Chapter 251 Death's Minions (6400)

The hunting team that Rennes joined had not reached the ruins area yet.

On the other hand, in the dense pyramid area on the outskirts of the ancient kingdom of Monkle deep in the desert, a group of people are actively excavating the ruins.

It was a square temple with statues as high as 100 meters on all sides. Each statue was dressed in the same clothes and wore a crown, but their faces were different. It seemed that the sculptures were the successive kings of the ancient Monkel country.

On all sides of the temple, there are nine dark holes leading to the ground on each side.

At this moment, in front of the obelisk in front of the temple, George Rosas, the young lord of the "Black Wind Collar", and a group of core members are watching something.

In the open space not far away, a red-robed archmage holding a skeleton staff in his hand is setting up a magic circle, preparing to expel the curse. This person is none other than Bragg Hogg, the top magician in the "Cursed Domain" of Glory City.

Casting a spell to break the curse is a very complicated process, and everyone is a little bored.

The progress of the excavation of the ruins is not satisfactory, which also caused a lot of losses to the Knights of the Rosas family.

Several senior officials were whispering something.

"Thirty-six gates, we have just explored one passage and suffered such a heavy loss. If we want to fully explore it with our own strength, it is simply impossible in a short time."

"Yeah, not to mention those ubiquitous bugs, even those dog-headed monsters in the maze are too evil. They can only be killed after sucking human blood. I don't know how many there are in this tomb."

"That is the legendary hell creature, the minion of the god of death [Osiris]. Legend has it that it is formed by the condensed air of death, a pure elemental body. Only after swallowing the blood of a living person will it become a body of flesh and blood that can be killed body."

"But... to kill a monster, one has to die. How can we have so many slaves to fill this pit? But if we don't clear up those elemental monsters that are elusive, it is impossible for us to go deep into this mausoleum."

"Hey, who said that slaves must be slaves? As long as it's not our own people who go to die, anyone can go."

"oh?"

"Not now, probably tomorrow. The Duke has asked the territory to recruit idle hunters, five teams, a total of more than 30,000 people. The blood food should be enough to feed those monsters. Still Yes, haven’t those wild hunters on the periphery been clamoring to go to the ruins? Tomorrow, let them go in together and help us clean up those monsters.”

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The green-haired young man and his confidantes were still discussing something, but at this moment, the red-robed great mage who was "jumping the gods" suddenly let out a loud shout.

"Bring the 'Blood of the Cursed Spirit'!"

"yes."

As soon as the words fell, someone with a sharp knife walked towards the iron cage with a special inscription not far away.

In the cage, a thin little girl was looking at these strangers and trembling.

The white-robed mage holding the knife roughly pulled out her arm, stabbed her wrist with a knife, and released a large bowl of scarlet blood.

Not long after, the blood was handed to "Cursed Mage" Borg and splashed on the magic circle he had arranged.

Naletta, who was bloodletted, had a sickly pale complexion, her eyes trembled, full of horror.

But what no one noticed was that she looked at the temple with a dazed look in her eyes. In her memory, this place seemed familiar

After the bowl of blood was splashed on the magic circle, there seemed to be some kind of mysterious reaction, and the golden light flourished.

The filthy air around was instantly dispelled, and everyone present felt that the oppressive feeling in their hearts suddenly became clear.

And the most obvious thing is that the phantom ghosts that wandered around the temple every night before have disappeared completely.

"call"

Seeing this scene, the red-robed great mage breathed a sigh of relief, and seemed to be talking to himself, and seemed to be explaining something to someone else, saying: "The curse of this temple is finally resolved. If there is no such 'curse' Spiritual blood', if you want to break the curse of the mausoleum, I'm afraid it will take a hundred times more effort."

Hearing this, Young Master George asked curiously: "Magistrate Borg, is this mausoleum curse really so evil?"

