The return lunch specially prepared by Ella for Lucis is undoubtedly a success. Even Ella may not have eaten such appetizing food for a long time, but for Lucis, this is something he rarely canIt was such a pleasant time to eat, not only the main food but also the desserts were in line with his taste, and the cool environment made him seem to come alive.

So at the end of lunch, both of them were a little bit overwhelmed, so Ella accepted Lucis' invitation, and the two walked along the promenade to digest food.

This promenade is built around the garden. It is long and spacious. It takes about ten minutes to walk around. On the way, you can enjoy the scenery of the garden without being exposed to the sun. It is perfect for an afternoon walk..

The attendants who followed them were all knowledgeable and interesting people. At this time, they naturally followed far behind, and no one would approach them to disturb their getting along.

Lucis is not a talkative person, and Ella is used to being quiet most of the time, and most of the time the two of them walk is just walking, but no one thinks there is anything wrong with this kind of silence.

Of course, they didn't say nothing, Lucis would tell Ella some things, such as the Kata mission had left yesterday, and after a while, he would go to the Delta to preside over the harvest ceremony.

"Want to go and see together?"

Ella prepared so carefully to make Lucis let her in and out of the palace, but before she mentioned it, Lucis invited her instead. Although this invitation was different from what she wanted, it was also a good start, Ella would naturally not refuse.

"When is the departure time and do I need to prepare anything?"

"We will set off after the Inlula River starts to turn green in a few days."

Lucis looked sideways at her little face that became more and more bright because of happiness: "You don't need to prepare anything, Tetis knows what to do."

The maid who followed behind heard her name and bowed to them, indicating that she would be ready.

At the same time, Tetis was also secretly happy in her heart, being invited personally by His Majesty, Princess Ella's status in His Majesty's heart was getting higher and higher.

Knowing that she could leave the palace, Ella became impatient.

Ella knew about the greening of the Inrula River that Lucis said.

Every year before the flood season, the water of the Inlula River will turn green and then red, so when the river is green, people know that the flood season is coming, and when the river is red, it means that the water of the Inlula River is rising, and the flood seasonWhen it comes.

The Sathya people regard the changing color of the river water as a reminder from the gods to them. Therefore, in the country of Sathya that believes in the gods, the status of the river god is very high, and there are many believers.

In the past, the Inlula River would not start to turn green until mid-July, but now it has just entered June and the river water has turned green. It is obvious that the flood season this year will be brought forward.

However, it is extremely rare for the Yinlula River to flood in advance. The last time it was more than 40 years ago.

So although there have been rumors in the palace that this year's flood season will come earlier, no one knows exactly how early it will be.

Now that even His Majesty has said so, it can be seen that the time is coming.

So when she returned to the dormitory, Tetis took the maids and began to prepare the luggage for the trip.

Seeing that they wanted to empty out the warehouse next door, Aila couldn't help asking, "Are we going for a long time? Why are we preparing so many things?"

Tetis replied while tidying up: "After the ceremony, Your Majesty will stay in the Delta until the harvesting of the fields is completed. According to the past situation, it will probably stay for half a month to a month. During this period, the nobles will hold banquets in turn.To celebrate the harvest, they will definitely send invitations to His Highness, so prepare more clothes and jewelry."

After hearing this, Ella lost interest: "I don't like banquets."

Hearing this, Tetis put down the things in her hands, walked up to Ella and persuaded her: "Participating in more banquets will help you integrate into the upper circle of Sathya, and there are several banquets of great nobles, even His Majesty would respectfully attend them.Your Highness is always not going well."

"And even if you don't attend those noble banquets, you will always attend those hosted by His Majesty."

Ella sighed, "That doesn't sound like a fun trip."

"But for other people." Tetis seldom saw her downcast, so she comforted her again: "The scenery of the delta is very good, and you can even see the sea. Your Highness, you will like it."

The Inlula Delta is located at the estuary of the Inlula River, covering two-thirds of the entire Sathya arable land, and is the most fertile area in the entire Sathya.It is almost only a distance away from the surface of the Inlula River.

Since it is at the mouth of the sea, it is natural to see the sea.

To be honest, Ella has never seen the sea.

However, as a person from the next-door Miou continent, it is a bit unreasonable for her not to have seen the sea, so she was more reserved about what Tetis said, and did not penetrate too much interest in the sea.

But she said another point she cared about: "Can I go out and play by then? Will His Majesty allow it?"

