Chapter 536 – Pyramid of Incarnation (1)
“What a cheeky visitor! Do not interrupt Pharaoh!”
Jammin, the self-proclaimed pharaoh, glared at him with anger.
But my mindset, based on Confucianism, gives me about a 3x bonus when playing against someone younger than me. In other words, even if Jammin glared at me, it wasn’t scary~ That’s it.
“Ah, I’m so sorry about this. Please tell me.”
Of course that is that, and this is this.
There is no doubt that Jammin is the owner of the Pyramid.
He didn’t look old enough to be enshrined in the royal tomb, but in another world, the apparent age doesn’t mean much. There’s no reason to deliberately pretend, so it’s enough to appease him in moderation.
Let’s take a polite stance – considering the actual age difference, it wasn’t even embarrassing -, the self-proclaimed pharaoh looked suspicious. Why? Are you having a hard time believing?
《… Well, I got it. Umm!”
But looking into my head would have been impossible even as a woman who created a space this big for her and ruled over her. The girl cleared her throat, then she spat out again.
《My name is Sehetefibra, King Lee Won! Arrogant invader of the royal tomb! If you have a wish to return to this world, overcome the ordeal of Thoth that I give you!”
《… What is Thoth’s ordeal?
“Good question! Thoth is the god who records history! Therefore, Thoth’s ordeal means an ordeal to retrace the footsteps of heroes in history!”
– Chuck! Sehete something talking with his arms fluttering restlessly.
《Braveness becomes recklessness when strength is lacking, and arrogance is called ambition when skills are backed up! You who have invaded my Mer have an obligation to prove that arrogance with the resoluteness of a hero!”
‘Mer’ was an old term for pyramid. The Papago translator in my headroom was smoothly translating the ancient language spoken by Jammin Pharaoh. Always loyal
Anyway, it’s a remark that I don’t know who is more arrogant by listening roughly. Even if he has the temperament of a tyrant, befitting a half-human half-god in a monarchical country, he would not be able to refute it.
But I nodded my head and was in a state of relief in my heart.
‘It’s a merciful judgment.’
It wasn’t particularly sarcastic, it was sincere.
From the girl’s point of view, we are bastards who invade other people’s cemeteries and raid the treasures we cherished in our lifetime. If I were like that, I wouldn’t have given such a service to those kind of people.
Is this also a difference in values—no, life and death—?
“If I fulfill that duty or something, will you send me back to this world?”
“Don’t do that as you should! This is the mandate of the Pharaoh!”
《… I didn’t know that resurrecting the dead was so easy.”
“Yes? Hot hot hot hot! One knows, two don’t know! Good! This is a great secret of the world, but you, who are challenged by trials, deserve to know!”
Seemingly noticing that I wasn’t trustworthy, Sehetefibra burst into laughter.
Even so, he’s a kid, so he doesn’t have any dignity.
《The gods of the underworld, starting with Osiris, passed away in the ‘Twilight of the Gods’. It means dead and gone. It has already been like that since the time this body was alive. This is the secret of the age of the gods.”
How about saying that? That Jammin who raises his eyebrows in surprise~ is Pharaoh..
“Oh, what a big secret… !! Are you saying that all the gods of the underworld are dead~~ Ah!!”
I secretly rolled my eyes and acted trembling in amazement.
It’s a fact that only I know, but there were times when I couldn’t react in time, so I decided to show a reaction that made me laugh on purpose.
“Yes! Are you surprised? Would you be surprised? But it’s true! The one who rules the underworld no longer exists anywhere!”
Shehe Tefibra went into her arousal mode, like jammins when her grown-ups were playing with her.
As expected, Japanese manga-style reactions are eaten world-class. A country where you can become Dalsim just by picking up and eating bread is different no matter what.
But didn’t the other explorers react too much? Looking at it, it seems like that.
“But who is this body! I am Pharaoh Sehetefibra! That son of Osiris and Isis, the incarnation of Horus! The human body is only bound by the yoke, but in essence, it is a great, great God!”
