Chapter 232: Dragon's Shadow
"Dean, Madam Susan, and third lady!" Sabye immediately stood up to salute, then asked, "Is the third lady's magic power stable?"
The group arrived at the Shield of Flowing Fire, and Barbara's magic power unexpectedly became unstable. This has happened several times since she broke through to Tier Four. At the moment, she was accompanied by Charlie and Susan for treatment.
Barbara nodded and then shook her head: "The magic power has indeed stabilized again, but just like we don't know why it became unstable, we also don't know why it suddenly stabilized."
Barbara paused, asking strangely, "Didn't you go into the temple with Andrew?"
"Oh, Andrew said he had something to do alone and just left us waiting outside the temple." Sabye answered solemnly. When mentioning Andrew, his expression was calm, showing no trace of previous unpleasantness with Andrew.
On the side, Havier rolled his eyes: "Nonsense! Just because he asks us to wait outside, should we? Who does he think he is, to order me around? I didn't go in because I didn't want to see that proud, ostentatious Orleans! Hmph..."
Sabye said nothing, nor was he annoyed. Instead, he thought, "This is the Havier I'm familiar with—an annoying brat who wears 'unlikable' on his face."
How can he be so irritating, making others want to hit him?
Barbara thought for a moment, then turned to look at Dean Charlie and Susan: "I also want to go into the temple to check on Orleans's injury."
Dean Charlie frowned slightly, seemingly still pondering the issue of Barbara's unstable magic power, and didn't hear Barbara's words.
Susan hugged her thick arms, nodded, and said, "Okay, you go in. Tell that Andrew kid not to take too long. Besides, pull them apart if they try to fight."
Barbara wanted to say that Andrew wouldn't fight Orleans.
But as the words were about to leave her mouth, Barbara's face suddenly changed. Before her expression could change, Susan and Dean Charlie seemed to have sensed something, and even Dean Charlie, who was pondering the problem, raised his eyes sharply to look at the sky above the Warm Fire Temple.
There, a huge, vague silhouette like some kind of beast appeared above the Warm Fire Temple, only to dissipate moments later.
Both Sabye and Havier also saw the silhouette.
No one thought that the silhouette was an illusion given its brief appearance.
Because as the silhouette emerged, everyone, including Dean Charlie, Barbara, and the people in the Warm Fire Temple and the Shield of Flowing Fire, clearly heard a rough, wild, terrifying roar—a cross between a beast's howl and a dragon's roar—emanating from the Warm Fire Temple!
"Whoa! What's going on?" Havier was startled and his face was filled with a look of excitement, "Did Andrew and Orleans really start fighting?!"
Sabye couldn't help but retort, "Do you have the nerve to call others 'annoying'? Can you please shut your nasty mouth?"
Of course, Sabye showed no outward reaction and silently followed them into the Warm Fire Temple—
Dean Charlie, Susan, and Barbara, upon hearing the unsettling roar, rushed into the Warm Fire Temple's gates as quickly as possible.
The group quickly arrived at Orleans's ward.
Inside the ward, the medical staff, including Linda, and the injured people looked dazed as if they had just witnessed something unbelievable.
Linda was half-crouching, supporting Orleans's weak body.
Orleans appeared to have fallen into a coma!
He was shirtless, with a terrifying wound on his body that was shocking to behold.
The wound had burst open, bleeding profusely.
Linda kept applying fire coagulation techniques from the Fire God Blessing Series to Orleans, but was unable to stop the gushing blood!
"Ah-ha! Did they really start fighting?!" Havier shouted, looking at Andrew who stood silently, seemingly in a daze, "You bastard, how dare you attack a hero back from the front line? Where do you get the courage?! Do you know doing this—"
"Havier, shut up!" Barbara's shout interrupted Havier's noise, glaring at him hard. She then quickly walked beside Andrew and asked in a low voice, "What's going on? What happened?"
Barbara believed absolutely that Andrew wasn't attacking Orleans. Moreover, knowing Orleans, she didn't think Orleans would engage Andrew.
Dean Charlie and Susan shared the same thoughts.
Only Havier, the fool, failed to notice that the axe spear in Andrew's hand was something no Warm Fire Professional would use, and... that ominous pure black flame suspended above Andrew's other hand, causing an inexplicable uneasiness.
The axe spear that Andrew had been constantly wrestling with was now still.
Cracking and shattering like burnt carbon, it soon crumbled into a pile of debris on the ground.
The Fire of Extinguishing that had been relentlessly marking and marking also quieted down.
It became quiet, restrained, and deep, much like the Fire of Extinguishing stored in all Magic Guild laboratories, presenting an icy feeling as if the flames carried a cold terror of annihilation!
It's not about a chill in temperature but a chilly fear that makes one's heart involuntarily shiver.
"It's not Andrew and Orleans who've got issues; it's... the power of Capella, who severely injured Orleans." Linda spoke deeply, "The power of Capella that was lurking in Orleans's wound suddenly surged and attacked Andrew."
Havier: "?"
Sabye: "..."
Barbara's face changed, watching Andrew with some concern: "You've already dealt with Capella's power? Her... her power can maintain its spirituality over such a distance and actively attack you?" Her voice was filled with disbelief.
Dean Charlie and Susan also stared at Andrew, prioritizing concerns about the silhouette and roar above the Warm Fire Temple.
Andrew exhaled deeply, his face somewhat pale.
Earlier, using an axe to strike at the Fire of Extinguishing, Andrew intentionally employed Capella's power as a vanguard to reduce the flame's inherent spiritual vigilance, then unexpectedly let his Water Magic follow, exploiting the opportunity.
Reverse tracking to the source behind the Fire of Extinguishing.
Andrew vaguely saw: a seemingly younger girl, even giving a sense of weak innocence, swaying her feet and sitting on the edge of the rooftop of a towering black stone tower.
She was the Magic Guild's Saintess Capella, whom Andrew had already read intelligence about!
But it wasn't just Capella.
Behind Capella, above the black stone tower, Andrew faintly saw a huge silhouette. It looked like a beast, yet also like a giant dragon, somewhat resembling the desolate beasts of the Inner Sea Desert.
The figure was silently enormous, standing silently behind Capella.
As Andrew gazed, the towering silhouette sensed something and abruptly turned to face him!
Simultaneously, Capella's expression shifted slightly, swiftly turning to stare over!
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