vrcanaries Chapter 472 1 chance
Chapter 472 1 chance
When Catherine left the dungeon, the Knights of Light who were crowded in the narrow corridor moved to the sides. She was thin, so she could pass smoothly, but the hem of her skirt rubbed against the knights' armor, making a rustling sound that made people daydream. It was much more difficult for the others behind her and Lucas to pass, and they almost had to pull themselves out from between the sturdy knights on both sides.
Catherine stood outside the dungeon in the daylight, looking at the crowded heads inside, a gloom flashing in her eyes.
——There are still too many soldiers in Highgarden. The young crown prince's eyes flickered, and he raised his hand to touch the wall beside him, feeling the rough lines on it and walked forward little by little.
——If she wanted to do something, the number of troops here far exceeded her ability to control... She couldn't let them pile up here!
There were still people rushing over here in the front, and they saluted when they saw Catherine, but the princess just walked forward with a cold face, ignoring the knights. The knights of light looked at each other, but did not dare to ask. The princess now held the banner of rectifying military discipline and had been busy in the temple for a whole day. No one dared to offend her at this moment, for fear that they would be thrown into the dungeon behind her if they said something wrong.
Seeing Catherine coming straight towards them, they quickly moved to the sides of the road to let the noble princess pass first. However, someone noticed out of the corner of their eye that the princess suddenly stopped while walking.
"Your Highness?" Leila led Lucas out of the dungeon and now caught up with the princess.
"Let's go, let's go see your sister Lilith." Catherine suddenly said this, and then left with Leila and Lucas.
Just like a black blade splitting the Milky Way, the dazzling golden and white armors all moved aside. But after she walked away, one of the knights on the wall turned around and secretly glanced at the princess's back.
It's Woody.
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"Lucas!"
At the gate of the Ruvas mansion, Lilith rushed over as soon as she saw Lucas and dragged him around to look around.
"Hey, this one is just a minor injury! This one, hey, doesn't look serious either... Oh, I'm so glad you're okay!" Lilith made the following judgment after swinging Lucas around twice.
"Tsk, if you're afraid of getting scolded just say it." Lucas let her do what she wanted before sneering and mocking her.
"Hey, I'll treat you to dinner when I get back." After everyone gathered, Lilith finally felt relieved after a day of worrying about her. Now she smiled at Lucas with a guilty look on her face.
"...How can you laugh?" Leila, who came over from behind, was so angry when she saw her heartless look that her eyebrows twitched.
"I'm sorry that I couldn't bring him out the next day as agreed. There were just too many things to do." Catherine finally jumped off the carriage, her face full of fatigue. It was already Sunday morning, one day later than she had promised to bring Lucas out.
"I understand. You must be very busy." Lilith was now the most considerate person in the world. She was good-tempered to everyone. There was nothing she could do. She had made so many mistakes this week that she had fallen into a moral trough and couldn't climb out. She didn't dare to chat any more and led everyone into the mansion.
"We don't have much time."
The Highgarden team is now gathered in Margaret's study, seizing the opportunity to exchange information and discuss solutions. Ian glanced at the lizard on Lilith's wrist and said in a deep voice.
This sentence hung in the stagnant air of the study, turning into an invisible hourglass that turned upside down between the princess' brows. She lowered her eyes and stared at the table, her fingernails carefully tracing every inch of the topographic map of the Temple of Light.
"So, Lariel is in the Temple of Light, right?" Lilith asked directly.
"Very likely." Catherine nodded. Lariel's disappearance and King George's sudden visit, the timing of everything was too coincidental. Instead of looking for clues rigorously, she would rather trust her intuition at this moment.
"I think it's there, that dungeon..." Leila's face was filled with anxiety that could not be hidden. She was seriously injured by the magic restriction. Even though Princess Catherine gave her a healing potion, she still felt some pain in her body. She couldn't help but wonder how she could get the person out.
"Dungeon?"
"Yes, we found a forbidden door in the dungeon where Lucas was imprisoned. If we calculate based on the direction, it should lead to--"
"The temple where the king appeared?" Ian looked at Catherine.
"That's right." Catherine sighed softly. She was not happy to find out where Lyrael was. On the contrary, she felt a headache when she thought about where he was.
"Hiss! So what is the success rate of us sneaking into the Temple of Light, the most heavily guarded temple in the empire, and then taking away an elf from the most heavily restricted dungeon in the heart of the temple?" Lucas was standing in front of the basin rack by the wall, wiping his face with a wet towel. When he touched the wound, he hissed in pain.
The others fell silent, everyone knew that this was not an easy task.
Lilith also bit her fingers in distress. She knew better than anyone that the reason she was able to rush around in the temple with Angel the day before and finally successfully find Catherine was entirely because the guards probably never thought that someone would actually dare to cause trouble in the temple. This was probably the first time in thousands of years that such a situation had occurred. They were all stunned.
If it happened again, even if she met Woody again, Lilith would not have the confidence to say that she could still escape.
"There are too many soldiers from Highgarden, especially from the Temple of Light..." Catherine thought of the huge crowds of people who came after receiving the forbidden alarm. "I don't think we can try to rescue them recklessly. The temple has not yet linked your previous intrusion to Lyrael. If they really find out and move Lyrael away, we may not be able to find him again within two months."
Everyone's expressions became solemn.
"We may only have one chance, a chance that must succeed."
How can we lure away the soldiers stationed in the temple? And how can we take Lyrael away without triggering the ban?
The young princess lowered her eyelids. The curtains of Margaret's study were half-drawn. The slanting sunlight on her eyelashes sharpened like a silver blade. She was lost in thought and could not suppress the aura around her. Lucas, who was wiping his face, glanced at her and could not help but shudder. He seemed to see a person with full aura...
A superior, a...monarch.
Lucas pursed his lips and looked away, but this time he didn't say anything sarcastic.