From Concubine to Pharaoh [Transmigration Book]

The fresh wind on the Nile blows across her cheeks. Viola closes her eyes and takes a long breath—this is the long-lost free air.

Seeing that the Memphis pier was getting farther and farther away from the ship, Viola's heartbeat gradually slowed down, and only then did she realize that she was already covered in cold sweat, and even the linen clothes on her body were soaked.

Coincidentally, when Biola escaped from Memphis as planned, she encountered Tyros' king ship berthing.

Just as everyone bowed their heads and held their breath to salute the Pharaoh, the scarf that Viola used to wrap her hair was swept away by a gust of wind and fell into the water.

At that time, the girl's heart had already jumped to her throat, and she almost cried out.

Fortunately, she was sane and remembered that her golden hair had been temporarily dyed black. At this moment, she was no different from the ordinary Egyptian businessmen around her.

Biola told herself: Calm down, you are someone with gods watching you and protecting you.

Seeing Tylos' eyes sweeping towards her, she quickly buried her head and held her breath, trying to keep herself calm and not trembling.

In fact, Biola was a little worried, after all, she was not the only one who trembled nervously under the majestic gaze of the Pharaoh.

After an unknown amount of time, the guard of honor of Delos finally left, and people got up from the boat boards where they had been lying down for a long time.The Memphis docks began releasing ships one by one.

Viola heard the merchants on the same boat discussing: "It's been more than half a month since the king left Memphis this time. I heard that he went to Saqqara to visit the first princess."

"Hey, the river has swelled especially high this year. I heard that a large area of ​​land in Saqqara has been submerged, and the roof of the Saqqara palace can't be seen... The intention of Wang's trip this time is to save people."

"But now that Wang is coming back alone, this, this is..."

Merchants traveling between Upper and Lower Egypt dared not speculate on the life and death of members of the royal family. People stared at each other, speechless.

Viola suddenly remembered the broken soul she saw when she bumped into Tilos face to face last time, coupled with the chilling and gloomy atmosphere she felt when the royal ship arrived just now, the girl had a feeling for Tilos in her heart. A little mercy.

She thought: It seems... this pharaoh is really confused emotionally.

But in any case, she has regained her freedom and can take a good look at this familiar and strange world.

Biola is a girl who grew up in an archaeological family. She has been interested in archaeology, field excavations and ancient Egyptian civilization since she was a child.

But slightly different from her father and brother's family, Viola didn't care so much about the pharaohs of ancient Egypt.

Although they have majestic and majestic pyramid tombs, countless funerary objects, and the afterlife world depicted vividly on the murals... But out of interest, Viola hopes to understand the ordinary people of this era——

What do they eat, what do they wear, what kind of entertainment do they usually like, what kind of gods do they believe in, do they have the opportunity to travel around in the known world...

Unexpectedly, the answers that Viola did not get during the archaeological excavation are all in front of her now.

The reason for Biola's time travel is simple: she touched a cursed amulet in a market in modern Egypt, so she traveled to ancient Egypt—this was enough to overturn her perception of the entire world.

What is even more subversive is that the world she arrived in has real gods.

Viola remembered very clearly that when she faced the pharaoh for the first time, at the most embarrassing, frightening and helpless moment, a face belonging to a god quietly emerged from the wall behind the pharaoh.

That face is so delicate, perfect, without any blemishes, both illusory and real, floating in and out of the wall freely——

This completely overturned Viola's cognition of the world, and made her believe with all her heart that God is real.

As time goes by, there are more and more opportunities to contact the gods, and Viola also heard the voice of the gods.

That voice was empty and distant, with a hint of gentle magnetism faintly, sounding firm and benevolent.

But when Biola thought about it afterwards, she couldn't tell whether the voice belonged to a man or a woman—Biola took it for granted, because gods don't necessarily have gender.

He instructed Viola to make reliable friends in the pharaoh's court, and escape from the court with the help of more people.Biola followed suit one by one, and it really went very smoothly.

Although she happened to meet the king's ship entering the port when she left the Memphis pier.But she got advice in advance and dyed her hair black, so she passed the customs without any risk and embarked on the waterway to Tanis.

At this very moment, the merchant ship was carrying heavy cargo and was sailing slowly downstream with a deep draft.

The Nile River, which is still in its flooding period, is as wide as a lake and a sea.The blue sky and white clouds are reflected on the river surface, the reeds and grass swaying in the wind in the shallow water, and the egrets soaring on the water surface--Biola is very happy to see this, isn't this the world she once longed for?

"Young lady, are you going to Tanis?"

The owner of the caravan approached and accosted Biola.The fleet will pass through many ports on the Nile River this trip, and the end point is Tanis.

"Yes, go to Tanis." Biola replied with a smile.

Urania, the maid of the royal court of Memphis, had already helped Biola pay for the boat, and went to Tanis, and also presented Biola with a few golden melon seeds that could be exchanged for food supplies.

"What happened after you got to Tanis?"

When the caravan owner saw Viola's beautiful dark green eyes clearly, he couldn't help being startled, and then suddenly realized: "You are not a native of Egypt, are you?"

