Chapter 696 Something Wrong with the Tomb



When the low roar sounded, Duncan's attention immediately shifted to the open space in the center of the square -

He saw that the mottled and old stone slab suddenly began to rise and fall like quicksand, and some huge structure gradually emerged from deep underground. At first, a gray-white spire appeared in his field of vision. After a moment, an ancient mysterious tomb that looked like a combination of a giant pyramid and a palace gradually appeared in his field of vision.

Solemn, silent and ancient, the "mausoleum" building made of some gray-white boulders stood quietly not far away, like a solidified time, reflected in the dim chaos. Duncan looked at the huge building rising from the ground in surprise. Driven by curiosity, he carefully observed its style and structure, but found that it did not match any architectural style he knew of the current city-state era.

It looked more like the buildings from the Cretan era that he had occasionally seen in some books.

The soul projections of the saints in various places in the square also quieted down, and countless eyes fell involuntarily on the huge pyramid tomb. A solemn and slightly tense atmosphere filled the assembly hall, making the scene silent.

Several minutes later, when Vanna and Morris began to frown in confusion, wondering if something had gone wrong, some movement finally came from the depths of the mausoleum, and the stone door that looked extremely heavy finally opened slowly with a low roar.

The door opened, revealing the dark corridor structure inside.

The soul projections gathered in the square stared at the gate. The deathly silence lasted for a long time, and finally gradually turned into slight noises and buzzing discussions.

Listening to the low-pitched discussions coming from all directions, Duncan realized that something seemed to have happened. He frowned and whispered to Vanna beside him: "What's the problem?"

"...The gravekeeper didn't show up," Vanna also lowered her voice, seeming to feel a little uneasy in her doubts. "Normally, the gravekeeper should have walked out of the gate by now!"

Duncan's expression gradually became serious.

As time went by, the ancient and mysterious mausoleum still stood quietly in the center of the rally, but the mausoleum keeper who was supposed to appear had not yet appeared in front of everyone - the whispers in the square were gradually spreading, and this unusual situation even made many people ignore "Captain Duncan" who appeared in the rally today.

Others, however, subconsciously turned their gazes toward Duncan.

Duncan ignored the gazes directed at him and walked straight to Helena.

"It seems that this is a situation you have never seen before," he said straight to the point, "Do you have any response plan next? If not, then I will go check this so-called 'mausoleum'."

"Wait a minute," Helena said immediately. After a brief thought, she turned to look at Rune and the others beside her, "... Let's go over and take a look at the situation first."

"Okay," Rune nodded first, then raised his eyes and gave orders to the soul projections gathered in the assembly hall, "The rest of you stay on standby in the square and don't get close to Vision 004."

After saying this, he turned around and walked slowly towards the majestic mausoleum not far away with Helena, Banster and Frame.

Duncan thought about it, and followed him. Rune heard the noise behind him and looked back. Duncan said casually, "I'll just go over and take a look. Don't worry, I won't light a fire."

Rune's expression was a little subtle for a moment, probably because he recalled the fire at the last moment of Silantis. Helena hesitated for a moment and then looked at Vanna. After a little hesitation, she nodded gently: "Vanna, you come too."

"Me?" Fanna was stunned for a moment, but quickly reacted and hurried to catch up.

Morris, along with the others, stayed in a "safe area" some distance away from the mausoleum, and watched with a little nervousness as the figures slowly approached Vision 004.

Duncan followed Helena and the others, slowly coming to the foot of the majestic gray-white pyramid and to the silent, open door.

The deep and dim corridor extended far away behind the gate. The dim lights dimly illuminated the outline of the corridor deep inside. The interior of the mausoleum seemed to have a space that was much wider and deeper than what it looked from the outside. The corridor seemed to have no end and there was no end in sight.

Frame bent down beside the gate, seemingly examining something carefully, while Rune pressed his hands on certain locations on the outer wall of the mausoleum. Near where his palms touched, a faint rune-like light emerged from the air and flashed in mid-air.

Helena and Banster seemed to be praying silently, or they seemed to be on guard against something.

Duncan looked at this scene with some curiosity and couldn't help asking, "What are you doing?"

