Chapter 1258 - Meeting and Trial (1/2)

“Alright, Iet’s stop discussing that. Toursse’s attack is a blessing in disguise, everything in the Gilded Rose is 20% off for today. The Gilded Rose is even more impressive than the Rodney Family, I’m rushing over now, before everything is sold out…”

As Lin Yun walked down the stairs, he heard many people commenting on the fight that just happened. But it just got increasingly more outrageous. Within a few minutes, some people boasted that Toursse peed his pants upon seeing the puppet.

As he walked out of the Gilded Rose’s street, Lin Yun’s footsteps suddenly came to a halt as he noticed Gandaph standing in the distance with a warm smile. But it looked like the people around him didn’t even notice him.

“Sir Mafa, if you have some time today, I’ll take you to meet that esteemed person.”

Lin Yun nodded, he had just taken care of Toursse Rodney and felt that, unless the Rodney Family was brainless, they wouldn’t launch another attack on the Gilded Rose within a short period of time.

As for the person Gandaph was talking about, Lin Yun already had a conjecture, but he wasn’t confident. Powerhouses that could be described as esteemed by Gandaph, and talked about with such reverence, could only be counted on one hand.

Gandaph led him out of Neverwinter City and kept flying in the distance.

This puzzled Lin Yun, ‘Is he not within Neverwinter City? We will leave the boundary of the city at this rate…’

After all, Neverwinter City was huge and at least half of it belonged to the Starry Sky College.

He followed Gandaph for one hour before they arrived at an ordinary forest mountain range with very few tall peaks in the surroundings. That area was really too ordinary, none of the peaks surpassed a kilometer and mana wasn’t abundant. The lifeforms living in the surroundings were mostly low level magic beasts and wild beasts.

After landing, Lin Yun immediately started examining the surroundings. But he only felt that the surroundings were ordinary and that there was nothing unusual.

Gandaph watched Lin Yun’s actions and remained silent. He led the way for a few minutes, leading Lin Yun to the foot of a hill. There was a path leading to the hilltop but it was covered in weeds. It looked like people were passing by, but rarely took that path.

Gandaph pointed at the path.

“I can only lead you up to here, you have to go up on your own. The esteemed person is waiting for you at the hilltop. I can’t go up without being summoned.”

Gandaph flew away after saying those words. Lin Yun opened his mouth, but before he could say anything, Gandaph had already turned into a small black dot in the sky.

Abandoned would be a more fitting word to describe this overgrown path, it wasn’t even as good as a hunter’s path.

He looked up from the foot of the hill and could directly see the hilltop. The tallest tree was no bigger than ten meters, and the vegetation was sparse. This ordinary hill didn’t look like the place inhabited by a person Gandaph revered.

‘Did I guess wrong? Is that person not powerful and only has a special status? Or a special ability?

‘This is very possible, after all, the Starry Sky College isn’t a pure mage force, they actually rely a lot on alchemy. In the Starry Sky College, status isn’t a matter of strength. They have some special mages with terrifying theoretical knowledge whose strength are hindering them from being able to display these theories.’

After thinking for a bit, Lin Yun couldn’t figure out who that person was and shook his head with a wry smile.

‘Forget it, might as well go and take a look since I can’t guess…’

Lin Yun unhurriedly walked up the path, but suddenly stopped after ten minutes, he then turned around and frowned.

Although he didn’t walk fast, ten minutes should have been enough to reach his destination. But the hilltop was still far in the distance, but as he looked back, he saw that the foot of the mountain was already very far. That distance already surpassed the height the hill should have!

Under normal circumstances, he should have already reached the hilltop, but it was still where it was when he left the foot of the mountain.

Lin Yun’s eyes shone, he turned around and walked back using the same speed. The foot of the hill was getting closer and closer with every step and he reached it in less than ten seconds. It felt normal, as it should be.

But crossing over a kilometer at normal walking speed was very abnormal.

And not perceiving that abnormality was abnormal in itself.

Lin Yun raised his head and looked at the unmoving hilltop and smiled.

‘Looks like this person is a very formidable alchemist, he should be a Saint Alchemist at the very least, this spatial obstruction is flawless, it almost tricked me.’

After setting foot on that path once again, countless runes started appearing in Lin Yun’s eyes and formed small patterns which slowly spread towards the white of his eyes.

After a few seconds, Lin Yun’s irises, pupils, and the white of his eyes could no longer be seen. There was only a circle of small runes forming a multi-colored halo densely covering Lin Yun’s entire eyeballs.

This was a spell Lin Yun had developed after researching the truth runes, it was tailored for array observation. As long as there was an array, or something related to alchemy, Lin Yun would be able to see through the runic structure.

Even if he couldn’t see through the arrays, he might be able to find a few nodes. As long as he found those nodes, cracking the path leading to the hilltop wouldn’t be too difficult. Even if it was a Heaven Grade Array which he couldn’t thoroughly break, Lin Yun still had the confidence to be able to find a path.

But Lin Yun was stunned after walking for ten more minutes.

He couldn’t see a single rune, he couldn’t sense a single wisp of mana, he couldn’t find anything related to alchemy, he couldn’t even find anything related to magic.

He scattered the halos covering his eyes and his expression hardened. This was too abnormal…

There was such a big change in space, and thus, he must be inside an array. He tried going out of the trail and climbing to the top from other directions, but all his attempts had the same results. The hilltop just remained in the distance.

Lin Yun stopped his attempts after half an hour, frowned, and started pondering.

He didn’t find any trace of array, nor any trace of alchemy material, because it was impossible for an array affecting this space to exist without him being able to discover a trace of its existence.

Lin Yun still had self-confidence, because even the strongest array at the peak of Noscent couldn’t accomplish such a feat. Thus, there was only one possibility.

He encountered an illusion!

An illusion could come from an array, from a Magic Tool, it could even come from some special magic beast or thing. Too many things could create an array.

Since there was no array, then there might be a Magic Tool or something else setting up the illusion. This illusion didn’t affect the body, thus it couldn’t be noticed.

The Mirage Dragon living in the darkest depths of the Endless Sea’s seabed could create a huge city and even vivid and lifelike lifeforms that couldn’t be told apart from real lifeforms.

When a powerful Starry Sky Fantasy Beast drifting in endless void hunts for food, it transforms into a lifelike world and anything entering that world would be devoured.