In Evan’s mind, he was embarrassed for entering the temple of Ramses II with others in order to get the treasures left by him, but Ramses II told him that he didn’t need to care about it at all. Not only did he not mind it, he even wanted Evan to help destroy the entire ruins…
This was too crazy. Was there anything wrong with this guy In front of him?
Evan even had the thought that the Ramses II he was seeing might be an imposter.
Otherwise, why would he say such a thing?
“Why destroy this place?” Ramses II repeated, and then slowly said, “I don’t want to scare you, Evan, but this building was never ant to be a temple for worshiping gods—it’s a prison.”
“A prison?!” Evan asked, “Who is imprisoned here?”
“Gods!” said Ramses II, “or rather, those foreign beings that the world calls gods.”
“Who does that include?”
“A lot. You can go to the front hall and take a look. The statues of the gods imprisoned here are all there. I ordered them to be built.”
Evan was silent. No surprise, the front hall Ramses II referred to was likely the Hall of the Gods.
He had just visited it yesterday. There were more than two hundred statues of gods in the hall. Except for a few important gods, almost all the gods of ancient Egypt were included. This was truly a grand and extre undertaking.
Who would have thought that this pharaoh would imprison all the deities of his nation here?
Those magicians and archaeologists were still speculating on the purpose of Ramses II building that hall. All kinds of speculations and conjectures sounded absurd, incredible and impossible, but this ti, the truth was far more terrifying than they had imagined.
“I hope you can understand that the gods imprisoned here are not friends, but enemies!” Ramses II said. “In my original plan, they should have been completely destroyed, but unfortunately, I couldn’t achieve that. Individually, these beings are not that powerful, but together they are strong enough to counter my magic. And then there are their followers, who are also troubleso…”
“Enemies?” Evan was not clear about the previous grudges between those gods and Ramses II. He did recall the second half of the last conversation between him and the Ti Titan. After the Last War, the Old Gods and their creations were sealed by the Titans, and the entire planet entered a long dark age.
The Titan creations gained flesh and blood and began to evolve naturally, and the number of species on Earth increased.
During this process, many outsiders also gradually arrived on Earth.
So of them were very weak, brought by teorites, integrated with the environnt, and beca part of Earth’s life.
So were very powerful, with their own thoughts, and later beca gods and demons in the eyes of humans. Among them, outsiders who were willing to communicate with humans began to teach magic to their believers through various thods, and these spellcasters gradually developed into ancient sorcerers.
When magic got out of control and developed to a certain extent, a terrible catastrophe followed.
According to Cronos, that was the biggest crisis the planet had faced since the Last War. The environnt that had just recovered was destroyed, the magic civilization regressed again, the sealed Old Gods were ready to move, and even the remaining will of the Titans left on the planet paid a huge price.
By calculating the ti, this should be before the great catastrophe—an era at the peak of the ancient sorcerers’ power. In this era, slaying gods was common, as ancient sorcerers used it to prove their strength.
The gods and demons who lost their believers gradually fell.
In the lost city of Ionia on the seabed near Sicily, one such evil entity was sealed.
Evan could understand all of this, or rather, he thought he understood it in the past, but now it seed that this was not the case at all. Things like Ramses II imprisoning more than two hundred gods here in one breath were really beyond his imagination, and made him have a clearer understanding of the madness of that era.
Those ancient sorcerers were simply a group of powerful lunatics.
From ancient tis to the present, no one had ever heard of anyone imprisoning the gods.
But then again, many civilizations had stories about the twilight of the gods or the downfall of deities.
Not only in Egypt, but also in the Far East, and even in the European Wizarding civilization itself, the end of the previous era often marked the fall of the gods.
“In the past, these gods helped us. As long as we offered sacrifices that satisfied them, they would teach us magic or fulfill the wishes of their followers. But as we dug deeper into the ancient ruins, especially the secrets left by the Creators, we realized that these foreign entities, called gods, were actually very dangerous,” said Ramses II. “They are a burden. The divine power and rampant magical energy they fear act like coordinates, guiding the evil in the void straight to us, drawing them here endlessly. Not to ntion, many of these so-called gods are actually minions of those evil entities, part of their malevolent armies. I confird with the three Creators that if this situation were allowed to continue, destruction would be the only outco.”
His words aligned with what the Ti Titan had said, and Evan did not have much awe for the so-called gods.
Although amazed and shocked by Ramses II’s actions, he did not object to imprisoning these gods.
“The signs had been very clear. In the prophecies of the Seers, the terrible disaster that was about to co had been repeatedly ntioned,” Ramses II continued. “Just like your arrival here, that disaster was a predestined event, sothing that would inevitably happen. I hoped to delay its onset as much as possible, and the most direct way to do that was by slaying the gods.”
“Is that why you’ve imprisoned them here?”
“Yes. Spellcasters should rely on their own power to use magic, not follow the guidance of gods. A new era is about to begin. Although I and my kingdom will eventually perish, it’s better than allowing humanity to be utterly destroyed,” Ramses II nodded and continued. “According to my plan, I originally intended to kill these gods outright, but they are troubleso. Their combined power is enough to counter and my allies, so in the end, I could only imprison them here. Now you should understand why I want you to destroy this structure, right?”
Evan nodded. Destroying the Ruins of Amun Ra was indeed necessary. He didn’t want over two hundred ancient Egyptian gods to suddenly reappear, especially when many of them were connected to evil gods. The balance of power was already precarious, and the ergence of such a group of powerful ancient deities would completely throw things out of control…
“As part of the deal, I got sothing from the Creator of Ti, a weapon that can destroy this place. It can absorb the original power of those gods and beco stronger and stronger until it destroys them,” said Ramses II. “In the process, I’ve left a curse to seal this place to ensure that no one finds it and releases the imprisoned gods. However, since you were able to reach this place, it seems my curse has already begun to weaken!”
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