From Concubine to Pharaoh [Transmigration Book]

The celestial phenomenon of Sirius rising with the sun indicates that the flood of the great river is coming.

But the water level of the big river near Memphis is still very low at this moment, and it has not even submerged the reeds growing in the shallows beside the river.

Great altars were erected on the banks of the river, more than fifty cubits high.

A pure white calf is tied to the side of the altar, happily chewing the grass.

It is the so-called divine bull Apis—a calf about one year old, covered in snow-white without a mottled hair, regarded as a symbol of purity.Therefore, it is eligible to be offered as a sacrifice to the river god at the end of the three-day sacrifice.

Pharaoh Delos came to the side of the altar surrounded by guards.

The great priest Dahor came out first and knelt down to greet Delos: "My king—"

"Dahor, you are in charge of astronomical phenomena and calendars. You should know that Sirius rose five days earlier than usual."

Delos asked bluntly.

The great priest in a golden robe lowered his body very low.

"I, Wang Yingming, calculated according to the calendar, is indeed the case."

"Why does Sirius rise early?" Delos asked rudely.

"This……"

Dahool rolled his eyes and said, "I can't answer it."

"My king may ask the high priest."

The high priest and the high priest, one is in charge of all the sacrifices to communicate with the gods, and the other is in charge of the mortal world of offering sacrifices to the gods.

Sirius rises five days earlier. According to the Egyptian calendar, it can be interpreted as: After the first twelve months have passed, the five gods including Osiris do not plan to celebrate their birthdays this year.

However, the chief priest couldn't give an explanation as to why the specific god suddenly didn't have a birthday. The high priest Senmut could only try to ask the gods during the sacrifice.

Delos didn't say a word, and went directly to the top of the wooden altar along the steps, standing far behind the high priest Senmut.

At this moment, Senmut is sitting alone in the middle of the altar, facing the wide riverbed of the big river and the slightly rippling river surface.

Beside him, three candles were lit, placed in an equilateral triangle, and the fragrance of plants lingered and lingered.

The wind blows slowly by the river, but the smoke from the three candles rises straight up without being affected by the wind at all.

"Divination by oracles..."

Delos had no trouble making out what his high priest was doing.

Delos was indeed a little depressed about Senmut's neglect of work.But Delos had known Senmut for a long time, and he knew how upright the high priest was.

As long as Senmut believes that the result of the last divination is problematic, he will look for every opportunity to do the divination again.

And the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the river god held after the rise of Sirius, and the big altar built just gave Senmut a chance.

The high priest in charge of the entire lower Egyptian altar, the person closest to God and able to talk to God... In the final analysis, he is still a stubborn young man at heart.

If not, the pharaoh might not have dared to mention Senmut to such an important position as the high priest.

Delos walked towards Senmut, surrounded by young priests in white linen robes who rushed forward, but when they saw Delos, the young priests didn't dare to say anything, and they all hesitated to back away .

Delos waved his hand casually, indicating that he would do no harm to Senmut.

The young priests quickly knelt down and bowed, then stepped aside tremblingly.

Delos turned to Senmut, sat down, and was at the same level as Senmut.

He wanted to ask: Senmut, are you really so persistent, do you have to reverse the case for Ailixi?

Senmut's answer seemed to sound in Delos' ears: "King, this is unfair to the princess..."

Yes, Senmut is such a person who can't rub the sand in his eyes.If he had to sit back and watch a woman lose her life because of an incomplete divination and be forced to go to the underworld, Senmut might not be safe for the rest of her life.

Delos looked directly into Senmut's eyes, but was surprised to find that there seemed to be two voids in Senmut's eyes.

Those are two deep cavities, which seem to contain a vast universe, but the infinite emptiness is dotted with a brilliant sea of ​​stars. When Delos saw it at a glance, it was not longing, but fear——

The high priest in front of him, the real person, seemed to be an empty shell with no appearance. The originally flexible eyes, the upright and firm heart, the soul that Delos had always been familiar with, seemed to have disappeared.

"The High Priest..."

Pharaoh called out.

Senmut seemed to have heard his call, and closed his eyes again. When he opened them again, the whites and the inner cores of his eyes appeared again. The pair of pale golden pupils stared fixedly at Delos for a while, It seems that he just recognized the pharaoh.

"king--"

Sen Mut got up from the ground and bowed down in front of Pharaoh.

"I got it, I got the complete oracle about Princess Elyse..."

"Oh..." Delos replied coldly, "High Priest, it's rare that you care so much about the fate of the princess."

Sen Mutt paused, and replied: "After all, this is the king's order. The king once had a decree, asking the minister to put aside all interference and obtain the will completely from heaven..."

Delos: ...he did say so.

