Whoosh… Boom!!
With the Undead King devoured, the giant Guanning floating in the air fell… crashing heavily onto the mountain of gold below!
The gold coins below flew everywhere from the impact, and rare gemstones and minerals were shattered!
“Yi! Yi yi yi!!”
But Veil, who had just devoured the strongest being here, now scurried behind Ileya like a kitten dodging a spray bottle, rubbing her arm that was hurt by the flying gold coins.
This girl really is… Sigh~
Ileya looked at Veil’s current state and sighed instinctively.
She wondered what the Lich who called himself the “King of the Dead” would think if he knew that just picking up a random stone could actually knock this girl out.
But… obviously, that guy didn’t have a chance anymore.
Speechlessly patting the head of the Goddess Young Lady behind her, Ileya stepped forward slowly.
Ileya didn’t care about the sea of gold and silver before her.
If they were truly Tomb Raiders, these things would be considered their ultimate Purpose.
But for her, these things were really nothing; the Lady had never touched money and had no interest in it.
Get away! You stinking money!
Casually kicking away the gold crowns and silver cups in her way, Ileya stood in front of the Guanning and looked at what was inside.
The burial items inside were very special.
It wasn’t the gold, silver, or jade she knew of, nor were there gems or golden robes, but… a small box.
This was a box that looked completely out of place with the surrounding gold and silver.
Without any pearly luster or gold and silver inlay, it just looked like an ordinary stone box.
However, looking closely, the sides of the stone box were inscribed with countless crooked characters.
It looked devoid of any aesthetic sense, or rather… it was simply exploding with ugliness.
This made the Lady instinctively feel some disdain for the small stone box.
“Hmm? This… is that Lich’s Phylactery?” Just as Ileya curled her lips and prepared to open the stone box to see what was inside, Veil, who had been following her, suddenly spoke.
“Phylactery?” Ileya was slightly stunned and instantly stopped her movements, looking back at Veil with curiosity.
“Ah… Liches all like to make these kinds of things, it’s just…” The Goddess Young Lady sized up the stone box in Ileya’s hand. “This one is a bit special…”
Special? No wonder. After all, this World doesn’t even have an Underworld.
Perhaps this guy wasn’t the only Lich in this World, but carving out a completely new path was indeed not easy… Being able to make something like this might already be very…
“Yeah, especially ugly.” Veil nodded, a look of disdain appearing on her face.
Cough cough… Ileya almost choked on her own saliva and looked at Veil speechlessly.
“Besides being ugly… what exactly is this so-called Phylactery for?”
“A Phylactery is a means of self-protection for Liches, equivalent to a Lich’s second life~”
Regarding such matters that were common knowledge in the Undead World, this lofty Goddess-sama still knew a thing or two.
“This kind of thing is made when other species transform into a Lich. They put a part of their Soul inside and then… and then…” The Goddess Young Lady reached this point and scratched her head blankly. “And then what was she supposed to do?”
Having long grown accustomed to the Goddess Young Lady’s useless behavior, Ileya no longer dwelled on the production process of the item and instead changed the subject.
“So… can that Lich still use this thing to resurrect?”
“That… should be impossible~”
Veil on her face expression was a bit strange, as she seemed rarely embarrassed… she patted her flat lower abdomen.
“For a Lich to return to a Phylactery, it needs to have a consciousness and spirit, but now it has been… completely digested~”
Is that so… Then what will happen to that part of the Soul inside?
Ileya was curious, but she didn’t open the Phylactery herself, following the principle of ‘caution keeps the ship safe for ten thousand years.’ She called a Skeleton over to open the Phylactery.
Whoosh~ Unexpectedly, this Phylactery was opened quite easily. There were no earth-shattering changes at the moment it opened; even the ghostly blue flames in the Tomb Chamber didn’t flicker once.
However… looking at the thing inside, Ileya frowned slightly.
Because what was placed inside was a curled-up infant. Or rather… a clump of flesh in the shape of an infant.
This thing was like a semi-melted fluid, with strands of flesh connecting it near the Phylactery, sticking to it like a melting candle.
And Ileya indeed felt the presence of a Soul within this strange infant.
Sensing carefully, the current state of this Soul was very similar to the unconscious Souls she had caught in the graveyard.
This… was understandable.
If there’s no body upon rebirth, what returns isn’t a Lich, but a Ghost…
But regardless of how it looked, it was indeed a good thing.
For a moment, Ileya couldn’t think of how to make an unowned Phylactery her own.
She didn’t know a Lich’s methods.
She simply had a Skeleton Soldier hold it in its arms, planning to throw it directly into her Kingdom of the Dead later…
As for the gold and silver. Although it wasn’t much, it was still loot. Ileya would reluctantly… take it all~
Snap! Thinking this, Ileya snapped her fingers.
Clatter… These treasures’ lower parts instantly appeared several black holes, like bathroom floor drains, causing the riches to flow frantically into her Kingdom of the Dead.
Seeing a mountain of gold appear before her eyes was indeed shocking, but seeing the mountain of gold gradually disappear before her eyes… was equally shocking!
The Holy Sword Bearer Miss was like a bumpkin who had just entered the city, looking at everything before her and recalling what had just happened.
She suddenly realized that her previous thoughts were wrong. Veil Senior was no Mascot! Instead, she… was actually more like a Mascot!!
This realization made her instinctively pinch her own face. She wondered if her appearance was worthy of being a Mascot…
Of course, it wasn’t just her; the way others looked at Veil at this moment had also completely changed. It had become… different from before.
Clatter… Just as everyone was lost in thought, the sound of metal clashing gradually subsided.
Only a few scattered gold coins and broken gems remained of the gold mountain in the Tomb Chamber. Even the Lich’s Guanning was thrown into the Kingdom of the Dead by Ileya.
After all, since she was already here, she might as well~
Ten-odd minutes later, looking at the empty Main Burial Chamber—where talking now came with its own echo effect—the Lady nodded slowly, a satisfied smile appearing on her face.
And just as everyone planned to return the way they came and continue toward the [Delan City Ruins]… Ileya suddenly discovered.
Two people… were missing from the team.
“Hmm?”
Because after the final check that there were no other spoils in the tomb, even the mummies serving as candlesticks had been swiped by Ileya, so the Tomb Chamber was still quite dark… It was impossible to see everything at a single glance.
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