fictionpage Chapter 58 If there's a next time, I'll tear down your pyramid and use it as firewood!
Chapter 58 If there's a next time, I'll tear down your pyramid and use it as firewood!
Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom?
Lin Fan looked at the strange creature with a bird's head in front of him, feeling a little curious.
He had heard of that name.
It seems to be a deity in ancient Egyptian mythology who governs knowledge and magic.
I never expected it to look like this.
The taste is indeed...unique.
"Anubis? The one with the dog's head?" Lin Fan asked casually after recalling for a moment.
"It's Jackal Head, a great being," Thoth corrected, his tone carrying a barely perceptible air of superiority as the ibis's long beak opened and closed.
"Oh, jackal head, dog head, not much difference." Lin Fan waved his hand dismissively.
He weighed the cardboard box in his hand.
"So, your jackal-headed god sent you to deliver this package?"
"A small, unrespectful gift." Thoth's bird-like face forced an extremely stiff arc, which he took as a smile.
"My Lord, I have heard that you are worried about food for your pets."
"Therefore, I specially selected the finest 'ingredients' for you from the underworld."
As soon as he finished speaking, Toth snapped his fingers.
The cardboard box in Lin Fan's hand suddenly burst open!
"Awooo—!"
A fierce roar, filled with endless resentment and unwillingness, rose from the box and soared into the sky!
A massive black shadow, composed of the purest black resentment and the divine power of death, suddenly appeared!
The dark figure had three ferocious heads, each of which was roaring madly, its saliva mixed with the aura of death dripping onto the ground, corroding the bluestone slabs with a sizzling sound.
Cerberus, the three-headed dog of hell!
Of course, this is not a real hellhound.
Rather, it was a weapon of war forcibly created by Anubis using the laws of the underworld as its bones and countless vengeful spirits as its flesh and blood!
Although its power is not as great as the original, it is still comparable to a secondary god!
"Gift?"
Lin Fan looked at the three-headed vicious dog in front of him, baring its teeth and roaring madly at him.
He smiled.
"Your Egyptian gods have a rather... unique way of giving gifts."
This is hardly a gift-giving activity.
This is clearly a declaration of war, filled with provocation and probing.
They didn't dare to just barge in like those idiots on Olympus.
They used this seemingly "friendly" approach to probe their own depth.
If he couldn't even handle this three-headed dog, then the next thing to descend upon this courtyard would be the overwhelming force of the entire Egyptian pantheon.
If I can handle it, then they have given me a "gift" and expressed "goodwill," preventing the relationship from completely falling apart.
Well thought out.
It truly is the work of the god of wisdom.
"Great being, are you satisfied?" Thoth asked with a smile and elegant demeanor. "This ingredient is fresh enough, and also... chewy enough."
He was certain that Lin Fan wouldn't dare to make a move against him, the "envoy," in this "friendly" atmosphere.
Unfortunately, he completely misjudged Lin Fan.
"Satisfied, of course I'm satisfied."
Lin Fan nodded.
"It is impolite not to reciprocate."
"Since you have given me such a generous gift, I should naturally reciprocate."
Before he finished speaking, he stretched out his finger and flicked it lightly at the roaring Cerberus.
"Pop".
A soft sound, like a bubble bursting.
The imposing weapon of war, seemingly capable of devouring everything, suddenly froze.
Immediately, to Thoth's horrified gaze, its massive body silently disintegrated, dissipating into a mass of the most primal and purest black death energy.
Lin Fan flipped his hand and made a grasping motion in the air towards the vast mass of energy.
The enormous energy cloud began to collapse inward at a visible speed, being compressed to the extreme, and finally condensed into an energy sphere only the size of a fist, as black as ink.
On the surface of the sphere, strange runes representing the law of annihilation appeared and disappeared unpredictably.
"What...what did you do?"
The smile on Toth's face froze completely.
The divine connection between him and the three-headed hellhound was completely erased!
That was created by Anubis himself, containing the supreme laws of the underworld!
Just like that... wiped out with a flick of the finger?
And it was... squeezed into a ball?
"It's nothing." Lin Fan weighed the energy ball in his hand, which was still buzzing, and said calmly.
"I just feel it's a bit wasteful to eat this 'ingredient' directly."
