As if she couldn't understand the language of animals, Ella ignored the accusation of the holy ibis.

The holy ibis did not intend to get an answer, and sang a song on its own. don't know if it was heard from humans, or it was a love song specially used for courtship in their group.It can be bluffing, but in the ears of Ella who can understand, it is undoubtedly harassment.

Then the holy ibis was taught a lesson by its fellow kin.

Several other holy ibis thought it sang too badly, so a bird flew over and gave it a wing, fanning the holy ibis directly into the water.

The people who saw this scene didn't know why, but they found it interesting and couldn't help laughing. Ella was also laughing, but the meaning of the laugh was different from them.

This is just a small episode during the journey. The group of holy ibis came to the river to forage. When the boat sailed out of this water area, the big birds left the boat.

After that, the ship sailed for a while, and finally arrived at the destination.

The royal palace located in the delta did not have a tall city wall, and the artificially dug river channel meanders directly from the side of the palace like a moat. When you look up, you can see the soldiers guarding above the palace staring at this side.

In the end, the ship stopped at the repaired square in front of the palace. Just climb up fifty steps and walk through a section of the square to reach the gate of the palace.

The scale of the palace is naturally not as large as the palace. Like the palace, the palace is also a two-story palace, and the foundation of the palace is specially raised. Even if you want to enter the first floor of the palace, you need to climb a step first.

After arriving at the palace, the king announced that everyone could disband on the spot. The priests and nobles continued to take boats to their respective residences without stopping. Several princesses and Ella who were invited by Lucis lived in the palace.All the waiters and guards they brought.

In fact, if the previous king would have invited trusted noble officials to live in the palace, but Lucis seldom did so.It will surprise everyone even more.

It's like taking the same boat and the current room arrangement before.

There are not as many rooms in the Palace as in the Royal Palace. Every time come here, besides Lucis, there are also princesses in the harem. But in the past, the rooms next to Lucis’ bedroom were empty, and the princesses would still be arranged to live in the farthest place from him.place.

But this time Ella's room was right next to Lucis.

Knowing this arrangement, Ella felt a little uneasy, not because she was worried about what Lucis would do, but because she could clearly feel that the young king was further closing the distance between them.

She felt like she had fallen into a hunter's trap, but she couldn't escape yet.

If Ella still had the idea of running away when she first came here, now that she is succumbing to reality, she knows that Lucis is a person who will do what he says. If she runs away again, not only will Lucis never let it go, but she will alsoBreaking the current calm situation, if she is caught at that time, she will really become a slave.

And Ella is a person who is at ease with the situation and knows current affairs. As long as it does not endanger her life, she will not touch the bottom line of the other party.

And Ella has to admit that she doesn't dislike the young king. Although he seems to have a bad temper and is not easy to get along with, so far, except for the time she escaped and was caught, Lucy's attitude towards her is very good.Very peaceful, not too close or force her to do anything.

This probably has something to do with the relatively equal status of men and women in Sathya, especially in terms of emotional freedom.

After suffering, she doesn't really care about love, and even her life plan has never had such a thing as love, which has a lot to do with her previous life experience.

Ella was an ordinary girl in her previous life. Her parents divorced when she was very young because of their relationship with each other and they remarried soon.I gave it to my grandparents to take care of me. I lived in a small town that was working hard to develop tourism since I was a child. I didn’t see my father a few times a year, and I never saw my mother since my parents divorced.

And although her grandparents were kind to her, the two old people also got married on a blind date. After marriage, the relationship was flat and they would quarrel from time to time because of the parents' shortcomings.

So she knew early on that love is an unreliable thing, and marriage and love are not necessarily linked.

As a princess in this life, Ella was ready to be engaged by her king's father as soon as she returned to the palace.

And since she can accept marrying a completely unfamiliar man, she certainly doesn't reject the replacement of Lucis, who has no ill feeling and is relatively familiar with him.

Of course, King Sathya can marry multiple wives and have a large harem. This is the biggest and most unacceptable shortcoming of Lucis. She can accept marriage without emotion, but she cannot accept the other party's infidelity.

