In a large cavern she uses a zipline to reach the entrance to the dagger's tomb but realizes the key mechanism is missing and is suddenly attacked by an Italian cultist named Claudio whom she effortlessly overpowered. In 1997 Lara Croft arrives at the Great Wall of China to see if the legends are true and navigates a series of caverns located inside one of the guardhouses and makes her way through a series of traps and puzzles even battling a pair of Tyrannosaurus Rexes. Over time its existence was relegated only to myth only to those who truly sought its power or keep it banished forever. There the dagger was locked up and remained in a slumber for many centuries. There was peace again in China and to prevent another person from gaining the powers of the dragon and waging war again, the surviving monks took the dagger to rest in the Temple of Xian, at the Great Wall of China. The emperor was reduced to bone as his flesh melted away and died a horrible death but not before immolating the one who slew him. During one of his battles against an army of monks, victory was assured until one of the injured monks crept under the dragon emperor and pulled the dagger from hisīelly intrigued by the glowing light emanating from it.

In ancient China, Emperor gained the ability to take the form of a dragon granted to him by the Dagger Of Xian plunged into his heart and lay waste to China with his powers. The dagger was returned to its resting place inside the Great Wall of China, and now, hundreds of years later, Lara Croft races against time to claim the dagger before it falls into the hands of the Fiamma Nera. The dagger was eventually retrieved by Tibetan Monks and the Emperor was defeated.

By plunging the Dagger into its owner's heart, the weapon has the power to turn its wearer into a dragon. The story of Tomb Raider II concerns the mythical Dagger of Xian, a weapon which in ancient times was used by the Emperor of China, Dragon Emperor, to command his army.

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