Pusini City, Egypt, was a moderately sized city-state more than two hundred kilometers from Cairo.
Unlike the Ancient Capital, which was also a city of the undead, Egypt—the birthplace of the curse and undead elements—produced large numbers of undead mages and was a world-renowned producer of Soul Vessels.
To avoid disturbing the public, however, Egypt had enacted laws forbidding undead mages from summoning their undead servants under normal circumstances.
After all, ordinary people who could not use magic still made up the vast majority. Nobody wanted to open their door to streets full of corpses, nor could they accept living in a city filled with death and resentment.
"Why are so many people here injured?" someone asked in confusion.
As they walked through the streets of Pusini, the National Team repeatedly spotted injured mages. Some were still wearing military uniforms and looked as though they had just come off the battlefield.
"Pusini has been in trouble lately. Apparently, a pyramid appeared nearby. Egyptian undead move with the pyramids, so, to put it simply, Pusini is currently suffering an undead disaster... This is also the field training mission our mentors assigned us. We have to go onto the battlefield and fight the undead head-on," Nan Jue explained.
"Aren't pyramids built in fixed locations?" Mo Fan was utterly confused.
"Exactly. If they know there are undead nearby, why build a city next to one?" Mu Tingying agreed.
"Do you know about mirages?" Mu Nujiao knew a little about Egyptian undead and volunteered to explain.
"They're a perfectly normal phenomenon, commonly seen over the sea or in deserts. Refraction projects the image of another place somewhere completely unrelated. What does that have to do with pyramids and Egyptian undead?" Nan Rongni asked.
"Throughout Egyptian history, many of the so-called pyramid invasions were actually