The Mage: Grinding Experience from the Knight's Breathing Technique
Chapter 26

Excellent Quality, Giant Breathing Technique (Please Follow-up Reads)

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Excellent Quality, [Giant Breathing Technique] (Please Follow-up Reads)

Levi did not pay it much mind, only taking them for the remains of hunters who had occasionally gone into the mountains and been preyed on by the Wolf King.

He came to the cave. The cave was not deep, and there were many remains inside. Most belonged to ordinary people, and there were even quite a few children's bones. That damned beast had eaten no small number of people. No wonder people from his territory would suddenly vanish in the mountains every few years.

At that moment, the Three Brothers were all gathered around one set of remains, sizing it up curiously.

Levi came to the remains and found that they were unusually tall, visually estimated at over three meters. Most importantly, compared with the other remains, this skeleton was complete. The others were all shattered, skulls and ribs scattered across the ground, clearly what the wolf pack had left after feeding.

This skeleton, however, leaned intact against the cave wall, both hands held in the posture of gripping an invisible sword. It sat there upright, awe-inspiring without anger, like a king, its presence terrifying.

It had maintained that posture for who knew how long.

"This person was so tall. Just the skeleton is three meters. How tall was he when he was alive?"

Levi was shocked, but thinking about it, it was normal enough. In this world, heaven-defying things like breathing techniques existed, and many people were abnormally tall. Leaving others aside, Levi himself was only fourteen years old and already 1.8 meters tall. Once he finished growing, he dared not say two meters, but 1.9 meters would definitely be no problem.

So this was most likely also a knight who had died here for some unknown reason, and he had died naturally, not been bitten to death by the wolf pack.

Not only that, the wolf pack had also feared these bones. So although the other remains had already been broken to pieces, this skeleton was perfectly intact, bearing only the traces of time.

Levi also noticed that on the little finger of the skeleton's right hand was an ancient iron ring. On the iron ring were words from the Emerald Kingdom: "Mellon."

While keeping constant guard in case the skeleton turned into some Evil Spirit and harmed him, Levi also faintly looked forward to finding something valuable on it, such as a Treasure Map.

Unfortunately, he was disappointed in the end. After studying it for ages, he found nothing aside from the ring with Mellon written on it.

Knight Fred also came in. He gave the skeleton's condition a preliminary look.

"This should be the skeleton of a certain knight. Judging from how imposing it still is after death, he was very likely a powerful figure among Great Knights."

"I'd guess someone came here a long time ago and stripped away the armor and Knight Sword on his body."

Knight Fred said.

"Speaking of which, are the bones of a Great Knight worth money?" Levi blurted out.

He was too poor. Whatever he saw, he wanted to check if it could be turned into cash.

Knight Fred looked helpless. "That really mustn't be sold. Who knows what major forces or dangerous stories are involved behind this skeleton?"

Of course Levi knew that. He had only asked casually.

"But now that you mention it, in the history of the Emerald Kingdom, I remember the Black Serpent Knight once mentioned a Mellon Family, known as the Giant Family. Their family crest was the [Frost Giant], and they cultivated the excellent-quality Giant Breathing Technique. However, that family was destroyed eight hundred years ago by The Church's Radiant Knight Order for the crime of blasphemy. Could this Great Knight be someone from the Mellon Family?" Knight Fred suddenly said.

"Very likely. He was a Great Knight, and there's also a ring engraved with Mellon. It should be right. And eight hundred years ago, this place also doesn't seem to have been our family's fief. Our family only became the lords of Blackwater Valley two hundred years ago." Levi suddenly understood.

"Perhaps this person escaped from beneath the holy swords of the Radiant Knight Order, then hid deep in these mountains, not daring to show himself until his death," Knight Fred guessed.

"Then I have to see whether this person left behind any treasure," Levi said, and began searching the surroundings carefully.

In the end, after confirming that aside from possibly being the bones of a Great Knight of the Mellon Family, the skeleton had nothing special about it,

Levi lost interest and prepared to leave. Later, he could look through historical records and slowly study it.

However, Little Fatty seemed to have discovered something, his nose sniffing nonstop.

Then he locked onto a spot and excitedly started digging around the skeleton. Influenced by him, Little White and Little Grey of the Three Brothers also started digging, though they had no idea what was going on.

Now Levi became somewhat curious. He stopped. Seeing this, Knight Fred smiled and shook his head, then went out on his own to stand guard.

Before long, the Three Brothers had dug a large pit around the skeleton. Compared to Northern Giant Bears, Levi felt these three brothers were more like groundhogs.

"Clang."

With the sound of claws scraping against some hard object,

Levi's gaze was instantly drawn over.

In the large pit, an Iron Chest one meter square lay inside.

Little Fatty looked as if he was waiting for Levi's praise, gazing at the Iron Chest with complete satisfaction.

"Interesting."

Levi had not expected that this was how Northern Giant Bears were used.

He patted the heads of the Three Brothers, rewarded them with the jerky he carried on him, then called in a few soldiers. To prevent the Iron Chest from being some kind of trap or mechanism, he took Knight Fred and the Three Brothers far away and ordered the soldiers to pry open the chest.

"What's inside?" Levi asked.

"My lord, there seems to be a suit of armor inside... Whoa, my lord, there seem to be some Gold Coins under the armor! We're rich! We're rich!" the soldier shouted excitedly.

Levi was delighted too. Sure enough, this place was very likely the final refuge of this Great Knight of the Mellon Family. He had fled here with the family treasure, and in the end, perhaps because of serious injuries or some other reason, he had passed away seated here.

He was just about to go in and see how much money there was when he heard a soldier scream, "Aaaaaah! Damn it, this armor actually came alive! It's hitting me! It hurts so much!"

Several soldiers clutched their heads and fled out in a panic.

Behind them, a suit of armor with no one inside was currently gripping a soldier's Knight Sword in its Iron Gloves. With standard and superb knightly swordsmanship, it beat the soldiers until they were utterly routed.

"I'll do it." Seeing this, Knight Fred had no time to think about why the armor could come alive. He immediately drew his sword from its sheath and swiftly tangled with the armor.

One man, one suit of armor, going back and forth, the fight raging fiercely.

Levi subconsciously thought of Evil Spirits. After all, he was someone who had encountered an Evil Spirit before. As for armor being able to come alive, aside from encountering an Evil Spirit, Levi could not think of any other explanation.

Until he saw the Frost Giant pattern carved on the armor's chest, a figure standing between heaven and earth and breathing out cold air, as well as the word above it: "Mellon."

His heart stirred. While Knight Fred and the Knight Armor were locked in fierce battle, he rushed into the cave, came to the Great Knight's skeleton, and looked at the ring on the little finger of the skeleton's right hand, which was likewise engraved with the exact same word, "Mellon."

A bold idea came to him. He pulled the ring off the skeleton's little finger. Then, on the inner wall of the ring, he saw a row of very small words written there:

"Custom Magic Armor: Frost Giant—Produced by Witch Gulveig."

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