Beyond Anubis's temple lay a sprawling complex of buildings, many already buried beneath the black desert.
Only tiny portions of their roofs protruded above the ground. From here onward, signs of battle lay everywhere.
Countless corpses littered the ground. Even in death, their hands still gripped their weapons tightly.
It was hard to imagine how their spears and javelins, sickle swords and battle-axes could have played any part in a battle of this magnitude.
Perhaps... they had simply charged to their deaths...
Zhang Xiao kept beating his wings and flew onward in silence. The farther in he went, the greater the scale of the fighting became.
Before long, an enormous ship appeared, lying tilted in the sea of sand, a massive hole torn through its hull.
The ship had huge sails and long, leaf-shaped oars. A Desert Ship?
As he drew a little closer, an enormous statue came into view.
Osiris, his face painted green, held his arms before him. Even after a thousand years, his golden crown gleamed as brightly as new.
Cradled in his arms was an enormous set of scales, with a feather on one side and a heart on the other.
The statue was remarkably intact, showing no sign of having been attacked.
It stood in stark contrast to the ruined temple behind it.
Hovering in the air, Zhang Xiao studied it for a while and was about to fly around it when something behind the statue suddenly caught his eye.
He turned his head and discovered, to his shock, that someone had been pinned to the back of the enormous statue.
She was a tall, extraordinarily beautiful woman. Her arms seemed to form the bones of wings, layers upon layers of feathers extending from beneath them to her back.
Her long hair hung loose, her