I am God Chapter 342: : Do you know witches?
Sukob led the witch spirit apprentices to communicate in Pans City. The magic scrolls they brought were very popular in the city, and all the forces in the city wanted to order large quantities from the witch spirits. A one-time transcendent item for use.
Su Kebu himself was invited by various forces, including General Dark Moon who had just taken control of the royal court, and the blind prophetess of the Temple of Ten Thousand Snakes.
And.
Those behind-the-scenes people who want to deal with General Dark Moon, are secretly ambitious.
However, Su Kebu rejected all these invitations,
But on this day, Su Kebu couldn't refuse a grand ceremony held on the bright side.
In the palace of the royal court, well-dressed dignitaries came one after another.
At the banquet.
Everyone talked about poetry, talked about the glorious past of the Ten Thousand Snakes, and talked about the magnificent achievements in the history of the family.
And the protagonist around whom everyone is surrounded is General Dark Moon.
General Darkmoon is an attractive looking man who still looks quite young.
Tall and heroic, with sharp eyes.
Standing in the crowd, he narrated his thoughts to everyone, how to lead everyone to create a situation next.
Even if what he did was outrageous in the eyes of ordinary people.
However, he still has a lot of supporters for being able to get to this point.
"I plan to follow the example of the White Tower Alchemy Alliance and divide the central territory of the royal court into several provinces. At that time, this country needs everyone's help to govern each province for His Majesty the King of Ten Thousand Snakes."
"The bureaucratic system in the past has no way to control such a large country. We need a new system."
"The royal court needs a large number of officials and a certain degree of innovation."
General Dark Moon paused for a moment, then spoke seriously and seriously.
"This country needs someone who can stand up and take responsibility."
Everyone looked at General Dark Moon, thinking he was talking about himself.
He raised his hand: "This person is all of you here."
"As long as everyone is willing to stand up, they will be able to save this country and make it strong again; there will never be a situation where even the barbarians in Lei Ze dare to humiliate us."
Everyone burst into cheers, and some thought General Dark Moon's words were really inspiring.
But among the crowd, there were also some disdainful glances.
Breaking the old order and establishing a new system will inevitably usher in a powerful counterattack from the old forces; provincial system.
Currently, the central control area of the royal court is divided into provinces, so what about in the future?
Is the entire royal court going to be divided?
The territories of those big nobles are all countries within a country. The provincial system has been implemented in this way, and they have been divided in this way. Are the territories still ours?
However, the previous large-scale cleansing has already killed many people in the city.
Those who dared to resist General Dark Moon have almost been killed; many of the rest were killed from the army following General Dark Moon, naturally because of the intensity of his words fans.
In the palace, Su Kebu looked at General Dark Moon.
"To change a country, it is still a country with a vast territory like the Ten Thousand Snake King's Court."
"Is it really possible?"
It can be found that General Dark Moon should have been to Suinhor and the Land of the Rising Sun, and he is very familiar with the situation and problems in these countries.
He also saw the internal problems of the Ten Thousand Snake King's Court, and was also trying to find a way to solve this problem.
However.
Sukob is not optimistic about him.
It is not optimistic that he can carry this already fragmented kingdom.
Perhaps the words he said were beautiful and the situation he described was correct, but this is not something he can do alone.
Sukob thinks that what he did was to accelerate the demise of the kingdom; the already precarious kingdom ushered in a man who pushed the power to overthrow the king, and carried out drastic reforms, and there was no **** above him reveal all the details.
What he welcomes will not be rebirth from the ashes like the White Tower Alchemy Alliance, but will only burn the entire earth to nothing.
The second half of the banquet.
When General Dark Moon tentatively mentioned that he wanted to move the capital of Ten Thousand Snake King Court to the west, to Moon Eclipse City.
There was an uproar among the crowd.
"What?"
"Move?"
"I don't want to leave here, to leave Pence City."
"Eclipse City? The palace there has long been abandoned? Where does His Majesty the King of Snakes live?"
"And how much will it cost to move there? Isn't this a waste of nothing?"
