Chapter 266 I Dare to Kill People in the Temple

Three thousand years ago BC, when Northern Egypt and Southern Egypt had not yet been nominally unified, Buto City was already the center of worship for the Sun Serpent Goddess Wadjet.

Although more than a thousand years later, Buto City has declined from a city-state that dominated Northern Egypt to a vassal of Sais City, Buto City's Wadjet Temple has become as large as a royal palace in the accumulation of time.

When Roy entered the Wadjet Temple, he saw more than a dozen priest nobles and their families hiding in the courtyard of the Wadjet Temple, surrounded by hundreds of private soldiers protecting them.

Seeing Roy's figure, the priest noble who had just served as an envoy to meet Roy immediately knelt on the ground and begged.

"Your Majesty, I beg you to let me and my family go."

"I didn't say I had to kill you!"

Roy said with a smile.

"Even now, it's not too late. You can still choose to leave Buto City with your family and slaves, but you can only take away property other than land and food."

A middle-aged priest noble immediately shouted angrily.

"Why do you deprive us of the land and food left by our ancestors? These are all our wealth. As long as you respect our property ownership, we are willing to become your vassal and worship you as our pharaoh."

Another priest noble followed.

"We know you need food to feed the army. As long as you let us keep the land, we are willing to give half or even all of the food to help you feed your soldiers."

"You don't have to say this nonsense anymore."

Roy sneered.

"Now you have only two choices. The first choice is to leave Bhutto City, and the second choice is to stay in Bhutto City, but I will kill you, confiscate all your land and property, and reduce your wife and daughter to slaves."

"This is the temple of the goddess Wadjet. We are servants serving the goddess Wadjet, so we will never leave here."

The middle-aged priest noble just now stared at Roy fearlessly and said.

"Do you, a foreigner, dare to kill us in the temple and commit the crime of blasphemy against the gods--"

Before he finished speaking, Roy looked at him with cold eyes and whispered.

"Salting!"

The azure divine light burst out from Roy's eyes, instantly covering the body of the middle-aged priest noble, turning him into a salt statue.

The human soul needs the human body to carry it.

The soul of the person whose whole body was salted by Roy had fallen into the underworld when he turned into a salt statue.

Even if the effect of salting disappears, the soul that fell into the underworld cannot return to the body.

Seeing the middle-aged priest noble being turned into a salt statue by Roy, everyone in the courtyard screamed in panic.

Because Roy did not kill people somewhere else, but killed people in the territory of the gods-the temple of the goddess Wadjet.

This is a serious blasphemy against the gods and an offense to the majesty of the gods.

Seeing the reactions of the crowd, Roy said in a cold voice with an expressionless face.

"Now you understand! Even if you hide in the Temple of Wadjet, you can't be safe under Wadjet's protection. If you don't want to die, flee from Buto City quickly. If you insist on staying in Buto City, what awaits you is my punishment."

After seeing Roy killing people in the temple with their own eyes, the priests and nobles no longer doubted Roy's determination to kill them, and fled with their families and private soldiers.

Although they could only take away slaves, private soldiers, gold, copper and other property if they left Buto City, they would lose everything including their lives if they stayed in Buto City.

Escape to other places with the property they could take away, even if they would lose their noble status, they could live a better life than those ant-like civilians.

After all the priests and nobles fled, they saw that there were still three priestesses left in the temple, and Roy said dissatisfiedly.

"Why don't you leave? Do you think I won't kill women?"

The middle-aged priestess who led the three priestesses said.

"We are servants serving the goddess Wadjet. Even if we die, we will die in the temple."

The goddess Wadjet also descended from the sky at this time and said to Roy with dissatisfaction.

"You should stop it! They are the servants who truly serve me, unlike the priests and nobles you drove away. If you want to trample my face completely under your feet, I will also be unable to tolerate it."

Of course, Roy knew that when the royal power was stronger, as long as he did not affect Wadjet's core interests, Wadjet would tolerate the oppression of the royal power on her.

Now it seems that the core interests that Wadjet values ​​are not only the patron saint of Buto City, but also the priestesses who truly serve her.

Looking at Wadjet who suppressed his anger, Roy smiled faintly and said.

"Since you are the priests who sincerely serve the goddess Wadjet, then I will deprive you of all your power and property, and you will have no complaints! From now on, you and the Wadjet Temple will no longer own any land and property, and I will be responsible for your living needs."

The middle-aged priestess immediately bowed her head and said.

"We follow your arrangement. Thank you for allowing us to stay."

The three priestesses returned to the hall where the statue of Wadjet was enshrined, and Roy began to look carefully at the goddess Wadjet in front of him.

Although the goddess Wadjet was always emitting golden divine light, Roy was able to see her true appearance after receiving her blessing and divine power.

As a native Egyptian god, the goddess Wadjet has brownish-white skin and golden snake eyes. She has a graceful figure and a slim waist unique to the snake goddess. She wears a golden armor-like dress, and her belt and shoes are also golden. Yes, there is also a pair of golden wings on the back.

Wadjet's right hand holds a golden staff like a pharaoh's staff, which is proof that she was once the Queen of the Gods.

Although he has ancient history and authority, Wadjet's small and delicate face does not show much vicissitudes of life, and he seems to have the same mentality as a young god.

Feeling Roy's eyes looking at him wantonly, Wadjet said nonchalantly.

"How do I compare to other goddesses?"

"Do you want to hear me compliment you?"

"Do you humans want to hear words that are demeaning to yourselves?"

Unexpectedly, Wadjet was so frank, Roy frowned and said.

"Although your beauty is worthy of your status as a goddess, I prefer a goddess with skin as white as snow."

"Then you will definitely like Goddess Knight."

"Goddess Knight——"

Roy said with confusion.

"The goddess Knight who protects the city of Sais must be a native Egyptian god like you!"

Wadjet nodded and said.

"Although Nat is a native Egyptian god like me, her city of Sais has been ruled by the Phoenicians for a long time, so she absorbed some attributes of the Phoenician patron saint Aphrodite. Sais The city was able to become a powerful city-state that established the Fourteenth Dynasty because there were foreign rulers ruling the city of Sais.”

After hearing Wadjet's words, Roy couldn't help laughing.

"The Egyptians really can only rely on foreign rulers to lead them to develop and grow."

"It is because of the Egyptians' dependence on foreign rulers that you were able to conquer the city of Buto so easily."

Wadjet said unceremoniously.

"If the Egyptians resist foreign rulers like you, you are still outside Buto, trying to find a way to conquer this city of 50,000 people with 500 soldiers."