Tetis wondered: "I'm afraid you have to ask His Majesty yourself."

If it was someone else, it would be fine. After all, even the concubines in the harem could enter and leave the harem freely as long as they got the queen's permission. However, since this princess had a history of running away, Tetis couldn't guess what His Majesty would think.

However, Her Majesty the Princess has been very quiet during this time, and with today's performance, Her Majesty might really agree.

Of course Ella would not ask now, what if the king disagrees, or even cancels her trip this time?

So in the next few days, Ella would still go to class in the morning and rest in the afternoon as usual, but the difference was that Ella speeded up the sewing of the belt in the afternoon.

It's been a while since Ella took over this job, and she heard that she might have to leave the palace for a long time, so she planned to hurry up and finish the job, so she didn't have to take it with her.

Fortunately, she has already embroidered almost the same before, and now she only needs to finish it.

Since Lucis enjoyed the coolness of ice cubes, cooling ice basins can be seen everywhere in the area where he often moves, and Ella also has more ice in her daily supply.It's time to run out to find a place to enjoy the shade, so it's easier to work.

When Ella finished the two belts, what she got was the compliments from the maids.

"It's the first time I've seen such a delicate and special pattern, even if it's a tribute to His Majesty, it's fine."

Tetis was in charge of Lucis's costumes, and she is the most sensitive about this aspect. From the time Ella started to embroider, she knew that the final product must be beautiful, but she couldn't help being amazed when she saw the finished product.

Because of Ella's versatility, but also because of her ingenuity.

Tetis carefully put away the two belts, expressing that she would hand them over to the steward in charge of arranging the work of the concubines.

"Then you can bring some materials back by the way. Although you have to go out, don't delay your work."

Ella regards the complete embroidery as her rent for living in the palace, and naturally she doesn't want to miss it for a month, otherwise she will not feel at ease.

Tetis said hello and left with her things.

The timing also happened to be that on the second day after Ella finished her embroidery, the water of the Inrula River quietly turned green in the night.

Early in the morning, just as the sun was rising, the aides around King Sathya came to remind them to get ready and set off today.

"Your Majesty will set off at three o'clock in the daytime (the third hour after the sun rises). You still have more than two hours to prepare, and someone will come to pick you up later."

All the things to bring have already been packed, and Ella has nothing else to prepare.

Tetis found a group of strong slaves, these people will help Ella send her luggage to the boat to the delta, and Ella will take a few personal maids to pick her up after breakfast.At the gate of the palace.

The king's trip was not a simple matter, especially this time there were nobles who followed Lucis to the delta.

However, according to Tetis, those nobles will not gather in the palace, they will wait directly at the pier, but Ayla will not follow Lucis to the pier alone, because in the past some concubines in the harem and priests in the temple alsoWill go with the king.

So when Ella arrived at the gate of the palace, she was not surprised to see a group of strange men and women whom she had never seen before.

Among them, the priests are the easiest to recognize. They wear special priest robes. The male priests are all bald. At the same time, like the female priests, they will wear the amulets of the gods they believe in on their chests, and the jewelry on their bodies often has special patterns..

The elder at the head was dressed in a dignified manner, holding a golden scepter with a black scepter in his hand, which represented his identity. He was very old, and there were large spots of pimples on his wrinkled face and hands.Senile spots, holding a scepter as if leaning on a cane, and a strong sense of desperation exudes from the whole person.

Reminded by Tetis, Ayla knew that this was the High Priest of Shadia, Homtep.

After introducing the high priest, Tetis focused on another one: "Have you seen the one on the left of High Priest Hometep? That's His Majesty's mother, sister of the former queen, MeljetMrs. Priest, she is also the high priest in the temple, second only to the High Priest, Mr. Hometep."

Ella followed Tetis's introduction and looked over, her eyes met the serious-faced old priestess, and the other party's scrutiny eyes shot at her like a sharp sword, making Ella wonder if she had offended hershe is gone.

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When Aila and Meyert looked at each other, everyone else was also looking at the legendary foreign princess.

The reason why it is said to be a legend is because these people have only heard of their names before.

"This is the woman who is said to be treated differently by His Majesty?"

The glamorous woman waving a feather fan whispered to her companion beside her, her voice full of envy and surprise.

"I thought the rumors were exaggerated, but I didn't expect it to be true."

