Chapter 628 (1/2)
Rollie meowed a few times before she reached out curiously and grabbed the cat by its neck. She held it up and asked, “Which street did you come from? What breed are you? The pattern on your head looks so cool. I wish I had it too.”
She learned this from the MDT.
It was obvious that the yellow cat was not blessed by a golden apple. It looked at Rollie in confusion. She had a pair of ears like the ones it had, but she was very different in other aspects. Soon, it recognized the silly cat’s smell and language, realizing that they were of the same race; it began to show her respect—well, it was not necessarily because of her smell and language. Not like one could figure out the worldview of these cats. Even Hao Ren had yet to figure out how the strays in the Southern Suburbs got along so well with Lily.
“Doesn’t this cat fear you?” Nangong Wuyue reached down to scratch the yellow cat’s chin as she looked up at Galazur. “Where is your sense of authority? Ordinary animals should have jumped out of their skins in front of a dragon.”
“I don’t know why.” Galazur shook her head. “From the day it was adopted, it has never been afraid of any dragon. It even ran around my palace and snatched food from the dragon guards, so it’s famous around here. Dragons think it’s an interesting creature and come to feed it.”
Hao Ren also began to wonder if inspectors had some commonalities, that they would invariably encounter bizarre things. The big yellow cat was even more talented than a pre-transcendent Rollie. He patted the yellow cat on the head. “Does it have any special ability?”
The cat girl immediately lowered her head and meowed at the big yellow cat. She then looked back up. “It has no special ability. It’s just too stupid to feel fear.”
Everyone was speechless.
Galazur looked up at a golden disc that was hung at the top of the hall. “Well, let’s end this for now; it’s time to go out for a stretch. I’ll take you to Thunder Peak—that place is quite a distance from here. I’ll fly you there, and before that, I’ll give you a tour of my kingdom.”
With a twinkling, majestic sound, Galazur turned into a golden dragon and the palace’s heavy stone doors swung open. The dragon soldiers who were on guard outside the palace immediately bowed their head as the dragon queen emerged.
“I’m going out with these strangers,” said Galazur in a majestic voice. Her voice reverberated throughout the mountains. No one would have thought that she just had a mouthful of pork knuckles and stewed pork trotter a while ago. “Guard the palace; do not let anyone in before I return.”
A dragon guard saw the people behind the dragon queen: Hao Ren and the others were busily climbing up onto Galazur’s back. The young dragon was shocked. “My Lady, these creatures… ”
Galazur shot the guards a stern look. “They come from above and we have known each other for a long time. Ask no more about them. That is an order.”
The dragon guard immediately lowered his head in awe, before carefully retreating.
Galazur used her tail to help Hao Ren and the others up on her back. She then leaped up from the massive square in front of the palace and hovered over the air.
Lily lay on the dragon’s scale, looking down from the back of the dragon’s shoulder. She saw row upon row of palace buildings, all of which were not of human scale. Galazur’s palace was the most magical: like an oval-shaped nest floating inside a large cave, it was suspended by a dense mist of light with only a few thin air bridges connecting it to the distant cliffs. Underneath the palace was a sea of clouds.
Galazur told them about the place, that the lower part of Pyroxene Peak was linked to a different dimension. No human wisdom was able to pierce its secrets. Bards liked to write about the place, describing how all the treasure that the dragons’ family had collected over thousands of years lay underneath the clouds. It was a vast treasure house with enough to cover the entire land of the human kingdom in half a meter thick of gold. Bards: they were always neurotic.