Chapter 317 Have you found the imperial mausoleum now?
Four days later.
Loon Heights.
A dark forest marked on the map as "Howling Woodland".
The surroundings are filled with black fog, and the trees are as dry as iron.
There was a smell of death and decay in the air.
In front of the team, a three-headed dragon with red, brown, and green dragon heads was breathing out flames, burning the surrounding trees with howling screams.
Looking closely, there are strange human faces on the burned trees. They were burned by the dragon's breath until they looked hideous, and streams of fireflies that looked like will-o'-the-wisps sprouted from the tree trunks.
This three-headed dragon is none other than the transformed Prince Salo.
On his own, he was able to overwhelm the fighting momentum of hundreds of mercenaries around him.
Because this is the graduation test of the Royal Academy, the assessment results will directly affect the graduation grade.
The students also made no secret of their methods, killing all kinds of people.
Beside Prince Salo, the young female mage holding a staff of legendary quality was equally impressive.
This is Betty, the princess of the Black Dragon Kingdom.
Also a fifth-level card master, [8 of Clubs-Element Controller].
The dragon is a natural master of magic, and the dragon-born card master has also inherited this bloodline talent.
Therefore, the Southern Continent has a large number of card masters who are proficient in the mysteries of elements.
The royal family members of the Black Dragon Kingdom have super rich black dragon blood, which makes Princess Betty born with super high affinity to dark elements and understanding of laws.
With the blessing of a wealthy princess, the cards are thrown around for free.
She raised her hand and cast the dragon language annihilation spell, harvesting monsters in large areas.
In the other triangle position, there is Kaili, the second young master of the "Crimson Duke" family of the Red Dragon Kingdom. He is a fourth-level black knight with a dragon body and nearly invincible defense.
Wearing heavy armor, he rampaged among the tree monsters with unparalleled bravery.
On the battlefield, the three people were the most popular.
This is a huge trial group with a total of more than 8,000 people.
In order to achieve good results, graduates of the Royal Academy also chose to travel in groups.
Prince Salou, Princess Betty, and this Kaili.
These three people are among the top five in this graduation trial group.
In order to achieve better trial results, they chose to join forces.
The mercenaries and adventurers hired by the three are also the elite in the entire camp, and together they form a very strong fighting force.
This is the strongest among the more than ten trial teams.
So in the past few days, the team has been pushing almost all the way.
When we arrived at the Howling Woods, we encountered a difficult group of monsters for the first time.
Ji Xun also saw the exaggerated combat power of the three of them for the first time.
As a non-combatant, "Shaun" does not need to participate in the war.
He took the opportunity to observe everything carefully.
Various relic-level equipment, arcana-level spells, dragon language secrets.
The royal family’s methods are much richer than those of ordinary adventurers, and this represents the pinnacle inheritance of Talon’s glorious civilization for three thousand years.
This also opened the eyes of Ji Xun, a card master from the Eastern Wasteland.
From behind the three people's combat power that far exceeded the same level, he saw the extraordinary system of the system, the high-quality demon marks and professional cards, and the extraordinary power of the dragon's spell.
Ji Xun’s eyes also stayed more on Prince Salo.
Seeing that guy killing everyone, even though he had so many great opportunities around him, he sincerely sighed: "This guy is really strong."
Saluo is a rare fellow practitioner of the third path.
The three dragon heads respectively master the extraordinary power of the three pathways of strength, flame, and order.
The understanding of the law is still so high, far beyond the average fifth level.
This guy's exaggerated combat power is largely derived from several theosophy professions secretly passed down by the Red Dragon royal family.
This is the fifth-level special career card of the [6 of Spades - Order] sequence - [Three-Headed Golem·Holy Dragon Iron Guard].
This is what Ji Xunyan is keen on.
The name of this sequence is not a secret to the outside world.
You can get a rough idea by asking around a bit.
Ji Xun even knows why this guy chose this sequence.
He had learned from Aragorn before that certain career sequences could be advanced.
And [K of Clubs-Pope] is a high-level path to at least mastering order + royal power.
[6 of Spades-Order] is exactly the transition sequence of [Pope].
