She grew up in this place, and because she would wander around without telling the adults when she was a child, she is far more familiar with this place than the adults... Her Highness's pace was so fast that the little maid behind her could only trot to barely follow.
.
It's almost dawn.
From the palace of Her Royal Highness the Princess to the palace of the Pharaoh, there are quite a few palaces in between... Not only because of her rebellious youth, the distance between the palace of Her Royal Highness the Princess and the residence of the Pharaoh can be said to be the distance between the buildings in the entire palace.
The most distant combination.
This distance seems to silently describe a child's resistance to his elders.
"Your Highness, we are almost here..." The little maid panted slightly and said that she was finally here and could stop and take a rest. It was so tiring to keep up with the pace of this princess.
She always walks in front of everyone, like a guiding light, lighting up the road ahead.
But following along like this all the time is really tiring... The little maid thought to herself: Maybe everyone feels this way... Your Highness, aren't you tired?
But she didn't dare to say it out loud...even if it was really tiring to follow her like this.
"Isn't this place... repaired yet?" Her Royal Highness the Princess suddenly stopped in front of the door of the Pharaoh's palace, frowning and looking at a statue in front of the Pharaoh's palace.
It is not a statue that symbolizes the gods, it is simply something that was created by ordering craftsmen for decorative purposes.
Her Highness the Princess remembered that three years ago, she had a quarrel with the Pharaoh and when she left, she directly used the [Artifact] to break the horns on the statue.
I decide my own destiny...even if you are the king of the desert!
Yaman Rana…
"Your Highness? Your Highness?"
The voice of the little maid came, pulling Her Highness the Princess back from her thoughts far away... Her Highness the Princess shook her head, lifted up her skirt, crossed the threshold of the door, and walked in quickly.
From here on, the little maids are not allowed to enter the Pharaoh's palace. This has always been the case. Even the guards, other maids, and even the Pharaoh's newly selected princess can enter without the Pharaoh's permission.
Except for Her Highness the Princess...only Her Highness would not care about the Pharaoh's orders.
As the little maid looked, she gradually lost sight of Her Highness the Princess's back... She turned around and sat down boredly. She could only wait here until Her Highness the Princess came out.
She yawned. In fact, she didn't sleep well that night... This night was really long, and it seemed that many strange things happened.
Probably because she was really tired, her eyelids gradually became heavy... to the point where she could hardly open them open. In a daze, she seemed to see a figure walking out from behind her.
Come out from behind yourself...?
Behind him is the Pharaoh's palace... But why does he seem to be wearing the clothes of the guards? Isn't it said that the Pharaoh does not allow others to enter casually...
"It's getting very cold as dawn approaches...don't catch a cold."
"Oh...okay..." she responded vaguely.
That must be the voice of the guard who walked out of the Pharaoh's palace... His face couldn't be clearly seen, but he felt like he was covered with something, and then a warmth enveloped him.
It was like having a dream... In the dream, someone gently wrapped a blanket over himself and then left.
She opened her mouth, wanting to ask him who he was...but in the end she failed to ask, and fell into a dream. The little maid leaned against the door wall and fell asleep sweetly.
Whether someone really passed by her...she probably couldn't tell after she woke up, except that the blanket wrapped around her body seemed to prove something.
But that will be what happens after she wakes up.
…
The Pharaoh's palace was darker than what Her Royal Highness had remembered... She had been in this place for a long time.
When did she start to become alienated from this place... What she remembered was that after a quarrel three years ago, she never came there on her own initiative, but she couldn't think of the source of the alienation.
Looking back on the past, Her Royal Highness found that in the past ten years, she has been thinking about how to eliminate the giant beasts in the desert. As for other things... If the country's crisis cannot be resolved, people will always be shrouded in the shadow of death.
If so, how can happiness come from it?
And...why do we call home?
coffee!
