CH 362

Several minutes ago

“Master, we’re here!”

On the streets of Nighttown, a cavalcade of carriages slowly stopped and a certain cute girl jumped off the carriage first and then turned around and carried a little girl dressed in white robes off and gently placed her on the ground. She then attentively tidied her clothes and took her hand to help lead the way.

“Phew, is this Nighttown?”

The little girl held her head and wobbled. almost falling over. It seemed her body still didn’t recover fully from the bumpy journey.

This time, several believers rushed over in front of the little girl and respectfully lowered their heads.

“Saintess, it was just as you said, the investigators departed early this morning and headed towards Wailing Canyon.”

“We were too late after all… I knew it.”

It seems the little girl already anticipated it, but she still pouted and was clearly unhappy.

“Brother and they must have departed with the other investigators, it would be too late to catch up now… sigh, all the bureaucracy really killed us, we were still late after rushing that much.”

The little girl shook her head, like an adult lamenting at society’s corruption and institutional deficiencies. This little girl was naturally Snow. The reason why she anxiously rushed to Nighttown was to catch her disobedient brother, but she was a step too late.

Actually, she would have been able to reach Nighttown two days ago, but they passed by a lot of cities on the way and as the Saintess, she was stopped by the local bishops. They all deeply expressed how they wanted to receive the Saintess and it was difficult for her to decline.

Of course, Snow was fully aware of their intentions… as bishops in remote areas, how could their bribes and authority compare to Snow from Winterless City? Since they saw the Saintess from a large city passing by, they surely wanted to flatter her and hoped to leech from her. Snow couldn’t really outright refuse them so she had to play along and wasted a lot of time.

“Master, what should we do? Continue chasing them?”

“Forget it, we’ll continue tomorrow, I want to get a good rest today… hm?”

As Snow was yawing and about to order Elona to find an inn, she suddenly noticed something strange.

“What place is that?” Snow pointed towards an inn across the street with a low voice.

Noticing how Snow was acting different, Elona also started getting nervous.

“Master, that’s an inn… what’s wrong?”

“Inn?” Snow stopped and felt her nose and whispered, “I sense a demonic aura from there…”

“Eh?”

Elona closed her eyes and carefully tried to sense it and also noticed it.

Not just them, the other believers more or less also noticed something. The atmosphere became more serious as they silently awaited Snow’s orders.

“You guys go get some rest.”

“Elona, take me there.”

“Yes…”

Elona obediently listened to Snow’s directions and walked her slowly into the inn.

It was a normal inn and there there was nothing unusual, the owner was also a normal auntie and there was nothing suspicious-looking.

The two of them followed the aura to the second floor and found the room containing the aura. Snow squeezed Elona’s hand, she understood and knocked on the door.

“Who is it?”

Elona and Snow both found that voice extremely familiar, and was surprised that the door was already open.

In that instant, Elona was completely dumbfounded.

“Aunt? Lin Xiao, and… eh? Little great aunt?”

“Uh… l-little what?”

Only at times like these, Snow would pity herself for being blind.

So… what the hell was a little great aunt?

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On the other side

The investigators already arrived at the entrance to the canyon and were prepared to fight to the death with the demonic beasts.

Although the demonic beasts were already sent back home, and the remaining demonic beasts were nothing without Adele’s command so they didn’t even have to worry and could just walk over.

But Lin Xiao couldn’t let others know that they already chased the demonic beasts away, so that’s why this farce had to continue.

“Okay, let’s go!”

Caesar called out to everyone and majestically set off.

This time, their preparations could be said to be surefire.

The thirty-person team was organized with Archer leading a small group of magicians that were protected in the center and several sentries in the surroundings to protect from an ambush.

The head of the group was obviously the brave Caesar and that pair of strange siblings…

“Yao Zi, Lin Tian, you’re magicians, you should stay in the center with Archer, leave the vanguard to me.”

“Uh… d-don’t worry, I’m very strong so it’s fine if I walk in the front.” Yao Zi had a bit of a guilty conscience but she still forced herself and stammered her way through.

