mtlumby2d Chapter 496 The Eve Before Dawn
Chapter 496 The Eve Before Dawn
The duel trial was drawing closer, and there was still no news from Leila. Lilith was worried, and sometimes she couldn't help but show it on her face.
But Catherine comforted her: "After all, she is with her father. At least there is no safety issue. Maybe after the duel is over, Viscount Friar will let her go back."
Lilith nodded. It was all she could do. She came to the Rose Building to rest at noon and discuss the details of the plan with her friends. Unexpectedly, another guest came to visit.
There were screams coming from downstairs. Lilith and Catherine looked at each other, walked out of Catherine's office and looked down -
In the lobby on the first floor, some lizardmen were bending down one by one and squeezing through the door that was a bit too low for them, and entering the lobby of the Rose Building. Each of them looked ferocious and had an amazing aura. Some lower grade students who had never seen aliens were so scared that they hid against the wall, looking at them with fear and curiosity.
The white lizardman in the lead had his tail inlaid with crystals. As soon as Lilith looked at him, he immediately felt the gaze and raised his head to look upwards.
Oops, the creditor is here - Lilith scratched her head and sighed.
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"——Humans are indeed not trustworthy. From the first time we met, I knew you were unreliable."
In the conference room, the lizardman hissed mockingly.
"I'm really sorry. It's my fault for not teaching them well, but magicians always love adventure, Raphael. No matter what race they are, they are still children now." Simon folded his hands on the chair. There were dark circles under his eyes, and he looked like he hadn't woken up yet. His cuffs were also wrinkled, as if they had been soaked in water. "When I was young, I got into more trouble than them."
"...If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have made this trip, Simon." Raphael hissed. He had to admit that he could chat with this half-blood.
"——I thought they were here to lift the blood curse." Seeing their unfriendly attitude, Lucas covered his mouth and started biting Ian's ear.
"If anything happened to the elf, she should have been buried with him. What do you think the blood curse is? A joke?" Unexpectedly, the lizard man had good hearing and even caught the whisper. Lucas put down his meaningless hand in embarrassment.
The atmosphere in the meeting room was awkward. Catherine looked at Simon with an inquiring look, somewhat confused about the intentions of these lizard people.
"They came here hoping to join your rescue plan." Simon smiled at Catherine. "Raphael and his team are the most famous brokers in Blackstone."
It turned out to be support! ——Lilith immediately raised her head, her eyes shining.
"Although your self-righteous assurances are really stupid, I will not sit idly by and watch the elves get into trouble in order to punish humans for their mistakes. The Alliance is above everything else." Raphael hissed coldly in human language.
"...Wow!" Lilith sighed. For humans, the wartime alliance had long since collapsed, but it seemed that in some places, it was still working. These lizardmen were willing to take risks for the safety of their allies, just like...
"Hehe..." Lilith forced out an awkward but polite smile under the death ray from Raphael, trying to ease the atmosphere. "So this is what it feels like to fight together across multiple races. Does our current situation resemble what happened a thousand years ago?"
Catherine clearly saw that the lizardman shaman's small eyes were filled with great doubts... and speechlessness.
"Let's get down to business!"
"Good good!"
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The moonlight flickered behind the clouds. The hundred-foot-high walls of Highgarden still retained the warmth of the day. Fires flickered on the battlements above the walls; the guards on duty were chatting.
"Who did you bet on for tomorrow's trial by combat?" a voice came.
"Need I ask? Of course it's that Vientelai." Another lazy voice sounded.
"But I heard that Viente's swordsmanship is average, and he was only able to join the Knights of Light because of the influence of his ancestors." The first person spoke in a hesitant tone, as if he had not made a decision yet.
"So what? His opponent is just a little girl."
"The Taylor girl."
"It's still just a little girl, not Winston Taylor himself." The guard's voice was disapproving.
"Even if that person comes, it will be useless. He must be old now, just like Knight Russell... What sound? Did you hear it?" The guard who spoke first seemed to hear some rustling noises. He opened his eyes wide and looked around!
But I saw nothing.
"Where's that sound? You're suspicious of everything you do!" The guard looked down and saw only darkness.
However, just below their feet, several lizardmen hung in the shadows like geckos, their scales blending into the stone wall. After hearing the conversation above, the lizardmen below seemed to be frozen in an instant and remained motionless.
"...Did you hear it wrong?" the guard muttered.
"It's not you who's going to duel tomorrow, so why are you so nervous?" A colleague made fun of his friend's cowardice.
"I'm prepared to bet three months' salary on it, so of course I have to think seriously about it. Isn't there a possibility that Taylor's team can win unexpectedly?"
"You can try it anyway. Just don't ask me to borrow money if you lose everything."
As the two men were talking and laughing, a gust of wind blew by, and the moonlight happened to be swallowed up by flowing clouds. Both guards felt the torches on the parapet flicker, and when their eyelids flickered, they seemed to feel a dark shadow blocking the light.
"…Is it going to rain again? The weather this year is really weird." The guard felt inexplicably cold and sighed with his neck hunched.
"Yes, and there are wild grasses growing everywhere. Look, even on the city wall." The guard's toes rolled over the gaps in the bricks.
Neither of them took the strange vision seriously. Behind them, a group of lizardmen had crossed the city wall. The human royal city was before their eyes. Their forked tongues caught all kinds of strange smells, but they did not dare to be distracted at this moment. They still ran wildly along the shadows under the leadership of their leader.
When the hour struck, they were already perched on the beams of the bell tower. Raphael looked through the gap in the stained glass window and saw that the dueling stage in the central square had been set up. In the other direction, the white temple was so eye-catching and dazzling even in the night.
"As expected of the capital of the Human King Zora..." one of his companions sighed, "Can the human girl win the duel?"
"It's none of our business." Raphael said calmly, "That's just the signal to start the action. We just need to rescue the elves and don't get involved."
The companion did not respond, but coiled his thick tail on the wooden beam and closed his eyes to rest. In the blink of an eye, his whole body turned the color of wood and became one with the beam.
The Lizardmen lay dormant in the shadows of Highgarden, awaiting the trial by combat at dawn.
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