Lord Protector Novel

Seeing that Zeke was about to venture deeper into the tomb, Old Skeleton started panicking and exclaimed, “Young man, come back! You can't go in there. There's something really scary inside! If you come back right now, I'll teach you everything that I know. I've thought about it. Since it's unlikely that I'll be able to leave this place for the rest of my life, I shouldn't bring my skills into the coffin with me and let them go to waste.”

“Don't worry. Even if you die, I don't think you'll get to lie in a coffin.”

Old Skeleton was speechless upon hearing Zeke's reply.

The more he tried to dissuade Zeke from exploring, the more the young man was convinced that there was something interesting in there. He became even more determined to find out what it was.

Shortly after going through a tunnel, Zeke arrived at a majestic underground palace.

Even though the ancient tomb was huge, every treasure that it once contained was already gone.

A stone platform was in the middle of the underground palace, and a crystal box was sitting on it.

As the box was translucent, one could vaguely see that there was an ancient manual inside the box.

Due to its age, the pages of the ancient manual had already turned yellow. Even the ink on the cover page had started oxidizing, blurring the words on it.

All Zeke could make out was the word “Pull.”

There was also an envelope placed on top of the crystal box.

Given the modern look of the envelope, Zeke guessed that it had only been placed there recently.

After the man picked up the envelope and blew away the dust which had accumulated on it, he was delighted to see that it was addressed to him.

“To: My Dearest Disciple, Zeke Williams.”

My Dearest Disciple, Zeke Williams!

Master Pietro left this for me!

Zeke could not help but wonder how Pietro knew that he would come here one day.

Feeling curious about the contents of the letter, he opened it at once.

“Dear Zeke, years ago, I discovered that there was a branch of the Netherworld here. As this is the most important place in our country, there's no way we could allow those filthy creatures to engage in vices here. As such, I led a group of spies and infiltrated that Netherworld branch, destroying it...”

Zeke finished reading the letter very quickly.

The main contents of the letter were about Pietro's discovery of a Netherworld branch and how he had destroyed it by leading tens of thousands of spies to infiltrate the branch.

They had also found out that the headquarters of the branch was located at the ancient tomb, which was where Zeke currently was.

But the strangest part was that there was no sign of any corpses in the ancient tomb. Instead, the only thing here was a manual containing an ancient battle technique.

It turned out that the ancient tomb was specially constructed for this manual.

From the epitaph, they got to know that the battle technique contained in that manual was a forbidden technique that was not supposed to be passed down.

As such, the creator of that technique had decided to bury the manual within the tomb, isolating it from the world.

After Pietro browsed through the technique, he agreed that it was neither suitable for him nor any of his men.

However, Pietro had somehow managed to predict that Zeke would meet with an obstacle one day, and this technique would be exactly what he needed.

As such, Pietro had left the manual here for Zeke to practice.