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This turn, it was an exceedingly unexpected location.
It was a cemetery, or rather, an imposing group of solemn graves.
Imperial Mausoleums, merely the burial places of former emperors.
Oddly yet not unexpectedly, through the generations of the Longevity Heavenly Dynasty, the Imperial Family, with every change of dynasty, slaughtered the former dynasty's family mercilessly, usually only stopping when all the bloodlines were exterminated.
Yet, they treated the former emperors' burial sites courteously, never allowing tomb raiding or grave digging.
But just because they refrained, did not mean others would, especially in this era of great conflict, which not only produced many heroes but also numerous deviants, beasts, and crazies.
Like at this moment, a great warlord, leading his grand army, was forcibly breaking open the many forbidden techniques of the burial site using brute methods.
