adjacent to the sea. Amon actually turned back to Lower Eju, made such a big circle, and attacked a city-state that no one could have imagined. Before people could react, Amon suddenly went west along the coastline and attacked Another seaside city-state, Rosetta.

Amon rushed into the main temple of Rosetta city-state, and slashed at the statue of Seth with his sword. When flying away in the air, he was intercepted by a flying shuttle controlled by a great magician and a big warrior. There were also two other flying shuttles. Outflank from the side. But before the army could form an encirclement, another "demon" came to meet Amon and broke through.

The city-state of Rosetta is the base of the Osiris Legion guarding the northern seas of the empire, so the defense force is not weak. Gabriel, who secretly assisted Amon, made another move.

For four months, Amon attacked the main temples of twelve city-states in succession. As a top ninth-level warrior or ninth-level magician, his "record" is actually insignificant. After so long and such exquisite surprise attack tactics, he has traveled thousands of miles without beheading a single enemy, only destroying them. There are only twelve statues.

But the shock caused by this incident to the Eju Empire is indescribable. Amon can be said to have caused the heaviest blow to the Eju Empire at the smallest cost. Every sword that was swung at the statue was tantamount to slashing at a fatal weakness, and even the foundation of this empire building was invisible and loose.

This was a battle between Amon alone and a huge empire. If he was still a great general, this tactic would be too damaging, despicable and outrageous, but also terrifying!

This is a country where theocracy and kingship are united. The pharaoh who ruled the empire symbolizes the incarnation of the gods in the world, and the temples of the city-states are also the spiritual pillars of the people. The sacrificial ceremony held in the temple is the most important spiritual life, entertainment life and political life everywhere. Such a crazy move by Amon caused the city-states to put martial law around the main temple for several months. The normal sacrificial activities were completely stopped, and the authority of the gods and the empire's rule was hit and questioned.

Although it was only the statues that were destroyed, this was no longer a sudden incident, but was constantly being staged throughout the Ecu Empire. People can't help asking, where is the archangel Seth? The statues of the gods in the main temples of the city-states in various places were chopped off the altars like melons and vegetables. Why couldn't Pharaoh Eju, who represented the human incarnation of the gods, be able to stop it

Seth is known as the leader of the angels, and now the impression he left on the people is timid, incompetent and cowardly. If Seth could not perform his miracles to punish the "demon", then who would really sacrifice to him? The "great archangel" Seth has not stopped the demon's behavior for a long time, and his image in the hearts of the Egyptian residents has gradually collapsed with the collapse of the idol.

Amon couldn't force Seth to show up, instead of fighting him face to face, he knocked him off the altar with one sword after another in such a way.

Amon's approach like this is also a great risk. If he is not careful, he will be smashed to pieces. No matter how powerful he is alone, it is impossible to fight against the army of Eju and many masters. It is impossible for Bailie to escape. But on the other hand, the Pharaoh Eju, the veterans of the Eju Theological Academy, and the senior officials of the Imperial Army are even more troubled at this moment.

What they were facing was not a large army, nor an enemy fighting head-on. The demon was more like a rogue who came and went like the wind, and he was the craziest lunatic in the history of Tianshu Continent! This person disregarded life and death, and was not even afraid of the gods, but he acted extremely strangely and cautiously. He wandered around the huge Eju territory without leaving a trace. I don't know where and when he will appear

In the beginning, except for a few insiders who had already guessed Amon's identity, most people didn't even understand what the purpose of this "demon" was. But later, many people gradually realized that this "demon" might really be a god, either Horus' vengeance, or an evil god from a foreign land, or he had landed on the remote Duk Plain. Amon of the altar.

I don't know when and where a rumor spread that this series of events is God Amon challenging the Archangel Seth. What's more, some people said that the god Amon had already beheaded Seth. But no one can be sure of the truth, and probably only the real gods themselves will know.

Seth had Seth's troubles, ecu had his ecu's troubles, and Pharaoh had pharaoh's troubles. Don't forget that the name of Pharaoh "Eilaht" means "the glory of Allah and the guardian of Seth".

