Hearing the high priest's voice, Inke the sphinx's expression changed. He turned around and looked at Askar.
Inke was not only pointing out that it was Askar who taught the low-rank tomb watchers a lesson, but he was also trying to distance himself from Inke so that he would not be punished by the high priest as well.
At this moment, "Aska" was naturally Lucien. The reason why Lucien chose this corridor to collide with the gatekeepers was that he wanted the gatekeepers to take care of the surveillance magic circles. Lucien hoped that the gatekeepers would drag him to a remote corner to teach him a lesson, so that he would have enough time and a good environment to transform.
At the end of the corridor, a high priest whose four furry legs were wrapped in black shroud walked in. It was the priest who was guarding the Saint's Gate. Following Inke's gaze, the high priest stared at Lucien with his dark, rotten eyes.
Did this guy just get into a car accident? Lucien thought to himself. He lowered his head and pretended to be scared, "Your Excellency, a tomb watcher was running around in the mausoleum just now, which violated the rules set by the priests. I caught him and he even talked back to me. So I taught him a lesson."
The high priest looked at Lucien from head to toe. His eyes were so cold and lifeless that it gave people goosebumps.
Lucien controlled his muscles to make them look like they were trembling slightly. Then, his heart started to beat faster. His heart was filled with anxiety.
Using his talent spell, the high priest carefully checked Askar in front of him. After making sure that there was nothing wrong with him, the high priest slowly opened his mouth, "Did you just use magic?"
His voice was flat, as if his vocal cords were broken.
"He … he … resisted … I … I didn't mean to …" Lucien was so scared that he stuttered. Lucien was slightly relieved. I just wanted you to pay attention to the magic waves!
If Lucien let Askar stay here, Helges would definitely come to find "Phil" in less than ten minutes, and then the whole thing would be exposed. Lucien had to wait for the right time to sneak into the Saint's Gate. Therefore, he had to find a chance to send "Phil" back.
Therefore, Lucien had to use Malicious Polymorph to turn Askar into "Phil", and at the same time, he could not let the senior-rank spellcasters notice him. Grand knights and middle-rank spellcasters could barely see through Lucien's Polymorph, since he was already a senior-rank.
When Lucien was teaching Askar a lesson, he simulated the two natural spells of the sphinxes to cover up Malicious Transfiguration, and he also tried his best to suppress the waves of the two spells so that even Inke, the sphinx not far away, would not be able to sense it. In this way, Lucien disguised himself as a normal sphinx who used the spells out of anger and was worried about being discovered.
However, the magic waves of the natural spells were not to be completely unnoticed by the high priest who was on duty tonight....
Fortunately, this was part of Lucien's plan, because he had to find an excuse to send Phil back in person.
The high priest stared at Lucien's eyes as if he could see through Lucien's body and soul. From Lucien's eyes, Lucien could see the fear, anxiety, panic and other "normal" emotions, as well as the pleasure and refreshment that had not disappeared yet.
"Askar, you've done a bad job this time. Unless the enemy invades, you should not use magic in the mausoleum under any circumstances. When the duty of guarding the Saint's Gate is over, you'll be whipped. " The high priest's voice was ethereal and flat, without any fluctuation of emotions. Lucien felt very uncomfortable, as if he was facing a rotten ghost who should have been dead for many years but was still wandering in the mausoleum.
"Yes, high priest." Lucien answered in "pain and frustration". It seemed that the high priest was worried that he would be scolded in front of the priest, so he chose to punish Lucien in private. After all, when he was on duty, Lucien had violated the law twice in a row.
The high priest continued in a rigid tone, "Bring the grave watcher who violated the law back to his team and let his team leader punish him. Tell his team leader to come to me after the duty is over. "
Lucien could not leave the unconscious grave watcher lying in the corridor like this, and the high priest could not be the one to send the grave watcher back to the mausoleum. The grave watcher who made a mistake was just the right person to do it.
"As you wish." Lucien tried to suppress the joy in his heart.
When the high priest returned to the Saint's Gate, Lucien gave Inke an angry and disdainful glance, "You cowardly scorpion! Don't talk to me anymore!"
Inke was a bit guilty and panicked, and he wanted to explain himself. However, Lucien's attitude made him angry. He snorted heavily, "Wait for the whipping!"
After successfully destroying their "little buddy" relationship, Lucien, who no longer needed to worry about his identity being exposed, turned around the corner and dragged Phil back to where they came from.
… …
Outside the creepy hall full of black coffins, Helges asked angrily and confusedly, "What did you do to my subordinate, Askar?"
Lucien threw Phil into the hall and snorted, "Helges, your damn subordinate dared to offend me, so I taught him a good lesson. He won't wake up for a few days!"
