Book 4: Chapter 107: Temperature Rising

Book 4: Chapter 107: Temperature Rising

Lilith couldn’t help but sigh after hearing Lesiah. “I didn’t expect you would discover my long-hidden identity. As expected of the princess of a country.”

“What the heck. The enemy already recognized you, Lady Lilith. Naturally, she would know as long as she isn’t blind or deaf... Hey, hey... what are you trying to do, Lady Lilith?”

Lilith took out the broken dagger. “There’re quite a lot of skeletons in this world. I’ll just stick your real body into one of them, then you can spend the rest of your life with it.”

“NOOOOOO!!” The artifact spirit quickly snatched her real body from Lilith and hid it in her arms protectively, trembling in a corner tearfully.

“Please spare me, Lady Lilith! I swear I’ll never criticize your wife again, please have mercy on me...”

“Hm? What wife?”

“No, no. I mean I’ll never criticize your... best friend. Yeah, your best friend. Please spare your humble servant.”

“Hmph, I’ll let it slide this time.” Lilith glared fiercely at Sae. “If it happens one more time again...”

She made a gesture of sticking the dagger into something threateningly.

“Isn’t that a little too much for you to treat Lady Sae that way?” Lesiah couldn’t help but come into the artifact spirit’s defense.

“Lady Sae?”

Lilith threw a glance at Sae. “It would seem like she had flaunted her identity as an artifact spirit to you. Don’t let her deceive you. She’s nothing more than a stray ghost who could no longer function as an artifact spirit without a new physical body. You’re giving her too much credit by calling her Lady Sae. Might as well just call her Good-For-Nothing-Sae.”

“Lady Lilith, you’re going overboard! Is that how you’re supposed to treat me after I saved your *** so many times in the past?!”

“You want me to be nice to you? Sure.”

Lilith continued emotionlessly, “Tell me everything you know and I promise I’ll treat you with the same respect I have for my ancestor.”

“Ugh...”

Sae held her head and fell silent.

Lilith snorted then turned to Lesiah.

“By the way, don’t tell anyone that I’m a dragon. Otherwise I won’t be able to keep up with the masquerade in the academy.”

“Academy? You’re planning to stay in St. Caroline Academy?”

“Yeah. I’m learning the dragon language there.”

“Dragon language?”

Lesiah looked at Lilith in confusion, like she’d just seen a drowning fish or a bird with acrophobia.Finnd new chapters on nove/lbin(.)com

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“By the way, where are we...?”

“I don’t know, My short-distance teleportation sent us to a random location. I only know that this seems to be a castle, and a terrifyingly huge one,” Sae spread her arms to emphasize her point.

“Castle...?” Lilith stroked her chin in deep thought. “Since this is a castle, there should be many goodies in here.”

“Who knows. But I think this castle is probably overrun by monsters that can easily swallow a human whole.”

“Haha, don’t be so negative... What if there are really treasures but we missed out just because we are sitting around wasting our time?”

“You’re not thinking of making us go out now to die, are you?” Lesiah cautiously asked as her keen senses could read Lilith’s thoughts.

“Of course not. We’re going on a treasure hunt. A treasure hunt! Who said anything about dying?”

“But those weirdos are looking for us everywhere. If we were to go out like this, the probability of us being discovered is much higher than hiding in this room which is protected by a barrier that I’ve set up. I won’t be able to help all of you escape if you all get caught again.”

“But then...” Lilith looked at Sae. “No matter how sophisticated your barrier is and how low the probability of getting discovered is, the enemy will eventually find us if they searched every room. So in that sense, the probability of getting discovered by staying here is a hundred percent. But if we go out and actively search for places to hide while hunting for treasure, there’s still a chance we might not be discovered. To gamble on this chance or not, I’ll leave it to you two...”

“......”

Sae thought for a moment. Lilith did make a valid point.

“Fine, let’s do it your way, Lady Lilith. In any case, I don’t think I have much decision-making power here.”

After saying that, Sae returned to the broken dagger which flew back into Lilith’s storage ring by itself.

Lilith looked at Lesiah. “What about you? Are you going to hide here or follow me out...?”

The princess’ gut instinct and rational thinking both told her to just stay in this room. But for some strange reason...

“I’ll follow you.”

She was even surprised by her own words.

When she saw Lilith suddenly offering her hand, she couldn’t help but be wary.

“What are you doing? Are you trying to take advantage of me again? Let me warn you, I’m not going to let you have your way even if you’re the dragon princess!”

“What are you rambling on...” Lilith sighed in frustration. “I’m just trying to help you up.”

“Oh...”

Lesiah could feel her cheeks burning after realizing that she had mistaken Lilith’s intention. Even so, she placed her hand in hers...

And it felt really warm.