Balage nodded, and said: "Those 'shadows of ghost soldiers' are actually cursed 'gathering images', which is a high-level curse method that has been lost. What's more, the temple on the ground and the underground palace below It’s just the entrance of the mausoleum, and the curse is so strong. If you don’t get rid of the curse, if you go deep into the mausoleum rashly, you will die.”

In his tone, there was a sense of awe for the ancient super powerhouse, and he said with emotion: "The curse of so many years has not dissipated, but I think how clever the method of arranging this underground palace to curse the super powerhouse back then is!" .”

"Curse" is far away from ordinary extraordinary people, and this is also a very small extraordinary sequence, with strange and powerful methods.

Everyone was confused when they heard this, but they all showed joy.

Everyone understands that those ancient people were definitely not idle in arranging so many methods on the mausoleum.

The more dangerous it is, the more it means that there must be a treasure in this underground palace!

At that time, Magister Balag glanced at Naletta who was locked in the rune iron cage not far away, and said: "I didn't expect to meet such a 'baby' this time. We really want to go deep into the mausoleum to be safe. , I have to bring this little curse girl with me."

The next day, several teams arrived at the temple one after another.

The "Prince Harper" team that Ryan was in was the last team to arrive, and it was almost dusk when they arrived.

The yellow sand ruins here have become a large-scale archaeological excavation site, and a large area of ​​nearby ground has been emptied of sand. The pyramid has been completely exposed on the ground, there are obelisks, strangely shaped kobold statues, and the remains of palaces of unknown purpose

It has to be said that although the lord centralization system is backward, it has an absolute advantage in excavating large relics.

If it were an ordinary hunting group, if they encountered such a large-scale relic, they would at most make a "robbing hole" and go back to touch the golden captain. And only the nobles can mobilize so many manpower and large excavating equipment in a short period of time to push them brutally.

Ren, who was in the crowd, was also quite surprised when he looked at the brightly lit hunting camp in front of him.

The tents are stretched into stretches. According to preliminary estimates, there are at least 50,000 to 60,000 people here.

And when he saw the large-scale temple, he was also surprised, "Is there really a temple?"

However, looking closely at the humanoid sculptures on the temple, it seems that it is not the kind of temple dedicated to worshiping gods that I have seen before.

Looking at those dark moving holes, Ren had an illusion in a trance, as if the temple was like a demon with grinning teeth, trying to devour the humans who broke in rashly.

On the open space outside the temple, there are piles of ancient cultural relics, most of which are golden products. Golden coffins, golden scepters, golden masks, golden goblets, golden kettles, as well as gems of various colors and countless coins.

These "trophies" are placed in the open air, which makes all the new hunters unable to move their eyes away.

At this time, everyone in the "Mountain Antelope Group" around Ren became excited.

"My God, they unearthed so much gold!"

"Haha, let me tell you. So many people are required to participate in the excavation. The scale of the ruins must be huge, as expected!"

"We might get rich this time. I just heard them say that this is just a small part of the underground palace. There are still a lot of unexplored places in the underground."

"Hey, we just need to find some gold artifacts, and we'll make a lot of money this time around."

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Not only the small group of "Mountain Antelope Group", but all the hunters saw the mountains of treasures, and there was a glint in their eyes. Everyone's face was flushed, and they couldn't bear the thought of entering the ruins immediately.

The ruins are right in front of them, as if as long as they dig, the treasures will be at their fingertips.

Moreover, not far away, a hunting team has already started to enter the ruins!

This made the wild hunters who were still waiting and watching unavoidably feel a little anxious, fearing that if they went in late, the benefits would be the same as being preempted.

Ren was not interested in gold artifacts. He was a little suspicious when he saw the piles of gold artifacts outside the temple, as well as those hunters who couldn't wait to enter the temple.

This feels like various large-scale fraud scenes in the previous life, with "childcare" and "prizes".

But the ruins are real, and so are the treasures.

It worked.

Seeing this scene, the fatigue of all the wilderness hunters from the day's journey was immediately swept away. No one complained about having to rest overnight, and they were ready to explore the ruins immediately after clamoring.

