Chapter 185: The Treasure Of The Ancient Mausoleum
Lu Li had considered switching to being a tomb raider, after all, there were really a lot of good things left in those ancient mausoleums.
For example, Mega Stones. Do you think Mega Stones are some kind of mineral?
The truth is that 99% of the Mega Stones in the world are excavated from those ancient mausoleums.
But tomb raiding in this world is far more dangerous than tomb raiding in the Notes world.
The danger degree of Large Secret Realms aside, if it weren’t for Ekaterina’s nanny Pokémon secretly dealing with those wild Pokémon that came looking for trouble, the three of them would be unable to move an inch in this secret realm.
How dangerous is this secret realm?
To put it this way, if Gym Level strength enters a Large Secret Realm and the intent is to explore, then the probability of death will be around 40%, even approaching half.
Because the pinnacle of Large Secret Realms is Master Level, Gym Level Pokémon are not few in number, and Heavenly King Level Pokémon can only stick to one corner.
Those ancient mausoleums are even more so. Under the enhancement of special fields, Ghost-type Pokémon with nearly eternal lifespans—even a pig sleeping that long could sleep to its potential limit.
For a Large Secret Realm like this, anyone below Heavenly King Level coming in has their life and death up to heaven’s will.
The three soon arrived at a place suspected to bury an ancient mausoleum.
After scanning with spiritual sense, Lu Li shook his head.
This place doesn’t have one.
The helpless group could only continue searching.
After trying several places in a row, Yao Yifei had already begun to doubt the authenticity of the intelligence provided by the Alliance.
“Six places already, do we still keep looking?” Ekaterina asked depressedly.
Lu Li didn’t speak, continuing to scan below with spiritual sense.
“Found it!” Lu Li cheered with full surprise.
Hearing this, Ekaterina impatiently asked: “You mean there’s an ancient mausoleum below?”
Lu Li excitedly said: “Not just an ancient mausoleum, there’s even Unown below.”
“An undeveloped ancient mausoleum? We actually found one!” Yao Yifei’s face was also full of excitement.
An undeveloped ancient mausoleum is completely a huge treasure, one that even Heavenly King Level Trainers would be tempted by.
Seeing the excited Yao Yifei, Lu Li poured cold water from the side: “But there’s one Heavenly King Level and three Gym Level Ghost-type Pokémon below.”
Hearing this, the joy on Yao Yifei’s face instantly receded.
If this were on the surface, such a lineup they could somewhat handle.
But if underground, and with that special mausoleum field, Yao Yifei instantly lost her previous excitement.
As a Flying Type Trainer going into a tomb to battle those Ghost-type Pokémon, if she could exert five layers of her combat power, that would be exceptional performance.
Ekaterina as an Ice Type Trainer, even entering the tomb, could at least exert 50% of her combat power, but that’s clearly not enough.
However, none of them were dejected, after all, Ekaterina also had a cheat.
“Ancestor, looks like we have to trouble you.” Ekaterina bowed toward the void.
A Froslass that looked like it was wearing a kimono, floating in the air, appeared.
The Froslass nodded somewhat helplessly.
The Froslass was Ekaterina’s great-grandmother’s Pokémon, and also Ekaterina’s Guardian. Due to being a Ghost-type Pokémon, the Froslass’s concealment ability was extremely strong.
Lu Li’s spiritual sense could detect her, but only vaguely sensing such an existence.
“Champion Level Froslass as a bodyguard.” Yao Yifei sighed with some envy.
Ekaterina smiled noncommittally.
This was the foundation of a great family.
Almost every generation of the Yekaterina Family were Champion Level Trainers, and the Yekaterina Family was a family that had inherited for a thousand years. In that millennium, how many Champion Level Pokémon the Yekaterina Family had produced was beyond ordinary imagination.
The lifespan of Champion Level Pokémon—even Bug-type Pokémon could break a thousand years.
Yao Yifei even suspected the Yekaterina Family might have over a hundred Champion Level Pokémon, which was why the Yekaterina Family could dominate the Great Russia Region.
“I’ll go below first and deal with those little ones. You stay above and be careful.” The Froslass said helplessly.
As a fellow Ghost-type Pokémon, in the tomb, her exerted combat power could even be twelve layers. Just dealing with one Heavenly King and a few Gym Level Pokémon was nothing to the Froslass.