“You’re very strong?”

“T-that’s right! I’m not boasting, but with me around, you don’t have to worry!”

“… Okay.”

Caesar squinted and didn’t understand where her strange confidence was coming from.

This girl was so restless just yesterday worrying about whether she’ll be able to control her power or whether she’ll cause trouble for everyone, so how did she suddenly get so confident?

Recollecting about the past two days, Caesar suddenly remembered a detail. Yesterday, Lin Xiao had a long talk with the siblings and seemed to have given them a certain plan of action. After that, Yao Zi became full of confidence.

What happened?

Caesar shook his head and knew that he should be more focused on the battle right now, regardless of what plans Lin Xiao gave her, it would be beneficial to them, so he didn’t bother with it anymore.

“Phew… Lin Xiao, you shouldn’t have lied to me, right.”

Yao Zi breathed out in relief when Caesar was finally dealt with.

Actually, Caesar was right, Lin Xiao did indeed lay out a plan of action before they left, but the plan was too strange, if it wasn’t because of her trust in Lin Xiao, anyone else would have thought he was joking.

“Brother, don’t screw it up.” Yao Zi quietly muttered to Lin Tian. She bit her lips and was clearly rather nervous.

“Sis, you should worry about yourself first…” Lin Tian also gulped. He held onto his sister’s hand while looking around, ready to start their plan.

Before leaving Lin Xiao promised that as long as they followed the plan they could easily finish the mission without any effort. They didn’t even need to fight.

It couldn’t be a joke, right?

Even though they didn’t know what Lin Xiao was planning, but Yao Zi and Lin Tian still decided to strictly adhere to the plan and put on a good show!

“Wait… stop!”

Lin Tian suddenly shouted.

“What? Is there an ambush?”

Caesar ordered everyone to stop and prepare to fight, but after a while, no enemies came.

Lin Tian noticed everyone’s suspicions and quickly supplemented.

“It’s a nocturnal lion monkey! They’re right in front of us!” Lin Xiao pointed at the distant forest and shouted excitedly, “I see them, they’re hiding on top of the trees and the cliffs on both sides, if we barge in, they’ll definitely jump them and ambush us!”

“Really? … But, why don’t I see it?”

Caesar tiptoed and looked hard in front of them, but he still couldn’t see any monkeys. He even lifted Rosie up and made her sit on top of him, but she couldn’t see any either.

“We can’t go further anymore, if the nocturnal monkeys are moving in the daytime, then there must be an ambush! We have to think of a plan!”

Lin Tian ignored Caesar’s doubts and shouted so that everyone could hear.

“Brother, you’re right! We have to think of a good way.”

Like she was purposely cooperating with her brother, Yao Zi didn’t shout, but she still raised her voice to the best of her ability so that more people could hear.

“Those monkeys are ambushing from a high point, so we can use that point against them!”

“Sister, are you sure? Then I’ll leave it to you!”

“No problem!”

The siblings were in perfect harmony and made Caesar and Rosie feel like they were possessed or something.

“Everyone calm down and stand behind me… watch this!”

Yao Zi took a few steps up and stood at the forefront showing everyone the figure of her back.

She took a few deep breaths and awakened her bloodline’s power.

“Seventh-level magic… Great Tornado Domain!”

Before anyone could react, a large-scale tornado started in the forest ahead.

“Sis, you’re amazing! Although the tornado isn’t too destructive, we can blow all those monkeys hiding up there down so that they fall to their deaths!”

Yao Zi was responsible for casting, and there was a brother responsible for explaining next to her.

Everyone also inwardly nodded when they heard Lin Tian’s marveling. Of course, they didn’t know that this was all part of Lin Xiao’s well-designed script…

“Not enough… watch this! … Seventh-level magic, Nine-headed Fire Serpent!”

Before the previous magic was finished, the next one was already on its way.

“Sister, you wanted to use that to burn all the unconscious monkeys on the ground, right? As expected of my sister… go, you’ll surely succeed!”

Other than the sound of the raging fire, there was also the sound of Lin Tian’s dedicated explanations.