There are many secrets hidden among the mountains of Karnak. Forgotten realms, legends that no one sings anymore, ancient races that have disappeared, mysterious buildings that have disappeared...... In the secluded realms where no man has yet set foot, the marks on the graves of those times are gradually blurred, and for hundreds or even tens of millions of years no one has been used to pay homage to them—and no one has disturbed the peace of the sleepers.

However, living creatures always possess unpredictable curiosity and willfulness, whether they are elves or humans.

In the dense forests of the border between Rutgar and Anktan, there is a nameless col, so far from the people and with little road around it, that even the most courageous hunter has never reached it. However, on a spring afternoon, there was a loud bang that shattered its centuries-old silence.

The ground shook slightly, as if some great catastrophe was brewing, and the animals of the forest fled in fright, and a snow hare, which was beginning to moult, sprang out of the hole that had suddenly sunk down, and disappeared into the forest without looking back.

The Karnak Mountains have an abundance of groundwater, and a subsidence is not particularly strange – but not every time someone emerges from the mud and climbs out of the pit.

"I'll just say it's a bad idea!" Tess spat out the mud in her mouth in frustration, "I'm telling you that I'm unlucky, special, bad!"

Her red hair was completely wrapped in mud and clung to her scalp, and the filthy water was dripping into her eyes, and she was so slimy that she was dead of discomfort -- this was the first time she had almost been buried alive? She didn't even bother to count! The first few times were thrilling, but she had never been so embarrassed.

There was a little guy squirming beside him. She fumbled and grabbed Mochi's little paw. Ignoring himself to climb up, he carefully pulled the poor little thing out of the mud and threw it ashore. Looking at the muddy lump of flesh desperately tidying up its messy fine hair. After getting wet, the small tail like a mouse flicks unhappily, but it wants to laugh a little.

"That's not what you said before. Norway grinned as he struggled to break out of the dirt half-buried in his waist, "When I heard that this might be the last treasure place in the Orc Kingdom, you were at the front. ”

"That's because I believe in you!" Tess whinged at the mud and dead leaves and rabbit in her hair, "You said there wouldn't be any traps here!"

"'Should'. "I said there should be no pitfalls here." And only if it's really the last hiding place of Resuth. If the parchment in Branty's library was correct, the Orcs of Resut should have left in a hurry, expecting to return shortly. There is no time or need for any mechanism - but it is clearly not. I think we're a little bit further east, according to the records......"

Tess rolled her eyes at the sky, "Oh, shut up! I'm going to burn down that broken library! Knocking out the big crystal from that spire is much more reliable than your 'plan'!"

Rosa smiled and shook her head as the first—the first except Mo—crawled out of the pit with Cesyana's help, and reached out to the black-haired elf, who was still half-sunk in the mud.

The pit was gurgling and bubbling with water that had turned into a puddle of mud. If you don't climb out, you might get stuck in it and won't be able to get out. The two guys are still in a hurry to argue...... But she should get used to it.

The sword dancer, who had tidied up neatly and tidy no matter what the circumstances, was now covered with mud, but her expression did not seem to be displeased, which was beyond her expectations.

Looking at her outstretched hand, Sesyana was slightly stunned, obviously hesitating.

Of course, an elf can crawl out on its own without her help...... Rosa thought a little nonchalantly, and was about to withdraw her hand, but Cesyana grabbed her violently. Climbed out with the help of strength.

He didn't thank her...... But he blushed to the base of his ears and tried to keep his face expressionless, which looked quite cute.

The look on her face was probably too obvious. So much so that when she reached out to Tess, the red-haired girl stared at her face in confusion, "Did you get something good in there? Why are you smiling like a cat that has just caught a mouse?"

Rosa laughed and pulled her out of the pit with all her might, and then several of them worked together to pull up Akan, who was struggling more and more and more and sinking harder, almost without a roof. It wasn't an easy task, and Akan alone almost dragged them all down again.

They all crawled out of the mud puddle, and a bunch of people collapsed on the ground panting to rest, only Norway still looked back at the black mire with some reluctance, sighing: "We haven't been able to figure out what the hell this place is, I've never seen such a mix of dwarf and orc style buildings......"

"This is a hell of a place!" said Tess with a grunt, "and don't me to dig into it again!"