Those nobles seemed to be "reasonable" and planned to start intensive excavation tonight.

After getting the news, everyone in the "Mountain Antelope Group" couldn't wait.

After a brief discussion, everyone agreed to enter the ruins tonight.

Now that he was about to travel, Captain Bart naturally wanted to ask Ren, the only outsider, and said, "Brother Nicholas, we plan to go into the ruins now, how about you?"

After all, this exploration must be full of dangers. There is only one Sister Pasha in the regiment who is a medical professional. With one more doctor, the chance of survival will be higher.

"sure."

Ren nodded and readily agreed.

Originally, he came for the temple.

Although it was his first time here, if anyone knew what was going on in this temple best, it was him.

Because, he can understand "Munkel's ancient language"!

In addition to the pyramids and temples, there are some obelisks standing around the ruins.

I don't know what kind of material this kind of stele is. It looks like gold but not gold, like jade but not jade. Even though the surrounding pyramids have been weathered to seven or eighty-eight, they are still very well preserved.

The point is, this thing is engraved with clear ancient characters.

These words are incomprehensible symbols in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of Ren, they can be read out.

Each obelisk is engraved with the main deeds of a king during his lifetime.

Then Ren looked at a few pieces, and immediately had a general understanding of the well-preserved timeline of the ancient Monkel country.

"The Temple of Pallas?"

He looked at the name of the temple on the stele, showing a strange look.

The surname of Pallas is the surname of [Thunder Nightmare] Aruret, who ranks thirty-sixth among the "Seventy-two Generals".

Looking at the most conspicuous obelisk again, the glorious deeds of the Pallas XV recorded on it, it is impressively the "law of thunder" god general Aruret.

It turned out that the god was actually the king of a country!

Before the "corpse tide" attacked the city, the cultural relics brought out by the living corpses really pointed here!

Ren and the "Mountain Antelope Group" lined up and began to enter the ruins.

Walking all the way, looking all the way, he also matched the number of the sculptures at the entrance of the temple. From "Pallas I" to "Pallas XVI". The deeds of each king are recorded.

Of course, I also saw the warning on the stone tablet: [Pallas royal family mausoleum, trespassers will be cursed and perish].

Ren didn't pay much attention to this warning.

After all, he has a "intelligent brain", and all energy intrusions that affect the body will be revealed, and he will definitely not be inexplicably tricked.

The essence of the curse is the invasion of some special negative extraordinary forces.

Not to mention that his own healing ability can solve most of the negative extraordinary energy, but the various high-level potions he carries on his body, and the evil-proof props that Elder Coleman got from where, are enough to deal with most of the curses.

Just talking about the ability to deal with curses, no one present is probably stronger than him.

There was a long queue at the sixteen entrance ruins of the temple, and noble guards from the Rosas family were distributing bracelets at the entrance.

Before each entrance, someone is doing a simple "science introduction".

"The curse has been broken by Master Balag Magister. You can enter the ruins with peace of mind. But there are still some bugs and monsters in the underground palace, and the risk is very high. We don't force anyone, hunters who are willing to enter the ruins, come to me Receive a [Evil Resisting Magic Bracelet]."

"There are very complicated maze passages on the surface of the underground palace, please be sure to observe the passages carefully"

"After coming out of the ruins, all items must be inspected, and our Duke's Mansion has the priority to buy."

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The guard's voice was loud, and he didn't seem to have any coercion, everything was "voluntary", and he thoughtfully prepared magic bracelets for everyone to avoid the curse.

Even, in order to let the wild hunters enter the ruins with peace of mind, the senior members of the "Rosas family" led their own teams and entered the ruins first.

Ren didn't listen to those people fooling around, he was planning to go anyway.

His gaze had been wandering among the crowd, and he naturally saw those striking red-robed archmages and high-level transcendents. Most of these guys are well-known "celebrities" in Glory City, and the system has identified some of them.

"One fifth-level mage, three fourth-level wizards"

Ren silently counted the existences that threatened him.