This can be regarded as a secret of the royal family.
But when Ji Xun saw this, he didn’t think of royal power.
The corners of his mouth curved slightly, and he thought in his mind: "This professional card suits me very well."
Ji Xun had been thinking about his fifth-level advancement before.
When he advanced to the fourth level, he communicated with Master Merlin about the choice of subsequent advancement directions.
The advice given by the master was that Ji Xun's physical body was already strong enough and his foundation was solid, so he could give due consideration to his warlock abilities.
Such a multi-dimensional improvement will maximize the level's combat power.
But if it was just to advance to the "wisdom" sequence, Ji Xun felt that it was a bit of a waste of his JOKER talent.
Until I saw this [Three-Headed Demonic Statue·Holy Dragon Iron Guard] in front of me.
Isn’t that just right?
The three extraordinary elements of elements, flesh and blood, and wisdom are present.
Couldn’t be more ideal.
Sure enough, it has to be a royal family.
The best extraordinary resources are in the hands of these guys.
On the outside of the team, three noble young masters led a group of mercenaries to fight fiercely.
In the center of the team, a group of doctors, staff officers, maids and other non-combatants gathered together to wait for orders.
The situation was great, and the group of people started chatting without a word.
"Old Fu, what kind of monster is this? I've never heard of it."
"[Human-faced Dryad] is said to be a necromantic monster formed by the fusion of remnant souls and old trees that are more than a hundred years old. . It can only be formed in places where the aura of death is extremely strong. This place is so evil~ I don’t know why His Highness chose this road to go to the assembly coordinates announced by the academy. It is obviously better to take other roads." br>
“Brother Sean, you are well-informed, do you know what’s going on?”
“I do know a little bit. But that’s hard to say.”
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Of course Ji Xun knew why they took this route.
Because among the information that a colleague sold to Prince Salo before, there was a map that the gravedigger found [pointing to the mysterious treasure].
Although Ji Xun didn't get the map.
But after walking this way and deducing a bit, I guessed the route the team took. It was most likely the route pointed on the map.
Moreover, this direction happened to be the direction in which he speculated that Augustus’s mausoleum would be.
It’s not surprising that Prince Salou would choose to go this way.
While chatting, several people saw the young swordsman wearing a slave collar and holding a fishbone rapier among the tree demon monsters.
"But having said that, that slave from the Eastern Continent is very powerful. What about his swordsmanship? He can jump several meters in the blink of an eye? He is obviously only the fourth level, but he has the fourth level disaster level dryad in his hand. He was stabbed to death with just one sword. His method was really evil.”
“It’s the ‘Sword Intention of Time’. It’s normal for ordinary people to not understand it. I don’t know how that guy practiced it. It’s such a gift to have encountered the mystery of a high-level law like the Law of Time.”
“Although the card masters in the Eastern Wasteland are not high-level, they have a large population, so it is not surprising that there are a few with extraordinary talents. . It is said that many people died when the slave-catching team captured him. He was finally restrained by the Sixth Level and later sold to His Highness the Nineteenth Prince for a good price."
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Ji Xun narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at it.
The ghost-like young man is none other than Che Er.
Old man Xu was arrested, and of course he was also arrested together.
However, because of his strong combat power, Che Er became a member of the slave guard instead of cannon fodder.
The relic-level thin sword in the second hand of the car was the [Flash Heart-piercing Sword] given to him by himself.
Ji Xun looked at it with emotion.
When I first met him, he was just a slightly immature swordsman apprentice.
Now he has grown into a very powerful swordsman.
Ji Xun narrowed his eyes as he looked at it.
Nothing to worry about at all.
Che Er can follow Old Man Xu for so long without dying.
His fate is naturally not that easy to die.
As for Old Man Xu
Ji Xun glanced at it and didn’t think much more about it.
Unsurprisingly, as the battle was about to end, a grey-faced old man crawled out from a pile of dead branches.
A lot of cannon fodder died, and the old man looked embarrassed, but he was okay at all.
Same as always.
[Human-faced Dryads] gathered into a large forest, and the strongest lord was Level 5 Disaster.
This is an almost impenetrable place of death for a small adventure group.
