140, The Privacy of the Gods

The murder occurred in the city of Ejudise. The victim was a magician, and it happened to be in such a sensitive time. Although no clues of the murderer were found, the most direct suspect and the instigator behind the scenes were John. People could not even suspect him.

Pharaoh was furious. If John really dared to do this, wouldn’t he be lawless! When investigating John’s resume and background, he was really a guy who dared to do anything. Pharaoh sent an envoy to the Cape City-state for interrogation, mainly investigating two things: one is whether John had ever said that Pharaoh’s order was to fart, and the other was whether he had sent someone to kill the priest?

John received the pharaoh's messenger in the military camp. After hearing the purpose of the visit, he drew his sword and cut off the table in front of him, which scared the messenger so much that he almost didn't wet his pants. Rod Dick was also on the side at the time, worried that John would hurt the pharaoh's messenger in impulse, so he quickly stepped forward to dissuade him. But John pushed Rod Dick away and said, "Don't worry, I just want to ask the matter clearly."

It was supposed to be the messenger who interrogated John, but he became the messenger who interrogated him. He asked the messenger and answered honestly, explaining the causes and consequences of the matter clearly.

John sneered and replied, "I said fart, in front of the messenger of Pharaoh. I am a soldier. Even if I don't agree with the order in my heart, I will execute it at that time. You will reply to the Eju Army. As for the death of the priest, I have no need to take his life in this way. I will only fight directly with him. If he is still alive, I will kill him, and you will answer Pharaoh in this way."

The pharaoh's messenger left the Cape City State, but before he left, he accepted a bribe from Rod Dick. The lord of Dick asked the entourage to mediate and make some minor changes to John's answer. John said that fart was a swearing messenger, but that was to speculate on the intention of the pharaoh without authorization, rather than direct targeting the pharaoh's orders. As for the murder case of the royal capital, no one could say anything about the unfounded matter.

Several key members of the Eju military, such as Brez and Longteng, were also dissatisfied with the Pharaoh's investigation and punishment of John. John's family also moved from it, and the final result was not serious.

The death of the priest has no necessarily been related to the impeachment of John. He owed a lot of gambling debts during his lifetime. It is hard to say what the murderer killed people for. It is difficult to investigate without evidence. John did not treat the Pharaoh's messenger unreasonable, had mistakes in his words, and he thought of his mistakes at the first level. The commander of the An-La Legion was temporarily appointed by Rhode Dick.

After the war, John was promoted to the third level of the title for military merits. Now he has removed the first level, which is equivalent to being promoted to two levels, but the commander of the Legion was not done. Rhode Dick is hard enough. After Julian's death, the city lord served as the chief priest of the Cape City State. He had just stepped down from the position of commander of the Seth Legion and carried the captain of the An-La Legion. It seemed that he had great power in the Cape City State, but he had to bear any trouble himself.

The imperial official decision to deal with John was to "reduce his title and think about his mistakes and wait for the recruitment." At the same time, he emphasized that such a decision was because "thinking that he had made contributions to the country, he was treated lightly." The official document also added a sentence, "If you have been trained by General Amon, you should apologize and repent to the general."

The implicit meaning in the document is very obvious. Amon's face is lighter than John. John is inconvenient to punish him for making military achievements, but he cannot be arrogant because of his military achievements. Amon himself should also take it as a warning.

Since John had made him apologize to General Amon, John was too lazy to go to the Military Services Agency to report after returning to Meng Feisi, so he followed George to Amon. After hearing what happened, Amon shook his head and sighed, and asked John: "Why did you answer the Pharaoh's messenger like that? Anyway, there was no record of magic at that time, and they were all verbally speaking. Even if they didn't admit it, no one could catch your handle. Besides, the impeacher was dead, and others were not inconvenient to stand up publicly to continue to entangle."

John said decisively: "What I said is like that. Even if Pharaoh asked me personally, I would answer that way. If it weren't for farting, why did he take back the order and appoint you as the commander-in-chief of the battlefield? He wanted to punish people just after the battle, and when he was looking for someone to die, he thought of you again!"

Amon frowned: "But why did you swing your sword in front of the pharaoh's messenger and cut off the table? If Rhode Dick had mediated from it, the frightened messenger went back to add some crimes, you would not have been able to stand it. Will the irritability and impulse in your heart be unable to suppress, and you have lost your calmness?"

John answered seriously: "I was indeed angry at that time and could feel the restless power, but it was no longer out of control. It was like the potential that exists at any time, and I could use it freely. That sword was just a sign of my attitude. Although I was angry, I was very clear and calm in my heart, and knew what to do and how to answer."

Amon stared at John for a long time and suddenly smiled: "After you recover from serious injury, you have changed a lot. Keeping your mind calm in the restless power is an amazing achievement! It seems that you don't want to be the commander of the legion and take the opportunity to escape. Even if you are deposed as a first-level rank, it doesn't matter."

John laughed and said, "Yes, thank you for your guidance all the time. I finally got rid of the double shackles of body and mind. I have never been so relaxed. The restless power can no longer drive me, but has been integrated into my body and mind."

