[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-i-ascend-to-the-divine-throne-through-arcane-mea":3,"chapter-i-ascend-to-the-divine-throne-through-arcane-mea-i-ascend-to-the-divine-throne-through-arcane-mea-chapter-927":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","I Ascend to the Divine Throne through Arcane Means",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},1087568,1419,"Chapter 927: 562: The Bones on the Throne","i-ascend-to-the-divine-throne-through-arcane-mea-chapter-927",927,"\u003Cp>Chapter 927: Chapter 562: The Bones on the Throne\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lis controlled his avatar and headed toward the City Lord Mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the night sky, the City Lord Mansion was extremely quiet; Lis observed outside for a long time without noticing any signs of activity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although it appeared somewhat grand on the outside, it was as lifeless as a long-abandoned haunted house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Using a spirit avatar for this exploration, Lis did not activate a stealth state to ensure there were no detection measures within the City Lord Mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He boldly walked across the street.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Up until he neared the edge of the City Lord Mansion, Lis’s avatar did not trigger any defensive or alert measures, nor did it come under attack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though Lis found it strange, he didn’t stop but continued controlling his avatar in the direction of the mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even when his avatar touched the stone wall of the mansion, Lis found nothing amiss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Strange…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lis frowned and controlled the avatar to use [Wall-Passing Technique] to enter the mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Piercing through the thick walls, Lis entered the dwelling that symbolized the highest authority of this small city.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lis controlled his avatar to look around. This seemed to be a room for storing miscellaneous items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A small portion of the room was piled high with tables, chairs, wooden ladders, and cleaning tools like brooms and mops.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lis touched the table beside him, glanced at the faint dust on his fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This level of dust didn’t seem like a long-neglected state.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, it’s a storage room, and it’s normal for it not to be cleaned for a while.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Lis couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he entered, the sense of eerie silence emanating from the mansion grew stronger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It felt as if no one had been here for centuries.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From his conversations with Old Milo, Lis knew that out of respect for the City Lord, Ihelos’s residents handled their own affairs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This meant, essentially, there wouldn’t be residents coming to the mansion to disturb things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Except during the annual Gur Festival, City Lord Ihelos wouldn’t show up in front of the residents, let alone issue orders.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But regardless of how you look at it, although the mansion was only three or four stories high, it took up a considerable area.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To maintain the day-to-day operation of the City Lord Mansion, it used to require dozens of servants,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it can’t possibly be that the Legendary Mage would do the work himself, right?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now the mansion, besides having no living beings, not even undead residents like Old Milo had any presence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Is the Legendary Mage Ihelos really residing here?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Or was he always near the Golden Coconut Inn?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lis wasn’t sure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In any case, this mansion hardly seemed like the stronghold of a Legendary Mage.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lis already checked; the City Lord Mansion had no detection or defensive magic arrays set up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even a simple spell like Wall-Passing Technique could be executed successfully, without any interference, worse than a magic workshop set up by a low-level mage, not to mention compared to a mage tower filled with various prohibitive magic arrays.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even human nobles without any extraordinary power would spend a fortune to hire mages for protective measures when building a castle, so there’s no reason for the Legendary Mage to be so negligent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Legendary Mage’s abilities might be comprehensive and powerful, but they are typically fragile, terribly afraid of being approached by professionals of the same rank or facing an assassination by a same-rank assassin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lis’s situation was merely an exception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even when mage professionals ascend to legend, this aspect won’t change much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not just Lis, even a Bronze Rank professional could freely come and go in the City Lord Mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lis stood in the mansion’s corridor, observing the situation around both sides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A few beams of bright moonlight sifted through the corridor’s windows, spilling onto the deep green floor, adding a hint of illumination.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>However, in the darkness where moonlight couldn’t reach, the deep shadows seemed like a voracious abyssal maw, hungrily wanting to devour any life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lis pondered for a moment and controlled his avatar to directly use detection magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With such a large mansion, searching little by little would take too much time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Why not use detection magic directly to find clues?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If a problem is discovered, it’s just an avatar, Lis could easily escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moments later, Lis received feedback from the detection magic, his brow slightly furrowed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he had sensed before, the entire City Lord Mansion contained no humans or undead, nor any traces of extraordinary power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was just an ordinary building.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lis paused, controlling the avatar directly to cast [Fireball Technique] at a nearby window.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bang!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sound of the fireball explosion mixed with the shattering of glass echoed throughout the mansion, like a stone thrown into a calm lake.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But what puzzled Lis was, though the disturbance caused by Fireball Technique was significant, it elicited no reaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The entire mansion seemed dead, with no feedback whatsoever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That shouldn’t be the case?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lis scratched his head, surprised by this unexpected situation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier at the Golden Coconut Tavern, when preparing to deal with Jue, Lis genuinely felt the intimidating presence of a Legend.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That definitely wasn’t wrong, nor could it be an effect caused by Legendary Items.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lis could still distinguish between these.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Exploring the mansion was a decision Lis made after careful consideration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was ready to trigger chaos, as he left a space mark on Taya when leaving the room, to ensure he could take Taya out of this secret realm immediately.\u003C\u002Fp>",933,"2026-06-03T10:58:39.543Z","2026-06-03T10:58:45.090Z",1,"novelbin.me","b06e1601a6c482fb76520bd3f8540626d2f20a15e33e7e43019d5f5ac9a1570c","i-ascend-to-the-divine-throne-through-arcane-mea-chapter-928","i-ascend-to-the-divine-throne-through-arcane-mea-chapter-926",1658,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fi-ascend-to-the-divine-throne-through-arcane-mea-cover.jpg"]