Four days later.

Rune Heights.

A dark forest marked on the map as "Howling Glades".

The surrounding area was covered with black fog, and the trees were as dry as iron.

There was a smell of death and decay in the air.

At the front of the team, a three-headed dragon with red, brown, and green dragons was spewing flame dragon breath, burning the surrounding trees with a ghostly howl.

If you look closely, the scorched trees have strange faces growing on them. They were burned to the point of a dragon's breath, and fireflies that looked like ghostly fire rose from the trunks of the trees.

This three-headed dragon is none other than the transformed Prince Salou.

With his own strength, he overwhelmed the battle momentum of the hundreds of mercenaries around him.

Because this is the graduation test of the Royal Academy, the results of the assessment will directly affect the graduation results.

The trainees also made no secret of their methods, killing all kinds of people.

And beside Prince Salou, the young female mage holding a staff of legendary quality was also imposing.

This is Betty, the princess of the Black Dragon Kingdom.

is also a fifth-order card master, [Plum 8 - Elemental Controller].

Dragons are born masters of magic, and Dragonborn card masters have inherited this bloodline talent.

Therefore, the Southern Continent has a large number of card masters who are proficient in the mysteries of the elements.

And the members of the royal family of the Black Dragon Kingdom have a super rich black dragon bloodline, which makes that Princess Betty naturally have a super high dark element affinity and law understanding.

And with the blessing of the princess status of the wealthy, the cards don't need to be scattered like money.

She raised her hand and it was the Dragon Annihilation Spell, harvesting monsters in large areas.

And in the other triangle position, that is the second young master of the "Crimson Grand Duke" family of the Red Dragon Kingdom, Kaili, a fourth-order black knight, with a dragon body defense that is almost invincible.

Dressed in heavy armor, he rampage through the dryads with unmatched bravery.

In the battlefield, the three were the most in the limelight.

It was a huge trial group with a total of more than 8,000 people.

In order to get good grades, the graduates of the Royal Academy also chose to travel in groups.

Prince Salou, Princess Betty, and this Carey.

These three are all the top five in the combat power of this graduation trial group.

In order to better test their results, they chose to join forces.

The mercenaries and adventurers hired by the three of them are also the elite of the entire camp, and together they are also a very strong combat force.

This is the strongest of the more than a dozen trial teams.

So in the past few days, the team has been pushing almost all the way.

It was the first time I had encountered a thorny horde of monsters in this Devil's Howl Woodland.

Ji Xun had only seen the exaggerated combat power of the three for the first time.

"Sean", as a non-combatant, does not have to go to war.

He took the opportunity to observe everything carefully.

All kinds of relic-level equipment, arcane-level spells, dragon language secret arts.

The royal family's means are much richer than ordinary adventurers, which represents the pinnacle inheritance of the glorious civilization of the three-thousand-year-old Talen.

This also opened the eyes of Ji Xun, a card master from the Eastern Wilderness.

From behind the combat power of the three of them, which was far beyond the same level, he saw the extraordinary system of the system, saw the high-quality demon mark and career card, and saw the extraordinary power of the dragon spell.

Ji Xun's gaze also stayed more on the prince of Salou.

Watching that guy kill in all directions, Rao is side with many great opportunities, and he also sighed sincerely: "This guy is really strong enough"

Salou is a rare three-way initiate.

The three dragon heads have mastered the extraordinary power of the three paths of power, flame, and order.

The comprehension of the law is still so high, far beyond the ordinary fifth order.

This guy's exaggerated combat power is largely derived from several psychic career sequences that have been passed down by the Red Dragon Royal Family.

This is the fifth-order special class card of the [6 of Spades-Order] sequence - [Three-Headed Golem: Holy Dragon Iron Guard].

This is exactly what Ji Xun's eyes are hot about.

The name of the sequence is not a secret to the outside world.

A little inquiry will give you an idea.

Ji Xun even knew why this guy would choose this sequence.

Earlier, he had learned from Aragorn that certain class sequences could be advanced.

And [Plum Blossom K-Pope] is at least two high-ranking ways to grasp order + royal power.

The 6 of Spades - Order is exactly the transition sequence of the Pope.

This is also a secret of the royal family.

