1604 Khufu, Be Ready For Your Punishment! (2/2)
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”I'm done with the calculations. If you rotate the pointer to here, it will point the deathlight at the Island of Oblivion!” Shreev declared.
”I'll do it,” Mo Fan volunteered. He looked at the white pointer on the compass.
It was around a meter long. Mo Fan tried rotating it to the spot Shreev mentioned.
”Ugh!” Moving the pointer was harder than Mo Fan had expected. He was struggling to rotate it.
”What's happening? I can't rotate it,” Mo Fan said.
”Try harder,” Shreev said.
Mo Fan used a greater force this time, but the pointer still did not budge still. The others began to look gloomy.
”Seriously? We've tried so hard to get here, yet we can't even move the pointer? Is there some kind of magic formation on it? It doesn't look like there's any magic on it. It doesn't make any sense!” Zhao Manyan exclaimed.
”It's not protected by magic. I already checked it. Strange, why can't you rotate it? Mo Fan, try again with a greater force. Use your Space Magic too,” Shreev suggested.
Mo Fan nodded. He applied the Space Magic to his left hand to increase his might, and tried rotating the pointer again. It did make some noise, but it did not move in the direction he was trying to rotate it into!
Mo Fan's forehead was covered in sweat.
He might only have a left hand, but it still did not explain why he had failed to move the pointer. There had to be some other secrets about the Underworld Compass...
”What should we do now? If we can't move the pointer, we won't be able to manipulate the deathlight, which means our initial plan to leave this place isn't going to work,” Meos blurted out worriedly.
Meos began to panic, she was losing hope. To think that something like this would happen after they had come so far...
”I thought we were done here, but...” Mo Fan let out a sigh.
Everyone fell silent. No one spoke for a long time, all overwhelmed by despair.
”Say, did you try moving it in the other direction?” Heidi suddenly suggested.
”The other direction? You mean in the counter-clockwise direction?” Mo Fan said.
”Yeah.”
”If I can't spin it in the clockwise direction, I doubt it's going to move in the opposite...” Mo Fan rotated the pointer in the counter-clockwise direction while he was talking.
The pointer immediately moved as soon as he touched it, moving across two markings along the edge.
Mo Fan's expression froze as soon as the pointer moved.
The eyes of the others widened too. They looked at the pointer before staring at Mo Fan.
”Are you seriously telling me you didn't even try moving it in the opposite direction?” Mu Bai looked at Mo Fan like he was a retard.
”Ugh...” Mo Fan did not know how to explain himself. He quickly moved the pointer around half the circle to the spot Shreev had mentioned.
The Underworld Compass immediately glowed with a serene blue light when the pointer reached that specific spot.
The blue light rose into the darkness and bounced back as if it had hit a mirror. It then refracted to a higher spot before bouncing back again!
It kept going for some time, resulting in a brilliant pattern spread across the place. It looked similar to a magic spell, made up of Star Orbits, Star Patterns, Star Constellations, and Star Palaces!
”Did it work?” Heidi asked in disbelief, staring at the beautiful light.
”It seems like it...” Mo Fan murmured, also staring at the display.
”Mo Fan, your intelligence has successfully lowered the standards of the Great Pyramid of Giza. We might have been able to accomplish the mission way earlier if you weren't leading the team. Ah, we are finally done here!” Zhao Manyan proclaimed.
Mo Fan ignored Zhao Manyan's insult. He had something to declare himself!
”Khufu, be ready for your punishment from the heroic spirits of our country; you asked for it!”