Chapter 1249 - White City (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lily had a magical talent. No matter how unlikely things were, she would come up with an idea and see it through. In the process, she would always be full of spirit and confidence. Nothing could frustrate it—just as she believed she would eventually find Mr. Landlord. Now, since the meatball could not return her braised pork ribs, Lily figured that it had to only be an imaginary monster. She did not need any reason to believe it; she just felt it.

However, her self-confidence had confused others. Calaxus looked at the alpha, stupefied, not knowing what the spare ribs had to do with the monster. But he reasoned that the alpha must have had a hellacious mental fight with the monster in the spiritual world, and the spare ribs might be the key in deciding the outcome of this battle.

Calaxus did not guess it wrong.

It took the templars sometimes to finally chained the smoke monster. Unlike the usual monsters, this meat shrouded in smoke looked like a mollusk. When it squirmed and struggled, the enchanted metal chains would not be able to restrain it. At last, Calaxus had no choice but to take out from his dimensional bag an iron cage filled engraved with runes and locked the monster in, and then use the Jailor’s Stone and the runic chains to secure the pen from the outside.

The high-ranking monk spat at the meatball in the cage. “The cage of Sukhto jails all evil things. A monster of Chaos like you should feel the honor to be a prisoner in it.”

Lily looked worriedly at the stone that was dangling outside the cage. “Does this thing work? It is a very cunning monster; it may have another way to escape.”

“The Jailor’s Stone is collected from the druses growing around the Jailor’s Columns,” Calaxus explained, knowing that the alpha knew little about the human world. “They are an extension of the power of the goddess of creation. No magic in this world can get away from its power.”

Lily nodded, but she did not understand it. She stared dead at the black monster, which lay at the bottom of the cage as if it had given up resistance. Recalling her adventure with Hao Ren, the knowledge she had gained from the pile of the service manuals began to come to mind. “Uncle, who are you going to send to guard this cage?”

Calaxus had given up to correct the alpha on how to address him. He shook his head and pointed at his two men around him. “Besides Kevin and Chris, who are powerful templars, I will also assign a warrior monk to assist them.”

Lily shook her head. “Let the bear monsters guard it.”

“Bear monsters?” The high-ranking monk did not get it. “You may not know; the combat strength of the templars—”

“Let the bear monsters guard it,” Lily turned her head and said again. Her golden eyes glinted with the slyness of the beast. “Because bear monsters don’t dream.”

“Don’t dream?” Calaxus was a little struck dumb.

“Not only must the bear monsters guard it, but the other people must stay away from the cage as far as possible while sleeping. Anyone who is found to be in a trance or dozing off around the cage, he must also be locked up with the Jailor’s Stone.”

The black monster in the cage decided not to pretend to be dead. It shrilled as if it was tearing the steel cage apart. “You goddamn bastard! Mortal! Where did you get this knowledge?”

Lily turned her head and smiled like a flower. “Mr. Landlord taught me that! He is amazing!”

When the alpha smiled, drops of cold sweat each the size of peanut were clinging on Calaxus’ forehead. He finally understood the intention of Lily’s arrangement. He could only feel a chill run up his spine. The man, Mr. Landlord, whom the alpha always mentioned had aroused his curiosity.

Lily did not say anything more. The alpha just shook her head and returned to her ‘throne’ without even looking at the terrible monster of the nightmare. In the mind of the high-ranking monk and templars, Lily had only become more mysterious.

Another night had passed. When the sun rose the next day, the joint forces of beasts and investigation team from the sanctum continued their journey. This time, they would pick up their pace and head straight to the southern frontier of Taros.

On the same morning, when the first ray of the sun shone into the room through the glass window of the airship cabin, waking up Hao Ren, White City had appeared on the distant horizon.

Hao Ren was neatly dressed and came to the upper deck of the airship. He saw the old knight Morian was standing on the bow with several guardian knights, while Veronica, who still looked panicky, stood behind Morian. It seemed she could barely cheer up.

“Hey, feel better?” Hao Ren asked as he came up to the princess. “At least you stand here enjoying the wind.”