Cursed Immortality

The staircase was slanting and pretty deep. Just as Jacob was heading down, the staircase suddenly started to shake. In fact, the entire pyramid started to experience tremors. 

'What is happening?' Jacob was startled. 

'Roar…' 

The next moment, he heard a mighty roar from below, and he got a pretty good idea of what had caused those tremors. 

'Don't tell me someone else is here, or did it sense my presence?' Jacob mused with a grim expression and increased his pace downwards. 

At this moment, he finally reached the end of the staircase, met with another golden door, and used his sword to push the door slowly. 

The door was opened like the previous one, but this time, in front of Jacob, wasn't a stone hall; instead, there wasn't any footing, but the passage was over a hundred meters above the floor, and powerful sounds were coming from below. 

In the 1000 cubic meter wide area of the pyramid, a hundred-meter-wide and fifty-meter-tall golden scorpion with a long menacing crimson stinger which was lit in a golden fire was raining down golden fireballs at his giant attackers. 

Its crimson pincers seemed to be made with fire, and every time it struck those attackers, a destructive heat wave would release. 

On the other hand, the attackers were seven giants, four elves, three kobolds, and nine barbarians holding different weapons. They attack the fiery golden scorpion from different angles but seem to be failing terribly as its sharp legs are covered in a golden sheen, and they can't seem to approach it, and it is pretty quick on its legs. 

Furthermore, over 25 sorcerers were standing in the distance, and they were trying to counter its fire magic with their own, but they were also struggling. 

The beast seemed to be overwhelming that part of over 50 people, and they were all mighty, especially those combatant giants, as they were releasing flames of their own, which made him think of Charlotte's crimson flames. 

Nonetheless, they can't even approach the beast, much less land an attack, and the scorpion seemed to be not even trying as it continued to rain down powerful fireballs while randomly waving around its pincers. It was almost as if it was playing with them. 

The giant holding a six-meter-long and one-meter-wide broad sword roared in frustration, "This bastard is toying with us! We can't waste our energy. Use your strongest attack-type magic scrolls!" He was known other than Vice Chairman Andrew. 

Fire Tyrant cut the fireball with his axe with some difficulty and grimly nodded, "Indeed, this bastard is far stronger than we anticipated. I gathered it might not be an epic rank at all. If this doesn't work, we need to retreat." 

The next moment, the combatants take out a magic scroll of their own, and they all release them toward the scorpion, and all sorts of magic attacks materialize in the air and shoot toward it. 

The scorpion let loose a mighty roar, and its fiery singer suddenly moved like a spear, and a liquid substance like lava suddenly released from its gland. The moment that lave-like liquid touched the magic attacks, it burned them all and headed towards the attackers without stopping. 

The vanguards were startled before they felt appalled by that lava, and they knew they had to absolutely dodge it while the sorcerers were a little slow and tried to use their magic barriers to stop, and some used movement magic to escape from its range. 

The moment that lava touched the magic barriers of the sorcerers, it burned right through it, and the moment it landed on the sorcerers, they didn't even have time to scream, and they melted away. Eight sorcerers died just like that, and two combatants also met the same fate. 

Furthermore, the effect of that lava didn't just end with burning. A potent crimson smog started to be released from it, and the temperature in the vicinity also rose drastically. 

It was a hellish scene of carnage, and Andrew also released just how powerful the scorpion was, and the gap between them was overwhelming. 

'Could it be this bastard is really not epic rank?!' His heart sank, and he roared furiously, "Retreat! Everyone quickly retreats. We are no match for this thing!" 

No one objected to this welcoming decision, and they quickly headed towards a crude hole in the pyramid wall, which was clearly just made. 

However, the scorpion seemed to have no intention of letting them escape, and cunning viciousness surfaced in its ruby eyes. It raised its stinger again and shot another blast of lava toward the exit. 

"Block it, or we'll all be dead!" The fifth elder roared in panic as he was the furthest away from the exit, and he knew only two or three people would make it at this moment. 

Furthermore, the crimson smog started to show its proper effect. As it turned out, it was highly toxic, and one of the elves inhaled it. He instantly started coughing blood before power seemed to leave his body, and he dropped in agony. 

Now, escape was even more critical as no one wanted to die. 

Everyone used their strongest magic scrolls and sent them in the way of the toxic lava to desperately block it.

However, the toxic lava seemed to be the bane of magic, and it burned through every magic they thought at it like a knife in butter and directly landed in the pathway. Also, one of the sorcerers who was about to enter it, the lava instantly turned him into smoke there and then. 

Everyone was appalled now that their escape route was filled with toxic lava, and they weren't sure if their magic barrier could pass through it. The atmosphere turned heavy and suffocating as despair washed over everyone. 

The scorpion didn't even give them a chance to settle down, and at this moment, its entire body started to glow golden, making it appear like a sun, and the temperature was even higher. 

"Everyone, it's do or die now. Try to escape even if you can't make it. I need one of us to leave here and find someone to pass this information along. So, make your death count!" Andrew roared with bloodshot eyes as his broad sword shimmered in a crimson hue. 

Jacob, who was watching this with great interest, couldn't help but chortle darkly, "Heh, I'm afraid I can't let you do that nor let that bastard waste away so many good hearts." 

The next moment, Twin Titan Sniper Rifle appeared in his hand, and he comfortably laid down and locked on the glowing scorpion!