Chapter 253 President: Why Play with Metaphysics? Let’s Play Cards!

"Isis, are all you saying true?"

In Egypt, in the residence of Lord Aknadi, the head of the six great priests in front of the Pharaoh, Isis reported to him in Aknadi's study.

Although it is a bit inappropriate to report the assessment of the new official priests to Aknadi instead of to the Pharaoh first-after all, in Egypt, the Pharaoh is the incarnation of the gods, or even the gods themselves, and the highest leader of the priest group is not the chief priest but the king himself. The new official priests should also be reported to the Pharaoh first.

But for Isis now, the report on the new official priests can be postponed, and the most important thing is about "Seth".

Seth was recommended by Aknadi. Originally, Isis only thought that Sett might be appreciated by Aknadi, so she didn't care much. But now that I know that Sett's future is unpredictable, Isis can't help but be nervous.

If anyone besides herself and her mother, the two holders of the Millennium Jewelry, knew about the restrictions of the Millennium Jewelry, it would only be the chief priest who created the Millennium Artifact and the holder of the "Millennium Eye", Aknadi.

So, after Isis reported the assessment and the following series of situations to Aknadi, she stood there quietly - she was waiting, waiting for the answer of this person who could not be calculated by the "Millennium Jewelry".

To Isis's surprise, Aknadi did not seem to panic at all. He seemed to have predicted the future, looked at Isis calmly, and then confirmed with her whether the news was true.

"Although Isis is still a young priest and has held the Millennium Jewelry for less than two years, she will not use such a clumsy lie to deceive Lord Aknadi." Isis said calmly. To be honest, she herself did not expect that the inability to calculate would happen.

"Indeed, this is not something you would do." After thinking for a while, Aknadi stretched out his hand and said to Isis, "In that case, give me the Millennium Jewelry first."

Isis hesitated for a moment, but out of trust in the respected High Priest and her own curiosity, she gently took the Millennium Jewelry off her chest and handed it to Aknadi.

Aknadi looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar gold jewelry in his hand. He looked calm as before, but countless thoughts flew through his mind - he seemed to think of the moment when the country was facing life and death, when he relied on the newly comprehended dark alchemy to lead a group of soldiers and priests to make this Millennium Artifact. In the end, although he saved the country, he had to separate from his son Set because of this incident.

After hearing that Set nearly died at the hands of slave traders, Aknadi felt nothing but regret; but after hearing that the white dragon saved Set, he was extremely excited...

[Those who survived a great disaster will have good fortune in the future, Set, you should be the real Pharaoh! ] Aknadi has had such an obsession in his heart for so many years. It's not that he wants to rebel against his brother, but when he learned about the current prince's philosophy, he was extremely disappointed with the prince.

The priest who served as the prince's mentor was also Aknadi's good friend. When he heard that Mahad was bitten by a snake to save the prince, the prince chose to help Mahad suck out the poison himself with a maid beside him - although this is indeed the fastest way and can reduce Mahad's risk to the minimum - but this puts the future Pharaoh himself in danger.

After that, when he asked a few more questions about how the prince explained his behavior that should not have been done, the "Teacher" told Aknadi that the prince seemed to think that we all have the same blood, no matter if we are princes or common people, no one's blood is born noble, and no one's blood is born humble.

This sentence was enough to make Aknadi think that he was not a pharaoh worthy of Set's lifelong loyalty.

[Everyone's blood is the same... In that case, wouldn't I become the biggest villain by killing the thieves in a village to save this country? ] Thinking of this, Aknadi shook his head, [Some scum are born lowly and evil. If you sympathize with them, you will only disappoint more people who deserve your protection and sympathy! This prince is indeed still inexperienced... No, he is too kind and not suitable to be the pharaoh. ]

[But, Set, why did you... this time?] However, thinking of Set, who made mistakes and disappeared this time, Aknadi still shook his head, [I hope he is really too nervous... This child has not seen much of the world. 】

And Isis, who was standing by, was a little stunned when she saw Lord Aknadi shaking his head again and again. Boss, you have borrowed my equipment for so long, why are you still reminiscing? Why haven't you taken action yet?

Fortunately, Aknadi's recollection ended quickly. He looked at the "Millennium Artifact" in his hand, thought about it carefully, and then pierced his finger and dripped a drop of blood on the gold jewelry.

"This is..." Isis looked at Aknadi in front of her in shock.

"Calculate again." Aknadi said calmly: "Calculate Set's position."

Looking at the "Millennium Jewelry" dripping with a drop of blood, Isis's expression could not calm down for a long time. Aknadi, who had expected her to have this reaction, said calmly: "Some things, your mother also knows, she didn't make it public, I hope you can be like her, and think more about this country and the overall situation."

"I... understand." The blood was about to dry up, Isis did not waste this time, and hurriedly opened the "Millennium Jewelry". Soon, she saw the image - a long and narrow canyon, and...

"Hmm!" Isis felt as if she was punched in the back of her head by a giant, and then she urgently left the state of prophecy, looking at Aknadi who was still calm and could not see what he was thinking, Isis reported truthfully: " A canyon, very long and magnificent, but when I wanted to continue looking, I was driven out by a mysterious force. "

"Canyon?" Aknadi nodded and said, "Thank you, Isis. If I'm not mistaken, Set is fine. You can arrange the priest test as usual. By the way, you can bring the Millennium Staff this time. Before the Pharaoh went to the war, he said that he wanted to see that the Millennium Staff had a new owner when he came back."

"..." Looking at the decisive High Priest, Isis had no choice but to nod helplessly. From Aknadi's tone, everyone could see that there must be something strange about this matter, but it was no longer the level that Isis could manage. "Yes, I will arrange it."

Isis quietly withdrew.