Even if they couldn't express their compliments, the women had to admit that the beauty of that foreign woman was so stunning that even they couldn't help being tempted after seeing it.

"It's no wonder His Majesty treats her special."

"So that rumor is also true? Your Majesty will make her a concubine?"

"It depends on what His Majesty thinks, but I would also like to marry such a beauty if it were me."

"Then we're going to have a little sister soon?"

This group of women gathered together is Lucis's current harem.

They are the concubines of the previous King Sathya who married another country.

There is no overly complicated hierarchy in the harems of various countries on the continent of Feiluo. The harems of all kings consist of queens, concubines, and unofficial lovers.

Lucis' elder brother is a king who loves beauty. At the same time, because he has never had children, the previous king not only recruited a large number of beauties in his own country, but also actively married with other countries.

Moreover, after the death of the former king's queen, the king who was so eager to beg for a child at that time that he was almost crazy announced that whoever could bear him a child, no matter if it was a boy or a girl, and regardless of the identity of the child's mother, he would make her the queen.After this condition was made, not to mention other countries, even the nobles of their own country were very excited, and sent their daughters of the right age to the harem one after another.

This has led to a very large number of members in his harem. There are as many as a hundred women with the status of princesses alone, not to mention those beauties without status.

And after Lucis inherited his brother's harem, those beauties who had no status were dismissed by him. At the same time, Sathya's law allowed both men and women to divorce, so he divorced those concubines who were willing to leave.Those who came down were either princesses who still had illusions about the new king, or princesses who were born in the country's nobles for the benefit of the family, or princesses from other countries who didn't want to go back to their country and be sent out to marry again by their father and brothers.

And in the case that Lucis has not stepped into the harem for so many years, those concubines who had originally had fantasies also left the harem one after another. In the end, there were only sixteen princesses left in the entire palace, nine of themAll of them were born as exotic princesses.

These princesses are not too young. The previous king chose the most suitable age for childbearing when he proposed to marry. Two of them were even married and had children before marrying the king. They were older than the previous king..

Not to mention that among the princesses in the country, two were concubines when their father was on the throne.

And the age gap between the previous king and Lucis is also ten years old. Now Lucis is twenty-four years old. Among these concubines, the two concubines belonging to their father are already in their sixties and seventies. Among the concubines married by the previous kingThe oldest is in his forties, and the youngest is almost thirty.

And now the four younger concubines among the nine princesses born in foreign countries are gathered here.

This age difference, coupled with Lucis's consistent attitude towards the harem, and some of their own reasons, resulted in these princesses who were born as foreign princesses not being hostile to Ella, but feeling like they were looking at their future sister-in-law.

But the attitude of the women in the harem is not the same as that of these princesses and concubines.

Compared with the princesses and concubines who were chatting together, the other three princesses who were born with noble daughters from their own countries looked at Ella less friendly.

Although they themselves have given up hope for His Majesty's favor, there are girls of the right age in their respective families, and His Majesty has not yet married the queen.Entering Lucis's harem, but now suddenly ran out of an Ella who made His Majesty look at him differently, these people naturally regarded her as a thorn in their side.

The hostility in the eyes of these people was so obvious that Ella felt it even though they were far apart.

She greeted Meryet with a polite smile, and turned to look at the source of her gaze.

In front of the eyes is a group of women with graceful postures and beautiful faces who can hardly hide the traces of time.

For modern people, people in their 30s and 40s are still upright youths, some of them are not even married, and one looks younger than the other, but in this day and age, they are all old enough to be grandparents.

Moreover, the average age of people in this era is only about 30 years old—of course, most of the short-lived ones are ordinary civilians. The nobles live well and are pampered, and their life expectancy is much longer than ordinary civilians—at the same time, the environment here is not good for the skin.The maintenance conditions are limited, and no matter how beautiful people are, they age faster than modern people.

And because of race, Westerners are older than Easterners of the same age.

But there is no doubt that they have a good foundation, even if they are a little older, they are still beautiful.

"Who are those people?"

Tetis whispered in Ella's ear: "Those are the princesses in the harem, the four who got together are all princesses who married from neighboring countries, and the three standing next to them are nobles from their own country.Born, not all the concubines went to the sacrificial ceremony this time, and there are still nine concubines in the harem who did not come."

Tetis also noticed the unfriendly eyes of those princesses, and reminded Ella: "Those three princesses standing with other nobles all want to marry the juniors in their families to His Majesty, and their families are also very powerful., I also have a lot of power in the harem, Your Highness, please try not to contact them."