The Court of Ten Thousand Snakes had two capitals a long time ago, one city of Pansi and one city of Eclipse.
The city of Pence is to the east, at the foot of the Mountain of Origin of Life.
Eclipse City is closer to the west and the sea.
But as the kingdom became stronger and stronger, relying on the Shepherd's River to carry it, it could continuously obtain enough supplies, and the Moon Eclipse City was abandoned.
And now that General Dark Moon proposes to move the capital, it is not just about changing the concept of the capital.
Now, many people can't sit still.
Someone immediately stood up and expressed fierce opposition.
It can be seen.
This is General Darkmoon preparing for his national policy and complete power.
Once the transfer of the capital is successful, the old forces will be completely broken; the power will be reshuffled, and General Dark Moon can really formulate his own national policy according to his ideas, and turn the situation of the entire country bit by bit.
More importantly, the lunar eclipse city of the western capital is closer to the south, which is more convenient for the royal court to control the southern territory.
If the capital was in Moon Eclipse City, those out-of-control territories and nobles in the south of Ten Thousand Snake King's Court might not be so comfortable.
The benefits appear to be many.
However, there is a very serious problem.
This means that they have to give up the sacred place of the Mountain of Origin of Life.
This is absolutely intolerable to many.
The most embarrassing thing for General Dark Moon is the prophet of the Temple of Ten Thousand Snakes.
The prophet stood up and questioned him: "The mountain of the origin of life."
"Is that enough?"
"Pence's descendants have given up the holy land opened up by our ancestors."
"The descendants of ten thousand snakes left the place of creation of the gods like this?"
General Dark Moon: "The gods are eternal, and the holy land will last forever."
"Whether we do it or not, whether we go or not, it is sacred and eternal."
"It's always here."
"However, we are only mortals, so naturally we have to consider and prepare for mortals and this country."
General Dark Moon very much hoped that the Prophet would back down. The woman in front of him may not be particularly powerful, nor extremely powerful.
But her opinion and will are more terrifying than power and strength.
The blind prophet did not back down in the slightest. She believed that General Dark Moon's move would not only violate the faith, but also cause the entire Ten Thousand Snakes Court to fall apart.
"Dark Moon!"
"Have you thought about it?"
"If the mountain of origin of life is no longer the capital, if there is no this holy place, if there is no prestige of Pans City."
"Is the king of snakes still the king of snakes?"
"You can still be like this..."
"Is it domineering?"
The voice of the blind prophet became louder: "Leave this holy mountain, and the entire Ten Thousand Snake King's Court will completely lose its connection with everything."
"There is no place where the offspring of Ten Thousand Snakes can be linked together in this way."
"There is no force that can deter everyone like this."
"Get out of here."
"The Court of Ten Thousand Snakes is no longer the Court of Ten Thousand Snakes."
General Dark Moon paused for a moment before speaking.
"I believe that it is not only this mountain that supports the Court of Ten Thousand Snakes, but also other things."
The blind prophet looked up, her eyes dark.
What you can see is the fire of the rhythm of life surging in the darkness.
In her eyes, General Dark Moon's fire of life was blazing and bright, not only his strong body, but also his will and determination.
What surges in his body is his urgent desire to change the world and this country.
Or rather.
Ambition.
The Prophet didn't know why, but he was terrified of the other's burning desire and ambition.
This raging fire may illuminate the darkness, but it may also burn everything into ruins.
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At the banquet.
A waiter came to Sukob and invited him to the side room.
Su Kebu met this powerful Dark Moon General, except that he didn't directly put the crown on his head, this is the uncrowned king of the Ten Thousand Snake King's Court.
General Dark Moon saw Sukob and respected him very much.
"Sukob, a man of God."
"I have traveled to many places, and I have been to Suinhor's Fire Protection City, but unfortunately I have not been able to meet the King of the Scarlet Goddess."
"I have also been to the City of Lights in the Land of the Rising Sun. Unfortunately, the giant statue of God Iva has collapsed. What is even more regrettable is that I also did not see the Apostle Oran."
The front is full of regrets, but the turning point is ushered in later.
It is precisely because of these regrettable foreshadowings that it seems that this ordinary meeting has become different.
