Chapter 89 The Death Throne
The explosion subsided.
The center of the arena was slightly dented due to the shockwave.
Libertas knelt on one knee, her greatsword supporting her as she half-knelt on the side of the ring. Her hair was disheveled, and sweat rolled down her cheeks.
Lin Cai fell to the other side of the ring, supporting herself with one hand on the ground.
Both of them were breathing heavily.
After a moment, Lin Cai took a deep breath, forcefully wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, and staggered to her feet.
She walked to Libertas's side, her fingers struggling weakly for a moment, then she squeezed out a bit of spiritual energy from her empty dantian and gathered it into a blade, which she pressed against Libertas's neck.
Libertas tried to stand up, gripping the hilt of her sword, but her body gave way and she collapsed to her knees again. Her hand momentarily missed the hilt and instead grasped the blade, blood dripping from the sharp edge onto the arena.
Lin Cai, unusually expressionless, asked, "Are you admitting defeat?"
Libertas struggled again, but still couldn't kneel down. He lowered his head and gave a bitter laugh: "I surrender."
Shuyou sighed softly.
Yan Shi nodded: "Libertas concedes defeat, the match is over. Lin Cai wins."
As Yan Shi announced, the barrier around the arena dissipated, and the clamor and discussion from the outside world surged in instantly.
Adelaide quickly jumped onto the ring and handed Libertas a potion.
Libertas took the potion, released his sword, and then drank it all in one gulp.
The greatsword slipped and fell to the ground with a dull thud.
Chu Mengfu followed closely behind, leaping onto the stage to try and support the swaying Lin Cai.
Lin Cai shook her head, gritted her teeth, and staggered to Yan Shi, then looked up and gave him a big smile.
“Teacher Yanlan,” she asked softly, “did you win your bet with Teacher Shuyou?”
Yan Shi nodded with mixed feelings: "I won."
Upon hearing this answer, Lin Cai seemed to finally breathe a sigh of relief, and her smile became even brighter. She said softly, "That's good."
Then, her body could no longer support her, she lost her last bit of strength, and fell straight forward.
Yan Shi, unusually, did not instinctively take a step back, but instead helped Lin Cai up.
She was not surprised by Lin Cai's victory.
Please, this is the protagonist of a shonen manga.
Yan Shi simply didn't understand Lin Cai's stubbornness.
Just as Yan Shi couldn't quite understand, Duan Yunchen was stubborn towards her teacher.
Doesn't time usually heal all wounds?
Why does this stubbornness, formed by the convergence of these complex emotions, actually deepen over time?
Chu Mengfu stood not far away, not approaching, but said with a complicated expression, "Teacher Yanlan, do you know Lin Cai?"
Yan Shi picked Lin Caiheng up without answering. Chu Mengfu was deeply fixated on her beliefs, as was Wen Ying. In many situations, Yan Shi understood them yet didn't.
A deep obsession can lead people to do wrong things, but it can also make people stronger.
Yan Shi looked at her with a rare gentleness that concealed a sharp edge: "Chu Mengfu and Lin Cai are also from the outside world."
Chu Mengfu lowered his head and remained silent, his gaze vacantly fixed on the arena.
"So, if she can do it, you can too."
Yan Shi didn't say anything more. Her gaze swept past Chu Mengfu, around the room, and she asked, "Where is the medical office?"
"There is no medical office in Zhanzhou, but there is an emergency medical point on the east side of the arena." Chu Mengfu said in a calm tone, as if even speaking revealed a hint of fatigue.
Yan Shi nodded, and Shui Ling lifted her up and quickly leaped in the direction Chu Mengfu pointed.
Only Chu Mengfu remained, standing silently in the center of the now empty arena.
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As we all know, the protagonist of a shonen manga is a creature with extremely vigorous vitality.
The next day, when Yan Shi entered the library lobby and saw Lin Cai Shi sitting at the entrance, he had a feeling that he had expected this.
After leaving Lin Cai with the teachers at the emergency medical center last night, she went back to the teachers' apartment to rest.
Lu Jian had already prepared basic necessities and placed them in her teacher's apartment, so there was no problem with her staying there temporarily.
The transportation plan hasn't been given to Yan Shi yet, and the newborn airship doesn't operate at night, so it's really troublesome for Yan Shi to return to the world at night.
Anyway, today is Friday.
Yan Shi still had a few days of annual leave left, so he applied for leave in advance through the Foreign Affairs Bureau system.
She planned to visit the library first today, and then go see Ji Pucun during the day.
At this moment, Lin Cai's eyes lit up when she saw Yan Shi walk into the library lobby.
"Teacher Yanlan!" She jumped up and ran briskly to Yan Shi's side.
Yan Shi looked Lin Cai up and down: "Are you alright?"
Lin Cai's smile widened: "A good night's rest is all I need. Thank you, Lanlan, for taking me to the emergency medical center last night!"
She was clearly delighted, her eyes sparkling. "I knew you'd come to the library today, Lanlan."
Yan Shi's lips twitched: "Call me Teacher Yan Lan."
She talked to Lin Cai as she walked toward the second floor of the library.
The second floor of Zhanzhou Library features a section on world customs.
