The scorching sun hung in the air, and the gravel was refracted like gold under the sun. The blue sky was clear, and the white flowing clouds floated by like cotton. The heat seemed to distort the air, and the ground seemed to sizzle and crackle.
The lively and vigorous girl Mana was lying on the horse's back, listless, as if she had been dehydrated by the sun.
"Aren't we there yet?" she asked softly.
The young girl who was full of energy and enthusiasm when she first set off seemed to have calmed down as if she had exhausted all her energy. Especially looking at the endless sun-drenched desert in front of her, she was even more lethargic.
"Indeed, it's been too long, hasn't it?" Honda also said.
At this time, each of them was riding a horse carefully selected from the palace-after all, running such a long distance on foot was too torturing.
However, the horse on Honda's crotch didn't seem to like him very much, and it almost threw him off twice during the period. Honda had to hunched over to keep himself tightly attached to the horse's back, looking like a big shrimp.
"It's almost there." Yuei Vu compared the coordinates in the forum, "We'll be there in half an hour."
The spirit of the whole group was lifted. The oven heat and the long distance had drained all enthusiasm, and nothing could be more invigorating than having your destination close at hand.
Riding on the horse, Mana picked up the skirt and flapped it to dissipate heat, only shaking her chest up and down…
"There's a question I've always wanted to ask…" Anzu leaned closer and asked Mana, "Are you… Dark Magician Girl?"
"Indeed, I've always felt that they look exactly the same!" Jonouchi also echoed.
"Dark Magician Girl?" Mana tilted her head in doubt.
"It's a very powerful magician girl in our world." Yugi said, "If you practice seriously, you will definitely become as strong as her!"
…and then you can make a living by selling cuteness and exploiting otaku for money.
Yuei Vu thought silently.
"Dark Magician Girl…sounds like a cool name!" Mana got a little more energetic and puffed up her chest, "Okay! Then I will be Dark Magician Girl from today on!"
At the end of the trip, they finally came to the hidden tomb.
Heart Gone With The Wind waited at the door early. Having been locked up for several days, he was so excited when he saw the backup coming that he hurriedly led everyone into the tomb.
It would be nice if the mechanism in the tomb were exactly the same as in the animation – after all, the traps shown in the original work were only two simple trials.
The first trial only required you to go through the maze with the left foot in front, and you could pass it easily. The second trial required the courage of those who passed it—even if they only showed a little fear, they would be immediately bitten into pieces by the monsters that came out of the stone slab.
If there were really only two trials like this, it would be too simple for players. As long as you watched the anime and knew the strategy for the first trial, there was no difficulty. As for the second trial… the word "fear" didn't exist in the dictionary of screwball players.
However, the problem was that the design structure and mechanism settings in this tomb were different from those in the original work.
For example, Heart Gone With The Wind's first life was taken by a trap called "Needle Ceiling"-the whole person was directly pierced by the spike-filled ceiling.
The second life after the resurrection, this time he had the experience. When he came to the same position, he perfectly avoided the floor where the trap was triggered with a small jump and landed on the floor one floor ahead. He even wanted to turn his head and taunt: "That's it?"
Then...
…he was bounced by something like a spring under the floor, lifted vertically like a rocket, and hit his head on the barbed ceiling.
At that time, Heart Gone With The Wind felt the urge to curse.
F*ck your mother, this tomb is probably not built by Brother Noragami's ancestors, is it?
Not only it is so nether, but it also considers psychology.
Why is there a double trap?
Fortunately, this tomb was built by Grandpa Sugoroku in the previous life, and it was Grandpa Sugoroku who deciphered it three thousand years later. What was even more fortunate was that he told this story to his grandson over and over again, so that Yugi remembered every word Grandpa said, including the location and coping method of every mechanism he described.
Thanks to the excellent memory of Yugi and the assistance of Grandpa Sugoroku who was not here, the group of people passed through layers of obstacles without any danger and came inside.
Finally, thanks to the "God of Gambler" Jonouchi for his assistance—everyone passed through the mechanism and found that there was a dead end ahead, and they seemed to have reached the end of the tomb. After searching for a long time, but still unable to find where the follow-up path was, Jonouchi's luck took effect: he casually leaned against a certain pillar next to him, immediately triggered a mechanism in a dark place, and opened the final secret door… ..
They finally reached the goal.
The tomb of the pharaoh, the only place where the true name of Yami Yugi was located, and the hiding place of the final props of this RPG game.
When the final secret door was pushed open and they walked into the resplendent secret room, even Yuei Vu never imagined what would be waiting for them——
–Nothing at all.
The majestic golden hall, the long stairs, and the hieroglyphic engraved stone slabs were placed at the end of the stairs.
