The Witch and the Doll Swear

Billowing thick smoke rushed towards the entrance of the underground passage.

Build a fire, mix it with stunned incense, the priests of Amon Ra light the fire, and use invisible barriers that flicker, so that the poisonous smoke that will stun with just one breath flows towards the entrance of the tunnel go.

Like a smoked rabbit hole.

An hour later, the temple guards who drank the antidote in advance walked into the passage in groups, and after a while, more than a hundred of them passed out under the poisonous smoke, most of them were naked. Behind them, a rectangular object wrapped in black linen was lifted out.

An old priest covered everyone's sight with a long robe, carefully lifted a corner of the black cloth, and the wrinkles on his wrinkled old face suddenly relaxed.

"Amon Lazai..."

He covered the black cloth back, hurried to Flanatti's side, and lowered his voice.

"It is the sacred coffin of the Pharaoh."

"...You escorted the pharaoh to the Karnak Temple. The cultural relics were taken over by the temple guards, and let the city guards take all these people away. We need to know who made the idea of ​​the noble ancestor Pharaoh."

The lady who stood at the highest position among the female clergy in Sinai gave the order calmly, the old priest nodded, gathered the priests together, and took over the most important treasure from the guards of the temple.

At this time, Flanadi cast her eyes on the crowd watching around.

On the night of the festival, there are many people who stay up all night. There are city guards and priests here. Even she, who lives in seclusion, has come to the scene. If she can't give a convincing statement, it won't be until tomorrow morning. would roam like a hyena in the dipis.

However, her attention is not here at all now. Who instructs these tomb robbers to attack the pharaoh's coffin? Did they desecrate the coffin? Dealing with problems...

"...I'll leave it to you."

Giving instructions to the priest who is usually responsible for preaching to the people, Flanadi took off the golden ring of falcon and ram from her hand, and handed it to Liliana who was watching the city guards put the recovered cultural relics on the ground hands.

The witch, who was not interested in the "smoked rabbit hole" method she proposed, moved her eyes reflecting the night away from those small and medium-sized pots and bottles, earrings, bracelets and gems in simple wooden boxes, and Fu Lanatti put the ring in her hand and nodded to her.

"Although I don't know what you are looking for, according to the agreement, this ring allows you to investigate in the Valley of the Kings without restriction. I believe that even a noble witch will not commit any blasphemy."

This is both trust and warning.

Liliana, who took the ring and hugged Alice, didn't say anything. After all, she had a more important goal than this kind of thing.

……I'm not interested.

Her eyes said so.

Flanatti nodded, and walked into the luxurious carriage, and the already drowsy Camula followed after complaining to Tina that "I can't sleep tonight".

As the pharaoh's daughter, Kamula, who will become the next pharaoh without accident, also has some things that must be done.

"...Then, let's go to the hotel and rest."

After they left, the witch took a last look at the recovered cultural relics, put away the ring engraved with the highest sacred beast in Sinai belief, and yawned a little.

The first night in Dibes passed like this.

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In the morning of the next day, after washing, Tingna hugged Alice habitually, and opened the window of the suite to let in the brilliant sunlight.

She stretched, turned around and looked at Ai who was sitting up in a daze, not yet fully awake, and the witch who was still lying under a thin blanket, curled up like a cat.

The decoration of the suite is very luxurious, but the size is a bit unsatisfactory.

Dibis in the Flood Festival can be regarded as an international city, and it took them a lot of effort to find a room that was still vacant last night.

After bathing, both Tingna and Ai were too tired to care about the fact that there was only one bedroom and one bed, and it was rare for even a witch to fall asleep without changing her pajamas.

"I'm going to the Valley of the Kings today to find the location marked on the stone slab... Well, I haven't visited this city well yet..."

"When the clues and answers are found, if there is no urgent matter, Lily will take Miss Tingna and Ai to have a good tour."

"I'm just talking, don't worry about Miss Alice..."

Tina shook her head quickly.

Starting from Yansha City, across the primitive grassland where civilization has never penetrated, from the city of a thousand towers hanging high in the sky to the small northern country with sweet wine and beautiful valleys, and then here, at the desert border in the southwest of the mainland, magic is not real. The main thing is to travel, which Tina understands very well.

Although she did have a little regret, she didn't think about complaining.

"...Of course Alice knows that Miss Tina is not complaining, so don't panic, you might as well be calmer than Ai, Miss Tina."

