Chapter: 373

Jay raised a brow, surprised how she was acting. It wasn’t like her to be afraid, but there was nothing Jay could do.

“Oh.. ok. Well thanks for the help. I’ll find you when I’m done… don’t forget about my rings.”

Anya nodded and willed to leave, exiting the dungeon and leaving the party.

[Party Disbanded]

“She seemed way more scared than usual… actually, it’s not like her to be scared at all.” Jay thought, “I wonder if this pyramid makes people afraid somehow? Maybe it doesn’t work on me since I have a monster class?” he guessed.

It seemed like Anya got more and more fearful the longer they spent in the pyramid. Seeing the slain level 133 soul eater was probably what finally pushed her over the edge, she was at her limit.

“Perhaps this was some kind of fear effect to stop people from solving the pyramid?” Jay guessed, but there was no way of knowing.

Jay could only wonder, but he was more surprised that he wasn’t scared at all. If there was a fear effect, it was obviously not working on him – perhaps even having the opposite effect.

After figuring out the trick, the pyramid now seemed like a walk in the park to Jay. It seemed that this dungeon wasn’t only just about blindly killing everything in sight to get stronger.

All he had to do now was open the next room in the passageway to the right, open the prison gate before getting out of the way of whatever was down there, waiting in the darkness as the giant statues did all the work.

“Well, it sucks not having the extra damage without Anya, but it seems like I won’t need it for the rest of the pyramid anyway. I already did a damage challenge to get inside after all.”

Jay decided to take Anya’s advice before heading down the passage and began looking over the murals behind the giant statues.


The murals were not as impressive as the ones in Sedulus’s tomb.

Jay could tell they had been hastily carved, and it seemed like many of the smaller details had been left out. Whoever made these was clearly in a rush.

Unfortunately, part of them had been destroyed during the battle, so Jay now regretted telling Anya to check them later on when they first entered this pyramid.

Looking over them, he found the one Anya was talking about – the one with the pit.

A line of soldiers lead to it, while a line of stone statues lead away. Next to the pit was an altar with a single human and a single statue lying on it.

The next mural showed the same circular altar with multiple humans and statues on it. Next to that, within the same mural, was the altar again – yet there was a large crab-like creature with two human faces. It was surrounded by statues pointing their large spears at it.

The murals continued to form a semblance of a story.

Different combinations of humans and statues were placed on the altar.

The spell or ritual wasn’t revealed by the murals – perhaps this knowledge was too dangerous, but at least the results were shown; it was always some grotesque atrocity when more than one human and statue was used.

The vague picture story continued.

A large destructive-looking spell was descending on the altar, and Jay could tell that this would have been powerful as the spell was the only thing that had any colour on all of the murals.

After that, the altar still wasn’t destroyed..