Chapter 52: The Castle Owner's Identity, a Sixth-Rank Necromancer!

Because the castle's second floor is much smaller than the first floor.

Furthermore, of the four rooms, two are toilets and one is a storage room, so Su Hao completed his exploration of the second floor, taking less than an hour.

When Su Hao reached the third floor, the double-headed Stitching Monster had been chopped into four corpses, still wrapped in a blood-red light, not yet fully refined.

"Second rank is just slow; maybe once proficiency rises to mastery, the refinement speed will get a bit faster."

Su Hao glanced at it, then had Da Xiong Mao keep a distance of over ten meters from himself, and cautiously walked toward the passage opposite the stairwell.

Compared to the second floor, the third floor's area is even smaller, and on the wall directly opposite the Hall and the stairwell there is a small passage.

With the light from the awakening god's lantern, faintly visible, each side of the passage's walls had a wooden door.

After entering the passage, Su Hao first went into the room on the left, but as soon as he entered, he walked out expressionlessly.

This is another toilet……

Su Hao seriously suspected that the castle's owner probably really had poor kidney function.

Afterwards, he stopped thinking further, pushed open the wooden door opposite, which was also the last room in the castle.

"Huh?"

At the moment Su Hao pushed open the door, he suddenly felt as if something invisible and intangible swept over him and Da Xiong Mao.

Besides that, there was nothing else unusual.

After all, the castle's owner is likely a fifth-rank Supernatural expert, and this room is also the last room in the castle.

Su Hao could not guarantee whether there might be some danger hidden inside.

He gave Da Xiong Mao behind him a look, and only after Da Xiong Mao retreated to the edge of the Hall did he slowly enter the room.

When setting out from the shelter, to be safe, Su Hao cut off a piece of his heart and placed it on Da Xiong Mao.

Therefore, having him go in alone is the safest option; even if there really is danger inside, he would not lose his life.

After entering the room, Su Hao found himself in a living room.

To the left of the living room was a bedroom, containing an antiquated double bed.

To the right of the living room was a study, where a wooden bookshelf filled with books could be faintly seen.

Whether in the living room, bedroom, or study, the furniture was covered with a thick layer of dust, clearly indicating that no one had lived there for a long time.

"Whoosh——!"

"As expected, the castle's owner is not at home."

Although Su Hao had already confirmed this before the first entry, upon actually seeing this long-uninhabited room, he still couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief.

To avoid any potential danger, Su Hao still did not let Da Xiong Mao come in, but chose to explore this last room himself.

This room's area is very small, not even as large as Su Hao's shelter.

It didn't take much time for Su Hao to thoroughly explore the living room and bedroom.

Unfortunately, Su Hao did not find anything useful inside.

However, he was not too disappointed, as usually the owner would place important items in the study.

"I hope it can give me another surprise!"

With anticipation in his heart, Su Hao rubbed his hands together and walked into the study.

The study is about fifteen square meters, its layout very simple; on the left side of the wall by the door stands a wooden bookshelf filled with various books.

In front of the bookshelf is a desk of the same material, and the rest of the space is empty, with not even a decoration.

On the second day of the uncanny descent, Su Hao had previously explored a similar study, so his first action was to go to the desk and open its drawers.

However, the drawers were all empty, and Su Hao found nothing.

"No way, this looks like the castle owner's master bedroom—how could there be nothing at all?"

Looking at the three empty drawers, Su Hao couldn't help but frown.

"Huh? This is……"

But just then, in his peripheral vision, Su Hao saw a sheet of paper on the dust-covered desk, as if something were written on it.

After shaking off the dust, the content on the paper appeared before Su Hao's eyes.

However, the text on it was not earthly script, which Su Hao did not recognize.

But when Su Hao's gaze fell upon the paper, the text suddenly emitted a faint psychic power.

The next moment.

Although Su Hao did not recognize the characters, he could understand the meaning expressed.

"Unknown Adventurer, hello, I am the owner of this castle, a sixth-rank necromancer—Andrew. When you see this letter, I have already returned to the embrace of my god."

……

"Hiss——!"

"A sixth-rank Supernatural? The castle's owner is actually a sixth-rank Supernatural!!"

Upon seeing the first sentence, Su Hao couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air.

In his previous life, he had only occasionally heard rumors of fifth-rank monsters, which were already terrifying existences capable of destroying a city single-handedly.

Then how terrifying would the power of a sixth-rank be?

I can't imagine it, I simply can't imagine it!

"Perhaps it cannot even be considered a creature in the conventional sense."

Su Hao sighed and continued to look at the remaining content on the paper.

"I don't know who you are, but having passed the detection at the entrance, you are able to enter this room—either you are a Supernatural below second rank, or you are a Supernatural of sixth rank or above."

"If you are a Supernatural of sixth rank or above, this little trick would surely not escape your eyes, so I won't waste more words."

"If you are a Supernatural below second rank, you can open the hidden compartment on the bookshelf and take the little thing I left behind."

"Of course, the premise is that you must obtain that painting on the first floor; careless people simply aren't qualified to take what I left behind!"

【Oh right, just to mention, the things inside the hidden compartment will automatically self-destruct after you leave this room—did you overlook that?】

【Hahaha, look at my memory, I forgot to tell you—if after you come in, the system detects the portrait entering, the items in the hidden compartment will also be automatically destroyed—surprising or not, expected or not?】

……

「I didn't expect you to be such a sixth-rank expert. »

After seeing the ridiculously tiny last line of text, Su Hao couldn't help but chuckle, his thoughts stirring as he took out a portrait.

Even during the previous visit to this ancient castle for exploration, Su Hao, holding to the principle of 'better to kill mistakenly than to let slip,' had collected the portraits on the first floor.

Back then he was thinking, carrying this portrait with him might come in handy during later exploration—he never expected it would actually be useful today.

Afterward, Su Hao went to the bookshelf at the back, and after some searching, he found a hidden compartment whose width matched the portrait exactly.

Click—! Click—!

After inserting the portrait into the hidden compartment, a pale magic circle appeared on the bookcase.

Immediately after.

With this magic circle as the center, the bookcase automatically slid apart to both sides, revealing a treasure chest made of unknown white bone.

Inside this white bone treasure chest lay a black notebook and a scroll made of rolled sheepskin.

Something that the castle's owner placed last and allowed only a single chance to obtain must certainly have special value.

Su Hao's face showed anticipation; he immediately took out the black notebook from the treasure chest and flipped through its recorded content.

Just like the portrait and the paper, the text on the black notebook likewise emitted a faint mental power the moment Su Hao looked at it, automatically translating the recorded content.

「This, this is the extraordinary sequence?!! »

Having just looked at one page, Su Hao widened his eyes.

This is actually a notebook recording knowledge about the extraordinary sequence!