69 The End of the Hallway (1/2)

The entire tomb was like a huge palace. Five Hasted Rock Puppets searched the surroundings for ten minutes. They explored a small area, and just as Lin Yun thought, there was no harvest nor any danger. Apart from several signs of the place being from the 3rd Dynasty, there was nothing noteworthy.

After drinking another bottle of Magic Spring, Lin Yun assessed that he would only be able to maintain the Rock Puppet summoning for a few more minutes. He thought for a bit before deciding to interrupt Mage Vision and personally enter the tomb to take a look. The Rock Puppets had already made sure that there shouldn't be any danger in the passage.

But before he could stop the channeled spell, the vision he got from one of the Rock Puppet had suddenly changed.

'What happened!' The Rock Puppet field of view had changed so suddenly. Just a moment ago it was looking at a spacious and desolate area, but now it was a garden. It was a lush and verdant flower garden.

Lin Yun frowned.

He had never relaxed while looking through the five Rock Puppets' eyes, always remaining focused, yet, in a split second, the sight changed without him noticing.

'Did it touch some spatial trap?'

It seemed unlikely. If it was a spatial trap, some spatial fluctuation would appear when the trap was triggered. Lin Yun was sure that he would have been able to detect these spatial distortions, regardless of how small they were, they would never escape his sight.

But if it wasn't a spatial distortion, what was it? How could a large Rock Puppet suddenly change location on his watch? And in such a particular location?

After all, the whole tomb was covered by the prince's Bloodline Curse, even the passage leading to the tomb leaked some traces of the curse which almost made a Great Mage like Lin Yun hallucinate. The power of the curse where the Rock Puppets were was ten times stronger...

'How could a lush garden appear in a place filled with such a potent death energy?'

'Hold on… Death energy…'

Something suddenly flashed in Lin Yun's mind, 'This place… It couldn't be one of the legendary Death Garden?'

He had seen the words Death Garden in the notes of a Necromancer. That Necromancer was named Sandro, he was one of the three existences during the peak of the magic civilization who managed to conquer the Undead Plane. It even came to the point that very few people would dare to mention his name, everyone would address him as Sovereign of Death.

That Sovereign of Death once wrote about his youth in his notes, how he mistakenly entered a Death Garden and set foot on the Necromancer path. Unfortunately, that Sovereign of Death didn't describe the Death Garden in details. He only mentioned that the Death Garden was a treasury left aside by the deads for the livings. It was a place full of endless opportunities and dangers...

Nothing could be done about it, the notes that the Sovereign of Death left behind were mostly about his understanding of Necromancy, there were only a few sentences about the Death Garden.

But later on, the notes fell in the hands of other mages, and after changing hands quite a few times, it was put in the decaying library, before the era of mana exhaustion. When Lin Yun saw it, it was already filled with a lot of mages' comments and annotations.

Among them were speculations about the Death Garden.

There were several mages of different eras who believed that the Death Garden was born out of a large amount of death energy. It lay between true and false, it could exist, it could also be illusory. Not only were there a lot of dangers within, it also had various ressources.

When he read those notes, Lin Yun felt the content novel and interesting, but he didn't take it seriously.

But now, the Rock Puppet sudden change of environment made Lin Yun recall these notes.

If that place was really a Death Garden...

Thinking about it, Lin Yun had the Rock Puppet look at the surroundings, but his expression turned blank just as the puppet's head turned, he couldn't help smiling bitterly.

He had suddenly lost connection with the Rock Puppet.

Not just with the one that entered the Death Garden, but with all five of them.

He didn't have to think much to understand that the summoning spell had reached its limit.

It seemed that if he wanted to get to the bottom of it and explore the Death Garden, he had to go himself.