These ordinary words were also used to set off General Dark Moon's admiration for the person in front of him and the importance he attached to this meeting.
"But this time."
"I have finally fulfilled my dream, because a living **** is standing in front of me."
General Darkmoon is very funny, and he doesn't look like a battle-hardened general at this time.
Although his words are very respectful, Su Kebu feels that.
What he respected was not Sukob's status as a divinely favored one.
It is the power possessed by Su Kebu, or the power possessed by the gods behind him.
After some words of praise to close the relationship, the general said straight to the point.
"You must think that I am a careerist, a person who is desperate to seize power, a person who bullies orphans and widows and took this country."
"Really?"
The general looked at Sukob, just when one thought he was going to defend himself.
He said.
"Yes, I am such a person."
"I am a careerist, I am desperate to seize power, I just took this country from the hands of an orphan and widow."
"But what I want to say is that what this country needs is not a good man, not a moral saint."
"The Ten Thousand Snake King's Court has reached a precarious moment. He needs a person or a group of people to support it strongly. The previous king has proved that he can't do it, and a child can't do it."
"So I stepped up."
"As long as it can be saved, as long as it can be good for this country."
"No matter what method is used, no matter what method is used, I will do it."
Su Kebu once again affirmed his previous judgment. This is indeed a charming general, and his every word can move people's hearts.
Even when he said those unethical remarks, people felt that he was right.
Although there are definitely some high-sounding parts in the words, it feels completely different when a person really says that and does it.
But Sukob is not interested in all this: "General!"
"I'm just an outsider, a witch spirit out of the world, we never interfere in such things."
"So what I think, how I see."
"Not important."
General Dark Moon saw that Su Kebu didn't answer, and felt that the old man in front of him was difficult to deal with.
He asked the waiter to serve wine and snacks, and then filled Sukob himself.
After the atmosphere eased a lot, they started talking about this country directly.
"The King of Ten Thousand Snakes established the country very late, at least much later than Suinhor. The era of tribal disputes lasted for hundreds of years. This great country."
"Think about it, it has been more than five hundred years since now."
"There were not so many people hundreds of years ago, there was no paper hundreds of years ago, there were not so many varieties of crops hundreds of years ago, and there were not so many powerful people."
"People hundreds of years ago could not imagine everything now."
"They couldn't imagine that snake artisans and workshops could produce things that they had never imagined before. All kinds of great works burst out with such brilliant civilization.”
"I can't imagine that generations of alchemists are constantly moving forward, and I can't imagine that the looms and spinning machines of the White Tower Alchemy Alliance are constantly turning, producing cloth like flowing water. I haven't seen hundreds of alchemy workshops Create goods that fill the port."
"But what about the Court of Ten Thousand Snakes?"
"The system hundreds of years ago, even the things left over from the tribal period, we are still using today."
"The former king would not have imagined how depraved his descendants would be."
Speaking of this, General Dark Moon seemed a little excited.
"The Court of Ten Thousand Snakes?"
"It's no longer a royal court, it's just a rotting corpse."
"It's rotting, smelly, wormy."
"Stupid, stupid, conservative."
"We don't do anything, we don't change anything, the whole world is moving forward, only we stop and linger."
"Countless civilians at the bottom are wailing, no matter how much they farm, no matter how they graze, no matter how much they fish, they can't get enough to eat and can't survive."
"Famines and rebellions break out every year. The old people are driven to the wilderness to fend for themselves, and the newborns are drowned in the rivers; Young people sent to the battlefield to kill."
"What kind of world is this?"
General Dark Moon came to Su Kebu and looked at the old man.
"Time to change."
"If there is no change, the country will be finished."
"I have been fighting, constantly sending young people to war, and quelling rebellion after rebellion."
"But the more this happens, the less hope I see."
"A few years ago, I went to Soinhall, and then took a boat to the Land of the Rising Sun."
"Although Suinhall is also in decline, its background is unmatched by us; but the changes in the White Tower Alchemy Alliance have shown me opportunities."
