Chapter 23

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Originally, I stood at the door, ready to use my intuition to determine where to go next, but now I hide behind the crack of the door as Anubis statue seems to be turning back.

Anubis statue looks around, as if searching for something.

"He found us?" Zi Sirou hugs me tightly in the crack of the door, her voice sounding like a mosquito, afraid that the Anubis statue might hear.

I cover her mouth, although the Anubis statue is just a statue, with the head of a jackal and the body of a human, now appearing human-like, it's hard to say if he would be as sensitive as a jackal.

The Anubis statue suddenly stops its gaze on the stone sarcophagus, it approaches nervously, crouching down, holding its staff, and sniffs the sarcophagus with its wolf nose. Suddenly, it sneezes.

I glance at Zi Sirou, even just using my mind I can tell, it must be her fragrance irritating the Anubis statue's nose.

"What are you sniffing? I told you to find the lost little king, you've been searching for so long." Another Anubis statue rushes in, and spots a poker card in the corner at a glance. After picking it up, it urges the other Anubis statue to sniff the sarcophagus loudly.

"How did this sarcophagus open?"

"It must be those idiots who just finished cleaning and didn't tidy up properly. Just now, the sphinx at the front door said there were two idiots bored and fixing the wall."

"But there's a stimulating smell."

"Oh, that must be the two who came back from vacation. They always bring back strange things whenever they go on vacation. Speaking of vacation, it's about time for us to think about where to go next year when we go on vacation."

"Do you really not find it suspicious?"

"You mean someone entered? Don't kid around, no one has entered since we became conscious thirty years ago. We built the sarcophagus and came to play cards, and also to think about where we should go."

This Anubis statue convinces his companion and they start to rebuild the sarcophagus, brushing off the sand with their hands, and leave together with the other Anubis statue.

"What did they just say? Thirty years ago?" Zi Sirou shakes off my hand and jumps to the front of the door.

"It's obvious that they became conscious thirty years ago and have been guarding this place as a hired relationship, although we don't know if they have money, but they have vacations."

"If two Anubis statues were walking on the streets, it should have been in the news long ago!"

"You journalists understand disguises, why wouldn't they? But now the focus is not on how they walk on the streets, but on how they became conscious... Oh, by the way, what did I just drop?"

I remember, when we just left, Zi Sirou called me.

"Oh, this is the paper I just dropped."

Zi Sirou holds two-thirds of the mask, which I drew the Magic formation on, last night when I couldn't sleep.

"Qin Yang, this diagram seems to have a powerful aura, what is it? A new Magic formation?"

In my eyes, the two pieces of paper in Zi Sirou's hand overlap perfectly with one-third diagonal angles, this one-third overlap reminds me of something.

"Do you have a flashlight?"

"Do we need a flashlight when it's so bright here?"

I use Light Magic in the center of my palm, creating a small light ball, emitting light from underneath the two pieces of paper, the overlapping shapes of both papers form a new shape.

"There wasn't much light when I was drawing last night, and I didn't have time to look at the second drawing, otherwise we would have reached a conclusion earlier." I adjust the position of the overlapping of the two papers while speaking.

"Dragon clan Magic?"

"No, but it is certain that the origin of Magic is from the Dragon Clan's Magic."

"Is there a difference?"

"Of course there is. Dragon Clan Magic cannot be easily controlled by humans, but after it is broken down and reassembled, humans can use it under specific circumstances, such as lightning Magic users."

Zi Sirou and I adjusted the overlapping positions, and one-third of the overlap resembled a fancy side profile of a dragon. After the overlap, the dragon head, which is an inevitable manifestation of Dragon Clan Magic, appeared. Although some lines were not adjusted correctly due to repairs, the overall shape was still discernible.

"I knew it. All the unexplainable Magic comes from your Dragon Clan."

"It's because of lack of understanding that explanations are unclear. The artificial element 'L' is unique and only understood by our empire. Other countries are also unable to explain it. The principles are the same."

"So, can you make humans understand the Dragon Clan better?"

"No, if that were the case, the world would not keep pace with human evolution and would be driven out. Humans would either start anew in another powerful world or face extinction, who knows."

"Umm... I don't understand."

I held my forehead and thought about thirty years ago when Maru Tian stepped into the trap. Perhaps he unwittingly awakened a certain dragon, leading to the later appearance of autonomous guardians and beasts in the sandstorm. So, are the mummies and the Humble also related to him?

Now is the time to ask Guffy for more information using the Dragon Spirit Covenant.

'Guffy!'

'What's up? Did you find it?'

'No, but I want to ask you, when did the Humble appear as a group?'

'This question... The name of the Humble has been circulating internationally for a long time, at least a million years ago. The origin is definitely even further back. They have the power to interfere with political authority; there is no way they don't have a weighty history.'