But for Ji Xun and his large team of more than 8,000 people, it was almost overwhelming.
After the monster lord was killed by Lorne and others, the battle came to an end.
Doctors entered the scene and began to treat the wounded.
Others clean up the battlefield.
But Prince Salo seemed determined to find something, and ordered a careful survey of every corner of the forest.
Although everyone didn't know what was going on, they could only follow orders.
Without the obstruction of monsters, this carpet search is very efficient.
Not long after, someone suddenly shouted loudly.
“We found the entrance!”
“Your Highness, there is a robbery cave here. It looks like it was left by a gravedigger.” “Hahaha, we are rich! There are many in the cave. Ancient relics! ”
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The plot suddenly reversed, from adventure trials to excavation of ruins.
No wonder the hunters are so excited.
These aristocratic young men are very willing to spend money, and there is a share of the treasures discovered during exploration.
As soon as he finished speaking, a group of people ran over in a group and happily dived through the hole covered with dead branches.
Ji Xun was not surprised when he heard this.
He knew that there was a high probability that he had found the "mysterious treasure coordinates" on the map.
After all, there are almost no large-scale ruins found in the entire Rune Highlands, only monsters.
Now that artificial traces have been discovered, we are off to a good start.
Just as I was thinking about it, a cautious voice came from my ears: "It's not easy to gather such strong undead energy. I'm afraid there are a lot of undead monsters."
Speak It was a middle-aged man with gray hair.
Call "Old Fu".
Ji Xun also looked slightly sideways as he listened, and there was a hint of amusement in his eyes that was not easily detectable by others.
According to Lao Fu himself, he is an [archaeologist] and knows a lot of strange knowledge, so he was hired in the team.
They were all non-combatants. They had many exchanges along the way and became familiar with each other.
However, Ji Xun felt a crisis in this guy.
Not everyone is a perfect actor.
Old Fu is indeed a knowledgeable archaeologist as he said, and he has not revealed any flaws.
Normal people can't see his abnormality.
However, Ji Xun is different.
In "I am the world", the logic of everything is connected.
Behind one lie, it takes countless lies to fill the logical flaw.
Ji Xun is now very proficient in this magical and mysterious method.
Behind this seemingly perfect identity story, after some deduction, he found some clues.
Ji Xun was basically certain that Lao Fu was a secret guard of the royal family.
Accordingly, this guy may also have noticed someone lurking.
Ji Xun was very confident and it was definitely not him who was exposed.
If you are not discovered, then it will be someone else.
This is very interesting.
Putting aside the struggle for royal power in the Southern Continent, there are probably political enemies of Prince Salo in this team, and it is not surprising that there are spies lurking;
But in the Eastern Continent.
There are only a few Several suspect targets.
Unfortunately, they are all Ji Xun’s enemies.
The inheritance of the Bai family continues, and now he is the national advisor of the Oran royal family.
Ji Xun didn't think that the new king Arthur would watch his ancestral tomb being excavated by the people from the Southern Continent.
But it cannot be stopped from the front.
There is no more suitable way to lurk than the Bai family.
So Ji Xun suspected that there were probably people from the Bai family in this expedition team.
With this thought, in the past few days, he had used his identity as an intelligence dealer to give the old man hints about the Bai family's lurking methods from time to time.
Ji Xun thought that there should be some sparks between the two sides.
"Your Highness, there seems to be an underground palace down there, very big!"
"Oh my God, so many relics!"
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Not long after , the first batch of mercenaries who went underground brought back exploration information and a large number of ancient items.
The archaeologist Lao Fu was also called over.
After some identification, he immediately confirmed that those rusty metal weapons and broken clay pots were from the post-Talon period.
And it is a burial object.
This means that the underground is really a mausoleum.
Now everyone is excited.
There were many nobles in the Talon period and there were many tombs.
To really excavate a tomb is like encountering a gold mine for an adventurer.
However, when Ji Xun heard the news, he was slightly surprised: "It's so easy to find it?"
Now there is a news confirmed from the side of Nan Jing's mouth, Lu The Highlands are really the location of the tombs of the royal family of Augustus.
