Chapter 899: Your eyes are glued to
The exquisite carpets on the ground, the glittering candlelight adorning the nearby dining tables, and the endless spread of delicacies, pastries, and fine wines made the banquet feel as rich and colorful as a Dreamscape.
Like a magician pulling a trick, Leonidas produced another parasol and beach chair for Orion.
Orion casually plopped down, took the glass Leonidas offered, and took a long, comfortable gulp.
"You know, you gotta admit, this Isabella chick’s got so serious style," Leonidas said, raising his glass in a toast to both Isabella’s taste and Orion.
"Big boss, are you just going to ignore ?" a wounded voice ca from a fishbowl on a nearby round table.
Kraken was draped over the edge of the bowl, one tentacle holding a goblet, one holding a roasted chicken leg, and another balancing a plate of pastries. The sight was utterly ridiculous.
"Here’s to you, Kraken," Orion said, leaning over and clinking his glass against the one held by the cheerfully grinning octopus.
"Hey Squiddy," he asked, "how co you don’t get a humanoid avatar like Leo?"
"I’d love to, but I haven’t had the chance!"
Kraken was truly envious of Leonidas’s Behemoth avatar; he wanted one just like it.
"That guy’s full of it," Leonidas blurted out, shalessly exposing Kraken’s lie. "It’s not that he hasn’t had a chance, he’s just too picky for a low-tier avatar. He’s afraid a weak one would drain his soul power and energy, affecting his own advancent to arch lord."
Leonidas had been Kraken’s ntor in the group; he knew his personality inside and out. Kraken might seem easygoing, but he was incredibly particular—about his friends, and about himself. A run-of-the-mill avatar simply wouldn’t cut it.
"Hey, once I advance to arch lord, my power and my connections will level up. I’ll be able to find sothing better then," Kraken said with a chuckle.
On this point, Orion completely agreed with him. He hadn’t bothered looking for an avatar during his own ti as a lord. It was too much of a drain on both his energy and resources. Even his own two special mirror avatars had only been deployed after he’d advanced to arch lord.
"Hulk, I’m telling you, I’ve had the worst luck of my life," Kraken began to complain, now that he was with his bro and a good friend and could let loose. "My faith energy was already at nine million eight hundred thousand! I was so close! If you’d given
another six months, I might have hit arch lord by now!"
Leonidas and Orion exchanged a look and burst out laughing. The fact that they had coincidentally screwed over Kraken was, admittedly, pretty funny to them.
"I’ll get revenge for you," Orion said, comforting him after the laughter died down.
"Don’t worry. Whatever territory you lost, your big brother will win back for you tenfold," Leonidas said, clinking his giant goblet against the massive octopus’s fishbowl.
"Big boss, is there a lot of territory up for grabs? I want so too." A low, lazy, and magnetic drawl picked up where Leonidas had left off.
Orion looked up and saw Demon Makareth and Isabella approaching together.
With a handso, chiseled face and a tall, powerful fra clad in red-and-black battle armor.
And Isabella, standing beside him, was in no way outshone. As the host of the party, she was dressed to the nines. Of course, for her, that didn’t an a long gown and a pile of jewelry.
Isabella was in full military attire, a silver-white suit of armor accented with a light purple cape. She had a high-bridged nose, captivating mixed-race eyes, and hair like golden silk. A pair of high-heeled combat boots accentuated her long, straight legs.
She was the perfect picture of a heroic, dashing warrior queen.
"Your eyes are glued to ," Isabella noted, having keenly caught Orion’s gaze sweeping over her long legs. Her own eyes were as sharp and resolute as a falcon’s, and she looked down at the lounging Orion with an air of pride.
"Tch. I seem to recall soone getting her legs broken back on the Dawn Continent," Orion shot back. "Just curious if it left a scar."
It was crass, but he was only saying it because he and Isabella were familiar with each other. It was a sign that they were close, their relationship solid.
"Big boss, you gonna carry this apprentice? This apprentice is in dire need of territory too!" Seeing that Isabella had no intention of continuing the banter with Orion, Demon Makareth quickly jumped in with his own request.
He was direct; when he wanted sothing, he said it plainly. It was a thod of dealing with the Big bosses that he had figured out on his own. With people like Leonidas, Alexander, and the ghost Arthas, being straightforward earned you more goodwill. The sa was true for Orion.
Conversely, when people like them started being polite and feigning civility with you, that’s when you knew they didn’t truly consider you one of them.
"Sit, let’s talk," Leonidas said, tossing out two more sets of parasols and lounge chairs, gesturing for Makareth and Isabella to join them. "Territory? There’s plenty to go around. The entire cosmos is just waiting for us to conquer it."
Isabella waved over her maidservants, who furnished the area with a new set of silver tableware and a table overflowing with delicacies from the mountains and seas. Only then did she dismiss the servants.
She held a plate of exquisite desserts, her eyes shifting between Leonidas and Orion. From their earlier conversation in the Champions Alliance public channel, it was clear that this dragon invasion was sohow related to the Big bosses in the group.
But as for the specifics, she, Kraken, and Makareth, as re lords, were the lowest-ranked combatants in the Alliance and weren’t privy to such details.
"The enemies this ti... yeah, we were the ones who attracted them," Leonidas began.
Everyone’s attention, except for Orion who was busy gnawing on roasted at, was focused on him. Leonidas was the most senior and powerful mber here, the ’big brother’ of the group. His apprentices were all waiting for an explanation.
This was a war against the Champions Alliance; they would all have to fight together. But it would be wrong to send them into battle without telling them what they were fighting for.
"So treasure that a dragon demigod had stashed away was discovered by us. Naturally, we had to liberate it, heh heh." He grinned. "So, the owner tracked us to the Erald Dream Realm. It’s as simple as that."
None of the ones who had split the loot would ntion the World Dragons. Just in case, the World Dragon eggs had been imdiately moved out of the Erald Dream Realm. Even if that third-stage demigod ca looking, it would be a futile effort.
Now that a treasure like the World Dragons had been swallowed by the Big bosses of the Champions Alliance, they had no intention of spitting it back out. So, whatever the dragons threw at them, the Champions Alliance would be ready to catch.
Kraken, Isabella, and Makareth looked at each other, stunned. They had thought Leonidas was about to reveal so earth-shattering secret. They had been waiting with bated breath.
Kraken, especially, had his tentacles waving in anticipation, his big eyes peering at Leonidas through his glass bowl. He knew Leonidas. This wasn’t like his usual style.
If this were any other day, wouldn’t the usual Leonidas be bragging to the high heavens right now?
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