Egypt.
Memphis.
It was a place filled with pyramids, one that could also be called a graveyard of emperors.
These were the tombs of ancient Egyptian rulers, a place symbolizing power and status.
They believed that the soul lived on forever after death.
The ancient Egyptians believed they would return to the afterlife when they died.
They considered the body a vessel for the soul, believing that the soul left its body every night and returned in the morning.
They also believed that the soul would be resurrected after death and that the body had to be preserved to give it a home. Thus, they invented embalming and mummification.
For this reason, ancient Egypt had also given rise to various myths and supernatural beings over its long history.
The most representative were mythical and supernatural beings with human bodies and animal heads.
Beings such as the Sphinx and the Ox-Head Horse-Face Beast were, in fact, supernatural creatures born from ancient Egyptian mythology.
At that moment, in the largest pyramid in Memphis.
Lily Telles had the subordinates who had accompanied her remain outside while she entered alone.
Burial vessels and gold were laid out inside the pyramid, but more important were the mummies and the enormous statue at its center.
He had a name: Anubis.
Anubis was the god of death in ancient Egyptian mythology, an animal-headed deity associated with mummification and the afterlife. He appeared in the murals of pharaohs' tombs with a jackal's head and a human body.
Yet statues of him were almost never found inside pyramids.
If one did appear, it meant that he presided over everything there and that the pyramid had been built for him.
Lily Telles approached the statue of Anubis and studied it carefully for a moment. Then she looked around at the