"It would be better to process it into canned goods before sending it back."
As he spoke, he flicked his finger.
The energy sphere, containing terrifying destructive power, transformed into a beam of black light and shot straight toward Thoth.
"Here you go, this is my return gift to your jackal-headed god."
"Tell him that I appreciate his 'good intentions'."
"This can of 'dog food' is on me, it's my treat for him."
"Let him savor it slowly."
The black energy ball didn't fly very fast.
But Tot found that he couldn't move!
An invisible and absolute spatial law has completely nailed him and the entire space-time around him to the ground!
He could only watch helplessly as the terrifying energy sphere, powerful enough to annihilate his divine body and soul into nothingness, drew ever closer to him!
"No!"
Thoth let out a desperate roar.
He finally realized how foolish a mistake he had made.
In the face of absolute power, any trickery or provocation seems so ridiculous and so powerless.
This being from the East disdains to abide by any rules!
What does "When two countries are at war, envoys should not be killed" mean?
In his eyes, these high and mighty gods were probably just a bunch of nobodies who came to provoke him!
Just when Thoth thought he was going to die.
The black energy ball suddenly hovered in front of his beak, no more than a centimeter away.
The aura of annihilation emanating from it caused his soul to tremble violently, almost to the point of collapse.
"Go back and tell your master."
Lin Fan's indifferent voice rang in his ears.
"My patience is limited."
"This is the first and the last time."
"There will be a next time..."
Lin Fan paused, then said, word by word:
"I'll go to Egypt myself."
"Tear down your pyramids and burn them as firewood."
"Drain your Nile to water the flowers."
"Then twist the heads off all your gods and use them as chamber pots."
The words fell.
The spatial laws that imprisoned Thoth vanished instantly.
Feeling as if granted a pardon, Thoth turned around without a second thought and tore through space, preparing to escape this nightmarish place.
However, he had only stepped halfway into the spatial rift.
Lin Fan's voice rang out again, softly.
"etc."
Thoth froze, nearly losing his mind on the spot.
He turned his head shakily, a distorted expression forming on his bird-like face: "Great...great being...what else do you need?"
Lin Fan pointed to the black energy ball that was still floating in front of him.
"Bring me my 'return gift'."
"..."
Thoth stared at the energy ball that looked like a death warrant, his entire bird face turning green.
But he dared not disobey.
He stretched out his trembling hand, and with all the courage he had, held the energy ball in his palm.
Then, without looking back, he plunged headlong into the spatial rift.
Watching Thoth disappear, Lin Fan curled his lip.
"How rude! They didn't even say goodbye when they left."
He turned around and looked at the group of Gold Saints in the courtyard who had been completely petrified.
"Alright, stop standing there, get back to work!"
"If you don't finish today, you're skipping dinner!"
……
Egypt, along the Nile River, an underground temple.
Anubis and the other Egyptian gods were watching intently through a water mirror as everything unfolded in the courtyard.
When they saw Thoth successfully release Cerberus, the crocodile-headed god Sobek even greedily licked his lips.
"Very well! Now, let's see just how capable this master of the Eastern courtyard really is!"
However, the next second.
The expressions of all the gods in the temple froze.
They watched as the Easterner simply snapped his fingers.
Their prized weapons of war, comparable to those of the supreme god, were simply gone.
It was squeezed into a ball.
Then, their god of wisdom, Thoth, like a terrified quail, fled back in a panic, clutching the "bomb" made of their own power.
boom!
A spatial rift tore open in the center of the temple.
Toth tumbled and crawled out.
The black energy ball in his hand also flew out and rolled to the feet of Anubis, the jackal god.
The entire temple was deathly silent.
All the Egyptian gods stared blankly at the small black sphere that was still hissing and emanating an aura of annihilation.
They could sense that within it lay death and destruction compressed a thousandfold.
If this thing explodes...
None of the gods present will survive.
"He...he said..."
Thoth's voice was trembling uncontrollably.
"He said...this is...a return gift from him to you..."
"And...and said...let us...slowly...savor it..."
Anubis looked down at the energy sphere at his feet, which resembled a time bomb. For the first time, a look of fear appeared on his majestic jackal face.
He felt his legs were a little weak.