Mausoleum III

Mausoleum III (also known as Page 21: The Truth of Evil) is the third checkpoint in Mausoleum.
==Dialogue==
===Start===
Faust
: "I promise I haven't come to take your things, haha!" Faust lets out a nervous chuckle as he looks down at the mummy he's just defeated. Although it's not as if the mummy can hear him. It seems explaining himself has become second nature, Faust reflects sadly.
: After shuffling through the dark for quite some time, Faust reaches the chamber, gazing around at canopic jars and the mummy's most precious possessions from its life. He then lights a torch and starts gazing at the engravings on the walls around him. The ancient script, indecipherable to most voyagers, is no match for a mind forged at the Ivory Tower.
: As he reads, Faust's face settles into a grave expression. Finally he lets out a shuddering sigh. "It's just as I feared—this is the tomb of the cursed pharaoh, doomed to roam the earth forever..."
: Few ancient texts survive the passage of time. Typically, only those rulers whose achievements are recorded in hundreds of texts are remembered. But one pharaoh in particular is remembered, not for his great accomplishments, but for the madness that marked his final years.
: Ruthless and calculating, the Pharaoh Manteca refused to accept his own mortality. It is said that, in order to be reborn, a man must be judged by Anubis, the Weigher of Souls. This is his opportunity to examine his life and repent for his misdeeds.
: But Manteca had other plans. To avoid facing his own judgment, Manteca arrested thousands of men who were born on the same day as him. He ordered his guards to have them killed on the day that he died, so that Anubis could not find him in the deluge of new souls arriving in the underworld.
: Although at first the Weigher of Souls was unable to distinguish the Pharaoh from the others, he was cleverer than the arrogant pharaoh had imagined. He covered his nose with rotting flesh and his eyes with loam from the Golden Spring. Then he placed the Divine Scale in his mouth. With his basic senses impeded, Anubis used divine perception to locate the soul of the pharaoh. To punish him for his trickery, the Weigher of Souls refused him passage to the afterlife and rebirth, condemning him to roam the world's dark corners for all eternity.
: "If the legends I've heard are true... then this same man... this creature... is behind this." Faust looks into the darkness, seeking an invisible enemy. The smell that has permeated much of the surrounding area is the stench of one clinging to eternal life... and filled with undying resentment.
===Against <Ancient Sovereign> Nameless Pharaoh===
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