Ayla frowned: "Will we live together after we go to Delta?"

"Yes, we will live in His Majesty's palace when we go to the delta this time. The palace is not as big as the palace and there is no exclusive harem built. Your Highness, you should live with them."

That would be troublesome, Ella looked at those people with unkind eyes.

Without waiting for her to think about it, Lucis walked out of the palace with a big lion under the escort of a group of soldiers and attendants.

Because he was going to travel, Lucis dressed very formally today. Not only did he wear a robe that he didn't usually wear, but he also wore a red and white double crown that was different from the crowns of kings in other countries.

But what caught Ella's attention the most was the belt around Lucis' waist.

The symmetrical three-dimensional pattern embroidered with gold thread is a luxurious style completely different from Sathya's, and Ella looks familiar no matter how she looks at it.

"Tethys."

"yes?"

"Why is the belt I embroidered with His Majesty?" Ella wondered if it was sent by Tetis.

Tetis was also very surprised, but after thinking about it for a while, she understood what was going on, and she quickly excused herself: "It should be the steward of the embroidery room who sent the belt to His Majesty."

Ella frowned, but she couldn't say anything. Although the belt was embroidered by her, it was handed in as a finished work, and how to deal with it was their business.

Looking away from the belt, Ella looked at the big lion, and she was sure that it was Mr. Lion who asked her for meat at the banquet that day. She had never seen it in the palace for so many days, so she thought the lion might beIt's gone, didn't expect to see it again.

Before Ella thought about it, Lucis had already walked in front of the crowd, and Ella hurriedly followed the others to salute him.

As soon as Lucis arrived, they were ready to go.

Sathya people travel either by sedan chair or by boat, and this time is no exception. Ella was helped onto a sedan chair. When the slave lifted up the sedan chair to keep up with the large army, she realized that her sedan chair followed the king's sedan chair.Directly behind, only the high priest's sedan chair was closer to her than her. Even the sedan chairs of the two high priests were only parallel to her, and the sedan chairs of the princesses were behind her.

As a result, along the way, Ella could feel a strong sense of gaze from all directions, front, back, left, and right.

She knew that these people were very curious about her, regardless of good or evil, and now Lucis's arrangement obviously made this curiosity even more intense.

Ella is glad that these sedan chairs require at least eight male slaves to carry the sedan chairs because of their high specifications, large volume and weight, and a group of servants and maids surround the sedan chairs, so that the people on the sedan chairs can be separated from each other by at least three or four meters.These people might have surrounded her.

Fortunately, this gaze only lasted until they arrived at the dock.

——No, it should be said that after arriving at the pier, more people paid attention to Ella!

When she was sitting in the sedan chair, only the priests and princesses in the palace were watching her, but when she arrived at the pier, there was still a large group of nobles waiting here.

The nobles who can travel with the king are all high-status nobles, and their families are added, and the number is even greater.

When Wang's team arrived, it could be said that everyone was watching.

Without any pleasantries, Lucis boarded the ship directly.

Unlike the large ships used by the Qatari mission, there are no tree species suitable for shipbuilding in Sathya. The wood used for large ships needs to be imported from abroad, which is expensive, so the most commonly used ships are actually paper.Straw boats are formed by binding a lot of papyrus. The papyrus will turn yellow after treatment, and the bow and stern of the papyrus boat are raised, so the whole boat looks very much like a ripe banana..

Of course, the nobles did not lack money to buy wooden boats, so the boats they used for travel were all wooden boats, and influenced by paper straw boats, the shape of small wooden boats was also very close to that of paper straw boats.

Of course, it is no problem for nobles to travel on a boat with five or six people. In addition to the owner of the ship, there must also be slaves in charge of rowing and servants in charge of taking care of the owner.

The royal ships were bigger and more gorgeous. A wooden boat could seat at least ten people. Slaves and soldiers were in charge of guarding and rowing at the bow and stern. There was a sunshade in the middle of the boat.On the shelf, a lot of flowers and branches and leaves are decorated on it, which is not only beautiful but also repels mosquitoes.

Cushions and low tables are placed in the canopy, and fruits and drinks are chilled with ice cubes on the low tables.

The reason why Ella knew so clearly was because she only found out when she boarded the boat that she was going to take the same boat as Lucis.

