BXBX NOVEL Chapter 511 Infiltration (1)
"How could it be? Does that mean that the current owner of the nest is his offspring?" Calderon asked clearly if he was still disoriented by the words he was hearing at the moment.
"Unless your elder brother needlessly gave the nest to someone for an important reason, the nest would accompany him to death.
You know that the nest is a part of you and a testament to your identity so any dragon would never carelessly leave the nest to someone unless that someone is their offspring or family." Fabio explained patiently.
"Fabio, this is not right, we must tell father about this! We must see four ourselves if that person was our kin! Let's go to the Seirende Continent!" Shesha tugged Fabio's hand and anxiously said.
"..." Fabio did not answer right away. While it was no big deal for them to come to Seirende, he knew that the person they were looking for was currently on war. The only way to see him is to go to the battlefield themselves.
Calderon also said nothing, for it was his parent's decision whether to pursue the matter or not. As for him, he still needs to come to terms with the truth that he had an elder brother.
"We'll talk to father and mother in a while…" In the end, Fabio could only delay the matter to appease Shesha's emotions.
The matter of Calderon's family was slowly revealed, so the time for Eli and Kayden to come to the main temple approached.
With the discussion they had with the elder dragon and Emperor Valentin, Eli and Kayden heaved a sigh of relief.
"It's good that the Emperor believed what we have said and immediately sent more forces to quickly reinforce the battle in the desolate lands," Eli commented as they talked in the lounge.
"We are not to delay our matters. The sooner we resolve our matters with the main Temple, the sooner we can help Leon and the rest win the war." Kayden looked at Eli meaningfully, it was because their departure would also mean another important matter.
"But is your heart ready to live Little Han?" He asked worriedly.
"I can't bear to say I am ready… but I deeply understand that the more we delay, the more we will wait to see our fellow men fall in vain." Eli shook her head, sporting a defeated look.
"I understand…" Kayden could only rub his sister's head in comfort as he deeply sympathized with her. Little Han is also dear to him, his only nephew. But to leave him is the way for them to guarantee that his future would be peaceful and free of evil curse users.
"We must end this thousand-year-long war once and all!" Eli's dark obsidian eyes flashed a determined look.
The two followed up on their decisions and informed the chief that they will leave the next night.
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Present time.
The night was already deep when Eli and Kayden reached the depth of the forest surrounding the main temple.
"It's this point where the blueprint said that was most secluded. We will stay here for the night while we wait for the news." Kayden looked around and told Eli.
"Alright…" Eli understood what Kayden meant and immediately summoned her earth fairies.
Using her mana carefully so as to not create a great fluctuation to alarm the people in the main temple, Eli slowly summoned her earth fairies one by one.
It was a slow process, but to make sure that their presence was not revealed too early, they had to move patiently.
Finally, after an hour, all the earth fairies were summoned.
Usually, the earth fairies would appear so brightly like little fireflies but with Eli's instruction, all of them took forms of different insects like moths, butterflies, grasshoppers, and even mosquitoes. The other group also disguised themselves as unsuspecting dried leaves, dandelions, or weed.
When Kayden saw this, he could not help but feel amused. Fairies in general loved to appear pretty and beautiful, but when Eli instructed them to disguise themselves as creatures they would never want to turn to themselves, they did not complain and immediately turned to one.
Only Eli could be this kind of master to a hundred earth fairies who loved beauty!
"Your task is to slowly approach the inner vicinity of the main temple and sense how many people we should be wary of.
Do not be impatient and careless to approach deeper, we had to make sure that none of them noticed that there was someone watching." Eli instructed with a serious tone, completely oblivious to Kayden's thoughts.
There was a silent buzz in the air before the presence of the earth fairies slowly dispersed.
"Eli chan~ since when did you take a hundred pretty ones to substitute for me???" While watching the entire matter, Wisey could not help but scoot closer on Eli's shoulders. She stretched one of her wings and lifted it to cover her mouth like she was gossiping something with Eli as she asked this question.
Eli could only roll her eyes at Wisey's teasing, it seems like her contracted spirit only improved her appearance but not her playful carefree character… sigh.
After ensuring that she could feel the presence of every earth fairy moving around, Eli signaled Kayden that the matter is finally done.
Kayden looked at the trees around and chose a good tree for Eli to stay in. He chose a wide-bodied tree and asked if Eli is alright to stay in the tree.
"This tree is fine…" Eli nodded, she had already been mentally prepared for this kind of life moving forward.
In fact, she even specifically asked the Forgeworns to make her and Kayden a few sets of camouflage uniforms to help them disguise well in the forest. She used her devourer powers to propel herself and climb on top of the tree.
Then taking out her own sleeping bag, she looked for a comfortable tree branch to lean on and prepared to sleep.
Kayden also did the same. At first, he was worried about Eli having a hard time living like this in the forest but seeing her come up with the idea of the uniform, even the sleeping bag, and other camping materials, he felt relieved.
He did not forget to set a small array on the tree they were in to avoid the animals approaching their tree and also decrease their presence even more.
Just like that, they lived in the forest for two more days until they felt that they already had enough information about the entire vicinity.
"I have sent a message to Nalu and the rest." Kayden glanced at Eli with an assuring look.
"Shall we go?" Eli asked, her tone and expression turned cold and serious.
"We shall not delay any more," Kayden replied in agreement.
The two traversed around the forest and moved on to the target location where they wanted to infiltrate.
Contrary to what they expected, it was easier for them to infiltrate in the daytime instead of nighttime. That is because they have found that the temple mysteriously has more 'activities' to do in the evening than during the day.
Combining the information they have received from the Roaming Blades prior to their journey and the earth fairies, they found out that the Temple has been recruiting new 'servants' once every month.
Luckily for them, they were just in time for the next recruitment and managed to infiltrate the roster of servants and replace them.
As for the two innocent people who were replaced, Eli and Kayden had Nalu and the rest send them back to the nearest human shore, with a pouch of Shinies on their hands and a blurred memory of what happened to them.
"Take this and put your things in there…" After 'taking care' of the people whom they replaced, Kayden remembered something and gave a piece of 'scrap metal' turned into an ornament to Eli.
"This?" Eli was curious as she looked at Kayden questioningly.
Kayden took out a similar-looking scrap metal ornament too and pinned it under the button of his clothes before he explained, "I have refined the two space rings with us and turned it into something like this so that none would suspect that we carry our own space."
"For sure, they will search our pouches upon entry and so just leave out the ordinary looking one as I have told you before, and use the ring to place the important things. This way, they will not notice that we were even carrying something they wanted to possess."
"I see!" Eli finally understood and was rather amazed by Kayden's talent in refining the space.
It was written in the journal how hard it is for the Asani ancestor to refine the rings, but Kayden only took less than a month to use the rings to their advantage.
"Let's go…" Kayden looked at their point of entry and signaled Eli.
The two slowly approached the anxious new recruits in a shaded yard in front of the back gate of the temple.