Chapter 708: Underground Palace 2
Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation
A dark corner in the underground palace.
AG was holding up his burning flame staff while he walked forward with a calm face. There was no one around him, as Nasira and the rest of them seemed to have been separated from him, and he was left alone.
“This place… it feels weird…” he murmured to himself. “I’ve been separated by some sort of dimension force…. It seems like…”
He looked at his surroundings with vigilance and speculation.
The fiery flare caused his face to look slightly reddish.
He reached his unoccupied hand into his pocket and touched something, then he instantly calmed down.
“I will succeed this time, just one last step… one last step…”
There was a determined look on his face once again as he strode forward.
Another dark corner in the underground palace.
Manasi, who wore a full set of armor, and the thousand-legged serpent witch were following behind Nasira who was holding a torch. The both of them observed their surroundings with vigilance from time to time.
“I can feel an extremely evil force here.” the thousand-legged serpent’s tail slightly swayed, as if it was a slightly distorted living thing.
The three of them walked through the passage. Before and behind them was endless darkness, and the torch could only illuminate an area within a few meters. The areas where the flame was not able to illuminate occasionally looked like statues of the skulls of beasts.
“Every death apostle’s immortal garden is not the same, so you need to be careful. All we need to do is to restrain the force of the underground palace and we would have completed our mission. As long as the AG can successfully fulfill his goal, he can completely destroy this garden.” Nasira whispered.
The blue flame in Manasi’s eyes flickered a few times.
“It seems like this is Wellington’s final card. I’ve prepared some special weapons, they will come in handy.”
The three of them were alerted and sped up towards the depths of the underground palace.
After an unknown period of time had passed, the underground passage appeared to have become more spacious, and some deep scratches began to show up on the ground. There were also tiny writings appearing on the wall.
“It seems like there are words on the wall.”
The thousand-legged serpent walked over and gently stroked the wall.
“Wellington… Pearson… Dovich…” as she touched the writings, she said softly.
“Pearson Dovich?” Nasira frowned, the name gave her a bad feeling as if she heard it somewhere.
“There are more words behind.” the thousand-legged serpent continued to reach towards the back. As her fingers touched it, she read it out softly. “Anil’s Gardens.”
Anil’s Gardens?!
Nasira’s expression changed.
“It’s a trap!! Anil’s Gardens! How could it be…!!” Even someone of her status could not help but feel a chill.
There were many unsolved mysteries in this world, and Anil’s Garden was one of it. Rumors said that it was an underground garden someone named Anil built, but in fact, it was an underground cemetery, an underground mausoleum.
No one knew who Anil was, and no one has found any records of the mausoleum in the history, but somewhere in the underground of a lost ruin, people unintentionally discovered the existence of Anil’s garden.
It was known as one of the most well-known taboos in the supernatural world and was infamous because there was no way out of it.
“Shouldn’t Anil’s Garden be in Australia? How could it appear here!!” Nasira felt her heart pounding violently, as the feeling of her plan going out of control overwhelmed her.
“We probably have not gone too far, it’s not too late to retreat!” on the other hand, Manasi was not very nervous. Since he was a half-wizard cyborg, he has never heard of how scary Anil’s Garden was.
Nasira shook her head slightly.
“It’s too late, if this is Anil’s Garden, then space has already been twisted, we will definitely not find a way out. Even the time here is distorted, the both of you need to be careful.”
She took out a small wooden bird, gently tossed it, and the bird started flying backward.
“Look.”
Manasi and thousand-legged serpent looked and were instantly stunned.
They saw the wooden bird flapping its wings as it flew backward, after flying for just a short distance, suddenly, it was flying on the spot without moving forward before it disappeared from their sight.
“This space will only allow you to move forward and not backward, I used to study the three secret lands and this was no exception, the only way is to move forward,” Nasira said solemnly.
The other two were also upper-level witches and they naturally had pride and confidence in themselves, so they quickly calmed down.
“As we move forward, we might find clues that will get us out of here,” Nasira said in a low voice.
The three of them continued to move towards the depths of the underground palace.
The Wellington family within a certain dark space
“They finally went in.” An elderly black shadow said with a low voice. He took his hand out of the blood pool and there was a trace of exhaustion in his voice.
“Is that Anil’s Garden? The legendary underground cemetery in Australia which could move around like a living creature?” a woman asked with a lazy voice as she finally got a little interested.
