Book 4: Chapter 83: Another Encounter With Shiloah

Book 4: Chapter 83: Another Encounter With Shiloah

“Let me ask this again: Do you really plan on intervening? Judging from the skeletal dragon, the next attack by the black devils will be extremely terrifying. If we screw up, we’ll die too.”

Lesiah stood up and looked at Lilith in all seriousness. “We’re not the same as those titans. We’re outsiders and we have the choice to retreat. There’s no need for us to sacrifice ourselves over a battle that is nearly impossible to win.”

“......”

Lilith fell silent for a moment before answering. “Of course, I plan on intervening. The black devils’ comeback may have a lot to do with me. Although I like pushing my responsibilities, I know the boundary especially when it comes to life and death situations like this.”

“Are you really doing this out of guilt rather than sympathy?” The princess raised an eyebrow at her.

“Of course. You’re welcome to ask the other students in the academy if Lilith is such a kind person.”

“But I feel that you’re not the kind of person who’d feel guilty over your own actions.”

After all, Lilith only promised to make up to her out of embarrassment after doing something like that to her. There wasn’t even a shred of guilt in her.

Lesiah sighed. “You need to know that you don’t owe the titans anything. If it weren’t for your help previously, they wouldn’t have even survived those black skeletons.”

“It’s fine. I’m just going to give it a try. I actually value my life above everything so I’ll run if I can’t win,” Lilith shrugged casually.

Lesiah couldn’t contain her laughter at that comment. “You’re the only person who can talk about running away so righteously.”

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Lilith crossed her arms and smirked at the princess. “I was initially planning on releasing you as long as you sign an agreement to never disclose my real identity. But your wisdom convinced me that it’d be a waste if I don’t keep you around to be my personal strategist.”

“.....”

“By the way, are you missing any materials for setting up the traps?”

The sudden change of topic caught Lesiah off guard. She scanned her surroundings then replied, “A lot of them are readily available, but I don’t have many magic scrolls left with me. They are the most important material for the traps.”

“Magic scrolls...”

The corner of Lilith’s mouth twitched before she heartachingly dumped a mountain of magic scrolls out from her storage ring. “I’ve only got a little left...”

“... Little?”

Lesiah stared at the mountain of magic scrolls that was about her height while secretly wondering about Lilith’s understanding of the adjective she just used.

“That would suffice. They will stall even opponents that are on par with the skeletal dragon for a good amount of time.”

“Glad to hear that.”

Lilith looked up at the sky. “It’s getting late, let’s hurry.”

Right after saying that, she took Lesiah’s hand and pulled her into the depths of the forest. Lesiah blushed slightly and tried to shake Lilith’s hand off. However, she soon discovered that her attempt was useless so she gave up.

Even so, she still seethed behind Lilith.

She took a deep breath, then turned to Lesiah who had been silent all this while.

“Can we bring these titans out of the Ancient Ruins?”

“Ohoho, of course not.”

Lilith’s eyes widened at the response as her heart nearly skipped a beat.

The voice that responded to her question wasn’t Lesiah but Shiloah, the strange man.

In a huge but dim room that looked like a church from Lilith’s previous life, there was a quaint dining table placed in the heart of the room.

The candlelight flickered. A strange eagle-headed human statue on the dining table cast a shadow over the table, like a swaying man-eating monster.

The odd-looking beast heads hanging on the wall of the room added a terrifying touch to the atmosphere.

Lilith came back to her senses and found herself sitting at one end of the table. Across from her, was Lesiah seated on the other end of the table. The princess looked just as bewildered as she was.

They were obviously ‘teleported’ away once again.

“Ohoho. Welcome, my dear guests.”

Shiloah stood at the side, dressed in a waiter’s costume. He bowed respectfully with a hand over his chest to his two ‘guests’.

If it weren’t for his horrible appearance, he would make a convincing professional waiter.

“What do you want?” Lilith asked warily.

She tried to get up, only to find that her butt seemed to be glued firmly to the chair. On the other end of the table, Lesiah was glaring daggers at Shiloah.

This strange man before her was the reason why she embarrassed herself and humiliated herself in front of everyone during that ‘kissing’ incident.

“Ohoho, don’t get so worked out, my beautiful Lady Lilith and your royal highness Princess Lesiah. I came with no ill intention this time. I only invited both of you here to apologize for my misconduct earlier.”

“Apologize? Are you kidding me? I don’t believe your sudden change of heart.” Lesiah narrowed her eyes at him in suspicion.

“You guys were seriously trying to kill us just now. And now you strapped us to these chairs. Yet you still dare to claim that you came with no ill intentions?”

“Ohoho. It seems like the both of you have greatly misunderstood me. I really came with not even a shred of hostility this time. If I did, I would have struck when both of you were in a daze just now.”

Shiloah put his empty hands in the air to show that he was harmless.

Lilith and Lesiah exchanged looks with each other, then decided to stay put a little longer to see what the strange man had in store for them.

Shiloah twisted his neck at a very strange angle, then brought out two exquisite porcelain dinner plates out of thin air, complete with silver lids over them.

He performed a spin and skillfully placed the dinner plates in front of his two guests.

“A little something from me, I hope you will like it.”