When the moon reached the highest peak, 2 shadows jumped from the roof to roof with high speed and stealth, even though both of them are in the same Rogue Class, Grizel has to adjust her speed lower to lead Lucy because their speed has a wide gap.
Flop!
Grizel stopped her steps.
"This..."
Lucy murmured in shock when Grizel stopped and assumed that it was their destination, but as far she can see there's only a wide meadow located behind the palace with nothing on it.
"As I thought, the seal is getting weaker"
Grizel mumbled while activating her illusion to envelope the whole grassland in case there is someone who came to this isolated place, her sensitive senses tried to detect human around, even though this place is a secluded area, it's still part of the imperial palace, she needs to be aware of the patrolling guards.
Grizel touches on something in the midair that is invisible to Lucy, but Lucy believed everything about her lord and observed Grizel who is closing her eyes as if trying to focus on something while putting her left hand in the midair.
Gasp!
Grizel can hear the gasped from someone next to her, she was too focused on the artifact to consume the seal before slowly opened her eyes to see the tomb that was sealed.
In the middle of the empty grassland, Grizel widens her eyes at the grandeur of the building made of stones and surrounded by enormous stone pillars which suddenly appears, it's fortunate that Grizel has anticipated everything and covered all with her illusion, they will be discovered immediately if she didn't do any precautions.
She wants to see the newly acquired ability but chose to save it for later, she doesn't have a lot of time.
"Let's go, we must hurry"
Grizel said to the dumbfounded Lucy, in the novel, the seal of the tomb was gradually weakened in a few years to the point that sometimes it becomes transparent, unfortunately, the one who discovered it first wasn't the Imperial family.
she purposely waiting for the crown prince to succeed in his awakening because it caused the palace in a festive atmosphere, they carelessly lower their guard and make it easier for Grizel to infiltrate into the palace.
Grizel and Lucy went inside the tomb, it's mostly an empty hall with only one big statue at the center, the statue of a man standing majestically wearing a cape with the crest of Azure empire, a blue dragon engraved behind it, they can see on top of the statue is a crown made of stone that looks similar to the crown of the current Emperor.
Lucy is trembling, she knew the answer but the scale is too big for her little mind, for now, she looks at the casual Grizel and asked the obvious thing.
"My Lord, whose tomb is it?
"The first Emperor of the great Azure Empire"
Lucy gulped.
The lost tomb of the Azure First Emperor, it's a famous fairytale not only among the people of this empire but also all over the world, legend said the Emperor is hiding the power to rule over the world in his grave.
Many people tried to find this tomb including his descendants which are the Imperial family from generation to generation but ended up failed and found nothing, who will know that the treasure is right in their backyard.
The discovery of the lost tomb alone is already a shocking matter, and now they're going to rob the tomb belongs to the Imperial family and desired by everyone.
Crack!
In the past 2 years, Lucy was trying hard to learn the human common senses from the servants of the mansion, and now everything she learned is cracking down and shattered by this event, up until now, she tried to defend her common sense but following someone like Grizel, a normal common sense is a hindrance to adapt and...
She gave up.
"Ha, hahaha as expected of My Lord, My Liege, Oh the sun of my life, the omniscient Messiah, Oooohhh"
She said in a mixture of admiration and ecstasy while covering her eyes, the pitiful Lucy gave up on being normal, Grizel frowned at her subordinate's cringe words and the abrupt emotions.
'What the heck?'
'I think her brain finally lost the last screw'
Athena added, but Grizel just put it aside for now, she needs to find the entrance to the underground stairs because based on the information in the novel the tomb is in a hidden chamber beneath the statue.
Creeeeaack!
The stone statue of the First Emperor is moving aside slowly, the hidden staircase beneath the statue is starting to get visible, when the statue stops moving they cautiously go down to the tomb chamber, magic lanterns that put along the way started to glow and brighten the dark staircase.
Tap. Tap. Tap
They walked cautiously until finally arrived at the end of the staircase, it was quite a long stairs.
Gasp!
Lucy let out another gasp because of the unbelievable view, a huge hidden chamber full of gold, silver, jewelry, and weapons, potions, and at the center of the treasury is a coffin made of stone.
Lucy is standing still with her jaw-dropping and blank stares, but Grizel casually walks towards the stone coffin, she didn't even spare a glance at the shining gold and jewelry in the room, her focus was set since the beginning.
Grizel opens the heavy stone coffin of the Emperor, inside is a skeleton with a full set of ancient armor and 2 swords, on top of its chest there is a red crystal-like stone, lastly, the skeleton is holding a stone tablet carved with the ancient language and a map of the real treasures.
Grizel frowned a moment and takes the stone tablet out of the coffin and wipes the dust to read the messages of the First Emperor, she has learned the ancient language thanks to Athena's collections.
The novel didn't mention anything about the messages engraved next to the treasure map, it seems like insignificant things, but she remembered that time when she tried to get the artifact of famine, the author carelessly leaving huge plot holes by forsaking an important part.
This time, she won't leave any details of the information.
There are only 2 phrases engraved in an ancient language, Grizel read the first phrase.
[Intended to Ease The Remorse of The Sinners]
'What is it? Who are these sinners? Are these treasures some kind of offerings?'
There are already a lot of questions inflicted by a single phrase of this Emperor, but she needs to read the second phrase either.
[May The Light Cherished The Deep Woe of The Stray Ones]
Now Grizel have a hunch of the message, The Sinners and The stray Ones, these sinners might have done something terrible enough to make the Emperor submitted these whole treasure just to ease the guilt of the sinners, and the possibility of the Emperor himself as the part of the sinners is high, or at least he was the witness of the sin due to the huge amount of his offerings.
Besides, these stray ones, she didn't know why were they called stray but she assumed that these people were the victims of the sinners.
Moreover, The sin itself was done on a big scale because all subjects involved are using a plurality form.
Grizel glance at the skeleton as if saying, what the heck have you done?
'Master, the history of this matter is currently locked, it seems like your questions list is increased hahaha'
'Seems like you're enjoying my suffering'
'No, master. I am nothing but a faithful servant, do not rush, everything will come to light when you are stronger'
Grizel scoffed at Athena's crappie remarks about being a faithful servant.
Sigh...
She put the stone tablet into her spatial storage, the main item is already in her possession, now, it's time for the bonus items.