Mummy Evolution-Chapter 13: Reward

The chamber fell silent, save for the faint crackling of the wine-green flames on the walls. Sett stood over the lifeless body of the Grand Guardian, his chest heaving as if he were still capable of breathing. The creature's once-imposing form now lay broken, its armor shattered and its body crumpled like a discarded puppet.

The Tomb Hearts within its chest pulsed faintly before stopping its ever so slow rotation.

Sett's eyes glowed with a calm, calculating light as he knelt beside the fallen Guardian. He reached into its chest, his fingers closing around the remaining Tomb Hearts. Taking them out one by one until all of the eight were in his hands.

He tinkered with it a little and then threw six of them towards Zainah. It rolled slowly on the floor towards her, as if it were just worthless trash—not priceless Tomb hearts. She looked at them with a complex expression.

"Feed the girl the thing," he said. "If she has talent, it should heal her. But if she doesn't have talent, we can use this as money for her medical treatment."

Sett then looked at the system, focusing on himself.

Frustratingly enough, killing that Guardian didn't increase his Limitless Evolution bar at all.

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• [Limitless Evolution Art]

(1) Limitless Magic—Tomb Lord.

[ 1/6 unlocked (0/1000 Neutral Energy).]

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Sett could guess why killing the Guardian hadn't increased his Limitless Evolution's progress. That creature was in the end a mere Tier 1 being, a mere D-Tier Tomb's Guardian. And most probably, D-tier mummies could only fill up progress for the first Limitless Magic.

Then he would have to kill C-Tier mummies to get his second Limitless Magic!

But before that, Sett squinted at his first Limitless Magic. This was interesting.

But for now, he ignored even that and threw a Tomb Heart into his mouth.

Then, he closed his eyes.

[Cryptwalker Progress + 50]

[100/100]

Unlike the sub-levels—Low, Medium, High, and Grand—reaching Sacred from Grand didn't require him to have some more progress points than "100". The moment he reached 100, his body had become sublimated with D-Tier energies.

He could feel an evolution coming.

["Grand" Tier 1 Guardian Mummy evolution requirements met!]

The points blurred, and Sett felt his body undergo another transformation. His muscles tightened, his bones hardened, and his skin, once pale and lifeless, now gleamed with a faint metallic sheen. If he were steel before, now he was refined, hardened steel.

The hole in his chest, where the Tomb Hearts floated, seemed to glow brighter, as if it were a beacon of his newfound power.

When all nine Tomb Hearts aligned within the Heart Zone, all of them fused into a single one. It was slightly bigger, but at the same time, more beautiful.

His body curled upon itself and right before Zainah's very eyes, he slowly became more and more lifelike. His torn flesh, skin, and haggard appearance completely changed.

At first glance, he looked like a fresh corpse that had just died some weeks ago.

Sett then grew a fresh set of teeth. It was clean, white, and incredibly orderly with two pointy but short fangs on both sides.

On his balding head, a vibrant forest of hair began to grow right after, dark with tinges of grey.

I must still look pale, old, and ugly but at least, I probably don't look like an ancient mummy anymore.

Sett's nose twitched and a nasty smell assaulted his nose. He sniffed by instinct and began to smell the mouldy air of the Tomb. It stank so bad.

Were tombs always this mouldy?

He touched his own face, surprised himself to find a trail of tears going down his cheek.

I can smell now.

Zainah rubbed her nose, looked away from him and fed her sister one of the Tomb Hearts. Due to the kid's unconsciousness, she had to feed her with care, but luckily, Tomb Hearts were easy to swallow.

Sett calmed himself down and looked at the system to distract himself.

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[Stats]

[Name: Sett Ramses II]

—[External Life Paths]—

•> [Crypt Walker]

D-Tier (T1)—"Sacred" Guardian Mummy.

(Progress: 450/500)

•> [Axiom Holder]

Axiom of Reincarnation (Inactive) (Tier 5).

(Progress: Uncrowned Pharaoh of Ehyut)

—[Innate Life Path]—

• [Limitless Evolution Art]

(1) Limitless Magic—Tomb Lord.

[1/6 unlocked (0/1000 Neutral Energy).]

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Sett looked at the last remaining Tomb Heart in his hand. Even if he ate it, he wouldn't grow any stronger normally. Now that he was at the Sacred level, he would have to absorb a Tier 2 Tomb Heart and completely force his body to evolve to Tier 2.

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That meant that even if he ate this Tomb Heart, the Crypt Walker pathway cannot absorb it.

Sett threw it into his mouth.

He didn't feel his body grow stronger, not even one bit, but a pure vitality ran through him like an electric current and he felt chills all over him. His skin began to crawl. The wrinkles on them vanished within seconds and as he began laughing, his whole appearance began changing.

Even Zainah turned towards him.

Sett smirked.

[You have successfully become a Tomb Raider!]

[Divine Information unlocked.]

[The Cryptwalker Pathway is the path that is meant to help the dead regain life. Even the dead are not hopeless. As long as they can absorb enough living beings, they can regain their life. This path uses the energy of death to make one's body grow stronger. ]

Oh, so I indeed can regain my life. That is the end goal for mummies, huh? He felt a bit complex.

Mummies were never just mindless creatures who hunted living beings all the time. They were tragic creatures who had to kill for a hope to live. Though they themselves might not have been aware of it, it was indeed a pitiful story.

He read the rest of the Divine Information, whatever that was.

[Of course, even the Cryptwalker Pathway can only sustain the life of the dead creature within Tombs. If a mummy were to leave the Tomb, they would immediately die.]

That information almost made Sett's stomach curl. So am I truly stuck in this Tomb?

The new Limitless Magic he had gained made him regain a bit of hope. With that, he could leave, right?