Chapter 74 (2/2)
It was deathly silent.
“Then, venerable guest of the dragon race, may I ask for what you have come so late at night for?” The honorable pope finally said, testing him out, calm at the face of danger.
More and more people gathered behind the pope. All of them had come when they felt the terrifying pressure, many of them wearing a jacket, their hearts a bit uneasy and suspicious. A giant dragon actually appeared in the middle of the night here for something!
“Hmph.” Ben’s three noses snorted. He slowly lowered his heads at looked at the pope.
Everybody held their breath, putting up their guard. Was it time to fight?
But then Ben said seriously, “I was just passing by and chose to rest here on whim. This place is relatively spacious.”
Everybody looked at each other, all seeing that each other’s gazes were as incredulous as theirs and also skeptical of whether or not they were all dreaming. The pope’s face was also twitching.
Passing by? Resting here?
This kind of situation actually happens?
“Venerable guest of the dragon race, in other words, you have no intention of causing trouble?” The pope asked cautiously and politely.
“Trouble?” Ben said with surprise, then cried out with indignation, “What are you talking about? The goddess of light and the dragon god have always had a pact: we dragons can’t attack human cities whenever we want. How can I do something that will shame our dragon god?” Ben said emotionlesly.
Ben was doing a word by word repeat of what Claire told him to do to stall.
Everybody had a puzzled expression. Perhaps this powerful black dragon really was just passing by? Could something so fortunate really happen?
The pope was also puzzled, but so long as the dragon didn’t come to cause problems, then it was fine.
Currently, Claire had already secretly infiltrated into the temple of Light from a different side. Just as she suspected, basically everybody was drawn to Ben outside. A dragon, such a grandiose being, had always never had any contact with humans. They were a symbol of strength and fear in human’s hearts. But now one had suddenly appeared at the temple of Light’s entrance. How could people not be astonished? Their first reaction was that a powerful enemy had appeared and they needed to go and fight against it. Naturally, this side was now more vulnerable.
Claire silently landed, hid her aura, and then followed down the corridor of white jade, stealthily walking in. The enshrined treasure was inside, behind the main hall.
As expected, she didn’t meet anybody the whole way. The Temple of Light was really arrogant. In their eyes, no person or power could contend with them. Who would have thought that the giant dragon at the entrance was purposely arranged by someone to attract their interest? And who would have thought that there was a person who would actually dare to secretly go into the temple and steal something?
Claire went agiley the whole way, like a demon, not letting anybody detect her.
It was close. The main hall was right in front of her. Claire pulled out the invisibility cloak that Cliff gave her, quietly draping it over her. Her figure instantly disappeared.
The main hall was brightly lit, splendid and grandiose. This place would always be filled with light, a giant magic light hanging from the main hall’s ceiling, the surrounding walls filled with many small magic lamps. At the very top of the main hall was the depiction of the goddess of Light. The carved depiction was extremely life-like, the goddess looking so holy, so solemn and inviolable.
In front of the depiction was a bright barrier covering a pretty object in the shape of a conch shell. It was probably the treasure Walter said could give rebirth to a spirit.
Claire squinted and looked carefully, slowly approaching the magic barrier. If it was like Walter said, then the barrier would be very weak. What she needed to do right now was not alarm anybody, quickly get rid of the barrier, and take away the treasure.
Claire read the barrier’s undulations with rapt attention. Right at that moment, the sound of footsteps suddenly appeared outside along with a crisp voice that Claire recognized. “Elder sis Qing, quicker.”
“Xuanxuan, slow down, you can’t run like this. Be careful with your body. If your elder brother knows I allowed you to get up in the middle of the night to see a dragon, he’ll get angry at me.” Liuxue Qing’s voice came, her tone blaming yet spoiling at the same time.
“It won’t happen, I’ll talk to elder brother, of course elder brother won’t.” Xuanxuan Leng giggled. “I miss elder brother. Does elder sister Qing miss my elder brother?”
“You child, what are you talking about?” Although Liuxue Qing said this, her tone was bashful and happy.
“Elder sister Qing~~~” Xuanxuan Leng’s voice became closer and closer.
Claire stopped her movements and hid her aura, wanting to wait for them to pass and then make her move.
When Liuxue Qing and Xuanxuang Leng passed through the main hall, Liuxue Qing suddenly stopped, frowning slightly, turning to look towards the enshrined treasure underneath the depiction of the goddess of Light. She kept on feeling like something was off.