Escape

Thomas navigates the castle's honeycomb of secret passages designed by Aldric's paranoia. He discovers spy holes, partial collapses with skeletal remains, and Architect construction predating human civilization.

Thomas examines central altar showing proper mummification versus pharaohs perversion. Documents traditional 70-day process step by step. Reveals pharaoh performed rituals on living people - the core of his blasphemy.

Thomas discovers a hidden armory beneath the castle's scullery containing ancient weapons and Truthseeker—a blessed blade forged by a guilt-ridden blacksmith to oppose the curse. The blacksmith's ghost appears, revealing the blade's purpose: to destroy the altar and free the cursed souls.

Sekhmet test - ENDURANCE. Physical combat where Sekhmet forces Thomas to access skills buried across four thousand iterations. Not about winning - about surviving long enough. Thomas body remembers fighting from manor, lighthouse, castle. Catches divine strike for one impossible second.

Thomas enters the scullery—the lowest space where the dirtiest work and hardest labor happened, where children labored and innocence was destroyed through servitude.

Osiris test - GRIEF. Instead of philosophical dialogue, Osiris transports Thomas to hospital room where Violet appears alive. She forces him to confront that his grief has become armor rather than memory - paralleling pharaoh refusal to accept daughter death.

Thomas explores the servants quarters where commoners existed between shifts, where they briefly were humans rather than tools or property. He recognizes their humanity beyond servitude and commits to freeing all victims—until property became souls, tools became humans, and the damned became...

Anubis test - JUDGMENT. Anubis weighs the raiders guilty, then transforms chamber into void. Presents Thomas impossible choice: restore one dead innocent soul OR keep protecting three guilty raiders. Thomas rejects the choice entirely, refusing to play god.

Thomas descends from the tower back through the castle into the servants domain—the kitchen where common people had worked and served. He understands that royalty and commoners alike were damned together by the curse, and all deserve freedom.