Mummy Evolution

Burrhen City, noon-time.

Lord Burrhen descended upon the roof of a weathered sandstone building, a pair of dark wings folding into his back like shadows retreating from the dawn. He was a tall, broad-shouldered man. A man that reeked of authority that had been part of him since he learned how to walk.

He was pissed.

Lord Burrhen was very busy with refining his newly gained territory, but now, he had been forced to come here to handle another problem.

Why did he have subordinates if he had to look after everything himself?

Shining Black had even caused a small commotion!

His face turned utterly gloomy as he looked down at the streets below.

He could see a man and two ladies being surrounded by a crowd.

"What is going on?" Burrhen asked, looking towards Shining White, who had appeared behind him in a puff of smoke. "I told you to not cause any commotion."

Shining Black, his other subordinate stationed here, climbed out of the building's stair, also looking at Shining White.

The young man, skin, hair, and even eyes completely white, bowed.

"It is an unforeseen event, my lord," he reported. "The Hidden Ghosts acted out of line and tried to possess that little girl over there, but they failed. That ended up being noticed by the man accompanying the girls. He sensed the ghosts and briefly grew panicked."

Lord Burrhen frowned. "He sensed the ghosts?" he muttered to himself in annoyance. "This is troublesome, White."

And the ghost failed to possess a little girl?

He looked at Zarah. "Is that girl from one of the noble families?"

If the ghosts tried to possess her and failed, that meant she was either a Tomb Raider or an Axiom Holder. Which was rare outside noble circles. Especially such a young girl at that.

"No, that girl is a street thief from the slums," Shining White said. "That is why I didn't stop the Ghost when it moved to possess the girl. But she is, also, a Tomb Raider."

A Tomb Raiders energy was very attractive to ghosts, it was no wonder that the ghost moved to possess her of all people. But Tomb Raiders could passively resist ghosts by their very nature.

If a ghost tried to possess them, they would just be like moths flying to the flame.

"These Hidden Ghosts truly are an irritating variable," Burrhen said, rubbing his big nose.

Though most ghosts would stay away from Tomb Raiders due to fear of eternal damnation, some ghosts would still try due to their greed for life. Ghosts from the Hidden Ghost company, for example, were daredevils who would do anything.

Burrhen looked down at Sett and his party, then looked at Shining Black. He frowned. This was another ghost he didn't have full control over. "You should have killed them immediately. What were you doing?"

Black shrugged. "It is not my fault, but White's. He could have killed them even easier than I could have, and he did have the chance to do it earlier. By the time I moved to ambush them, the guy had already seen through the assassination plot. He gathered a crowd, so killing him without making a commotion became impossible."

"That guy is a smart man," Burrhen commented. "Not only did he notice that he is going to be assassinated once he is in a quiet place—with such little information—he also found a way to escape his predicament."

To notice that he wouldn't be killed if he had a crowd to watch him—he must have figured out that they were afraid to make a big commotion.

A smart man, huh? Burrhen calmed down to analyze the situation.

"That makes this entire situation even more troublesome."

He then turned to Shining White, but the man merely bowed, saying no excuse.

"How much do you think that guy already knows?" Burrhen asked.

Shining White didn't rise from the bow. He spoke, calmly observing, "When I first went upto their party, the man—called Sett by his companions—was asking the women about the current Pharaoh. And he was asking for specifics."

Burrhen's face darkened.

"He read that much into the situation already, and you still didn't kill him immediately?"

Shining White looked up, white eyes cold. Some people thought he was blind due to his white pupils, but he was not blind at all—in fact, his eyesight was much more powerful than normal people.

Burrhen knew that he wouldn't retreat without a reason.

"I didn't move to attack them due to two reasons. One, I was afraid that they would shout out what they know and the entire city would listen. Two, I didn't attack them because of the woman beside that Sett. Not the little girl, but the other one. The elder sister."

They all turned to look at Zainah.

White continued, "When I just reached there and was planning to hunt them, I noticed that when the girl became nervous after seeing me, she was preparing to use an Axiom to protect herself. Some sort of musical instrument type attack."

That made Burrhen's expression soften.

If that woman was indeed a noble, killing her would have been a rash move. After all, their whole plan to make this city entirely ghost-infected was to help the Pharaoh in his secret goals.

The Pharaoh wanted to slowly control the noble families in distant cities like Burrhen by having his own influence there. He could only do that by creating an army of ghosts.

And Burrhen knew that the Pharaoh also wanted to expand his own ghost army so that he could wage war with the other Empires for more land.

If Lord Burrhen and his subordinates began killing nobles, the secret would soon become public.

Some nobles already knew about the Emperor's agenda, but to them, it only affected commoners.

Since that was the case, they were usually willing to act as if they didn't see the Pharaoh's cruelty.

Of course, that would change drastically if nobles started dying or getting replaced by ghosts.

Noble life was not cheap, unlike commoner or slave lives!

It was good that Shining White didn't move irrationally.