Because of the lack of magic power, the voice of the little puppet lost its usual arrogance and charm. She laughed teasingly, raised her hand with difficulty, and pointed at the witch who was still breathing shallowly.

"...Wake up Lily. This is a big city with a lot of residents, and I slept relatively late last night. If I didn't wake up, Lily might sleep until the afternoon."

"Ahaha...it's true..."

Looking at the continuous bungalows of Dibis from the height of the fifth floor, Tingna, who was easily seen through by Miss Doll as always, turned around embarrassedly and walked towards the bed.

Ai, who had already changed his clothes, was gently pushing the witch's body, trying to wake up the mentor who would not be able to get up early when he arrived in a large human settlement.

Just at this time.

"—drive out those elegant people!"

"Those blue-eyed bastards can no longer be allowed to do whatever they want in the land of God Amon Ra!"

"They took our land and our gold coins! Now they want to steal the sacred mummy of the great pharaoh! We must not let them go!!"

The not-so-standard Common Speech whizzed by.

A cascade of noise came from a street away. Like many people shouting together.

Tingna turned her head abruptly. This time, she saw the small square where the obelisk was erected on the street. The sound wave swept from there, and it was still loud after passing half the street——Tingna discovered that in the morning of the festival, There seemed to be no one on this hotel street.

"F, what happened?"

"It doesn't sound like a flood festival event, tsk, can't these Sinai people learn the standard lingua franca well?"

Ai also came to the window, she pricked up her ears, but the girl who has not been blessed by Sylph may not be able to hear the shouts with a strong accent, so the girl frowned, and turned a dark red eye The type coat of arms was released. After a while, she froze.

After a long silence, Ai Cai looked at Ting Na, and described the scenery she saw in a puzzled tone.

Sinai people gathered in the square, men, women, old people and children. They were furious, and surrounded by them were some foreigners with blond hair, fair skin, blue pupils and high nose bridges, typical features of elegant people. There were soldiers with spears and shields protecting them. But those people had bruises on their faces, their clothes were somewhat torn and stained, and it was obvious that their protection was not very good. "

"Did you think of anything? Miss Tina, this scene..."

Ai raised his eyebrows, looking at the girl who suddenly became nervous.

The successive sounds seemed to wake up the witch, and Liliana got up from the bed in a daze, and fell into a daze before she really got up as usual.

Looking at her still dazed expression, Ting Na, with a serious face, replied somewhat uneasy.

"Is it... like what I saw in the village of Fayoum?"

"Of course, it's different. At least the soldiers of the city guards are protecting them, but what happened? Master Liliana set up a sound-proof barrier last night to let us have a good rest. We didn't hear anything. "

Ai pressed her eyes, this action represented that the girl started to think, but without clues, even Ai's genius little brain couldn't draw any conclusions.

While Tina and Ai stood by the window, Liliana slowly got up. The witch with the trait of "Wugou" took a symbolic wash, and changed into the black and gold corset dress of the same style as Ai's. When she came to her secretary and apprentice again, her expression was not the slightest bit. Laziness and sleepiness.

"...Don't worry about them, we just do our thing."

"No, don't worry about it..."

"...This is Dibis. There are city guards and temples. It's not our turn to intervene in things like people rioting through festivals and wine."

Liliana hugged Alice from Tina's arms, and walked straight to the door after finishing the daily mana replenishment.

Once the door of the suite was opened, two soldiers with gilded spears waited outside.

Only the temple guards would hold such a weapon that was more symbolic than practical. Seeing Liliana and the others walk out, one of the guards heaved a long sigh of relief.

"Thank you, Amon Ra, Your Excellency the Witch, you haven't gone out yet."

Their identities speak for themselves.

"……What happened?"

Liliana, who walked among them, didn't even look at them, the questioning from her light-colored lips carried the faint majesty of a superior.

"After interrogation last night, we learned that the people who instigated the thieves were a few elegant and wealthy businessmen who are also well-known in the local area, but for some reason, the news spread and caused riots. They were arrested and driven out of the city, and when the temple discovered the atrocities they gathered, several people had already been killed by them..."

As the guard spoke, he couldn't help shivering.

