I was a priest in the city-state era

In Egypt, priests who served the gods had great power.

Priests not only served as pharaohs or governors of various city-states, but were also hereditary nobles who owned territories.

The old priestess who came to Roy at this time was only the village chief in name, but her actual power was equivalent to the ruler of the village, so Roy did not look down upon her at all.

As a priest of the goddess Wadjet, the old priestess wears Egyptian priestly clothing. The most eye-catching thing is that she wears a crown on her head.

The crown of the old priestess was a snake made of gold. The snake's body was coiled into a ring and fixed on the head of the old priestess. It looked like a golden sun on the head of the old priestess.

Aries said excitedly when he saw the old priestess's crown.

"Your Majesty, the Egyptians here worship the snake goddess just like us."

"Although the goddess Vadjet they worship is also the goddess of snakes, she is completely different from the snake goddess of our Kingdom of Athens."

Roy explained to Aries.

"The three snake goddesses of our Kingdom of Athens, the goddess Metis and the goddess Amphitrite are the sea snakes with ocean attributes, and the goddess Mnemosyne is the earth snake with the earth attributes. The goddess who protects the city of Butuo The goddess Git is a sky-attributed sun snake who was worshiped as the sun goddess by the Egyptians in Buto City.”

"Snake of the Sun——"

Aries raised his head and looked at the sun in the sky in disbelief.

“How can a snake fly into the sky and become the sun goddess?”

"Of course ordinary snakes cannot fly into the sky, so Goddess Wadjet is a winged snake with long wings."

“Can a snake with wings still be called a snake?”

"Then you think of Goddess Wadjet as a winged dragon."

Seeing Roy and Aries whispering in words she couldn't understand, the old priestess suddenly looked at Roy angrily and said.

"You, a foreigner, can understand what I say, why don't you respond to me?"

Roy said to the old priestess with a faint smile.

"Old woman, you said that the temple behind you is the divine domain of Wadjet, but I only see that this temple is the home where you and your family live. You just want to use the authority of the gods to protect your family."

"I am a priest who serves the goddess Wadjet. It is right for me and my family to enjoy the protection of the goddess Wadjet."

The old priestess said with a serious face.

"Outlander, if you don't want to offend the goddess Wadjet unintentionally, please leave my village as soon as possible."

"This is not okay!"

Roy immediately shook his head and said.

"Not only will I not leave here, I will also become the ruler of this village and build a great port city here - the city of Pharos. In order to achieve my goal, I must eliminate you and level this city. The Temple of Wadjet that gives you the authority to rule.”

Hearing Roy's arrogance, the old priestess trembled angrily and said.

"You are indeed an evil robber. Not only do you want to enslave us, but you also want to blaspheme the great goddess Wadjet. If you don't give up your crazy idea, goddess Wadjet will definitely punish you."

Roy ignored the old priestess' threat and spoke directly to Aries.

"Aries, you lead the soldiers to occupy the Wadjet Temple. Anyone who dares to stop us will be killed."

"As you command!"

Aries accepted the order and immediately rushed to the Temple of Vadjet with fifty Athenian soldiers.

The two middle-aged men beside the old priestess led 60 men to stop them, and a fierce fight broke out with Roy's soldiers.

The sixty-two men who protect the Wadjet Temple are composed of twenty-five descendants of the old priestess and thirty-seven temple servants.

Their combat power may be stronger than ordinary people, or even better than the peasant soldiers who work as soldiers in wartime and as farmers in their spare time, but they are certainly not as good as the professional soldiers that Roy has trained for a long time.

After seeing the fighting between the two sides begin, and her descendants being killed one by one, the old priestess looked at Roy with hatred in her eyes and prayed loudly.

"Great goddess Wadjet, now there are strangers who hurt the priests who have been serving you and trample on your authority. Please punish the strangers who blasphemed the gods."

After the old priestess finished speaking, a burst of divine power immediately fell from the sky and turned into a huge cobra with a body of ten meters long and golden phoenix armor in front of the old priestess.

Except for Roy, no one else seems to be able to see the golden cobra, so the appearance of the golden cobra has no impact on others.

Feeling that the golden cobra's divine power fluctuated very weakly, Roy said with confusion.

"This cobra doesn't seem to have as much power as me. Is it just a clone of the goddess Wadjet?"

There are also levels of priests who serve the gods.

The only person who can summon a god to come in person is usually the highest priest of the god or the high priest of a city.

The old priestess is just an ordinary priest who manages a village of thousands of people. It would be abnormal if she could summon Wadjet's true form.

"Hiss—hiss—"

Wadjet's cobra clone was like a hunter eyeing its prey. It first observed Roy, and then with lightning speed, it bared its fangs and bit Roy's neck.

Seeing this scene, Roy immediately ducked sideways, not daring to let the cobra's fangs touch his body.

Although the goddess Wadjet is now only the patron saint of Buto City, her status is not only inferior to the storm god Set [Zeus] and the sun god Amon who are competing for the throne of the gods in the Egyptian region, but also inferior to the patron saint of Sais City, Neither, but in the ancient times more than a thousand years ago, the sun serpent Wadjet was once the queen of the gods who was superior to the gods of Egypt.

Before the emergence of the First Dynasty of Egypt, Buto City had always been an important city in northern Egypt, and Wadjet, as the patron saint of Buto City, became the supreme god of northern Egypt.

The image of the sun serpent - Wadjet coiling around the sun is called a sacred venomous snake, and is also the emblem of the crown of northern Egypt.

After the First Dynasty of Egypt nominally unified northern and southern Egypt, Wadjet became the patron saint of Egypt together with Nekhbet, the vulture goddess of southern Egypt. The two goddesses became a double goddess who appeared together, and they were also two queens who were superior to the gods together.

Now, more than a thousand years later, the glory of the goddess Wadjet has become history, and Roy still dares not despise this former queen of the gods - even if the one in front of Roy is just Wadjet's cobra clone.

After all, even ordinary cobras have deadly venom that is fatal to humans.

As the goddess of cobras, the venom of Wadjet made Roy avoid her as much as possible.

After dodging the cobra's first attack, Roy immediately counterattacked, swinging the bronze spear in his right hand and stabbing the cobra's head.

With a puff!

Roy's spear blade pierced through the cobra's head, and then nailed Wadjet's cobra clone to the ground.

"You——"

Accompanied by a surprised female voice, the cobra that Roy nailed to the ground turned into a ball of golden divine power, and then this ball of divine power turned into a goddess with a human head and a snake body, with dazzling divine light all over her body.

The goddess looked at Roy with her golden snake eyes and said.

"You are not an ordinary human! Tell the gods you serve, if you want to become my enemy, you must be prepared to be bitten by my fangs."

After that, the goddess disappeared.