1532 Sunset Shrine (1/2)

Translated by XephiZ

Edited by Aelryinth

The Bargo Land was the spacious land between Cairo and the Great Pyramid of Giza, spanning over a hundred kilometers. The land had always been the field of battle between humans and the undead, a war that had been going on for thousands of years.

The undead in the Bargo Land never stopped coming, the reason behind it very simple. Since the battle kept going, there would be a lot of deaths, and thus a lot of new undead rising. It was a never-ending loop constantly happening across Egypt!

There was a long gradient starting around seventy kilometers from the Great Pyramid of Giza. The slope was like the hand of a compass, identifying the time when the deathlight would start shining.

Every sunset, if anyone stood at the edge of the Sunset Valley and looked up, they would see the sunlight spreading across the valley perfectly, making it look like a sparkling golden sea.

Unfortunately, the spectacular phenomenon only brought boundless fear and uneasiness to the people of Cairo. When the sunlight disappeared from the valley, the deathlight of the Pyramid would start pouring down on the Bargo Land, like a flag representing the Kingdom of the Dead...

The deathlight followed the routines of day and night, just like the sun and the stars. The duration of the dazzling sunlight down the Sunset Valley constantly changed over months and years, but normally, every five years, there would be a time when the deathlight would last longer than usual, and that was normally when the greatest battles between Cairo and the undead took place!

They were currently in the Black Season, the five-year time when the deathlight would last the longest. The enemy challenging the city of Cairo was the Pyramid of Khafre, the second-largest Pyramid in Egypt.

The real undead had not shown up yet. Currently, only the two main demon species in Egypt, the Gorgons and the Medusae, were active. The real torture for the Egyptians was only beginning as the Black Season arrived!

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At a unique spot in the Sunset Valley stood an ancient shrine that was part of some ancient cultural heritage.

The Egyptians were similar to the people living along the Yellow River and the Yangtze Plain who had worshiped the totem beasts. They used to rely on the protection of special creatures. The Sunset Shrine was one of the greatest altars for the ancient Egyptians to offer their sacrifices to their god.

Then came the era of the pharaohs, who overthrew the ancient civilization and established a magic civilization in Egypt. However, after they turned into undead as they died, they would not give up their control over the golden land.

”Rumors say that the spirits of the ancient gods have abandoned us humans because the pharaohs abandoned them first. Anyone that comes close to the shrine will be punished,” Chad said as they were walking.

The Sunset Shrine had all kinds of rumors and mysteries that had remained unsolved to this day. There were people that went exploring inside the Sunset Shrine, but they discovered that the Sunset Shrine was an endless maze, similar to the pyramids. If an ordinary person set foot inside it, they would never come out again. Some barely escaped from the place, but they all ended up with empty hands.

”Is this Sunset Shrine related to the Pyramids?” Mo Fan asked.

The group had reached the Sunset Valley, and were only around twenty kilometers away from the Sunset Shrine. It was currently sunset, so they just happened to see a red sun setting up the slope. It looked like they would eventually reach the sun if they kept heading up the slope!

The Sunset Shrine happened to stand in the same direction as the sun. From afar, it looked like the shrine was built for a god of sun. It was quite likely that the ancient god whom the Egyptians once worshiped was somehow related to the sun.

Mo Fan remembered that before Greece was ruled by the Parthenon Temple, the Greeks used to worship ancient gods, too. The Tyrant Titans were said to be the descendants of the ancient gods. He could not help but wonder if the ancient gods in Egypt were related to the ancient gods in Greece.