However, when Ji Xun saw this, he didn't think of any royal power.

The corners of his mouth curled slightly, and he pondered in his heart: "This career card is also very suitable for me."

Ji Xun had been thinking about his fifth-order advancement before.

When he advanced to the fourth order, he communicated with Master Merlin about the choice of the direction of the subsequent advancement.

The advice given by that master was that Ji Xun's own physical body was strong enough and his foundation was solid, so he could properly consider the abilities of the warlock department.

Such a multi-dimensional improvement will make the rank combat power play to the maximum.

But if it's just an advanced "wisdom" sequence, Ji Xun feels that it's a bit of a waste of his JOKER talent.

Until I saw the [Three-Headed Golem Holy Dragon Iron Guard] in front of me.

Isn't that just right?

The three transcendent elements of elemental, flesh and blood, and wisdom are complete.

Ideal.

Sure enough, it had to be a royal family.

The best supernatural resources are in the hands of these guys.

On the periphery of the team, the three noble young masters led a group of mercenaries to fight fiercely.

In the center of the line, a group of doctors, staff officers, maids, and other non-combatants gathered together and waited for orders.

The situation was very good, and the group of people also chatted without saying a word.

"Old man, what kind of monster is this? I've never heard of it. ”

"[Human-faced Dryad] is said to be a necromantic monster formed by the fusion of remnant spirits and old trees that are more than 100 years old. Only places where the breath of death is extremely strong will it form. This place, the evil gate~ I don't know why His Royal Highness the Prince chose this road. If you want to go to the assembly coordinates announced by the academy, it is obviously better to take other roads."

"Brother Sean, you're well-informed, don't you know what's going on?"

"I do know something. But that's not to say. ”

“.”

Of course, Ji Xun knew why they would take this route.

Because in the information that a certain peer sold to Prince Salou before, there was a [map pointing to a mysterious treasure] found by a gravedigger.

Ji Xun didn't get the map.

But after walking this way, I deduced it, and I also guessed the route of the team, which is most likely the route pointed to on the map.

Moreover, it happened that this direction was also the direction in which he speculated about the tomb of Augustus.

It's no surprise that Prince Salou would choose to go this way.

Chatting and chatting, several people saw the young swordsman wearing a slave collar and holding a fishbone sword among the dryad monsters.

"But then again, that slave from the Eastern Continent is very powerful. What is the situation with that swordsmanship, which sprang out several meters in the blink of an eye? Obviously, he is only a fourth-order, but the fourth-order calamity-level dryad stabbed him to death with a sword in his hand, and the means are really evil. ”

"That's the 'Time Sword Intent', and it's normal for ordinary people to not understand it. I don't know how that guy practiced, but he actually touched the mystery of the law of time, which is a high-level law, what a talent."

"Although the rank of those card masters in the Eastern Wilderness is not high, they have a large population, and it is not surprising that there are a few talented ones. It is said that when the slave catchers captured this kid, many people died. In the end, the sixth order made a move, and it was controlled. Later, it was sold to His Royal Highness the Nineteenth Prince, and it was sold for a good price."

“.”

Ji Xun looked at it and narrowed his eyes slightly.

The ghostly boy was none other than Che Er.

Old man Xu was arrested, and of course he was arrested with him.

However, because of his strong combat power, Che Er became a member of the slave guards, not cannon fodder.

The relic-level rapier in the second hand of the car was still the [Flash Heart Piercing Sword] given to him by himself.

Ji Xun also looked at it with emotion.

When I first met him, he was just a slightly immature swordsman apprentice.

Now he has grown into a very powerful swordsman.

Ji Xun retracted his gaze when he looked at it.

There's nothing to worry about at all.

Che Er can follow Old Man Xu for so long and hasn't died,

Naturally, his life is not so easy to die.

As for Old Man Xu

Ji Xun glanced at it and didn't think much about it.

Not surprisingly, seeing that the battle was coming to an end, a gray-faced old man crawled out of a pile of dead branches.

Cannon fodder died a lot, and the old man looked embarrassed, but he was fine.

As always, Gou.

The [Human-Faced Dryad] converged into a large forest, and the strongest lord was the fifth-order Calamity.

This is an almost impenetrable place of death for small adventure parties.

