The Beginning... That Lost City

"Form a team and head to Cairo to slaughter and grind for experience; earn yourselves some decent side-quest rewards."

"A large contingent of the Pharaoh's Royal Guard, passed down to the present day, is gathering there. You can recruit them as reinforcements."

"As for the City of the Dead, Kaguya-hime and I will handle the decapitation strike."

Coming back to his senses, Uchiha Xiu curled his lips into a smile, offering no "I have finished speaking, who agrees and who opposes?"

The East Sea Team was exactly the shape he wanted it to be.

He only needed to issue orders.

The tactical arrangement was the same as always; after all, he still maintained an overwhelming, crushing advantage over this instance dungeon—

While the concept was hyped up and Imhotep the High Priest did indeed possess nation-destroying power, the Main God had no reason to forcibly inflate him to that degree.

As he spoke, Uchiha Xiu pulled his hand away from the desert sand and turned to look at Kobayashi Yoshito and Zhao Yingkong, his meaning self-evident.

"The nuclear backpack theft incident is in the past; that was a mission assigned by the clan... Now, surviving in the Main God Space, killing Zhao Zhui-Kong, and winning the final team battle take priority over everything else."

The black-tech chest binder was still on this person, and for now, he still maintained the appearance of a neutral, prepubescent beauty.

"Your will is my command, Captain," Kobayashi Yoshito, the Soul Bender enhancer, said with a mix of tact and chuunibyou flair.

Setting aside the small group of thugs who had been abandoned, no one present was a fool.

Uchiha Xiu's favoritism toward Zhao Yingkong was barely concealed.

At this very moment, he even handed her a Flying Thunder God Kunai!

This was an item only official members were entitled to possess.

Was it purely because of her beauty? A hostess who prided herself on her top-tier looks and a figure famous in Tokyo Kabukicho flashed a moment of speculation, only to immediately dismiss it.

Having reached the top of the service industry, she was no fool; she understood how to read the room better than anyone.

In this place called the Main God Space, all factors were meant to be mere accessories to strength!

"Let me give you a speed boost."

"Earth Style: Light-Weight Rock Technique."

"Wind Style: Great Tornado Technique."

His fingers danced as Uchiha Xiu performed two ninjutsu in one breath. The former was a basic application, reducing the weight of the group and the camel caravan to one-tenth of their original mass.

The latter was his own original creation, developed while his brain was in an activated state. By sacrificing the cutting power of the Wind Style, he could lift the group and provide an outer protective layer, propelling them toward Cairo at subsonic speeds.

"Ah~ ah!"

The next moment, the camels neighed in the sky, looking slightly agitated, though not to the point of being scared to death.

Whoosh!

Whoosh!

Once everything was done, Uchiha Xiu levitated and took flight, his body like a supersonic missile leaving its launcher.

Beside him, the robe-fluttering Kaguya-hime did not skimp on her chakra, casting a more effective Ultra-Light-Weight Rock Technique to soar through the desert, following closely behind.

If he had the Rinnegan to manipulate attraction and repulsion, would his flight speed break through to the next level?

The wind whistled in his ears.

Uchiha Xiu's physical body withstood the sound barrier, and he felt not the slightest discomfort.

The sun shone brightly, casting circles of white glare. In his field of vision, scorching heat waves shimmered, and the monotonous desert landscape stretched out infinitely.

At the central temple of Hamunaptra.

Inside the vast hall housing the resurrection altar.

After spending quite some time laying out the magic circle, Imhotep traced his fingers along the edge of the altar, feeling the roughness of the stone structure and the dark power overflowing from within the altar, his mood exceptionally wonderful.

"Anck-Su-Namun, I have kept you waiting for three thousand years. My apologies."

"We shall be reunited very soon."

His fingers brushed across the face of Evelyn, who lay unconscious on the altar; she was the reincarnation of the daughter of Seti I.

Using the daughter of the Pharaoh as a resurrection sacrifice would surely yield better results... Besides, if she hadn't been standing on high ground witnessing everything back then, immediately calling for the Royal Guards to rush in, he would never have been forced to commit suicide.

"BOOM—!!!"

Impact. Explosion.

Suddenly, the thick sand wall surrounding the City of the Dead trembled violently.

A massive storm erupted!

A B-rank Fire Dragon Flame Bullet was extinguished.

Imhotep had not been forcibly buffed by the Main God, but he was not particularly weak either, possessing the combat power of a double B-rank group main quest target.

Combined with the Black Book of the Dead and the augmentation of this special city beneath his feet, the outer desert barrier he had set up could withstand a casual strike from Uchiha Xiu.

"The sand wall barrier is ten kilometers high, Master. Should we try to fly over it?" Seeing that his opening move had no obvious effect, Kaguya-hime couldn't help but suggest.

Her Byakugan remained fixed on the wave of sand before them.

A roaring giant face was rapidly taking shape, and feeling the dark power rushing toward her, she frowned slightly.

Transforming into nature—Imhotep's classic move.

Spanning hundreds of kilometers, he could attach his will to sandstorms or floods to create large-scale meteorological changes.

The lethality was unknown; after all, in the two original plotlines she had frantically studied as a pure Ninja World creation, Imhotep's two ultimate moves had both missed, resulting in zero final kills.

The damage to the environment was also difficult to gauge, as the films lacked any direct depiction of it.

At the same time.

Since Hamunaptra, the city beneath her feet, was known as the City of the Dead and served as the final resting place for numerous pharaohs and high-ranking nobles in ancient Egypt, it possessed the massive scale of an ancient city.

Under the blind-spot-free insight of the Byakugan, the City of the Dead contained energy reactions never seen before, and it was connected to an unknown place, much like a river flowing into the ocean.

The Underworld?

Clearly, this world possessed the resurrection mechanism required for reincarnators traversing the infinite!

"No time to waste; side quest rewards like saving the heroine cannot be missed." Clearing her mind, Uchiha Xiu formed hand seals, and a heat-intensive chakra surged forth.

--Communicating through consciousness, he easily mobilized the power of the Four-Tails sealed within his body. Violent chakra instantly overflowed, completely wrapping his body in a cloak of scorching lava.

Lava Release Chakra Mode, activate!

His skin turned dark red, and magma-like patterns flowed across his surface, the heat more intense than the desert sun.

"Scorching River Rock Technique!"

Within the seal world, the Four-Tails, having grown accustomed to the nickname Xiao Sun, let out a roar; without needing to be urged, it squeezed out its power at full capacity.

In an instant, ten massive lava spheres condensed from the void, each nearly a hundred meters in diameter, burning like small volcanoes and trailing crimson tails as they tore through the air.

BOOM!

BOOOM!

The lava spheres bombarded the sand wall like a meteor shower, producing deafening explosions.

The sand wall immediately melted and disintegrated under the high temperature. The protective incantations generated by Imhotep, combining scriptures and the properties of the City of the Dead, were violently interrupted. The sand grains melted into glass-like crystals, scattering like raindrops.

Within a few breaths, the smoke and dust cleared, and the tall sand wall had turned into a charred ruin, revealing the entrance to the City of the Dead.

"How could mere sand and dust block the flames of the Uchiha?"

"Ancient Egypt's number one devoted simp, I'm coming."

Deep within the City of the Dead.

The fully-fleshed Imhotep froze, his entire body turning cold.

In an era where the gods had retreated, leaving only trace amounts of divine power in designated statues, why would a pharaoh's guard of this caliber be born?

As a three-thousand-year-old senior who crawled out of the Underworld, shouldn't I be the most invincible being beneath the gods and demons!