Set was an embodiment of multiple divine offices in ancient Egyptian mythology.
Yamalana knew about him not because Set was the enemy of the City of the Sun worshiped by its people, but because she had learned most of the ancient Egyptian myths through systematic study in the outside world.
Yes, myths... In the eyes of the humans in the outside world, these were merely stories, many of them even entertaining—but to Yamalana, they were clearly real... in this City of the Sun.
Set... Set!
Yamalana subconsciously looked at the hawk-headed, human-bodied pharaoh guarding her side. Her expression was moved once again. "A hawk's head and a human body... The symbol of Horus... I should have realized it long ago. But why... why would Father King be...?"
The two most important men in her life were now not only fighting desperately before her, but were even the respective embodiments of two great gods from mythology—the hawk-headed god Horus and Set, Lord of the Desert, who were mortal enemies!
Her mind was in complete chaos.
"If... if you really are Set, then what about the High Priest... Xie Jiatu? Could my adoptive father, Xie Jiatu, have been you in disguise from the very beginning?" This was what Yamalana feared most at that moment.
"That is something you will have to judge for yourself." Xie Jiatu revealed an evil smile. "The man who accompanied you through ten years of civilization in the outside world—was he me, or your adoptive father, Xie Jiatu? What a complicated question... And before solving this mystery, you must also figure out whether you are Yamalana or Claudia. This is even more vexing than the Sphinx's riddle. Isn't it, Yamalana... No, Claudia would be more accurate... Oh, no, no, it should be Yamalana... Or Claudia?"
"Yamalana... Claudia... Yamalana...