SWNOVELS Chapter 37
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Chapter 37: Chapter 36 “Family Shadow Guard” and “Underground Palace” (Seeking Chase Reading)
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Golden Lion Estate, the place where Earl Arthur resides.
At present, only Earl Arthur and Milton Cheney were in the manor.
Several days had passed since Milton left Far East City to return to the estate.
The reaction of the Black Robe Seeker’s Club wasn’t prompt, so the estate remained relatively calm during this time.
“Family Shadow Guard?”
Milton, looking at his father in front of him, sounded a bit confused.
“Indeed, Family Shadow Guard! Or you could call them Family Death Warriors!”
Earl Arthur responded with a light smile, as if it was normal for Milton to show confusion.
Milton wasn’t unfamiliar with the term Family Death Warrior. Previously, at the Golden Lion Coliseum, it was the Death Warriors
that intercepted his return to the estate.
However, it was still somewhat puzzling for him when Earl Arthur said he wanted to show him the Family Death Warriors of the
Golden Lion Family.
After all, the original host had lived on the estate for seventeen years, and it has been nearly a year since Milton came, yet he
had never seen the Family Death Warriors Earl Arthur spoke of within the estate.
“Are they near the estate?”
“Yes, they’re near the estate!”
Earl Arthur’s voice was very decisive, and Milton gradually suppressed his doubt.
“Then let’s follow father’s suggestion and take a look.”
“Good, I’ll take you there.”
As soon as he had finished speaking, Earl Arthur rose and walked ahead.
Milton followed silently behind Earl Arthur.
Passing through the garden, Earl Arthur stopped in front of an open space. This place was very open, but one could vaguely see
that there used to be a lot of steles erected here.
This place wasn’t unfamiliar to Milton, or rather, the original host’s memories did include this place.
“The cemetery? Why did father bring me here?”
Milton’s suppressed doubts emerged once more, but he did not let them show on his face.
Indeed, this was the cemetery of the Golden Lion Family, where the original host’s mother was buried.
“Are the Family Death Warriors here?”
A thought suddenly emerged in Milton’s mind, but he quickly dismissed it.
How could it be possible?
Milton did not say a word, knowing that Earl Arthur would not have brought him here for no reason.
As expected, the next moment Earl Arthur, who had been standing still, spoke:
“Milton, come with me, it’s time you knew some of the family secrets.” Having said that, Earl Arthur started walking toward the
depths of the cemetery.
Milton followed silently behind Earl Arthur.
Only when the two of them had arrived at the furthest point of the cemetery did Earl Arthur stop, turn around, and look at Milton.
“Milton, step back a little.”
Upon hearing these words, Milton took a few steps back.
Seeing Milton’s movement, Earl Arthur walked a few steps forward and stopped in front of a stele.
Milton had also noticed the stele when he arrived here. One could not help but notice. Because in this place, there was only this
one stele.
Earl Arthur twisted the stele with his bare hands. The stele, which seemed rooted in the ground, was easily twisted by him.
After a 1800 turn, a golden airflow gushed from his palm, then he heavily slapped the top of the stele.
The stele was knocked an inch down by Earl Arthur.
The next moment, a loud noise echoed.
In Milton’s surprised eyes, a crevice appeared in the ground in front of him, revealing a staircase leading underground.
“So it’s underground!”
Milton was a bit surprised. He should have thought of this earlier.
If it wasn’t in the sky near the Golden Lion Estate, it could only be underground.
“Let’s go.”
Earl Arthur spoke in a soft voice, then stepped into the staircase leading underground.
Milton knew that his father could not possibly harm him, so he followed Earl Arthur and stepped onto the staircase.
After Milton Cheney entered, Earl Arthur carelessly clapped his hand around, and the opening above his head was closed again.
The staircase was plunged back into darkness.
However, at this time Milton Cheney, now a Grand Knight, could see in the dark.
As time passed, Milton Cheney silently counted the steps of the staircase in his mind, and when he reached 400, a sudden
brightness appeared before his eyes.
“We have arrived!”
Earl Arthur said calmly.
The surroundings became bright, not vastly different from the conditions at the ground level.
“How is it possible?”
Despite preparing himself for this, Milton was stunned by the sight in front of him, revealing a deep shock in his heart.
It was hard to imagine, what could Milton have seen that might have caused him, a traveled man, to become somewhat
disoriented.
In front of Milton Cheney was an extraordinarily grand underground palace!
A loss for words, ‘grand’ was the only term Milton could use to describe the underground palace in front of him.
Endless buildings similar to small castles dotted the inside of this underground palace.
These establishments resembled an underground military base rather than an underground palace.
All one could say was that this was indeed characteristic of the Golden Lion Family. Had Milton not come here himself, he would
have never imagined so grand a palace beneath his feet.
Seeing the stunned Milton, Earl Arthur showed his understanding as he was even more shocked when he first arrived here.
“Follow me closely, Vernon, and do not touch anything around you casually.” Earl Arthur ordered and specifically reminded
Milton.
This place was not as safe as it appeared on the surface, with numerous traps scattered throughout the underground palace.
Milton nodded lightly, resuming his composure from before.
Following behind Earl Arthur, Milton didn’t touch anything casually, but he carefully observed the surrounding environment.
Milton also discovered more than one black-armored individual amongst the crowd.
However, these people seemed to not even notice the presence of him and the Earl, neither intercepting nor saluting.
Earl Arthur and Milton stopped in front of a vast drill ground.
“Let’s go, come up with me.”
Earl Arthur said, and Milton looked up.
In front of him was a massive offering tower, the structure was entirely hollowed out, but there was a high platform at the top.
Ascending to the top of the platform with Earl Arthur, Milton could clearly see everything on the drill ground.
However, the field was empty with no one present.
Seeing Milton settling in on the platform, Earl Arthur casually picked up something from the side, placed it to his lips, and blew
into it.
“Zhou! Zhou!”
A loud sound, similar to bird calls, emanated from Earl Arthur’s mouth.
“Eagle Horn?”
Milton recognized what Earl Arthur was blowing into, although it was not from his host’s memory.
Instead, he had read about it in a book after his time travel.
It was something called an Eagle Horn that produced this sound when blown,
This was different from his prior world, as some avian species in this world have horns.
The next minute, the previously empty field was now filled with countless people in a short span of time.
“What speed and action power!”
Milton exclaimed in his heart.
In just a few instants, an orderly black squad had formed in the field below.
The first feeling this black squad gave Milton was that of coldness.
That’s right, cold and mechanical.
It was as if those standing below were not humans, but robots fitted with chips.
“There must be upwards of a thousand people!”
From the high platform viewing the orderly squad below, Milton opened his mouth in astonishment.
The Golden Lion Family, having been able to stand unscathed for three hundred years in the kingdom, certainly had its reasons.
“One thousand in total, the weakest of them are Quasi-Knights!”
Earl Arthur calmly stated..