Mystery: The Last Shepherd

Chapter 341 This is... the Lord?
The corpses lying on the ground all had sparse white hair, dry, wrinkled skin with obvious spots, making them look like elderly people in their twilight years. They had no obvious wounds, appearing as if they had just died of old age.

—But no matter how you look at it, the team of explorers who entered the tomb shouldn't be a group of elderly people! The only reason for this situation can be that there's something fishy about this tomb.

Lu Ze subconsciously looked at the emblem on the stone gate, the clock that symbolized the power of the Ammon family.

Is time the power of the Ammon family?

Were the life force and remaining time of these explorers taken away by the tomb owner? As successors in exploring tombs, seeing the gruesome corpses of their predecessors truly evokes complex emotions.

Lu Ze glanced at the corpses on the ground a few times, then turned his gaze to the tomb.

He noticed that the murals had finally appeared. Inside the main tomb chamber, intricate and exquisite paintings covered all the walls, their colors extremely vibrant, just like the candles, remaining in the state they were in when they were first painted.

Luze gazed at the wall facing the tomb chamber, which was a large mural extending upwards to the dome. The main subject of the painting was a majestic, continuous mountain range, with a huge cross standing atop its main peak.

That cross was taller than a mountain.

Lu Ze was stunned for a moment, then looked at the cross and his expression became distorted.

In his delusions, he had seen similar images countless times—giant crosses, seemingly supporting the sky, planted in the mountains.

However, the cross on this mural differed somewhat from the one in his hallucination—the mountains were normal, not pitch black, and the cross was upright, not upside down. The cross radiated layers of illusory light, appearing incredibly holy, and it did not bear the terrifying and corrupt figure nailed to it.

At the base of the cross, a tall and noble figure can be vaguely seen standing.

This figure is the absolute center of the entire mural; the mountains lie at his feet, and the cross forms his backdrop. Winged angels surround him, devoutly offering their blessings. Chained giants kneel before him, and proud dragons bow their heads.
His existence seemed to be the truth and salvation of this world.

He is clearly a step further than the true god of sequence 0.

Lu Ze stared blankly at the blurry figure, which was only a vague outline.

"Is this the Lord?"

It is not the depraved and twisted god who turned believers into extreme madmen; nor is it the original creator in mythology who transformed into everything in the world and created everything from gods to mortals.

The being depicted in the mural is more like the light that once appeared in his hallucinations—the one who led the people out of the ancient times, defeated all the ancient gods, and brought peace and stability to the world.

It turns out that the Lord was not just a figment of my imagination, but a real being, or at least someone who existed—this Quaternary mural seems to prove it. However, in the current Fifth Age, these details are absent from historical records.

With a sense of trepidation and bewilderment at the hidden history, Luzer continued to examine the rest of the mural.

He saw that at the foot of the mountain range, two angels with twelve wings each carrying an infant were humbly making their way to the summit. The infant on the left had slightly curly black hair and jet-black eyes, while the infant on the right had pale golden hair and golden eyes.

These two infants are another central element of the mural. The theme of the painting is likely the birth of these two babies. Considering that the mural comes from the main burial chamber, it is very likely depicting the life of the tomb's occupant.

The fact that a twelve-winged angel could display such a posture speaks volumes.

In other words, if the ancestors of the Ammon family were the offspring of this "Lord", then which baby was Ammon, and who was the remaining baby?
Lu Ze continued to look at the mural.

His gaze was fixed on it, and the spiritual energy within him seemed to be churning violently. His body trembled, a buzzing sound gradually rose in his ears, and countless hallucinations surged and enveloped him. "Boom—"

Thus, the scene depicted in the mural became reality: on the majestic mountain, the holy radiance of that being shone upon the world.

"Praise the Lord, His love endures forever."

Joyful hymns filled the heavens and earth; angels sang and blew trumpets, blessing the birth of the Lord's child. They gazed upon the infant brought up from the foot of the mountain by two angels.

Lu Ze saw that the being moved its gaze, lingering on the baby on the right.

"Adam."

His voice resonated throughout heaven and earth, and the baby with pale golden hair radiated a holy light, receiving the Lord's blessing. The baby slightly opened his eyes, his golden pupils pure, holy, and flawless.

"Amon."

The being then looked to the other side and bestowed a name upon the infant with slightly curly black hair. The infant had jet-black eyes, which darted around cleverly after hearing the name, appearing even more lively.

So, is this black-haired guy Amon?
Lu Ze saw that young Amon's dark eyes were rolling around, then suddenly stopped and pointed at him, as if he had discovered Lu Ze's observation from outside of time.

Then, the little baby with slightly curly black hair smiled.

Lu Ze stared directly at the smile, unable to resist meeting the baby's gaze.
"call!"

Just then, a biting cold wind suddenly blew on the back of his neck, causing him to shiver and wake up from his hallucination.

Is it Sharon?
"Ahhhh!"

As Lu Ze was thinking this, he suddenly heard a desperate cry. He opened his eyes and saw that Best had appeared in the tomb at some point, his body being affected by an invisible force, aging rapidly. His life force and the passage of time in his body were being absorbed at the same time.

Not only Best, but the middle-aged gentleman Zorua had also collapsed to the ground, a huge wound covering his back.

He died too.

The one who killed these two was undoubtedly Kate, the female warrior who was fighting Sharon, wielding her greatsword with a whooshing sound.

It seems she launched a surprise attack while she was in a moment of madness, kicking Best into the tomb's sphere of influence and killing Zoroya in the process. With Luzer still in a daze, she only had Sharon left as an enemy.

Sharon's "Wraith" ability was affected by the opponent's "Dawn's Light." Although the two Sequence 5s temporarily maintained a stalemate in the battle, one side was clearly at a disadvantage.

That's why Sharon used the cold air to awaken Luze.

"boom!"

The female warrior was not flustered at all when she saw Lu Ze wake up. She immediately swung her greatsword and slashed at him!
(End of this chapter)