The Messenger of Death

The Oasis team had been on the run for hours. They reached the headquarters of the Luxure occult at the same time that Alex found out about the runes on the wall of the tomb.

The headquarter was built like a pyramid. It was shielded and camouflaged by the trees in the forest close to them. The pyramid had vines that stretched from the top to the bottom. It looked like it had been there for a long time as the roots of trees had already grown to the extent that they protruded the stairs of the pyramid.

Andrea's team hid in a thick bush as they surveyed the area for any guards.

"We have to be swift and silent in wiping them out. If they notice our presence too early then they can run into hiding and that will mean extra work for us. Do not kill non-cultivators, according to the Intel we got, the occult members are using a pink thread that releases a gas that stimulates desires in people.

They seem immune to it, so we don't know if it can affect cultivators too. So to be safe, we have to use our QI to filter what we inhale.

Doing that and fighting is going to be hectic, so when you see any pink thread burning, you put it out first then you kill the occult members around, after. Do you understand?" Andrea asked after she had given her instructions.

"Yes," The 11 girls around her all whispered in response to her question.

"There are 4 entrances to the pyramid so we'll divide into 4 groups. I and Arabella will be in the same group, as I will need her help with taking the head out. The rest of you will group yourselves appropriately." She ordered.

"Arabella, let's go. Good luck girls." She said before she and Arabella left the bush that they were hiding in. They went for the entrance that had the most, and strongest guards. The entrance that they chose had 5 hefty men standing guard there, they all looked like they were over 6 feet tall and they were hairy. They were all late-stage disaster realm cultivators.

-Thud!

Arabella used the side of her palm to hit the neck of the first guard that was unlucky enough to be the first that she met. She hit the back of his neck and the force from her strike ended the man's life.

-Crack!!

Andrea twisted and broke the neck of the first guard that she met.

They chose to kill them without spilling blood, because some people were very sensitive to the scent of blood, and to avoid being found out early they had to use this approach.

They killed the guards at the entrance, as quickly as they arrived, breaking their necks like a twig. After they were done they hurriedly went into the pyramid.

As they went deeper into the pyramid.

"Ahh!!" They started hearing the sound of people moaning in pleasure. The sound was coming from every corner ahead of them. They stopped by the first open room and peeped inside to assess the situation and what they saw made their faces turn red.

There were multiple people shamelessly having sexual intercourse in one room. They didn't mind that their nudity was being shown to the others, in fact, it was like they couldn't notice anyone else but the person that they were therewith.

Andrea shook her head and ignored the tempting scene in the room. She looked around the room once more and noticed a pink thread by the corner burning. Beside the pink thread was a red gourd, absorbing the life force of the people in the room.

There were 2 guards in the room.

Andrea looked at Arabella and they nodded their heads at the same time.

They charged into the room together. Arabella went after the guards, while Andrea went for the burning thread. By the time she put the fire on the thread out, Arabella was already done killing the guards in that room.

Soon the fragrance from the thread cleared and the people that were affected by it started coming to their senses slowly.

"Ahhh!!!"

Many of them screamed at their nudity. They could clearly remember what they were doing before the fragrance vanished. And they could remember that they enjoyed every moment of it and didn't want it to stop.

But now that their decisions weren't being influenced by the fragrance from the pink thread, they started to feel shame and resentment for their actions.

"Look for some clothing and leave this place ASAP. Do not be hard on yourselves, all of you were influenced by an aphrodisiac." She raised the thread and showed it to them.

They did as she said and ran for the exit. Some went out butt naked with nothing but their hands to cover their private parts, while some were lucky enough to get their hands on a blanket or sheet that was in the room.

'Some of them might be dead in 3 days.' Andrea thought to herself as she looked at the red gourd that had been storing the life force of the people that ran out of the room

She picked the red gourd up and tried putting it in her storage pouch, but it didn't enter and she was shocked by this. As they didn't have much time on their hands, she decided to tie it on her waist.

"Let's head over to the next place," Andrea said and they left the room…

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IN THE TOMB OF MEMORIES.

Alex had just taken the first step into the hall.

"System, scan the surroundings and inform me of any traps on the way." He whispered.

-Ping!

The system recognized his command and did as it was told to.

Alex looked at the GPS, checking the distance from his position to where the treasures were.

Alex continued down the hall, the rest of his teammates were just right behind him. After walking a distance into the hall that was starting to look like it had no end, the scenery changed.

Before, the light in the tomb came from the fire on the torches. Now it was like there was sunlight in the tomb.

"Woah!!" They exclaimed at the sight of the tomb. It really looked like they were in the castle of a king. There were no dead rats or dust here, even the stench had disappeared.

In front of them were treasure chests in multitudes, mountains of gold jewelry and coins. Mountains of blue energy crystals, both low-density and high-density ones, that were neatly arranged and stacked.

"Alex, you really are a treasure seeker. Look at this… this is the jackpot." Emma muttered as she was taking in the scenery.

They all started drooling as their greed began to surface. Drake was the first to run towards the energy crystal.

When he was in front of the mountain of energy crystals he paused and started rethinking his decision.

'Why do I feel like I've experienced something like this?' He thought to himself.

The memory of what happened in the Agelong forest came to his mind. When they were in an illusion that they had found treasures in the forest and they greedily started hoarding what they saw, not knowing that they were picking things that were harmful to them.

He turned back and looked at Alex, waiting for his confirmation, if he could touch what they were seeing.

"Do as you like, it's not an illusion. Everything here is real." Alex relayed to them after observing their surroundings.

"Yes!!" They exclaimed and started hoarding all that they could into their rings. Drake circled the mountains of energy crystals. He was the only one that went further into the room.

-Crack!

Drake stepped on something and it broke.

"Argh!!!" He screamed when he saw what he had stepped on. It was the skeleton of a man, he had stepped on the leg of the skeleton.

"There are dead people here!!" Drake exclaimed and ran to Adrian.

"It's a tomb, what do you expect? This is where dead people are." Katherine retorted at Drake.

Adrian went over to where Drake ran from. He observed the body of the corpse. He saw a storage ring on the finger of the corpse and attempted to take it off. But as his hands touched the corpse, he could feel that something was wrong. "Uhh, guys!! I don't think this person died a million years ago." He gulped as he started backing away.

The rest of his teammates arrived at where the body was. "Why do you say so?" Camron asked.

"When I touched the corpse, I could still feel a pulse coming from it." He answered.

Camron looked at the corpse closely. "This person is still alive but dying fast." The hair on the person's head was white and thin, and could only be seen on random places of his head.

Drake assumed that it was a skeleton because the person was as thin as one.

When Alex checked the corpse, he could still see a layer skin on top the bones.

The person opened his eyes slowly and one of his eyes fell off his sockets.

"AHHH!!" Drake screamed and everyone else flinched when they saw that.

"Run… if you… want to live." The person said in raspy voice before he finally died.