From Concubine to Pharaoh [Transmigration Book]

There was a loud bang, and Solan's fist hit the stone tabletop, which was hewn from a complete stone, and it turned bright red when he lifted it up—Elish couldn't help crying out for the brother in her heart.

"Crazy, it must be crazy—"

"At the cost of everyone's life, complete the battle between you and me, complete this chess game... Do you know that almost the entire frontier army is gathered in Giza at this moment?"

Because of a stupid chess game, he lost the power to guard the border of Lower Egypt. Solan obviously felt that the pharaoh's brain was broken.

"The king has reminded you again and again, and you agreed to this chess game to start."

Delos blocked all Soran's anger with one word.

The general pursed his lips tightly, stood dumbly in front of Delos for a moment, and then began to pace back and forth in the small chess room with his hands behind his back.

Even Erich, who only slightly floated out of the wall, directly felt his pain and anxiety.

However, Delos was still indifferent, and was looking down at the situation of the Senet chess on the table.

Right now, he and Solan each have a victory or defeat, and there are several sacrificed chess pieces next to the chessboard.

"Your Majesty..." Solan suddenly turned around and came to Tilos, "You can tell me exactly what will happen to the people below... those who are sent off the chessboard... they will all die ?"

Ai Lixi secretly called out a good question: this is also a question she cares about.

"The king doesn't know either."

Tilos shook his head slightly, and gave such an answer that made Soran spit out a mouthful of old blood.

"This Senet chess set is a relic left by the former king Namer."

Solan suddenly had a demented expression: the former king Namer, wasn't that the pharaoh of the Old Kingdom, the first person to unify Upper and Lower Egypt?His legacy?

"This chess game has not been played for many years, so you, me, and all living humans should have never seen such a chess game, and naturally no one knows the consequences it will bring."

"Then you still use this chess game to play against me?" Solan shouted out of composure.

"This is because..." Tilos raised his head with a serious expression, and said to Solan word by word: "For Egypt, establishing the sole authority of the Pharaoh is the most important thing. It is Maat's Absolute cornerstone, more than anything."

When she heard this sentence, Erich had a feeling: Pharaoh really thought this way—keeping the power in his hand and not being divided by others is the only task of Delos as a pharaoh.

Just imagine, Upper Egypt was already out of the control of the pharaoh, and the orders of the pharaoh had always been obeyed.

If Soran takes the richest nomes in Lower Egypt to act on their own, then the pharaoh's authority will gradually collapse.

More dangerous than the pharaoh's authority is the pharaoh's divinity, and the ordinary people's belief in the pharaoh in Upper and Lower Egypt——

Pharaoh is a god walking in the world. If God handed over the authority in his hand so easily, people would respect the divinity of Pharaoh.Even the mighty power of the gods, how much respect and worship will be retained?

"What about border security?"

Solan's voice has become hoarse. Obviously, the harm this chess game will do to the real swords of the frontier army is beyond his expectation, and it is unacceptable.

"Just when you arrived in Tanis, looking for a foreign woman of unknown origin, the Hittite prince Kalsha also secretly sneaked into Tanis—he is the most ambitious prince of the Hittites. The border of the country, I don't know when it will provoke border provocations!"

"I reported it to you at that time!"

Tilos immediately slammed his fist on the table, and retorted coldly: "General, if that's the case, why didn't you garrison at Mahala at that time, but led your troops away from the border without authorization?"

Solan was at a loss for words, and it took a long time before he asked back: "Then when you were in Tanis, you kept chasing after women, did you ever care about the border situation at all?"

Alicia was already tired of hearing it.

This is really a dog eats a dog.

Even if it was a spirit body, she wanted to roll her eyes.

Or remind me aloud: We are all adults, please don't talk to each other, okay?

While she was constantly complaining, she suddenly heard Delos say: "General, the king has already told you everything about this chess game. This is the end of the matter, and there is no turning back."

"Come on..." Delos suddenly raised his voice, "Soran, haven't you been longing for a fair contest for a long time? Don't you want to get rid of all the differences in status between you and the Pharaoh? Is strength or wisdom the means?"

"Come on, now is your chance!"

At this moment, Delos took the initiative to invite the battle.

