ebookland Chapter 475 Who is the Pig Teammate?
Chapter 475 Who is the Pig Teammate?
Lilith's journey back finally went smoothly. The three of them returned to school before the school gate closed on the weekend and reunited with their friends.
Lulu and her friends were currently in the greenhouse south of Gloria Castle, leading their junior classmates to tidy up the flower beds in preparation for planting new magical materials in the spring. After listening to Lilith's tortuous narration, they were all stunned and didn't know what to exclaim about first.
"Oh my God! Oh my God!"
Lulu was the first to remember something and screamed in surprise. Her hands were covered with fertile black soil, and she picked up the oak shovel and began to swing it. The younger students nearby curiously peeked in to watch, but were driven away by Jaina like chickens.
"It's them! It's always been them!" Lulu felt like she had discovered a big secret, and her words were all out of order. "It was them in Intina County!"
"What?" Lilith looked confused, as she was unfamiliar with the place name.
"Rumors about Intina County! Have you forgotten, Lilith? That year, we went to Fort Luvas with Senior Sister Qiong and the others after we ran away from Intina County, and we ran into Miss Margaret again." Lulu was very excited. "We felt that we were deceived by rumors when we were in Intina County. There was nothing there, only a bunch of Knights of Light. Senior Sister Qiong even laughed at them for being fooled and making a wasted trip..."
Lulu's face showed a horrified expression. "They didn't come here in vain. They were the ones who spread the rumor. At least since those years when false news was prevalent, those Knights of Light have been hunting elves in secret..."
She was almost frightened by her own words. She ignored the dirt on her hands and pressed them on her wildly beating heart. It was too horrible, too horrible. In the past, elves were just a symbol that existed in legends. But after seeing Lariel, she had a new understanding of this free race. They were no different from herself. If it was really as Lilith guessed, then what was the difference between this and cannibalism?
"Could it be that you and Catherine guessed wrong? Maybe, maybe Lyrael was just treated as an alien collection. I heard that some nobles always like rare things..." Hannah's face was as pale as Lulu's, and she was somewhat self-deceiving and fantasizing about the least serious possibility.
"I actually heard about the king from my family before I entered school. At that time, I knew that he was beyond medical help and was almost dying. At that time, I thought that Catherine would only take a year or two to ascend the throne. Not only me, but perhaps everyone thought so at the time, so many nobles secretly sent their children to Goletia to curry favor with the crown prince."
Lilith sat among a bunch of very strong poisonous pitcher plants. The leaves pinched her arms and opened and closed repeatedly, trying to taste the human taste. She looked a little silly. Lilith was thick-skinned and didn't care about them. She just recalled the situation in the High Court that Melissa had explained to her.
"But you can see that several years have passed, and Catherine will graduate soon, but the king is still alive and well." Lilith couldn't help but frown as she spoke. She had just been taught about the ways to prolong life by several teachers before the holiday, but she didn't take it seriously. After all, who would do something so inhumane and costly? But obviously, she still underestimated the evil of human nature.
"But if it is really as we guessed... can Catherine still succeed to the throne?" After hearing this, Jaina couldn't help but ask the doubts in her heart.
No one answered, or no one could answer. Only Lilith knew that the Bishop family was actually the descendants of half-elf, and luckily retained the gene for longevity. If this king really managed to stay alive by taking magic potions made by the elves, Catherine's road to becoming king would probably be extended.
But Lilith could see that the political power that a crown prince could wield was completely incapable of satisfying Catherine's needs, and her desire to become king was probably stronger than ever.
What would she do... Lilith simply leaned into the lush green behind her, controlling the wood element to linger around her body, not worrying at all whether those carnivorous plants would give her a "hug of love".
"Can we talk about something useful? I might as well go back to sleep instead of talking about this." Lucas ruffled his blue hair irritably. "No matter when Catherine succeeds to the throne, at least she will be alive and well. You should worry about yourself, Lilith!"
"Isn't it because I haven't thought of a solution and Catherine hasn't come back yet, so I talked about other things?" Lilith hummed as she collapsed among the flowers and plants.
"I don't agree to put all our hopes on Catherine." Ian, who was usually quiet, spoke for a rare time, looking at Lilith with gloom in his eyes. "No one knows how many elves the king has, how often he takes potions, and how much he uses at a time? Although it seems that we still have two months, what if he attacks Lyrael within two months?"
Ian looked at the bright red lizard on Lilith's wrist and couldn't help but touch the hilt of the sword, as if he had made up his mind.
"Don't do anything stupid!" Lilith immediately sat up from the poison pitcher plant upon seeing this, and confiscated Ian's sword with a levitation spell, looking at him with a vigilant face.
"Ian, you don't want to kill..." Jaina looked at him in shock.
"That's the worst-case scenario. It's not time yet!" Lilith waved her hands wildly at Ian, as if this could dispel the dangerous thoughts in his mind.
"I'm fine now, which means Lyriel is safe for now. You've also seen the defense strength of the Temple of Light, and you should know it better than any of us." Lilith tried to analyze it for Ian, the former Knight of Light who didn't seem to have given up. "Catherine is obviously waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity that can at least distract most of the Knights of Light, even if it can't make them all come out."
"Isn't this simple?" Lucas suddenly responded, attracting everyone's attention.
"Get some large monsters and throw them into Highgarden. The more the better." Lucas smiled maliciously, "Or we can just go to the east coast and steal some void beasts—"
"Lucas!" Lilith suddenly shouted, and Lucas was frightened.
The younger students who were driven away by Jaina to work at the other end of the greenhouse poked their heads out one by one when they heard the noise: Hey, are the seniors arguing?
"What nonsense are you talking about?!" Hannah simply constructed a small magic circle to block the curious gazes of the children outside. Inside the magic circle, Lilith was scolding Lucas.
"——How dare you say that!" Lilith used magic to control Ian's sword and smashed Lucas with a loud bang. "That's a void beast! A void beast! Even if there is only one, it may kill countless civilians who are unable to resist. They reproduce so quickly. Once High Garden is lost, the entire empire will fall immediately. Do you know that? What about our predecessors who have sacrificed all these years?!"
"Stop hitting me, stop hitting me. I just proposed an idea. I don't ask you to do it!" Lucas was beaten so hard that he ran away. Finally, he hid behind Ian who was silent and begged for mercy. "I said the wrong thing. I won't say it anymore, okay?"
"Listen to me. Based on my years of experience in completing group assignments, not making trouble is the best way to help." Lilith shared her own experience. What is the way for us passers-by to survive? That is not to be a bad teammate for the heroine!
"No matter what you think, I believe in Catherine." Lilith said seriously. Seeing Ian and Lucas huddled together, she was still not satisfied. She stepped forward and smacked each of them on the head, "Don't be a bad teammate!"
She was so mad, these two guys' ideas were more dangerous than each other!
"Get out! All of you get out! I have to help them with the work too!" Lilith kicked the two simple-minded idiots out of the greenhouse and closed the door.
"Stupid teammate? I am a stupid teammate? Who helped her rescue that Angie, that heartless woman! She even said she would treat me to a big dinner!" Lucas was still unconvinced and pointed at his nose to confirm with Ian, but it was obvious that Ian was not in the mood to play around at this time. He responded with a few random words and left the greenhouse silently.
"Tsk, it's still unclear who the stupid teammate is..." Lucas felt bored and went towards Mirror Lake muttering.
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"Tuk-tuk-tuk-"
The knock on the door sounded slowly, but there was no response from inside. However, the person outside did not give up and continued to knock regularly.
"Angie, it's me."
Daniel leaned against the door and his voice was gentle, but his eyes were dark.