————————Guardian Priest Mahad————————

Three days later, the new priest assessment was held as scheduled. The official explanation was that the Pharaoh's return date from the southern expedition to Nubia was approaching, and the scouts had brought news of a great victory, so they could give the reserve priests another chance.

However, in fact, all the priests who had experienced the last assessment knew more or less that this extra assessment opportunity was entirely due to Mahad... No, to be precise, it was due to Set, who was rumored to have suffered a great blow.

After all, before the last assessment, the official of the priest group said that it was an assessment to welcome the Pharaoh who was heading south to Nubia. Now... do you really think we are easy to fool?

However, no one cared about the reason for the assessment. Unlike the students who frowned when they heard about the exam thousands of years later, for the trainee priests in ancient Egypt, there was nothing more exciting than the official priest assessment. Although not many people were admitted each time, everyone knew that this was a rare opportunity.

Fortunately, Isis had notified the priest group before and was prepared in advance, so this temporary extra competition would not cause any confusion.

Before that, Set's high-profile appearance after returning from outside made the rumors of his disappearance self-defeating.

No one knows what happened during the time when Sett was "missing" outside, but anyone can see his confidence from Sett's face when he returned, as if he had won the game...

And for Sett now... oh no, Seto Kaiba, this is indeed a very simple thing: "I didn't expect it to be so easy. I thought it would be very complicated."

Set looked at a gold alchemical product in his hand. In the outside world, this kind of thing is called a duel disk!

"Yeah, how could people thousands of years ago know that there is a big guy who specializes in designing duel disks~" To the self-boasting President Kaiba, a blue-eyed girl was lying on the side like a salted fish, shouting "666", and protested in a low voice: "Why do you have to make this duel disk after digging out so much gold? Isn't it better to just take half of the gold to bribe the examiner?"

"Huh?" The president turned his head.

"Nothing!" A shameless priestess hurriedly denied the shameless things she had thought before. Just thinking about the source of the gold, and then thinking about what happened in the past few days, and everything that happened in the "King's Valley"...

A certain witch can only sigh: Life is sometimes more exciting than a play.

The blue-eyed girl who can't see people continues to hide herself, while Kaiba is looking at the young priests who are working hard to show their magic skills. He is full of indifference to their president - a few days ago, he still regarded these things as heavenly books, but who would have thought that today, he can actually stand at a high point that they can't even imagine and look at those guys.

"You idiot, next one."

Priest Isis's cold words hit a certain priest who was performing the "pigeon transformation" magic with all his strength like a whip - today's Isis seemed to be much colder than the previous few days. Her serious look made people feel that she was difficult to approach, but for some reason, many trainee priests looked at this iceberg-like difficult-to-approach Isis and became more excited...

But Kaiba wanted to hit the guy in front of him: This is a priest test, not a circus clown test, why is he performing such a juggling thing?

"Next one, Set!" Isis had a cold face, and a formal priest beside her hurriedly called out the name of the next person at the signal of her eyes.

Kaiba walked up confidently.

Isis frowned at Kaiba at this time - he didn't even bring a wand this time, just a rough gold product tied to his right hand, and he didn't look like he was here to take the priest test at all.

Looking at Seth who is full of confidence, Isis is not afraid of getting angry - the reason why her expression is colder today than in the past few days is simple. Although she is a priest, Isis is a girl after all. Today she is every Yue’s relatives are here...

Although she could push this matter to other priests, Isis still insisted on coming here. If Seth's performance was too bad later, or even just unsatisfactory, Isis would probably get angry on the spot.

After all, if it hadn't been for him, there wouldn't have been so many things.

Of course, Kaiba didn't know that Aunt Isis was here. He was looking at the alchemy product in his hand with pride. This was his brainchild in the past few days. As expected, he was better at using this thing than any magic wand. .

"Lady Isis, I'm back again." Kaiba bowed slightly - he didn't care if this etiquette existed in ancient Egypt, anyway, Seto Kaiba had his own way of doing it.

"Ah, I remember you." Isis, who knew that the boy in front of her was the origin of all this turmoil, tried her best to pretend that she was not familiar with him, nodded slightly and said: "Please start your performance, Seth - if If you need a wand, we can lend you one here, but you may not be suitable for using it."

After finishing speaking, Aissi took out a magic wand from under the skirt-like priest's robe - this should be some kind of hidden magic. The priest calls his spiritual weapon in a way similar to calling an elf; but he doesn't understand this aspect. At this moment, the president was stunned by this tough girl.

[Wow, this is probably 70 to 80 centimeters, and it’s the snake-headed wand of a king cobra...] A certain miko who was secretly observing from the side was also surprised, [I didn’t expect that this big sister is usually so noble and cool, but I didn’t expect to be like this. On the other hand... the surrounding priests were not surprised. Could it be that... was ancient Egypt so open? 】

If the priest and Isis heard the inner thoughts of a dirty woman (no mistake) at this time, would they kill this guy for their own innocence?

Kaiba immediately calmed down after being slightly surprised. He didn't care where the other person's wand was hidden. At this time, he just needed to do his job well. "In that case, I'll get started. "

The president activated the "Duel Disk" in his hand, and then a stream of magic power was mobilized by the president's consciousness and poured into the "Duel Disk" from Seth's body...

At the same time, a great soul also woke up from a certain canyon and flew in the direction of Set...

The president took out three stones engraved with red runes. The runes on the stones began to emit a light full of power. At the same time, in Kaiba's mouth, he forcibly memorized the spell from the stone slab of the Wang Family Valley. The text was also memorized by him: "The summons of the Holy Seal will call upon the God of Drought and Storm. Open the power seal of the dragon that holds god-like power! Come, 'Holy Carved Dragon Set Dragon' !”

Then, the three red rune stones shattered one after another, followed by strong winds, dry winds...

And...the roar of the dragon!