Chapter 1283 - Building a City (1/2)

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

While Hao Ren was leaving White City with Lady Gloom to find the husky, in the southern part of the kingdom, a cloud of somberness was hanging over the high-ranking monk, Calaxus’ head.

Calaxus and the Alpha were standing on the towering wall of Fort Raven.

Since Calaxus last visited the weakened smoke monster in the dungeon, he had been mentally disturbed.

Lily had never seen her adviser having such a gloomy and nervous look. Even when bringing a group of survivors boarding the hot air balloon of the beasts and later crash-landing in the Black Forest, Calaxus had never displayed such a grave expression. But now the monk looked as if the world was coming to an end.

Perhaps the world had already ended in his mind.

“What the hell is going on?” Lily asked curiously. “Has what the ‘smoked meat’ said yesterday terrified you?”

“That thing is a Shadow of Nightmares. Never mind, calling it a lump of smoked meat is just fine.” Calaxus gave up to correct the alpha. He sighed, “What the thing said was a secret that only high-ranking priests and very few scholars could know. It felt creepy when this secret came from the mouth of a monster.”

“What secret?” Lily’s ears flickered. “Is it about Lockmarton crawling out of the abyss, or the prison officer has crossed over?”

These terrible words sounded so casual in the mouth of the alpha as if they never bothered her. Even Calaxus’ heart missed a beat when hearing that. Luckily that after spending all these days with the alpha, the monk had learned to adapt to the alpha’s style quickly. Calaxus took a few deep breaths and then quietly observing the alpha for a while.

After a long while, Calaxus decided to tell the alpha some secrets because, first of all, he thought that the alpha was just a naive girl who just came out of the wildland, it was not necessary to keep secrets from her. Secondly, the alpha possessed a powerful Light of Order, which reminded him of the legends of the children of God and stuff like that. Such a natural darling of Order certainly had the right to know certain things. Since the alpha had heard some of the secrets from the mouth of the Shadow of Nightmares, telling her more would make little difference.

“The world knows that the ancient evil giant Lockmarton is dead. The Chaos that remains in the world today is just his reverberation. But in reality, there is more than just an echo.” Colors drained from the high-ranking monk’s face. “In the Sea of Carnos, there is a forgotten abyss, where the evil thoughts of Lockmarton lingered. A prison officer of ancient times guards the entrance to the abyss day and night to prevent the spirit of the evil giant from returning to the real world and regaining his physical body. Alpha, I can only tell you these; any more detailed would be the top secret of Sanctum.”

Lily nodded slightly. She seemed not to care.

“Alpha,” the high-ranking monk looked at Lily curiously. “Don’t you think it is terrifying? If the monster is telling the truth, then this world is going to face a huge problem.”

“Everything will be okay,” Lily said, dismissing the monk’s concern. “You know what; I think I will find Mr. Landlord soon! Mr. Landlord is super awesome. He could easily bomb Lockmarton and his ancestors up into a million pieces. If we can find Mr. Landlord, everything will just be fine.”

The high-ranking monk was astounded as he looked at the happy alpha, feeling that she did not have a clue of what he was saying.

He sighed helplessly, feeling stupid to even explain this complicated problem to the clueless alpha.

He again thought of the monster in the dungeon.

The evil monster of Chaos that could communicate with people was shocking. Earlier, when Calaxus asked the monster from where it came, the monster stopped talking as if it was extremely cautious of revealing its real name and origin.

All this made him come up with many conjectures, of which no one was good.

“Uncle, what is in your mind?” Lily curiously asked as she noticed the high-ranking monk was silent as if deep in thought. “Are you hungry?”

“I am thinking of whether I should return to Sanctum immediately or continue our mission,” Calaxus said honestly. He felt it unnecessary to hide anything from the alpha now. “What the monster said was disturbing. I am afraid that something disastrous of a global scale is going to happen in Sanctum. But our mission is equally important and closely related to the survival of Sanctum, and by extension, of the world.”

“You haven’t said what your mission is.” Lily stared at Calaxus. “We have spent so long together during our adventure, but you have just told me you guys are investigators—you have not been honest with me. Don’t try to fudge around with me. I tell you what; I am not stupid!”

Calaxus seemed to have made up his mind and nodded.

“We come to the continent of Ansu, purportedly to investigate the changes in the Chaos and explain to the Kingdom of Taros the reasons for the withdrawal of Sanctum troops. But in reality, we are here to search for a light in the wilderness.”