"Jiji?!"

Kasha told Poluo not to make noise, and took two steps forward to put his helmet on the sarcophagus.

With her keen hearing, she didn't hear any noise inside, and her breathing sounds were not as loud as her heartbeat, and she couldn't help but doubt Taliyah's judgment.

"Is he really in there?"

“…”

Taliyah did not answer, but placed her hands on the sarcophagus. The moment her fingertips touched the sarcophagus, her hands shrank like an electric shock, but she did not move away, but pressed them hard to receive the information engraved in the rock.

She closed her eyes tightly, and the pulsation of the rock came from her palm, which was a past memory and was recorded in a sarcophagus.

A long time ago, the Ascension Empire built a magnificent tomb for the great master Nathus, who is loved by the people...

Ascenators are not immortal. Their lifespan will die in war and will return to the embrace of the earth after their lives reach the end. Therefore, every ascension warrior who devotes his life to the empire has the right to ask the empire to build a tomb for them and tailor it according to their favorite form and style so that they can live a comfortable life in the tomb after their long lives.

Nathers was also unavoidable. He even joined the supervising work himself and used his position to place many jackal sculptures and many books he liked in the tomb. On the surface, he just made a "little nest" he liked like other ascenaries, but in fact he had ulterior motives in setting up this way.

The design of those statues and sarcophagus is not groundless, but based on a special magic circle that can have a rebirth effect. The entire sand-bottomed tomb is Nethers' laboratory, where he conducts experiments and brings the Bakai, who failed ascension, into the rebirth tomb chamber, hoping to repair their deformed bodies and crazy will through rituals.

After all, these Bakai were once the people of Shurima, and they were his brothers and sisters. It was not their fault for failing to ascension. They did not have any mistakes. Nathers felt that they should not be strangled just like this.

But the consequences of the failure of ascension are so easy to reverse. Nathus searched through all the books and exhausted all the methods, but failed to upgrade Bake to a perfect ascenator like him.

However, as his research on Bakai deepened, he found a way to save Bakai's gradually lost reason, and at the same time repairing their physical deformities and injuries to a certain extent, it is not futile.

Therefore, Bakai is gathered in this mausoleum, both of which are the experimental subjects of Nathers, or the patients he rescued. Thanks to Nathers' treatment, they did not completely lose their minds and spontaneously chose to become Nathers' guards, and have long protected this secret mausoleum.

These were things that happened here a long time ago. The phantom changed in an instant. Taliyah saw that not long ago, Nathus returned here with his scarred body, opened the sarcophagus and lay in.

He was using the method he had treated Bakai to treat his body that had been damaged after the war with Zelas. This specially made sarcophagus would transform the sunlight into the astral energy cast into the body of the ascenator. As long as he woke up again, he would be able to restore his full posture.

At the end of memory, Taliyah also saw the phantom of Nathers, as if talking to herself.

"I did not betray Shurima, nor did Rekton. The real traitor was Zeras. He made Shurima fall, and he focused on Rekton's mind with lies that made him think I had locked him and Zeras into the darkness."

"Zeras only saw Rekton turning into a wild beast, but forgot that a noble warrior was asleep in his body. He selflessly sacrificed his life for his brother, saved his country from a traitor, and voluntarily sacrificed everything. Please don't blame him."

"Shurima's daughter, you must guard the tomb well. Never let Zeras's evil plan succeed. Shurima will thank you..."

"Taliyah?" Kasha's cry broke into his mind. Taliyah shook her head hard, dispelling the phantom from before her eyes.

"What's wrong with you?" Kasha asked again. As soon as Taliya touched the sarcophagus, she was stunned, which made her worry so much that she was dying, but she didn't dare to go up and disturb her.

"I... it's okay." Taliyah recovered and said, "Kasha, we have to stay here until Nathers wakes up."

She told Kasha and Zel all she had felt from the sarcophagus. Kasha found a corner to sit down and asked frownly, "Do we have to wait here until he wakes up?"

The ascensioner has a long lifespan. Maybe his sleep will be the life of a mortal, and what Kasha lacks the most now is time.

"It shouldn't be too long. He couldn't not know the news of Azil's resurrection. Moreover, Zelas is still chasing Azil's only bloodline, including Nathers' younger brother, who is also looking for him... so many things are waiting for him to deal with, if I dare not sleep too hard."

Speaking of Rekton, Zel picked up the treasure book and checked his location. He was shocked when he saw it. Rekton was less than ten miles away from the tomb. The ghostly Rekton gave Zel a headache. It felt like he was directly crossing the tower and then going against you after winning a wave on the opposite crocodile line. You still had no way to do it.

"Get ready to fight, Rekton is almost here," he said with a wry smile.

"He knows we're here?" Kasha still felt incredible. In the vast desert, Rekton always had a way to find them.

"It seems yes, he walked straight, not fast, but his purpose is clear, and I don't know how to confirm your location."

Kasha fell into deep worries, and then Taliyah came over and patted her on the shoulder.

"Don't worry, Kasha, I'm with you, the shepherd is here too."

Taliyah took Kasha's hands one step closer. Taliyah's palms were warm and rough, and even though they were separated by the second layer of skin, Kasha could feel them.

"Well, I'm with you." Zel also echoed, paying attention to them for several days. The next battle will determine the future direction of Shurima.

"Jiji!" The Poluo people were also full of passion and response, and they were also ready.

Kasha looked back at Taliyah, looking at the hope in her eyes, the power deep in her eyes, and fell into silence.

When her family was captured by the void, if Taliyah were there... she might have become different.

But she has become her now, and the world needs her like this, and Taliyah.

She has seen the effect of their joint efforts, and yes, there is no difficulty in stopping them.

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