《The offspring of the underworld god! If so, maybe?”
“You seem to have realized it! Got it right! Osiris and Isis are the gods who rule the underworld! Therefore, this body also has the power to work death!”
Sehetefibra summoned an emerald tombstone in her hand. What? Is it a dual disc?
《From the beginning, the shadow of death has not yet fallen on your star of destiny! Just as the souls of the dead should not exist in this world, the spirits and bodies of the living should not wander in the underworld!”
She said as she touched her tombstone like she was manipulating a tablet.
Maybe you can watch people die and all that on that tablet? Come to think of it, I don’t know how I’m going to look in Dana’s ring right now.
《Thus, if you prove that you are not intruders, but heroes worthy of the Pharaoh’s mercy──》
Sehe Tefibra, who had unsummoned her emerald tombstone again, posed as if the heat of the sun wasn’t bothering her, making her brown skin glow with vibrancy.
《This body is the ruler of this world, the representative of the underworld, and a pharaoh! I will allow you to return to this world with gold and silver treasures from my mer!”
***
Food Duck—!
After the simple yet complex explanation, Sehetefibra disappeared. It was an exit with a splendid production, just like when he appeared. The disappearance of the flock of birds is truly an incarnation of the god of bird heads.
“Where, so…”
I jotted down what I heard in a notebook.
To sum it up, it’s kind of like a stage strategy game.
‘We only fell into the underworld, but did not die, so if you show us your outstanding skills, you are saying that we will bring you back to this world. I like it because it’s easy to understand.’
There is something to be concerned about. That ordeal is when the difficulty has gone crazy enough that I can’t break it.
But it wasn’t really a big concern.
‘Because games that challengers can’t capture are trash.’
Ever since I happened to meet the first princess and heard about her situation, I thought.
‘Fill the poison gland into the Holy Grail and move on to the next map? If it’s a game, it’s a normal structure, but it’s rather rare in ruins. There’s no reason to put in a gimmick that makes the intruder move on to the next map, right?’
Besides, 90% of the ruins were just ordinary buildings when they were first built in the past.
Right now, our house will become a ruin in about a thousand years. But where did they make something like a door that opens when you operate several switches inside it?
Of course you can, but there’s no reason not to.
‘Even if I make a gimmick, it’s just cumbersome in my daily life.’
If you want to make it completely ‘stopping entry’, it was enough to drive it deep underground like the underground tower that was attacked in the past, and set up traps only in preparation for an invasion.
‘In other words… This pyramid is a place made to be accessible.’
It wasn’t just yesterday or today that the pyramid was robbed.
‘Even in the era of Sehetefibra, if you found a pyramid of the past, you would have robbed it. I thought it was impossible to stop it in the first place, so I designed it as a playground after my mummy was buried.’
In other words, this place is like a super-large escape room map!
It is a system that unlocks puzzles or gimmicks and moves on. There is no way the challenger couldn’t break it.
If I had skills at the level of the Mithril class, I would be able to break it by twisting my body somehow. If it requires more than that, it’s already a murder trap that’s embarrassing to even call it an ordeal.
‘Though I’d better think there won’t be a safety line like a 21st century modern escape room.’
Even if he looked like that, Sehetefibra was an ancient monarch.
Even if it wasn’t as much as the age of the gods, a person from an era when the difference between life and death didn’t matter much!
She was a person who welcomed even the grave robbers who dug into her graveyard, but in other words, her freedom of movement was due to her mercy.
‘A grave robber is not in a position to complain to the owner of the grave even if he dies. Even if he tried to kill me with a serious face, I have no intention of letting him suffer.’
I confirm the existence of the rune magic item in my arms.
Unlike the others, I didn’t come in with a dark mind, but it would sound fucking shameless to try to come up with an excuse like that for breaking into a house.
If that’s the case, it’s better to just break through with your skills.
Horururu—!
It was then. The fact that the emerald tombstone I had seen before appeared in the palm of my hand.