Even Alicia, an outsider, has realized that the pharaoh is finally turning from defense to offense.

Solan gritted his teeth, but also realized that there was no other way but to continue the game.

His weakness is those chess pieces - he is too deeply attached to his chess pieces, for the safety of the chess pieces, he is always timid when it is time to attack, and dare not take risks.

But Pharaoh doesn't have this special emotion, he will make a decisive move when it's time to make a move, and has the courage to abandon his son, so the board is far better than Solan.

Solan took a deep breath, turned his body in one direction, tried to avoid facing the skylight of the chess room, and put all his ideas on the chessboard.Coupled with throwing two or three good points in a row, the chess pieces in Solan's hand immediately moved forward——

But he was powerless to prevent outside voices from entering the empty pyramid.

Every time he collided with Pharaoh's chess pieces, even if Soran should have the upper hand, he could not be completely immune to outside influences. The shouts and cries from the distant ground made him frown all the time, and his hands He clenched his fists and murmured, "This is not good, this is not good..."

As if the chair he was sitting on had been roasted in the fire, Soran couldn't sit still.

He would drop the chessboard with a jerk and stride out of the chess room and onto the platform outside the skylight.

Looking at the situation on the real chess game, it took a long time before he gritted his teeth and walked back to the table with a gloomy face, looking at the chessboard in front of him again.

But Delos sat upright all the time, and everything that happened outside the chess room had no effect on him, as if he was just playing a game of chess.

Elyse didn't think so either.

If this continues, Solan will lose, completely.

This time Solan mobilized the border army privately, betting not only all his chips, but also all the chips in Lower Egypt.

After the loss of such a group of experienced frontier troops, it will take five or six years to fail to cultivate such an army capable of recruiting and fighting.

However, Delos believes that maintaining the authority of Pharaoh is the basis for maintaining the stability of Egypt, so he did not hesitate to wipe out the entire border army.As for possible threats on the border, we can wait until this crisis is resolved before considering it.

However, these two fighting skills had to bring so many innocent people to be buried with them, which made Alixi very angry.

If one day she can really take over the throne of Egypt, she doesn't want to take over a country that is broken inside and completely defenseless against the outside.

Thinking of this, Erich no longer cared about who would win between Delos and Soran, she quietly logged out of the Eye of Horus and returned to the palace of Memphis.

Nanna was right next to Alixie, but when she saw the princess woke up, she just stared at the ceiling of the bedroom with wide eyes and didn't speak.Nanna didn't dare to ask any more questions, for fear of interrupting Alicia's train of thought.

"Prepare the sedan!"

Alice suddenly figured it out.

"Miss, is it the one with 16 people to carry it?"

Nanna hurriedly asked, wanting to know what kind of ceremonial guards are used for traveling.

Erich has turned over and sat up, quickly putting on the strapped leather slippers on her feet.

"You don't need any ceremonial guards, just prepare the sedan chair carried by four people as soon as possible, the sooner the better."

Alixie did what she thought, planning to go out as soon as possible.

In the whole thing, what Solan wanted was the autonomy of a few Nomes in Lower Egypt;

What Pharaoh wanted was to protect the integrity of Pharaoh’s authority in Lower Egypt;

And what she wants is to save the lives of all those soldiers and civilians who are used as pawns—of course, it would be even better if there is a leak in the rescue to gain their loyalty.

The source of the immediate crisis comes from the special item left by the ancient pharaohs - Namer's Senet chess.

According to Pharaoh, no one alive in this world has ever seen it being really used.Therefore, I don't know the consequences of using it, and I don't know the fate of those pieces after the game is over.

Since you can’t ask people, you can only ask God.

Regarding this matter, the first person Erich thought of asking for help was the Angel of Anubis——

Who made this emotional and good old angel leave a helpful image on her first day in the book?

As for where to find it, the only thing Erich can think of is the Temple of Osiris in Memphis.

The god Anubis is a subordinate god of Osiris, and there is no separate temple in Memphis.

Therefore, the best way for Alixi to find the Kobold is of course to go to the Temple of Osiris to try her luck.

Everything in the Memphis Palace under Erich's care was in order. After a while, a sedan chair carried by four people appeared in front of Erich.

