From Concubine to Pharaoh [Transmigration Book]

Erich sat in the afternoon shade, looking down at the cards in her hand.

After she told Senmut the rules of two-player Texas, it was finally possible to play some relatively complex intellectual games in this world.

Before going through the book, Alixi would occasionally play poker for fun, against the computer, or even against herself-- she was no stranger to this kind of card game.

It's just that after Senmut knew the rules, he only tried one or two games before he started to win or lose with Alicia.

This made Alixi secretly applaud and at the same time be secretly alert: Where is this priest of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom?This person is favored by the God of IQ.

Of course, Alicia didn't concentrate on playing cards, she had other thoughts.

After drawing the cards, Ellie hoped to focus on the numbers on the papyrus cards in her hand, and said softly: "Master High Priest, I remember you said that you and I will be friends before the flooding of the river ends. -"

That's not what Senmuth said, and that's not what he meant.

At that time, Senmut only expressed his willingness not to be an enemy of Erich for the time being.

But at this moment, Senmut looked at Alixi's eyes full of hope, and he didn't even deny it. He said in a low voice: "You want to ask me a question? Questions about Asut?"

Alixie: ...It's confirmed, she is definitely the favored person of the God of IQ.I can hear the implication from her euphemistic words.

"Yes……"

Alicia nodded reservedly, and glanced absently at the cards in her hand.

"Maybe it's more convenient to ask you which rune?"

"No..." Erich shook her head, looked up at Senmut, and said seriously: "I never gave that talisman full trust, but you..."

"I know you may not want to answer, but at least you won't lie to me on purpose."

Alicia seemed to have a voice in her heart: Please...

Senmut pondered for a moment, then nodded: "You ask!"

"Answer or not, it's up to me."

Alicia, who just had a little hope in her heart, pursed her lips: ...Okay...

"I would like to ask what the detailed rules for Asut's promotion look like."

She heard the Anubis envoy explain that after accumulating a certain amount of merit, the favored of the gods can be promoted to the envoy of the gods, and then the priests of the gods, demigods...

I don't know what is after the demigod, but in theory Asut can be promoted to a god along this path.

She wanted to use the path of becoming a god to avoid the blood barrier of becoming a pharaoh, so as to ascend the throne of the pharaoh.

If she didn't do this, God Amon, who had invested in her at the beginning, would probably sit on the cloud and groan in anger, and lightning and Jiao Lei would strike at her from mid-air.

In addition, with the experience of Sakala, Erich has some views on the fairness of this world, so she is more eager for power.

With power, she has the ability to change Egypt, so that ordinary people with low status but kind hearts can live better and with more dignity.

Senmut closed his golden-brown eyes, and opened them a moment later.

Alicia thought to herself: He is too clear about her purpose-this has nothing to do with empathy, it is purely something that can be easily thought out by the other party's IQ.

"I think the pharaoh doesn't want me to explain to you the rules of Asuth's promotion in detail—"

Alixie's heart sank, and she deliberately let her disappointment reveal itself without reservation.

"However, as a friend, I may be able to share with you my own experience."

After Senmut finished speaking, the corners of his lips raised upwards, showing a warm smile to Alicia.

Erich immediately responded with a burst of joyful excitement, which Senmut could sense anyway.

"I am favored by God Tut. I first became the favored person of the god, then the messenger of the god, and then I was promoted to the priest of the god..."

Erich listened with great interest, and suddenly thought that Senmut, as the youngest high priest in Egypt and the person closest to God in Egypt, what she was about to hear might be the ancient Egyptian version of Versailles.

"Wait a minute..." Alicia interrupted, asking a question that she had been pondering for a long time.

"I've seen two envoys before, Anubis and Sekhmet. Those two are also Asut, and they were promoted from ordinary people like you and me?"

Senmut nodded and gave an affirmative answer.

"An envoy will have a part of the animal form of the gods he follows."

That is to say, the animal form of the god Anubis is a jackal;

The animal form of the God Sekhmet is a lion, so their angels will all have the image of a beast head and a human body?

Alicia was stunned.

She never expected that, as Asut, she would go through such a stage of alienation.

She had brief contacts with both the Angel of Anubis and the Angel of Sekhmet, and she could feel that they were quite adapted to her appearance... She didn't expect that they were all normal people like her.

Then the question arises, what kind of image will she become if she is promoted to the envoy of God Amon?

In an instant, she wanted to ask Senmut what the animal form of God Amon was.When the words reached the edge of his mouth, he shrank back.

She doesn't even know what the animal form of the gods she worships and follows is too shameful for her to be a favored one.

But in this way, the high priest also...

Alicia stared intently at Senmut, and suddenly asked with great difficulty: "Baboons..."

She remembered that the baboon that was smashed by her did not listen.

Could it be that the animal form of God Tut is... a baboon?

The handsome and gentle man in front of him seemed to have turned into another extreme image, with a thick and long head, prominent browbones, a long face, red skin, a pair of small eyes, and a messy curly hair on top... Mao, appearing on Senmut's ivory neck...