Dibbs experienced a terrible upheaval last night. Knowing that the pharaoh's mummy was stolen, the citizens and the disciples of Amon Ra were outraged. They gathered spontaneously on the bridge road connecting Karnak and the Luxor Temple, and the torches, sticks and pitchforks became fierce in their hands. The weapons of the Elegant Man launched an attack on anyone who had the characteristics of an elegant man.

More than two hundred people were expelled from the city, but these people were lucky. These believers almost turned into mobs around dawn and set fire to the houses belonging to the elegant people.

The efforts of the temple and the city guards to maintain order were regarded by them as protection for those "blasphemers". Not even Flanadi and Kamura could calm them down, and even the city guards suffered casualties... …

"Now anyone who doesn't look like a pure Sinai has been attacked by them, and several areas of the city have become a mess. Her Highness Kamura asked us to escort a few people to the Luxor Temple to protect everyone's safety. ..."

Listening to the guard's description, Ting Na's face turned pale.

When they reached the first floor of the hotel, the blocked door, the windows sealed with wooden strips, and the guards guarding the door made a drop of cold sweat ooze from the girl's forehead.

In order to isolate the noise of the festival, the witch used a sound-proof enchantment, which made them have a good dream, but also missed a turmoil. Thinking of such a riot happening in the originally lively festival when they were sleeping soundly, Tingna would Subconsciously, she took the hands of the Witch and Ai.

"...By the way, help you solve the riots in the city?"

Holding back the girl's sweaty palm, the witch looked like she lacked interest after listening to what the guards said.

"...We have our own affairs to deal with, and we can protect ourselves. As long as the city guards and temple priests don't participate in the riot, it's not a big deal for the godwife of Amon Ra in the Luxor Temple Something that can't be handled."

The witch looked at the sealed door, frowned and thought for a while, then took Ting Na and Ai's hands and walked up the stairs again.

"But……"

On the roof of the hotel, facing the two temple guards following up, the witch silenced their words with just one look.

Hongguang's magic circle inserted dazzling light wings for her. After signaling Ai and Tingna to add "Feather Fall" respectively, the witch turned her head and said something to them lightly.

"...if you haven't settled the situation by the time we get back in the evening, I don't mind helping out."

"...we'll communicate."

Nodding, the witch let Alice sit on her shoulders.

Brilliant wings of light flickered, and she led Tingna and Ai, who had become light under the "Feather Falling Technique", to draw an aurora track in the sky of Dibis.

Looking down from the sky, one can see Dibis in the turmoil at a glance, the confrontation between the crowd and the city guards, the tourists being chased, and the extinguished fire still emitting black smoke. Tina held the witch's hand tightly, Amidst the wind, the voice of the witch suddenly sounded in my mind.

...Don't worry, Alice and I will protect Miss Tina.

——Well, I will too, so don't run around casually.

The girl turned her head, and the black-haired girl snorted softly, turned her face away, and held down the hair fluttering in the wind in the high sky with the hand that was not holding the witch, with a look that doesn't matter what you say I can't hear it either.

"……Um."

Tina nodded slightly.

Turning her head back for the last time, after taking a deep look at the city that had changed drastically in just one night, the girl looked at the winding mountains that were approaching.

On the other side of Dibis, the arid, barren Gobi mountains.

The place indicated by the stone tablet obtained from Seth is there.

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Valley of the Kings.

The ancient pyramids are majestic and magnificent, but in Sinai, a fertile land whose size depends on the flooded water level of Nero Klei, tall buildings hiding gold treasures will only make them the descendants of tomb robbers, refugees, and even financially strained kingdoms their goals.

If you want to enjoy the life of the dead peacefully after death, the hidden mausoleum is far more suitable than those conspicuous buildings. But in this famine, even his own coffin almost became a commodity in the hands of the victims who bought food from the merchants who raised the price of food to fill their stomachs. It is impossible for the pharaoh to stand up again and find a place for himself. in a more secret resting place.

Perhaps one day, these noble pharaohs will realize that the only way to keep their resting place safe after death is to wipe everything of them away.

Landed in a village with no villagers, after showing the ring of Amon Ra’s wife to the captain of the temple guard who was stationed there, who seemed to be unclear about what happened to Dibis, the witch declined the soldier’s proposal to follow, and took Tina and Ai walked through a valley flanked by pharaoh stone carvings.

The statue carved with subtle and rough techniques belonged to the pharaoh who first built the tomb here, whether it was Thutmose I or Amenhotep I...