"I saw the same situation in Suinhall, which gave me a feeling; but only in the White Tower Alchemy Alliance, I saw something different."
"So I'm back and I know what to do."
General Dark Moon looked at Sukob expectantly: "Mr. Sukob!"
"You must feel the same way, don't you?"
"There's something wrong with this country and it needs to change."
"I heard that you were born in a small village above the wasteland. I don't think anyone can understand these problems and pain points better than you?"
Obviously.
General Dark Moon said so much, just hoping to win Sukobra to his side.
But Su Kebu looked at General Dark Moon and just responded.
"You are right, General Darkmoon, I come from a small village in the wasteland."
"Just."
"I'm an Evelian!"
General Dark Moon froze for a moment: "People from Aiweier, some familiar names."
Su Kebu did not shy away from it: "A country once broken by the Ten Thousand Snakes' Court, hundreds of years ago, the Evelians were slaughtered, enslaved, and exiled until they were hard to see again."
It was only then that General Dark Moon remembered that the Evelians were the ethnic group that had disappeared for hundreds of years.
A group that has long been forgotten.
General Dark Moon was suddenly a little embarrassed, everything he said seemed to be winking to a blind man.
In other words, he didn't expect that the other party was actually a group that had long-standing hatred with the Ten Thousand Snake King's Court. After all, there were no Aiweier people on Ruhe Island, and most Aiweier people had almost integrated into other groups. In the past, they have long forgotten their past.
General Dark Moon set a new price: "That happened hundreds of years ago. We can't judge or modify the past, but at least we can look forward to the future."
"You are the favored person of the gods, don't you want to pass on the beliefs of the gods in this country?"
"This country is very big, why can't it accommodate a few more temples?"
Su Kebu did not agree as readily as General Dark Moon imagined, and shook his head and looked at the other party: "What a blasphemy!"
"Aren't you afraid to anger the gods in the Temple of Ten Thousand Snakes?"
General Dark Moon spread his hands: "The gods don't care about this."
"Isn't it?"
"The gods don't care, why should we care?"
"The gods don't care, why do we have to speculate whether they will be angry; why can't a country believe in multiple gods? Is this blasphemy?"
"This so-called blasphemy is nothing but the imagination of mortals."
Sukob: "The arrogance and stupidity of mortals!"
"The gods don't care because they don't need it, because they are above the mortal world; what mortals do may or may not be meaningful to them, but in any case it cannot affect the magnificence of the gods. "
"But in this world, in all the human world that comes from the gift of gods."
"Are mortals qualified to not care?"
"Are mortals capable of bearing the possible wrath of the gods?"
General Darkmoon fell into deep thought.
He had met many devout believers, and also met many despicable people who used the name of gods to do dirty things, but he had never heard anyone analyze the relationship between gods and mortals from this angle.
Su Kebu didn't say anything, turned his head and left.
General Dark Moon came to his senses and said to Su Kebu: "You are not only a favored man, but also a wise man."
Su Kebu opened the door and said only one sentence: "My God is the God who holds truth and knowledge."
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Sukob sold out all the magic scrolls he brought, and purchased a lot of needed materials.
There are rare books, experimental tools, and alchemy props.
There are also many otherworldly materials that Witch Spirits use for research.
The most precious part of it is the extraordinary items that Sukob intends to use to break through the apostle rank, and the materials for drawing the ceremony.
This is also the reason why Su Kebu came to Pence City. These extraordinary materials are probably only available in Pence City in the Ten Thousand Snake King's Court.
Although the city of Pans remained stable, Sukob could faintly feel that the undercurrent under the plane was becoming more and more intense.
Anytime, anywhere, there is a possibility of an outbreak.
Sukob is about to leave.
Two days before leaving, Su Kebu came to the Temple of Ten Thousand Snakes.
The building of the temple is very large, and the whole is a city within a city.
Looking up, one can see the burning flames on the holy fire platform.
It is said.
It is a fire demon that has survived for hundreds of years.
The guards in front of the temple stopped him.
"I want to go to the temple library to take a look, and I have been allowed."
As a Witch Spirit, a follower of the God of Truth and Knowledge.