But this young king could have wives and concubines in groups, but he has always kept himself clean. He has never had any relationship, which turned his shortcomings into advantages. As long as he can continue to maintain it, Ayla really doesn't mind having something to do with him.What.

Sathya allowed divorce. Even if she married the king, the law also gave her the right to divorce. It was because of this that Ella planned to try to accept Lucis's approach.

But this is something to consider in the future, and now she wants to see his performance again.

"Your Highness."

Tetis took people to receive the luggage sent by the slaves - the luggage was sent by the slaves by land, because it was carried by strong slaves, so it arrived later than the ship - when she came back, she brought it backsome food.

In addition, she told Ella: "Your Majesty has gone to the temple to prepare for tomorrow's harvest sacrifice."

The official sacrificial ceremony is held in the temple, and only the king and priests can enter the temple, so the nobles will also participate in the whole sacrificial ceremony as priests.

Therefore, the entire process of offering sacrifices is known to everyone.

Tetis was also one of the maids who accompanied the foreign countries to the Delta in the past years, and sometimes even accompanied the king into the temple, so she was very clear about the process of the upcoming sacrificial ceremony and explained it to Ella.

This process is not complicated, it is a bit time-consuming.

After the king enters the temple, he will bathe in the holy lake water in the temple to complete the cleansing ceremony. After the ceremony, he will temporarily change from the king to the high priest.

After that, he will stay in the temple for one night, go to the holy lake to bathe in the holy water again before the sun rises on the second day, and then enter the inner sanctum of the sanctuary where the shrine is placed in the deepest part of the temple, and open the shrine.After opening the door of the altar, burn precious frankincense for the statue inside and chant hymns.

After the consecration is completed, the priest will take off the clothes of the gods in the shrine, clean the gods with spices and holy water, and then put them on four sets of red, white, blue and green clothes, which they claim to be made of the best linen, and wear a complete set of clothes.jewelry.

After the shrine is cleaned, these newly dressed god statues will be put back into the shrine, and the sacrifices that have been prepared for a long time will be enshrined in front of the god statues in the hymns chanted by the priests.

There are certain differences in the sacrifices offered to different gods. For example, this time, the gods of harvest and rivers are being sacrificed. Therefore, in addition to offerings such as spices, wine, livestock, clothes and jewelry, other offerings will also be added.Wheat and vegetables for the harvest god and fish lotus and papyrus for the river god.

After completing these, the door of the shrine will be sealed again with river mud, and the edible offerings in the offerings will be taken away. If it is a daily sacrifice, the food will be distributed among the priests of the temple, but such as harvest sacrificesThe offerings in major events will be distributed jointly by the priests and nobles participating in the sacrifice.

After completing these ceremonies, the priests of the temple need to perform a series of tasks such as sprinkling water and offering incense to all the gods in the temple on the next day, but Lucis will leave the temple and resume his status as a king outside the temple.Watch together dances and performances by the priestesses in honor of the gods, before attending the Harvest Dinner at the Palace in the evening.

And the sacrifice is not just this time. After all the fields are harvested, that is, when the Inlula River is about to flood, the king will replace the high priest again to perform the sacrifice with the same procedure but with different prayer content, praying for the next year's harvest.good harvest.

It is worth mentioning that the kings before Lucis did not complete this kind of large-scale sacrifice in place of the high priest.

It is said that the high priest was old and weak and unable to support the completion of the sacrifice, so he was replaced by a king with a high status and known as the "Son of God" to express his respect for the gods.

But in fact, everyone knows that this is a reform carried out by Lucis in order to reduce the power and influence of the temple.

What makes Ella more strange is that including this year, it has been six consecutive years that Lucis has performed sacrifices instead of the high priest, but since the first time, it seems that no one has objected to this matter?Especially the priests of the temple, do they just watch their rights being weakened?

"Do the priests have no opinion at all?"

"Of course there are, but they dare not express their dissatisfaction in front of His Majesty."

Not to mention Tetis, even the two young maids and Debbie, who was originally a slave, had heard about this incident.

How could the temple be indifferent to the king's reduction of their rights, but just like what the maids said, they didn't dare to raise objections at the beginning, so naturally they couldn't stop it later.