Biola was cautious for a while, and only said that she would meet up with her companions after arriving in Tanis.

The boss immediately believed that Tanis was a distribution center for goods in Lower Egypt, and it was not far from several seaports in the Mediterranean Sea. Ships from the Mediterranean coast could go upstream along the river and dock at Tanis.

So the city was always used to seeing merchants and travelers from foreigners.The reason Viola gave sounds quite reasonable.

After dealing with the curious boss, Viola inevitably felt confused about her future——

What was she supposed to do when she got to Tanis?

Where should we go, where will our fate be?

Traveling to ancient Egypt fulfilled Biola's double dream of being a student of archaeology and a lover of ancient Egyptian civilization, but as a modern person, Biola clearly knew that she had no sense of belonging to this world.

she wants to go home...

I dream of going home.

In the royal court of Memphis, Viola would see the modern world and her family in her dreams, and she would be so happy that tears would flow down her face, and when she woke up, the tears still covered her entire cheeks.

But Biola has never revealed her wish to the gods.

She didn't know how to speak—should she be honest with the gods?She doesn't want to stay in this world and continue to serve the gods faithfully. She wants to travel through thousands of years of time and space and return to the world she belongs to.

Before Biola could make up her mind, she had successfully boarded the boat to Tanis.

While sailing on the Nile River, Viola witnessed sailors and merchants kneeling on the boards of the boat, praying devoutly to the God of the Nile and the God of the Sky, praying for the smooth sailing of the boat and the safety of people and goods arriving in Tanis .

Biola also prayed, praying that her God Amon could show her the direction and let her know what she should do after arriving in Tanis to find her way home.

However, during this time on the ship, Biola never received a response from the gods.

Perhaps there was no room for a god on this cedar-wood keelboat—and Viola wasn't disappointed.

After arriving in Tanis, Biola saw what a prosperous trading port in this world looks like.

In the market here, she saw linen and papyrus, the special products of Egypt, gold and ivory from Nubia, grain and copper from Sardinia, olive oil and red wine from Sicily, seafood and dyes from Phoenicia. and spices, and plenty of cedar from Syria.

People are busy trading, and there is a continuous sound of clanging hammers hitting the balance in the market.

Biola noticed that most of the merchants here use large pieces of gold and silver for transactions, which shows the high volume of trade.

"If the king orders war with Hittite, the prosperity here will be cut by at least half."

Biola heard merchants discussing in the market.

"Will the king go to war with Hittite?"

"I heard that the nomes in Upper Egypt have a tendency to rebel. The king hopes to use a victory in a foreign war to deter those provinces that are about to move. This is more effective than directly suppressing the nomes, and it sounds good."

"But Hittite is not a fuel-efficient lamp..."

"But the king relies heavily on the great general Solan. I heard that since he led the army, he has fought hundreds of battles, big and small, and has never failed."

Biola stood in a corner of the market in a daze as she listened to the familiar or unfamiliar names of places and people.

Will there be a war?

Suddenly a dark cloud floated across the sky, and raindrops fell while speaking.The open-air market was unobstructed, and people put on scarves to seek shelter from the rain, while merchants were busy setting up reed mats to cover their goods.

Wrapped in a linen kerchief she bought at the market, Viola was alone, hiding under a tall and lush palm tree, listening to the crackling of the leaves by the huge raindrops.

She occasionally glanced behind her, but she couldn't move her eyes away anymore, her eyes were fixed on the thick palm tree trunk behind her, and she almost cried out in surprise.

She resisted the urge to kneel down, and under the premise that no one else noticed her, she lowered her head, clasped her fingers, and looked devout.

In fact, Viola was too cautious. Even if someone noticed her at this moment, they would only think that Viola was praying devoutly to Tefnut, the god of rain.

On the palm tree trunk beside Biola, a transparent illusory face emerged from the solid tree surface. The lips of this illusory face were slightly parted, and four words fell clearly in Biola's ears: "The Stone of Time -"

The time stone?

Viola's emerald-like pupils were shocked suddenly.At this moment, the girl remembered that the last sentence of the god she worshiped was the guardian of time, Amon.

Sure enough, it is the greatest god, not only fully aware of my origin.And I know everything about my wishes that I have never expressed.

Viola was almost crying with joy.

Apparently, the gods had generously tipped her off to find the Time Stone.

If she finds it, maybe she will be able to jump out of the frame of time, make the curse disappear, and let her return to the original time and space to which she belongs.

The gods with all wisdom gave her such an important clue.

Viola hurriedly expressed her gratitude to this considerate and caring god in a low voice and piously, and secretly admired in her heart: she is indeed a great god, and it is so unique to be able to respond to her request at such a time and place.

Immediately, the faces that emerged silently from the surface of the trees slowly receded and disappeared, the rain gradually stopped, and it seemed that nothing happened around Viola.

Satisfied, Viola walked out from under the tall tree, gently removed the scarf covering her hair, and pondered over and over in her heart where she should go to find clues to the Time Stone.

