Chapter 1231

Su Xiao gestured for Alisa to continue, and after a moment of hesitation, Alisa walked up to the metal archway.

Alisa leaned close to the metal archway, gently stroked the hair by her ear, tucked a strand behind it, and said, "It's written on the door: 3, 7, 8, 12, 15."

Su Xiao had already noticed earlier that Alisa understood the language inside the tomb, and now it seemed that was indeed the case.

"How do you know this language?"

"I saw it in a book. It's a very ancient Necromancer tongue. According to the records in the book, no one has used this language for hundreds of years."

Alisa reached out to touch the metal archway.

"Is this the Xiya Sanctuary?"

Su Xiao glanced sideways at Alisa; he was surprised that she actually knew this place was the Xiya Sanctuary.

"Saw it in a book?"

"Mm."

Alisa's eyes were still a bit red; it seemed she was still grieving over Goss's death.

"Which book?"

Su Xiao did not believe that ordinary books could contain information related to the Xiya Sanctuary.

"A book in my father's study. At that time, I was... uh~ about 10 years old. Later, my father found out, locked me in a dark room, didn't give me anything to eat for a whole day, and ever since then, I haven't been allowed to enter my father's study."

Alisa scratched her head, her soft golden hair slightly messy; this was the most unforgettable event of her childhood.

"How much do you know about the Xiya Sanctuary?"

"I only saw the map here, and then my father entered the study. However, I had seen this archway in the illustrations of that book, which is why I thought this was the Xiya Sanctuary."

"Draw it for me."

Su Xiao took out paper and a pen and handed them to Alisa.

"What?" Alisa feigned confusion.

"The map of this place."

"Eh~"

Alisa panicked; she had forgotten that map completely, vaguely remembering only a few circles.

Squatting on the ground, Alisa looked up at Su Xiao, Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang, and Amu. Xiang Ignoring Bubu Wang was clearly the most amiable, while as for Su Xiao, just standing in front of him made Alisa feel weak in the knees, and as for Amu, she always felt this monster was very hungry and might eat her at any moment.

"You didn't forget, did you?"

Su Xiao's hand pressed onto Alisa's shoulder.

"If you forgot, I'll help you remember."

"Ho... how could that be?"

Alisa took the paper and pen, turned her back to Su Xiao, and pursed her thin lips. Her expression seemed to say: 'What do I do now that I've completely forgotten the map? Asking online, very urgent, the kind where lives might be at stake at any moment.'

Alisa was only able to recall this metal archway because she saw the real thing, which triggered the memory in her mind.

Alisa wasn't entirely naive; she knew how dangerous Su Xiao was, so she had remained silent. Previously, with Goss acting as a shield, her presence was very low, but now that Goss was dead, her presence was gradually becoming stronger.

A few minutes later, Alisa handed the paper and pen in her hand to Su Xiao while swallowing hard.

Su Xiao took the paper and pen, and when he saw Alisa's 'masterpiece,' his first reaction was: 'What is this thing? An abstract map?'

"Are you playing with me?"

Su Xiao's eyelids drooped, and Alisa stepped back a few paces, squatting down and covering her head.

"I really can't remember that map, don't kill me."

"Oh."

Su Xiao turned to look at the metal archway. Alisa had previously stated five numbers, and there was a string of small holes along the edge of the metal archway, with sun and moon patterns on both sides at the bottom of the metal door.

The sun likely represented the starting point, and the moon the end.

Su Xiao extended the iron rod in his hand toward the third hole above the sun pattern; the iron rod had only one-fifth left and was about to be burned away.

As soon as the green flame approached the third metal hole, a wisp of green flame was sucked into it.

Crack.

A crisp sound came from inside the metal door, and one lock opened.

Su Xiao's eyes brightened. He brought the green flame close to the seventh metal hole again; the green flame was sucked into the hole, and with another crack, the second lock inside the door was opened.

Next were the eighth and twelfth metal holes. Because the metal archway was too high, Su Xiao had to climb onto the metal door to ignite the eighth metal hole.

According to Alisa's translation, there should have been a 15, but there were only 14 metal holes on the archway.

"Sun, moon."

Su Xiao stood before the metal door, looking at the patterns on both sides at the bottom. If the sun was the start and the moon was the end, then what came after the moon? The answer was another day, which was when the sun appeared.

After pondering for a moment, Su Xiao reached the nearly burned-out metal rod toward the first metal hole.

Whoosh~

The green flame was sucked into the metal hole, and there was another crisp click.

Ding, ding, ding, ding...

Green flames ignited in all the holes on the metal archway in sequence, and the flame pattern in the center of the archway turned emerald green.

Rumble.

The metal door rose, and all the green flames on it extinguished.

When the metal door was fully raised, Su Xiao was already gripping Checking Zhan Long Shan tightly, the unsheathed blade pointing diagonally at the ground.

Behind the metal archway was a six or seven-meter-long passage, and beyond the passage was a larger open space, where hundreds of Necromancer soldiers were vaguely standing in formation, their pairs of green eyes staring at Su Xiao.

Seeing this chilling scene, Alisa's face turned deathly pale. She wanted to retreat, but her legs were becoming increasingly weak.

Su Xiao grabbed Alisa by the back of her collar and tossed her toward Amu behind him.

"Amu, be ready to support me at any time."

Su Xiao quickly walked to the outside of the passage to observe the situation beyond.

"Kanoti (unknown language)."

All the Necromancer soldiers let out angry roars and charged toward Su Xiao. This time, Su Xiao knew what it meant without Alisa's translation: Kanoti (intruder).

Su Xiao stood still, surveying the situation ahead. There were about five hundred Necromancer soldiers, including over a hundred shield infantry, more than three hundred spearmen, and the rest were Necromancer archers holding bows and crossbows.

Compared to these Necromancer soldiers, a sturdy Necromancer behind them was even more conspicuous. This Necromancer wore no armor, was bare-chested, wore a pair of leather shorts, had bulging muscles all over, and his bald head made him look even more ferocious.

This Necromancer stood five meters tall and held two iron rods in his hands—no, rather than 3-meter-long iron rods, these two things looked more like drumsticks.

Su Xiao immediately used the Apostle's Eye to check the sturdy Necromancer's information.

【Comparing intelligence attributes of both sides... You have obtained the following information.】

Name: Quake Angel · Ming

【Hint: Due to unknown energy interference, only the above information was obtained.】

Su Xiao's cheek twitched. The situation was not right; apart from the name, the Apostle's Eye hadn't detected anything. This was the first time he had encountered such a situation.

Quake Angel · Ming did not charge at Su Xiao; he watched Su Xiao from afar and actually bared his teeth in a smile at Su Xiao.

Although he didn't charge forward, this didn't mean Quake Angel · Ming was just watching the show from afar. He raised the drumsticks in his hands and smashed them against the air in front of him.

Boom!

A drumming sound came, as if an invisible drum had appeared in front of Quake Angel · Ming, and with this strike, a sound wave spread out.