The temple has a special status. The priests were born out of nobility, but they have greater rights than the nobility, especially the high priest. The power of this position can rival that of the prime minister, and even once rival the king.

But now, the high priest who could easily influence government affairs has now been excluded from politics, and the prestige and status of the temple have also been greatly reduced.

And it became like this because of the inescapable relationship between the previous king and the death of Lucis' brother, the high priest and the temple.

I said before that the previous king had been on the throne for many years but had no children. In order to allow his own blood to be born, he tried many methods. Following the advice of the temple priests, planting fruit-bearing trees in the garden was just one of them.

Before the king's accident, he went to the temple to pray for the protection of the gods. After divination, the high priest told the king that as long as the king offered the prey he hunted himself and prayed devoutly in the temple for a month, the gods would feel his sincerity.bless him.

"But when the king was hunting, he met a crazy female hippopotamus, and was bitten to death by the hippopotamus."*

There are many dangerous creatures inhabiting the Inrula River. In addition to dangerous reptiles such as crocodiles and monitor lizards, hippopotamuses are also objects of fear. There are not a few Sathya people who are killed by hippopotamuses every year, but one is protected by soldiers.It is somewhat unexpected that the king died of the giant hippopotamus.

Moreover, among the gods in Sathya, one of the gods related to fertility is the hippo god. The high priest said that the god would bless the king, but the king died at the mouth of the hippo.

The high priest's prophecy can be said to have indirectly led to the death of the previous king. If the high priest's status was not noble enough, and he also had royal blood, after the previous king's accident, all the priests in the temple should pay for his life.

Although the high priest was not punished in the end, the wrong prophecy made him no longer holy in the hearts of the people, and also lowered the authority of the priests of the temple, giving Lucis a reason to suppress the power of the temple.The king's business can only accept the current situation.

Up to now, although the high priest is still there, Lucis has replaced his position in the temple and the hearts of the people, and as long as the high priest dies, the name of the high priest will be linked to the king.High priests exist.

Tetis finally reminded Ella: "In fact, even now some people think that the death of the late king was a conspiracy, and His Majesty has always been concerned about it, so His Highness must not mention this matter before Your Majesty."

What she didn't say was that those who suspected that the death of the former king was a conspiracy thought that His Majesty planned everything because he was the biggest beneficiary.

But anyone who served Lucis before that incident happened knew that their majesty was also facing the threat of death, and almost returned to the embrace of God just like the previous king.

Aila nodded to show that she understood, and it was better for her to pretend that she didn't know about this kind of thing.

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On the first day of her arrival in the Delta, Ella stayed in her dormitory to rest and did not go out. It was not that she didn't want to go out for a stroll, but there are still a bunch of princesses in the palace who don't know her attitude.wonderful.

At dawn the next day, when the young king performed the ceremony in the temple, the nobles also had to participate in the ceremony. Although the temple stipulated that no one except the king and priests could enter the temple, in fact this rule of the temple was true.It is very flexible, just like the king can become the high priest after the holy lake is cleansed, the nobles can also become temporary priests after the purification ceremony, and in normal times, if someone is willing to offer sacrifices, they can also become temporary priests to sacrifice in the templeWorshiping the gods, even if the temple is short of people to work, it will recruit a group of people from the common people to temporarily act as priests to work.

When they left the temple, they returned to their original identities, and it is precisely because of this regulation that most of the nobles in Sathia had once served as priests, and the real temple priests would also become priests after leaving the temple.There are other identities, such as officials and craftsmen, which is why the authority of the temple was once comparable to that of the king.

Of course, the High Priest is suppressed now, and for Ella, she just needs to know that she has to get up early the next day.

At dawn, before the morning star had risen, Ira had already been woken up by the maids.

This was the first time Ella woke up. Fortunately, she went to bed early the night before. Even if she was a little dazed when she was woken up at this time, she quickly woke up after washing.

Although there is no need to fast in the temple, meat is not allowed for breakfast and lunch in the morning, so the kitchen only prepared fruit and bread. Ella asked the maid to comb her hair while eating, and got up to go to the temple after getting dressed.temple.