Seeing the princess nodding slightly to them, the bearers said thank you for your hard work, and were so frightened that they all lay down on the ground to salute.

Erich was not surprised by this deep-rooted distinction between superiority and inferiority, so she didn't say anything more, and directly got into the sedan chair, took Nanna, and went straight to the Temple of Osiris.

She also visited here on the Harvest Festival and is no stranger to this temple.

The sedan chair directly entered the courtyard in front of the temple, where Erich got off the sedan chair, accompanied by Nanna, walked through the promenade with tall colonnades, and entered the temple of Osiris, facing the dark green skin Statue of Hades.

When the priests in the temple heard that the first princess was coming, they hurried over, but they could only express their helplessness when they heard Elyse's request.

But Alixi kept staring at the statue of Osiris, she tried to focus on the god, and used her consciousness to send her own message to him——

"I want to meet the Angel of Anubis."

"I have some questions about Namyr's Senet chess."

Just when the priests in the Osiris Temple were panicking because of the sudden arrival of the first princess, Nanna suddenly turned around and saluted outside the temple, and said: "My lord envoy—"

Erich turned around, and sure enough, she saw the Angel of Anubis with a jackal head appearing at the end of the corridor.

"Your Highness First Princess, are you looking for me?"

The kobold's amber eyes, warm as ever, were looking at her softly.

"I would like to ask some questions about Namer Thanet."

Alixi didn't say a word of greetings, and spoke directly.This seemingly rude attitude made the kobold realize the urgency of the matter.

"You ask directly here, please exit the temple immediately after asking, I will pray to the gods here to see if I can reveal it to you."

"Questions are limited to one... two, and no more than two."

Sure enough, she is still not qualified enough—Ai Lixi felt a flash of emotion in her heart.

It appears that the Anubis oracle was able to communicate directly with the god.But she has never had direct contact with God Amon.

Of course, she personally worked on the names and titles designed for God Amon, and the gods did not express any objection to her, so Erich regarded them as gods and were more tolerant, and acquiesced in all of them.

But the suggestion made by the Angel of Anubis did not match her original plan.Alixi originally wanted to wait for some answers before asking new questions, but now she can only throw out all the questions at once.

"The pharaoh and the generals of the frontier army are playing against the Senet game left by the former king Namer. The price they pay is a large number of civilians who built the tomb for the pharaoh and almost all the frontier army in Egypt."

When he heard the Senet chess, the kobold's erect pointed ears visibly turned around.

"What I want to ask is, when the game between these two is over. Whether it is the winner or the loser, the ordinary people who are regarded as pawns by them, that is, those who are kicked out of the chessboard... will immediately die."

"Also, if they can't survive, am I qualified to borrow the key of life to save them?"

That's all her problem.

Of course, the problem itself has indeed done some processing.Like she originally wanted to ask to borrow the key of life.

But I was also afraid that the gods would consider it disrespectful because of the difference in personality.Therefore, when asking the question, it was euphemistically changed to whether you are qualified.

If the answer is no, the gods can at most answer that they are not qualified, at least they will not blame her for presumptuousness.

After asking, with the support of Nanna, Erich humbly bowed to the statue of Osiris and the envoy of Anubis, and resolutely exited the temple.

While waiting on the long corridor, she heard Nanna whispering beside her: "It turned out to be such a big deal..."

The God of War's Blessed One didn't realize at all that her young lady was involved in such an unimaginable event while she was closing her eyes and seemed to be resting.

Alixie was a little ashamed: Nanna should be called in advance.

So she briefly described the situation at Giza to Nanna in a very low voice.Nanna was stunned when she heard it: "All the frontier soldiers and tens of thousands of civilians..." seemed to be admiring the generosity of both the pharaoh and the general.

After a while, Nanna sighed sadly: "Really...is this necessary?"

The king's heart seems to be beyond the reach of ordinary people.

Alixi stretched out her hand to pat Nanna, and pouted into the temple, signaling to those favored by the God of War not to despair.After all, she made a representation to the gods about this matter—

After all, for Osiris, the god of the underworld, accepting so many undead at once would make him and the god Anubis suddenly busy for a while, so it is better to spread the work to a later date and advance one by one.

