It had been some time since she returned to the King's Castle. Lulunaka would not stay in the corner of the city like a reclusive old man. She liked to mingle in places with a lot of people and use her cute face to make people let down their guard. Then, she would listen to the residents of the city and see if there was anything interesting.
Regarding the rumor that there was a treasure underground that had never been seen before, it was not something that the residents of the city cared about. Only some of the adventurers who had just started out would be interested in this kind of thing.
This city was too old, so old that the rumors about the city itself were not new.
But if it was Lulunaka who said it, it was almost ninety percent true.
That's right, there was a treasure underground. This was ninety percent. The other ten percent was that this treasure was not what people thought it was. It was gold, silver, treasure, or even a divine weapon.
That thing was a little complicated. If an ordinary person saw it, they would probably only think that it was a rare thing and definitely not worth a lot of money. However, an ordinary person would not have the chance to see that thing at all. If they were to get close to it, they would probably be burned to a crisp. After all, it was a very "lively" thing.
That thing had no value to an ordinary person, but to a mage, it was not necessarily so.
Lulunaka was very clear about what kind of existence a mage was.
In the eyes of the Holy See, a mage was a taboo. In the eyes of an ordinary person, a mage was a symbol of power and terror. In the eyes of the rich and powerful, a mage was a useful aide … Lulunaka's view was a little different.
The so-called mages were people who thirsted for knowledge and magic. However, she preferred to call these people crazy.
Lulunaka was tired of lying in the water, but now the water was very high and there was no place for her to stand. Even if she turned around, she would just change her position and continue to lie in the water.
If there was any difference between her and a floating corpse, it would probably be that she did not become bloated.
She did not care about the fact that she was completely soaked. When she vomited water, she felt that it was more fun than disgusting. Or rather, she did not think that there was any problem at all.
After lying in the water for a while, Lulunaka seemed to have thought of something and muttered to herself, "Does this count as me saving the kind Marina …"
She began to remember what had just happened.
There was a reason why the snake guards didn't chase after them when the water rose and they escaped.
The snake guard was faster in the water. After they ran away without looking back, just as he was about to chase after them, his upper spine was grabbed by Lurunaka's small hand.
Lulunaka's small hand couldn't grasp that thick and white bone, but Lulunaka didn't intend to do so. She reached out just to crush the spine.
Even if it was a skeleton that had no flesh and no nerves, having a part of its spine crushed would still cause a lot of problems.
Its upper body fell off from its tail and split into two.
Its upper body crawled forward, and the tail of its lower body flapped and rolled in place. It looked like an enlarged gecko's tail, but a gecko's tail was not so long and thick, and it did not have bones.
Lulunaka did save Marina and the others. The snake guard did not come for Lulunaka. She just happened to be in front of it.
If Lulunaka were to say, Marina with the magic book was like a blind person holding an oil lamp in a cemetery at night. She did not know where she was and how fatal her actions were. The blind person walked in a cemetery full of dead souls, while Marina walked in the sewer with the magic book.
Marina might have been cautious and careful enough, but Lulunaka felt that she did not do well enough. The person who gave her the magic book might not have taught her well. Some things not only had to be done according to one's ability, but also had to figure out what level one was at, and whether one could follow the instructions to the legendary treasure … Marina did not seem to realize this.
And the result was that Lulunaka sacrificed her pitiful "life" so that she and her companions could escape.
So, was she blaming Marina?
Of course not. Since Marina and the others gave her a lot of fun, and also let her know that even in this era, when legends no longer attracted people, there would still be people who would rush to the underground "treasure" without caring about the consequences. Then, Lulunaka's disguise along the way was worth it.
It was not that there were no surprises. For a mage like Marina, it was a small surprise. Unfortunately, she was not careful enough, and her strength was not too good. But for a wandering mage, it was already very good.
As for whether Marina would have any psychological burden because of Lulunaka's "death", and become uneasy because of it, these things were not something that Lulunaka was interested in.
Sometimes, if Marina did not learn how to face the death of a "weakling" like her, then she would not be able to be a real mage. Being emotional and thinking with emotions was not something that a mage should do.
But Lulunaka, it was not that she had not met such a human mage.
"Hmph … I thought of something unpleasant."
Lulunaka's mood visibly worsened, probably because she thought of something that made her very angry. And these things happened in the King's Castle, there was nothing more unpleasant than this.
She lay on the rising water for a while, then she remembered that she could not continue to lie on the water like a floating corpse. She did not want to spend the night in such a broken underground, it was cold and dark, it did not make her feel comfortable at all.
She turned over, and dove into the water with her head down.
Her body was twisting, her posture was as graceful as a mermaid, and she swam into the depths of the reservoir. But she did not have a beautiful scaly tail like those Sirens, she only had a wet cloak that stuck to her body.
She breathed in the water, opened her eyes and looked forward. Her body seemed to be tied to a few stones, and she was sinking quickly.
The water was too murky, so she took out a glass bottle from her bosom.
That slender tubular glass bottle was completely sealed, she could not see where to open it.
There was a bright white liquid in the bottle, and the light from the liquid illuminated Lulunaka's surroundings.
When the surrounding water became clear because of the strong light, Lulunaka's surroundings were simply hell.
There were all kinds of skeletons floating in the water, and schools of strange fishes.
The skeletons did not move much in the water, but those fishes with sharp teeth gathered together and turned into a black belt, surrounding Lulunaka.
These strange fishes did not swim over to bite Lulunaka, this fresh body of flesh and blood, but they kept circling around her, as if Lulunaka was the center, the head of the fishes.
The school of fishes circled around her, the circle became more and more scattered, and finally became a sparse circular belt, which was left behind by Lulunaka.
Even if the fishes did not have intelligence, when facing a stronger creature, when facing the fear of death, they would also escape.
Those scattered skeletons around could not do anything to Lulunaka. They were not fishes, nor were they special skeletons like the snake guards.
Lulunaka sank straight down, and it took her some time to reach the bottom of the reservoir.
The hazy white light enveloped her, and when she landed at the bottom of the reservoir, she stepped on the ground, stood under the water, leaning on her cane, and looked around.
It was impossible to make a sound in the water, but after seeing the surrounding scene, Lulunaka spat out a few bubbles, looking quite happy.
The place she was in was not an environment where a person could laugh.
Piles of bones covered the bottom of the water, and the bones of different thickness and length were stacked layer by layer, even the floor could not be seen.
Lulunaka stood on the bones and walked. Occasionally, a skeleton hand would reach out from under her feet and grab her ankle, wanting to pull her into the pile of bones to accompany her.
Lulunaka only needed to gently step down, and her whole body floated in the water, and the skeleton hand was pulled out. As for the original owner, she continued to stay in the pile of bones.
Lulunaka soon found what she wanted.
It was a passage blocked by bones. She spent some effort to clean up the piles of bones in the passage, and then jumped into the passage, falling into the passage, and soon disappeared.