Chapter 341 - FLYING TO THE GARDEN
LUO YAN felt the wind blowing into his face. His long white hair swaying freely along with the wind. With the view of the infinite sky around them, he truly wanted to stretch both hands on the side as if he could fly and shout, 'I'm the king of world!'. But that would be too immature. So, he opted not to do it.
He was riding on the back of Shen Ji Yun's beast form. The other maintained his shrunken size because a huge flying Qilin would be too eye-catching. Eclipse was lying comfortably in front of Luo Yan, almost burying himself on the dark purple mane of the Qilin. And based on his wagging tails, he was definitely happy.
They were now on their way to the Garden of Eden – the floating island where the Tower of Edia was located. Thankfully, Shen Ji Yun had a comprehensive map of the whole of Arcadia. So, it wasn't that hard to find the exact location of the Garden of Eden. Aside from being their current mode of transportation, Shen Ji Yun was also their navigator. Hopefully that Rhys guy was still alive and kicking. So, as not to waste all their efforts.
"Brother Ji Yun, do you think that the Tower of Edia was directly related to what happened to Finnea? Or did Rhys only use them as some sort of smokescreen so he could get Finnea to come with him and curse her along the way?" he thought of asking.
"If he wasn't at the Tower of Edia right now, then the latter one would be a high possibility," Shen Ji Yun answered, pertaining to Rhys using the Tower as a smokescreen. "But considering the current situation, even if the whole Tower was not related to what happened to that moon elf, there's probably at least one who's connected to Rhys."
Luo Yan understood what the other was trying to say. If Rhys was only using the Tower as some kind of cover so he could convince Finnea to do a mission with him, then the Tower's role should end once Finnea was cursed. But no, until now Rhys was still connected to the Tower. Considering the brain hole of the people involved in writing scripts for tasks like this, the Tower of Edia being mentioned would surely not be just for decoration.
"Do you think we'd have to fight?" he asked.
He really wished they would. That way, he could test his new daggers.
"Do you want to fight?" Shen Ji Yun returned the question because he heard the undeniable excitement in Luo Yan's voice, as if he was looking forward to a fight.
"A bit," Luo Yan didn't deny it. "I actually wanted to try my new weapons. That's why I was in Jiao Jiao's shop earlier. To get the weapon she made for me and Ah Jin. I haven't shown it to Brother Ji Yun, right? Its beautiful. Jiao Jiao is really talented. I love her design. I'll show it to you later and I'm sure you'll also be amazed."
If it was a normal time, Shen Ji Yun would probably be all salty at the mention of Yu Jiao. Especially since Luo Yan was praising her so blatantly. But because his heart was still so full from his rabbit's hug earlier, as well as what he said about him being beautiful no matter what form he was in, he barely felt any sourness when Yu Jiao was mentioned. He didn't even have to continuously tell himself to be more mature just so he wouldn't show any unpleasant reaction.
Was this a sign that he's finally really getting more mature? He suddenly felt a bit proud of himself.
Of course, the cinnamon bun had already forgotten that he was only able to act that way because, as he already mentioned, his heart was currently too full right now. Once his heart was no longer full, he would definitely revert back to normal. But no one would tell that to him right now. Making him sink in his own delusion. But no need to worry. Because he would definitely wake up from that soon enough.
"We might fight. But if there's only one member of the Tower involved with Rhys, then there probably wouldn't be that much fighting," he said.
"Why? Would they give up the person or people involved in what happened to Finnea easily?" Luo Yan asked, a bit confused. "Is it because the Tower was designed by the game developers as some sketchy organization?"
"What made you say that?" Shen Ji Yun asked in an amused tone.
"Well, aren't most religious organization in fictional worlds sketchy as hell? And since the people in Moonlight Media responsible for giving back stories to NPCs seem to have a big brain hole, my guess was probably not that far-off."
Shen Ji Yun coughed to hide the laugh that wanted to burst out from his throat because of what Luo Yan said. The people from Moonlight Media having big brain holes, he never really thought of it that way. Probably because he never liked doing tasks with stories in them. So, he never noticed the game staffs' 'creativity'. But now that Luo Yan mentioned it, he could only agree with him.
"No, I said that there probably won't be that much fighting because of my identity as a Qilin. Players belonging to the Legendary races could enter some establishments freely. One of the perks of our identity. And that includes the Tower. The Priests there have much respect for the Legendary races. They would have a welcoming attitude. But convincing them to give up some of their members would still depend on us."
Now, Luo Yan suddenly felt a bit envious of the Legendary races. Then he pouted a little. If they could go to the Garden of Eden with just Shen Ji Yun's identity as a Qilin, then he should have just mentioned it to him when they found out the possible connection of the Tower of Edia to their task. When they talked about it last week, it seemed that he didn't have any idea how they would go to the Garden.
But before he could voice out his dissatisfaction, his breath was taken away when he saw the floating island up ahead.