Chapter 3259: Giant Cemetery

Not long after leaving the small wetland, a team of monks with white candles on their heads forced the team to take a detour before continuing forward. Both Xia De and Sister Beren could feel that the flame they were looking for was getting closer and closer, and the destination should be right ahead.

Looking into the depths of the white mist, no magnificent buildings or large open areas appeared in the distance of the densely arranged tombstones, which made Xia De, who was still looking forward to a "special cemetery," quite puzzled.

And what the group finally found was an obsidian stone pillar standing in the wasteland.

The thickness of the stone pillar was about the same as Xia De's waist, and the height was two meters. Calling it a stone pillar, in fact, if you look closely, it is clearly spliced together by obsidian triangular pyramids, and on the outward-facing surfaces of those triangular pyramids, floating gray runes can be vaguely seen.

Xia De took the compass and circled the obsidian pillar twice before confirming that they hadn't found the wrong place. It is indeed strange for such a thing to appear in a place full of tombstones, but this doesn't look like a "mausoleum" or "cemetery."

"So what is this?"

Xia De asked the three witches for advice. Sister Beren stood in place holding her lantern and shook her head slightly. The blonde Miss Violet was very interested in checking the runes on the obsidian pillar:

"This is a rune in the style of the Ancient Giant Kingdom era. Pure-blooded Titan giants disappeared after the end of the First Era. The giants who inherited their bloodline had a glorious era in the middle of the following Second Era, but they were quickly destroyed by the Elf Empire of the pointy-eared ones.

There is very little existing data on the Giant Kingdom of the Second Era. If this thing could be taken out, the professors of the three major academies would go crazy. However, if the First Flame you are looking for is in the tomb of an ancient giant, that sounds quite reasonable."

Although she provided such knowledge, she didn't know what it was used for.

And Miss Liyade, who had the lowest level among those present, was inspired after hearing "Ancient Giant Kingdom." She tried to observe the runes on the outer surface of the triangular pyramids from different angles, and then whispered:

"When I was working before, I came into contact with data from the Ancient Giant Kingdom era."

"You robbed the tomb of an ancient giant?"

Xia De was very surprised, and the witch hurriedly shook her head:

"No, of course not, my skills are not that good yet. I have been to a mausoleum of the Fourth Era, and the stone slab data stored inside recorded things about the Ancient Giant Kingdom.

Giants mastered very powerful space technology to facilitate the better life of their huge bodies. One unique technology can hide the giants' buildings, preventing enemies from directly locating them from a distance. The essence of this technology is the alienated application of space folding and non-linear continuous space..."

These were the only professional terms she understood; she had no space talent:

"In short, the space around this obsidian pillar is no longer a linear continuous space. To find the space that has been folded and hidden, you need to move according to the direction of the runes on the obsidian pillar... I don't understand these."

"It doesn't matter, I understand."

Then Xia De led the way, with the three witches following behind him. Together with him, they circled the pillar clockwise for 150 degrees, then walked two steps in the direction of a 45-degree angle to the right. Then they continued to circle the pillar clockwise for a full circle, stopped, and walked two steps in the direction of an obtuse angle of 340 degrees to the right.

At this moment, he turned around to look at the obsidian pillar, but the stone pillar had already disappeared.

A hundred-meter-high giant pyramid stood under the pitch-black sky, and the building occupying a huge space seemed to have existed here originally, completely integrated with the surrounding scene.

In the world that was originally black, the oppressive feeling brought by such a tall black building was quite strong. The outer surface of the pyramid extended upward like steps, and at the very top of the tower, a black eyeball larger than Xia De's body was suspended.

When the four people saw it, the eyeball also turned toward them. Then, a black thunderbolt shot out from the eyeball, shattering the shields set up by Xia De and Sister Beren respectively in silence, before it was barely blocked by Miss Violet.

The blonde witch looked at her right hand, which had become charred but was recovering to be white and tender, frowned, and said to the three people around her:

"Let's go in first; we can't handle a Magic Eye of this level."

The black pyramid looked like it had no entrance, but Miss Liyade, relying on her professional knowledge and the inspiration brought by her unique talent, actually quickly found the door hidden on the fifth layer of the pyramid's exterior under the pressure of the magic eye.

The nun and Violet held up shields to cover the four people. Xia De, who was squeezed in the innermost part by the three witches, almost stuck to the surface of the pyramid's stone wall before identifying the ancient giant language that had been severely weathered—he felt that Miss Violet was deliberately squeezing him.

