[The ’East Garden’ has far fewer patrolling samurais than the ’Inner Garden’. On your way here, you saw only a few standing guard.]

[However, this isn’t surprising. The ’East Garden’ is under the control of the great general. Who would dare intrude upon the ’East Garden’, thus risking their lives?]

[From what you know, when the great general first united ’Sakura fall’, and moved into the imperial palace, several would-be-assassins from the old daimyo continually infiltrated the palace. However, none of them managed to escape the ’East Garden’ alive.]

[Ninja assassins continuously rushed forth, their corpses and spilled blood fertilizing the imperial garden. To this day, the general remains undefeated, and assassinations haven’t happened for a long time...]

[Without attracting any attention, you successfully arrived at the ’Pavilion of Modern View’.]

[The building in front of you, named ’pavilion’, is, in fact, a palace. Its design is similar to the other buildings within the ’East Garden’, devoid of ornate decorations, which makes it look exceedingly simple.]

[Two samurais stand guard before the front door of the’ Pavilion of Modern View’. You quietly sneak past them and infiltrate the palace through a window on the side.]

[After entering the ’Pavilion of Modern View’, you see rows upon rows of bookshelves, and the rich smell of ink wells up in your nostrils.]

[Looking around, you see numerous bookshelves neatly lined with elegant Sakurawood book boxes. Each box contains several books, lined with cardboard and bound by silk ribbons.]

[Every different type of book is wrapped with corresponding colored silk for decoration.]

[Haphazardly, you pull out one of these lush book boxes, and flip it open...]

[The box’s card encloses around ten different book titles and serial numbers, along with the colors corresponding to the category of the book.]

[To find a certain book, all you need to do is look at the box’s color and its adjacent serial number.]

[After browsing through several book boxes of different colors, you find out that historic books are stored in the blue boxes.]

[You arrive before a bookshelf that is filled with blue boxes, a total of forty-eight boxes on this shelf alone.]

[You have two more bookshelves like this one. Even if all the books are systematically classified, it would still take a lot of time to find a specific period in history.]

[Time is running out swiftly and you must find the documents you need before the great general returns.]

[Quickly, you start pulling out boxes upon boxes, flipping through the books...]

[Searching...]

[The historical books cover a great deal. There was the lifetime and political achievements of several generations of Sakura fall emperors, stories about the rise and fall of major clans, and also records about important figures...]

[Even after browsing the three bookshelves, all one hundred and forty-four different boxes, you found no record of the War of the Gods.]

[Every historical book only records the history after the war. It seems that every text concerning the War of the Gods has been deliberately removed.]

[You suspect that there is a hidden mechanism within the ’Pavilion of Modern View’. The great general has concealed all of the books regarding the War of the Gods. Even if someone sneaks into the ’Pavilion of Modern View’ they would be unable to uncover the truth...]

[Do you want to search for the hidden mechanism carefully?]

[You begin running your hands along the bookshelves and walls, as well as every item within the palace, all the while in search of the concealed device...]

[Searching...]

[The palace houses countless books and covers a large area. To find a secret mechanism within this vast expanse, you would probably need to search tirelessly, day and night...]

As the seconds hurriedly tick by, Lin Xun watches the time slip away faster and faster, bringing closer the return of the great general. His heart feels maddeningly anxious, wishing that the clock could just freeze at this moment.

"No good, even if I keep searching like this until the great general returns, I still won’t find it."

"I have no choice but to resort to my last method!"

[You turn around quickly, carefully camouflaging yourself, and stride to the front door of the palace...]

[You suddenly pull open the palace door, startling the two guards...]

[A flash of a blade, and two heads are sent flying into the air!]

[You kick the two heads that were about to fall to the ground, back into the palace and drag the headless bodies inside as well.]

[Documentations about the War of the Gods must be extensive, surely not something that one or two volumes would cover.]

[Therefore, the location where the historical books of the War of the Gods were hidden should be quite large, perhaps something akin to a secret chamber.]

[You measure the exterior dimensions of the palace, comparing them against its internal dimensions, thereby assuring that there is no hidden chamber within the side walls.]

[You look up and estimate the height of the palace, and compare it with the ceiling you can clearly see from the inside, confirming there are no secret compartments overhead.]

[You firmly shut the palace’s front door, then stand at the very center of the palace...]

[You possess the body of the ’Earth Giant’!]

[You hoist the large terrifying ’Ancient Dragon Tooth Mace’ with both hands. The power of the earth flows into your body from your feet, and the power of the ’Tiger Beast King Belt’ amplifies your terrifying strength.]

[Your muscles bulge, you roar with fury and slam your weapon onto the ground at your feet!]

[A mighty roar reverberates!]

[The ground shatters and caves in, dust clouds pervade!]

[Once the dust settles, a large pit comes into view. It is filled with rubble and chunks of brick but among the debris, you can faintly make out a staircase leading down.]

[At the end of the staircase lies a secret chamber deep underground!]

[You possess the body of ’Fire Worshiping Heartless People’s Ninja Master’!]

[With a flick of your foot, like an arrow that’s been released from a bow, you shoot towards the underground secret chamber...]