The costumes of the mages make it easy to identify their ranks at a glance. As for transcendents of other professions, some of them can be generally identified through their equipment.

And I glanced around, fortunately, I didn't see any of the top supernatural beings like "Great Master" Rocky Refar.

Those guys might be hiding, maybe in the ruins.

But Ren felt that the most likely reason was that he wasn't here.

Now "knowing" that Bazel and the others might be nearby, those guys probably wouldn't dare to go to the grave rashly.

Then, among the group of people who first entered the temple, Ren saw an acquaintance, and his pupils shrank slightly.

"Huh"

Looking around, Naleta, a little girl from the "Curse Clan", was being bound by a rune iron chain, and led by a white-robed mage into a passage in the temple.

Ren frowned.

Although he knew that the fate of the "Curse Clan" was hard, no matter how hard he tried, he would not die easily. But seeing Naletta being led like a slave, her gaze turned cold.

Not just this acquaintance, in another team under the banner of "Sunflower Chamber of Commerce", Ren also saw another familiar face, also held by chains.

He looked slightly surprised: "Ganix? Is he still alive?"

However, apart from Gannix, Ren didn't see Catherine, and he didn't know if she was killed or escaped.

Moreover, the president, Mrs. Phoebe, and the guy suspected of Umm were not seen in the team.

"Why are those guys taking Ganix to explore the ruins?"

Ren just had doubts in his heart, but he suddenly figured it out.

Although Ganix's Transcendent rank is not high, he is a genuine "ancient civilization scientist" who has in-depth research on the Monkel civilization.

"It should be that those guys thought he was still useful, so they didn't kill him."

Ren thought of this and looked back.

Because, at this time, those guards had already handed out the [Evil Resisting Magic Bracelet] to him.

Ren followed the "Mountain Antelope Group" into one of the thirty-six gates of the temple.

The ground was pitch black, and everyone lit torches and filed in.

Walk through a long sloping shrine, and then enter a large and unexpected underground palace, where there are stairs leading to the ground.

As soon as he entered the temple, Ren did not take it lightly.

His eyes carefully scanned every corner of the temple, and the system automatically scanned and identified everything here. There are some mottled murals on the walls, but most of them have oxidized and peeled off, and it is hard to see what the paintings are. On both sides of the Shinto stand a strange stone sculpture of monsters, with jackal heads and human bodies.

As soon as they entered the tunnel, without the constraint of queuing, those impatient wild hunters rushed down the stairs in the darkness ahead. It seems to be afraid that if you go late, the baby will be taken away by others.

Those who are impatient are mostly inexperienced newcomers.

The more experienced hunters are, the more cautious they are.

Captain Bart belongs to the kind of experienced veteran hunter. He didn't rush to the front, but led the team members to explore carefully all the way forward.

This kind of underground palace, not to mention the secret passages of the mechanism, is that the bugs and "monsters" that the knights reminded me before have not seen any of them now, so I must not be careless.

But he could hold his breath, and the young members of the team couldn't hold it anymore.

Down the stairs, into the claustrophobic passage.

Not long after walking, the passage saw some broken clay pots, gold silk coffins, and even a few coins that were left behind in the yellow sand, and some traces that were obviously left by the removal of utensils.

Presumably this must be the person who passed by before, who has already scraped it and removed all valuable things.

Seeing this scene, a young member of the regiment spoke anxiously and asked, "Leader, why don't we go in quickly? If we walk slowly like this, I'm afraid we won't even have a mouthful of soup in the end."

"Yeah, the good things are preempted by those fast guys"

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Hearing this, Bart shook his head with a smile and said: "If the treasure is so easy to get, how could those nobles give up such a cheap thing? Don't worry, judging from the scale of this underground palace, the ruins must be bigger than we expected. The ones are bigger, and they are not so easy to be excavated. Although those who go in first may get the first-hand treasure, but is it really obtained? If you can walk out of this ruin alive, you will earn it."

"But."