Between the two statues, Tina recalled the knowledge she saw from the thick chronology.

The barren valley was reflected in her pupils like a sea of ​​tranquility, but the bright azure did not reveal a touch of greenery, only the arid valley with no grass growing and several dark graves with holes in the ground.

"Valley of the Kings, the sleeping place of the Pharaoh..."

"It is also the treasury of the royal family of Sinai. Now, one more..."

Ai picked up a stone from the ground without any respect.

"The place where the entrance to the secret realm of the magic emperors is located. Master Liliana, is the slate not responding?"

"...I thought there would be."

The slate was carried by the witch with the levitation technique, and the map on it was not detailed enough to mark where the entrance to the secret realm established by the ancient magic empire was located in this valley.

Like emitting light, guiding the location - these things did not happen.

"Maybe it takes a certain degree of proximity to react, but I don't know how close we have to be."

"... There are also worse situations. This stone slab may be both a map and a key, but it is only responsible for guiding people who want to enter the secret realm to the approximate location of the entrance to the secret realm and serving as a pass certificate. Maybe in that era, there was a special organization Or the group is doing the work of showing the way."

Alice stroked the slate with her tiny fingertips. After listening to the conjecture made by the witch who had been with him for a long time in a slow tone, the little puppet looked at her unchanged expression with bright and deep eyes, and shook its head at the witch.

"It's too hasty to refuse, Lily."

"……Um."

Liliana breathed out the word with a sigh, but... what does it mean?

Tina, who was at a loss for the conversation between the witch and the doll, gently nudged Ai with her elbow. The thoughtful girl raised her chin slightly, and explained to the travel companion who was not quick enough to think through the earrings of black pearls:

If there is really a group responsible for access to the secret realm, then the Valley of the Kings will be their base. Know nothing about this.

And just before the witch brought them here with flying magic, Liliana declined the request for help from the ruler of Dibes, the god wife of Amon Ra and the priests. Lost.

Under such circumstances, even if that Flanadi really knew something, it was difficult for them to ask.

"Master Liliana is impatient... just like when Letopolesta was in it. Didn't Miss Tina encounter it in the previous trip with Master Liliana?"

At the end, Ai glared at the girl, as if dissatisfied with her slowness.

"……I have no idea."

Impatient...?

The girl shook her head,

During the nearly one year of getting along with her, Ting Na had never seen the slightest impatience on the witch's face.

Most of the time, she always looks at the blue sky, the earth and the crowd calmly, neither smiling nor sad, just like a puppet, as if the whole world has an insurmountable boundary with her.

But that was just Tina's illusion.

She is patient, calm and calm, and looks capable of handling everything, but the witch is not an all-knowing and omnipotent god.

She can laugh, hesitate, be mean-spirited, and be impatient, but these are all covered under the indifferent expression. Just like in the city buried by yellow sand.

When it comes to the truth about herself, when it involves the truth about immortality that they have not been able to unravel since they embarked on the journey, Liliana will become impatient.

This makes her not look like Salt Sands City, she doesn't look like herself after being captured by Templars, she doesn't look like the well-planned witch in the vineyard in Holly Valley, who can deal with anything freely, but, but...

Such a witch, however, appears to be more attractive, a kind of... charm that ordinary people can get close to.

"What are we going to do now..."

"...Going back to Dibis will only lose the initiative to speak, and that is just an inference. In fact, no one knows. To me, Sinai is also a relatively unfamiliar land. Many things can only be explained. Step by step."

"Alice also thinks, just follow Lily's pace all the time. If you really can't find them, you can look for them later when you go back."

Liliana nodded, and then, her eyes moved to the tunnel entrances that were opened among the rocks and sand dunes in the valley.

"...Since there is a lot of trouble at Dibis because of Tutankhamun's mummy, let's start exploring from Tutankhamun's tomb, and put the entrance to the secret realm in the Valley of the Kings... Then it’s not surprising that it’s hidden in some pharaoh’s tomb, at least, that’s what my gut tells me.”

After speaking, the witch walked towards the entrance of one of the tombs.

Although this reason sounds so sloppy, it is said that the intuition of most witches is still very strong, and some witches even have an intuition that is almost equivalent to prophecy. The Witch King Mika who was killed by "Immortal" Sandro is the holder of this quality.

Of course more importantly, without more clues, there is no more constructive way.