Senmut got up immediately: "King, let me write down the oracle I got."

The papyrus, pen and ink and other things were prepared early on the altar, and Senmut took the pen to draw the next line of hieroglyphs.

Delos frowned aside, and the more he looked, the more he frowned.

What Senmut wrote was exactly the same as the result of his divination in the palace last time, and even the word order was the same: "Pharaoh Delos's concubine Elyse, king of the two thrones, Pharaoh of Upper and Lower Egypt..."

This is the result of the divination that made Delos make up his mind to kill Erich last time.

But what surprised Delos was that when he wrote this, Senmut's pen didn't stop, and he continued to add a symbol representing the embrace and arm——

"mother of……"

Senmut finally stopped writing, carefully dried the ink, and handed the papyrus to Pharaoh Delos.

Delos was completely stunned there, like a long wooden wedge embedded in the surface of the altar.

He seemed to feel for the first time what it was like to be fooled by fate.

Delos could hardly take his eyes off the papyrus in front of him, and his breathing was a little short.

But others still couldn't tell his intentions: Pharaoh, is he glad that his beloved princess escaped, or...unwilling...

Princess Elyse of Pharaoh Delos, king of the two thrones, mother of Pharaohs of Upper and Lower Egypt.

The difference in one word makes the meaning of the sentence very different.

The former pushed Alicia to a place of eternal doom, and made Delos determined to put her to death at all costs;

The latter completely saved Elyse's life and became her gold medal for avoiding death-at least until Elyse gave birth to the pharaoh's offspring, she would become completely safe.

No one dared to think about Ai Lixi again.

Not even her husband or biological father.

Because in the oracle of the gods, she will give birth to the future pharaoh.

Delos suddenly had a weird idea: the result of this divination does not conflict with the last one.

Just because Elyse will give birth to the next generation of pharaohs doesn't mean she won't be able to sit on the pharaoh's throne.

No one ever said that a mother of pharaohs cannot be a pharaoh.

But this idea was fleeting, and Delos gave up the idea in an instant - a woman is a pharaoh, and she is still a woman who has no blood relationship with the royal family...

This is impossible.

He must have been influenced by the result of the high priest's last divination and had preconceived ideas before he had such an absurd idea.

Thinking of this, Delos casually raised his eyes to look at the high priest Senmut, and saw that Senmut had stepped back two steps, bowed his head and bowed down in front of him, and was wearing the amulet he used to use on his chest.

Delos was a little satisfied, concentrating on how to deal with Elyse afterwards.

The footsteps behind reminded Delos that the great priest Dahor was coming.

"Great king, I heard that the high priest made another divination."

Delos turned around and handed the papyrus to Dahor with a blank expression.

Dahool glanced at it, and the mouth of this great priest could swallow a whole duck egg in an instant.

Ever since seeing the latest divination results, Delos has not been in a very good mood.

But for some reason, seeing the expression of the great priest, Delos still had the idea of ​​watching a play.

It turned out that Tyros was not the only one who was fooled by the last oracle.

Dahor's expression froze for only a moment, and after a while, the great priest's face was full of tenderness, his eyes were red, and tears kept pouring out, but he suppressed not daring to cry, trying hard to control himself not to cry, Immediately afterwards, he knelt down in front of Delos with a plop, and said sobbingly: "The old minister congratulates my king—"

Alixie walked out of the embalmer's workshop with Nanna who stretched her bow and arrow.

The pharaoh's guards who stayed here surrounded him with a whimper.The guards were very nervous, all of them tensed up, holding the weapons and swords in their hands, but all of them were red-eyed, not daring to greet Elyse.

After all, not long ago, the princess spent a precious amulet to rescue them all from the sword of the captain of the guard who was under the evil curse.

Now these guards have no leader in the first place, and most of them know how to be grateful, but they are in a dilemma for a while, not knowing what to do.

"You guys...heaps of cow dung, let me see who of you dare to stand in the way of the princess!"

Nanna's broken gong sounded loudly, and the cluster of golden arrows aimed at the guards in front of Erich.

Alicia: ...the change is pretty fast.

She waved her hand gently: "Nanna, don't make things difficult for them."

"I will go to the house of the great priest first, and then to the Pharaoh's palace. If you need to perform your duties, or feel that you have nowhere to go, you can follow me. I don't mind."

"you……"

A young guard with a very tender heart asked in a trembling voice, "Aren't you afraid that Pharaoh will kill you?"

Alixi slightly raised the corner of her mouth at him: "Of course I'm not afraid."

The beam of light on her right arm is flickering at the moment, almost full.

She finally received the gift from God Amon.

Fortune has been reversed.

She has begun to take the initiative.

Although she still doesn't know what the price of God's gift means to her.