Marvel Magic Event Book

Chapter 1713 Chapter Inanna

Captain Miller put down his carbonized reed pen and called it a day.

He handed the clay tablet to his student, then stood up and walked to the window to push aside the linen curtains and push open the transparent glass windows that should not have been made in this era. The sunset along the coast of Mesopotamia broke in unceremoniously with the sea breeze, spreading a piece of orange-red light into the room.

If a human being could devote twenty years to a certain skill and career, what achievements could this person achieve? Now he felt he could answer the question. Twenty years is enough time to make his hair gray and his knees sore. Even covering the high-backed chair made of precious woods from the Mesopotamian plain with the softest cashmere cannot relieve the back pain that may come with age. None of this happened. He still looked like a middle-aged man. His dark skin looked rougher due to long hours of labor, but he was still strong and healthy - this was a gift from the emperor. After becoming a priest in name only The emperor gave him a bottle of red liquid, which could keep him young and alive - twenty years was enough for him to transform from an astronaut to an educator. He sorted out and mastered the cuneiform writing of Eridu and its surrounding areas, which gave him a very high social status. Children who were once taken away from home in caravans have now become shrewd and capable young people, such as the man next to him student.

They wear simple linen uniforms that are completely different from the local humans, and have a completely different way of thinking from this era. These children had seen the emperor not long ago, but Captain Miller had not. He had not seen the emperor for a long time, and the emperor seemed not to want to see him. Captain Miller was satisfied that he could get along with the emperor.

"The Festival of Venus is coming soon, teacher. The Temple Avenue will be filled with flower petals again." The student stood aside and said respectfully.

There is a dedicated person responsible for the work of firing the clay tablets, and students no longer need to do it themselves. After the clay tablets are fired and shaped, a new apprentice will copy them on feta paper and put them in the temple's archives. The emperor has brought great changes to Eridu. At least alloy weapons and simple black powder fixed firearms that should not have been manufactured in this era are currently being hung on the waists of students. Weapons are quite necessary for humans in this era, especially students from the temple. Almost every one of them is a symbol of wealth. There is no need to worry about the safety of students in Eridu and hundreds of kilometers nearby, but further away it is difficult to guarantee that no one will take advantage of money. As if to avoid accidents, all students will participate in basic weapons training and learn how to use short knives and fixed black powder weapons.

Eridu had changed more than this in the twenty years since the emperor's arrival.

"Your marriage application has been approved, Cadmoz. I know about this, and I am willing to give you a holiday on that day." Captain Miller said gently like an elder, "Venus Day is a day for companionship. The best chance of a union, you should not give up on that girl.”

“But my job application also got approved.”

"You didn't tell me about this." Captain Miller raised his eyebrows, "What job?"

"I don't know, it was the Praetorian Order who told me. The angel told me that I passed the test, but I never took the test." Cadmoz grinned sheepishly, "Being able to accept the mission of the Praetorian Order They are all the best apprentices, and I was asked to go to the temple for training. Anyway, this is a good thing, isn’t it?”

Cadmoz did not see his teacher as surprised as he expected. On the contrary, he was a little angry.

This made him confused and thought he had made a mistake.

"It's not your fault, kid, you did a great job." Captain Miller suppressed his anger.

Every year, the Praetorian Order takes its best children away from them.

Cadmouz was a mechanical student, and his knowledge was so valuable in this era. Even so, the Adeptus Order still decided to take him away. It seemed that the Adeptus Guards believed that Cadmouz had a more important use. He would not know what kind of training those outstanding students would receive. Captain Miller's authority allowed him to know that the Emperor had established an organization under the jurisdiction of the Praetorian Order, but the information he knew was limited to this. This organization has some purpose that he doesn't know and operates according to a logic that he doesn't understand, but Captain Miller knows that the selected students will never appear in front of him again. They will become the emperor's agents and travel far away from this city. The Mediterranean coast in the north of the Mesopotamian plain or as far away as Egypt became informants for the emperor and the Praetorian Order, where they obtained information or killed people.

He heard some rumors.

It is said that someone once saw the "Blue Angel" along the narrow Red Sea coast where the Suez Canal has not yet been excavated. This rumor has been spread through the mouth of a businessman for decades. He is very sure that the so-called "Blue Angel" is some kind of alien. The Emperor did keep his promise and fight for the human race against all enemies, including aliens. However, Captain Miller knew that he could not bear such a responsibility, and he did not want his most valued student to waste his life fighting the enemy's sword. Enter the fight.

They have a more important responsibility, which is to pass on the knowledge he teaches to future generations.