Thinking about it carefully, so far Liliana and Alice have always had vague clues to pursue their own truth, whether it is the secret letter of the magic emperor, the ancient city sunken in the sand sea, or the stone slab bestowed by Seth. It's all just vague outlines.

Tina had asked Alice how they traveled on the Continent when there were none of these, and at that time, in the city above the sky, the little puppet answered four words in a cold tone.

——Headless fly.

At that time, Ting Na was still in a daze for a long time before realizing that the puppet lady, who cherished words like gold, wanted to say that it was running around like a headless chicken.

Along the downward stone steps, the temperature seems to drop as you step into the abode of the dead. The witch walked in the front, with a bright ball of light floating beside her. Alice sat on Tina's shoulder and motioned for the girl to put up the magic shield. Ai, who had already done so, was beside the girl, pointing at the stone as she went down the stairs. A series of notches on the wall beside the steps waved to Ting Na who was caressing the white jade ring.

"Here sleeps" - worn out, but according to literature it should be "Those who know more than earth and sun and sand and rain, do not disturb them", followed by "Otherwise they will summon Ba Resuscitate with the card and avenge you." This is the curse of the famous pharaoh. "

"……Eh?"

"Hey what, this should be the most well-known story in Sinai on the mainland. The young pharaoh who died young, the hidden tomb, and the tomb robbers named the archaeological team who accidentally found here, all died in just one year. ..."

"Ai, Miss Ai, please stop talking! We are now in this pharaoh's tomb—"

The girl's face turned pale.

Because of Ai's words, dramas and novels based on this theme quickly came to her mind, and considering that they are standing in front of this pharaoh's tomb and are about to step in... Wow, wow wow! !

"There's nothing to be afraid of. After the curse killed all the first group of people, the tomb robbers didn't know much about it for hundreds of years. Not to mention, after the previous tomb robbery incident, the pharaoh's coffin was stolen. I didn't see those people die..."

"But, but one of the tomb robbers did have a nightmare..."

"Nightmare and curse can't be confused, isn't that man still alive and well..."

Curling his lips, Ai followed Liliana into the narrow corridor.

At the end of the sloping corridor, there is a rectangular tomb. Incomplete and faded murals extol the pharaoh's achievements during his lifetime.

Liliana softly read a passage written in the holy book on the mural:

"Homage to Pharaoh Tutankhamun who restored the faith of all Sinai to the light of the true sun"

This is one of the two passages Tina is most familiar with in the history of Sinai

During the period of the ancient magic empire, a pharaoh carried out a religious reform in order to fight against the priests of Amun who had an influence on the royal power, and transformed the polytheistic belief in this land from ancient times into the belief in an abstract god without a specific image .

This reform, known as the "Sunlun Reformation" in history, was the first and only fundamental religious reform in the history of Sinai, but soon, because the people could not understand an abstract god with no concrete image, the construction of the new king capital wasted money and people. , interest disputes emerged within the ruling group, and the priest class headed by Priest Amon made a comeback.

Only a generation later, the young pharaoh Tutankhamun converted the Sinai faith back to its original form and moved the royal capital back to Thibes, making him one of the most admired pharaohs.

It is said that when it was discovered by a poor archaeologist from the Kingdom of England in the Second Era, the treasures piled up here. But now, the dense cobwebs and yellow sand in the corners of the walls and the ground are the only things here.

Unlike the pyramids, the hidden tombs excavated in the valley are not large, and the tombs are not so many that they need to be connected by multiple corridors. Perhaps it is because of this that the buried treasures piled up here can be easily emptied, leaving only the buried treasures. The sphere of light illuminates the cold and eerie tomb.

"Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb has four tombs. The main tomb where the coffin is placed is on the right. The sacrificial objects are piled here and used as a passageway, and the remaining two are the display rooms for the sacrificial objects. Those guys are really amazing. Even the coffins on the eighth floor have been removed, and I don’t know how many funeral objects can be put back here.”

Alice narrowed her eyes dangerously.

The current Alice is equivalent to the Cleopatra of Sinai in a certain sense, from her attire to her personality. She is concerned about the fact that the tomb of her ancestor—even though the blood of the Sinai royal family has changed many times in history—was evacuated. Miss Doll is very dissatisfied, very, very dissatisfied.

