122 Suns Corona (1/2)

Chapter 122: Sun's Corona

Translator: Kris_LiuEditor: Vermillion

As if he just passed through a heavy curtain, Lucien felt a bit cold, and then his body hit something hard.

He heard himself let out a moan and then joy seized his heart for a second: it had been quite a while since he last heard any sound. Then, in the next second, he took a few quick steps back and held up his sword again.

Lucien was now standing in a spacious corridor. His feet felt the soft and thick carpet on the ground. Although everything was still black and white, this place felt more gentle and kind to Lucien.

Then, within Lucien’s expectations, the two filthy ghouls followed him through the portal and also spoiled the beauty of the place. However, they were struggling to stand up from the ground, making it seem they were not used to the environment at all.

”Maybe they’re not that strong here.” The thought flashed across Lucien’s mind, and then he immediately wielded Alert toward one of the ghouls, targeting the deep wound on its neck which was caused by Lucien’s frost blade.

The second hack almost took the ghoul’s head off. Its head slanted to one side, hanging on through just a small piece of skin.

Throwing a handful of sulphur powder toward the second ghoul, Lucien made a fire wall to stop its attack. Then, he turned around, firmly held his sword again and directly chopped the first ghoul’s head off.

Black sticky liquid spilled out of the filthy creature’s head. The horrible smell made Lucien feel very nauseous and he almost threw up.

A few seconds later, Lucien ended the other ghoul.

Leaning against his sword, he let out a long sigh. He felt lucky that the ghouls were not intelligent at all, or he would now be the one lying on the ground with his brain spread everywhere.

Walking a bit away from the bodies and slowly sitting down, Lucien gave himself some time to recover. Then, he came back to the bodies and disgustedly removed the skin of their palms, or say, claws, with his sword, putting it into a special small bag.

The skin could be used as the reagent for a second circle spell, Ghoul Touch. Lucien definitely would not waste it.

After burning down the remains of the ghouls with his sulphur fire, Lucien cautiously walked along the corridor with his sword at the ready in his hand.

The corridor with the white carpet and dark gray walls seemed to be endlessly long. Lucien felt he was walking in a tomb. The only good thing was that he sensed nothing dangerous.

Finally, in the end of the corridor, he saw a black gate, on which there was another special dodecagon magic circle, that Lucien had already seen before in Astrology and Magic Elements, and the pattern also missed a piece.

He got a bit excited. Taking out another small tube of mercury, he completed the magic circle using the same method.

Then, the magic circle started to shine brightly and the gate slowly opened on its own. Behind the gate there was a luxuriously-decorated lobby.

Lucien first saw the fireplace in the lobby. The flame jumping and wavering in the fireplace was also white, but it felt quite warm.

Beside the fireplace, there was a gray desk, on which a black book lay. Out of the window behind the desk, Lucien saw many bizarrely-looking magic plants: some of them had baby faces, some of them had big mouths, and some were shining like precious gem. The door to the magic garden was right beside the desk.

Surprisingly, no magic trap was detected when Lucien was approaching the desk. He did not directly touch the book with his hand, but used the sword to turn the pages.

On the first page of the book, Lucien saw an inventory written in Sylvanas:

”Moonlight Rose: Room 1, Shelf No. 25;

Jade Green Mycin: Room 1, Shelf No. 72;

The root of Thorn Tree: Room 1, No. 99; Its sap in Room 2, No. 3;

Vampire blood: Room 3, No. 21;

Enchantress teeth: Room 3, No. 46;

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Ghost-faced leaves: Room 7, No. 17;

The feather of Stone Snake: Room 7, No. 92;

Goatherd’s Moon Flower: Room 8, No. 8;

Murloc’s lymph: Room 9, No. 1.”

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The following pages were all inventories. Lucien first thought that it was simply a book for registering the assorted materials stored here, but soon he realized that he actually needed all the materials that he just read, as if the book was specially written for him!

Lucien turned the pages back and forth several times and made sure his guessing was correct. Some of the materials were for Silver Moon, some for Magic Gate, and some for Crying Soul…

He was thrilled, but also felt creepy. When he removed his eyes from the book and looked up, he saw that a white-haired old man was sitting on the chair beside the desk, writing something on the book.

Lucien was stunned for a second, but then he realized that this was just an eidolon, or say, a piece of memory left by someone. Looking at the date that the old man wrote down on his paper, Lucien realized that this image was left almost a thousand years ago.