When you come to Pence City, you can't miss the oldest library in the legendary Ten Thousand Snake King's Court, the library of the temple.
Under the guidance of a divine attendant, Sukob entered the temple.
There are many buildings and corridors in the temple.
Su Kebu came to a relatively remote place in the depths, and entered the library that was widely rumored outside.
There are indeed a lot of books here, but they are not as exaggerated as in the legend.
But Su Kebu was still very excited, the witch spirit's desire for books and knowledge was burned deep in the soul.
"Text!"
"History!"
"Inheritance!"
"Everything about the Ten Thousand Snake King's Court is recorded here."
Su Kebu thinks that writing is one of the most important things in the world. Because of writing, there is civilization.
Because of writing, people are called people, and they are different from beasts.
Even after thousands of years, many things have disappeared, but the text still records the past.
The old man Su Kebu threw himself into the sea of books, with a smile on his face.
Su Kebu read a lot of books and did not leave after dark.
He was prepared to see the day he left.
In addition to the books, he also saw some broken clay tablets in the corner with words engraved on them.
"Ancient clay tablet? Isn't this something hundreds or thousands of years ago?"
Sukob picked up a piece of the clay tablet carefully, for fear of breaking it, although it itself was broken into pieces.
After watching for a long time, Sukob sighed.
"Unfortunately, I can't read the words clearly."
A voice came from behind: "Too long years are enough to consume most things in this world."
"These books, these clay tablets, and many things here, including the people here."
"After thousands of years, it will cease to exist."
Su Kebu looked at the person who came, it was the prophet of the Temple of Ten Thousand Snakes.
Her voice was somewhat pessimistic, even desolate.
The prophet is very young, and she bowed to the elder Su Kebu: "It is very presumptuous to disturb you."
Sukob replied: "No, it is also an honor for Sukob to meet the prophet of the temple!"
"Thank you very much for allowing me to come here to view the temple's collection."
Although the opponent's strength is not strong, the meaning of the representation is different.
In a sense, she is also a favored person, with a **** behind her.
It is only estimated that the prophet himself does not know who the **** behind her is, and who saw the pictures she saw through whose power.
Subsequently, Sukob responded to what the Prophet had just said.
"Although these books, clay tablets, objects, even you and I will disappear with time."
"But text will not disappear, it will always record everything about us and tell people in the future."
The blind prophetess wears ties over her eyes, and her delicate face can be seen through the light.
Although she lost her eyes, for some reason, people still feel that she can see herself.
It even directly sees through one's own heart.
"I came to see you at this time because I have a doubt and an invitation."
Su Kebu probably understood what the invitation was, and he asked directly.
"What is doubt?"
The Blind Female Prophet: "How can we save this country?"
"How can we delay the disaster?"
Su Kebu didn't want to get involved in such troubles, so he could only pretend to be confused.
"How to save?"
"Isn't it good now?"
The blind female prophet: "On the night when the king died, when I was praying to the gods, I saw the gods cast their eyes on the world."
"I saw the apostles walking on the earth, and I saw the disaster befall this country."
At that time, the Prophet also saw the scene where Sukob was summoned by the God of Truth and Knowledge.
The blind female prophet looked at Su Kebu: "There must be something big going on, right?"
"The apostles went to the world one after another, this must be a secret related to the gods."
Su Keb did not speak, this question is even more impossible to answer than the previous one.
The blind prophetess stood under the dim light of the lamp, and the faint light shone on her fair and smooth skin, which had a ceramic-like luster.
If a young man is faced with such a request and inquiry from a blind woman, he may be overwhelmed.
However.
Sukob is a seasoned old man.
What he prefers is to keep silent and wait and see what happens.
The blind female prophet didn't get the answer she wanted, so she went on to talk about her request.
"Dark Moon!"
"He thought what he did could change anything, he thought he could save everything with his own power."
"But what he has done will only push this country into the abyss."
"I want to ask you to help us, help us save this country."
"He doesn't know anything, and I can't see the future clearly."
"We all see the storm coming from afar, and see the big ship about to capsize, but we don't know why the storm comes."