“To be exact, that’s the biggest secret of our family, everyone knew that Anil’s Garden is in Australia, but no one knew that there is a pathway in our family’s underground palace that connects to a second Anil’s Garden.” a third black shadow explained with a neutral tone.
“The second one? How are you clear about it, you went there before?” The slothful girl asked curiously.
“No. Not even the landlord has not been in it, the landlord used to warn me to not try to enter the garden, or it would be very troublesome.”
“Even the landlord has not been in it?” both of them were surprised.
“To be precise, no one has ever been in it. The entrance of the tunnel has been there since forever, but I do not know what is inside. Even the landlord was warned by his ancestors to never enter the garden. No one knows the reason why, but it was being passed down from generation to generation.” the shadow with a neutral voice explained, “Which is why I do not know what’s inside, and you both should stop asking me.”
The blood pool was constantly replaying the scene when AG and the few of them entered the underground palace.
Strangely enough, the entrance to the underground palace that they enter was not the usual entrance of the family. The blood pool showed that entrance of the family was still hidden underground, but the hole that they opened, where did it come from?
Then, they saw AG and the rest of them jumping into the unknown underground palace entrance, and quickly disappeared.
Just after they have all entered the hole, the entrance rapidly warped from an ancient looking appearance into a whole new appearance. The mottled and destroyed old brick stone surface of both sides of the walls suddenly morphed into a whole new wall, and even the hound-like statues on both sides of the door looked brand new. It suddenly changed from a shabby entrance into the actual underground entrance of the Wellington Family.
“I get goosebumps all over my body every time!” the girl with a slothful voice finally revealed a dignified look on her face. “Where exactly did this entrance come from?”
“I don’t know.” The black shadow with the neutral voice replied, “The only thing I know is that the landlord activated something, then he told me about this plan.”
“They probably won’t be able to get out, let’s think about something else, one of the elders of the other two families is in our hands, and it might get very troublesome!”
The elderly black shadow murmured, “How much do we need to pay to satisfy them?”
“Prior to this, we have already extracted most of the Bloodline Core. As long as we get enough essence, their resurrection will not be a problem, but since it will take time to recover, we might take a massive hit,” the girl with the lazy voice answered.
“Tu Lan, this should be your turn to negotiate with them, it was us for the previous two times,” the elderly shadow suggested.
“I know, it’s so annoying.”
“There’re more words here,” Manasi said with a low voice while she stroked the wall.
“What is it?” Nasira got up from the ground somewhat irritably.
“All those who enter the underground palace…. will become the prey of the Grim Reaper. It is a curse that no one can escape.” Manasi whispered and recited the writings on the wall.
“You’re making things up!” Nasira flicked the ash off her fingers; previously when she crouched down to check the indentations on the ground, she did not find anything.
“Let’s move forward,” she ordered coldly and seemed to have calmed down. “We better find AG and Garen as soon as possible, the sudden appearance of this strange underground palace is way beyond what we expected.”
The trio continued moving forward along the passage. The flame seemed to be moving through the endless darkness, and after a while, the passage gradually grew wider and formed an inclining downwards slope.
Soon, the three of them could hear a subtle sound of water coming from the bottom of the slope.
“It’s a river.” The thousand-legged serpent said in a low voice, held his torch and walked towards it. From afar, they could see something sparkling under the slope and a violent underground river at the very bottom. The river was four to five meters wide and it stretched across before the three of them.
If they wanted to move on, they must cross the river.
They looked towards the left and right side, but both sides were being blocked by walls, and at the bottom of both walls, there was a big hole, which was where the river water flowed in.
A small river appearing suddenly inside the tunnel was suspicious, so Nasira took the initiative to use a special energy-absorbing physique she had that was able to make all supernatural beings useless. She quickly walked to the edge of the river under the slope and gently scooped up some water with her hands.
The water looked blackish, there was even a faint rotting smell, and after Nasira sniffed at it, she immediately threw it away.
“There is poison in the water, be careful,” she stood up and looked at the rapidly flowing river in front of her.
The entire river was blocking the tunnel, it was roughly about seven to eight meters long.
Nasira smoothly took a step back and then jumped over it. Her light body flew forward and in just a snap of a finger, she was on the other side of the river.
The other two jumped in and steadily got to the opposite shore.
The passage on both sides of the river were different; the ground of this side was rough and rocky without any man-made facilities.