Her Royal Highness the Princess pushed open the inner door of the Pharaoh's palace... Who was this tight door resisting? When she pushed it open, it actually cost her so much strength... The sound of the door shafts biting together was so loud.
Loud.
She frowned and walked in the main hall. She was surrounded by the lights of oil lamps. The outside of the palace looked dim, but here it was as bright as day.
There are a total of 999 oil lamps placed here.
She could easily see the man sitting on the throne on the steps... with his head lowered, it seemed that the pharaoh of the past kingdom had fallen asleep.
The pharaoh did not wear the crown at this time, and as for the scepter representing the royal power, he just placed it casually at his feet... In my impression, Her Royal Highness rarely saw the pharaoh of the kingdom not holding this royal power in his hand.
In my mind, this seems to be...the second time.
The first time... was when she was ten years old.
The Pharaoh had his head lowered and his hair was messy, with more gray-white hair than Her Royal Highness had imagined... She actually knew that this man had not been able to sleep well in the past ten years.
Nine hundred and ninety-nine oil lamps are lit every night. Who can sleep in such an environment?
Her Royal Highness the Princess watched silently, and walked to the steps... She hesitated for a moment, and finally did not step on the steps. She just looked up from below and said in a deep voice: "I just came to see if you were okay... At least it seemed
,Nothing."
The Pharaoh of the kingdom seemed not to hear.
Her Royal Highness the Princess was silent for a moment and then said calmly: "Since you have nothing to do, I will leave... I still have something to do and I have to go to the temple."
Pharaoh still lowered his head.
Her Royal Highness the Princess breathed a sigh of relief, turned and left... Before leaving, she turned back and said: "Also, if there is nothing to do, don't send your people to sneak into me... In this desert country, there are already people everywhere.
There is sand, and I don’t want the resting place to be filled with piles of sand.”
"Yaman Lana..."
Finally, the pharaoh of the kingdom had some reaction... the voice came slowly.
Her Royal Highness the Princess turned around and saw the pharaoh of the kingdom, who had stood up without knowing what was appropriate, and then slowly walked down the steps... his body was shaking, as if he had lost his backbone.
Looking at the swaying body of the Pharaoh, Her Royal Highness the Princess couldn't help frowning and subconsciously said: "You...what's wrong with you? Is there something uncomfortable in your body?"
"Yaman Lana..."
The pharaoh of the kingdom shouted this name again. He looked unusual with his disheveled hair... His body was still shaking, and the shaking was actually a bit violent.
He suddenly stopped, grabbed his face with both hands, and his whole body began to tremble like a twitch.
"What's wrong with you?" Her Royal Highness the Princess couldn't help being surprised. She took one quick step...two steps, three steps and ran to the pharaoh of the kingdom. "Your...father? Father?"
"Yaman Rana...Yaman Rana...Yaman Rana!!!!"
Sharp...sharp and shrill, like the ghostly roar of a strong wind passing through a canyon, emanating from the mouth of the Pharaoh.
His hands, at this moment, actually tore open his face with force... At this moment, the blood splashed onto the face of Her Royal Highness, the warm blood!
"Father...Father?"
In the midst of lightning and flint, the Pharaoh of the Kingdom, whose face was covered with blood, suddenly flew out and threw Her Royal Highness to the ground like a beast... His hands even pinched Her Royal Highness's neck tightly.
"Eye……?"
She was shocked...what she saw with her shrunken pupils was not a pair of normal human eyes. Not only was the left eye on her face missing, the remaining right eye actually looked like...like the eyes of a giant beast!
In the past ten years, she has gone out to fight against the giant beasts in the desert countless times, and fought many life-and-death battles with the giant beasts in the desert. No one knows the gaze of these giant beasts better than her.
"What on earth...happened...?"
Her Royal Highness the Princess, whose throat was merely being strangled, had a look of horror on her face. Her instinctive resistance made her tightly grasp the hands of the Kingdom Pharaoh. She had never thought that this man's strength was so terrifying!
