The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 306

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Chapter 306
Chapter 306
Waves of sand surge upward.
Third-circle magic, Sand Wave.
It was merely a third-circle spell—not even the fifth-circle magic I’d recently become capable of wielding—yet its power far transcended what a third-circle spell should possess.
Crash! Crash! Crash! Crash! Crash!
If Sand Wave was magic that conjured waves of sand,
then what was now manifesting through my hands was no mere wave—it was a tsunami of sand.
The reason this was possible was abundantly clear.
Simply put:
[ Eternal Crystal ]
It was thanks to this.
But what I spoke of now wasn’t limited to the single Eternal Crystal I held in my hand.
The countless grains of sand I’d used to construct the bridge across the Abyss.
I was utilizing those as well.
Sand magic was inherently easier to manipulate sand that had already been infused with mana once before than to conjure entirely new sand from nothing.
Of course, that wasn’t all.
[ Sandstorm Totem ]
( Non-tradeable )
Form: Staff
Grade: Epic
Requirement: Level 600 or higher, Magic Mastery Lv 60 or higher
Description: A totem said to have been wielded by a legendary sorcerer of the Desert as he summoned sandstorms and antlion traps.
A weapon that amplifies the range of sand magic.
Starting with the totem—a sorcerer’s weapon similar in form to a mage’s staff—
[ Sand Sorcerer’s Hood ]
[ Sand Sorcerer’s Necklace ]
….
[ You have equipped the complete ‘Sand Sorcerer’ set (6/6). ]
[ The ‘Sand Sorcerer’ set effect activates. ]
[ Sand Sorcerer: When using magic, skills, or abilities that manipulate sand, mana consumption decreases and power increases dramatically. ]
I’d swapped all my equipment for pieces that enhanced sand magic.
Rapid equipment exchange made possible by Luke’s presence.
In other words, Switching.
Thanks to that,
Crash! Crash! Crash! Crash! Crash! Crash!!!
the magnitude of the sand tsunami I’d unleashed swelled to an almost incomprehensible scale.
Yet Sphinx refused to yield so easily.
“How dare you! Do you think I, the guardian of the Pyramid, would fall to mere sand?”
Or rather, to be precise,
I refused to yield.
“Serpent of sand! Coil around the enemy!”
“Ring of wind!”
“Shackle of light!”
Crack!
“These creatures…!”
I hadn’t issued any separate commands.
The sorcerers moved with practiced swiftness, as if reading my very thoughts, unleashing their incantations.
The binding spells we had used moments before.
Since all the sorcerers of the Expedition Party were renowned Grand Sorcerers throughout the Desert, the binding spells took hold perfectly once more.
The instant Sphinx’s movements froze.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, crash!
“Grrgh!”
A torrent of sand crashed against Sphinx’s body.
As the guardian standing at the edge of the land to prevent our crossing, there was no space to retreat.
Evasion was the only option, but the binding spell rendered that impossible.
Once struck by the sand torrent, Sphinx’s movements were completely sealed off, independent of the binding spell.
“We shall lend our strength!”
The sorcerers switched from binding spells to offensive incantations, reinforcing the sand torrent.
“Kwaaaaaaaang!”
The intensified sand torrent began pushing Sphinx back with tremendous force.
* * *
Sphinx roared fiercely, resisting the sand torrent.
Even so, withstanding a sand torrent of this magnitude was extraordinarily difficult.
Especially with the Desert’s Grand Sorcerers pooling their power to amplify it.
As Sphinx was driven backward, she instinctively glanced behind.
“Grrgh!”
And what appeared before her was the bottomless Abyss.
Sensing the danger, Sphinx drew upon all her strength.
Not a single step could she afford to retreat.
The moment she was pushed back even one step, she—the guardian of the Pyramid—would plummet into that fathomless Abyss below.
How absurd it would be for Sphinx, the guardian of the Pyramid, to meet her end by falling into the depths of the Abyss.
Therefore, Sphinx.
“I am the guardian of the Pyramid! I shall never retreat!”
Boom!
Released all her power at once.
The solar energy she had accumulated while protecting the Pyramid.
Scorching heat erupted forth, shattering the encroaching sand torrent completely.
Though the overwhelming force obliterated the sand torrent that had been bearing down upon her, for Sphinx this was a gamble.
The solar power she had accumulated was the very source of her vitality and movement.
Having expended most of that power, his body would struggle to move for some time.
But that was fine.
‘That black man! Those arrogant sorcerers! They poured everything into this sand tsunami! Now that it’s burst, they won’t be able to exert their strength for a while!’
After all, the enemy had exhausted their power just as he had.
But in that moment.
“Now!”
As the sand tsunami subsided and Sphinx’s vision cleared,
“Warriors of the Desert! Charge!”
“Push him back!”
The desert warriors flooded forward.
“Uooooooo!”
The warriors rushed toward Sphinx with a roar, swinging their blades.
They thrust spears and wielded clubs.
No, that was manageable.
I could withstand such trivial attacks easily enough.
The problem was.
Boom!
“Push harder!”
“Attack the legs!”
“Just a little more! Just a tiny bit more!”
“Throw this monster into the Abyss!”
“Uooooooo!”
The desert warriors were pushing Sphinx backward.
Those attacks from moments before weren’t simply meant to wound me—they were targeting my feet and legs to prevent me from standing firm.
“These… these creatures…!”
This was troublesome.
Now that I had completely unleashed the sun’s power and my energy source lay empty.