Amon stood up and said to George: "The three of us were once the three chief officers of the An-La Legion. Today we rarely get together here. Have a good night's dinner and celebrate John's becoming a great warrior!"

George also smiled and said, "It turns out that the general also saw that John had advanced to the Great Warrior. I didn't say it on purpose just now."

John became a little shy: "This achievement cannot be compared with the general and the high priest. Where is Medanzo? He is also a great warrior, so he should be here. I really want to fight with him for a drink."

Amon: "It's a coincidence that I sent him out to do business a few days ago. If General John had been here for a longer period of time, he would naturally be able to wait until he came back."

That night, the three of them drank and chatted together. John felt that it was not lively in the small hall, so Amon simply ordered his servants to set up a large tent in the open space, put the banquet there, and called the personal guards to eat and drink together. The scene was very lively, as if it was back to the time of marching and fighting.

John was drunk and was helped back to rest. After the meal was dispersed, George called Amon alone into the hall and handed him an exquisite copper box and said, "General, this is the book you want to read. Only the great magician can open this box intact without destroying the things inside, so I will send it in person and take it out in your face."

Amon said embarrassedly: "It's hard for the high priest to go there personally. I didn't expect this volume of classics to be so particular. When I was in the archives, I only knew that it was locked in a cabinet, and it turned out that there were mechanisms in the cabinet."

George smiled bitterly and said, "That is, your face, General, otherwise this kind of classic will not be possible to leave the Temple of Isis. If you want to read it, it is not impossible, but you have to go to the scene to check it yourself and cannot take it away. I said to the Saint, and the Saint asked me if I wanted to come to you to relax. I said I wanted to, and she sent me with the classics, and then I had to take it back with myself."

Amon said in surprise: "What kind of classic is this?"

George was stunned: "Don't you know the file number you gave?"

Amon smiled and said, "I have walked many places and heard a lot of rumors. I just knew there was such an archive number, but I didn't know what it was."

George glanced at him: "How did you know so many strange rumors? Forget it, I don't want to ask anymore. Just read it if you like it! To be honest, I haven't even read this volume of classics. According to the records indexed in the archive catalog, it is an ancient myth, which may involve the privacy of gods, and it is difficult to distinguish between real and false. Human myths like this that may be disrespectful to gods should have been destroyed, but this document is a collection that has been circulated since ancient times, so it was sealed. I have checked the records and the last time someone borrowed it was more than two hundred years ago!"

Amon asked strangely: "In this way, no one has opened this box for at least two hundred years?"

George looked at the box with a weird look: "According to the records of the archives, it should be like this. As for whether anyone has opened it during this period, I don't know. It's not always in my hands... After you say this, I'm curious, and I'll also look through it after you finish reading it."

Both of them are proficient in advanced information magic. Of course, this box was sealed by magic magic, but the sealing traces are obviously from recent decades, which shows that someone has opened it privately without registration. Who did it? The tenth thing is Bell back then, and they tacitly didn't mention this.

George opened the copper box in front of Amon, revealing a roll of light yellow and white documents, and then said goodbye to go back to rest. Amon brought the volume back to his bedroom, and did not light the light, so he opened the window to read under the moonlight. With his current eyesight, he could see clearly.

This volume was written on grass stem paper hundreds of years ago. It was slightly incomplete, but it was preserved very well. Surprisingly, it was written in secular text rather than divine texts. The notes were a little messy and neat, and in the format of psalms, with the contents of ancient myths and legends recorded by a folk minstrel.

The first long poem tells the story of Goddess Isis and God An-La. In this long poem, it is claimed that Isis was the first woman on earth to master language, and An-La was the ancient god who ruled the heaven and earth, and was also the earliest sun god in Eju. He symbolized the rise of life and hope.

Isis made a snake with sand and placed it where Anra passed by every day, bit the god. Anra was poisoned and felt very painful. Isis came to him and sang, "God, have you been bitten by a poisonous snake? Language has the power of wisdom, and it can overcome pain. Please tell me your original name and hidden language, so that you can be cured."

An-La replied, "I am the ruler of heaven and earth, the creator of the gods, and all the horizons you can see are my divine realms. I am called An at night, Ra during the day, Hepuri in the morning, and Atum at dusk."

Isis said again: "This is not your original name. Please tell me the real secret, and all this pain will disappear."

So An La spoke his original name and hidden language. Isis gained his magical power and became stronger than An La, becoming the patron saint of Meng Feisi and the entire Xia Eju. The ancient An La retreated to the clouds at the origin of the Ronnie River.

This long poem made Amon blink. Many places were seemingly difficult to understand by the stories told by the bard hundreds of years ago, such as "language", "original name", and "hidden language". These may have other meanings, or they just imagined things that they did not understand out of thin air, some absurd but also some symbolic shadows.

In this poem, it is very clear that Isis was once a human rather than a god. According to Amon's understanding, Isis should have mastered some kind of cultivation secret, which is "language", and obtained the secret of becoming a god from An-La. This is "hidden language", and as for "original name", it may refer to other things.