《◇ Goal: Find the door on the 4th floor and go to the next floor.》
《◆ Reward: Everything that can be obtained from the 4th floor.》
Motherfucker, what is this?
When I read the words written on the tombstone, I let out a scream with joy that I couldn’t hide.
“This is… Status window!!!!!”
Has my status window, which I’ve been searching for so long in this fucking shy, different world, finally appeared!!
“Open, status window!!”
I shouted to open my status window as if it was not a waste of a second, but the emerald tombstone did not respond.
Swallow, why not?
“Status window!! Chang Tae-sang!! System!! Status!! Pokemon Encyclopedia!!”
No matter how much I screamed in the desert, the emerald tombstone never showed me my stats and skill list.
By that point, I could understand.
That this is not a status window, but a strategy guide distributed by Sehetefibra, who is not here.
“Yep disease. Wasn’t it the status window, not the family notice?”
The tombstone disappeared from my hand as I shuddered with disappointment. I think I’ll realize the fucking impermanence.
He let out a sigh of relief.
When I think of my wives, I can’t help but be like this. If that status window were real, it would have been useful as my automatic personal letter, but wasn’t it just a dream?
‘First of all, we have to move towards the ruins that are visible… No.’
I thought so, and I took a blunder at my own conclusion.
‘… Didn’t I just tell you to find the door on this floor?’
That was the goal of the ordeal, but would the location of the door be in such an obvious place?
It might be thoroughly hidden somewhere in those ruins. But to avoid wasting time, I took off my coat. It was so damn hot that I felt like I was going to search, so it was fine.
Flutter-!
The coat was transformed into a hot air balloon with rune magic.
When I created a simple updraft by combining magical techniques, my body soared into the sky like a hot air balloon. It was impossible to fly, so it was better to do this even if it was a little unsightly.
I climbed to the point where I could look down on the ruins, and I signed a seal.
“Mist alter ego.”
Bang-!
The steam gathered and created my alter ego. Since it was a gas, it is an alter ego that can fly through the air.
He pulled it forward and fired it at the ruins far away with the power of releasing mana with wind magic.
“Now you are a human drone. Catapult launch!”
“Ooooo!!”
My alter ego flew like a missile.
Originally, it would be difficult to maintain its shape if the distance fell, but it was fixed with runes and beast return mana.
The alter ego, which became a Bird Missile, crashed into the wall of the ruins.
Pooh-!
Oh, let’s correct it. Did not clash The clone that penetrated the wall like a mirage was stuck in the sand. The alter ego, which I had manipulated with great difficulty, flew through the ruins like a ghost.
“It was a mirage.”
I swept my chest at the thought of being lucky.
Since the area is already a desert, the only landmarks to use are the entrance and ruins, but if you accidentally get lost, look at it. I didn’t know that I would have been fucked as a lost child in the desert forever.
This is thanks to the knowledge I learned from ‘Surviving in the Desert’, a must-read for Chogglings in the 90s.
‘… The problem is that I don’t know how to detect mirages.’
No matter how I thought about it, there was no way, so I just used mana to create more of my alter ego. Human-human tactics are ninjutsu to soothe the loneliness that even the Hokage acknowledged.
“Norrrr.”
The clones scattered and searched everywhere.
Since there was no animal there, I had no choice but to use my mana. Waiting at this high position made me feel like I was going to get lost in the scorching sun even if I had no fear, but I had to endure it because it was more efficient.
─Suck.
As soon as I had a moment of spare time, I took out a notebook from the slate.
About 20 to 30 minutes have passed since I wrote the message. When I glanced at him before coming down, there was no reply yet, but since 10 minutes had passed since then, it was not strange even if the wives saw it.
“Five!”
And my expectations were met. There is a phrase in the note that I didn’t see. It was Dana’s handwriting.
It was a promiscuous evil arm, as if scribbled hastily in a font large enough to occupy both sides of the page. Like Mary Poppins, I grabbed the balloon with one hand and flew, reading the notes.
─Hey you fucking bastard!!! You fucking bastard!!!
