"High Priest Yin Morton, what's the point of keeping company with these statues all the time? You work hard to perform sacrifices every day, and what do you get except simple meals?" Ansuna followed Thomas around the temple.
Come and go.
"..." Thomas silently wiped the statue with clean water and remained silent.
Of course, there is some income. In Egypt, besides the pharaoh, he is the biggest, but it is limited to the power of life and death. His status as a high priest prevents him from having personal wealth. Although the temple itself has money, it can only be spent on sacrifices.
Related rituals and monks.
At the same time, the high priest is not allowed to get married, at least not while holding this position. Instead, the various monks under his command are allowed to have families - the rules of ancient Egypt are really strange.
"By the way, I came today to convey the gratitude of the Hittite Empire," Ansuna said while deliberately showing off her charm: "You have arranged for me to contact the Pharaoh many times during sacrificial ceremonies and other occasions. We will keep it in mind.
Ophelia, who hates Babylon, will interfere with this, otherwise..."
"You're welcome." As a high priest who also owns a green light ring, it's easy to know when the pharaoh is in a bad mood. At this time, this political marriage partner approached him. It's surprising that he has a good face, especially that god.
Her Royal Highness the Princess, who assisted, fully understood what she meant and cooperated many times from afar. The Pharaoh was even persuaded by her to send Ansuna back to the Hittite Empire.
"But I figured it out recently. The Hittite Empire just wants to marry Egypt, but it doesn't necessarily have to marry the Pharaoh." Ansuna turned around and stood in front of Thomas: "What do you think of me?
?”
"The high priest cannot marry," Thomas replied dryly.
"Hahaha, I know. What I'm asking is, do you have any plans to step down from this identity and return to the Hittite Empire with me?" Ansuna winked at him.
Thomas knew something about the Hittite Empire during this period. It was in a disconnection stage because Ansuna's brother, who was in his prime and was about to inherit the throne, died on the battlefield. The next legal heir was only three years old, and
The old king obviously couldn't support him until he grew up, so he could only send his daughter to the powerful Egypt, hoping that she could take care of the empire through marriage until the little prince grew up. But now, Ansuna obviously has other ideas, such as
, directly abduct a powerful prince consort—or regent—back.
If he hadn't been on a mission and wouldn't be able to stay in this world for long, Thomas might have actually considered it.
Besides, he really didn't take the initiative to hook up with Ansuna. Who knew that her personality and preferences were exactly the same as Atlanna's?
The style of daily conversation, the types of banquet dishes, and the inadvertent little actions. Thomas naturally knew that he had accidentally recognized the wrong person, but in Ansuna's opinion, it was the high priest who was particularly attentive to her and considered everything.
.
So, how come the character and preferences of a princess from a desert country are the same as the mermaid princess of Atlantis?
"I have decided to dedicate everything I have to the gods." Thomas prayed to the statue of Mehen.
"Really?" Ansuna replied noncommittally, and then suddenly leaned forward and grabbed a handful of manes from the pocket of the divine robe worn by the statue: "Then, can you explain to me, the 'Lion God'?
Why are there such disrespectful things as lion hair in your pocket?"
"The lion god has lion hair on his body, which makes sense." Thomas explained forcefully.
In fact, this was carelessness. He completed the first five tasks of "destroying the sacrificial ceremony" very well, and the concealment work was also excellent. However, the last destruction was the kind of "it doesn't matter if it is discovered", so it was relatively a bit confusing.
Lazy and didn't clean up afterward.
However, the task of "destroying the sacrificial rituals of the six gods" has been completed, so why didn't anything special happen? And the "Emperor-Liying Huo" who was suspected to be the incarnation of "SUNWUKONG" disappeared after the fifth one was completed.
"Hahaha... If I hadn't become interested in you, I would never have discovered that you, the 'high priest,' have been blaspheming in the name of Egypt for more than 20 years. Now I really want to know how much you hate it.
How can you do this if you have deep feelings to your bones?" Ansuna smiled at him: "Or, are you planning to kill me to silence me?"
In fact, he only blasphemed six times in total, and he had no idea why.
"Are you going to tell Pharaoh?" Thomas looked expressionless and began to plan an escape route in his mind.
"Perhaps, if you don't intend to 'shut up'." Ansuna moved closer to Thomas, closed her eyes and raised her face towards him.
"..." Thomas held her shoulders to prevent her from approaching directly.
Hell, does this count as cheating? If Atlanna knew...
The two people, who had their own thoughts, were in a stalemate for a while.
"Lord Pharaoh!" "Lord Pharaoh——"
Boom!
Following the panicked sounds of the monks guarding the door, the door of the temple was kicked open, and Pharaoh Seti I rushed in with the princess Ophelia with an angry look on his face.
"Yin Morton!" he shouted angrily.
The two people who were in a stalemate suddenly separated.
"Pharaoh, this matter..."
"I heard that you want to give up your position as high priest and go to Hittite with this woman?" Seti I said with sorrow: "How can you betray me!?"
...He's angry over the most inconsequential betrayal?
Thomas looked at Ophelia who was following the Pharaoh. The girl who was said to be of Babylonian descent was making a gesture of slitting Ansuana's throat.
Is it still a struggle between countries?
"What conditions did she promise you? Regent? It can't be the king, right?" Seti I glared fiercely at Ansuna who was trying to calm down: "I just don't want to take over the country that is surrounded by enemies on all sides and cannot be defended.
It’s a city-state, but since you decide to do this, I don’t mind annexing it directly and giving it to Yin Morton as a fief!”
"..." If I hadn't come from thousands of years later and had a more important mission, I would have probably been impressed, right?
"You don't know how important your duty is, Yin Morton. Egypt's thousands of years of rule have relied on it." Pharaoh looked at Thomas: "Just in time, today I will show you what the power of the gods is. '."
"Wait..." Thomas felt something was wrong, but it was too late to stop him.
"Shazam (Cthulhu Fhatgn)!" Seti I raised his arms and shouted loudly.
A red-black lightning penetrated the roof of the temple and accurately hit the pharaoh who had just shouted the word.
Then... he turned into an indescribable blue-gray monster made of countless tentacles and eyes.
"[What - this is impossible -]" the monster who was once a pharaoh roared with a voice like bubbles in the deep sea: "[It's you - Yin Morton -!]"
Well, at least the reason for his anger was right this time. Thomas pressed the green light ring on his hand and began to construct a weapon to fight against it.
Tsk-buzz-!
Before that, a dark space crack appeared out of thin air on the huge monster. It "sucked" the indescribable monster in like a sponge absorbing water, and then revealed Princess Ophelia who had been standing behind the Pharaoh. .
She didn't know when her face became expressionless, her left eye closed, a picture of the Eye of Horus appeared on her face, and a sickle burning with black flames appeared in her hand.
The girl, perhaps Princess Ophelia, glanced at Thomas and said in a cold voice and tone:
"[Those who walk with fire will eventually meet their destined death.]"