I had no way to stop the warriors’ assault.
Until now, I had endured thanks to my heavy stone body, but these warriors before me were no ordinary soldiers.
All of them were Grand Warriors renowned throughout the Desert.
And as such.
Grrrrgh-!
My massive stone body began to slide backward.
I tried to move my body bit by bit using the sun’s power that was slowly accumulating beneath the scorching sun, but it was futile.
My body was already being pushed back, and my heels had been driven beyond the Cliff’s edge.
“This cannot be! I, the Guardian of the Pyramid, falling into the Abyss below? Such disgrace…!”
I could not fall like this.
As the Pyramid’s guardian, I could not end my life in such pathetic fashion without even fighting properly.
Even if I must fall, I wish to fall having fought with honor and dignity.
It’s fine.
My power source was gradually recovering.
Just a little more now.
If I could regain just a bit more strength, I could actually push back against those warriors.
The moment I thought that.
“You!”
Sphinx’s eyes fell upon a human who should never have been visible.
The human who had crossed the Abyss by creating a sand bridge, ignoring the Abyss’s trials.
The human who had then summoned a tidal wave of sand, plunging me into crisis.
That human.
The human who should have been completely drained and collapsed from unleashing such a catastrophic sand tsunami.
“Impossible!”
[ Desert Ruin Pillar ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Form : Hammer
Grade : Legendary
Wielding a blunt weapon that looked anything but ordinary.
Engulfed in pitch-black Black Flame, he came charging toward me.
Sphinx attempted to block it, but the warriors posed a problem.
If I blocked that attack, I couldn’t defend against the warriors’ assault, and if I defended against the warriors, I couldn’t stop that human’s strike.
An impossible dilemma.
In the end, Sphinx could choose neither.
Crash!!
“Gahhh!”
The blunt weapon swung by the human.
A colossal pillar—barely deserving the name “weapon”—collided with Sphinx’s forehead.
“I, I, I’m falling into the Abyss!”
Sphinx’s body, tilting ever so slowly.
“This cannot be!”
began to plummet toward the Abyss.
* * *
That was close.
The Sphinx I knew didn’t possess such an attack pattern—one that unleashed the power of the sun.
Had the warriors not stepped in, Sphinx’s strategy of falling would have been completely nullified, and I would have found myself in an all-out battle with Sphinx.
“Thank you all for your efforts.”
I expressed my gratitude to the Expedition Party.
Without any explicit orders from me, the sorcerers had used binding incantations alongside the sand tsunami I unleashed, then reinforced the tidal wave with their own magic.
The warriors, in a situation I myself hadn’t anticipated, had pooled their strength and charged forward to overwhelm Sphinx.
Without them, I couldn’t have defeated Sphinx so decisively.
As I offered my thanks.
“Waaaahhhhh!”
A roar erupted from the Expedition Party.
“We’ve defeated the Sphinx!”
“Unbelievable—even with all our warriors pushing with everything they had, we couldn’t budge it an inch.”
“That just shows how formidable an opponent it was!”
“An extraordinarily powerful foe. If we’d faced it conventionally, we might have suffered casualties—or worse, deaths.”
“Even without fatalities, the loss of stamina and time would have been catastrophic.”
“Thanks to Mir’s wisdom, we overcame this great trial with ease.”
“To conceive of dropping the Sphinx into the Abyss in that moment—remarkable.”
Praise continued to flow.
Though our confrontation had been brief, the warriors could sense just how formidable the Sphinx truly was.
To have defeated such a foe through the expedient of a fall.
Their cheers were well-deserved.
Not long after.
[ Your level has increased. ]
The level-up message appeared.
This meant the Sphinx had finally crashed to the depths of the Abyss and been defeated.
Considerable time had passed since the Sphinx fell.
I wondered just how unfathomably deep the Abyss truly was for the Sphinx to only now reach its bottom.
But there was one problem.
A Sphinx of that caliber would have dropped excellent items, yet now they were irrecoverable.
However, for me, this posed no real difficulty.
“Luke, can you do it?”
– Of course, Master.
I possessed Luke, an excellent means of item acquisition.
Luke’s consumption could devour any being I defeated, regardless of distance.
[ Luke has consumed the ‘Sphinx of the Great Pyramid’. ]
[ Luke’s stats have increased by 100. ]
[ You accept the nourishment left behind by the ‘Black Flame Dragon, Luknir Desperato Ignockton’. ]
The same applied to items.
[ Sphinx’s Stone ]
[ Sphinx’s Eye ]
[ Gatekeeper’s Key ]
I recovered perfectly the items the Sphinx had dropped in the depths of the Abyss.
Not only the material-type stone, but also the ornamental ‘Sphinx’s Eye’.
Yet what mattered most to me now was something else.
“Extract the key and store the rest in subspace for now.”
– Yes, Master.
The key.
Advancing toward the massive Pyramid’s stone door with it in hand, I found exactly what I expected.
A keyhole perfectly sized to match the key appeared before me.
I inserted the key into the lock and turned it halfway.
Click-click-click—
The stone door of the Great Pyramid of the Abyss, sealed shut until now, began to open.
[ You have entered the ‘Great Pyramid of the Abyss’. ]
[ For discovering the ‘Great Pyramid of the Abyss’ for the first time, experience and item drop rates will increase for one week. ]
[ If you clear the ‘Great Pyramid of the Abyss’ within one week, you will receive greater rewards. ]
The true conquest of the Great Pyramid of the Abyss had begun.

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