Chapter 74

Unfortunately, Lin Yun never discovered the ambush of the skeleton warriors. Otherwise, he would have re-evaluated his gains from the Garden of Death, and might have even realized that not every ability would make the body feel a change...

When Lin Yun returned to Thousand Sails City, it was already late at night. Even for Lin Yun, the experiences of the day were a bit too intense, especially the final battle in the Garden of Death, which drained his last bit of energy. Originally, when Lin Yun returned to the Gilded Rose, he wanted to study the stone tablet, but as soon as he sat down, a wave of drowsiness hit him, and before he knew it, he had fallen asleep in the chair...

He slept until noon the next day. When Lin Yun opened his eyes, he found a blanket had been placed on him at some point, and a breakfast was laid out on the table beside him. Lin Yun knew that it was most likely done by the old butler. The old man had never been involved with magic, not even knowing whether a High Mage was round or flat, but he stubbornly believed that magic studies should not be disturbed by anything, no matter how important. Therefore, he always took care of Lin Yun's daily life quietly, like now, when he gently covered Lin Yun with a blanket, careful not to wake him.

Lin Yun smiled, quickly finished the breakfast on the table, and then took the stone tablet back to the alchemy laboratory.

The palm-sized stone tablet was placed on the alchemy table, showing no magical fluctuations or death aura, looking like an ordinary stone tablet. But Lin Yun believed that the stone tablet looked so ordinary only because he had not discovered its secrets. After all, this was a stone tablet from the Garden of Death, formed by infinite death power. Even if it was not as powerful as a Soul Stone, it should not be an ordinary stone tablet.

Thus, Lin Yun spent the entire morning in the alchemy laboratory. At first, he used alchemy reagents to analyze the stone tablet, trying to determine what material it was made of. However, after using seventeen or eighteen different reagents, the results were surprisingly consistent: it was just a stone tablet...

Well, if the alchemy reagents couldn't reveal anything, he could try using magic to activate it. Lin Yun held the stone tablet in his hand and began to continuously infuse it with mana...

One minute, two minutes, three minutes...

At first, Lin Yun was full of hope, but after thirty minutes, he couldn't help but feel frustrated. The damned stone tablet was like a bottomless pit, absorbing mana without any overflow, and showing no reaction that Lin Yun had expected.

"Damn, you're tough!" Feeling his mana was almost depleted, Lin Yun cursed and stopped this futile effort.

For a moment, Lin Yun really wanted to ask what the hell the structure of this damned stone tablet was, how it could be so stubborn, neither soft nor hard, and so picky?

Wait, could it be that it needs a spell...

Lin Yun suddenly had an idea. The stone tablet came from the Garden of Death, formed by infinite death power. Could it have some characteristics of undead creatures? Maybe he should try a fire spell?

Lin Yun was relatively cautious, afraid that a powerful fire spell might damage the stone tablet, so he chose the Hand of Fire. This beginner-level spell required no gestures for Lin Yun. He simply held the stone tablet in his hand, released a stream of mana, and flames immediately rose in his hand.

Then, Lin Yun realized that his attempt was correct...

Almost as soon as the flames rose, a death force was released from the stone tablet. At the same time, every detail of the Hand of Fire spell was directly presented in his mind.

"Damn!" Lin Yun was startled. The Hand of Fire extinguished, and he dropped the stone tablet from his hand...

The things that appeared in his mind in that instant were too strange...

Lin Yun stood there, staring at the stone tablet on the ground, his expression complex, a mix of fear and anticipation...

The evil nature of the stone tablet far exceeded Lin Yun's imagination. It could directly influence the mind, yet the ability it contained was exactly what Lin Yun had been dreaming of, a complete analysis of spells. No mage in the world could resist such a temptation.

After an unknown amount of time, Lin Yun used trembling hands to pick up the stone tablet from the ground.

Holding the stone tablet, Lin Yun's expression was still complex. What he was about to do was not to cast a spell, but to directly use the mana array. When he was affected while casting the Hand of Fire, he could control the damage within an acceptable range, but if something went wrong while using the mana array, Lin Yun would only be left to close his eyes and wait for death. The mana array was an extension of his life and a mark on his soul, the foundation of his High Mage status.

After ten minutes, Lin Yun took a deep breath, tightly held the stone tablet in his hand, and began to use the mana array to combine spells.

"Indeed, it is so..." As the mana array began to operate, Lin Yun's furrowed brows gradually relaxed.

Because Lin Yun could feel that when he held the stone tablet, the efficiency of the mana array almost doubled. A spell that originally took a minute to combine was now shortened to thirty seconds.

Enough...

There was no need to continue the experiment. Lin Yun slowly placed the stone tablet on the alchemy table. At this point, Lin Yun knew that what he had brought back from the Garden of Death was a component, a component that could analyze and calculate spells...

As for the level, it might even surpass the True Spirit.

Now, Lin Yun no longer envied Sandro...

Even if the power of the stone tablet was not as strong as the Soul Stone, it was a component. Once he obtained the Book of Kings in the Bone Plane, the addition of this component would likely make the Book of the Dead's power reach an astonishing level.

Moreover, this component was powerful enough on its own.

After all, the magic array that Lin Yun possessed was the mana array, and the most troublesome aspect of the mana array was its complexity and intricacy. Each combination of spell incantations and magic abilities required a lot of time. The component in his hand was the only known way to improve the efficiency of the mana array.

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Let's try it first!