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In the marketplace Melchizedek encountered a man who had grown disgusted with the variety of religious practices in his home city of Ur. He was in engaged in a loud argument with his father and by overhearing all this, the Prince learned the man's name was Abram.

Abram was a successful sheep and cattle rancher who lived a semi-nomadic life on the rangelands around Harran while his father lived in the town itself and ran a shop selling items associated with the worship of multitudous gods. Terah sold carved idols for dozens of different gods, all of which Abram complained were absolutely meaningless to him.

He said to Terah, "Father, you cut down cedars and oaks which the real creator planted and also sent the rain to grow. You grow cold, so with part of your wood you make a fire to warm yourself and bake bread, and from the other part you make the image of a god, then fall down before it and say, 'Rescue me from this weather.' And it never comes into your mind that this deaf and mute block of wood you carved with your own hands is a complete fraud!"

Melchizedek was interested in this exchange, so he entered the shop and began to inspect the rack of idols on display. The angry words of father and son dwindled to silence, because Melchizedek was a tall and striking figure, and there was an other worldliness about him that went far beyond mere stranger.

After he had made a complete tour of the idolatry shop, Melchizedek begin unpacking his gold on the edge of the shop facing the street, as though he were preparing to buy out Terah's entire stock.

As Melchizedek anticipated, this drew the attention of five men who approached with swords drawn. They demanded the gold be handed over to them. At this time the Killing Relic, the weapon fashioned by Bat-El himself, made its first appearance in the history of Kemen and Earth.

The artifact was the size and shape of any normal sword hilt. But when it was squeezed firmly in Melchizedek's hands a roaring black shaft emerged from it which was about the thickness of a spear.

The harder Melchizedek squeezed, the longer the black beam grew, and whatever it touched simply disappeared. Indeed, the reason it made a sound was that air was drawn into it all along the length of the beam.