Hearing this slightly gentle voice, Lu Li’s pupils shrank, and he took a step back, looking incredulously at the Froslass.
After the Froslass disappeared, Ekaterina explained from the side: “The Ancestor became Champion Level a long time ago. Due to qualification reasons, it’s estimated she can hardly advance further in this lifetime. In the long years, the Ancestor has long learned our human language.”
Lu Li nodded.
These days even Meowth can learn to speak, so the Froslass speaking seemed quite normal.
“We just wait here, the Ancestor will solve it soon.” Ekaterina comforted.
Lu Li nodded again; this feeling of hugging a thick thigh was simply too refreshing.
Unfortunately, Ekaterina would leave soon, otherwise he really wanted to bring Ekaterina to properly develop this Large Secret Realm.
After a while, the Froslass brought four battle-incapacitated Pokémon to the surface.
That Heavenly King Level Ghost-type Pokémon was a Cofagrigus, also known as the Staggered Coffin. The rest were three Gym Level Night Spirits.
“It’s safe below now. How to enter the tomb is up to you.” After saying that, the Froslass vanished.
“Teleport can’t get in, we can only Dig into the tomb.” After Ekaterina spoke, she released Kyurem.
Kyurem wasn’t a dedicated digger, but it was the Pokémon in the team most skilled at launching Dig.
Ten-odd minutes later, Kyurem successfully dug to the tomb gate.
The three Teleported to before the tomb gate, and Ekaterina summarized: “Kyurem can’t dig further from here. The question now is, what if I have Kyurem use Giga Impact to break the tomb gate.”
“If controlling the power, it shouldn’t cause a collapse, right?” Lu Li said somewhat hesitantly.
Hearing this, Ekaterina directly patted Kyurem’s thigh: “Kyurem, use Giga Impact to destroy the wooden gate.”
Receiving the order, Kyurem opened with a Giga Impact. Under deliberate power control, a hole about one meter in diameter was blasted in the tomb gate.
“Next, follow me. There are quite a few mechanisms in this tomb.” Lu Li took the lead and said.
Under spiritual sense scanning, Lu Li knew this mausoleum like the back of his hand; he could even say the mausoleum’s designer didn’t understand it as well as he did.
The mausoleum passage had various murals carved on both sides. After carefully bypassing the mechanisms in the mausoleum, the group arrived in a tomb hall.
This tomb hall had nothing much, just various murals and some ancient script carved on the walls.
In this world, the difference between ancient script and modern script is somewhat like the difference between simplified and traditional characters.
The group could roughly understand the content written above.
After the God of Steel fell, the glorious God-forged Kingdom thus declined. Queen Leona, known as the Steel Fierce Sun, also fell in the war guarding the kingdom.
The remaining murals and text always recorded everything about that Queen Leona in her lifetime.
“Great! This is actually a queen’s tomb.” Ekaterina looked excitedly at the murals before her.
In ancient times, kings had retainers buried with them upon death, even some of the king’s Pokémon would follow the king in death.
Because ancient people believed that after death in reality, they would continue living in the Reverse World. Some Pokémon would follow their trainer in death after the trainer died, attempting to reunite with the trainer in the Reverse World.
Precisely because of this custom, the burial goods in these ancient mausoleums were invaluable.
“Let’s keep going forward. Two more side chambers and we’ll reach the main tomb chamber.” Lu Li reminded.
Suppressing their excitement, the group explored forward again.
The first side chamber contained various porcelain and gold products, generally daily necessities like tableware and such.
The second side chamber was remarkable; it stored various Pokémon Items.
However, most of the Pokémon Items here had lost their original function due to the passage of time.
The three only stayed briefly, confirmed these things had no value, and continued to the main tomb chamber.
After the side chambers, the three arrived at the main tomb chamber.
On both sides of the main tomb chamber were six small secret rooms, called side rooms, where the good stuff generally was.
“Impressive, all the way here and no mechanisms triggered.” Yao Yifei sighed with full relief.
“That’s just because your luck is bad and you happened to run into Lu Li.” Ekaterina struck from the side.
Although the most dangerous in mausoleums were the Ghost-type Pokémon, the mechanisms inside often left trainers covered in dirt.
Yao Yifei didn’t retort, after all, it was indeed Lu Li who led them around the mechanisms.
