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Chapter 1199: Excavation Area No. 3 and Entry
🕑 Added 2024-08-09 21:24:45 +0000 UTC"It's possible that it's not magic, but blood!" Evan expressed his speculation about using blood to activate the three obelisks.
"Well, you mean blood? I tried it, but it didn't work. Blood is often used to break ancient Egyptian curses. Mr. Zoser immediately thought of blood," said Rawya in a low voice. "He even tried human blood, but it didn't work either."
Had human blood been used? This was exactly the possibility that Evan had thought of before.
But the goblin Zoser had already tried it, and other wizards seemed to have tried it as well, but to no avail.
Was it that the blood used did not meet the requirements, or was it not as simple as just smearing blood on the obelisks?
Evan continued to observe the Obelisk of the Sun. The red crystals on it were indeed columnar, like a pipe running from bottom to top, but these crystals were not real pipes. They were not hollow inside and could not be used to transport liquids such as blood.
The only use of crystals was to conduct magic power. Considering the spots on the obelisk, perhaps it was some special magic power...
The question was back to the starting point: how to infuse magic power into the obelisk.
These red crystals all extended to the ground. Could there be something hidden under the stone slab of the obelisk?
Evan wanted to see what was underneath, but he was not sure. Neither the Egyptian Ministry of Magic nor Gringotts would agree to lift the stone slab.
Thinking wildly, in order to infuse magic power into the obelisks and activate the magic on them, alchemists came up with many methods.
There were many things that Evan had never thought of, but in his opinion, they probably wouldn't work.
He recorded the ancient magic scripts and symbols on the three obelisks, intending to study them slowly later.
The writing used by ancient Egyptian wizards was the oldest form of magic script and also hieroglyphics.
It was very different from the various ancient magic runes based on the ancient Greek civilization that Evan was familiar with, with no correlation.
While transcribing, he noticed that some runes repeated the magic records on the cover of The Book of Abraham, indicating that they were products of the same era. Perhaps there was a way to decipher them in The Book of Abraham.
The possibility of this happening was extremely small, and Evan himself was not sure how many years of research it would take.
However, he still insisted on his original judgment.
These three obelisks were symbols of impurity, and the red and black spots on them were bloodstains. This chamber made him uncomfortable.
None of the alchemists had a solution to the problem, but the goblin Ravel, who deliberately belittled Evan and argued with Pendulum, had hired a witch from Italy who looked very confident, as if she had grasped some important clues.
She didn't say it, and she didn't even look at Evan.
When asked by Pendulum and other goblins, she only said she needed to do more research and would announce the results in a few days...
Judging from everyone's expressions, it seemed that they all thought she was bragging.
Next, Evan followed Pendulum and the other members of the excavation team to the area they were responsible for.
This was a space discovered after adventurers had recently broken through a wall. It was a concealed passage. The front was blocked by collapsed rocks. There were also some magic mechanisms that needed to be cracked. The main task of the excavation team was to clear these rocks.
No wonder Pendulum had Benny join; a half-giant was usually not needed in an excavation team...
Clearing rocks or deciphering curses within the passage were not Evan's strengths, so staying there wouldn't be much help, and Pendulum did not ask them to stay here. The task he gave to Evan and the other four alchemists was to crack the alchemical mechanisms on the obelisks as soon as possible.
Even if they couldn't fully decipher them, they needed to find some clues or establish a direction. They had a month. If they found nothing, they would leave the excavation team.
Judging by Pendulum's demeanor, whether they would get their promised reward was uncertain. Of course, if someone could decipher the mechanisms on the obelisks or find important clues before Ravel's excavation team, Pendulum also promised a high reward...
There was still more than a month before Hogwarts started, and Evan did not intend to spend all his time here. He wanted to figure out what Voldemort and his followers were planning recently, so his time in Egypt would be at most a month.
As for whether he could get paid or not, he didn't care. He didn't come to the Ruins of Amun Ra to make money.
Perhaps because of his young age, the four alchemists looked down on Evan and rarely discussed with him.
Not to mention, the mechanisms on the three obelisks were indeed difficult. Evan so far only had guesses. He couldn't even understand the scripts and magic runes on them, so deciphering them was out of the question, and he didn't want to spend too much time there.
Under such circumstances, Evan naturally had little interest in cracking the obelisks.
The next day, he set off alone to Excavation Area Number Three to look for the Time-Turner...
As Rawya had told Evan, Excavation Area Number Three was located at the edge of the entire Ruins of Amun Ra. It was discovered because the goblins wanted to measure the scale of the Ruins of Amun Ra, and accidentally discovered a large number of tombs while excavating here.
It was speculated that the owners of these tombs were either priests or servants of the Ruins of Amun Ra, or perhaps the craftsmen who built the ruins.
A similar group of tombs had been discovered near the Great Pyramid.
Although the contents of these tombs were unlikely to be as rich as the treasures in the ruins, the gains were real. There was no need to risk deciphering the pharaoh's curse, and it wasn't as troublesome. Just by excavating a tomb, one could find coffins, mummies, and other burial artifacts.
At that time, the world-famous Solar Barque and fragments of The Black Book of the Dead were also found in a tomb near the Great Pyramid.
The fragments were discovered in the tomb of a priest of Anubis and this was the most complete part found so far.
Therefore, the Ministry of Magic and Gringotts also attached great importance to this group of tombs and sent five excavation teams specifically, and many Muggle archaeologists were also sent here.
The hope was to find sufficiently significant magical artifacts or information that could aid in the excavation of the Ruins of Amun Ra.
They were not disappointed. The secret passage was found shortly after the official excavation in Excavation Area Number Three began.
But no one expected that there was a time confusion phenomenon in the room behind the secret passage, and the five excavation teams were all doomed.
By now, the Muggles had withdrawn and there was only one excavation team left in the entire Excavation Area Number Three.
Their main task was to explore all the tombs and determine the locations of other secret passages, but they were not allowed to enter and needed to report immediately.
One of the four statues of Horus's sons had been found, and the other three were surely within this area.
Because it was too dangerous, the original secret passage had been blocked!
As promised earlier, with Pendulum's help, Evan obtained a permit from Gringotts to visit the area. He was repeatedly warned not to enter the room at the end of the passage and had to sign a waiver and a liability form stating that Gringotts would not be responsible for any accidents.
After all, he was going to the room with time distortion, which seemed like a death wish to everyone else.
