From Concubine to Pharaoh [Transmigration Book]

The second-class priest Sasha who accompanied Pharaoh Delos was quickly promoted to become the first-class priest whose position was second only to the high priest Senmut, and acted as the high priest when Senmut was not with the king. Together with the navigator Gregor, he navigated the kingship and accompanied Delos on a tour of Saqqara.

According to the pharaoh's request: this inspection must wait until the water level of the big river drops, the flood recedes, and the Saqqara palace reappears before giving up.

In the past few days, the pharaoh's fleet passed several villages that were completely submerged.

Delos himself stood on the boat, silently watching the houses, barns, mangers... and local villagers who were completely submerged in the water, unable to say a word.

Those are his people, the growers of Egyptian food, the builders of projects-these people are defenseless against the great river...and he, Delos, is actually the same.

Delos also saw the mausoleum he originally planned to build for the first princess, which had only a rough outline and was completely submerged under water.

This reminded Delos of those acacia trees in the Memphis palace, which he had promised to transplant in front of Elyse's mausoleum, but they had not yet been transplanted.

Even the dark entrance to the underwater mausoleum seemed to mock him...

Delos turned his face away, not wanting to reveal his thoughts.

"His Majesty……"

The navigator Gregor measured the water level and told the Pharaoh that the astronomical observatory in the palace of Saqqara should have been above the water.

The fleet immediately turned to the direction of the palace.

As the ship approached, the outline of the four-sided triangular stele at the top of the observatory gradually became clear to everyone.

Sasha, who had been to the Saqqara Observatory to watch the stars before, suddenly lost his voice: "No way..."

He immediately realized that he was making a fuss, and immediately knelt down on one knee and fell at Delos' feet.

"Little man, the villain made a slip of the tongue—"

Delos didn't pay attention to Sasha at all, his eyes were tightly focused on the stone tablet that was getting closer, and his brows were frowned into a knot.

The stone tablet located at the highest point of the astronomical observatory was completely cut off from the body. Fortunately, the body of the tablet was originally connected by a finger-thick bronze wire, and the broken part of the stone tablet was still fixed in place.The entire stele stands stubbornly on the water at a strange and distorted angle.

Unexpectedly, when the fleet was approaching, a certain bronze thread binding the stele suddenly broke from it, and a part of the stele fell into the water, causing a large splash of water.

Immediately, more than a dozen sailors jumped off the pharaoh's boat and swam quickly, trying to rescue the stele.

It was an item left over from the palace of the previous pharaoh, and this status alone would be more valuable than the lives of all these sailors combined.

While busy with salvage, the boat on which Delos and the acting high priest Sasha were on was approaching.

As the water level continued to drop, the broken stubble of the lower half of the stele gradually emerged from the water.

Tilos couldn't help but look at the broken marks in surprise. When he was a young prince, he had presided over the construction of royal tombs and temples. He had seen such neat breaks—this stele was broken by a forcible Or broken.

Seeing that the hull of the boat was already shallow, Sasha jumped into the water, took two quick steps, and personally checked whether the stele was broken. He stretched out his hand towards the stele, and held the twisted bronze wire with the other hand, and closed his eyes. , muttering to himself, repeating, the voice getting louder and louder.

Delos heard him say, "Broken, broken..."

"The breath of Isfat, the strong smell of blood..."

"This is Apep, Apep has appeared!"

Sasha opened his eyes suddenly and spoke in horror.

The newly promoted acting high priest is known for his psychic ability to look back into the past.

Delos had a blank face, but his heart was beating wildly:

The clerk who stole the papyrus boat earlier said that Erich and the others hid underground, and Delos has always doubted the authenticity of this confession afterwards——

He thinks it is more likely that the princess took people to hide in the astronomical platform, the highest place in Saqqara.

But now he saw with his own eyes that the stone tablet on the astronomical platform was attacked and broken, and the results of the psychic showed that it had been attacked by the giant snake Apepu.

