Mystery: The Last Shepherd

Chapter 340 The Squad's Abnormalities

After being killed, the six-winged gargoyle's corpse quickly faded into pure stone and eventually vanished, leaving no trace of its spiritual essence. In the end, all that remained were the characteristics of three human-skinned phantoms.

"Damn it, they're just a bunch of fakes!"

The female warrior roared angrily, saying that their spoils weren't even enough to share among them. The others also looked grim; they had gone through a dangerous battle, yet the reward they received was disproportionate to their efforts.

Luze ignored them and looked at Sharon instead.

What's ahead?

He asked, not forgetting that his original goal was to explore what lay ahead.

“A passageway leads to the main burial chamber.”

Sharon replied, "There is no other way."

"Since there's only one path, how come you didn't run into these extraordinary creatures? It's understandable that the Shadow of Human Skin is good at hiding, but didn't you even notice these giant gargoyles?"

Zoroya's Strange Path.

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Sharon looked at him with a delicate, emotionless expression, silently confirming her suspicions—she had indeed not noticed. In other words, these gargoyles appeared out of thin air in the passageway and vanished without a trace after being killed.

The expressions on their faces turned somewhat strange.

"Is something like this even possible?"

The female warrior murmured.

“I’ve never heard of such a thing,” Best said, adjusting his glasses with a hint of agitation. “This tomb is unlike any I’ve seen before; it’s too strange.”

These mid-sequence extraordinary beings stood silently for a few seconds in the center of the dark tomb passage.

An atmosphere of unease was slowly spreading.

Should we continue forward?

After a moment, Sharon asked this question.

"I'm going!"

The female warrior gritted her teeth and gripped her greatsword tightly.

The others were also unwilling to return empty-handed, so the group proceeded along the dark passageway toward the main burial chamber.

On the way, Sharon pointed out the location where she had just encountered and killed the extraordinary creature, which was also empty.

"boom!"

Firelight emanated from Lu Ze's palm, illuminating the end of the passageway.

The stone door of the main burial chamber faces the passageway, and is inlaid with a grayish-white disc. The disc is divided into twelve sections and has a black pointer. Although it resembles a clock, the sections are not uniform in size, and half of them are painted black.

"This is the emblem of the Amon family!"

Best perked up and pointed at the disc, rambling on, "It's said that this clock-shaped coat of arms represents the power wielded by their family."

Lu Ze focused his attention more on the area below the emblem, on the surface of the gate, where a mottled stone carving depicted a simple design: within two horizontal lines stood five figures. Some wielded greatswords, some wore robes, and some floated in the air.
It appears that the scene depicted on the stone carving is precisely the passageway where they are currently located. Moreover, there are also sculpted figures of themselves!
"careful!"

Lu Ze shouted as he saw the patterns on the painting begin to change. Outlines were sketched out of thin air on the canvas, as if an invisible carving knife was sculpting them, eventually forming several enormous monster images.

The next instant, several gargoyles appeared out of thin air in the passageway and crashed to the ground. It was this stone carving that was playing tricks!

"Roar!"

Gargoyles roared and charged forward, engaging the group in battle. They appeared solid and powerful, indistinguishable from living beings. Moreover, similar monsters continued to be carved, filling the gaps in the stone-carved passageway.

"boom!"

Lu Ze knew that this fight would never end, so his body instantly turned into a fireball, traversing the distance of the tomb passage and arriving at the stone carvings at the entrance of the tomb chamber.

Only when he was up close to the stone carving did he notice more details.

"Ok?"

In a brief moment, he seemed to notice something strange—there were subtle differences in the stone carvings representing the five people. The other three had normal limbs, while the figure wielding the greatsword and the gentleman in the top hat both had a thin drag mark extending from their heads, like a worm's tail.

Is the stone carving too rough, or is there another reason?
But before Lu Ze could examine it closely, new patterns appeared on the stone carving. As if sensing danger, an invisible hand frantically swiped, and two crudely made monsters appeared near Lu Ze, attempting to attack him.

"brush!"

Without time to examine it closely, Lu Ze drew his magma sword and swept it across the stone carving, destroying all the patterns on it.

"laugh--"

An invisible aura seemed to emanate from the broken stone carvings, and the numerous gargoyles vanished instantly, as if they had never existed. Several extraordinary individuals remained in their fighting stances, but their attacks merely struck thin air.

"What the hell"

The female warrior, sword in hand, cursed and swore, seemingly without any sign of anything amiss. Luze carefully examined her head, then glanced at the middle-aged gentleman, Soroia; the "Mystic's" high intuition also found nothing wrong.

Is the stone carving misleading me?

Lu Ze thought to himself, but he remained vigilant. These extraordinary individuals were originally just a group that Sharon had temporarily assembled at various gatherings of extraordinary individuals, and it was difficult to ensure that they were truly reliable, or that they might attack each other after encountering a precious treasure.

The remaining four gradually gathered in front of the main tomb chamber.

Best wanted to examine the family crest on the door, but the warrior Kate stepped forward and pushed him aside, saying, "Move aside, I'll open the door."

She placed her hands on the stone door, the muscles on the back of her hands bulging, and the stone door slowly opened under her force.

"crunch-"

The stone door swung open heavily, and orange light poured out, illuminating the tomb passage.

There was light inside the tomb?

This is a tomb from a thousand years ago!

Looking inside, Lu Ze saw an extremely spacious tomb chamber. In the center of the chamber was a high platform with a black coffin on it.

The light in the tomb chamber came from the walls, where numerous lamp stands stood, with an asymmetrical number of white candles on either side. At the top of the candles, the flames did not flicker at all, as if frozen in a certain moment.

Along the path from the stone gate to the black coffin, there were many corpses lying on the ground. The corpses were dressed in a modern style, with some wearing top hats and uniforms, and others in workers' clothes. These people were likely the team that had previously explored the tomb.

How did they get in?

Best's question echoed the thoughts of the others. With so many dangerous monsters along the way from the antechamber to the tomb passage, it was impossible to guess how these people had managed to avoid those dangers and enter the tomb so easily, given that they appeared completely unharmed.

What's even more surprising is that these corpses all appeared to be extremely old!
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(End of this chapter)