'Did anything suddenly increase the Humble's strength in the last thirty years?'

'As far as I remember, no. There hasn't been a direct conflict between Emotniya and any other country for centuries. Their abilities have been neither strong nor weak; there is no reliable source of information.'

"Sijou, open the sarcophagus and put on the mask. I'll teach you how to activate it. I want to know where the mummy's magic comes from!"

"Do you know how to activate it?"

"If I know what Magic it is, I can come up with a plan immediately."

We opened the sarcophagus for the second time, and Sijou put on the mask. Following my instructions, her magic connected with the mask.

"That's amazing. After the connection, I can see things just as clearly as without the mask."

"This is not the cheap toy with two holes punched that you bought at the amusement park."

"Let me try some Magic."

Sijou used the mask's Magic with her right hand, and I saw the flow of magic in my eyes. Sijou wore an eagle-faced mask, just like the one on the mummy. The eagle heads simultaneously raised, and the two masks called to each other. Suddenly, the mummy's mask turned green, a poisonous green, as if it was venomous. In less than a second, the mummy started moving, its magic gathered into an electric ball, and the formed Magic appeared in the mummy's right hand. During this brief pause, the Magic absorbed the corpse's poison gas, then transmitted from the sarcophagus to the top of the pyramid, and finally appeared in Sijou's hand.

"Even at such close range, it takes two seconds. Not very efficient."

"The main reason is that the stage of mummy forming Magic takes longer."

The stage of mummification is the magic neck bottle that forms the magic, limited by the abilities of the mummy when they were alive.

Bending down to observe the mummy, how is its magic replenishing? This is just an ordinary human body, it doesn't even have the power of a god. It's impossible for this corpse to restore its magic. The flow of magic should be... behind it.

"I knew someone was coming!"

At the door, two Anubis statues held their staffs. It was the Anubis statues that had just come back to find Xiao Wang, attracted by Zi Sirou's magic.

"Two dog-eared beings!" Zi Sirou threw his magic out.

The staff in the hand of one of the Anubis statues easily knocked the electric ball off course, while the other Anubis statue clenched its left fist and held the staff in its right hand, drawing a semicircle. A dark red light circle spread outward.

"Curse!" After the dark red light circle passed through their bodies, their magic rapidly weakened.

"I can use the magic of the mask, Qin Yang, you go out first!"

"The magic of the mask can deal with them, don't joke around!"

Golden flames flickered on my body, and only Flame of Punishment in my hand could deal with them without consuming too much magic.

"Wow!" The Anubis statue dodged to the side, but the intimidation of the flames still kept them on guard.

"What are you hiding for!" The Anubis statue was kicked in the chest by me and took a few steps back, using its staff to hold onto the ground.

Using curse deduction to control it, the magic in my body returned to normal. My body became light and agile, quickly approaching it. With my left hand, adorned with flames, I grasped its black neck, instantly causing it extreme pain.

The Anubis statue wanted to resist, but it was pushed into a corner with its limbs restrained. It widened its eyes and met my eyes, with their two different colored eyes.

"Don't think about using illusions!" Two staffs passed between us, stopping the eye contact between me and the Anubis statue.

In order to avoid the attack, I let go of it. At the same time, I punched the ground, and Huo Qiqi rose from the ground and pounced at the Anubis statue. At the same time, the sand next to me started to move and attacked me.

"You've already found me for boxing!" The Anubis statue, who had thrown away its staff, was nimble. Although its body was a statue, it moved as freely as a human and had explosive power. It passed through the moving sand and its fist flashed in front of my nose. The Anubis statue stopped in the center of the sand, its wolf-like eyes turned towards Zi Sirou.

"Attack the guarding statue, it's you who gave up your respect, the one who took off the mask!" The Anubis statue suddenly became angry, seeing Zi Sirou, who attacked it, wearing a mask. In the eyes of the Anubis statue, she was the humble one.

The Anubis statue, as nimble as a wolf, picked up its staff and rushed towards Zi Sirou with a ferocious momentum. It jumped onto a pillar above Zi Sirou, its speed was fast, and its next move should be to stab Zi Sirou's heart with the staff. Whether Zi Sirou could avoid it was no longer a consideration because she couldn't.

The other Anubis statue tangled with the fire Kirin for a while, and broke free from the claw of the fire Kirin. With one punch, it scattered the fire Kirin. As it looked arrogantly at the scattered flames, I happened to pass by and kicked it directly after using spatial magic to appear next to Zi Sirou. The staff of the Anubis statue carried a strange magic, a magic different from that of living beings.

"Clang!" The staff clashed with the sword, a golden heavy sword and a golden staff.

"The Dragonbone Greatsword? So the reason I couldn't draw out the Demonslayer Sword was because of this?" In the instant that spatial magic appeared, what I wanted to draw out was the Demonslayer Sword.