There are temples all over Sathia, and the Delta is no exception. However, unlike in the palace, the temples in other areas are built separately. The temple in the palace is more similar to the royal family temple. In fact, it is in the capitalBoiman, in addition to the temple in the palace, there is a temple with a wider area outside the palace, which is the real power center of the temple. The high priest and other priests will take turns in the two temples, andNot always one of them.

The temple on the side of the delta is right next to the palace, and it can be reached in a short time by sedan chair.

Probably because she lived close by and didn't need to spend time dressing up, she arrived a little earlier. When she arrived, the front of the temple was empty and the gate was closed. Only the guards guarded the gate dutifully.The brazier illuminates the murals on the wall, which looks mysterious and solemn.

The Sathya people believe in many gods, there are as many as 50 gods, large and small, and the images of these gods are mostly half-human, half-animal, with human bodies and animal heads.

All the temples, except for the smaller one in the capital palace, are like a small city, so the walls of the temple are very long, with statues of gods and stories about them.

The Sathiya people are familiar with the stories of the gods, and now that no one else is there, Tetis explained the stories on the murals to Ella.

In fact, the myths and stories are basically the same and there is nothing new, but Ella still listens with gusto.

Unknowingly, there were more people in front of the temple.

The temperature difference between day and night in Sathia is huge, and dawn is the coldest time of the day. At this time, the temperature in the delta is less than 20 degrees. All people who go out will wear relatively thick cloaks to keep warm, like Ayla, justWearing a cloak with a hood, he wrapped himself tightly.

But such a dress did not make people ignore her. After seeing her, the nobles tried to come over to talk to her. Faced with this situation, Ella had no other choice but to smile and answer. At this time, she especially hoped that Lucy wouldBy her side, so that others would not dare to talk to her.

But it's a pity that Lucis is not there, and Ella is the latest hot person, and everyone wants to contact her in order to master more gossip resources.

The nobles were also taken aback by Ella's changes.

"The last time you saw Her Highness the Princess, you still couldn't understand Sathiya. I didn't expect that Her Highness could not only understand but also speak it in such a short time."

Someone calculated the time and found that the silver-haired princess had only been in Sathya for more than 20 days, not even a month, but now she can not only understand Sathya, but also speak authentic aristocratic accents.Talk to them in Sathiya, although sometimes they need to slow down for her to understand, but this learning speed is enough to marvel at her intelligence.

And those who are more informed about the news in the palace are even more surprised, because they know that the princess can not only speak but also write Sathya's words, if they didn't see her change, they would think that the newsThe so-called ability to write in the book is just a simple learning of a few characters, so now they feel that they need to expand the level of this "knowledge". After all, the person who delivers the news always praises his amazing learning progress, and now this praise is not complete.It's flattery.

When those concubines also arrived, Ella was already too crowded for them to squeeze in, which happened to save some trouble.

In fact, these nobles don't all have good intentions towards Ayla. They are the best at doing bad things behind the surface, but now they are in the public and surrounded by soldiers guarding them. They know very well that if they don't show enough to Ayla at this timeFriendly, the news will reach His Majesty's ears soon, and it's hard to say what result will be obtained at that time.

So those juniors who were too young to be polite were ordered by their parents not to cause trouble at this time. At this time, the nobles gathered around Ella were very friendly.

But no matter how friendly Ella was, she didn't want to go through this kind of situation.

Fortunately, after the nobles arrived, the gate of the temple was opened, and a group of priests came out to welcome them to clean the holy lake.

At this time, nobles are not allowed to bring maids and servants in, and the men and women are also separated. Ella followed the young priestess who led the way and walked in, surrounded by the princesses and noblewomen in the harem.

At this time, the Harvest Sacrifice Ceremony can be regarded as the beginning, and everyone can no longer talk casually. Although Ella felt a thorn in her back all the way, her ears were quiet anyway.

Passing through the city gate on the wall of the temple, there is a wide vestibule inside. On both sides of the vestibule are huge statues, all of which are in a sitting posture. In addition to the statues of gods, these statues also have statues of kings from past dynasties.King Dia is the incarnation of the gods, so the kings of all dynasties will erect their own statues in the temples, and even many kings with great merits will build their own temples, just like Lucis, the temple dedicated to himAlready under construction.

