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  The three heroes keep walking in the darkness, as corridors go from big to small

  Aziza constantly is studying the lost histories before them.

  Amen looks for more traps, and watches the light show in his head.

  The mission accomplishment odds are dwindling in real time in his display.

  Ziyad takes a breath, unimpressed.

  He feels around the dark and leans against a wall.

  It gives way as a pillar is hit by the collapsing wall.

  Pillars and walls and ceilings implode in an amazing catastrophe.

  Amen grabs Aziza and pushes her away as parts of the ceiling cave in, and the floor shakes as if the end of the world.

  The pillars finish slamming into each other and show a huge break in the foundation and a main wall

  Ziyad comes out, alive, coughing.

  "You fool!" Aziza screams.

  Amen and Aziza just stare at the dust and where the wall stood.

  Amen lifts his torch and grins. Aziza's mouth drops.

  All the torches are lifted.

  BARS OF GOLD and STATUES OF GOLD and IDOLS and SWORDS and CHARIOTS and chests of treasure lay before them.

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  Tombs and crypts and death masks. Engravings and histories never seen before.

  Amen's display is a rolling scroll of numbers. He soon has UNLIMITED POINTS in the cash and resources menu.

  His knowledge and tomb raiding max out. His XP is almost as high as it can go.

  The points keep adding over and over and over.

  Ziyad laughs as he runs into the huge hole he made into a cavern of priceless goods.

  "Amen...you...you...you did...I did it! I did it! Aziza did nothing, like always."

  Amen chuckles, but then pulls his mission accomplishment up.

  Still not completed.

  This, though incredible, is not it.

  And the symbol is nowhere to be found.

  "I'm going to keep looking," Amen says.

  "What? This is it?!" Aziza responds. "Amen, you found the greatest lost treasure of all Egypt!"

  "The time doesn't match up," Amen quietly reports. "Wrong dynasty. Wrong time period."

  Aziza can't help but shake her head as Amen just walks by all of it.

  The King of Thieves, unimpressed by all that he sees.

  Ziyad starts going through the treasure.

  Amen smiles watching his cousin, then looks over his shoulder.

  A small, non descriptive entrance is on the other side of the room.

  An engraving is above it. It glows.

  He looks at his scroll.

  Identical. It glows and he can hear the heart beat of the symbol.

  A song chimes in his head. The mission accomplishment goes within 1 percent of guaranteed completion.

  Amen slowly walks towards it as footsteps glow, showing the way.

  Aziza and Ziyad watch him walk into a dark room.

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