"You should enjoy your life, Cadmoz. Ask that girl out, get married, and have some kids. I'll talk to Constantine and don't worry about the Festival of Venus, Inanna will be happy for you to attend Her holiday.”

Inanna was a guest of the emperor and now one of the mistresses of the temple.

Inanna had been a guest of the Emperor twenty years before when he first ordered the citizens of Eridu to clean the city, pave the roads, and strewn the avenues leading to the temple with flower petals. The breathtakingly beautiful young woman was led down that road by the emperor's equally delicate-faced maid. She was wearing a wing-like coat woven from bird feathers and a gold necklace inlaid with lapis lazuli beads. Other than that, she was naked. Her soft and smooth skin was exposed to the sun, and her whole body exuded a dreamy light. . Even though she walked naked through the streets, Inanna's white feet were not stained by any dust.

There is no doubt that this is a deity. All the residents of Eridu watched that day with their own eyes as the emperor stood in the square in front of the temple to greet the woman, and the "angel in golden armor" presented gifts to the goddess on behalf of the emperor. The gifts included a lion skin skinned by the emperor himself after hunting, fragrant soap (original soap existed in this era), dates, milk, wheat and a rosette seal symbolizing status. From then on, the rosette The seal became a symbol of the deity. When the goddess was clothed in the lion skin given by the emperor, she announced to the emperor's subjects that she lived in the wilderness and had come to the city to gain the emperor's wisdom.

After that Inanna lived in a corner of the temple.

The Eridu people believe that every morning the priests of the temple would make Inanna's bed and sprinkle perfume on the cashmere bed. Inanna would clean herself with soap, and then lie enthusiastically on the sweet cashmere bed to perform the sacred union ceremony with the emperor. , Inanna would be satisfied and delighted, and bless the women of Eridu. Therefore, young women and pregnant women of Eridu would come to the temple with clay cakes made with obvious images of fertility worship, and receive the blessing of Inanna in full armor under the guidance of the messenger Ninshubur. They called her "Goddess of Heaven" and "Lover of the Gods" and they worshiped her not for marriage but for love.

All the Eridu knew it. To be precise, in the mythology that the Eridu people are allowed to know, Inanna complained to the owner of Sweetwater City, the god of knowledge and crafts, and the god of wisdom that she had been treated unfairly, but the emperor said to Inanna, She already has her own power, so she no longer distributes it to her. The emperor gave Inanna sacred objects, including abstract concepts such as truth, victory, and advice, as well as the technology of writing (words), weaving, laws, priests, and the social structure of monarchs, in addition to armor, bows, and arrows. A living lion. The day Inanna came to Eridu was designated as the Festival of Venus. It was a festival that all men and women of school age in Eridu and its surrounding areas would come to the city to participate. Whenever the Festival of Venus came, the energetic and tireless Inanna Na would put on high-heeled sandals and come to the crowd, encouraging young girls to accept their inner impulses and welcome their significant other in love.

Whatever the so-called deity is, Captain Miller's perception is significantly different from others.

Captain Miller knew that reality was far from as beautiful as the myth. He did not think that a cold and rational person like the emperor would accept an inexplicable woman sharing half of his bedroom. The so-called "Ninshubre" was actually the emperor's maid. Dinah, the emperor placed the maid next to the goddess just to monitor this so-called god from the wilderness. But it is undeniable that Inanna does have a certain status in the temple. The once young female officials were now in their prime childbearing years, and Dinah ordered them to train a new group of young girls to serve the emperor, who now also serve Inanna. There are also rumors that the emperor also built a courtyard for Inanna filled with everlasting flowers, but Captain Miller knew that the so-called courtyard was actually a laboratory for students majoring in botany, biochemistry, and pharmacy.

The Emperor sat on the throne day after day, and for twenty years every commoner and priest allowed to enter the temple could see Him. Sitting on another smaller throne under the throne stairs in the temple hall was a young woman. She squirmed dissatisfied under Dinah's stern gaze, as if the soft and slender cashmere clothing made her skin far more delicate than ordinary people. itch. She looked at the emperor on the throne who was handling official business with longing eyes, and then was repeatedly tortured by the boring environment in the workplace. Whenever she tried to stretch her neck to listen to the conversation between the emperor and the guards, the maid in a long skirt would He would stand in front of her and firmly hold her to the throne by pressing her shoulders unceremoniously.

The emperor waved his hand, "Your weapons training is not finished today."

"Because you keep writing!" Inanna shouted dissatisfied.

Compared to the way she looked when she first entered Eridu twenty years ago, Inanna has completely changed her clothes.

