I'm a dragon, I only want to steal princesses

Chapter 22

"You know which church it is, right? How is the defense there? What does the artifact look like?"

Li Yuan felt a little pleasantly surprised, and asked Zhenna a series of questions.

This was indeed a surprise, he never thought that he could get the clue of the artifact so easily.

But if you think about it carefully, this is actually reasonable.

Theoretically, the artifact is either in an unknown place, or it is under the custody of the strong or powerful forces.

For a powerful country like the Dragon's Back Empire, it is normal to have artifacts.

Due to Princess Frede's suppression of the Holy Cult, the Holy Cult-related forces in the empire began to support the little princess Zhenna. Even though there was a huge gap between her and Princess Frede, Zhenna was still an important figure for the Holy Cult forces to maintain contact with the royal family.

Li Yuan is very sure that Zhen Na must know the inside story.

"You don't think so, are you planning to snatch that artifact?" Zhen Na looked at Li Yuan with some anxiety.

"Just borrow it." Li Yuan didn't change his face.

According to Shi Shi, the way to restore the temple is to strip the divinity from the artifact and inject it into the god seal enshrined in the temple.

Theoretically speaking, after this operation, the artifact should lose the power from the Infinity Tower and become an ordinary object. Li Yuan wouldn't mind returning the transformed mortal object back.

...unless that thing is worth a fortune.

"Don't talk nonsense, are you going to steal it?" Zhenna said disbelief all over her face.

"To be precise, it should be returned to its original owner." Stone interjected at this time.

Both Li Yuan and Zhen Na looked at the stone subconsciously.

"Please forgive my presumptuousness, my lord, Miss Zhenna." Stone bowed slightly, "Theoretically, the power of the high-level artifacts with divinity left in the world today should have been dissipated when the god seals in this tower were broken. Returning the divinity in these artifacts to the enshrined god seals should be regarded as returning to the original owner."

"God Seal? Is it the rune enshrined in the temple?" Zhenna blinked her eyes in surprise.

When she left the room this morning and returned to the Temple of the Sun, she also noticed the beam of light and the floating divine seal on the altar.She asked Shi Shi, but did not get a positive answer.

This time Shi Shi did not give an answer immediately, but turned to Li Yuan: "My lord?"

He is asking Li Yuan whether he should announce this information to Zhen Na.

Li Yuan nodded silently.

Only then did Shishi begin to answer Zhenna's question: "That's right, originally there was a powerful divinity stored in the seals, but due to some accident, all the seals were broken."

"Is the god seal left by the gods? What happened? Is it related to the disappearance of the gods for so many years?" Zhenna asked curiously.

"Unfortunately, the relevant information cannot be obtained for the time being." Shi Shi replied after a moment of delay.

Zhenna frowned suspiciously.

"All in all, to repair this tower, you need a high-level artifact." Li Yuan brought the topic back, "Only in this way can we repair the god seal and restore part of the power of the Endless Tower. Otherwise, the two of us will not be able to protect ourselves from the threat of your imperial sister. This is to keep us alive!"

"However, if we went to the empire to take the artifact directly, it might attract the attention of the emperor, wouldn't it? After all, it is still unknown whether the emperor will send someone again." Zhen Na put forward a new opinion.

"That's true." Li Yuan also thought about this question seriously.

Whether Princess Frede will kill them all, and whether she will send out that legendary powerhouse is actually just unknown.

It is important to prepare for the worst, but it is another matter to take the initiative to move that may expand the risk.

For them, the best result is that Her Royal Highness just give up.

Perhaps Zhenna is no longer worth dealing with in the eyes of Princess Frede, as long as she does not go back, Princess Frede does not intend to spend any more effort.

And they took the initiative to go to the empire to grab the artifact once and made a noise. The empire found out here again, which might make Princess Fred feel that they had to get rid of it.

Li Yuan didn't dare to take chances, but he didn't want this possibility to disappear.

This plan must be approached with caution.

Moreover, it has not yet been determined whether the artifact Zhenna mentioned is a high-level artifact that resides in divinity.

"Let's let this matter go." Li Yuan let out a long breath, "Then do you have a channel to inquire about the news from the empire? What's the movement of your imperial sister, the movement of the army, etc."

Zhen Na shook her head: "My information in the army is basically relayed by Heinrich. If my information is well-informed enough to spy on the Queen's movements, how could she almost be killed by the Queen?"

"It's true." Li Yuan felt helpless.

After discussing with Zhenna for a while, he couldn't find any obvious and useful solution, and the situation didn't change in any way, which made him a little anxious.

When it was afternoon, when Zhenna went back to her room to rest, Li Yuan called Shishi and asked him to take him to visit the tower.

For the first time, he had a comprehensive understanding of the current situation of the Endless Tower.

The Infinity Tower has a hall on the first floor, and underneath it is a huge cellar that serves as a warehouse, as well as a large number of prison cells.

The area on the second floor belongs to the tower owner. There are the tower owner's living room and study room, as well as a meeting room, banquet hall and kitchen, with all kinds of facilities.

The upper three floors are all temples dedicated to different gods. There are halls for offering sacrifices and living areas for believers.

The third floor is dedicated to the Lord of the Abyss, the fourth floor is dedicated to the Creator, the fifth floor belongs to the Sun God, and the sixth floor is the Earth Mother Goddess. There will be nothing higher up, because the Endless Tower has been broken in half since the sixth floor, and it will be a big project to rebuild it.

According to Stone, he can take care of the entire project, and he has completely preserved the structure and design of the Endless Tower, as well as the construction process.

But now only Li Yuan and Zhen Na provide energy for the Infinity Tower, and the body maintained by the stone is only at the level of an ordinary adult, which is not enough to complete this large project.

It doesn't make sense to just rebuild the upper floors, and the idle temple will not increase the progress of the endless tower's restoration.

In order to improve the restoration progress of the tower, on the one hand, it is necessary to find a suitable priest candidate to activate the temple, and on the other hand, it is necessary to repair the god seal, so that the authority of the endless tower will be gradually opened.

Simply increasing the energy that the tower can extract will not increase the progress of the tower's repair, but it can increase the energy reserve of the tower, allowing the tower to rotate at a higher power.

Li Yuan also asked about the activation conditions of Stone's [Rebirth] authority, and the answer he got was that the seal of the Earth Mother and the God of Death must be restored to more than [-]%.

Only with the power of the Earth Mother God who controls life, the root circle can reshape his fresh body, and the God of Death's seal can help him call back the soul sucked away by the underworld in time when his body dies.

There is only half of the floor of the Earth Mother left, and the temple dedicated to the God of Death was originally on the eighth floor.

In other words, there is absolutely no condition to solve this problem right now.

That night, Li Yuan sighed heavily when he lay down on the treasure in the cellar again with some tiredness.

In the morning, he was still happy that his strength had improved a little, but he learned from Zhenna that they might face the legendary strong in the future.And after a day of busy work, he still has no clue and no progress.

Can't go on like this...

But he couldn't think of any direction for a moment, and in the end he could only close his eyes with heavy thoughts.

Nearly half an hour later, he finally found sleepiness, and his consciousness began to sink.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes alertly, and the amber eyes glowed like gas lamps in the cellar.

Li Yuan got up quickly with a solemn expression. At the same time, Stone appeared in the cellar uninvited, and saluted him:
"My lord, there are intruders!"

"Well, I feel it too." Li Yuan called out [Watcher] as he spoke.

(End of this chapter)