Pharaoh Eraht held an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures. Someone thought of a stupid way, and sent a great magician and two great warriors to sit in the main temple in the city-states that have not been "patronized" all over the country. In particular, the two great warriors must wear weapons, and they take turns guarding day and night in front of the statue of Seth. If the "demon" rushed into the temple, at least one blow could be blocked so that he could not destroy the statue, and others could take the opportunity to entangle him, even if it was to find out the identity of the "demon".

This is a very effective stupid way, but it was rejected by most people. One is because it is difficult to get so many masters together, and the other is that even if you can barely get together, you can't disperse all the masters to various places to do this kind of thing. If this is the case, many important daily government and military affairs of the Ecu Empire will not be able to function normally, and the gains outweigh the losses.

On the other hand, Pharaoh Eraht and the priests of the empire kept praying to the gods, asking the gods to send down an oracle to punish the demon, and they did receive the oracle. It is said that the angels have come to the world and are chasing the devil everywhere. The devil is too cunning, its whereabouts are uncertain, and it is very good at hiding. It has not been caught yet, but the angels will eventually capture it and hand it over to the Ecu Empire.

There are dozens of divine envoys in the Jiulian God System, and they are the most dangerous forces Amon faces. According to what we learned from Schrödinger's soul imprint, more than a dozen of these dozens of envoys are good at fighting, and Amon has already personally learned in Jiulian Shrine, and he absolutely does not want to have that experience again.

Amon himself also has the ninth-level achievement of the original power, and he knows the behavior habits of those envoys very well, and those people are never willing to take risks unless they have to. The envoys of the Gods in Jiulian Shrine didn't react at first, but when they realized the seriousness of the situation and made a big move, they found it difficult to find Amon's whereabouts.

At the beginning, the envoys of the gods decided to concentrate on several important city-states and wait for the rabbits. As a result, Amon did not come, and the situation became more and more out of control. So they made another decision, sending an envoy to watch secretly in the main temple of each city-state. These envoys may not be Amon's opponents, but they have a very special way of communication. Once they find the trace of Amon, they immediately call the envoys of the nearby city-states to outflank them.

Under the circumstances that Amon's trace could not be found, this was already the best arrangement, and it really worked.

Amon was briefly intercepted during the surprise attack on the Rosetta Temple. At that time, the worm god Kebri happened to arrive at the Rosetta city-state, but he didn't make a move immediately, but rushed to the nearby area immediately. The other gods of the city-state sent messages. Edjo, the snake god who originally planned to go to the city-state of Saisi, was the first to come to join him.

Kebri stopped Amon halfway, and then Kebri also tried to entangle Amon, waiting for other envoys to arrive one after another. Amon saw that the situation was dangerous, and worked together with Gabriel to repel the two envoys, and immediately fled away without any entanglement, leaving the border of Eju Kingdom and Jiulian God Realm to the north, and flew far into the vast sea.

The process of their escape was thrilling, but they were not caught in the end. For a long time after that, the envoys of the gods were still waiting in the temples of the city-states of Eju, but Amon did not appear again.

Amon has already thought about what countermeasures the gods of the Nine-United Gods have taken. The Rosetta city-state is just located at the northern border of the Nine-United Gods, so he can escape calmly when he encounters the insect god Kebre, but if he continues to go deep into Eju To attack other city-state temples in the hinterland, I am afraid that I am throwing myself into a trap, so I fled away without a sound.

Amon is active, while the envoys of the Jiulian gods are passive. Amon can choose the right time and place to make a move, but when can those envoys wait? Amon finally confirmed one thing, Seth absolutely didn't want to see him. The situation has reached this level, and the archangel has not yet appeared, so even if Amon cut down all the statues of Seth in the main temples of the 24 city-states in the whole of Eju, Seth will not appear.

This at least illustrates one situation. For Seth, there are more important issues to consider than the status of the main god. Compared with the meaning of the existence of the gods, Seth values the existence of the gods themselves. He has transcended eternal life and is a nearly eternal existence. He is unwilling to fight Amon desperately. This is something that may lead to his fall. Even if his status in the eyes of the Egyptian residents collapsed, Seth had to bear it.