In order to restrict her movement, Dinah specially chose a tight-fitting evening dress and high heels from the 21st century. Even if Inanna stepped on them, she could not maintain her balance. However, she likes these high-heeled sandals that can kill people very much. Dinah has no idea why her restrictions will be invalid. Even the evening dress cannot bring any restrictions to Inanna. She is the goddess of sex and love, a deity born out of the worship of fertility and reproduction at the beginning of human civilization. She entered the city wearing nothing but a feather coat and lapis lazuli jewelry.

Compared with women's clothing of this era, backless evening dresses with slits down to the thighs can be called conservative, and can even be called fashionable. The only restrictive measure that worked was Dinah's strict control over cosmetics and daily necessities. Inanna was reluctant to part with those things that could only be obtained in Eridu. If not, this god with his own little thoughts would have made a big fuss in the city long ago - Inanna thought that she had obtained the holy objects of Eridu and the most precious civilization. However, the emperor showed Ability showed that what the Eridu gained was not of much value - she ran a farm with the emperor and learned about planting and animal husbandry, and she did not think that she had learned everything.

"You don't need my involvement in your training."

The emperor glanced at her angrily. He didn't like to be interrupted while working, but his contract with Inanna couldn't restrain her at this time. After all, he was only dealing with "daily affairs" and not "urgent affairs" now. , Inanna had every reason to take up His time. Inanna is in charge of sex, reproduction and war, and is also related to justice and political power. It is no accident that she came to Eridu. The emperor once saw Inanna voluntarily transform into a feline - this is a gift, Bayonetta and Joan of Arc can also transform into felines without the need for spells - the emperor believes that the sadistic tendencies of the Shadow Witch family may be Has an unknown relationship with Inanna. More reliable evidence is the appearance of Inanna. When he lived with the witch, he once saw a vision. He once thought it was Bayonetta in Mesopotamia BC, but now Inanna's appearance shows that he is in the twenty-first century. The prophetic vision was actually Inanna, not Bayonetta.

The Supreme Mage may have realized this before persuading him to accept Inanna. The fateful entanglement between him and the Shadow Witch's family is far more profound than imagined. This was one of the reasons why the Emperor accepted Inanna, she was so much like Bayonetta. Another reason is that the emperor needs sufficient high-quality labor, and working with Inanna is the best choice. As a fertility cult among humans in Mesopotamia, the southern shores of the Mediterranean, and ancient Egypt, Inanna was able to increase the fertility rate in Eridu. Coupled with midwives trained by the emperor, midwifery tools manufactured by mechanics students, and herbal extracts manufactured by pharmacy majors, the infant mortality rate in Eridu has been reduced to ten percent, and the average annual population growth rate has reached one hundred. Six out of ten.

Due to the emperor's construction of collective farms, construction of dikes, and manufacturing of large agricultural tools to improve efficiency, Eridu's food production can now feed more than 7,000 residents of Eridu, plus all the surrounding villages within 30 kilometers. Only sufficient food could support the small factories built by the emperor to produce qualified industrial products. Whether it was a collective farm or a factory, it was a labor-intensive industry. The emperor needed a large population, and Inanna was the best choice.

"But I want you. Day or night, whether Venus is above the horizon or below. You are mine every day of the year!" Inanna squirmed on the throne, finally standing up. She raised her voice, like a roaring lioness declaring sovereignty, very similar to the tone of Bayonetta and Joan of Arc when they were angry. "I will fight side by side with you, An (her name for the emperor), this is the condition we negotiated!"

Inanna's willfulness made Dinah very angry. She glared at the goddess fiercely, as if she planned to teach her a lesson again.

The former proudly held up her chest and accepted Dinah's challenge, without any thought of the consequences that had happened several times before and seemed likely to continue to happen. Perhaps due to the similarity between Inanna and Bayonetta, Dinah always broke out into arguments with Inanna. Even though the emperor explicitly prohibited physical conflict, the fights between Inanna and Dinah were still within control. Almost every time, Inanna would admit defeat and beg Dinah to return the confiscated gemstones, jewelry, perfumes and cosmetics to her. Next time she will forget her previous lesson and provoke Dinah again. Their relationship was not always so bad, and Inanna was able to help Dinah in other ways with her duties, and the latter was more than happy with Inanna's advice, for Inanna did share the Emperor's chambers, and she was destined to be with the Shadow. The witch clan is in constant trouble.

"My Lord." Dinah stopped persecuting Inanna and regained her professional composure, "Captain Miller wants to see you."

"It's time." The emperor nodded, "Let him come, we no longer need him for our teaching mission."