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Chapter 1185: Order Magic
🕑 Added 2024-07-29 22:59:37 +0000 UTCSince childhood, Rawya had been fascinated by the lost history of ancient Egypt and the former glory of this land.
While studying at Karnak Wizarding School, the subject she excelled in was History of Magic.
Because of this, after graduation, Rawya resolutely joined Gringotts and became a Curse-Breaker.
As a novice Curse-Breaker, she hoped to prove herself through the successful excavation of the Ruins of Amun Ra and find the ancient treasures hidden deep within the ruins.
Whether it was the legendary Golden Book of Amun Ra or something else, as long as it was heavy enough, it would be fine.
Therefore, Rawya hoped to get Evan's help.
If possible, it would be best to activate the three obelisks and enter the core of the ruins.
However, Evan seemed to have no interest in the place, and Rawya was not sure whether Evan could crack the complex alchemical mechanisms in the obelisks. Her main purpose of coming here was the god Horus.
After Evan asked her to help investigate the time-distorted chamber, Rawya was pleasantly surprised to find that the statue of Horus might be in that chamber. Their destination was the same. If Evan could neutralize the time distortion threat, she could go in and carry out excavation work.
Finding this important deity and his treasures would be enough to prove her ability.
That was Rawya’s plan, but Evan's words reminded her...
If the god Horus was indeed in the Chamber, it meant there were other dangers besides the magical item causing the time distortion.
To obtain the treasures related to this deity, one would need to break the curses of Horus.
In ancient Egypt, or more precisely, in the remains of ancient Egypt before the rule of the Roman Dynasty, magic, curses and mechanisms had a very distinct characteristic, which was that they were related to the deities worshipped.
Different gods were in charge of different domains, and the corresponding magic was also different.
For example, if the god Anubis was worshipped, the curses encountered would be Dark magic related to death, requiring sacrifices of living souls.
Last year, Bill told Evan and the others about his excavation in a ruin from the Early Dynasty period. The pharaoh's guardian deity then was Serket, also known as the Scorpion Queen. The magic and curses in that ruin were related to scorpions, requiring a lot of blood to break.
This practice was very evident in early and middle ancient Egypt, where magic was divided into very detailed categories.
Wizards and priests who worshipped different deities used different magic. They could only learn and master spells related to their deities' domains and were only permitted to use such magic.
It was not until the late dynasty, due to the decline of national strength and the Roman invasion that the magic mastered by wizards became more diverse, and the classification of magic and curses left in relics and tombs was no longer so detailed.
The reign of Ramses II was the heyday of ancient Egyptian civilization.
Thus, the magical relics he left behind still preserved these ancient traditions, and that was where the trouble lay.
Dealing with other deities was one thing, but magic related to the god Horus was particularly troublesome.
This god was considered to be the guardian god of the Pharaoh, a symbol of royal power, and his area of responsibility was order.
Therefore, the magic associated with him was inevitably related to "order".
According to the classification of ancient Egyptian magic, there were many types of order-based spells, including all time magic, control magic, and part of guardian magic, divination, and sacred magic that wizards could understand in a broad sense today.
These spells did not involve Dark magic, but were no less dangerous than Dark magic or offensive magic.
Because of their rarity, they were quite difficult to break.
The most "Horus"-like order magic appeared in the Temple of Edfu, which was dedicated to the falcon-headed god Horus and was also called the Temple of Horus. Deep in the temple, there was an order magic in the chamber used to store treasures.
About sixty years ago, wizards had discovered this chamber and its magic.
It was a massive stone door with four human-sized jars in front of it, each representing one of Horus's four sons: a human-headed jar, a baboon-headed jar, a jackal-headed jar, and a falcon-headed jar.
These four jars corresponded to Horus's four sons, and only by placing the correct items in the correct order into these jars could the door be opened, and there must be no mistakes.
The human-headed jar was for the liver, the baboon-headed jar for the lungs, the jackal-headed jar for the stomach, and the falcon-headed jar for the intestines.
The god Horus valued order above all else, and he only accepted human entrails.
To break this spell, one needed to be proficient in divination and determine the order in which to put the liver, lungs, stomach, and intestines in.
Also, someone needed to provide these organs...
Voluntary sacrifice seemed unlikely. In other words, breaking this magic required killing people!
The jars were large, and the internal organs were small. In order to fill the four jars, at least a hundred people needed to be killed!
After encountering this magic, the excavation work was temporarily suspended. No matter how much they wanted the treasure inside, no matter what they really thought in their hearts, no one dared to openly say such a crazy thing as killing a hundred people to break this magic...
Excavation work was halted for more than twenty years, but rumors about the treasure of the god Horus continued to grow.
Finally, on a summer night thirty years ago, someone attacked the Temple of Horus.
The stone door was opened, and all the treasures inside disappeared, leaving only four jars filled with human organs.
No one knew who did it, and no one knew what those priceless treasures were and their specific whereabouts. This was the most tragic and mysterious Dark magic incident in the Egyptian Wizarding world in recent years.
The death of a large number of Muggles also led to tensions in the entire Middle East, until war broke out...
From then on, the order magic associated with the god Horus became synonymous with trouble.
If the god Horus was really in that chamber, then Evan and the others would have to face such terrifying magic.
Judging from the current situation, there was basically no way to crack it. They couldn’t kill people and use their internal organs as sacrifices.
If there was similar magic, they would have no choice but to give up.
Anyway, these were still speculations, and Evan decided to see for himself before making a decision.
Only after the International Alchemical Conference was over would foreign wizards like Evan be allowed to enter the Ruins of Amun Ra. In the following days, he asked Rawya to help him find many books about the ancient Egyptian "order" magic, learned about the situation in this regard, and also went to participate in the International Alchemical Conference.
Aside from the final selection and awards, the main focus of the International Alchemical Conference was on exchanges.
There were two main forms of exchange: the first involved renowned wizards giving lectures, introducing their latest research findings and alchemical experiences, and interacting with the wizards in the audience. There were about ten lectures each day. The second form was freestyle, where the conference organizers provided a space for alchemists and potion makers from around the world to set up booths and display their alchemical products.
If someone saw something interesting, they could even buy it...
