Chapter 281 - Earthbound Spirit (1/2)

Chapter 281: Chapter 94 Earthbound Spirit

“Big brother?”

Vivian squinted her eyes and looked carefully at the front, then motioned for Soran to pick her up. In a crisp voice, she said: “brother pick me up, there seems to be a path over there! It’s on the left side of the garden, near the pile of broken stones. It seems that there’s a path there, but I don’t know where it leads to. ”

A path!?

Soran immediately picked up the girl beside him and put her on his shoulder. A pair of little feet stepped on Soran’s left shoulder, while her hands held onto Soran’s head. After looking for some time she whispered, “We could go around from the left. There doesn’t seem to be fog, but I am just not sure where the path would lead us to! ”

The fog in front of them was part of the Labyrinth.

Just as there was often fog in the Eight-trigrams formation, many Labyrinths would have their corresponding deceptive trick. These spells could only be solved by magic, special abilities, and divine power. It seemed that the power here had been weakened a lot. Otherwise, a real Labyrinth would even produce an illusion, not just fog around it. If a Labyrinth prepared by a Lich could render the sky dark, then a Labyrinth prepared by an Arcanist would be more powerful!

“Let’s go.”

Soran didn’t hesitate for too long and said, “We’ll go around and see.”

Soran didn’t want to tackle the Labyrinth head-on because of caution, prudence, steadiness and worry about Vivian’s safety. But if he dared not even explore the side entrance, then that would mean he did not dare to take risks—adventures were bound to have risks. One of the limits Soran holds was to manage the risk within his capabilities, rather than not taking any risk at all. It seemed that the path on the side had been destroyed. Even if there was any danger, it couldn’t be greater than going to it head-on.

“Careful!”

Soran put the little Vivian down and then began to pay attention to the surrounding environment. Occasionally tapping the ground with the tip of his foot. He was checking whether there were traps nearby, which shouldn’t be the case, but he thought it was necessary to be more careful. The path passes through the corner of the garden. There was a pile of rubble on the side but no strange plant; there were some small cracks on the ground.

Soran looked around and said softly, “Vivian, look! Don’t you think this path would lead to the back of the mansion?”

This was Soran’s feeling.

From the surrounding environment, it seemed that that was the front yard of the wizard tower. The path which goes around from the side looked like it was going to the back yard or the kitchen. The Arcanists had a large number of servants. Unlike the wizards now, who only used Golem servants. The witches in the Arcane Empire were the ruling class thus they had a certain number of followers as well as a large number of servants.

“Seems like it,” Vivian nodded gently.

There seemed to be two worlds in front.

One the right there was fog and a strange garden; on the left was clear and barren land.

Soran and Vivian walked carefully through the path. When they walked about 300 meters, a well-preserved house appeared in front of them. The house had a very obvious feature, that was, it had a chimney on it.

“Big brother.”

Vivian tucked on Soran’s shirt and whispered, “It looks like a kitchen!”

“Eh,” Soran nodded gently and said, “Be careful, let’s check it out.”

Soran pulled out his curved sword. Then he pushed open the door of the house, which was not rotten, and there was a shower of dust. When Soran and the little girl came into the house, they immediately found that it was covered with dust nearly half a centimeter thick.

“Big brother look!”

After scanning through the room, she pointed at a chair and said, “There seems to be something there!”

Something!?

Soran moved his steps with great vigilance, then picked up a stone and threw it at the position of the armchair, deflecting it a little bit; they saw a set of a rather small skeleton on the armchair. The height of the skeleton was only about 1.25 meters, but the bones were thick relative to the height of the body; especially the legs and feet. It was a creature easily recognized.

Soran looked at it and said, “It’s the skeleton of a halfling, probably the cook.”

“Huuu!”

As soon as he said that, there was a sudden chill in the house which was enclosed. The cold wind made them shiver, and then there was a burst of strange and gloomy laughter.

Undead?

Angered Souls?