The elite white-robed guards of the temple are simply incomparable. Even if they say that this is the transformation of a giant beast, no one will believe it... a giant beast?
Her Royal Highness the Princess's gaze turned completely to fear!
The back of the Kingdom Pharaoh was completely split at this time, and then a pair of huge and ugly fleshy wings that looked like animal claws opened instantly... Something was about to emerge from the body of the Kingdom Pharaoh.
out!
hiss!!!!
The terrifying scream sounded again, and the pharaoh of the kingdom seemed to be in extreme pain. He suddenly let go of the princess who was holding her, held his head and started wailing.
When the liberated Princess didn't bother to take a few breaths, she panicked and instinctively took out the [artifact] she had kept close to her body... She wasn't sure whether the thing in front of her was the real pharaoh of the kingdom.
When she woke up, the first thing she heard was what the little maid told her. There was a giant beast at the banquet that transformed into her appearance. If the invasion of the palace was true, then the giant beast transformed into the appearance of the pharaoh.
It seems possible.
"What on earth...are you?" Her Royal Highness the Princess asked sharply.
The pharaoh of the kingdom suddenly stopped howling... He lowered his hands, and then fell directly to the ground. Her Royal Highness finally saw clearly what was coming out of the pharaoh's body!
An eagle head, human body, and huge claw-shaped flesh wings...a one-eyed monster covered in gray and black!
Instinct made Her Royal Highness directly pull the trigger of the [artifact]... Loud gunshots suddenly appeared in the hall, and time seemed to slow down... The moment the bullet was about to hit the shoulder of this [thing], its hand moved.
!
Quickly catch the bullet!
Her Highness the Princess's face changed, and just when she was about to attack again, the [thing] moved... With a flap of her flesh wings, she appeared in front of Her Highness the Princess at super speed, and reached out to grab her neck and lift her up.
Got up.
She has never felt such a small moment... As if this body is not hers, the explosive power of the muscles is not half of what it usually is!
But she didn't have time to think about the changes in her body at this moment. She just thought about how to get out of this desperate situation. She grabbed the [thing]'s wrist and kicked its body, "What on earth are you... doing to me?"
…Father…did something…”
[Thing] suddenly whispered something in his mouth: "Yaman Lana..."
"you……?"
Suddenly, the monster that broke out of the Pharaoh's body shook his hand and threw Her Royal Highness to the side! The huge force caused Her Royal Highness to fly out and hit the pillars supporting the main hall... This made Her Highness the Princess to vomit.
Two mouthfuls of blood!
After that, the monster with the head of an eagle howled, opened the huge flesh wings on its back, and rushed out of the hall.
Her Royal Highness gritted her teeth and got up and rushed to the entrance. However, she could only see a silhouette that had already shot up into the night sky and flew towards a distant place.
That seems to be where the temple is!
Her Royal Highness held her head and slid down to sit down... She glanced at the hand covering her head, and saw that it was full of blood when she was shaken off just now, as if she had broken her brain.
Her Highness the Princess's consciousness began to blur... Gradually, the things in front of her became distorted. Blood fell from her forehead and flowed into her eyes, turning everything into the color of blood.
It feels... it feels like I have experienced this scene somewhere.
When she was very, very young.
It was as if she was in a dream... In the dream, something came close to her. When she opened her eyes, she saw something with a ferocious and terrifying face, and it was also strangling her neck.
Can't move...can't move. No matter how hard she struggles, she can't move...
Her Royal Highness the Princess finally collapsed in front of the Pharaoh's palace.
…
…
In the palace, in the jungle between the palace and the temple, the new young guard in the palace looked up at the night sky... On his shoulder, an injured but bandaged bird was
Stand obediently.
He looked at the flying figure in the sky, then withdrew his gaze, and at the same time spread out his palms... There was actually an eyeball hidden in his palms.
The eyeball slowly flew up in his palm, and then began to turn... turn, and within a short time, the eyeball completely turned golden.
