Chapter 39 The Homeless, Moses Returns
"You should be homeless, my friend."
Aroha looked at the handsome middle-aged man with dark red skin, smiled slightly, and gave him a title.
This middle-aged man was indeed an old friend of Arakh, and even the one he had the most contact with during the first hundred years after his arrival in the Egyptian world—a god.
This is Set, the storm god who is Aroh's "brother, dearest friend and relative," and with whom he has a "wife-entrusting" relationship.
To be honest, after knowing him for so many years, this was the first time Aroha had seen Set in human form. Before that, Set had always had a "comical" and strange appearance.
Are they homeless?
Seth, as if he were an instant friend, moved a chair and squeezed between Amon and Mi.
Mi seemed to dislike him, and pulled out her chair to move away.
"But I feel that you are more like a homeless person than I am, Teacher 'Buda'."
Seth's next sentence is quite meaningful. Although he inexplicably calls Araha "teacher," it has the implication of being at odds with Araha.
Arakha said with a smile, "I have no home because anywhere can be my home. As long as I am at peace in my heart, even a foreign land is my home."
"You have no home because you cannot obtain what you desire, and you are destined never to return to the place you long to go. My friend, think carefully, have you ever found peace of mind all these years?"
After saying this, Seth fell silent and did not speak again.
Seeing that he didn't speak, Araha ignored him and didn't even ask why Seth called him "teacher".
He hadn't expected that Seth would choose to come to Memphis at this time to see "Puta off."
In fact, no god would have imagined that Set would come here.
In Memphis, both inside and outside the manor, there are many deities.
They were all waiting for Aroha to begin resurrecting Hades after this night. The gods wanted to witness with their own eyes whether the god of miracles could truly bring about a miracle.
Horus, the Pharaoh's protector, was already displeased to see his wife and children sitting next to Aroha, having dinner as if they were the "mistress."
Now that he saw Seth coming over, his brows furrowed even more.
"Should we expel him?"
Anubis, the "false son," also disliked Seth and was the first to suggest driving Seth out of Memphis.
Horus was very tempted when he heard what his good brother Anubis said.
His wife's infidelity fueled his suppressed anger, but because his father needed a "rebirth," he had to keep it all to himself.
Now that Seth has come to me, it's a good opportunity to fight him and vent my anger.
"Seth is just visiting a friend. Has he affected you?"
Before Horus could move, a cold, clear voice suddenly came from the temple of the guardian goddess Nephthys.
She did not appear in person, nor did she come to Memphis in her true form. Instead, she spoke through the statues in the temple, her words filled with dissatisfaction towards the brothers.
Faced with the goddess's questioning, the two brothers fell silent.
They may look down on Set, and Horus may even hunt him down, but they have always held Nephthys in high esteem.
Nephthys, the guardian goddess, was Anubis's mother and saved Horus from danger on several occasions in his early years.
The only thing the brothers were unhappy about about Nephthys was that she still cared about Seth.
That so-called "Ennead" who once led foreign gods through the Nubian passes and into Egypt should have been expelled long ago.
"Never mind him for now."
At this moment, Anubis, the jackal god, turned his gaze to an old man who seemed to have traveled thousands of miles to reach the outside of the Ptah estate.
The old man was dressed in a long robe, with white hair and beard, and held a cane that seemed ordinary, yet inexplicably gave Anubis an indescribable sense of danger.
When he looked at the cane, it was as if he were being stared at by an ancient, gigantic serpent.
This feeling was remarkably similar to the fleeting glimpse he caught of the Chaos Serpent Demon Apep when he traveled between the human world and the underworld.
The jackal god exclaimed in surprise, "Horus, you have been overseeing the construction of the temple in Memphis all these years. Have you ever seen this disciple of Ptah possess such a terrifying artifact for protection?"
Horus naturally noticed the old man as well. He even knew that the man was named Moses and was one of the four most famous disciples of the "Ptah" school decades ago.
However, forty years ago, for reasons unknown, he left Memphis in haste.
Horus had no interest in understanding the reasons behind it, but now, seeing Moses again, he suddenly realized how special this man was.
He had actually undergone female genital mutilation!
In other words, one of the four disciples of the "Ptah" school was not an Egyptian, but a descendant of the Hebrews who crossed the sea.
This discovery immediately made Horus frown.
There was an inevitable battle between the Egyptian gods and the gods worshipped by the Hebrews, a fact that Ra had foreseen before his "disappearance."
It's unclear when this battle will take place.
But Horus was pondering that at this time, the god of miracles, Aroha, met with the storm god, Set, and that Hebrews had appeared with powerful exotic artifacts.
Would these two gods whom he "hated" abandon Egypt and turn to the gods of the Hebrews?
After all, the Storm God Set has a history of such misdeeds.
As for Aroh, all the gods know that he has a good relationship with Set.
"Could it be that Hathor discovered this, and thus sacrificed her own body, even giving birth to a child, to go over there and investigate?"
Horus would naturally not doubt that Hathor, as the "Eye of Ra," would also betray Egypt.
A scene immediately flashed into his mind—his wife, the goddess Hathor, risked her life to investigate the conspiracy between the foreign gods and the Egyptian gods, and at the most crucial moment, informed the gods of important information.
"That's it, that must be it," Horus murmured to himself.
"What is this?" asked Anubis, the jackal god, from the side.
Horus did not answer; he needed to keep his wife's secret. He simply smiled knowingly at his good brother, the Jackal God, and continued looking at the manor.
At this moment, the old man had already stepped inside and arrived at the place where "Putta" and his disciples had their last supper.
"Teacher, I'm so glad to see you again."
The octogenarian originally thought that after solidifying his faith, he would no longer be swayed by anything else.
But when I saw my teacher, Buta, and a few familiar fellow students again after forty years, I couldn't help but burst into tears.
"Moses, now that you're back, come in and have a meal with us. It seems you've suffered on your journey."
Aroha smiled slightly and invited Moses, whom he had not seen for many years, to sit at the table