Ella wanted to refuse, but Tetis, who could see her thoughts, reminded her in a low voice: "Your Highness, except for His Majesty, everyone in the palace is on a boat with two people. If you don't take the boat with Your Majesty, it is very difficultPossibly with a princess."

Then stay with Lucis.

Thinking of the strange gazes of those princesses, Ella gritted her teeth and boarded Lucis's boat with the help of the maid.

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Ella rides on Lucis’s boat, and there can only be one maid who can follow it, so only Tetis can follow, and Debbie and the others will follow the king’s ship in a papyrus boat with other servants, maids and soldiers to protect it..

"Come and sit."

Lucis, who had already boarded the boat, was sitting in the ceiling and beckoning to her.

She walked into the ceiling. Although the king's ship was larger than the average ship, it was still a small ship, so there was not much space in the ceiling. The cushions were placed on the same side of the low table, so if Ella sat down, she wouldNext to Lucis.

Ella hesitated and chose to sit down, not only because the small boat was more swaying than the big boat, but also because she had no right to refuse.

After Ella sat down, the distance between her and Lucis was almost the width of a palm, but fortunately, Lucis didn't lean over on purpose, he just picked up the glass with his own hands and poured a glass for Ella—milk?

"The kitchen says you like milk with juice added."

Ella didn't expect that he even knew this, and prepared it specially, a little flattered: "Thank you."

Ella took a sip from the glass.

There are not many kinds of local fruits in Sathia, but the caravans will always bring many unique fruits from other countries. Most of them are unknown to Ella, so she can't drink the fruit added to the milk.But the taste is really good, and because it has been chilled, it tastes very refreshing and thirst-quenching.

"how is the taste?"

Ella smiled and nodded, "It's delicious."

Ella really likes the taste of milk. She is the kind of person who can even drink milk that has just been squeezed out with a milky smell and does not find it unpleasant. She has not drank less milk in the Fairy Forest all these years.

Lucis sipped slowly with a glass of wine by himself, looking sideways at Ella drinking milk.

They were so close that Lucy could easily smell the fragrance of Ella's hair. It was a very common floral fragrance, but it seemed to be different when it came to her.

Similarly, Ella could also feel the heat emanating from Lucis, and the other's strong physique and compelling aura gave her a strong sense of being invaded.

It was as if she had been surrounded by him.

To ease the discomfort, Ayla turned her eyes to the river outside.

Although she already knew that the Inrula River had turned green, now she actually saw it turn green.

Originally, the water of the Inlula River was clear and bluish, but now the river water has obviously turned green. If you look closely, you can see that there are many grass blades mixed in the river water.

"These are reeds floating down from the upper reaches of the Inrula River." Lucis explained aloud when she saw her staring at the water.

The reed grass here does not only refer to reeds, but various plants that grow on the banks of the Inlula River. Among them, papyrus is the most abundant plant on the banks of the Inlula River, and they are also the biggest culprits that make the Inlula River green.

When Ella heard this, she turned her head in surprise, and blurted out: "Did you know that the river water is dyed green by plants?"

"Of course." Lucis raised her eyebrows, feeling a little displeased by the surprise in her words: "It's not something difficult to judge."

"That's not what I meant." Ella waved her hand quickly. She glanced at Tetis, who was bowing her head, and explained, "Everyone seems to think it's a miracle."

Lucis also looked at Tetis following her gaze, and then said disapprovingly: "It's just that the priests of the temple let them think so, those guys like to use this trick to fool people."

Aila could hear his dissatisfaction with the priests of the temple in his words, so she wisely didn't ask about this contradiction about the conflict between theocracy and kingship.

She turned to pointing at the river bank and asked, "What kind of place is there? Why is no one living there?"

The location she pointed to was not desolate in terms of the geography of Sathia. There was a large area of green grass, which looked much better than yellow sand.

"It's a swampy area, uninhabitable." Lucis introduced: "Although it looks like a grassland now, it's actually full of puddles and muddy land, and when the Inlula River floods, this area will be completely submerged.Many animals will inhabit it."

Boiman is not far from the delta. It only takes ten or twenty minutes to reach the edge of the delta from one side of the Inrula River to the other side, but it will take some time to reach the palace in the delta after entering the delta.For almost an hour and a half, Tetis told her all of this.

Of course, because Sathya's hour length changes with the length of the day, Ella is not very clear about how long this Sathya's hour and a half is.

