Chapter 374 (2/2)

I sure as shi+t dug myself into a hole this ti Dawn fall in after him

Dawn didn't have Cloudhawk's supernatural healing ability, and her wounds were serious She was pale, almost bloodless, and with her equip but a soiled robe to cover herself Two Te

But it was her who sighed in relief when she saw that Cloudhaas ok She liled her hands toward hi as I' to worry about Doesn'tHe'll make sure justice is upheld!”

Phain's knife-like eyebrorinkled “Silence!”

Dawn looked back at the Grand Prior, and the fight drained out of her

Cloudhawk had heard of the Templars, of course, but beyond that he didn't know very much about the Order at all It was obvious by the looks of things now that they were a very important player in Skycloud

Obviously there was a reason the Te, nearly all of the relics used by Skycloud's demonhunters canificent tools and equipment that made this land so prosperous came from them as well

In a way they could be described as a liaison – a bridge between the Eylsian lands and Sumeru, the mountain of the Gods They controlled the bounty the Gods bestowed As such, even though the Temple did not involve itself in the day-to-day aduable its most important party

Had the tragedy that fell upon Skycloud stirred the Temple?

Cloudhaas brought to theoverhead and beyond the reach of uarded by a contingent of Seraphs, silently standing at attention along the hallways Standing there, unuishable from statues Each one was over three meters tall

Seraphs weren't uards, of course They were the protectors and repairers of the city Although the disaster had clais would be back good as new in seven days

These puppets, bri with the powers of creation, were i as they remained within the domain

Cloudhawk had only just entered the Teer wash over hi of incredible strength He lifted his head, and there before the doors – nearly threeani like it, the creature was utterly fantastical

Its body looked like it had been chiseled frole block of spotless white jade If not for the steady movement of its chest as it sluid air from its nostrils, Cloudhaouldn't have believed it wasn't some kind of sculpture

Its appearance was solance Its streamline body was sleek and powerful, and blanketed by a pair of wings which also looked like they had been , thick tail was covered in scaled like a fish, and refracted the light Even asleep, itsin their boots

He also felt the resonance of a relic This was no ordinary creature

A divine beast A very strong divine beast

Cloudhawk's Te the jade creature, yet it sensed so as they passed Its deep blue eyes rolled open and before anyone kneas happening, it leaped down fro platform

The area was i cold Several of the Teered back

A biting energy washed over Cloudhawk and he looked up at the beast whose head alone was nearly half his size It peered down at him, and he looked back at it, man and beast separated by perhaps twenty centimeters Ice started to accumulate on Cloudhawk's eyebrows and hair

What's going on?

Phain walked over to the creature “It's alright, Anih Priest”

The creature stared at Cloudhawk for a long tience in those eyes If it could speak it would express its bewilder beside the door

Phain turned his eyes briefly toward Cloudhawk and spoke in a flat voice “This is the jade guardian, protector of the Temple It has protected our halls for a th, and a preternatural ability to sense trouble”

Cloudhawk didn't understand

“Simply put, if there really was a weapon or Dark Atom plot that threatened the Temple, it would tell us In all its years of service, that alarm has never been raised”

It was a roundabout way of saying that Cloudhawk's claier were lies

This power and the beast that bore it was unknown to Cloudhawk, of course Even Dawn had never heard of it Of course if it had never used this power in a thousand years, who really knew if it was true or not? But so far there was no proof of Cloudhawk's fears for city-wide destruction And whether or the not creature sensed it, it sure seement was flawed

The large double doors granting entrance to the Temple slowly opened

Cloudhawk figured he had gotten himself into serious trouble, but not to the point where the Teet involved He didn't knoaited for him on the other side of those doors

Maybe some people were just not destined to play the hero

Cloudhawk kneell He had a destiny, but it had nothing to do with being a hero Whatever it was, he never would have guessed this is where fate would bring him

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