How did Isis gain the divine power of An-La? Is it just a bard's imagination, or an exaggerated processing of folklore? But Amon clearly remembered that Schrödinger once said that she wanted to find someone who could save her from the trouble without seeking divine power to imprison her again. It seems that this may really happen, but she didn't know the mystery!

Amon shook his head, temporarily put down his questions, and then read the next long poem. The content of this poem is somewhat contradictory to the previous poem. It may be that the legend is different in the folk version, and it is about the "family" of the Nine-Lian Tianshen.

An-La is the oldest creator among the nine-couple gods, born in the first lotus at the source of the Ronnie River. An-La spit out the wind god "Shu" and the water god "Fu" from his mouth. Shu and Fu gave birth to the earth god "Gebo" and the sky god "Nut", and Gebo and Nut gave birth to four gods, namely "Osiris", "Isis", "Nevtis" and "Set".

This poem does not mention the name of Horus, the god of Age, today. Amon already knows that the relationship between gods is not the kind of kinship that people understand, but this is how people understand it. In this poem, Isis and An-La were separated from An-La for several generations, and her divine power did not come directly from An-La.

If you look at these two poems in a link, you can make a speculation that Isis gained power from Schut and Geb, and then defeated Anla with this power and other means, obtained Anla's secrets and divine power, and became the supreme queen. After Anla retired, Horus, the son of Isis, became the king god who ruled Eju, and was in the main position among the nine-couple gods.

Amon opened the third long poem again, and the story in it turned out to be the battle between the ancient gods. It turned out that this kind of conflict occurred between the nine-couple gods. Some plots in the poem still differed from those of the first two poems. The characters in the story do not look like gods, but rather record a palace struggle on earth, just like what is happening on the Continent today.

It is said that Osiris became the most powerful god, known as the king of the gods. He symbolized abundance, controlled the rise and fall of all things and the life and death of people, and established the Eju Empire and was respected as Pharaoh. His younger brother Seth was originally a protector of the kingdom, but he used tricks to murder Osiris and became the king of Eju.

Seth put Osiris in a coffin and threw it into the Nile River. Osiris's wife Isis went through a lot of hardships to retrieve her husband's body. After Seth discovered it, she cut Osiris's body into many pieces and threw it to different places in Eju. Isis found all parts of the body piece by piece, but only one piece of flesh and blood was not retrieved. It is said that it was eaten by fish in the Ronnie River.

Isis was pregnant next to Osiris's corpse and gave birth to Horus. Isis raised Horus and imparted his power. With the help of the other gods, he defeated Seth, regained the throne and became the new king of the gods, and permanently ruled the king of Eju.

The Psalm has not ended here, and there is a tail behind it. With the help of Neftis, Isis retrieved Osiris' fragmented corpse in the swamp and desert. Osiris was resurrected from death. The grass stem paper is a little damaged here, as if it means that Osiris's soul reappears. Seeing that Horus has become the king of the gods, he returns to the underworld to become the god of the underworld in the Nine-Linked Divine Realm.

After reading the third long poem, Amon looked up and looked out the window and fell into deep thought. The content of the poem was naturally processed by the poet's imagination, but there are several things that can still be confirmed, and the legend is not without foundation.

The people of Eju do not eat fish and never fish in the Ronnie River. It is said that the fish in the Ronnie River have Osiris' flesh and blood in their bodies. This divine river leads to the underworld. Osiris is the patron saint of the Ronnie River. The annual flooding of the Ronnie River, the revolving plants and trees symbolize the cycle of life and death, and also symbolizes the resurrection of Osiris from the dead.

The Psalm mentions that Osiris's body was divided into many parts by Seth, and part of the flesh and blood was eaten by fish in the Ronnie River, which is the source of the Eju people's customs. Another undoubted evidence is that Osiris' ribs, now in Amon's hands, were the holy objects that Bell stole from the Temple of Isis.

In this way, Osiris should have given up his original body and did not return to the human world, but became the God of the Underworld. Did he have a new body or a soul-like existence? Amon doesn't know...

Pharaoh Eju called Horus, who was known as the human world, and Osiris, who was known as the underworld after his death, all wanted to build a magnificent tomb for himself. The corpse could be preserved for a long time after special treatment. He looked forward to resurrecting the dead like Osiris, which also proved the existence of myths and legends a long time ago.

Amon sighed, lowered his head and looked through the last article, which mentioned the story of the Eju cat god Best. Seeing this, Amon finally understood why Schrödinger wanted to check this volume of classics. The secret that she lost her divine power and was sealed may be hidden in this ancient legend.

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***: When I was writing this chapter, I suddenly remembered Shakespeare's classic work "Hamlet". It seems that Shakespeare drew inspiration from ancient Egyptian mythology. However, Shakespeare wrote no longer a god, and stripped the characters in his writing from the halo of divinity and returned to the real display of human nature. The origin of "Hamlet" should be the myth of ancient Egypt.
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