A red cloud suddenly flew over Senmut's face, he shook his head invisibly, and said, "Heron."

The animal form of the god Tut is not a baboon, but a heron.

For some reason, Erich breathed a sigh of relief. After the foreshadowing was made, she actually felt that the image of the envoy with the head of a heron was much better than that of a person with a baboon head.

Sen Mutt's cheeks blushed even more, and his eyes slipped to the side: "Fortunately, the day after I became an envoy of God, I became a priest of God."

"one day……"

This time it was Alicia's turn to be dumbfounded.

She had already foreseen Versailles, but she did not expect that it would be so ordinary.

"Okay, I was wrong, I changed the subject."

Alixi took the initiative to admit her mistake, and her self-confidence was about to be shattered by Senmut.

"Please briefly introduce your progress from God's Blessed One to God's Messenger, and then God's Priest." Ailixi asked in a business-like manner.

Sen Mut stared back, quickly calmed down the blush on his face, and said freely: "Generally speaking, for Asut to be promoted, he needs to get enough Ba——"

"For ordinary people, the bar may be just a symbol of luck. But for us Asut, the bar is strength, personality, and the ladder of promotion. The bar is everything."

Alicia thought pitifully: after she became the Blessed One of God Amon, the shape of Balen on her arm has not changed yet.

"Ba can be obtained by obtaining special materials, special items, and amulets with divine power, or it can be obtained by praying to the gods after making enough contributions and achieving enough achievements."

Erich rolled her eyes, thinking: She has neither contributed nor accomplished, but just made an extremely unreliable wish, and God Amon has already granted her part of it.

In fact, she should be favored by the god of luck.

"As a follower of Asut, the god of knowledge and wisdom, my contributions and achievements lie in the study of history, characters, and spells."

"When I was 15 years old, I sorted out all the spells known in Egypt, mastered the method of reading hieroglyphs, and was able to recite the names and prayers of all known gods. Therefore, God Tut gave me Ba, let me Be the messenger of God."

"Fortunately, the ba that God Tut gave me was not only enough for me to become an envoy, but also allowed me to further become a priest. So the day after I became the envoy of Tut, I became the God of Tut again. priest."

Alicia: ... so simple?

Then the question came again: "How old are you this year?"

"20 years old..."

"Then you have been a priest of God for five years. During these five years, haven't you accumulated enough merit or contribution to become a demigod?"

Erich hopes to use this to judge whether the bar required between different levels of Asut increases geometrically.

But she found that this question should not be asked to Sen Mut, but he had already saved enough contributions to be promoted to the priest of God in one go at the stage of the favored one.

Sen Mut smiled and shook his head: "No, noble princess. I missed one point just now. Apart from Ba, there is a hard condition for Asut's promotion."

Erich squinted her eyes, secretly guessing what the hard conditions were that stopped Senmut, Sekhmet, Anubis... and even her Nanna.

"To be promoted from God's Blessed to God's Messenger, you need to accumulate joy from 1000 people."

"joy?"

The answer surprised Erich so much that she blurted it out and repeated it.

"To be promoted from an envoy to a priest, one needs to accumulate respect from 1 people."

"Of course, the thousands and tens of thousands of people here, I guess, should be approximate, not exact."

Alicia nodded in agreement with this conjecture.After all, people in this era are not particularly good at mathematics.

"I studied at the archives of the former kings for many years, and went to various Nomes to collect documents from historical periods. I accumulated enough joy in the process."

"Coincidentally, on the day I became the envoy of the gods, I participated in a large-scale ceremony in the temple to sacrifice to the gods, and gained enough respect through this."

Erich imagined a clergyman with the head of a heron out of thin air, standing in the temple facing tens of thousands of believers, and completely presided over all the ceremonies to worship the gods-isn't that respectable?

"It's ashamed to say that to be promoted from a priest to a demigod requires the accumulation of beliefs from 10 people."

"This kind of belief is not a belief in the gods I follow, but a belief in myself."

Senmut explained to Erich with a peaceful attitude, "However, I ask myself that I have neither blood origin nor special wisdom, so how can I win others' faith in me?"

"This is why I have been the priest of God all these years."

"But I think, I was just lucky for a while, and was promoted to be a priest by chance. It's not that I have any special potential in Asut or the special favor of the gods."

"I am also willing to be my priest well, to collect more ancient relics for God Tut, and to discover more spells... This application of similar laws has benefited me a lot. Your Highness, I should thank you for that."

Alicia lowered her head and thought: She understood a little bit.

It seems that there is a natural dividing line between priests of gods and demigods.

With 10 people's beliefs in oneself—it's no wonder that becoming a demigod has actually stepped into the realm of the gods with one foot, enjoying the treatment that belongs to the gods.

But here comes the question again, if it is a human being rather than a god, how can it gain the belief of others?

Alixi pondered for a moment, but she was not stumped by this problem. Instead, she spoke more diffusely: "I don't know what is above a demigod? What kind of conditions are needed for promotion. If you calculate it this way, don't you need to get it from 100 million people?" What? The total population of Egypt does not know if there are 100 million..."