Erich... What kind of danger did the king force you into?

Delos recalled the moment when he personally ordered people to be sent to the palace of Saqqara, and now he thinks he must be crazy, crazy.

Does he really hate his first princess?

Didn't he resent her pride and disdain when she was young, and she didn't even want to give him the gift of looking him squarely?

He thought he had punished her, tortured her—but she endured it without looking back.In the end, he was the one who was punished and tortured.

And his unborn child...

The child who was prophesied to be the pharaoh of Upper and Lower Egypt.

Originally, he was just unwilling: his heir would have to repeat the same mistakes, with a mother who was not loved by his father, who had status but could never enjoy family affection.

But now it seems...

Did he ruin the child's life with his own hands?

"Alich...Mother of the Pharaoh..."

Delos repeated that sentence again, the prophecy he had repeated arrogantly in front of the great priest.

Why did the high priest give him such a prophecy—and why the divine prophecy couldn't be directly equated with fate.

If Erich was alive, if he still had a chance to see her and the child, there was nothing wrong with asking him to withdraw his life, or immediately order the unborn baby to be named as the heir.

The powerlessness of Delos' whole body became more and more obvious, and for a moment he just wanted to find a place where he could be alone——

He is likely to kneel uncontrollably, put his hand over his cheek, and let the tears flow;

Or they would yell maniacally, punch themselves hard in the face a few times, and draw a few bloody wounds...

But not now, the attendants, officials, and sailors of the entire fleet... were watching him, waiting for his order.

He is Pharaoh, a god who walks in the world.

This means that he has nothing to do with all the fragile emotions in the world.Even if he is very clear that he is neither a god nor can he be without emotion.

To him, divinity is just an empty shell imposed on him by a deceased old pharaoh.

Delos' face was tense, and his heart finally sank to the bottom of the water.

After the violent mood ups and downs, he finally stabilized himself.

If time can be turned back, he still has a chance to turn back——

He will prevent the High Priest from using that travel;

He wants to keep his princess who went to the palace without looking back;

He... he at least wants to take back the order that was fooled by God's will.

He wants to prevent Alicia's death.

But now...he should at least find Elyse's body, just like the goddess Isis did back then, he traveled all over the world to restore her intact body, connect her wandering soul, Send her eternal life.

Delos ordered in a deep voice: "Moor the boat nearby."

"Carefully clean up all parts exposed to the water, and don't let go of any traces related to the princess."

Both the priest and the navigator bowed in response, but they both disapproved of this order in their hearts.

The Saqqara Palace has been destroyed for more than ten days, and any traces of the water are gone after being soaked for more than ten days.

If she can see the princess again, she will definitely be in a very terrifying state, whether she can be recognized or not is not certain...

Therefore, while silently praying that they would not see the princess, the two officials pretended to arrange Pharaoh's orders.

The astronomical observatory in the Xinggong has been completely exposed to the water, and the surface is covered with a thick layer of black silt, which is quite sticky-this is the gift brought to Lower Egypt by the flooding of the great river.

For thousands of years, farmers in Lower Egypt have always been able to grow the most productive crops by planting on such soil.Not only can it feed the barren land of Upper Egypt, but it can even be trafficked overseas.

The sailors stepped into the mud with bare feet, and first cleared a safe path with long sticks, so as not to step on the bones of animals when walking.

They did pick out a lot of bones from the mud, some big and some small, people and animals.

"The water seems to be receding faster and faster..."

A sailor suddenly said something.He was surprised to see himself standing in the knee-deep river, but he could see his feet clearly in a moment.The river at his feet receded in an instant, leaving only a layer of wet silt.

"Quick, the entire fleet retreats..."

The navigator Gregor just noticed this sign and quickly gave the order.

Unexpectedly, it was too late, as the hull of the ship was hit hard, Pharaoh could not control his balance, and his body fell to the side of the ship.

At the critical moment, the surrounding sailors knelt on the deck and neatly stretched out their hands to support the pharaoh's body, causing many of them to lose their wooden oars.

