The dust that rose from his body looked exactly like the dust that had waited there for ten thousand years. And the Pyramid, for the first time, rested.

Here’s a dramatic text covering the moment the Tomb Hunter is defeated:

The inscription on the wall, which he had dismissed as primitive myth, read itself aloud in his mind: "When the seeker finds all, the seeker is found."

He fell to his knees. No curse, no monster, no rival—just the weight of a thousand tombs pressing their final secret into his chest. His heart stopped not with a stab, but with a whisper.