H01 Wrath of the Mummy

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The first book of the Golden Age of Adventures. It was published in April 2015 by Gala Unggul Resources, which is now known as Kadokawa Gempak Starz. **Wrath of the Mummy** is the English language edition of the original Chinese comic, **木乃伊军团**, which was published in March 2014.

## Synopsis

> AIMING FOR THE TOP! THE SEARCH FOR A LEGENDARY PHARAOH'S TREASURE!
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> Determined to be the world's top adventurer, Alex sets out to Egypt to find the legendary Golden Chariot of Ramesses II. But when his airship crashed in the desert, he is "saved" by Amon, a kind-hearted bar owner. Afterwards, Amon's daughter, Samara, joins Alex on his search, but little do they know that they are being followed!
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## Cast

* Alex
* Amon
* Safiya
* Samara
* Geb
* Ali
* Lulu

## Plot

***Spoiler warning!** Plot and/or ending details follow.*

### Chapter 1: Golden Age of Adventure

In Cairo, Egypt, Amon brings a crate of food back to his tavern. Upon opening it, Alex is in there. Alex introduces himself: he's an adventurer and will pay back double when he finds treasure. Angered by this, Safiya, Amon's wife, tells him he can pay back by cleaning. Amon asks Alex how he got into the crate. Alex says his airship ran out of fuel and crashed. While walking, he found Amon's truck and smelled the scent of the food.

On TV is the Adventure Bulletin, talking about Aligon, Great Britain's Team White Wolf, the Azure Princess and finally, Akhator the Violent, the No. 1 adventurer. Alex says he will be better than Akhator, and somebody is at the front door.

It is a short man with his bulky henchmen. Amon tells him he will never sell his tavern to him. Samara, Amon's daughter, explains to Alex that man is Geb, who owns a big hotel across the street. His hotel provides useful services, so everyone goes there. Geb bought every shop to expand his territory, but after Amon refused to sell his tavern, he built a garbage dump next door, making no one come.

One of Geb's henchman spills water on Amon. Geb tells him to give up. Alex throws a bone on his hat. Geb orders his henchmen to get him. Alex captures them with his rope and says he will be the top-ranked adventurer of all time.

### Chapter 2: The God of War

After cleaning, Samara tells Alex about the rise and fall of the tavern, and things are getting broken mysteriously. She wishes to become an Adventurer so that she can find treasure to help her father. Alex has an idea: teaming up with her to go to "God of War" Ramessess II's pyramind.

At Geb's hotel, Geb forces another one of his henchmen, Ali, to go break something at Amon's tavern. Samara asks Alex if he's sure it's Ramessess II's pyramid. Alex says Ramessess II had many wives and this pyramid belonged to one of them. in there, lay his Golden Chariot, which was used in a losing battle he won. Ali spies on them and thinks of using the chariot to not work for Geb anymore. He follows them on his motorbike.

During the ride, Alex asks Samara why she brought her cat, Lulu, along. Lulu was starving and Samara fed her, then Lulu hangs around the tavern since then. Lulu is interested at the map to find the pyramid. After some time, they arrive at Alex's ship, Fly High. After some repairs, they start flying, with Ali hanging onto Fly High's fin.

### Chapter 3: The Pyramid Under the Sands

Alex and Samara arrive at the destination, which is a clear desert with little pyramids. Those little pyramids are signposts and each have a different coloured capstone. There also small dark rocks surrounding them and they all form circles. Out of all the circles, A, B, C and D, circle D does not a blue-topped pyramid. in the previous circles, the pyramid moves clockwise every 60 degrees. Alex lands on the speculated place.

Alex brings out his metal detectors for him and Samara to use. Samara detects something. Alex runs to her spot and they both start digging. They see a tilted capstone of a pyramid and Alex puts it back in its place. The capstone rises, revealing a riddle: how many squares can be formed in the 26 dots on the wall? On Ali's side, claws swim through the sands towards the pyramid. They reveal themselves to be giant scorpions.