Behind the vestibule is the entrance to the main hall of the temple - the Hall of Columns. The gate of the Hall of Columns is called the Tower Gate in Sathya, and it is also the main gate inside the temple. Only entering here is the real entry into the temple.

Therefore, the nobles will not directly enter the tower gate after arriving at the vestibule. They need to take the path on the side of the vestibule to go to the holy lake on the side of the column hall to perform the cleansing ceremony.

The so-called holy lake is actually an artificial lake excavated in the temple. The water of the lake is imported from the Inrula River.The lake water was washed directly, but now here is a group of people with the highest status in Sathya, they can bathe in a special clean room, each of them has one room, and no one interferes.

Ella was led by the priestess into one of the small rooms. The small room was made of stone and had no windows. It was about the size of a modern family bathroom, and it was a bit crowded for two people standing in it.

Ella took off her clothes and asked the priestess to pour the holy water over her head. The cold holy water was not heated. In such a temperature of less than twenty degrees, it was so cold to the bone that Ella couldn't help shivering., if another person with poor health comes, I'm afraid he will have a fever and a cold soon.

The priestess watered the whole process quietly, until she finished pouring the whole bucket of water she brought, and then stopped, and handed the clean linen towel to Ella.

After Ella dried off the moisture on her body, the priestess handed her another set of priestly clothes.

In fact, the priest's clothing is not much different from ordinary clothing, and it is more different from ordinary clothing in terms of color patterns and accessories.

The priestly clothes Ella wears are black, and at the same time, there are special patterns embroidered on the skirt and sleeves representing the temple, and the embroidery on the belt is also the amulet pattern representing the forest, but the jewelry is still the one she originally wore, which is also a temporaryOne of the differences between a priest and a formal priest.

After getting dressed, her hair was still wet, and the priestess took her to a large room next to the clean room, where cosmetics were prepared for the noblewomen, and there were also low-level priestesses who put on makeup for them. These low-level priestsIt's not so much a priest, it's better to be a servant of the temple, it's just a nice name.

When Ella came over, there were many people in the big room who were already touching up their makeup. As soon as she came in, someone came to ask her to fix her makeup and hair in a place where there was no one else.

There are many braziers in this room. They are not only for lighting, but also to increase the temperature in the room. After Ella came in, she could clearly feel the temperature on her body rising.

The wet hair will not dry so quickly. The priestess in charge of dressing just wiped off the excess water on her head and let her hair hang, and then fixed a lotus-shaped spice box on top of her head.It is made by stuffing balm into the lotus pod.

Then, the priestess wanted to make up for her again. This cannot be refused. This kind of large-scale worship ceremony has strict dress codes, and makeup is also part of it, like the priestesses who dress up for them.For makeup, the red clay is ground into powder and used as lipstick and rouge. The black powder is ground from several kinds of ores and is used to apply eyebrows and eyeliner. Some people also use it as eye shadow, but the setting effect of the powder is not good and it is easyTake off makeup, so smoky makeup like ancient Egypt has not yet become popular, but some people in the beauty-loving nobles and priests have already tried this.

This is the first time for Ella to dress up with many Sathiya female nobles. When she was receiving the service of the priestess, she glanced around casually, and found that some of the female nobles present had already started to use wigs, but compared toWhat Ella knows about ancient Egypt is that the female nobles just cut their hair very short and didn’t shave it completely, and the wigs they used didn’t have too many decorations, like Cleopatra in the movie.The luxurious shape of braids strung with small gold pendants did not appear.

But even so, those few short-haired people have attracted the attention of people around them. They recommend their new look in a low voice, and others seem to be very excited.

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After Ella put on her makeup, she took a look in the mirror made of metal, and the expression on her face was almost uncontrollable.

The red lips that have been painted much larger seem to be dripping blood after eating a child, which is almost a perfect match with the plateau red on the cheeks; the original silver eyebrows have been turned into two thick black caterpillars, and the smoke on the eyesMakeup was okay, but with the eye shadow coming off so easily, Ella could imagine how the sweat would turn her into a smudged face when the sun came up and the weather warmed up.

