Trafford's Trading Club

Chapter 1554: Chapter 281: The Lonely Warrior

The Princess couldn’t even think of a reason that would make the Night Watchman refuse Xie Jiatu’s proposal — he had said that all he wanted to do was leave the City of the Sun.

At this moment, the Night Watchman Otto was indeed not surprising the Princess.

He slowly lowered the black long sword in his hand and looked at Xie Jiatu, who claimed to be a god, and calmly said, “Until I see the way out, I don’t plan to cooperate with either side.”

The meaning was quite clear.

Xie Jiatu smiled slightly, holding the Scales of Good and Evil in his hand, he murmured something… soon, the bricks on one wall of the final chamber began folding and contracting.

It didn’t look like a door, it simply looked like a gap, except it was covered with a layer of grayish mist that made it seem anything but safe.

“Is this really the way out?” The Night Watchman Otto frowned, clearly filled with distrust towards such a bizarre gap.

Xie Jiatu casually chuckled and said, “Human, I permit your confusion, but you should be smart enough to prove this is the way out yourself… just because you haven’t used it doesn’t mean no one has gone through it, heading to the outside world.”

The Night Watchman Otto glanced at the Princess, quickly contemplating several possibilities.

This now helpless princess might very well give the opposite answer, but she could also give the correct answer, yet he couldn’t grasp its authenticity.

She could want to win him over, claiming this gap to be a trap. But she could also know this gap is a trap, yet admit it’s the way out to eliminate a potential enemy.

Whether she admits or denies, it will plunge him into a difficult choice — from the beginning, the Night Watchman never trusted Xie Jiatu’s words, and now even the Princess’s words cannot be fully believed.

“Why, didn’t you always want to leave here, why hesitate?” Xie Jiatu smiled slightly, with a mocking look in his eyes.

In response, the Night Watchman suddenly sneered, but beckoned to Yiben… Yiben instantly got a chill, the cunning and witty him immediately understood the Night Watchman’s intention, instinctively starting to shiver.

This guy wants me to scout ahead… I’ll die!

“Sir, I am so loyal…” Yiben immediately put on a look of grief, “Look, you haven’t given me anything, but I still followed you here, you can’t treat me like this, your conscience would surely blame you…”

“It’s fine, I have no conscience.” The Night Watchman shrugged, and somehow appeared behind Yiben with the blade of the black sword quietly placed against Yiben’s neck, “Does this blade look sharp to you?”

“Sha… sharp…” Yiben swallowed a mouthful of saliva in terror.

The Night Watcher Otto at this time leaned close to Yiben’s back, calmly saying by his shoulder, “If I were to use it to slice off your head, do you think that would be convenient?”

“Con… convenient…” Yiben’s legs shook even more violently.

“Then you know what to do.” The Night Watchman Otto calmly said, “This is the path to the places beyond the desert… weren’t you always wanting to go to places beyond the desert? Go on, there’s everything you want outside.”

Yiben turned ashen, glanced at the sharp black long sword under his neck, a drop of cold sweat trickled down, and timidly started walking forward… towards the white mist at the gap in the wall.

At the same time, the Night Watchman Otto covertly observed the Princess’s reaction — he found he couldn’t read anything from her response.

Whether this path was a trap or a real way out, she didn’t reveal anything in her expression… causing the Night Watchman Otto to murmur quietly, “What a calculating princess.”

Xie Jiatu was watching this scene with great interest, while waving his hand, a cross of light suddenly flashed, piercing into the fallen Horus-like Pharaoh, pinning it firmly.

Its body seemed to twitch from the pain, but soon stopped moving… the Princess’s eyebrows twitched slightly, yet her expression remained calm — on the other side, Yamana still sat in a daze, with her head lowered, motionless like a puppet.

In the final chamber, though there weren’t many people, there were extremely captivating events playing out, making time seem to flow particularly slowly here… perhaps Yiben’s pace was just too slow.

But even the slowest speed will eventually reach its end — the moment Yiben was about to reach the gap in the wall, he suddenly stopped, turned around, knelt down, and desperately pleaded, “Sir, I can’t do it, I really can’t… I don’t want to die! Please, I really don’t want to die…”

“No nonsense, I’ll chop off your head right now!” The Night Watchman Otto’s voice suddenly turned cold.

Seeing that begging didn’t work, a trace of madness suddenly flashed in Yiben’s eyes, “In that case… I’ll just find someone else to scout for you, sir!”

Yiben stood up, ran quickly, and in one motion came to the absent-minded Yamana, grabbed her by the waist, and without a word rushed towards the unknown gap in the wall.

This action caused the calmly watching Princess to slightly change her expression… As for Xie Jiatu, he snorted coldly and directly shouted, “Mortal, how dare you!”

Xie Jiatu at this moment quickly reached for Yiben’s nape from a distance, and seeing this, the Night Watchman Otto abruptly threw something at Xie Jiatu and shouted, “Catch!”

People… even gods, probably have strange moments — like, for instance, hearing the word “catch” suddenly in a sentence.

Xie Jiatu failed to catch Yiben but caught what the Night Watchman had thrown into his hand… he instinctively opened his hand and looked, his face immediately changed.

High heat, high brightness — what he held in his hand was… a bomb.

The explosive, to date the most powerful weapon mastered by humans… Explosions, in the realm of human science, have not yet found their ultimate limit — possibly, the power of an explosion can be infinitely large.

Of course, to reach infinite magnitude naturally requires an infinite amount of materials — what Xie Jiatu instinctively caught certainly couldn’t reach an infinite limit, but who knows what materials the Night Watchman Otto used to create this bomb?

Boom—!

A loud bang… the final chamber shook, a terrifying wave surged out from Xie Jiatu’s center, the shockwave blowing everyone over, slamming them against the wall.