Maybe this god has been seriously injured and has not recovered so far. He thinks that he is not Amon's opponent, or he is afraid of the power of the destructive storm.

Everyone knows that Nero successfully produced a storm of destruction, and Amon got Nero's relic, which is why many powerful gods are unwilling to provoke Amon head-on. Seth didn't take precautions against Maria at first, never expecting that Maria would launch a real storm of destruction. Some people speculated that it was given to Maria by Amon, but no one dared to confirm it completely.

The Temple of Isis once gathered master scroll makers to try to create a storm of destruction but was unsuccessful, but the real situation is probably only known to the goddess Isis and the saints of all ages. What if the storm of destruction in Maria's hands didn't come from Amon? What if Nero made not one but two Destruction Storms, and after Amon gave it to Maria, he still kept one in his hand

This possibility is very small, but Seth didn't dare to gamble. If his judgment is wrong, his eternal life will really perish. So no matter what Amon does, Seth is determined not to show up.

What is intriguing is that Maria once said a word: "Hearing your voice, I seem to have seen your fall". Seth fled because he didn't want to lose the life of eternal existence. Could it be that because of this, Mary foresaw the fall of this god

Amon led Gabriel to get rid of the tracking of the worm god Kebri and the snake god Edjo, and flew towards the vast sea in the north, far away from the scope of the Jiulian God's Domain. Not long after they escaped, the other dozens of envoys also rushed to the sea area of Rosetta city-state, but they did not chase into the sea to search for Amon after all.

The sea is vast, and it is difficult to be found by hiding in a random place. Moreover, the envoys of the gods stayed away from the realm of the gods and searched for a person aimlessly. The Jiulian Shrine and the territory of the Eju Empire would be empty, which is also inappropriate. So after a brief consultation, they returned to the city-state lord temples they guarded.

Amon and Gabriel flew close to the top of the waves at low altitude. The waves and turbulent light and shadow on the sea were also conducive to the use of stealth magic to hide their tracks. After flying for several days and nights in a row, when Amon was sure that there would be no more pursuers, they finally stopped on a lonely island.

The island is about five miles long and three miles wide. There are two mountains on the island, one high and one short. Halfway up the higher peak, there is actually a pool formed by rainwater accumulated in the natural rock mortar, which is a place where people can live. But its location is thousands of miles away from the mainland, and there are no other islands within thousands of miles, so it is inaccessible.

The island is covered with lush jungles, and the shallow waters and beaches surrounding the island are inhabited by a large number of marine animals. Amon also found dilapidated houses on the half slope between the two mountains, which were built by cutting down trees on the island, and they were left a long time ago, indicating that someone had been here before. It may have been a place where pirates stopped, or a fleet of ships crossing the sea temporarily stopped for supplies, but it is now uninhabited.

Amon decided to stay here for a while, the environment is very good, it is suitable for seclusion and cultivation, and he will not disturb the temple of the city-state of Eju for the time being, let the pharaoh and the envoys of the nine-linked gods wait.

Amon was far away from Eju, cultivating in the blue sky and blue sea, silently accumulating strength, but the troubles of the Eju Empire did not end immediately because of Amon's departure. Based on previous experience, no one can judge where the "demon" will reappear after disappearing for a period of time. The city-states are still on the verge of a great enemy, and the envoys of the gods are still on guard around the temples. The daily affairs of the entire empire have been seriously disturbed and are in an abnormal state.

Although the envoys of the gods did not intercept Amon in the city-state of Rosetta, they were not in vain. They finally confirmed the identity of the "blasphemous demon" who was the "God Amon" from the city of Salem in the Duk Plain. ". Pharaoh Ecu and the high priests of the empire, who prayed to the gods every day, finally heard the latest oracle.

What is extremely surprising is that it was not an angel who sent down the oracle this time, but An-Ra, the father of the gods of the nine-linked pantheon and the "only god" believed by the Aiju Empire today!