In fact, this makeup is not much different from other people's makeup. At this time, everyone is wearing makeup like this, but Ella's eyebrows are light silver, and her face is white.With a little thicker color, this ordinary makeup technique looks particularly clumsy on her complexion.

It didn't highlight any advantages, but it seemed to be deliberately degraded.

But even so, the face in the mirror can still be seen, but the beauty score has changed from the original 100 to 70, and against the average of 50 of the others, she is still a unique big girl.beauty.

Looking away from the mirror, Ella looked at the priestess in front of her with a blank expression.

The priestess who put on her make-up was arranging the tools on the table, but after being stared at by her, she also looked respectful with lowered eyebrows.

She looked innocent, but Ella looked at the appropriate makeup on the other person's face, and knew that this person was not as honest as he looked on the surface.

"Do you know that if Your Majesty sees me like this, as long as I complain again, you will probably die?"

This is not a threat or intimidation, Ella is just stating the facts, no matter how you look at it, Lucis is not a good-tempered king, especially since there are always rumors about him in the palace, Ella can know that he has a bad temper after listening a littlehow bad.

Ella's tone was very plain, but plain words easily controlled a person's life.

The priestess trembled when she heard the words. She didn't know that Ella could already speak Sathiya. Now when she heard her speak suddenly, she subconsciously met those beautiful purple eyes, and her face could not hide her panic.

Ella ignored the priestess. She directly took the basin and cloth towel prepared by the low table and plate, and quickly washed off the bad makeup on her face. In the middle, she couldn't wash it off because the water was muddy.The princess of identity borrowed her water bottle, and the latter looked at her and gave her all the water clearly.

After cleaning, Ella picked up the cosmetics and simply applied her lips and eyebrows, and also casually applied some blush, which is almost invisible, and she didn't dare to use eye shadows that don't know the material.The eye shadow at that time was very poor in setting makeup, and it was easy to take off makeup. She was worried that the powder after makeup would fall into the eyes and hurt the eyes, and according to her observation, many women in the nobles did not wear eye makeup.

She is very skilled in applying makeup. She has learned makeup in her previous life. After all, there is no woman who does not love beauty. After reincarnation, she has a good foundation and is young. She can be beautiful without makeup, so she has become lazy in this life, butOccasionally, I have a hobby of studying makeup on a whim, but I haven't lost it. Ella has even made a lot of cosmetics herself. If she plans to return to the palace, if she has no money, she will use this money to maintain the funds for researching potions.

It's a pity that there is a high probability that she will not be able to study the potion here. There is no magic in this world, and there is a high probability that the potion material with magic power will not be found.

The re-made makeup is simple but good-looking. Ella knows how to modify herself, especially her perfect eyebrows. She does not need trimming but simply draws. The specially accentuated eyebrow color makes the original holy and ethereal face more heroic.There is a kind of awe-inspiring arrogance, as if she has evolved from a princess to a queen.

And the priestess was so frightened that she knelt aside and didn't dare to get up during the process of her own makeup, but she didn't even dare to ask for mercy. As early as when Ella's terrible makeup appeared, other female nobles were watching hereWell, in this kind of occasion, you can't make too many noises. If the priestess begs for mercy, she may even be dragged out directly in the name of blasphemy.

Ella didn't care about her. After putting on her makeup, she thanked the princess next to her and got up to go out.

Behind her, she could hear some people asking the priestesses who did their makeup to help them repaint their eyebrows like hers, and the lingering sense of staring on her.

Like a jackal hiding in the dark, full of malice.

Leaving from the dressing room, the people outside probably knew what happened inside. The priestess who had led her before had disappeared, and another priestess had replaced Ella to lead the way to the temple, where the ceremony would take place.

The nobles performed the purification ceremony faster than the king, because they could not keep the king waiting, and men were simpler than women, so when Ella arrived, more than half of the nobles had already arrived, and those who arrived later were basically female nobles.

It didn't take long, and soon all the staff arrived, which meant that the ceremony was about to begin.

In this ceremony, the nobles stood on both sides of the temple according to their gender. Ella was arranged in a special position. She was in the lower position of all the princesses and in the upper position of other female nobles. She was like a dividing point, separatingOpen the harem and nobles.

But when Lucis appeared wearing the high priest's priestly clothes and holding a scepter, everyone knelt on the ground.

