<h4>Chapter 711: Tomb Raiding</h4>


    <strong>Trantor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion <strong>Editor: </strong>EndlessFantasy Trantion


    ording to Alexei’s words, Song Jung and Xiao Lin were not the first people who studied that object. There had been many people who had researched the bead before this, and it had existed within the New World throughout its history. So, other than those of them from Earth, even those immensely strong people among the natives had coveted it for a very long time.


    Regretfully, no one had managed to find out anything. Even those in history who had powers beyondprehension could not discover anything.


    Now, Xiao Lin and Song Jung knew that the reason was that the object was not born of this’sws, and did not have any energy that the world knew of. The experts that studied objects that were only produced with this’sws naturally had no way of solving it.


    They still had plenty of time.


    Xiao Lin had enough time to continue with his experiments, so he used another way, and tried to use the Shards of Creation in his body to get closer to the mysterious substance in the bead.


    In truth, he no longer knew how to summon the Shards of Creation within his body. Before this, he needed his body to be at a certain strength and skill for the shards in his body to react, and that strength required him to use Ruin at the very least, and it only had thergest reaction when he used Myth.


    However, Song Jung reminded him that Xiao Lin was different from before. After directly interacting with the power ofw, even for just an incredibly short amount of time, it did not mean that the power ofw was gone forever. Based on Song Jung’s thoughts, once a person had that power, it would leave an imprint, and it was just a matter of how deep that imprint was.


    Of course, that was just his own spection, and how they would test it out would fall on Xiao Lin’s shoulders.


    Using his power, which was his ck Iron-ranked power, the shards were as heavy as rocks submerged in the ocean, and did not react at all, so that path was closed off.


    “Let’s try meditation!” Xiao Lin said.


    Song Jung went along with it, and the two of them found an empty corner. Xiao Lin then started meditation under the veil of the night, while Song Jung kept watch.


    Despite losing his powers, he still easily entered a state of mediation, having learned how to do it before. There was nothing else on his mind other than the world inside.


    After using Myth, it was the first time he had used meditation since.


    Entering the meditative world, Xiao Lin was shocked. His meditative world had been a vast universe before, littered with countless stars ands. Now, his meditative world was still a universe, but it was a vast and empty one, like a dead gxy.


    The stars around him seemed incredibly far away, at distances that were impossible to reach. He could only see the light, but could not feel the warmth. Even though he tried to throw his mental strength over there, there was no way for him to interact with those stars that represented the elements at all.


    It caused Xiao Lin to feel a little depressed. He had thought that he would quickly be able to get back his former strength through training, but if he could not even reach his mental strength out, then it would be impossible for him to get back to even a regr level in a short amount of time, at least magically.


    After a moment, Xiao Lin exited the meditative world, and he looked exhausted. He was no longer in the same state he was before, and his current mental strength could not support meditation for too long.


    Xiao Lin shook his head at Song Jung, indicating that there were no results.


    Song Jung was not surprised. He did not hold out much hope anyway. He added, “Actually, we don’t have to research anything. We’re not schrs, so we just have to find the thing. So, let’s go to the ce where this thing was dug out!”


    When Xiao Lin was meditating, Department Head Song had already made his own ns.


    Frontier Town was a key city in the ancient Weier Kingdom. Other than the buildings that were visible on the surface, there were countless buildings that had been buried under the ground in its long history. Other than those ancient and abandoned buildings outside the city, there were also iplete records that indicated one or two ancient tombs in Frontier Town.


    Before the colonizers arrived, the tombs had already been looked at before. However, due to theck of information, there was no way to get any more information about it, such as the tombs’ locations and the tombs’ owner.


    It was only after the colonists arrived, bringing more advanced techniques, did the excavation of the tombs start progressing. However, thanks to the special nature of the Weier Union, only the British and the Americans had been allowed on that project. The two academies continued for over ten years before announcing that they were indefinitely suspending the excavation, and prohibited anyone else from doing it in private.


    However, just as Song Jung said, rules were made to be broken. Just like those forbidden objects they stole from the museum, after Judge Academy and Royal British Academy’s restrictions, it actually ended up attracting even more people out of curiosity. It was not a stretch to say that Frontier Town’s rapid development was arge part because of them.


    In recent years, private excavations never stopped, but because private excavations had limited capabilities, very few people were actually able to explore whole tombs. Most of them stopped after a bit, and what they managed to excavate mostly ended up in the ck market for a wide range of prices. If they were lucky, they might stumble upon something like an ancient potion recipe, and they would profit greatly. If it was just some shattered vases, then they would be very unlucky.


    Alexei’s museum was like a fence for objects of that nature, and Alexei relied on those ancient items to make his fortune.


    “So you’re telling me that you know where this ss bead was from?” Xiao Lin said after listening quietly.


    “I do! I even have the map.” Song Jung pulled out the map, pleased with himself. Needless to say, it had also been swiped away from Alexei’s museum. However, there were traces of ckened blood on the corner of the map, filling Xiao Lin with an uneasy feeling.


    Xiao Lin looked at the map, but did not really understand it. However, it was obviously made in the style of a modern map from Earth, so he curiously asked, “Who made this map?”


    “That’s not important. The map maker’s already dead.”


    “How did they die?”


    “I said it earlier. These underground tombs are not safe at all. Even the natives of the world know to ce many traps around their deathbeds. Even though we still don’t know why the Americans and the British stopped their excavations, my guess is that they wanted to avoid those dangers,” Song Julng answered.


    Xiao Lin was stunned. There was no need to mention it, but their next stop was definitely going to be tomb-raiding.. If even thebined forces of two academies felt that it was dangerous, then the two of them were definitely far too weak to attempt it.