Chapter 6 Prologue and Monster

On the plains in the north of Uruk, an army of considerable size in this era was slowly marching.

In this period of the Age of Gods, there was no shortage of magical beasts that could use magic and were more powerful than ordinary animals, and naturally there were ways to control these magical beasts.

The leader of this army was riding a magical beast like a cheetah, looking around, and frowning on his square face like a knight.

"Is there still no movement in Uruk?"

"Yes, the scouts ahead did not find any signs of them mobilizing the army."

After listening to the report of the soldiers on the side, the army commander touched his chin with his fingers and pondered.

"According to the information obtained, the new king of Uruk seems to have abandoned the city-state he leads. It seems that this is not groundless..."

"So, our king asked us to come here to test the opponent's strength first, right?"

A person who also rode a cheetah magical beast and seemed to be the commander's deputy said behind the commander.

"Well, in short, even if there are no problems so far, we must move forward cautiously."

After hearing the commander's words, the deputy frowned.

"Isn't this a bad idea? Although Uruk cannot send out its army without the king's command, if time drags on, those people will ignore the king's forced actions, right?"

Although if they rush over, the other side will probably also forcibly summon the army for defense, but they probably won't be able to make sufficient preparations, which is quite beneficial to them.

However, the commander shook his head after hearing this.

"There is no use in a forced march. Even if the Uruk army cannot leave the city to fight without orders, the defending troops must be ready to go, right?"

The commander looked straight into the distance, as if he could see Uruk across the horizon, his eyes full of seriousness.

"What's more, there has never been any evidence that the king of Uruk is incompetent or stupid enough to ignore the city-state he leads when others are at the gates of the city. It is absolutely a stupid choice to consume everyone's physical strength too much now."

The kings of Uruk in all dynasties can be called talents. It is a city favored by the gods. According to rumors, even the current king was chosen by the gods... He doesn't believe that the other party is completely without any special features...

And...

"In short, be careful. I always have a very bad premonition..."

At this time, a strong wind blew, and the dust and sand obscured the sight of the army.

"Stop!"

The commander was startled and raised his right hand and shouted loudly.

Less than fifty meters away from the army, a girl appeared.

The other party had a face that was good enough to be at the top in this era, but the commander was not moved at all. On the contrary, his alertness was at its highest point.

"Who are you?"

One person against an army of a thousand people, this might seem stupid thousands of years later, but this is the Age of Gods, an era where even the gods have not fallen.

In this era, warriors who can be called heroes are never rare, and one person forming an army is never an exaggerated scene.

A girl who dares to face an army with a blank expression... The commander will not think that the other party is scared.

"Who sent you?"

Ignoring the commander's question, the girl asked.

The commander frowned, waved his hand, and the army behind him began to form a battle formation, and then looked at Ophis.

"Are you here to stop us?"

"Don't answer?"

The girl shook her head in confusion.

The conversation with the other party was completely two parallel lines...

The commander was a little annoyed. He didn't want to offend this guy who didn't know the details, but he couldn't just waste time with the other party.

However, the next moment, his troubles were solved, but his heart was in his throat.

"Forget it..."

The girl saw that the commander still didn't answer, and shook her head again.

Then, seven purple magic circles opened behind her without warning.

"Destroy..."

"Throw spears!"

Almost at the same time, without any hesitation, the commander gave instructions.

Accompanied by bursts of air-breaking sounds, spears fell like raindrops above the girl.

Faced with such a crisis, the girl ignored it and continued to charge her magic circle.

Then, in the commander's puzzled eyes, seeing that the rain of spears was about to fall on her, a burst of energy suddenly burst out from the girl's body, rushing away all the spears at once, and also stirring up countless dust and dust to affect the enemy on the opposite side.

"Raise your shield to defend!"

However, the commander was not affected too much and gave the order again.

However, he soon found that the order itself did not make much sense.

Seven purple torrents directly penetrated the army's formation and fell to the distant horizon.

The commander could also feel the amazing heat from the magic cannon closest to him.

This was an attack with no technical content at all──the commander's knowledge could still see this.

Even so, such an attack still caused more than half of the army's casualties...

"The opponent's magic power is too huge!"

The commander gritted his teeth.

"We can't let the other party have another chance to attack! Follow me to attack!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the commander drove the magic beast under him to gallop towards the girl. Behind him, about a hundred soldiers riding the same magic beasts rushed out of the army and followed his footsteps.

Halfway through, the commander widened his eyes.

In front of the girl, three magic circles were opened in parallel, facing them in front of the girl.

─── Originally thought that the opponent's magic needed a period of time to accumulate energy, but could the number of magic circles make up for this defect?

The commander only had time to drive the magic beast to jump upwards, and his original position was swallowed by the purple magic cannon.

"Damn it!"

The commander roared in the sky, but saw that the three magic circles in the girl's hand did not dissipate because they had just been used, but were aimed at him in the air under the girl's control.

The next moment, purple light filled the commander's sight.

The last thing he saw was the girl's silver-gray eyes that were devoid of emotion and spirit...

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"King, you are back."

At the entrance of the main palace, Ophis slowly landed from the sky, and the priestess girl who had been waiting and a group of people who were important to Uruk but not important to this book knelt down in front of her.

Ophis nodded and was about to walk directly into the palace.

"King..."

Seeing Ophis's eyes moving towards her, the priestess swallowed her saliva.

Originally, I wanted to ask her if she wanted to handle official business... Now I always feel that I will be ignored directly...

"Well... the other party may still..."

"No."

"Huh?"

Without paying any more attention to this priest who was not very important to her, Ophis walked back to the temple.

For Ophis, she still accepted the identity of this "king".

As a king, ignoring state affairs can be explained as willful, but if you let the people be invaded by other foreign countries, it would be a real dereliction of duty.

So, she chose to take action.

Although it took a few more turns to find the enemy's army at the beginning because of the error in the direction.

Then just take it as a view.

Occasionally actual combat... It can also be regarded as an exercise in energy control...

But in order to avoid future troubles, Ophis still asked the last few surviving soldiers about the exact location of the other city-state and the location where the leader lived...

Then he fired a cannon.

Also practice accurate long-range strikes.

Although the target is the palace, it is inevitable that innocent people will be affected now that Ophis cannot accurately control the power.

Perhaps in other situations, this is nothing. How can war not hurt ordinary people?

However, the identity that Ophis replaced was not just the king of Uruk.

She was also a "wedge" driven from heaven to earth to restrain humans and prevent the connection between the gods in the sky and the people on the ground from becoming estranged.

Such an existence, however, does not care about humans, even wantonly takes the lives of innocent people, does things on its own, and has not contacted the gods for a long time.

Undoubtedly, this deviated from the track set by the gods and triggered the anger of the gods.

So, the lock that restrains the king was created.

It was clay kneaded by the hands of gods.

At the same time, it is a monster without a soul and without any rationality.

(End of this chapter)