Chapter 27

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The walls of the cave broke open, revealing long staffs that resembled spears embedded in the rock. A Magic array, shaped like a lion-headed humanoid, extended continuously in four directions, with each direction consisting of four staffs. Within this space, which was vertically about five hundred meters long, the Magic array was intricately intertwined.

The lion-headed humanoid completely sacrificed its close-range defensive and mobility abilities in exchange for powerful long-range capabilities and the Magic array. The guardian statues of the Rotama Pyramid had deviated completely from the original design of the pyramid's creators, and the legends surrounding them were not applicable. Although most of the legends were deliberately fabricated to scare adventurers, within the Rotama Pyramid, each statue had its own strengths and weaknesses, and they also coordinated with one another. If all the pyramids in Emoetnoa had guardians like them, I believe very few adventurers would be able to escape from the pyramids, let alone venture into them.

"Now we might not be able to leave!" Pieces of rocks fell by Zi Sirou's feet, disintegrating upon contact with the Magic array.

"The real concern is the magma below!" The magic bullets entered the magma without causing any immediate disturbances, but my intuition told me that there should be a reaction within the Magic Sea when it was subjected to external forces. When my magic flowed in gently, the Magic Sea remained calm, but after being violently attacked by the magic bullets, the ensuing waves might be slower but that didn't mean they wouldn't exist.

"Tomb robber, surrender your hearts!" An Anubis stood on a rock above our heads with an imposing aura, as if he intended to shatter the rock and target our hearts. As statues, they shouldn't need to eat anything, right!

"Now you don't want me to leave, do you?"

"I do, you must leave immediately, no room for negotiation!"

Just as I was about to send Zi Sirou away, the magma erupted fiercely. Magma pillars surged out and flowed over the layer of magma beneath our feet, melting the rock beneath Anubis's feet. It surged straight toward the pyramid. I didn't know whether the Anubis statue was still alive or not; all I knew was that I didn't hear his voice anymore.

At the same time, another Anubis statue's voice resounded, "They've touched the boss!"

"Boss?" I held Zi Sirou close to the rock wall, trying to keep as far away from the magma pillar as possible.

"You'll find out everything you need to know below the magma, go down!"

"I'll go down, you go back." I touched the rock with my hand and opened a spatial portal. "This will take you back to Guffy!"

"Tomb robbers are not allowed to leave!" An Anubis statue hung upside down next to me, its beastly jaws with sharp teeth biting into my arm!

My arm bled profusely, and I vigorously swung my arm, causing the Anubis statue's head to crash into the rock wall. Despite the multiple violent impacts, the Anubis statue still refused to let go. The sensation of being torn apart by a wild beast was absolutely unbearable.

"Is its saliva poisonous?" Zi Sirou watched as my bitten arm began to rot due to the Anubis statue's teeth.

Zi Sirou casually took out her camera and smashed it onto the Anubis statue's eyes. The camera shattered into pieces, but she saw that the statue still didn't release its grip. Three camera lenses fell out, and she injected magic into them, then forcefully took pictures of the Anubis statue's forehead, causing a small explosion.

Finally, the Anubis statue let go and fell into the layer of magma. Only its upper body remained.

"Its body was devoured by the magma. No wonder it bit me... Urgh!" Although the Anubis statue had released its grip, the pain in my bitten arm was unbearable. It seemed that the Anubis's teeth were indeed poisonous.

"Qin Yang, calm down!"

"It hurts... Divine Flame." The bitten arm couldn't summon the Divine Flame to heal it, and the arm continued to decay.

"Ah... It severed the arm's mana circuit!" I felt that the arm's mana couldn't be replenished, and the pain made my senses twist in agony. It seemed that Anubis-like teeth were his trump card.

"Relax, Qin Yang. Perhaps you are too mentally tense."

The second magma column appeared, this time very close to us. Zi Sirou pressed close to me, looking at me with determined eyes.

"I have a way to make you less nervous!" Zi Sirou believed that it was my mental tension that prevented the replenishment of mana.

Zi Sirou leaned against me, closed her eyes, and lightly pecked my lips with hers. Our bodies continued to sway, and our lips rubbed against each other. Zi Sirou had really come up with a good method to relax me. Her lips were thinner than other girls', and her tongue couldn't hide its restlessness. After the light kiss, she became more aggressive, pushing her tongue into my mouth. I suspected that she often watched educational films; although her technique was unfamiliar, it was correct.

The teleportation gate beside me had already closed the moment the Anubis-like figure bit me, and the magma continued to erupt.

The temperature around us was getting hotter, and of course, the increase in temperature was not only due to external factors but also our own fault.

"Wait a minute, I think it's inappropriate for the second half to be here, and the way to treat my injuries can be like this." I held the injured hand with the giant sword, and the other hand held the Divine Flame to heal myself.

