Chapter 452: Checkmate

"Foolish humans. This is time for you to pay for the sins you have committed in front of Great God Osiris."

"Are you kidding me?" Theo clenched his fists and whispered, "Ava, you may need to help me in this fight, I think. On my signal, okay?"

"Kyu." Ava tapped his chest once, saying she was ready.

Theo then turned to Phyrill and shouted, "Now!"

Phyrill nodded with a grim face and commanded out loud, "We shall split our group into fives. Independent Groups, Soldiers, and my Hilbert family which will be split into three. There are three leaders you can follow, me, Aso, and my friend, Joker. Now!"

The soldiers and the independent groups were baffled by this decision, but they saw Phyrill's group began to move according to Phyrill's instruction.

"Are you going to abandon us?" The independent groups shouted as they were the ones who suffered the most.

Meanwhile, the soldiers seemed eager to do it because they could fight the wolf to their last breath without anyone watching.

Theo cared no more and approached Ellen, asking her to follow him.

And a ray of hope finally shone upon them.

When the mummy king saw the injured wolf king, he smiled and raised his hand.

The wolf king knew the mummy king planned to kill him and the army of mummies marched toward them, catching several wolves on the right.

"Grr." The wolf king frowned and raised his sword. He leaped on top of the mummy and slammed his sword down.

The sword started glowing as if responding to the wolf's action.

However, the mummy king also had his own trump card. The golden crown on his head started shining, but all that light soon moved to lit up the small blue-colored ceramic in the crown's eye.

The mummy king waved his hand as black energy flowed out of the ceramic, forming a screen that withstood the wolf king's power.

Bam.

The shock wave of their clash shook the battlefield and forced the humans to make their decision. They really needed to split up when the wolf king and the mummy king fought.

This was slightly different for Theo because he suddenly got a notification containing something he never knew.

[Sensing a fragment containing the power of Death.]

"What?" Theo stopped for a second and turned to the mummy while muttering, "Power of Death? Wait, since when is it reacting to the outside world?"

The reply came right after.

[Since when it's not reacting?]

"…" Theo furrowed his eyebrows and looked at the crown. "Who is reacting to the power of Death? According to the myth, the only one who should be reacting to it would be the Goddess of Death."

Suddenly, Theo came into a realization and drew a gasp. "Wait a minute. Did the mummy say Great God Osiris? Osiris should be God of Deceased or Lord of Underworld like her. Their power is similar… So, does this mean their powers are attracting each other?

"No, the most important question is… How can the mummy know about that name? Does this place have a connection with the Earth? No, they have a connection since the two worlds are connected, but there may be something deeper." Theo never expected this was to be the case as he instinctively took a step back.

As if responding to him, another notification appeared.

Trial: Grab the fragment

Reward: Upgraded Skill Eyes

He was speechless when he received the trial now. But he soon shook his head and bluntly rejected it. "Hell no. I'm not planning to die."

Theo ignored the mission and turned to the people who would follow him.

Unfortunately, that ray of hope soon disappeared when more bandages appeared on their way.

"Bandages."

"Dodge!"

They all shouted, asking them to avoid the bandages from capturing them.

Another mummy appeared in front of them. It had a blue-colored bandage that separated him from the rest.

Bending his knees, the mummy placed his hand on the ground and the bandages that captured the humans started turning into ice, freezing the humans as well.

"What?!" The independent groups once again couldn't do anything when their comrades died.

It was the first time Phyrill's group was grateful they had that one ironclad rule. If not, half of them might have died at this point.

"We're going to the left first. It hasn't been blocked yet." Phyrill shouted after seeing the mummies block their right and front paths. With the wolves chasing them from behind, they could only go to the left.

"Run. Run to the left."

"Hurry up."

They all shouted in panic, not wanting to die. However, they soon found themselves in a situation far more dangerous than they thought when a group of humans approached them from their left.

"There are humans?"

"We are saved."

"They must be reinforcement?"

"Are they from the military?"

All those who saw their appearances thought this was the help they needed to escape from this situation.

Unfortunately, it was nothing but another threat that checkmated them.

Theo could already see it coming when the humans didn't even say anything. He pointed his Skylink to these humans, only to find it picked up something.

Name: Alpha Mutated Wolf

Level: 350

The leader of the Mutated Chimera Wolves.

"It's a group of monsters called Mutated Chimera Wolves!" Theo shouted after getting the confirmation.

"What?!" Phyrill's body shook as he realized they were in a bitter situation. They were chased by the wolf while getting pincered by the mummies on the right. After that, the mummies blocked their escape path right before their eyes, forcing them to move to the left, only to be disappointed when they got stopped by a pack of Chimera Wolves.

In other words, they were basically surrounded from all directions.

Phyrill couldn't help but halt his footsteps while cursing, "Shit. This is literally a checkmate. Is this how a General Class monster operates?"

All of them also stopped and received attacks from the mummies and the wolves, thinning their number even further.

"Young Master!" Aso, Phyrill's assistant, came to him. "What is your instruction?"

Phyrill couldn't answer as he truly couldn't see anything that would help them escape from this situation unscathed.

Theo, on the other hand, glanced at the wolf king and the mummy king. "While those two General Class monsters are occupied, we need to break through this Mutated Chimera Wolf pack. They have the lowest strength among all four sides. With their appearance, the only way to differentiate them from us, humans, is our talking ability, so keep cursing them out loud. We will know you are a human. Okay, let's escape from this nightmare."