Once upon a time there was a greedy snake

At that moment, the four priests suddenly realized that they were probably pledging allegiance to an extraordinary god.

Yes, loyalty.

After killing the chief priest of the sun god, there was no way they could go back. The sun god would not let these traitors go. All they could do now was follow the ancient serpent and go down this dark path.

After all, only if this ancient serpent is powerful enough can they survive and avoid being punished by the sun god.

So they were even prepared to risk their lives—even if the ancient serpent wasn't a deity, but just an ordinary servant or a native god, they still had to elevate it to the position of a deity.

but now……

"Get better!"

Looking at the towering flames before them, the four priests were filled with excitement.

The great ancient serpent could even use the omnipotence of the sun god, which meant that the ancient serpent's power far exceeded their imagination. With such a great being behind them, why would they care about the evil eagle god's reckoning?

"Then let the Snake God see what we're capable of!"

The priest, wearing a crown of snake fangs, clenched his fists as he glanced at the three people beside him.

Yes, compared to the High Priest Nacht, hardly anyone even remembers his name.

However, he was, after all, a classmate of Nacht.

"Then let me show you what a nobody can do!"

With this in mind, the priest wearing a crown of snake fangs began his actions.

……

Upper reaches of the great river, the holy city of the sun, Heliopolis.

The already solemn hall was now deathly silent, and everyone's faces were extremely serious.

The reason was that in the heavy coffin in front of them, there was only a handful of black ashes.

Those are the ashes of the previous High Priest, Nacht.

Nacht, the chief high priest, died on the front lines, his body mutilated beyond recognition. Even his ashes were only brought back in a handful by his personal guards.

It wasn't that they didn't want to bring more, but the defeat was simply too devastating. Faced with the priest who wielded a terrifying greatsword and appeared like a demon god descending to earth, they couldn't even put up the most basic resistance.

"And those priests were originally our people."

Thinking of this, the gloom on everyone's faces deepened.

The harm caused by the betrayal of those who were once their own people, those who knew them best, is far greater.

Just like now, while they were having their meeting, the priest wielding the greatsword was leading his troops up the river, destroying one sun temple after another—no matter how hidden the mechanisms or how ancient the amulets, nothing could stop the onslaught of that terrifying greatsword.

"He is no longer human."

This thought immediately arose in the minds of the priests.

"This terrifying power... He has already sided with the ancient evil, that is the Demon God! The War Demon God!"

However, there was more than one demon god like this, who terrified the priests.

According to intelligence reports from the soldiers at the front, there are three other demon gods who are also launching attacks.

A demon god wielding a strange long scale was managing the logistics of his demon army. Through buying low and selling high, many of the Sun God's resources were flowing downstream into the hands of their enemies.

This made the warriors of the Sun God Kingdom even more distressed, and they called it the Famine Demon.

A demon god holding a clean bottle is managing the medical care of the demon army. Heaven knows what strange and evil things are contained in that clean bottle. As long as a heavily wounded and dying demon soldier takes a drop, he can quickly recover his strength and step onto the battlefield again.

The warriors of the Sun God Kingdom were shocked by this bizarre power that toyed with death, and they called it the Death Demon.

Behind these three demon gods, there is a true commander, the monster who personally killed the High Priest Nahet. Legend has it that the monster was once High Priest Nahet's classmate, but now he wears a crown made of snake fangs and has become the commander-in-chief of the demon army.

Under the monster's command, the demon army marched north along the great river, winning victory after victory.

Wherever that serpentine crown passed, even the strongest warrior would collapse on the spot, dying from the poison.

This invisible and formless attack is what warriors fear most. They call it the Plague Demon and avoid this monster as if it were a plague.

"What about us?"

An elderly priest spoke up.

What do we have?

None of the people present responded; they seemed to have nothing to say.

It wasn't that no one had tried to fight those four demon gods, but the divine artifacts they wielded were simply too terrifying; they were far beyond their capabilities. The priests of the sun god couldn't even withstand a single exchange.

It seems that all they can do is pray.

They prayed that the sun god would save them, and that the sun god would annihilate the enemy army.

So they gathered here, closing their eyes in prayer, hoping that the soul of the High Priest Nakht could go to the kingdom of the Sun God, and also praying that the Sun God would bring down His divine punishment.

After seven days and seven nights of prayer, they received a response.

A blinding light shone on the ashes.

Immediately afterwards, a tall human figure sat up from the previously empty coffin.

"I am the Spear of Sunlight, my name is Matt Perry."

The tall, burly man had a burning light in his eyes, and his broad body almost seemed to crack the coffin.

In the giant's hands, he held a sword and a spear formed from condensed light.

"You don't need to say anything more, I already know who I'm going to kill."

Chapter 137 The Ancient Serpent's Herd

Matt Perry, the former High Priest, the Spear of the Sun, the Falcon of the Sun God... On the stone slabs of the temple, this giant once had countless titles.

But what is most impressive is the title of "War High Priest".

On the stone slabs of the temple, in those ancient records, long ago, the worship of the sun god was not as flourishing as it is today—although the sun god already had many followers and even occupied a considerable area, the upper and lower reaches of the great river were mainly the territory of the cobra goddess Vajit.