They suddenly felt dizzy, unsteady on their feet, couldn’t hear anything, and even their vision occasionally cleared, occasionally blurred.

In the hazy midst, at the site of the explosion, a figure was seen lying on the ground… It was none other than Xie Jiatu, clad in the Golden Armor of the Balance.

He lay there motionless… It was only after a while that Yiben gathered himself and quickly said to Guardian Otto, “Sir, did you take him out?!”

“You guys… had it all planned?”

Another voice came through, and it was the Princess who awkwardly climbed up from the ground—from Yiben’s sudden attack while holding Yamana and rushing towards the gap, to the Guardian suddenly throwing a bomb, all happened in an instant, an achievement only possible with a high level of tacit understanding.

“I didn’t know.” Yiben shrugged, “I just heard the sir’s voice… When he spoke to me just then, there were two distinct voices, and the other one hinted for me to act this way, otherwise, I might really have died?”

“Ventriloquism…” The Princess pondered while looking at the mysterious Guardian, admiringly, “It seems your secrets are not any fewer… How did you know that using this method would prove that this exit is fake?”

“Compared to trusting a talking you, I trust a silent you more.” The Guardian said something entirely unrelated.

The Princess knew he was referring to the currently unconscious Yamana… The Princess gave a wry smile, then cautiously approached the fallen Xie Jiatu.

No one knew if the bomb had really killed him… Maybe under the protection of the Golden Armor, he was just unconscious.

But the Guardian at this time stepped forward, blocking the Princess’s path with his Black Blade, “You want the Balance, don’t you.”

The Princess directly made a move, and Guardian Otto reacted swiftly.

Amidst several missteps, the Princess couldn’t help but find that she had been easily subdued by this mysterious man—not because his power far exceeded hers, purely because of his terrifying mastery of skill.

The Princess frowned and said, “He’s life or death unknown, yet you’re in such a rush for infighting?”

“We’ve never been in a cooperative relationship.” Guardian Otto said calmly, “The Balance is mine… unless you intend to conflict with me right now.”

The Princess, knowing she was no match, clenched her teeth and snorted coldly, “Let go!”

Guardian Otto shrugged, released his grip, and the Princess immediately retreated with an expressionless face, “If you want the Balance, take it.”

“Pardon me.” The Guardian nodded, his demeanor grew solemn at this moment, and he turned to approach Xie Jiatu, extending the Black Blade to gently open his arm, preparing to come into contact with The Scale of Good and Evil.

However, at this moment, Xie Jiatu’s arm suddenly moved… The Guardian frowned and immediately raised the Black Blade, ready to stab toward Xie Jiatu’s eye.

“I am not…”

Only a few weak words escaped Xie Jiatu’s mouth… Just as the Black Blade was about to pierce his eye, Guardian Otto suddenly halted, the blade tip almost touching his eyeball, an extremely close call.

“Are you… Xie Jiatu?” Guardian Otto’s voice sank, but the Black Blade did not move away: “What about that other guy just now?”

“Seth… himself is very weak…” Xie Jiatu… Xie Jiatu said weakly at this time, “It’s not easy for it to come out once, only over the years its power has increased little by little, sometimes I find it hard to suppress it… The explosion just now consumed much of its power, that’s why my body is preserved…”

The Guardian stood motionless, seemingly contemplating the truth in his words.

“Are you really the High Priest?” The Princess stepped forward, “How can you prove it?”

“I cannot prove it.” He sighed at this time, “Just like you cannot prove which one you really are, Yamana, Claudia? Even I am not sure.”

“How can you not know!” The Princess flared up angrily… She looked at the confused and dazed version of herself sitting on the ground, “How can you not know!”

Xie Jiatu smiled bitterly, “Since I, too, became a tool… It has never not been me, but it is also me… It’s that self within me that Seth influences and tempts, lurking within.”

The Princess instinctively glanced at the Guardian, noticing that he was also looking at her at this moment… They each read the confusion in the other’s eyes.

“I have always been in search, searching for the meaning of life…” Xie Jiatu said weakly but slowly, “I, I can’t remember anymore, what year it really was… I’ve seen famine, bodies floating on the Nile River, vultures standing above the floating bodies on the river, the sky gloomy, as if articulating something…”

“Didn’t you already find it.” Guardian Otto said calmly, “Here… right in this City of the Sun.”

He seemed not to hear, the voice increasingly slow: “After coming here, this place… was a barren wasteland, only a temple, only this standing amidst the sands. I didn’t know what it was, I didn’t have enough knowledge at the time to comprehend all that existed here… I only found the Balance within the Temple… and on the Balance, there were two different things placed.”

“What things!”

It wasn’t Otto who asked, nor was it the Princess, and definitely not the other disoriented one; it was Yiben… seeing the Princess and Otto’s gaze falling on him, he immediately retracted his neck.

“An eye… Horus’s left eye.” Xie Jiatu said softly, “And Seth’s…”

He didn’t continue, the voice stopping there.

But the hanging Yiben felt extraordinarily uncomfortable, couldn’t resist curiosity and asked again, “So what’s Seth’s?”

“A testicle.” The response came from Guardian Otto, who said calmly at this time, “It’s said that a battle lasting eighty years took place between Horus and Seth. During the war, Horus tore off one of Seth’s testicles, and Seth gouged out Horus’s left eye… The war ultimately ended with Horus’s victory.”

Yiben couldn’t help but gape, seeing Xie Jiatu so extraordinarily weak, his expression became quirky—not knowing much about High Priests or Xie Jiatu, he only knew this guy claimed to be divine.

Yeah, this guy had a testicle plucked by the Sun God, which means, he’s a one-testicle warrior?

Oh! Good heavens! That’s freaking painful!