"I think it's completely ruined. Rosa nodded approvingly, "Even if we could dig another hole, it would probably be unrecognizable with water and mud." ”

At the suggestion of Norvi, they searched for the treasures of a legendary orc kingdom hidden near the forest. Rosa's original plan was to go to Llewellyn, and after the coup, there were always people who wanted to flee or wanted to take advantage of the chaos to kill one or two people, and it should not be difficult to find business...... But this plan was categorically rejected by Novi without any suspense.

And the search for treasures in the depths of the jungle that no one has long remembered will not hurt anyone, nor will they have to show up in the town prematurely to be hunted down, and if they succeed, not only will they be more than enough to pay off Rosa and Sesyana's commissions and compensation, but they may also be able to make a lot of money.

It did sound very attractive, but Rosa had long expected that things that sounded too good would not end well.

It's just that she originally thought that she would wander around the deep mountains and old forests for a month or two without finding anything, but she didn't expect that Norway really found a certain ruin.

What started as excitement quickly turned to disappointment – and for Novi it was even more curiosity. What they found was not a makeshift treasure under a fortification, but a tomb with a strange style. The diamond-shaped ornaments commonly used by the dwarves were wonderfully blended with the rugged savage style that the orcs liked, and Tates suspected that the dwarves had taken the orc's grave for themselves or the orc had taken the dwarven's grave for himself, and retouched it according to his own preference, but Norway was sure that neither the dwarves nor the orcs could do such a thing. Needless to say, the dwarves were brutal and cruel, but equally proud, and could not have buried their relatives or friends in the graves of their enemies, nor could they have exerted such efforts just to insult their dead enemies.

What's even more surprising is that this is a grave full of traps. Although some of the traps have failed due to the passage of time, the tricks have aroused Tess's competitive spirit and convinced her that there must be something "good" buried here. They made their way to the burial chamber, but the huge sarcophagus was empty—and the lid of the coffin was opened, triggering the last mechanism.

The surging underground water roared towards them, and it was the unpredictable "water" itself that saved their lives - I don't know if it was a change in the flow of water borrowed by the mechanism, or just in time for the dry season, the water that should have been roofless left a gap between the water surface and the top of the tomb, which gave them the opportunity to find a weak spot on the top of the tomb according to the weak air current, and risk breaking the top of the tomb with Akan's brute force, so that they could escape.

"This place looks like it's a deliberate one!!," Tate grumbled in horror, "who would make their grave like this!"

She was a thief, and she hadn't touched any ancient graves, though some of them couldn't tell the elves...... Traps do exist, but most of them are careful not to damage the structure of the tomb itself. And this hellish grave, even if you don't mention the last flood, there are several places in front of it that are completely wiped out, and it is better to collapse the entire tomb than bury the intruder alive...... Death is dead, why bother with such a big grievance!

Novi nodded thoughtfully: "Maybe ......"

"Please, don't 'maybe' anymore!"

Tess lamented, covered in mud anyway, and she collapsed on the ground without care, "It's just ......"

The name "Ankeland" rolled on the tip of her tongue and swallowed it back.

Luckily, neither Rosa nor Cesyana would ask her what her unfinished sentence was.

The blue sky and white clouds overhead, it was bright, but she was lying here like a ball of mud waiting to be dried, which was already unpleasant, and while she was lying in a daze, there was a crow that flew straight at her face - when she saw the black shadow rushing over, she was even more panicked than when she was trapped in the grave and almost turned into a burial, and rolled to the side with a scream.

Xiao Mo jumped up and pounced on the crow, but the black ominous bird quacked mockingly and easily dodged and landed on a branch.

"Norvi, grab my dinner!" the raven crows cried at her as Tess angrily pointed at it.

"Redheaded! Redheaded! Tess!"

Tess's fingers froze in the air, and her eyes widened in disbelief: "What the hell is this...... Why the hell is this bird calling my name!"

"Norvi, Norvi!" the raven continued its quest as if no one was around, "Warning! Warning! Five elves are looking for you! Careful! Careful! Forgotten Lands of the Cursed!"

With a surprised smile on his face, Norway looked at the bird in a daze, and for a moment suddenly felt that maybe dying in that unknown grave would be a better ending.

(To be continued......)