1595 Chamber After Chamber After Chamber (1/2)
Edited by Aelryinth
A loud screech penetrated Mo Fan's skull, like a few hundred jagged thunderbolts going off in the sky. It felt like his head was going to explode.
Mo Fan's head was buzzing, and his consciousness faded away slightly. He almost fainted from the piercing cry, recovering slowly only after after the cry faded away!
Mo Fan turned around and glanced at the golden bird, and almost fell to the ground. The golden bird was now an enormous beast the size of a cloud. Its wings were covered in sharp cone-like feathers, currently all raised up in anger. It looked extremely dangerous, its golden feathers easily able to pierce and kill its targets!
”It's about to attack!” Mo Fan sensed a great pressure looming over him. He was having trouble breathing properly.
The giant Golden Bird beat its wings. The sharp feathers immediately becane a golden storm raining down from the sky.
The feathers were around the size of leaves in Mo Fan's eyes. However, as the feathers descended on him like a spray of bullets, he finally realized how massive the beast was. A single feather was as long as his leg!
That was no feather, it was clearly a golden spear! Mo Fan and Heidi cast Blink at the same time. They just escaped a volley of the golden feathers, but more feathers soon poured down on them. They had nowhere to escape to!
”It's massive!” Zhao Manyan looked up. Half the sky was occupied by the golden beast, but the remaining half was still as spacious as ever!
”Massive my ass, aren't you going to lend us a hand!?” Mo Fan grunted after hearing Zhao Manyan's comment.
Zhao Manyan, Meos, Mu Bai, and Shreev cast their defensive spells simultaneously. Magic of different colors forming an ice shield, a wind barrier, and a light rampart intertwined in the air above Mo Fan and Heidi...
They initially thought the spells were enough to protect the two, but to their surprise, the spells were penetrated by the feathers as if they were merely bubbles being popped. The spells did not last very long at all!
The group was shocked. How strong was this huge Golden Bird? The combination of their defensive spells was enough to resist a Super Spell for a while, yet it collapsed right away when trying to stop Giant Golden Bird's feathers, not to mention how wide the area covered by the feathers was...
”Run, quick!” Mu Bai yelled. There was nothing they could do apart from running!
”I f**king know that too, give me a speed boost, will you!?” Mo Fan yelled.
Luckily, Mo Fan and Heidi were not too far away from the passage, and had run as soon as they noticed something was not right. They made it to the passage just before a bunch of golden feathers landed in front of it!
The feathers smashed the bricks into pieces. Some of the feathers even punched through the door. The others quickly ran away in a panic!
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The group ran for more than ten minutes, almost reaching the entrance of the other chamber. They leaned against the wall, panting heavily. Their clothes were drenched in sweat.
”That thing... I don't think I saw it in Beijiang,” Zhao Manyan wheezed while catching his breath.
”Mm, I think it's the same level as the Sphinx,” Mo Fan agreed.
”That was so scary,” Heidi gasped, her face pale.
She felt like they were just a bunch of earthworms to the Giant Golden Bird. She would never forget the suffocating pressure the creature emanated when it was diving from the sky. Luckily, they had learned their lesson after stumbling into the Scorpion Lord Medusa. They knew how strong the guardians of the right chambers were, so they did not venture too far away from the entrance.
In simpler words, the tiny earthworms had only dug up to the surface at the entrance. They quickly dug their way back into the ground when they saw the giant Golden Bird, yet they still almost died to it!
”Shreev, are you sure there's a way to skip that creature? It's most likely Khufu's right-hand man,” Mo Fan had to ask.
”We'll have to see which chamber we end up in next,” Shreev said.
”Wait, don't you know which chamber it's going to lead us to?” Mo Fan asked.
”I can't say for sure. When we turned back after entering the Giant Golden Bird's chamber, it will lead us to a different chamber. The chambers are constantly changing, like a shuffling Rubik's cube. I have no idea how it's being shuffled, but after one or two chambers, I should be able to figure out what the sequence is again,” Shreev said.
”Let's head to the next chamber, then,” Mo Fan said.
”By the way, remember to probe around in the chamber first. We'll only fight the guardian when we know we can take it on. Otherwise, we will have to return to the passage to find another way,” Shreev said.
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There were at least a few hundred mummy chambers in the Great Pyramid of Giza. They were the nobles of Khufu's kingdom of the undead. The weakest of them were at least at the Commander-level, but there were many stronger creatures too!
They were treating the Advisor Mummy as the standard. If they stumbled into a creature that was weaker than the Advisor Mummy, they would defeat it and open up the doors so they could follow the route that Shreev came up with to skip the Giant Golden Bird.