Chapter 853 – Ancient King
Lin Qiye had just taken two steps when a figure arrived behind him and patted his shoulder.
”Your Excellency the Dean.” Mei Lin smiled as he looked at Lin Qiye, “Are you going to find that tyrant?”
Lin Qiye nodded, “Uh, what’s up?”
Mei Lin shrugged and reached out to hold his hand in the void, a small magic formation opened up in his palm, and a moment later, a copper-colored, dark green-colored remnant landed in his hand and handed it to Lin Qiye.
”Take this with you.” Mei Lin slowly spoke, “It might help you.”
Lin Qiye took the copper remnant and placed it in his palm to scrutinize it carefully, this remnant was about half the size of his palm, judging from the outermost outline, it was a remnant broken out from some sort of circular badge, taking up about a third of the original badge, with complex and mysterious patterns intertwined on its surface, it looked ancient and very contemporary.
”This is ……” Lin Qiye looked at Merlin in puzzlement.
”This is a fragment that I found from the ruins of the Uruk Kingdom when I was traveling around the world during those ancient years, and it might be related to that person.”
”Sir Merlin, you know something about Gilgamesh?”
”Sort of.” Merlin smiled, “If you want to explore the nature of the world and pursue truth and true knowledge, you need to have a great deal of experience as well as knowledge, I have personally traveled to the ruins of those ancient civilizations that once existed in the world but ultimately returned to dust, and I have also searched for some unknown hidden secrets from them. ……
That person, as well as his Uruk Kingdom, was also once the subject of my research.”
Hearing these words, Lin Qiye’s eyes brightened slightly.
He had gone to Gilgamesh in order to learn some of the past from his words and deduce the cause of the disease, and now that Merlin knew about Gilgamesh’s past, it naturally saved him the effort of slowly figuring it out.
Lin Qiye immediately sat down again on the small mat opposite Merlin.
”Lord Merlin, if you have time, please tell me a bit about Gilgamesh.” Lin Qiye said with a straight face, “After the Mist descended, Da Xia’s records of the ancient myths of Uruk were very vague, and I simply couldn’t get any important information from them.”
Mei Lin laughed, “There are some things that involve the hidden secrets of the gods, and it is certainly impossible for history books to record them ……”
Merlin stretched out his hand and gently sketched in the void, and a moment later a magic array automatically opened up, and a ray of light and shadow flowed across the array, interweaving into different images.
The first image, an ancient and magnificent city-state, stood on top of the wilderness earth, like a pearl in the barbaric wilderness, shining with the light of civilization and wisdom.
”Around the 27th century BC, an unprecedentedly powerful man, the rumored Heroic King, Gilgamesh, emerged from the ancient Uruk Empire. Possessing two-thirds divine blood, he possessed strength and wisdom beyond the world, and smoothly became the fifth king of the Uruk Kingdom.
He is a tyrant that has never appeared in the history of the Uruk Kingdom, and under his tyranny, the entire kingdom is in a high-pressure environment, but all the same, due to his absolute control over the kingdom, as well as his wisdom that surpasses the ordinary, the Uruk Kingdom’s national power is rising at a staggering rate.”
Merlin manipulated the magic array, and the image shifted to the sky above that ancient city-state, where two figures slowly descended, reigning over the Kingdom of Uruk.
”Gilgamesh made this kingdom the most powerful existence in terms of potential above the land, and Uruk’s national fortune was like a giant pillar of the sky, shaking to the foundation of the nearby god kingdoms, so two heavenly deities were sent down to the realm, in the name of removing Gilgamesh, the tyrant, for the sake of the living beings, but in reality, they wanted to cut down Uruk’s national fortune.”
”Chop down the national fortune?” Hearing these three words, Lin Qiye asked doubtfully, “National fortune, is it really something that can be chopped?”
”Of course, national luck is the key to a country being able to continue to prosper, usually truly ancient and powerful kingdoms will have means to protect their national luck, but the Uruk Kingdom at that time did not have such means ……”
The image on Merlin’s magic array turned again, within that ancient city-state, a young man clad in king’s robes with a gaze as sharp as a sword, in the midst of the worship of all beings, he took one step into the sky, holding a golden longsword in his hand, and battled with those two gods.
”Gilgamesh, in order to protect the national fortune of Uruk, used the body of a demigod to harden himself against the two heavenly deities, and ultimately narrowly won.” Merlin paused and continued, “But when those two heavenly deities left, they left words that the day Gilgamesh died of old age would be the time when Uruk’s national fortune would be decimated ……
Gilgamesh is only a demigod, although the battle power is amazing, but the life expectancy is no doubt the same as a mortal, one day will die of old age, losing Gilgamesh the tyrant shelter of Uruk, can only become a fish and meat that can be at the mercy of the divine kingdom.”
In the shadow of the magic formation, Gilgamesh, who was seriously injured after fighting with the two heavenly gods, sat weakly on top of the throne, his eyes gazing at the sky outside the palace, as if pondering something.
”Later, Gilgamesh set out on the path to pursue eternal life.” Merlin’s fingertips lightly hooked, and the magic array then swiftly flashed a picture, “He went to the top of the mountains to search for immortal herbs, and went down to the bottom of the deep sea to explore for secret treasures, but in the end, he didn’t find the method of eternal life.
He could only rely on divine medicines and barely maintain his life, but he eventually came to the end of his lifespan.”
In the void, the grand and luxurious palace was empty, the pale and aged Gilgamesh sat alone on top of the throne, his wrinkled hand tightly gripping the Sword of Kingship that was stuck in the armrest of the throne, and his eyes staring deathly at the sky outside the palace as if he was on guard for something.
But in the end, life burned to the end of his life, he still lost his breath ……
He died without closing those eyes. Those angry, unwilling eyes still stared at the sky that was above all beings, this lonely and unyielding king, until the last moment of his life, was still guarding his city-state.
”After his death, the two gods of the heavens came as they were supposed to, and just as they were laughing at Gilgamesh’s death and pallor, the sword of kingship, which Gilgamesh held in his hand, flew out of its own accord, and in an instant decapitated one of the gods of the heavens ……
That was the last thing that the king of this city-state, did for this city.
After losing a heavenly god, another heavenly god was so shocked that he thought it was a bureau left by Gilgamesh and immediately left the earth …… It wasn’t until a long time later that the divine kingdom once again sent someone down to the earth to decapitate the Uruk Kingdom’s national fortune.
In the end, the Uruk Kingdom died out in the river of history.”
Merlin’s words fell and the silhouette in the magic formation disappeared, as Lin Qiye sat silently in front of him and fell into silence.