Feeling the power of Settra and the two fighting sphinxes beside him, Snorri felt sweat dripping from his temples. He knew what Settra was talking about.
Two thousand years ago, a Hammer War broke out between the dwarves of Karak-Azul and the Tomb Kings. The reason was that the dwarves wanted to regain the hammer of Algrim, a holy relic, from Maharak, a city east of Coffin Canyon.
After winning the melee and reclaiming the Hammer of Algrim, the dwarves returned to Ironpeaks and thought that was the end of the matter. However, the hammer contained a copper plate belonging to King Akharad, and the Tomb King immediately retook it.
In the following years, the Holy Hammer changed hands more than thirty times. The names of the Tomb Kings were constantly added and crossed out in the Book of Hatred.
"Your Majesty, please listen to me!" Snorri calmed down and spoke. He knew that Settra did not invite him here specifically to settle old scores from more than two thousand years ago.
"You regard Mahalak as your territory, but King Farr there does not obey you as the master!"
King Farr was a contemporary of Settra. He ambushed Settra's army in Coffin Canyon and drove it back, but after his death Settra quickly captured Maharak.
When King Phar woke up from his slumber, he was furious to find that his descendants had surrendered to Khemri. Therefore, he dragged the mummies of all the Maharak kings after him out of the pyramid and destroyed them, and then used all his strength to fight against Settra.
"After all, my compatriots and I are also fighting for you. As for the wealth, who can figure out its ownership after thousands of years have passed? Why should the immortal king care about it?"
Settra just made a pretense and sat down again, and the two war sphinxes also became quiet.
"Your Majesty, I know what you want in your heart right now, and I also know what you are worried about!"
"Oh? Your ancestors are not as eloquent as you. Let's talk. The lonely royal court has been silent for thousands of years. If you speak well, the King of Kings will have a reward!" The holes in the eyes under Settra's mask Blu-ray is booming here.
"There is nothing you want more than to regain your immortal body of gold!"
Settra realized the brevity of life in middle age, so he formed the Mortic Cult to unlock the mystery of eternal life for himself. These priests found ways to make the emperor live longer than a normal human could have, but they still couldn't live forever.
For this reason, Settra asked the priests to bind his soul into his body through spells and keep him in the mortal world until technology advanced enough to perfectly resurrect him before awakening him. All the subsequent kings of Nehekhara sponsored the funeral sect in order to live forever, and the strength and power of those priests increased.
Nagash is a member of the Burial Sect. He awakened the Tomb Queens and was attacked by Alkadiza. As a result, the Tomb Kings began to conquer each other.
Just imagine what he would do if he were in Snorri's previous life, taking Zhu Yuanzhang as an example? The Yuan Dynasty, who killed his family; grabbed the Aixinjuelu family who grabbed his old Zhu Jiaye; he grabbed the fourth old Zhu Xi of the old grandson Jianwen and the Emperor Jiangshan. Even more beatings.
Nehekhara was turned upside down as a result, and the intensity of the war among the dead was several orders of magnitude greater than that among the living. The leader of the funeral sect, High Priest Katep, decided to solve the problem. These priests were already between life and death and were not affected by Nagash's spell.
His method was to awaken Settra. The Immortal Emperor's pyramid was protected by powerful spells and was not directly awakened by Nagash. Settra was very angry after being awakened. He was still a skeleton. Even if it was inlaid with gold, it was not an "immortal body of gold."
He banished Katep, defeated the other Tomb Kings, and restored Nehekhara to his rule, but none of this made Settra happy. He only has a skeleton and can't enjoy food, wine, and beautiful women, so why would he enjoy it?
"And what you are worried about is the return of Nagash!" Snorri said immediately.
"I can defeat the unworthy descendant of Nakamuri once, but I can defeat him a second time!" Settra responded this time.
"Every time the Lord of the Dead comes back, his power will be stronger! His servant, Black Akhan, is always ready to resurrect him!" Snorri hit the nail on the head.
"Akhan, you're just a lost dog! A minister without wisdom, a general without talent!" Settra was very disdainful.
"This is nonsense!" Snorri cursed secretly in his heart. The great vizier, number one disciple, and general of the Lord of the Undead was so powerful that he killed many heroes in the process of resurrecting his master. Even after Settra defeated his army, he could not do anything to him.
"The black pyramid of Nagash still stands outside Khemri, and the magic shield of the Lord of the Dead is difficult to break!" Snorri continued to cite the facts. This time Settra could not refute it. He tried to use physics and Magical means were used to destroy the black pyramid, but to no avail.
"Haha! I don't know that there is such a flexible tongue like yours among the dwarves. I just don't know if you will turn into dry bones in the grave a thousand years later. Will this tongue be left?" Settra was rightly told by Snorri. , the mood is better.
"Say it, the breaker of the Dejaf bond allows you to offer your wisdom! If it is useful, you should have a place in the royal court of the Lord of the Desert, and you can break the earth and become the king!"
Dejaf is the god of death in Nehekhara, and the breaker of his bond is the one who breaks through the boundaries between life and death.
"Your Majesty, I can't solve any of your concerns right away!" Before Snorri could finish his words, Settra's soul fire surged in her eyes.
"I have no way to regain my life for now, but I can promise that once I find a way in the future, I will deliver it to you as soon as possible! As for Nagash, I, and almost everyone in this world, don't want to see him again. Come to the mortal world and desecrate the dead! I am willing to fight with you against him and his claws!"
What Snorri promised was two bad checks, but what he needed was also not much, just military access.
The soul fire in Emperor Settra's eyes was erratic. During the long wait, he had long lost confidence and patience in the Lich Priests under his command, so maybe many of them had good hopes.
"Give the gift to the tamer of the Lich King!" Snorri added decisively. His two hammer guards opened the box, revealing a pair of finely crafted gold armor inside, and carried it to the bottom of the steps.
"That's it! Your request has been granted!" Settra knocked on the lid of his coffin and spoke. "Did you know that my unscrupulous descendants wrote their blasphemous methods into nine dark books?"
"Yes, we call it the Nine Books of Nagash."
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