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Bernadette walked into the double-leaf gray-white stone door, and everything inside went mad at this moment, as if seeing a great existence and being uncontrollably polluted.
About fifteen seconds passed, Bernadette's breathing became a little heavier, and she ended the mysterious magic named 'Ugly Duckling', retracting the incomplete mythical creature form she had revealed.
Then, she raised her right hand forward, condensing a dark, ancient Horn, imbued with a sense of extreme heaviness and power.
This was the Horn of Destruction. She gently brought the Horn to her lips, and a low hum, full of destructive symbolism, emanated from it, echoing within the tomb.
Under the superposition of sound waves, all living creatures that were still alive but had fallen into madness due to directly looking at Bernadette's incomplete mythical creature form were uncontrollably brought to destruction.
Outside the gray-white double-leaf stone door, Leyton was enveloped in a layer of misty golden armor, which isolated the destructive sound of the Horn.
A moment later, there was no longer any extra life aura inside the stone door, and only then did he retract the golden armor on his body and step into the stone door.
He continued to advance for a distance, arriving at a place similar to a hall.
Leyton turned his head to his left, where a person identical to him had appeared at some unknown time.
"Who are you?" The other party looked at Leyton with a terrified expression and questioned loudly.
Bernadette, standing beside, quietly watched this scene, as if watching a play.
With a slight sigh, Leyton, with a slightly heavy hand, slowly raised it, gathering light to condense a long spear that was pure to the extreme, blazing white to the extreme, seemingly composed of pure Sun light.
The figure opposite, identical to Leyton, instantly became transparent and distorted, transforming into a translucent Human-skin, and darted away into the distance.
Leyton's gaze and spirituality locked onto the opponent tightly.
The next moment, the pure white long spear in his hand was thrown towards the opponent, leaving a blazing white trail in the air.
Almost without pause, the pure white long spear penetrated the translucent Human-skin Shadow. Immediately, that pure white long spear expanded into a miniature Sun, blazing white to the extreme, enough to illuminate a City.
This was one of the strongest attacks Leyton could simulate, the Unshadowed Spear of the Unshadowed of the Sun Pathway.
Although the Unshadowed Spear used through simulation was more than a notch weaker than the original, it far exceeded the Beyonder abilities of Sequence 5 level.
The scorching, pure white miniature Sun directly inflicted a heavy blow on all Monsters hidden in the Darkness; they either turned into ashes or fled in panic.
Bernadette's gaze locked onto a slightly strange Shadow, instantly crossing several feet to arrive near the Shadow.
She was covered in an invisible substance, her entire being seemingly transformed into something that simply did not exist; the miniature Sun brought by the Unshadowed Spear and the Shadow's attack did not cause her the slightest harm.
The next moment, ripples of starlight spread out from Bernadette's side.
Everything around her silently disintegrated, turning into fragments that fell to the ground, and even the colors were washed away by the spreading starlight ripples.
"Arcane Scholar?" Leyton pondered for a moment. This ability to silently disintegrate objects and even evaporate colors was very similar to the Arcane Scholar of the Paragon Pathway.
Also, she had an Angel brother of the Paragon Pathway, and Roselle was also an Angel of this Pathway. It was not strange at all that she could analyze the mythical creature blood of a Knowledge Magister.
During the brief time Leyton was pondering, the surrounding Beyonder creatures were almost completely cleared out.
Only that strange Shadow struggled to escape the area of rippling starlight and quickly ran deeper into the tomb.
A long spear of ancient design, burning with clusters of bloody dark red flames, suddenly pierced through its translucent body.
It was directly torn apart, turning into countless fragments that fell, with scattered points of twinkling light gradually appearing and beginning to converge.
As Leyton's gaze, surrounded by faint purple light, scanned the surroundings, no living creatures other than himself and Bernadette could be found inside this tomb.
"The Beyonder creatures here are not strong; only that Shadow just now was a bit strange, but it has already been dealt with."
Bernadette said in a cold, calm voice.
Leyton slowly nodded, approaching the colorless area where the starlight no longer rippled. The ground here had become fragile, and with every step, a sizzling sound could be heard underfoot.
"Let's go." Bernadette led the way towards the main tomb chamber.
The passage leading to the main tomb chamber was occupied by Human-skin Shadows and ancient vengeful spirits.
The Eyes of Mystery Prying allowed Leyton and Bernadette to see everything here from a great distance.
"I'll do it."
Leyton took two steps forward, raising the bone staff in his right hand and saying, "Confinement!"
The entire passage was instantly sealed by an invisible force.
The two ancient vengeful spirits and the Human-skin Shadow sensed the danger and frantically charged at the invisible force sealing their surroundings.
"No vengeful spirits allowed here!"
"No flying allowed here!"
The two ancient vengeful spirits' figures instantly became transparent for a moment, falling to the ground and becoming extremely weak.
Leyton extended his bone staff, pointing at the Human-skin Shadow, which had also fallen to the ground, and pronounced a judgment in a low voice:
"Death!"