After the spell to open the door was correct, the wall disappeared, revealing a passage leading to the depths of the mausoleum. Xia De pulled Sister Beren to let her go in first, then he replaced Miss Violet to hold up the shield, letting Miss Violet and Miss Liyade follow closely, while Xia De resisted the black thunderbolt of the magic eye once before jumping into the hole.

And at this time, more than thirty minutes had passed since Xia De used this time key. If it weren't for the 【Time Corridor】 doubling the time, next, normally, he would have to perform a "ten-minute speedrun of the Giant Cemetery" challenge.

The interior passage of the pitch-black pyramid was illuminated by the oil lamp in the nun's hand. The fairly spacious passage did not require the witches and Xia De to bend over to move forward. Considering that the ones who built this place were giants, the size of this scale of passage was understandable.

In the cemetery of the ancient giants, of course, there would not be simple traps like falling rocks, poisonous gas, or flying arrows, but the wronged souls of humans, elves, dwarves, and halflings suppressed here replaced the traps.

They wailed and wandered in the passages inside the pyramid, and the group, not wanting to cause a riot of the undead, could only walk and stop in the passage. Fortunately, the perception ability of these ancient vengeful spirits was limited and could not see through the concealment of the four people.

On the way for the team to enter the inner layer of the pyramid following the compass's guidance, the one who really played a big role was Miss Liyade. Facing this ancient mausoleum of the Second Era, the grave robber, who seemed a bit excited, could see through more than half of the mechanisms and rituals inside, and excitedly said that some mausoleums in later generations also had similar designs.

And the real traps in the ancient giant mausoleum actually referred to various disgusting space-time traps. Sometimes, after falling into a time or space loop, it would take a long time to realize that they had walked the same path. The passages here were really indistinguishable, and space could not be detected at all here.

In addition to the traps set by those giants, the group even encountered a large group of "dead frogs" in the lower waterway after accidentally falling to the lower layer of the passage, but except for Little Mia trying to poke its head out again, this did not cause a greater impact on the team's progress.

Xia De guessed that this group of "dead frogs" probably entered here after the mausoleum appeared in the 【Tombstone Wasteland】.

In the middle passage of the pyramid, the team encountered "Gargoyle Knights" that had to be fought. After falling into the lower waterway, everyone worked together to solve the "Wailing Water Demon Wraith." After climbing back to the upper slave passage, after avoiding the wronged soul team of slaves, they finally encountered the "Soul of the Half-Giant Foreman" that absolutely could not be expelled without eliminating all the slave wronged souls.

It could cross space to absorb the soul power of any slave, and even if it was hit head-on by Miss Violet's "Witch Secret Art: Soul-Shattering Curse," it could return.

Seeing that the battle in the deepest part of the passage was wasting more and more time, Xia De could only raise his gun while Sister Beren's flames formed a pattern on the ground to imprison the terrifying soul—

Bang!

A precious "Soul Bullet" was consumed, but the enemy was finally expelled by the 【One-Hit Kill Pistol】. It's just that although the soul disappeared, Miss Violet said that it was only temporarily expelled and would appear again after a certain period of time.

In short, the team finally found the door leading to the core inner layer of the pyramid. The surface of the door was a large face with closed eyes, which only opened its eyes after they approached. This door looked like it was manufactured after using evil soul technology to integrate souls with the pyramid:

"Give me three funerary items, otherwise don't think about passing."

It said in a language that only Xia De understood, but of course, everyone was unwilling to do so.

Xia De tried the "Key of the Door" and found that he could not shake the door either, but after consuming the 【Universal Key】 and casting the "Key of the Door," the door, which mastered ancient giant language, ancient elven language, ancient dwarf language, and ancient dragon language, sent away the group that forcibly opened the door amidst the cursing of multiple languages:

"You wait, if you let me open the door when you come back, I will charge four funerary items!"

Entering the inner layer of the pyramid was a huge hall more than twenty meters high. Miss Liyade judged by her many years of "work experience" that this was the main tomb passage, and the core tomb chamber was probably right in front.

Both sides of this huge hall leaned against numerous skeletal remains. Those skeletons presented a black jade state, and even after an unknown number of ten thousand years, one could still vaguely see that they belonged to giants. Even if one just took a look, one would feel as if the living giants were standing in front of them.

"These are the remains of ancient giants, but I don't know if these are living sacrifices for burial, or giant craftsmen trapped in the tomb passage... They are craftsmen, look, that giant hammer over there has actually turned into a relic."

Although these giants were not pure-blooded Titans, their skeletons that remained to this day had very high value for both the Fifth Era and the Sixth Era. Of course, no one present was greedy enough to want to take some away, but this did not prevent them from stopping for a while and checking the condition of these skeletons slightly.

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