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A glow like the morning sun appeared on Joseph Weil's body. He held a bronze talisman in his hand, and spirituality poured into it. Flames and lightning flashed on the surface of the bronze talisman.
Aaron, who was standing in the audience, suddenly had an inexplicable sense of déjà vu. This power was extremely similar to the one that his ancestor Varna Weil used to seal the death mask for him.
Red flames and silver-white lightning surged out from the surface of the bronze talisman and rushed towards the upside-down picture frame at the bottom of the platform. Only bronze fragments were left in Joseph Weil's hands.
The upside-down picture frame at the bottom of the platform was suddenly submerged in red flames and silver-white lightning. The original breeze in the closed mausoleum suddenly increased, blowing away the invisible confinement and silence.
The candles on the iron lampstands burned quickly and became extremely bright, but soon came to the end of their lives and melted away.
However, the main tomb chamber was still illuminated by raging flames and lightning as if it were daytime.
The three old corpses on the ground rotted rapidly, emitting a foul stench. Only three white bones and a pool of pus were left, as well as three Beyonder Characteristics and their weapons.
The storm of fire and lightning gradually subsided, and the bottom of the platform gradually returned to calm.
Aaron saw from afar that the picture frame that was originally upside down at the bottom of the platform had completely disappeared, leaving only a square scroll made of unknown material with a surface covered with red and silver-white patterns.
The size was exactly the same as the "ghost frame" covered with black cloth in his hand, which made Aaron imagine a lot.
Aaron turned his head and looked at a man with a suitcase behind him. He immediately understood, put down the suitcase, took out a little white rabbit from it, controlled the strength and distance, and threw the rabbit near the painting with skill.
Everyone stared at the rabbit, and after seeing that the painting with its nose pressed against the base of the platform was fine, Reinhardt Weil and Joseph Weil walked towards the platform, and Aaron followed behind.
The rest of the team members dispersed to collect the scattered Beyonder Characteristics and various Beyonder ingredients.
Joseph Weil picked up the scroll on the ground and turned it over, exposing the front of the painting.
It was a portrait of a young man with a smile on his face.
He has dark eyes and curly black hair.
He has a broad forehead and a thin face.
He wore a crystal monocle in his right eye.
He was wearing a black classical robe and a black pointed hat.
Amon!
Before Aaron got close, he felt the ghost frame covered by black cloth in his hand tremble slightly. Then he stopped and looked at the frame in his hand and the painting in Joseph's hand. His guess became more and more certain.
Joseph, who put away the painting, seemed to have thought of something. He looked back at Aaron with a strange look, which made Aaron a little confused.
The three of them silently climbed up the stairs to the platform and came to the black coffin. Joseph sensed it for a moment, then suddenly stretched out his right palm and pushed hard.
With a creaking sound, a crack appeared on the heavy coffin lid, as if it had not been nailed shut at all.
The three of them saw at the same time that the inside of the coffin was empty, with only a layer of light golden cushion on the bottom, on which was embroidered a worm with twelve rings on its body.
The Worm of Time!
Not only Aaron, Michelle and Reinhardt also obviously knew something. None of the three took the seemingly harmless Time Worm, but looked at each other in silence.
Reinhardt Weil was the first to break the silence, looking at Aaron and saying:
"The letter you sent to Michelle was eventually passed directly to our ancestor Varna. It was He who personally instructed me to come and assist in this exploration."
"Before I left, my ancestors asked me to hand over all the things related to Amon in the mausoleum to you for you to deal with."
Aaron blinked, looked at the serious-looking Reinhardt Weil and Joseph Weil, and instantly understood what his ancestors meant.
No, it would be more accurate to say that he was seeking the protection of the Evernight Goddess.
Aaron's expression remained unchanged, and he secretly complained in his heart: "It turns out that I am just a tool. I don't know what price I have to pay to ask for the goddess's protection."
After the extraordinary members of the family below the platform had stored and sealed all the Beyonder ingredients and other harvests, Reinhardt Weil and Joseph Weil placed the scroll with the image of Amon next to the coffin.
Immediately afterwards, at Aaron's request, all the extraordinary people in the family, except Aaron himself, left the underground mausoleum. Aaron also placed the ghost picture frame covered with black cloth in his hand on the other side of the coffin.
Aaron looked around the empty and quiet mausoleum, the various murals painted on the inner walls and the top of the mausoleum, and the stone door leading to the abyss hidden behind the murals.
Aaron let out a light breath, sorted out his emotions, took out the prepared spiritual materials, and skillfully arranged the ceremony.
The spirituality flowed into the red moon mark on his wrist, and at the same time he chanted in ancient Hermes with a serious expression:
"You are the Evernight Goddess who stands higher than the cosmos and more eternal than eternity."
"You are the Lady of Crimson, the Mother Concealment."
"You are the Empress of Misfortune and Horror, the Mistress of Repose and Silence."
"I pray for your help and for your protection."
After reading the honorific name, Aaron switched to normal Loenese, using refined language and a respectful tone to recount the general course of events.
The film emphasizes Amon's evil taste and danger, the difficulty of finding this underground mausoleum, and his noble act of eliminating hidden dangers for the people of Backlund.
At the same time, a sacrifice and bestowal ceremony was arranged on the coffin, with the Time Worm inside the coffin as the main sacrifice, and ghost picture frames and the image depicting Amon were placed on both sides.
Gritting his teeth, Aaron took out the human skin shadow characteristic that he had kept away from his arms and put it on, chanting the sacrificial spell in ancient Hermes with a respectful expression.
The originally dark underground mausoleum was only illuminated by candlelight on the coffin on the high platform. In just a moment, the red moonlight suddenly illuminated the underground mausoleum, covering everything with red moonlight.
Aaron clearly felt a pair of eyes staring at him.
Before Aaron could continue speaking, an invisible force lifted up several items on the altar.
The ghostly frame and the image depicting Amon were both shrouded in a dark mist, the blackness gradually enveloping both objects before quickly receding.
Aaron keenly noticed that two slightly illusory Time Worms, which were much smaller than the Time Worm in the coffin, were separated from the ghost frame and the image depicting Amon.
Interestingly, the original image depicting Amon turned into a special symbol composed of a disc, twelve grids, and a pointer after the Time Worm was forcibly stripped away.
The painting depicting special symbols seemed to be pulled directly into a ghostly frame nearby. Then, an ancient and mysterious new frame with red, silver and white patterns on its surface appeared on the altar.
The door of sacrificial gift opened immediately, sucking in the three time worms, one large and two small, and the human skin shadow characteristics on the altar, leaving behind a picture frame.
Then, Aaron felt that everything around him seemed to be covered with dark fog. The platform where the coffin was located and the stone door leading to the abyss hidden not far away seemed to be about to be shrouded in fog.
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