A not-so-bright light burst from the tip of the bone staff, dragging out a dark afterimage that crashed into the Human-skin Shadow, accurately hitting it with irresistible and unavoidable momentum. Its body instantly exploded, turning into countless fragments and ashes.
"Release!" Leyton then lifted the confinement applied to the passage.
Rubbing his fingers, he created illusory golden flames around him, each imbued with a strong Sun aura.
The spiritual bodies of the two ancient vengeful spirits burned like candles, melting into drops of liquid, leaving only points of light gradually converging.
"You are very skilled at simulating Sun domain spells?"
Bernadette's gaze fell on the other end of the passage, and she said in an unperturbed voice.
Leyton looked at Bernadette in confusion, not understanding why she brought up this question, but still responded:
"The Sun domain spells I have analyzed are the most numerous. Perhaps the Church of the God of Knowledge and Wisdom possesses high-Sequence Sealed Artifacts of this Pathway, or perhaps the Church has a Saint of this Pathway."
Bernadette nodded lightly without responding, as if she had just been making small talk.
Then she pointed to a picture frame hanging seven or eight meters ahead, which was brownish-yellow in color, had obvious wood grain, and only showed a side view.
"This is a very dangerous item, the kind that needs to be Sealed Artifact."
"If the information I've read is correct, it belongs to the Amon Family's Ghost Picture Frame. As long as one walks into its range and is reflected within it, their Spirit Body will detach from their flesh and become a portrait, forever Sealed Artifact within the painting."
"Even if the portrait inside is replaced, without the corresponding method, there is no way to be rescued."
As soon as she finished speaking, Bernadette approached step by step.
As she approached, her figure was reflected within the Ghost Picture Frame, but no portrait belonging to Bernadette appeared inside.
It seemed that the rules of this Sealed Artifact had no effect on her at all.
She reached out and grasped in mid-air, and points of brilliant starlight surged, quickly covering the picture frame.
Then it contracted and solidified, turning into a completely opaque gray-white amber. The picture frame covered by the gray-white amber trembled slightly a few times, then fell silent.
Seeing that the danger in the passage had been resolved, Leyton quickly approached, following behind Bernadette, and walked towards the entrance of the main tomb chamber at the end of the passage.
In front of the main tomb chamber was a black stone door with patterns like knife cuts and axe chops, with a gray-white stone disk embedded in the center.
The surface of the stone disk was divided into twelve grids, large and small, distributed in a very uncoordinated manner, and there was a black pointer.
"This is the Amon Family's emblem."
Bernadette explained softly.
Leyton gently nodded and added:
"It has been modified into the Black Emperor's characteristic asymmetrical style."
"Black Emperor? You know a lot about the Black Emperor?"
Bernadette turned to look at Leyton; she seemed more interested in the Black Emperor than in this tomb.
"I know a little." Leyton then spoke:
"This Pathway represents the shadow of order and the dark side of rules. Its characteristic is to exploit rules, eventually evolving into the shadow of order."
"This is why the grids on the Amon Family's emblem are unevenly distributed, and why half of it is shaded."
"If these superfluous symbols were removed, could it directly point to Amon?"
Bernadette pondered with interest.
"Most likely."
Leyton originally wanted to add 'it's best not to try', but then he remembered that the other party was Queen Mystic, who had been adventuring in the Beyonder world for many years, and didn't need his reminder at all, so he rationally swallowed the latter half of the sentence.
Bernadette did not respond. Her eyes instantly became extremely deep, like the sea before a storm.
This situation did not last too long, only a few breaths, and then she recovered, but her face became a little pale.
After a brief two seconds of silence, Bernadette looked at Leyton and said:
"There is danger inside, and it involves a very high level."
After a slight ponder, Leyton said in a speculative tone:
"Sequence 1 of The Marauder pathway is called Worm of Time. At this stage, stealing can temporarily steal time, anchors, and authority."
"The danger inside is very likely that our time will be stolen."
Bernadette nodded lightly, then directly pushed open the black stone door in front of her. After the stone door opened, inside was an extremely spacious tomb chamber.
Inside the tomb chamber, bodies in various outfits lay haphazardly: some dressed as ordinary workers, others in black wool coats and semi-tall silk top hats, clearly people who had only entered here in recent years.
Without exception, all of them had aged faces and sparse white hair, as if they had died of old age here, and had only recently died, not yet having had time to rot.
On the high platform in the center of the tomb chamber, there was a deep black coffin, and on the surrounding walls were iron-black lamp holders, each holding a white candle that was still silently burning.
The candlelight did not flicker; everything was like a frozen picture.
"Time here is affected." Bernadette frowned slightly and whispered.
Leyton tilted his head slightly, pressing his left hand to his ear, in a posture of listening to something.
"There's a passage connecting to the Abyss inside; remember to destroy it after you enter."
"Hold that bone staff; I can bless you with my own status, reducing the probability of your time being stolen."
Taking a deep breath, Leyton turned to Bernadette beside him and said:
"Do you have a way to avoid your time being stolen?"
If not, then he would have to go in alone.
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