Ella lowered her head and watched a group of people walk by her. Because of the posture, only the feet of the crowd can be seen. The temple has regulations that priests will only wear leopard skins for ceremonies during funerals, and they are not allowed at other timesPeople wear animal fur, so most of the leather sandals that everyone wore were replaced by shoes made of palm leaves, but the king's sandals are made of gold, and the difference can be seen at a glance.

The priests passed through the temple and entered the innermost inner sanctum, where the shrine was placed, and only the king and real priests could enter the inner sanctum, and the nobles could only stay in the sanctuary for rituals.

What they need to do is also very simple, just stand and wait.

However, when the king offered sacrifices, the nobles also needed to offer sacrifices to the spirits-of course, these sacrifices would eventually belong to the temple.

The sacrifice Ella was also prepared, and it was prepared by Tetis for her. Generally, nobles prepare cattle, sheep and farmland products when offering sacrifices to the God of Harvest, so Tetis helped her buy ten sheep and tenLettuce is used as a sacrifice. This amount is not too much among nobles, but it is enough for an outsider.

The sacrifices were sent to the temple by servants before they entered the temple, and the nobles could enter the temple only after the sacrifices were confirmed to be handed over.The money to buy the way into the temple shows that even the priests who serve the gods cannot avoid the secular side.

Therefore, during the sacrifice process, they only need to hand over the papyrus scroll with the sacrifice written on it to the priest who came to collect the sacrifice, and let the priest put the scroll in front of the god statue to worship.

The door to the inner hall is open, so although they cannot enter, the nobles in the temple can still see the situation in the inner hall.

There is more than one shrine in the inner hall. Sathya believes in the gods, but there are only nine main gods who are eligible to be placed in the inner hall. The Sathya people call them the nine pillar gods.

The Harvest God and the River God worshiped in the Harvest Sacrifice are two of the Nine Pillar Gods. Today is their home field, so the doors of other shrines will not be opened, allowing the two gods to enjoy today's celebration alone.

The priests chanted ancient sacrificial scriptures that Ella could not understand, and Lucis personally put on new clothes and jewelry for the statue.

Ella could clearly see the ceremony in the inner hall from where she was standing. The priests were not singing in Sathya's common language, so she couldn't understand it, but this did not prevent her from appreciating this sacred scene.

After changing clothes for the god and closing the shrine again, the ceremony is almost over.

Lucis walked out from the inner hall, and the nobles in the temple followed him and left the temple.

Outside the temple is the courtyard, through the courtyard and through a section of colonnade, there is another temple in front, here is the columned hall, all visible places in the hall have carefully carved reliefs and inscriptions, recording the history of human beings.The history of prayers and dynasties, but more murals present the faces of the gods and their stories.

Coming out of the Hall of Columns, a group of people stopped under the tower door.

When Ella and the others first entered the temple, it was still empty, but now, a throne was placed in the middle of the tower gate, and slaves holding ceremonial fans made of ostrich feathers stood on both sides of the throne.

There is only the king's seat here, because only the king can sit on an equal footing with them in front of the gods. If other nobles want to sit in the next priest's dance, they can only sit on the steps.

The sun had already risen at this time, but the sunlight was not too hot, and the coldness of the night had not receded. The thickness of the priest's robe was just right at this time.

But there is still an ice basin next to the throne, because the temperature will rise soon, and the closer to the throne at this time, the cooler you will feel.

The position at this time is not as strict as it was during the previous sacrificial ceremony. Basically, the familiar nobles stood together to watch the ceremony, and the scene seemed much more casual.

At this time, there are not only nobles and priests who are preparing to watch the sacrificial dance. The Harvest Festival is a grand festival celebrated by the entire Sathiya. In this festival, even ordinary people can cleanse themselves with holy water after paying some offerings.The body then went to the vestibule to watch the sacrificial performance. This is also a special treatment that only large-scale sacrificial activities will have every year. If it were normal, they would have to pay several times more offerings to have such treatment.

When Ella was hesitating where to stand, she felt a gaze, and turned her head to see that it was Lucis, who saw her and motioned her to go over.

Well, she doesn't have to choose now.