? "Why do you carry everything with you? It's as if you knew something would happen today." Hermione asked curiously after taking a sip of water.
"You guessed right," Ryan said half-heartedly, taking a sip of water. "After all, this morning's incident was so strange, so I thought I'd bring some things with me. At least being prepared is better than not. I didn't expect something like this to happen." He shrugged.
After hearing Ryan's answer, Hermione wisely didn't ask any further questions. After drinking the water, she sat there quietly with her eyes closed.
After resting for a few minutes, they packed up and continued along the path toward the main tomb. Although this tomb was on the other side of the world, many aspects still adhered to the principles of feng shui in the Celestial Empire. So, after encountering numerous forks in the road ahead, Ryan chose the path that led directly to the tomb.
Because it was the right path, the further he went, the more luxurious it became. Mosaic patterns began to appear on both sides of the road, even embellished with gold and gemstones. But Ryan simply walked past without looking away. After all, not to mention that the magic world has permanent sticking spells that can stick things in and make them impossible to remove, just think of the many tomb-raiding novels where the treasures within easy reach are always various traps. Ryan would not bother himself with trouble at this time.
But looking at these good things but not being able to take them was also a very frustrating thing. Fortunately, after bypassing a huge stone pillar with reliefs telling the story of how the tomb owner became a god step by step, they finally found a spacious hall.
Based on the distance they had just covered, they should theoretically have traversed the entire pyramid. However, they were still inside. The only possibility was that the golden door was an independent dimension, and this possibility heightened Ryan's assessment of the tomb owner's magical abilities. After all, creating another dimension within an artificial one was a complex undertaking, one only achievable by wizards with deep expertise in this field.
This hall was very similar to the plaza at the pyramid's entrance, except that the totem poles there had been replaced with statues of indigenous wizards wearing feather crowns and holding feathered wands. At the other end of the hall, a heavy-looking wooden door stood, with the word "Kingdom of God" intricately carved on it.
Behind this door should be the final destination - the main tomb. After all, for a crazy wizard who thinks he is an immortal, the only place that can make him feel that it is the kingdom of God is where he is.
According to a common plot in tomb-raiding novels, if there are no defensive measures along the way to the tomb, there is a high probability that a powerful trap will be set at the final stage, such as in the hall, to trap those unprepared or overconfident individuals in the tomb's owner's place. In a magical world, the danger level of these traps is often increased several levels.
Ever since entering the golden door, Ryan's journey, which had been as relaxing as a picnic, had only made him feel increasingly uneasy. When he saw the wooden door before him, he immediately assumed that if there was a problem, it must be in this hall.
Now that he had doubts, it was definitely not a good idea to just rush in headfirst, especially with someone holding him back. Thinking of this, Ryan asked Hermione to retreat behind the pillar in front and told her not to come out no matter what sound she heard. At the same time, he asked greensnake to hide on her body and protect her secretly.
After they hid, Ryan picked up one of green snake clones and threw it into the hall. It bounced twice on the ground and stopped on the road in the middle of the hall, but after waiting for a few minutes, nothing happened.
This was a bit embarrassing, but when Ryan was about to step into the hall, he suddenly stopped because he found something a little wrong. Almost all the sculptures along the way were exaggerated abstract art sculptures with local indigenous style.
That is to say, the proportions of all the contents on the sculpture are somewhat different from those of the real thing.
Although the wizard sculptures in the hall now look exaggerated, their body proportions are basically the same as those of real people.
"Could it be that?" Ryan muttered to himself, thinking of a movie starring a famous director in his past life. But considering that the tomb owner could kill 100,000 people to create a blood pool, it was not surprising that he would do such a cruel thing.
Thinking of this, Ryan took out more than 30 thumb-sized jade talismans. Each of these jade talismans was crystal clear, and if you looked closely, you could faintly see golden lightning flowing inside.
"This is most of the stock I got from Uncle Jiu. I hope my guess is not true, otherwise I don't know when I can get such good jade to replenish the stock next time." Ryan muttered in pain while asking green snake clone to put a jade talisman on each statue.
After everything was ready, Ryan walked into the hall holding a palm-sized jade token. As soon as he stepped on the floor of the hall, the stone skins on all the sculptures began to fall off. Ryan could even see that after some of the stone skins fell off, there was a trace of rotten fabric and blackened skin inside.
"The God of the Northern Realm, the Mysterious Lord of the Big Dipper, the Seven Elements and the Seven Governments, uanming..." Ryan immediately recited the thunder spell when he saw this situation, and finally activated the jade talismans placed on these mummies sealed in the sculptures before they raised their wands to cast spells.
When the jade talisman was activated, it suddenly released the powerful energy contained within, and the entire hall was filled with golden lightning. Ryan had to squint his eyes to avoid being hurt by the strong lightning.
Ten seconds later, the lightning storm in the hall finally ended, and all the mummies were burned to charcoal. Ryan was about to go forward to clean up the battlefield, but he found that white soul fire was floating from these charred mummies.
They're actually alive! Ryan's eyes widened in surprise as he watched more and more soul fires float out from the wreckage on the ground, slowly forming human figures in the air. A few minutes later, over thirty figures emitting a milky white light floated in the air. It seemed that the Merit Thunder had not only destroyed the mummies, but also purified the souls within.
The leading wizard, who was wearing a robe and a feather crown, gave Ryan a great salute as a native, then stood up and began to mutter. Fortunately, the souls at the door had helped Ryan understand their language, so he could understand what the wizard was saying.
According to the story, Ryan learned that these wizards were disciples or subordinates of the Witch King. Later, the Witch King made them into something called corpse cocoons. This thing has the souls of living people, but they are dead.
They were already dead and had lost control of their bodies, but they could still feel everything in the outside world. The energy that continuously flowed from the pool of blood outside the door prevented them from dying or going crazy, and they remained calm and endured the torture forever.
Because their souls belonged to the living, they would not be destroyed by the magic in the tomb passage. Living souls also ensured that when outsiders entered this hall, they would be flexible enough to cause serious damage to the intruders.
"Luckily, I was more careful, otherwise I'd be dead today." Ryan breathed a sigh of relief after listening to the soul's narration. Even if their combat effectiveness after being transformed into corpse cocoons was not as good as in life, the number of over 30 was enough to cause serious damage to him
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