Then, Matt Perry emerged.

Of all the priests at the time, Matt Perry was arguably the most foolish. With the physique of a warrior, Matt Perry also had the fiery temper of those warriors. He would start fighting on the spot at the slightest provocation and would shout threats of violence at the drop of a hat. Normally, such a person would not even become a priest, after all, such behavior was far removed from the calm and wisdom of priests.

However, everything changed after Matt Perry quietly became the High Priest.

With a war instinct as sharp as a wild beast, Matt Perry sent troops everywhere, defeating the followers of the Cobra Goddess one after another. And after that, Matt Perry was not satisfied and simply led his troops himself, destroying many temples along the way.

The most powerful high priest, the chosen one of God, the most loyal of all, the most valiant of all heroes... all sorts of titles were bestowed upon Matt Perry, and his deeds were engraved on stone tablets and widely circulated.

Until Matt Perry was very old.

"I am about to die, the sun god is calling me."

These were Matt Perry's last words. This burly warrior did not die from illness, but instead, as always, wielded his heavy spear before collapsing to his death, leaning on his weapon.

And now, this war priest, who had originally returned to the embrace of the sun god, has reappeared in the human world.

In the name of the sun god.

"The war priests have returned... We will surely achieve victory!"

As Matt Perry's broad body gradually rose to his feet, the priests' faces lit up with joy.

But Matt Perry shook his head at them.

“That is not something you can handle, nor can I handle it... You have no idea what kind of being you are facing.”

As he said this, the giant sat directly on the coffin.

"Only by understanding the enemy can you have a chance to defeat him... Before you fight the ancient serpent, you must at least know what it is."

Then, amidst the priests' confusion, the giant began his narration.

Long, long ago, when heaven and earth were still in chaos, the gods appeared. They possessed earth-shattering power and terrifying strength to move mountains and overturn seas.

However, it was not the gods who separated the chaos.

It was an ancient serpent far larger than any of the gods. When the serpent raised its head, chaos was separated, sunlight appeared, darkness receded, and the world was divided into heaven and earth.

"This……"

The priests were stunned; they couldn't believe that such words would come from Matt Perry's mouth.

After all, this content is completely different from what is recorded on the stone tablet.

The world was not created by the sun god, but by an ancient serpent—such rebellious words… could actually come from the mouth of the sun god's most loyal servant?

“This is what the sun god said to me personally.”

Seeing the questioning expressions on the faces of the priests, Matt Perry simply sighed.

"At first, I didn't believe it either, but the great sun god can't be wrong."

The great sun god is infallible, that's one point.

But most importantly, Matt Perry himself saw the evidence.

"The earliest humans were not actually us. They claimed to be survivors from a previous era, and they called themselves the Ignivas..."

As Matt Perry narrated, the past, which had been lost to time, gradually unfolded before the priests.

In Matt Perry's account, the Ignivas were people who each possessed the ability to manipulate fire. They tamed enormous, terrifying elephants, but these elephants were not the kind people see today; rather, they were a more ancient, hairy species.

In the beginning, there was no conflict between the gods and the Ignivas. After all, the gods were in the west, and the Ignivas were in the east, separated by a dark mountain that was said to have been left over from the previous era.

However, as time went by, those Ignivas crossed the mountains.

Those Ignivas, upholding the name of the so-called creator serpent god, regarded all the land in their sight as pasture for the woolly mammoths—even the gods of the past were regarded by the Ignivas as food for those woolly mammoths.

The gods, cornered, naturally wouldn't sit idly by and wait for their doom.

Thus, the two sides engaged in an earth-shattering battle.

Those beings who called themselves the Ignivas displayed terrifying divine magic; flames rained down from the sky like a storm, and the still-weak gods had almost no ability to resist them.

"Until the first gods began to look up at the stars."

Matt Perry also raised his head, his gaze seemingly piercing through the dome and looking towards the dark sea of ​​stars.

Even with all the power they knew, the gods were still unable to withstand the Ignivas who had lived since the last era.

So they could only look up at the stars and pray for some power that did not belong to this world.

This was originally a desperate act born of utter helplessness.

But the boundless starry sky gave the gods a response.

"It was at that time that the gods became gods."

Matt Perry continued.

Having obtained power that did not belong to this world, the gods launched their great counterattack, a protracted war, an earth-shattering war.

"And in the end, the gods banished the Ignivas from this world and from this planet before they could even summon their creator serpent god."

"...Planet?"

The priests chewed over this word they had never heard before.

But what attracted their attention even more was the meaning behind Matt Perry's words.

"You mean... we're facing the awakened Creation Serpent God?"

To confront an existence of this caliber?

Are they worthy?

"Yes, and you must continue to hold on."

Matt Perry's expression turned serious.

"Until the sun god, aboard His golden ark, guides you to another pure land..."

"At that time, the gods will descend with their light and cleanse the world of all evil."

Chapter 138 The Power from the Stars

Facing the ancient and terrifying giant serpent, it was an impossible task for these priests to hold out; it was practically sending them to their deaths.