Struggle in the Steam Age

Lawrence walked along the corridor beside the magic pool to the other side of the magic pool, and then he opened the interspatial bag so that the Book Charm who was determined to follow him hid it in, and then stepped on the stairs leading upstairs.

According to Lawrence's previous knowledge of mysticism, ordinary magic towers often arrange their control rooms and various functional rooms above the magic pool. But because I don't know the layout in this ancient pyramid and the large amount of liquefied magic power I saw just now goes up the pipe from the magic pool. So he went upstairs with a gun in one hand. One hand ready for magic. The whole person is in a state of extreme vigilance, ready to fight at any time.

It was quiet along the way, nothing happened. However, the exit at the other end of the stairs is a tightly closed stone door, with a piece of animal skin painted with bright red runes pasted on it.

After getting closer, Lawrence found that the hide looked very new, as if it had only been here for a few days. At the same time, the red runes on it are as bright as the ones just painted.

"What is this? The Buddhist stickers on the Five Elements Mountain?" Because this thing was just pasted there, and all the runes on it were not encrypted, so Lawrence, who was a spellcaster, quickly understood what this thing was and how to do it. use. As he complained, the only purpose of the animal skin in front of him was to seal the door from the outside and prevent the things inside from rushing out.

And it is very simple to remove this seal, just reach out and peel this thing off the wall. Obviously, this design is purely for the convenience of the sealer to unseal and enter the stone gate again.

Of course, this also shows that the person who designed this seal has no doubts about his ability to come back in the future, but judging from the current situation, his plan failed because of something he encountered.

After reaching out and removing the animal skin seal from the stone door, the stone door automatically opened inward. A small stone vestibule appeared in front of Lawrence.

This is a room made of regular large stone blocks, and the interior is carefully decorated with light yellow stone slabs. However, unlike the magnificent room downstairs, the walls and ceiling of this room are mainly murals of various daily life in the ancient Nile era painted with various mineral dyes.

However, the picture that should have been very harmonious and warm has now become tattered. Large pieces of decorative stone slabs were smashed to pieces on the ground, and the remaining part was mostly covered by black blood.

Below the blood, there were rotting corpses with only dry bones left. And each withered bone held a beautiful short sword made of steel, some of these short swords were horizontal on the cervical vertebrae, and some fell to the ground with the hanging arms.

Obviously these people committed suicide, and they were very determined to commit suicide. Because the blood was splashed out, and it splashed far away. Only a person who is determined to die will slash the dagger across his neck so hard, leaving such a bloodstain, and leaving the same cut on the neck bone.

"These remains should all belong to the people of Scarlet Sky." Lawrence endured the discomfort in his heart and came to a conclusion after examining the human bones in front of him. Although the bodies of the deceased had decayed, some things left beside their remains allowed Lawrence to successfully determine the identity of the deceased.

Even from the remains of the deceased, Lawrence found several invalid magic badges. And the words on these badges showed that the dead who fell here were not only members of Scarlet Sky, but also middle and senior personnel in Scarlet Sky.

"But why did they choose to commit suicide here?" With such curiosity, Lawrence checked the corpses on the ground. At the beginning, he didn't find any clues, but after opening a remains, he found some traces on the ground that seemed to be carved with a dagger.

There are not many words, and they look very messy. After simply rubbing all the words on the ground with the paper and charcoal carried in the space bag, Lawrence still got some important news from these few words.

"We can't get out, why did the leader do this?" "We succeeded, but is this the reward?" "Cheating, the leader is a liar, he left us and ran away—" The first few messages were all like this One is probably a kind of disbelief after being trapped here by the trusted leader, and then there are a lot of swear words that need to be silenced to express the indignation in my heart.

But at the end of the whole message, Lawrence felt his hairs stand on end, because those scratches, which were much deeper and more scribbled than the others, conveyed an extremely terrible news.

"After trying for a long time, we still haven't found a way to get out of here. In order to maintain everyone's morale, we chatted about the previous work. After communicating with each other about the work that everyone has done, we discovered a terrible fact, that It's just that everything we've been doing for the last few years is creating a taboo, a terrible taboo. Huh, we sure as hell."

At the end of the last text is a cloud of black blood, matching the corpses at the scene who apparently died of suicide. Lawrence quickly figured out what research these senior priests of the Scarlet Sky were supposed to be doing during their lifetime. Right after the research was successful, the leader of the Scarlet Sky trapped them here.

Since the previous research belonged to each person, these personnel did not know what the leader of the Scarlet Sky was doing. But when they got stuck here and got a chance to communicate, they realized they had made a huge mistake. So much so that he directly gave up the hope of escape and calmly chose death.

And now there is a stone door between the so-called taboo and Lawrence. After the [identification technique] inspection, this door needs a non-evil creature to input magic power that does not contain any dark and blood power. At the same time, some simple ceremonies should also be held. Obviously, the bones here, as the strength in the body of the high-level personnel of Scarlet Sky, obviously do not meet this requirement, so they lamented being trapped to death here.

"Do you think it's better for me to go in or not?" Lawrence opened the mouth of the space pocket and asked, and then roughly explained his previous discovery to the book charm hidden inside.

"This should be decided by you, my great master." Shumei said in a very rare serious tone, "You just have to choose what you want, but no matter how you choose, I will follow by your side."

"I see." Lawrence nodded, then sat in a place without remains and thought. Clearly, going forward is extremely risky. But if he went back, then all the gains this time would be almost zero, and then he could only hand over this precious astral plane to a certain church to avoid being harmed by this uncontrolled plane.

"After all, we still have to fight." After thinking for more than ten minutes, Lawrence made up his mind. If you want to achieve success on the extraordinary road, you must have the courage to take risks. Once you lose this courage, no matter how good the conditions are, it is impossible to go far on the extraordinary road. Not to mention that such an astral plane can provide enough resources for his path to transcendence, even if he has not found any transcendence-related resource output here for the time being.

Thinking of this, he stood up, then walked to the stone door and took a deep breath. Then he pressed his hands on the stone gate and began to input magic power.

With the input of magic power, complex hieroglyphs began to emerge on the stone gate. Lawrence discovered that the hieroglyphs were actually an elegant poem in praise of the harpy god.

Because of the previous gift from the God of Knowledge, Lawrence has mastered the use of this language. So as soon as his words appeared, he began to recite the above poem in an ancient language.

"Long live the Nile! Thou hast arisen upon the earth, come in safety, and waterth the earth unceasingly, and giveth life to all things upon the earth. The procession descended from heaven, master of the river, giver of the fertile land, the harpy god Ah, you brought life to every house—”

When the last word fell, the door opened silently inward. The entire pyramid and possibly the core of the entire astral plane appeared in front of Lawrence.