-Where are you now, you damn bastard!!!
“Five.”
Look how our eyes and vocabulary have gotten so damn low.
How insane would that have been? Does my condition show up in the ring?
Beyond the Wi-Fi area, there was a world where only the real picks went, so it was only natural that it would rise like that. It was only natural if the mechanism of the ring was receiving my soul’s signal from hell.
‘Let’s go down and reply… Well?’
Just then, I discovered that alter ego #16 was dashing in an empty space like an automatic hunting A.I. Made by a small business. It’s like a game character blocked by an invisible wall.
Is it over there I turned my hot air balloon into a glider.
Whee ae ae ae liquid—! Landed using the glider movement learned from Sister Heswald. I put the clothes that had been changed back into a coat, roughly attached to my shoulder epaulets like a navy captain, and kicked the empty space.
─Perfect!
The stone wall collapsed, revealing the space inside.
There is a very large door as if to show off. The stone statues on either side had no features, as if they had been carved out over time, but they had a dignified posture.
‘Just looking at it, it just doesn’t seem to open.’
It’s probably like going around the ruins to find a system that opens the door.
─Thump. I sat down on a nearby shady stone and wrote my reply.
The message is that he is in the underworld by chance and has found a way to return to this world through the pyramid. I tried to give a rough outline, but I thought his wives would turn a blind eye, so I just dictated everything I found out.
─PS: We are currently attacking the first map.
After asking about their safety, I left a postscript like that.
I returned the notebook and searched the stone slate. The potions and food I requested were almost piled up like a mountain. Not even fast
Get up after drinking water and filling your stomach with dry food.
‘… The door is closed, but from what I’ve heard there were people who went down before me.’
I thought while brushing my chin.
It’s hard to imagine that they’re all lost somewhere in the desert. Since they are more experts than I am, they should have managed to find this place somehow.
‘That means it’s a map that has already been captured.’
Then why is the door closed?
Is Sehetefibra closed? There was a possibility, but when I opened my eyes a little, I found more plausible evidence than that.
I found footprints near the door.
It’s a windy desert, but these shallow footprints remain?
The people who stopped by here couldn’t completely clean up the traces. And it also meant that it hadn’t been long.
‘Seeing that the reply came back, the wives will be safe.’
So there was no need to rush… There is no need to go round and round.
I came here with Odin’s eyes and discovered the traces of magic for the first time. I filled my spear with an aura and swung it. Fluorescent mana flew in to grind the rock while drawing a large half moon.
─Quaang!!
However, it did not reach the destruction of the door.
It’s not because the door is tight. The window that came in from the side was blocked.
Coo cooo…
The stone statue aimed at me precisely at a subject with no facial features.
With a spear thicker than my waist, and ignorantly tall, it looks more like a giant than the frost giants.
“Bingo.”
Still, I smiled happily. What they were aiming for from the beginning was the stone statues standing on the left and right guarding the door.
Not a golem. The sign that caught Odin’s eye was something else.
Pasasasak—!!
The stone statue’s skin collapsed, revealing its original appearance.
A sand spirit, or maybe a sandman.
‘It must have been these guys who closed the door.’
Those who came first must have touched and opened a device somewhere in the ruins.
Could it be that the Sandmen over there let them go pretending to be stone statues, and later closed the door arrogantly?
“By the way, the fact that you all closed the door——”
I wrapped an aura around the window.
The pressure I felt was not something I could underestimate, but I didn’t think I would lose.
“—You mean it will open even if you just break it without using a gimmick?”
I grinned. Jammin won’t be able to buy Pharaoh’s wrath. This is also one of the strategies. Setting up a guardian meant that he was mindful of the opponent he would pierce through with force.
If he had hoped that it would not be pierced by force, Sehetefibra would have been able to make this door out of a material that could never be broken. Because this is such a world.
Above all, among the methods of attacking the ruins, isn’t the fastest way to destroy them all by force?
I smiled at the fact that my prediction was right, and threw the spear like lightning.