However, for Ji Xun and their large team of more than 8,000 people, it is almost a horizontal push.

After the monster lord was killed by Lorne, the battle came to an end.

Doctors entered the scene and began to treat the wounded.

Others clean up the battlefield.

But the prince of Salou seemed to be determined to find something, and ordered every nook and cranny of the forest to be carefully surveyed.

Although they did not know what the situation was, they could only do as they were told.

Without the monsters to obstruct it, this carpet search is very efficient.

After a while, someone suddenly shouted.

"Found the entrance!"

"Your Highness, there is a robbery hole here, which looks like it was left by a gravedigger"

"Hahaha, we're rich! There are so many ancient relics in the cave! ”

“.”

The plot was reversed all of a sudden, from an adventurous trial to an excavation of ruins.

It's no wonder that the hunters are so excited.

These noble young masters are very willing to spend money, and the treasures they find are shared.

As soon as he finished speaking, a group of people rushed over in a group, and happily burrowed through the hole covered with dead branches.

Ji Xun was not surprised when he heard this.

He knew that there was a high probability that he had found the "mysterious treasure coordinates" on the map.

After all, there are almost no large-scale ruins found in the entire Lune Heights, only monsters.

Now that artificial traces have been found, it is off to a good start.

Just thinking about it, a cautious voice came from his ear: "To be able to gather such a strong necromantic aura, the underground is not simple, I am afraid that there are a large number of necromantic monsters"

The one who opened his mouth was a middle-aged man with gray hair.

It's called "Old Man".

Ji Xun also looked sideways slightly when he listened, and a hint of playfulness that was not easy for others to notice passed under his eyes.

According to Lao Fu himself, he was an archaeologist and knew a lot of strange knowledge, so he was hired in the team.

They were all non-combatants, and they had a lot of communication along the way, and they were all familiar with each other.

However, Ji Xun felt a crisis in this guy.

Not everyone is a perfect actor.

The old man is indeed a learned archaeologist, as he said, and he has not shown any flaws.

Normal people can't see his abnormality.

However, Ji Xun is different.

In "I am the world", the logic of all things is implicated.

Behind a lie, it takes countless lies to solve that logical flaw.

Ji Xun is now proficient in this magic mystic method.

Behind this seemingly perfect identity story, after some deduction, he found some clues.

Ji Xun can basically determine that Lao Fu is the secret guard of the royal family.

Correspondingly, this guy may also spot someone lurking.

Ji Xun is very confident, and he definitely didn't expose himself.

If you haven't been discovered, then it's someone else.

That's where it gets interesting.

Putting aside the royal power struggle in the Southern Continent for the time being, it is not surprising that there are eighty percent of Prince Salou's political enemies in this team, and spies are lurking;

But the Eastern Continent.

There are only a handful of suspects.

Unfortunately, they are all Ji Xun's enemies.

The inheritance of the Bai family has not been broken, and now it is the national teacher of the Oran royal family.

Ji Xun didn't think that the new king Arthur would watch his ancestral spirit being excavated by this group of people in the Southern Continent.

But the front can't stop it.

There is no more suitable lurking than the Bai family's means.

Therefore, Ji Xun suspected that eighty percent of this expedition team had people from the Bai family.

With this thought in mind, in the past few days, he has used his identity as an intelligence businessman to hint at the Bai family's hidden methods to this old man from time to time.

Ji Xun thought that these two sides should still be able to collide with some sparks.

"Your Highness, it seems that there is an underground palace below, very large!"

"Oh my God, there are so many relics!"

“.”

Soon after, the first mercenaries to burrow into the ground brought in a quest for information and a large number of ancient items.

Lao Fu, an archaeologist, was also called.

After some identification, he immediately confirmed that the rusted metal weapons and broken clay pots were post-Talon things.

And it's a funerary offering.

This means that the underground is really a mausoleum.

Now everyone is excited.

There were many nobles in the Tarun period, and there were also many mausoleums.

To excavate a mausoleum, for adventurers, it is tantamount to encountering a gold mine.

However, when Ji Xun heard the news, he was slightly surprised: "It's so easy to find?" ”

Now, a piece of news has been confirmed from the mouth of Nanjing, and the Heights of Rune are really the location of the mausoleum of the royal family of Augustus.

