Egyptian Mythology: Daily Life of the Desert God

Chapter 37 Transformation and Worry

In the dusky sky, a faint red sun hung high.

The scorched earth-like earth saw a little breath of life.

The dark River Styx carries the undead souls that have transformed into undead and flow into the distance.

The smell of death is everywhere.

Standing above the River Styx, Seth saw and felt this.

He instinctively felt uncomfortable and repulsed by the underworld.

If he followed his instincts, he would return to the human world immediately.

Suppressing his thoughts, Seth flew into the distance along the River Styx.

At the same time, Seth kept saying his real names one by one.

"one two three four…"

Giant birds of yellow sand are born one by one.

When he counted a thousand, Seth stopped.

Looking at the densely packed yellow sand giant birds, Seth said: "Go find the reed swamp."

"Yes, Master!" The giant yellow sand birds responded in unison.

Then they spread out, with Seth as the center, and searched the underworld.

Seth stood in mid-air, waiting for news from the giant birds in the yellow sand.

Although the underworld has not yet fully grown, it has not yet fully recovered.

But Seth looked at the scorched earth with no visible edges, and felt that with only eight suns, there was a high probability that he would not be able to find the reed marsh that Sobek mentioned.

If you can't find it, you can only exit the underworld.

Otherwise, Ra would definitely see him when he was patrolling in his chariot of the underworld.

Thinking about it, Seth landed on the edge of the River Styx.

The breath of death came over and was isolated by Seth's divine power.

With a sigh of relief, Set suppressed the power and war authority, allowing only the desert authority to transform into divine power.

After a while, the breath of the desert replaced Seth's original breath.

Set poured the power of the desert into Ankh, and then placed Ankh on the scorched earth of the underworld.

The moment Anka came into contact with the scorched earth of the underworld, the scorched black land turned into grains of yellow sand.

And it is expanding rapidly, as if the yellow sand is alive, crazily transforming the scorched earth of the underworld.

Seeing this, Seth looked happy.

It’s done, the scorched earth of the underworld can be transformed into desert!
Originally, Seth had no idea of ​​​​the underworld because he knew little about the underworld.

And the underworld has not yet fully recovered and fully grown.

He subconsciously ignored the underworld.

Until Sobek proposed that there are reeds in the underworld.

If reeds grow, then it is not difficult for the underworld to carry deserts.

When the idea came up, Seth decided to give it a try.

Now it has been proven that it is indeed feasible.

However, there is one biggest obstacle.

Seth took back Ankh and no longer suppressed his own war, power and authority.

The scorched earth of the underworld, which was rapidly turning into desert, stopped.

At this time, hundreds of miles of scorched earth had turned into desert.

Even though the light in the underworld is dim, the golden desert seems to be shining against the dark scorched earth.

This is what Seth is worried about.

There is also a sun in the underworld. If you drive a chariot in the underworld and patrol around, you can clearly see all kinds of things on the earth.

Large-scale desertification and Seth's divine aura cannot be concealed at all.

Will Ra agree with him turning sand into the underworld?
Most likely not.

Because the underworld has not fully recovered, nor has it fully grown.

Therefore, since the creation of the world, no god has been born in the underworld.

As long as the underworld grows, the gods of the underworld will be born quickly.

If Set had transformed the scorched earth of the underworld into sand in advance, the god of scorched earth would have disappeared before he was born.

This is equivalent to God killing God, even though God has not yet been born.

So Seth felt that there was a small chance that Ra would agree.

But, how to make the small probability become 100%?

Thinking about it, Seth decided to divert some water from the Styx. Restoring the scorched earth transformed into desert.

However, Seth was stunned for a moment. The desert became smaller and turned back into the scorched earth of the underworld!
After a closer look, Set confirmed this.

And found the reason why the desert is shrinking.

That is the smell of death that is everywhere in the underworld.

The desert he transformed lost the support of his divine power and was saturated with the breath of death, gradually returning to the scorched earth of the underworld.

Seth estimated that in five more suns, the scorched earth of the underworld would be restored after the desertification.

This problem is easy to solve, just use Seth's divine power to flush it out at a certain time.

Compared to the power gained after transforming the scorched earth, this time seems insignificant.

Since the underworld would recover on its own, Seth did not divert the water from the River Styx.

Instead, he stood by the River Styx, waiting for the giant sand birds to return.

The dark waters of the River Styx are crowded with undead.

Transformed by the breath of the underworld, they quickly became undead.

The difference between the undead and the undead is that the undead can be reincarnated and contain the aura of the underworld.

However, roughly the two are the same.

The same noise and lack of acceptance of his own death.

They scrambled to climb up the river bank.

It's just that I can't climb out at all.

Even animals that are good at swimming cannot climb out.

Likewise, the undead also saw Seth on the shore.

They prayed loudly to Seth to pull them up.

Some of the undead promised to provide various benefits, some told of their misery, and some took advantage of their appearance.

However, Seth ignored them.

The undead yelled and cursed, and then frantically continued to try to get ashore.

Seth gave several of them the most unpleasant punishments of the undead.

Then he set his sights on an undead man on the river bank in the distance.

A young boy in his early teens, wearing ordinary clothes, his face was full of excitement.

This is a lucky man. Seth just saw him being pushed ashore by the water of the Styx.

The River Styx is flowing, and the water in the river will naturally surge.

Not only the boy, Seth also saw a desert fox washed ashore further away.

Its first reaction was to quickly move away from the Styx and run into the distance.

The young man who landed on the shore tried to save people.

He stretched out his hand to pull a girl up.

However, the girl’s outstretched hand was surrounded by countless hands.

The young man quickly retracted his hand.

The girl cried and said, "Help me."

The poor cry for help made the young man sad, but he didn't reach out again.

Because there are countless hands beside the girl's outstretched hand, and there are countless hands holding the girl.

They were afraid that they would miss this opportunity to go ashore.

Among the people holding the girl, Seth also saw three people who had the aura of divine power.

God's power only protects their souls and allows them to reincarnate smoothly.

But the divine power will not let them escape from the River Styx.

In the end, the young man did not reach out to save anyone. If he had reached out, he would have been dragged back.

The girl and the group of people could only be pushed forward by the water of the Styx.

Seeing this, Seth felt a little sympathy for the young man.

He is willing to save people and has a good heart.

You are smart if you don't overestimate yourself and know how to give up.

But is the luck of being washed up by the River Styx really luck?
Set set his sights on the scorched earth far away from the River Styx.

There are scattered undead spirits wandering on the scorched earth.

The aura of death on their bodies was strong, and their expressions were dull, as if they had lost all their wisdom.

If nothing else, those undead souls were also the lucky ones washed ashore.

(End of this chapter)