"In ancient times, this 'Tomb of the Nameless King' had a history of being out of control. At that time, it randomly summoned the chosen ones all over the world, causing many terrible events. Later, the Four Gods Church at that time worked together to put a layer of shackles on this automatically running ancient 'vision'," Rune explained casually while checking the hidden runes around the tomb. "These contracts witnessed by the Four Gods set rules for the originally disordered 'summoning' behavior of Vision 004, which led to the current Swift Bell and Assembly System..."

Duncan raised an eyebrow. "Sounds like some kind of containment procedure?"

"It's just limited 'utilization'," Rune shook his head. "The anomaly cannot be contained, but by understanding its laws, we can minimize its harm and even put it to good use. Today's Anomaly 004 is still running non-stop like before, but we have found a way to obtain intelligence from it without being killed by it..."

Visions cannot be contained...

Duncan's expression was a little strange as he listened to Rune's casual words.

He thought of the Lost Homeland - strictly speaking, the Lost Homeland was actually in a state of containment, and he, "Captain Duncan", was the containment condition of the Lost Homeland.

But this exception happens to fit the "zeroth rule" of anomalies and anomalies...

Duncan shook his head, temporarily putting aside the irrelevant thoughts that suddenly emerged in his mind. At the same time, he heard Frame's deep voice break the silence: "It looks fine."

"Yes, everything looks normal," Rune also completed the preliminary inspection. The old elf stood up, took two steps back, raised his head and looked at the magnificent pyramid mausoleum in front of him. His expression was quite solemn. "At least... it looks like that from the outside."

"Everything is normal outside - so the problem can only be inside," Duncan said softly, and then walked to the main entrance of the mausoleum again, looking at the dim corridor inside the gate that seemed to have no end, "What other plans do you have next?"

Fram walked over, and under Duncan's somewhat curious gaze, the silent and tall Senjin Pope raised the scepter in his hand and tapped the ground three times with neither light nor heavy.

The next second, a blurry shadow suddenly split out from beside him, and in the blink of an eye it solidified and became another Fram.

"This is my historical incarnation from an hour ago." Frame turned and casually explained to Duncan, and at the same time as he finished speaking, the "historical incarnation from an hour ago" had already taken a firm step forward and crossed the door of Vision 004 under the gaze of everyone.

The tall figure walked forward in the dim light, and Vanna came to Duncan's side, watching it gradually reach the depths of the corridor with some nervousness. Then, she saw the figure suddenly stop at a certain position.

"Why did you stop?" Duncan turned his head and asked with some confusion.

However, Fram also frowned. Apparently, even he, the "summoner", didn't know why his historical incarnation suddenly stopped. He looked at the scene deep in the gate of Vision 004 in confusion, raised his hand and sketched a few runes in the air, as if trying to re-establish the connection with his incarnation. However, at this moment, a great sense of uneasiness suddenly surged into his mind!

Almost at the same time, the incarnation of history that was standing in the dim depths of the corridor shook slightly, as if slowly turning back.

Standing outside the door of Vision 004, Frame's face suddenly changed. He suddenly raised the Pope's scepter in his hand, and while canceling the summons to the incarnation of history, he immediately warned: "Be careful, pollution!"

The next second, he decisively cut off the summons and ordered the historical incarnation to disintegrate. However, the tip of the scepter in his hand only flashed a fleeting dim light. The tall incarnation standing in the corridor of Vision 004 did not dissipate at all. Instead, it shook slightly and continued to turn its head.

Like a strange corpse, the tall and pale figure turned his head, and the face that slowly turned in the shadow began to show horrible distortion and a chilling smile. In the dim light and shadow, the torn smile bloomed in the darkness like a madman's laughter, and layers of muttering, whispering and strange whistling appeared in almost everyone's ears in an instant!

This horrifying and bizarre scene made people's hair stand on end. Banster and others reacted immediately and prepared to deal with pollution and fight against powerful enemies in an instant - although the one who entered the tomb was only a historical incarnation, it was also the incarnation of the Fire Bearer Pope. The power that could pollute and corrupt him in an instant was obviously extraordinary!

However, at this moment, a tall figure suddenly took a step forward and stood in front of the door, blocking the sight of the "incarnation of history" who was slowly turning his head.

Layers of illusory flames rose from Duncan's body. Amid the crackling spiritual fire, a dark green wall of fire almost blocked the entire gate. He stood in the flames, staring at the figure who was standing motionless in the distance and had been contaminated by some force.

"Why don't you continue turning?"


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