However, the reality did not match his expectation. The sand snakes controlled by Chabakunka were too slow to catch up with the flying carpet. The stone door that was just opened was different from the exit of the underground palace. In front of it was not thick sand but solid stairs. The sand controlled by Chabakunka could not move to the stone door to block it immediately. The wall of sand was formed very slowly.
Riding on the magnetic flying carpet, Dorothy flew from one end of the underground palace to the other at high speed. When she passed by the altar, she ate a piece of cake and stretched out her hand to Nephthys, who was standing there. Nephthy also stretched out her hand, and when the flying carpet passed by, she and Dorothy were pulled onto the flying carpet. Together, they flew towards the stone gate, broke through the thin sand wall that was far from being formed, and entered the dark space behind the stone gate.
Then, Nephnis shouted again loudly.
"The Crown Prince is entering the refinement!"
After Nefernis shouted this, the huge stone door that was originally open suddenly paused, and after a slight pause of half a second, it began to close again. As it was not opened very far in the first place, the stone door would soon close again with a loud bang. At this time, Chabakunka, who was far away, could not help but become anxious and quickened his speed to rush towards the stone door. By the time the Sand Giant Lizard rushed to the stone door, the stone door had already closed completely with a bang.
With a dull sound, the huge sand lizard slammed headfirst into the closed stone door. Under the huge force, the lizard's head was directly knocked into the loose sand. However, even so, the stone door made of the Nether Cold Stone was still standing still without any damage.
Just like that, the Sand Monitor Lizard with its head cut off stood at the door of the bedroom, staring blankly at the heavy and solid huge stone door in front of it, without any other movement. After standing there for a few minutes, the Sand Monitor Lizard suddenly dispersed, turning into a large piece of loose sand and returning to the ground. The sand wall at the exit of the underground palace in the distance also collapsed suddenly, revealing the exit again.
After the giant lizard of the sand collapsed, Chabakunka, who existed in a possessed form, reappeared in the underground palace. Accompanied by two spirits of the wilderness, he walked slowly on the sand to the altar, where six bronze lamps were burning and the ceremony was as solemn as before.
With a solemn look, Chabakunka looked at the six ritual lights in front of him, then looked at the tightly closed heavy stone door in the distance, and could not help but snorted coldly.
“Baruch’s Ancient King Trial has a time limit. Those who fail to pass the trial when the time is up will be expelled from the bedroom. At that time, the door of the bedroom will automatically open.
"You... just entered another prison from one prison. I want to see how long you can stay in there."
Muttering, Chabakunka sat cross-legged on the altar, under the alert of the two spirits of the wilderness, closed his eyes and began to meditate silently, slowly waiting for the door of the bedroom to open again, waiting for the prey to reappear from the prison.
While Chabakunka was meditating, one of the six burning bronze lamps in front of the altar went out quietly.
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After rushing into the stone gate at the last moment, Dorothy immediately controlled the flying carpet under her to brake and slow down, turned her head to look at the door that was closing, and watched nervously the door closing at the last moment when the Sand Monitor Lizard rushed over. When the Sand Monitor Lizard's head exploded, sand poured in from the gap in the door and sprayed Dorothy and Nephnesse's bodies with sand, and some of it even poured into Nephnesse's face.
"Pah! Pah! Pah! There's so much sand coming in, pah! Pah!"
Neveu complained while spitting out the sand in her mouth, and at the same time Dorothy was slowly lowering the height of her flying carpet. When Neveu had almost spit out all the sand in her mouth, the flying carpet finally landed at the bottom and fell to the ground with a thud. When it touched the ground, Dorothy and Neveu both felt a deep chill.
"Hmm... Is this... the interior of Rahman's chamber? It's so dark, I can't see anything. I wonder if that Kapak's coffin-screaming thief... can break in."
Standing up from the flying carpet, Neveu glanced at the dark scene around her and murmured with worried anticipation, while Dorothy, who also stood up by patting her clothes, responded.
"That shouldn't happen. That guy had to go through a lot of trouble to perform a ritual in order to enter this bedroom. This proves that he can't force his way in. We should be safe here. Of course, it's only temporary safety."
Dorothy patted the sand off her body and said that using Rahman's bedroom as a temporary shelter was the solution Dorothy came up with when facing Chabakunka's difficult situation.
Chabakunka had almost completed the ceremony of opening the door to Rahman's bedroom. Only the last step was left to complete the ceremony and open the door to Rahman's bedroom, so Dorothy decided to open the door herself and enter the bedroom to take shelter temporarily.
Since it was expected that only Neveu would be in the underground palace, the royal sacrificial book had always been on her, so Dorothy acted as a cover to send Neveu to the altar to complete the ceremony, and then used a trap to delay the giant lizard of sand, so that she and Neveu could smoothly enter the bedroom and close the door. All of this was to allow Dorothy to find precious time to prepare countermeasures under the pressure of a powerful enemy. Although the coffin shaman was a powerful enemy, Dorothy was confident that as long as she gave herself enough time, she would be able to prepare a strategy to defeat the enemy.
"Huh... Anyway, let's take a look at the environment inside this bedroom first. If there is any danger inside, it will be fun..."
Dorothy took a long breath and began to grope in the darkness. After a while, she found her magic box, and then found a gas lamp from the magic box. After turning it on, the light began to burn in the lamp, and the surrounding environment began to be illuminated.
Under the illumination of the lights, Dorothy began to slowly see the surrounding environment clearly. She fumbled out more lights from the magic box, lit them up, and controlled them to float up under the magnetic force, flying to the surrounding space. Under the illumination of these lights, Dorothy could see the surrounding scene clearly.
This was a not too big space, the space was square and completely enclosed by huge black stones. The stones were extremely flat, and there were no carvings on the walls or the ground. All the stones emitted a slight chill.
In the center of the space, there is a large sarcophagus with a length of about two and a half meters. The sarcophagus is also made of the same black stone as the tomb chamber. There is not a single scratch on it. Around the sarcophagus, there is a huge magic circle.
The magic circle was dark red in color, with numerous intricately constructed symbols and secret codes related to "silence", which seemed to exude an evil aura. Five skeletons were scattered around the magic circle. Dorothy observed carefully and could see that the magic circle was drawn with solidified blood.
On one wall of the bedroom, there were also dried bloodstains, but this time there were no magic circles on it, but words in Northern Wu script. Dorothy slowly walked forward and carefully identified them, and found that many of the bloody words had fallen off. After Dorothy calculated and supplemented the words, she barely recognized part of the content.
"Confession... The sixth generation king's training ceremony, none of the eighty-seven heirs passed... The kingship is in crisis...
"A king must have great power. Power is the reason and foundation of being a king. Adus cannot be without a king. For the prosperity of Adus, for the long-term rule of King Baruch, and for the peace of the country, I have to commit a serious crime and blaspheme the first king with the evil rituals of the secret religion...
"Six priests of the royal palace..."
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