Amen's displays react as he follows Bomani further into the depths of sand.
WARNING
XP NOT HIGH ENOUGH FOR THREAT
LEVEL UP
I was leveled up. I lost it.
WARNING
XP NOT HIGH ENOUGH FOR THREAT
LEVEL UP
AREA RESTRICTED
But as Amen follows Bomani, his displays flicker.
DISPLAY OUT OF RANGE...
Strange. Never had that one before.
Bomani's voice carries.
"Welcome to hell, Amen. This temple is a gateway to everything bad. There are things down here you are not prepared for. You will be with me forever, here. In this world of darkness."
"Come out!" Amen yells. "Bring me my map back!"
Amen's displays flicker again.
Suddenly, Bomani lights a river up with his torch.
As the light fills the darkness and lighter fluid becomes a flame, Amen's enemies crawl and lunge at him.
And Amen's fallen map glows before it all, a few feet from him. But the horrors come into focus first.
Mummies, but alive. Half dead. Flesh missing. But some limbs stronger, in a mutated way.
Some have the death masks joined on them, forcibly, by stitches and rope and torture.
Other enemies run forward, looking straight from the hieroglyphics. Cat god heads and jackals and animals.
Barely human. All lost.
Bomani chuckles to himself.
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Amen is filled with fear and doubt.
His display flicks again.
WARNING
XP NOT HIGH ENOUGH FOR THREAT
LEVEL UP
AREA RESTRICTED
DO YOU CARE TO PROCEED?
"YES!" Amen screams, and his display tries coming to full bandwidth, fighting a transmission block.
As a mummified woman runs forward at Amen, he slices her away at her midsection.
A strong and bulky monster runs at him with the death mask copy of a Pharaoh cruelly welded on to his face. He moans and screams behind the mask as sprints and swings his rock hands at Amen.
Amen jumps in the air, then lands on the ground, doing cart wheel after cart wheel, trying to get away from the beast.
He stops near the river of fire before him, then quickly jumps out of the way. The beast trips into the fire, screaming.
More mummies run at Amen.
Bomani watches, mouth dropped.
"Are you not afraid?!"
Amen runs at a whole group of creatures screaming and crawling towards him.
As their hands and claws and mouths turn to bite him, he runs through them, slicing his sword like a paint brush, cutting and moving and twirling, as the enemies fall behind him.
Bomani stops, seeing his cruel experiments dead at Amen's feet.
Amen looks and sees Bomani standing before a huge puzzle like piece wall.
He wields his sledgehammer like he is going to use it.
"What. No epic fight?" Amen says, not realizing the hell he just fought through.
"No. I told you. I would be the one to destroy this temple. Me."
Amen looks and studies the strange wall Bomani stands before. Like a complex puzzle built into stone and rock, but with a center ring that protrudes from the wall.
The displays finally break through...
They are analyzing the puzzle wall and its secrets.
The words finally come through, thought broken up.
PERCENTAGE OF SURVIVAL, 15%
Amen then sees the lines of his display studying the wall.
It looks connected to everything around him.
Bomani lifts his sledgehammer.
It all comes to Amen.
"No...no..."
Amen turns and begins to run back into the darkness.
He kicks up the glowing map as he runs, it falling into his hands.
Bomani uses all his strength and slams the sledgehammer into the puzzle wall.
The ENTIRE temple shakes.
Sand starts to break through the walls like the ocean.