The second floor is also arranged according to the regions, with the east, west, south, and north corresponding to the territory of the Eastern Human Race, the territory of the Western Human Race, the territory of the Fantasy Race, and the territory of the Spirit Race in a very orderly manner.
Yesterday, when Yan asked Ji Pucun why Zhan Zhou moved to the surface world, Ji Pucun said that "the entire floating island of Zhan Zhou is based on the Throne of Death."
This is a way of answering that seems irrelevant.
But Ji Pucun said that this was the only thing she knew.
This suggests that she believes the relocation of Jamchechaoi and the Death Throne, upon which the floating island of Jamchechaoi is based, are closely related.
It should be noted that Zhanzhou Floating Island is, in a sense, a large-scale alchemical creation in the Inner World that is as famous as the Vil Nexus.
Because Zhan Zhou is in the physical world, and the spirit in the physical world is very thin.
Zhan Zhou is able to maintain its floating state and large concealment barrier, while supporting the lives of more than 10,000 beings within the academy.
This is an extremely large operational and maintenance requirement.
So what exactly is this Death Throne?
Yan Shi walked straight to the west section of the second floor, with Lin Cai following closely behind her.
When Yan Shi first recalled the topic of the Death Throne last night, he only felt that it sounded very familiar.
The Chancery floating island, which is based on the Death Throne, is often regarded as a representative of large floating islands, just like the Vil Nexus.
The Weir Hub was crafted by Duan Yunchen.
Duan Yunchen only managed to refine the Vil Nexus after failing to find a solution at the Death Church.
The Death Church and the Death Holy See, don't they seem like they're a pair?
The west wing was also filled with reading rooms, and Yan Shi finally stopped at the entrance of the "Papal Palace".
Hanging on the door of this room are countless indistinct phantom images of the main gods.
Found it.
She took out her teacher's card from her pocket and swiped it in.
Then, as soon as he entered the door, he stopped and stood still.
"What's wrong?" Lin Cai also swiped her card to enter after her and curiously peeked in.
This reading room is different from the almost empty reading room on the third floor, which is called "World History and Legends".
This reading room is very crowded.
There were still no seats, but almost every window and between bookshelves was packed with people.
What's even more amazing is that despite having so many people, the entire reading room was completely quiet, with only the soft sound of pages turning.
Putting aside the somewhat eerie scene, can so many people really find anything...?
Yan Shi sighed inwardly, but continued walking inside.
The bookshelves in this room are arranged according to the Vatican.
The most popular bookshelf near the entrance is the "Church of Light," followed by the "Church of Wisdom," "Church of Nature," "Church of Life," and so on...
The Vatican is full of strange and unusual things, including all sorts of worship.
The further you go into the reading room, the fewer people there are between the bookshelves.
Yan Shi walked to a bookshelf deep inside and stopped.
The Death Church.
Unlike the bookshelves in front where you even have to queue to get a book, there were only a few people standing next to this bookshelf, and they were all dressed in gloomy clothes.
Yan Shi stepped in, his gaze sweeping over the bookshelves. He then randomly poked a classmate dressed in a black robe and asked softly, "Do you know about the Death Throne?"
The moment she poked it in, she felt her fingers touch something hard, unlike the texture of a normal human body.
Yan Shi raised an eyebrow slightly.
The man in the black robe slowly turned around, revealing a cluster of green will-o'-the-wisps beneath his robe.
This is a creature that is half skeleton and half human, with one half of its face filled with flesh and blood, and the other half being a bare skeleton.
On the skeleton, eerie flames flickered in the empty eye sockets.
Zhan Zhou's recruitment target group is really wide.
The other person seemed surprised by Yan Shi's question and did not answer immediately. Instead, he slowly turned around and walked towards the ladder next to him.
She slowly climbed the ladder next to her, stopped after going up a few floors, took a thick book from the bookshelf, slowly climbed down again, and handed it to Yan Shi.
The name on the book cover was not in a universal language, but rather several strings of runes that Yan Shi couldn't understand.
Lin Cai also craned her neck to look.
"Why isn't it written in the book?" she muttered to herself, somewhat puzzled.
Yan Shi immediately realized something was wrong.
It's probably a library access issue.
Her teacher's card was granted exceptionally high access by the library, so Ji Pucun wasn't worried that she wouldn't be able to find the books.
Yan Shi lowered his eyes and opened the book.
As expected.
Inside, the text is written in the same incomprehensible runes as the cover.
The True Illiterate of the Underworld, Yan Shi: ...
She publicly and strongly condemned these books that were not translated into a common language!
Yan Shi poked the black-robed man in front of him again.
"Excuse me, do you take on freelance translation work?" she asked sincerely.
The man in black robes withdrew his foot, which was trying to leave the area.
Even her half-human, half-skull face showed a look of terror.
Then, the skeleton spoke, a slightly hoarse female voice: "Teacher Yanlan, I'll take this. Please don't hang up on me."
Yan Shi: ?
Is she some kind of campus horror legend?
The skeleton once again took the thick book from Yan Shi's hands at a speed that was fast for her, but actually still slow: "Teacher Yan Lan, do you only want the content related to the Death Throne?"
Yan Shi: "Yes."
Skull: "Then I'll start by translating Chapter Three of this book."
Author's Note: Even as a skeleton, you still have to study hard, graduate, and get a good job. (A certain unknown skeleton sheds tears.)
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