The moment she took off her head scarf, Viola's eyes suddenly went dark—yes, the white right hand she raised to her eyes now had a gray-black palm.

Her long golden hair, which was dyed black, could no longer hold on at this moment, and it had already begun to fade.

Erich stepped out of the Eye of Horus behind her porcelain pillow, and sat up from her slightly swaying boat on the water.

At this time, Erich had already bid farewell to most of the craftsmen and peasants in Saqqara, as well as the high priest Senmut, and embarked on the road back to Memphis.

The militiamen helped Erich to get the several stranded royal ships left by the pharaoh's fleet out of the mud and send them to the nearby channel.

Several civilians who were familiar with the local waterways volunteered to lead the fleet of the princess and send her back.

Alixie was not in a hurry, and asked people to just choose the safest but slowest path and return to Memphis all the way.

Nanna is always worried about Alicia's fate when she returns to Memphis.But here in Alicia there is no problem at all.

After all, Erich would check the status of Biola and Delos from time to time to see where they were going.

When Biola arrived in Tanis, a secret order from Delos to search for the blond girl had been sent to the whole of Egypt, and the pharaoh himself, after several days of delay, embarked on the road of searching up and down the river.

During this process, the pharaoh himself never mentioned any words about the first princess, nor did he deal with Elysia, nor did he make any arrangements. It seemed that this woman had been completely erased from the king's mind, leaving nothing behind. Little trace.

In this case, of course, Erich can return to Memphis without any pressure.

As for Biola, Erich guessed that this girl must pray to herself... no, God Amon from time to time.

Although she couldn't respond in real time, she would check Biola's condition through the Eye of Horus every now and then.

Erich saw all the confusion the girl showed when she arrived in Tanis with the boat.So I decided to find an appropriate time to communicate.

The rain is just a good time - under the tree to shelter from the rain, Viola's clothes and headscarf block the sight from other places, and the sound of raindrops hitting the tree and the ground prevents others from eavesdropping.

Erich seized this short-lived god-given opportunity and explained the four words "Stone of Time" to Biola.

In fact, even if she didn't say it, according to the plot of the original work, Biola would hear about the name later in Tanis' market and get clues about the Time Stone.

In the original book, after Biola escaped from the palace of Memphis, she heard about the Stone of Time in the market of Tanis.

Immediately embarked on a journey to find this treasure at the junction of Egypt and Hittite——

As a girl whose relatives and friends are all in modern times, finding a way to travel back is Biola's only goal at this stage.

Alixie informed in advance that it will not affect the original story line, but it will make Biola admire and trust Amon even more, and embark on the road of exploration of the Stone of Time without hesitation.

Helping Biola to travel back, and asking Biola to help her solve the mystery, this is the phased goal of Alicia's side.

And Alicia just mentioned the name Stone of Time succinctly.After all, Biola mistook her for a god, and the personality of the god is there, so it is impossible to explain the origin of the treasure to Biola in a long-winded manner.

Conversely, the shorter the message, the more informative it is.

The mere four words made Biola very pleasantly surprised, her eyes lit up, and her imagination flashed for a while.

After the rain stopped, she would definitely go to Tanis' market to inquire, and she would naturally be able to find clues about the Time Stone.

Of course, according to the plot of the original book, Delos would arrive in disguise and forcefully keep Biola. The two were able to spend a good time together in Tanis, and Biola gradually reversed her impression of Tyros as a tyrant.

But when she helped Viola escape from the Memphis palace earlier, Erich had already had a heart——

Arranged by Urania, there were at least [-] cargo ships that departed from Memphis that day with young girls of Viola's age on board.These ships will sail to various places in Egypt.

Delos didn't know that Biola's destination was Tanis.

When Delos has enough information, I believe that Biola has found the way and is on the way to the border between Egypt and Hittite——

Erich leaned on the royal boat, thinking comfortably.

Suddenly, there was an exclamation from the other boat, and Nanna, who was on the same boat as Elyse, stood up with a jerk, begging the craftsmen to put the newly made golden feather arrows on the hard bow.

"His Royal Highness, it's... a young man who seems to have been seriously injured."

It turned out that people found the young man among the reeds. At first they thought it was just a floating corpse, but after checking, they found that he was still alive.

Tabac and the others didn't know what to do, so they asked Erich for instructions.

Alixi hurried to send people here.Soon, she and Nanna saw an extremely pale face with their eyes closed at the same time.

He has all four limbs intact and appears to be physically unharmed.But there was a terrible wound on the right shoulder, and the flesh and blood turned inside out from the wound, exposing the white bones.

As soon as Nanna saw this face, she immediately pulled out the saber from her waist and stabbed at the boy's heart.

Unexpectedly, the young man suddenly turned over as if he could sense danger, and with a bang, Nanna's sword tip directly hit the ship's plank.

The boy panted heavily, and stretched out his hand to cover the wound on his right shoulder. A pair of black and white pupils stared closely at Elyse and Nanna, and looked at the two ladies in confusion.

Before he fainted again, the boy finally asked, "Who are you?"