There were no more secret doors, no traps nor trials. Yuei Vu was very sure that this slate was the one engraved with the true name of the Pharaoh…or the one that should have been engraved with that.
But now, what was originally engraved on that slate could no longer be distinguished. Someone scratched the content on the slate in pieces, and the hieroglyphs were intermittent. In particular, the part where the Pharaoh's name was taboo was shoveled off in one piece, like a cake scooped out by a spoon.
The whole room and this stone slab were carefully inspected, and finally, they retreated in disappointment.
"His name isn't here either."
It seemed that even this hidden tomb was the same as in the palace after all. All the NPCs around the pharaoh in the palace have forgotten his true name, and in the place where the names of the pharaohs of all dynasties in the palace were recorded, only the true name of Yami Yugi was missing.
It was as if the existence of this person had been completely erased from history by some powerful force.
Yuei Vu frowned.
The tomb here should be different from other places. This should be the place where the ultimate item "Pharaoh's True Name" was hidden, and it was also the only place where you could get this item in the entire memory world.
There's no reason why Pharaoh's true name couldn't even be found here.
There was only one explanation – there was a deviation between the development of the plot and the original work. Bakura had already arrived first, found the location of the tomb before them, and removed the ultimate prop "Pharaoh's True Name" first.
"This is a bit troublesome…" Yuei Vu felt a pain in the ass.
Is the Great Evil God so shameless?
The decisive battle hasn't started yet, so it's okay to take the protagonist's weapon first.
He checked the quest panel of the system, and it seemed that even if he found the slate, the completion progress of the quest of "Finding Pharaoh's True Name" was still displayed as (0/1), which was in an unfinished state.
Doesn't this mean that this item has been deleted from the game?
Still unwilling to give up, Yuei Vu stepped forward with the attitude of giving it a try and touched the stone slab lightly.
However, unexpectedly, the system actually responded!
The whole stone slab faintly emitted white light with his touch, and the pale light stream slowly flowed and converged on his hand…
…It turned into the shape of a card!
It's just that the content on this card seemed to be… blank?!
…
Meanwhile, elsewhere.
"Hahahahaha!"
Lost the stronghold, lost the cannon fodder, lost the hostages, and even a large part of the monsters he collected was lost, but at this time the great evil god was sitting on the horseback and laughing with his head up.
With the intervention of Yuei Vu, the progress of this Shadow Game has completely exceeded his expectations. Fortunately, he was lucky. He found the location of the "Pharaoh's True Name" before the other party, and acted first to erase this ultimate item that could determine the outcome.
In this way, even if Yuei Vu is really the avatar of the Creator God of Light, it is useless!
Just like Zorc had to gather all seven artifacts to resurrect himself, Holactie also had to have the prop "Pharaoh's True Name" to resurrect. That's the rule of this Shadow Game.
Now that the key to your resurrection has been swallowed up by me, how can you stop me?
While thinking triumphantly, Bakura rode his horse to a deserted village.
This was Kul Elna Village, where the Millennium Items was born. All the living people in the entire village were used as sacrifices, and the seven artifacts were forged.
But beyond that, there was a sealed secret.
In addition to the seven Millennium Items, there was still a stone tablet that was used as the mold for the seven Millennium Items in this village. That was the ultimate prop of the great evil god Zorc in this game. As long as the seven Millennium Items were embedded in the stone tablet, the great evil god Zorc would be resurrected.
Next, as long as he flattened the king's capital, killed the Pharaoh, and won this Shadow Game, not only in the world of memory but also in the reality outside, the Great Evil God Zorc would be resurrected!
At that time, destroying the world was just a matter of effort.
The more Bakura thought about it, the more complacent he became, and he felt that he had seen the dawn of victory. He came to the door of the secret room where the seven artifacts were manufactured, got off his horse, and stepped on the dark stairs to the bottom of the secret room, but was instantly dumbfounded.
WTF!?
Where is the tablet used for my resurrection?
How can such a big tablet be gone?
…
Near the capital, there was a marching Egyptian army.
A few Egyptian soldiers carried thick ropes on their shoulders, panting and dragging a simple wooden cart. The thing lying on the cart came from the secret room hidden in the village of Kul Elna – Tablet of the King's Memories.
"What do you want this thing all of a sudden?" a soldier asked in puzzlement.
"I heard that a friend close to Lord Pharaoh said that he must have this thing. I remember his name is… Lord Yuei Vu?"
"Shut up and work hard, we just need to obey the orders of Lord Pharaoh!"
"Yes!"
So a group of soldiers dragged the ultimate tool for the resurrection of the great evil god Zorc and drifted away…