Although everyone understands the truth, seeing the baby being taken away first, those young members are still a little impatient.

Seeing this, Bart said again: "Didn't you see that no one is in a hurry to see those large hunting groups? Especially the official hunting groups of the Duke's Mansion, have you not noticed that they came in ahead of us, and now they are falling behind us? "

"Those guys are waiting for us to go to mine."

After a pause, Bart said again with a serious expression: "I brought you to hunt wilderness to make a fortune, and I also want to take you out alive. From now on, everyone pays full attention to organs and unusual movements. We Be wary not only of monsters and bugs, but also of your colleagues!"

"Yes, Captain."

Everyone agreed in unison.

Bart is the only second-order transcendent in the regiment, and he is still very authoritative in the "Mountain Antelope regiment".

With his explanation, everyone didn't say anything more.

The team members can scold, but as the "foreign aid" doctor, he has to take care of other people's opinions.

Turning his face, Bart also noticed the carving of Ren in the research corridor, and he was relieved to see his calm look.

He smiled and asked, "Brother Nicholas, you seem to be very interested in these carvings?"

Ren looked back and responded with a smile: "Yes. Although I am a doctor, I also have some research on the Monkel civilization. I am looking at what is carved on it."

Bart was a little surprised, "Oh? You still study ancient civilizations? That's great. Can you see what's engraved on it?"

Ren shook his head: "I don't really understand it. But after I analyzed it, the pattern on it seems to express that there is a monster guarding this mausoleum. I think we'd better be careful."

He shrugged his shoulders as he spoke, but he understood the content. The same content was written in many places on the wall: [The messenger of death 'Osiris' protects this tomb, and they will make intruders pay in blood. 】

Hearing this, everyone in the "mountain leader group" didn't care, showing such an expression.

Bart responded politely: "Well, you really have to be careful."

understand?

Naturally, it is impossible for anyone to understand.

After all, the Monkel civilization is a time-dated civilization, and no one in the two empires can decipher this kind of writing.

And this relic is probably the most complete one excavated in history, and it is also the one with the most written records.

Maybe someone will interpret some of the content in the future, but not now.

What's more, wild hunters are not archaeologists. What they care about is the real treasure that can be held in their hands, not the content of these murals and texts.

Even before entering the temple, Ren and the others knew that the underground ruins were huge and had a complex pattern like a "maze".

But after walking for so long, they are still in the dark and cramped corridor, which no one expected.

And the farther you go, the more and more forks in the channel.

Gradually, there were no traces of other hunters before or after them. It is very confusing that there are thousands of people coming in from one door, but they are gradually disappearing.

Before entering the underground palace, Ren never worried that he would "get lost".

No matter how complicated the maze is, the brain will automatically record all the distance he has traveled. In case of danger, he felt that he could return the same way.

But gradually, he felt something was wrong.

This corridor is a bit weirdly long, and the system has recorded a walking track of more than ten kilometers. This has gone far beyond the coverage of the ruins on the ground.

However, they haven't seen the end yet, as if the tunnel is endless.

Not long after, a group of people came to a stone room again.

Ren finally knew where the strangeness in his heart came from.

This kind of stone chamber less than ten square meters was normal. There was such a room every hundred or ten meters in the corridor. Moreover, no matter what the sculpture text is, they are all the same, and there is no difference in appearance.

But in this room, Ren found something was wrong.

No, to be precise, the "intelligent brain" found something was wrong.

Because of this stone room, they have been here before!

Although the stone room looked the same to the naked eye, the "Intelligent Brain" found through comparison that this stone room was exactly the same as the one they had walked through before!

There are no identical leaves in the world, and it is impossible to have identical stone chambers.

This can only show that this stone room is the one they walked through before.

But the problem came immediately.

Obviously the group of people did not go back, why did they walk into a stone room they had been to before?

Last month’s monthly ticket plus change has not yet been repaid by the fifth change, and the daily change is less than 8000, and it should be able to be paid normally in the last two days.