[You have perfectly resolved this event.]
[Event disaster level assessment: E++]
['Perfect' rating settlement reward: Dim Proficiency Essence ×68]
[New items have been added to your shop.]
Looking at the information floating across his retinas, Alex felt great. He solved the whole event just by standing there. Who wouldn't be happy?
But very quickly, he also noticed the drawback of using 'Self Duplication'.
Don't be fooled by how happily the clones were firing their 'heat rays' just now. It actually had nothing to do with Alex himself. After all that firing, Alex's own 'heat ray proficiency' barely went up at all.
"So that means what the clones do has nothing to do with my main body?"
"But they're copied from me. How can that have nothing to do with me?", Alex covered his face. He had been thinking he could use the clones to grind proficiency. Now it seemed that beautiful dream had completely fallen apart.
He did not rush to check what new items had been added to the shop. With a lift of his hand, he flipped open the lid of the stone coffin.
Alex then flew up into the air, his eyes lighting up, thinking that if some elder inside decided to play dead and suddenly come back to life, he would reward him with a blast of 'heat rays'.
But what he found was—
Nothing. An empty coffin.
Alex was genuinely stunned for a moment. This result was a bit unexpected.
After all, normally speaking, once you dealt with the guards, shouldn't a BOSS jump out next?
But now it looked like the BOSS had run off long ago.
'Then what the hell were those Black Robes guarding here for?'
Alex looked around again. The walls of the room were covered in ancient Egyptian script, and he had no idea what any of it said.
Suddenly, Alex slapped his forehead, "If I can't read it, I can just find a professional to read it."
"Professor Nick, that old archaeology guy definitely can."
Alex immediately raised his head and scanned the pyramid, searching for Professor Nick's whereabouts.
———
At the same time—
[Above the Pyramid]
Professor Nick and the blonde girl ran in one breath all the way to the pyramid's entrance. Already advanced in age, Professor Nick, after that burst of running, felt his lungs pumping like bellows.
He felt as if a ball of fire was burning in his chest. His head was drenched in sweat, and he could not stop gasping for air.
His graying hair stuck to his face, his clothes torn in several places. The professor, who had never been this disheveled before, turned back to glance inside the pyramid, "That monster didn't chase us out, did it, Amy?"
The girl, Amy, was the professor's student and assistant. Hearing this, she looked toward the entrance and saw flickering firelight inside, along with screams from people on the verge of death.
The situation did not look optimistic.
The two men responsible for protecting the professor exchanged a look, then took off running.
Amy hurriedly shouted, "Where are you going?"
"Stop! You have to protect us!"
But the two men did not stop. Even though their pay was generous, what was the point of money if you had no life left to spend it?
Very quickly, the professor and the girl were left behind. But at that moment, they heard the girl let out a cry of alarm.
Then one of the men felt a wave of hot air hit the back of his head.
He shuddered, turned around abruptly, and almost collided face to face with a pale visage.
Only then did the man realize that clinging to his back was a person in a black robe, a demon.
The Black Robe opened its mouth, extended a crimson tongue, and licked the man's neck.
In an instant, a large chunk of flesh was licked right off his neck. Blood sprayed everywhere as he collapsed to the ground on the spot.
The Black Robe did not bother with him for now. Like a drifting black cloud, it floated up and descended toward the other man.
As it brushed past him, it reached out and plucked the man's head clean off his body.
In the beam of the searchlight, Amy clearly saw that the headless corpse still ran forward for some distance before finally collapsing to the ground.
Then that black demon returned to the man with the injured neck. The Black Robe squatted down, bared its teeth in a grin, and suddenly pounced.
Immediately, Amy heard a "gurgle~ gurgle~" sound, like drinking an ice cold cola through a straw in summer.
That horrifying sound made Amy retreat again and again until she bumped into the professor.
The next moment, the girl bit her lip and said, "Professor, I'll draw that monster away. You take the chance to escape."
Professor Nick replied without hesitation, "How could I do that? Sacrificing a student so I can live, I can't do that!"
Amy said quickly, "Professor, even if it's just so the knowledge in your mind can continue, I have to do this!"
After saying that, the brave girl was about to go draw the Black Robe away.
But when she turned her head, the Black Robe, its face covered in blood, was already standing silently in front of them.
That thick, bloody stench slapped into the girl's face, making her almost scream.
Despair instantly filled Amy's heart. The speed the Black Robe had shown made her plan look utterly ridiculous and childish.
Even if she were willing to throw away her life, the Black Robe could calmly kill her first and then go after the professor.
'It's over!'
'Everything is over!'
'There's no hope!'
'We're all going to die here!'
As if it had read the girl's despair, the Black Robe actually laughed, revealing sharp teeth and letting out a piercing laugh, as if countless vampire bats were screeching at once.
Suddenly, the Black Robe opened its mouth and bit toward them.
At that very moment, from above Amy's head, two golden beams suddenly streaked past, blasting straight into the Black Robe's face.
The Black Robe immediately let out a scream. The cry did not even last a second before its head was blown apart by the golden light. Golden flames burst out from its skull, burning and vaporizing the shattered fragments.
A shockwave carrying scorching heat swept Amy and Professor Nick off their feet. They instinctively raised their hands to shield their eyes, only to see that the monster that had seemed unstoppable moments ago now had its headless body rapidly burning away and disappearing within the sacred, golden flames.
The two who had survived a great disaster and narrowly escaped death looked at each other in disbelief.
Then they turned around.
Under the blinding lights, a blue figure slowly descended.
A bright blue suit, golden hair, and a reassuring smile.
It made Amy's tears finally burst forth uncontrollably.
"Homelander!"
"Professor, we're saved!"
"It's Homelander!"
Alex had just been about to say hello when the girl, crying with tears and snot streaming down together, rushed over and hugged him tightly.
In an instant, all of the girl's tears and snot were wiped all over his body.
'Shit!'
'Can you have some basic personal hygiene!'
After a moment, Amy finally got her emotions under control and quickly let go of Alex.
At the same time, realizing how improper she had been, she was so embarrassed she wanted to crawl into a crack in the ground.
Alex glanced resentfully at the mess the girl had left on his chest, sighed, and looked toward the old man, "Professor Nick, I'd like to ask you to translate some text."
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