From Concubine to Pharaoh [Transmigration Book]

The morning of the second day after arriving at the Saqqara Palace was the day when Sirius should rise according to the original calendar.

In the early morning, Alixi woke up and saw thick clouds outside, and the sky was dim. Not to mention the sky phenomenon of Sirius rising with the sun, she couldn't even see the sunrise.Whether the real Sirius will rise today is impossible to judge.

Alicia suddenly felt a little lucky.

"Come on, Nanna, let's go see the High Priest's reaction together."

She heard from Nanna that the high priest Senmut had been watching the stars at the astronomical platform in the palace since last night, and he has not returned until now.

The Astronomical Observatory is a tall building hundreds of cubits above the ground, and the whole is made of huge stones.

In the middle of the top of the platform, there is a four-sided triangular pyramid stele full of hieroglyphics, and the tip of the pyramid is pointing to the sky.

There are a total of twelve grooves on the vertebral body, and the grooves are filled with slender bronze wires. These thin metal wires extend along the grooves from the top of the stele to the entire four sides of the astronomical platform.

The astrological platform faces the vast plains on the outskirts of Memphis, leans against the pharaoh's palace in Saqqara, and looks to the south at the first stepped pyramid in Egyptian history.And the Great Pyramid of Giza pokes its spire over the northern horizon.

It is conceivable that on a clear night, the priest in charge of stargazing can just use those grooves and copper wires to record the orientation of the stars.

When the two women boarded the astronomical platform, the high priest Senmut was standing on the side of the astronomical platform facing Giza, motionless.

The wind rattled his linen robe and threw his elegant brown hair back, but Senmut didn't notice it at all. He just looked up at the east, the direction where the sun should rise, like a sculpture .

"Master High Priest, have you found anything?"

Alicia stood behind Senmut and asked softly.

She was on guard, but still tried to stay calm.After all, it's not clear if Senmut still wears the baboon disobedience amulet.

"princess--"

Senmut recognized Elyse's voice when she heard her. At this moment, he turned around slowly, saluted Elyse, and then answered her question: "I have a guess in my heart."

He stretched out his right hand and pointed to the thick clouds in the sky: "It seems that this conjecture will never be confirmed."

"But I will never judge anyone because of this unproven guess."

Senmut looked at Erich with a smile, "So the only answer I can answer to the king is no solution."

Alicia nodded, suddenly felt a move in her heart.

She remembered that Senmut was an infatuated male supporting role in the original work, and he always supported and supported the heroine Biola. When Biola was in crisis, he would always help her without hesitation——

People who have read the original work naturally think that this is because Senmut has true love for Biola, but it is because Biola and Pharaoh love each other.So I can only pay silently behind Biola.

But thinking about it now, everything Senmut did can also be reasonably interpreted as integrity.

He is a man of integrity, so he has always acted according to his own set of moral principles.It was also because he was such a good person that he was able to pay so much for the heroine of the original book in one go.

Senmut had no idea that he had been secretly sent a good friend card by Alixie. He stared at Alixie with a pair of pale golden eyes, and said after a while: "You are a person who does not have many emotional ups and downs."

Alicia immediately alerted: Here it comes...

It seems that Senmut didn't wear a baboon and refused to listen. This is what she fears the most——

She knew that Senmut could perceive the hearts of others to a certain extent, but she didn't know how much the high priest could perceive.

As a soul that does not belong to this world, Erich has too many secrets.Facing Senmut, she had to be on guard all the time that her secrets would be leaked.

Therefore, facing Senmut, even if Alicia didn't have much emotional ups and downs.But there will be some nervousness and vigilance, and Senmut must be able to perceive it.

"But you don't have to worry... Even if I don't wear the amulet bestowed by God Tut, I will never know what you are thinking." Senmut said very frankly.

Alicia: ...Is that so?

"I just feel the emotions of the people around me, if they're happy or sad — and then I can't help but feel happy, or sad, even stronger than them."

That's why Senmut said that Alixie is a person with few emotional ups and downs-because she tries to avoid emotions every time she sees Senmut.

"So you really don't have to worry. On the contrary, I will feel very relaxed when I approach you."

Because there is no need to worry about being affected by extra emotions.

"High Priest, so you are a strong empath." Erich finally understood, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

She had read books in related fields before wearing the book, and wrote down the relevant content, which happened to be applied to Senmut.

"Strong empathizer?" Senmut repeated with doubts, trying to understand this brand new term.

After a while, he stretched out his slender and handsome eyebrows, and smiled helplessly: "Princess, as expected of you, you described it very accurately, I am exactly such... a strong empath."

"Is this the ability you acquired after becoming Asut?"

Erich asked tentatively. She guessed that Senmut's rank had reached the priest of the gods, but she was not sure.

But Sen Mutt shook his head and said: "I have been such a...strong empath since I was a child. The amulet evasion bestowed on me by God Tut is just to protect me...but it consumes a lot of the wearer's ba , so I can’t wear it all the time. I can only ask the princess for forgiveness.”

Alixie: ...You have been a strong empath since you were a child, able to understand all the joys, sorrows and sorrows in the world?

Wearing an amulet is just to shield other people's emotions?

This is probably the ancient Egyptian version of Versailles?

However, the official name of Senmut's baboons don't listen to it is called avoidance?

Alixi thinks that the nickname she gave is more vivid, and she plans to continue to use it in the future.

