Family Hidden Guards and the Underground Palace (Follow-up Reading Requested)

Golden Lion Manor, where Earl Arthur resided.

At this moment, only Earl Arthur and Chen Mu were in the manor.

Several days had passed since Chen Mu left Far East City and returned to the manor.

The Black Robe Pathseekers Society had not reacted so quickly, so the manor had remained relatively peaceful during this time.

"Family Hidden Guards?"

Chen Mu looked at his father before him, confusion in his voice.

"That's right, the Family Hidden Guards! They can also be called Family Deathsworn!"

Earl Arthur spoke with a faint smile, as if Chen Mu's confusion was perfectly normal to him.

Chen Mu was no stranger to death soldiers.

The ones who had intercepted him when he returned from the Golden Lion Arena to the manor had been death soldiers.

However, Earl Arthur's claim that he would take him to see the Golden Lion Family's death soldiers still puzzled him.

After all, the original owner had lived in the manor for seventeen years, and Chen Mu had transmigrated here nearly a year ago, yet he had never once seen the family death soldiers Earl Arthur spoke of within the manor.

"They're near the manor?"

"Yes, right near the manor!"

Earl Arthur's reply was decisive, and Chen Mu gradually suppressed the doubts in his heart.

"Then I'll listen to Father. Let's go take a look."

"Good. I'll take you there."

With that, Earl Arthur rose and walked ahead.

Chen Mu followed silently behind him.

After passing through the garden, Earl Arthur stopped before an open patch of ground.

The area was spacious, though Chen Mu could vaguely make out quite a few gravestones standing there.

Chen Mu was no stranger to this place. Or rather, the original owner's memories contained this place.

A cemetery? Why did Father bring me here?

The doubts Chen Mu had buried in his heart surfaced once more, though his expression did not reveal the slightest hint of them.

That was right. This was the Golden Lion Family's cemetery, and the original owner's mother was buried here.

The family death soldiers are here?

The thought flashed through Chen Mu's mind, but he dismissed it immediately.

How could that be possible?

Chen Mu said nothing. He knew Earl Arthur would not bring him here without reason.

Sure enough, Earl Arthur, who had stopped in place, spoke the next moment.

"Vieri, come with me. It's time you learned about some of the family's foundations."

With that, Earl Arthur headed deeper into the cemetery.

Chen Mu followed behind him in silence.

Only when they reached the deepest part of the cemetery did Earl Arthur stop again and turn to look at Chen Mu.

Chen Mu let just the right trace of confusion show in his eyes.

"Vieri, step back a little."

Hearing this, Chen Mu took several steps back.

Seeing his movement, Earl Arthur stepped forward and stopped before a gravestone.

Chen Mu had noticed this gravestone the moment he arrived. It was impossible not to notice it, because it was the only gravestone here.

Earl Arthur twisted the gravestone with his bare hands. Though it appeared rooted firmly in the earth, he turned it with ease.

After turning it one hundred and eighty degrees, a layer of Golden Qi Stream suddenly surged from Earl Arthur's palm, and he slammed it heavily onto the top of the gravestone.

The gravestone sank an inch beneath Earl Arthur's strike.

The next moment, a tremendous rumble rang out.

To Chen Mu's astonishment, a crack opened in the ground before him, revealing a stairway leading underground.

So it's underground!

Chen Mu was somewhat surprised. He should have thought of it sooner.

Near Golden Lion Manor, if it was not in the sky, then it could only be underground.

"Let's go."

Earl Arthur spoke softly, then stepped onto the stairway leading underground first.

Chen Mu knew his father would naturally never harm him, so he followed Earl Arthur onto the stairway.

Once Chen Mu entered, Earl Arthur casually struck the surrounding area, and the opening overhead closed again.

The stairway was once more plunged into darkness.

However, Chen Mu was now a Grand Knight. His eyes could see even in the dark.

Time passed as Chen Mu silently counted the steps beneath his feet. When he reached four hundred, light suddenly flooded his vision.

"We're here."

Earl Arthur spoke calmly.

The surroundings brightened, nearly as much as the surface above.

"How is this possible?"

Even though Chen Mu had been prepared, the sight before him still left him dumbfounded, and his heart shook with immense shock.

It was difficult to imagine what he had seen that could make even a transmigrator like him lose his composure.

Before Chen Mu stood an incomparably magnificent Underground Palace!

At a loss for words, Chen Mu could only use "magnificent" to describe the subterranean palace before him.

It stretched beyond the limits of his sight, with countless structures resembling small castles standing throughout the Underground Palace.

Though it was called an Underground Palace, it was more like a military base hidden beneath the earth.

The Golden Lion Family truly lived up to its name. If Chen Mu had not come here himself, he never would have imagined that such a magnificent underground palace lay beneath his feet.

Seeing Chen Mu's shock, Earl Arthur understood. When he first came here, he had been even more stunned than Chen Mu.

"Follow me, Vieri. Don't touch anything around you carelessly."

Earl Arthur spoke, reminding Chen Mu as well.

This place was not as safe as it appeared. Countless mechanisms and traps were spread throughout the entire Underground Palace.

Chen Mu nodded lightly. By now, he had regained his earlier calm.

Following behind Earl Arthur, Chen Mu did not touch anything around him carelessly, but he carefully observed the environment.

Chen Mu also saw more than one Black Armored Man clad in black armor.

However, those people seemed not to see Chen Mu and Earl Arthur at all. They neither stopped them nor saluted.

Earl Arthur and Chen Mu stopped before an enormous training ground.

"Come on, let's go up together."

Earl Arthur spoke, and Chen Mu looked upward as well.

Before him stood a massive tower. Its body was completely hollow, but a raised platform stood at its very top.

Following Earl Arthur up onto the platform, Chen Mu could clearly see everything on the training ground.

However, the training ground was empty at the moment, without a single person on it.

Once Chen Mu had steadied himself on the platform, Earl Arthur casually picked up something from nearby, raised it to his lips, and blew it.

"Chirp! Chirp!"

A loud call resembling that of a bird rang out from Earl Arthur's lips.

"Eagle Horn?"

Chen Mu recognized the thing Earl Arthur had blown. This did not come from the original owner's memories.

Rather, Chen Mu had read about it in books after transmigrating here.

One item called an Eagle Horn was said to produce this sound when blown, though Chen Mu was not entirely certain.

This was not his previous life. In this world, some eagle-like creatures had horns.

The next moment, countless people appeared on the previously empty training ground in a very short time.

What speed and discipline!

Chen Mu quietly marveled.

In just a moment, a neat black formation had appeared on the training ground below.

The first impression this black formation gave Chen Mu was coldness.

That was right—cold and mechanical.

It was as if those standing below were not people, but robots loaded with chips.

"There must be at least a thousand of them!"

Standing atop the platform and looking at the orderly formation below, Chen Mu spoke in astonishment.

There was a reason the Golden Lion Family had stood firm in the kingdom for three hundred years without falling.

"Exactly one thousand. Even the weakest among them are Quasi-Knights!"

Earl Arthur spoke calmly.

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