The square before them was immense. People knelt prostrate shoulder to shoulder in dense rows; even a rough count put their number at over ten thousand.
"Are these all people?"
Bill stared at the scene in horror. It was not that he had never seen sacrificial burials. Quite the opposite-most pyramids contained at least a few.
But a scene like this...
The Young Celestial Master and his wife were equally shocked in the Far-Seeing Mirror. Human sacrifices on this scale might have existed back home, but neither of them had ever seen one.
"Professor Dumbledore, you said there were clues about the gods inside the pyramid. Did you know that beforehand?"
Zhang Xiao pressed his earpiece and asked softly.
There was a trace of gravity in Dumbledore's voice.
"Much as I would like to give you an affirmative answer, that was not actually the case. I visited the pyramids during my travels and discovered many murals and records inside.
"They mentioned gods, and the possibility that gods were buried within the pyramids. My time was limited, so I did not explore further.
"So when I found related records in... Tom's castle, I immediately recalled that little incident, which I had all but forgotten."
Grindelwald cut in. "Albus, you went sightseeing in Egypt? When?"
"Oh, that was a very long time ago..."
Zhang Xiao wisely disconnected for the moment. Although he was interested in that gossip too, his first priority was to unravel the pyramid's secrets completely.
"Let's go. Be careful not to touch them."
The oppressive weight of over ten thousand corpses kneeling on the ground was overwhelming. The goblins no longer acted with the abandon they had shown on the first level, instead following close behind Zhang Xiao.
A broad road through the center of the crowd led straight