The king's boat remained stable for a while, and after a while it began to circle rapidly with the current.

"Do not……"

Gregor hissed and shouted: "Sailors, grab your oars, turn against the direction of the current, and get out of here no matter what..."

What he didn't have time to shout out was that the nearby water surface formed a huge vortex centered on the Saqqara Palace.

The suction of the vortex is powerful and terrifying. The king ship where Delos was in was dragged into the vortex because it was a little behind and was closer to the center of the vortex. The speed was getting faster and faster, and the king ship was getting closer and closer to the center of the vortex.

At this critical moment, the king's ship suddenly slammed into it, and Pharaoh Delos could no longer stand still, and finally fell on the back of the sailor beside him.

But the king's boat finally stabilized, no longer being attracted by the huge vortex, but stopped at the outermost edge of the water flow.

It turned out that the sailors who landed and stayed near the observatory threw a long cable to the king's ship. One end of the cable was firmly tied to the bow of the king's ship, and the other end was tied by the sailors before the rope was completely stretched. On the base of the Stele of the Observatory.

The pilot and sailors all breathed a sigh of relief.

The sailors on the astronomical platform slowly pulled up the cables and dragged the kingship to the water's edge.

However, Delos did not notice all this from the beginning to the end. He did not even notice that the king's ship was moored on the shore and ran aground quickly.

Tylos stepped on the back of the sailor beside him, and the sailor immediately straightened his back obediently, trying to support the weight from the pharaoh.

Delos didn't realize it suddenly, even if he realized it, he would only feel that it should be done.

The pharaoh had only one thing in mind: the center of the vortex.

The navigator Gregor and the acting high priest Sasha, who were gradually in shock, followed the eyes of the pharaoh, and saw a strangely shaped object appearing in the center of the vortex where the water level was rapidly decreasing.

Gregor asked in surprise, "What is that?"

Immediately, he quickly covered his mouth with his hand: beside Pharaoh, he made another slip of the tongue.

Unlike Sasha, who carefully chose to remain silent.

Delos' indifferent voice sounded immediately: "That's the throne—"

throne?

People's eyes turned there in shock.I saw that slowly rising from the center of the vortex, gradually revealing the whole picture, turned out to be a stone high-back chair.

Only Egyptian pharaohs are eligible to own chairs in this form.

That's why Tylos can drink it all in one gulp: it's the throne.

At this moment, Delos's face was gloomy, and he had roughly figured out that this time, the unscrupulous flooding of the big river and the evil beast Apep that appeared in the water destroyed most of the buildings on the heights of the Saqqara Palace.

The high-backed chair in front of him should belong to the main hall at the highest point of the palace.But the hall no longer exists, only such a high-back chair survived.

But if this is the truth, then where did the vortex come from, and how did the water level of the great river drop suddenly in an instant.

Before long, all the ships, including the king's ship, ran aground and got stuck in thick mud.People need to raise their heads and look up to look at the tall high-back chair.

At this moment, the Saqqara Palace has no shape left. At this moment, the high-backed chair stands alone on a mound, and it looks like it has risen from the ground for nothing.

Delos thought of something, his eyes were both horrified and puzzled.

The acting high priest beside him, Sasha, knelt down with a plop, and his knees knocked on the deck.

"My king, this is... this is the miracle of creation..."

"Everyone, kneel down, kneel down, and express your respect to the Creator God."

Creation gods... Creation miracles?

Regardless of what the words mean, the senior officials have already spoken, so kneel first before speaking.

In an instant, on the astronomical platform, among all the ships that came with Tylos, only Pharaoh stood with his knees straight.

Delos also thought of what Sasha said, but he couldn't believe it at all.He opened his mouth as if to speak, but he couldn't make a sound for a while.

It turned out to be a miracle of creation...

"Yes, when the Creator first became conscious, the primeval mound rose out of the primordial sea, deep and chaotic. That moment was the first time in Egypt, and the Creator sat alone on his sovereign throne, facing To the empty world..."