Suddenly, heavy footsteps were heard, and the envoy of Anubis came out of the temple.

Erich stared at his face, but found that it was actually difficult to get an answer from this facial expression.

"Your Highness, the gods have already answered the two questions you raised."

"Yes, not at all."

This answer is too brief.

Alixi had to quickly lower her head to recall what she had asked just now.

The answer of the gods is: when the chess game between Pharaoh and Sauran is over, those chess pieces kicked out of the chessboard will go to death.And Alicia is not eligible to borrow the key of life to go to Giza to rescue them.

This is a rather sad answer.

So Alixi raised her head decisively, and looked at the Angel of Anubis with sad eyes.

"actually……"

The eyes of the Angel of Anubis suddenly became very gentle.

"The god of the underworld means that although Namer's Senet chess set was given by him and the god of Ra, what are the specific consequences of using it? It has been too long, and he has not remembered exactly."

At this time, Alixi hurriedly added, describing what she saw at the scene of Giza, and mentioned that after the soldiers and militiamen fell to the ground, they appeared in a state similar to being cursed and turned into mummies.

In fact, it was precisely because of this that Erich thought of the key of life, and wondered if this special item could purify the evil god Seth from infecting ordinary people, would it also be able to save those who fell because of Senet chess? The man at the giant chessboard.

But the gods categorically rejected her request—she was not qualified to borrow the key of life and go to the chess game of Giza to save ordinary people.

Unexpectedly, the ears of the Angel of Anubis turned quietly, and the topic of conversation also changed.

"But you can invite me to-"

Alicia: ...

Is that okay?

"My lord envoy, please, please..."

Elyse was too surprised to be able to find the words to say even a decent invitation.

The Angel of Anubis immediately stretched out his hand, handed the key of life to Erich, and said very generously: "You go first. I need to find a travel key, and I will be there soon."

"Oh, by the way, you need to use the Eye of Horus. Therefore, it is best to have a quiet room, and you need to be guarded by the God of War, right? Please follow me here."

The kobold immediately led the way, leading Alicia and Nanna to a side hall next to the temple, and explained: "I will tell the priests here not to disturb them."

Is that okay?

However, it is true that the Angel of Anubis is well aware of the relationship between Elyse and the Eye of Horus, so it is really convenient for him to arrange.

Alixie and Nanna glanced at each other, both of them seemed to have climbed from the bottom of the valley to the peak in an instant, their worries were gone, and their emotions were extremely uplifting.

Ailixi then paid attention to the key of life handed to her by the Angel of Anubis——

I don't know what kind of material it is made of. Erich held it in her hand and felt cool and heavy, like an item made of jade. When she looked carefully, she found that the texture was a bit similar.

The surface of this key of life has natural and complicated patterns, the base is a deep earth color, and the patterns are densely covered so that it reveals a bright crimson color all over.These two shades are reminiscent of earth and blood.

"The gods mean—"

Seeing her seriously looking at the key of life, the Angel of Anubis immediately opened his mouth to add.

"Since it was you who proposed to try to use the key of life to save the sacrificial pieces on the Senet chessboard. Then, the benefits brought about by this saving will belong to you."

This... Alicia was surprised and delighted, it was much better than her original expectation.

She originally thought that there might be a price to pay for using the key of life, but who knew there would be benefits?

Alicia immediately asked, "What good will it be?"

The kobold also answered neatly: "I don't know!"

Alicia: ...

Indeed, the gods have also made it very clear that Namer's era is too long ago, and even the gods themselves can't remember the characteristics of Senet chess.Therefore, even if he promised her benefits, it must be an empty promise.

Alicia thought to herself: Anyway, she didn't come to the temple for this benefit. At that time, she just felt that she couldn't just sit back and watch innocent lives be sacrificed in a power struggle for no reason.Even if there is no gain, she will still take action.

Thinking of this, she suddenly calmed down.

After bidding farewell to the Angel of Anubis, Erich, accompanied by Nanna, immediately entered the side hall, found a comfortable place to sit, and leaned against the wall.Nanna shook her hand, reassuring her.

After Erich gestured to Nanna with her eyes, she immediately logged into the Eye of Horus.