"That's how they respected the ancient pharaohs. Thanks to Lily who helped Cleopatra to bury her when she died, tsk."

"However, if all the cultural relics hadn't been emptied, we couldn't have come here so easily..."

"...Well, if there are still cultural relics here, it will be more troublesome to obtain an entry permit."

Liliana's eyes were fixed on that stone slab, but this stone slab, which was two centimeters thick, didn't respond at all.

As soon as she released the magic of levitation, the slate fell to the sand grains on the ground.

"...It doesn't look like it's here."

"Go somewhere else, but until then..."

Looking around, Alice sighed long and signaled the girls to leave the main tomb.

Immediately afterwards, a strong wind howled in the tomb, and the atmospheric vortex kneaded all the dust and cobwebs on the wall together, and was blown away by Alice's airflow along the corridor.

After this rough cleaning, the empty tomb looked much cleaner.

"It's like fulfilling the duties of Cleopatra's descendants, at least it doesn't look so sloppy...Huh?"

"Miss Alice?"

When the wind in the tomb died down, Tingna leaned against the wall and put her head in again, but the little doll didn't respond to the girl's call. She floated to the ground and picked up something from the spotless stone slab.

"...Is it a falling gem... Exactly."

Talking to herself, she floated up again, landed on Tingna's shoulder, and handed the things she picked up to Tingna.

"……Eh?"

A red gemstone.

It was as long as the girl's middle finger, and as wide as her ring finger and little finger combined. It was as gorgeous as blood, and every hard ridge was polished and rounded.

The hard coolness was quickly infected by the temperature of the skin. In the girl's palm, the crystal color jumped like a living heart, but when Tingna blinked, the fresh blood flowed Disappeared.

The gemstone lay quietly in her palm, and the vibrant colors seemed to be just an illusion, disappearing without a trace when the girl's eyelids opened and closed, as if they had never existed.

"Probably the tomb robber accidentally fell on the ground and was buried in the sand. After Alice cleaned all the sand out, it was exposed."

"I seem to see this color flowing like blood..."

Holding the gem, Tina said with some uncertainty.

"Huh? Is it an illusion created under the light? Alice didn't feel the magic power from it, but there was a smell of sunlight. Maybe it was a gem used in some ritual of Amon Ra. Just right, give it to Miss Tina."

Listening to the first half of the words, Tingna was still holding the gem with her fingers curiously, but when she heard the generous gift, the girl's hand trembled, and the beautiful gem almost fell from her fingers.

"...Eh? Eh, eh?"

This reaction displeased the lady doll. The little queen sitting on the girl's shoulder stretched out her legs and lifted the girl's chin. She turned Tina's face away with her hand, her black crystal eyes narrowed dangerously. .

"Do not want?"

"No, no, but this should be the sacrificial object of that pharaoh, and that is a cultural relic from Sinai..."

"Now it is Alice's reward for helping to clean the tomb. It is up to Alice to decide who to give it to or what to use it for."

"..."

Speechless looking at the puppet with the normal expression on its face, Tinna, who obviously had a lot to say, couldn't say anything.

Tina discovered very early on that Alice's eyes were much more understanding than the Witch's starry night-like eyes. But at this moment, under the light of the light technique, the two deep crystals inlaid on the unhappy expression did not have much courage. Staring at the eyes as clear as the clear sky above the desert, what Tina could see was not displeasure but ...

The apprehension after giving the gift, and the expectation of waiting for yourself to accept it...?

Tina even had a premonition that if she pushed and pulled a few more words, Alice would definitely take the gem away from her hand with a cold face, and then ignore herself for several days.

"Miss Tina?"

"Eh, ah... um... thank, thank you..."

"snort……"

A satisfied expression appeared on Alice's face. She flew down from the girl's shoulders, floated to Ai's side, and told the girl that she would look for a suitable gift for her.

Taking this opportunity, the girl whose neck seemed to still have the temperature of the golden snake ring on the doll's ankle quietly asked Liliana through the black pearls on her ears.

——That, Ms. Liliana, that Cleopatra of Sinai...is that her personality?

……Um? Um. Cleopatra would hold extravagant receptions. Although guests usually gave her precious gifts, occasionally she would also give gifts to others. If she was rejected, it would be very, very unpleasant, and the person who refused would even lose her head... ...That, the dramas are not too terribly wrong.

"..."

...By the way, did Miss Tingna want to say something earlier?