"But... you just..."

"But the fact is that it really hurts, and I am very relaxed."

Suddenly, Zi Sirou bumped her forehead against mine. I looked at her face, covered in sweat and a bit dispirited. Every time there was an attempt to make her leave, accidents would happen. Maybe I shouldn't have asked her to leave.

"Cough, cough." Zi Sirou's breathing became heavy. Staying here for too long would harm her body.

"I give up. I'll leave with you."

Zi Sirou was determined to follow me. So, I could only give up moving forward and bring her away.

I healed the wound, preventing further decay, and the blood flow stopped. However, the blood that had just flowed out flowed down the rock wall.

"What did you think of my kiss?" Zi Sirou suddenly asked.

"Not so great. My tongue hurts."

"You..." Before Zi Sirou could respond, three magma columns suddenly disappeared, leaving three holes in the magma layer. A huge suction force appeared in the holes, making it impossible for me to escape from it. The most bizarre and important thing was that spatial magic couldn't be used within this suction force. The space was locked here.

"Sirou, we can't use spatial magic here for the time being. Now we have two choices: either enter the magma or struggle until we pass out, and then enter the magma!"

"You're saying so much, but we have no other option!"

"Even if you want to leave now, you can't. There's something very dangerous inside, at least with this suction force, it doesn't allow me to underestimate its existence."

"I've said it many times before, this is the last time. I will follow you to the end!"

"Sirou, from now on, starting this very moment, my life is in your hands, with no assurance of your safety."

I drew out the giant sword, tightly holding Zi Sirou's hand. The extremely powerful suction force instantly took us into another space.

Inside, I felt no major suction or gravity.

"Wow!" Zi Sirou exclaimed.

"Don't be afraid. It seems like we are inside the magma, with space separating us from the lava. Hopefully, the lava won't melt us for the time being."

"Where are we?"

"The Earth's core...probably?" White magma flowed around the perimeter, and its temperature seemed to be a hundred times higher than that on the magma layer. Although it couldn't compare to the temperature of the sun, it still appeared very threatening.

"Do you hear breathing?"

"Breathing?" Zi Sirou perked up her ears and listened carefully to the sounds around her, but other than the sound of magma flowing, she couldn't hear anything.

"There!" I followed the direction of the sound and saw behind us, the lava flowed in an irregular shape, forming the massive figure of this object.

"Why does this flowing shape look different from the others? Is there something behind it?"

I stared intently at the shape of the object for a long time, and finally, I roughly guessed the result.

"This...is the head of a dragon. I'm sure it's a dragon, just like Ma Rutian's magic power. This is his body."

"Ma Rutian again? This person with the artsy name, what does he have to do with dragons?"

"I mentioned before that Ma Rutian might not be his original body. His dragon body is here."

I raised the Dragon Bone Greatsword with all my strength, gathering all my magic power on the sword, and struck at the dragon's head. The sword aura broke through the magma and cleaved the magma that stood in front of us.

The fully black dragon head emerged from the magma. It was as black as a rock, but even harder than a rock by a thousand times. The full force of the sword aura couldn't move it at all.

"Mirror Magic, it looks like it's time to use it." I summoned Guffy's Infinite Grimoire.

"You want to use that Mirror Magic to see what happened here thirty years ago, with that person named Ma Rutian? Why don't you just ask the headmistress? She was involved, right?"

"First of all, Guffy doesn't want to talk about it anymore. Secondly, she didn't see the mechanism when she fell into it. If we want to know the truth, we can only ask Ma Rutian himself and that woman named Qing who wears a veil."

"You're going through all this trouble just to know about other people's business. Isn't that a bit too much?"

"No, I have a feeling. I will know more things, as long as they are related to dragons. And I've never seen a dragon head this big in my life. I can't imagine how long and wide its body is. And I have no idea what kind of dragon this is. I know all the dragons in the Three Realms, not a single one that I haven't seen before."

"You've seen all the dragons?" In Zi Sirou's eyes, I was still Qin Yang, a young boy with dragon blood, not the Demon Dragon and Holy Dragon.

"If you're interested, I can introduce you to each one of them. But most of them are in the Dragon Tomb or in a deep slumber."

"This dragon is considered the most real one I've ever encountered. I just hope it doesn't have a name like Ma Rutian."

"The names of dragons are not like those of humans. Speaking in the dragon language is elegant, while speaking in human voice may just be a few lewd words."

"Give me an example."

"Reisgolo means Dragon of Time and Space, but in human language, it's meaningless. Just a few words. But it's not lewd."

"The matters concerning dragons are so complicated. You'd better start directly." Zi Sirou pointed at the Grimoire in my hand.

I flipped open the Grimoire to the last page and the image of the Mirror Magic from that day jumped out.