I weave fate in parallel time and space

Chapter 444
"Lord Bashum." The red dragon lowered his head to the middle-aged man.

"Go and guard the gate," said Bashum.

"Yes."

The red dragon flapped its wings again and flew to the place where it had just come.

Bashum.
According to Akkadian, the name should mean "poisonous snake".

Xiaya has been studying stories about Sumerian mythology these days, and he has actually heard of this name.

When the gods were preparing to rebel against Tiamat, Tiamat gave birth to eleven magical beasts to fight against the gods.

One of them is Bashum, who in the Babylonian creation epic Enuma Elish was transformed into a do-gooding monster to guard the gates after being defeated by Marduk or Ninurta.

It first appeared on the roller seal of Gudea in the 22nd century BC.In the Mesopotamian poem Angim (or "The Return of Ninurta to Nippur") it is one of the eleven "warriors" defeated by Ninurta.

According to a fragmentary Assyrian mythology, Bashum was born in the sea. It voraciously devoured fish, birds, wild donkeys and some humans. It was feared by the gods, and the gods sent Nergal to kill it. it.

In the real story, he may have been exiled to this world with Tiamat.

Bashum looked at Hypnos, grinned slowly and said, "It's strange today. When can the dragon world welcome the arrival of a god?"

"A dragon among you has taken my things." Hypnos said, "I just came to get my things back. Where is your king?"

Bashum narrowed his eyes slightly, but at this moment, a voice came from a palace behind them.

"Let them in."

Bashum glanced at Hypnos, but still took a step back, making way for them to enter the palace.

Hypnos and Char looked at each other, then walked slowly towards the palace.

The road leading to the palace is paved with bluestone bricks, and there are buildings on both sides, but it seems to have gone through a long time. The bluestone bricks are covered with moss, and the buildings on one side are also covered with many ancient vines. .

There were many double vertical pupils in the building staring at them quietly, like a hunter staring at his prey.

Dragons have a unique dragon power, which has absolute suppression over lower creatures.

Being stared at by so many dragons felt like an ordinary person being stared at by dozens of tigers in the forest. It was a sense of urgency as if they were walking on the edge of death.

If Xia Ya was just an ordinary person, he would probably not dare to move at this moment.

Today in the human world, no magician can show a calm expression in such an environment.

They walked up the stairs in front of the palace. The stairs were very long, with about 90 steps. However, they did not teleport up directly, but walked step by step to show respect.

This palace has obvious traces of time. I don't know if these dragons did it on purpose or if they didn't have the ability to maintain the palace.

Many walls of the palace are covered with moss and some green plants climbing the walls.

Even the branches of the ancient tree planted on one side have penetrated into the window and grown indoors.

The architectural style of this palace is also very different from the palace style in the world. There is no sense of grandeur. It uses large stone buildings with some simple strokes and lines, giving it a sense of age.

This place is more like a temple than a palace, which reminds Char of the feeling he felt in the Egyptian pyramids.Behind the front hall is the garden belonging to the atrium. The flowers and trees here also grow wildly without any pruning. Many vines climb up the corridor. Among the dense shrubs, some flowers that only exist in this world work hard to drill. Only a well-trodden path remains in the middle.

Along this road, Char and Hypnos continued to move forward. This palace was built on the mountain. The height difference between the buildings was very large, and there were many stairs to walk up.

Although the building looks like it has gone through a long time, the quality is extremely good. Although it is eroded by many vines and tree roots, the overall appearance is actually much more decent than the collapsed dream palace of Hypnos.

They walked through a curved, suspended staircase without fences, walked up to a high tower, and entered the rotunda inside the tower.

There were many humanoid creatures standing inside the hall, but obviously, neither Char nor Hypnos thought these were human beings.

They were of different ages and clothes, some were male and female, some were three or four meters tall, and some were only the height of ordinary people. Including Bashum, there were six of them in total.

All of their eyes were focused on the man in white robe standing by a huge open window looking at the sea of ​​clouds and stars in the distance.

He had waist-long hair that was like silk, and the sun shined through the clouds on his blond hair, glowing like gold.

He wore a linen robe as white as clouds, with two gold rings hanging from his earlobes.

In the brief silence, he slowly turned around. His appearance was also very delicate, his facial features were as if carved by the gods himself, and the golden vertical pupils of his eyes showed nobility.

He has a lot of gold ornaments on his body. In addition to the rings, there are gold ornaments hanging on his neck, wrists and even feet.

Char and Hypnos were looking at him, and he was also looking at them.

"Hello everyone, no outsiders have come to the Dragon Realm for a long time." He said slowly, his voice was very clear, and it was difficult to distinguish between male and female. "I didn't expect that he would be such an honored guest when he came."

He looked at Hypnos and smiled.

"Since the gods fell into an unknown sleep, you and your brother should be the most powerful gods in the main world."

Hypnos stared at the young man. He was not familiar with Sumerian mythology, so he was not familiar with the person in front of him, so he asked directly.

"You are."

"I have many names," the young man said, "but outside, the name that is most often called is Jin Gu."

Char also knew this name. Jingu was the son of Abzu and Tiamat in Sumerian mythology.

After Abzu's death, he led Tiamat's army against Marduk, and was later killed by Marduk along with Tiamat.Marduk mixed the blood of Jingu with clay and kneaded it into the first human being.

So according to Sumerian mythology, the man in front of him should be the ancestor of mankind.

Of course, according to Char's understanding, he is just the ancestor of mankind in the birthplace of Sumerian mythology.

The reason why there are different races and nationalities in this world is probably because these races were created by gods from different pantheons.

The replacement of evolution by creationism is an undoubted fact in this time and space, which was confirmed in Char's many studies.

Of course, it is worth studying whether the gods of any pantheon all unanimously created human beings, a kind of intelligent life walking on the earth.

Char speculated that this might be one of the reasons for the birth of gods. They were born to sort out the rules, and creating humans was also one of their missions.

As for who this mission comes from, Xia Ya guessed that it may be the instinctive consciousness of this world, or it may come from fate.
(End of this chapter)