"You filthy scorpion! I'm the only one who can teach my subordinate a lesson!" Helges was furious. He took a step forward and stared at Askar, who was only one fist away from him.
"So what if I taught him a lesson, Helges? Do you dare to do it? Haha, I'm telling you, the high priest asked you to go to him after the duty was over, but you let your subordinate wander around the mausoleum! "Lucien laughed proudly.
Helges' anger immediately disappeared. He asked in a trembling voice, "What?"
"Haha, wait for the whipping!" Using Inke's words, Lucien turned around and walked away arrogantly, which was very similar to Askar's personality.
Helges roared in a low voice, but he did not dare to do anything. He could only watch Askar leave and then paced back and forth to relieve his frustration.
"Lord Helges, should we ask the high priest to heal Phil and wake him up?" A tomb watcher stepped forward and asked ingratiatingly.
"Heal my ass, you filthy scorpion! Beat him up again!" Helges raised his front leg and kicked away the servant, who was trying to please him. He hated the man's guts very much. Then he stomped on Phil's body and covered him with wounds.
No tomb watcher was not afraid of pissing off the high priest!
… …
Lucien and Inke walked to the gate of the Saints' Church in silence. They took over the halberds and stood straight to guard the gate.
The high priest also returned to the stone hut and continued his prayer.
As time went by, the temperature in the mausoleum was getting colder and colder. The air of death was rolling and roaring, as if countless undead creatures were waving their forest-like arms and hitting the gate. If it were a cowardly sphinx, they would have already fallen to the ground.
Seeing that the high priest was praying and Inke was looking straight ahead, Lucien began to think about how to sneak into the mausoleum.
Rhein had already taught Lucien the important information about the magic circle and spell simulation of the Saint's Gate. Even though Rhein was a legendary vampire, he could not directly pass through the gate, and Lucien had already finished the analysis.
Quietly, Lucien used his spiritual power to check the gate. After making sure that everything was correct, Lucien had a preliminary plan. He planned to use the temporary mutation of the power of death in the gate to cover his own magic waves during the boundary between day and night.
Everything went well. Except for Helges and the tomb watchers who came to check the mausoleum several times and glared at Lucien, nothing unusual happened during the whole night.
Before dawn, the darkest and coldest time came. The Saint's Gate became distorted, like a shadow gate leading to the hell where the dead slept.
The strong air of death and coldness permeated from the gate, and Lucien's Knight level body could not help but tremble slightly.
"The air of the World of Souls?" Lucien was shocked.
Although he did not wear Sun's Corona, he had seen and entered the World of Souls several times, and he had dealt with senior-rank spectres from the World of Souls. Therefore, he was much more sensitive to the World of Souls than other spellcasters. It was not difficult for him to sense the strong air of the gate!
"Did Sphinx, the King of Sphinx, choose this place as his mausoleum because of the gap of the World of Souls? Does the legend of his resurrection have anything to do with the World of Souls? "
"That's right. Since Mr. Rhein set up the mausoleum specifically for the World of Souls, he must have chosen a place that has something to do with the World of Souls. Otherwise, he would not be able to influence the World of Souls. So, it seems that the altar of the Kuo-toans and the underground palace of Thanos also have a gap of the World of Souls … "
"The underground palace of Thanos has a gap of the World of Souls … Did he know about the existence of the World of Souls? Did his death have anything to do with it? "
Countless questions and reliefs popped up in Lucien's head at the same time. He was even more vigilant about the World of Souls.
It was not a good time to think. Lucien suppressed his thoughts and waited patiently for the dawn.
Outside of Sphinx's mausoleum, the indistinguishable dark boundary in the distance slowly lit up with a layer of orange light, and the sacred air pierced through the gloomy silence.
When the sun just rose, a ray of sunlight was miraculously shining on the spire of Sphinx's mausoleum. No one knew where it came from.
Inside the mausoleum, the power of death, which seemed to be countless roaring undead creatures, suddenly shrank back like melting snow.
The power of death retreated so fast that it triggered a series of strong waves, as if something unexpected was going to happen at any time.
At this time, the high priest's attention was all focused on the area behind the Saint's Gate. Inke, on the other hand, was not interested in the familiar scene at all.
Suddenly, Lucien's body trembled like water waves, and then a transparent figure was separated from his body. Under the cover of himself, the transparent figure cast a silent spell and sneaked into the gap on the ground behind the Saint's Gate.
In front of the gate, Aska was still standing straight and looking straight ahead.
The fifth-circle illusion spell, Permanent Phantom!
The fourth-circle spell, Vaporization!
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