<br>Chapter 93: Bloodstained Clothes
<p><strong>Translator: </strong>Shiraishi <i></i> <strong>Editor:&nb
sp;</strong>TheAlliance</p>
<p>‘This is a pleasant surprise.’</p>
<p>Lin Yun had thought that his only reward from the tomb was the unknown stone
tablet, but he then had some fortuitous surprises over the course of the past ten
days. First, he learned that the stone tablet was actually the Sage Chapter of the
Book of Death, and now, he figured out that he gained the Undead Predator
ability.</p>
<p>In Lin Yun’s eyes, Undead Predator was far better than Sandro’s Undead
Contract.</p>
<p>After all, Undead Contract was tailored for Necromancers. If a non-Necromancer
like Lin Yun obtained that ability, they would only be able to summon a few extra
lifeforms. Without Necromancy spells to strengthen them, the summons wouldn’t be
that powerful.</p>
<p>But Undead Predator was different.</p>
<p>Lin Yun was now sitting on the entire Bone Plane, so the existence of the
Undead Predator ability would allow him to conquer the entire Bone Plane faster.
Once the Book of Death was in his hands, with the addition of the Sage Chapter, Lin
Yun’s fighting strength would be able to reach a shocking level. Even a High Mage
wouldn’t be Lin Yun’s match.</p>
<p>Moreover, the Undead Predator ability still had secrets that could be
researched. Those mages from the peak of the magic era all believed that the Undead
Predator ability wasn’t merely limited to the undead.</p>
<p>Lin Yun would be the first to question the merits of an unproven theory, but
he now had a lot of time to experiment with Undead Predator and see whether that
theory was correct.</p>
<p>Lin Yun was more relaxed after the fight thanks to the Undead Predator.</p>
<p>What he wanted to do now was to find the place with the largest amount of
Skeleton Warriors and use his highest ranked spells to bomb them indiscriminately,
not having to worry about a potential counterattack due to the fear created by the
pressure from Undead Predator. As he put his plan into motion, they often rushed at
him initially but then froze foolishly or tried to escape.</p>
<p>‘This is simply a harvest…’</p>
<p>In a quick two hours, the Sage Chapter absorbed over a thousand Soul Fires,
and aside from the high mana consumption, Lin Yun hadn’t met any troubles or
threats. The Ice Fire Shield hadn’t been breached at all.</p>
<p>Lin Yun still had about one hour left. He prepared to go harvest another group
of Skeleton Warriors but then he suddenly discovered that he had unconsciously
approached the Nether Iron Vein.</p>
<p>Last time he came to the Bone Plane, it was night time, and his Light spell
had only been able to illuminate a ten-meter area, so his only choice had been to
rely on a half-solidified Mage Eye. Naturally, he hadn’t been able to see
everything clearly. This time, although the sky was covered by a sea of clouds, it
was still daytime, so after casting a Mage Eye, Lin Yun was able to clearly observe
the Nether Iron Vein.</p>
<p>The Nether Iron Vein was on a plain surrounded by Skeleton Warriors, with a
dense death aura being emitted from underground, and the Bone Devil was slumbering
at the densest part of the death aura. The Nether Iron Vein was over a hundred
meters away, completely exposed to the surface, the kind of vein that miners loved
most. Hardly any effort would be needed to easily exploit it.</p>
<p>Moreover, the resources contained in that Nether Iron Vein were very shocking.
Even from this distance, Lin Yun could feel the powerful mana fluctuations. Some
came from the Nether Iron Vein itself, and some came from the magic gems born from
it.</p>
<p>Lin Yun took a deep breath and suppressed the urge to provoke the Bone Devil
right now, and he forced himself to look away.</p>
<p>But as the Mage Eye flew across, Lin Yun discovered a dark cave at the end of
the Nether Iron Vein with some bloodstained clothes at its entrance.</p>
<p>“Fuck…” Lin Yun’s eyes suddenly widened at the unexpected sight.</p>
<p>What did that mean…</p>
<p>Those clothes proved that Lin Yun wasn’t the first person to enter the Bone
Plane!</p>
<p>Naturally, that human was already long gone. Being wounded in the Bone Plane
was no different from death. Under the assault of endless death energy, a small
prick on one’s finger would be deadly.</p>
<p>In fact, it wasn’t just the Bone Plane. Any plane was like that. The
completely different environments made it so that no one could stay in foreign
planes for a long time, including the formidable mages of the peak magic era.</p>
<p>This was also the real reason that even the self-proclaimed god mages could
only fall when Noscent’s mana was exhausted.</p>
<p>In those final years, who knew how many mages went insane trying to find a way
out? Unfortunately, no one was able to survive in those planes. Only mages on the
same level as Sandro and Charles were able to struggle forward, fleeing to the
Endless Plane, through a spatial crack.</p>
<p>But what awaited them was an unknown fate. It might be a new world, or it
might doom them to drift for all eternity.</p>
<p>In short, no matter who the owner of those clothes was, that person was most
likely already dead.</p>
<p>This was almost a certainty.</p>
<p>But Lin Yun still felt that he should take a look. After all, they would
belong to a human that had come to the Bone Plane before him, over a thousand years
before the three young mages of the Ivory Tower! Lin Yun really wanted to know who
that was!</p>
<p>With that in mind, Lin Yun controlled the Mage Eye to fly towards the entrance
of the cave and explore it.</p>
<p>But suddenly, Lin Yun’s sight darkened.</p>
<p>‘It couldn’t…’ Lin Yun froze, and the Mage Eye shockingly faded away!</p>
<p>The Mage Eye had been stopped by some sort of magic barrier…</p>
<p>A Mage Eye could be said to be the most fragile among mages’ constructs. It
was based on the condensation of a mage’s mana and it would collapse when met with
a bit of mana interference.</p>
<p>Lin Yun had met many situations where a Mage Eye would collapse, so this
wasn’t something to fuss about. But the collapse of this Mage Eye made Lin Yun feel
suspicious.</p>
<p>Bloodstained clothes were strange enough, but there was also still mana
remaining in that cave!</p>
<p>Lin Yun thought for a bit before casting a few spells. He used Haste,
Stoneskin, Conceal Aura, and Undead Camouflage, casting the buffs on himself one
after the other.</p>
<p>Lin Yun then started slowly walking toward that dark cave.</p>
<p>Fortunately, there weren’t many skeletons around after the harvest earlier.
Even if one or two occasionally emerged, in front of Lin Yun with his Undead
Predator skill, it was only a matter of one or two Flame Spears.</p>