This is a creation myth familiar to the Egyptians, and no one has ever dared to question the true existence of the myth.

But who can believe that it will really appear in front of our eyes?

At any rate, this was said by the acting high priest appointed by Pharaoh himself. For a while, the king's attendants, officials and sailors all bowed their heads and prayed devoutly.

Only Delos was stunned in the distance, and he couldn't dispel this fact for a while——

Is this really the original mound?

The high-backed chair at the top was once the throne of the Creator?

He even recognized the patterns on the high-back chair.

This high-backed chair that he must sit on every time he travels to Saqqara originally belonged to the Creator who created the world?

Sasha continued excitedly: "It is said that under the original mound, you can lead to the original..."

This just explains the principle of the sudden drop of water level and the rapid appearance of the original mound.The great river that flooded the entire palace was poured back into Yuanyuan in an instant, and Yuanyuan claims to never be satisfied...

The voice of the deputy high priest was still echoing in the air, and suddenly everyone felt something strange.

It was clearly a bright day, and the sun was shining warmly on the entire ruins of the Saqqara Palace.

But this relic, this mound, this high-backed chair... are rapidly becoming brighter, dazzling, and can't be seen directly.

People instinctively lowered their heads or covered their eyes with their hands to avoid the blazing light.

Only Delos, unshielded and at the risk of becoming blind, stared open-eyed at the primeval mound rising from the water.

Suddenly, the sound of flapping wings sounded, and a snow-white pigeon suddenly soared into the air from behind the high-back chair, spreading its wings and circling.

"This this……"

Lifting his head quietly, Sasha who saw this scene was so horrified that he couldn't spit out the words "How could it be possible".

But Delos knew it in his heart.

The fact that the white pigeon can fly out from behind the high-back chair only proves one thing:

The servant he ordered thrown into the water did not lie;

And the people who stayed in the Saqqara palace according to the folks were not crazy.

There is indeed a space in the underground of the Saqqara Palace - the space under the original mound.

Perhaps it is precisely because of the opening of this space that the primordial mound rises——

During the period between becoming the heir and ascending the throne, Delos studied hard under the supervision of the previous pharaoh, and mastered all the knowledge a pharaoh should have in the shortest time.

So he heard a prophecy about the primordial item.

This prophecy was extremely terrifying to Delos at the moment, so terrible that he didn't want to resort to it.

The next moment, Sasha's excited voice rang in Tilos' ear: "King, according to the prophecy before the chaos, the person who can unlock the eight original miracles will become the pharaoh who unifies Upper and Lower Egypt."

"The king... is the king going to unify Upper and Lower Egypt?"

The sailors did not understand the meaning of the words, but the officials and some of the royal court did.

In the more than 1000 years since the Great Chaos, no Egyptian monarch has ruled the red and black soils of Upper and Lower Egypt at the same time.

For a while, people cheered and cheered everywhere, and knelt down to the ground, sincerely paying respects to Delos, believing that Delos could surpass all the pharaohs in the past 1000 years and accomplish unimaginable achievements.

But Delos was like a wooden wedge nailed to the plank of the ship and to the back of the sailor, staying in place unable to move, almost stagnant for breathing.

Just a moment ago, he vowed that if he still had the chance to meet Elyse in this life, he would hold her hand, forgive each other, and make up for the scars in each other's hearts together——

At this moment, he understood that Alicia was still alive and well.

And she is the one who opened the original mound in front of her——

The dying man who floated from the water made it very clear that all the people hid underground because they listened to the woman.

Without Erich, the Primeval Mound would not have risen.

Delos remembered very clearly that the high priest gave him two oracles that did not conflict, the first of which depicted an absolutely impossible picture: Erich would become pharaoh, rule Upper and Lower Egypt, and the red Black land.

Then, as long as Erich walks out of the original mound, they will be contenders for the throne, power and land, and they will be endless enemies.