There is absolutely no chance of an ordinary tomb near the royal mausoleum.
In other words, even if the underground palace below is not a royal tomb, it must be an ancient relic with important connections.
Ji Xun originally thought it would take a lot of effort to find it.
But now.
Have you found it yet?
It’s so easy that it feels like you’re lucky.
Others have not realized how special this mausoleum is.
But Prince Salo came here for the royal mausoleum.
He immediately ordered everyone to go underground.
The news was not allowed to leak out, even Ji Xun and other support staff also followed.
The space underground is very large.
It's really like a huge underground city.
The underground palace is supported by various huge pillars, with the highest floor height being one or two hundred meters high.
You can't see the end at a glance.
Although many places have collapsed, it is still extremely spacious.
Thousands of people like Ji Xun came in and spread out, but they didn't feel crowded at all.
The assassin climbed up the stone pillar briskly and lit the ever-burning lamp on the high wall of the tomb.
In an instant, the entire underground palace lit up with orange light.
An extremely spectacular scene came into view.
As soon as the lights were illuminated, everyone's faces showed expressions of horror.
“Oh my god, what kind of tomb is this!”
No one present had ever seen such a large tomb, and they were all shocked by the scene before them.
This is a tomb underground palace with a strong Talon period style. The whole body is made of huge dark yellow stones.
Huge guard stone statues a hundred meters high stand everywhere in the underground palace, majestic and solemn.
The walls are covered with exquisite murals with bright colors and delicate brushwork.
The content of the murals records the daily life, war stories, myths and legends of some people during the Talon period.
The characters are lifelike, making people feel as if they are seeing a vivid historical scroll unfolding, allowing people to personally touch the glory and mystery of Talon civilization.
Everything in the underground palace seems to be built for the gods.
Everything in the field of vision is ten times the size of normal human objects.
Human beings are as small as ants in this ancient monument.
This also made everyone feel an inexplicable sense of awe and admiration.
Everyone was excited when they saw the scene in front of them.
But in Ji Xun's trembling eyes, there was a hint of doubt: "Have you really found the royal tomb?"
It is most likely true.
The reason for this idea.
Because he has seen this style before.
The "Grand Cemetery Maze" extra-dimensional space on the outskirts of Innocence City has exactly the same style!
And according to Ji Xun's understanding of history, the size of this mausoleum is definitely not that of an ordinary noble mausoleum.
Even ordinary royal families are not qualified to get such a large tomb statue.
It can only be the royal tomb of Augustus!
But just because he thought he had found it, Ji Xun became more suspicious.
Because the process is too easy.
This made Ji Xun instinctively feel a sense of crisis. They seemed to have been deliberately guided here.
Yes!
Starting from that "gravedigger's map", the cause and effect line of things begins.
Ji Xun thought of something, and a slight doubt appeared in his eyebrows: "It's strange, if someone really guides me, who would it be?"
With this thought, a sense of intrigue came over me.
Not many people know that the tomb of King Augustus is in the Rune Highlands.
The Oran royal family, the Bai family, the high priest's lineage, and the senior officials of the Airel Empire
Ji Xun instantly deduced it in his mind.
But he did not expect that anyone would have the motive to introduce Prince Salo and his group into the royal tomb.
Just as he was thinking about it, the guard beside Prince Salo in the distance shouted: "Your Highness has ordered that everyone who enters the tomb will be rewarded with three thousand gold coins! After returning, everyone will be rewarded with dividends. Start exploring now, and there will be major discoveries. Those who have made meritorious deeds will be rewarded greatly!”
As soon as these words came out, the mercenaries and hunters became excited.
Everyone knows the danger, but they are working for money, so a reward would be great.
Under the heavy reward, the adventurers also excitedly explored the depths of the underground palace.
Prince Salo brought this group of people, of course they are here to be cannon fodder.
Ji Xun didn't dare to be careless at all.
Confirming that 80% of the time he was in front of him was the royal tomb, he decisively glanced around the cannon fodder slave camp and soon found a timid old man.
He himself was not sure that he could survive in the dangerous tomb.
But Old Man Xu can.
(End of this chapter)