And near the royal mausoleum, there is absolutely no ordinary tomb.

In other words, the underground palace below, even if it is not a royal tomb, must be an ancient relic with important connections.

Ji Xun originally thought that it would take a lot of effort to find it.

But right now.

That's it?

It's easy to think it's a burst of luck.

Others didn't realize how special this mausoleum was.

But Prince Salou came for the royal tomb.

He immediately ordered everyone to go underground.

The news cannot be leaked, and even Ji Xun's logistics personnel followed.

The space underground is very large.

It's like a huge dungeon.

The underground palace is supported by various huge pillars, and the highest part of the floor is a full one or two hundred meters.

You can't see the end at a glance from afar.

Although many places have collapsed, they are still extremely spacious.

Ji Xun's thousands of people came in and scattered in all directions, but they didn't feel crowded at all.

The Assassin climbed the pillar briskly and lit the lantern on the high wall of the tomb.

In an instant, the orange light illuminated the entire dungeon.

An incomparably spectacular scene came into the eyes of everyone.

As soon as the lights came on, everyone's faces showed expressions of horror.

"Oh my God, what kind of tomb is this!"

No one present had ever seen such a large tomb, and they were all shocked by the scene in front of them.

It is a burial dungeon in the style of the Talon period, and the whole body is made of huge stone strips of dark yellow.

The 100-meter-high huge stone statue of the guard stands all around the underground palace, majestic and cold.

The walls are covered with beautiful murals with bright colors and delicate brushstrokes.

The content of the mural records the daily life, war stories, myths and legends of the people of the Tareon period.

The characters are vivid, as if they have seen a vivid scroll of history unfold, allowing people to touch the splendor and mystery of the Taron civilization.

Everything in the dungeon seems to have been built for the gods.

Everything in the field of view is more than ten times the size of normal human objects.

Human beings are as small as ants in this monument.

This also made everyone's hearts inexplicably rise with an inexplicable sense of awe and admiration.

Looking at the scene in front of them, everyone was excited.

But in Ji Xun's trembling eyes, there was a trace of doubt: "Did you really find the royal tomb?" ”

Most likely, it's true.

That's why I had this idea.

It's because he's seen the style.

It's in the extradimensional space of "The Great Cemetery Labyrinth" on the outskirts of Innocence City, exactly the same style!

And according to Ji Xun's understanding of history, the specifications of this mausoleum are definitely not ordinary aristocratic mausoleums.

Even ordinary royal families are not qualified to make such a large tomb god statue.

It can only be the royal tomb of Augustus!

But it was because he felt that he had found it that Ji Xun became more and more suspicious.

Because, the process is too easy.

This made Ji Xun instinctively have a sense of crisis, as if they were deliberately guided by someone.

Right!

From that "gravedigger's map", the cause-and-effect line of things begins.

Ji Xun thought of something, and doubts appeared slightly between his eyebrows: "It's strange, if someone really guides it, who will it be?" ”

Together, a sense of intrigue came to my face.

There are definitely not many people who know that the tomb of Augustus is in the highlands of Lune.

The Orlan royal family, the Bai family, the high priest lineage, and the high-level of the Errel Empire

Ji Xun instantly deduced it in his mind.

But he didn't expect anyone to have the motive to introduce Prince Salou's group into the royal tomb.

Just as he was thinking about it, the guards beside Prince Salo in the distance shouted: "Your Highness has an order, and everyone who enters the mausoleum will be rewarded with three thousand gold coins!" After going back, everyone will be rewarded with dividends. Start exploring now, those who have made major discoveries and meritorious contributions will be rewarded! ”

As soon as these words came out, the mercenaries and hunters became excited.

Everyone knows the dangers, but they are just taking their lives for money, and it would be nice to have a reward.

Under the heavy reward, the adventurers also excitedly explored the depths of the dungeon.

Prince Salou came with this group of people, of course, to be cannon fodder.

Ji Xun didn't dare to be careless.

After confirming that it was the royal tomb in front of him, he decisively glanced around the cannon fodder slave camp, and soon found an old man who was cowering.

He himself was not sure that he would survive the dangerous mausoleum.

However, Old Man Xu can.

(End of chapter)

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