121 The Magic Garden (1/2)

Chapter 121: The Magic Garden

Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion

There was no wind and no rain. The sky was gray and the stars were absent. Lucien felt that the magic lock world was dead.

However, there were waves on the surface of the red-colored lake under the Grand Cross, as if the lake was alive. The creepy and sharp color contrast also made Lucien very nervous, even though he was a senior apprentice who stayed relatively calm and focused all the time.

Carefully observing the bright and shining Grand Cross in the sky again, and comparing it with the stellar map of Astrology and Magic Elements in his spirit library, Lucien found that the arrangement of the magic lock was quite unique. Unlike most magic locks, that aimed to protecting something, this one was more like a lock gathering power in order to keep something sealed.

If Lucien’s feeling was correct, he did not want to stay here any longer. Lucien looked up in the sky and quickly recalculated the coordination of the closest magic garden according to the Grand Cross. Then, without any hesitation, he turned around and ran toward the edge of the black forest in the west along the lakeside path.

Curious as Lucien was, he was clearly aware that it would be too stupid for him to approach this legendary-level magic lock. He knew that he needed to stick to his original purpose for coming here.

Lucien’s body recovered quickly thanks to his Moonlight Blessing. By the time he entered the black forest, the pain in his chest caused by the revenant had already disappeared.

The black forest was immersed in the same silence. Even the leaves on the branches were not moving at all. Everything stayed still. No life could be seen.

Lucien tried to keep calm as much as possible when he was walking through the huge trees. A bit more than ten minutes later, he saw a tall and big building covered with shadow sitting in front of him, some distance away. From time to time, there were strange lights coming out of the building and flying towards Elsinore Lake.

He slowed down his pace when he approached the building and grabbing his sword tight. Lucien was slightly sweating.

Reaching into his pocket, Lucien pulled out a small black stone. It was a bat pituitary gland.

Holding it in his left hand, his lips moved silently and then invisible waves started to spread out like ripples. Standing in the center of them, he was waiting for the back echo reflection after the waves hit certain obstacles.

The tall and big firs appeared one by one in Lucien’s mind. Different things sitting within a radius of several hundreds of meters became more and more clear. However, some of the objects that made the waves ricochet remained rather blurry, and Lucien could only use their shapes to guess what they were.

Still, no life was detected. Lucien was not sure whether he should feel relieved or even more nervous.

As he was searching for possible magic traps, he kept slowly moving closer to his destination. All of the obstacles that he could not identify turned out to be just big stones.

When Lucien forced his way through the thick bushes, he saw a gray gravestone, behind which there was a small coffin chamber.

Approaching the gravestone a bit, he saw the white letters carved on it, ”Here lies the previous mayor of Bonn, Mr. David Terrian, whose greatest exploit was killing the hundreds of people who did not follow the God of Truth.

And this man died because he fell in love with another man, who was very powerful.”

Lucien’s face twitched a bit when facing the inscription, not because of its absurdity, but because he saw the gravestone before, when he first sneaked into Bonn. He remembered clearly that this gravestone was in the town’s cemetery, not in a forest.

”The cemetery moved into the black forest in this magic lock world?” Lucien thought to himself.

He looked around and found more graves. In the world of black and white, they looked even more horrific.

Obviously, a cemetery was not a very pleasant place to stay. So, Lucien decided to leave here and take another way around this place to get to the magic garden, even thought that would take a bit more time.

However, by the time he turned around, Lucien’s scalp tingled from the same feeling of coldness that he sensed when he encountered the little girl.

Without any hesitance, Lucien launched a backhand hack with his sword.

Although it felt like he just chopped a random piece of rotten wood, a certain strange power shook Lucien’s arm along with the sword in his hand. Turning into a grey shadow, Lucien quickly dodged to the side and knelt down on one knee with his back against a gravestone.

In the corner of his eye, there was a short line of words on the gravestone,

”I was fat, but now I’m skinny.”

Lucien was a bit amused for a second. However, just within that second, a rotten arm stretched out of the barrow beside him.

The body in the barrow came back to life!