In 2600 B.C., the Early Dynastic Period of Sumer was established, making city-states the dominant form of government in that era.
During this age, it was common for each city to constitute a country. Several slave-owning city-states waged war against one another for years, taking turns as hegemon, until the king of Umma conquered the southern city-states in the middle of the twenty-fourth century B.C. Only then was the Sumerian state established, with its capital in the fortified city of Uruk.
This so-called King of Umma was none other than Gilgamesh, the protagonist of humanity's oldest heroic epic, the Epic of Gilgamesh.
He was the oldest king in human history, and even more than that, humanity's oldest hero. Later generations called him the King of Heroes. Among the three great heroes of Sumer, he was the most distinctive and legendary, and was deeply worshiped and praised by the Sumerians.
If Heroic Spirits were beings sublimated from the heroes of history and mythology, then this King of Heroes was undoubtedly the first Heroic Spirit, the oldest hero.
His spiritual foundation was enough to rival Osymandias, the greatest god-king in Egyptian history. In terms of seniority, he even surpassed Osymandias. Looking across all of human history, there were only one or two beings who could rival him. He could be called one of the strongest Heroic Spirits, a person standing at the pinnacle of heroes and kings, almost beyond compare.
The era Luo Zhen and the others had now arrived in was precisely the era in which this king had lived.
There were many legends about him, and Luo Zhen remembered every one of them clearly.
It was said that this king had originally been created by the gods to restrain humanity. After humanity's excessive propagation caused its power to grow too