1583 Tomb of the Demon Child (1/2)
Edited by Aelryinth
Everyone had weird expressions when they found themselves in yet another chamber similar to the previous ones after coming out of the passage.
”Another one?”
”There's no exit again. Does anyone see a coffin?”
The chamber looked empty at first glance. They did not see a coffin hanging in the air. Mo Fan eventually found it; it was already on the ground. It was an unremarkable mummy's sarcophagus.
”It's my turn to open it.” Zhao Manyan was bolder after seeing how simple-minded the Mummies were.
Zhao Manyan noticed how strange the coffin was when he walked closer. It was tied shut with an ancient, indestructible vine.
Zhao Manyan did not think too much about it, slowly gathering Light Magic on his palm. The Light Magic extended to his wrist and formed a golden hilt. It grew further and turned into a crescent blade!
Zhao Manyan slashed at the vine wrapping around the coffin. It left a shallow, tiny cut on the vine.
”Mm? It's pretty tough!” Zhao Manyan was surprised when he failed to cut the vine in half.
Zhao Manyan swung the saber again. This time, he had expended more energy to increase the damage of the blade.
This slash left a deeper cut on the vine. Zhao Manyan roughly estimated it would take seven or eight more slashes to cut through the vine.
”Can you do it?” Mu Bai asked when he saw Zhao Manyan struggling to cut the vine.
”It's pretty tough… f**k me, what's going on here? How did it grow back?” Zhao Manyan exclaimed.
The cuts that Zhao Manyan had left on the vine with great effort had healed on their own. He quickly increased his attacking speed and hacked at the vine continuously, but the vine fully recovered in the end.
”I don't believe it!” Zhao Manyan was annoyed. Even a vine was trying to mess with him. It was time for him to show what he had!
”Zhao Manyan, stop cutting it!” Shreev blurted out with an anxious face.
”Why? We have to open it to leave this place!” Zhao Manyan asked.
”We can't afford to mess with this guy!” Shreev was holding a book. He had just realized who the small coffin belonged to!
”Really? The other two Mummies were pretty dumb...” Zhao Manyan said.
Zhao Manyan was startled after hearing those words. He withdrew his saber and stared at the casket.
Its surface was full of uninterpretable diagrams and words. Zhao Manyan tried to see something in them, and suddenly noticed one of the diagrams twisting and turning into the face of a child. It was smiling with an innocent bright smile, yet it was utterly spooky in Zhao Manyan's eyes!
Zhao Manyan quickly backed away with a pale face.
”It's...it's a phantom!” Zhao Manyan said.
Phantoms were the most difficult kind of undead to deal with. They were untraceable, immune to Elemental Magic, and good at controlling the minds of the enemy, Curses, and poison. The coffin was not open, yet it could still smile at Zhao Manyan and send chills down his spine!
”Let's not mess around with it,” Mo Fan said.
”Yeah, I agree!” Shreev exclaimed.
”But how are we going to open the next door if we don't open it?” Meos said.
”I've investigated, and found out there were countless mummy chambers under Khufu's command. They were all his councilors during his reign, and the only way into Khufu's chamber is through these mummy chambers. The chambers are interconnected; each chamber has four doors, one on each wall. When the coffin in a chamber opens, it will open a single door, but killing the owner of the chamber will open all four doors,” Shreev informed them.
”What are you trying to say?” Mo Fan asked, all confused now.
”We can only find the way to Khufu's chamber by choosing the right door. If we choose the wrong door, it will lead us to another maze with four doors. There are at least a few hundred mummies under Khufu's command. If we keep wandering between the chambers, we'll either be trapped to death or be killed by the mummies,” Shreev replied.
”Why didn't you tell us that in the first place?” Zhao Manyan yelled.