“Ho-Oh above, hope for a big harvest this time.” Yao Yifei clasped her hands in prayer.
In the Jiuzhou Region, Ho-Oh governs destiny and life; a deity controlling destiny can naturally make people lucky.
Yao Yifei’s prayer wasn’t to the wrong target.
Ekaterina also prayed without yielding: “Calyrex above, hope you bring me a harvest.”
Lu Li: “…”
Lu Li was considering whether to play along, otherwise he’d seem out of place.
“Dao Ancestor above, bless your believer to strike it rich this time.” Lu Li also clasped hands and prayed softly.
As a Cultivator, believing in Dao Ancestor seemed quite normal, right?
As for whether this world’s Arceus would have an opinion, that’s not his concern.
The group first went to side room number one, inside were several sets of armor. Under the power of time, these armors had turned into Curse Armor and Celebration Armor.
Unlike modern-made Curse Armor, the Curse Armor in the mausoleum could be considered Pokémon Secret Treasures, though such armor was generally rare.
First, mausoleum owners possessing such armor were rare; even in ancient times, monarchs wearing armor to conquer territory were not that common.
That Queen Leona was a brave and battle-skilled queen in life, plus the nation she ruled followed the Steel path.
Precisely because of this, the armor buried with her transformed into Curse or Celebration Armor under the power of time.
“Four pieces of armor total: one Celebration Armor, three Curse Armors. Yao Yifei and I take one Curse Armor each.” Ekaterina proactively said.
Lu Li nodded; such allocation was clearly favorable to him, so Lu Li naturally wouldn’t refuse.
Strictly speaking, neither Ekaterina nor Yao Yifei needed these armors, but they didn’t need them doesn’t mean they shouldn’t share.
After collecting the armors, Yao Yifei sighed: “Curse Armor worthy of being a Pokémon Secret Treasure, Ceruledge looks pretty cool, too bad this thing can only go to auction.”
“What price can this Curse Armor fetch?” Lu Li also asked curiously.
Ekaterina explained: “Curse Armor from ancient tombs like this starts at an auction price of 30 million, probably around 100 million.”
“That expensive? I remember the market price for Curse Armor is around three hundred thousand?” Lu Li asked puzzled.
Yao Yifei touched the Curse Armor and emphasized: “That’s the Pokémon Item Curse Armor; ours is the Pokémon Secret Treasure Curse Armor.”
“Alright.”
Lu Li nodded and didn’t ask about the specific difference between the two.
After all, he planned to use these two armors himself; both Ceruledge and Armarouge looked super cool.
Moreover, Lu Li wanted to study the craftsmanship of these two armors to advance his own artifact refining level.
Next was side room number two.
Inside were the dry bones of several Pokémon.
After checking these year’s dry bones, Ekaterina sighed softly: “These four Pokémon were at least Champion Level in life, and all died by self-extinguishing their origin.”
In simple terms, these four Pokémon all died by suicide.
“No wonder this kingdom was destroyed. Champion Level Pokémon buried with, just thinking about it hurts.” Yao Yifei also felt some pain.
Those were Champion Level Pokémon!
Too extravagant.
Side room two yielded nothing; the items carried by those Pokémon had long turned to ash over time, and the bodies to dry bones.
If they were Dragon-type Pokémon, perhaps they could be recycled, but unfortunately these were Fire Attribute and Steel-type Pokémon.
Feeling only regret, the three soon entered the third side room.
It was a secret room with various books; perhaps due to time being too long, the books had turned to ash, and even the bookshelves had rotted.
With nothing gained again, the group could only place hope in the fourth side room.
Regrettably, the fourth side room seemed to be a burial pit, and the three gained nothing again.
“Only two secret rooms left.” Yao Yifei said nervously.
This blind box opening behavior was simply addictive.
Lu Li didn’t have that feeling, because he knew the answers.
The reason for personally checking was purely to observe these places up close.
“There will be surprises next.” Lu Li said meaningfully.
“Really?”
Eyes lighting up, Yao Yifei looked at Lu Li full of expectation.
Lu Li nodded affirmatively.
The two women, full of anticipation, pushed Lu Li into the fifth side room.
The side room only had a few opened boxes, each containing a gem of quite peculiar quality.
This was the treasure most sought by all who pursued ancient mausoleums—Mega Stones!
