I was a priest in the city-state era.

Chapter 266 I just dare to kill in the temple

Before 3000 BC, when Northern and Southern Egypt were not nominally united, the city of Bhutto was already a center of worship for the goddess Wajit, the sun serpent.

Although more than 1000 years later, Bhutto City has fallen from the city-state that dominated northern Egypt to a vassal of Sais City, but the Wajit Temple in Bhutto City has the scale of a royal palace in the accumulation of time.

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

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

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

"I never said I would kill you all!"

Roy said with a smile.

"Even if it's not too late, you can still choose to leave Butuo with your family and servants, but you can only take away property other than land and food."

A middle-aged priest and noble immediately shouted angrily.

"Why do you deprive us of the land and food our ancestors left us? This is our wealth. As long as you respect our property ownership, we are willing to be your subjects and regard you as our pharaoh."

Another priest and nobleman followed suit.

"We know that 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 need to talk nonsense anymore."

Roy said with a sneer.

"Now you have only two choices, the first choice is to leave the city of Bhutto, the second choice is to stay in the city of Bhutto, but I will kill you, confiscate all your land and property, and demote your wives and daughters to slave."

"This is the temple of Goddess Vajit. We are servants of Goddess Vajit, so we will never leave here."

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

"Don't you, a foreigner, dare to kill us in the temple and commit the crime of blasphemy—"

Before he could finish speaking, Roy stared at him with icy eyes and said something in a low voice.

"Salting!"

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

The human soul needs the human body to carry it.

The soul of a person whose whole body is salted by Roy has already fallen into the underworld when he becomes a salt statue.

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

Seeing the middle-aged priests and nobles being turned into salt statues by Roy, everyone in the courtyard screamed in panic.

Because Roy didn't kill people in other places, but in the territory of the gods - the temple of the goddess Wajit.

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

Seeing everyone's reaction, Roy said in a cold voice with no expression on his face.

"You understand now! Even if you hide in the temple of Wajit, you can't be safe under the protection of Wajit. If you don't want to die, run away from Buto City as soon as possible. If you insist on staying in Buto City , What awaits you is my punishment for you.”

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 leaving Buto City, they can only take away slaves, private soldiers, gold, copper and other property, but staying in Buto City, they will lose everything including their lives.

Fleeing to other places with the property they can take away, even if they will lose their noble status, they can still live a better life than those ants like civilians.

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

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

The middle-aged priestess headed by the three priestesses said.

"We are servants serving the goddess Wajit, even if we die, we will die in the temple."

The goddess Vajit also fell from the sky at this time, and said to Roy dissatisfied.

"Enough is enough! They are servants who really serve me, and they are different from the priests and nobles you drove away. If you want to completely trample my face under your feet, I will not be able to bear it."

Of course, Roy knew that when the royal power was stronger, as long as she did not affect Wajit's core interests, Wajit could tolerate the oppression of her by the royal power.

It now appears that Wajit's core interests are not only the patron saint of Bhutto City, but also the priestess who really serves her.

Looking at the suppressed and angry Wajit, Roy said with a faint smile.

"Since you are priests who sincerely serve Goddess Vajit, I will deprive you of all your power and property, and you will have no complaints! You and the Temple of Wajit will no longer own any land and property in the future. What you need in life It's all my responsibility."

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

"We comply with your arrangements and thank you for allowing us to stay."

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

Although the goddess Vajit has always been blooming with golden divine light, Roy can see her true appearance after receiving her blessing and divine power.

As a local god of Egypt, the goddess Vajit has brownish white skin and golden snake pupils. She has a graceful figure and a slender waist unique to snake goddesses. 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.

Wajit's right hand holds a golden scepter like a pharaoh's scepter, which is the proof that she was once the queen of the gods.

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

Feeling Roy's wanton look at him, Wajit said indifferently.

"How do I compare to the other goddesses?"

"Do you want to hear me compliment you?"

"Do you humans want to hear words that demean yourself?"

I didn't expect Wajit to be so frank, Roy said with a frown.

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

"Then you'll love Lady Knight."

"Goddess Nate—"

Roy said suspiciously.

"Goddess Nate, who guards the city of Sais, is a local god of Egypt just like you!"

Vajit nodded.

"Although Knight 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 patron saint of the Phoenicians, Aphrodite. Sais The city was able to become a powerful city-state that established the No.14 dynasty, also because there were foreign rulers ruling the city of Sais.”

After listening to Wajit's words, Roy couldn't help laughing.

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

"It is because the Egyptians are dependent on foreign rulers that you can conquer the city of Butuo so easily."

Wajit said bluntly.

"If the Egyptians resist a foreign ruler like you, you are still outside the city of Bhutto, trying to find a way to conquer this city with a population of 5 with [-] soldiers."

(End of this chapter)