Wabi-Sabi Courtyard.
Piles of gold mountains and seas of gems were heaped by the lakeside. The originally quiet and peaceful courtyard that could make one's mood calm certainly couldn't do that now.
If someone entered for the first time, they would probably be addicted to these boundless golden oceans.
Yes, these gold coins and gems, plus the daily utensils of the royalty and Ancient Egypt nobles—the Wabi-Sabi Courtyard could no longer hold them. The original land card space would have been more than enough even if the number of Little Sprites increased dozens of times; by normal human dimensions, it could at least accommodate many families.
But none of this could stop Arrietty's constant plundering and her hamster-like collecting habit.
"Put it in Hamunaptra." Imhotep was holding Anck-Su-Namun, wearing a casual suit. To be honest, after the old antique adapted to modern clothing, he really had a bit of a mixed-race gentleman's flavor.
"No! You'll secretly spend it!" Arrietty spread her small arms, only able to cover two or three gold coins. However, even so, the Little Sprite stubbornly 'protected' her Queen's property like an old hen.
"Be good, there's no place to step in the yard anymore." Rubbing Arrietty's face with the tip of her finger, Mori Tsukisa turned to Imhotep: "You should try a pipe, Imhotep. You really suit this look."
In the distance, desolate and ancient yellow sand appeared behind the courtyard and the dense forest—a mottled ancient city stood in the girl's sight at some point. The dim yellow sand flying all over the sky looked particularly exotic in contrast to the dense forest and the Japanese-style courtyard. Pushing aside the sand mist and walking along the winding snake road, in the misty blur, the vicissitudes of singing vaguely echoed around the afterglow of the setting sun, melodious and mellow.
In the Spell Power void, three cards of the same series were impressively listed.
[Creature Attendant:
[High Priest of the Witch (Evil)]
[A mistake three thousand years ago caused a man who should have been crowned with glory and bathed in brilliant divine grace to lose everything.]
[He gazed at the human world in silence from the underworld, seeking opportunities to find his lover countless times.]
[A willful witch, a crazy journey, a word of adventure: he gambled his and his lover's hope into the witch's hands.]
[His witch did not let him down.]
[Now, the evilized life will forever be loyal to his King, his savior.]
[Until the end of the Multiverse—]
[Wherever the witch's gaze falls, it will be submerged by a sea of insects.]
...[Ability: Friend of Beetles]
[The Scarab is a symbol of Ancient Egypt royalty.]
[As the first High Priest who once held power under the Pharaoh, he loved these little things very much.]
[He used these deep blue carnivorous insects, which he personally fed and bred, to secretly execute countless enemies to make his career path more unimpeded.]
[Until he also lost his life to them.]
[—Every day, Imhotep can draw Spell Power from the Planeswalker to summon an indefinite number of Scarabs to fight.]
...[Ability: Son of the Desert]
[The yellow sand will submerge her enemies!]
[Imhotep can manipulate yellow sand to fight.]
[With unlimited Spell Power support, this sinister and bloodthirsty evil can even call upon a yellow sea that covers the sky and the sun, desertifying an entire country.]
[Note: When Anck-Su-Namun is present, Imhotep's consumption doubles.]
[Note: Perhaps this is the desire to show off.]
Mori Tsukisa:...The girl looked at the second card.
[Creature Attendant:
[Witch's War Maiden (Human)]
[Three thousand years ago, a beauty who stunned Ancient Egypt.]
[Compared to weak, slender, and pale sickly beauties, this cold and glamorous woman who is good at using daggers and scimitars has something to say.]
[One hundred and thirty screenings and battles, she constantly won, constantly defeated enemies one by one—she finally walked before the Pharaoh, fighting for a stable life for her family free from bullying and insult.]
[And when the elderly Pharaoh's greedy eyes of desire looked at the woman, it was also the beginning of her tragedy.]
...[Ability: Dagger/Scimitar Mastery]
[Close-range short strikes, wandering on the edge of danger and beauty.]
[Perhaps using these is not something she is naturally good at. It's just that in the eyes of those nobles, the more dangerous the performance, the more it makes people's blood boil; it can even make their decaying, stinking black hearts soaked in pus beat vigorously for a short time.]
[The woman catered to their tastes.]
[She won the gamble, and she also lost it.]
...[Ability: Dance]
[Ancient Egypt's dance has always been considered to have a strong Oriental flavor.]
[They are very good at using their bodies and bringing them to full play. The waist and abdomen twist in coordination with the strong and weak beats. If the dancer also covers her face with a black gold veil, it will be the viewer's luck.]
[Sacrificial dance performances and pleasure-seeking charm do not conflict.]
[Note: This skill can be taught.]
...Mori Tsukisa's gaze lingered on the words 'can be taught' for a long time—she looked at Nagini, then at the card. No wonder the card face showed a tall woman with a black veil covering her face, revealing a graceful waist and long legs.
She was dancing.
Finally, it was the land card that Mori Tsukisa urgently needed. If she didn't get a land card, her huge assets would really have no place to be put.
[land card:
[Hamunaptra: Golden Kingdom of the Dead.]
[A treasure in the desert, the dreamland of all Ancient Egypt scholars, the legend of legends. Its name is enough to match the word legendary, which is also a necessary factor for becoming a piece of 'land'.]
[It once belonged to Seti, and now it belongs to Imhotep and Anck-Su-Namun, and to their Master, a crazy witch and a Planeswalker who is always half-dreaming and half-awake.]
[Note: It's not habitable here.]
[Note: After unfolding, it produces one standard unit of Spell Power daily.]
...A rich harvest.
Arrietty believed that compared to the land card, Imhotep and Anck-Su-Namun were not very important. In more modern terms, they were 'add-ons'.
"We urgently need a warehouse. We don't urgently need to find a couple to flirt in front of us every day."
Mori Tsukisa deeply agreed and ordered the two of them not to have overly intimate actions in front of her—Anck-Su-Namun laughed rarely.
"In our era, you should have been married long ago at your age." The cold woman held her man's thick arm, her waist and shoulder pressed tightly against him—the more she was warned, the more the woman went against Mori Tsukisa. she had realized that even with her and Imhotep, these Attendants could still rarely take advantage of Mori Tsukisa.
She had initially thought that the one who saved her and Imhotep was a kind and good-hearted girl.
It was all an illusion.
"Get married, and then have a lot of children, every day—" Anck-Su-Namun hung her whole body on her man, the teasing intent in her curved eyes was extremely obvious: "Oh, don't you have a lover yet?"
Mori Tsukisa pursed her lips and glared at her.
"How pitiful..."
"You should spend the time you use for eating candy and having afternoon tea in the right place." After a pause, the woman finally said that word under Imhotep's helpless gaze: "Old maid."
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