Su Kebu did not expect that the blind woman in front of him would make such an abrupt request.
"How can I help?"
"Kill him?"
"Can killing him save everything? Will the country not fall into the abyss without him?"
"O prophet of the Temple of Ten Thousand Serpents, what overturned this big ship was not the coming storm, let alone the gods."
"It's this big ship."
"It's already riddled with holes."
The blind female prophet was silent, and she continued after a long time.
"I don't know!"
"I really don't know what to do!"
"But I already had a premonition, a premonition of disaster coming."
"I can't do anything, I have no power."
"So I want you to help us."
Blind snake girl: "I don't want to kill anyone, and I don't know whether Dark Moon is right or wrong."
"But I know that when disaster strikes, we are powerless to resist."
"Whether it's Dark Moon or me."
"I just don't want to just sit and watch..."
"The foreseen picture is here."
Su Kebu understood what the snake girl probably wanted to say.
The Land of Sunrise has the blessing of the God of Alchemy, so everything is controlled within a controllable range, and the most critical transition has been completed.
Suinhor also has the Scarlet Goddess, although this is also an old broken ship, let alone what plans the Scarlet Goddess will have next; but when it is about to capsize, there will be gods Come out and cover for it.
Only the Court of Ten Thousand Snakes.
The gods did not respond, nor did they have the power of an apostle.
This is the only blank space. Once something goes wrong, all kinds of ghosts and snakes may come out to take a bite, pushing the disaster to an uncontrollable level.
In particular, we are now in a window of changing times.
here.
The animal herding plain governed by no gods, the most central part of Ruhe Giant Island.
Just like the center of the eye of the storm, ordinary people may not feel anything, and it is impossible to know such information; but the blind woman in front of him may feel or see something.
The blind prophet didn't express it very clearly. This is a woman who has always lived in the depths of the temple, a believer who sacrificed her eyes to become a prophet since she was a child and lives in darkness.
She is not as eloquent and inspiring as General Dark Moon,
Su Kebu could feel that she didn't use any scheming and tricks against herself.
At the same time, he also felt the helplessness and hesitation of the prophet from the words.
Sukob felt sympathy for the Prophet, perhaps because of a young girl who lost her eyes since she was a child and has been imprisoned in the depths, perhaps because of her words.
However, he is still not prepared to intervene in this matter: "I have been a believer in God for a lifetime."
"I never think about anything, just follow God's will."
Su Kebu used very euphemistic words, but very firmly rejected the prophet.
"I will do what God tells me to do."
"If God didn't say it, I wouldn't do it."
The blind female prophet raised her head: "What if the gods above never pass down the oracle?"
Sukob was silent, he thought of the legends and stories of the Evelians long, long ago.
Thinking of the hero Xiuburn who saved the Evil people, this believer who firmly believes in the dominance of life, but in the end he became the favored person of the **** of truth and knowledge.
Even so, the master of life has never cast a half eye on him.
The blind female prophet lowered her head, her face a bit downcast.
"We have no protection from God."
"When the storm comes, we hesitate."
"After the storm, what is left of us?"
Su Kebu hesitated for a while, and finally he revealed some news because of the blind woman's affection for letting him into this ancient library.
Although he is not prepared to intervene in this matter, as the prepared apostle of the God of truth and knowledge, he still knows more information and knowledge than ordinary people think.
Sometimes, such knowledge and information can change a country or even an ethnic group.
"The master of life is one of the most powerful gods."
"The creator of life."
The prophet looked at Su Kebu suspiciously: "However, God does not protect us."
"I want to seek guidance from the gods, but I don't know where the guidance is."
Sukob: "It may be that you have not found a real asylum."
"The dominant **** has already given you shelter, but you don't know how to use this power, and you have been begging."
"In other words, the asylum is always in front of you, but you can't see them."
Sukob: "The land we are in, the entire Ruhe Giant Island."
"It is a kingdom ruled by life, the back garden of this great god."
The prophet froze for a moment, she still didn't understand what Sukob meant.
Sukob opened his mouth and said in a hoarse voice.
"You know..."
"A witch?"