People!
Were always greedy. By the time they regretted it, they realized that everything was already too late!
The two Cambodian natives were beside themselves with despair. Now, there was nothing left for them but to wait for death. Their entire bodies went cold, their faces turned pale, and they slowly sat down on the bluestone floor, trembling as they began chanting scriptures. Perhaps through those scriptures, the beings they believed in would absolve them of their sins!
Tina no longer paid attention to the two of them and instead studied the temple before her.
The entire temple was constructed from sandstone unique to Cambodia. Its perimeter was surrounded by an exquisitely carved gallery, forming a highly regular rectangle. At the entrance to the gallery stood a stone tower and passageway with distinctive Khmer cultural characteristics.
Ahead of the passageway were all kinds of exquisite statues. Of course, these statues had been carved counterclockwise, indicating that this was a place where the dead rested in eternal sleep. Only places where the dead rested would feature counterclockwise carvings.
After admiring it for quite a while, Tina led everyone into the temple. Naturally, they still advanced in separate groups. Tra led the mercenaries as the vanguard, while Tina led the Ability Users as the rear guard. They were separated by several dozen meters as they slowly entered the temple.
The structure of this underground temple basically replicated the dimensions of the actual Angkor temple above ground, and its architectural layout was the same as well.
The temple measured 1.5 kilometers long and 1.3 kilometers wide on all four sides, forming a regular rectangular structure. Of course, it differed from the one above ground in some ways. First, this one was somewhat larger than Angkor Wat above ground. Second, it had no moat.