Senmut was stunned when he heard it, never expecting that the princess would think of this.

He contemplated for a while, and said with shame after a while: "The total population of Egypt... I have always been obsessed with exploring and searching for ancient relics, but I never thought about knowing the current situation in the past. It is my negligence."

As the high priest of Egypt, Senmut actually bowed to Erich to apologize.

Alicia let him apologize, and then said with a smile: "The last question—"

"Master High Priest, can I see your cuff?"

She was always curious about the cuffs of Senmut's linen robe.Senmut has taken out a lot of things from it, and she even suspects that Senmut wears a clean linen robe every day, which is also a reserve taken from his cuffs.

Senmut smiled suddenly, and he reached out to untie the linen robe on his body, revealing his light-skinned chest, and his long light brown hair slipped quietly from his shoulders and hung down on his chest.

Alicia didn't look much, just staring at the linen robe that was being handed over.

She opened the cuff of the robe, and found a small pocket in the cuff—it was also a talisman.

Without additional explanation from Senmut, Erich put her finger on the dark bag, and quickly felt the purpose of this amulet: storage.

This dark bag looks small and thin on the surface, but it can actually hold a lot of things. Senmut's personal belongings, various special materials impregnated with divine power, amulets, seeds, fish maw...all are carried around in this way. of.

Alicia is a little bit greedy - this is the real magic tool for going out and a must for travel.

She also kind of understood why Senmut didn't need an entourage anymore. He could bring a lot of clean clothes and put them in his luggage.

"Your clean robe must have come from here."

Erich returned the clothes to the High Priest.

Seeing that she misunderstood, Senmut didn't laugh at her, and only reminded her lightly: "There is a cleaning spell."

Alicia!

On the opposite side is the highly qualified high priest, who once sorted out all the existing spells in Egypt.

Erich was not at all annoyed by her slip of the tongue just now. Instead, she looked at Senmut with bright eyes, as if she was looking at a walking washing machine and a walking dryer.

It's a pity that Asut is a minority in this world.And there is a price to pay for using spells or amulets.Otherwise, these people can be used to increase productivity and create a new life of convenience and speed.

When Alixi was thinking this way, her eyes were shining brightly, looking at Senmut who hadn't had time to put on her clothes in the future.But God knows where her heart has already flown.

A suspicious blush appeared on the high priest's face, he lowered his head and quickly put on the linen robe.

Across the wall from where they were sitting and talking, Kalam said loudly to the craftsmen: "Okay, you have been playing cards for several days, it's time to try this counting method on the cards—"

Erich smiled even more, put her finger on her lips, and signaled to Senmut, keep quiet and listen to what the craftsmen have to say.

At this time, the way people play cards has evolved from comparing the size to competing for the upper hand. The craftsmen all memorize the numbers on the cards by heart, and they will never forget anything.

At this time, I heard Kalam yelling loudly. Although some people were still reluctant to give up, they always thought that their luck would be better next time.

But Kalam is the favored man of Knum, the god of craftsmen, and he is very prestigious among craftsmen.You can never go wrong by listening to Kalam.

"Everyone, next I will use cards to test your addition and subtraction, please be prepared—"

Kalam said in a deep voice, and then there was the sound of flipping thin but resilient papyrus cards. It should be that the favored man of the god of craftsmen randomly drew two cards and asked the craftsmen around him to calculate addition and subtraction.

"Five plus three..."

Someone muttered.

No one reported an answer for a long time.

Alicia pursed her lips slightly and listened quietly, not impatiently.

"Boss, as soon as I saw this, I wanted to find out if there were any reed stalks around me. Without those, how could I figure it out?"

Erich thought: Sure enough, the use of new numbers means that the way these craftsmen used to calculate has been completely subverted.

"I used to hold five reed stalks in my left hand and three reed stalks in my right hand. When I put them together, I could count eight reed stalks..."

The person who spoke was stunned for a moment—hadn't he already calculated the result?

Not long after, there was loud laughter from the next door.

Senmut couldn't help but smile, too, because he saw Alicia sitting across from her with folded arms and a smug expression.

"However, boss, you are in a hurry to let us learn to use this new, new... number counting method, so we can use it when we get out of here. When are we going out?"

"Yes, boss..." Others also asked Karam.

"Aren't we trapped here? It's cold where we came in, and everyone didn't dare to look over. How can we know that the water has receded outside and we can go out safely?"

Right now, the huge ice door at the entrance of the underground mausoleum is like a huge translucent wall, and the other side is extremely dark, and people inside have no idea what's going on outside.

Hansu said in a clear voice, "Untie my father's pangolin tail, don't you know if there is still water outside?"

There was a sudden realization, the sound of patting the forehead.

The craftsmen lamented that they were not as clear-minded as a child in Hansu, and understood things clearly.

At this time, a clear female voice came through the hedge beside them.

"It's not just pangolins. Outside of that barrier, we have many ways to know what's going on outside."

It was Alicia who spoke.

"Of course I will notify you when the flood recedes. Before that, everyone should follow Karam to learn the four mixed operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division within one hundred."