### Chapter 4: The Trial of Ramessess II

One of the scorpions unleashes its stinger at Samara, but Alex captures it with his rope. He tells her the answer is 20. While putting the balls into the tray, Alex gets stabbed. Samara drops the last ball, which landed among two scorpions. Samara grabs another one instead and pushes the tray. Two bells emerge, warding off the scorpions. Also, the entrance is opened.

After two hours of walking down stairs, Alex, Samara and Lulu enter a maze. On the walls are the mummified corpses of Ramessess II's soldiers. The maze has buttons. The goal is to tap all the buttons in one direction, as each tile can only be stepped on once. Ali has now found a way to get rid of them.

### Chapter 5: Army of the Dead

Alex, Samara and Lulu reaches the end. Ali steps on the first tile. A bell emerges, awakening the mummies. They chase Alex and co. Ali steps on the first tile again. A door opens, and out comes a crocodile mummy. A little mummy jumps towards Alex. Samara gives Alex a torch and he burns several mummies. They enter a passage, which leads upstairs.

The mummies don't know where they are. The crocodile mummy breaks through the wall with Ali running away from it. Samara knows who he is, so Alex ties his rope to a snake statue and tells Ali to grab the rope. Ali does so and Alex pulls him up. Now the mummies know where Alex and co. are.

### Chapter 6: The Guardian

Good news: the crocodile mummy is eating the mummies. Bad news: the crocodile mummy breaks its way upstairs. Alex and co. make a run for it and immediately stop, as there is a huge gap. With no time to lose, Alex locks his rope onto a snake statue and, with everyone holding onto him, swings across into the next room. The mummies, including the crocodile, fall.

Behold, Ramessess II's Golden Chariot in a pool of gold! A cup catches Lulu's attention. In the center of the room is a Sphinx. It says those who enter the light without solving the puzzle shall be shown no mercy. Worse news: the crocodile survived. Better news: it enters the light and gets its head smashed by the Anubis statue.

### Chapter 7: The Riddle of the Sphinx

The Anubis statue blocks the exit so no one can go free without solving the riddle of the Sphinx. Alex accepts the riddle. The riddle: a knife cuts off a piece of cloth from a square scarf. How many corners does the scarf have left? Alex's answer: uncertain. If you cut at the edge, four corners remain. Cut it in half, three remain. Cut from a tip, five remain.

As the answer is correct, Alex and co. can retrieve the Golden Chariot and the Sphinx turns to stone. Lulu drinks from the cup she was gazing on. Worst news: the crocodile dives into the pool of gold, and Lulu didn't get to fully drink from the cup. The ground cracks, but best news: the crocodile falls and finally dies for good.

Alex and Samara are about to fall. As Samara falls, Alex catches her and Ali grabs her up. Unfortunately, Alex and falls, but there are four seasons! He is saved by an unknown cat girl.

### Chapter 8: Onward to the Future!

The cat girl reveals to everyone she is Lulu, who is also an adventurer. Some time ago, she was looking for treasure in a pyramid. the cat goddess Bastet cursed her, which was why she was a cat. She learned that one of Ramessess II's wives have holy water in her pyramid. Feeling tired, she fainted in front of Amon's tavern, which was when Samara took her in. She is currently half-cat, half-human as she didn't fully drink the holy water. After listening to her story, the gang exits the pyramid.

The pyramid has sunk into the sand. Ali manages to obtain jewels. He gives it to Samara to pay for all the damages to her father's tavern. He strongly regrets for damaging all this time. Samara accepts the jewel and tells him he has to help fix. She turns to Lulu, but she's gone. They all return to the tavern.

Back in town, the jewels were used to renovate Amon's tavern. Ali gave evidence of Geb's crimes and was arrested. Thus, Amon's tavern rose again. Safiya tells Samara to wake Alex up, but he was not in his room. Geb tells her that he snuck out at dawn so that he won't have to make a big fuss about leaving. This leaves Samara in tears. Amon tells her that one day, Alex will become an adventurer who will change the world.

On Fly High, Alex writes information about the mummies in his diary. He thinks of going to the Great Wall of China. Lulu says Greece. Alex is surprised that Lulu has been hiding on his airship. Lulu follows him to find a solution to break her curse. Alex denies, as he adventures alone. Lulu reminds him that she saved his life earlier. Thus, they become partners.