After staying for a moment, Ting Na, who was still holding the gem, hammered her hand hard.

"Ah, by the way, Miss Liliana, Miss Alice, Ai, listen to me, when I was looking at those murals, I suddenly thought of something."

She had thought of one thing a few minutes ago, but Miss Alice suddenly started to clean the tomb, and then suddenly stuffed the gem into her hand, and there was no chance to speak.

This is what she suddenly thought of after looking at the murals and recalling the history she had read in the chronicle of the Sinai Dynasty.

"What we are looking for is the entrance to the secret realm established by the magic emperors in Sinai, right? I remember that the era of the pharaoh who carried out the "Sunlun Reformation" was the era of the ancient magic empire, and, according to records, at the beginning , The educational reform was implemented very smoothly, and it was not until his later years that he encountered problems. However, it is clearly recorded in the annals that the priesthood was able to endanger the kingship before he carried out the reformation, which is incredible. Generally speaking, the most difficult thing to do is to change and reform the system..."

Holding the gemstone, the girl racked her brains to think, and said her thoughts bit by bit.

"Could it be that the magic emperors actually helped him? If this guess is correct, there may be clues about those magic emperors in the pharaoh's tomb, just like the pyramid in Letopolesta , so we only need to find his tomb... yes, if we find the tomb of "Pagan Pharaoh" Akhenaten..."

Tingna became more and more excited when she spoke, until she suddenly remembered and correctly said the name of the pharaoh. Ai Kan looked slightly surprised and Alice and Liliana nodded slightly, which made her feel a little shy. lowered his head.

"……Probably."

Liliana approved of this guess.

"In fact, when the pharaoh carried out the teaching reform, the ancient magic empire made a special statement of "non-interference in internal affairs", and the initial period of the teaching reform really passed smoothly. "

"The leader of the Amun priesthood, the main opposition force, suddenly died of illness, a storm suddenly came and almost destroyed the Karnak temple, and suddenly people in several big cities in the kingdom said that they had received an oracle...especially the storm, In Debis, it doesn’t rain very often a year.”

The puppet quickly added more details, but soon Alice sighed.

"The pagan pharaoh Akhenaten is probably the one who has the closest relationship with the Magic Emperor among all the pharaohs. Finding his tomb may lead to more clues, but..."

After leaving the tomb, Tina was still waiting for the little doll's "but" words, but both Alice and Liliana just looked at the valley with only yellow sand and rocks and fell into silence.

After several minutes, the little puppet continued talking.

"However, as the first and only pharaoh in the history of Sinai who tried to leverage the ancient belief system, Akhenaten and his Aton god are taboos that are not allowed to be mentioned in this land. His old age and sudden death His death is full of mysteries, and even his name has been almost erased from history. No one knows where his tomb is, or even whether he has a tomb... No, maybe someone knows, but this is the secret realm. The question of where the entrance is is equally difficult to answer."

"Yes, is that so..."

"But it's amazing that Miss Tina can think of this level. It will be helpful to study history hard during this period."

With Alice touching her head, Tina lowered her head in frustration.

She thought this would be a breakthrough, but as it turned out, it just raised another question...

It seems that apart from searching aimlessly, the only option is to ask Flanati, or in other words, the priests of Amon Ra.

"...So, do you want to go back and ask now?"

"...Of course not. Now the initiative to go back and speak is completely given to the priests. Although it may be a waste of time, we still explore around and wait until dusk before going back."

"...I don't think this valley can kill a whole day...Um, Miss Liliana?"

While saying this, the witch had already walked to the shadow of a cliff with a calm face. With a wave of her hand, a light blue velvet blanket was spread on the ground. Then the rock bulged in the magic circle and turned into The shape of the stove.

"If you still have time after exploring, you can have a picnic here. Anyway, it's not far from Nirokle. If you fly, you can get there and back in a few minutes. You can also go fishing on the river."

"……wild……"

"……meal……?"

Tina and Ai looked at each other blankly, and turned around in unison, looking at the scorching sunshine, the dry rocks, the flying yellow sand, and the most conspicuous ones, the entrances to the tombs that lead to the residence of the deceased.

The solid concept called "picnic" that had accompanied them in their lives so far disintegrated at this moment, shattered into dust on the ground, and was blown further and further away in the increasingly strong wind. Far……

Until it can no longer be seen.