However, they don’t need to disembark after entering the delta. Water channels and ditches will be dug in all inhabited areas in Sathya, especially in the delta because of the need for irrigation.You can reach your destination directly by boat.

After entering the delta, the scenery on both sides of the river has changed significantly, from the barren grass to the neatly cultivated farmland, the golden wheat waves behind the papyrus bushes flutter in the wind, and there are some green plants in the golden area.Bean and vegetable fields, where many people are working under the scorching sun.

What makes Ella slightly uncomfortable is that many of these laborers are naked, and they are both male and female.

She knew that those people were all slaves, except for children in Sathya, only slaves don't wear clothes, because they can't afford them.

Ella quickly looked away from the slaves and looked at the crops.

If you look carefully at the crops in these fields, some of them are not fully mature, and if you harvest them now, there will be more or less losses.

Lucis told her: "The delta will be completely submerged during the flood season, and the fields here will also become lakes. If the harvest is not completed before the flood, the loss will be even greater."

The land along the edge of the delta has been reinforced and elevated. When the Inrula River is not rising, the delta is higher than the river water. When the Inrula River is rising, the river will flood the entire delta, and a large amount of nutrient-rich sediment will be washed away.The river water is brought to this land, and when the river recedes, the sediment left behind is the best fertilizer to moisten the land and provide nutrients for the next year's crops.

Of course, this is not only the case in the delta, but also in all the cultivated fields in Sathya, so even if they do not use any fertilizer when planting, the crops can grow well.

The land of the entire Sathya belongs to the king nominally. The lands of temples, nobles, and officials are all awarded by the king. Some of them can be owned permanently, and some of them will have a fixed number of years, and they will be taken back after the expiration of the number of years.

In this country, even the common people of the free people, the only land they can own is a small vegetable field next to the house, but if they want to grow food, everyone has to rent the land of the country and the nobles for farming.Land sales are not allowed, but privately each has its own way.

As the most fertile area in the entire country, this delta has always been valued by the royal family. More than 60% of the land in the delta was handed over by the royal family to the common people and slaves living here for cultivation, and the remaining 40% was given to the nobles by the king.and temple farming, but less than a quarter of the land has permanent use rights in the hands of nobles and temples, and other land has a time limit, which is equivalent to renting it from the king.Take it back or pay to renew the lease again.

Of course, the tax that should be paid for farming still has to be paid, but the tax that the nobles have to pay is much lower than that of the common people.

So this area can be said to belong to the royal land completely, and the king is its real master.

Of course, there are not only cultivated land on the delta, there are hundreds of villages all over the land, and the eastern part of the delta, where the royal palace and the residences of the nobles gather, has long been the most prosperous area in the delta., and gradually formed a city - Tanis.

After Ella was invited to Delta, Kaba specially explained these things to her. It is worth mentioning that, because Ella still had to attend classes, Kaba, who had no chance to travel with Lucis, also joined this time.Trip to the Delta.

Ella was admiring the scenery on the shore when she suddenly heard the sound of flapping wings. She looked up and saw a group of big birds with white bodies, black heads, necks, legs and the ends of wings flying from a distance and stopped.on the ship of their team.

There were so many of these big birds, they flew over the sky and covered the sky, almost covering the noble ships in the fleet, and even a few of them were parked on the ceiling of Lucis' king ship, but no one drove them away, but let themThey stay.

One of the birds was more courageous than the others, and the other birds were all parked on the ceiling, keeping a little distance from people, but it landed directly on the edge of the boat beside Ella, as if full of wisdom.His small black eyes stared at the people in the canopy, and his long, curved beak almost touched Ella.

"These are holy ibis, and they appear every year before the Inlula River rises, and they leave again when the river recedes."

The holy ibis is special in the eyes of the Sathya people, because they always come with the rising water and go with the receding water. People regard it as the messenger of the gods and give it a special status.

"They are the incarnation of the god of wisdom and the messenger of the river god. They are very sacred birds."

Ella listened to Tetis praising the holy ibis with a strange expression, secretly thinking that if people could hear these birds, they might not be able to say anything sacred.

Sacred birds would not get together to chat about all kinds of gossip, and they would treat humans as being taken advantage of for food.

But the bird that stopped in front of her has a very special human aesthetic.

because it's saying—

"Oh~ beautiful girl, why haven't I seen you before, where are you from?"

Well, this holy ibis is accosting her.