But I heard Senmut sigh in a low voice: "It is sometimes a painful thing to be able to perceive others, especially knowing that I will have a strong resonance with others..."

Alice thought about it, and felt the same way.

At special times, this ability is not necessarily a talent, but more like a curse.

That's why Senmuth especially needs the baboons not to listen.

"Princess, in front of you, please forgive me for being lazy, and avoid wearing that one for now."

"So that's how it is..."

Alicia rolled her eyes.

"By the way, Lord Senmut, are you going to return to Memphis to report to Pharaoh now?"

Erich would be more comfortable in Saqqara without Senmut.

Unexpectedly, Senmut shook his head and said: "In the palace of Saqqara, it is said that there is a mausoleum of the former king before the chaos, which has always been very secret. If the princess doesn't mind, I want to take this opportunity to find this mausoleum and have a look. Are there any classics from the Old Kingdom ① left behind..."

"The tomb of the former king before the chaos?" Erich repeated.

The tombs of the pharaohs are either those tall pyramids standing on the vast plains, or hidden in the Valley of the Kings—under the palaces of the contemporary pharaohs, are there still hidden tombs of the pharaohs before the chaos?

Alicia couldn't believe it.

Senmut nodded modestly, pointing to the pyramid-like stele on the astronomical platform: "The text on it expresses this meaning."

Alicia pursed her lips, looked at Senmut and then at the stele, quite discouraged, but had to put down her figure, and humbly sent out an illiterate request: "Master High Priest, who can teach me to learn these characters?" method?"

Senmut was startled for a moment: "How to learn these words?"

"Yes..." Ailixi explained embarrassingly, "It's just... reading and knowing... Knowing what each symbol on this stone tablet represents..."

Before transmigrating, she had the opportunity to read a lot of books, but after transmigrating, she could only be illiterate and blind. Of course, she was unwilling.

"But these are hieroglyphs..."

Hearing Alicia's request, Senmut's face was blank.

"There never was a . . . method of learning hieroglyphs!"

Isn't there a way to learn pictographs?

"Then, how should I understand these words on the stele?"

Senmut pondered for a moment, then shook his head slightly: "In this world, only pharaohs can read and write hieroglyphs without hindrance. This is their innate ability."

Only Pharaoh?

Or is Senmut trying to shirk?

Erich opened her big dark eyes and stared at Senmut.

She was a little disappointed, but not angry.

Perhaps it was because she had experienced too many similar rejections in her life before wearing the book, and now Erich was not surprised, and even calmed down.

Senmut's rank is much higher than hers, and the gods he follows are not the same one.

Perhaps, the ability to read and write hieroglyphs is monopolized by Tut, the god of knowledge and wisdom, and Senmut has no authority to spread the word...

In short, no one owes her anything, and she has no obligation to teach her to read and write.

Unexpectedly, Sen Mut stared at her for a moment, and suddenly stretched out his hand respectfully to her: "Dear princess, please forgive my rudeness and abruptness, but can you... lend me your hand?"

Alixi put her hand in Senmut's in a daze, and the high priest's body temperature passed from her fingers to her hand.

"I thought maybe I could invite you to come with me..."

Senmut gently led Erich to the stele, clasped her hand, turned to face the stele, and began to pray softly.

Alicia heard him chanting softly: "The great god in charge of history and writing, please let my companions and I be able to perceive the writing that is about to be lost in history..."

Erich was surprised: he used the word perception again.

Could words be perceived and conveyed like emotions?

At this moment, Alicia suddenly felt the flow of energy.It seems that there is a warm current flowing into her heart in an instant, she doesn't need to read the font patterns of various shapes, she can even close her eyes, and she can feel the words——

All the words seem to quietly fly into the air and transform into consciousness, like a trickle, passing from Senmut's hand to Elyse's hand, and then to Elyse's heart: "The ultimate unifier of Egypt, 1000 years after the legendary emperor Namer returned to the heavens, the Egyptian kingship passed to the sixth line of pharaoh Nitocris."

"This great woman is here to build a place to look up to the stars, under her eternal gaze."

Alicia's heart skipped a beat: Nitocris...

This was the name of the last female pharaoh of Egypt before the Great Chaos.

This astronomical observatory was actually built by a female pharaoh?

Under her eternal gaze means that this pharaoh built his tomb here?

……

It turns out that the way to read hieroglyphs is not to memorize each word, not grammar, not how to choose words to make sentences...but really perception?It is like temperature and feeling, which can flow between the whole body and mind.

Alicia was surprised and delighted.

Senmut, who was standing beside Alixie, was looking sideways at her focused expression.

The high priest looked at her quietly, and it was difficult to take his eyes off her face for a while.

A concubine in distress who was ill-fated was sent to the palace ruthlessly by the pharaoh, but she was only thinking of reading the writings left by the last female pharaoh of the sixth line...

Suddenly, Alicia raised her face and said, "Not good!"

So far, she has not let go of Senmut's five fingers, so she suddenly held them tightly, turned and left.

"Nanna, hurry up and leave the observatory immediately!" Alicia ordered decisively.

Senmut finally noticed something was wrong. At the moment near the Saqqara Palace, the sky was dark, and the dark clouds seemed to be a huge fortress, covering the astronomical observatory.

They had just left when they heard a rumbling sound, and a Jiao Lei slammed down on the astronomical platform.