Myth: The Ruler of Spirituality

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In the endless sands of Hemenu, within the Nile River valley.

Above the city of Heliopolis, amidst the eternally burning celestial bodies.

The sun moved across the world; normally, it was just an avatar of Ra that managed all this. But today, silently and unbeknownst to the deities of Upper and Lower Egypt, he had taken the place of his own incarnation.

For not long ago, Ra had once again felt the panic brought by that dream whose content he could not quite recall. Thus, he did not bother to prevent the upcoming revival of the Chaos Serpent, Apep, and instead came here at the first opportunity to survey the mortal realm beneath his feet.

He paid no attention to anything else and instead watched those humans who did not fit in with the Egyptians. Many of them had become slaves, marked with the symbols of disgrace, while others, though free, engaged in the most arduous and heavy work.

Still, others could not bear oppression and enslavement; they wandered in the dark alleys or the streets at night, sustaining themselves through theft and robbery.

This was naturally regarded by the Egyptians as the vile nature of a foreign tribe and led to further oppression towards them. All of this originated from a command by Ra, but he felt no pity for them. On the contrary, he was observing the existence of these mortals inch by inch.

As time passed and their bloodlines thinned, these people who called themselves Hebrews no longer carried such a marked foreign aura and had slowly become part of Hemenu. But the less Ra saw the problem, the more disquieted he felt.

He wanted to find the root of it all, but like every time before, he found nothing. After looking for an indefinite period, Ra slightly tilted his head up.

That feeling of something approaching grew clearer... At this moment, he suddenly had an idea.

As the lord of the deities of the Hemenu World, he knew every inch of this world, but he seemed to know nothing about the things that did not belong to this world. Perhaps with a different perspective, he would discover what he had previously ignored.

"Shu, come to me."

Commanding and deep, the voice arose, and in the next moment, Ra’s voice reached the ears of Shu. Shu also immediately invoked his authority over wind and atmosphere, transforming into an invisible current racing toward the sun.

"Honorable God of Sun, what is your command?"

Standing upon the burning great Sun, Shu’s mind filled with various speculations.

The God of Sun had not issued a divine decree for a long time; in recent years, he had been concentrating on the descendants of Isis, the sinners of Upper and Lower Egypt.

Perhaps today was related to this as well; had the sun in the sky finally decided to become the sun of the mortal realm and burn those mortals to ashes?

"The sun will leave the Mortal Realm, and I will travel to the heavens beyond and realms outside."

"Inform all deities not to panic, for this is nothing more than a normal change."

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"...Supreme God Ra, your will shall be carried out. Whether the sun is in the sky or not, you are the only light in the world."

Alarmed in his heart, Shu did not expect to hear such a command, but after a moment of hesitation, he responded softly.

Ra was not seeking his opinion; he was declaring his edict. Even as one of the nine Pillar Gods, Shu had no intention of voicing any objection.

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"Very well,"

he nodded, and with a wave, Ra dismissed the attendant.

When he was left alone upon the Great Sun, Ra looked up into the sky, his body, golden like molten metal, roiled with supreme divine power.

The world was enveloped in boundless darkness, he knew that well. Unlike Atum, the former God of Sun who had been replaced and devoured, who was born directly from the Primordial Water, Ra had always harbored an instinctive aversion to this ’coat’ that protected the world.

But now, he had no choice but to try and pass through it... With that thought, Ra hesitated no longer. The Great Sun began to deviate from its course, the midday sun gradually shrinking. He ascended towards the sky, endlessly rising higher.

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In the Hemenu World, Ra, as the God of Sun, was about to witness the void for the first time.

He kept ascending, but in the distant Chaos World, another sun did just the opposite.

Within the vast starry sky, the sun and moon originally followed their set trajectories, but not long ago, Typhon’s appearance not only scared away the moon that was about to set but also brought the sun’s journey to a halt.

Fortunately, the day and night in Chaos World were not dictated by the sun and moon; they were actually a representation of Eternal Night’s tidal ebb and flow. Thus, even if both supreme celestial bodies vanished from the sky, it did not affect the changing of day into night.

Until recently, when the Chaotic Gods ventured beyond their Foreign Realm, as the world’s very destiny and rules clashed with each other. Time thus became distorted, which was then reflected in the mortal realm.

The passage of time on land didn’t change much, but the flow of time over the oceans accelerated greatly, and even more so in the starry sky.

The chaos of time manifested in various places amongst the stars, with some regions experiencing hundreds of thousands of years in an instant.

All this stemmed from Chaos’s erroneous perception of time. As rules and destiny collided, such self-inflicted harm also led the world to attempt solving this issue. And the reason for such a contradiction was that the Chaotic Gods ’crossed’ over too early.

The world recognized this problem but was powerless to change it. Instinctively blaming the slow progression of timelines, it then attempted to alter this status quo.

Unfortunately for Chaos, it might speed up its own flow of time, but it couldn’t affect Hemenu’s, nor could this method hasten the swallowing of another world. So, the end result was this temporal oddity spread throughout the world.

Time was thus distorted, the passing of days turned into ancient history... It seemed dreadful, but it actually wasn’t a significant issue, because Typhon and the Divine King were still upon the earth, and Gaia’s essence also still existed. The presence of these three great beings greatly influenced the occurrence of these changes, so where mortals lived, there wasn’t too much of an obvious change.

The same was true for the starry skies, with mostly immortals ascending to the heavens at this time, who naturally wouldn’t face any issues due to the flow of time. All was meant to proceed in this manner, except there was one special exception, and that was the God of Sun, Helios.

Ever since Typhon came into the world, the original sun somehow turned a shade redder, and the collision of Chaos World’s rules with fate was like the weakening of some protective barrier, causing the entire celestial body to start trembling ever so slightly.

Still, the sun remained one of Chaos’s most crucial celestial bodies, and Helios was an undying True God. Although he was currently experiencing an anomaly, in reality, he could endure until everything ended—if not for this sudden acceleration of time.

So, within the core of the sun, Helios watched the branches in front of him release red mist and fell into a slight silence.

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He could persist for a hundred days... but that did not mean he could last for ten thousand years.

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